0:00It's the Harris Football Podcast with your host Christopher Harris.
0:03Welcome everybody, welcome in. My name is Chris and this is a show about literature.
0:08Hello there. Thank you so much for listening, you tapeworms, you children of the possum.
0:13Can you imagine if this was the first episode of this very stupid show you ever listened to and you heard the
0:20host call you a tapeworm and a child of some weird possum in the first five seconds?
0:25But that's just how we roll. Now if this is the first show of mine you ever listened to, email me.
0:32HeyHarris at HarrisFootball.com I simply must know how it was received.
0:35First I shouted at you and then I called you those things.
0:39I'm actually quite impressed you're still listening. For the rest of us, how you doing?
0:44Thanks for being here today. Our long national nightmare is over except it wasn't very long.
0:49It was kind of regional and nobody really thought it was that scary.
0:53But yes indeed, Jameer Gibbs also gets his second contract and is back in camp.
0:58So Bijan Robinson, Jonathan Taylor, and now Jameer Gibbs all signed, all practicing, in plenty of time to have none of it matter for us.
1:06As recently as Monday, Dave Richard came on the program and correctly mentioned the actual biggest training camp worry for fantasy would
1:13be any of those guys holding in for an entire month and then having us deal with and wonder how it might
1:20affect them once the real games started. And now a scant four days later we can wipe that off the list.
1:27Everything is in order and all three of those gentlemen will surely be first round fantasy picks in drafts for 2026.
1:34I don't have exhibition game reviews for you after Thursday night and you're not getting exhibition game ranks movements out of me
1:41throughout the month unless someone important gets hurt. But we can take a quick spin through beat reports from Thursday.
1:47I'm kind of hitting this randomly. Jalen Knoll is first on my list.
1:51He had started camp with a finger injury and had not been partaking but now is activated again.
1:57I'm tracking the Pat Bryant-Troy Franklin battle with the Broncos receiving core.
2:01I said it was going to be something that I wanted to pay attention to.
2:05And Pat Bryant certainly getting more positive pub so far as of August 7th.
2:10And therefore maybe I have to wind up writing Bryant a profile for the Almanac update and swapping them maybe in the ranks.
2:17I'm not doing it yet but I'm leaning that way.
2:20This is actually at the same time that Jalen Waddell pulled a hamstring I guess on probably Wednesday I would guess and
2:28maybe the news of it came out on Thursday and is expected to miss a week.
2:33We're not moving him yet but like let's it's not good you know.
2:37Malik Neighbors participated in some walkthrough periods against the defense which certainly doesn't mean he's doing quote unquote everything but it's something.
2:44Kenyon Sadiq. To me this qualifies as a downgrade.
2:47Again when the negative stuff can't help leaking out that's when we really pay attention.
2:51Sadiq had hernia surgery in the spring but then had a setback in training camp and he'll miss quote unquote a couple weeks.
2:59And guess what? That's most of training camp. It only goes to like the 29th and if it's a couple weeks then that's the 21st.
3:07So the idea that this isn't a setback for a rookie tight end seems wrong to me.
3:12You certainly cannot be drafting Kenyon Sadiq to be your fantasy starter.
3:16Jalen McMillan has a knee issue and has missed multiple practices in his quest for the number three receiving job with the Buccaneers.
3:23And to be honest I say number three. We don't it's not really the way it works anymore.
3:29In any given week number three if he's out there can be number one.
3:34So it's an important job to have clearly be yours.
3:37And right now the rookie Ted Hurst has apparently looked pretty good so far.
3:41So we're going to stay tuned and file that away again not making a change on August 7th but I'm making lists
3:48of things to keep tracking and those will be on there.
3:52And then there's some Colts news. We had some some bad some good.
3:56The bad Alec Pierce who we just talked about yesterday on the show with JJ Zacharyson as one of my film room heroes.
4:03But that doesn't necessarily translate as someone that we're racing to draft this year because of this ankle surgery that he had.
4:10That news continues not to be amazing. It was actually Roto Pat Patrick Doherty my very good friend our very good friend
4:17who detailed on Roto World yesterday that the Colts continue to say that Alec Pierce is without a timeline to return.
4:24And that's the head coach saying that. Pat points out that GM Chris Ballard said nine days ago that Pierce was a week or two from returning.
4:33And nine days is kind of a week or two ain't it?
4:37If the coach is still saying there's no timeline.
4:39That does not read to me like things are ahead of schedule as you know in the NFL ahead of schedule means on schedule.
4:47Is there still more more than whatever a month before week one there is?
4:52But you know cautionary tales abound of guys who can't do anything all of August who are then supposed to be good in week one right away.
5:00Often it does not happen. Alec Pierce already got lowered over the course of the summer to wide receiver 33 standard 36 PPR in my ranks.
5:08Without the injury he would be significantly higher. And he has some downward mobility to go even lower depending on how this
5:15goes over the course of the next week or two.
5:19The good Colts observation on the other hand is that camp observers seem to be impressed with Danny Tencent piece Daniel Jones.
5:26He got an action figure cartoon in the almanac.
5:29That turned out absolutely hilarious when I saw it.
5:31I laughed out loud. And now he's getting rave reviews for looking like he can do everything in camp eight months after rupturing his Achilles.
5:39It's clearly not game action. He is clearly not taking hits.
5:43I am not making a ranks move on Daniel Jones based on one week's worth of people going, Oh, he doesn't limp.
5:50But I'm prepared to raise him some. The Colts first joint practice is next week.
5:55I believe Tuesday. It's against the Patriots. For me, if Jones keeps getting reviews like this, granted, again, he's not going to get hit in a joint practice.
6:04But there'll be more of a sense of, you know, the other team is going to be after him and going to be trying to stop him.
6:12And if his mobility and timing and everything still looks as good as it's apparently looked.
6:17You know, I have Jones really low. I have him QB 26.
6:21Based on last year, if he hadn't gotten hurt, we all know he would be QB whatever.
6:2714, 11, 16, somewhere in there. I'm not sure I'll get him quite that high, but he will get higher than 26.
6:34Why don't I just read his almanac profile? Because it can put you in the mindset of how I was feeling about it this summer.
6:42It goes a little something like this. The wildest redemption arcs in history are 1.
6:46Alfred Nobel. 2. Danny Trejo. 3. Bubbles from the Wire.
6:50Daniel Jones doesn't quite have it like that yet.
6:53But if you think about it, Jones is the exact triangulation point between those three historical luminaries.
6:58I sure didn't see 2025 coming. As of week 13, Daniel Jones was fantasy's QB 7.
7:03He had 5 rushing touchdowns, and he was 5th in passing yards, 8th in completion percentage, and 8th in on-target throw percentage.
7:10In last year's Jones profile in the almanac, I wrote, Yo!
7:14I mean, I didn't believe it for one second, but it's pretty much what happened.
7:18Jones' 2025 film isn't littered with incredible 10-bells throws.
7:21But he was awesome in the high red zone, a 15-0 touchdown-interception ratio.
7:25He was way better at working through progressions than in his Giants days.
7:30And while it did feel like he missed chances to go down the field, week 3 against the Titans, Indianapolis scored 41
7:37points, but in the second quarter, Jones had Alec Pierce streaking alone up the left side and held it forever but never turned his head.
7:45Overall, I'm sure Shane Steichen was happy to have Jones' air on the side of playing buttoned up.
7:50His only truly terrible start came week 9 at Pittsburgh, where Jones dug a hole with a rancid, short, early pick, simply
7:57not seeing linebacker Peyton Wilson standing right in front of him, and made it worse with poor decisions all day.
8:04But if Jones had made it through the season healthy, I think the Colts would have made the playoffs, and we would regard him differently for 2026.
8:12Also, we all wouldn't have had to waste another month of our lives contemplating senior baby Bjorn, Phillip Rivers.
8:18Well, alas, on December 7th, Jones snapped his right Achilles in Jacksonville.
8:22Without knowing for sure whether he'll be ready to start the season or even play much all year, the Colts decided to
8:29transition tag Jones and then signed him for another two years, although the team definitely has outs before 2027.
8:35Perhaps we'll be surprised and Jones will be ready to go week 1, but it seems likelier that Riley Leonard gets September and possibly more.
8:43This is one of those cases where we'll track training camp news, because this is such a major injury that it should
8:50become obvious whether Jones is anywhere close to playing a mere nine months post-Achilles.
8:55If we get better than expected news, Jones' rank has upward mobility to get into starting Superflex territory.
9:01So, yeah. I mean, rereading what I wrote in the spring, that is fair.
9:05And there is obviously upward mobility. I'm not believing it entirely just yet, not least because it's still Danny Tencent piece.
9:12It's going to take more than a half a season to wipe away the memory of all those Giants years.
9:18But no question, we're leaning heavily toward him deserving to go higher.
9:22And it's a question of how high? I mean, obviously in the Almanac, I said like starting Superflex territory.
9:28That was my hedge to say 24, top 24.
9:31I think he deserves to go higher than that.
9:34If he really looks this good, and there's never any setbacks for the next, say, two weeks or so, I think he's going to go higher than 24.
9:43I will definitely keep an eye on it. And of course, you can get the Almanac right now at harrisfootball.com and give
9:50yourself a month's worth of fun reading before your fantasy draft.
9:53Speaking of fun reading, the effort to rig the bestseller list on behalf of Cumulative Press continues.
9:59Cumulative, that's what I want to say. I do have a new novel that's coming out on September 1st.
10:05It's called Pound Foolish. You can find out about it at harrisfootball.com as well.
10:09And I'm also going on a reading tour beginning August 23rd in Tacoma and then the 24th in Portland, 25th in Las Vegas, 26th in Scottsdale, Arizona.
10:18So you can come see me, hang out. I mean, we could do some reading, but then mostly just hang out afterwards.
10:25So I would love to meet as many of you as possible.
10:29Also sign some books there as well. And we got something like 60 more bribery candidates just in the last 24 hours, which is awesome.
10:37Now still a very tiny fraction of the listening audience, which is great.
10:41If you've already entered, the tinier the fraction, it gives you a better chance to win the two random drawings that will happen later in today's show.
10:49Somebody's winning a one-on-one Zoom with me. Someone is winning Andy Barron's reading out their league's draft order.
10:55We'll do the drawing later in the show with Cousin Josh.
10:59And if you would like to get bribed, go to harrisfootball.com.
11:02You'll find Pound Foolish on there. Pick one of the retail links.
11:06Pre-order the book. Not from Amazon, but anywhere else.
11:09Not because I'm against Amazon, but because they don't count the bestseller list the same way.
11:14Once you buy it, send a screen capture to heyharris at harrisfootball.com.
11:18You will be entered. I will be doing a drawing every single day for the rest of August.
11:24You'll win something fun. You'll win a baseball cap or a shirt or a signed almanac, a signed novel of mine.
11:30Yes, many more one-on-one Zoom sessions with me to talk draft strategy or whatever else you want to talk about.
11:37And the grand prize will be someone actually appearing on the podcast with me for a few minutes.
11:42I've been asked whether this book is available for pre-order in the UK.
11:47I've seen that it definitely is. I've been asked about Canada.
11:50I think it is. I saw it at McNally Robinson's website, but I'm not positive about other places.
11:56It's on my list to fully figure that out for my Canadian friends.
12:00Anywhere you are in the world, feel free to drop me an email and let's figure out how you can get it
12:07listed someplace where you can buy it for a reasonable price and reasonable shipping.
12:11I'm the damn publisher, so, you know, I gotta figure that stuff out.
12:16Now, I wanna make clear, I know I ask you to buy stuff and I feel bad about that.
12:22I know some folks don't have that kind of discretionary income to buy stuff and I hate for anyone to feel less
12:29involved or less than in any way because of money.
12:32So if you would like to read Pound Foolish and more importantly, if you'd like to be entered to be bribed, let's
12:39face it, that's what we're all about here, please don't be embarrassed.
12:43Please write in. Let me know. HeyHarris at HarrisFootball.com.
12:46You know, money is tight right now. It's hard to justify.
12:49You're saving for something. You're having a kid. You're saving for a wedding.
12:53I completely understand. There's no judgment at all and we've now had four more generous listeners offer to donate copies to those
13:00who are having a harder time making ends meet right at this moment.
13:04Please take advantage. We love everybody who listens to this show and we will take care of you and again, don't feel weird about it.
13:12Around here, the opossums take care of each other.
13:15That's why it's such an incredible community. Today's kickoff.
13:18Okay, on today's show, it's a Friday and he's not yet on vacation so you know who owns the night.
13:25It's the Prince of Darkness himself. Cousin Josh will return to the show, a glorious return and Josh and I will count
13:32down our acid reflux all-stars for 2026. It'll be a great time.
13:35The little guy is back in the saddle again.
13:38I thank you again so much for listening today.
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14:35Today's guest. I put our name on the list.
14:38Joy's looking forward to this. They said two hours of wait.
14:42I said that's just my way and I'd go back for a drink.
14:46Invite a friend, I think. We'd just relax for a bit.
14:50But then the call came quick. Skinny jeans are holding my chaps.
14:53My phone was buzzing. Spicy taboo craving. Where they gonna sit us, baby?
14:58Hey, we just got here. And this is crazy.
15:00But here's our table in the kitchen, baby. My phone and beer on.
15:05So nasty. But it's all worth it. For ugly babies.
15:08I know I'm there on the mouse. I'm flying now.
15:11But it's so tasty. Can't wait to go back to ugly baby.
15:15It's a classic and people have been hungering for the return of Cousin Josh.
15:19He's here. It's finally happening. He... I'm gonna ask him actually.
15:23Has he gone to the new revised ugly baby that's not near his apartment?
15:27But first, we need to say. You can follow him on Instagram at Detective Fish.
15:32F-I-S-C-H because... Probably you will start posting more because you have a big vacation coming up in the beginning of September.
15:39Yeah. It's great. First of all, Chris, it's great to be back.
15:43I've been talking about this. Some of my fans have messaged me and when I say fans, my close friends in my
15:50home chat saying, I feel like you usually do this in July and I said, nope.
15:55Week one of August. That's where the world's most famous podcast guest gets his thing going.
16:00But yeah, I got a trip to Italy coming up in about a month.
16:04So yeah, I'm just... I'm obtaining my apparel now, getting my swim trunks hemmed.
16:09I want to make sure I'm in a good place for this trip.
16:13The things are good. Are you really? Are you really getting swim trunks hemmed?
16:17This season, no. Last season, yes. I will get a pair of shorts I bought hemmed, but I just haven't had time to get to the tailor.
16:26And yes, it's the same tailor that charges me extra to get my extra small slim fit shirts dry cleaned.
16:32So have you been to the new ugly baby?
16:35I still have not. I tried to go a couple of months ago, but there was a long line.
16:41I could get a reservation, but it's just one of these things I've been lazy.
16:46But no, I haven't gone there yet. So it's all my summer things to do before the summer ends.
16:52It's not as convenient. It's just, you know, it used to be much closer.
16:57Yeah. Instead of being able to walk in six minutes, it's nine minutes now.
17:01That extra three minutes is just, it's not the same.
17:04It's the hard life of the Brooklynite. All right.
17:07Well, so we're going to do a few things here.
17:10We're going to, we're going to call out some winners.
17:14We have winners for the first bribery of the pound foolish bribery.
17:17We also can announce because Josh was not listening to the show this week.
17:22Thanks for your support. That Josh will, is going to participate.
17:25Josh is going to offer stuff for bribery as well.
17:29We're not, we don't exactly know what yet because this is all news to him within the last five minutes, but he's, he's really enthused to do something.
17:37And so frankly, Hey, Harris at Harris football.com. If you have an idea for what you'd like out of Josh as a
17:45bribery, nothing, he has a full-time job, nothing major, but something small that he can contribute as to be drawn the way
17:52we have Andy contributing later in the show. That would be lovely.
17:55So you of course are on top of the fantasy football world metaphorically and literally you're, you know, you're obviously the world's most famous guest.
18:03You're also, you're just, you're tuned in, you're paying attention.
18:07You are a superstar in the almanac itself. We've got all those, we had long conversations that have wound up in the
18:14almanac quoted, you know, the cousin Josh says, I think just basically, can you give us the overall lay of the land,
18:21the extent to which you intend to dominate 2026?
18:23Just in general for fantasy football? Yeah. Is that what you're asking for?
18:28You want, you use strategy or you just want some commentary from me?
18:32Like just like off the cuff. I don't know.
18:35Commentary, yeah. Yeah. Like, look, I play in, you know, two serious leagues, one dynasty that I've dominated for over a decade
18:42and I've yet to win in La Liga that you're part of.
18:45And then I have my home league where I'm coming off my fourth title.
18:50It was an amazing season. Looking to obviously do that again.
18:53I'm here if anyone has any questions for me.
18:56I'm not as fast on Instagram, but I'll do my best to reply.
19:01If you have questions on PPR, I'm not here for that.
19:04Kids play PPR. I don't do it. Chris puts the ranks up.
19:08You're welcome to check his harrisfootball.com for his PPR ranks.
19:11You won't get that from me. You're lucky if I give you some 0.5 PPR.
19:16Some people have to stoop down to that level, but I don't know.
19:20Is that kind of what you were looking for, Chris?
19:23Sure. I'm just the confidence. We're just, we just all want, before we start talking of individual players here, we just all
19:30love hearing how confident you are when you're offering out your pearls of wisdom.
19:35And so let's do this. It's the acid reflux all-star list.
19:38It is the list of players. What do they give you, Josh?
19:42What do they give you? I think it's indigestion, but can I just say one quick joke?
19:47I got this email, and I know really quickly, Chris, you send it every year.
19:52We've done it, I think, three years in a row we kick things off with the acid reflux.
19:58And you used to send, I believe the term is, stress farts.
20:02Correct. And I'm sitting here now, and I look, and I'm like, this is the first time you wrote indigestion.
20:08And I'm like, you know, I was kind of getting used to seeing this stress fart thing.
20:14Not that I've ever actually had that. No. No.
20:16But like, and there's never had a stress fart.
20:19I mean, like I've had issues, and maybe this is a completely different podcast, but like, I don't know.
20:25My stress gets me in other different ways. Sweaty armpits.
20:29Some people, I guess, have hot gas or stress farts, but yeah, indigestion will go with.
20:34Well, the reason I didn't put it in the email is because I wondered if you would remember the term, and obviously,
20:41I have had my, let's face it, if I've had any impact in the world writ large, it's planting your flag on
20:48a player in fantasy football and stress farts. That's about it.
20:51Right. I'm very proud. You're a family member. You must be very proud of me.
20:56So this is, this is a list of five players apiece that we have done for a few years running now in
21:03which we're not saying don't draft them. We're, we're saying we're not sure what we're doing with them, that there could come
21:10a price at which we might be interested. ADP is kind of hot garbage right now, and I'm not going to really
21:17even look at it and not certainly not going to live by it until, you know, for a couple more weeks at least.
21:24But, so like, we're not really offering advice about whether to take them.
21:29We're just saying that if you do take them, prepare for an up and down ride, a potential high variance type players, but I call them stress farts.
21:38You want me to kick it off? Unless you'd have any thoughts on the list written off?
21:43No, I, I did the same thing as you.
21:46I tried to stay away from injury players. I'm fine if you want to put that in there, but yeah, I kind
21:53of look at it and I go, I know if I'm going to take this person, like you said, it's a high
22:00variance pick, and I usually think it's probably going to start out the season definitely where I'm going to be kind of
22:07each week going like, come on, man, come on, man.
22:10But I kind of picked a lot of people where the capital's in a place where I'm like, ah, kind of telling
22:17myself a story, but I just, I know the ride's not smooth, Chris.
22:21It's everyone on this list will not have a smooth ride.
22:25We're going to call this the Christian McCaffrey honorary memorial list because we could easily put Christian McCaffrey on this list every year.
22:32You know that. Let's face it, these lists generally are just sort of a way to talk about different players.
22:39I try not to nominate the same players across multiple lists in the same year so you hear me talk about other
22:46players and you can develop your own opinions out there.
22:49So yes, indeed, it's a pointless countdown. Who's your number five?
22:52Acid Reflux All-Star for 2026. I think you've made maybe a bigger stance on this player.
22:57I had Marvin Harrison, the regular one, not the junior.
23:01We don't do juniors in the show, Chris. I have him as my wide receiver 33.
23:06I know I think you're like 41 or so so you're probably a little bit more off of him than I'm not.
23:13I'm curious, did you consider him? Not really because you're right.
23:16I don't really, I don't think I'm going to wind up with him.
23:20Yeah. It's funny, like what a wild world we live in.
23:24Two years ago, generation of prospect going at the turns of drafts.
23:28You and I, of course, that year put that immediately as like, yeah, that's trash.
23:33You don't do it. Next year was a little bit more palatable round four.
23:37And now you're in this place where it's going to be going mostly as like that fringe wide receiver three.
23:43It's probably going to settle in, I'm guessing, to like a round six pick.
23:48And I put him on this list because now I'm at a place where it's, like last year was a nightmare and
23:55I'll get to that in a second. But the draft price entices me.
23:59Like you now have to get a quote unquote air quotes, you can't see it, generation of prospect.
24:05And I don't have to use more than a wide receiver price, right?
24:09It kind of, Chris, feels like when I'm going to buy like a cashmere sweater on off season and like it used
24:16to be $240 and now it's $90 but it's final sale and it's like in a lavender or something and I go,
24:23if I get this and it hits and it fits me great, it's like, yo bro, where'd you get that sweater?
24:30It's sick. But if not, it's like, it's just enough almost to hurt me where I've like, I've spent 90 bucks, it
24:37used to be $240, I can't return it and then I'm like, yo George, you want this?
24:42Here's a situation I'm in. I like it because now I don't have to spend that draft capital.
24:48I'm kind of on the fence if this is just going to be someone who you kind of liken to Braylon Edwards,
24:55I think, in the Almanac, which I thought was a really good reference of how many of these top five receivers, right,
25:02after two seasons didn't put it together and then all of a sudden just went, whoa, year three.
25:08And again, Braylon Edwards, I think, is a great example because he exploded.
25:12I think it was like 16 TDs and then we never heard from him again.
25:17That's right. He did it once. I'm kind of on the fence where to stand with this player.
25:22Like, I'm telling myself these stories. It's like, well, it's year one under Michael Fleur.
25:27But then I sit here and I go, man, like, I know definitively he's the second best receiver, in my opinion, on this team.
25:35Like, he's not Trey McBride. But when I saw him in Wilson, it's like, he's still getting more of the target share then than him.
25:43And like, I'm just on the fence, Chris, because I'm now at a point where does he ever put it together or
25:50is this just something where we look back and we're like, yeah, he just wasn't what he thought he, it wasn't what we thought he was.
25:58Like, he has the build, looks good, but like, is there something between the ears right now?
26:04Like, I try to not to pay too many attention to these videos of him just dropping the ball in practice, similar to Jamar Chase year one, right?
26:12But like, it's tough to completely disregard it. It's year three.
26:16And then lastly, like, I also have to look at this team, dude, where it's like, they're not going to pass the
26:23ball the same amount they did last year. That's just so unreasonable, right?
26:27What Perset was doing down the stretch too. I also get concerned you can get the second half of the year where
26:34they're like, all right, this isn't the NBA, but would it be the worst thing if we kind of lost six or
26:41seven games in a row with Carson Beck, a quarterback?
26:44And it's like, there's a lot of things that make me cringe.
26:48So I've kind of gone back and forth on this.
26:51You don't have to pay a hefty price tag, but there's definitely a lot of warts here.
26:57I don't think he's a generational player, but if you spend round six, round seven, and he kind of gives you a
27:04thousand yards and six or seven TDs, it's not the worst thing.
27:08And like, that's where I'm kind of like, it's a great discount.
27:12It's a really, really good discount. I said this on the show.
27:15Do you know how many players had a thousand yards last year?
27:19How many receivers? I'm going to go with, I can't tell if you're saying this is the higher man or low, and
27:26I think it's going to be low. So I'm going to say 13.
27:3019. But the point being, is he really going to be one of them?
27:35You know, that's what I just don't, I kind of don't think so.
27:39Maybe. And you know, I think it's fine that you're saying what round you're presuming that you're going to get him in,
27:46but I will emphasize that that is highly subject to change.
27:50Of course. We get, I mean, we get, you know, some joint practice where he goes nuts.
27:55He's going to go to the fourth round. You know, like these, the ADP that we have right now is very fake.
28:02So, all right. My, my number five also receiver, also in the same class and also a stress farter.
28:08I put Brian Thomas on this list. I have Brian Thomas a little bit higher than Marvin Harrison.
28:14I'm probably a little likelier to take the plunge depending on the price.
28:18There's a lot of other, you know, I have Parker Washington higher a little bit higher than Brian Thomas in both standard and in PPR.
28:26So, I'm guessing, like I don't really know. And what I do know though is that what the new Jags coaching staff
28:33tried to do with Brian Thomas last year, they're never going to try to do again, which was they tried to turn him into Nico Collins.
28:41They tried to make him a full field guy.
28:44Let's throw him screens. Let's throw him, you know, slants.
28:47Let's, let's get him in the middle of field.
28:50Let's go up the seam. No, he's going to ride the rail because they just realized even before he got hurt that it wasn't working.
28:58So, you know, there's a, there's a, there's, what do the kids say?
29:02Fear of missing out? A little FOMO. Yep. More for me, Brian Thomas than Marvin Harrison.
29:07I don't, you know, the difference between Brian Thomas and Marvin Harrison is that 2024 happened and Brian Thomas was awesome.
29:14So, like, I've seen him be able to do it.
29:17Clearly, I don't know for sure anything. I mean, if Travis Hunter is still playing offense, it's, you know, and I, I
29:24like the tight, Brenton Strange, the tight end. Like, there's a lot of mouths to feed as they say and Brian Thomas
29:31isn't going to be the full field wonder. I kind of think Parker Washington will, but yeah, like for a kind of
29:38wide receiver three price, I can't imagine myself stressing out, but taking him.
29:43I have him on my list, but I waited for you to go.
29:47So we can talk a little bit more. No, it's completely fine because I had, I had him as my three.
29:53The order really doesn't make a difference, but I wrote similar stuff to you.
29:58I had a bullet that said, unlike Harrison, I've seen him perform as a wide receiver one.
30:03And like, I really have a difficult time just completely disregarding that year one because it was so impressive.
30:09Like from a speed perspective and just downfield. And sure, it wasn't with Trevor Lawrence, but I have a difficult time just
30:16forgetting about one of the better rookie seasons I've seen in recent years and what we all thought of him going into a draft last year.
30:25And look, I spent the 16 pick on him last year and won a league despite him.
30:30And I remember talking to you all throughout. Again, we won't get into his name.
30:35We'll say Brian, but I was in that place and I know what it was like to own him.
30:41And exactly what you said is like you, you played him every week and you watched him like, oh, we'll try him
30:48in the slot and you'd watch him drop balls or in the back of the end zone.
30:53And I'm like, I sit here and I go, is this kind of just more of a, a one trick pony, this amazing downfield threat.
31:01And like, I don't play best ball, Chris, but I get the sense that like, if you take Brian Thomas, it feels
31:08like it's going to be one of these like unenjoyable rides, right?
31:12Yeah. Like four games. Amazing. You got it. Eight games and four games, utter disaster.
31:17Like one catch, seven yards. Yeah. Yeah. It's, it's like, it's blazing speed.
31:21I could see it. It's week one. He does five for one 10 and a long TD.
31:27And you know, you've drafted him again. I have them where you have them, I think in the, in the thirties.
31:33And I kind of have them right there with Parker Washington.
31:37And I lean slightly Parker Washington because when the Jags were great at the end of the year and they were really
31:44ascending and things were clicking with Lawrence and they're heading into the playoffs, it was Parker Washington.
31:49It wasn't Brian Thomas. And it feels like he's going to be the guy moved all around the field.
31:55And we're going to get these, like you said, huge surges from Brian Thomas.
32:00And we're going to go, Oh, this is amazing.
32:03Unenjoyable, unenjoyable, unenjoyable. I'm going to bench him. Amazing.
32:06And again, from someone we, I hate to do the too many mouths to feed, but it's like, I know you're a Brenton strange guy.
32:14You and I have discussed him, you know, on our personal calls, not to get too much away.
32:19I'm like, Jacoby Myers there, who knows what they're going to do with Hunter.
32:24And I wrote down like just the bullet, like I could see at the end of this year.
32:30I don't think it happens this year where Brian Thomas isn't on this team anymore and he ends up somewhere else and
32:37in like a, a picking situation because I do think he's talented and he had some injuries last year with the ankle and his wrist was busted up.
32:46And I don't think we could say he was hurt.
32:49He'll return to form, but I could easily see this just be a situation where in a year and a half, he's not on this team.
32:57It's a new environment and we're talking about him again and like, like, well, do we want to kind of give him a chance?
33:05Like we saw, you know, glimpses of it. Now he's in a place like Dallas and Pickens is gone and they have
33:12him here and like, I could see them using him as a downfield threat there.
33:17I don't know, but I'm with you. So I'm interested because you're not using top 15, top 17 capital on it.
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34:26I guess we're at year number four. Yeah, you want me to go on this one?
34:31Yeah, go ahead. All right. I put Josh Jacobs on this, Chris, and I just, did you consider or no?
34:38You know, it's, we haven't had a Josh Jacobs conversation this week since we've been back, so we might as well have it.
34:45I mean, it just comes down to the, he seemed very obvious because you're just going to be stressing the whole year that a suspension is coming.
34:54He's my obvious one and that's what it's about and I think, I just kind of wanted to have the conversation because
35:01it is, again, you are one of the biggest Josh Jacobs fans.
35:04I've always been a person like you after one year of saying no and then seeing him explode that year in Oakland.
35:11I'm like, look, I get it. It's fine. Cool.
35:14I'm in now and people poop on him every year but as long as he's playing, like, again, last year, RB1, the
35:21rushing yards went down but the TDs are there.
35:24They've done nothing in Green Bay, you know, to change what they've had from last year and yeah, this ranking, I have
35:31Marby 13 and I wrote the perfect person to pair if you get one of those top two picks.
35:37Like, if I get a Gibbs or a Bajon, I'd love to have Jacobs there.
35:42I think that's such a good start and I think that's probably like an area to pick him in but I think
35:49what gives me pause is exactly what you said.
35:52It's like, we're not going to know until we know.
35:55Like, it's going to be one of these where like, there's a video surface or out of nowhere do we, around week
36:02five do we start to hear things and it's just, for me, it's, I'd be comfortable drafting him as long as we
36:09hear nothing, Chris, because I think every week he's playing he's listed as an RB1.
36:14We got confidence. I don't think any of us are concerned that he's just deteriorated from his skill level like I don't.
36:21Right. But I think it's one of these where I would sit here going like, do I cash this in week six
36:28or seven and get like a younger running back and some other piece and I think that would kind of just give
36:35me this hesitation like I'm on this dream ride.
36:38I'm five and one. I have Jacobs like is it coming?
36:41Is it coming? Is it coming? Yeah. And it's just, it is, it's going to stink because it's going to just be this actuarial game.
36:49I mean, there's never been a clearer recent example of where the fact that we're rooting for Laundrie, you know, he's accused of doing horrible things.
36:58I tend to believe women and so I tend to believe that he did them.
37:03What I'll say is if you're, if you're thinking actuarially, the NFL wheels of justice grind as slow as humanly possible because
37:10the commissioner doesn't really have any independence and it's all about what the owners let him get away with and I think
37:17usually they don't broadside you unless, I mean, I hate to say this, but unless the Ray Rice video comes out like
37:24you were referring to, you know, you get, I mean, buy pound foolish folks.
37:28It's largely what the book's about. Not really. There's a lot of that in there though about, I mean, the first chapter
37:35is about the commissioner and it's not very flattering.
37:38You know, how loud does the noise get? They only, they only act when it gets outraged, you know, when, when things
37:45are, when people are outraged and, you know, I'm loathe to predict on what videos might or might not leak but I
37:52think if they can avoid the kind of visceral outrage and just like let it cruise, he'll get suspended at the beginning
37:59of next year because that's how it usually works and that you'll probably have gotten.
38:04I lean that way too. Yeah, yeah. I lean that way too.
38:08No news is probably good news in that regard.
38:11Yeah, I agree. I just, I think about the Kawhi Leonard investigation that's been going on for what, 10 months and I still hear nothing about it.
38:19And again, the NBA is frankly a little, the NBA, you know, overreacts to public opinion.
38:24Like the NBA is, you know, like way more reactive than the NFL is for sure.
38:29But I thought it was worth having the discussion.
38:32I know you and I are fans of it and it gets to a point, it's like at what point do you pull the trigger?
38:40And again, you know where you're going to pick him.
38:43The people surrounding him are like, those are really like the league winner type guys where you don't want to throw a
38:50dart on someone that's going to just be at five, six, seven games, whatever it is.
38:56It's round three, round four is where we're going to be making that call on Jacobs.
39:01No question. I feel pretty confident that nobody's going to be, I mean, it's because the people already don't like him.
39:07So he's not going to be any higher than he would normally go.
39:12All right, my number four, someone, again, you know, I know what you mean when you say we're a fan of these
39:19guys, but like we have to be careful that we don't know them as people.
39:23And so number four, very much someone I'm known as liking, McLovin, Terry McLaurin.
39:28He was the first name I picked. He wound up number four, but he was the first name I thought of when
39:35I was like, all right, I got to sit down and make this list to talk about with Josh.
39:41And it's probably because I'm so inclined toward his game.
39:44I think what he does is awesome. Like he's the perfect example of what I want in a receiver.
39:50He's an absolute alpha. He's a baller. He's just, you know, got that thing.
39:55Clutch, I believe in it. You know, he is, he's fast.
39:58He runs unreal routes, but let's face it, except for one year in his career, it's kind of always been something.
40:05And last year was no, I mean, last year was multiple somethings.
40:09Last year was utter, utter trash disaster because he holds out.
40:12He's not in shape. He gets hurt. And then the quarterback, even worse, gets hurt.
40:17And by the time, I mean, you know, they played together a little bit, but not much.
40:22And yeah, it turned out to be an absolute mess.
40:26I have him wide receiver 19. And, you know, for me, that translates to, I mean, standard league that translates to like, where are we?
40:34Fourth round. I'm calling it fourth round. PPR. I think that's where he's gone.
40:38Yeah, I could, I could see him go like, and I would want to do it.
40:43I would, I would get to the point in the fourth round where I would take Terry McLaurin, probably 90 earlier.
40:50It's 31 now. And like, I don't think last year was anything about, you know, a fall off in skills, but those skills can also incidentally happen.
40:59I think Stefan Diggs being in Washington talked about it on Thursday's show.
41:03Like, great. I think that's good. Frankly, we need, we need other people to be able to catch the ball.
41:09Give a full season of health to Daniels. Give a full season of health to McLaurin.
41:14I know what the ceiling is. I saw it two years ago, but I, of course, I'm going to stress out about it.
41:22Yeah, I, I think I have McLaurin in a similar place.
41:25Like, I know you said a lot's going to change.
41:28He's going to be around for pick. I have him 20.
41:32What do you say? You have 19? 19. Yep.
41:35Yeah. So we're basically in the same place. Yeah.
41:37And, you know, he's just, he's got the, the wide variance possibilities because I mean, as much as I say, I like
41:45him and as much as, you know, this show is all dedicated to the notion of, come on, you need to figure out who the best players are.
41:53Well, he is one of the best receivers in the league.
41:57I really think he is. And, he scored 13 touchdowns two years ago and other than that, you know, it's a thousand yards receiving, eleven hundred yards receiving.
42:06We don't have the big blow up year other than the touchdowns two years ago and I gotta eat that.
42:12You know, I gotta be, I gotta be honest that the production has never really matched what I've raved about him on film.
42:20So, I guess that's why it makes me nervous.
42:22Your number three is Brian Thomas so we'll get to my number three.
42:27I will ask you, I don't think you'll have him because you had him as an honorable mention last year but I put Kenneth Walker on my list.
42:36No, I didn't put him on last year. Robert Pattinson, Kenneth Walker.
42:39I call him Kenny Three Sticks now because now he wears the, he wears the Kenneth Walker the third on his back so he's Kenny Three Sticks.
42:48I of course understand what can go right. I don't imagine I'm gonna wind up from the way people are talking about
42:55Kenneth Walker I don't imagine I'm gonna get him because it feels like people are fantasizing about some Chiefs offense from five
43:02years ago that doesn't really exist anymore especially with a quarterback coming back from a torn ACL and he probably will play
43:09week one Patrick Mahomes and I, you know, I believe he'll probably be pretty good.
43:14I don't, really believe that he'll be flawless because it's just a hard thing to be really mobile with and it's a
43:21long grind and I don't, I don't, I mean, I'll ask it as a question.
43:26Would you number the Chiefs as like one of the five best offenses in the league going into the season?
43:32No. Yeah. I wouldn't put him top 10. You know, if you did put him 10, you know, you might put him 10, 9, 10, something like that.
43:41You know, like, I, so like, it seems to me that there's a lot of, with Kenneth Walker, again, not really worrying
43:48about ADP, but just understanding the discourse, doing mock drafts, you know, doing the fishbowl, that kind of stuff, seeing where he goes.
43:55Whenever he goes, I always go, woo, I get it.
43:59Because if you're going back in time a little bit, you say to yourself, finally, the Chiefs aren't messing around with Clyde Edwards-Elair and all his inheritors.
44:07You know, you're finally getting a real dude. Say what you want about Kenneth Walker, and he has limitations, player that you and I both like.
44:16Like, he's the realest dude they've had there in all the times they've, and unfortunately, it seems to me like they're plugging
44:23him into an offense that could need some milk of magnesia.
44:26Yeah. He's in that, it's such a unique, or I should say, it's such an interesting group of players because he's going
44:33where it's like, it's Walker, it's Hampton and Henry and HN and Barkley, and it's like, yeah, it's, I think everyone is
44:40automatically assuming, and I like Walker and I'm, I'm not so much on like the queasy side, but like, I think it's,
44:47everyone has these ideas of two years ago, we saw Barkley and Jacobs and Henry and everyone switched teams and just erupt
44:54and I think it's like, all right, we're automatically going to get that and we haven't seen Walker play a full year
45:01yet, like he's had some lower extremity issues over the years, like from a talent perspective, like I love the guy, I
45:08think like from an explosive rate, he's awesome, I think he can catch the ball even more than we saw in Seattle,
45:15but like I'm with you, like if you want to take him, especially in standard leagues, it's basically kind of an end
45:22of, it's a top 15 pick in some version.
45:25Oh yeah, okay, so I mean that's, that's almost Marvin Harrison type territory, again, I'm not doing this based on ADP, so
45:32you know, I'm not taking him there, I'm not interested in him there, I like him, I think he's a very good
45:39player, a lot of the crazy discourse, just inevitable, it happens every year, they're throwing him a lot of passes, Josh, he's
45:46going to be massive in the receiving game, Josh, don't you know, there's a 60 catch season out there for him, Josh,
45:53the problem is they say that about everybody, usually doesn't happen, you know, like it just, it's probably not the thing he
46:00does best, certainly was never the thing he did best in Seattle, so yeah, I'm not going to pay that price for
46:07him, that's for sure, how about your number two?
46:10This one I struggled with, because you and I both like this player, you like him, I mean, both of us talked
46:17a lot about him last year and he was a rookie, I have him 21, you have him 15, I had Ted
46:24McMillan on here, and I'll tell you, you know why I'm going to say this, I heard a deep breath, oh no,
46:31no, I was just like, I looked at his name, and then I tried to think to myself, does he actually make
46:38me nervous, and I thought, he kind of doesn't, but go ahead, yeah, like I said, I have him 21, you have
46:45him 15, and I think what, you and I both love him as a player, like I think you had an interesting
46:52few comps and it's like, you know, the frame reminds you a little bit about Burris, that's like a big dude, and
46:59just, he was really, really impressive last year with a pretty below average quarterback, which I'll get to in why it concerns
47:06me, I think what was awesome about last year is, when you were drafting Ted McMillan and what we thought was like
47:13a, not the greatest wide receiver class, like you probably spent ending back then, like, I don't even know what round pick
47:20he was, but you're picking him as a wide receiver four, right, and he comes out, he does one of the 19
47:27players, I guess it was a thousand yards, seven keys, that's an awesome rookie season, and I've seen guys have these awesome
47:34rookie seasons and follow it up, you know, with subpar ones, like our cutie, Lad McConkie, but more to come on that,
47:41not today, but another one, but I guess what's really tricky is this, Chris, that offense really hasn't changed, right, they invest
47:48in the defense, they want to run the ball, I'm with you, where you can't just say I want to run the
47:56ball in today's NFL, it doesn't exist, the problem I have with Ted is he's going around those players of like Zay
48:03Flowers, Ibuka, Lad, and like neighbors, and the reason I pause is, like, I really like the player, but I'm thinking to
48:10myself, like, if he hits his ceiling, like, if you said the ceiling of Zay and the ceiling of Ibuka and McConkie
48:17and neighbors and some of those other guys in that group, like, what is his true ceiling for me there?
48:23And that's where it's like it gives me the hesitation because I look at that, like, environment in Carolina and a quarterback
48:30who threw under 200, 100 yards 12 times and I'm like, I'm not waking up tomorrow going, oh yeah, Bryce Young turned
48:37into Baker Mayfield, like, he's just running around with crazed abandon and firing the ball 50 times and I go, there's a little bit of capped upside.
48:46I think Coker's a little bit underrated and when he played last year they were pretty close in targets but like, that's
48:53not the reason I'm not saying McMillan, it's just like, I don't love this environment and it's one of the offenses where
49:00I feel comfortable saying like, this is not all of a sudden going to be an explosive passing team and I just
49:07get concerned where if I take him, I mean, he's going to probably be an end of round three guy, like, he'll probably go ahead of McLaurin, right?
49:16Like, I almost feel like the upside for even a McLaurin that you discussed before is just the higher upside than McMillan.
49:23So it almost feels like it's a structural pick where you're like, alright, like, I'll take him as a two and it's
49:30like, I just hope he kind of gives me close to last year but it just feels capped upside and I think
49:37that's why I had him on this list because it just, it's that environment I can't get over, man, with Bryce Young.
49:44Okay, but he's not a fade for you, he's a...
49:47No. It's a fade where I'm just kind of like, I take him and I go, it reminds me of a couple
49:54of years ago when I needed an RB2 and I just went, oh, Aaron Jones, yeah.
49:59And it's like... Well, let me ask you this, what are you doing with Drake London?
50:04I have London higher. I have London kind of...
50:07Yeah. Why is that environment any better? I know, because you're sitting here going like, you feel good about Michael Penix, you feel good about Tua.
50:15Yeah. I guess, I mean, London was pretty good last year, not so much of a great environment.
50:21I mean, I don't have his stats in front of me but I'm pretty sure he outscored...
50:27He missed five games though. Yeah, but points per game were obviously ahead of him but yeah.
50:32My point is that 2024, Drake London, you know, you go, oh, what's ceiling is there playing for a Kirk Cousins, you
50:39know, Michael Penix rookie season kind of thing and it was like 1209 and is that amazing?
50:44Is that 1814? It is not but it gets you wide receiver six or something.
50:49Like, it's crazy. That's how flat the stupid position is.
50:52You know, it's crazy. So, McMillan's floor, healthy, feels so good and he doesn't need to do very much more.
50:59He could just have two more plays where he, a defender falls down and instead of 1,000 yards receiving and seven touchdowns
51:06it's 1209 and he's, he's, Drake London from two years ago.
51:09Yeah, I guess the only thing that we can move on to the next one is I just look at that group
51:16of people and maybe it's because I had JSN last year and it's like, oh, this feels so nice and I'm just
51:23sitting here, Chris, thinking like, which of these groups of people in that like wide receiver and we can name all those
51:30names, I named a few of those guys and the Higgins is like, who is the person I feel like could, if
51:37one of these guys were to hit and get into that, you know, put together a 1,400 or 1,500 yard season or
51:44100 catch year, like, which of those players and again, I'm not saying I agree his floor is higher but I think his ceiling is lower.
51:53I don't think he's going to crush you. I'm just, for me, it's one of those picks where I'm just like, I
52:00don't know, I just, I do it and I'd go, all right, it's fine, it's Tet, move on.
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53:10Okay, we're back with Josh and before we get back to the list, Josh, let's bribe some people, shall we?
53:16What do you say? Sure, Chris, I like bribing people.
53:20You didn't sound enthusiastic. You don't have to do anything.
53:23Go for it. Except for sound enthusiastic, that's the only thing I want.
53:27Sure, I love a good bribe. All right, good.
53:30So we have two things to give away. These are giveaways to people who have pre-ordered the book or have had someone else pre-order the book for them.
53:39I want to re-emphasize what I said off the top, which is that I now have multiple people offering to buy folks
53:46who can't currently, you know, justify the expense, which we all, of course, understand.
53:50I feel bad because I'm like, oh, this is for sale.
53:54That's for sale. Like, I'm so happy to have you listening.
53:57You're awesome. Like, you're the best. Don't feel bad about it.
54:01And don't feel bad about asking if you want to get a pre-order of this book.
54:06So anyway, two things. I have a little random number generator.
54:09I random number generated the number of entries that we have so far.
54:14And it's for two big winners. The first, the Andy Barons is going to introduce your draft order to your league.
54:20The winner is Thomas Oraccio. I will email you, of course, but I'm announcing it on the show.
54:26Thomas, congratulations. You're the big winner there. We'll get Andy on that soon.
54:30Andy's in Germany right now, but he's coming back.
54:33I'm pretty sure. And then the winner of the Zoom with me, and there will be more of these.
54:39We're going to do another drawing on Monday. The winner is Doug Kirk.
54:43So congratulations to Doug Kirk. Again, I'll send you an email, but, you know, maybe by the time you hear this, you'll
54:50have already gotten the email, but we got our first two winners in the bribery.
54:55Many, many more to come. A bribe a day on the podcast from here on out to the end of the month.
55:02Thank you to everybody. And if you want to enter, of course, buy the pre-order of the book, you can go to
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55:21Okay, Josh, so we got to get to the rest of this list.
55:25We have three more names. Two of them are mine, so I'll do my number two.
55:30And I'm going to, I'll say it as a question just in case it's your number one.
55:36I have Devontae Adams at number two. Not on my list.
55:39Okay. I mean, he should be my number one, but I just like want, I kind of wanted to be a wise ass with my number one.
55:48I mean, you don't want to talk about variance.
55:51You know, Devontae Adams was, you know, let me say it as a question.
55:55Was Devontae Adams great last year? Because, I mean, he was super fun to own for fantasy.
56:01He was, what, the wide receiver seven scored 14 touchdowns, went crazy late in the year.
56:06Like, great. But, outside of that, you know, it's what a, what a, I don't know, you know, it's almost like I
56:13don't know what to do with him. I don't know where to rank him.
56:17You feel like he's slowing down? I think he probably is slowing down.
56:21I grave him, I downgraded his speed grade upon re-watching some film to a C.
56:26I also upgraded his end zone to an A plus for obvious reasons.
56:30Um, you know, they aren't asking him to be a downfield player as much anymore and it's, you know, he's a very
56:37touchdown dependent player but like, I like the offense.
56:40It's one of the few offenses I feel like sight unseen I'm gonna tell you that I trust going into the season
56:47and it worked even when every team knew it was coming they still could throw these fades and whatever.
56:53Devontae Adams still unbelievably quick in a phone booth.
56:56So, I kind of think these touchdowns are gonna recur again.
57:00I wound up with him at wide receiver 17.
57:02I think it's a fair rank but like, I can imagine being very nervous about it.
57:08I have him 22. I'd never heard that analogy before the phone booth one but he's probably, I mean off the top
57:15of my head for any receiver I've been alive for around the end zone like during the Rogers time, the Stafford time,
57:22he's just so unbelievable in these small spaces, Chris, and like, those back shoulder passes is just unbelievable.
57:27Yeah, I have him 22. I kind of don't know what to do with him.
57:32He and Mike Evans I thought about for this list.
57:35Evans was another one now with the Pearsall injury.
57:38I'm just like, I looked at it and I go, well, the only difference is you can get him much later but
57:45I thought about it and I'm like, you know, it's really fun until it's not fun and it's another hamstring injury and
57:52I'm like, when is he coming back? When is he coming back?
57:56So, I also didn't want to go four out of five receivers on mine but Evans and Adams, I've had a really
58:03difficult time ranking both of those guys and I'm with you.
58:07It's like, I have Adams 22 but, I mean, it's also, what is he, 34 now too?
58:12Yeah, 34. Yeah. I think it's a good one.
58:15He would have been on my honorable mention with Evans.
58:18So, in the Almanac, I did a research project about how old is, how old is too old for wide receiver and
58:25it was a repeat of Devontae Adams' profile from the previous year except for now, I'm counting, instead of, you know, because
58:32he was in, he was entering year 12 so I gave you all the year 12 receivers and now he's entering year
58:3913 so I gave you the year 13 plus, you know, 13 beyond.
58:43There are only six seasons since the year 2000 where a wide out in his 13th season or beyond finished as a
58:50wide receiver one for fantasy that year. Six times in a quarter century.
58:55It's not a lot, obviously. And we don't need Adams to be a number one also but just like to get a
59:02sense of what his actual ceiling is. But the fact is, there are awesome names.
59:06It's all Hall of Famers. It's Tim Brown, Terrell Owens, Chris Carter, Jerry Rice.
59:11So, sure, I don't think Devontae Adams quite registers at that level.
59:15I don't think Devontae Adams is probably going to the Hall of Fame but, eh, really good player and he's gonna do it through touchdowns not yardage.
59:23I'm not mad at somebody who wants to even take him higher than I'm saying because I get it but it is gonna cause tremendous stress.
59:32It sounds like this means your number one must be a running back.
59:36It is. Is yours? It is. I wonder if we got the same guy.
59:40Do you get to watch him? That's a very bad question.
59:44You watch every game. I, I went with, I went with Travion Henderson.
59:48No, I didn't, I didn't do Travion. Mine's gonna be, mine's gonna cause you to be annoyed.
59:53All right, so, that's fine. I like being annoyed.
59:56I spend a lot of time in my life being frustrated.
60:00That's completely fine. You and I are pretty close in this.
60:03I had him as my RB22. I think you have him 21 if I'm correct.
60:08I looked at this and what's interesting about this, I think when it's all said and done, he's gonna settle and ADP
60:15means nothing now but I think it's like an end of four, early five selection and I think you're probably gonna, can
60:22I, can I also just mention that like, it does seem as though the, the arrow was pointing down at least early
60:29in camp because there was a big story about how he can't pass protect still.
60:34Yep. I saw that. If you're making this selection, Chris, right, you're basically, I look at this and I'll say what, I'll explain why I'm saying this.
60:42You're betting on a Ramondre Stevenson injury. Like, if you're taking him as your RB2 number 20, like, if I told you
60:49right now that Ramondre Stevenson tomorrow, knock on wood, right, gets knocked out for the season, I'd say Trevion Henderson is probably
60:56going right where Hampton's going in that, you know, early round two.
61:00Like, I think if he was not here as Stevenson, we'd be talking about this guy in the same place as Hampton
61:07and some of these other players, right? He's part of a team that just won the AFC championship if it was in the Super Bowl.
61:15Like, Ramondre Stevenson is not going away. I think people also forget at the end of the year, right, Denver Broncos game, what did he have?
61:2425 carries. I think over the last three games by heading into the playoffs, he had like six TDs, Stevenson, like, he's
61:31there and they're trying to win a Super Bowl.
61:34Like, I get we like to wish cast some of this stuff and we dream about these explosive runs and he's really explosive, Chris, right?
61:42Those games where he was out, he was an RB1 with Stevenson out and you're basically picking him here.
61:48The thing that and again, he has league winning potential.
61:51If Stevenson goes out, he's going to be listed as a top 10 to 12 running back I think every single week on that offense.
61:59The problem I have with this pick though is this.
62:02How much different, right, is he than a Blake Corum situation?
62:05And what's crazy is Corum will go 50 picks later.
62:09They're both kind of on these high-end offenses, right?
62:12Super Bowl contenders, similar situations. One of these guys, okay.
62:15They're not similar. I disavow the comparison. Blake Corum's not fast, the difference.
62:19Like, there are 80-yard touchdowns for Trevion Henderson even if he's not playing on third down.
62:24Fair. One guy doesn't need the same amount of usage as the other one.
62:28What I'm getting at though is, fine, fair enough.
62:31What I'm saying is this. It's a massive investment to make on someone who we know definitively even is split backfield.
62:38We're betting on, all right, a couple of explosive plays.
62:41I find it just really difficult especially to start the year and when Ramondre's playing.
62:46Like, I say this because he's around four or five pick and every week you're going into this situation going, how much is he going to play?
62:55They're part of this Super Bowl possible team. Like, it's a lot to expect from an RB2 and I think if you're
63:02picking him there you almost have to have a draft plan where you're going to go, all right, in three of my
63:09first five picks I'm going to make sure I have running backs because while I'm waiting on Henderson I kind of want to have another player here.
63:17It's just, I just think it's a unique play.
63:20It sounds like you're calling him a bust, buddy.
63:23I'm not getting, you're not getting the upside. I know, I know.
63:27I'm getting to that point. you got to get to it.
63:30We're going to have a three-hour show. All right.
63:33Long story short is I like him because I think the upside of what you said is great because I think you
63:40have these explosive plays and if anything were to happen to Stevenson you have a top 10, 12 back and I think
63:47while he's, you know, while Stevenson's there you still probably have a flex play.
63:52So, that's where I'm at. I mean, I understand where you're coming from and if anything he has down mobility in his
63:59rank which makes him the more attractive and the more like potential tummy ache inducing because now you're like oh boy, I might actually wind up with him.
64:08So, I wouldn't be shocked if things continue the way they have.
64:12I mean, he played nine, he had nine third down carries last year and that's because he can't play on third down, right?
64:19And so, if he still can't play on third down we're, yeah, we're having to skirt a line.
64:25Here's my, can I tell you why it's a line I might be willing to skirt even with a 45% work share?
64:32My justification, Cam Scadaboo, DeAndre Swift, David Montgomery, Chuba Hubbard, Tony Pollard, Jadarian Price, Bashul Tootin, maybe on the rise but the
64:39point being who are the other running backs who've got these, these mythical running backs who've got these full-time jobs that are
64:46supposedly better than Travion, you know, Travion Henderson with six, with nine third down carries all season last year and remember barely
64:53playing for six weeks when everybody was dropping him finishes the RB19.
64:57Not a good ride because like, what did I say?
65:0058% of his fantasy production came in four games within those four games the vast majority of his, right, the vast majority
65:07of, in those four games came on about four plays because it's all about the ADR touchdown.
65:12The ADR touchdown counts. I understand, I'm not trying to tell you you're not, you're wrong to put him on the list at all.
65:20I'm just trying to fight because you weren't really being positive on the positive side.
65:25So I'm just trying to give the negative case, you're right, he doesn't get any better, they get frustrated with him, big
65:32plays can dry up for a long period of time and suddenly you're like four weeks in since you got a Travion
65:39Henderson touchdown, you're like, oh, I don't even know if I can start him.
65:43You're making a good point. I do, I do get that point.
65:47I'm not trying to disavow it. I'm just trying to give you the positive case.
65:52Fair. Yeah. All right, my number one is, you know, the reason it's a jerk move because, jerk face, jerk face move
65:59because he was my number one on this list last year.
66:02It's Brees Hall. Our old friend, Brees Hall, about whom we actually have not spoken on the pod.
66:08Go ahead. Real dirty move because you send me these people from last year and like, when you send me them and
66:15you show us last year's, I'm like, all right, I'm not going to pick anyone from last year and I cross the
66:22ball and then it's like, go on back to the well, but you can go on.
66:27It's a dirty move. I'm, I'm 100% with you.
66:30It's, it's Weasley. But it's really interesting because to trust Brees Hall at anything like what I'm saying you can trust him at, which I have him RB13.
66:39You're, you're, like Brees Hall didn't get worse last year and he probably didn't get better this year and, and, you know, he played okay.
66:47He just got avalanched and he had whatever, 1400 yards from scrimmage.
66:51Like, it's not a disaster season. It's just, you're making it a, you're making a bet on some level of probability that
66:58the Jets are just better on offense. It's a more functional team with Geno Smith and my God, I just saw Geno Smith.
67:05So, we all know I love Brees Hall. Ability-wise, he's very fast.
67:09He's a 220-pound back who can run like that.
67:12Pretty elusive. Very strong. Can be his own gold line back.
67:15A really good receiver. Like, he's one of my favorite running backs in the league.
67:20I think he's great. And, I think he might be a little bit of a loser for not leaving New York because
67:27he really kind of should have gone somewhere else.
67:30But, okay, I'm wrong. He's not a loser. Whatever.
67:33Whatever. He was this person last year, but one year younger and didn't really light the world on fire and drove us
67:40pretty crazy for most of the season. It scares the hell out of me to be calling him RB13 again.
67:46It scares the hell out of me not again, but like, to be getting him that high.
67:52It scares the hell out of me to be saying, cool, I'm in the second round, I'm taking Brees Hall.
67:58I think I would, at least where I sit right now, but it scares the hell out of me.
68:04Yeah, I have him 14. We're in the similar place.
68:08If we were allowed to put guys on, because I think I had him as my three last year, I would probably consider him.
68:15Yeah, he was our only overlap last year. Yeah.
68:18I'm with you, and it's tough to take that leap of faith and go, oh yeah, it's Geno Smith now.
68:24That's the savior. We're in a much better place now.
68:28His franchise is in really good hands. Coaching and everything looks really, really good here.
68:32Like, you know, Aaron Glenn's fine. It's a difficult task to go back to that well.
68:38I'm with you. I really wish you would have ended up in like Washington or somewhere else and we were doing this
68:45list and we're like, hey, and we're talking about do you want him or HN?
68:49We're having these discussions because you and I really do like the player.
68:54Yeah. How much do you want to disregard last year and kind of, it's just, I don't know.
68:59It wasn't even that bad of a year. Like, no, it just, we all know what it felt like to have him.
69:06He finished RB 18, clearly not what we drafted him for, but he finished RB 18 because he didn't score touchdowns and
69:13even on bad teams, sometimes touchdowns just come to you and suddenly you're great again.
69:18So, like, on a terrible team, he did whatever I said, 14 under scrimmage yards.
69:23Not what you want, not perfect, but certainly by today's standards, good enough.
69:27Everything's a split backfield, you know, like, good enough.
69:30Problem is the touchdowns. Yes, bad teams score fewer touchdowns.
69:33That gives you a narrower path, but bad teams do score touchdowns and a lot of times they're your best player who
69:40score them and so, like, we could just get the random 10 touchdown season out of Brees Hall and all of our worries are solved.
69:48No question. It's, it's, it's, the reason, I just feel so made crazy by it.
69:53I'm made so insane by it that I, that I felt like I needed to repeat to just emphasize how, how betwixt and between I am on him.
70:02You know, I look back at that 23 season where he had those 76 catches and I'm just like, I think he's,
70:09like, again, you're wish casting some of this stuff, but I look at this and I go, you know, Gino Smith is
70:16a lot different than a guy like Justin Fields and I'd like to think that those receptions go way back up from that 36 he had last year.
70:25Um, I feel like, it's like the safest thing you can do.
70:29Just do that. You know, especially if you're trailing, like, just do it.
70:33The, yeah, sorry to interrupt. Go ahead. No, that's what I was going to say and I think if he gets back
70:40to kind of like, he doesn't need to get to 76, but if he's going to get, you know, 80 targets this
70:47year and catch 55, 60 balls, I think he's easily returning that value.
70:51So it's like, you don't need much more than what he did last year.
70:55It's just, it seems so simple where you could just dump off some of these passes, especially if you're playing catch up
71:03in some of these games and it just, I don't know.
71:06It doesn't seem like a big ass for me, Chris, for, for, for Brees hole and a run for a thousand catch for 400 and score 10 TVs.
71:15Like, it just seems like that should have two years ago.
71:18We would have been like, yeah, that seems like his floor.
71:22Yeah. A talented guy that I think if we were lining up players you would want for one season for any, for
71:29your NFL team, I don't see any way both of us wouldn't put Brees hole in our top six or seven.
71:36Like, yes, correct? Yeah. As a running back, I mean, I love, I have to see the list in front of me.
71:43He's a really good player, but yeah, he's, he's a really good player.
71:47Maybe. I don't think 10, I think higher. I mean, he's going to be in the top 10, but like, yeah, I think I want him over Gentie.
71:56I think I want him over James Cook. I think I want him over, you know, not, not in fantasy, not right
72:03now, but in terms of ability, you know, sweet, sweet, um, put James Cook on the jets and put, and I'm pretty solid in the bills.
72:11Yeah. Yep. Who's, who's, who's going higher in fantasy?
72:14Oh, I mean, it's no question. So, but which isn't really useful for our audience to make draft decisions on, but our
72:21point, this is what makes me, uh, you know, struggle with him because he is, I think he is really, really good.
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