8/30 Fantasy Football 2019: Final Burning Draft Questions

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and you know, hopefully good things will happen. Pick her from the nine spot. Matt Modica High stake draft tonight. He'll be drafting at eight p m. I'll be drafting over at the Stewart Hotel as well. Six pm. That's the NFFC prime time draft. I have the fifth pick, so selfishly, a lot of the questions that I'm going to ask both you and e Y are gonna be the questions that I have and hopefully the questions that other people have as well. I already alluded to it.

You heard it right before the program, e Y. We had to work that program that promo into the start of the show. It was amazing. How are you doing, Eway? Yeah, I was pretty fired up yesterday. I said, like a complete psychopath. Um, I have it no other way, which is good, which is good because I am a psychopath. So yeah, it's I mean, the truth is, you've got to form your own opinion. That's what makes fancy sports amazing. But I mean, listen to people like, look, I'm basically unemployed.

I have no life, I have no children. This is what I do all day every day. I consume everything, I read everything, I watched video, I watched tape. I've watched every single snap of the preseason. That's how insane I am. The psycho that is Eric Young. E Y. You've met Matt Modica before, right, Because this is like a joining of the bill stands, two Bills fans, one Jet fan. You know this is this is quite the

room Bills mafia. You know, if there's anyone that's worthy enough to uh put you through a flaming table, it's probably e y. If somebody's gonna do it, I would want nobody else. So, as I mentioned basically on today's show, we're gonna answer a lot of your final Fantasy football draft questions. If you have questions, you can tweet at me right now at roto Underscore Frank. You can write them in on the YouTube chat. Make sure you watch on Zoomo TV as well. That's channel seven nineteen. Guys.

I want to start it off real quick. You know, we got a couple of minutes before the break, and you know, if we don't hit on all of it before the break, we'll touch on it afterwards as well. But everything that's going on with Ezekiel Elliott, I mean, this is real at this point, Matt, and you have you have picked nine tonight, so there is a chance that Ezekiel Elliott will fall to you at pick nine. I have pick five and I said this yesterday with

Greg Sussman. I said, I will not be drafting Ezekiel Elliott. And look, I understand the upside that Ezekiel Elliott has. Two out of the three years that he's played a full season, he has led the NFL in rushing. The one year that he didn't play sixteen games he was suspended, he led the NFL in rushing yards per game. I understand how good Ezekiel Elliott is. Well, what everything that's coming out about. They could wait at least six weeks before he plays. They have a really easy schedule their

first three games of the season as well. That where there's smoke, there's fire. And over the past couple of days, his ADP has dropped a little bit. He's down into you know that six point one range, So he's going pick six, pick seven, whereas for most of the draft season he was going as a top four pick. If he falls to you at pick nine, will you be selecting Ezekiel Elliott. Oh? No, I will not be taking

him there. The only one. The first consideration I had is if I'm at the turn, then maybe, But I do think he's gonna sign at some point. It's not gonna be six weeks or more. But I'd rather just take a James Conner type, who I think with the Steeler's offensive line, the Steelers right there really isn't a

more uh fantasily friendly team. You know the guys, you know their role, so I would go that direction, or like a DeAndre Hopkins if I'm picking fifth or something, I'm praying somebody to Zeke and I can off that way. You know I'm gonna throw a similar question your way. I know that you have been one of, if not the biggest Zeke supporter. I believe you had him as your RB one for the for the most part throughout

draft season. But now we're getting closer. We're almost to that point where if he doesn't sign over this weekend, he's already gonna be ruled out for Week one. So Tony Pollard is shooting up draft boards right now. We'll talk about Tony Pollard as well. But e Y, at what point in the draft are you pulling the trigger on Ezekiel Elliott? Are you not lowering him at all? Are you still taking him inside those top four picks, or are we at the point now where we have

to start to devalue Ezekiel Elliott for the season. So absolutely true, story. Last night, I did my home league draft, my lad draft of the fantasy season, and I picked nine in a fourteen team, and I took a Zeki Elliott. And uh, there's some questionable players in this league for sure. It's it's been going for fourteen years. Some guys that just I mean literally, they don't have any idea what they're doing. I said yesterday, I call these guys donators.

Um uh, and they just have no clue, Like they don't know who's playing. You know, one guy tried to draft Bo Jackson. It's it's crazy, but I took Zeke at nine. If you honestly believe that Jerry Jones I want Tony Pollard starting and not in Zeke Elliott, you're insane. What he's saying, he's he's a smart businessman. What he's saying is he's fully prepared to have Zeke not play. He wants Zeke to believe that. He wants their agents to believe it. They don't believe that, and that's why

this kind of situation is going on. I still believe in my heart that Zeke will be there Week one and play, and I showed it last night, taking him ninth overall, and I was happy to do it. How early are you willing to select Ezekiel Elliot? Why because you just mentioned that you think he's gonna be there week one, does that mean you're not devaluing devaluing him at all? You're taking him as a you know, a top two, top four pick. How early do you take

Ezekiel Elliott right now? I get it. Everyone Psyche has scrambled from the Levi on Bell situation last year. Everyone said, no, for sure, for sure, he's gonna play, He's gonna play. This is a guy that had been franchise tag twice. He one percent believed he was he should be the highest paid player in the league. He was in a completely different contract situation than Ezeki Elliott and Melvin Gordon.

If Ezekiel Elliott wants to make it the free agency, and trust me, he does, he needs to play more games. He needs to play games this year. He's going to play games this year. Jerry Jones knows that he has to pay this man. The window for them to win and win big is shrinking. Jerry Jones wants to win. Ezekiel Elliott will play Week one. I'm guaranteeing it. We'll have a bunch more questions just like this for the

rest of the show. It's the Fantasy BFS right here on the Sports grad TV network now on Zumo channel set in nineteen. It's Matt, it's e Y, it's Frank. We'll be back right after this. Hey, thanks for downloading the podcast, and remember, if you want to listen live, download the I Heart Radio app, download the tune and app and just search for Fantasy Sports Radio Network and

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and I'll give you a little bit of something. I give you a little teaser here. But welcome back to the Fantasy Best Friends Forever. I am Frank Standfeld, joined by Matt Modica. Make sure you follo him on Twitter at CTM Baseball Matt Modica of the Athletic. Matt, let us know real quick what you have going on at the Athletic for both fantasy football and fantasy baseball. If you're still doing baseball, Yeah, no, I'm doing baseball. We're gonna close it out going through the end of the year.

I put the two starts every week on Sunday to the podcast as well, without Malki or just you know, setting you up for the week. And for football, I dropped, you know, the recent a DP report. I gave you a walk through of the of the first ten rounds. Who I like, what I see, what's interesting, what's interesting there? You know obviously Mac and Hilton you know, dropping my thoughts on that as well. So yeah, make sure you take that out Over at the Athletic Matt Modiica here

live in studio. We have Eric Young over on Skype and we were talking about Ezekiel Elliott just before we hit the break. I'm gonna ask you guys, just like a piggyback question off Ezekiel Elliott that if you do end up with a share of Ezekiel Elliott at the back end of the first round. How early is too early when it comes to drafting Tony Pollard because we've heard the reports about all right, it could be six weeks.

You know. You were just telling me during the break that Ezekiel Elliott only needs like three games of service time for this account as an accrude season. So there's a chance there's still a chance that Ezekiel Elliott misses a large portion. How early is too early to take Tony Pollard if you have Ezekiel Elliott as well? Well, I mean yeah, I mean, if you take Zeke, you have to hone in on Tony Pollard. Uh say he was going in the ninth round. I have to be

interested in him in in the seventh round. And you know, depending upon who's there, how I set my team up, what are the running backs I have is going to be critical in that aspect as well. I mean, I'm kind of the same way with like Damian Williams. I like Damian Williams at all, But if I draft Damian Williams, I am making it a prerogative to have Darwin Thompson. Even if I don't have Damian Williams, I'm still making it a prerogative to have Darwyn Thompson. I'm just gonna

be even that more aggressive. So Tony Pollard over the past two days of NFFC drafts going off the board at nine point three, that's a DP. So that's in the eighth round. E y, do you feel the need to have to get Tony Pollard if you also draft Ezekiel Elliott? You know, if he's going in the eighth round of some of these high stakes drafts, you might have to pull him up around earlier just to make sure that you get him. So are you willing to invest your first and seventh or first and eighth round

picks in Ezekiel Elliott and Tony Pollard? Or is that just too much? Yeah? I feel like this year, more so than probably in the last four or five, I'm finding myself handcuffing guys, especially uh, you know, places where it's a good situation. Do I think Tony Pollard could be, you know, like like a decent running back in that in the Cowboys system? Yes, yes I do. He's not going to be a Zeke Elliott in my opinion, is Zike Elliott is the best or the one b uh

running back? In the NFL and not just fantasy, Like this guy can literally do everything. He never has to come off the field. Um. And Tony Pollard, I mean he's just not He's not Ezekiel Elliott. He's not built like Ezekiel Elliott. He's not gonna be able to run in between the tackles. Uh. You know, he's more of a slot receiver kind of kind of build. So um, but I believe you should go after him. I like Matt, I was targeting him in the seventh round and a

guy took him in the seventh round before me. And I mean, this is the craziest league I play in. You just never know what's going to happen. He is a guy that knows his stuff. He's a co commissioner with me, and he took his He took Pollard, and man, I was I was so mad. So I actually took Tony Pollard last night in the Draft Best Ball Championship. I took him in the eighth round and I didn't

have Ezekiel Elliott. So the guy who drafted Ezekie Elliott was probably cursing me out, but I I looked at the upside there, and you know when you're playing a best ball, especially for an overall prize in a in a best Ball championship like that, I mean you're shooting for upside. So I figured, you know, what the hell in the eighth round Tony Pollard, if he ends up getting uh, you know, fifteen touches a game with Ezekiel Elliott out behind one of the best offensive lines in football,

there is massive upside there. I just want to add to you know what e Y was saying about Tony Pollard, you know, really being more of a receiving back, uh than you know, your typical running back. He has six ft two pounds. He had a three year career at Memphis. He actually played with Darryl Henderson in college. Tony Pollard did not handle more than seventy eight carries in any collegiate season while he was at Memphis. He did have a hundred and four receptions total in his three year career.

More so regarded as a pass catching running back. But I think there is something too. As explosive as he's been, as good as he's looked in the preseason, he's not going to be able to handle the same kind of workload that in Ezekiel Elliott would He never had more than seventy eight carries in any season in college. So just keep that in mind when handcuffing Tony Pollard with Ezekiel Elliott. It doesn't mean don't take him, but just you know, don't bring him up intil like the sixth

round or anything too crazy like that. So you know, I want to ask you guys another question regarding Tony Pollard. And I was gonna save this for later on, but it makes sense now to kind of transition it in. Would you rather have Tony Pollard or Darwin Thompson just in a vacuum modica, not if you're a Damian Williams owner, not if you're a Stane owner. If you just want upside at the running back position, would you rather have

Darwin Thompson or Pollard? Because they're now going within ten spots of each other in NFC drafts, Darwin Thompson is gonna be my preference here. I you know, as much as I do like Tony Pollard, even if Zeke comes back, I think you'll carve out a role, But I think Darwin Thompson is going to have a part of this offense without a doubt Look, even if Williams has seventy percent or seventy five of the offensive share twenty of the Kansas City Chiefs offense, here's a damn good thing

to be involved with. I want to invest in chiefs, So I would go Darwyn Thompson over Pollard. Darwin Thompson's a d P is up to eighties six right now in NFFC drafts. As I mentioned Tony Pollard's ADP was, so they're going within nine ten spots of each other. Same question your way, e Y Darwin Thompson or Tony Pollard, just in a vacuum if you want an upside running

back in that you know, eighth ninth round range. I think if I have Zeke, and I do have him in a lot of places, uh, then I would want Paul Pollard because I do feel they're similar type players. But like what Matt said is Kansas City, Kansas City Chiefs offense, I want as many pieces of that as possible. Um. And the truth is is, like everyone said, you know, statistically, I know Pat Mahomes is supposed to regress and and he's supposed to not throw fifty touchdowns, But I mean,

I believe that This is a generational player. In twenty years, people will be talking about Patrick Mahomes, how he reinvented the quarterback position, how he came into the league and and just took up by storm and broke a bunch of records. I believe. I mean, if there's anybody in the game right now that could throw another fifty touchdowns,

it's him. Uh in any reed system with that that that many skill positions players around him, and Darwin Thompson has really shown well I know what the preseason is, the preseason, but but every time the guys touched the ball, he's looked awesome. So yeah, I definitely want Thompson if I can get him. Yeah, and real quick to piggyback up for y point. We hear the word regression Fantasy baseball. We heard the word regression for Christian Yellick, and he's

been even better. Tell us about that most How's how's that regression going? I don't see him not throwing at least touchdown? Piss. I agree with you, and I think he's over under right now is like thirty six and a half. I would be slamming that over based on the weapons that he has. It's Tyreek Hill. I mean nothing has changed. He has Tyreek Killy has Sammy Watkins. They've added me Cole Hardman, who was like a lesser version of Tyreek Hill on the field. With Tyreek Hill.

They still have Travis Kelsey. They still have Damian Williams, who scored a bunch of receiving touchdowns down the stretch and in the playoffs as well. So when I saw that prop thirty six and a half passing touchdowns for Pat Mahomes this year, that is something where I am slamming the over. I don't see how he doesn't at least throw thirty thirty nine, you know, forty plus touchdowns this season. Real quick, We're coming up on a break and I'll introduce this. If we need more time, we'll

talk about it when we get back. I have the fifth pick in the NFFC Prime Time today. Now I have a few running backs in mind that are in consideration, obviously wide receivers. This is full PPR. Matt David Johnson's ADP over the past week has slipped to eight point five. This is someone that was the consensus fifth overall pick while we assumed Ezekiel Elliott was going to play now,

even with Zeke, you know, slipping a little bit. I've seen David Johnson still going in that four or five range, but in some of these high stakes stress he's actually slipping. I understand. The offensive line for the Cardinals has not looked good in the preseason. David Johnson had fifteen carries for forty four yards in the preseason. That's two point

nine yards per carry. He hasn't looked great, but something is telling me that Cliff Kingsbury has kind of kept a lot of this offense under wraps throughout the preseason. I'm not really that worried, are you, because it seems like the rest of the high stakes industry is worried about David Johnson. Right, No, No No, I'm not really that worried. I'd probably maybe go Hopkins here at five if he's available. But for me, it's between David Johnson or James Conner.

I explained, I explained my James kind of love earle on between those two David Johnson. First it's been David Johnson, but now it's really like a coin to us because I just think the Steelers, I know what I'm getting. It's a much better line it's been Exton Stone through the years. We saw with kind of do lationship before getting hurt. But David Johnson, it's terrible those things were last year was RB ten. This is going to be a better offense. It's the preseason. Don't really pay it

no mind. They're not gonna show anything in my opinion, and that previo season. Yeah, I tend to agree with you. We'll get e y s thoughts we come back for guarding David Johnson. Is this slipping his a DP necessary? Doesn't make sense. Also, David Johnson versus James Connor will get those thoughts from e Y when we come back. It's the fantasy bfs right here on the Sports Grid TV network. It's Frank, Matt and e Y will be back right after this. From the NFL to the NBA.

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Fantasy's Best Friends Forever. Frank stand Will joined by Maco Deca live in studio. We have the psycho Eric Young on Skype as well. I mentioned before the break we were talking about David Johnson. U. I want to get your thoughts now. This a DP slip down to eight point five over the past couple of days in the NFC. Is this warranted? And would you rather have David Johnson? Or I know you, I think you're a little bit more down on James Conner. Would you rather have another

running back over David Johnson that we haven't mentioned yet? Um, Nick Chobb is the only one that I would take over him. He's he's still there, But um yeah, I still like David Johnson. And then you know, like what Matt was saying with look at like this is a new offense and they don't want to play their hand. They don't want to show anyone what it's really going to be. Even with the terrible offensive line and the

offensive line hasn't been improved. I mean, personnel wise, we don't know in this system what it's gonna look like because they're they're running a completely different offense. Having a quarterback that can run like that will improve the offensive line. There's not a single doubt in my mind that the offensive line will be improved, just because you have to respect the fact that Murray can run like the wind. David Johnson in the historically one of the worst offenses

ever was still running back ten last year. This is a guy that is is I mean he's not maybe in his prime age, but he is still a young running back. Uh. He's a big body, can catch and run. Uh. There's been arguments to say that he's the best route router route runner as running back in the NFL. And he can still run between the tackles. He can do everything. And I still believe in this offense. I think it's going to be very interesting. I think they're going to

throw the ball. Their defense is not good, They're going to have to score, and David Johnson is going to be the centerpiece. And I was actually talking about this with Greg the other day when we did our offensive line show. You know, talking about really good offensive lines and really bad offensive lines, and he asked me about the Arizona Cardinals and met. The way that I said that it kind of cancels out is by the volume

that they're going to run. Right, So you know, even if we don't have as much efficiency that we hope for, when it comes to David Johnson, he can you know, he can have a low yards per carry and still be really good for fantasy. We saw that for Levian Bell his final season in Pittsburgh. He averaged four point zero yards per carry. Why was he so good because of the volume, how many carries he had, so how

many receptions he had. So I said, with David Johnson, even if the efficiency is bad, that can be canceled out by the fact that they're running as many plays as they are and he's getting as many receptions as we hope he gets. Yeah, if you've seen the air raid offense. Look, if if I have David Johnson, I want him catching as many passes as possible, especially in the slot. He's just a nightmare matchup for anybody if

that they could put on him. You show what he did the last time, you know, before he got injured. In seen. So I still have to believe that this is a guy it's gonna be tough to pass on. I I personally my motto is by the slide, by the slug, slide the slide, by the slide. Said by the slug. That sounds like, what do you mean by by the slug? By the slide? Here? By the slide,

by the slide. When it comes to David Johnson, guys want to ask you about another running back who's been slipping down draft boards a little bit here, and it's Levi on Bell just mentioned him with the Pittsburgh Steelers. We all know he's not with the Steelers anymore. He's with crazy eyes. Adam Gates in the New York Jets is a DP over the past week, Matt slipping down

to eleven point nine. So this is someone that earlier on in draft season he was going in that mid first round range, right after David Johnson, he was going anywhere from pick six to eight. Now we see him going you know the end of the first round, that first round turn. Uh, you know, last night I saw him go at I believe it was to three. I've seen him go early second round in this best ball draft that I was doing. So, you know, any concerns

about Levian Bell, I have brought this up. They're talking about him getting off to a slow start, using Time Montgomery to help him a little bit earlier on in the season. The Jets have a buy in week four. We could potentially not see Levian Bell fully unleashed until week five. And it's like, at that point, what is your record in fantasy football looking like? So I think that there are legitimate concerns. I put out a pole the other day. Would you rather have Bell, Chubb or Cook?

Levian Bell came in last place? Matt? Does that make sense? Actually does? And look, he's been away from the league for a year. He's no longer on the Pitchburgh Steelers, which is you know, that's a big difference. I was. I was talking about the Steelers way and everything like that, and honestly, I would take Dalvin Cook and Nick Chubb ahead of him. I think Dalvin Cook's the guy that still isn't getting enough love here. I probably it's really close, but I'd go Cook over Chubb. If I had one

bullet to shoot, I would go in that direction. So I get it. Look, Time Montgomery is somebody that Adam Gates really seems to like, you look good in the preseason and if used correctly, he sets up really good. You can really utilize him, uh in in the right offensive scheme. That said, look, Levian Bell's a DP and four primetime drafts right now is in the second round. It's too two, so he's not even a first round after four high stake drafts. In full PPR though, Man's

that's round yeah, like in a full PPR. I mean, this is someone that can still you know, let's not get it twisted. They're talking about bringing back his touches a little bit from where they have been with the Steelers, because I mean, let's be honest, the Steelers were running the guy into the ground, but he could still give you sixty plus receptions this year. Matt, So you same question for you. I mean, you know, when it comes to Levion Bell, is this a d P slip? Is

this warranteed? It sounds like obviously you'd rather have Nick Chubb. Would you rather have Dalvin Cook over Levian Bell as well? Yeah? Yeah, definitely. Um for me, Chobb is is the number one out of those three? Then then Cook and he's not too far down. What worries me is just he just hasn't been able to stay healthy. And I know we're not supposed to think about that, but like, he's scary. He's just scary. He's never never played, you know, more than

a handful of games. When he plays, I mean, he's electric. You can see it when he touches the ball. This guy is an absolute freak running back. But but what worries me a little bit about Cook is You've got Madison, which they like, and you've got Boone, which uh, I mean he's a freak athlete too, so uh, they're gonna run the ball there. But with Levan Bell, there's just too many unknowns. Do I think Donald will be improved, Yes. Do I think their offensive line will be improved. Yes.

But the big thing is is he's not Ben Roethlisberger and they're not the Pittsburgh Steelers, So I mean, he's just playing in the lesser of an offense and I just don't believe he's going to be as productive. And being away from the league for a whole year does worry me a little bit. And and he's and he's definitely long in the tooth for sure. For a running back in the NFL. And I mentioned at the top of the show that I will be selfishly asking questions

throughout the course of the show. So, uh, I just gotta ask you. In one of my home leagues, it's a keeper league this this weekend, I'm gonna have the choice of Levi on Bell, Dalvin Cook, Julio Jones, and a half PPR. Which direction would you go in there? It's a keeper league. I'm not gonna end up keeping any of these guys because you have to give up the round value that they go for the next year. So I'm not gonna keep any of these guys. It's basically just who do you think is gonna score the

most points? I guess I mean Julio Jones probably the safest is probably the Serfest and it's hard not to love what Atlantic can do. I'm probably gonna go cook you Dalvin Cook. Yeah, you just want that running back, right. But it's also the fact that you know they fired the police bo like week twelve last year, and then they brought in you know, it was Stefanski the final three weeks of the season. The past attempt drop for Kirk Cousins from forty to twenty seven per game, and

then what's his name got named as assistant head coaching. Yeah, Kob getting assistant head coach. That gave him some special kind of Basically, he's just helping them run the ball. Yeah, and he's gonna ensure his scheme, which I think is gonna pay huge dividends for Dalvin Cook. And I do think Stefan Giggs is gonna be the wide receiver to own over Over Feeling in this new scheme. Good point. And I also have Stefon Diggs rank one spot ahead

of Adam Feeling myself, so we're in lockstep there. Good point that e I brought up regarding Dalvin Cook. Look, the guys missed fifteen games in his first two seasons. He's had his torn a c L, he dealt with hamstring issues last year. Earlier in the show, we mentioned Tony Pollard and Darwin Thompson as two of the best handcuffs in fantasy football right now. Add Alexander Madison to that list as well. Add Edo Smith to that list as well. You're just looking at running acts. Starting running

backs on teams that have been injury prone. Dalvin Cook Devanta Freeman have been injury prone. So look at Alexander Madison and Edo Smith as two of the other top handcuffs in fantasy football this season. You know, I want to start this one off with you. It's regarding Antonio Brown. We just talked about one former Steeler. I want to get into the other former Steeler. This offseason, this preseason has just been completely bananas when it comes to Antonio Brown.

You watch hard knocks, you see the video footage of his feet. It's disgusting and it's crazy everything that's gone on with him, you know, the helmet issues, which he's actually you know, worked into an endorsement somehow. So you know, maybe that's just the genius of Antonio Brown, Like this is just what he was trying to do the entire time. That wouldn't surprise me one bit. Is a DP has settled in at twenty one point to three right now

in these high stage drafts. E y, would you be alright drafting Antonio Brown in that late second round range, that mid to late second round range? Uh? And would you rather have you know, let's say I think the next wide receiver after him is Keenan Allen. Do you like a B S A DP? Where it is right now? And would you rather have Antonio Brown or Keenan Allen in a full PPR league. I love both of these guys. Uh, but I do believe that Antonio Brown is smarter than

everyone thinks. Like, look the rich kit richer. The guy refuses to wear the helmet, and now some you know, some helmet company is going to pay him a boatload of money which he doesn't need to wear their helmet and have a custom helmet made. Um. The truth is I back him, Like, if he wants to wear a helmet from then he should be able to. It's his head, it's his body. He should just sign things saying I understand that I'm wearing a helmet. That's And the truth

is the new helmets aren't going to change anything. You can get a concussion by getting punched in the stomach. This is a bunch of concussion bull crap. We've gone through this on the show before. I'm not going to get into it. It's a bunch of mode um mumbo jumbo. Nobody knows about concussions. I don't care what anyone tells me. No one knows. Every person is completely different. But uh, Antonio Brown is maybe the one of the best receivers to ever play in the game. Derek Carr counter to

throw the ball towards him. This guy's gonna catch it. I'm not as worried about him as everybody else. Like, Look, Derek Carr has not Ben Roethlisberger, but Derek car a couple of years ago almost won the league m v P on a team with with nobody. So you know, I think Derek Carr is better than people are giving him credit for. I think they're going to be improved. Uh, the run game is going to be improved with Jacobs,

Jalen Rishard is gonna catch a bunch of balls. Waller at the tight end I like as a late sleeper. Tyrone Williams has been a good receiver if he's on the field. Is going to help Antonio Brown. Antonio Brown is a stunt. This is one of the best receivers to ever played. Matt Real quick a b or Keenan now in full PPR that late second round range. Who are you going Keenan Alan for Matt Modica? All right, when we get back. I got some questions regarding Joe Mixing,

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went ahead of Joe Mixon in this draft. It seems like the hate is going a little bit too far, Matt. I understand concerns about the offense and the offensive line, but we've seen running backs in bad offenses, in bad offensive line situations still perform for fantasy. Joe Mixon is one of and I believe this one of the ten most talented running backs in the NFL, maybe one of the five most talented running backs in the NFL. Has the hate gone too far when you see this guy

drop all the way to three point one in drafts? Absolutely, As you said, he's one of the most talented running backs. If he was on an uber offense, they would be a lock first round pick. That's just playing and simple there. I understand you know, it's the bungalows and with the offensive line injuries, the A. J. Green injuries. But for me,

when I'm in that second round. If I'm if I'm picking in the middle of where Frank will be picking tonight, I'm pretty much really hoping that a Mike Evans or a Joe Mixon falls to me, and I can, you know, start have my second round pick one of those two guys. I think that would be fantastic. Well, I'm happy you gave me that idea, Matt, because this might be something that I'm looking at it tonight in this NFFC prime

time draft that I'm in. E y, in a full PPR draft, you know, this is something that I've actually thought about as well. Would you consider Damian Williams over Joe Mixing at this point because it is something I'm considering, just you know, when you put the offenses side by side and the fact that it is a full PPR league. You know, they're talking about the angles potentially using Giovanni Bernard more this year in the past game, so that's gonna take away some of the past work. Obviously, the

receptions for Joe Mixon this year. In a full PPR, I think the argument can actually be made for Damian Williams over Joe Mixon. What says you? Yeah? And a full PPR for sure. I feel like the argument could get it could be made. I mean, for me, I don't know if I could do that if they're both there, Um, I think I'm gonna probably take mixing. I have him ranked two above Damien Williams right now. Um. But yeah, and a full PPR, I think it would be a

really tough decision. And I think Damian Williams probably will produce more points in a full PPR. But but I don't really play in many full pprs. It's mostly half and I just think that mixing is Uh. He's just too good of a running back will like all the other stuff be damned. Like, Look, they're gonna need him to carry the ball and catch the ball if they're gonna be competitive, And he's gonna have a ton of volume, and we bought all three of us know volume equal

success in fantasy sports. And here's also I'll say regarding Joe Mixon last year, his offensive line was not very good either. Matt he finishes the RB nine, so it's not like we haven't seen him perform with a bad offensive line before. I will say this, like he basically took over as the workhorse running back last year. They didn't use Giovanni Bernard last year as much as they normally do. So if they're gonna start to work Gio Bernard back in, it is something that I have some

concerns about. But if, if, and this is when it comes to Zach Taylor coming over from the Los Angeles Rams, I'm hoping that he kind of uses Joe mix in the same way that Sean McVeigh has used Todd Gurley. I think that's gonna be the that that's gonna be the recipe, that's gonna be the formula. I'm not buying Giovanni Bernard getting in it. If something happened to him and you could, you know, you have Giovanni Bernard on your roster, Yeah, you can plug him, play him right

in there. We've seen what he can do. But I think this is Mixon's role, you know, And I'm not really worried about him catching you know, Bernard coming in and catching more passages year, not buying a lot of it. It's kind of like in Chicago or they they're gonna scale back on Tarik Cohen when games are on the line and they gotta win games. Tarik Cohen's a freak and can help you win games. He's not gonna be up the field, so you know when he gets down

to the crunch time the money players play. It's absolutely right you take Joe Mixon over Damian Williams. Yeah, I'm gonna do that. And I really like Damian wins and I love the Chiefs. But Joe Mixon, as I stated, if he was on a different offense, if he was on the Chief's offense, He's probably a top five running back. Yeah, easily. Yeah, I think we can agree on that. You mentioned Trek Cohen actually tweeted out a video of him once again doing like that backflip catch that he does every year.

I mean, the guy, You're right, he's a freak athlete. I want to do a little bit of like a lightning round here, just because we got about, you know, eight ten minutes left in the show, uh, and I want to get your thoughts on these. So, just regarding the Bears backfield situation, which rookie would you rather have for re draft this year? Not Dynasty, Matt Modica, Josh Jacobs,

or David Montgomery. I'm gonna go with Montgomery for the fact, I just like the Bans organization and current situation better than Oakland. And Oakland has a really tough sled to start the season. It's like five games they can easily you know, end up ohing five and let's to get some tough defenses. So you know, Jacobs is going to be good and stuff. I don't think Jalen was shot is disappearing. I think he has that role. So for me, I'd go Montgomery here. You know, I'm gonna throw this

one year way. How scared are we of Amari Cooper's foot right now? He's got this plantar fasciitists that they're talking about. I've seen Dr David Chow on Twitter say that he believes the Marie Cooper can play through this. Marie Cooper's ADP has slipped to thirty four point two over the past week, whereas earlier on in draft season he was like a borderline second third round pick. How scared are you of Amari Cooper's foot right now? You are? Yeah?

I feel it's something you have to concern you're with your yourself with But getting Amari Cooper, They're like, look like this is a guy that came from another another organization onto this team. Learned the offense, you know. I mean, he was a very productive player in a system that he didn't know. I believe that their their system will change, the offense will grow under the coordinator more there this year, Um Gallup is going to take a big step forward

and that's going to help him. Marie Cooper doc is you know he's planning for a contract. Uh. I've already stated my fact of what I think. Ezekiel Elliott will be there week one. I still believe that Um and I think Amari Cooper is going to be a big time Fantasy contributor in this year. Matt Modica. Duke Johnson's a DP is up to fifty seven point eight over the past couple of days in NFFC drafts, So that puts him at the end of the fifth round. How

early is too early for Duke Johnson. I think that's a you know, a good spot for him. When you look at the fifth round, you're looking at these past catching backs for the most part, you know, I see like a DJ Moore falling into the fifth round. Dj d Moore, try man, don't even hesitate you hit select, But yeah, I think David David, I think Duke Johnson here is uh is a very good pick. I would take Miles Sanders over Miles Sanders over Duke Johnson. Howbout

Duke Johnson versus James White? Who you got there? I'm gonna go with Duke Johnson this year and James right to be one of my favorite fantasy players of all time, but now his price. He was always somebody that was there for you later on. Now you're paying for it. So I would go with Duke yeah, and plus with Josh Gordon there, Julian Edelman, And now to Marrius Thomas. The Ghosts of Damarius Thomas is back. I don't know

if anyone was watching preseason last night. I mean, what is going on with modern medicine where we're at the point now where you can tear your achilles and you're back in eight months like you didn't even miss a beat. Emmanuel Sanders someone who's risen up draft boards. To Marius Thomas goes seven eighty seven and two last night, seven receptions eighty seven yards, two touchdowns in the fourth preseason game. So y, I'll throw this one your way. Is the

Marius Thomas worth a late round flyer right now? You know round fifth sixteen of your standard draft. Should you take a late round flyer onto Marius Thomas? Yeah? Why not? I mean he's playing, uh in a great offense. You mean that someone has to be the goal line guy. There's you know, Gronkowski is not there anymore. I know

Edelman gets used that way and scores touchdowns. But I mean the reality is is Tom Brady wants a big body to like walk into the end zone turned towards him and then jump up and box everybody out and catch it. That's what Damarius Thomas has done. Uh, That's that's what he's very good at. Uh. And in that offense. I mean, we don't know what Josh Gordon's gonna be. Uh, he's a guy that's going way way in front of him. But the reality is is Damarus Thomas could have better

fantacy value than Josh Gordon this year. Josh Gordon's ADP I'm happy you brought him up at e Y over the past couple of days is a DPS sixties seven point eight. So that puts Josh Gordon smack daddy in the middle of the sixth round. Matt Modika, is it Josh Gordon time? Because I don't know that. You know, Antonio Brown is someone who has a wide range of outcomes, and you know there's a very high ceiling. It's a very low floor. I think you could say the same

thing about Josh Gordon. Give us the high stakes mindset for drafting someone like Josh Gordon in those middle rounds, because I think he still does have the talent obviously the situation where he can be someone that helps you win leagues. Matt Moodgan, I do agree with that, and I think, you know, he's got to be a strong consideration there. You look at his numbers from last year, especially after those first couple of games. The Patriots kept him around. They knew he was gonna you know, they

kept this investment. They were with him the whole way. The league cleared him to play Week one. Uh, and you got Edelman has a role, Gordon has a role. They're a better team with Josh Gordon on the field. Now you have his personal demons that you have to consider, which can pop up at any time. So that's the hesitation as far as from me with Josh Gordon. Just another little fact, Patriots would have had the third most

rushing attempts in the NFL this year. People don't realize it. Yeah, I mean, I think that's kind of a correlation with tom Brady getting a little bit older. We saw that in the postseason where normally in the postseason that's where they lean on tom Brady, that wasn't the case. That's where they really leaned on Sony Michelle and Rex burke Head and James White and all those guys. And you know what's crazy. I was talking about this with someone

last night. Matt tom Brady went from you know, one of these quarterbacks that you're getting super late in drafts, still getting him super late, someone that had no weapons, to all of a sudden, this guy has Josh Gordon to Marius Thomas on the outside and Julian Edelman in the slot and James White still catching passes out of the backfield and real quick on Julian Edelman. The last time he played six games a couple of years ago,

put up fantastic line. Last year. If you take the twelve games he played and the three playoff games, it's an incredible season. So he's another guy that you just if he's there for you. He's just a solid bit and he has such a report with Tom Brady to where you know, even if Josh Gordon is playing, even if the Marius Thomas is playing, you know that Julian Edelman is still the go to guy. He is the

number one in the pecking order. And if you look at his career splits with Gronk on the field versus without Gronk on the field, Julian's Edelman's targets, receptions, touchdowns per game all go up. And he actually had twenty red zone targets last year Matt only playing in those twelve games. So I originally I had said, I think that Julian Edeman was gonna put up a career year in terms of touchdowns this season. But now with Josh Gordon coming back and Damarius Thomas, those are some bigger

bodied wide receivers. I am souring on that a little bit, but I still think that Julian Edelman could have especially in fill PPR. Look you get him in that mid third round range, that late third round. Look. I saved the best for last guys. It's Chris Godwin, the best wide receiver of all time, Chris Godwin. I took him at three oh eight last night in this Best Ball draft that I was competing in. Uh, the ADP is

up to thirty five. E. Why, I'm gonna throw a few names your way and you just let me know. Chris Godwin or this player Chris Godwin or Marie Cooper? Are you for me? It's Marie Cooper. Chris he's a number He's a number one. Godwin is the two Evans is the guy there? Um? I like Chris Godwin, but the reality is is Murray Cooper I think is in a better spot that Chris Godwin or the Vikings wide receivers.

I'm still gonna go with the fucking wide receivers. But Godwin, look I get look the opportunity for him there in the slot. Look at Bruce arians career with slot receivers. It's I know, it's getting crazy. He's a DPS in four n f C prime times. Oh my god, that early third round range. So I might not even get him in the middle of the third round tonight. Uh. Someone that I obviously was looking at you will throw

it back your way. Chris Godwin or the Rams wide receivers is Brandon Cooks, Robert Woods and Cooper cup What do you got? Do you want? Oh? Jeezus, I think I'd probably take all three of those guys above him. I have him lifted uh uh Cook's Woods Cup. But I'm round my men and with cop on a bunch of my team. Um, he's basically the tight end there. He's gonna score touchdowns. From all reports as he has

looked great and just as athletic as ever. So like he's a tip of the captor modern medicine and Modiga real quick. Chris Godwin or Julian Edelman, I'll go god with you, go with Godwin format mood. You want to thank you so much for coming in studio, Matt As always want to thank e y for showing up as well. Frank Stanville, We'll see you back on Tuesday. No programming Monday, we hope. From the NFL to the NBA. Daily Rohodo dot com is the place to win millions in daily fantasy.

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the BFFs. Matt Modika here live in studio. We have Eric Young over on Skype and we were talking about Ezekiel Elliott just before we hit the break. I'm gonna ask you guys, just like a piggyback question off Ezekiel Elliott, Matt, if you do end up with a share of Ezekiel Elliott at the back end of the first round, how early is too early when it comes to drafting Tony Pollard Because we've heard the reports about all right, it

could be six weeks. I know you were just telling me during the break that Ezekiel Elliott only needs like three games of service time for this account as an accrude season. So there's a chance there still a chance that Ezekiel Elliott misses a large portion. How early is too early to take Tony Pollard if you have Ezekiel Elliott as well? I mean yeah, I mean if you take Zeke, you have to hone in on Tony Pollard. Uh,

so he was going in the ninth round. I have to be interested in him in in the seventh round. And you know, depending upon who's there, how I set my team up, what are the running bats I have is going to be critical in that aspect as well. I mean, I'm kind of the same way with like Damian Williams. I like Damian Williams at all, But if I draft Damian Williams, I am making it a prerogative

to have Darwyn Thompson. Even if I don't have Damian Williams, I'm still making it a prerogative to have Darwyn Thompson. I'm just gonna be even that more aggressive. So Tony Pollard over the past two days of NFFC drafts going off the board at nine point three. That's his a DP.

So that's in the eighth round. E y, do you feel the need to have to get Tony Pollard if you also draft Ezekiel Elliott, You know, if he's going in the eighth round of some of these high stakes drafts, you might have to pull him up around earlier just to make sure that you get him. So are you willing to invest your first and seventh or first and eighth round picks in Ezekiel Elliott and Tony Pollard Or

is that just too much? Yeah? I feel like this year, more so than probably in the last four or five, I'm finding myself handcuffing guys, especially uh, you know, places where it's a good situation. Do I think Tony Pollard could be you know, like like a decent running back in that in the Cowboys system? Yes, yes I do. I mean he's not going to be a Zike Elliot.

I might opinion of Ziki Elliott is the best or the one b uh running back in the NFL and not just fantasy like this guy can literally do everything. He never has to come off the field. Um. And Tony Pollard, I mean he's just not He's not Zekil Elliott. He's not built like Ezekiel Elliott. He's not gonna be able to run in between the tackles. Uh, you know, he's more of a slot receiver kind kind of build. So Um, but I believe you should go after him.

I like Matt I was targeting him in the seventh round and the guy took him in the seventh round before me. And I mean, this is the craziest league I play, and you just never know what's going to happen. He is a guy that knows his stuff. He's a co commissioner with me, and he took his He took Pollard, and man I was I was so mad. So I actually took Tony Pollard last night in the Draft Best Ball Championship. I took him in the eighth round. And

I didn't have Ezekiel Elliott. So the guy who drafted Ezekie Elliott was probably cursing me out