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a little like our new theme music. Over the course of today, we're going to tell you the one thing you need to know from each team's preseason well zip through all thirty two teams, report back in all the training camp battles that we identified back in our first show of the preseason, we told you we were watching a bunch of these. Will tell you who won every one of those, and sometimes they don't even care, but we'll even tell you about those. We'll answer three tough questions.

You get to play along, try to go three and oh with our panel of experts will present the outcome of our drafts when we use different drafting personas or strategies and um and I'm looking forward to that, like if you want, I'm not quite not like Uncle Rico or it's more like, if you want to have a quarterback heavy idea, if you want to have a receiver heavy idea, if you want to go high risk, if you want to go low risk. I was planning on doing the whole segment as Mr Mee seeks, but that'd

be tough. We'll reveal our latest round of sleepers towards the end of the show, and we'll break down the Thursday Night game. Yep, we're already breaking down regular season games fantasy style because we've we've got one less than a week away. We've got the Thursday Night game. Uh, and then of course next weekend we'll do the full slate of all of the games when we get to next weekend's show. So, guys, let's start here the one

thing you need to know about each team's preseason. I want the most important thing for each one of these teams, Matt. I'm gonna begin with you and the Panthers. Cam Newton sprained his left foot in the preseason game versus New England, and everybody got a little scared. And we're gonna talk a little bit about this later in the show. Ron Rivera says he's going to be totally ready to go. Yeah, we'll just dive in deeper to Cam Newton a little

bit later. Yeah. I mean he's picking it. He's picking up the the tag of being I think a little injury prone now, yea, bron Yes, Scott, give me the Raiders. Nothing really going on with the Raiders this office, no no storylines whatever, don't have anything to talk about their Uh Antonio Brown back at practice, off practice, not wearing his helmet, wearing his helmet, I think the main regular feet frozen feet. Yeah, he's probably gonna be good to go, but if, if you know, maybe it's too sunny in

his uniform, his black uniform gets too hot. Maybe he'll leave again. Maybe maybe he'll get a blade of grass stuck in his new face mask. I don't know, So go get Tyrrell Williams just in case it's a handcuff situation. Now, Can I just not have the Antonio Brown part of that handcuff? Can I just not have Raiders on my team? Um,

I'll only have this. I think the real loss here is that he moves to a new system, totally new offense, new quarterback, new scheme, and has had very little time to work with those guys, and it might be a receiver issue, but Derek Carr through career lows on deep passes. Last year passing, I know, I was like completion percentage. It's not good. Packers Green based starting wide receivers are Marquees Valdez Scantling usually playing on the outside. He's the

speed guy, and Geronimo Allison usually in the slot. MBS has got the speed that Aaron Rodgers hasn't had since Jordy Nelson for sure, and I mean like you know pre Niece, you know, pre a c L Jordy Nelson, and maybe even before that, because Jordy was more like speed after the catch guy. This is more like just straight line vertical speed for the big arm with Aaron Rodgers from Mardez um um, sorry, Marquez Valdez scan you could just call him m VS. Yes, let's go to

the Redskins. Matt case Keenum has been named the starter, but that doesn't even really matter that much because the biggest story there is Trent Williams. They're all pro left tackle. He just might not show up for Washington all season, and that's just a bad sign for the whole Washington offense. In general. I know Brian Johnson has said it a few times on this show. If there's one team you can just eliminate from your fantasy depth chart this year,

it might be Washington. You might just want to get rid of all of them. Yeah, I think I got a contender for that. And that's the next team, The Buffalo Bills. The Buffalo Bills. The four running backs split all their carries evenly. Every one of them tend to twelve carries during the preseason. Singletary and Yelleding got most of the past game works, so maybe there's something there. Gore was the most effective. Just avoid all of that.

And Robert Foster dressed the fourth preseason game playing second team. He's no longer even talk about Stay Jones playing with playing in the fourth. You guys are stepping out all of my my training camp matchups. Later, Texans Lamar Ler went on I r S. Most listeners know Duke Johnson is your news starting running back. The good news is Duke Johnson has never missed a game in his entire career. That's good. The bad news is he has averaged eight

touches per game throughout his career. We have no reason to believe he can be a workhorse back or will even be asked to be will. I believe he's the all time rushing leader in the history of the University of Miami. That's that's a good sign. I think. I think there is a misconception that Duke Johnson is a tiny scat back. Let me remind use two hundred ten pounds. He's not a tiny guy. You know, he may be able to be an inside and runner. He might be

able to withhold eighteen touches a game. He's never been asked to do. It doesn't mean he can't do it. But that's what you need to know. Rand Let's go to the We need a listener, by the way to make the I'm the Scatman song into I'm a scat back and send that into us so we can have that on the button bar. Well, we'll wait on that. Yeah, the bucket my breath. Matt Jamis Winston looked pretty good in the Bruce Arians offense had good command of the offense.

Problem is the offensive line might be the biggest concern. In the third preseason game, the most important preseason game, Winston was sacked five times against the Browns. That's not good. That's like an average of nine times per game. It's not It's not an average of nine times. We're just gonna say it is. Okay, it's in the ballpark of that. I suppose we're This is the one thing you need to know about every team's preseason. We are now on

the Cleveland Browns. Yes, so they shipped off Duke Johnson, as you mentioned. So it's all it's all Nick Chubb all the time. Doncha. Hilliard has looked really good as the backup, over a hundred thirty yards on twenty six touches in the preseason. He's been my last pick of the draft. Guy. Man, he should be, and he should be despite the loss of Zeitler to New York in that trade. Uh, the offensive lines look good, so Indianapolis Colts.

Obviously Jacoby Bursets the new starting quarterback. Don't assume he'll hold back the offense like he did back then. He was very young, just a set in your player playing behind a horrible offensive line that ultimately would go on to just pound nails into Andrew Lux's career. Coffin. Well, not only that he got there like a week and a day before his first startart right entactly, um sets look good in the preseason both last year and this

year's preseason. He's surrounded by talent. I think he's good enough to keep. T Y Hilton is a reliable starter. And potentially Paris Campbell who's going undrafted many in many leagues because he didn't have a preseason and ultimately he might be okay too, and Ericy Brown as well. Let's go to the Lions. What's the one thing we need

to know? Um? Surprisingly, t J. Hockenson looked like the most impressive Lions offensive player coming out of camp average nine point eight yards after the catch during the preseason. Uh struggled a bit in the run blocking game. That's the one thing that might hold him back from snaps this season. But uh, there's a lot of positivity around a rookie tight end, which is pretty rare in the NFL. All right, let's go to the Jets. So the Jets,

I've been talking about this on previous shows. I think they're going to be much more fast paced team, much more up tempo. When the starters are in. They've been using a lot of no huddle, a lot of quick plays. I think Gaye's uh lack of plays. His His low amount of plays per game in Miami was just effect. He had bad players and he was trying to slow down the game. I think it's gonna be a fast paced team. I think it's gonna have some bad players. Well,

that is true. Um Jets have the hardest first half schedule against the past, and so as as optimistic as I am that that offense is going to be better,

I'm investing in the second half of the season. The one thing you need to know about the Chiefs is there's a possible timeshare brewing in the backfield between incumbent starter Damian Williams and sixth round rookie Darwin Thompson, who's looked terrific and his shot all the way up to number two on the depth chart changed the tenor of the conversation there from really being all about Damian Williams

to now potentially being a true time share. Williams is expected to be the starter, but we may see more time from Darwin Thompson. Then we thought Carlos Hyde, by the way um on the bubble and by the time you hear the show, depending on when you listen over the weekend, might already be cut. That's my my prediction for a notable name that could go down in flames. Let's go to our next team, and that is the Seahawks Matt uh Injuries. Injuries have plagued the Seahawks preseason.

David Moore, who had high hopes as a wide receiver too as a shoulder injury, DK Metcalf and knee guard Mike Iupati as a foot injury. And there's a whole bunch of defensive players that are also injured, including Ezekiel Ansa, Sachem Griffin, and l J. Collier. It's it's gonna be a tough road to hoe for the Seahawks to start the year. Yeah, that's they didn't get the preseason they needed on a DK Metcalf. No, definitely not. Let's go

to the Broncos. The one thing we need to know there, Ummanuel Sanders looks like he has some Adrian Peterson recovery ability even after thirty. For some reason, he flashed plays in game and not just not just video as of practice. In game, he actually looked good. I'm no longer concerned about drafting him. I've got him up at numbers twenty

nine at the wide receiver position. That might be a little optimistic given the all the young talent they've got a receiver and that too, that's that's a bit of an issue. Maybe I'm a little optimistic on him. Let's go to the Rams. Cooper Cup looks fully respeaking of recover. He's Cooper Cup fully recovered from his a c L injury of last November. You know, to me, it seems unlikely that that couple will immediately return to a full workload. But I think he's I think he's right in the mix,

and you're in week one. I just don't think it should be like in every single play. Guy. They said a lot of his measurables are better than when he came into the league right now. Reminder, he was averaging a touchdown per game last year before his injury. Cooper Cup, let's go to the Eagles. What's the one thing we need to know, Matt. I mean, the biggest news out of Eagles camp might be the troll job of the

zeke who billboards that they put up around town. But seriously, it's just a really crowded offense for the receiving targets. There's Art's el Sean d Jack's Agilard, j Jaw Goddard, Darren Sprowles, Corey Clement, Miles Sanders all have the ability to catch passes. It makes me kind of want Carson Wentz as the only option on that offense. Well, I don't know about only, but I've got him up to

number six among quarterbacks. I think Carson Wentz is going off the board is roughly quarterback like sixteen, But I think that's exactly it. There's so many good targets for Carson Wentz. I don't have to guess who. I don't have to guess which receiver is gonna have the hot game. I'll just take the quarterback. Yeah, that's exactly what. Um. Let's go to Let's see the Dolphins. What's the one thing we need to know there? Scott, You're you're beautiful, lovely.

Stu Beard may have gotten the start for Week one. He may start the season, but he is Stu Beard and Rosen out played him this preseason. They invested a second round picking him. Stu Bird is gonna start the season, but eventually it'll be Rosen and I'm not sure that's good. I know the exact week it's going to be, and I'll tell you in a later segment alright, good, the Vikings Dalvin Cook is sitting out of potential, potentially giant season.

The offensive line is upgraded. The new zone stretch blocking scheme is a perfect fit for Dalvin Cook's running style. How so he only played in college in high skame. Other than that, right exactly, he looks as explosive as ever. You saw his eighty five yard touchdown sprint a little over a week ago. He's got a lead upside. If the Vikings offensive line improves and he handles the bulk of the work, he could easily be one of the top three or four or five running backs for fantasy play.

He is my number four running back at the moment. Let's go to our next team, that is the Dallas Cowboys. The one thing we need to know there, man, I mean, the biggest troll job of the season was Jerry Jones saying Zeke his own team. UM. Zeke's holdout is obviously the main storyline, but an interesting stat I saw online today. Uh DA's passerrating in games with Ezekiel Elliott point nine, Deck's passerrating in games without Zeke eighty point eight so

it moves down a little bit. I know Brian loves Tony Pollard, but I'm a little bit nervous about the Cowboys as a whole, and this Zeke called out looks like it might last into mid October or later. Let's go to the Patriots. A lot of moving parts for the Patriots right now, Scott. What's the one thing though

people need to know? If it's just one thing, it's that Josh Gordon is now eligible to play Week one, and Tom Brady's yardage attempt is targeting any receiver Josh Gordon number one in his entire career including career Wow, no way, so downfield passing Josh Gordon. I love it. Let's go to the Saints. Jared Cook looks like a potential steel at his current average draft position of the

seventh round. Beat writers are describing Jared Cook as the go to receiver for Breeze and have noted his multiple big plays throughout camp. If you like that Jared Cook as a Raider catching one hop wobblers from Derek Carr, that's not a catch. You're gonna love him as a Saint catching spirals from Drew Brees. Let's go to the Giants. What's the one thing we need to know so we know it's not if it's when Daniel Jones takes over

for Eli. Joe Ones went twenty nine for thirty four that's completions four hundred, sixteen yards and two touchdowns in the preseason. Now, the schedule is really tough through the first six weeks, including Week five against the Vikings. In Week six against New England, that's Eli's last start. That's against New England. He's gonna try to get one final troll job on the Patriots. And then week seven they

play the Cardinals at home. That's a nice game. Then they get Detroit Dallas and an away game at home against the Jets. Those are four really nice games for Daniel Jones to get eased into. Then they got a bye week. They'll be able to adjust. That's when Daniel Jones will take over his week seven calling your shot, I like it. That's the one thing we need to know about the Titans. This one is tough. There's not really anything it's but the revamp line with the addition

of Roger Staffold. I know Taylor of the one is going to be suspended a little bit here, but once he's back. That line has made Jeremy Mcnifmuckle's a former fifth round pick, couldn't even make the fifty three man roster for the Bucks his first year and it's been on five teams. Sense they made him look like a legitimate NFL running back in the preseason. So I like that for Derrick Henry and Dan Lewis, who's going so

late he's now a value. Yeah, Dan Lewis is going on draft basically, and and he's yeah, he's still about he's a great value. Uh. For the Steelers, no real clarity on the job to backfill Antonio Brown's production. James Washington provided a few big plays this preseason, but almost entirely with backups. Dante Moncrief got the starting work, but and he looks like the starter, but he didn't even didn't show anything for that matter in his career, Doncte

Moncrief hasn't shown anything. So I think it's still a murky situation for the Steelers and we don't have a lot of clarity there. Let's go to the Falcons and the one thing people need to know the young offensive line there, will it hold up first round pick Caleb McGarry had a cardiac ablation procedure and only played in one preseason game. Chris lind Stern was also a first rounder. Starting at right guard. Center Alex has been dinged up a bit. Let's see if this line holds up against

the Vikings in Week one. Yeah, that's a that's a stout challenge right off the bat for them. All right, let's go to the Bengals, Scott. Everyone knows A J. Green went down, so I'm not gonna go with that. The running game has looked actually really good, but Rodney Anderson just toys a C L again to row now, so it's all mixing and g O. There are really no backups, so you can draft them with confidence. Now. I see the offensive line really really worries me. They

lost first round pick. It's it's it's as this preseason, but I would yeah, I'm, I'm you're more might be tanking for tou Fort and they might be. Yeah, things go badly. Forty nine ys have utter confusion at the wide receiver position. I wish I could tell you now there's all this clarity through training camp, but it's the opposite of that. Dante Pettis was great at the end of last year, but he's been the subject of Kyle Shanahan's ire, including making Pettis play the third with the

third and fourth stringers. Last week, rookies Jalen Hurd and Deebo Samuel looked promising and stretches. Now Hurt has got an injury. Right now from this Week one, Trent Taylor was going to be the starting slow receiver, but he's got a foot injury. He probably won't play in a Week one either. Marquis Goodwin remains, but they were trying to cycle him out of the starting rotation, but I think they got to put him in. It's still very, very muddy with the wide receiver well, and there's always

George Kittle. All right, let's go to the Cardinals. Matt Kyler Murray didn't throw a touchdown pass all preseason and seemed to be under pressure a lot. His escapability will totally be in play a ton this season, as it looks like he'll be taking a majority of snaps from the shotgun, and maybe most of his snaps while trailing in a game and running for his absolute life. All right,

let's go to the Jaguars. The big news is Leonard Fournette is getting every single starter snap in in the preseason games, every third down, he's gained all the passing game work. If healthy, there is no limit to help productive he can be for fantasy this year healthy. I didn't pay attention to what actually happened on Thursday night, but the Jaguars were on pace to be the lowest score preseason offense in NFL history. I don't remember what they did on Thursday night, but they may have actually

set that record. Uh. Let's go to the Ravens. Justice Hill, rookie running back, looks like the second best back on the roster and will likely get into the mix. Is a change of pace for mark Ingram. Mark Ingram has never been a guy who's been a workhorse throughout his career, so I think Justice Hill is going to get in the mix pretty regularly here um and his big play potential makes him dangerous. He's not he's not a big guy.

He's not a big physical back, but he's got big playability, so he can turn even a handful of carries potentially into a solid fantasy day. Justice Hill for the Ravens. Let's go to the Bears. What's the one thing people need to know. David Montgomery has looked like the best rookie running back in this year's crop. He has the ability to catch passes, something Jordan Howard really did not have,

which makes the Bears less predictable. Fit. Frankly, when uh, because it was Howard on the field and it was a run play, and it was Treat Cohen on the field and it was a pass play. Now David Montgomery kind of flips that. So I think Montgomer ends up as a bell cow and Treat Cohen's just a change of pace guy this year. Totally agree. I got my coming up to number nine a running back position. I'm I'm all in. And our last team, Scott the Chargers.

It's just more on Melvin Gordon. It's a it's a hunch now it's it's been reported that he may be back by week one, but it's going back and forth every day. There's nothing concrete, so I say you still got to use it decently. High pick on Austin Neckla. Well done, guys. That was all thirty two teams. We get to take a breath for a moment. Everything chart is available at fanball dot com. I going to fanmball

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camp battle worth tracking. Now, with the preseason behind us, let's identify the winner of every battle and the fantasy ramifications that come with it will begin with Scott and the Redskins quarterback situation. It was case Keenum versus Dwayne Haskins. Well case Keenum one that he's the name the starter

for the for week one, which I love. For Trey Quinn, who is a slock ey uh you know how Keenum targeted targeted the slot over half the time over half his past attempts in Denver and in Minnesota where Yeah, I mean he did have Adam Thielen and he did have Emmanuel Sanders. He should be the best Hamilton's came in still, so I like that for Quinn. Great. Quinn is a is a nifty last pick of your drafteper in PPR leagues. I could see him doing on this show a few weeks ago. He was six catches sixty

yards kind of guy just your bye week. Can easily lead that team in receptions. I think he might be the favorite to lead the team in receptions. Chompson Tray Quinn. Wouldn't that be something? If it's Chris Thompson back from the dead, that would be great. The lowest drafted wide receiver one in league. Yeah, Tray quinnan if he is in fact one, there um Matt Let's go to the Ravens wide receiver position. It was Miles Boykin versus Marquise

Brown versus Willie Snead. Gross Is it possible that there are no winners here? Because the official Ravens depth chart has Snead and Seth Roberts as the starters, with uh Marquise Brown, Michael Floyd, Chris Moore, and Boykin as the backups. Brown muff two punts in the final preseason game on Thursday and was not targeted at all and has been dealing with foot injuries all offseason. So I'm I'm cutting

him out. He's not on my list anymore. Boykin looked like the best player maybe, but I still think it's probably a pretty good split between three or four receivers. I guess Boykin's the guy most interested in, followed by Snead and then maybe Michael Floyd. I feel like that depth chart was in order of NFL seniority, Like, yeah, I know that's that is not a true depth chart right there, and I'm not sure it's gonna make the

team anyway. We'll find out Eagles running back situation. They drafted Miles Sam There's Day two pick then they also acquired Jordan Howard in the off season. How's the Sanders versus Howard split look there? And who do you think one? It is still split in fact that Darren Sprawls is coming into it. It's good. It's just gonna be a split Miles Sanders. I I will say, maybe it's just bias. I thought has looked the best. Uh No, that's not bias,

that's just fact. Okay, he's looked the best. And I'm a noted Jordan Howard Hayter, so that doesn't help the situation. But I think by the end of the season, creamal rise at the top and he'll be a fifteen touch guy. Is Darren Sprawls the running back you want the most? Out of the Philly running backs? You probably can't write. I mean, you know, just PPR like, I love Darren Sprawls. I'm the guy who thinks you should go to the Hall of Fame. So I mean, there's no bigger Darren Sprawls. Uh.

I don't know aficionado than me. But you're a sproseologist. I like it, um, But I don't think you're going to be drafting Darren Sprowls. And you know, I love what he does, and in fact that even brought him back is amazing after how little he's been able to produce the last couple of years. Let's go to Buffalo the running back situation. There, we were monitoring McCoy versus Gore, versus yelled and versus the rookie Singletarry. Is it possible

that there are no winners here too? Uh? Somebody starting? Well? Are they in the third preseason game? Wait? Are they starting like Adrian Peterson started for the Saints that one year for two plays? And then so in the third preseason game, Shady McCoy and Gore completely split the load right down the middle. Uh, they alternated series. Uh both looked fine. I guess as rushers t J. Yeldon at three catches for fifty one yards in the third preseason game,

he looked fine. Singletary looks like the future, but as a log jam in front of him. Uh, I was. I was looking at Bill's Twitter, and it's possible that Yelleden gets cut on Saturday just because they're looking at the last running back spot and Sonora's Perry is a really good special teams guy and yelled In doesn't play special teams. So unless they're going to keep a sixth running back in that backfield, including their fullback that they have yelled in, might be the guy getting cut, But

it's possible that somebody else might get cut. Maybe McCoy gets cut. Maybe the guy who gets cut off this roster ends up in Houston. And yeah, that's right. Uh, if there was one Bills running back who, if everything goes just right, is the best guy to have, right his season goes just just right, I think it's probably still McCoy's. Probably still McCoy, isn't it. It's good because he's healthy, right, so he's been dinged up for two

straight years. He if he comes back healthy and you can get some semblance of what Lashawn McCoy was, I think he would be the best out of this. But everything has to go just right, including Frank Gore suddenly retiring. Maybe I don't know. My kid will be watching Frank Gore in ten years, and that's not he'll be He'll be bouncing his kid on his knee, still watching Frank Gore. Seahawks running back situation Chris Carson versus Rashad Penny. This

one wasn't even close, is that even a battle. No, in the minds of many, I heard, I heared a notable fantasy animals to him. Not gonna out on this show, many say on the radio, still using this. Well, the Seahawks used their draft equity on Rashad Penny, so they have to use them as a as a time share. No, no, no, Uh. Chris Carson easily won that hands down. And remember the Seattle Seahawks ran the ball fifty five percent of the time last year. In today's NFL, it was definitely a

league high. Carson should easily return value at that fourth round ADP. Chris Carson is my number six running back, so fourth round ADP is absurd. Let's go to the the Bill's wide receivers. We just Matt We just shackling running games, thank you. And how about John Brown versus A Jones versus Robert Foster, None of the above. It's Cole Beasley. He's the winner. He's the best wide receiver that you want on the Bills. And uh, Cole Beasley is upset to he's playing with a chip on a

shoulder because he's furious over his Madden writing. God, but he developed maybe the best chemistry with Josh Allen and Camp in preseason seven catches for seventy one yards in three games. Uh, Foster is the guy who flashed at the end of the year, but he's buried on that that depth chart. Maybe he's the fifth wide receiver. Yeah, it's it's probably cold Beasley Redskins running back to Darius Guys versus Adrian Peterson just soon took an interesting turn

at the end. It really did with with putting Geiss in for eleven touches his first game back. It was a very risky move by Washington. I feel like Washington generally pays it's safe with their athletes. I mean, it's not like they've had multiple staff infections, bad surgeries that a current lawsuit. Rudge rush JRG three back too quickly, I mean, yeah, but this one, it really does feel like a split. They paid Peterson a lot of money.

They're gonna want to keep guys somewhat healthy. I think it's going to be a legitimate sp Alright, let's go to the charges running back situation. There, we were looking at Melvin Gordon's contract against Austin Ekeler and Justin Jackson. No new clarity there. Yeah, after Thursday's preseason game, GM Tom Talsco said that he prides himself on having solutions to problems, but he doesn't have a solution to the Melvin Gordon problem. So it's still Austin Ekeler as the

winner right now. All right, let's go to the Bucks running backs. Peyton Barber versus Ronald Jones. A lot of Ronald Jones apologists out there. No, no, No, one point six yards per carry Ronald Jones from last year. No thanks, it's Peyton Barber. He won this. But look out for Darya gun bow Wally uh. He he might steal some third down work. And there's beat reporters they're even talking about he might take some first and second down work.

He's he's coming up out of nowhere. That's hope the best. Yeah, that good one. Dolphins running back situation, Kenyan Drake versus Calin Balage. Well, Drake missed two weeks of practice with a foot injury, but when he came back on Monday, he looked explosive and sharp in practice, and klin Blage had twelve carries for seventeen yards as a starter to

catch us for negative two yards. He lost the job. Yeah, I think he did to Ken is a plotting, shiftless, boring, uncreative runner who will only give what his offensive line can give him. How do you really feel? And his offensive line won't get him in running the forty Niners running back situation, it was Coleman versus Breeda versus McKinnon. Well, McKinnon has a better chance of being on I R than starting they put him on IR Yep. Just Thursday. I think he's on i R. Okay Friday, Uh, Tevin

Coleman and Matt Breda have been splitting. Breda has looked much better in the preseason. Breda will not go away. So I think this is a pretty decent split between these two. This year, Breed is more explosive and I like him better. Uh. Ryan Fitzpatrick versus Josh Rosen. As we're going back through a training camp battles from our first show of the of the year and now giving you the answers to all the battles that we were watching.

Were now in Miami for the quarterback situation. Fitzpatrick v Rosen stupid does the winner and he gets to face four playoff teams in a row. Baltimore, New England Dallas and the Chargers. Then a bye week. Boy, then Josh Rosen starts in week six. That sounds like it, all right,

Let's go to the Packers. Markis Velde's scantling versus Geronimo Allison. Uh, this one, I think that MVS has probably won it, but they both kind of win because the Packers use three wide receiver sets sixty five percent of the time, and if you only count passing plays, it's like top five in the league. So they're both gonna be on the field. Geronimo Elson is going to be your safe, big slot guy, and at this point of his career,

he's not explosive anymore, so that's why he's being moved inside. Uh, MVS can play inside and outside. He's the explosive guy. He's the big play guy. Uh, he's the speed guy. I'm gonna call him the winner, although they both kind of win because they're gonna both give me on the field. Alright, Final one Patriots second receiver spot. It was originally nikkil Harry versus Mary Thomas versus Philip Dorsett is Maurice Harris and the winner is Josh Yes, Josh Gordon. We didn't

see that one coming. Maybe the runner up is Jacoby Myers, by the way, who had twenty catches, two and fifty three yards and two touchdowns in the preseason. Now five deep at wide receiver. How about that? That is? That is very very deep. Uh, You've probably are just talking about. Guillotine League's the hottest new format in fantasy sports. Seventeen teams and each week the low scoring team gets cut from the league and their entire roster goes to the

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see if you can go three and oh. Tough question number one, how much does the retirement of Andrew Luck hurt the value of the rest of the notable Colts players, particularly Marlon mack, t Y Hilton, Eric Ebron a lot, a little or not at all, Scott a little but not much. Uh. This is a different coaching staff from when U Brissette last played in two thousand seventeen. I trust Frank right. I actually kind of love Frank Reich honestly. I like the way it calls. Uh, it's a way

better old line. There were a bottom ten old line, then their top five oh line. Now. Uh, Andrew Luck almost never got hit last last year, so we can expect Jacob be Prissette to have some time back there. Uh. They're just a better team and they have a lot more wet weapons. That line is gonna be still gonna be great, so Max should be okay. He may not

get quite as many scoring opportunities. Brissette in college targeted tight ends twice over twice as much as the national average, and during the preseason over twice as much as the NFL average in the preseason, so he seems to like the tight ends. That might be good for the tight ends currently in Indie. Um losing a Hall of Hall of Famer caliber quarterback like Luck him, it's gonna be a downgrade. So it's got you gotta say a little.

I mean, Brissett's not gonna throw thirty nine touchdown passes like Andrew Luck did. But it's just a little. I think I think all those players are gonna do just fine. All right, Matt Um, I think Scott's nailed it. It's it's a little and Um. I I have some tight end love that I want to give here too, but I'm going to save it for a guy I have later in the show. You're marked as a sleeper, So I'm gonna go with a little and and say, did

out of fish? You know what I should add? Frank Raik used the fed the tight ends a lot stop stop, so I said I had stuff for later. You keep talking. The The correct answer is, in fact a little. I tipped my hand on this earlier, and for many of the reasons Scott already raised. You're finding right now that all of these players have dropped roughly around or half around down in value. I think that's that's you know, I'm still interested in those guys can find value here,

you can, Yeah, you can find some value here. Marlon Mack still with somebody was very excited about before, Still am I don't. I don't think he gets affected by this as much as everybody else either, So there's still a lot to like. And remember this is an elite, an elite offensive line that's gonna especially I think for Marlon Mack, just continue to open up polls like the otherwise would have. Anybody can do the handoff. Let's go to tough question number two. Cam Newton's foot injury has

got a lot of fantasy owners rattled. Are you buying low or are you just glad you didn't draft him? Charge This was a tough one. How tough, Matt Well, My hypothalamus has been uh severely damaged. Yeah. I have lost uh my my sleep and wake cycle, the control of my appetite, my regulating of body temperature, and controlling how I produce and release hormones. It's a lot of explains why you're not wearing pants. You could be the hormones or the temperature one of the two. I'll let

you decide. A lack of mobility sounds like it hurts Cam, but it's actually made the Panthers throw more. When Cam was dinged up in his first game back, he threw forty seven passes in that game. They kept him in the pocket, and they kept him throwing. Last year, when he injured his shoulder, he threw over forty pass attempts in weeks thirteen and fourteen after he injured the shoulder.

It's a little reckless, actually, it's weird. It's worth noting that all of his productive stats last year happened in the first half of the season. When he was healthy. He had eleven straight games of two or more passing touchdowns. Then he got hurt. But I'm not that worried. I think I think that means more dump offs and more short passes for Cam. So I'm on by low mode. Alright, you're buying Scott. Yeah, I just don't see that his prices dropped that much. His ADP really hasn't come off

the ninth round. Maybe some owners of him and trades make are a little worried, but I would buy low as well. I'm not worried about it. He's already shed the walking boot. I know he hasn't practiced yet, but he's a gamer. He'll be He'll be ready to go for a week one. I do have concerns that maybe the rushing numbers won't be there early in the season, but I think they think later in the season he'll be fine. That offensive line is a big, big X

factor that worries me. I think Cam's gonna that's a big lot of and that part concerns me a great deal. Cams not somebody who's got that innate clock in his head about when to get rid of the ball. I don't think he's savvy that way, and I think he's gonna absorb a lot of hits in this Still, his value so low in the ninth round, and I do like the emerging receivers that he's got, so I am buying low on him. But as most is playing one

quarterback leagues, unfortunately we like QB flex. I'm backing him up. He might even be my backup in the ninth round, but I'm backing him up with with another viable quarterbacks. I do worry about that offensive line. Still correct answer, buying low tough question. Number three. By the way, if you're playing in one QB leagues, moved to super flax this year, or vote in your league to do it next year. But get that and get that going, get

it going. It's you know, the premise is just really the simple there's about twenty good fantasy quarterbacks out there, twenty, so the position just has no value when you're starting ten and ten of them are starting, there's just no value. You can't in a one quarterback league. You can't trade Matt Ryan or Baker Mayfield or Aaron Rodgers for any thing of value. You go into a super flex league,

the only one you could trade is Mahomes. That's the only one where people think that there's a level up in value. That's the only guy you could trade. That's lame. Four years in a row. Out of the four years, three years I didn't draft quarterback. I won the league twice in that In my homeland. Also, when Andrew Luck retired, people in one quarterback leagues just shrugged. Didn't really hurt whatever super flex leagues that hurt him. It's it's almost panic.

You lose a Hall of Fame calibert quarterback that's throws three nine touchdowns in a one QB league. You're like, Okay, I lost Andrew Luck in the Scott Fish Bowl and I'm panicking. Yeah, Yeah, that's super flex right there. Tough question number three this week on National Radio, Lamar Jackson said that he won't run is often and he plans to throw thirty passes a game. Does your outlook for Jackson go up down or stay the same? Scott? It

stays the same for me. I mean, we're talking about a guy who broke the NFL record keep you rush attempts in just seven games last year. Of course, he was going to lower that number. He wasn't gonna run quite as much per game at that pace. By the way, he would have on a sixteen page, he would have been the number three ye rusher in the NFL with how much he was running. He averaged twenty four past steps per game. So this is really only six more

attempts per game if he's running a little less. I'm not worried because the Ravens, they they led the league in plays per game at seventy one plays per game. They have a lot of plays out there. He's still gonna runs. He's easily in my top ten and check this stat out for for Mr Lamar Jackson here charge Uh, nine running backs since nineteen seventy two have rushed for over seven hundred yards. Now, Lamar Jackson was just a few yards shy of that last year. I think that's

forty three yards of game. Forty four yards game. You think he gets that, right? I can't answer them. I can't give you the answer. But yeah, okay, maybe nine quarterbacks have rushed for seven hundred plus yards in the season. Seven finished in the top five, eight finished in the top seven, and vic finished in two. It's basically a guaranteed top twelve finish if he gets seven rushing yards forty four game, it's happening. Matt ditto. Okay, he had

so so many of my stats there, it's great. I will add that he averaged fourteen rushing attempts in his last seven games of the year last year. Uh, that number does have to go down. He he can't simply run that much. So if you're putting the ball in his hands to throw more, that's good for Lamar Jackson because he's looked good in the preseason with the dink and dunk stuff. I don't think that they really wanted

to open it up and show anything. And John Harbaugh says that this offense is about to revolutionize the NFL. That might be coach speak, but let's let's let's give it a ride and see what happens. You can say that you're gonna throw thirty passes a game in August. Yeah, when push comes to shove and you need first down and you need your quarterback to do what he does what he does, they're going to run the ball. That's

all planning stuff. Greg Romans the offensive coordinator, running genius, and he's the most run oriented coordinator there probably is. So I don't believe that there they actually will throw thirty times per game. That sounds nice, but in reality it won't happen. My outlook for Jackson basically can't go up any higher. He's been in my top seven base all preseason. He's my number seven quarterback now the nine top seven yep. Uh So the correct answer your outlook

for Jackson stays the same. By the way, my first line on here that I didn't say, I'll believe it when I see it. Yeah, exactly, that's that's exactly. That is exactly right. Guys, we got a couple of minutes left in in this segment. Let's talk about this. Give me. We've a couple of weeks ago, we did a segment we call the reach around, where it's one player you would reach around early to go get. I want the

opposite of that. I want you to give me a player in the first few rounds that will do round one first that you would not take until at least around eight or beyond. So a player who's going at least one round two early. We'll call it the push around, and we're gonna sing Matchbox twenty while we do it. Are we starting in round one? We're starting in round one. I want the round one player, Matt, you can go first. I want the round one player you would not take

in round one and wouldn't consider until round two. I'm simply not taking Ezekiel Elliott in drafts right now because I just don't think I'm gonna get him for six weeks. Okay, yeah, I'm gonna buy the Yeah, man, I have some stats on that, but I can't remember right now. So yeah, it's Elliott with me too. I'd rather have him in round two like all the first rounders that's Elliott. I'm going James Conner was going at the end of the

first round. You never liked him, No, I liked him five verse half of last year, and now I think it's way more of a time share than people realize. And even though Connor look good in the preseason, I think we're gonna see a lot of Jalen Samuel's round. To give me a player who's going in the second round who you wouldn't touch until round three or beyond Matt, I'm gonna say Joe Mixon, who's going in the middle of that round. I've got him later in a lot

of a so far this year. But I just fear that that offense is just going to be so bad with a j Green hurt. Andy Dalton is not a very good quarterback. That line is kind of a mess. They're going to hand them the ball a lot, but I don't think it's going to be very successful. So I'm gonna push him down to at least the third or fourth before I take him. Scott, it's Antonio Brown for me. That's just too early. I like every wide receiver in that round better. I like some of the

wide receivers in the next round better. I even like a fourth round wide receiver two better than Antonio Brown, So it's easily him. Yeah, you took my one A and my one bin and Antonio Brown two guys. I'm nervous about, very nervous about, very quickly round three. Give me a player in round three that you're not going to take in round three you would not take in round three and one consider until round number four. I

think that would have to be Josh Jacobs. I just don't believe in what the Raiders are doing as an offense. I think they're going to be a disaster. To offensive line is terrible. Yeah, good point. Yeah, I think that's where i'd go to Josh Jacobs. Marii Cooper, former Raider. I don't like a comedy add feet and wide receiver. No bueno. I'm I'm showing caution there. Give me Michael Gallop seven rounds later instead. That's my That is my angle coming up next. Let's answer uh oh, we just

did that. Let's go through a draft using three different types of strategies, a safe draft, a bounce back draft, and a high risk draft. The one you prefer will tell you a lot about the strategy. You should employ for your own draft. Will go through the safe, bounce back and high risk, high reward drafts. After this, it's Fantasy Football Weekly. I'm Paul Georgian, co owner of fanball

dot Com My Sidekicks Today, Matt Harrison, Scott Fish. Guys, I want to talk for a moment about a drafting persona or a drafting archetype, or a drafting philosophy, and we're gonna break down six of them in total, three now, beginning with a predominantly safe draft, boring draft. A boring draft. Safe safe sound a lot better, doesn't safe sound a

lot People like, Yeah, let's get boring in here. And then we'll flip it over and do the risky draft, high risk, high reward draft, which I think tends to sound a lot sex here. Assume it's all gonna go well, but it doesn't always. And then we'll do a bounce back draft filled with players that are coming off of disappointing seasons or injury seasons or something whatever went wrong last year and now the opportunity to come back and

be meaningful players. So then, as listeners, I think you want to listen just at the end of the day, listen to the lineup that was created taking one player from every round, and do you like this starting lineup? I've confined it to the starting lineups? Do you like this starting lineup? This appeals to you, then you should employ a safe draft, for example. So let's begin there, the safe draft, and that is Matt. No, it's Scott, Sorry, Scott, he's doing safety. The safety I did safe so many

years in a row. I'm sick of it. I want to get risky. Do you want me a list of my seven starters? First? Do you just want me to go down the line cube, give me the quarterback. I don't need to get the rounds. Just give me the starting lineup. And how that sounds? You can? You can? You can tell us why you made each pick briefly, all right, my quarterback. I want to tell the rounds too, because it's important my quarterback. We did the first seven

rounds of a DP. So my quarterback I drafted in round seven because that is the latest I was allowed to draft a quarterback in this scenario. And it took Baker Mayfield. Once that's not boring, Well, was awfully excited. That's who I took in the risky draft. Okay, what's boring about him? Okay, here are the options. Deshaun Watson in the fifth, Baker Mayfield in the seventh. About Patrick Mahomes in the second, that Matt Ryan in the seventh? What about Matt Ryan? As about it just safe? I

mean that right down the middle, the fairways safe. I think Baker's a little more safe. But we're talking about guys with that are known commodities. Baker has been in the in the league one year. We know what Matt Ryan's all about. It's safe production alright, Alright, Matt Ryan, job, he forced me to. We're talking about a guy who has four thousand plus yards every year since two thousand eleven. In fact, the last time he missed a game, Avatar

was in the theater. Wow. Seriously, yep, So Matt Ryan, Matt Ryan, he just always plays fished that movie a pile of steaming dawnels. Oh god, so bad. I never saw it be glad. Okay, all right, so your quarterback is Matt Ryan. Yep, alright, my running back is going to stay on the same team. Apparently. Devata Freeman super boring. But even though he only played two games last year

and missed most of the season. Before that, he'd only missed three total games in his first In the first four seasons, he had even more total yards and eight or more total touchdowns in each of those three years. In fact, the two before he missed were plus touchdowns and thirteen plus touchdowns plus yards and plus yards, sorry, and thirteen plus touchdowns in those two You are doing safe, boring draft strategy, all right, So that's one of your

starting running backs. Yeah, so my other starting running back really my only choices in the round. I was going our Duke Johnson and James White. You want to tell me which one is more boring? There? Um, James, you know what you're getting with James White for sure, right right? James. James White was a top twelve running back in PPR last year. The New England team passes to the running back more than just about any team in the NFL. Uh safe pick there. Round one. I took Michael Thomas

from my starting wide receiver. Super safe. Can't get more safe. At least four receptions in every game last year, thirteen games of six or more targets, double digit fantasy points in fourteen games, seventy five yards and or a touchdown in ten games. He's just safe. He's consuper Julian Edelman Round four, my otherwide receiver, super safe, super boring. I just could never pull the trigger on him, but I should because he's averaged over six receptions per game for

five consecutive years he played. He played because you know, I think I don't think he's a risk. He had a torn a c L he miss here, so he's even the suspension year. He averaged six receptions per game that year, catches a lot of balls at least fifty yards are touchdown in eleven of the twelve games he played last year. Super consistent guy. Round two. I took Travis Kelsey because when you're thinking, he's not a boring pick, but he's as safe and super possibly calm at that

end position. And then from my flex position, I actually think Robby Anderson is really really silly and I you don't agree, Well, I just a historic he has not been safe. You're projecting safeness on to him. Last year he had at least five targets in all but two games, fourteen games of at least five targets. The targets catches that they have that would be the better question. I don't know, I worry. I worry. Five targets tarted into

two catches. He scored three times in the final four games last year, average eighty four yards per game that stretch. He had at least seven targets in seven to last eight games last year. All right, well just that, all right, So there's your gift. Just zip through the whole the whole thing one more time, super fast. The safe draft Matt Ryan, DeVonta Freeman, James White, Michael Thomas, Julian Edelman, Travis Kelsey, Robby Anderson. All right, if you like that,

that is that you. If you like that roster, you can emulate a safe down the middle approach. Now, let's flip it over to Matt for the opposite side of this, The risky, high risk, high reward draft. These are all players with a lot of upside, potentially a lot of downside. Matt, who you? Who do? I want to go in order of how I drafted him, and then I'll summarize it at the end because I think it's gonna work really well.

First round Ezekiel Elliott. Yeah, obviously that's high risk as yeah, might not play this season, might be the top running back on the board, and uh, we will probably find out whether or not he's playing, you know, in a few days. Uh. Second round Antonio Brown wide receiver, downgrade to Oakland. However, he could get a hundred and eighty targets from Derrek Carr this year. It's possible that they just target him over and over and over. Also, he's

really good. He has really good um. Third round Leonard four Net, great player when not injured and missing team photos. But the risk here is he's maybe the only good offensive weapon on the Jaguars, and they could just load the boxes with nine guys and try to stop him. Uh. Fourth round running back Melvin Gordon also might not play this year, but he was a top eight a DP player just a few months ago, So there's the huge

upside there. Uh. In the fifth round, tight end O J. Howard the Bruce Arians offense, Cameron Brad is kind of a tight end touchdown vulture for O. J. Howard. However, sky is the limit for this offense. This offense might be just trending hugely upward. In the sixth round, Josh Gordon at a wide receiver. He'll be my flex. He could be the top wide receiver in the Tom Brady offense. But he could smoke up one time and leave the NFL forever. He could be done. And as I mentioned before,

my high risk quarterback is in the seventh round. That's Baker Mayfield. The upside is the top overall quarterback is. The downside is that offensive line took a couple of steps backwards of this offseason and there could be a sophomore slump. We might have just seen the heat from Freddie Kitchens last year. It just could go backwards. So my lineup is quarterback Baker Mayfield, running backs Zeke Leonard, four Nett, Melvin Gordon, uh Antonio Brown, and wide receiver

Josh Gordon. Those are my two wide out and then O J. Howard as a tight end. You get the feeling, you know everything clicked with that team. Oh man, you'd absolutely crush you demolish every one of those guys you hit the side. But that is a lot to ask. Let's remember, by the way, with Zeke and Melvin Gordon, your real worst case scenario isn't missing a whole season.

They will come back in Week ten because they have to get their year of service so they get so they can do another year towards free agency, so you're you know, there really isn't a scenario where they do not come back when they miss the whole season. That last less year that was a different said he wasn't under contract, so he didn't have that, he didn't have to do that. There are going to be some Zeke

Gordon Elliott teams out there. I think they probably will, And you know, it's it's not it's not impossible strategy, it's just very, very risky. Now I could have taken to Gurley in the second round too. I've got the bounce back draft. So my drafting persona here is somebody that wants to cash in on a player who had an unusually bad year last year and it's got a lot more upside this year, whether it's a production or

injury related or in things like that. Correct. Now, most fantasy players succumb to this this thing where they just can't stop replaying last year and really have a hard time visualizing a materially different season this year. So part of our exercise here is to sort of break you out of that mold and looking for ways in which these guys could be better this season. In the first round of my bounce back draft. I took David Johnson, coming off a disappointing season which he was the top

three or four running back last year. It was disappointing. He was still and he wasn't top ten running back, but it wasn't the season everybody expected by by a long shot. The vast misuse by Mike McCoy who who just ran them up the middle over and over again, and he just you know, in you so so poorly. Now a totally different offense that seems dedicated with getting

him the ball more often. I think there's gonna be a lot of plays where Kyler Murray Murray behind a bad offensive line, play breaks down, he's running for his life, and here's David Johnson in the flat, easy six yard past. David Johnson turns up field and goes like ninety two yards for touchdown. Yeah, easy problem. Yes, Round one David Johnson. Round two, Dalvin Cook on a bounce back here right one of my he's my currently my number four ranked

running back. Vikings offense is being sculpted to him his image. So the only problem here is is he would have taken him over David Johnson. I would have taken over David Johnson, but the ADP says, I gotta go David Johnson first. I would have I like him better than David Johnson. Uh Dalvin Cook. He's the history of injury is well known here. But when healthy, absolutely explosive, he will not give up goal line carries anybody. This year,

I believe that will be his job as well. Round three of my bounce back draft is also a running back, and it is Leonard Fournette. Matt took most of the Leonard Fournette steam for me. You know the soft tissue injuries you lived at last year, that's the downside. Matt identified the upside. He bounce back and risky kind of go hand in hand a little bit. Round number four Kenny Golladay for moreen Kenny Golladay, Let's go to the Scott Fish baby tron desk. What do you think? I

think he's awesome. The bounce back is because last year was a down season in which that offense was really struggling and injured. Matthew Stafford. The running game wasn't clicking. The passing game he was hurt by the trade. No Golden Date, they had no Marvin Jones. And so defenses were just planning to stop stop Kenny Golladay, still Scott's youngest son's middle name is Golladay. It's really weird. His

first name is Baby. In the fifth round, I took Cooper Cup coming off in my bounce back draft, coming off of the a c L injury suffered last November. He looked spry. I think he's ready to come back to the type of season that he was having, hopefully where he was on pace for one touchdown per game

last year. Then in the sixth round, Hunter Henry. We haven't seen him in a year, so obviously prime for a bounce back at the tight end position, averaging happy touchdown per game like Hunter Henry, a former first round pick. Plenty of upside in a bounce back season for Hunter Henry. And then in the seventh round, as alluded to earlier, one of my favorite quarterbacks, Carson Wentz other injury plague season. After an injury plague season, a lot of people are

too gun shy to pull the trigger on him. I'm not. I love him this season and think he set on a potentially m VP caliber season for Carson Wentz and he's my bounce back quarterback. So the lineup looks like Carson Wentz into David Johnson and Dalvin Cook and Leonard Fournett are running back. I think we're in a good spot. So my wide receivers are Kenny Golladay and Cooper Cup and my tight end is Hunter Henry. What do you think I'd like a little more depth at the wide

receiver position. There, it's a it's a very draft. It is at you like that draft, alright? That's the bounce back draft, and that's as straight. If you like the listeners, if you like the sound of that, you can go employ the bounce back strategy with your draft and that would certainly be something that I ended up liking this. I like the sound of this team. But there's risks,

by the way, with all these picks. Cooper Cup top five and red zone targets each of the last two years when and that's not changing because he converted him. You know, it wasn't just targets, it was touchdowns. There's three there, you go, three different draft day personas. But we're not done. We've got three more for you. We'll take a look at a quarterback heavy draft orientation. Maybe

you're in a super flexily or whatever. I'll show you what a do the opposite draft looks like, and Matt will show you what happens when you stack players from the NFL's hottest offenses. And as a reminder, go to fanball dot com slash charge for my free cheat sheet and my free Week one contest with a five thousand dollar prize pool. It is free to enter for week number one fanball dot Com slash chart. We are back in moments. It is a pre season additional fantasy football weekly.

I'm Paul charge in. We've got three more draft day personas to run by you, beginning with a quarterback heavy approach, Scott Fish. Let's see how these rosters end up looking when you prioritize quarterbacks in your draft and my prioritizing quarterbacks like a super flex league. Yes, ideally it is super flex league because that's the way people should play.

Is super flex I like to put out there. I mean, lots of lots of articles have been written on this, but six point to four point passing touchdowns don't change your draft strategy. So drill down on that for a second, because most people do believe that if I'm in a six point passing league, I need to go a couple of rounds earlier on my draft, so or in my auctions, I gotta spend a few extra bucks on these guy so help people understand why they shouldn't change their strategy.

Maybe a buck or two extra on the heavy touchdown scores, but generally you use it. You use that difference, that four to six difference in valuing one player towards another for a trade. For like if if two players are pretty evenly priced, sure look, or especially in start six situations in a six verses four use the player that

you think might score more touchdowns. But the top twelve, if you take out my homes, because that was just such an anomaly year uh two through twelve last year had an average point per game difference of under one. The standard deviation is under one point point. Yeah, undervariously

standard deviat that's nothing. I would not have guessed that. Yeah, I mean some of them are like one point six five, one point seven five, But the standard deviation, like a average model out is under a point difference that can be made up by streaming. That can be made up. But I mean, it's a one quarterback league. You don't you don't need to draft the stud of studs you can. You can match up play it. So don't don't adjust your draft strategy too much at all for QB heaving

for a six four point Alright, that's great data. Yeah, it's it's really a minimal difference. But when comparing two players, you know, for trading for if they're evenly priced in a draft, start said, then you can look at it a little harder. But just draft strategy in general, no, don't. Alright, but I'm going to go super flex. And I grabbed some super flex ADP for this which is off this sheet, so a different sheet. Um, I'll do what Matt did. I like, I like that round one DeAndre Hopkins because

I will take him in round one. Still don't need to take a quarterback, and I really like the round three, four five running backs this year, so like, I just don't feel like I need to. But in round two I had to take Dalvin Cook for so many of the things that charge that I also have him in my top five. I believe I have him four as well. Um yeah I do have before uh so Dalvin Cook as well, DeAndre Hopkins. Dalvin Cook, DeAndre Hopkins obviously double

digit touchdowns like three to the last four years. It's he's DeAndre Hopkins Dalvin Cook. Around two, round three, I had the choice between for NET and carry on. I believe that's where I'd go there because I like a couple of wide receivers later, so I went for NET. I believe that if things break right, he could be RB one, two, three. He has funny four NET and ended up on three of our different rosters. Yeah, okay, we kind of like him there. Around four, had to

jump at Cam Newton. Alright, that's where now we're getting our quarterback in this quarterback heavy draft strategy. Yeah, I still like to preach weight on quarterback. But Cam Newton was sitting there, and I just we have seven right enough in a super flex right in this in this one I did. I. I really wanted Cam Newton. I really like him this year. I believe I am like six or something like that, sixth or seventh, seventh maybe. Yeah. I had him outside the top ten and I just

keep moving him up. I don't know why. All right, Uh, round five, I took let me see here, I have to look at this for a second. D D. Westbrook, No, there it is round five. I did it again. I took Lamar Jackson, alright, quarterback quarterback, alright, I went quarterback quarterback. You got a rushing quarterback in a rushing quarterback, which is we talked about this last week. This is one of my favorite strategies and super Flex because odds are one of the two of them is going to rush

you to a good game. Yeah. I love the super Flex running back running back strategy, running quarterback quarterbacks. Thank you so to recap right now, I have Lamar Jackson and Cam Newton as my starting quarterbacks in the super Flex League. Then I have Hopkins and Dalvin Cook and four net alright, round six and seven. Round six, I went with Tyler Lockett, who I have is a round six a steel Yeah. In super Flex, I mean there's enough quarterbacks going down a little other options go down

DK back, I've already hurt. I have Tyler. He was so efficient last year, so many touchdowns. I think he's Russell Wilson is great. I have Tyler locked in my top twenty and then Hunter Henry and round seven. All right, I think that's good. That's it is great value. We might we touched on Henry earlier. Um, all right, so that's here. If you like the sound of that quarterback heavy uh super flex roster. There's your there's one strategy for it, right there, Matt. Yes, I've asked you, challenge

you to stack together hot offenses. These are multiple players from one team that's on on a good offense. Yeah. Um, tell us how this worked out and and explain why you can't just stack chiefs. So I went seven rounds deep and I was looking at first off I was trying to figure out what are the offenses that I want to get, and I tried wanted to try to get a stack of three and another stack of three into these teams together. So if these two offenses go

off together, oh, I'm just in the money. Uh. You can't get the Chiefs in though, because Mahomes, Hill Kelsey, and Damian Willie all have round two ADP Right, you're not gonna get You can't stack cheap. So the best thing you could do is take one of them early in round one and then take a second one in round two and hope that one falls to round three. But I don't think it's gonna happen. Damian Williams might fall if you want to stack any Chiefs. The other

team you can't really stack effectively. I mean you could, but you can't is the Saints because Kamara and Thomas are both going on top eight in ADP. You could get Breeze, Jared Cook and Latavious later, but it's not quite the same. So um, I actually have two options for you guys, and I'm gonna see which team that

you guys like better. Option number one is a stack of three Falcons, three Browns and one ram Odell Beckham in the first, Nick Chubb his teammate in the second, Davante Freeman in the third, Brandon Cooks the lone Ram and the fourth Calvin Ridley in the fifth round. Second Falcon, Yeah, Jarvis Landry, another Brown in the sixth, and then Matt Ryan in the seventh. Or you could take Baker Mayfield

and go four Browns. Yeah you could. They have the same round there, the same round ap Okay, So you can't your tight end, That's what I got to know. I don't need one. We'll take We'll take Austin Hooper later, sure, like Austin Hooper or David and Joku way later. I'm not on the Joco bed. But okay, so you either have Matt Ryan or Baker Mayfield as your quarterback. You're running backs are Nick Chubb and Davante Freeman, and you've

got wide receivers of Odell Brandon Cooks, Calvin Ridley, Jarvis Landry. Okay, that's kind of a fun team, right, It is a good team, all right. I would not mind coming out of a draft with that team, all right. I mean, obviously there's some downside if the Falcons have a fourteen point game, which they might in Week one against the Vikings and so to by the way, um you're in trouble, but predominantly that's not going to happen. So let me let me see if you like option two any better.

This one on is three Packers, three Rams, and one Saint. And I did get a tight end in this one, thank you. All right. In the first round, I took Davante Adams, nice safe, awesome player. In the second round, we're getting risky. We're going Todd Gurley and hope that he stays healthy all year. Third round, Back to the Packers, Aaron Jones on my team. Fourth round, back to the Rams, Robert Woods. Fifth round, let's go another Ram Cooper Cup on that team six and offensive can support both the

wide receivers. Sixth round, I got Adams, I got Jones. Why not get Aaron Rodgers in the sixth round. Let's go pick him up in the seventh round. My one Saints Jared Cook at tight end. So Aaron Rodgers is my quarterback. Running backs of Gurley and Jones, wide receivers of Adams, Woods and Cup and Jared Cook at tight end. That I vote for. I vote for your this, this packer, Ram Combo, and they all wear yellow. So as I'm watching all the games, yellow answer, just watch for yellow

guys in the end zone exactly. I like, so you can you can build a couple of offensive stacks, and you can really shoot for the moon with these kind of things, and and you never know how it's gonna end up, but it's it's kind of a fun way to play. It is a fun way to play all right, less games to pay attention to, um, My drafting persona was that of somebody who's do the opposite. Have you ever done this before? Only only for like twelve years? Uh, except for the draft list that you and I did

last weekend. Running back right, which I didn't intend to do, but that's just the way it worked out. You have to be flexible in this world. Do the opposite drafting is effectively a shoeing running backs early because they are the highest risk players and these are the most valuable picks that you have. So you want to flip the risk scale pyramid upside down. You want to have the most risk at the bottom of your draft and the safest players at the top. All right, so we want

proven perform members at the top. And that's not running backs. Because running backs get hurt all the time. They're subject to problems. If the defense is bad, they get hurt. The quarterback is bad, they get hurt. There's so many things that can go wrong. One year you're great running back. The next year you just fall off the cliff and you're a good anymore. There's just so many things that go wrong. I feel like I already know what this team is going to look like. It's it's gonna be

it's my kind of team. But team round one, you've got you have a choice of a lot of guys. How about Michael Thomas as Are says as are do the opposite style wide receiver in the first round. Second round Travis Kelsey. We want to have the best tight end in the game. We'll take Travis Kelsey. Third round Mike Evans and what should be a much improved offense. Mike Evans has been very good every year of his career. Fourth round, we start to first for the first time,

turn our attention to the running back position. And part of the way to do the opposite works is after you've after you've locked in your players in the first three or four rounds that aren't running back. So we do a bunch of running backs in the middle rounds. Chris car Person criminally going in the fourth round when you should be going out. How did I know Chris Carson was going to show up by your D T

O team, Philip Lindsay in the fifth round. One of my favorite fifth round values that you can get Royce Freeman to me not not a material factor. Miles Sanders in the sixth round, figuring he's gonna get ten to twelve touches a game that will be enough for me to flex him into a flex spot here as my third running back in the seventh round of my last pick,

Baker Mayfield. There's my do the opposite strategy, which gives me Michael Thomas and Mike Evans at receiver, Travis Kelsey at tight end, Chris Carson, Philip Lindsay, Miles Sanders at running back, and Baker Mayfield is a quarterback kind of like my stack team better than the D T O team you can get Mike. To be honest, if you're an a draft in Mike Evans hits your third round, just auto pick that and don't don't have to think twice about that pick. I suppose h Yeah, So that's there,

you go. Let's go to uh. I think it's time guys that we start thinking about the Thursday Night game already. I know, isn't that hard to believe? Our final topics are had. We're gonna break down the Thursday Night game fantasy style, which is a preview of what you're gonna get of every single game once we get into regular season mode and next week and our final Sleepers of

the year. Related note, by the way, starting next Wednesday, you'll be able to get my Week one player rankings for free at fanball dot com if you want not the preseason drafting player rankings. If you want ranking specifically for Week one coming Wednesday. Fanball dot com. It is Fantasy Football Weekly with Paul Giarchia. It is Fantasy Football Weekly. We are going to break down the Thursday night game

Fantasy style. If you haven't heard the show before, you're gonna hear letter grades on every meaningful player and why we believe that letter grade to be correct. But first we do this. In the final segment of every show in the preseason, our hosts release our favorite sleepers. That's Matt Harrison, Scott Fish. Let's let's get to these this week's three players. Matt, who do you have? I alluded to it a little bit before. My sleeper is Jack Doyle.

Jack Doyle, who's kind of going criminally underdrafted considering he was just gone last year. Um So. Jacoby Brissette started fifteen games. He played fourteen games with Jack Doyle. In those fourteen games, Doyle averaged seven and a half targets, and Jacoby Brissette targeted the tight end more than anybody in the league Seen. He caught almost six passes per game. He had the second most receptions among tight ends in SEEN.

With Jacoby Brissett. You put all that together, six catches a game is good enough for ninety six passes a year, sixteen game season. Yeah, that would have been third last year, in the year where two guys broke the all time record for tight end receptions in the league. Now keep in mind you didn't have Eric Ebron there. That's a big difference. Now. Eric Ebron is kind of the the goal line vulture, if there's such a thing at the tight end position. Jack Doyle only had four touchdowns with

Jacoby Brissett, he might that's a fantasy vulture. Stared me a little bit. Vultures are freaky. Yeah. Um, so I like Doyle to be a big part of the possession game for the Colts this year, and I think he's being underdrafted. All right, Scott, who is your final sleeper of the year. I'm going with Justice Hill. He's moving up the ranks though right now. Yeah, people are on him now, yeah, yeah, Now he's going in the tenth and eleventh round. But the Ravens running X last year

average thirty touches per game. Once Lamar Lamar Jackson, Lamar Miller, Lamar Jackson took over. I mentioned earlier, the Ravens average seventy one place per game, which is the most in the NFL last year. That's enough to support two backs and even Lamar Jackson. Uh. They have said that he could be an every down guy if anything happened. I don't think he's got the size to be in every download. There are lots of small running backs that have been the guy. Uh. He's easily the best pass catcher on

the team. He'll have a role. There's potential for him to be a super poor man's Kamara to Ingram once again, Now there could happen you Ingram's there? Justice Hill? All right, My final sleeper and the final one we will offer this preseason. Michael Gallop a player I have targeted in many leagues. They're countless examples of elite receivers who hit their stride in year two. Half of today's great receivers went from good too great in their sophomore year. Michael Thomas,

Tyreek Hill, do you do? Smith Schuster, Brandon Cooks, just to name a few. Last year, Michael Gallup's usage ramped up dramatically as the season went along. From Week seven forward, Gallup had five meaningful Fantasy games with at least fifty yards and or a score. The rest of the way and then in the playoff games. The two Dallas playoff games, he scored a touchdown in one and put up a

hundred nineteen yards in the other. Michael Gallup, the Cowboys lost one hundred fifty four targets from last year one four and Jason went and Randall Cobb are not going to make up the difference of one. You know where they're going to Michael Gallop. Marie Cooper already nursing a foot injury. Well, it doesn't even count the Ezekiel Elliott targets that might not be there. Oh yeah, good point, right,

although I think Tony Pollard can catch. Okay. Lastly, Gallop in fact, played a lot of wide receiver to in college. Gallup has looked great this preseason. I mean, he looks like he's made the year to jump at the eye test, he passes the test based on what we've seen this preseason. Roll it all together, Michael Gallup one of my favorite sleepers of the year. We've got a Thursday night game. You guys, what's already Thursday night game? It's gonna be

the super Bowl. Wait, no, not the champs this year. It's the old hundred Years the NFL have the with the oldest rival rivalry in the NFL, Bay and Chicago. So let's break down the Packers side first, if you will, and I'm gonna start with the with the running game here with Aaron Jones. Chicago was the NFL's best run defense last year, no matter how you look at it, and there's no reason to think they're not going to be great again this year. They ranked number one against

the run. They were number one at home in yards allowed by a mile, giving up sixty four rushing guards per game at home. That's it. Jones had a career has a career average of just three point four yards per carry against Chicago. He has never caught a pass against the Bears. Ever, there's not much to like at all about Aaron Jones. I give him a wobbly C grade. I can't bench him because he's a good talent and

a good offense. But it's a myrtle match. No, no, there's no plus or minus is in our grading system. He is a firm scene for Aaron Jones. Let's go to the passing game Aaron Rodgers, who gets a B grade. It is the first time in his career that Aaron Rodgers is going to try to implement a new offense. Think about that. As many years he's been in he's never had to learn a new offense. And here it comes in Week one against the best defense in the NFL.

A tough time to try to do that. Chicago finished last year ranked number one, and points allowed seventh, and passing yards allowed ninth and passing touchdowns allowed. Rogers last two games in Chicago zero touchdowns, none, passing, none, rushing. Chicago did change out Adrian Amos for how Clinton Dix, but I don't think that materially changes this defense. One angle I do like for Aaron Rodgers, though, is Geronimo Allison as the slot receiver. Allison gets the only really

strongly positive matchup on the table. Here. It's against journeyman slock corner buster screen, the busted screen door. He's been, uh, he's been a career long liability, and he's coming off his worst ever season resulting in his in his ejection from the Jets roster. And so now he's in Chicago and he's gonna be manning the manning the slot. So I like Geronimo Allison is a sneaky sleeper and I've given him a B grade. Davante Adams also with a

B grade. He's the only packer with some history against the Bears in which you can feel good about. Adams has scored three in three of the past four games against the Bears. He's topped eighty eight yards in three straight games against the Bears. He's got a very intriguing matchup. He's gonna go up against his former teammate ha Ha Clinton Dix. Those guys ran against each other all the time in practice. I don't know who really gets the antich here, if it's Adams, if the familiarity is better

for Adams, or it's better for Hacklington Dicks. But it is a fascinating matchup. Nonetheless, Davante Adams an elite receiver. He maintains a B grade. And lastly, Marquees Valdez scantlingk a C grade. A handful of speed receivers were able to beat the Bears last year, Albert Wilson, Tyler Lockett, DeShawn Jackson, Aldrick Robinson, but that was about it. Generally, speed guys didn't fare terribly well, but there were a few flashes where they were okay. That was one of them,

he gets a C grade. Jimmy Graham firmly on the bench. No grade. Bench grade for Jimmy Graham combined for only forty yards in the two games last year, and the Bears didn't allow a single tight end touchdown in the second half of last year. So would you call that an F minus. No, because there's no minus is so you can't have an F minus. But he can be firmly on the bench. Let's go to the Chicago side of this. A grade for David Montgomery, I don't need

to I don't need to see it first. I don't need to gott you have to prove anything to me. A grade for David Montgomery, don't need to prove it. There's gonna be a lot of fantasy. And I was like, well, I gotta see it first. You don't have to see this first. Start David Montgomery. In the two games last year between these teams, Jordan Howard touched the ball twenty times, and twenty times, I'll take twenty touches for David Montgomery.

He's better than Howard by a lot. And if I get those same twenty touches touches, he's gonna be sitting on a fantastic game. The Packers improve their defense a lot of ways, but mostly with pass rushers. The Smiths. The two Smiths that they brought in Rashawn Gary who they drafted, all gall guys that are designed to be pass rushers. The Packers ranked twenty three against the run last year. That feels about where they're kind of come

in this year as well. I love David Montgomery while we stay with the running back, so let's talk Tariko in here. He had a nice game in the Week fifteen meeting between these two teams. But I'm a little nervous here. The Packers upgraded their outside linebackers this miss that I just mentioned, and those guys have the speed to hang with Tarik Cohen and montgomery soft hands are a real threat to Cohen. I mean, Cohen didn't have to sweat any catches from Jordan Howard. Now he does.

That worries me a little bit. And Plus, for all the problems the Packers had last year, they allowed the fifth fewest running back receptions last season. That all affects Tree Cohen, who I give a C grade to. Now let's go to the passing game. Mitch Drabinsky gets a C grade. Is that a sad trombone ski or a happy trombone? What do you think? There are a lot of small things that work in Drabinsky's favor. A second year in Matt Naggi's offense, which I like. There's that,

There's Alan Robinson's fully healthy. I like that, Anthony Miller fully healthy. I like that David Montgomery's receiving skills I mentioned. I like all those things. The Packers, though, should get much better pass rush this year, and the addition of safety Adrian Amos helps solidify highly inconsistent secondary that allowed the six most touchdown passes last year. I'm moving Mitch Drobiski up to a B. I had him as a scene. It's happy trombone skiing. It's happy trombone ski for Mitch.

He's gave. I moved him up to a B just now. Anthony Miller gets a C grade. He played hurt most of last year um and actually he's been nursing an injury in this preseason as well, but should be able to go here. I think he does have a chance to make a jump and working from the slot, he goes up against the Packers worst cornerback Traymont Williams. The path of least resistance to the passing game really does actually go through Anthony Miller. Not somebody can start every week,

you can start him this week. I mentioned Allen Robinson back healthy. He had two quiet games against the Packers last year. Starting cornerback Kevin King is unlikely to play in this game because he's got a severe hamstring injury that's knocked him out of the whole preseason. I don't think he goes here. That means Robinson's going to see a fair amount of King's backup Tony Brown, who was bad last year as a rookie. I like Allen Robinson,

he's got a solid B grade. And the last Bears player that I need to check in on, Trey Burton. Scored in the Week fifteen matchup, but other than that, Scory did very little in that game. And I think, like Cohen, you know, the Packers too improved outside linebackers. They've got the speed to hang with a tight end and I'm worried they're gonna pick them up some. So really just a C grade on on Trey Burton in this matchup. So there you go. Letter grades for every

meaningful packer and and bear. If you like that, you're gonna love regular season addition, Fantasy Football Weekly because it's two hours of that basically us break it. There is more stuff too. We keep the three tough questions we take take a chance on me coming back. We've got premature speculation next week as well as a regular season bit boy for us. Additionally, Hey, we mentioned some of our favorite sleepers for this week, but a lot of

people haven't been able. Didn't weren't listening to every one of our other shows. Well, you should probably go back on the heart podcast app and listen to all of our previous shows. I think that's a brilliant isn't on here? He must have been the live show here? It's the best app for podcasting. It's an excellent app for podcasting. Heart Radio App. We encourage you to download it today. I'm gonna go back through the sleepers we have given out over the last month and tell me if you

still think they're viable sleeper candidates two ways. One are they still good? And then two has their draft position moves so much that you don't you worry now that they're not sleepers anymore? Okay that now these guys, are we still in there? Are we out on these guys? That's right? In or out? Jalen Samuel's was one of the first ones we gave, and that sounds like a charged sleep that it was a charge sleeper. Are you guys in or out on Jalen Samuel's as as a

as still a sleeper. His price has even gone down since that has gone so I think he's still worth it. His price has gone down because James Connor is going to be the bell cow. You're not seeing it correctly. Charged Connor is going to be the guy there, all right, so you're out. I'm with matt On Connor being the guy. It's just Samuel's value is depressed at the point where even I would take a shot. Speaking of Samuel's, let's go to the singular Samuel, Curtis Samuel. I don't in

or out on Curtis Samuel as a sleeper. When I saw this one done, I didn't agree with this even being allowed to be in this side because it was too good when yeah, when it was done, and and now even more so, he's not. He's like a sixth round pick now, So you're deeply on Curtis Samuel very much. I think he did go up quite a bit in a DP. He rocket it up where d J. Moore kind of stayed the same and was really looked at as the wide receiver one in that offense. I think

it's closer to even right now. So ye, Samuel Park Yeah, okay? Uh. Dante Moncreef was given earlier as a sleeper. Are you in or out on that sleeper choice? From earlier earlier episodes of Fantasy Football Weekly? I think I'm out just because I'm not making that draft pick. I think he's gonna have a decent red zone like like he used to roll. Yeah, but I'm probably out. I guess I think he's mundane. Yeah, I think the draft just there's

opportunity though for sure. The opportunity is that it's there's so many targets there, and I think that they're going to treat him just as well as they're gonna treat James Washington in that offense. I think Dante Moncrief sitting in a good year. I'm still in another chart special C J. Anderson. Are you in or out? On c J. Anderson? Let me make my case again, because he's so far off radars right now, offensive coordinator Darryl Bevel averaging thirty

carries per game across his career. They're not all going to carry On Johnson. They're going to C J. Anderson, the cut Zac center. He's not a factor anymore. It's still surprises me that you like c. J. Anderson so much, being as you're the highest on carry On Johnson of anybody I've seen. I know I like him both, so I think they both get fed. Man. I think I think if c J. Anderson is really in play, I

think it does bite into carry On quite a bit. So, um, I guess I like c J. Anderson because I'm not as much of a believer and carry on. All right, So you're in, yeah, and you're I'm out. I'll try to get him on waivers later. I just I'm not gonna waste that roster spot. And yet, all right, when any scores a week, one that'll be from for time. Darren Waller was given in an earlier show that's a Brian special. I think I think everybody's in on Darren Waller.

I think Brian was first to that one before Hard Knocks, before before everybody and was first on that one. Okay, now, no, no, we're giving it to Brian. We're giving it to Brian Johnson. Are in? Wait, yeah, we're in. You're in the cut Wilson today too. So it's Darren Waller and rookie Foster Morrow or whatever. Littavius Murray was given as a sleeper earlier show episodes, remain in. Oh, I'm very in. You're

in as well. I was never in on Murray because I just think he is a one dimensional, straight ahead runner who's not going to be able to replicate most of what mark Ingram did. I think he will replicate most of what mark Ingram did. And Peyton Barber given in an earlier Show by Me Church special on Daria gun Bow Wally, well you get him in the last round round? No. I I like the I like the Barber call. Most people again, replay last season, not edged

in Barber's it wasn't a factor last season. Well, he's going to be like the lowest top running back drafted, right starting running back. He's probably going to be the last one draft now Lashawn McCoy might be the last one drafting. Whoever is Something's something in that ballpark Anyway, if you love this show, go to famble dot com slash charge for my free cheat sheet, my free five thousand dollar week one contest, Guillotine league's podcasts, and a

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