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the value of the running backs. If you missed that one, we encourage you to go check out the podcast. Let's take a look at the quarterback position, which is as meaty and off season as I've ever seen in my twenty five years of doing this at a professional level. I've never seen so many quality quarterbacks hit the free agency market. At one time of drisk called Gino Smith. I can't believe Joe Webb still in the league. That's crazy, man. That guy's earned. He's been in the league now like

ten years. I'm just gonna put that out there. Tom Brady, no Tuesday night football wins, Joe Webb want to know? And in third Tuesday night games in Philadelphia, UM, I want to start and we'll go through all the quarterbacks fantasy.

It's all obviously a fantasy perspective here, but we'll talk about the ideal landing places, which quarterbacks are coming up in free agency, where we think that reasonably will go and and what are the what are the what's the forward facing fantasy value for these guys, especially for Dynasty and Empire league owners, because that's a lot who listened to these offseason podcasts, Dynasty and Empire players that are that never really turned the brain off with fantasy football.

We love you. I want to start here. You know, the temptations to immediately roll into the free agent quarterbacks, you know, like you know bray Dan Breeze and Rivers and Winston. We'll talk about those guys, but I thought it after prepping for the show, it's got I kind of thought it made more sense to talk through the best landing spots first. Let's do it, all right, I've got eight viable landing spot teams for free agent quarterbacks

I'm taking I'm taking several off the table. So first I'm taking Dallas off the table because Dad's probably gonna stay Tennessee off the table because Tannehill probably stays off the table, bangs off the table for Joe Burrow. Miami's off the table because I earnestly believe they'll address the quarterback position in the draft, because I wouldn't they. I mean, Fitzpatrick is in UM there are some teams that could address quarterback but have immediate help, but maybe it couldn't

need some help long term. But like Detroit and Pittsburgh, maybe Washington even But I don't I don't think they're really players in this. So let's talk through the least ones I've identified. Maybe maybe I have missed him. I think the best possible fantasy landing spot for a free agent is Tampa Bay. That's what I have as number one as well. You have you got you got two top five fantasy wide receivers right there. You got Bruce Arians, O J. Howard if he could get out of his

own way, apparently you got the quarterback whisper. Yeah, Bruce Arians All right, all right, good, we agree Tampa Bay is the ideal spot. I think any of the free agent quarterbacks, including by the way, Jamis Winston, could stay with his team. UM or that's the maxim that's the maximized spot. If if Jamis Winston can be a top five fantasy quarterbacks throwing thirty interceptions, I have to believe one of these free agents could do just as well.

The number two one in my mind is the Saints because you get Michael Thomas and you get Sean Payton, who I just yeah, he's he's really good. Teddy Bridge Rutter was okay fantasy wise for a couple of those five games. Didn't ask him to do a lot. He had the one explosive game, and that's not a lot more. I think it was two of the five he was worth it. Um, but you know they I wish there was a better second receiver on that team. Um. Jared Cook is a viable contributor. That counts a little bit.

Elvin Kamar is really their second receiver in a lot of ways. He is isn't he um. Which leads us, by the way to the Chargers where Austin Ekeler I think helps whoever lands. There's three landing spot. They've got Keenan Allen, They've got Hunter, Henry, Austin Ekeler, Mike Williams. Mike Williams, those are those are tools. I think the chargers are right there. You can make a case I have the chargers number two. I think you can make the case the charges are number two. I think you

can too. I think it's better they have better weapons. They do have better weapons. Uh. Part of it is I just it's the Sean Payton part of it that I just trust Payton to maximize that position a little bit. Um. Next, and my number four is Carolina as a landing spot for fantasy usage. You know they're a little off radar. But then I started thinking about the weapons you get to throw to Christie McCaffrey, best pass catching running back

in the league. You get d J. Moore and Curtis Samuel who both got better last year and can get better again. So even though that offense didn't generate much in the way, you know, as much fantasy, I think Ompha's we'd hope. But look at the quarterbacking had Daniel not Daniel Sorry, um, what's his face? We're going with that quarterback for the Kyle Allen. I kept thinking Daniel Jones. Kyle Allen had what seventeen fumbles, which like that that's

an extraordinary number of fumbles. Yeah, and it tells you about their draft pick Will Greer, that he couldn't get on the field too bad. Even even at the bitter end of the year, they got him on the field a little bit. And I I was optimistic about Will Greer and it's I'm not calling him, it's not over. But when you can't beat out Daniel Jones with how bad Jones was Kyle Allen, I do again, those two are gonna be forever linked in my head for some reason. Uh,

they're not number five. I've got New England and man, it gets shaky in here. So New England you got James White to throw to Julian Edelman in what might be his last year. You up Belichick, You have Belichick, You've got Snow and nikkil Harry. I don't know those guys meaningful. I feel like they're going to address it as well. The player in the free agent receiver position. They they draft receivers terribly. So, man, are they bad? Yeah, we don't. There's not enough talk nationally about how bad

Belichick is as a GM. You know, we know he pulls, he does. He's the puppet master for every meaningful player personnel decision there. Um. You know they've really gotten that wrong many times. Okay. Next, by the way, I mean just the whole, the whole choosing Brady over you know, over Jimmy Garoppolo decision is you know, one that's already being looked at closely and reasonably. So Okay, did you say you took the Bears off the list at the

beginning because the them above the past? Alright? Okay, well I got there coming up, But I still have Indianapolis ahead of them. That's that's the both of them ahead of the Pats in my head. Okay, and I think that's reasonable. I don't like any of these landing spots at this point. For Indianapolis, you gain the advantage of a terrific offensive line to keep you up right. You have t Y Hilton, and then you have nothing else a little nahem, hind. I think the offensive line is

a big factor. I mean, look what Jacoby Precent did in the beginning of the season. Now, imagine a more polished quarterback in that situation. I've got Chicago next, you get Allen Robinson, you get Anthony Miller. You don't have a very good offensive line. We're not sure about the head coaches and as an offensive mind, um, yeah, I think there's a lot to me, there's a lot to worry about in Chicago. Even though I do I like Robinson, I don't know. There's not much else there to me.

Short Field, I think Anthony Miller is better than people I agree to give him credit for. And I think I think Naggi can rebound. I mean we're we're a year removed from him being Coach of the Year and and he he's under that Andy Reid tree I I didn't love last year obviously, but I think he can rebound little bit. Do we both have Jacksonville Last? And Trek Colan's basically a slot receiver to um, do you have Jacksonville Last? Yeah? I have Jacksonville Last? Yeah, probably probably.

I have some more teams on here that would be in that same range, but they're probably off the table. So um, your jack Jaguars have DJ Chark YEP, it's about it. Now you get a little westbrookle conly mixed in. Those are role players. You almost with the way Chark plays, in the way Westbrook plays, you almost need a guy with a really big big I agree. This is where a guy like Jamis Winston could go to Jacksonville and

be much more successful than Teddy Bridgewater. Right, So sometimes trying of match match that player that quarterbacks throwing style with the offense that he'd fallen too in the players that Teddy bridge right of the Pats. Then maybe you know it's not impossible, Uh, Pats have to do something. They need a band aid. Yep, you know it's not it's not gonna be ja since stiff them, stiff him? How about stiff him? Let's um, you're creating nicknames all right?

Is there is there a team you think I missed that's gonna be relevant in the free agent market this year at the quarterback position? Because I think you I think you pulled them off. I mean you pulled off Washington, you pulled off the Dolphins, etcetera. So, um, some people think Las Vegas could be a sneaky spot for somebody, but I don't think so. I think there are odds for a while, I'm brady going there. There is I think just out of hype, there's But here's the thing,

they don't need to sell the tickets. You're you're you know, you think they're enough hype in a new and you know, heading to Las Vegas, you're gonna get the home Fan Vegas card, and you're gonna get people who want to go to Vegas for a weekend to watch their football team and go to Vegas like the Las Vegas Nights did to accept multiplied by the NFL. Yeah, yeah, it's they don't need They don't need to make any hype get selling decisions. The Raiders do. But it's weird to

say the Las Vegas Raiders. First time in the podcast I've ever said it, the Las Vegas Raiders. Let's do this, take a quick break, come back. Let's talk about the free agent quarterbacks that we are following most closely, where they could where they could end up when we come back Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul Charch and Scott Fish all right, let's let's jump back into the free agent pool and let's talk about where we want some of these free

agent quarterbacks to go. Scott, I am Paul Charching and Scott Fishes with me. First, let's just take Dak Prescott and Ryan Tannehill off the board. They're staying with their team, Scott, Dak Prescott. Um is the Cowboys are seventy seven million under the cap. I mean, just worst case scenario they'll franchise him and figure it out. Um, Ryan Tannehill Tennessee is fifty million under the cap and Tannehill's inn, they love it. It's a it's a perfect fit. I just

I gotta believe it's kind of happy. Now, there's a small chance this Prescott thing blows up, if you know, and there's been a lot of there's been a lot of talk about this. These high high paid quarterbacks rarely translate to Super Bowl appearances, super Bowl wins. Um, it strangles your team in a lot of ways to have to pay that quarterback. And Dak Prescott is probably gonna be the highest paid quarterback. So um, if not Patrick Mahomes,

he gets his deal first. But if Prescott gets his deal first, he'll be the highest paid quarterback until Mahomes gets his figured out. So maybe there's a chance that Cowboys just say, you know what, we're not going to invest a hundred forty million dollars into the position. We're gonna, you know, we're gonna We're gonna find other ways. But I don't think it's gonna happen on Prescott. I'm with you, all right, So let's go onto the meaningful quarterbacks for fantasy,

in particular Tom Brady. So, hey, do you think he's even still fantasy relevant? And points per game? Last year he was the six highest scoring fantasy quarterback. Do you believe Tom Brady is still a relevant fantasy quarterback? Let's start there super flexing, of course, I mean he's back in. He's gonna be a KUB two for you, but he's

probably not. I don't know that he's edging into that top twelve unless I honestly, weirdly, even though we mentioned the Bucks were the best fit for for a quarterback, I think he's a better fit with the Chargers than Keenan Allen's underneath work, um Hunter, Henry's down the seam work in the middle, um Austin Neckler out of the

backfield for like a James White action. I think the Chargers are a better spot for Brady, and I could see him cracking that top twelve maybe in that scenario, but there's a lot of young up and comers that that I don't know that Brady's got any more top twelve years in him. Um. I think you you really hit it on the head when you think about Tampa, at least the way that arians has run that offense.

It's Evans and Godwin's streaking downfield, and Brady's arm isn't a disaster, but you know, the arm strength just isn't what he used to be. And I don't think that. I don't think he is a great fit there. Um, So I agree Charges might be the better, the more productive spot. He might be fine for the Saints too, just with Michael Thomas and his tenure I agree with. But I think Chargers are the best fit for And you know, Drew Brees wasn't wasn't slinging lasers downfield last

year either, and he was fantasy relevant. And we'll talk about Drew Brees in just a minute. So I think we agree. Brady probably not a top He's the biggest name, he's Tom Brady, and he he might bring a culture that helps win games. So but that doesn't help us in fantasy as much. No, not really. Jamis Winston won games the Bucks didn't, but Jamis won us games. Um, well,

let's in fact, let's let's take this opportunity. Let's talk Jamison. Right. So, last he was the of the unrestricted free agent quarterbacks. He was the highest scoring of all of them. Uh in fantasy points per game other than maybe no Dak Dak was fifth and Jamis was six. He's the highest scoring guys who think are gonna be available. Um, you

mentioned the thirty interceptions he threw thirty three touchdowns. You know how many games had he opened the game with an interception and or maybe two and you're like, oh, Bucks are dead now, Oh wait a minute, here comes two touchdowns, six or seven first drive interceptions. Unbelievable for winstance, I mean staggering that he kept the job as on that for almost half your games, destroying your team's chances

to come out hot by throwing those first interceptions. Unreal, and even more impressively, that Jamis didn't just like totally unravel, He's just unfaced. Just keep heaving deep balls and he really is. Um, his best fit is Tampa Bay. The best fit is Tampa Bay, isn't it? There's no better fit for him. There really isn't a better fit for him. Um. You talked about how the Charges have got a lot

underneath guys. Caroline is kind of interesting. Mike Williams is a great deep guy, but most of their stuff is yeah underneaven. Yeah. Um, Caroline is kind of interesting. D J. Moore, Curtis Samuel, they could get a little something going downfield. I wouldn't mind him there. Um, I don't know if he if he finds his way to Indianapolis Chicago, jamis without that's the question. The Bucks line not good, the Colts line. If he had time, that's a fair question.

And what and is he at this point? Is he so used to getting rid of the ball in two point three seconds that you know, what would you do if he had three and a half seconds in the pocket? What happens? We mentioned earlier Jacksonville's a sneaky landing spot for for Winston, where with the deep ball to Chart, the deep ball to Conley, maybe that could bring a little bit of fantasy relevance to a team that doesn't usually have much And we're an actual running game for James. Yeah,

how about that too. You know what if Jamis thrives in that situation, that'd be fun. Um. I Winston remains to me very fantasy interesting. I like you know, I like the I like the options for him my hunches. You think he stays in Tampa, Tell me what you think? I do? I think he stays in Tampa. I think it's less it's far less of a certainty than like Tannehill and Prescott. But I think I think there's a

very good chance he stays in Tampa. I mean, it's the devil, you know, a situation I can I can believe arians might think he can, you know, help fix some of that. Yeah, and maybe he can. Um we'll find out. I lean yes, But I'm not as strong as you are. It's been a lot of losing under Jameis Winston for that organization, and I I think they know he's not a super Bowl quarterback. So do you want to sign a guy that you know? You know because you know everything about him. His whole career has

been spent with the Bucks. If you know he's not a guy that can lead you to the super Bowl, are you gonna sign him to another three or four or five year deal? Yeah, that's that's a fair point. The market could dictate that. It could the market for Winston could dictate a three, four or five year deal that could be pretty expensive. Or do you just say, you know what, we're going Teddy Bridgewater for a year while we developed somebody else or whatever. Right, I would

be dropping Evans way down my ranking disaster fantasy. But that's a very real possibility, is um, Well, let's use that as our transition to Teddy Bridgewater. He was well, And let's do all of the Saints quarterbacks. They're all

free agents. Teddy Bridgewater who chose to stay with the Saints instead of possibly being a starter in my money last year and probably helped himself by and it was a starter and showing um it was not explosive, I don't believe, but I did have that four touchdown game that was I think, you know, people maybe didn't think he had in him because he never did it, never did it before. Um barely had two touchdown games before. So Bridgewater is finished three ninth in fantasy points per game.

So just using those five games as a sample, he wasn't even a top forty two, wasn't even an NFL starting fantasy quarterback. Do you believe he's fantasy relevant? Even in the right spot you can give you the perfect team to fall into, which is probably the Saints by the way. Weirdly, in a perfect spot, he's super flex viable. Otherwise, no, he's he's He's the kind of guy you pick up

if he's got a good matchup. Maybe I always call him the ultimate game manager, which just pisces people off in Minnesota because they love their I just saw Teddy Bridgewater, Jersey just this weekend. People don't have people still do it. They love they love their Teddy here. Um confusing. I think a great guy who had a tragic end. And you know there was some promising moments and you know, people have just conflated that into this, you know, this

mythical mythical Treeddy Teddy Bridgewater. Um. And you know the comeback that I get on Twitter a lot is stop playing fantasy. You know he's not, you know, he's not in lite fantasy quarterback. But you know, just look at his wins and look at his winning percentage and there's a little something to that. But sure there's a fantasy podcast. He's also had some pretty decent defenses and players around him for people in Minnesota. The defense in Minnesota when

he was with a good awfully good Yeah. Um, so let's stay with Let's stay with the Saints. Drew Brees is a refre agent. He says the only team he's gonna play for his his Saints. He'll either play for the Saints or retire, you know, which I think makes sense. Let's assume he comes back. What's what's his level of

fantasy relevance in your mind? He was eighth in Fantasy points per game, which is better than I expected to hear you say it seems higher than he was, especially in it felt the tail end of twenty eighteen paired with last year, just it did not feel that way at all. Um. I think with a lot of these young guys coming up, I think he's falling out of the top twelve. For me, Even though I see that number eight right there, I still I get that. I feel like he's outside of that top twelve. All right.

So even returning to the Saints and offense, he knows with Sean Payton and you know, he's never been probably a in his is every year that he's ever been with the Saints, and John Payton has probably never been

a fantasy quarterback twelve or lower. You think the end is so close for him now, and the the the skills have diminished, the arm strengths have diminished enough, the fantasy production is diminished enough, explosiveness has diminished enough with Drew Brees that you do not believe he would be a top twelve quarterback. I do feel that way, but

you look at the last four games. He was over twenty fantasy points, forced to four games send the season, including a forty pointer, wasn't in the playoffs in the one playoff loss. No, not in the regular season. Excuse me, but yeah, I'm just not buying it. I'd rather have the upside of one one of the other guys than than him. He he's gonna be startable in a lot of weeks. He'll be that's hail end of twelve. I guess in redraft, Breeze is going to be that quarterback.

No nobody is excited to take. He's gonna fall to like round because you know who wants Drew Brees boring and then you know he'll end up being fine, totally serviceable fantasy quarterback. Um. And we know he's got explosive upside because we've seen it before and many a billion times in his career. Three touchdown games, four touchdown games. Nobody'll want him, but it'll still be good. All right. Let's he's the kind of guy that you don't want, You don't want to take him, and he's gonna outscore

like Carson Wentz somehow, who everybody draft over him. I want to talk about Tasom Hill because he's fascinating. But we'll take a quick break and then we'll go to Taysom Hill, Philip Rivers and round out some of our some of our free agent quarterbacks when we come back. Welcome back. I wanted we were talking about the Saints quarterbacks. I'm Paul Charchy and that's Scott Fish. We already talked about Breeze, talked about Bridgewater. Taysom Hill. Now this is fascinating.

Hill is campaigning to be a starting quarterback in the NFL, something I don't think he could have done without Lamar Jackson providing a blueprint to thirty one other teams on showing how it could be done. I'm sorry, do you have a problem with his thirteen career passing attempts? Is that is that you're sticky point with in him or I didn't believe in him. But I think it's a stretch to think that he is going to walk in and be Lamar Jackson. But he thinks. I think he

thinks that's what he can do. He looked good in that one playoff game he was, he was awesome against the Vikings, but he's had no answer for him. Let me ask you this. So you know, we've talked Tampa, We've talked about the landing spots. I don't know how many of them would be willing two switch their offense the way Baltimore did for Lamar Jackson, Which is what you have to do if you're going to get if you're going to utilize somebody like Taysom Hill, by the way,

thirty years old, Taysom Hill sneaky old, um. What do you you know, what do you think about thirty in August? What do you think about the fantasy value of Taysom Hill? Even if he lands into an ideal landing spot with one of these teams. Maybe it's Chicago, I mean, maybe this is the spot where you know, Naggi says, all right, you know, we've tried passing with Sad Trombone Ski. Maybe it's Bill Belichick getting the most out of it. Maybe it's Belichick. I'd like him more out of any of

those scenarios. But this, this is the weird thing. If he goes to a place that he's going to get a starting role, he can run the ball. Taysom Hill can run, baby, he can run and bowl over people. And we we saw like we've seen spurts with Josh Allen and guys like that that you know have slightly more inaccurate arms that I'm not saying Hill has Josh Allen's canon, but I'm I'm just saying that rushing value is so big in fantasy, and if he gets a

starting job, he's very viable. I'm not putting him like top twelve because you need to be like a plus yard passer in today's NFL to do to be a really solid fantasy quarterback. But uh yeah, I'm man, his rushing ability makes makes you really consider it. He's going to be overdrafted if he gets a starting job, though, because people will glam onto that. You think Taysom Hill

will get anointed a starting job, I don't. I think he at his best case scenario is he falls somewhere like Washington where he's allowed to compete against Dwayne Haskins to be the starter. Yeah, do you think that's a viable scenario. I think he'd he'd either rather stay with the Saints because Sean Payton has talked him up as a future starter for years and years, or take a starting job contracts somewhere. I don't I don't think that he's I don't think he doesn't leave to compete. I

don't think he leaves to compete. I think he leaves to start or stays with Sean Payton and wants to start there. And here's why I think you're right. Uh, Breeze has already said this offseason. I think it was a super Bowl Week that he's perfectly fine giving lots and lots of reps. I think he said, like twenty

reps of game to Taysom Hill. So they may use this season season as a handoff season and also see what they got and see what they got and Tastom Hill right, And then you tell Taysom Hill, listen, we're gonna give you more reps. Really, we're gonna give you more reps, and let's see what you got and earn your way to who's starter, and we'll pay you as a starter if you do it. And you know that might be a scenario for Taysom Hill to stay with the Saints. I think Teddy Bridgewater is the odd man

out with the Saints. Yes, yeah, Sean Payton, I meant just mentioned this, but Sean Payton has said multiple years that he believed in Taysom Hill as the starting quarterback. So I think he stares there. Yeah, I think he probably does too. Um, but again, I do think there is a scenario whe where he goes in battles some wobbly incumbent for a preseason job, like a Dwayne Askins. Sure, alright. The final guy I want to chat with you about Philip Rivers. Here's a guy who's been a starter for

fourteen season, been in the league sixteen seasons. He didn't start those first couple of seasons. Um, do you think he's got some fantasy right? Yeah? I know what? Do you think he's got some fantasy relevancy left in the tank? For Philip Rivers, this is a this is a tale of the tape kind of you watch him and it seems like he's done. There are a lot of times last year it seemed like he was just done, but

he kept throwing. He kept throwing. I think he needs a good situation to to get back up there, and I don't think he cracks the top twelve much like Brady. I think Brady has a better chance to crack the top twelve quarterbacks and redraft than than Philip Rivers does Um the decision making the arm didn't look quite uh Hall of Fame career. By the way, I'm not taking anything away from which is just you know, this is

a this is a function of age. Um the father Tom undefeated, undefeated, and he gets all of us the the parts with Rivers that uh that that would that would worry me a little bit if you were a starter somewhere is you know, he's twenty four and fantasy points per game with Keenan Allen and Hunter Henry and Austin Ekeler. Okay, how do I find him in a better spot? The only way that I think that he the only material he gets better is he can get

behind a much better offensive line. He was just you know, like the last four years, the offensive lines and able to charges have been disaster grade injuries over and over again for the Chargers. So if he could find himself in Indianapolis, he's got a bunch of time and doesn't have to make you know, perfect throws under great duress and doesn't the mobility, which has never been his long suit anyway, isn't an issue Indianapolis might be the perfect

landing for him. There could still be some fantasy value left in Philip Rivers. I can see that. I still don't think it cracks top twelve. I don't think there's a landing spot we've listed that that he cracks top twelve quarterbacks anymore. But fantasy relevance, you know for random start weeks, bye weeks, injuries. Yeah, sure, that's that's not a bad spot. I think so too. Um, I've got Rivers in my long standing, um, one of my long standing Empire leagues, back the very first Empire league in

the whole world. I've got I've been holding Philip Rivers now for like, you know, seven eight years or whatever it's been since we started, And I thought about just dropping him out right this offseason, but I kinda want to see where he's gonna end up now. But I don't. I think it's a super flex, thank god. So I've got that. You kind of have to. You kind of have to. I think you hold them in super flex

for sure. Okay, two other quarterback names I wanna throw out and tell me if you think there's any scenario where they have fantasy relevance. Marcus Mariota. Yes, oh, fantasy relevance, I yes, just listen, just care about I think he could be very relevant for a team running Lamar Jackson plays for opponents on the scout team before the game. Yeah, it would be great practicing to play against the Ravens.

Other than that, I just don't see. Now. If you were Viking, yeah, they'd run the parades before, they'd run the parades before the season starts. Crazy, how many Vikings fans don't realize what an anomaly that is to his career, and how flukey that season was. Fourteen wins is all they care about? Baby Minneapolis, Mineapolis miracles. Fantasy relevance there, I'm afraid I don't think so. All Right, that was an extremely thorough breakdown of the free agent I think,

and all the landing spots and everything else. I hope you've enjoyed listening Fantasy Football Weekly. We'll be back up. We'll be back next week. Um, we're already. We're already dreaming up some of the things we want to talk about. We've got soon on a podcast coming soon. We'll talk about the free agent wide receivers, uh that are going to hit the mark because we did running backs last week, quarterbacks this week. I think receivers are coming up soon.

Might hit on that, might hit in some gameplay variations. Scott and I love unique ways to play. We do. We're gonna have a lot of fun with that as well. Thanks for making to the end of the podcast. Everybody talk to you next week. Fantasy Football Weekly is a production of I Heart Radio. For more podcasts from my heart Radio, visit the i heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.