Tight End Fugazi's, Preseason reflections, and more!

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of my biggest takeaways from the entire preseason. We have been talking about tight ends for the last couple of days, so I've got my tight end fo gazes. Okay, a couple of guys in the top five of tight ends that I think you need to avoid. I told you some diamonds in the rough at that position earlier in the week. Guys that I like like Austin Hooper, Guys that I like like Hunter Henry. Guys even deeper that I like like Austin Seferian Jenkins and George Kittle. Well,

I'm giving you the inverse right now tonight. It is about who you need to avoid at the tight end position. I'm also gonna give you a couple of defenses, okay, because listen, I don't think you need to draft defense until your second to last or the last pick overall. And I'm gonna give you some defenses that are outside of the top ten as far as rankings go, that I think could be valuable streaming options and interesting defenses to hold for real. Chunks of the season, so I

think that is very important. What I'm also going to do as we put the fun in functional sports Radio, I am gonna recap a couple of shows that have been going on. One on HBO is Hard Knocks as they profile the Tampa Bay Bucks. There's also been the debut of another show on Facebook and it is called Ball in the Family, following LaVar, Lonzo, Lamello and LiAngelo and now even the sixteen year old is getting paid

branding a new shoe. We will get into that a little bit later on, and you know, of course, we will take your calls as well. We're he got some people lining up to Hollywright speeds and spitting statistician you can to at eight four four eight four three six eight seven nine. We also got a pull question up. Who do you think will be the tight end? Fo Gazey the tight end you think we need to forget about?

My options are Greg Olsen, Jordan read the usually injured Jordan read what about Delaney Walker on that exotic smash mouth team that has some new weapons around it. We'll get into these tight ends, We'll get into your calls, will get into defenses and also some takeaways from the preseason injuries, position battles, all that and more when we come back dropping stats over beats, it's your boy, Dane

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It's your boy, Speeds, the spitting statustician, holding you down, dropping stats over beats on the Fantasy Freestyle right here on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. We've been talking about tight ends over the last couple of days. I'm gonna give you my tight end gazzes. The guys you need to forget about. We're gonna give you some news and notes. Listen. It's around cut down day here in the NFL. There's

some trades that have happened. There's some surprise cuts. We're gonna get into all of those and the fantasy impacts. But the phone lines are also open right now at eight four four eight four three eight seven nine. And it sounds like we got a couple of callers a Bovona. The first one is Joe in Long Island. He's got a question about Mr Murray. Let's bring him onto the Fantasy Freestyle. What's going on? Man? And what's going on? I got, I got offered. I got Keevin Coleman and

Mike Thomas. But the Marco Murray and Eric Decker I had Murray and Decker. Listen. Michael Thomas is far superior to Eric Decker. Okay, so that is very interesting. And you said it was Tevin Coleman was the other back Keevin, I've been getting Tevin Coleman. I'd be given up to Marco Murray. Yeah, listen, I gotta tell you I think the gap of Michael Thomas down to Eric Decker is bigger then the gap of Debarco Murray to Tevin Coleman. So to me, it sounds like the Tevin Coleman and

Michael Thomas side of that deal wins out. I don't know if you also heard there is news today that Ted Ginn Jr. Another wide excuse me that um Willie sneed another wide receiver on the Saints, is gonna be suspended for the first three games. That could even be more for Michael Thomas. I don't know, and thank you

for the call, man. I don't know. You know if you trade away DeMarco Murray as what presumably was your RB one, where that leaves you in the running back I don't know the rest of your roster, and we don't have time to get into every single player, but I will tell you I believe the gap between DeMarco Murray and Tevin Coleman is not as big as the gap between Michael Thomas and Eric Decker. So I like the Michael Thomas and Tevin Coleman side of that deal.

We got another caller. It looks like we got uh who is this cliff In Boston talking about the tight ends. We've been talking about the tight ends in terms of diamonds a couple of days earlier. This week, we're gonna get into food gay is a little bit as well. Let's get this tight end question from Cliff in Boston. Hey, Cliff, you're dropping stats over beats with the spitting statistician. You're on the fantasy freestyle. What's up? What's going on? Man? Hey,

I got a big question for you. Originally I was gonna ask about, you know, the tight end position. But what I really wanted to ask you, I'm thinking six right now. In one of my drafts coming up on Tuesday. Who would you say is an ideal pick at that sixth spot? Okay? Sure, at the sixth spot. Okay, here's the thing in my mind. And and and to be honest, Uh, Clifford, the PPR or not of this league matters, Okay, because here's my thing. It's six. You're not gonna get one

of the complete true elite studs at running back. You're not gonna get David Johnson. You're not gonna get Levan Bell. After that, though, there are a couple of locked and loaded elite wide receivers that I think you can take right Antonio Brown on, Julio Jones, Odell Beckham or Mike Evans. Those are my top four kind of wide receivers. You've got Levy on Bell and David Johnson. When you're sitting at six. To me, whichever one of those six is

still available, that's where I'm going. And let me tell you, I didn't know the format of your league. If it is a PPR league, I am that much more happy to get my wide receiver right away because I can find some pass catching backs later on, some third down backs, some pass catching backs that in a PPR format I'd be very happy about. Okay, if it's standard, it's a little bit different, but I think you're gonna wind up

with one of these elite wide receivers. I think it's gonna be wind up being like Odell Beckham or Mike Evans. So thank you for the call. Again. That was Cliff in Boston. Hey, it sounds uh we got another call. It sounds like we got Blake in Dallas. He wants to know about the Saints backfield and specifically mark ingram Uh Blake in Dallas. Your dry up and stats over beach, which your boys speeds and spitting statistician on the Fantasy Freestyle.

What's going on, Blake? Okay, so um, I'm wondering who started flex week one, and I've got a Kiss Rogers marked Ingram, Joe Mixon, and Jonathan Stewart. Okay, here's the thing. If you have Jack Quiz Rogers on your roster, right, you have him pretty much for the first three weeks when you think Doug Martin is going to be suspended, right, so in the first three weeks, my man pop Quiz Jocquiz Rogers. He is going to be the lead dog

for Tampa. If you went and got him, it's because you wanted to play him for the first three weeks of the season. I know they're playing Miami. They've got in Dominican Sioux in the middle of that line, but they like Jock Quiz Rogers. I think some of the other guys you mentioned, guys like Jonathan Stewart. I want to wait and see how the Panthers are gonna play this. Are they gonna give Christian McCaffrey a lot of looks

or not? You mentioned Joe Mixon. You know that's a crowded backfield as well, with guys like you know, Jeremy Hill and Gio Bernard. Because Doug Martin is serving that suspension, I think Pop Quiz Jocquins Rodgers in that Battle of Florida against the Miami Dolphins could be an interesting start, especially in weeks one through three when Doug Martin is

on the sidelines. All right, Chris, it looks like those are all the callers for now, So let me keep it moving here on the cipher in the fantasy freestyle and give him some news and notes. Because listen, this is cut down day. There's been some trades. Let's get into it. First of all, Bengals wide receiver John Ross, he of the four point two to forty time at the combine, He's gonna be out a couple of weeks

with a knee injury. Okay, I think this means even more opportunity, even more focused for a J. Green in that offense. When we start talking DFS next week, I like a J. Green in my DFS line up even more share for him. With John Ross out, levy On Bell has reported to Pittsburgh Steelers camp. He's got a one year, twelve million dollar deal as predicted, he said he was gonna come in right when he did on September first. He is my number one overall pick in

all of fantasy football this year. I think he is a true stud. I would even pick him over David Johnson. Okay, you may have heard earlier in the week that Matt Forte is on the trade block for the New York Jets. He's going ahead and saying that the rumors of his trade are quote unquote fake news. He says that he's spoken to the g M Mike mccagnet that they are not going to trade him. I'm gonna tell you the truth.

It's probably because they can't find a trade partner for for him, because he's got a four million dollar contract. I wouldn't be surprised if he winds up being a cut casualty at the very end, as rosslers go from nine d all the way down to fifty three. Is this weekend to clear a room and to continue the tanking process for the New York Jets, they have traded Pro Bowl defensive lineman Sheldon Richardson to the Seattle Seahawks, making the Seattle defense even that much more scary. With

the truth, stud Indians here yere. Now they're getting Mr Curse back. Remember the Jets need some hope help at wide out. They're also getting a second round pick to help with their tanking efforts. The forty Niners, in a surprise cut and cut down day, they cut quarterback Matt Barkley. Okay, they're gonna be going with the rookie C. J. Bethard instead as the backup to Brian Hoyer. Listen, I think Matt Barkley is viable. He might pick on latch On

somewhere soon. Remember, in Indianapolis, we don't know how long they're gonna be going with Scott Tolzine. In Baltimore, they don't know about Joe Flacco's back. And in Jacksonville, remember there is still boordal Service, who is listed at the top of the depth chart. You may have heard me say it earlier in the show. Saints wide receiver Willie Snead, who is currently wide receiver thirty two a legitimate wide

three on the Saints with Drew Brees. He's gonna be suspended for the first three games of the season because of a d u I that he got in the off season. I think this makes Ted Finn Jr. Really, Ted Ginje your viable. Maybe in DFS in Week one, remember a Monday Night they go up with Adrian Peterson to take on his former team, the Minnesota Vikings. That is the first game of a double header on Monday

Night football. Martavis Bryant has been reinstated by the NFL. Listen, it's gonna be big Ben lev Bell, Martavis Bryant and Antonio Brown. That combination has only been together for eleven times in their careers. I think if they all play sixteen games this year, watch out for the Pittsburgh Steelers. They might have the best offense in all of football. And there are reports I told you this. I told you guys. There are reports that the Cleveland Browns have

cut brock Osweiler. He once was the seventy two million dollar noos around the Houston Texans. They made that in like a salary dump kind of trade in the off season, and they have in fact cut brock Osweiler. Listen, there's still like between Matt Barkley now brock Osweiler. They're still Colin Kaepernick out there. Teams like the Colts, like the Jaguars, like the Ravens. They may be in the market for another quarterback. You know. In the preseason, it was also

interesting to see some of these rookie quarterbacks. You know, Deshaun Kaiser is gonna start for Cleveland. You know about Trebinsky and Watson who flashed early on. But keep an eye on these two. Patty Mahomes in Kansas City, I don't know if he's gonna be the backup all year. You know, Alex Smith, we know what he can do. Remember how he got, you know, surpassed by Colin Kaepernick back a few few years ago. I wouldn't be surprised if the Kansas City Chiefs do the same thing with

Patty Mahomes. He is a great dynasty stach. Same could be said for Nate Peterman in Buffalo. Okay, they don't like Tyrod Taylor. Tyrod Taylor is still in the concussion protocol. Keep an eye on Peterman in Buffalo. But I gotta tell you one team that I thought one the preseason. I was high on them when I did my previews.

The Philadelphia Eagles looked really good in preseason. Lane Johnson back on that offensive line, Carson Wentz three touchdowns, no interceptions, alson Jeffrey healthy, that defense, getting Ronald Darby, the first draft pick, Derek Barnett looking good. I like the Philadelphia Eagles. They were my diamond in the rough call and nothing this preseason changes my mind. When we come back here on the Fantasy Freestyle, we go into tight end for Gaze.

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Sports Radio Network. Welcome back to the Fantasy Freestyle right here on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. I'm mean boy. Dane Martinez Speeds the spitting statistician right here, holding you down, dropping stats over beats. That is Chrits Bovona taking good care of you on the ones and twos, keeping it so hot, that Ruth sweat Steve, we got a little big l coming back after break Listen. It is the

holiday weekend, the end of summer. A lot of people are getting hot and bothered, and you can by calling eight four four eight four three six eight seven nine. We gotta pull question up right now on Twitter. We want to ask you who do you think is your tight end? The fool getting easy, the tight end that you need to forget about. We got hundreds of votes already.

The options I put out there for you are Greg Olsen, who's going at tight end three, Jordan Reed who's going as tight end four, and we've also got Delaney Walker who's going at tight end nine. We also got a couple of people that have commented about some other examples of some other nominations. We also got a caller on the line right now. It says like we've got John he wants to talk about some Detroit Lions and Jim Bob Cooder. I think Stafford is you know, it's it's interesting.

A lot of people used to ask like is they is he an elite quarterback or not? Right? And I think that's a false premise. No, he's not one of the top five quarterbacks in the NFL. But is he worth getting paid. I think he is. I think any of the top fifteen or top half quarterbacks in the NFL are worth it because what is the alternative. This guy is entering his age twenty nine season. They're putting

weapons around him. And for the year and a half that hey, he has been healthy and with my man Jim Bob Cooder as his offensive coordinator, he has shown that he has been very strong. He was an m VP candidate for the first few weeks of the season last year before the thumb injuries. So I think that Matthew Stafford is on the way up. As though his

name was French Montana. I like Stafford, and I think he deserves the kind of contract, not because he's an elite quarterback, but it's all timing when your contract comes up in the NFL, if you are a quarterback who is not a problem on your team, I mean, clearly, he's got nothing better to do. Let's keep it moving though.

You know what is important? That are the tight end fool gazes that I'm about to give you, Because if you're a serious fantasy player, you need to worry about what is going on in fantasy at the tight end position. There are a couple of tight ends that are real high in the rankings right now. I'm talking tight ends three and four that I actually think are fool gazy. Let me give you the first one. Okay, Jordan Reed is going right now as tight end four. He's going

as number fifty overall. That's basically like a fifth round draft pick. If I'm going to spend on a tight end in the fifth round, I am not gonna go with someone that is an injury risk. Jordan Read is pretty much the analogy. It's like, it's pretty much the the Andrew Luck of tight ends. Okay, Um, if I'm gonna spend for a tight end, I'm gonna get something

that's more stable. I don't want to invest in a tight end at that level and then all of a sudden, have him be doubtful every week, have him have an ankle injury, a foot thing to worry about, being competing with Vernon Davis. I listen, this guy is played in twelve games, eleven games, nine games. He is definitely injury prone. I think, similar to quarterback, there's so many other kind of options. I'll wait and get myself, Hunter, Henry, I'll wait and get myself Eric Ebron, who liked the caller

and Detroit mentioned he should know about Eric Ebron. Right, I'd rather Eric Ebron than a guy like Jordan Reid. So to me, Jordan Reed is not worth the price. So to me, he is a fantasy full gaze. Forget about him. All right, there's another tight end I want to give you even higher in the rankings. I'm talking Greg Olsen. Greg Olsen right now is going as tight and in three he's going as number forty eight overall. That's the back end of the fourth round in twelve

team drafts. I think Greg Olsen this year is a fool gazy Okay, I love Greg Olsen. I think Greg Olsen has been solid production for a long time. Here's the thing. The Carolina Panthers are changing their offense this year. Okay. They are trying to get the ball out of Cam Newton's hands a little bit quicker, because, like I said, and like John and Detroit needs to know hashtag, all quarterbacks matter, even Cam Newton. So they are trying to protect him by getting the ball out a little bit quicker.

That means no more five seven step drops to Greg Olsen chucking it. They're gonna try and hit you know, Christian McCaffrey. They're gonna try and hit Curtis Samuel, They're gonna try and hit Benjamin on slant routes. Okay. I think that means that greg Old will not be like Cam's eyes focused on him. Also, greg Olsen is entering his age. I think thirty two season, this is not the place where people ascend. He was tight end to

last year. Eighty catches over a thousand yards and he had a hundred and twenty nine targets, that second most in the NFL among tight ends. I think there's going to be regression there. That's why I think Greg Olsen at the back of the fourth round, beginning of the fifth round is not going to return that value. He is a tight end, all right. Here's the other one I want to talk about. I have him up in the poll and it is Delaney Walker. Delaney Walker is

going as tight end nine right now. That is eighty overall. We're talking about in like the seventh round of your draft. And I don't think this is a good idea. Last year, Delaney Walker was Marcus Mariota's like security blanket, his comfort, his warm little blanket, as though he was lyingest, you know, and he had that little blue blanket with him all the time. But that is not the case anymore. Tennessee went out in the off season and signed Derek Decker.

Tennessee went out in the off season and drafted Corey Davis with their number five overall pick. They are building other weapons for Delaney Walker. Delaney Walker had sixty five catches, eight hundred yards and seven touchdowns last season. I do not think he is a good bet to repeat that. Delaney Walker also getting a little long in the tooth

going into his age eighty three season. Excuse me, not eighty three, his aged thirty three season, and I think with too many options right there, and remember they still like to be exotic smash mouth. I do not think Delaney Walker repeats his performance of the last year. He's going as tight end nine. I think there's other guys. Do not spend the draft capital in round seven on

Delaney Walker. I got a couple of other tight ends that I want to give you that I think our fu gazzes this year, okay, but they kind of fit the same narrative. They fit the same narrative. So I want to tell you what it is that UM I think about when it comes to these okay tight end is a very hard position to learn as a rookie. You've heard me say this before if listen to the fantasy freestyle, and the reason is because they have to know all of the routes that a receiver and a

pass catcher would run. They also have to know all the blocking schemes that an offensive lineman needs to know. So rookie tight ends do not do well. Generally speaking, Rookie tight ends don't really pop. I'm talking about Eric Ebron right now, it's your four, and I finally expect that jump rookie tight ends. I don't expect that to happen, especially on teams that this offseason went out and signed

uh wide receivers that some could be called diva's. I'm talking about these wide receivers like Brandon Marshalls and John Jackson. I'm talking about the tight ends. O J. Howard and Evan Ingram. Both of them were early round draft picks. O. J. Howard for the Tampa a Bucks, Evan Ingram out of Mississippi for the New York Giants. If you look at Ingram, yeah, he's a wide receiver, kind of a move tight end. He's gonna take a while to be on the field

to remember that he has those blocking um responsibilities. And with Oldell Beckham, Brandon Marshall, Sterling Shepard, Shane Vereen in that passing game, I don't think Evan Ingram is really gonna return fantasy value this year. He may be decent to spread the opportunities or to spread coverage around in real football for the Giants, but not for fantasy. Same

for O. J. Howard. In my opinion, you know you got Mike Evanson's, you got DeShawn Jackson, You've got another tight end in um Cameron break there, right, So I think there's too many mouths to feed there. And I don't think O. J. Howard is gonna know all the blocking schemes as well, are they gonna really support two tight ends there. So that's part of the reason why I think O. J. Howard and Evan Ingram are both

full gazey. Forget about it, Hey, Bavona, it looks like we got one more caller out there, hoping someone that can understand that speeds of spitting statistician is Boiqua baby, Um it is Patrick and Dallas. He wants to talk about some running backs. Patrick and Dallas. If you're still there, you are on the Fantasy Freestyle dropping stats over beats with the Boigua speeds the spitting statistician. What's up? Yeah, I just wanted to ask you who I should start

at flex, Dalvin Cook or Frank Frank Gore. Okay, listen, here's the thing. I would go Dalvin Cook and here's why. Especially in week one, Dalvin Cook and the Vikings are up against the Saints. That is a bad defense. Okay, So I think Dalvin Cook is primed and ready to be a three down back for the Minnesota Vikings. I like them at home Monday Night against a bad defense in the New Orleans Saints. On the other side, you

talk about Frank Gore. Frank Gore, especially week one they go out to Los Angeles to take on the Rams. I think the Rams are gonna be an improved defense with new defensive coordinator Wade Phillips, and also with the Colts in week one, there's no Andrew Look under center. It's gonna be Scott Tolzine. So these Rams are gonna be focused to uh stop Frank Gore and the running game. They're gonna try to force Scott Tolzine and the Indianapolis

Colts to beat them through the passing game. I think the Rams are gonna load up to try to stop Frank Gore. And so for that reason, especially in Week one, I love me some Dalvin Cook as a flex option. I could see Dalvin Cook as an RB two option as well going up against that defense of the New Orleans Saints. Like I said right now, we gotta pull

question up. Forty eight percent of you think Jordan Reed and his injury risk is a fantasy full gazey at the tight end position, say Greg Olsen, Say Delaney Walker. When we come back on the Fantasy Freestyle, I'm gonna tell you some other suggestions that you guys have, and we're gonna put the Fun and Functional Sports Radio a lot of stuff to talk about. Dan Martinez speeds a spitting statistician right here on the Fantasy Freestyle on the

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streaming it online. Get it on your phone, take it with you every where you go. Welcome back to the Fantasy Freestyle right here on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Also, everybody tune in live on I Heart Radio, on tune In Radio, and a pair are the buzzing on the YouTube live stream on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. A lot of people very excited about the holiday weekend, and a lot of people very excited to be part of my show. All right, let's keep it going that we

got that pole question up right now. I told you some other people have options on tight end fool Gazes. One of them, Clayton trey Hand, who has been responding to a lot of these polls that we've been doing our diamonds and our ful gazes at Claymore's FFB on Twitter, says that Listen, Jack Doyle could be a fool gayzey okay.

Lux injury does not help the matters there. I remember I've talked about how you need to fade t Y Hilton, you need to fade Dante Moncrief Jack Doyle just the same, also saying two years ago it was supposed to be Fleaner's year. Last year is supposed to be Allen's, this year is supposed to be Doyle's. Whoever goes into the year at Indianapolis thinking that they're gonna be, you know, Andrew Lux tight end, it doesn't always look right, So that way they could be a fool gaze at the

tight end position. Fantasy Field Report on Twitter has also replied, and they're saying Cameron Bread Remember, listen, I actually think Cameron Brady is gonna hold off O. J. Howard at least in the beginning of the season as O J. Howard gets himself acclimated to the NFL game. The last one out here on Twitter, Brian five fifty at Gmail at Dane Golf nineteen sixty on Twitter says what about Jimmy Graham. I gotta tell you, I think Jimmy Graham is actually primed to have a bounce back kind of

rebreak out. Remember, he's now another year removed from that injury with the Patel attendant, another year in the system with Seattle with Russell Wilson. In a few weeks ago, we also got reports that even last year, Jimmy Graham was kind of um nursing that injury and that they are ready to kind of take the training wheels off for Jimmy Graham in that Seattle offense. So I'm actually high on Jimmy Graham. I think he once again goes back to being a top three tight end. All right there.

One of the things I want to also give you today before we go into Labor Day weekend, right because first of all, I'm gonna be off on Monday, so everybody can enjoy their holiday at the end of the summer, can start grilling and chilling. Right, save me some corns, gave me some hamburgers. I'll be there. If you want to holler at me at eight four four eight four seven nine and tell me where your barbecue is going

to be. I'll maybe stop going by. But when we come back on Tuesday, listen, it is week one, okay, So if you remember Fantasy Freestyle last year. I went game by game, I tell you what you need to spotlight, I tell you everything about injuries. Will also be giving you my DFS lineups. It is gonna be full on football. I'm kind of excited tonight kind of feels like Christmas Christmas Eve, right because we're anticipating the start of football. When I wake up that first Sunday, it is like

football Christmasmas to me. I'm very excited to see what gifts I have when we get into Week one. Also, Week one is gonna be the start of survivor pools as well, and I'm gonna be giving you not only the bets that you need, but I'm gonna be giving you the survivor plays that you need. Okay, And what you could do with that is go right over to www. Dot Fantasy Factor dot com. They are holding contests right now. It is free to enter, free to enter a thousand

dollar knockout survivor pool. Well you gotta do is pick the right teams. Can't believe one team each week to win, and obviously when you use them, you will not be able to use them again. So even if you think the paths to go in sixteen, and oh you can only use them once. Go over to Fantasy factor dot com right now and enter the free knockout pool paying somebody a thousand dollars. Why can't it be you? All Right? I told you about some defenses that I wanted to

talk about. Okay, generally speaking, you're not gonna pick a defense early, right, You're gonna wait till your second to last, pick your last pick of your draft to pick a defense. So if you're in, you know, a twelve team league, let's say eleven other people can pick their defenses. They can pick the top eleven defenses on the board. I'm gonna give you four d defenses here that are outside of that that I think a legit that I think are gonna return top eight kind of value this season.

The first one we talked about it a little bit before when the caller asked about front Gore. I'm talking about the Los Angeles Rams, the Los Angeles Rams or defense number twelve right now, and I like them. Listen. Uh. The new head coach out there, Sean McVeigh. One of the smart things he did was higher wage Phillips as

his defensive coordinator. Okay, he has a history of making defenses jump up in the rankings in the first year, sometimes dramatically, and this Rams defense was okay to begin with. Remember you got Aaron Donald in the middle there, one of the best players on the defensive side of the ball in the entire league. And I think the new scheme they're running is gonna be great for Mr Ogletree puts some pressure on Remember they're also in Week one

playing Andrew luck Less Indianapolis Colts with Scott Tolzen. And here's the other thing. Think about this division they're playing. I personally think that the Cardinals are prime for regression, so that's not that bad. The forty Niners aren't gonna scare anybody. And the Seattle Seahawks, that offensive line, you're gonna be able to get some sacks against them as well. That six of your games. I think the Los Angeles Rams are are interesting defense to target. They're going right

now is defense number twelve? What about defense number thirteen? So Jacksonville Jaguars, Okay, listen. Obviously there's bordal service and the problem on offense, but this defense looks decent on paper. Remember last year they signed Malie Jackson. They drafted. Uh, you know Miles jack and Jalen Ramsey. They have Dante Fowler as a young kid maybe being healthy now. Now they went out and signed a J. Bouyer in the back end and Calais Campbell to pair with Malie Jackson

on that front seven. I think that is pretty good. I think their defense is decent on paper. And also remember Jacksonville is moving now to a more They want to copy Tennessee in that division and be exotic smashed mouth also right, so if they're gonna be more run for focus, if they're gonna be more time of possession, that means less time their defense is on the field. And think about their division Indianapolis Colts without Andrew Luck,

they Houston Texans. They're not an offensive team. They're another defensive based team, whether it's Tom Savage or the rookie Deshaun Watson that gets under center. I like this Jacksonville Jaguars the defense as one to check the matchups week by week. You can go with Jacksonville defense number fourteen in the rankings right now on Fantasy pros. The Philadelphia Eagles. I am so high on the Philadelphia Eagles. I am higher than them that I am on this purple. Okay,

the Philadelphia Eagles at defense fourteen, I love them. They traded for Ronald Darby right up um help out their cornerback situation. They drafted Derek Barnett to add to that pass rush alongside guys like Fletcher Cox and Brandon Graham. They signed Timmy Joern again as well. That front line is going to be stout. And here's the other thing. Think about the rest of the division. I expect regression from every quarterback in the NFC East outside of Philadelphia.

Eli Manning falling off a cliff leading the league in interceptions, Dak Prescott no way, he repeats that four interception performance, and who knows when Zeke Elliott will or will not be playing. And then you have the Washington football team. Well Kirk Cousins really repeat that or is there some regression in store for him as well? Without Pierre Garson and of course DeShawn Jackson, I think that division is

prime for Philadelphia. I think their defense, who was one of the top five defenses in d v o A last year. I think they're primed. They're ready to go to make a big run this year. So I like the defense of the Philadelphia Eagles. And here's the last one that I'm gonna give you their defense seventeen right now, and we're talking about not the San Diego but the

Loss and Angels Chargers. I like this defense. Listen, Joey Bosa is a stud I think Joey Bosa can get around fourteen sacks this year, if not more, creating pressure on that front. I like that the Chargers now have back their number one in the back, Jason Verrette on the side. He is a true number one lockdown corner. Reason to be happy there. They have a fourth place schedule, do the Chargers because they lost a lot of tight gamings last year, finished in last in that division, So

a favorable schedule. And think about this. Also, the Denver Broncos with their experiment with Trevor Simeon, I don't know that doesn't scare me. Alex Smith, we know that that's a game manager kind of team. The other offenses outside of Oakland in this division, they don't share scare me at either. So I like the Los Angeles Chargers. And remember we had ni Con yesterday out there in l

A with Pro Angle media. He was saying that they got a chance to have an interesting little home field advantage in that new stadium they're playing with, the l A Galaxy Stadium that they're paying and intimate setting only thirty thousand. Those are some defenses to check out and remember. If you need some more ideas about defense, what you can do is go right now and go check out on Amazon. Go check out The Definitive Guy to Fantasy

Football by my man Benny Riccardi. I wrote a chapter in this book, and it was about streaming defenses and how you can do it. Some of the things you need to think about, like the regression candidates in the division, the division matchups, the time of possession. Like I said, with the Jaguars, they're looking now to move the ball on the ground with time of possession less time on the field for the defense. Another reason I like them. The other thing you need to do right now is

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tonight on the Fantasy Freestyle. But that is okay. I am still here to help you win your leagues and win that cash. It's Dane Martinez, a spitting statistician on the Fantasy Freestyle and Bovona. It looks like we got we got. You know, we got another call Frankie Queens. We're gonna let him on because we've been talking about tight ends, diamonds and full gaze. He's he's got a tight end. Question. What's going on? Frank my New York

City head right here, you're on the Fantasy Freestyle. What's up, dude? So my league twelve team halfpoint tpr. I'm picking from the sixth so I picked up shady first pick. I get a guy second round eighteen overall, so that's nice value. In the third round, I ran into kind of a tricky scenario. Um, I had Zeke was still on the board. And this was earlier in the week before the news came out that it mentioned maybe the U uh maybe dropped,

So I didn't know that. So I had Kelsey at the thirtieth pick overall, and I picked him headed Zeke. Now you figure out didn't get a wide receiver right there. So later in the draft I picked up Digs, I picked up Devon Day, I picked up Mark Tavis, I got t J. Anderson later, Um, so what do you think about that? I mean, I know, I know I heard you earlier that you were against picking Zeke two as well. I was worried about living him during the playoffs.

And I also think, yeah, yeah, yeah, go ahead, go ahead, Symon, Yeah yeah. And and and also I like Kelsey's upside this year, especially with touchdowns. I mean, you've got a lot of balls. Last year only had all four tds, and that offense doesn't have a lot of weapons, and he's very consistent, hasn't missed games. So I mean, I mean a lot of people tell me they didn't like that pick, but I still feel pretty confident with it, especially with the guys that I got after Yeah, Listen,

I'm not mad at that either, Frank. Okay, Listen, Travis Kelsey is my tight end number one this year because you can't trust the injury history of Jordan Reed or Rob Gronkowski. Remember the Chiefs also gave away Jeremy Macklin in the offseason. They're expecting Tyreek Hill to be their number one pass catcher, but it's really gonna be Baby Gronk Travis Kelsey. You talked about some other wide outs

that you had, like Davante Parker and Stefon Digs. I liked those guys as values that you got later on. And then obviously the top two running backs you have are okay, You're gonna have a week to week advantage at tight end. Listen, if Zeke slipped that far, at some point, you do gotta pull the trigger on Zeke.

But I'm with you, Frank. I agree that the idea of that suspense and hanging over his head later on in the season and it could come down we twelve fourteen something like that, that would really hurt you in the fantasy playoffs. You're gonna have a week to week advantage with Travis Kelsey at tight end, we got time for only one more caller, I believe. Do we still

have Frank in Oklahoma? Chris? All right? Frank in Oklahoma, You're gonna be the last call of the summer, apparently because when we're back after La Jabor Day, I can't wear white anymore. With shifting of football. What is your question, Frank in Oklahoma a standard league, I'm gonna running back for King in the standard league. I'm picking it to turn um. I got you Roody Nielson and Michael Thomas staring me at the face. My question is, you know, should I sho get those two and then focus on

running backs? Laters? Too much of a risk past umple bell cat running back? Yeah, so you mentioned and thank you for the call man, our last call of the summer. Here on the Fantasy Freestyle, you talked about the idea of the bell cow running back. If you're at the turn man, if you're picking like twelve and thirteen of ten or leven, depainting on the size of your league, you're not gonna get the bell cow running back there anyway. Okay, The bell cows are David Johnson Levy on on bell

you know, Lashawn McCoy, maybe maybe Melvin Gordon. They're not gonna be there anyway. It sounded like you talked about guys like Jordy Nelson, Michael Thomas, deaz Bryant, you know, other true studs that will be there at that point. You know, maybe you even get an A J. Green at that point. I would, in fact, I like your wide out wide eye idea. Then your next time, make sure you get heavy running backs in the NFL is all committee. These days, you're gonna still be able to

find some running backs. Thanks for almost all the calls, Thanks for all the Twitter votes. I'm der boy, Dame Martinez, speed spitting statistician. No show for the holiday on Monday, but when we come back on Tuesday, it is Are you ready for some football? I certainly am, and I'm gonna help you win your leagues and win that cash speeds. I'm out fantasy freestyle. Let's go