and Meyers is a target hog. We know DeVante Parker is brought
in to the outside guy. We know Kendrick born is kind of like
to horrible internet meme, right now, he's the guys got
that dog in him. Like he's a really tough chain. I know.
Sorry. Tom really, but I liked it
touchdown score and like, who is the top Target and the Sweet
Roll. All my chips, I would put all my chips on Kendrick born
all of them. Wow,
guy caught 55 of the 70 passes. He was throwing last year as a
Wide receiver here, even for a buck 25 on
10 carries.
He also Mac, I think had a 126 quarterback rating when
throwing to him and I do believe in quarterback rating.
Screw everybody else with their b*******.
I think. What about creating usually matches up the good
ones have high ones but mediocre ones that they tend to
0. So some of them scam it now by the way, I'm like Kirk
Cousins. Yeah.
If somebody's over 110, they're a good buyer.
But he is to me and I said this recently and I got
booed off the air.
Well, believe me, we were going to bring this up,
okay, you're gonna mention
I want you to do it as good
as you say, you made some waves when you predicted a Debo.
Samuel type here for mr. Kendrick born. And like I do
see the similarity, I
Kendrick born, I thought was a really underrated player for
you sign with the page. I just think the word that comes to
mind for me fork and reborn as like rugged.
Like the kind of guy. I mean it's like it's a cliche,
the kind of guy you could trust to make like big plays, like get
a first down to make it really tough catch
in the Reds. And, you know,
I think people really realize you had over 800 yards last year,
right? Like he hit a better year than people really. And so
that my eyes definitely popped.
When I saw your comment and especially coming from you, because
I've never found you to be prone to hyperbole or anything
like that. You, I've always, you know, you're like
a straight shooter. So I was I like to get the Dark Horse,
though. I like to get it out there early.
You know, I peed on my territory with Kendrick born.
I mean,
it's all upside if you comes into place, great,
but it was really fed by the notion of they're going to
switch to more of a San Francisco 49ers style offense,
so if they're doing that, who is there debug
and that would be
Kendrick for now. Depot Samuel is
a running back, he is much more stockily built
than Kendrick born.
He can take more punishment can probably give out more
punishment just because of his build
So when I said like Tebow I and I get I didn't State this
because it was a TV hit but you know all the time in the world
he's going to fill that role
where he's going to be the Jet Sweep guy.
He's going to be your catch and run guy. He is by far the best,
catch and run guy. Jacoby Myers is runs, a lot of 46 and God
bless him. He is phenomenal again Zone, but he gets no
separation. That's why
pakka rain. When you talked about
completion percentage over expected, the reason it's so high,
nobody gets open.
The Patriots don't have one single wide receiver
who makes a defensive coordinator go. We going to do
with this guy as a group, they can make you sweat, they can
make you sweat with a scheme,
but they don't have any separators. And that's why
taekwon Thornton who has actually been capable is worth
Keeping on a short list of guys, you might want to pick up
if he does start getting enough reps.
Well, so to the born stuff,
Is he out there all the time? Because that's and I guess is
anyone out there all the time
because, you know, last year, you had Jacoby Myers. He ran
a route on 92% of drop backs and games that he was in
and, you know, that's a full-time. You know, complete
package. In terms of just being out there running all the routes
If Kendrick born is going to see a big increase from where
he was at last year, which was, which was only 70%, kind of
like a more of a part-time player who is a big part of
the offense still?
Does that come at? The expense of Myers is a come at
the expense of DeVante Parker not having a full-time role. Like
there's only so many routes you're right.
Who's out there the most this year,
regardless of the targets who's actually just running the right
the route. I think it's a great. It's a great question.
It's impossible to pin down. I think the Patriots would love
to upgrade the speed and explosiveness. This at their
slot position which is filled by Jacoby Meyers.
So I would say some of the targets are going to come
away from Jacoby Meyers,
who's not going to be a guy who's going to be a
15 yards per catch guy.
Johnny Smith is also going to steal some some targets because
they really want to take advantage of it. Robert Kraft
basically said and stated in the offseason
really want to see some jumps from the guys that we signed as
free agents last year. The reason they have 15 million
dollar cap hits,
say the end up with 22 catches and 51 targets crafts going.
Go. What do we do? Why do we spend Thirty million dollars in
cap money on these two? If we didn't give him the ball.
So I think that does enter into it so they'll come away from
Myers but I would say the born
would be a
good number two in fantasy and I think Johnny Smith could be
interesting but hunter Henry would be a more consistent
by
than jaanu Smith because he's going to catch 55 to 60 balls
and he's gonna score any touchdowns.
Do you think Myers is you know, particularly hurt by this
change? Does he seem like he was thriving in this complex
offense?
I think that
I don't you mean emotionally. Does it hurt his feelings?
Yeah. I mean him but nothing really. Yeah. You probably see
what else do I have to do.
Touchdown numbers that tells you how explosive he is.
Yeah I just mean in terms of the offensive fit like he's he
kind of losing an advantage over his competition.
He's always going to have a significant advantage in his
dependability but they're always going to look to replace
place them don't. I mean it's gonna be like yeah
well anything that you own
that you know is
consistent. But boy I could upgrade that thing
but it works so good.
That's what you call be Myers is
and so I it would be tough to see him go elsewhere for
the Patriots, but
at the end of this year, he's a free agent and will be a guy
who caught a bunch of passes. It'll be interesting to see if
anybody in the NFL, says, boy, who want to have that guy who
can catch a t-ball's come here. Where they say
it's catching 80 balls because he plays a slot in the Patriots
offense. Yeah.
It's really interesting. Interesting that you mention
taekwon Thornton because like you said is like someone I've
been doing this for a while now. Like I would have never
even really considered drafting like a second round receiver
and a paint the Patriots offense cause I would just take
it for granted, that
they wouldn't make a rookie impacts that it just be over
their head. You know, Bill wouldn't trust them. But
I mean, if things are getting simpler,
who do you see making more noise on the outside this year,
the rookie, or the the trade Edition, DeVante Parker.
I think they're going to have such Squee different roles.
Parker is basically, what nikhil Harry was supposed to be
same build. Same athletic ability in terms of being able
to High Point. The ball
just plays harder than Harry. Did though, he'll use his body
and box people out. Whereas Harry would
put his body there and then get run through
the win is just an absolute elk. It's just ridiculous to
watch the way he accelerates with was minimal effort
and as a wide receiver. There's all, you know, we know how
eccentric wide receivers can be B,
this is a polished professional mature
taken my business, seriously wide receiver. So
he's got upside, but I think the Parker would be more of
You're exactly right, dr. Crane
the targets are going to come from somebody.
Even if you feel the ball 40 times a game,
There's not enough be. It's weird that like he's gonna see
five or six of them. That's like the conundrum of
the Patriots offense. So they said there's no individual player
who like will scare and imposing defensive coordinator,
but to very deep group. So that makes it very, very hard and
fantasy do. We
haven't even mentioned
Nelson. A Galore still here as well,
so you can have a role because
if he has a role this is going to be very difficult for Fantasy
because it just feels like
no one's out there for all the routes.
I just don't think he's going to have a role,
okay,
I I think he's not going to make the team
just because of the cost of cutting him
and carrying dead money.
But I just
I just don't think between born Myers, jaanu Smith Hunter,
Henry were monitoring Stevenson Damien, Harris taekwon
Thornton, I'm probably missing somebody.
He's just so far back in the pecking order and he just
didn't give him enough. Bang for the buck. I don't think
he's untalented. I don't think he's not trying, but I just
think that it's just not him. But again, changing offense,
I could be wrong
in terms of what it's going to
Look like when they start playing.
That would give us some clarity at least
that would be if I could give you a straight answer. And no,
no, I should answer that. Yeah, that's
a straight answer.