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I want to talk about one of the list there, which is
preseason storylines, I'm buying. Okay, and so 10 of them,
and one storyline that didn't make the list, but just came in
just as we were hitting the air.
Looks like Zach Wilson isn't going to play for at least
the first four weeks. Joe Flacco, officially named the starter
for the Jets week. One
Elijah. Mort the one start.
That Joe Flacco had last year against Miami. Why is your more
was really good? Yeah. Was it? I'd receptions 141 yards and
a touchdown just tent in apparently, Joe Flacco turns
a larger more into pick Davante Adams.
But does this it for anyone that's drafting tonight.
Tomorrow people do draft throughout the first weekend as
well. Thursday night Friday night, Saturday, are you upping
any of the Jets pass catchers? Elijah more? Maybe specifically
because
hey, we feel we at least know what Flacco is. Yeah.
I'm upping all of them because
you know in terms of what goes into the
Adding Market, we have Joe Flacco's a better quarterback
right now than Zach. Wilson Wilson has more upside. He has
more potential to be great. Flacco does not at this stage
but I think you certainly raises the
floor and he takes away the disaster potential in the first
few weeks. For guys, like a larger more and Garrett Wilson.
Yeah, it's really interesting. I mean again I say this this
comment all the time but
on a like Joe Flacco was a professional quarterback and
I do not
always people think I'm being insulting there
but I'm not like he Can make the throws. He needs to, he can
run an offense. Like you know if he tells a guy to run
a 10-yard
out, he's going to hit a guy on a 10-yard out like and so
I prefer at least
early early, part of the season, I prefer Elijah more to
Garrett Wilson. I prefer him to Corey Davis. I think this is
good news for
for the running game because I think they'll
they won't be able to,
you know, focus on the Run game as well. They'll have to at
least respect the pass. So
yeah. And by the way,
Elijah more interesting. In week, number one, definitely.
So, in terms of the preseason storylines, buying, we're going
to run through a few of these. Now, the first one is about
the Vikings
offense having a breakout season. We're going to get you
a bold predictions. A bit lighter about half of them are
about the Minnesota Vikings. Yeah man, you've got goings
Vikings coming as the
second coming of the 2007 Patriots by the sounds of it.
Walk us through why you're buying the Vikings offense.
Well, it starts with Kevin O'Connell. It starts with Kevin
O'Connell and West Phillips coming over from Um, the Rams
and Sean McVeigh, they spend a lot of time with
McVeigh those offensive systems or what they believe in and
also just talent.
I mean I feel like
by the way and you're starting to hear and I think you're
going to hear more and more remember, remember about like
once Urban Meyer left there was this massive sigh of relief,
you know? And like just about what a disaster it was.
I don't think it was such a disaster in our Mike Zimmer but
it is clear hearing some of the some of the quotes that are
coming out of Minnesota that he ran a very tight ship
like a very tight.
And it just the players just weren't responding to that. And
so I think with a younger coach, a more of a player
friendly coach in KOC
and then as you see on your screen here cousins, you know,
Jefferson thielen, Dalvin, cook herb, Smith KJ, Osborne who
emerged Alexander Madison child, right?
Yeah, they just had a welcome
for a fourth wide receiver. You could do worse than Jalen
rhaegar, who was a first-round pick in the NFL for a reason?
It was right. And so
anyway, I'm while I'm saying here, Is that they have a lot
of pieces. It is going to be a fantasy friendly, offense are
going to throw quite a bit.
We'll get into my Bowl predictions, but that is one of
the preseason storylines, I'm buying that the Vikings offense
will have a breakout season
under Kevin O'Connell.
The thing there, is that the unknown new things that create
upside, because we just haven't seen it before. So, there's
a huge upside for cousins to potentially lead the league in
passing or passing touchdowns, which were going to talk about
as well.
And Justin Jefferson might have the highest ceiling
of any skill position player in the game.
Now another Season storyline that you are buying. We've
talked about this guy, I lost, this is the remote and Ray
Stevenson show and you're buying that he will get half
the early down work and all the James White work.
You heard Bill Belichick, praise
from Andre Stevenson's,
you know, past running
past Route running
and and you know, and his blocking and Belichick's. Not
a guy that gives out praise often and so he's been,
you know, for Belichick effusive
in his praise of Rome, Andre Stevens. Benson.
It's also just sort of like process of elimination, like
I don't want to sit here and say I'm some brilliant detective,
but you're like well, who's KET now that James White has
retired?
Who's it going to be? It's gonna be time Montgomery. We
Damien Harris like Ramon Ray Stevenson to the eye test is
the best,
pass-catching running back on that team to me at this stage
of their respective careers, he also has the ability to go
between the tackles. So it doesn't allow defense has to be
like, oh,
when James White was in there, you were sort of like, okay, we
know it's a passing play, right? You know, look. Are
blunt was
in there back in the day were like all right, we're going up
the middle here. So I think it gives them more versatility
with their offense which they need because it is an offense
in transition
with Josh McDaniels. Now in Las Vegas,
I'm a big believer in Rhonda Stevenson's talent and I think
he's going to have the opportunity but make no
mistake. Damien Harris will get some of the, you know, he's
going to still score a decent amount of rushing touchdowns,
and get some of the early Dawn work.
But Ramon Ray Stevenson has a chance
on, what should be a run. First team to be special this year
so I only to New England running back since Corey
Dillon. Ellen in 2004 have gotten north of 250 calories in
a season Dylan had 345 that year different Euro. So
the third I don't think he gets 250 carries, but I absolutely think
he gets over 250
touches. Yes, yes. And we haven't had a running back in
New England. Get over 1,000, rushing, yards since LeGarrette
Blount in 2016
thing for am Andre could definitely float with that.
Keep in mind. Harris, got banged up a little bit last
year. He's a bruising kind of running back. So there's always
that potential that he misses some time. And we saw what
reminders?
It's and could do
when he was the starter.
He's going behind Damien Harris on Yahoo. I think that's
a mistake. I have Stevenson higher. Then Damien Harris.
Yep. Okay. Another complicated running back situation as it is
every year in Kansas City.
So one of the other storylines you're buying is that Clyde
Edwards Hilaire will lose a decent number of touches to
Isaiah Pacheco and Jerick McKinnon this season?
You ever been to Vegas? I have been some. Okay,
and when it comes to the Kansas City, running backs, you know
what I am.
Roulette table.
I'm out. I'm out. I'm out of town. I'm just, I'm
look like, that's what that was. I'm getting at questions.
What year was that? That was, that was me being out.
I'm glad I don't think that's, that's what the black count
erskyll. The Blackjack dealers. Do they? Like they show that
they're out? They show that they're not stealing any chips
from the casino I'm out because I do think Isaiah Pacheco is
going to get some Ron here. I do think they like Jerick
McKinnon, especially on
third down and passing down.
I do think that Clyde Edward C, layer has gotten multiple
opportunities to prove. He can be the guy and he has failed.
And more importantly, they don't need to run,
they've got Patrick Mahomes they showed last year.
Screw it. We're just going to throw every down and you know
what it worked for them. So
I think I think it might be a little bit more balanced this
year without Tyreke Hill, but they'll they'll get creative.
You know, they they used Travis Kelce, sometimes in
the backfield and their and their tight ends, they
I'm sure they'll do some sweeps for like mvs and Sky. More is
going to be involved in the past running running game.
I don't believe I believe they will have a good running game.
The Chiefs will
but I don't believe any of these guys will have enough
standalone. In fantasy value this year if you want to take
a late flyer McKinnon a checkout, not I'm good with it, I don't
mind it,
but I'm out on any wanting to start any of those guys. It's
the most frustrating situation in the lake from a fantasy
perspective because no one's games up
running backs better than Andy Ray. Does in terms of how they
run Block, No, One creates more yards before. Contact then
the Kansas City Chiefs, but it just feels like another one of those
years where they've got three running backs who were between
400 and 600
yards, rushing, and you can't really
play any of. Them. Yeah they'll have good games but like try
figuring out. Oh this is going to be Pacheco game. Oh, this is
the ceh game. Like it's just they're going to mix and match
and you're just that's the key. I think that people
forget about fantasy football, it's not just about
the production. It's about knowing when to start those guys
because it will look here a year from now. And be like,
Oh, Pacheco had these good games and ceh? Had these good
games but
you're just, I think it's going to barring injury. It's going
to be hard to know.
Oh, this is the week that you start this guy.
Yeah. So a rookie with a
Rip off the playing time. That Isaiah Pacheco is
Isaiah, likely another guy that you're buying so you are buying
that he is going to have an immediate role in the Baltimore
offense. Yeah, I'm buying it because you hear it from
everybody here, from beat reporters. You hear it from
the team,
you see it in the production that he had in the preseason.
And again, you sort of just like, okay, let's look at this
logically,
they've got Mark Andrews, okay, they've got Rashad Bateman
And then what do they got? I mean Devin du vernay,
you know, Demarcus Robinson a I could just
they think they have something in Isaiah likely. They're very
excited about him. I agree with them by the way, I think they
have that as well.
I think he's a really talented guy.
I was, I was texting last night with an NFL Insider. I don't
want to say this person's name, but
the xenophon side. And we were talking short about sleepers
and I said I really like, you know, Isaiah likely
the person said the person said Baltimore Has a likely and
I said, I know
Peter King said that on my show
last week, you know, as well. And he goes,
yeah. I know. I wish they would keep, I wish they would stop
talking about him, you know, he's I'm getting killed in all
my drafts because people are now out, you know, are on, on
to Isaiah likely. So
I'm totally buying it
that he's going to have an immediate role in the Ravens offense
and likely be
the third passing option for Lamar Jackson who I know you
have as your fantasy writer died. This year,
we both expect A monster Year from Lamar Jackson
and I don't think it's going to be as run heavy and offenses.
They think people its people think I agree. And I think
the thing with likely as well as the people are just viewing him
as Mark Andrews backhoe and as a tight end to with a really
low ceiling,
you need to view him as like a wide receiver three because he
is basically wide receiver who just lines up at the tight end
position. Who's the highest graded tide ended PFF history?
That's really. That's pretty good.
Yeah, it's pretty good and I think that he's going to get
a lot of carrots and a lot of them.
And by the way, the real Evans just they run a ton of 12
Personnel, right? They like having two tight ends on
the field. So I think he's going to play a lot of a lot of snaps
with Mark Andrews. I agree. He's not Mark Andrews back up. Like
they got two tight ends and
you know we have seen it over the course.
You know, go back to the Patriots days, like we have
seen
offenses have to productive fantasy Titans. Think about
the eagles with Earth's and Goddard back in the day as well. So
especially when there's a narrow target tree, like there
is in Baltimore.
Give me some Isaiah likely as a later. On flyer.
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