Speaker 1: What's going on? Everyone? Welcome into the Fantasy Pros Dynasty
Speaker 1: Football Podcast. My name is Kyle Yates and I am
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Speaker 1: His name is Justin Boone and he could be found
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Speaker 1: analyst at The Score. Boone. We gotta check into this, man.
Speaker 1: It's the end of the season. We're now into the
Speaker 1: off season. In the words of Marshawn Lynch, we got
Speaker 1: to take care of y'all mentals. How are you doing, man?
Speaker 1: As we look back on the end of this season
Speaker 1: going into the off season, you're doing all right? Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is a great time a year. You know, there's
Speaker 1: still football on. But you know, guys like us aren't
Speaker 1: in the weeds as much as we are during the
Speaker 1: regular season where it's that weekly grind. So we were
Speaker 1: joking before the show that that's something that you and
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Speaker 1: in the industry could talk about, but it's not something
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Speaker 1: say that, you know, it's not a real job that
Speaker 1: we do cover in football all the time. So yeah,
Speaker 1: this is a great time a year with you know,
Speaker 1: the main fantasy season over, we got some playoff dfs,
Speaker 1: and it is the perfect time to talk about dynasty
Speaker 1: because all offseason long we can make trades. I put
Speaker 1: out my trade value chart last week. Lots of stuff
Speaker 1: in there, lots of surprises even for me when I
Speaker 1: was going through it, and there and some will probably
Speaker 1: talk about today, but this is the time. Get some
Speaker 1: offers out. If you're disappointed about how your team was
Speaker 1: during the season, start throwing those offers out now and
Speaker 1: try to get ahead of free agency in the draft
Speaker 1: and all that and make some moves and try to
Speaker 1: improve your team. Well you talk about it there. Like
Speaker 1: I looked at one of my dynasty rosters that just
Speaker 1: completely fell flat, Like I had Lamar Jackson, Allan Robinson,
Speaker 1: AJ Brown, I think Calvin Ridley was on that roster,
Speaker 1: Like I was going to Saquon Barkley, like I was
Speaker 1: going into that and was like, man, this you guys
Speaker 1: just want to hand me the championship right now. Like
Speaker 1: I feel like this team is just going to clean
Speaker 1: up this year and now I'm at the end of it.
Speaker 1: I'm like, Okay, obviously this team fell flat, but I
Speaker 1: get to make changes, like right away, I get to
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Speaker 1: rankings and the like accuracy, competition everything. I was just
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Speaker 1: one stone. All right, let's get into the Dynasty wide
Speaker 1: Receiver rankings conversation here and justin we have a lot
Speaker 1: that we have to get to right talking about twenty
Speaker 1: players here and trying to fly through them. So let's
Speaker 1: get right to it. Give me the guys that you've got.
Speaker 1: We're gonna take a look at the top twenty here, right,
Speaker 1: So give me the guys that you've got in the
Speaker 1: first here, we'll go twenty to sixteen. Walk me through
Speaker 1: the names, and I've got some questions based on the
Speaker 1: noteworthy names that you provided. All right, I can't wait
Speaker 1: to hear what you have question wise, But here we
Speaker 1: go twenty Amari Cooper nineteen, Michael Pittman eighteen, Terry McClain
Speaker 1: and I don't feel great about that one. We got
Speaker 1: to talk about that probably a little bit. Mike Evans
Speaker 1: at seventeen and Devanta Smith at sixteen. All right, So
Speaker 1: with Amari Cooper, that's kind of just one of the
Speaker 1: guys that I feel like that ranking right there is
Speaker 1: pretty safe, you know, like he's just one of these
Speaker 1: guys that, as a wide receiver too on your Dynasty roster,
Speaker 1: you can feel pretty comfortable with, not necessarily someone that
Speaker 1: we think he's going to push his way into the
Speaker 1: top twelve anytime soon. But the name that the next
Speaker 1: name on that list that I want to talk about
Speaker 1: is my guy, and I love seeing him here in
Speaker 1: the top twenty of your Dynasty rankings. That is Michael
Speaker 1: Pittman Junior. I've been a just a stout supporter of
Speaker 1: Michael Pittman juniors over since he came out of USC.
Speaker 1: So my question with Michael Pittman Junr. Is what's this
Speaker 1: ceiling for him in this Indianapolis offense, if they invest
Speaker 1: a little bit more here at the wide receiver position,
Speaker 1: maybe we see Paris Campbell stay healthy next year, t
Speaker 1: Y Hilton, you know, moves on, they add someone else.
Speaker 1: Does he still have the ceiling in that instance to
Speaker 1: be a top twelve dynasty wide receiver or do you
Speaker 1: think this is kind of where he's going to remain
Speaker 1: because they are going to be so committed on the
Speaker 1: run game. With a guy like Jonathan Taylor, I think
Speaker 1: he does have the upside to get all the way
Speaker 1: up into that wide receiver one range because I look
Speaker 1: at him as a guy. He's got the size, is
Speaker 1: the skill set to have a double digit touchdown season.
Speaker 1: Would it shock anybody if he comes out? We know
Speaker 1: how touchdowns can be flukey year to year when you
Speaker 1: have a guy like that, where maybe Jonathan Taylor, we
Speaker 1: don't want to see it knock on wood, Maybe he
Speaker 1: gets hurt and miss his time, or maybe teams just
Speaker 1: start stacking the box down on the goal line and
Speaker 1: they start to decide to throw a few more passes
Speaker 1: to Michael Pittman in that area. I would not be
Speaker 1: shocked to see him have a thirteen fourteen touchdown kind
Speaker 1: of season. You look at the quarterback situation. Are they
Speaker 1: gonna stick with Carson Wentz? Maybe, I mean Pittman showed
Speaker 1: he can get it done with Wentz, or maybe they
Speaker 1: find an upgrade. I don't think it's going to get
Speaker 1: worse than Carson Wentz at this point. So yeah, I
Speaker 1: really like Pittman. And you know, people can overrate the
Speaker 1: age thing. He is still entering his prime here. I
Speaker 1: think he turns twenty five this year, so really sliding
Speaker 1: into that perfect zone that you want for a receiver.
Speaker 1: I think sometimes people can get a little crazy about that,
Speaker 1: and we'll probably talk about some of these guys liking
Speaker 1: Amari Cooper, where you could probably get him at a
Speaker 1: pretty good discount right now because he's getting up to
Speaker 1: that twenty eight twenty nine range and people want to
Speaker 1: get off the ride at that point for it before
Speaker 1: it falls off. They think that, yeah, it's going to
Speaker 1: completely fall off. And I think case by case with
Speaker 1: receivers in that sense. Right, you look at some of
Speaker 1: these guys that are great route runners, A lot of
Speaker 1: them can continue to produce. So we'll probably talk about
Speaker 1: a few of them as we go here. But these
Speaker 1: guys can still continue produce. You can often get them
Speaker 1: at nice values. You can use those second round rookie
Speaker 1: picks and add maybe a young receiver that hasn't proven themselves,
Speaker 1: like Rondo Moore or something like that, and pick up
Speaker 1: some of these guys like Annamari Cooper maybe. But Pittman,
Speaker 1: for sure, I think he has that upside. I think
Speaker 1: we're looking at him just a second season here, he
Speaker 1: cracks a thousand yards, and he has that skill set
Speaker 1: to really put up the big touchdown season. So I
Speaker 1: don't think he's going to be a guy that we're
Speaker 1: ever going to see have fifteen hundred yards or something
Speaker 1: like that. But really I look at it as the
Speaker 1: touchdowns or what could get them there. I think that
Speaker 1: that's such an interesting point because you talked about it
Speaker 1: where Okay, let's say that Jonathan Taylor team starts stacking
Speaker 1: the box in the red zone and it goes to
Speaker 1: show Jonathan Taylor. Andrew Rickson on our recent podcast pointed
Speaker 1: this out. Jonathan Taylor head ninety two red zone touches
Speaker 1: this year. The next closest was I think Austin Eckler
Speaker 1: would sixty two. Right, So regression has to come right,
Speaker 1: regression to the means has to come with Jonathan Taylor
Speaker 1: from a red zone touches perspective, And if that is
Speaker 1: the case, then where else are those Where else are
Speaker 1: they going to go? We know that this offense can
Speaker 1: move the ball with Carson Wentz, they're going to be
Speaker 1: in the red zone. But if those red zone touches
Speaker 1: come down, which we expect them to, then where's the
Speaker 1: ball going to go. It's going to go to the
Speaker 1: big bodied receiver in the red zone. Think Michael Pittman
Speaker 1: JUNR absolutely could be that guy who sees this touched
Speaker 1: on totals skyrocket as we moved throughout his NFL career.
Speaker 1: The next guy on this list you mentioned we're probably
Speaker 1: going to talk about him. Yeah, we're definitely going to
Speaker 1: talk about him. That's Terry McLaurin. Man. So, looking at
Speaker 1: our Dynasty ECR, which stands for Export Consensus Ranking here
Speaker 1: at Fantasy Pros, Terry McLaurin is wide receiver twelve. In
Speaker 1: our Dynasty ECR, you have him here at wide receiver eighteen,
Speaker 1: And you know what, I really can't fight you on it,
Speaker 1: Like this is one of the rankings where I look
Speaker 1: at I'm like I get both sides of it. The
Speaker 1: talent level is there to dictate that he's wide receiver twelve. However,
Speaker 1: the production and what we saw here throughout the latter
Speaker 1: half of the season, I can get ranking him here
Speaker 1: a wide receiver eteen. So the question is what do
Speaker 1: we do with Terry McLaurin. Yeah, the thing with him,
Speaker 1: and the reason that I said I just don't feel
Speaker 1: great about that ranking is because the range of outcomes,
Speaker 1: it could go anywhere with him. We could continue to
Speaker 1: have bad quarterback playing. Yeah, he has produced through it,
Speaker 1: but we're seeing him become like that next to Alan
Speaker 1: Robinson right where. Yeah, he's putting up decent stats, it's
Speaker 1: kind of based on volume here had one hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty targets this year, but he's really having some of
Speaker 1: these really bad down games. We're seeing him get missed
Speaker 1: on passes all the time. And that's no knock on
Speaker 1: Taylor Heineke, no knock on Ryan Fitzpatrick, who may or
Speaker 1: may not have been at the Bills game. We don't
Speaker 1: know if that video was him or not. I don't
Speaker 1: think I hope it was. I also hope it was him.
Speaker 1: But the quarterback play has been okay. But there were
Speaker 1: so many times this year where Heinekey just missed mcclaurin downfield,
Speaker 1: and yeah, you could look at that and say, Okay,
Speaker 1: we're going to get better quarterback play. Maybe they'll be
Speaker 1: able to find somebody, bring in one of these veterans
Speaker 1: who could be a lable, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: Terry McLaurin moves right up into the top twelve in
Speaker 1: my mind. But the way I look at it, he's
Speaker 1: also a guy that I think people might not realize
Speaker 1: as old as he is is. He's not super old
Speaker 1: or anything, but he turns twenty seven this year, and
Speaker 1: I think people still look at him. And this is
Speaker 1: where public perception has a huge part in dynasty, right
Speaker 1: you try to figure out where's the public looking, how
Speaker 1: do they feel about certain guys. You talk about Amari Cooper,
Speaker 1: who I think he's just one year older than Terry McLaurin,
Speaker 1: and yet he's played what eight seasons in the NF Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then you have mclurin who came in and now
Speaker 1: he's going to be twenty seven already this year. And
Speaker 1: it's not that he can't still have a few really
Speaker 1: big years or several really big years if they figure
Speaker 1: out that quarterback situation. But because of that, it just
Speaker 1: makes me a little more apprehensive about him. And there's
Speaker 1: other guys on this list that I feel better about
Speaker 1: who I think have more upside. On top of the
Speaker 1: fact that we've seen Washington go out and grab some
Speaker 1: receivers grab it, Danny Brown grab some other guys who
Speaker 1: could steal volume away from him as well. And when
Speaker 1: you look at mclorin, does he really profile I'm just
Speaker 1: not one hundred percent convinced. I guess that he can
Speaker 1: be that true number one, that he is going to
Speaker 1: be the unquestioned guy in an offense. I think there's
Speaker 1: a chance that somebody else could come in and really
Speaker 1: take away some targets in an offense that isn't necessarily
Speaker 1: going to be completely you know, pass happy all the
Speaker 1: time and put up you know, like Buffalo Bill's style,
Speaker 1: We're just going to throw NonStop kind of thing. So
Speaker 1: that's why Luc at mclarnay, it's more just the range
Speaker 1: of outcomes that makes me worried about him, And when
Speaker 1: you're looking at Dynasty assets, that factors into just how
Speaker 1: comfortable do you feel about that guy? Are you worried
Speaker 1: about the floor. Because of that, I have to have
Speaker 1: him a little lower, and I would probably look to
Speaker 1: move off of him if I could and kind of
Speaker 1: capitalize on that name value. Well, it's interesting too you
Speaker 1: talk about the moves that Washington has made at the
Speaker 1: wide receiver position, but also what they could do here.
Speaker 1: Like we've taught, we've gone through a free agent you
Speaker 1: know series here and looking at the incoming free agent
Speaker 1: class here at the wide receiver position, and it's like
Speaker 1: guys like Chris Godwin, Alan Robinson, do they end up
Speaker 1: in Washington? Does Washington look to make a complimentary addition
Speaker 1: opposite of Terry McLaurin and Deamy bron can be a
Speaker 1: guy who could continue to grow. They've got Curtis Samuel,
Speaker 1: but I think that Samuel has helped this past year.
Speaker 1: Maybe he stays in a, you know, a gadget type role,
Speaker 1: like someone that you really don't want to rely on
Speaker 1: as a full time option. Did they make a splash
Speaker 1: at the wide receiver position. That's something to take into
Speaker 1: account as well. Mike Evans, the next guy on your
Speaker 1: list in this tier, probably not really something that we
Speaker 1: need to talk about. A ton just consistent solid, getting
Speaker 1: a little bit older, so you have to take that
Speaker 1: into account. He's right neck and neck with his dynasty
Speaker 1: ECR with where you've got him the one though, Davante
Speaker 1: Smith at the next at the next spot. Here is
Speaker 1: the guy that I want to talk about in my
Speaker 1: question with Davante Smith, is is his dynasty value completely
Speaker 1: wrapped up in Jalen Hurts? Because where we look at
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts as a passer, we know that he's limited.
Speaker 1: He's not going to be someone that we suddenly crown
Speaker 1: next year as one of the best passers in the NFL.
Speaker 1: He's going to be fine from a fantasy perspective, but
Speaker 1: as a someone who will provide consistent value to Davanta Smith,
Speaker 1: it's just not going to happen. So do you think
Speaker 1: that his dynasty value is completely wrapped up in who
Speaker 1: his quarterback is currently? I definitely do. I will quickly
Speaker 1: say though, on Mike Evans, He's the kind of guy
Speaker 1: that I talked about a second ago with a Marii Cooper.
Speaker 1: Mike Evans might be the poster child for the veteran
Speaker 1: that you can go get probably cheap that people are
Speaker 1: looking at the age and all of that and yet
Speaker 1: still continues to put up good seasons. We think Tom
Speaker 1: Brady probably back around. So anyway, I really like Mike
Speaker 1: Evans if you're a contender as a guy that you
Speaker 1: can go and get and still has a couple of
Speaker 1: good seasons in him. Here with Smith, totally agree with
Speaker 1: you that it is all about Jalen Hurts here. I
Speaker 1: think if Jalen Hurts sticks around, then you're looking at
Speaker 1: Monto Smith is going to be capped as probably a
Speaker 1: wide receiver too. And yeah, he could still put up
Speaker 1: some good numbers. There's still some room for him to
Speaker 1: grow here. He had a nice season, not the kind
Speaker 1: of outstanding Jamar Chase justin Jefferson rookie year, but he
Speaker 1: had a good season. Had over a nine hundred yards,
Speaker 1: I believe. But yeah, looking ahead, you really need a
Speaker 1: quarterback change, or really an offensive philosophy change, because when
Speaker 1: the year started, if you recall, if you look at
Speaker 1: what he did over the course of the season early
Speaker 1: in the year was getting peppered with targets. Actually had
Speaker 1: some pretty good games earlier in the season, and then
Speaker 1: the Eagles made that decision they were gonna go more
Speaker 1: run heavy, and after that there was a big chunk
Speaker 1: of the year where Smith kind of disappeared for a
Speaker 1: little bit. Now in the last month or so, he
Speaker 1: kind of came back around. Maybe there was an injury.
Speaker 1: Sometimes after the season we find out there's some injuries
Speaker 1: in there we don't know about. But really had kind
Speaker 1: of a quieter part of the year when they started
Speaker 1: to lean them the run more that Jordan Howard range,
Speaker 1: when they kind of just decided that they win games
Speaker 1: that way. So yeah, I'm totally with you there that
Speaker 1: I really like what we saw from I think he
Speaker 1: silenced a lot of critics who were worried that he
Speaker 1: wasn't going to be able to stay healthy. He stayed
Speaker 1: out there all season long, didn't miss a game, right,
Speaker 1: even playing the playoff game as well, So that's not
Speaker 1: as big of a concern. I don't think moving forward,
Speaker 1: you figure an NFL offseason, he'll be able to continue
Speaker 1: to kind of develop that body and fill out a
Speaker 1: little bit. But it is going to come down to
Speaker 1: the quarterback, and really the quarterback and the system are tied.
Speaker 1: The reason that they want to play that run heavy
Speaker 1: style is because of Jalen Hurts. If Jalen Hurts isn't
Speaker 1: the quarterback we saw when Gardner Minshew is out there,
Speaker 1: They're gonna throw a little bit more, maybe take some
Speaker 1: more chances. I don't think minshe's the answer, but they
Speaker 1: got a lot of early draft picks here. They can
Speaker 1: make a move up the board and try to find somebody.
Speaker 1: This is the balance of dynasty rankings, is the production
Speaker 1: and the current situation and weighing that against the talent
Speaker 1: and what could be down the road. Right, So I
Speaker 1: get like, I've got DeVante Smith down at wide receiver
Speaker 1: twenty two, and my dynasty ranking is still someone that
Speaker 1: I think you definitely can have on your roster and
Speaker 1: can be a pivotal piece. But yet at the same time,
Speaker 1: you have to weigh it with what the current situation is.
Speaker 1: So having him here at sixteen or ECR is wide
Speaker 1: receiver twenty one, I've got him at twenty two. Let's
Speaker 1: move into that next tier. So give me fifteen through
Speaker 1: eleven if you wouldn't mind. All right, we got Chris Godwin,
Speaker 1: who we briefly talked about earlier, Deontae Johnson who's just
Speaker 1: constantly getting targets no matter who's at quarterback. DJ Moore
Speaker 1: at thirteen, Stefan Diggs at twelve from my Bills, I'm
Speaker 1: actually wearing a Bill's hat. It's just turned around, but
Speaker 1: definitely still supporting the Bills. Love seeing them getting that
Speaker 1: big blaff win. And then at number eleven, and I
Speaker 1: mentioned Terry McLaren is the one I struggled with in
Speaker 1: the last group. In this group, it's number eleven. For me,
Speaker 1: it's DK Metcalf, And there's a lot of questions about him,
Speaker 1: which I'm sure we'll get to. Yes, I've got some
Speaker 1: questions there for DK Metcalf. Let's go back to the
Speaker 1: top of that tier. And we talked, we talked about
Speaker 1: him briefly before, but Chris Godwin and I want to
Speaker 1: play this little game here with you of where would
Speaker 1: Chris Godwin rank in the dynasty rankings in both situations here? Right?
Speaker 1: If he stays in Tampa next year, Okay, what's his
Speaker 1: dynasty ranking in that instance? What's the dynasty ranking if
Speaker 1: he leaves in free agency and ends up in a
Speaker 1: spot like Washington we talked about earlier, Maybe Chicago, Allen
Speaker 1: Robinson moves on, they replace him with Chris Godwin, maybe
Speaker 1: something like Las Vegas. Right, like, play it forward. What
Speaker 1: are the differences in dynasty rankings. Is it a big
Speaker 1: difference or do you think that this is kind of
Speaker 1: just where the tier that he's going to be in well,
Speaker 1: And then there's a whole other aspect that we can
Speaker 1: talk about. The other rinkle being the ACL injury, right
Speaker 1: or receiver having an ACL injury that late in the season.
Speaker 1: That's the thing that I really think is unfortunate for him.
Speaker 1: But yeah, you look at it, another guy that a
Speaker 1: lot of things could change for him here if he
Speaker 1: ends up back in Tampa. That's kind of how I'm
Speaker 1: ranking him here. So that's kind of the range I
Speaker 1: would have him if he changes teams. Almost to any situation.
Speaker 1: We've seen a lot of free agent receivers. The top
Speaker 1: end guys tend to be okay, but a high end
Speaker 1: guy who has to deal with an offseason injury that
Speaker 1: he's rehabbing from that means less time out there practicing
Speaker 1: with his new quarterback, less time to develop that chemistry
Speaker 1: in the offseason. It's not going to be a Stefan Diggs.
Speaker 1: I'm going to hang out with Josh Allen all offseason long,
Speaker 1: and then I'm gonna be able to hit the ground
Speaker 1: running when the season starts, right, So I think that
Speaker 1: would really hurt him if he changes teams, if he
Speaker 1: sticks in Tampa, if Brady comes back, then yeah, he's
Speaker 1: going to be in this range. And really then it
Speaker 1: comes down to the ACL injury, and it's hard to
Speaker 1: judge right now with medicine and we're seeing you know,
Speaker 1: camp and playing and kind of blowing away. Now, is
Speaker 1: he just a freak and able to kind of overcome
Speaker 1: it like we've seen some other guys like Adrian Peterson
Speaker 1: kind of overcome injuries in the past. Or is that
Speaker 1: the new mold and that's what we're going to see
Speaker 1: from run backs and from players that end up with
Speaker 1: achilles tears. Then you look at acls. We've seen some
Speaker 1: guys come back, not have a lot of issue, get
Speaker 1: back pretty quickly eight nine months back out in the field.
Speaker 1: Some other guys it's closer to a year before they're
Speaker 1: really back to themselves. So I think that factors in.
Speaker 1: If there was no injury to speak of here, if
Speaker 1: we were just looking at him as completely healthy Chris
Speaker 1: Godwin and we're entering next year like that, he would
Speaker 1: be up inside my top twelve and probably inside my
Speaker 1: top ten, Like I really like god when a guy
Speaker 1: who can win anywhere on the field, right, you put
Speaker 1: him in the slot out wide, A guy who definitely
Speaker 1: has that nose around the red zone. So a player
Speaker 1: that could really put up huge seasons. We've seen it
Speaker 1: from him. He was on pace to do it again
Speaker 1: this year. Didn't end up playing in as many games
Speaker 1: as we would have liked to have seen, but a
Speaker 1: guy that definitely could move up this board pretty quickly
Speaker 1: if that ACL injury ends up healing pretty pretty well.
Speaker 1: In one of my main dynasty leagues, I had Chris
Speaker 1: Godwin draft him in like the startup draft back in
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen or whatever, and then added Michael Gallup this
Speaker 1: during the season, excited for what could be in free agents,
Speaker 1: and now I have absolutely no clue what that team
Speaker 1: is going to turn into. Sounds like you have a
Speaker 1: lot of bad luck with leg Yeah, anyone that I've
Speaker 1: got on my dynasty rosters, you guys want to trade away,
Speaker 1: get away from him. Deanti Johnson was the next guy
Speaker 1: that lists really nothing there to talk about, consistent, solid, steady.
Speaker 1: The question that I got with the next guy is
Speaker 1: DJ Moore, and that is where would you where would
Speaker 1: DJ Moore rank for you? If the Panthers make a
Speaker 1: splash a quarterback. Right We've got David Tepper, the owner
Speaker 1: of the Carolina Panthers. He knows that he can't go
Speaker 1: into next year and try this. Sam Darnold, you know,
Speaker 1: Rejuvenation Project, Cam Newton, p J. Walker, you just can't
Speaker 1: do this. He's got to make a splash to be
Speaker 1: able to win at the quarterback position. And so I
Speaker 1: think looking at Deshaun Watson, Russell Wilson, Aaron Rodgers, whatever that,
Speaker 1: whoever that veteran quarterback is, if they do make a splash,
Speaker 1: is DJ Moore suddenly like that he's into the top
Speaker 1: five for you? Or does he push top ten? Well,
Speaker 1: like I said, I'm really wearing the things I love
Speaker 1: right I got the bills had on here, I got
Speaker 1: the score shirt grabbed the wrong side. There would at
Speaker 1: the more shirt going. I would have a DJ more
Speaker 1: shirt or jersey on as well if if he was
Speaker 1: going to end up in that situation. Helmet right here,
Speaker 1: more signed helmet right there. Absolutely love DJ Moore, one
Speaker 1: of my favorites, you know, in our Dynasty League and
Speaker 1: the Fantasy Pros Dynasty Invitational, A couple of years ago.
Speaker 1: I think you were in the league at that point,
Speaker 1: made a pretty big trade. I thought at the time
Speaker 1: there was kind of several players going both ways, but
Speaker 1: it came down to Amari Cooper for DJ Moore at
Speaker 1: that point, and it was just I was in love
Speaker 1: with what I was seeing. We're seeing a young receiver
Speaker 1: coming to the league put up great numbers do it
Speaker 1: with fairly bad quarterback play. I mean, it was Cam
Speaker 1: Newton with the busted shoulder, it was Kyle Allen, it
Speaker 1: was all these bad quarterbacks and he's still able to
Speaker 1: get it done right. So really fell in love with
Speaker 1: him there, and we've seen it continue and yes, the
Speaker 1: quarterback play hasn't been great, and yet he continues to
Speaker 1: put up these eleven hundred yards seasons. The touchdowns, yeah,
Speaker 1: they haven't really been there for him, and he's even
Speaker 1: talked about that, right, And maybe if we could see
Speaker 1: more things from the offense, better quarterback play, will see
Speaker 1: more scoring opportunities. But it's it's not like he's a
Speaker 1: guy that you know, can't score touchdowns or anything like, right, Like,
Speaker 1: we've definitely seen him put up decent games and find
Speaker 1: the end zone multiple times in the same game. So yeah,
Speaker 1: he is a guy that really, when we're talking about upside,
Speaker 1: a guy that in this range has maybe more upside
Speaker 1: than anybody would end up in the top five. If
Speaker 1: we put him together with a good quarterback, if we saw,
Speaker 1: you know, Deshaun Watson, all that sort of stuff. If
Speaker 1: if the off field stuff was solved and we knew
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson was going to play next year and Deshaun
Speaker 1: Watson ended up in Carolina, that yeah, DJ Moore starts
Speaker 1: to push up into that range top seven, top five
Speaker 1: for me in Dynasty because he is still so young.
Speaker 1: He just turns twenty five and April we talked about
Speaker 1: Amari Cooper being that guy. DJ Moore also that guy.
Speaker 1: The last guy in this tieres DK Metcalf, and Metcalf
Speaker 1: is a super interesting case study. I've got him lockstep
Speaker 1: with you. I've got him at eleven in my Dynasty
Speaker 1: wide receiver rankings as well, someone that we had I
Speaker 1: think I don't know about you, but I had him
Speaker 1: around the wide receiver one in Dynasty coming into the year.
Speaker 1: This was someone that we felt extremely confident building our
Speaker 1: rosters around. And then we saw the first half of
Speaker 1: the year it looks great, and then the latter half,
Speaker 1: I mean he went what eight games straight without scoring
Speaker 1: a touchdown something like that, Like it was just not
Speaker 1: happening for DK Metcalf. Now we have Russell Wilson potentially
Speaker 1: on the move. So is this the time to move
Speaker 1: DK Metcalf in your Dynasty league? With all the Russell
Speaker 1: Wilson trade chatter? Is this the time where you just
Speaker 1: take whatever you can get and try to move off
Speaker 1: of them. No, I'm not taking whatever I can get.
Speaker 1: I never want to sell when a players kind of
Speaker 1: at their lowest, So no, I wouldn't do that. But
Speaker 1: when you look at DK, there's so many problems here, right,
Speaker 1: there's so many unknowns, and I think sometimes especially in Dynasty,
Speaker 1: and I'm big on this one on my podcast on
Speaker 1: Score Fantasy Football podcast, I am always saying, when I
Speaker 1: don't know something, I'm gonna tell you I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to come on and pretend I have
Speaker 1: all the answers. That's silly. And in Dynasty it's the
Speaker 1: perfect example that because in Dynasty you want to be
Speaker 1: able to kind of hedge. You don't want to go
Speaker 1: all in on a situation that we has a terrible,
Speaker 1: terrible outcome potentially, And if we see Russell Wilson leave,
Speaker 1: we don't know who is going to end up being
Speaker 1: the quarterback there. We've already seen DK met cap struggle.
Speaker 1: I don't know what's going to happen with that offense.
Speaker 1: We saw them run the fewest plays of any team
Speaker 1: this year. They averaged three fewer plays than the next
Speaker 1: closest team, and I think it was like thirteen or
Speaker 1: fourteen fewer plays than the top team. I'm pretty sure
Speaker 1: they're Ravens for the top of that category. So this
Speaker 1: is an offense that wasn't a lot of plays, so
Speaker 1: that hurts all the fantasy assets there. Then you have
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson maybe not there. A lot of changes could come.
Speaker 1: It could go anyway here. So yeah, if you can
Speaker 1: get a decent return for DC at this point, yes,
Speaker 1: if the return is just like you're saying, sell them
Speaker 1: for what you can get and move on, I'm never
Speaker 1: going to do that. I would rather hold a guy
Speaker 1: like this who physically could be that Julio Jones Calvin
Speaker 1: Johnson dominant player. And we've seen that from him, right,
Speaker 1: We saw it in twenty twenty. We saw it at
Speaker 1: times this year. You know, he had the three touchdown game.
Speaker 1: He could really take over games now route running, He's
Speaker 1: not on the same level as those guys by any means.
Speaker 1: Definitely still some work to do there, but this is
Speaker 1: a guy that could take over games, could dominate in
Speaker 1: the right situation. Just you might have to wait this
Speaker 1: one out and see where it goes and maybe try
Speaker 1: to find that perfect time in the off season. If
Speaker 1: there's some reports that Russ is coming back, maybe that's
Speaker 1: when you try to make the move as a poster
Speaker 1: right now where I don't know about you, but I
Speaker 1: feel like most people are kind of leaning like it's
Speaker 1: gonna be Russell Wilson not in Seattle next season. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and again it's it's weighing the expectations of what we
Speaker 1: had in mind with DK Metcalf coming into the year,
Speaker 1: like I mentioned, unanimous top five dynasty wide receiver, and
Speaker 1: then now where he's at the public perception, it's kind
Speaker 1: of a letdown, right, So I think if trading him
Speaker 1: right now is probably not the move, let's move into
Speaker 1: that next tier here. Give me ten through six if
Speaker 1: you don't mind, all right, another guy love number ten,
Speaker 1: Te Higgins, number nine A J. Brown. Really, we're gonna
Speaker 1: love all the guys at the top here, but number eight,
Speaker 1: Deebo Samuel, number seven, Jalen Waddle, Number six, Davante Adams.
Speaker 1: All right, so yeah, we're now into the territory where
Speaker 1: it's like we all our nitpicking here. As far as
Speaker 1: you know, the players that we've got ranked wear right.
Speaker 1: So the one that I want to start on here
Speaker 1: is just Tee Higgins, and I want to point out
Speaker 1: his dynasty ECRs Wide Receiver fifteen got him up at ten.
Speaker 1: It's a big difference in this range where we've got
Speaker 1: some really really talented players. So I'll just pose you
Speaker 1: this question, why are you hire Untie Higgins? I mean,
Speaker 1: did you watch him play this year? It was end
Speaker 1: of analysis there we go. I mean we saw him
Speaker 1: have a great rookie season last year. I think really
Speaker 1: the biggest concern if Jamar Chase did not show up
Speaker 1: in the off season, if they had went with Penne
Speaker 1: Sul or someone else, everyone would have been just all
Speaker 1: over T Higgins. There was no really downside to him.
Speaker 1: The guy was phenomenal. We were excited about what we
Speaker 1: saw last year. Jamar Chase shows up and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, everybody's like, Okay, well te Higgins must be
Speaker 1: done then. And I know there's some people myself included,
Speaker 1: who I was still kind of big on te Higgins.
Speaker 1: I know in my mind Chase is still gonna be
Speaker 1: the better receiver long term, but that's not one hundred percent.
Speaker 1: I'm not totally confident on that. I think it could
Speaker 1: be pretty close. And we saw this year what happened.
Speaker 1: Now Tee Higgins comes out in the first couple of games,
Speaker 1: I think at fifty eight yards in Week one and
Speaker 1: a touchdown, sixty yards in Week two and a touchdown.
Speaker 1: Then he gets hurt and misses sometime. I am so
Speaker 1: curious what would have happened if he didn't miss that time,
Speaker 1: because then he came back, was a little rusty for
Speaker 1: a few games, and defenses obviously were seeing what Chase
Speaker 1: was doing early in the year, and they adjusted, and
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, you see Higgins just absolutely
Speaker 1: go off right. It was it had games we had
Speaker 1: seventy eight yards or more in six of his next
Speaker 1: eight games after that had totals of ninety seven yards,
Speaker 1: one hundred and fourteen yards, one hundred and thirty eight yards,
Speaker 1: one hundred and fourteen yards again, and then that huge
Speaker 1: game one hundred and ninety four yards and two scores.
Speaker 1: That was by far as best game of the season.
Speaker 1: So those are our wide receiver one numbers in fantasy.
Speaker 1: And another thing that happened is the year went along.
Speaker 1: Early in the year, Joe Burrow coming back from the
Speaker 1: knee injury, I think they played it safe with him
Speaker 1: a little bit. They were running the ball, they weren't
Speaker 1: thrown as much early in the season, and then as
Speaker 1: the year went along they've opened it up. Obviously it's
Speaker 1: worked out. They're still playing in January here, and we've
Speaker 1: seen Chase and Higgins have these really big games, and
Speaker 1: the odd time Tyler Boyd, but he's definitely taken a
Speaker 1: back seat to those other two. So I think we've
Speaker 1: seen other receivers finish on teams, have teammates finish in
Speaker 1: the top ten together. I think we're gonna see this
Speaker 1: happen with Chase and Higgins here maybe for a while.
Speaker 1: These guys are all so young. Te Higgins, it's his
Speaker 1: birthday today, actually, he turned twenty three today. It shares
Speaker 1: a birthday with my dad, so shout out happy birthday.
Speaker 1: Gordon villeg those guys are sharing a birthday today. But yeah, Higgins,
Speaker 1: to me, we saw what he did as a rookie.
Speaker 1: We were very excited about it. We saw what he
Speaker 1: did for most of the season this year, other than
Speaker 1: when he was hurt that one stretch. I think I
Speaker 1: love what I'm seeing from him, even though he has
Speaker 1: a teammate who is also outstanding. This is a team
Speaker 1: that's gonna be able to throw the ball a lot,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a prolific offense, and Higgins is gonna
Speaker 1: get his numbers as he showed in the second half
Speaker 1: of the year. The best part about this moving forward
Speaker 1: from a dynasty perspective is this offense is very predictive.
Speaker 1: We know exactly what's going to be next year because
Speaker 1: they don't have any needs. Right They're not going to
Speaker 1: change the running back position. They've got Joe Mixon locked up,
Speaker 1: they've got the quarterback, they've got Jamar Chase, te Higgins,
Speaker 1: Tyler Boyd. They're not making any investments there. So it's like,
Speaker 1: I think that they could move into next year and
Speaker 1: just say, on offense, the only things that we need
Speaker 1: to patch up, let's pour some resources into the offensive line.
Speaker 1: But from a fantasy perspective, all we get to do
Speaker 1: is just say, whatever happened last year, let's just project
Speaker 1: that forward. We don't have to wonder and worry about
Speaker 1: what's going to happen. And we know that T Higgins
Speaker 1: can be dominant, can be an extremely talented player run
Speaker 1: through the rest of that tier. For you, it's a
Speaker 1: j Brown Deebo Samuel there. I'm really interested to see
Speaker 1: what happens with Deebo Samuel moving forward? Is what we
Speaker 1: had this past year? Predictive? Is that what we can
Speaker 1: is it sustainable? Is it something that we can have
Speaker 1: moving forward? Jaylen Waddle, you had at wide receiver seven,
Speaker 1: He's wide receiver thirteen in Dynasty. ECR eyeside more with
Speaker 1: your ranking. I love seeing Jalen Waddle that high. And
Speaker 1: then you got Davanta Adams here to end out the tier.
Speaker 1: And I'm really interested to see what happens with Davanta
Speaker 1: Adams and Aaron ros in that whole saga. I think
Speaker 1: that that story is yet to be written. As far
Speaker 1: as what happens here in the postseason four Green Bay,
Speaker 1: Let's move into that next year as we wrap up
Speaker 1: this show. It's Justin, go ahead and give me five
Speaker 1: through one, all right? Number five, Tyree Hill, number four,
Speaker 1: Cooper Cup number three, CD Lamb, number two, Jamar Chase
Speaker 1: who we just talked about, and number one for me
Speaker 1: is Justin Jefferson. And I will say before we get
Speaker 1: into this grouping, there is so much time spent on Twitter,
Speaker 1: on Dynasty Twitter, where everyone wants to argue who is
Speaker 1: the wide receiver one in Dynasty? And I get it. It
Speaker 1: It can be fun to argue that stuff, but I
Speaker 1: don't see the point. I don't know why we waste
Speaker 1: our time. Is that going to really help you win
Speaker 1: a Dynasty league? I don't think so at all. You
Speaker 1: want these guys, it is going to be difficult to
Speaker 1: trade for these guys. Maybe somebody like Cooper Cup or
Speaker 1: Tyree Hill who are a little older. If you're a contender,
Speaker 1: maybe you could pay up to try to get them,
Speaker 1: But it's gonna be incredibly expensive to get any of
Speaker 1: these guys on your Dynasty team. I don't know. We're
Speaker 1: really just kind of splitting hairs when we get up
Speaker 1: into this range. Yeah, I mean, any of these five
Speaker 1: guys are going to help you win your league? Right
Speaker 1: Like any of these guys, so deciding between one or
Speaker 1: the other, they're really all kind of in that same tier,
Speaker 1: right as far as how we do rankings and tier
Speaker 1: them together. The only question that I had as I
Speaker 1: sat down and looked at this list for you is
Speaker 1: does Cooper Cup's age where he's gonna he's twenty eight
Speaker 1: right now, does that give you any sort of concern
Speaker 1: of drafting him as a cornerstone piece of a dynasty
Speaker 1: startup draft? Right you're going into I've got him at
Speaker 1: three in my Dynasty rankings, so I'm right there with you.
Speaker 1: But does his age If you're going into a dynasty
Speaker 1: startup and you say, okay, I want to be able
Speaker 1: to kind of get some younger guys, but as a
Speaker 1: cornerstone piece, based on what happened this year, you're going
Speaker 1: to have to draft Cooper Cup in the first round
Speaker 1: over some solid running backs. Does that give you any
Speaker 1: sort of concern or are you saying over the next
Speaker 1: two to three years is the window that I'm playing
Speaker 1: Dynasty in and I know that Cooper Cup is going
Speaker 1: to help me win championships. Well, I will admit I've
Speaker 1: been wrong on Cooper Cup before. I was more of
Speaker 1: a Robert Woods guy this year, and that obviously through
Speaker 1: some I give my face on that one because Cooper
Speaker 1: Cup obviously just outstanding. But now we're talking more about
Speaker 1: my startup strategy. When I look at that my strategy,
Speaker 1: and I did it in the Fantasy Pros Dynasty Invitational
Speaker 1: several years ago, where I drafted a young Davante Adams
Speaker 1: and a young Michael Thomas and I forget and a
Speaker 1: young Amara Cooper, and I had those three kind of
Speaker 1: we start five receivers in that league. It's very deep
Speaker 1: starting lineups, but I had those three. It's like my
Speaker 1: core of my receiving group, and I let them just
Speaker 1: kind of age graceful until I traded Cooper. But that
Speaker 1: for me is more of the approach. I'm not going
Speaker 1: to spend up and get and once again I could
Speaker 1: be proven wrong on this one and I just won't
Speaker 1: do it. I won't spend up to get that older
Speaker 1: receiver in a startup draft. For me, I want to
Speaker 1: go receiver early, and I want to go young receiver early.
Speaker 1: So we talked about a bunch of names on this list.
Speaker 1: If I can get a guy who has shown me
Speaker 1: he can do it and it's proven much better than
Speaker 1: somebody like a Brandon Aouk, who I took it in
Speaker 1: a startup last year and obviously I overpaid at the time,
Speaker 1: came back around a little the season went along, and
Speaker 1: you know, the story's not finished on him yet, and
Speaker 1: still looked pretty good in the second half of the year.
Speaker 1: But you want to pay up for the young receivers
Speaker 1: who are going to be on your team for a
Speaker 1: long time, are going to hopefully have long careers if
Speaker 1: they avoid injuries. I do not want to pay up
Speaker 1: for an older receiver who, yeah, he's gonna have a
Speaker 1: couple of good years, but that's just not my style.
Speaker 1: I want to go young receiver early, and then I
Speaker 1: want to try to backfill with tons of running backs.
Speaker 1: Because the other thing is, if you can get a
Speaker 1: lot of high end receivers, especially young ones, we're gonna
Speaker 1: be on your team for a while, you don't have
Speaker 1: to use as many roster spots on receiver at that point.
Speaker 1: Right then you can kind of minimize the amount of
Speaker 1: roster spots you're using on receiver and maximize the amount
Speaker 1: of roster spots you're using on wherever else you needed.
Speaker 1: If it's a super flex league, maybe you gotta need
Speaker 1: to take a few more shots on some quarterbacks that
Speaker 1: are projects and could come along, especially though on running backs,
Speaker 1: and I think this year was a perfect example of that,
Speaker 1: where yeah, it was I'm just trying to load up
Speaker 1: my bench with as many of those backups and sometimes
Speaker 1: even third string running backs as I can, because as
Speaker 1: the year goes along, we see those guys have value
Speaker 1: and you can either trade them away for something, maybe
Speaker 1: if you don't need them in the middle of the
Speaker 1: season and someone else wants a few starts, or they
Speaker 1: think that that guy could take over the job, so
Speaker 1: you could do that, or you could just use them,
Speaker 1: And that's kind of what I did. I ended up
Speaker 1: winning the Fantasy Pros league this year that we're in
Speaker 1: because I had all these different guys contribute for me
Speaker 1: along the way. I didn't have a great running back corps,
Speaker 1: but because I had a bunch of different guys step
Speaker 1: up for me, it got it done. And I think
Speaker 1: that's the one position where we know, we know and
Speaker 1: redraft as the year goes along. That's the one position
Speaker 1: where you can find those starters who get that volume
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden they bounce up and become
Speaker 1: a nice piece for you in a given week or
Speaker 1: for a month or something like that. So for me
Speaker 1: with the receiver, it's younger receiver early. I'm not going
Speaker 1: to pay up for a guy like Cooper Cup. That's
Speaker 1: good information, man, all right. So there were a couple
Speaker 1: of notable emissions that as I went through your list
Speaker 1: here that I wanted to just I mean, DeAndre Hopkins.
Speaker 1: I think you had just outside the top twenties, so
Speaker 1: not necessarily someone that we need to talk a ton about.
Speaker 1: But the one that I did want to spend at
Speaker 1: least a minute here is Calvin Ridley. And what do
Speaker 1: we do with Calvin Ridley right now? In Dynasty leagues
Speaker 1: there we obviously know that he's stepped away from the
Speaker 1: team for mental health concerns and taking some time, which
Speaker 1: completely support. Makes sure that you're correct as you're going
Speaker 1: into a high intensity sport and everything like that, you
Speaker 1: got to make sure that you're fully there. But then
Speaker 1: also now there are talks emerging that it might be
Speaker 1: time for a break here between the Falcons and Calvin Ridley.
Speaker 1: So I think you had him down at wide receiver
Speaker 1: thirty in your Dynasty rankings. I have him at twenty four,
Speaker 1: So I someone that is just kind of is this
Speaker 1: a placeholder ranking for you at wide receiver thirty or
Speaker 1: because you don't think that he's coming back anytime soon,
Speaker 1: or is this really like I'm putting him here and
Speaker 1: I got to wait and see what this situation plays
Speaker 1: out as. Yeah, it's it's the risk involved. It is
Speaker 1: kind of a placeholder for me there, but it also
Speaker 1: reflects that I don't want to take that risk right
Speaker 1: if I could trade Ridley right now and get anything
Speaker 1: close to fair value for him, if you're gonna give
Speaker 1: me a first round pick for Ridley at this point,
Speaker 1: I'm in that I would rather have that first round
Speaker 1: pick that's more liquid, that I could maybe move for
Speaker 1: another piece, or that I could just take a rookie,
Speaker 1: to take a young receiver and see if I can
Speaker 1: get them to produce for my team rather than the unknown,
Speaker 1: or really because what we saw from him, Yes, I
Speaker 1: saw the thing recently about the potential trade that could
Speaker 1: happen and maybe that could change things for him, But
Speaker 1: what I read his goodbye, it really seemed like that
Speaker 1: could be if I, like I dropped him down dynasty
Speaker 1: rankings initially, and yeah, like move back up. But in
Speaker 1: that post that he had, I was like, I'm I
Speaker 1: don't think he's coming back, and we've seen I mean
Speaker 1: he is. He's very young to be, you know, walking
Speaker 1: away from the game, if that's what he ends up doing.
Speaker 1: But we've seen other guys leave before we expected, right,
Speaker 1: Like we've seen so many of the Calvin Johnsons and
Speaker 1: the Barry Sanders and these guys kind of really shock
Speaker 1: us and walk away from the game several years before
Speaker 1: we expected. So, you know, with the player empowerment thing,
Speaker 1: with you know, mental health, with people, just realizing how
Speaker 1: important that is, and maybe him realized that he's already
Speaker 1: made some money and you know, he's okay and he
Speaker 1: needs to focus on himself. I think that would send
Speaker 1: a great message if that's what it takes, If that's
Speaker 1: what he needs, that makes sense. That's what he should do, right.
Speaker 1: He shouldn't be forced or pressured to come back and
Speaker 1: play football just because we all expect that he should
Speaker 1: be out there because we have him on our Dynasty
Speaker 1: teams and really want to see him out there. People
Speaker 1: should be supporting that. So yeah, for me, it's just
Speaker 1: about the risk there and if I could get anything
Speaker 1: for him at this point that I thought was fair value.
Speaker 1: I would rather have that option than holding him and
Speaker 1: just kind of the unknown. Now, if he ends up
Speaker 1: getting traded, if we know all of a sudden for
Speaker 1: sure that he's going to come back, he's going to
Speaker 1: make a pretty big jump back at my rankings, and
Speaker 1: he is going to be back into that top twenty
Speaker 1: for sure, because we've seen what he can do. He's
Speaker 1: already proven himself. But right now, I don't feel confident
Speaker 1: that that's going to be the outcome. All right, Bold
Speaker 1: prediction time. As we wrap up the show here, justin
Speaker 1: which player outside of your top twenty that we did
Speaker 1: not talk about here today we'll rise up to be
Speaker 1: a top twelve Dynasty wide receiver at this time next year.
Speaker 1: Call your shot man. There are so many guys that
Speaker 1: I want to say here. I can't say Brandon Ayook
Speaker 1: now because that one I'm just trying to horse happen, right,
Speaker 1: That one I'm just trying to will and get into
Speaker 1: existence exactly. Yeah, the one I will say, and it's
Speaker 1: probably cheating, so I'll give you two. But Elijah Moore
Speaker 1: and he is just outside of my top twenty. But
Speaker 1: that's a guy that we saw the talent from him.
Speaker 1: We saw him really step up. I think that offense
Speaker 1: is only going to get better. I think Zach Wilson
Speaker 1: will show us a little bit more. We saw a
Speaker 1: little more from him as the year went along, and
Speaker 1: he's a guy that when we're looking for these receivers
Speaker 1: that could see just incredible volume. Elijah Moore could see
Speaker 1: a ton of volume in that offense, and I think
Speaker 1: he would deserve it as well. So he's definitely one.
Speaker 1: And then if we want to go a little further down,
Speaker 1: I don't think that the story's over on Rashod Bateman yet.
Speaker 1: I know a lot of people want to look at
Speaker 1: rookie receivers and if they don't really produce big time,
Speaker 1: they want to get off of those guys. I still
Speaker 1: think Bateman has the talent to produce here. I think
Speaker 1: it was a really wonky season for him. When he
Speaker 1: talked about the injury coming in, then the injury to
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson, we saw some flashes and I like the
Speaker 1: things I saw. He looked like a guy. One of
Speaker 1: the biggest things with rook keys is we want to
Speaker 1: see do they belong? Is this a guy who can
Speaker 1: win at the NFL level and can he do it continuously?
Speaker 1: And I think we saw that from Bateman. We saw
Speaker 1: enough flashes from him that he's going to be a
Speaker 1: guy that's gonna have a long career in the NFL
Speaker 1: and a guy that could turn in to a true
Speaker 1: number one. And I know there's a lot of people
Speaker 1: out there that love Hollywood Brown, but to me that offense,
Speaker 1: I think we could see a situation where Bateman develops
Speaker 1: into more of that true, proven number one, and Brown
Speaker 1: ends up being kind of that spark plug speed stair
Speaker 1: number two, that explosive game breaker, But Bateman's the one
Speaker 1: getting more volume eventually. So he's a guy that I
Speaker 1: think is really going to move up the board in
Speaker 1: the next year. Awesome. This was a podcast that was
Speaker 1: packed with information and taking a look at your top
Speaker 1: twenty Dynasty rankings, and again we talked about it like
Speaker 1: going into the podcast, this could have easily been an
Speaker 1: hour long, hour and a half two hour conversation. Tough
Speaker 1: to get it into underneath forty minutes or thirty minutes.
Speaker 1: So justin I want to thank you for coming on man.
Speaker 1: Tell everyone what you got going on at the score
Speaker 1: and where they can find you online. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: you can find me on Twitter at Justin Boone. Lots
Speaker 1: of stuff coming out of the Score now. I took
Speaker 1: a week off at the end of the season there
Speaker 1: after the main fantasy season was over, but we're right
Speaker 1: back at it now. Last week put out my early
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two rankings. Like I said, I put out
Speaker 1: my dynasty trade value chart late last week. This week,
Speaker 1: we're gonna have a look at some early breakouts. We're
Speaker 1: gonna do one for every team, which can be pretty challenging.
Speaker 1: There's a few teams that might not have a true
Speaker 1: breakout candidate yet, but I'm gonna at least explain all
Speaker 1: of that as we go through the article. And The
Speaker 1: Score Fantasy Football Podcast took a couple weeks off after
Speaker 1: the season, but we're gonna be back with that. I'll
Speaker 1: talk about some of those rankings decisions that I made
Speaker 1: in my early rankings in that one, and we'll continue
Speaker 1: to crank o content here throughout the playoffs. We'll start
Speaker 1: to look at top free agents, I'll start to look
Speaker 1: at this year's draft class, and we're gonna have to
Speaker 1: have you on the Score Fantasy Football Podcast again. It's
Speaker 1: been a minute. Since you've been on with us, it
Speaker 1: has been man. Hey, I'll be smashing accept as soon
Speaker 1: as that request comes through, always trying to get the chance.
Speaker 1: That's what I did when you throw out the invite,
Speaker 1: and I'm glad we're able to do this, man, because Yeah,
Speaker 1: we hadn't talked like this at least in a while.
Speaker 1: A lot of Twitter messages, but I hadn't got a
Speaker 1: chance to talk like this in a while, which is
Speaker 1: probably why before the show we were talking for so long.
Speaker 1: But we were like, we should probably start recording. We
Speaker 1: should record this. We need to get going. I got
Speaker 1: I got things to do, man, No a ton of
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Speaker 1: that'll do it for today's show. For Justin Boone, I'm
Speaker 1: Kyle Yates, and we'll see you next time. Thanks for
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