Speaker 1: What's going on? Everyone. Welcome into the Fantasy Pros Dynasty
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Speaker 1: Kyle Yates and I am your host and I am
Speaker 1: joined today by one of my good friends, my best
Speaker 1: friends in the industry, that is Garrett Price. He can
Speaker 1: be found on Twitter at Dynasty Price. Garrett. Welcome into
Speaker 1: the Fantasy Pros Dynasty Football Podcast. Man, dude, thank you
Speaker 1: so much for having me in. Man. Yeah, it's fun
Speaker 1: every time we get to do a show together. I know,
Speaker 1: we've done a couple of Fantasy Pros things and we've
Speaker 1: done some Dynasty Nerds things, and it's just fun every
Speaker 1: time we get to talk because I always go back
Speaker 1: to when we first started and just some of the
Speaker 1: random prospects we would talk about, and random players and stuff.
Speaker 1: And at that time when you first started, I think
Speaker 1: you were you were still over with the footballers, and
Speaker 1: it was just crazy. We both had just these little
Speaker 1: tiny accounts and we were just talking because we love football. Man. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's going to continue here today, right just because you know,
Speaker 1: you're doing some awesome things over there at the Dynasty Nerds,
Speaker 1: you know, and we've got the Dynasty Podcast here now.
Speaker 1: That we're just going to keep talking football, man, so
Speaker 1: really really excited to get into it. Let's break this
Speaker 1: down right away. Man, Let's go right into it with
Speaker 1: the Julio Jones trade. Right this is all anyone is
Speaker 1: talking about in fantasy football, and of course we got
Speaker 1: to break it down here for the people from a
Speaker 1: dynasty perspective. So let's talk about this here, and I
Speaker 1: just want to throw this to you and just get
Speaker 1: your general thoughts here. Let's go with Julio Jones and
Speaker 1: his dynasty stock and then what the fallout is here
Speaker 1: for Tennessee. Let's talk about the Titans perspective, and then
Speaker 1: we'll flip over to Atlanta. So, Julio Jones here, what
Speaker 1: does this do for you? From a dynasty startup perspective?
Speaker 1: With Julio, what's kind of your outlook here? And then
Speaker 1: talk about the Titans. So, Julio has been an interesting
Speaker 1: piece of the dynasty landscape for a while. Traditionally, we
Speaker 1: see receivers once they get close to that like thirty mark.
Speaker 1: Right around thirty is where we become much less interested
Speaker 1: in them overall. Obviously, they still have value, they're still
Speaker 1: good players, but most of the receivers we see start
Speaker 1: to really take a downturn there. Well, Julio when healthy
Speaker 1: has still put up very, very good numbers past that point,
Speaker 1: and so you know, people that were trying to be
Speaker 1: savvy and trade him early kind of kicking themselves because
Speaker 1: he's been somewhat of the outlier compared to a lot
Speaker 1: of these other receivers. All of that being said, he
Speaker 1: is still a very risky piece to invest in. He's
Speaker 1: not getting any younger, and anytime a wide receiver changes
Speaker 1: to a new team, there's always a lot of there's
Speaker 1: a learning curve, and it's not like he comes in
Speaker 1: instantly becomes this alpha number one, because we have a
Speaker 1: j Brown there as well, and he has a great
Speaker 1: rapport with Ryan Tannehill. So I still think he is
Speaker 1: a valuable piece, But I think the days of considering
Speaker 1: him as a true wide receiver one in fantasy are
Speaker 1: long gone. But if you can look at him as
Speaker 1: your wide receiver three and say, look, when he's healthy,
Speaker 1: he can put up some monster games. But I just
Speaker 1: know that it might not be as consistent as it
Speaker 1: was before. This offense might not be you know, throwing
Speaker 1: the ball as much as he was used to in Atlanta.
Speaker 1: So there's just a there's a lot of what ifs
Speaker 1: and maybe's, and I don't want to say red flags
Speaker 1: because he's still Julio Jones, but there's a lot of
Speaker 1: things to give me enough pause to say, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't think he's a lead anymore, but I still think
Speaker 1: he can help your your dynasty fantasy football team. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean where he's going right now in startup draft particularly.
Speaker 1: You know, if you're going into this and you're drafting
Speaker 1: Julio in a startup draft, you're getting him in the
Speaker 1: fifth or sixth round. You're getting him as that wide
Speaker 1: receiver too wide receiver three for your roster. And now
Speaker 1: it doesn't necessarily line up for teams that are going
Speaker 1: into it saying that I'm going to be a long
Speaker 1: term you know, build this out with some rookies and
Speaker 1: some you know, second year players, Like I think he
Speaker 1: does fit a very specific type of roster, which is
Speaker 1: like you're playing to win now exactly. But I do
Speaker 1: think that he's going to carry some value here for
Speaker 1: the next year or two. So what does this do
Speaker 1: for Ryan Tannehill. Let's talk about Tannehill really quick and
Speaker 1: how to value him now in super flex leagues, because
Speaker 1: I don't know about you, Tannehill moved up in my rankings.
Speaker 1: I mean, how can he not, you know, when you
Speaker 1: have someone like a J. Brown Derrick Henry to take
Speaker 1: that pressure off. And then also what Tannehill brings to
Speaker 1: the table as a mobile quarterback, like he can brack
Speaker 1: up some rushing touchdowns here. So now adding Julio to
Speaker 1: this mix, what does this do for Tannehill? And how
Speaker 1: are you viewing him particularly in super flex leagues? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm absolutely interested in Ryan Tannehill. I mean he's gone
Speaker 1: back to back seasons being a top ten quarterback. I
Speaker 1: believe he was either eight both seasons or seven and eight. Like,
Speaker 1: He's been a legitimately good quarterback in super flex leagues.
Speaker 1: And I get it that he doesn't have the sexy
Speaker 1: name of Dak Prescott and Russell Wilson and Justin Herbert,
Speaker 1: but he's still thirty three years old. He still has
Speaker 1: plenty of good seasons left and he was doing that
Speaker 1: with a J. Brown, as you know, a rookie and
Speaker 1: a sophomore, and Corey Davis, who, even though we do
Speaker 1: believe he has some talent, has been nothing short of
Speaker 1: a roller coaster over the course of his career. So
Speaker 1: now you give him two as far as NFL teams
Speaker 1: are concerned, two legitimate wide receiver ones. And we got
Speaker 1: a new offense in there as well now, which looks
Speaker 1: like it could lend itself maybe to a little bit
Speaker 1: more passing than we've seen in the past. I don't
Speaker 1: know how he doesn't easily repeat as a top ten
Speaker 1: and once again a top eight type of quarterback. So
Speaker 1: I don't see many people ranking him in that range,
Speaker 1: but I think he's legitimately a type of quarterback that
Speaker 1: could continue to get you those numbers, and there's an
Speaker 1: outside shot that he sneaks into the top six. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean last year QB seven in all sixteen games
Speaker 1: that he played, thirty three touchdowns, seven interceptions, seven rushing touchdowns.
Speaker 1: So that's what I was talking about. Like I when
Speaker 1: I sat down and did my projections, I was like, man,
Speaker 1: I do not remember Ryan Tannahill having seven rushing touchdowns
Speaker 1: last year. But he brings that to the table too.
Speaker 1: Still only thirty two years olds, so if you're playing
Speaker 1: in that two to three year window that we talk
Speaker 1: about with dynasty, Tannehill is absolutely in consideration for that
Speaker 1: low end QB one status, Like, would you be comfortable
Speaker 1: Tannehill as your QB one in a super flex league?
Speaker 1: I would? You know, Dynasty is a different it's a
Speaker 1: different beast than redraft. Redraft, you feel great about it.
Speaker 1: But in dynasty leagues, even though he's not you know,
Speaker 1: I mentioned it before these you know, twenty three, twenty four,
Speaker 1: twenty five year old studs that we have at the
Speaker 1: top of our rankings. Four years, five years in a
Speaker 1: dynasty league is an eternity. I mean, right, think about
Speaker 1: how much your team has changed and transformed over four
Speaker 1: or five seasons. So you know, even if I'm only
Speaker 1: getting him till age thirty seven, which you know, we've
Speaker 1: seen a lot of quarterbacks go past that mark recently.
Speaker 1: But let's just say we're getting him till thirty seven,
Speaker 1: and we're getting a roughly a fringe quarterback one over
Speaker 1: the majority of that time. I feel great about him
Speaker 1: as my quarterback one. Absolutely. I mean, so let's let's
Speaker 1: talk about our talk about A J. Brown super quick
Speaker 1: For me, he did not move whatsoever my dynasty rankings.
Speaker 1: I've still got him as a top five receiver. I
Speaker 1: think that he takes a little bit of a hit
Speaker 1: this year with overall production, you know, like we're not
Speaker 1: going to see the one hundred and fifty plus targets
Speaker 1: that yeah, we had exactly kind of just penciled him
Speaker 1: in for. But he's still going to be incredibly productive.
Speaker 1: Still really like him long term. Any disagreement there with
Speaker 1: aj Brown, No, not at all. I'm exactly on board
Speaker 1: with you. His ceiling is slightly capped this season alone,
Speaker 1: but we mentioned it before, Julio Jones is not going
Speaker 1: to be playing for another five seasons, so we're looking
Speaker 1: at the long term prognosis of this player. Aja Brown
Speaker 1: is still an absolute stud, all right, And then let's
Speaker 1: go over to the falcons here. There really two players
Speaker 1: that I think are worth talking about our Calvin Ridley
Speaker 1: and Kyle Pitts. So let's talk about Ridley here. Well,
Speaker 1: we can include Matt Ryan in the conversation too, So
Speaker 1: stock down from can Yeah, yeah, stock down from Matt Ryan.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm out man, like I just without Julio on
Speaker 1: the field, will just get Matt Ryan knocked out here.
Speaker 1: I don't want any piece of him, you know, maybe
Speaker 1: as a QB low end QB two and my Dynasty roster,
Speaker 1: but he's also nearing the end of his career. I'm
Speaker 1: just really not interested in having him on my roster.
Speaker 1: And Arthur Well, I mean that's gonna you know, traditionally
Speaker 1: he's looking on a a more run heavy offense. So will
Speaker 1: they still throw the ball quite a bit? Maybe? I
Speaker 1: don't know. It's tough to say what a new coach
Speaker 1: is going to do in a new system and new players,
Speaker 1: but the history tells us that they run the ball. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So let's go with Calvin Ridley here and Kyle Pitts
Speaker 1: give me your thoughts on the fallout here from Julio
Speaker 1: moving on with Calvin Ridley and Pitts Calvin Ridley. So,
Speaker 1: he's always been an interesting one for me. I've always
Speaker 1: viewed him as a good receiver, not a great receiver.
Speaker 1: But to be honest, he's put up fantastic numbers over
Speaker 1: the past couple of seasons, and even though I'm not
Speaker 1: in love with him overall as a player, I don't
Speaker 1: see him in the same light as some of these
Speaker 1: alpha wide receiver ones. That doesn't matter when it comes
Speaker 1: to fantasy football. Likes, it's points that's all that matters.
Speaker 1: So it doesn't matter if they're six foot three and
Speaker 1: run a you know, a four three forty, or if
Speaker 1: they're five to seven and they're Rondelle Moore. You know, like,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter how it all comes together, as long
Speaker 1: as the points are there at the end. And I
Speaker 1: just don't see a realm where Calvin Ridley doesn't end
Speaker 1: up in a similar form where he did last year.
Speaker 1: Where I'm trying to remember exactly where he finished. I
Speaker 1: believe he was what wide receiver five, wide receiver six
Speaker 1: around that range, I'll look it up. Yeah he was.
Speaker 1: I mean, he was a top end wide receiver last year. Yes,
Speaker 1: there will be some time where the coverages are looking
Speaker 1: a little different shifted his way. But for the most
Speaker 1: part without Julio, he performed really well, with that one
Speaker 1: exception of going against Alexander in Green Bay. There, he
Speaker 1: had a great season even when Julio Jones wasn't there.
Speaker 1: So I still expect him to be a top end
Speaker 1: wide receiver one for fantasy football purposes. Yeah, Ridley was
Speaker 1: wide receiver four last year. Okay, so just incredible production.
Speaker 1: And then Kyle Pitts here, let's talk about him really quick.
Speaker 1: And then we've got to talk about some offseason trade targets.
Speaker 1: But Kyle Pitts here, I mean, I can't. I can't
Speaker 1: keep him out of my top five for this season.
Speaker 1: You know, like it's how And I'll just ask it
Speaker 1: this way. How long before we view Kyle Pitts as
Speaker 1: the tight end one in Dynasty? It's probably not that
Speaker 1: far away. And this is once again coming from a
Speaker 1: guy that's been trying really hard to temper expectations. Here,
Speaker 1: we don't see this like this does not happen traditionally
Speaker 1: for rookie tight ends to be able to put up
Speaker 1: monster numbers. The only one in recent memory was Evan
Speaker 1: Ingram and he even like really faded off after that
Speaker 1: fantastic rookie season. So this is just not something that
Speaker 1: is normal. But Kyle Pits is it normal? The way
Speaker 1: Kyle Pitts plays the game is not normal. His physique,
Speaker 1: his abilities are not normal. Now you put him in
Speaker 1: a situation where the long time alpha wide receiver one
Speaker 1: on the team is gone, and he fits that same
Speaker 1: type of mold even though he's playing a different position
Speaker 1: at tight end. So in Dynasty we are we're kind
Speaker 1: of in an interesting spot now because Travis Kelsey has
Speaker 1: been You can make an argument for him being the
Speaker 1: tight end goat as far as fantasy football purposes are concerned.
Speaker 1: Five Street seasons as the number one overall tight ridiculous, Like,
Speaker 1: how does that happen? If that were happening at any
Speaker 1: other position, people would be losing their minds. But I
Speaker 1: think it's because it's right end, people just kind of
Speaker 1: forget about it. I don't know, but all of that
Speaker 1: being said, he is at the point in his career
Speaker 1: too where we have to wonder when you know he's
Speaker 1: going to start trailing off. George Kittle's been up and
Speaker 1: down because of injuries. Darren Waller has been solid, but
Speaker 1: we don't really have that truly like established, no doubt
Speaker 1: dynasty tight end one at this point. And so is
Speaker 1: there a world where at some point this year he's
Speaker 1: just performing so well and the future looks so bright
Speaker 1: that we kind of have to move him up to
Speaker 1: our top tight end during his rookie campaign. There's a
Speaker 1: world where that's real. Yep, no doubt. I mean, the
Speaker 1: only other guy that I'll mention here really quick is
Speaker 1: Hayden Hurst. I was on another podcast here recently and
Speaker 1: I was talking about well, just before this one, and
Speaker 1: it was saying that with Hayden Hurst, I don't think
Speaker 1: that he is completely dead from a dynasty perspective right
Speaker 1: where we completely wrote him off once Kyle Pitts was
Speaker 1: after a number four overall. But now with Arthur Smith
Speaker 1: coming in with two tight end sets, I do think
Speaker 1: that we're going to see a lot of Kyle Pitts
Speaker 1: flexed out wide, and that leads to Hayden Hurst still
Speaker 1: being attached to the line of scrimmage, still being on
Speaker 1: the field quite a bit. I don't know if that's
Speaker 1: going to lead to a ton of consistent fantasy production,
Speaker 1: but someone else in this offense has to step up
Speaker 1: outside of Calvin Ridley and Kyle Pitts, So just keep
Speaker 1: an eye on Hayden Hurst. There is someone that you
Speaker 1: could target in a offseason trade if you wanted to.
Speaker 1: Speaking of offseason trades, man, let's get into this. We've
Speaker 1: got some really really interesting names here that we wanted
Speaker 1: to get ahead of and just say, like, if you
Speaker 1: are just if you're wanting to build out your roster
Speaker 1: and try to make some of these smart moves right now,
Speaker 1: We've got a few names that we wanted to throw
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Speaker 1: let's get into offseason trade targets here. I'm gonna throw
Speaker 1: it to you. You're the guest. You get the first
Speaker 1: opportunity here. Who is a player that you are targeting
Speaker 1: in every Dynasty league that you're in? If you do
Speaker 1: not already have this player, yeah, I do have quite
Speaker 1: a few shares of this player that I want to
Speaker 1: talk about here. And what are you when you brought
Speaker 1: up this topic. I'm trying to look for names that
Speaker 1: are potentially not obvious to the average fan, because if
Speaker 1: everyone's saying to buy a certain player, they're probably not
Speaker 1: a buy anymore. You know, they're at the point where
Speaker 1: everyone sees it, so it might actually be flipped on
Speaker 1: its head and you might actually get more for that
Speaker 1: player than they're actually worth. And so I try to
Speaker 1: look for some names that I thought might not be
Speaker 1: as obvious and why I like this player. So the
Speaker 1: first one I'm gonna go with you Mention and Jonathan
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Speaker 1: his new teammate, Carson Wentz. Now, I know for Carson
Speaker 1: Wentz managers last year it seemed really tough, it seemed
Speaker 1: really difficult. But here we have a twenty eight year
Speaker 1: old quarterback who last year, subtracting the game where he
Speaker 1: was pulled for Jalen Hurts, the games where he was
Speaker 1: the starter and the guy that finished the game on
Speaker 1: a points per game basis, he was actually quarterback twelve
Speaker 1: on the season. He was a QB one last year.
Speaker 1: For how bad everything looked and seemed and how terrible
Speaker 1: this offense was, he was actually still a QB one
Speaker 1: in games that he started and finished he's now moving
Speaker 1: to a situation where he's upgrading offensive line. Phillies line,
Speaker 1: according to PFF last year was ranked nineteenth, which was
Speaker 1: actually better than I thought it was, right, Yeah, but
Speaker 1: he's moving to Indy ware there this was their worst
Speaker 1: season in a while and they were ranked seventh on
Speaker 1: the offensive line, So big upgrade on the offensive line.
Speaker 1: He's getting some good new weapons, which a lot of
Speaker 1: them were hurt in the past couple of seasons for Philly.
Speaker 1: He's getting some nice new weapons there in Indie. But
Speaker 1: I think the biggest thing overall is he's reunited with
Speaker 1: Frank Reich, who was his offensive coordinator in Philadelphia, who
Speaker 1: actually had him as quarterback five in Fantasy Football in
Speaker 1: his sophomore campaign. So all of these things being said,
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz is actually coming off the board right now
Speaker 1: in Dynasty. This isn't redraft in Dynasty as a twenty
Speaker 1: eight year old quarterback, Sleepers ADP has him as the
Speaker 1: twentieth quarterback off the board at this That's insane. It's
Speaker 1: absolutely insane. They just traded quite a bit to get
Speaker 1: this guy on their team. I think he's going to
Speaker 1: be a very solid player, and I still think that
Speaker 1: there's a world where he could get back up to
Speaker 1: being a legitimate mid range QB one again. I mean,
Speaker 1: there absolutely is the path for it. It is not
Speaker 1: a guarantee, which is why his value is so low.
Speaker 1: And people who did roster Carson Wentz last year. I
Speaker 1: was one of them in a dynasty lead got in
Speaker 1: a couple of leagues here or there, and it's like
Speaker 1: the lows were really low. You know, the perception around
Speaker 1: him was just not great at all. So you the
Speaker 1: value points and I'm glad that you brought up like
Speaker 1: the games that he finished, and this was his value
Speaker 1: is QB twelve on points per game. Like all of
Speaker 1: that can go together to say that the path for
Speaker 1: him to get back to being a very very relevant
Speaker 1: fantasy quarterback is there. The value is a little bit low,
Speaker 1: which makes him a perfect buy candidate right now, especially
Speaker 1: in super flex leagues. If you can turn you know,
Speaker 1: and get him as your QB two QB three in
Speaker 1: a super flex league, I think that that's a really
Speaker 1: really smart move. I'm gonna go with a player here,
Speaker 1: a running back who once cam Akers broke out last
Speaker 1: year and got those like thirty carries per game, you know,
Speaker 1: rush attempts there and stuff like that. The perception on
Speaker 1: Darryl Henderson just completely fell off a cliff, you know.
Speaker 1: And it's not that Henderson doesn't have the talent and
Speaker 1: that he doesn't have the potential to be great for
Speaker 1: fantasy purposes. It was that Sean McVay just turned the
Speaker 1: Cam akers and just gave him the complete workload and
Speaker 1: Henderson was not on the field at all. Now this season,
Speaker 1: you have a depth start here with Cam Acres, Darryl Henderson.
Speaker 1: You've got Xavier Jones, Jake Funk rookie, You've got Raymond
Speaker 1: Colaius there. So it is really a two man backfield
Speaker 1: right now with Acres and Henderson. Something else to consider
Speaker 1: here is that this is now a seventeen game season.
Speaker 1: So I'll just put it this way. Acres is not
Speaker 1: getting thirty carries per game for all seventeen games. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's just not happening. You're not going to wear down
Speaker 1: your running back that way. And so Henderson is going
Speaker 1: to be involved this season no matter what, He's going
Speaker 1: to be involved in this offense. Now, do I think
Speaker 1: that it is something that translates to like flex value
Speaker 1: every single week? No, I don't, but the unspeakable upside
Speaker 1: that he comes with. If something were to happen to
Speaker 1: cam Akers, and we already saw Acres deal with injury
Speaker 1: last year, Henderson could be a league winner. So people
Speaker 1: are not thinking about Henderson really, you know, they're thinking
Speaker 1: that he's just a RB five for your roster right now.
Speaker 1: I want him on my Dynasty rosters because of the
Speaker 1: upside that he carries, and I think you can get
Speaker 1: him super, super cheap right now. Do you have any
Speaker 1: thoughts here on Henderson and this call? No, I'm absolutely
Speaker 1: I'm there with you. We saw Henderson actually get a
Speaker 1: line share of the workload early on in the season
Speaker 1: when cam Akers was banged up and you know he
Speaker 1: had he had that rib injury and all that, and
Speaker 1: performed really well. He had a couple of weeks where
Speaker 1: he was the waiver wire gem in redraft, the leagues,
Speaker 1: everybody was going after him. And so yeah, I'm a board.
Speaker 1: I'm all aboard with that. I think Henderson's a good player,
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Speaker 1: number two offseason trade target here who you got, all right,
Speaker 1: So this is another player that got a little banged up.
Speaker 1: The perception around him was real negative. Right now, currently
Speaker 1: going sleepers ADP for Dynasty. He we're looking at running back.
Speaker 1: Sixteen running back that I'm gonna go with here is
Speaker 1: Joe Mixon. Yes, it's fascinating to me how much people
Speaker 1: have been hating on Joe Mixon over the past two
Speaker 1: full seasons that he played. He was RB eleven and
Speaker 1: RB thirteen, and those were in Marvin Lewis's offense. This
Speaker 1: was not in this newly revamped, high octane offense that
Speaker 1: Zach Taylor's attempting to build. This was in an old, boring,
Speaker 1: pedestrian offense led by Andy Dalton, you know, like it's
Speaker 1: He was RB eleven and thirteen, and his biggest issue
Speaker 1: his entire career for fantasy football purposes was Joe Bernard. Geo.
Speaker 1: Bernard would come in on passing downs, and even though
Speaker 1: Joe Mixon was a fantastic receiving back, he would only
Speaker 1: average two three targets a game because Jee Bernard was
Speaker 1: coming in for a lot of those passing downs. Jeer
Speaker 1: Bernard's gone now and they've done quite a bit to
Speaker 1: add to this offensive line, Jonah Williams is in the
Speaker 1: second full season now, who was injured in his rookie campaign,
Speaker 1: actually performed very well in a sophomore campaign or his
Speaker 1: first real season. And they also added Riley Reef, who
Speaker 1: has been a very solid right tackle for the Minnesota
Speaker 1: Vikings for a while, and drafting the second round Jackson
Speaker 1: Carmen to play guard. So this offensive line is not
Speaker 1: the same offensive line that we saw at the beginning
Speaker 1: of the year last year that got Joe Burrow injured.
Speaker 1: This is a much improved offensive line and I think
Speaker 1: that's going to really help Joe Mixon. On top of that,
Speaker 1: he's only twenty five years old. It's not like he's
Speaker 1: twenty six, twenty seven, twenty eight like some of these
Speaker 1: other big time running backs. He's still only twenty five
Speaker 1: years old and will be for the entire end of
Speaker 1: the season. Last but not least, we heard the running
Speaker 1: backs coach come out and say that they do not
Speaker 1: want Joe Mixon to leave the field. Ye if there's
Speaker 1: any shred of truth to that. We're talking about a
Speaker 1: three hundred and fifty touch type of player that is
Speaker 1: now going to also be used in the passing game
Speaker 1: on a very high octane, exciting offense at running back sixteen.
Speaker 1: I just think that's great, great value that you can
Speaker 1: really capitalize on, because this guy could be one of
Speaker 1: those top six, seven eight running backs this season very
Speaker 1: easily on volume alone. Oh man, okay, So I have
Speaker 1: spent the entire offseason saying, like, why are we discounting
Speaker 1: Joe Mixon? Like the workload that he is going to
Speaker 1: get when he is on the field is ridiculous. And
Speaker 1: I've said this, Garrett, I've said that is if he
Speaker 1: were shut down last year when the injury occurred, they
Speaker 1: had just said right away, all right, we're putting him
Speaker 1: on IR that would be a completely different perception in
Speaker 1: our minds on how we view Joe Mixon. But because
Speaker 1: he was, Oh, he's going to be back this week.
Speaker 1: Oh wait, no, he's going to be back this week. No, no,
Speaker 1: hill for sure be back this week, and it just kept,
Speaker 1: you know, just going on and on, and people were
Speaker 1: waiting to be able to plug Joe Mixon in the
Speaker 1: workload that he gets when he's on the field. It
Speaker 1: was like twenty four carries and eight targets. You know,
Speaker 1: it's just absurd. And then all everything that you mentioned,
Speaker 1: not only Jamar Chase coming into this offense, which is
Speaker 1: going to command attention and open things up even more
Speaker 1: from Mixon. So yeah, our B sixteen, I am drafting
Speaker 1: him everywhere. I would be going after him in trades.
Speaker 1: I have him every single league that I'm in. So
Speaker 1: it's like I can't go trade for Joe Mixon because
Speaker 1: I've already got him on my roster. Completely agree with
Speaker 1: this call, man, Absolutely love it. The player I'll mentioned
Speaker 1: here is Henry Ruggs. Now, the way that we really
Speaker 1: need to think about fantasy football is the way that
Speaker 1: coaches do and coaches think about players in specific roles
Speaker 1: for their offense. And last year with Tyroll Williams, with
Speaker 1: him he was either injured or COVID opt out I
Speaker 1: can't remember off the top of my head, but Tybroll
Speaker 1: Williams was going to be this field stretching option for
Speaker 1: this offense, right, and they drafted Henry Ruggs to fill
Speaker 1: the role that he was so good at at Alabama
Speaker 1: in college, which is working underneath and then creating with
Speaker 1: his speed after the catch. With Tyroll Williams not being there,
Speaker 1: they had to plug Henry Ruggs and to fill this
Speaker 1: role as that field stretching option and his a dot
Speaker 1: his average up the target was just ridiculous. His yards
Speaker 1: after the catch numbers were low because he was targeted,
Speaker 1: so it was being underutilized or misutilized, if that's even
Speaker 1: a word. So Henry Ruggs now with John Brown coming
Speaker 1: into this offense, John Brown, that is the role that
Speaker 1: he fills. John Brown is that field stretching option. He's
Speaker 1: going to operate and open things up deep downfield, to
Speaker 1: open things up underneath for guys like Henry Ruggs out
Speaker 1: of the slot and then Brian Edwards as that possession
Speaker 1: style receiver. So people rode off Henry Ruggs way too quickly,
Speaker 1: and I think that you can get him right now dirt, dirt,
Speaker 1: cheap and Dynasty League. So I am going after and
Speaker 1: trying to acquire Henry Ruggs now before we start to
Speaker 1: see some of these flash plays in the preseason, and
Speaker 1: I'm hoping, I'm hoping that they start to utilize him
Speaker 1: the right way, which is again out of the slot,
Speaker 1: being able to work underneath and then take some pressure
Speaker 1: off of Derek Carr, which I do think that they're
Speaker 1: going to have to throw the ball even more than
Speaker 1: they have in previous years because of the offensive line
Speaker 1: being turned over, because of Josh Jacobs and Kenny Drake,
Speaker 1: you know everything. I think they're going to have to
Speaker 1: throw the ball a little bit more than they would like.
Speaker 1: And I think Henry Ruggs benefits. So Ruggs as my
Speaker 1: second offseason trade target, I'm trying to get him now
Speaker 1: before the price increases. Yeah, I totally understand that I've
Speaker 1: never been the biggest Henry Ruggs supporter, not because I
Speaker 1: don't think he's a bad player or anything like that.
Speaker 1: I just always wondered, you know, how consistent would he
Speaker 1: be able to be. But for him and even Brian Edwards,
Speaker 1: another guy that I really like as well, I think
Speaker 1: what really speaks strongly to them is that this team
Speaker 1: invested nothing into the wide receiver corps in this offseason.
Speaker 1: So even if you're not the stanches supporter of Rugs,
Speaker 1: like I haven't necessarily been, even I would have to
Speaker 1: admit there is an absolute path for fantasy greatness just
Speaker 1: on the fact alone that this team still believes in
Speaker 1: those two guys enough despite both having disappointing rookie campaigns
Speaker 1: that they can be difference makers for this team just
Speaker 1: by the fact that they haven't invested in the position
Speaker 1: at all this offseason. So I'm on board with it too,
Speaker 1: all right, So let's go with your third offseason trade
Speaker 1: target here, Garrett, who do we got? All? Right? Last,
Speaker 1: but not least I could. I could have done this
Speaker 1: one in twenty eighteen. I could have done this one
Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen, could have done this one in twenty like,
Speaker 1: I could do this player every season, and for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: he'll still be undervalued every single season. And that is
Speaker 1: one mister Robert Woods from the La Rams. Now, I
Speaker 1: didn't want to do this guy because of that reason,
Speaker 1: but I went back in and I looked once again
Speaker 1: at his numbers and once again way undervalued. Sleepers ADP
Speaker 1: for Dynasty thirty three. At the wide receiver position. We're
Speaker 1: talking about a receiver that finished with the fourteenth best season,
Speaker 1: fourteenth best season, and the eleventh best season over the
Speaker 1: past three years. But we've seen We've seen a continued
Speaker 1: series of success year after year after year, and even
Speaker 1: if everything stayed exactly the same, he would still be
Speaker 1: a great value. However, we have some We have a
Speaker 1: big change that's happened in this offense. Jared Goff has
Speaker 1: been replaced by Matthew Stafford. Jared Goff did not want
Speaker 1: to push the ball downfield. In fact, both Cooper Cup
Speaker 1: and Robert Woods, their two top receivers, both finished in
Speaker 1: the bottom ten of a DOT last year with from
Speaker 1: receivers that had at least thirty receptions, so receivers that
Speaker 1: had at least third receptions, both of those guys were
Speaker 1: in the top ten. Now, part of that main reason,
Speaker 1: I think is the air yards. Jared Goff had was
Speaker 1: twenty first in the NFL for air yards last year
Speaker 1: with three thousand, four hundred and six twenty first. Matthew Stafford,
Speaker 1: who by the way, had nothing at receiver last year,
Speaker 1: especially once Kenny Galladay went out nothing at receiver, finished
Speaker 1: seventh in the NFL at four thousand, six hundred nine.
Speaker 1: That's a twelve hundred yard air yard difference. So that
Speaker 1: means Matthew Stafford's looking to push the ball downfield. We
Speaker 1: heard over and over and over that Jared Goff just
Speaker 1: wasn't getting it done in mcvagh's off mcvayh had other
Speaker 1: things he wanted to do, but was just handcuffed because
Speaker 1: of the limitations from Jared Goff. Matthew Stafford does not
Speaker 1: have those limitations. We could easily see him repeating the
Speaker 1: same performance as a low end wide receiver one, high
Speaker 1: end wide receiver two that he's done in the past
Speaker 1: three years, and there's even a world where he does
Speaker 1: better than that. I'm all aboard the Robert woodstrein once again,
Speaker 1: just because he's so undervalued. I love this call, man.
Speaker 1: I this is another player that I already have a
Speaker 1: ton of shares just to begin with. And I've been
Speaker 1: this offseason trying to go get Robert Woods before we
Speaker 1: see this offense and what it looks like with Matthew Stafford,
Speaker 1: because I do think and you did a phenomenal job
Speaker 1: of laying that out. I mean a dot last year
Speaker 1: Cooper Cup six point three, Robert Woods six point eight,
Speaker 1: you know, and Matthew Stafford's a dot overall. A dot
Speaker 1: last year was nine point four. So it's like something
Speaker 1: is going to have to give here, and it's not,
Speaker 1: you know, Cooper Cup and Robert Woods staying at that
Speaker 1: six point aa dot. Like they're going to be pushing
Speaker 1: the ball deep downfield. They're going to be moving. And
Speaker 1: I mean I talked about this on a recent podcast saying, like,
Speaker 1: what happens if we start to see Matthew Stafford this
Speaker 1: offense bounce to like Matthew Stafford's average touchdown numbers, which
Speaker 1: are like twenty six. He had twenty six passing touchdowns
Speaker 1: last year, what happens if that goes to twenty nine,
Speaker 1: thirty one, thirty two. Suddenly we're talking about a massive
Speaker 1: increase here for Cooper Cup and Robert Woods, who I
Speaker 1: think are both values right now in Dynasty. So people,
Speaker 1: Robert Woods isn't necessarily the most flashy player, and I
Speaker 1: think that might be why his ADP is so low,
Speaker 1: But I am taking him everywhere that I can get him.
Speaker 1: Love the call there. The player that I'll just throw
Speaker 1: out here really quickly and then we'll wrap things up
Speaker 1: is Ezekiel Elliott. Now Zeke. The perception on him right
Speaker 1: now is that he is starting to near like the
Speaker 1: end of his career. He's lost a step. And granted,
Speaker 1: he did not play well last year once Dak Prescott
Speaker 1: went out of the lineup, like the energy just wasn't there.
Speaker 1: The production. We know that he had some of these
Speaker 1: games that were just absolutely terrible. They burned us for fantasy,
Speaker 1: but his production. Dak was on the field and healthy,
Speaker 1: and this offense had to throw the ball a ton
Speaker 1: and was very, very high powered. Zeke was phenomenal. He
Speaker 1: was the RB three through the first five weeks of
Speaker 1: the season off the top of my head. So Zeke
Speaker 1: was a fantastic Dynasty asset even though he is now
Speaker 1: twenty six, twenty seven years old, like he's starting to
Speaker 1: near the end, but you still got two to three
Speaker 1: years of really really solid production out of him. And
Speaker 1: the overall perception on him is a little bit low
Speaker 1: here because of what he did last year. So if
Speaker 1: you can, you're gonna still have to pay. It's not
Speaker 1: like this is a buy low, like really really buy
Speaker 1: cheap candidate, like you're still gonna have to pay for
Speaker 1: Zeke Elliott. But I do think that his value is
Speaker 1: low enough right now that it's going to return value
Speaker 1: here pretty quickly, especially once we see Dak back on
Speaker 1: the field. So Zekiel Elliott here rounds out my top
Speaker 1: three offseason trade targets. Again, that was Darrell Henderson, Henry Ruggs,
Speaker 1: and Ezekiel Elliott and then price you had Joe Mixon,
Speaker 1: you had Robert Woods, and then your first guy was,
Speaker 1: off the top of my head, I cannot Carson Wentz,
Speaker 1: It's right, So giving you guys there a super flex
Speaker 1: value there with Carson Wentz and then of course a
Speaker 1: couple of running backs here and a wide receiver really
Speaker 1: really beneficial Price. Thank you so much for coming on, man,
Speaker 1: I really really appreciate having you. Oh. Absolutely, Man, anytime
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