Speaker 1: Welcome back, everybody.
Speaker 2: It's the Fantasy Pros Dynasty Fantasy Football Podcast. I'm your host,
Speaker 2: Scott Bogman. Follow me on the Twitter at Bogman Sports.
Speaker 2: I'm joined as always by Pat Fitzmorris at fits Underscore
Speaker 2: ff on the Twitter machine.
Speaker 1: FITZI, how you doing this week?
Speaker 3: Bugs? I'm doing great.
Speaker 4: I mean it's ninety something degrees outside with like one
Speaker 4: hundred and twelve percent humidity, so there's really no place
Speaker 4: I'd rather be than here in the air conditioning talking
Speaker 4: fantasy football with you and our guest, who's a great
Speaker 4: guest by the way, even though I yelled at him
Speaker 4: on the Scott Fishball Potathon.
Speaker 1: So Russ, you're going to take that.
Speaker 2: It's it's Russ Fisher at Dynasty Outhouse from the Dynasty
Speaker 2: Addicts podcast network.
Speaker 1: Russ, how you doing? Are you going to take that
Speaker 1: from FITZI?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 3: Should? Should I explain why I yelled at him?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Why did you yell at it? That's any one.
Speaker 4: Got the Fantasy Football Expo coming up in Can't, Ohio,
Speaker 4: and you know Ross was co ho sting the Scott
Speaker 4: Fishball Potathon and he's trying to tell everyone about this
Speaker 4: great breakfast spot in Kanton, Ohio that's right by the
Speaker 4: hotel that's sort of the you know, home base for
Speaker 4: all the festivities. It's super close, but like it's kind
Speaker 4: of a small place, and uh, you know, I love
Speaker 4: this place. I mean, as far as breakfast places go,
Speaker 4: maybe one of the best I've ever been to. And wow,
Speaker 4: I lived in, you know, on the North side of
Speaker 4: Chicago for eight years, where they're great breakfast places all over,
Speaker 4: and this place is up there with any of them.
Speaker 4: I'm not even going to mention the name because it's.
Speaker 5: Called George's Third Half. It's wonderful.
Speaker 4: This place is awesome, and you know, I want to
Speaker 4: be able to get a table there, and Russ was
Speaker 4: not helping in that regard.
Speaker 5: Every year we go, we've got well, I guess the
Speaker 5: past two years because pre COVID it was you know,
Speaker 5: in a different hotel. But like these past two years
Speaker 5: that we've gone, gone there for breakfast every single day,
Speaker 5: and like every single day, Zach Reid and I like
Speaker 5: literally do a little dance down the street as like gonadfist,
Speaker 5: gonna get some breakfast, and you leave singing the same song,
Speaker 5: just a little slower because your belly.
Speaker 1: Is just full, wish I had ate so much breakfast.
Speaker 5: No no, no, no, you and he oh man, we just
Speaker 5: date some breakfast. It was breakfast I need now.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think everyone's had that breakfast song before.
Speaker 1: Man. I mean I'm usually not awake for breakfast.
Speaker 2: But if that place is open past noon, like till
Speaker 2: two o'clock, like some of those breakfast spots are, I
Speaker 2: am all about it. So uh at breakfast food. I
Speaker 2: don't know why I think I love breakfast food so
Speaker 2: much because I'm such a night out and I'm never,
Speaker 2: like usually awake for breakfast. So it's like a rare
Speaker 2: treat for me. When I'm awake early enough for breakfast,
Speaker 2: I really like to go get breakfast.
Speaker 5: So it's like Parks and Recreation and where Leslie and
Speaker 5: Ron were sitting across fro each other eating at a
Speaker 5: diner and eating breakfast, Like why do people eat things
Speaker 5: other than breakfast food? And Ron just goli, that's the
Speaker 5: real answer. It's just like breakfast food is the best.
Speaker 5: It is fantastic, It is wonderful and should be eaten
Speaker 5: and is allowed to be eaten just anytime you want.
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Speaker 2: what what are we gonna do here? Are we gonna
Speaker 2: become an upper echelon player? Are we going to become
Speaker 2: some of these guys we we go as low as
Speaker 2: are we draftable players? Or are you just kind of
Speaker 2: a jag? You're another guy in here that is, you know,
Speaker 2: last round fodder, RB Handcuff, a wide receiver, bye week guy. Like,
Speaker 2: we want to know if these players are gonna take
Speaker 2: the next step into stardom or are they gonna revert
Speaker 2: to what the NFL stands for for the most part,
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Speaker 1: All right, Russ, I will hand it to you. Who
Speaker 1: do you want to talk about first here?
Speaker 5: Well, first, I want to talk about you for a second.
Speaker 5: I read the fine print. I did not see anything
Speaker 5: that said podcasters can't win.
Speaker 1: So I'm subscribed. I can comment exactly so, but see
Speaker 1: my comment is then I have to read the rest
Speaker 1: of the comments and then I get my feelings hurt.
Speaker 5: So no, no, you never you never read the comments. Man,
Speaker 5: better than that. But you just you get in there,
Speaker 5: you put in your name in the hat for the jersey,
Speaker 5: and then you run away crying like that's that's that's
Speaker 5: how you handle comments.
Speaker 1: I like it. Yeah, yeah, I can do that.
Speaker 2: So, uh you we got three players for you, three
Speaker 2: players for FITZI and then I've got four, but uh,
Speaker 2: you're up first, Russ.
Speaker 1: Who you got?
Speaker 5: I have two that make me sad and one that
Speaker 5: I've come to terms on already. So let's let's let's
Speaker 5: oreo sandwich this one with sadness on the outside. So
Speaker 5: my first one is DeAndre Swift. And I've been a
Speaker 5: fan of Swift from the very beginning, but it was
Speaker 5: one of those cases where everyone else liked him a
Speaker 5: lot more than I did, so his price, his ADP,
Speaker 5: his everything was way too high. And then last year
Speaker 5: it starts to get to a good place and this
Speaker 5: off season, I'm just like, yes, let's go, let's go.
Speaker 5: And then they draft Jamir Gibbs and then you're like,
Speaker 5: all right, well they have to trade him, right, And
Speaker 5: it was like the scariest twenty minutes of a Deandra
Speaker 5: Swift man in life. And then he goes to Philly
Speaker 5: and I'm just like, like, where else do you want
Speaker 5: your running back to go? Like that is literally like
Speaker 5: the best spots to land in right now. And all
Speaker 5: I'm saying is there was a certain wide receiver who
Speaker 5: we would say is a top three wide receiver if
Speaker 5: he could just stay healthy for the year, had all
Speaker 5: of these soft tissue injuries in Tennessee, goes to Philadelphia
Speaker 5: and has a full season with no injuries, So clearly
Speaker 5: that is medical fact. In Philly the Tennessee water, yeah,
Speaker 5: and Detroit water also, but Philly water keeps you famous,
Speaker 5: keeps you very very hydrated, and keeps those tendons and
Speaker 5: ligaments nice and intact. So if Swift stays healthy, Swift
Speaker 5: still is a guy that is not going to get
Speaker 5: eighty percent of touches. He should not be. His body
Speaker 5: apparently can't hold up to it anyway. But like, there's
Speaker 5: a chance Swift can walk in to be a top
Speaker 5: ten fantasy running back this year based on that offense,
Speaker 5: even if he just sticks with that what felt like
Speaker 5: forty percent workload out of Detroit, Like that's and I'm
Speaker 5: ready for it, and I'm here for it. But if
Speaker 5: this season he finishes as like RB fifteen, RB eighteen,
Speaker 5: it's like, all right, he's a running back too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean fits, It's hard to know what to
Speaker 2: expect from DeAndre Swift. His ECR for Dynasty right now
Speaker 2: is RB nineteen points per game in PPR the last
Speaker 2: three seasons RB sixteen, RB ten, RB eighteen but he
Speaker 2: has missed ten games over those three seasons, and he's
Speaker 2: only eclipsed two hundred touches one time in those three seasons.
Speaker 2: And you and I have talked about how it seems
Speaker 2: like Billy kind of likes for Penny more than went
Speaker 2: out and signed him first.
Speaker 1: He got first team reps the first day at camp.
Speaker 2: I don't know if that really means anything, because day
Speaker 2: two it could be Swift getting that. They might just
Speaker 2: rotate those, but I mean it's the news that we
Speaker 2: have right now, so people talking about it. Does it
Speaker 2: matter because Penny will probably get hurt, but maybe DeAndre
Speaker 2: Swift will get hurt too.
Speaker 1: Fitzy, what's your take on Swift at the crossroads here?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: So I agree this was a great selection by Russ
Speaker 4: because he really is a crossroads player. And I loved
Speaker 4: him too coming out of Florida State, and I think
Speaker 4: one of the things we liked about him so much
Speaker 4: was because he had that pass catching skill set and
Speaker 4: that gave him this starry Christian McCaffrey, Austin Eckler type ceiling,
Speaker 4: and we've seen snippets of that, especially in games where
Speaker 4: Detroit got way down and all of a sudden, they're
Speaker 4: peppering him with like a dozen targets in a game,
Speaker 4: and you know, sort of the garbage time catch up yards.
Speaker 4: That's sort of my concern about him going to Philadelphia. Like,
Speaker 4: on one hand, it's great that he's going to be
Speaker 4: working behind those those glass eating offensive linemen they have
Speaker 4: in Philly. On the other hand, Philly had the fewest
Speaker 4: running back targets in the league last year sixty one,
Speaker 4: which is fewer targets and Swift himself as scene in
Speaker 4: each of the last two seasons. So I'm a little
Speaker 4: bit concerned about the pass catching upside for this, you know,
Speaker 4: pass catching back and the fact that he's not going
Speaker 4: to be getting any of those Detroit Oh look at this,
Speaker 4: we're down three touchdowns in the second quarter game scripts
Speaker 4: you know, Philly's going to be trucking people and not
Speaker 4: needing to dump off, and they've got the mobile quarterback
Speaker 4: who's not going to be dumping off to his running
Speaker 4: backs that much. You know, if he's under duress, he's
Speaker 4: just going to take it himself and run. So I'm
Speaker 4: mixed on the landing spot for him, very mixed, And yeah,
Speaker 4: it's going to be really fascinating to see what happens.
Speaker 4: I think if by some miracle, Rashad Penny stays healthy
Speaker 4: for fourteen plus games, I don't think we're gonna see
Speaker 4: a great season for Swift. But if it's a typical
Speaker 4: Penny season and he gets hurt after about five games,
Speaker 4: then yeah, there's definitely a possibility we see a big season.
Speaker 1: All right, Russ.
Speaker 2: So if I make this statement that DeAndre Swift is
Speaker 2: more likely to be an RB one or an RB
Speaker 2: three after this season, which one are you picking?
Speaker 3: See?
Speaker 5: Here's well two things. How good of an offense would
Speaker 5: an Eagles offense with a healthy Penny and healthy Swift
Speaker 5: be I'd be like, in a football sense, that would
Speaker 5: be amazing, and the fantasy football since we'd hate it.
Speaker 5: But I mean, honestly, the the more likely answer is
Speaker 5: RB three, just not even based on the player himself,
Speaker 5: but based on age, based on people that have just
Speaker 5: been hurt too much by him. Because as much as
Speaker 5: we want to say we are analytics driven and we correction, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: like we we absolutely just we get burned and we remember.
Speaker 1: You know, in our feelings hurt, right, Yeah, he's.
Speaker 5: Gonna probably be around like that twenty five, twenty six
Speaker 5: year area getting towards his second contract, and all of
Speaker 5: a sudden, we're just like, oh, that means he's old
Speaker 5: and bad now. Plus we just got Bei Jean Britze
Speaker 5: Hall is gonna get healthy again, and we're gonna get
Speaker 5: a couple of good running backs coming into twenty four also,
Speaker 5: and just a Swift won't stand a chance at that
Speaker 5: point ranking it better than probably RBE nine ten at best,
Speaker 5: and that's if he has a really good season. So
Speaker 5: chances are he scores as an RB two again and
Speaker 5: drops to like RB twenty two twenty four, and I'll
Speaker 5: still have a lot of my teams, but will make
Speaker 5: me sayd.
Speaker 2: Still, Yeah, Look, there's a lot of potential there. And
Speaker 2: I was higher on Swift than I was even on
Speaker 2: Taylor coming out. I was super high on him, but
Speaker 2: he has one of the people he has disappointed me
Speaker 2: and it has upset me.
Speaker 1: So I'm kind of off the Swift bandwagon.
Speaker 2: But there's a lot of talent in there, and if
Speaker 2: the Eagles can get it out of him, it would
Speaker 2: be great. Do Staley seem to be frustrated with him,
Speaker 2: at least on a hard knocks so you know, maybe
Speaker 2: he's a tough player a coach. I don't know, but
Speaker 2: who's your second player, Russ? I love this one, by
Speaker 2: the way.
Speaker 5: See this all right, So this is the one where
Speaker 5: I'm not necessarily sad about it because I wasn't like,
Speaker 5: I wasn't the biggest for shot Bateman guy coming in,
Speaker 5: but he was good. I firmly believe that this man
Speaker 5: is a talented wide receiver. And at the time, it
Speaker 5: was unfortunate the offense he landed in purely because Greg
Speaker 5: Roman is just boring. Like it was one of those
Speaker 5: offenses where like back you know, back in the olden
Speaker 5: days where Chip Kelly was running the Eagles offense. After
Speaker 5: a couple of years, the offensive players were like, defenses,
Speaker 5: know what we're doing the second we line up. And
Speaker 5: that's what Greg Roman turned into. It was just the
Speaker 5: most boring thing in the world. But whenever you had
Speaker 5: healthy Lamar and healthy Rashad Bateman, you were looking at solid,
Speaker 5: high end receiver two numbers. We're gonna get Todd munkt offense,
Speaker 5: which I mean, it's not Shanahan or you know McVeigh
Speaker 5: or anything, but anything is better than what they've been doing.
Speaker 5: And Bunkin. We got a little excited when he was
Speaker 5: running the offense in what was that Cleveland what felt
Speaker 5: like ten years ago but was probably like four Who knows,
Speaker 5: because there's so much turnover in Cleveland. So I'm here
Speaker 5: for it. I'm ready for it. I think he will
Speaker 5: do well, assuming he could stay on the field. And
Speaker 5: it's not like Bateman again has the chance to walk
Speaker 5: in after a good season this season as a top
Speaker 5: ten wide receiver. It's too late for that, given his age,
Speaker 5: given the fact that we're going to get two studs
Speaker 5: at least assuming they both declaire, and all of that
Speaker 5: stuff coming in in the next draft. And it's not
Speaker 5: like Chase Jefferson, AJ Brown, CD LAMB like, not like
Speaker 5: these guys are going anywhere. So even off a fantastic season,
Speaker 5: maybe Bateman makes it to the you know, twenty area
Speaker 5: wide receiver twenty area. But if he only even if
Speaker 5: he has a mediocre season, I think he is relegated
Speaker 5: to wide receiver three at best, which again is good
Speaker 5: because you'll be able to get a good wide receiver
Speaker 5: two ish player on your team from wide receiver three prices,
Speaker 5: but it's not what you want it out of for
Speaker 5: shy Baton.
Speaker 2: I completely agree with that, and FITZI, this is the
Speaker 2: guy that I've been down on, and I keep saying,
Speaker 2: you know, it's not because of his skill.
Speaker 1: His skill is there.
Speaker 2: It's because of the way the offense runs and the
Speaker 2: fact that this guy can't stay on the field right now.
Speaker 1: Is ECRs wide receiver thirty nine.
Speaker 2: His finishes in his first two seasons, wide receiver fifty seven,
Speaker 2: Wide receivers sixty four and points per game, and that's
Speaker 2: you know, you get hurt early in a game, get
Speaker 2: one point at lows your hole average. I understand he's
Speaker 2: had some good games in there as well. Tom Monkin
Speaker 2: should shake up this offense with more passes, but the
Speaker 2: Ravens also added a first round pick and Save Flowers
Speaker 2: obj plus Mark Andrews will lead the team in targets
Speaker 2: as long as he's healthy. So I mean, I like Bateman,
Speaker 2: but I don't like this offense. I don't even if
Speaker 2: he's two or three in terms of receiving targets in
Speaker 2: this offense, depending on what Zay Flowers does in his
Speaker 2: rookie season. So I'm just low on him.
Speaker 1: But Russ is correct, he's absolutely in the crossroads I
Speaker 1: kind of hold out hope for him to go to
Speaker 1: a different team and revive his career there. But what
Speaker 1: do you think an he do in Baltimore?
Speaker 4: More target competition this year, for sure, But we've got
Speaker 4: to hope that Todd Monkin grows the pie, that it's
Speaker 4: a bigger pie or he's carved up exactly. And man,
Speaker 4: I mean I did really like this guy's a prospect
Speaker 4: watching him at the University of Minnesota since I'm a
Speaker 4: big ten guy and seeing him, like, I really thought
Speaker 4: that he had no holes in his game. You know,
Speaker 4: could line up in the slot, could line up outside,
Speaker 4: good hands, good route runner, good after the catch, you know,
Speaker 4: And I'm not our fantasy pros. Injury specialist doctor d
Speaker 4: pak Chhonah says not to worry too much about this
Speaker 4: foot thing that has sort of cropped up in training camp,
Speaker 4: that it's pretty normal following the injury he had, and
Speaker 4: he expects Bateman to be, you know, pretty close to
Speaker 4: full go and one hundred percent by September.
Speaker 3: I believe, so yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean it's it's he is a great crossroads guy
Speaker 4: because this is a big year and whether he can
Speaker 4: carve out a role for himself and I mean that
Speaker 4: might depend largely on whether he can stay healthy and
Speaker 4: whether OBJ can stay healthy. Because if we're uh, you know,
Speaker 4: doling out targets three ways between these receivers Zay and
Speaker 4: OBJ and Bateman, and we've got you know, Mark Andrews
Speaker 4: and Isaiah likely getting targets to at tight end, you know,
Speaker 4: a very good tight end combination. Yeah, but you know,
Speaker 4: I do think Bateman can be a target earner if
Speaker 4: he can stay healthy.
Speaker 3: Though, like I think.
Speaker 4: He's still good, so I'm trying to be optimistic about him.
Speaker 4: Although you know, on the other hand, I'm not terribly
Speaker 4: sad that I only have like one dynasty Sheriff Bateman.
Speaker 1: Right now, Russ.
Speaker 2: If I come to you right now and I say, hey,
Speaker 2: I want your shot Bateman, I'll give you a second
Speaker 2: round pick in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: Are you taking the pick or are you taking the
Speaker 1: shot on Bateman?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 5: For that, I'll take the shot on Bateman. If always
Speaker 5: it's far too individualistic to give that blanket of an answer.
Speaker 5: But why at that point of course, it's the player
Speaker 5: you have that either you drafted and have been holding
Speaker 5: onto this whole time, or you acquired him waiting for
Speaker 5: this waiting for this offense to step up. And if
Speaker 5: you do believe in Bateman, you're gonna say, not worried
Speaker 5: about Flowers. It's Bateman. Of course you're you're worried about
Speaker 5: Mark Andrews. He's Mark Andrews. You know that's fine. But now,
Speaker 5: like one second, if you're telling me two seconds and
Speaker 5: one of them looks like it's going to be the
Speaker 5: two to oh one, and maybe I'm rebuilt, so I
Speaker 5: don't need a three fourth year in wide receiver by
Speaker 5: the time I even start to really rebuild. I'd think
Speaker 5: about it. I would hate myself for it, I would, really,
Speaker 5: but it would be the right move to take two
Speaker 5: seconds if one of them seems are early enough, like
Speaker 5: that's right, because you're probably not getting a first for him.
Speaker 1: It's just yeah, I don't think you get a first.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's just way too much based around Batman for
Speaker 5: you to get a first one. So if I'm gonna,
Speaker 5: if I'm gonna rebuilding team and a team I decide
Speaker 5: to blow up one second, I wouldn't. I would hold.
Speaker 5: I would at that point wait and see if he
Speaker 5: does what you want him to do, and hope, hope
Speaker 5: there's a Bateman fan in your league, that'll give you
Speaker 5: a first form, even if it's like the.
Speaker 1: One twelveth fits.
Speaker 2: I'm not a Bateman fan, so I would probably take
Speaker 2: the second. What would you do in that scenario? Would
Speaker 2: you take the second or would you hold on to
Speaker 2: Bateman as he really does even.
Speaker 3: Though it's a good class. I'd hang on a date.
Speaker 1: Then.
Speaker 2: I think that's fair, And I think both answers are
Speaker 2: fair by the way. I think that's you would rather
Speaker 2: get two two's, you know, or maybe a two win
Speaker 2: a three, you know, give yourself two shots just in
Speaker 2: case Bateman does work out. I understand that, but I
Speaker 2: don't know. I'm just not really enthralled with Bateman and
Speaker 2: him staying on the.
Speaker 1: Field and all that stuff.
Speaker 2: Who is your last player us? I think this one
Speaker 2: might be a little controversial.
Speaker 1: I like it.
Speaker 5: Well, this is me building myself up for the level
Speaker 5: of sadness. Like I talked about Swift, a player I've liked.
Speaker 5: I talked about Bateman, a player that I knew was good,
Speaker 5: and now I'm going to talk about Trevor Lawrence, a
Speaker 5: player who we know is good and a player that
Speaker 5: I love. And the problem isn't again with Trevor Lawrence,
Speaker 5: because let's face it, if anyone counts his rookie year
Speaker 5: against him, they don't like him. Like the Urban Meyer year,
Speaker 5: you can't even call it years or era it was.
Speaker 5: It was less than a year, So like that should
Speaker 5: be just completely wipes off the face of the planet.
Speaker 5: And he started to look good last year that often
Speaker 5: started to click. But the real problem is is how
Speaker 5: many good quarterbacks we have right now? The top end
Speaker 5: is getting really, really nice, and it's not just Mahomes
Speaker 5: Allen Hurts at the top and then maybe whatever. But
Speaker 5: like a Lamar in a new offense, Burrow doesn't care
Speaker 5: about touchdown regression. He's gonna keep throwing him at a
Speaker 5: really good rate. You know, Kyler, if he comes back healthy,
Speaker 5: or even if he gets moved to a new team,
Speaker 5: Caleb Williams is going to walk in as a top
Speaker 5: ten quarterback most likely fields if he does half of
Speaker 5: what we hope he does. We have a lot of
Speaker 5: really good quarterbacks high up Anthony Richardson, if he's decent,
Speaker 5: he's popping up to QB six or seven. So I
Speaker 5: think what's gonna happen is if we see a mediocre
Speaker 5: year of Trevor Lawrence. He's getting relegated to that QB
Speaker 5: thirteen fourteen area of like Dak and Tua. And again
Speaker 5: that's insanely helpful in a super flex league, Like you
Speaker 5: want that because with the offense they're putting together. I mean,
Speaker 5: I'm a huge Calvin Ridley fan, so I'm here for it.
Speaker 5: Like he'll have weekly upside, but I don't think we'll
Speaker 5: be able to like right now we want to say, oh,
Speaker 5: he's not really a running quarterback, but like, hey, we
Speaker 5: got Justin Herbert, we got Joe Burrow, and that's I
Speaker 5: think what we're clinging to because of the best prospects
Speaker 5: since Peyton Manning stuff and what he can be. Now
Speaker 5: that we also have a few quarterbacks still up here
Speaker 5: that aren't rushers. They're sneaky athletic, if that, you know,
Speaker 5: gives away any undertones. And I think this is a
Speaker 5: year that will really solidify whether he stays up in
Speaker 5: that top eight area or if he drops to that
Speaker 5: like fourteen to fifteen area. Again, not off the face
Speaker 5: of the earth. This isn't like a crossroad whether he's
Speaker 5: going to retire next year, but it's a tier, a
Speaker 5: very important tier. Because it's the difference between in a
Speaker 5: super flex draft getting drafted at the end of the
Speaker 5: first or at the beginning of the fourth.
Speaker 2: I think fits a lot of people are not even
Speaker 2: taking this into consideration that maybe he's just okay. I
Speaker 2: think everyone expects him to take a huge leap this
Speaker 2: year because right now is he's here, is seven, and
Speaker 2: he jumped from QB thirty three points per game in
Speaker 2: his rookie season with Urban Meyer and all that nonsense
Speaker 2: to QB thirteen just outside of a QB one last year.
Speaker 1: He's a crossroads player here. But do we think he's
Speaker 1: capable of what we saw in college? And honestly, how
Speaker 1: big part of it is they got they got to
Speaker 1: let him run because they haven't really, you know, removed
Speaker 1: the training wheels on that at all yet, So they
Speaker 1: need to let him do some of that stuff that
Speaker 1: he did in college too. So do you think we
Speaker 1: see it this year?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 4: He's good, Man, He's good, There's no question about it.
Speaker 4: I mean, I think I would rather have him. And
Speaker 4: this is gonna upset the Justin Herbert fan club, but
Speaker 4: like he's a better.
Speaker 1: Quarterback already upset them. Who cares?
Speaker 3: He's exactly.
Speaker 4: He's a better quarterback than Justin Herbert. He was better
Speaker 4: than Herbert when they were both in college. He's better now.
Speaker 4: He's going to be better in the future. And you know,
Speaker 4: it does baffle me when I see people with Herbert
Speaker 4: high in their rankings. I just don't understand it. But
Speaker 4: there is a chance he has like kind of a
Speaker 4: mediocre season, but it would be kind of the flukiness
Speaker 4: of low touchdown rates and maybe he only runs for
Speaker 4: like one touchdown or none, you know, and that that
Speaker 4: tamps down his fantasy point total. Like that would be
Speaker 4: a bad season. It wouldn't be a bad season where I'll.
Speaker 2: Think turns into Jamal Williams. Yeah, yeah, touchdowns.
Speaker 4: Right where they get a bunch of flukey touchdowns as
Speaker 4: receivers get tackled at the one just one of those.
Speaker 3: And we've seen those types of seasons, like.
Speaker 4: Guys who were sort of steady throughout their careers, like
Speaker 4: Matt Ryan, whose yardage total you could set your clock
Speaker 4: to every year, but like his touchdown counts would be
Speaker 4: all over the place. So we could get that kind
Speaker 4: of unlucky touchdown season for Trevor Lawrence. But we're not
Speaker 4: going to see him all of a sudden complete like
Speaker 4: fifty six percent of his passes.
Speaker 3: That's just not going to happen.
Speaker 4: He's too good and Doug Peterson, and you know he
Speaker 4: was the guy to bring out the best and Trevor Lawrence.
Speaker 4: So you know, if he does have that fluky bad
Speaker 4: touchdown season and drops to quarterback thirteen, I'll be buying,
Speaker 4: like I'll be I'll be putting out offers to all
Speaker 4: the Trevor Lawrence managers out there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm with ECR. I got him at seven. Russ.
Speaker 2: Can I ask you where you have him among your
Speaker 2: dynasty qbs right now?
Speaker 5: It is very sweet of you to assume that I
Speaker 5: actually do rankings. But he's around that area. He's in
Speaker 5: that Yeah, it's usually around like eighty nine where you
Speaker 5: hit that Herbert Lawrence fields area and it's picker poison
Speaker 5: kind of thing, and mine is usually Laurence.
Speaker 3: Would you rather Lawrence or Herbert?
Speaker 5: I am a scaredy cat, is really what it comes
Speaker 5: down to. I am very risk averse. I would take
Speaker 5: Herbert because we've seen that eliteness with It's really funny.
Speaker 5: I was having an argument yesterday because Herbert just got
Speaker 5: paid with a friend of mine who's he's a football man,
Speaker 5: like you know, doesn't really play fantasy but just knows
Speaker 5: what he sees on Sundays, He's like, well, Herbert's pretty good,
Speaker 5: and I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Do you
Speaker 5: remember what he did last year when you're throwing to
Speaker 5: Josh Palmer and Jalen Geiton and that was it? Like, yeah,
Speaker 5: slow your role man, like it And honestly, one season.
Speaker 5: Half a season because I want it to come true.
Speaker 5: Half a season of Lawrence killing it with Mike Calvin
Speaker 5: Midley and Christian Kirk, who I love. And I love
Speaker 5: that they brought in Bigsby because that could save ETN
Speaker 5: for better plays and not more plays. Like I love
Speaker 5: the offense that they're putting together. So right now I
Speaker 5: would say Herbert because it's the safe answer. But give
Speaker 5: me like three games into the season, and if they
Speaker 5: come out on a roll, I could flip flop that
Speaker 5: very easily.
Speaker 2: I mean I have them at seven and eight, so
Speaker 2: I like both of them. I think they're both good,
Speaker 2: and I think that's also in the realm of possibility,
Speaker 2: you know, likelihood actually more likely. But before we go
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Speaker 2: Crossroad players. Who is number one?
Speaker 4: Let's lead off with Jordan Love and come out swinging.
Speaker 4: This will be the first time the Packers have opened
Speaker 4: the season with a quarterback other than Brett Favre or
Speaker 4: Aaron Rodgers leading the offense. It's nineteen ninety two when
Speaker 4: it was Don mkowski and.
Speaker 1: So think of everyone remembers Don mccowsky.
Speaker 3: The Magic Man.
Speaker 4: See think about that. That was thirty one years ago.
Speaker 4: So unless you are around forty years old or older,
Speaker 4: you can't remember the Green Bed Packers being directed by anyone.
Speaker 5: I am that old and I don't remember them.
Speaker 1: Yeahah, I don't remember anyone.
Speaker 3: And mckowsky wasn't bad.
Speaker 4: He was perfectly average, but then he got hurt early
Speaker 4: in ninety two.
Speaker 3: Farv came in and you know, Farv was terrific.
Speaker 1: But it's history.
Speaker 4: As for Love, I mean, I'll be honest, I have
Speaker 4: no freaking idea how Love is going to do this year.
Speaker 4: And I'm a Packers fan, But like his in free
Speaker 4: appearances over the first three years of his career have
Speaker 4: been kind of a mixed bag. I mean, he made
Speaker 4: this start for Aaron Rodgers in twenty twenty one in
Speaker 4: Kansas City because Rogers had COVID and Love was pretty
Speaker 4: terrible in that game. And then last year when the
Speaker 4: Eagles were just mopping the deck with the Packers, Love
Speaker 4: came in got to play most of the second half
Speaker 4: and it was really sharp, granted against a team that
Speaker 4: was more or less in the prevent defense because they
Speaker 4: were protecting a big lead, so really hard to tell.
Speaker 4: And even his college career Utah State was a mixed bag.
Speaker 4: Terrific numbers as sophomore year, then in his third and
Speaker 4: final year seventeen interceptions, and the Packers picked him in
Speaker 4: the first round anyway the following spring. So I do
Speaker 4: know this about Love though, Like if he is good
Speaker 4: this year, he's going to start again for the Packers
Speaker 4: in twenty twenty four, And if he's terrible, the Packers
Speaker 4: are going to draft a quarterback in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 4: Because terrible, they're going to have a top ten draft
Speaker 4: pick next year, and they're probably going to have the
Speaker 4: Jets first round draft pick two to possibly use to
Speaker 4: maneuver up and maybe position themselves for a Drake May
Speaker 4: type guy. So it's truly a crossroads season for Love.
Speaker 4: Like his ECR right now is quarterback twenty three in
Speaker 4: Dynasty there's no way he's going to have an ECR
Speaker 4: in the twenty to thirty range next year. He's either
Speaker 4: going to be good this year and it's going to
Speaker 4: be in the top twenty, or he's gonna absolutely tank
Speaker 4: and he'll probably be out of the top forty. So
Speaker 4: I completely agree the definition of a crossroads player right here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean Russ, it's uh. If he ain't this
Speaker 2: is Ricky Bobby. If he ain't first, your last year.
Speaker 2: So he better be good this year. In the NFL,
Speaker 2: any cliche you want to say, not for long. Whatever,
Speaker 2: it is strike one and you're out. Jordan Love, like
Speaker 2: you know this, this is your audition, And it sucks
Speaker 2: for him that, like Fitz said, if he's not good,
Speaker 2: they're definitely drafting his replacement. So maybe he would start
Speaker 2: a couple of games next year, but they'd be clamoring
Speaker 2: for the new guy real fast. If Jordan Love doesn't
Speaker 2: look good this year, So what do you think? Is
Speaker 2: he a sink or swim this year?
Speaker 5: It's it's funny because, like you point out that they
Speaker 5: just two quarterbacks in like seventy four years, and this
Speaker 5: dude has like five games to prove himself, like that
Speaker 5: that's that's not cool, but it's right, it's true, and
Speaker 5: that's unfortunate for him, and like you know, coming in
Speaker 5: on games where he wasn't really you know, ready you
Speaker 5: want this to think that everyone's mahomes right. You get
Speaker 5: one game and then you go out and you throw
Speaker 5: three touchdowns. I mean, Matt Flint came out and threw
Speaker 5: six and we saw how well that went anyway. But hey,
Speaker 5: Russell Wilson came from that one, so I'm still thrilled
Speaker 5: about it. Yeah, you're absolutely right, but that's he's Yeah,
Speaker 5: he's either their starter for the next couple of years
Speaker 5: at least, or he's just straight up gone. Twenty four
Speaker 5: twenty three. I think you said, like that's a little
Speaker 5: lower than I thought it would be, but I get it.
Speaker 5: It is also because of who he's coming in after
Speaker 5: the situation like no one's bad at an eye. Well,
Speaker 5: I guess it's a different time and place. Even when
Speaker 5: Aaron Rodgers sat for a couple of years, but like
Speaker 5: no One really wasn't the biggest deal. Like even I
Speaker 5: remember hearing how much they loved Aaron Rodgers during practice.
Speaker 5: They used to call him the chameleon quarterback. Because he
Speaker 5: could imitate anyone that they were going to be playing against.
Speaker 5: And I'm just like, all right, I'm excited for this
Speaker 5: guy to start because that sounds awesome and like I
Speaker 5: expected it, like I want you to come out throwing
Speaker 5: lefty one game for no reason. I was a little
Speaker 5: let down on that one, but like, yeah, Jordan Love,
Speaker 5: there's never been anything great said about him. He comes
Speaker 5: in and they shouldn't have drafted him when they did,
Speaker 5: which makes it even harder that he's been sitting for
Speaker 5: that long. I mean, I'm glad that kid is still
Speaker 5: making a lot of money sitting there doing nothing, because
Speaker 5: at least there's that, yeah, absolute cross roads, and you're
Speaker 5: absolutely right. He is either going to push himself up
Speaker 5: to that sixteen area where he's a low end one,
Speaker 5: high end two, or he's gonna be in the forties.
Speaker 1: Exact.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there can't be in between.
Speaker 2: I'll go out on limb. I think he's gonna have
Speaker 2: a good year. I think he's gonna have a pretty
Speaker 2: good year. Fits I'm excited about him. He could be
Speaker 2: a Konami code guy, as you would like to call
Speaker 2: the guys that run like that. Uh, if they let
Speaker 2: him do it, And why wouldn't they You get one
Speaker 2: year to do, uh, to to go and show what
Speaker 2: you are.
Speaker 1: Let him do whatever he can.
Speaker 2: So I think they're gonna tailor this offense to him,
Speaker 2: and I think it's gonna make him look pretty good.
Speaker 5: So I'm to go out and do it whether they
Speaker 5: let him or not, because why wouldn't make for his job, right?
Speaker 2: Yeah, and this is an audition for other jobs too,
Speaker 2: if they decide you're not good enough.
Speaker 1: So I'm waiting.
Speaker 4: It's gonna it's gonna help that they do have one
Speaker 4: of the best offensive lines in the league, assuming good
Speaker 4: health for David Bacciari and Elton Jenkins. But uh, you know,
Speaker 4: I just wish she didn't have like one of the
Speaker 4: youngest pass catching groups in NFL history.
Speaker 2: He was drawing tom but if he had a good
Speaker 2: wide receiver, he probably would be on the Packers because
Speaker 2: they would have taken a white out where they took him,
Speaker 2: which is why the Packers fans don't like Jordan Love
Speaker 2: because he should have been a wide out. But that's
Speaker 2: a different story for a different show. FITZI, who's your
Speaker 2: second player at the crossroads here?
Speaker 3: It's JK.
Speaker 5: Dobbins.
Speaker 4: Bogs, and you know he had that devastating knee injury
Speaker 4: in the twenty twenty one preseason the cost of a year.
Speaker 4: Came back in Week three of last year and still
Speaker 4: didn't look right.
Speaker 3: They shut him down.
Speaker 4: He had clean up surgery, and then when he came
Speaker 4: back in December, man, I mean he looked really good.
Speaker 4: Fifty seven carries, three hundred and ninety seven yards in
Speaker 4: his last four games, almost one hundred yards a game
Speaker 4: and just under seven yards of carry. So like more
Speaker 4: like his old Ohio state itself. But then training camp
Speaker 4: now like there's already drama with Dobbins put on the
Speaker 4: pop list. He also missed the first day of Ravens
Speaker 4: training camp entirely, and when John Harbaugh was asked about it,
Speaker 4: his response was, I wish it was a simple answer.
Speaker 4: There's always a lot of things that go into football,
Speaker 4: but there's some complexity to it, and we're working through
Speaker 4: all that. JK is working through it, and I'm looking
Speaker 4: forward to when he's out there. So what does that mean?
Speaker 4: Is it knee related? Is it contractual? Since Dobbins is
Speaker 4: go all those guys right and he's on his rookie.
Speaker 3: He's on his rookie deal.
Speaker 4: But then of course because of the injuries, he hasn't
Speaker 4: really proven himself. So why is he, you know, trying
Speaker 4: to do this this weird holdout thing. So again the
Speaker 4: other thing, like we we have not seen what he
Speaker 4: can do as a pass catcher in the NFL, Like
Speaker 4: he was pretty good at it at Ohio State, but
Speaker 4: the the old offense just didn't give him the chance.
Speaker 4: And now maybe with Todd Monkin he does get a chance.
Speaker 4: So the Ravens just they signed Melvin Gordon, who may
Speaker 4: or may not have anything left. Just a lot of
Speaker 4: questions about JK. Dobbins going into this year, and I
Speaker 4: sense that his value is either going to go way
Speaker 4: up or way down, kind.
Speaker 2: Of like Jordan Love Yeah, Russ JK Dobbins ECR running
Speaker 2: back sixteen right now. But his finishes in his two
Speaker 2: seasons where he's played RB thirty three and then last
Speaker 2: year RB thirty five. Of course he wasn't a full
Speaker 2: time guy in twenty twenty. They ran Lamar and Gus
Speaker 2: Edwards more times than him. He only has two hundred
Speaker 2: and fifty one touches over his two seasons and only
Speaker 2: twenty five receptions. Where do you see this guy Dobbins.
Speaker 2: I mean, hopefully they start throwing into the running backs more,
Speaker 2: but they're just like the Eagles where they don't do
Speaker 2: it that much. Monkin should change this offense and maybe
Speaker 2: they throw to him more. Is this year we see
Speaker 2: Dobbins breakout and look good or is he just kind
Speaker 2: of a hype machine every year and we're just never
Speaker 2: going to get to that peak.
Speaker 5: Well, we have a rushing quarterback, you're always going to
Speaker 5: get less passes to the backs because it's usually like,
Speaker 5: oh God, don't hit me, don't hit me, don't hit me,
Speaker 5: dump off, you know, Markley, it works, man like it's
Speaker 5: it's rough. Because another one of these things where Dobbins
Speaker 5: was by far my favorite running back coming in in
Speaker 5: twenty twenty. I greatly understood that Jonathan Taylor was better
Speaker 5: that that it is what it is. That's fine, but
Speaker 5: Dobbins was easily my favorite. And then he landed on
Speaker 5: Baltimore and I was like eighty percent stoked about it,
Speaker 5: because you're right, twenty percent is you want those receptions.
Speaker 5: But he looked good whenever he was on the field.
Speaker 5: You know that year where Ingram was scoring like sixteen
Speaker 5: touchdowns again, Dobbins still came in at the end of
Speaker 5: the season and put up like six or seven. Looked
Speaker 5: pretty good the unfortunate knee injury, and you could even
Speaker 5: see by the end of the season when he was
Speaker 5: still almost getting one hundred yards a game, he got
Speaker 5: caught on every run like he was not full strength
Speaker 5: whatsoever because he was slow but still good. So I'm
Speaker 5: riding with my same things I do with everyone in
Speaker 5: this Ravens offense. Hopefully this offense just gets that much better.
Speaker 5: Whatever it's the preseasons, I do, you know the best
Speaker 5: I can. Fingers in ears, eyes closed, la la lah.
Speaker 5: Whenever anyone's missing camp, like Garrett Wilson just walked off
Speaker 5: the fields. He rolled his ankle. No, no, he's fine,
Speaker 5: he's fine, he's fine, he's fine.
Speaker 2: But everybody gets carted off. I mean, you you have
Speaker 2: a hangnail, they'll cart you off.
Speaker 1: So yeah, that's actually big news to every single time.
Speaker 5: Man, this figure's really hurting me. I don't want to
Speaker 5: walk to the sidelines.
Speaker 1: Cart, car on the cart, get on the cart.
Speaker 5: Yeah. So I do my best to ignore whatever the
Speaker 5: heck is going on right now, and I'm I'm there
Speaker 5: with Dobbin. So I'm ignoring all of this. All I
Speaker 5: can say is, if he's healthy, if this offense takes
Speaker 5: the step forward, he's going to do very well for Fantasy.
Speaker 5: Same thing with Swift, though it's too late for him
Speaker 5: to really boost his dynasty value all that much. You know,
Speaker 5: he's gonna go into his second contract the younger guys,
Speaker 5: the guys who catch the ball or and I. I'm
Speaker 5: fine with that because I don't like, you know, spending
Speaker 5: on running backs. So give me these guys. I can
Speaker 5: spend mid RB two prices, but we'll have weekly upside
Speaker 5: of maybe the RB one on a really good Baltimore game.
Speaker 5: You know. So I'm in on Dobbins. I have, I
Speaker 5: recently have traded for many many shares of him. I
Speaker 5: collect football cards. I went and I just got a
Speaker 5: bunch of Swift and Dobbins just in case they blow up.
Speaker 5: I'm ready for it, you know. Like, I'm all in
Speaker 5: on Dobbins right now, and I am completely in denial
Speaker 5: that there's an other side to him just doing awesome
Speaker 5: this year. But you're absolutely right. If he doesn't show out,
Speaker 5: he's just gonna drop Fitz.
Speaker 2: If I gave you the same question as I did before.
Speaker 2: Dobbins is an RB one after this year or on
Speaker 2: RB three? Which one is more likely?
Speaker 4: I'm gonna say three. I don't think he catches enough
Speaker 4: passes to get to RB one value.
Speaker 2: And that's fair, and he'll probably end up being an
Speaker 2: RB two. But that's you know, that's where you gotta
Speaker 2: do the dance, is you know this is a run
Speaker 2: first team. I'd rather take my shot on Dobbins than
Speaker 2: take my shot on Bateman, even though I know his
Speaker 2: career is gonna be shorter, because I think Dobbins can
Speaker 2: get to a higher plateau than I think Bateman can
Speaker 2: in that type of offense, even though we haven't seen
Speaker 2: it or how it works. I mean, Georgia is still
Speaker 2: a run first team last year, so I believe in
Speaker 2: the running ability of Dobbins, so I'll take my shot
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Speaker 2: will be there. FITZI, who is your last crossroad player here?
Speaker 4: It's Chase Claypool, and it is going to take a
Speaker 4: whole lot of failure for me to completely give up
Speaker 4: on a wide receiver who is six four, two hundred
Speaker 4: and thirty eight pounds and runs a four to four
Speaker 4: and was a second round NFL draft pick. Like our
Speaker 4: buddies at playerprofiler dot com have this thing called a
Speaker 4: speed score metric, and it basically combines the player's forty
Speaker 4: times with his weights, and Claypool has a one hundred
Speaker 4: percent Tiles speed score. I mean then, yep, I mean
Speaker 4: that's why he's Maple Tron. You know, Calvin Johnson was
Speaker 4: Megatron just as big, just as fast, and you know,
Speaker 4: Claypool's Canadian, so the Maple thing. But yeah, and this guy,
Speaker 4: I mean, he had nine touchdowns as a rookie and
Speaker 4: his first two seasons in the league clear to eight
Speaker 4: hundred yards, so you know, it's not like he was
Speaker 4: really bad his first two seasons. His first bad season
Speaker 4: was year three last year, when he you know, missed
Speaker 4: a couple of games with the spray knee and was
Speaker 4: traded mid season to a very run heavy team. So
Speaker 4: it would be easy for me to give him a
Speaker 4: mulligan on twenty twenty two. You know, the guy just
Speaker 4: turned twenty five earlier this month. But we also know
Speaker 4: that Claypool can be kind of a knucklehead. And Boggs,
Speaker 4: you and I have talked about this game, the twenty
Speaker 4: twenty one game against the Vikings where the Steelers are
Speaker 4: down eight down eight You're Steelers in the final minute
Speaker 4: of the game, Claypool catch as a pass while they're
Speaker 4: in the hurry up, goes through this elaborate first down gesture,
Speaker 4: and then when one of the linemen tries to take
Speaker 4: the ball away from him, he shoves the lineman. I
Speaker 4: feel like he was just destined to get traded after that.
Speaker 4: But lo and behold, the Steelers found a team that
Speaker 4: was willing to give up a second round pick for him,
Speaker 4: The Bears. Ryan Poles ends up being the first pick
Speaker 4: of the second round in this year's draft.
Speaker 3: I mean, that was a Joey Porter.
Speaker 1: I'll take it.
Speaker 4: Yes, that was a terrible trade for the Bears, but nonetheless,
Speaker 4: Ryan Poles wanted this guy on the Bears.
Speaker 3: He wanted this guy on the team.
Speaker 4: And you know, he's still got that size and speed
Speaker 4: to dream on. But you know, Claypool himself has acknowledged
Speaker 4: this is going to be the biggest year of his life.
Speaker 3: And like, I don't know that he needs to be a.
Speaker 4: Thousand yard guy to rekindle our interest in him in
Speaker 4: the Dynasty community, but like he needs to do something.
Speaker 4: And you know, now he's got increased target competition with
Speaker 4: DJ Moore in town, with Darnell Mooney coming back, from
Speaker 4: an injury, so it's gonna be interesting to see Bogs.
Speaker 3: I still have some hope here, but that hope could be.
Speaker 4: Greatly diminished if twenty twenty three does not go well
Speaker 4: for Chase Claypool.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm not a Claypool guy, probably because I'm
Speaker 2: a Steelers fan, but I also understand that. You know,
Speaker 2: Claypool came out swinging eleven touchdowns that first season, nine
Speaker 2: through the air, two on the ground, and the last
Speaker 2: two seasons combined he's had three, so you know, it's
Speaker 2: just it's not it doesn't look great. He goes to
Speaker 2: a run heavy offense that also traded for DJ Moore
Speaker 2: and they just gave the bag to Cole Comet, so
Speaker 2: I think maybe those guys are one two in the
Speaker 2: pecking order right now. Darnell Mooney not a slouch either,
Speaker 2: So Claypool has all the physical tools to get here, Russ,
Speaker 2: but I don't know if he's ever going to put
Speaker 2: it together between the years, and it's run first, run
Speaker 2: heavy offense here in Chicago with Justin Field, so I
Speaker 2: just really don't like his place in that offense either,
Speaker 2: not saying he can't, you know, break out and still
Speaker 2: be a good player. I would think it would probably
Speaker 2: be somewhere other than Chicago though, if he did, and
Speaker 2: who knows how long that's going to take. So what
Speaker 2: is your thought on Chase Claypool moving forward here?
Speaker 1: Russ? Yeah, right, Noise, this.
Speaker 5: Is the first one, Like, I think he's passed the
Speaker 5: crossroads already and it has nothing. It's not necessarily his faults.
Speaker 5: Like he went from a situation is rookie year, which
Speaker 5: was perfect for him, where it was someone who was
Speaker 5: capable of just getting it high in it was like
Speaker 5: Eli Manning throwing to Plexico Burus. Just get it high
Speaker 5: enough and Claypool will still be able to catch it
Speaker 5: and he could do things with it because like he's
Speaker 5: way too athletic for the size and shape that he is.
Speaker 5: And then Kenny Pikett came along and Mitchell Trubisky and
Speaker 5: all this just like and the offense just got worse
Speaker 5: and worse, and then you're right, getting traded was the
Speaker 5: best thing for him, and then it went very poorly
Speaker 5: with where he went. So he definitely has the ability
Speaker 5: to make the people who believe in him continue to believe.
Speaker 5: But I think you're gonna find far too much of
Speaker 5: the community out on him already, which will be great
Speaker 5: for you because you'll be able to send late seconds
Speaker 5: and go get yourself and Chase Claypool on your teams.
Speaker 5: And yeah, when he has those random four touchdown games,
Speaker 5: that's gonna work out real well for you because we've
Speaker 5: literally seen him capable of rushing and receiving multiple touchdowns
Speaker 5: in one game. So he's a great player. I hate
Speaker 5: the phrase he's great for bestball, but yeah, But like
Speaker 5: in most of the leagues I play, you start ten players,
Speaker 5: and especially like if you're like Scott fish bowl Lands,
Speaker 5: where you have to start three wide receivers, having someone
Speaker 5: like Chase Claypool at the bottom of your roster is fantastic because
Speaker 5: if the top of your roster is strong enough, having
Speaker 5: someone with that ceiling that you paid so little to
Speaker 5: get is great. But I think that's really where he's stuck.
Speaker 5: I think that's where he is as a fantasy asset.
Speaker 5: And again, you need that like that player needs. We
Speaker 5: need those players in a twelve team, start ten league.
Speaker 5: But he might pick a couple of steps away from
Speaker 5: the crossroads.
Speaker 1: In my mind already too much him and ha Hahn
Speaker 1: for confidence on.
Speaker 2: I would say, Look, his finishes last year was bad.
Speaker 2: Why does he ready two? Obviously injuries and traded and
Speaker 2: blah blah blah. Wide receiver forty in a second year,
Speaker 2: Wide receiver thirty five in his first rookie season. Most
Speaker 2: of his a lot of his is going to be
Speaker 2: tied to touchdowns. I think that's what he's gonna be,
Speaker 2: especially in a run heavy offense. So I'm gonna set
Speaker 2: the over at five and a half. Touchdowns eleven in
Speaker 2: his first season fits two and then one. If I
Speaker 2: set it at five and a half. Are you saying
Speaker 2: that Claypool goes over that or under that this year?
Speaker 3: Oh? General pessimism about the Bears offense.
Speaker 1: Well, I don't know, man the man. Yeah, I'm a.
Speaker 4: Fields fan, but I just wonder if he's going to
Speaker 4: generate enough passing touchdowns for him to get there.
Speaker 1: So i'd say, under, Okay, Russ five and a half,
Speaker 1: what are you going?
Speaker 5: I'm actually feeling a little optimistic about this because, like
Speaker 5: you said, his stats will land on touch well, his
Speaker 5: fantasy output will land on touchdowns, and when you get
Speaker 5: to the red zone, like Cokeomat's a big body, but
Speaker 5: he's not that imposing target that Claypool is. So I
Speaker 5: think you're going to see a lot of back corner fades,
Speaker 5: a lot of right at the posts, you know, jumping
Speaker 5: over everybody, like pretends throw away, but you just again
Speaker 5: throw it high enough where he's probably the only human
Speaker 5: being on the field capable of catching it. So I
Speaker 5: think there's definitely a possibility and a likely one where
Speaker 5: he does put up a good seven ten touchdowns. But
Speaker 5: when you're also averaging like two three catches a game
Speaker 5: and like maybe forty yards even though you still get
Speaker 5: one hundred and twenty every once in a while, you're
Speaker 5: not gonna feel great about starting him unless it's that week,
Speaker 5: and you won't know that's till lafterwards.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that touchdown is your make a break for his
Speaker 2: production most week, so gotta get it. I will go
Speaker 2: through mine a little bit faster here because I don't
Speaker 2: have all my players I think are lower than the
Speaker 2: guys that we've mentioned here. Maybe Claypool is the lowest
Speaker 2: that we've mentioned here. But let's start out with your boy,
Speaker 2: AJ Dillon Fitzi. His ECRs RB thirty three in PPR,
Speaker 2: which is most Dynasty formats or PPR. His finishes have
Speaker 2: been RB thirty eight, RB thirty six in RB ninety
Speaker 2: four when he wasn't even playing his rookie seasons, last
Speaker 2: two seasons and touches is two twenty one, two fourteen.
Speaker 2: He's a UFA next year. I like AJ Dillon. I
Speaker 2: saw him, you know, at Boston College. He was the
Speaker 2: only show in town. They knew what was coming and
Speaker 2: he still ran over people. So I like AJ Dillon,
Speaker 2: But Aaron Jones is one of the best running backs
Speaker 2: in the NFL, so it's hard to move past that guy.
Speaker 2: But he if he wants a big contract and he
Speaker 2: wants to start for someone and not be a be
Speaker 2: back next to another player, he's gonna have to have
Speaker 2: a big year. Can we see it from him? Out
Speaker 2: of a team that should run more now that Aaron
Speaker 2: Rodgers has gone, What do you think about AJ Dillon
Speaker 2: for your Packers, Fitzie.
Speaker 4: I thought we were gonna see it maybe last year
Speaker 4: when DeVante Adams was gone, and I figured they'd throw
Speaker 4: more or run more and throw to their backs more
Speaker 4: last year, and it really didn't happen at all. And
Speaker 4: I'm kind of out on Dylan Boggs. I think he's
Speaker 4: just a between the tackles plotter, Like, I mean, he's
Speaker 4: tough to tackle, but I don't think he has the
Speaker 4: juice and the burst that Derrick Henry has. I don't
Speaker 4: think he's gonna he's got Dereck Henry up because I
Speaker 4: no way, Like that's not aj Dillon. And like he's
Speaker 4: got a really limited pass catch. We saw the upside
Speaker 4: with him a couple of years ago with pass catching,
Speaker 4: where like he had a modest number of targets but
Speaker 4: was really efficient with them. Like that's the ceiling with
Speaker 4: his targets and that was still only what like a
Speaker 4: twenty nine catch these I don't have his numbers in
Speaker 4: front of me, but like.
Speaker 3: There wasn't enough to really move the needl.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I understand that, Russ. What do you think about
Speaker 2: ag Dyllon? This is a guy that can move into
Speaker 2: RB two one status or is he stuck in neutral
Speaker 2: like RB three moving forward in his career.
Speaker 5: I think he stuck at RB three. He is this
Speaker 5: is a very strange sentence. He's the human version of
Speaker 5: Derrick Henry, like because Derek Henry is not a human being,
Speaker 5: And that was always the kind of at least the
Speaker 5: rap that I've seen around Dylan. He needed a very
Speaker 5: specific situation to do as well as we wanted him
Speaker 5: to do, and the Packers was never it because it
Speaker 5: seemed like when they had Jamal Williams, they had to
Speaker 5: find roles and between Williams and Jones and then they're like, wait,
Speaker 5: we have two very good running backs, so let's just
Speaker 5: mix them in and whatever happens happens. And it worked
Speaker 5: really well, and Aaron Jones usually got the better of
Speaker 5: it because he was better. But they went back to
Speaker 5: those roles like AJ Dillon caught like maybe it felt
Speaker 5: like five passes on the season. He for some reason though,
Speaker 5: didn't get all of the goal line work like it
Speaker 5: seems like they weren't ready just to be like okay go,
Speaker 5: which again led me to believe that they were ditching
Speaker 5: Aaron Jones this year like last year, run him into
Speaker 5: the ground. Next year, we're not going to have Rogers
Speaker 5: and let's run with Dylan for like the last year
Speaker 5: of his contract. Aaron Jones is still there, like there's
Speaker 5: no reason for it to change. I have him on
Speaker 5: a couple of teams. Well, I have enough teams that
Speaker 5: I have pretty much every play around, right, But it's
Speaker 5: not someone A J. Dillan is not, So I'm super
Speaker 5: excited to see on my roster. But it's funny, like
Speaker 5: I start saying these things like, wait, these are human beings.
Speaker 5: I hope he does well as a person, like I
Speaker 5: hope he does well, but I'm not betting anything on it.
Speaker 1: Real, Yeah, I understand that.
Speaker 2: Look, I like AJ Dyllon and I think that he
Speaker 2: gets he can if he can get out of Green
Speaker 2: Bay and he can go to somewhere where he can
Speaker 2: be the main guy. If he goes like Tampa Bay
Speaker 2: next year, maybe seat White doesn't work out, whatever, he
Speaker 2: goes to Miami, you know where, you're still gonna use
Speaker 2: a bunch of backs, but one guy could be the
Speaker 2: main guy there next year. Like, if he goes into
Speaker 2: one one of those spots, I'm gonna be all in
Speaker 2: because I still like him. But he's got to land
Speaker 2: in the right situation to do that. He has to
Speaker 2: show out this year. And that is where I don't
Speaker 2: know if we get it, because Aaron Jones is too
Speaker 2: good unless mother Nature just catches up with Aaron Jones
Speaker 2: this year and beats him into the dirt.
Speaker 1: So I don't have any shares of him. I'll say
Speaker 1: it all I want.
Speaker 3: For me.
Speaker 5: Please don't say that.
Speaker 1: Sorry, sorry.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna love these next two wide receivers together because
Speaker 2: I do think that they're very similar, and ECR has
Speaker 2: him similarly ranked here. Elijah Moore is a ECR wide
Speaker 2: receiver forty three. His finishes last year was wide receiver
Speaker 2: one hundred because he didn't play, and it was wide.
Speaker 1: Receiver thirty two.
Speaker 2: But remember he was like a top ten wide out
Speaker 2: for the last four weeks in twenty twenty, so he
Speaker 2: was or twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1: He was excellent. A second round pick.
Speaker 2: He still hasn't hit fifty receptions yet, part of his
Speaker 2: bad quarterback play coach Doghouse and all that stuff. But
Speaker 2: now he's going to have to work behind Himrik Cooper
Speaker 2: in another run first offense. So I'm a little I'm
Speaker 2: not as excited as some people, but there's a lot
Speaker 2: of skill for Elijah Moore. The other guy gave Davis
Speaker 2: ECR wide receiver forty six. His finishes have been forty
Speaker 2: two last year, seventy nine to seventy five. He's a
Speaker 2: post type sleeper. Last year's assertion that he could possibly
Speaker 2: be better than Stefan Diggs by people was laughable, but
Speaker 2: we might be too low on him now. And they
Speaker 2: haven't added a Hopkins or anybody else, like you know,
Speaker 2: Stefan Diggs had a whole little cry baby fit about
Speaker 2: that a couple of weeks ago. And this is another
Speaker 2: guy that hasn't had fifty catches in a season, but
Speaker 2: he does have twenty touchdowns in three years. So Elijah Moore,
Speaker 2: Gabe Davis FITZI who would you rather have between them?
Speaker 1: And do you think either one of them will move
Speaker 1: up this year?
Speaker 4: I would rather have More. I'm optimistic he'll move up.
Speaker 4: I mean, the only thing I don't really like about
Speaker 4: More is that he kind of pulled a diva routine
Speaker 4: last year because he wasn't getting the ball from Zach Wilson.
Speaker 3: But it's like, Okay, we get it, dude, your quarterback sucks.
Speaker 4: You're not getting the ball as much, but like, just
Speaker 4: shut up and the quarterback situation will get better, you know.
Speaker 4: For him to like kind of sulk his way off
Speaker 4: the team, I don't know. We'll see if that becomes
Speaker 4: an issue for him in his career, like little bouts
Speaker 4: of petulance like that. But I'm optimistic about the talent.
Speaker 4: As for Davis, so yes, I'm kind of willing to give.
Speaker 3: Him a pass.
Speaker 4: Last year, It's possible the high ankle sprain that he
Speaker 4: had early in the season lingered, and then we saw
Speaker 4: Josh Allen with the elbow injury that sort of forwarded
Speaker 4: his passing numbers late in the season. My one concern
Speaker 4: with Davis is that he just hasn't It's the George
Speaker 4: Pickens thing that we've talked about Bobman, just the ability
Speaker 4: to consistently command targets. We haven't seen that from Davis.
Speaker 4: So Russ said it before, like the good for best
Speaker 4: ball phrase, Davis is a good for best ball guy
Speaker 4: for sure, But he is a tough guy in a
Speaker 4: managed league because you know you're going to get some
Speaker 4: great weeks probably and you're gonna get some weeks where
Speaker 4: you don't even know he's there.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Russ Moore is my guy between these two dudes as well,
Speaker 2: and it's because I think he's a more complete wide receiver.
Speaker 2: I think that gave Davis is a deep threat, and
Speaker 2: I think he's not probably gonna amount to much more
Speaker 2: than that. Not saying he can't, but I don't see it.
Speaker 2: He's got to prove it to everybody. I think Elijah
Speaker 2: Moore and Moore hasn't just had the shot right, it's
Speaker 2: you know, your little cry baby last year, so you
Speaker 2: relegated the bench, and you had a good year the
Speaker 2: year before. But it's been some rough QB play. So
Speaker 2: I think even though these guys are so close, only
Speaker 2: separated by three guys here, I'm just much more optimistic
Speaker 2: about Elijah Moore.
Speaker 5: What do you think, Like, imagine if he didn't pull
Speaker 5: that de of a routine and he had Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 5: throwing Art Wilson on the other side, Like that is beautiful,
Speaker 5: Like I get it, Like my brain doesn't work the
Speaker 5: way like football, like athletes in general work, Like I
Speaker 5: don't have that competitiveness in me. So being the number
Speaker 5: two sounds wonderful because the other dude's getting hit a
Speaker 5: lot more, getting covered a lot more, and I just
Speaker 5: look good because I have the second to third best
Speaker 5: coverage on the team. But even still, when you think
Speaker 5: about it, he landed in a really good spot because yeah,
Speaker 5: Amari Cooper's there. Mariy Cooper in my head is eternally
Speaker 5: like twenty three. But he's like twenty eight, twenty nine now,
Speaker 5: and while he is the kind of play that gets
Speaker 5: by on his footwork, not on his speed, so he's
Speaker 5: not really going to age out. But Elijah Moore is
Speaker 5: really really good and he does have that good route
Speaker 5: running also and showed that he could be one ish
Speaker 5: you know, xish on his team. And while DPJ has
Speaker 5: Donovan Peoples, Jones has his moments, and I mean, I
Speaker 5: think they ended up with Tillman, right, you know, they
Speaker 5: rafted another tall wide receiver, and I'm a sucker for
Speaker 5: an X type wide receiver, but I think More can
Speaker 5: easily work a nice slot role where he does not
Speaker 5: leave the field anytime there's three wide receivers there and
Speaker 5: then only evolve from there short of getting in another
Speaker 5: technician of a wide receiver. Will I ever now at
Speaker 5: this point be worried because you want Elijah Moore on
Speaker 5: the field with another tall dude on the other side,
Speaker 5: because they don't do the same thing. Right, If they're
Speaker 5: both good, they both have weakened defense on them because
Speaker 5: you need to worry about multiple people. I'm in on
Speaker 5: More and well, Deshaun Watson as a football player is
Speaker 5: very good, you know, he's talented, so I'm not worried
Speaker 5: about that, like we were worried about Zach Wilson, Mike
Speaker 5: White and Joe Flacco and all of that. And Gabe
Speaker 5: Davis good for best ball, Like I have been on
Speaker 5: a lot of teams for the same exact reason I
Speaker 5: said about Claypool. Yeah, I love having him on the
Speaker 5: bottom of my rosters, the bottom of my starters, because
Speaker 5: there's a chance. I was at a Jets game last
Speaker 5: year that Justs were playing the Dolphins, and of course,
Speaker 5: not only was Tua hurt, but then Skyler Thompson got hurt.
Speaker 5: So I'm watching, like, dudes, I'd never heard of playing quarterback,
Speaker 5: and oh no, it was Tua was hurt. And then
Speaker 5: Teddy Bridgewater got hurt on the second play, and I
Speaker 5: was watching Skyler Thompson, who at the time no one
Speaker 5: knew who the heck he was. And I look at
Speaker 5: the scoreboard and of course, now we're in the world
Speaker 5: where fantasy football stats are on an NFL scoreboards and
Speaker 5: it's wonderful. And you see Gabe Davis one catch ninety
Speaker 5: yards touchdown, I'm.
Speaker 1: Like, that was against the Steelers. Yeah, I remember that one.
Speaker 5: Oh, and then I sneeze and I look at the
Speaker 5: scoreboard and it's two for one, sixty six and two touchdowns. Yeah,
Speaker 5: and I'm like, oh, okay, all right, So like that's that,
Speaker 5: Like you're like you said, that's the upside of Gabe Davis.
Speaker 5: You'll get that twice the season probably, And honestly, like,
Speaker 5: even though Dalton kin Kaid plays another position, that worries
Speaker 5: me for Gabe Davis because being the pass catcher three
Speaker 5: on the Bills, it's not great, but it's great for
Speaker 5: the Bills because he'll be the most dependable wide receiver
Speaker 5: three they've pass catcher three they've had in a while.
Speaker 5: You know, they tried with McKenzie and uh, other guys
Speaker 5: are completely blanking on that. They had to bring back
Speaker 5: Cole Beasley for a while, you know, like so like,
Speaker 5: so hopefully it works out well, he finds his place
Speaker 5: in that offense. Digs doesn't seem long for that team
Speaker 5: for the way he's talking, So maybe Davis finds some
Speaker 5: more work. But yeah, I think you're right. I think
Speaker 5: another bad season and even the the Truthers that have
Speaker 5: dug their heels in for years might start loosening their
Speaker 5: foothold on that one.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean, both these guys have upside, but Elijah Moore
Speaker 2: is the guy that I want to buy if I'm
Speaker 2: buying one of them in that spot. The last guy
Speaker 2: I'll mention here Paris Campbell ECR eighty seven. He was
Speaker 2: wide receiver sixty last year, but the previous three seasons
Speaker 2: he only played fourteen games total. And are we done
Speaker 2: with the injury issues in his first three seasons? Is
Speaker 2: a big question about Paris Campbell. He went ninety one targets,
Speaker 2: sixty three catches, six and twenty three and three touchdowns
Speaker 2: last season with some horrendous QB play in Indy. The
Speaker 2: Giants have an opening for a number one target player
Speaker 2: on their team. Saquon letting targets last year. They signed
Speaker 2: Campbell and Waller to help. They drafted Jalen Hyatt. They
Speaker 2: are looking high and low for a guy. And there's
Speaker 2: a lot of on Paris Campbell this offseason about how
Speaker 2: they're going to use him on trick plays and reverses
Speaker 2: and out of the backfield and all this stuff.
Speaker 1: I'm kinda I don't know, I'm kind of buying in.
Speaker 2: A little bit because there is opportunity for the Giants
Speaker 2: fits so like as a last round flyer, if I'm
Speaker 2: trading him for a late round draft pick something like that, like,
Speaker 2: I'll go and try and see if Paris Campbell can
Speaker 2: do it. Although you know his skill set is slot only,
Speaker 2: you know, can't get off of you know, a jam
Speaker 2: at the line, that kind of stuff. He's undersize, he
Speaker 2: can still be valuable. What do you think about Paris Campbell?
Speaker 2: Do you think this is it?
Speaker 1: He gets on a roll with the Giants or he
Speaker 1: probably gets hurt again and we can be done.
Speaker 4: I think he's going to be one of those guys
Speaker 4: who always has trouble staying healthy. And while I think
Speaker 4: he's talented, I don't know if he's so talented to
Speaker 4: be able to distinguish himself from amongst this just deep
Speaker 4: group of wide receivers and deep group of slot receivers
Speaker 4: the Giants have. I feel like this team is destined
Speaker 4: to have like no one with more than about six
Speaker 4: hundred and twenty receiving yards this year, but about like
Speaker 4: five guys between three point fifty and six twenty.
Speaker 1: Yeah, feels bad for New York russ.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, I don't expect Waller to stay
Speaker 2: healthy because he never does you know he's Sterling Shepherd
Speaker 2: even alive. I don't know what's going on with him.
Speaker 2: You know, Slayton loves to drop football's Paris Campbell. This
Speaker 2: is why Saquon led them in targets last year. You
Speaker 2: know it's not great there. So what do you think
Speaker 2: about Paris Campbell? Do you think he can he can
Speaker 2: do it in New York? Would you take a flyer
Speaker 2: on him? Or is he someone you're ignoring. I will
Speaker 2: never ever give up on Paris Campbell. I don't know
Speaker 2: what it is about him. Like I told you, I
Speaker 2: collect cards.
Speaker 5: I have a set of cards of all the players
Speaker 5: I believe in when they came in, whether they ended
Speaker 5: up good at Like I have my jj R Thaga
Speaker 5: Whiteside card over there, like that's cool, that's that's the level.
Speaker 5: But I have my Paris Campbell cards sitting over there.
Speaker 5: I'm ready for it. It's really funny. The Giants are
Speaker 5: doing something that you've never really seen in the NFL before.
Speaker 5: They have a plan and they know how many of
Speaker 5: their players get hurt. So like, all right, we have
Speaker 5: Sterling Shepherd, he gets hurt a lot. Let's get one.
Speaker 5: Let's draft Rondel Robinson. Okay, okay, Paris Campbell, yes, okay, cool,
Speaker 5: let's go. Let's go. Cole Beasley's free. Okay. We need
Speaker 5: a slot receiver, and I don't care who gets hurt.
Speaker 5: We're gonna have one on our team. Like so, I'm
Speaker 5: ready for it.
Speaker 3: I'm here.
Speaker 5: If every time Paris Campbell has been on the field
Speaker 5: and healthy on a we'll call it functional offense, he's
Speaker 5: done really well. It seems like Pat, You're right, his
Speaker 5: body might not be able to hold up the NFL,
Speaker 5: in which case I hope he's at least pass catcher
Speaker 5: three on their team. So he doesn't take fifteen hits
Speaker 5: a game. You know, let him catch six balls because
Speaker 5: his aid out is like two, you know, like he
Speaker 5: doesn't he doesn't have to walk, he doesn't have to
Speaker 5: run very far before he catches the ball. But usually
Speaker 5: that means he gets hit by linebackers, and that doesn't
Speaker 5: bode well for a small man like him. I want
Speaker 5: it to work out. I really, really, really really do,
Speaker 5: because I really do like Paris Campbell. I will say
Speaker 5: it is cautious optimism at this point, but I will
Speaker 5: until the day he plays a full season and it
Speaker 5: just doesn't work out. I will be like, once he's healthy,
Speaker 5: he could do it. He could be in the league
Speaker 5: for sixteen years. Once he's healthy, he'll do it. Russ,
Speaker 5: he has a walker, but he looks real good with
Speaker 5: that walker. He can fight off with defenseman with it.
Speaker 5: It's fine, it's fine, push over the linebacker with it.
Speaker 2: If I said you could have Claypool for a second
Speaker 2: or Campbell for a fourth, what are you doing?
Speaker 5: Oh, Campbell, very very easily, because honestly, whether it's assuming
Speaker 5: PPR league, let's put it that way, right, because it's
Speaker 5: it's Claypool's touchdowns or the number of plays we can
Speaker 5: get out of Campbell in a game. Because again it you know,
Speaker 5: I mean remember Jarvis Landry on the Dolphins. Like it
Speaker 5: wasn't pretty, but it got the job job done, and
Speaker 5: he got that one year where he scored double digit
Speaker 5: touchdowns and was the wide receiver three. Not saying that's
Speaker 5: Paris Campbell or anything, but like, it's a physical possibility.
Speaker 5: It's a way that it could absolutely work, and I
Speaker 5: want it to happen. But it's also rough because I
Speaker 5: really like Wondelle Robinson, I really liked Aaron Waller, Like
Speaker 5: and it doesn't hurt that I live in New Jersey
Speaker 5: and I can go watch them play. Tickets are so
Speaker 5: much cheaper. But like, I don't know what this offense
Speaker 5: is going to look like because again they have so
Speaker 5: many of the same thing, and then they have Slayton
Speaker 5: and Hyatt on the other side, so they're probably gonna
Speaker 5: bring in one more speeds to just in case. So
Speaker 5: I really like Paris Campbell, I'm not gonna give up
Speaker 5: on him. And like you said before, the great thing
Speaker 5: is you send someone a third for Paris Campbell, there's
Speaker 5: gonna yeah, fine, whatever. Yeah, So if you like him,
Speaker 5: you can get him, and that is always a good
Speaker 5: thing in this game where you don't have to fight
Speaker 5: to get the like everybody loves Justin. Justin Jefferson, you're.
Speaker 1: Not getting them, right, yeah, put out of my cold
Speaker 1: dead hands, right yeah.
Speaker 5: Paris Campbell, you want him, you could very easily find
Speaker 5: a way to put him on your roster.
Speaker 2: The moneyball move is getting Paris Campbell, I think is
Speaker 2: where we're falling on this. Yes, so go get him
Speaker 2: for a cheap pick. And what do you think about
Speaker 2: these crossroad players? Who's gonna make it? Who is going
Speaker 2: to fail and who did we miss Let us know
Speaker 2: in the comments. We would love it. So that will
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