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Week 6 Waiver Wire - Pickup This Name Before Your Enemies Do
In this episode, Jacob Sanderson and his co-host dive into the Week 6 waiver wire, focusing on key players like Michael Carter and Mason Taylor. They discuss their potential impact on fantasy rosters ...
Week 6 Waiver Wire - Pickup This Name Before Your Enemies Do
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The week six waiver wire is here and Jacob Sanderson and I are going to be going over the Arizona
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backfield.
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Of course, the chargers backfield, they're always dealing with an injury, some tight ends.
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And I think maybe a state of the union ad, like the low end tight end one conversation.
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So some of those guys would be on my drop list.
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Then obviously we have some youngsters that are making some noise.
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But we got to start this thing off with Michael Carter last week.
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He did end up starting.
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He played about half the snaps, but got most of the work that we're talking about that we want.
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So what did you see out of Michael Carter?
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And I was just shocked that he's only at 39% roster in Yahoo League.
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So I think that's good news for us that there's still a huge market for that that we can grow into as
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content creators.
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We clearly are not reaching the masses yet.
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Yes, disperting for how I thought the show was doing.
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Michael Carter is 61% un-rostered.
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Really wild to me that that's the case.
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Carter, I think going into last week, we both agreed.
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He was the better option played in this backfield.
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That came out to be the case.
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He was basically the early down guy.
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I think they gave Zonovan Bam night like a series or two and one of them.
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He was really successful on the let him finish it out for the touchdown.
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But he played very little.
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It was the Mercado in the third down roll as he had been in previous seasons.
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And it was he had been in the previous week.
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Now things get even better for Michael Carter.
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First of all, he looked pretty darn good to me.
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I mean, he's not going to be the best running back in the NFL.
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But this is a guy who once upon a time was a totally viable starting running back.
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And he looked to me like a fairly viable starting running back,
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especially a plug and play back up.
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And Trey Benson is going to be out at least three more weeks,
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but potentially more.
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This will be a minute.
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I think it's right.
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I think it's trim.
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It's like totally plausible.
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He misses five games, six games, seven games on the spot.
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And he had one career start.
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If Michael Carter keeps playing, there's no reason why he can't make this a full blown
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committee by the time that Benson returns.
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And add on top of that, Mari D Mercado, Ed Mitchell, I'm calling him, made the bonehead
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mistake that everybody seems so desperate to make of not wanting to hold the balls they
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crossed the goal.
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I don't know if it's lathered in poison or what's going on.
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It drives me crazy that this keeps happening.
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But yeah, he wanted no part of it.
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So he gets extremely yelled at on the sidelines.
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Maybe touch.
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Maybe pushed.
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We'll see.
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We'll see.
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Either way, I think it's like quite possible that he is punished in some way for this.
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He could be caught.
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He could be scratched.
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He could just have his role reduced.
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I don't know.
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And I'll note that Michael Carter has a history of being a long downed distance back.
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He played in this role with Jermonte Williams in North Carolina.
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He played in this role alongside Breeze Hall at times in New York.
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He could totally play in this role again.
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And maybe they just say, we'll give BAM night 20 to 30% of the early down work.
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And we'll use Carter as an all situations back outside of that.
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That would make total sense to me.
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Night looked totally fine.
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And we mentioned the issues of the Mercado.
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So I think you should be optimistic about Carter being a mid-range RB2 for at least
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the next month.
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Yeah, totally agree at all those points.
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He had 15.4 expected points this last game.
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And he's a fascinating guy because in the NFL, he's kind of been treated as this early
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down guy.
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But in college, he was kind of always like the 1B guy and he's undersized for sure.
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So you kind of think about pass downs with him.
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He's capable of catching passes.
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But for whatever reason, he's been treated as early down guy.
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So I think in Richard or Jonathan Ganon's presser, he said that they're not going to punish
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Yimari Dima or Colorado.
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So but we don't even need him to be punished.
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And if they just reduce that role, like just because they want to get micro Carter on
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the field more, that's all great news for microcard.
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Only like bad thing about the situation is their blocking tight end is now out.
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Their offensive line is bad.
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So it's just a bad situation for microcard, but he's getting all of the work.
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And I don't expect that to change at all.
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So I would say very clearly the top ad of the week.
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Well, obviously, to the chargers running back in a second.
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But before we get to them, there's a couple tight ends that are on my radar quickly.
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Let's start with Mason Taylor just because he was the one that played this last week.
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But it was very promising in the Jets.
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The second round are they are desperate for somebody else to step up, especially in
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garbage time.
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The defense can't stop anybody.
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They have no other wider receivers beyond Garrett Wilson.
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So if he's any good at all, we're kind of looking at a bunch of expected points here.
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So what have you seen for Mason Taylor as the prospecting in so far this season?
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Well, once again, another all time, just to watch the games performance from our guy Justin
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Fields.
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He always gets there.
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Don't watch the games and don't tweet during the games.
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Just let it ride and then see what happens at the end is the rule of Justin Fields.
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Yeah, Mason Taylor is in a good spot because the only way that the Jets can do anything on
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offense, basically, is in fourth quarter, come back mode against prevent defenses when
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everything is completely lost.
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And they get in those situations a lot because they're total ass.
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So I expect that he's going to continue to have four and five catch, fourth quarters
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for very usable, especially for an entitan premium or PPR format fantasy games.
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I could see him being in the load and tight and one mix for sure.
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And you also have the benefit of, hey, maybe this offense actually takes a step forward
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at some point.
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Maybe they play Tyrod Taylor at some point and run a real offense.
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Mason Taylor easy path to being the number two target behind Wilson.
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They have absolutely nothing at what receiver.
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It's a joke.
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So looking at the usage model, he's gone up in five consecutive weeks, like no exaggeration
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every single week.
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It's gotten better in a top down last week season high 15.2 expected points.
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And he had three targets in the first quarter because I was watching this game for a recap
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show.
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But then like the target just kept coming and like that, like you said, in fourth quarters,
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you're just going to skip that.
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So if you only took his like last three games where he's like actually grown into like a
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real player, he's a tight and foreign usage.
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So and I think he looks fairly good.
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He's like kind of a no nonsense yard after the catch guy.
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He's not like physically dominant.
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So they're not talking about grogms and kiddles and all type of stuff.
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But he's just going to be something that's got a catch passes, sit in zone coverage and
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has enough speed to get to the first down marker.
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And that's like what 85% of tight end receiving production is just going where to sit down.
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So I think pretty promising start for Mason Taylor and the Jets just once again, just beyond
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desperate for him to step up.
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I'm part of the fun with Taylor is he's a real boy tight end.
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Like you can actually block.
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You can play in line.
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So you're not hopefully especially as the year goes on having to deal with weird platoons
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and road issues and stuff.
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Like I would put him in the world of like the the Jake Ferguson to the exact whole
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commit something in that kind of reaction.
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That's totally viable.
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Yep.
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Another one that I think is going to match with Mason Taylor just grown into but we have
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not seen it yet is Colston, Loveland.
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So I'm not sure if he's going to be healthy enough to come back out of the by week and
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play immediately.
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Truthfully, I don't really care.
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Cole Comet had one of the worst tight end games of the year in week four before the by week
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post by rookie bum for you guys that are due to it.
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It's just once these coaches come out of the by week, they start learning the weaknesses
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of the offense.
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They start envisioning that this rookie that he's going to save the season and all of
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a sudden these guys start playing more.
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So Colston, Loveland, the top 10 pick, where are you with him pre draft?
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And you think there's a chance they can overtakes Cole Comet as like the one a because they run
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a lot of two tight end sets and even three tight end stuff, but he needs to be like the
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first guy and play all the snaps.
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Yeah.
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What do you think his odds are of like completely supplanting?
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Cole Comet.
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I love Loveland pre draft.
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He was my tight end one pre draft.
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That's obviously wrong.
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Tyler Warren rules.
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But hey, maybe Loveland will be just as good with the moral arc of the universe as long.
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So I'm a big fan of Colston Loveland.
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I think he's a super talented player.
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I think he has upside to be like the second most talented pass catcher on this offense.
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Quite frankly.
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I think that with the bears, you had two rookies, both of whom missed a lot of time in camp
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with two different injuries.
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And I always kind of baked in the possibility of this post rookie bump where maybe Ben Johnson
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looked at it where look, I have this really early buy anyway.
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We have these two rookies we want to integrate, but we have serviceable veterans.
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We're installing a brand new complex offense.
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Why don't we sort of use these four weeks is almost like an extended preseason for the
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rookies and work in them after that week five buy?
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I think that's totally viable.
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As you mentioned, Cole Comet sucked against the Raiders.
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He had multiple killer drops.
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He got absolutely abused by Max Crosspiece repeatedly throughout the game.
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And that to me is the more compelling part of this because no one realistically could
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argue that Cole Comet is a more gifted athlete down the field running seam routes.
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Anything that's breaking than Colson Loven.
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No, he's not.
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Loven used to split out wide and be corner and Michigan.
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So the reason why Cole Comet in theory could ever be playing ahead of Colson Loven
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in one tight end sets is that he can handle edges and blocking.
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If he's getting killed in blocking assignments, there is no benefit to him playing at all
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in those situations.
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And so I think they should at least give Loven a share of the 11 personnel sets and see
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how he does.
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And if he can handle himself as a blocker, which I was pretty optimistic on his blocking.
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And I think we're going to see that just continue to he becomes the clear one tight end set guy
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and Cole Comets only in their own two tight end sets.
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I bet we see that scale up over the next few weeks if and when Loven is healthy.
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This seems also just passing the ball maybe a little bit more than people would expect
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in neutral situations.
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They're defense.
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They're running back suck.
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Yeah, they can't run the ball like that.
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That's just some.
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They can't block or they don't have the running back to do it.
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They're defense.
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If you guys haven't noticed, also stinks.
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So this seems just going to be really high up in dropbacks the rest of the season.
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And Caleb just looks better each week as well.
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So I think there's a lot of potential here.
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Well, Luther Burton, I'm more optimistic on Cole St.
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Levelyn like supplanting and being in maybe like the lead tight end.
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Then Luther Burton getting into two wide receiver sets, which I think will have to do to like,
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actually be startable and like read draft leagues.
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But it's certainly possible.
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They can definitely use some more explosiveness out of their wide receivers.
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What what's your outlook?
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Yeah, I don't know about him getting into two wide receiver sets.
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The DJ more stuff's been weird.
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I thought he's like looked better than he did last year to my eye when I thought he played actively bad.
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Yes, but he still has been used in this really weird role where most of his touches are on clear
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designer stuff that's outside the rhythm of the offense.
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They just don't seem very interested in designing first read stuff for him,
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which is kind of what I thought would be the case.
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Like I thought he would be more of a gadgety player in the soft and because it didn't look like he could win
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on anything down field last year.
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This year he does look like he can.
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They're just not using him that way.
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So there's maybe some upside if burden really flashes to supplant more in two
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I just said at the very end of the years what I'm trying to say.
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I think the far more likely scenario is that he's a plant's a lot of days of key is who's I think
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become sort of a less key cog in this offense since he was in week one.
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And then if they are out on cold combat at some point,
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maybe they just run more 11 personnel with burden.
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That's the upside of him.
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Yeah, yeah.
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I could totally say I didn't deeply play.
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He's going to be out there.
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I think in best ball, the totally different discussion there where you don't have to predict
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when he's going to have his big week and obviously Luther Burton could absolutely fly out there
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and he was on the receiving end of that flea flicker.
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So I've noticed that he's kind of in there for some of the gadgety plays.
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And then DJ Moore is actually playing a little bit of running back, which I'm a little bit curious
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about if they're going to keep doing that because I like the result of it.
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Yeah, it's anything there too.
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I mean, I think more burdened are the two best running backs on this team.
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Yeah, it's like honestly not an exaggeration at all.
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The same thing would be true about this backfield.
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Maureen Hampton goes out.
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No one even knows exactly what play he was injured on all of a sudden he's in a boot.
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The next day we get, boom, injured deserves.
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So he's going to be out for at least the next four games here.
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Went back.
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It's a son half-skins and come on you by all.
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What happened this last week is
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Hassan Haskins was actually mixing in.
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Winnell Maureen Hampton was relatively healthy.
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He was the guy that entered in first.
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Come on you by all, also got a little bit of run.
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They would play like four or five snaps in a row than they would move on from the situation.
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Hassan Haskins leaves with the starters because they were getting blown out.
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And come on you by all stays in next to Trayland.
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So these two guys like stylistically complete opposites.
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I don't think any one of them are good.
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Like if you want to have a stance that one guy is much better than the other,
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sure the answer is probably either very good.
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So what's your kind of just outlook of this charger's backfield?
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You can throw out names like Gus Edwards or somebody else too if you want to.
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Just what's the status for chargers?
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Yeah, I mean, I'll note that.
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I legitimately do think they'll sign Gus Edwards.
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He's available. He's a free agent.
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He was on this team last year.
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He's been with Greg Roman forever.
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This reminds me of how the chiefs wide receivers have been the last couple of years where they keep
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doing the right thing.
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They keep trying to add wide receiver talent to address the room.
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And it's like look where it brought you back to me.
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Justin Watson running routes.
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You know, the chargers, they go out.
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They sign Najieris.
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They draft marine hampton in the first round and look what it brought you back to a potential
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committee of Gus Edwards.
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Come on, even tell on the sun,
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askins just like they had in like week 12 last year.
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If you remember how that looked last year, none of them were startable.
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When JK Dobbins missed time last year, zero chargers running backs were worth putting
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in your lineup and fantasy.
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They just leaned into the past.
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They never threw to the backs.
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They basically only use them when they had to.
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And they completely deprioritized them in the structure of their offense because they weren't
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any good.
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Greg Roman offense is historically.
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Never thrown to running backs.
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That's changed the last three weeks for the marine hampton.
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I think it's in part because their offensive line has gotten settled with injuries and they
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need to get the ball out fast.
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But I also think it's in part because they have this talented athletic back.
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And they're trying to find ways to get them the ball in space.
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You don't think there's going to have that same level of intent with either of these two
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goofs or any other free agent they sign off the street.
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If you're asking me to give you a talent evaluation of them,
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I mean, I like to add more of the process.
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But like, whatever conviction that I had in Medellin is like a fun flyer last year out of Troy,
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has been deeply surpassed by the available evidence that he was in one of the worst running
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back rooms in the NFL last year and got basically zero opportunities except for one very fun wheel
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route. It's pretty unlikely that he's good at this point.
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And I'd also just say,
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a marine hampton in the games without Najie Harris has played like between 80 to 90% of the snaps.
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The fact that they still feel the need to divvy up like eight backup snaps per game between
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these two just tells you everything you need to know about how little confidence they haven't either
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of them that they don't think either is capable of handling like seven backup snaps per game
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as one single running back. So I think the most likely scenario is none of these guys are any good.
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They also bring in the third guy and the real winner is like the three ride receivers who just
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continue to get peppered with more and more and more targets. Yeah, that's that's where I'm at
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with this situation. Do you remember like the the chargers off season they immediately bring in
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Najie Harris and then the first round pick is another running back and they had his son
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haskins a commodity by the all on there. So just this is not going to be a fun situation. I guess
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I would go to his son haskins like breaking ties. He's a Michigan alum, you know, that's kind of
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mean something for our bar or something. I don't know. He just the fact that he was playing earliest
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in the rotation and he's theoretically bigger for the goal line stuff, but it's it's pretty bleak.
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I think this week was only two teams on by so yeah, and like standard leagues and stuff for flex
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play. I think that he's probably into that threshold, but this is not the situation that we've
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been talking about in previous episodes. I guess I'll go the other way. My real answers and either
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if I had to pick one, it would be the doll just because I guess like whatever remnants of a prospect
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that I like still exists a little bit and mostly just because I think he's the better pass catcher of
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the two. And so either one of these guys is going to get four or five catches for PPR value
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because they can't block anyone. I think he would be the better bet. For what it's worth, he also
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played more than haskins last year, but you mentioned haskins was the guy who got into the game first
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this week. So it's a toss up. Yeah, for sure. I'm sure people in the comments feel very good about
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one of these guys being very much better than the other and they should they shouldn't. How about
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this though? All right, Kendrick Miller, there's no standalone value yet. So we're talking about the
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Saints backfield now too. He closed out the game. They won the game and I was looking at my like
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timeline charts that I post with the running backs and it was obviously more album in Camara early
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when they were projected, you know, it was supposed to be a close game. And then as like the
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winning percentage goes up in the Saints favor, Kendrick Miller goes out there plays a little bit more
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after the game. Kellen Moore be sure to shout him out. He's just in the handcuffed category to me,
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but the one other caveat and just the thing that can break his in his favor is if Alvin Camara
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does get traded at the deadline there are one in four after also. What have you seen out of Kendrick
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Miller? And like, would you rather have him than these chargers backs, like even for the next
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like couple weeks and the rest of the season? Yeah, yeah, I would because I think he has he's a
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very clear handcuff. He has an actual role. I mean, he's basically splitting carries 50-50 at this
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point and Camara's just beating him out on the targets. So yeah, I would go mail or over both of them
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and you also still have the tradeouts and everything that we discussed before. So yeah, okay,
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quickly just, Sequan Barkley popped up on the injury report knee injury quickly after
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rap sheet said it's not a big deal. Just wanted to note that because they have played on a short
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week. It's, you know, met life turf. It's revenge game. It's all that stuff. This would be a very
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similar situation to what we're dealing with the chargers where AG Dylan and Will Shipley rotated
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since they've had Will Shipley. They signed AG Dylan and I forgot after I tweeted that,
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that they had traded for tank Bigsby to. So it would be a complete disaster situation once
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again over there. The Bigsby trade continues to confuse me. I mean, how dare I
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or smurch the genius that's how he rose men. But like they traded two day three drafts for this guy
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and they don't even use them over AG Dylan. It's really confusing to me. They must really like him
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as a kicker trainer, which I haven't seen them. And like make big plays on it. I'll say like if we
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somehow get more bearish news throughout the week, I mean, we got it on Hubbard and on Benson after
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we reported last week. So who knows? I would still be strongly Shipley. I know that Dylan has been
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mixing in more in the recent weeks. I just still go back to the first game of the season. Will
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Shipley was getting touches on the first drive of the game. And I thought that showed a legitimate
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intention with him. Then he gets hurt and they've been slow playing him since he got back.
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Maybe he's still hurt to some extent. But I just feel like like what could Shipley have possibly
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done outside of the injury to have lost trust with the staff? Like I don't see anything. And he
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seemed clearly the dude that they wanted to make a point of getting involved on the very first
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drive of their season, versus AJ Dylan has really only worked in after Shipley has gotten hurt and
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has not been as much of a player of intent, even the side sake one Barclays. So I guess.
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Yeah, same, same with me. You also have the better pass catcher. This team, the last two weeks,
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has actually been pretty high up in neutral pass rate. They have like really lost faith, like
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running the ball for whatever reason. So I think that would lean into his favor too.
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Quickly just want to mention two other just this is like really dark throw, tight end territory.
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But AJ Barner and Theo Johnson both had quality games in this one very involved in the red area.
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Both of these guys could block and they eat up a bunch of snaps. So if the start flashing,
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higher target shares, they're actually involved in first read looks or if these offenses take
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the next step on other sea oxer looking good. And that's why you do barner score those touchdowns.
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But if the Jackson starts breaking out, AJ Barner and Theo Johnson not for now. But like for
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just for deep leagues and just to have your eye on these guys, I do think that there's something
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with AJ Barner and Theo Johnson. Have you seen anything with those guys?
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Yeah, I mean Theo, it seemed like they made it a point to get them involved in the red area.
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You look at who's on this team. Juan Del Romano's on a red zone guy.
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Slayton Terry Slayton is hurt now and is like more of a deep threat and it's kind of bad.
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Everybody else is totally bad. So like yeah, who would you throw to the red zone? Probably just the
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big guy post them up. I mean, he was clearly the schemeed up read there. That second touchdown,
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especially. So I think he's going to have a continued red zone role anytime if your tight end is
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hurt, if you're a kittle team, if you're a bower's team, whatever, you can stick him in there.
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He probably has a good of a chance of getting a touchdown as anyone you can get off waivers. So
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I'm pretty optimistic on Theo and Barner same idea. It's going to be a two tight end heavy team.
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He's the commit to, you know, whatever we were talking about with Loveland, sort of more of the
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a rollo and I think it's going to stay that way. He's a way of better blocker than a rollo and
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he's been totally serviceable as a pass catcher. So yeah, like both of them last tight end I wanted to
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dimension Brock Bowers. We got injury update that it's not just the PCL injury. It's a bone bruise
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and my understanding of that is like this early into into their his career and the Raiders are now
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one in four. The bone risk like it's a risk tolerance thing and there's just no reason to like
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have them out there. So there could be setbacks. It can get worse. So I think the plan would be to
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rest them for at least another week or so. And Michael Mayer by that point, hopefully,
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has cleared concussion protocols. So if you're looking for like a one week fill in, if you are the
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Brock Bowers draft or George Kiddles, not going to be coming back this week or you just drafted a
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bust, I do think that Michael Mayer has a chance to maybe be a sneaky ad probably very very cheap
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because he misses last game. Yeah, it's just so frustrating how they've handled this injury. It
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hurt as a shell of himself for three weeks for no reason. If they just rest at him at the beginning,
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it feels like he could be playing now at full health and look like the player he wasn't week one.
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Instead of having to deal with a completely compromised version and then probably still miss
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until the buy week. It's a big bummer. And yeah, for mayor, I bet Bowers the most likely scenarios
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he's he's rest until the buy. So I think you got probably a couple weeks on Michael Mayer as a
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startable low-entite and one assuming he gets back in the concussion. I will note he's had multiple
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concussions now in his career. So I wouldn't take it like as a totally assured that he comes back
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this coming week, but we'll see. I mean the Bowers situation doesn't completely sum up the
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Raiders like offseason and rebuild where they're halfway in halfway out and like if they would
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just play the long game for once in their lives, they would actually you know get better results
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in the future, but they're trying to win now and they can't. They're incapable of winning now. So
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yeah, that's just like classic Raiders situation there. And they knew he was for I mean look at the
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routes that they designed for him in week one where they were doing these long crossing routes
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and this really creative usage and you can couldn't even about the snaps, but like when he was on the
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field, the usage that he got was fantastic and they were force feeding them the ball in those spots.
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And then they knew he was hurt because all they designed for him in the next three weeks was a
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bunch of seven-year stop routes. So they knew it and they did it anyway and it was just so frustrating
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to yeah anyway. Okay, is there any other ad before I get to the drop list like anyone like
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scrolling down for you? Yeah, not a whole lot. I mean I'll mention Kenny Gainwell
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you know Warren's back at practice. So I don't think he are like pumped to start Gainwell,
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but he played really darn well. And so maybe you get a committee there we talked about him last week.
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And then the other guy I'll just mention he's still only 58% owned which is remarkable to me,
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but Rico Towell looked like age-old beaters him last week. So if you happen to be in the 42% of leagues,
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I don't imagine that you need me to tell you to pick up the guy who had 234 yards last week,
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but I think you should if he's available. Yeah, well maybe if you are in that league,
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maybe you do need your handheld. So who knows who knows. All right, so drop list. I mean,
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you can't start this week's drop list without putting the Mari Dima Kado just the drop himself
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right at the top of that list. So he only played on third downs pretty much like I think he
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had like 16 to the 18th or down snap. So he did not graduate out of that role. He's firmly dropable.
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The Cardinals might make it on the season four. He says roll after that. Yeah, performance.
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Yeah, I mean, you literally can't make the drop list any clearer than dropping the ball.
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You're literally on the drop list. Yes. Yeah. Absolutely. A couple guys that just we were talking
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about so many tight ends. So I want to include a couple guys. The TG Hawkins and stuff. He's at 90%
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rostered. You can keep keep on doing this thing, but he's heading into the buy. They don't know what
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quarterback they're going to go with. They have two complete star wide receivers to throw the ball to.
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And I just think that he's not going to be the same like target earner that he was previously.
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He's not like popping out to me on tape all that much. Not getting any first read stuff.
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He's just checking check downs. And why would you think for him? And why would you design
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stuff to TG Hawkins? So I think like the Mason like what I dropped TG Hawkins Hawkins and
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from Mason Taylor absolutely would not think twice about any of that. Mark Andrews, very similar
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situation. No Lamar Jackson this week. Then they go into a buy week and Isaiah likely is coming back.
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I would put Richard Bateman into that same exact category. You're not going to be using these guys
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for multiple weeks. And then even when when they do come back, you're like just praying for a touch
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down. So don't like those situations. Last to Geno Smith, just Jover, no left tackle, no Brock
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Bowers. Not going to happen. And then all he Gordon is at 25%. He's a touchdowner bus guy, but
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they can't run the ball at all. The offensive line is completely dreadful. They're second
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rounder now playing left guard. He can't block anybody. He's like, he's got maybe the worst
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recovery speed I've seen from a rookie. So all those guys, I don't think you really need any of them.
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No big agree. I mean, Hawkinson is not like, I'm not saying to drop him because he's worse than the
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guys we've mentioned. He's kind of like the same as most of the guys you've mentioned, but that's the
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point. Like you have to pick up a streamer anyway while he's on buy. So you're going to don't roster
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two tight ends. These guys are all the same. There's like fly tight ends that matter. Oh,
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again, all these guys are the same. There's even less because two of them are hurt. So we're
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probably like, what two tight ends that actually matter. Three, I guess we got to count the
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furg dog. So yeah, at this point, just dropped each eye, Hawkinson. And yeah, there's way better
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running back handcuffs than all he Gordon. And that's what he is. He's running back handcuffs.
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Stand alone rolls of Fugazi. Let's take one more. Just like Dart throw. You wanted to mention him.
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Bershardt Smith, he's playing like Asgard recording. He's playing the second quarter here, but
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whether he does well or not, but check out of a hundred yards, it doesn't matter.
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They're just like an entry with Bershardt Smith. The rookie tell us about his situation right now.
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Yeah, he might be the last running back out there that you could make a very plausible case
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of how he is the starting running back without an injury within like the next month.
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You know, and what starting running back means for Bershardt Smith is probably different than what
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it means for other running backs because he does have limitations. Seventh rounder, more of a pass
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catcher type. But like I'll say I've only watched the first half of this game. Karim Hunt just had a
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big run. But like, I know. What did he all have on that? Yeah, I won't say that it was like the most
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impressive big run. It was sort of like he got through the hole and nobody told me. It was a 30-B yard
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game and it was negative rest yards over expected. Next time, he should have busted that for 48.
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Yeah, the safety kind of was like I'm not too concerned to kind of think about that.
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But hey, it worked. Yeah, I'll also say they just designed a really nice angle route for Bershardt
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Smith. That was very Jeric McKinney. So, point being, Checo and Karim Hunt, these guys are total
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jags. And Bershardt Smith, if he continues to impress and he's flashed a couple times and they use
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him in interesting ways, if you could just get him up to what the actual Jeric McKinney role used to be,
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which was these designer plays on early downs, but also they would use him on passing downs.
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And then who knows? Maybe they even give him some more actual carries and stuff instead of
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just purely these kind of designer plays. It's just that God's interesting to have on your bench
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because there's so many pure handcuffs in these redraft leagues. But this is one dude who I think
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you could at least squint and see how he's at 12 to 14 point per game guy late season without any
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injuries. Yeah, I do like him in full PPR redraft leagues. You got a deep league. I would be
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interested in that. I also just think the chiefs are about to take off just I think Xavier Worthy
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is a big deal. The offensive line has been kind of hit and miss and hopefully they start jelling
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with some new pieces. I think that my home is playing extremely well and then just looking at the
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box score while recording this, my home is 12 for 1462 yards and a touchdown. Ty Quant Thornton.
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Like to me, like even just Ty Quant Thornton, what he brings versus Justin Watson, Deander Hopkins,
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and the all those players, I think this offense could like get back to like 28 points per game plus
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for type of territory and like there's only one game left until Richie Rice. Exactly. So I think
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they're just going to go crazy here. So like adding any chief, I think you could do worse than that.
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So to make your point on per shard Smith. So all right, what do you got? And by the way,
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congrats on the new gig. Tell us about that and then what you got for for for more writing.
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Yeah. So I mean, you can always find my usual checkers guy on thinking about thinking I'm going to do
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a bit of a dynasty mailbag there this week as well. And the new gig. So it'll be a monthly feature.
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I wrote the first edition of it last week for the athletic and it's redraft trade value tiers.
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So I sort of built these quantified trade value tiers that are based off of my dynasty points,
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co-host Lucas's wins over replacement model. And then just sort of scaled my rest of season rankings
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into that model. If you know, you want to use the same type of math in the weeks that I'm not
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ready to call them and you want to input your own rankings, you just do that and you basically
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assign it to the model. And it kind of gives you a reasonably fair trade calculator where you can
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start to piece your head around the two for ones, the three for two stuff like that. So go check
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that out on the athletic. Check the rest of myself out on thinking about thinking and I'll be back
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here next Monday night. Yeah, that's a really cool tool. There's a lot of questions that Josh and I
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get that are like on the fly trend answer and it's like so confusing. It really depends like the
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rest of your roster and all that type of stuff. But I do think like the best trades are usually like
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across positions and it's just a little bit harder to wrap your your brain around it. So just
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having some some math and like high quality rest of season rankings is super impactful. So make
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sure you go check that out thinking about thinking's excellent is Twitter handle also excellent. So
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we'll be back here stats versus film wise tomorrow got a lot to break down got my own model up there
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that you guys will have access to and then rankings for the rest of the week. So more teams coming
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back from by than going on to buy. So hopefully our fantasy scores improve. All right.