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0:00I see you in the old six, oh, one old. Focus, fantasy, fantasy, focus. What a friends welcome in a fantasy focus, football alongside fields of eights. Yeah, computer rating. Yeah, that's it. I think he left it here. Is that his backup computer? Probably. His spare computer. That's the Fernandum and Doza computers to my clay. That's right. That's going to make more sense when we dive into the news and the movements. My name is Daniel Dopp. It is just the two of us as Mike is on vacation. One more time. You thought, you know what guys, they only have one more chance before we get into the season. I already thought we were in the season field. Right. I mean, since you and I last were on vacation, Mike has is now embarked on a second, a second. My second. Nice. Must be nice. I'm sure he's listening. We miss him as we always do. Shout out to Mike. Okay. Well, I missed Michael a little bit on today's show. We're going to dive into a bunch of really fun things. So field and I bring in some players that need to be on your radar. Guys, inside the top 70, we maybe just haven't talked about enough yet.

1:02This year, we want to make sure that we get to them as well as diving into some flex appeal names in the second half of the show going to be a ton of fun. Let's talk about names outside the top 70. First and foremost, I want to tell you guys a really quick fun bit of information. Our guy Eric Moody getting a show on Sunday morning. That's right. Eric is always in the chat with us here on fantasy focus. And now fantasy focus Sunday kickoff presented by lows is going to be live on the NFL on ESPN YouTube page every Sunday. You can get all of your lineup questions answered live from 11 30 AM to 1 PM, a second screen experience while we're doing fantasy focus countdown field. People are going to get the questions answered. Okay, Eric Moody. That's right, baby. Okay. So we're not just talking about a new show. We're talking about a new show that sponsored. That's right. That's right. Love those guys. Moody like he is put himself into the race for times person of the year. He's put himself into the race for the 50 most influential sports figures of 2026.

2:05I see you Eric Moody respect. So get all your questions to Eric Moody. That's right. Of course, I'm fantasy focus countdown. We try our best to get some lineup questions answered during the show and maybe all the lineup questions. They're good. Correct. Maybe today just as like a little bit of a teaser, we thought why not bring you a bonus episode one PM today Eastern get all of your draft advice and all of the questions you want answered Eric Moody going to be there on the NFL on ESPN YouTube page. So shout out to him and go check that out this afternoon as well. I feel we got a little bit of news from the league before we decided to dive into the players that need to be on your radar. It's a very small bit of news. Okay. Kirk Cousins officially designated as the starter for this Raiders team. What does that mean to you? Nothing for fantasy. Okay. So my ranking for Ash and Gentie and for Brock Bowers is the exact same as it was going into or before this news was officially announced because a we all thought this is going to happen. Yes. B, it's not like Kirk Cousins is a and for Nana Mendoza is going to be on your fantasy

3:08radar right now. Right. Like those guys obviously for Nana Mendoza has a way higher ceiling as a player and he'll get there in time compared to where Kirk Cousins is right now. But I don't think that any of us expect that week one of his starting career for Nana Mendoza lights the world on fire in a way that Kirk Cousins can't get to occasionally and all the sudden Brock Bowers goes from Titan one to Titan zero. Like how does he move forward from here? And none of the wide receivers were really on our radar prior to this. So no, nothing burger for me. I can't wait to see for Nana Mendoza as the Vegas starter. That to me as the biggest piece of news from here is that we don't get for Nana Mendoza early, but it was expected. It has no fantasy impact whatsoever for me. Is this one of those things where even if Kirk Cousins is playing well, you think eventually there's just like a time where it's like, all right, nope, we drafted this kid for a week. If he's playing great, they're not going to play for Nana Mendoza until they need to. But I don't think Kirk Cousins is going to play great. I agree. I mean, it was em battled over the past few seasons with Atlanta. I expected to be a, I don't know, called four to six week run before for Nana Mendoza

4:11takes over and then the fun really begins at that point. Maybe there's a little bit more overall upside for the offense, but as far as preseason rankings go, Brock Bauer's already tied in one for me and Ash and Gentie who we'll talk about or we have talked about a bunched in that second tier of running backs. And no Vegas wide receiver was registering on our fantasy radar right now. Nope. They were not field, but we are going to talk about some players that do need to be on your fantasy radar. And we brought a couple of different kind of names here field. I got some names too that I brought as a guy some names I think that we need to know about and some names that I'm going to dismiss, but you need to know about them at least to decide where you're at on those players. So we brought seven players inside the top 70 of ADPM and start with you, my friend. Who are you going to go with first? Yeah. I think just we have talked about a ton of players and we have talked about probably all these players a little bit. But as you guys know, for our daily audience that watches or listens or comments while watching, we've hit a ton of Jeremiah love and Colston Loveland and Justin Herbert and Christian McCaffrey and Omari and Hampton content, which has made us feel a little bit

5:16thin on some other guys. So I'm going to begin though with AJ Brown, who is a top 10 wide receiver in rank by all of us here at ESPN. Yep. And in terms of overall ADP going at the two three turn, I think everybody knows that AJ Brown is a remarkably talented player. There is a chance that we see the best version of AJ Brown ever. Now, there's also a chance that we see the worst version of AJ Brown because he's getting older and he had a knee issue that according to Adam Schefter sort of gave the Rams some pause when they were discussing an AJ Brown trade, which that was before the Miles Garichade. I don't think both of those things happen. But I think that AJ Brown is in for a monster, monster season. The hallmark of AJ Brown's game is his speed, his ability to stretch the field. Over the past four years with the Eagles, he had 21 deep touchdown passes, which is passes that went over 20 air yards before they reached the receiver's hands. No player in the NFL had more than AJ Brown during those four years in his 21.

6:18What he does during his time with the Eagles, his average touchdown length was 24.6 yards. That's incredible. Nearly every touchdown catch he had was nearly 25 yards. Okay. And yet he was not playing with a good deep throwing quarterback from 2025. Sorry, 2022 to 2025. AJ Brown caught just 43.5% of his deep targets for some perspective. That was 60 second out of 88 qualified wide receivers. However, he scored the most fantasy points per deep catch is in like the efficiency wasn't great, but when he did connect, he is lethal because he's bigger, faster and stronger than almost every defensive back that is going to be anywhere near him. He goes from Jalen Hertz to Drake May. Yep. How does Drake May stack up as a deep passer? That's a great question, field. How about this Daniel? Last year he had a deep passer rating of 131.0. Seems high.

7:19The average in the NFL was 103.3. Drake May was the best deep passer on deep passer rating in the NFL last season. He was. And this wasn't a case where Drake May was great, but didn't throw the football down the field all that often, right? There are guys who don't shoot that many three pointers, but they've hit 50% of them. And people are saying, well, Steph Curry was only at 41%. This guy might be a better shooter than Steph Curry. That's a crazy argument to make because Steph is the greatest shooter of all time. Drake May may not be the best deep passer of all time, but he was seventh in the NFL in attempts last year. So not only was he throwing the football incredibly well down the field, he was throwing the football a lot down the field. And he wasn't throwing to AJ Brown. His best deep threat last year was K-Shambu, who's a fine player who the Patriots traded for a six round pick and a depth level safety. Yeah. This Drake May to AJ Brown connection could be as lethal as any deep connection in the NFL and maybe not just like for this year, but that we have seen over the past few season.

8:20I'm with you on that field, Jay. I love AJ Brown this year for all the reasons that you just explained who led the league in completion percentage last year just across the board. Do you know who it was? I'm gonna go Drake May. It was Drake May. Thank you. Even though he was throwing the ball farther down field and having all of this luck, or not luck, I shouldn't say look, having all of this ability to find his receivers downfield, he didn't even have a guy like AJ Brown. I am so with you. This is a match made in heaven. Yeah. I am trying really hard not to get excited to think about my. I had a bold prediction at the end of last year, AJ Brown 1700 receiving yards this season. He then gets traded to because I said that it was on FF now, FF countdown. Yes. So now gets traded to this team where it's like that actually might be a possibility. Are we going to see like a little mini Randy Moss in the AJ Brown game here in New England? I'm just saying there's at least a possibility because this kid, both of their skill sets, just match up so well with each other. Love the argument. They really do. By the way, they might be a slow start. They do play Seattle in six days. It's a very, very difficult matchup. Yep.

9:20But be patient. AJ Brown is in for a monster season. What about Devante Adams field? Tell me about him. And on the Devante Adams train for a long time because the dude has been unbelievable. Top 10 in. Let me see one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, seven straight seasons heading into last year. The dude was awesome. Last year though, we started to see a little bit of a different kind of Devante Adams because his targets came down. Fewest targets since 2017. 2017 was a long time ago, field. Yeah, it was. That was nine years ago. Wow. Man. He's been doing it since 2017. And when you look at what he did in the end zone, his end zone targets were through the roof. Yeah. He was clearly this massive touchdown maker for Matthew Stafford. And Matthew Stafford did something that most quarterbacks aren't able to do as far as a repeatable thing year in and year out. Okay. 40 plus touchdown. It's hard to do. It's a really difficult thing to be able to do. I love Devante Adams. He's 33 years old. And I think we have seen his ADP now coming off the board.

10:22Why do you see a 20 fall into what feels like an appropriate spot because we know what this offense is. We know what his quarterback is like we know who he is as a player. The question more is as a veteran that we know is on the back nine, you know, back two or three of his career, what do you still think that Devante Adams can be? And are you just saying when I go into a draft, I'd rather have the upside of someone else that's around him or I'm okay with him being a veteran that's just going to give me a nice solid floor. I think there's a couple of different ways you can approach it. I want to give you a few names just around him to think about. Let me guess. Terry McClore. Terry McClore is right there next to me. Metcalf. DK Metcalf know he's too far down. Okay. Yeah. Um, a mecca, a booga, Vlad McConkey. Yeah. I prefer McConkey. Devante Adams. Yeah. T Higgins. Jalen Waddle, DJ Moore, Terry McClore. I think I would have him probably like fourth out of those six guys. And I don't dislike Devante Adams, but he's not a guy that I'm targeting because within this offense, he's the number two guy. I think major touchdown aggression.

11:23Mike talked about that when he was here on the show a couple of times about how much we know that is going to come down. I think when you look at this Rams offense, the way that they started to utilize two running backs as well, quite a bit in that situation. I have a lot of guys around him that I just think have more upside in their game. He's that veteran that still has a nice floor, but he's not going to give you those peak Devante weeks that we used to see. So if you're drafting him, you're drafting a veteran that you think you're getting a good value on, but you're not getting a ceiling play. And because of that, I think with where you're drafting him in the fifth round, I'd rather have a higher ceiling play than Devante Adams. So I just think it's important to understand where he's at in his career, what he's done. Recently, how his team is going to play out. I don't think he's a bad pick to be able to go out and get him, but there are a couple of guys that I would rather have over him in that range. My reasons for more optimism are as follows, there's three of them. One is you mentioned the insane touchdown upside. Like that does persist because master's effort has 40 or more touchdowns. He's in two of his five seasons with the Rams. He, Joe burrow, Jared Goff, probably the three best bets for 40 passing touchdowns as

12:26upcoming season as well. So I still think there is crazy touchdown upside for Devante Adams. Last year, Devante was managing this hamstring injury, which sort of relegated him to be in a role player. It just turned out that it was the greatest role in the history of fitness. Which was we don't throw the football down the field very often to you, but we throw the football every time we're within like six feet of the goal line. It was Jimmy Graham. Yeah, he was Jimmy Graham. Good car right there. Yes. So I still like the fact that I think there's a chance that he has a more expanded role this year because he's healthy going into the season. And the third reason for optimism for me, which is why I have him six spots ahead of you, wide receiver 20 year, wide receiver 26 is that Devante is an injury to or an suspension to Pukin, Nikua away from being the wider see for one in a ridiculous offense. True. So those are the reasons why I'm more optimistic than you are. But 33 Mike probably would side with you. Wide receiver age 33 season, not named Larry Fitzgerald Mike proverbial computer Mike right

13:30here. He's breaking the tie by saying good call by Daniel. Hey, thanks. Thanks for that computer Mike. Yeah. Where are you going on the next one field? Joe burrow who we've talked a ton about all the quarterback and there's so many good quarterbacks. One of the reasons why we haven't discussed Joe burrow as much is just because we've spent a lot of time on, I don't know, 14 or 15 other quarterbacks that could have huge seasons, which I still believe is the case. And I don't feel any differently about those guys, but I wanted to speak more about Joe. Can I ask you a question before you get into this? Yeah, absolutely. Last year, did you have, I think, because I did, did you have Joe burrow at the very end of your tier one of quarterbacks? Yes, I did. And this year it feels like that's not the case for me. He's not in that same echelon. Little lower. And part of that is I think because of some guys that have made the leap. Correct. You know, Jackson Darts has made the, you know, I think some people can make the case. He has made the leap. Mike certainly would. Yes. You know, my optimism on Justin Herbert, Jalen Hertz is the other guy that's kind of trending in the wrong direction, but could certainly reassert himself as a tier one, QB one. But let's just sort of give you some numbers about Joe burrow and how effective he has been.

14:34Over the past three seasons, if you just look at quarterbacks with, I use 25 games because there might be a guy who's played one game in week 17 against the fake defense or some young quarterbacks that have done it. Joe burrow has scored 20 or more fantasy points in 44.1% of his games over the past three seasons. 20 or more 20 or more. Yes. So that's a good number. It's a good number. It's he's below the likes of Josh Allen. Not the likes of he is below four other quarterbacks and percentage. Josh Allen, the March action, Jalen Hertz and Brock Purti. Hey. But Purti similar to Joe burrow has crazy upside. Yeah. But Joe, it just feels like the chances of him throwing for 250 passing yards and two touchdowns every single week are as good as any player in the NFL. Great. Right. Really there. And since, if you look at the turn of the century, since 2000, Joe burrow is third in the NFL and touchdown pass it through 77 career starts 157 nine fewer than Aaron Rogers and

15:3529 fewer than a player named Patrick Behoem. So we'll discuss a little bit later on. There's a little bit of mobility here for Joe. Not crazy enough. It's not he's not going to run for 500 yards in a season. Mike's got him projected for 189 rushing yards, which is crazy, but it's not Matthew Stafford or Jared Goff where you're getting a literal zero for them. So I think Joe burrow just needs to be discussed a little bit more. I've happily walked away from my draft with Joe burrow. I play in a couple of leagues with six point passing touchdown scoring styles. Love Joe burrow and those. I'm in another league, which has a draft on Tuesday night that not only do you get six points for passing touchdown, but you get point bonuses for 300 and 400 yard passing games plus 40 and 50 point 40 and 50 yard touchdown passes. And Joe burrow will be a preferred target of mine and that league. Absolutely. I've actually given the way that he plays that game and all the things that he does with his wide receivers who we will talk about in just a minute.

16:36Yeah. We've got a question from chat actually about Joe burrow. Would you go with Joe burrow or Dak Prescott and the wide receivers that Dak and that Cowboys offense has. I've got Joe burrow ranked ahead of Dak. I think he is a slightly better player. I think the mobility is pretty similar between these two guys. The wider see per duo is pretty similar between these two guys. Agreed. I just think Joe burrows a little bit better player than Dak Prescott. I think you are right. I would go with Joe as well. The big caveat for me and the reason why I think people are at least have knocked Joe down is because we saw it again last year. Like he missed a good portion of the season. Unfortunately, there's always this like injury thing that's kind of hanging over your head when you draft Joe burrow and you hate to put it on a guy. But that's happened. So if you draft Joe burrow, I got no problems with it because when the guy is healthy and starting, he is one of the best. How many he had like seven straight weeks of 250 plus yards and two touchdowns or something like that last year. The dude is unbelievable. We have another question here from Zebediah wants to know burrow burrow me last year because of his turf toe. This is what I'm talking about field. Do we know if his align is going to be better this year?

17:39They did address it a little bit in the off season. They feel like their offensive line is going to be better. Yeah. I don't know that I guarantee that. But they have two high profile offensive tackles. Yep. If you've got some steady interior presence, none of them are great. I would say this is like it's best a mid-pack offensive line. It's best. I'd have to go check. I know Mike has that piece that he put out recently that overviews how offensive lines are ranked. And as Mike explained a couple of days ago on our show, it's not Mike's personal rankings. All right. This is not Mike Goldock Jr. It's Mike Clay Jr. That's right. He's not it's rating every guard and tackle and putting together a ranking. Mike is compiling offensive line rankings from several reputable sources around the web. Being consensus or not consensus, finding an average amongst those rankings and then pushing those out in an aggregate ranking of those offensive lines. I can't recall where Cincinnati was. I'm going to guess they were like at best 16 and best and it might be more like 22.

18:40Yeah. Hope they should be better. It's fine. Whatever it was last year, there was an expectation that it will be better here in 2026 with the way of addressed it. Part of that is because they still do have two really good wide receivers field. One of them being Jamar Chase, the other one being T Higgins who we honestly don't really talk about a whole lot. I don't even know what they're just talking about. I know it's right. We know exactly who this player is, right? Yes. That's how I wanted to talk about them because we haven't yet, but I figured it was worth it and talking about T Higgins because he's still a serviceable wide receiver too. Hey. I never feel super excited to draft him though because I feel like when he's been given the keys when Jamar Chase hasn't been there, it's not like wow, this guy flourished into an unbelievable wide receiver one. I actually think George Pickens did a better job of that last year when there was no CD Lam then we've often seen with T Higgins being the wide receiver one in Cincinnati. However, I'm going to pull up. I've never seen T Higgins. There's a bunch of things he's not done. Never seen him catch at least 75 balls in a season. That's not really his game. Never had 75 balls in a season. He has topped a thousand yards twice in his six year career, which was surprising to

19:42me. I would have thought T Higgins had more than 2,000 yard seasons. The last two years is where it's really been making his money. When touchdowns and 11 touchdowns from his guy Joe Burrow and last year obviously it was tough to start the season without Joe being there for the beginning of it. I know Joe Flaka was there still a serviceable quarterback. But I'm looking at this situation. This is what he has done so far in his career. Last five years, wide receiver 13, wide receiver 19, wide receiver 41, wide receiver 6, wide receiver 15. So more often than not, if you and I realize there's two extremes there, the wide receiver 6 season, the wide receiver 41 season feels like he's just somewhere in that like mid-range wide receiver, too. He's going to be a consistent option for you. I have a couple of boom weeks. He might have some lean weeks because of the fact he's got Jamar chase and chase brown also in this offense. But T Higgins I think is exactly who we think he is. I have a name of veteran and I'm going to pause for dramatic effect. All right. But anybody is out there listening or watching or chatting right now and you can think

20:42of this. There was a receiver who for I don't know, probably about a half a decade, we would talk about him and we try to analyze him early in his career. And then we just kind of accepted that like when you draft the player, you take the good with the bad with the unhealthy. He was injury prone, scored a lot of touchdowns, super talented, huge like Jeffrey. No, but that's another good example. All right. Dang it. The answer is Mike Williams for the chargers. Yes. It was like, Hey, Mike Williams. But T Higgins in some ways is a low maintenance wide receiver too. What I mean by that is you sign up for all the good, all the bad and all the potentially unavailable when you draft T Higgins. Yep. 21 touchdowns over the past two seasons tied for the second most receiving touchdowns last year with 11 love that. But he might have a, I don't know, five games where you want to pull your hair out. You can't do that when you draft T Higgins. Right. I acknowledge he is a wide receiver to in his own offense. It's hard for a wide receiver to in his own offense to be anything more than a wide receiver

21:45to in fantasy football. The Cowboys are one of those rare exceptions where that might be the case, right? And I think that T Higgins is going to have some weak winning games. Yep. And he's going to have some games where you just don't really bother watching it and you stomach the 8.4 fantasy points and move on. This is four of his last five seasons. Yep. He's got two points, 220 points, 222 points, 211 points. So his last two seasons, he's been within basically nine points of each other for all four of those five seasons, unbelievable, very consistent. But yes, when you draft T Higgins, this is a part of it. I don't feel like super sexy drafting T Higgins, but he's still obviously one of the best wide receivers in the game attached to one of the best quarterbacks that you just mentioned in an offense that is going to score a ton of points. So first of all, you should always feel sexy, your handsome. I appreciate you. Second of all, when you... I talked to you earlier, Devonte Adams and some of the other wide receivers right around there. You mentioned T Higgins. I did. Some of the guys that were in that tier, I think Lad Maconkey, T Higgins.

22:46I got a couple of my friends here in. I got a couple of my friends here in. The most likely one are amongst those guys that I think you could make the case for like top 12 wide receiver upside. I think is Lad Maconkey. Sure. Bad Mac... Rad Macronkey. Right. Yeah. I could be... I'm not even going to say this anymore. I'm not even going to say I could be wrong. Like, we do this. So it happens. You could... You could be wrong all the time. I don't see T Higgins having top 12 upside. I agree with you. You mentioned when Jamar Chase has been out, he hasn't gone super nuclear. Correct. So if that's not happening and it's not happening when Jamar Chase is on the field, then how is it happening? Right. So I think T Higgins is an as advertised wide receiver too. Love that field. Alright. Give me your next one over here. DeAndre Swift. And I thought about bringing some numbers here on DeAndre Swift and I know you're in disagree with this one. Wait. Do you? I might... I might be more in on... Are you in on DeAndre Swift? I am. I'm in on DeAndre Swift. I'm in... We're going back 19. Oh, I need to move them up then.

23:47I shouldn't have any. No, you're... But I know you're also for a while a common unguy guy, right? Yes. And that may still be the case. But I think... I've tried to think about like what conversations we've had about DeAndre Swift and the answer is not many of them so far this season. Right. I've told this story. I'll just retell it in case people either forgot or weren't listening or watching other day that I mentioned this. But I was walking through the ESPN hallways, Courtney Cronin who covers the Bears for us was doing a radio interview. I heard the last bit of Ascentness was which was he's been the most consistent player in training camp for us. Yep. And I asked her after that, who were you talking about? Was it Luther Burton? I was. Colston, Loveland. You know what the funny part is that I thought it might be Colston, Loveland. She was like, it wasn't Colston, but Colston has been right there neck and neck with this player. He's been amongst the most consistent. So she's like, your optimism on Colston, Loveland looks to be well-founded. She was Deandre Swift. Oh, it was Deandre Swift. Deandre Swift. So this is a good offensive line.

24:47Now some attrition for sure. They're still trying to figure out exactly what their left tackle spot looks like. Andrew Dolman, their very strong center, decided to retire abruptly this off season. They both traded for a veteran and drafted a second round center. And they're before. Yeah, but you trust this, like you trust Ben Johnson running games. Absolutely. Absolutely. And a fundamental fact of real life. Now I know that we're trusting a lot of things right now in this Bears offense. I think the reality about the Bears offense is that because we think they're going to score a lot of points, there is theoretical upside for each of the past catchers. Loveland, Adunes A and Burton and Caleb Williams and the backfield. Deandre Swift. So to me, Deandre Swift is just kind of an overlooked solid RB2 who's going to see a lot of opportunities as a runner. He's going to get way more of the opportunities as a receiver than Kalmanangai will. And he could walk into eight touchdowns because the Bears are going to score a lot of points. And one thing to Ben Johnson is not afraid to do is went opportunity knocks to pound the

25:51rock down your throat. He's going to make a statement. So Deandre Swift, my RB 19, a guy that I felt comfortable leaving drafts with as my RB2, obviously, but in a build in which I took, Tramik bride or Brock Bowers in the second round and my first, not knowing I was going to get those players, but you know, my first round pick was, you know, if you get JSN and then you come back around pick 16 or something like that and you take Brock Bowers, then I can walk away with Deandre Swift as my RB2. Oh, your RB1. If I go, if I, if you go early, build in which I'm like, I'm going wide receiver, tight ends, maybe even wide receiver again, because the value is just too good. Deandre Swift is just good enough that I can walk away with him as my RB1. And I, not perfect, but I could do it. I want a piece of this Bears offense in one way, shape or form, whether it is one of the past catchers, whether it's Caleb or whether it's Deandre Swift, there is a part of this Ben Johnson offense. I got to watch it enough times in Detroit. I don't care that he now plays for a rival team.

26:53The dude is unbelievable at what he does and he is going to light this team on fire again. I believe as him and Caleb just continue to grow. This question comes from Jordan Stuck from our mail bag. Why does it seem like everyone is low on Caleb Williams? It seems like he could have a breakout year with all the tools around him. It does seem that way, field. Well, we do have two rankers at quarterback six. Do we? Matt Bowens there. I think Eric Moody might be there. Don't quote me on that. Moody's in the chat so he can tell me I'm a big dubb, Andy. Not the first time. I think I've got Caleb Williams at nine. I have him as a top 10 quarterback as well. It's two things. One is there's so many, so many quarterbacks. Two is I just want to see it more consistently from Caleb. That's one of them. He was quarterback. I'm still blown away by this quarterback five last year in total fantasy points. But consistency is still one that I want to see more often from Caleb. He has that gene. He's got a lot of gunslinger in him where I've seen him do some stuff for him. Just like, oh my gosh, are you kidding me? Totally. Okay, well, let's make the easy plays easy.

27:53Big guy. How about this one came from? Not even bother trying. All right. Thank you, Field. How big of a role will Kyle Menon guy play with Anderson with Deandre Swift Healthy? This is one of the questions. How big of a role will Kyle Menon guy play with a healthy Deandre Swift? We've watched Ben Johnson offense as utilized to running backs in the past. Yeah. That's two different teams though. Just because he did it in Detroit doesn't necessarily mean he's going to do the same thing in Chicago. There's a possibility though that I think you will see a healthy dosage of maybe 35, 40% Deandre or Kyle Menon guy and 60, 65% Deandre Swift. It's kind of way I look at it. Yeah, I agree. Menon guy is going to have a real role and a valuable role. I also think games in which the bears are leading and trying to kill the clock. Menon guy will be the guy they lean on. And I think that when the weather turns and they play in the NFC North, they play in a division where any of their home games from like Halloween on could be bitterly cold. Yep. Otherwise did here that it was 111 with the heat index yesterday in Chicago.

28:54What? Whoa. Crazy. Anyways, um, they play bitterly cold games from basically Halloween on its in play. They also could play. I don't know when they play green Bay in green Bay, but the bottom line is the bears could have some cold stinking. They always do late in the season. Yeah. I think Menon guy is going to be the guy that they turn to when it's time to play grown man football. Fair. But not enough. I know you may see it slightly differently. And I think you put a little bit more value in the guys that are elite insurance policies that run you back. Correct. Menon guy, Blake Corm, the being the most prominent examples that I think of there. Yes. Stand alone value from a non guy. I think is going to be hard to find except for a very, very deep league. It'll be tough to, it'll be tough to make that happen with all of the pieces in that offense that we expect to get the football from a weekly basis. Let's really quickly talk about Harold Fanon Jr. Fat go for it. Here's the thing. The numbers. I don't really even want to talk about the numbers with Harold Fanon Jr. He was awesome last year as a tight end as a rookie. One of the best, not just tight ends, one of the best, best rookies that we saw in fantasy

29:58last year. And he was incredibly consistent down the stretch. Part of that was because they just didn't really have a lot of options. The problem with Harold Fanon Jr. And it's not even really a problem. He plays at a tight end position, tight end, where we desperately want people that are going to be out there and doing the things that he's doing. He's just on a team with a crappy quarterback situation that makes everyone feel like you're dumping a bucket of cold water over what was a hot end to the season last year. So when you look at Harold Fanon, I got a bunch of guys that I really like at the tight end spot. He's right there in the middle, definitely a tight end one without question. Yep. But all of the negatives are not negatives about him or his game. It's about the offense. It's about the quarterback. It's about the organization. It's about the fact that they also brought in two first round pass catchers that they also want to try to get the ball to as well as the running back that they drafted last year in Quincha, Juddkins. There's so many things that I just don't know about this Brown's offense.

30:59And I feel nervous about it. Still going to be a tight end one for me, but I'm curious where you're at on Harold Fanon when you look at he falls in the middle of your tight end gap. Largely like him. I have him is tight end five. So I'm clearly a Harold Fanon optimist to try to speak the same language. I think you just spoke right there and make the case not against Harold Fanon, but the causes for concern would be I think a couple fold. One is they just drafted two wide outs in the first 37 picks of the draft. So that's, you know, those guys, Danzel Boston and Casey Concepts, Yon could take on a real role and there's just more guys that are going to eat this upcoming year compared to where they were last year. Yep. Two is and hear me out for a second. Teams that were bad on offense last year are not going into this year trying to replicate the formula that worked for them last that didn't work for them last year, right? Like, correct. I don't think the Brown's vision of the offense is the second half of last season where

32:03Harold Fanon took off. It's a new system new head coach and Todd Munkin. So it's definitely not a vision of the exact same offense they ran last year with Kevin as to fanski. It felt a little bit like Harold Fanon last year was feasting in part because it was like, we can't do jack crap else. Yes. So let's just throw the football to Harold Fanon three yards down the field, let him do some cool stuff after the catch and move on. If that happens this year, that kind of feels like both of the first round wide receivers are going to be love up to expectations. Well, either that or they just can't get the football out through their wide receivers down the field. So I still like Harold Fanon, but there are, I do too. Yeah, but there's serious pause for me just given that offense. I think that there are really, it's going to sound counter to what I've been talking about for a lot of the preseason. There are three tight ends that don't make me really at all nervous. You can guess too. Brock Bowers. I'm going to say Brock Wright. Yeah, but I did.

33:03Brock Wright does not make me nervous because I'm not bothered with him yet. And Colston Loveland. Believe it or not, Tyler Warren. Really? And the reason why is just that we have now gotten to the point where the gap between Colston Loveland and Tyler Warren's real. Yeah. And there are just more mouths to feed in Chicago. Yes. So that I'm with you. I'm still very optimistic. I'm just saying like if you told me one between Colston Loveland and Tyler Warren finishes more like tight end seven or eight, I think it'd be Colston Loveland. As part of why I've had Warren at three and Loveland at four because if you put the receiving cores next to them, Loveland clearly has better people to have to also share the field with. But if you told me that one of them broke the mold and became a top two tight end, I think it's Colston Loveland as well. So this comes down to how do you formulate your rankings in your draft strategy preseason? Also, if you said which one of these quarterbacks do you like more, I probably like Caleb Williams when they like Daniel Jones. Yeah. When we are getting to like going into the season when you're doing your draft, the point is to win the league. Yes. Right. When you're playing a weekly game, the point is to win your matchup.

34:04Right. So like there's more nuance with our rankings each week during the season. And there's more nuance with your decision making. If you're playing against somebody and you're a gigantic favorite and you're debating between like a Josh Allen and a bad matchup versus Sam Dartle and a neutral matchup, you may be like, all right, listen, I'm playing against some like some crap team. Like I can afford to be play it safe, right? Yeah. If you're a huge underdog and you've got Josh Allen and the bad matchup versus Sam Dartle and a good matchup, you're like, I don't care. Like Josh Allen might be impervious. Immune. Immune. I'm not sure if impervious is the right word. They might have been whatever. He might be immune to these matchups and you might hang 40 on these guys, even if they are, you know, even if you're playing the Broncos, he might still get there. The thing with tight ends five through nine is there is, we feel really good about the first three to four tight end five Harold fan and there's question marks around his team. Sam Laporte, there's question marks around his health. Kyle Pits, there's question marks around the consistency and what the quarterback is going to be there as well.

35:05George Kittle, questions about him coming back from an ace. Like all it's Tucker craft. So we get to a point where like there's still tight end ones. We just have more question marks on these guys. Harold Fanon is just one of those guys, but still a really awesome player. Expect good things in you too. Feel give me one last player here before we go to the mail bag one more time. Just a reminder of how good Sequan Barkley is and Sequan is like last year he's being drafted as sealing. Yep. This year there's maybe a case he's being drafted as floor because he's going are we tennis and I think there's a chance that's his floor. Just I don't really have too many numbers from last year to help the cause because he wasn't good last year. And I don't think he's going to be as good as two years ago, but just a reminder, if he can find himself somewhere in the middle, he's going to pay off. I agree with you two seasons ago. Sequan Barkley had 10 games with 15 or more fantasy points. That's really good. He had seven games with 20 or more fantasy points. That's also very good. He also had five games with 30 or more fantasy points, which not only was the most of any player amongst running backs in 2024. It was the most games by a running back since Christian McCaffrey in 2000 and 19.

36:08Yeah. So over the past, what's that 2020 through 2025 six season. He has the most single game, sorry, most games with 30 or more fantasy points in a single season of any running back. That's crazy. Pretty good. Yeah. So Christian McCaffrey hilariously in 2019 had eight games with 30 or more fantasy points. He did. He was that was an awesome season for him, by the way. It was unbelievable. He was in 2019. All right. I think the thing for for Sequan for me and all this will be the last thing really quickly is I am more out on Jalen Hertz. The efficiency has gone down. Tush push hasn't been quite as good. I do think with the discount that you're getting after way that last year ended like you said field. Yep. We're going to we're going to net out more in the middle. And if you net out more in the middle, then Sequan is really good value with where you're drafting them and drafts right now. There's a little bit of scar tissue from last year, but I fully agree with that sentiment. I'm with you on that. Eagles are saying the right things about him. Offensive lineman are like, you better watch out. He is going to kill it this upcoming year. So we'll see if the offensive lineman or as good fantasy scouts is we hope to be and

37:10Sequan Barclay bounces back. Well field. We might bounce back from this one as we had a punishment wheel that we were doing a little bit of a, I'm sorry, what's the word? I was going to say bidding on it's not bidding. We were pulling. Yeah, pulling. We were pulling on this. We actually things we were doing. It was going to be slam poetry. Super sour starts of the week and baby food taste test. Oh, and baby food taste test one field. On the plus side, I can provide. You're already kind of immune to it a little bit, right? Unfortunately, you know, baby, we usually start to eat soft food as a baby around six months old. My youngest just turned two months yesterday. So no soft baby food around the house. Yikes. The thing is that like, you start with like peas squash in like sweet potatoes. I'm going to throw up in my mouth when we do this. I can't lose this week. Honestly, baby Daniel didn't eat vegetables growing up. I mean, this is a part of adult. Adult Daniel doesn't eat vegetables because baby Daniel's doctor back in the 80s, back

38:12before doctors were doctors said, if he doesn't like eating mushy vegetables out of baby food, then don't make him do that. So then I never learned to like vegetables because of that. So maybe now field is a 43 year old man. I will eat mushy peas out of a baby food can and the kids turn it all or no. No, well, little bit. Rosie's got me on some vegetables. A little bit. Not a lot. I think you got to do like, I think you have to find like entry points into. Yeah. Oh, okay. That works too. Because applesauce is a great baby food and it's mushy, right? I don't know. Hopefully we have a strong British audience. We have at least one. We do. British member of our production staff, a very important member of our production staff in Dave Presley. I think you got to go with some banger's and mash. Okay. We will like, they have, they have mushy peas in, in the UK. I'm telling you, they're better. I think I, I think they have like a crap ton of butter and salt. Oh, so they don't taste like peas. That's it. They're green and they have the consistency that is mushy or then attracional. Pea. Well, for those that are still in the chat hanging with us right now, we're going to do a second poll because we got to fill out this punishment wheel.

39:13The second poll is going to be where rival gear, while giving your takes, do a mouthful of marshmallows like we did last year or smelling salts. I feel like smelling salts is the most diabolical of those. I probably need to establish like rival gear for me. I'm from Massachusetts. It's good. Huge Patriots fans. I guess I'd have to wear it. Jet Cersei. No, no, no, no, who's the cardinals? Arizona Cardinals? Yeah, who's the Wesley and Cardinals? Williams or Amherst, I would never, never. That's not works right there. I would call out and go on vacation before I do that. A couple of questions here really quickly. We'll do a few of them before we get back into this. This one comes from Ryan wants to know, what did you guys do to my clay? You know, something Ryan always did was offer an opportunity to him. We offered him an opportunity to be here. And he said no. Mike just calculating O line stats in his off time. That is exact. He's probably doing it right now on vacation. You're not wrong. Yeah. Greek goalie says, dops acts of veggie causes color blindness fact versus feeling. It is a fact. I am color blind and I didn't eat vegetables.

40:16Carrots really improve your eyesight. That's the rumor. Honestly, guys, we might be on to something here. We should talk to someone. We should talk to the FDA. In order to you 900 carrots, six from the cap to the area for lunch. Do not do not steady climb. That's the only one more. All right. What's up, focusers? Only Dan from Iowa. Oh, love that danger zone. All right. What super secret rookies with the high end upside? Do you guys got thanks for this one? Super super rookies. Give you two names. Okay. Okay. These guys are undrafted right now. They shouldn't be drafted. But two names that play behind, I would say. Okay. But not great starting morning backs. Okay. We try and Alan and Nick Singleton for the commanders and the Tennessee Titans playing behind Bill Kroski, Merritt and Tony Pollard. See, you made some Penn State. Both rookies drafted on day three this year. Give me those two guys. I'm going to say, is it dead? At her? At her? Right.

41:17I just want to make sure that that is right. Ted. Have you met Ted? From... I don't know. How about your mother? Back in the day. Oh my gosh. A minute field. Where did the main character go to college on that show? So you're accused. Wesley. Dang it. I had a feeling it was Wesley and... Oh, I'm doing it. All right. All right. All right. Let's dive in. We're going to do some flex appeal here. You here field and Mike do this on fantasy focus countdown mostly every Sunday. We go through flex appeal. Players outside the top 70. We just wanted to touch on and make sure we have a little bit of a conversation about field minister Yates. Do you want to go first? You want me to go first? So you can go first, Daniel. And I think that it's important. I don't want to give a precursor if that's okay. Yeah. Bring it. Which is these are guys you mentioned drafted outside the top 70. We also just haven't talked about them a whole bunch. We have told you guys many, many times that... Or at least I think we have conveyed that it's important to know whether you're getting the steak or the sizzle with players. Yeah. Right. Are you getting the guy that... If he hits, right? Like Michael Wilson last year. If you drafted him and he went nuclear, he's like a league winning player.

42:22Somebody has zero value for you during a lot of other weeks. Yeah. Right? Or are you going for a guy? I'll go with Tony Pollard from last year who, generally speaking, and there were a couple of exceptions here. Was solid? Yeah. Was fine. But rarely spectacular. So some of the names we're going to give you is preferred targets. Our guys that we have actually made the case against from an upside play. Agreed. But we're making the case for in just like an eating eater play. Right. Who's on first for you? I'm going to start at the tight end position and go with Jake Ferguson. Okay. We haven't talked about him a lot this year in part because we expect both of these wider receivers to be healthy. Wider receiver scores, CDLam and George Pickens. But when one of them was out last year, you saw Jake Ferguson become a real option at the tight end spot. The dude was awesome for a number of weeks. What happened though is once CDLam came back, he kind of fell into that third and sometimes fourth pass catcher rule with Brian Fulunoi there also as well.

43:22And he just became a part of the offense rather than a a target within the offense. Right. So when he had the opportunity, when there were people that were not there and he had a path to targets, Jake Ferguson totally took advantage of it. He's got two top 10 seasons at the tight end position. But I think more often than not, the sizzle that you saw last year was because he was taken advantage of opportunities due to injury from his teammates. Otherwise he's less sizzle and more just a solid steady low end tight end probably 10 to 12 for me that you could if you waited the position, you can grab him and start him in an offense that's going to have a score a lot of points, throw the ball a lot, but he's not someone that I feel like is going to sizzle like he did last year when he was really sizzling. If you missed the tight end runner early, which is I call it nine guys, but if you missed those nine guys, the next three that come to mind for me are Travis Kelsey, Dallas Goddard and Jake Ferguson. Yep. It was like I feel pretty good about each of them Kelsey the best, but I don't know if I'm not making them like gigantic priorities for me.

44:24Agreed. I'm going to go to running back from Andre Stevenson and remind you of the Patriots play in six days from right now. Last check, they haven't seen Traveey on Henderson back on the field to see suffered an ankle injury. I don't know a week or two ago. Andre Stevenson is in line for legitimate work early in the season and Ramondri has been fine, been solid. It's a matter of fact, probably better than solved through this metric. There are seven players over the past two seasons that have 30 or more catches and seven rushing touchdowns in each of those two years. It's a crazy list, right? If this, okay, Jameer Gibbs, be John Robinson James Cook, Sequan Barkley, Kyron Williams, Josh Jacobs and Ramondri Stevenson. No way. Right. So I think the Traveey on Henderson obviously has more upside. Sure. He obviously is a more explosive player. He can be a bigger threat as a screen game receiver, but Ramondri is just like a rock solid player for the Patriots in real life. I know the fumbling thing. He is one bad fumble away from being sent to the bench for the rest of the game.

45:25I think you and I also acknowledge that this coaching staff had more tolerance for Ramondri's better fingers last year. Agreed. Then they did Traveey on Henderson's past protection issues and maybe lack of power running between the tackles. I'm with you on that. This team will not quit Ramondri Stevenson and if there is, especially in our early season, start the season. Feels like he's in a really great spot. If you were to knock out League field, Ramondri Stevenson, not a bad low end starting running back target right now. He went higher yesterday in that knock out league draft that we did online or on the show, I should say. Dalton, Kinkade is another guy I want to talk about. We've been trying to pump up Dalton, Kinkade. Oh, hold on really quickly before we move on. Spicy tuna able wants to know Ramondri fumbled as field was finishing this sentence field. I mean, I don't really have a good response to that because he may have fumbled during this and yet he's still in the game in the next series. He's looking like Mike Clay and that checked this out video. I checked the end of it. So good. So great. All right. Let's talk about Dalton, Kinkade because I've wanted to make this a thing for years.

46:25Not just me, the entire industry has one. The Bills. Yeah, the Bills wanted to make it a thing. Former first round tight end. Here's what he's done in his three seasons in the NFL. Tight end 14, tight end 18, tight end 13 and fantasy points per get. What's changed this year? Other than they added DJ Moore who we expect to maybe siphon even more targets away. Right. To this offense to make you feel like I'm going to change the way that I feel on this post, post, post hype sleeper. Nothing. Yeah. Nothing for me. Because he's still even like, is he, when you look at Dalton, Kinkade is the shine just completely gone at this point and he is no longer a sleeper target for you. He's more of just straight up tight end to. He's fine. He's fine. Okay. There was Jeremy Fowler who I did this whole thing yesterday about grass and doing great content and the aggregators going nuts with it. Same deal with Jeremy Fowler, but I do believe you mentioned the possibility of Dalton Kinkade getting an extension. I don't know. Maybe that rather than post type, we go post payment.

47:26Sure. He has a break out. I don't know the answer if that's going to happen or not, but no, I don't like to me. I really believe if Dalton Kinkade breaks out and becomes like a top eight tight end this year, the process was fine. The results was just unexpected for me. I think if that happens. So first off, I would not advocate in a standard 10 or 12 team league more often than not to draft Dalton Kinkade. Yeah. He's a fine waiver target. If all of a sudden he starts to be a thing in this offense that we've been waiting to see happen, but I am out on using a roster spot waiting for this to come to fruition. With you there. All right. Let's move on. Let's the next one, field. My wide receiver 31 has got an ADP of wide receiver 35 going at the eight nine turn. Was I? Wide receiver 15 from weeks nine through 18 last year. So more than half the season, he was wide receiver 15. He scored 14.9 points per game in that stretch. Okay. More than Zay flowers during that stretch. More than CD lamb during that stretch.

48:27He was eighth in yards per route during that stretch. Better than Drake London and now I'm on Ross St Brown. Who is this? Parker washing shut up. Yeah. Parker washing who was excellent down the stretch last year. And this one just comes down to like, is there a legit wide receiver two staring us right in the face of Parker Washington? Great question. Legitimately good football player, legitimately good offense. And even in a crowded wide receiver room. Maybe it's not that crowded. Maybe Travis Hunter is a 30% of the offense of snaps wide receiver. And maybe Brian Thomas Jr. is just an incredible role player for them. Not, not, these are not guarantees, but maybe that will be sad for BTJ. But his stock is down after last year compared to where it was at this time. Last going into last season. Yep. And yeah, Jacobi Myers is going to play a lot. That doesn't necessarily matter as Jacobi Myers being on the field last year resulted

49:30in 2.66 yards per route for Parker Washington. When Jacobi Myers was off the field that dropped from 2.66 yards per route to 1.53 yards per route. He was a more efficient and better player with Jacobi Myers on the field. I don't exactly know if that's just coincidence or if maybe Jacobi Myers being on the field adds one more credible threat and defenses are just accounting for one more player and everybody has a better matchup. But if it's Jacobi Myers and Parker Washington as the lock it in, basically every snap wide receivers, that's still plenty good enough for Parker Washington to be a really productive wide receiver. Yeah. I am with you on that. He came on last year. It feels so weird and I make this joke all the time. It's just crazy that we're talking about Parker Washington as the Jaguar's wide receiver that we are most excited about heading into fantasy football season with all of the things that we have talked about over the last two years. And yet it this feels just real.

50:31Like when you just, he passes the eye test, all the thing that he is doing, Riley Nagle wants to know from our mailbag. You truly think Jacksonville moves on from BTJ by the deadline? Riley, I agree with you. And I was here, so I would say if Liam Cohen has ever asked about Brian Thomas Jr., James Gladstone's asked about Brian Thomas Jr., I bet they would say nothing but great things. Of course, he's done everything we've asked out of him. He's incredibly talented. We think it's going to have a huge year. I've read all the optimism around him, Brian Thomas Jr., I have and I think maybe it will all prove to be correct. But I can't overstate just how important it is to acknowledge who drafted who. Yeah. Like there are just a lot of, there are players who transcend regimes, obviously, right? You know, Drake May, well, I guess he was Mike Vrable was not the coach when they drafted Drake May. Drake May will be the Patriots quarterback for a long time for a minute, right? Yes. There are guys that just fit into that category, you know? But there are players who are just very regime specific.

51:34And they don't feel the same level of loyalty. They don't feel the same level of responsibility. So if they trade away Brian Thomas Jr., they, I wasn't us, we didn't draft them 17th over all someone else did someone else made them. So maybe we get him for maybe we trade him away for, for depreciated value, but at their fall for doing it in the first place, right? On top of that, when you invest in a player, a big pick, you're trying to justify that cost. Yeah. Right? So anyways, maybe I'm wrong. That's Brian Thomas Jr. rant, but I wouldn't be surprised if he traded through the Houston Texans. Would you be like, you know what, BTJ might not love too bad on this roster right now. That would be cool. I think the Texans have a, they are more shopping around the margins right now because they have such an expensive roster with a CJ Stroud contract not done yet. It might not get done before the season, but at some point, you're going to have a probably $45 million per year, at least contract on your books. Feel let's talk about a wide receiver is being taken directly after Parker Washington. Yeah. Stefan Diggs. Diggs. Two kind of different wide receivers here. Again, this is another one of these guys on the back nine of his career with Stefan Diggs.

52:37And the people that he's going around is part of the conversation here for me. You look at this Michael Pittman Jr. Parker Washington, Stefan Diggs, Michael Wilson, Alec Pierce, Matthew Golden. I'm not sure that when I look at Stefan Diggs here, I think it is. It's better to hear it sounds like he's settled in. I'm the wide receiver to I'm not a wide receiver. I'm okay with that. I want Stefan Diggs to have that mentality on the city is the best wide receiver one of the NFL. It might be right. He said he's the best wide receiver one. Sorry. White receiver to the okay. I'm bad. Okay. That's all me. But do has been unbelievable still. You look at everything he's done over the last. I'm going to go back to 2017. He has been a top 25 wide receiver for every single season since 2017. He's really good. Now he's going to take those talents to Jaden Daniels who we hope is going to stay healthy. Give him another really trusted just a safe pass catching option. He's going to be the number two behind Terry McClure. When you look at where he's coming off boards field, I see Stefan Diggs. I'm going to give you the rounds. Stefan Diggs is coming off the board in the 11th round. Yeah, I love it.

53:38There are more like high upside guys around there, but this is part of the roster build. When you get to certain parts of the draft, if you need the upside dart throw of Christian Watson or of Alec Pierce or of Matthew Golden, I get it. But if you need that safe veteran floor, which sometimes you do, based on what you do earlier in the draft, I think Stefan Diggs is a really good value in the 11th round. He might have more upside too. He was 12 in catches last year and over a thousand yards, he played 55% of the Patriots maps last year. That was coming off of the ACL tear. You're right. Right. It was like, super efficient. Yeah, it was crazy. So I'm in on Diggs as well. I've got him. I see 14 spots higher in my wide receiver ranks than Mike. I think he's a guy that is, when you look at this, just the average fantasy fan, like, we just get more excited about the upside, the new shiny toy, the exciting thing that, like, I don't think Diggs is one of those guys. He's really good value if you decide you want to grab him, even though it might not feel sexy. This would be a fun trivia who is fifth in the NFL amongst running backs in both targets and receiving yards and fourth in catches last year.

54:40You think about the preaminent guys, Christian McAfrie, Jamir Gibbs, Begon Robinson, Devon H and all those guys. Brown Chase Brown. All those guys are amazing, right? Yeah. There's a player who is a receiver alone is in the same zip code. Can he game well? It was going the 11th round. Yeah. I think this is more of a sizzle that I'm sorry, a stake than a sizzle play because he's going to have just an ordinary rushing role. Buckingover is going to be the lead rusher for Tampa. But if they ever want to play with Tampa or if they're ever trailing, end of half, end of game situations, he's going to be on the field. He had 486 receiving yards. He had 73 catches last year. He's like one of my favorite by week films. He's my favorite RB four. I have him as ranked as a borderline RB three slash four. It's like you don't want him starting every single week. It'd be nice. It's always great to have a strong backup. Like when your third running back is, you know, Deandre Swift, that's a very comforting feeling. Yeah.

55:40But man, Kenny Gainwell needs to be raw. Need to be drafted and appreciate it a little bit more than he is right now. A really. A lot of the top 100 in our dynasty league. Deandre Swift is my third running back. And you got a good, you want to go through? He's good. And I have Kenny Gainwell also on that squad. And we play three flexes field. And I love being able to have that opportunity to throw him in the flex everyone. That's PPR. It still works. Chat loves it apparently. Chat loves Kenny Gainwell. Here's the knock because I'm all in on Kenny Gainwell. The knock on Kenny Gainwell is that if you just mentioned Buckingover is going to be there. If Buckingover gets hurt, this back wall doesn't become, back field doesn't become Kenny Gainwell's. Sean Tucker will take over that role and Kenny Gainwell will stay in the role that he's at. He just isn't a true like replacement back as far as a three down guy. But he's going to keep his role regardless of who is there. The stake is real for Kenny Gainwell. Yes. Stake not sizzle. And I think stake is important sometimes. Absolutely. Great dinner. The best meal. Great deal. Great dinner. Great dinner. Flee. I'm a big filet guy. Yeah, but no vegetables for you. No, I don't do that.

56:41I'm going to scrape the mushrooms off. I don't even want the mushroom sauce on it because the mushrooms oozes into everything. You got to get a wedge salad. Who work on you? What's a wedge? It's like the thing where you just like pull the thing out of the ground and you just like have a wedge of the wedge of lettuce. Okay. Usually with the blue cheese, maybe a bacon crumble or something. I'm out. No, no. Mold. Let's talk about something else. Ranch on there if you want. Ranch is gross, but you can put. I'm going to throw out something crazy. Okay. Okay. And this is crazy. I'm going to throw out something for our hot takes episode. Yeah, which is coming tomorrow. Yes, it is coming tomorrow. I'm going to be quick. I'll be quick on this one. I'll be quick on mine. This quarterback, it's finished as quarterback 32, quarterback 32, didn't start either of those seasons. Then QB five in his first season as a starter, then QB 17 and QB 15. Is there a chance given what this backfield situation has turned into in green Bay? Yeah. You speak in my language now. Jordan love might just have to chuck the ball a ton because we don't know of March on Lloyd.

57:42We never even seen him stay healthy. Chris Brooks doesn't really inspire a lot of confidence. They traded for Caleb Johnson who couldn't even make the field in Pittsburgh. I can get myself to a narrative situation where Jordan love just has to throw the ball a ton this season. It's quarterback 16 for me for a reason, which is five spots ahead of you. Six ahead of Mike. I think I need to move him up in my rankings because I am more nervous. I'm more nervous about the running back spot and they have a more condensed target tree. I'm still a little bit nervous because of the talk of craft injury history, right? Christian Watson injury history. But when these guys are healthy, we saw that QB five season a couple of years ago, I'm just throwing it out there as I wouldn't be shocked if you like him as a QB two to maybe make more noise than where he's being drafted as. Okay. I dig it. I'm in on Jordan love as well. Maybe one of the great quagmires in fantasy football this year. Great term. Love that term. Patrick Mahomes. Oh, there's a respect that you have to give Patrick Mahomes is the most accomplished. And to me, still the best player in the NFL right now.

58:43He's coming off of the NACL tear. One of the confusing factors. He has bad wide receivers, not named Rashi Rice, also confusing factor. But let's just look at the opportunities, right? Because we talk about fantasy footballs, the cross section of talent and volume. Yep. Here's Patrick Mahomes in his opportunities for quarterback ranks over the past six season. We define that as passing attempts plus rushing attempts, right? Yep. Rashi attempts are very valuable. Passing attempts can be very valuable as well. Of course. Second, third, first, fifth, fifth, and second, the ball is in Patrick Mahomes hands a lot. They put a lot of trust in Patrick Mahomes. The Russians have to go down this year. Yeah. It's signed Kenneth Walker the third for a reason. Yep. Mahomes coming off of the NACL tear. A more effective running game is going to have a legitimate impact on Patrick Mahomes. Play action output. The last time the chiefs had even like a serviceable running game was 2022. That was when Isaiah Pacheco averaged nearly five yards a pop. Patrick Mahomes in 2022 averaged 9.5 yards per attempt off of play action and a touchdown

59:48rate of nearly eight percent. His play action touchdown rate in the three years since then, 3.2 percent. So it turns out that running the football, it doesn't always correlate to better play action. You do well. So he won't be running as much, but it'll be a more efficient passer. Another reason why Patrick Mahomes, I've drafted him in a handful of leagues now is my second quarterback, which is crazy. It feels crazy, but I think we should normalize the idea that Patrick Mahomes right now with the weapons that he has is more of a high end QB two. Totally fine. Then a low end QB one. And I do think that that is okay with where we're at because it's not about Patrick Mahomes not being unbelievable. I'll be really quick on my last one field. Chris Rodriguez, you just talked about guys that didn't bring in Patrick Mahomes. He's going to get some love. I think he's going to end up being an annoying player in fantasy as opposed to a productive

1:00:52player in fantasy. Okay. When you say knowing is that Tyler Algier. Yes. I think that's the way from the upside of the player that we actually want to roster the most. Would you not say though that Tyler and mind you different offense, let's say that Basel Tutan were to get hurt. We would have said in the past, Tyler Algier, if something happens to be John, like he'd be a top 20 running back, like that's the same potential thing for Chris Rodriguez. And what we think should be a good Liam Cohen lead offense, I could see him being like JK Doveins last year. Okay. Fair. It's something happens to tune because I still think it's going to be a clear passing game role for your boy. I mean, do you want to do that? Yes. Yeah. I'm here Abdullah and Laquan Treadwell. What awesome stories guys still doing it. They'll take into their career. I love that. I love the mere back in the day. Just to name I wonder throughout there, we haven't talked a lot about Chris Rodriguez. To be honest, we haven't really talked a lot about Basel Tutan. We've been talking more about the passing game in Jacksonville rather than the running game, but two guys at least to keep an eye on as well. Last one for me, I'll just name it. We don't have much time here, but Matthew Golden and I can't put too much faith into all of these Packers, Wide receivers.

1:01:53But the first wide receiver they have taken in the first round. Since Javan Walker in like 1942, I think it was 2003 for Javan Walker. So Matthew Golden, who went to 23rd overall, I think it was last year to Green Bay. If this offense is as we talked about, more Jordan love centric and as we talked about, more pass heavy, opportunity for Matthew Golden to stamp his case. Where did that 2002 Javan Walker go to school? Florida State. You're so good at this. I have no life. I love it. I'm going to be back tomorrow again, just feel the night diving into a hot takes episode. It's going to be a lot of fun. No, my friends. Make sure you come back and hang out with us. Thanks for hanging out with us today. We love you. Don't forget to love each other and be kind to yourself, you guys. You deserve it. Feel nice. See you tomorrow. Peace. You in the home, sick, so won't know. Focus. Fancy. Fancy. Focus.