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Sigmund Bloom and Fantasy Points' Brett Whitefield discuss surprise Week 1 starts and sits

 

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00:00 Why should you be hesitant to start Malik Nabers Week 1?


01:31 How should Jaxson Dart affect Malik Nabers value this season?


04:10 How should Kyler Murray affect Justin Jefferson's value this season?


07:59 Why should Jayden Daniels be on your bench for Week 1 vs Philadelphia?


11:46 Why is Baker Mayfield a player who you might force into your lineup in Week 1?


15:51 Should you play Jeremiyah Love in Week 1?


18:55 Can the Cardinals offense surprise in Week 1 and going forward?


21:41 Should you play Ashton Jeanty in Week 1?


25:36 Can Mike Washington Jr. force an RBBC in Las Vegas?


28:03 Should you play your Minnesota backs in Week 1?


28:25 Should you start Jacksonville backs in Week 1?


29:30 Should Michael Wilson be in Week 1 lineups?


32:04 Are we worried about the Chargers offensive line Week 1 and beyond?


36:10 Why did the Bears offense struggle early in the season, and what did we learn about Ben Johnson?


38:46 Can Ben Johnson break fantasy football?


41:21 Why should we be excited about Lamar Jackson with Declan Doyle?


44:30 Why Christian Watson could be a breakout player in Week 1?


47:06 Why should we be afraid of missing out on a big season from Luther Burden?


49:13 Can Jaylen Waddle change the Broncos offense?


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Hello my good man. Welcome everyone. It's time for On the couch with Sigour Blue. A lot of crazy, famous things. Looking at fantasy football from a deeper place. This is going to be a changing day in your life. And now here's your host Sigour Blue. I would not vote on my mother. Did you draft a start? But we're going to bench in week one that more this week on the couch. Very happy to be joined by Brett Whitefield. Like I said to him, happy new year everybody. On this new year, Brett, who's somebody you drafted to start but is going to find the bench in week one? I think I could come up with a quick list of like eight guys. But yeah, there's a few, right? There's a few. I think the guy that sticks out like a sore thumb to me is probably Malik neighbors.

And here's the main reason why I just think for right now coming off the ACL, it could be a slow start for him. And I think you know you drafted him in the third or fourth round. He's a starter for you long term, right? But I think the start could be a little slow for Malik. I know there's a lot of the Twitter doctors or ex doctors that are very high on his prognosis. I've seen some things in the route running. I don't want to get too nerdy, but I've seen some biomechanical things where I'm just still a little hesitant. Like, you know what? I kind of feel like the giants might ease him into this role as the alpha once again. So I'm probably sitting him in week one. Just kind of wait and see approach for me. Yeah. And that brings up a player that you may be inclined to start as a flex, let's say, or otherwise, the sort of corollary that is Isaiah likely is going to catch like eight passes in week one. How does Jackson Dart make you feel about Malik neighbors looking more to season long outlook? That is such a good question. And it's one I get kind of a lot because I was the

biggest Jackson dark truth there when he was a coming out. And you know, what am I? We were kind of talking before the show, my journey into content. I've been a behind the scenes guy most of my career. My real first content thing I did for fantasy points was the prospect guide. I have a classically trained scouting background. I played football. And so I released this prospect every year. And so I was super high on Jackson Dart as a prospect. But the year one tape in the NFL has scared me a little bit. It did temper my expectations a little bit. Just some things we see him doing that we did not see at the college level. And some of that was the Lane Kiffin offense where it was so catch and throw design heavy. We're just seeing him. There's a lot of turn downs right where he's at the primary, the primary is open. He's not throwing the ball. We're not sure why that is. It's just he's not processing information as quickly as we'd like. And so what happens is it turns into this chaos driven offense where he's inviting pressure into his life. He's inviting risky play into his life. A lot of the same criticisms of criticisms I've had for Caleb Williams actually pertained to Jackson

Dart as well. And so yeah, I'm a little less bullish probably on neighbors long term than say my counterpart Scott Barrett is because I think Dart really needs to figure out how to play in rhythm, play in structure of the offense and neighbors being the elite route runner he is. That's where he's going to win. That's all the value ad he brings in the table is his ability to go win one on one's and be a ball winner and a route winner. And so I'm a little concerned. I think there's some scrambled drill potential in there where they can get loose on some stuff find a really healthy connection in that regard. But that's going to take time. It's not something that happens overnight, right? So that's kind of that's kind of where I'm at. But I don't know is that too negative? I don't know. No, no, I think there's a reason to be skeptical about the giants in general. You know, the way I describe it is or I am able kind of knew he was going to get fired. And I called it Jersey Shore. I mean, I didn't really watch Jersey Shore Puck. You know, I've been aware of that show in the 90s. It was like a Jersey Shore offense and they, you know, they just got to go out and play ball. And now it's almost like Jackson Darts are rookie. And he's being asked to sort of

square peg round hole, which can work. But also I don't know about John Harbond at name. You believe for the giant. You know, and I think with Jackson Dart, whenever you weren't chosen by the regime, then you know, I mean, the conversation contained very quickly. Let's just put it that way. Now why when you were talking about inviting danger and playing out of structure and value of receivers, why was I thinking about Kyler Murray and Justin Jefferson? Well, it's, I mean, it's a similar conversation, right? I mean, it's, well, Kevin O'Connell, I mean, the one thing he's been great at is designing this system where literally anybody can run it. And we had QB1 production from Joshua Dobbs from Nick Mullins and Sam Darnold put up almost 40 touchdowns in that system after a pretty bunk career to that point. And then the only one who's really failed is JJ McCarthy. And so, but Kyler has struggled a lot of these same things playing in rhythm, playing in structure, hitting, you know, his primary, you know, routinely over and over. So I feel like that's a very similar conversation. Yeah, it's

going to be interesting to see how, you know, one of the things I love about the week one reveal. And it's again, like I'm, Brad, I'm complimented. I'm flattered that you found value at my work at all considering your experience in the game. And then truly the way you were occupied with the game, because what we get in this reveal when you're watching it this closely and you've watched this stuff 10 times more closely than I have is, you know, so okay, Kyler Murray and Kevin O'Connell, and based on Frank Smith coming in and everything we heard out of Minnesota that that was the real emphasis. And it made me feel some remorse about not taking Jordan Mason more seriously, because he fits like hand and glove in that sort of approach. So if you're Kevin O'Connell, knowing that you're not necessarily on the hot seat this year, but those seat is getting warmer if this team stalls out again, you're letting Brian Flores as defense. He just got back Harrison Smith from retirement.

You know, you know, in the running game and you're just putting Kyler Murray out there saying, don't turn the ball over. They're 25 pass attempts at game, right? I mean, that seems to be rational to me, but we're going to see the reveal. What did Kevin O'Connell decide to do when he sized up Kyler Murray and said, well, I have to play with this guy. I mean, how would you project that? You kind of nailed it. That's exactly what I've projected is like a real ball control heavy offense. Shoot, it was even kind of like that with Sam Donald at times when he was having that magical season. He was just so freaky hyper efficient in some games. It just kind of didn't matter. But like, and I think that was the plan for JJ McCarthy. It's like, cool, let's get in. Let's run the ball, play good defense. And then as long as you don't screw things up, we'll be fine. And unfortunately, he did. So I definitely think that's that's 100% accurate, though. I've been more skeptical of the Kyler situation than I think, you know, most of the people at fantasy points or or anyone else I talked to about football. So I'm definitely a little worried. And it's a tough division to you've got the lines, Packers and Bears that are all good teams as well. So I do wonder

how much runway Kyler's going to have, how much runway Kevin O'Connell's going to have if things don't get turned around quickly. Yeah, first game against the Packers. So Packers defense without Michael Parsons, you know, questionable secondary. You know, we'll see maybe Kyler, there's a few situations like the Chargers going up against Arizona where there could be some victory laps after week one. But let's keep the opponent in context here. But it just so many fassing stories. One of my taglines always is the NFL is the great American novel. And Brett, it's like every team is its great epic novel in and of itself for these characters and what we're going to learn. Okay, we're going to go through some of those other players, the seven or eight players, right? I'm going to give you one of mine, Brett. Let's see if he's one of yours. The player that I asked Dylan, what's up Dylan, doing social media stuff and helping us. This is a player that I put with Ben Trim on the thumbnail. Okay. I ain't putting Jade and I've, you know, Smith probably over Jade and Daniels this week.

Yeah, he's definitely on my list. I typically steer away from start sit with quarterback stuff just because like I just trust Chris, our projections guys so much. I'm just like, whatever Chris tells me to do is what I'm going to do. But yeah, Jade and Daniels, not a great situation. The Eagles defenses should be pretty awesome this year. They might have a slow start with the pass rush, but their secondary is so good. Their detacles are so good. I think this is nightmare fuel. The commander's offensive line is in a really bad spot right now. They don't have an established run game at the moment other than QB type run stuff. So I totally agree with you on this one. I'm not really touching many commanders players to be honest with you. I think we're projecting Terry McClaurin as like a low end wide receiver three this week, which is pretty low. So yeah, I'm with you on this one. Yeah, and I think that we also have here. I believe the next two weeks, I think the order gets mixed up. I think I've Dallas and Seattle the next two weeks. And you can just see for a team coming out of

training camp with offensive line worries after Jeremy Tunsell went down and trying to transition into this the craze, the under center running game to help out Jade and Daniels. And you have David Blau who I believe has only been an assistant quarterback coach for two years calling plays against Vic Fangio. And yeah, that just sounds really brutal almost unfair to Jade and Daniels. And then you know, could it cause the whole season really? Like could they just stub their toe on this early part? And that's the thing with the team like Washington and I'll even throw a Baltimore in there after last year. You know, if the quarterback gets hurt, it seems like the season is basically derailed. Do you have any other quarterbacks? Because I said you try to either are deferential. Are there any other quarterbacks? I mean like Josh Allen plays Houston Drake may people might be watching this after the game like Drake may against the other quarterbacks that were drafted like top eight top 10 that you

would say, well, maybe you'd mention them. No, I don't think I think you have to play Josh Allen if you took him. Yes, you mentioned Drake. May I have like a contrarian take on May. I think I think he actually might have a really good game. Not by the time the show comes out, I'm assuming the game has played. Is that true? Probably. Yeah, but I mean Seattle lost Kobe Bryant and Rikwell and Frieden see Ty Okota is not going to play. He's another starting safety. He was very valuable. Kind of move piece for them last year. Nicki Manwari might not play. And even if he does, he's limited. And then May is coming with buddies. He's coming with AJ Brown and Romeo Dubs. And I think Romeo Dubs is one of the most underrated receivers in the league. So like I've been when they made that move in a vacuum. I was like, that's a great addition to this offense. And then they did AJ Brown on top of that. So I think May could have actually a really nice game. And I've seen some people calling him a sit. So but little contrarian. So I mean, I agree with you that you should look at M and Wari playing or not. He was one of the keys to how Seattle was able to stay strong against the run and the pass. Yep. And and then like you said, sort of a domino effect with the other

injuries in the secondary Kobe Bryant went to Chicago. They about injuries in the secondary. Okay, real quick before I turn the page on quarterbacks for week one. There are some quarterbacks, you know, some juicy spots. All right. Tyler Schuck in Detroit speaking about missing players in the secondary Brett Brian branch Kirby Joseph Jared golf on the other side of that matchup. I mean, Saints defense Brandon Staley. I'm not really afraid of that. And Baker may feel against Cincinnati. Cincinnati again, a defense that we liked picking on. Are you maybe shoe warning one of these guys in your lineup? Yeah, I probably Baker may feel versus Cincinnati. I think you nailed that one. That's my favorite. That's the matchup I'm most excited to watch is Tampa Bay versus Cincinnati. I just think both of these quarterbacks are out for blood. You know, the season did not go the way they wanted to last year. Baker had what the five or six different injuries he's listed

with and ultimately played like trash down the stretch because of that shoulder injury. And it kind of reminded me of his final year in Cleveland where he played through the shoulder and it ended up costing him a bunch of money probably. But I think he's out for blood. And when Baker plays on that like he's a very emotional quarterback. Like when he plays on that high emotion, he's just so good for fantasy. I mean, he's like a he's a wrecking ball. So in Cincinnati, I know they're getting loud at foreign improved defense and on paper. It's definitely the best defense boroughs had on paper. It's still week one. We still don't know. It's going to take time. Communication is not something that happens overnight. I'm just not fully buying in that the Seattle or sorry, the Cincinnati defense is going to be excellent in week one. I think it will take time. And they still they don't really have the horses at edge to go after it, right? I know they dexter Lawrence in the middle is a nice addition, but I do think Baker could absolutely shred them. Yeah, I think that either way facing Cincinnati and you know, what we like about Baker Mayfield,

I don't think this is talked about enough, Brett, that from a quarterback perspective, you know, there's quarterback, let's call it like play personalities. You know, there's quarterback play personalities. We like for fantasy and there's ones that we don't like as much. And Baker plays right at the edge of his ability. You know, he's not afraid of throwing 15 interceptions in a season. And he's and because of that, you know, a guy like Ted Hurst, guys that can really make these plays, these aspirational catches, he doesn't have Mike Evans anymore, but Ted Hurst honestly might be a better vertical threat, like downfield, downfield threat, you know, where speed and eating up the cushion is still important. And they've got Ted Johnson, who I think people are really under rating. They're going to use all five of these receivers. Sounds like McMillan is healthy, Ibuka is healthy enough to play play playing with some sort of toe thing in his shoe or something. But the point is you deploy these guys an offensive line. And I don't know how many times I have to say this offensive line was just decimated. Like you said, Baker may feel gets hurt in week seven. He just gets pulverized by Detroit. He's not the same all year

playing through multiple injuries and their injuries of wide receiver. So, you know, just he didn't barely have even the truly functional Chris Godwin and think how much pressure that can take off of an offense. Falcon's fans who are miserable right now are saying, oh, Zach Robinson isn't necessarily good thing. I don't know. We'll see. Josh Grasard last year. Now he's up in Philly. Josh the Toulos down in Miami. You know, the Mary go round of coaches, but the Tampa's Sincere Big reveal. Yes. Sincere, that's going to be fun Dexter Lawrence. And like you said, on the defense guys like Miles Murphy, Shemar Stewart, you know, first round picks. They sign boy in Maffee. Maybe Dexter Lawrence. I mean, he's a culture guy for sure. And I do think Cincinnati internally, the players need to just be saying like we're winning the blank the blank super bowl this year. And that that's up to us. And we're going to do it. And that's what we're here to do. And we'll see if Al Golden can actually coach a defense. And we'll see Ruben Bain. That's going to be exciting too. Ruben Bain and Vita Vaya. I know we're not going to see Aaron Donald next to Miles

Garrett, but I hope we get to see Ruben Bain next to Vita Vaya. Ruben Bain and Vita Vaya and Elijah Cansey. So so much exciting stuff on the week one reveal. Not as exciting Brett. The Astjan Gentie and Jeremiah love. And let's just assume that, you know, they're taking off the injury report. We love that, right? They're not even questionable. They're taking off the injury report. That's not as many enrapped report bombs or whatever. You know, are you more inclined to help people to play Gentie or in love? And then there's of course the question of Tyler Algerier and Mike Washington Jr. No, they're both on. I told you the seven eight guys. They're both a part of that seven eight. Jeremiah love, even if he gets the clean bill health, like you said, we're assuming it. It's not a good situation at all. For one, you have Tyler Algerier, who is a starting caliber running back in the NFL. And you have a poor offensive line and a team that's really rebuilding from the ground up who is going to be behind in most games, scripts. It's going to be a lot of

garbage time just like we saw last year. I'm just like, I've kind of been out on Jeremiah love for redraft in general. Obviously, Dynasties, a whole separate conversation. But for redraft, I've just been out kind of like really sensitive draft. Say I'm like, I just at the ADP, I never really liked it considering the circumstances. And so I think I said I'm on my show. He's the worst NFL pick of all time before he's ever played it down. So which is very harsh to say, it's nothing against him. Fantastic player, fantastic prospect. It's nothing against Jeremiah love. It's just considering the circumstances. Wasn't my wasn't my favorite pick made. No, well, and I think there's a argument, Brett. I don't think it's hyperbole to say it's the worst pick of all time before he plays it down. If you just look at it from an asset allocation point of view, you know, you used the number three pick, which is an extremely valuable piece of real estate to take a running back who's going to be one of the best running backs in the league, but also pay him like he's one of the best

running backs in the league. And that's just like that would be like taking a wide receiver who comes with a four year hundred twenty million dollar contract. You know, and when you had the third pick and that, you know, that's what you turned it into. Jeremiah love just can't possibly justify that. And then the nature of this office, and I will say this, Brett, let's take a step back and look at this Arizona offense because I do think the Arizona and the chargers could be a surprise, a week one surprise because it does seem like Michael floor. There's certain teams that at least have like the dead cat bounce and more from the previous coaching staff on one side of the ball or both sides of the ball was just morose. Like everybody was just kind of showing up for work. And, you know, the Raiders offense and clink kubiacs, certainly plies will get back to that with gentiness second. And it does seem like now, and you know, maybe this doesn't reflect ball and drew petting who's not calling. I think he's calling places. Yeah, he is calling place in Detroit against New Orleans and week one. So you have an offense that could be invigorated. Certainly, you know, there's sounds

like a Marvin Harrison junior has gotten his confidence back. Mike Wilson obviously paid in a perfect role for him. And we know what Tramick bride can do offensive line west. You're I mean, there's Tennessee green Bay. There's a lot of teams have offensive line situations worse than Arizona's. Not that Arizona is a powerhouse on the offensive line. But I wonder, I do wonder if this offense might surprise in week one. What is your overall outlook or how open are you to believing that, hey, maybe we're under selling this offense? Oh, that's a great question. So like, I don't have a ton of faith in the Chargers defense, actually. I think that's that's a good for like week one conversations. Like sure, could they be a little more competitive than people think? Yeah, I for sure think that, especially like a guy like Michael Wilson, who I'm very bullish on, love them as a prospect that took some time to get going. But once he got going, it was great. You hear the coaching staff using phrases like the puker roll. Now I always like to point out there was no puker roll until Puka. So we'll see. But yeah, like that's exciting. I

for me, it comes down to like they don't have two of the number, sorry, they don't have the two most important things required to be a good offense, which is a good quarterback situation and a good offensive line. I think play callers can cover a multitude of sins, but I don't know that a what a young second time play caller first time head coach is going to have enough chops to overcome shaky, oh, line play and just a replacement level quarterback. I think that's really where it's like yeah, they might have some game scripts against some opponents where you're like, okay, we see the vision and maybe we're projecting for next year now. I just think week over week, it's it's not going to be pretty in general. Yeah. And then at a certain point, we get back around to how do this team end up taking chair? My love is the exact front office is their meddling from ownership. And you can't really project or predict when ownership is going to say oh and five, that's enough. Oh and six, that's enough. And when do we see Carson Beck? And yeah, it's

in them going all the way back around to Jeremiah Love in his value, not just for week one, but this season. So when you have that sense of instability and you're sharing with three other very talented players that also demand targets and demand opportunity in the offense, it's just and the thing is that someone pointed out, I can't remember who it was that hey, usually when a running back is taking this high in fantasy draft, they're always a first round pick. And that is actually true. And at least he was a third round pick, you know, when vision on Robinson, when Christian McCaffrey underperformed as rookies that first round draft status, it was because of players they were sharing with things Tyler, obviously, for one of them. And they were first round picks. So maybe it just won't hurt as much. But you know, love if he has talent to break big plays. I mean, he had there's still one of the things that I think got lost and loved getting hurt in the preseason Brett was they did come out and we're like, we're just going to give them a ball on every play. You know, and maybe it did well. It's also calling out to you. Now we want to get our 52 million

or whatever it is worth out of it. So I just read the article about how we overpaid for him. So I want to get some value. Who knows? Let's talk about some more. Oh, a genty. Give me your genty take. Yeah. So I'm a little like season long. I'm a little more bullish on genty. I think the offensive line upgrades with Tyler Lindnerbaum with moving JPJ to right guard with another year DJ Glaze, a healthy Colton Miller. Colton Miller is a top 10 left tackle in the league and they didn't really have him for most of last year. So I think situationally he's in a much better spot than he was last year, especially with competency at quarterback and the cousins Mendoza experience. So and then Clint Kubiak, obviously, can can write a lot of wrongs. Right. So pretty feel a lot better long term, but just like injury guys like this, it's like this guy had to have a prayer circle call the round him because it was allegedly that bad, right? Like and somehow this injury travel that was like knee, then it was high ankle, then it was low ankle. And I was just waiting for them to announce it was a foot injury, but I never never got to that point. But I just I don't think

we can play in week one just on the fact that he's, you know, they have a competent backup now. Mike Washington, Jr. as well who looked great in the preseason. He's still has a ton of warts to his game, but the explosiveness is there. And I think they can probably just feel comfortable relying on him for week one or at least a lot of him. So even if Gentie gives it a go, it's one of those situations where like how much do they actually put on his shoulders in week one? Yeah, when you project these games and look, I mean, I think this is something, I mean, we've been doing drafts season draft, draft, draft, draft, draft, draft, foul, you draft, strategy, draft, draft, draft, and now we're transitioning to the wonderful rhythm of a season. That's why we say happy new year, you know, it's happy new year like football's back because there's just like the way time passes and the way you experience time. And we all together experience it. It's at the very least, it can, it feels like a relief, you know, a little bit like George Jetson, like you just get on the conveyor belt and the clothes dropped down, stuff like that. Because you always have something to look forward to.

And you always have something to think about. And something that I was thinking about and I ran into some, because you said back up about Mike Washington. Now Clint Kubiak said, Clint Kubiak said like last week, okay. I think they're both going to prepare to play a lot of football as these games unfold, you react to the game. I think we've got two guys we're really excited about. We've got some younger guys that we're really excited about. They've just got to make the most of every rep they get. I'm not making any promises on percentages of play time. Oh man. It's when you get to a game, sometimes a guy who you think is going to have five has 20 carries. Sometimes the guy you think is going to be a scat protection back is in there blocking six man protection for 20. We just got to the money for play for all three phases. And you know, I, and we also heard that Kubiak really liked Mike Washington. You know, and if Kubiak was looking for a reason to like play Mike Washington more in the preseason, I mean, that's exactly what he got with the way that Washington

was able to operate. He could say, well block runs and things like that. But the point is like then the design of that run, Mike Washington got the best possible outcome in this practice rep, you know, in the preseason. And I really do think that at least for week one, you know, I'm like, not equal carries. How many more carries will Washington get? Because like you said, it's getting to Miami. And this is the only thing I'm going to say as we get into week to week, you should be projecting the game, right? Okay, well, Miami, what do you think about my, I mean, 180 million dead cap team, you know, this is a team that we will see. They claim seven players at the roster cut down. So it could be that they're not really competitive yet. And in the second half with the Ashen Gentile coming off of that prayer circle injury, Brett, you're not playing in your play Mike Washington. You know, it's Mike Washington that's going to get to 20 carries this week. And then if Mike Washington breaks another 50 yard run, I mean, how are you going to put that genie back in the bottle? I don't think people are correctly waiting the non zero chance that this becomes like the backfield in Seattle last year. That's, I didn't, I missed that that quote from

Kubiak. That is unbelievable, especially because Mike Washington's a day three pick. You have, he has no reason to publicly have that kind of allegiance to him. Zero other than he just really likes him. So I think a lot of times coach speak, we can get in the weeds on it where it's like what a coach coaches don't speak our language, right? So when a coach says this guy's a bell cow, that doesn't necessarily mean to them what it means to us. And we can find missteps throughout a lot of coaches, but this is a case where it's like he literally, he has no reason to elevate him to that level, other than he just really authentically likes the guy because he was a day three pick and the other guy was a top 10 pick. So this is like, that is, that's pretty alarming. And it, you know, Ryan Paganetti is a good friend of Scott and I, he's been on our show a couple times. He's, he's using and promoting fantasy points data pretty crazily, but he's basically told us, you know, that, genty was, you know, that sentiment inside that team was that genty should not have been the pick too. So with the, with the previous coaching staff, some possible Kubiak, you know,

has some of those same feelings and Mike Washington is definitely a guy who's going to play into that. That's a little alarming for me. I can't believe I missed that quote. Well, and I like, like you say, like, hey, coach speak, you know, objects and mirror maybe further away than they appear, whatever disclaimer you want to put on it, right? But it's your least open your mind of the possibility, right? So if you're making your weak one choice with a genty and you really like someone else that you have, you know, like a damn price who again, you listen to this and jam price that he carries for 33 yards, I don't know. But you know, a reminder, Stevenson, oh, again, can I think of a running back you would play this week, you know, Rico Dowdall, you know, like if someone asked me, Rico Dowdall or Ash and genty, you know, makes it pretty easy knowing that Kubiak likes this running back so much and look, I'm not going to say this is like Kirk Hussins going after RG3, but you come in and they say that, you know, Kubiak really stood on the table for Washington and you say, like, hey, probably Kubiak

had him as like a second round pick, right? And by the fourth round, he's like, come on, let me take my guy, right? But that's what was on his mind. So we'll see, we'll see. I mean, it is on the couch. We're psychoanalyzing these coaches because that's part of the story. Yeah. Real quick on some of those other running backs, do you share my, do you share the bullishness for Jordan Mason this week? Yeah, for sure. I don't mind Aaron Jones either, actually, if he's healthy, just pass catching upside, but I've been dabbling with both those backs and drafts lately. So I'm definitely in with you for week one on Jordan Mason. And what about the minister, sorry, the Jacksonville backs, is it either one both neither? For this week, I think I'm probably fine with Tuton. I don't know, I've been a big Chris Rodriguez guy all off season. So it feels weird to say that out loud. But yeah, I think for this week, I'm fine with Basel Tuton. Yeah, because of the matchup, but I like how. Yeah, see, I mean, you wouldn't know from the way you presented that, Brett, that Roderick

was going like five rounds after shooting all summer. But lots of interesting coach, coach speak there to watch and see how it all turns out, right? That's the other thing because we've been paying so close attention to everything, sleep schedules for teams, even, and actually having real football outcomes to talk about. That's going to be fun. Setting week one lineups, we're here to help people and hopefully have more fun when they see the outcome. I want to look at some wide receivers, again, that maybe when you mentioned Michael Wilson, are you aggressive and maybe recommending if people are asking about Michael Wilson, like you might have taken him in the eighth round. Maybe he's your fourth wide receiver, but he should be in your lineup for week one. I think so. Yeah, I've got plenty of teams where he's my wide receiver three ish, where I have like a three and a four. I both kind of like it similarly, but yeah, I definitely like the matchup. I pulled some great numbers on him earlier. I'm trying to find them. Yeah, Chargers last year, I mean, they were bottom

five in Yards, protagonist of the slot. Wilson's going to play all over obviously. They're going to move him, but I think he's gets a lot of run in the slot. And the Chargers just really, since Harboss Ben there actually, they have not been able to defend the slot at all. It's kind of been a weak spot for them. So I'm I'm really curious to see how the role pans out. Like we've had all the hyperbole about the Puka roll, but I think Marv probably gets his role elevated to where his skill set didn't really match a Kyler Murray quarterback situation. And he didn't get to play didn't get to play a ton with Jacobi percent last year, right? So it's like, I'm not just because I'm in on Wilson. Doesn't mean I'm out on Marv, by the way, but I definitely am in on Wilson. Yeah. When what happens, Brett, as you start, because you know, you look at these names of two teams Dallas at the giants. Yeah. And your brain kind of does run simulations. Like, you know, like just like a supercomputer. And you start to see that this Chargers Cardinals can't be like a 35 31 game, right?

You start thinking about what Arizona is going to try to do. And again, Michael Wilson is enticing because he's going to get the layup targets. He's going to get the targets that keep the offense on schedule. He's going to keep the targets that the offensive coordinator, the play design, the execution. And hey, but Kyler, percent is an above average backup. But we know that he can execute the play from the whiteboard to the field when it's the first read and it works. And that's going to be Michael Wilson. But like you said, Marv and Harrison, confident, you know, maybe there's some matchup that he can win, Tremick bride. We'll see. And then we know that the Chargers, real quick on the Chargers, because I brought the game up, I'm interior offensive line issues. And when you're thinking about the Chargers offense, you're thinking about Mike McDaniel. We're trying to psychoanalyze people, right? So like, we know Mike McDaniel's like fun. He's ready to have fun. You know, he's kind of like a kid, right? He's got his new new toys. But also, you know, you'll shoot your eye out, you know, you don't want to break your new toys. Because there's some stuff that's, you know, the cast hasn't come

off of the broken bone yet in the offensive line. How are you feeling about that? Not good to be quite honest with you. For what? Like, I'd love to spend time talking Mike McDaniel Jim Harbaz as a duo. They're so, I mean, they're just different kind of dudes, right? They're very eccentric in a lot of ways. But Harbaz, like, obscenely stubborn as a coach. It's like, how long, how much leashes he give Mike McDaniel to go have fun and be kind of that kid in the candy store? I'm not really sure. And I look at this interior offensive line situation. It's like Yodia Oiseka at left guard. He's been a career backup for the Eagles and the Lions. Jake Slaughter at Centuries is a rookie. And I didn't think he was like a great prospect. So I'm a little, if you on that, then Cole Strange has been a big time under performer. Obviously, they brought him over from Miami and McDaniel is a ton of experience with him. But he's been a big time under performer throughout his career in the NFL. So like, I think it's very worrisome, especially when you look at like the way Mike McDaniel's offensive system

evolved in Miami where 2022 and 23, it was like super outside zone, wide zone, heavy. Even like, when they ran gap, it was like, would they run in power to get out in the alley and get a crease on the edge? And like, then he evolved into this duo inside zone heavy scheme the last two years. And it's like, I don't think they can run that with the person that they have. I'm really interested. And then it gives me a lot of worry about Amore and Hampton because I'm like, well, Hampton is best on that linear plane. Right? He's best as a duo runner as an inside zone guy. If they're going to go out and run the stretch zone again because they have the tackles to do it, I'm like, well, I don't think that favors Hampton skillset. And then we're having a key Mitchell conversation. So I'm I'm just like all the way not sure about what to expect from this Chargers run game. And it's kind of frustrating to be honest with you. Yeah. I think that again, you know, we're helping people make calls for their week one lineups. But honestly, the most important thing, you know, winning or losing, setting the lineup right in week one is whether you

go into week one with a receptive mindset to changing your priors. Right? Because we have this wide range of outcomes as we're analyzing players and situations. And then I know week one can be a liar like Cecil says. And the small sample size, keep the match up in mind. And sometimes we really look back on some week one outcomes truly were aberrations that we thought we learned something, but we didn't. But for most of the games, we're going to learn something. You know, we're going to be better at predicting the arc. And especially more talking about new offensive coordinators or where there's been a lot of change since the last time we saw the team, this is really important data. Whatever happens. And it kind of zeros in on one part of the range of outcomes. You know, it's maybe the top half or bottom half, right? And when you talk about new offensive coordinators by keeping our brains supple and ready to be flexible, especially where what we thought was going to happen isn't what happened. The next few weeks, you're going to see Mike McDaniel, Sean Manion, David Blow, Declan Doyle, you're going to see these guys sort through.

Are they correctly seeing what's working and what's not working? Are they chained? Are they updating it? Are they correctly attributing why isn't this working? Are they putting the guys on the field that gives the offense the best chance, you know, they're going to work this stuff out. You remember Liam Cohen, Ben Johnson, you know, these offenses weren't smash hits right away last year. It's true. And I think just watch like there's a way I think Brett watching just talk about this like because I know with Matt Waldman, he really put in my mind the idea of get into the head of the player as a problem solver and understand what they have at their disposal physically. But really get to that point where you're watching a play and simulating it like presented with this visual data and this problem. This is what I choose to do. And I think when you watch whole games every week, you see the play callers doing that. You can kind of simulate that. So tell me some things you think about when I bring this topic up. The first thing that my mind goes to is what happens when the script is over. And I think that's actually where you saw Ben Johnson that

has struggled a little or you because you mentioned Chicago didn't just come out and they weren't awesome right away. That's true. And I think it was like he was so used to goff this cerebral. I'm going to run the script. I'm going to do everything in rhythm and timing transitioning to a Caleb Williams. That's a totally different animal, right? And so for Ben, I think early on in the season, it was like as soon as the Bears got off script, it was like, oh, we're we're now punting three, four drives in a row. I mean, that happened several times early in the season. So I for me, it's like what kind of adjustments is that coordinator making as they get off of that first 10 plays, that first 15 plays that are scripted? And that to me, that's really where guys make their money. And Ben Johnson do his credit, got it figured out probably about week five weeks. It was at the I know the Cowboys game week two that they had some blow up potential in the second half, but first half performances weren't really good until week six, week seven, and then on. So I and I think that's a huge credit to him for adjusting like you're saying, like kind of processing

the new information. Okay, I have a different guy at quarterback. It's not Jared Goff. It's somebody entirely different. How can we set him up for success? That's really where the coordinators, I think make their money is like those adjustments after the script. The script is generally like, there's the first drive points rate in the NFL is so extremely high these days. It's kind of unbelievable. It's because the script works. It's like, that's what you install all week. That's what you practice. And so what happens after that is really where the coordinators make their money. Yeah, and it's interesting too, because I know that some play callers use plays in the script to get tells for later on in the game or to set up a play later on in the game to like give them one look, let them feel like they were successful so that they're going to have the muscle memory as a defense to do the same thing when you call it later. It's really fascinating, although I keep coming back to Ben Johnson and the real briefly because you know, I probably could sit here and Sun goes down and still barely touch all the fascinating topics just from the week one reveal. But I know that Ben Johnson has come up. He mentioned Ryan Paganetti. I talked about Ben

Johnson with him on the show. I know that Ben Johnson was considered very high in a pole defensive coordinators, play callers. And I think what Ryan Paganetti said is that when Johnson would develop a pattern, they could almost anticipate faithfully that he would correct it. You know, that he would never get an attendancy. So he's self-aware. So this is my brief question. Can Ben Johnson, because he said he wanted to be the highest scoring offense ever? I mean, can he break fantasy football? Well, you're trying to get me in trouble here because I've been on the wrong side of the Caleb Williams discussion in terms of like I just haven't been his biggest fan his play style. Big fan of the person obviously and I'm always rooting for success, right? But like, I do think Caleb might have some limitations that hold Ben back a little bit. But even beyond that, if you want to get in the weeds on that we can, but beyond that, it's like the Bears had a really easy schedule last year relative to this year. This year it gets a lot tougher. I

can't, can they actually break? Like scoring is actually downleg wide. That's something people don't realize. Scoring is downleg wide. So like, I don't know that seems really like out there to me to think that like, is Ben have the temperament and the mental make up? He wants to want to. Right. Yeah, he does for sure. He is that level of competitive. He was like that in Detroit as well. There were games in Detroit where they'd be up, you know, 30 points and they're throwing go balls at James and Williams. You're just like, what is going on right now? Like, they, he definitely doesn't care about blowing people out. So could he do it? Does he have the makeup to do it for sure? Does he have the personnel to do it? Probably not, but yeah. We'll see. I mean, and I think the takeaway from this as far as the idea of keeping your mind open to things is if you see Caleb Williams, I know on that Josh Island trajectory, yeah, that's sacrilege where the layups are coming easier to him. We're like, what Ben Johnson is calling you? You said outside of the script, you know, it seems like there's a mind meld of understanding the why of the play and the execution and timing of the play. And now we're

cooking. You know, you'd be ready to, of course, correct. So I think there's, I mean, I could probably, maybe this would have been a better show if I would have put together like there are things in the reveal that, you know, it's kind of like, well, there's how we thought the yesterday's price is in today's price, you know, you know, for instance, say Caleb Williams, there's like 24 for 31, you know, and everything clicks. Give me a situation that's on your mind. And it can be positive or negative that, you know, you've watched everybody saying, you know, analyzing a player or an offense or situation within a certain range and you're like, man, after week one, you know, and there's matchups and situations that can, you know, pour some gasoline on the fire for sure. But certainly, when we check back in with some of these teams and players and situations, there's going to be, we're going back to the drawing board on like one third of them, Brett. Give me one that you think's on the list. Yeah, the easiest one. And it's right in the

same, like kind of vertical we're discussing is Lamar Jackson and Declan Doyle. Declan Doyle, Sean Peyton Disciple, Via Ben Johnson, one year in Chicago. From everything we've heard, it sounds like he wants to run that type of, you know, West Coast hybrid where it's like, it is timing and rhythm base. Well, that's not something Lamar Jackson's done yet. And so I, I'm a firm believer Lamar can do it. And I think for him to extend his career well into his 30s and as the body starts to deteriorate a little bit, I think this is needed for him actually. And I think guys like Zay flowers and Mark Andrews have been underpriced all offseason because of the potential that Lamar is more of a pocket passer. And I'm very bullish on the idea that he can, he can really transform himself and become a totally different quarterback. But I think we'll learn a lot in week one. If it's a similar stuff, if it's all out of structure playmaking, then maybe, maybe put that on pause for now. But I'm watching that game very closely to see how Lamar responds to this new system. He's

going to run it's not like anything he's ever done with Greg Romano or Todd Monkin. And again, what's not being reported, you know, the last time we saw the Ravens as far as the context and FL season, there was a pretty shocking, you know, the king was deposed on the way to work. And it was a pretty big deal. Kind of like, well, both of you are at fault. We can't keep both of you. So one of you's got to go and coach is going to go and Lamar is going to stay. His contract is basically next year and he hasn't, has not had an extension yet. There were some buzz a little earlier. I was even like, oh, yeah, buzz. It's going to happen. No, no. Now in week one, Brett, I mean, Lu and Arumo has nightmares about Lamar Jacks. You know, the last four times I was looking at it, the last four times he faced Lamar Jacks and Lamar, I think, is like 12 passing touchdowns and no interceptions, averaging the 280 some passing yards is run for 50 yards on average. All wins,

all Baltimore wins. So the, but again, if Lamar Jacks and struggles, if it looks like, ooh, discombobulated, now you have to take that in context is like, ooh, maybe we're zeroing on the bottom half, at least until we see how this goes. Because I do think that speaking of Ben Johnson, I do think Declan Doyle represents kind of like a tough love. Like you said, can you become this quarterback? Just like Ben Johnson is doing just like they're doing with Jackson Dart. We talked about, you know, can you be this kind of quarterback? Anything else bubbling up to the top of your head when I think about stuff that you're like, oh yeah, when people get a load of this, they're going to be updating their priors. Oh man, that's a great question. I'm sure I have like a million, I just need like two seconds. I'll give you, I'll give you a quick one. I think DJ, DJ Moore, we'll see if it changes things, you know, Buffalo and Houston. But I think Josh Allen himself is telling us like me and DJ are going to play kind of like a two-man game, like a stocked in Malone game until the defensive show us

that they can stop it. And I think that's going to be apparent really quickly. Go ahead. How about Christian Watson and the Green Bay Packers and the role he's going to have? Another guy I thought he was mispriced, ADP-Y is all off season. The role they're talking about him having, keeping him, well for one moving more on the formation, but keeping him off ball a little bit. I think this is great for him. I think as a rookie, when you saw him with Aaron Rodgers, what made him special were these in breaking what I call runaway routes where they're shallows or they're there overs. You know, the crossing route family plus those, those backside digs as an ISO receiver or you know, like a dig out of a dagger concept, the Yankee, like all of that fun, like just get him running across the field and get him the ball in stride. He's very hard to contend with in those situations, similar to how the lines have really transitioned to using James and Williams where early Jamo was like a go ball guy. Now he's like, he gets some of that, but it's like shallows getting the ball in stride on the move. I think that is so smart. I

think Watson could truly blow up this year and a lot of it is too. It's like, well, they've been running five, six, seven man wide receiver rotations the last few years. I mean, there were several games in 2024 and five where they use seven different wide receivers and that I think that's come to an end finally with Don Tavine Wix and Philadelphia with Romeo Dobbs and New England. I think they consolidate this a little bit more. And I just think he's the most talented of that group. So I'm pretty bullish on Watson. I think after week one, you might see a, might see a totally different kind of feeling in the community about Christian Watson. Like a number one receiver, right? I mean, he's not just a very accurate. He's not just a ball winner. He's not just a speed threat. He's a player that can be a foundational receiver. You know, what we hoped maybe Alec Pierce might be doing before that ankle and what you will see about that. Okay. So last thing I'll talk about is a FOMO, right? That's what the kids say. You're missing out. You know, there was a point where about a week ago, I was like, oh man, you know, third year bonus, John Payton,

and you give him Jaylen Waddle. You know, does that play Jaylen Waddle on an easy long touch down in the preseason? Yeah. They're going to kind of like ambush the league now that, you know, John Payton's mini me. I went out and I traded in a superflex with Joey Wright, love you, Joey, Cam Ward and Ted Hurst and Eli Starr's Titan premium, Firm Nix. You know, I'm literally like, pull the ripcorks. I don't want to miss out. Say whatever you want about my thoughts, but also is there something giving you FOMO as we go into the season? This is, we could have just probably titled this the Bears episode because the guy I'll say is Luther Burton, where I, you know, I was slightly lower on him than consensus coming out as a prospect and I've been, you know, as I break out as film, I'm charting everything. There's things in his route running. I don't necessarily love, but I do think he is the, you know, the athletic upside to learn these things and be an excellent route runner. I think the separation is coming. He's obviously in a lead run after catch player. I have zero exposure to this guy though. I've been so critical of the Bears offense that it's

kind of clouded. I would say my judgment necessarily, but it's like I just given the opportunity. I've always just taken my next guy instead of Luther Burton in drafts. And so I think that's the guy I'm most worried I'm going to miss on. And he's one of Scott's Exodia players too. And that's, you know, that's a little scary because Scott's right about a lot of things. And so yeah, that's definitely my biggest FOMO guy. Those if Luther Burton truly does become their wide receiver one. I have zero, literally zero shares of him. Yeah. Yeah. Well, and I get it, I mean, I don't think I have him anywhere either. I mean, I have some Colston, Loveland, but, and you know, there was the preseason injury. But if he does become that guy and Loveland too, I think it's because we can look back and we can say, you know, Ben Johnson got the keys to the franchise. And they're like, okay, your first draft, what do you do? I'm going to get Colston, Loveland. I'm going to get Luther Burton. And Burton's a perfect, don't ask what he can't do, ask what he can. And Ben Johnson's going to just have him do that. And I'm in Rossing Brown. I know we don't like to who's this guy's version of this. But I'm in Rossing Brown was one of the guys like went to

bat for Ben Johnson in Detroit and said like, this is my guy, you know, the year that I think they let him start playing calling at the end of the year. I'm in Rossing Brown's like, that's my dude, you know, like in the players, love him because he, he, the players are part of it with him. So it would make sense to be like looking at Luther Burton and also getting in load of him like personality wise and being like, all right, you're my, we're going to do this. Just like, you know, we'll see about, okay, it's me again, what a fascinating story. We're all quick. Give me one to spike down on any thoughts on Nick's Peyton year three with Waddle. Yeah, well, for one, I love Waddle. I've been touting him all off season. I love that like, this was a Super Bowl caliber. And they probably win the Super Bowl or at least are competitive at the Super Bowl if Nick doesn't get hurt, right? So this is a Super Bowl caliber team. There are one shining jewel acquisition of the off season is, hey, we're going to flip a first round pick for, for this wide receiver. And I think he's the missing piece, you know, since Bo Nick's has been in high school, he's basically led whatever conference or leak he's in

and screens and short, short yard passing. And Jaylen Waddle is a, as an absolute demon at that stuff. I know his role in Miami kind of transitioned where he, he was playing, he was the primary extra receiver the last two years of Miami. A lot of people don't realize that, but that's, that's totally a miscast for him. They have Coral and Sutton in Denver. So I think you're moving Waddle more off the ball into a way more favorable role for his skill set. And Nick's is a candidate to lead the NFL in Drop-Ex. And so yeah, I love this. Nick's has got a couple things. He's got to clean up himself. But like you said, going into year three, that's not uncommon to see some of those tweaks made. Same thing can be said for Caleb Williams, of course. But you know, if he improves just a smidge, Andy's leading the NFL in Drop-Ex. Or top five. And the, the amount I believe in Jaylen Waddle, I think the, you know, wheels up for this offense for sure. Yeah. And for the RJ Harvey fans out there, you know, they want to have him as weapon. We go off the rails, I try not to talk about football like it's not football. And I, but I have, I know we're going to grab a day back to football because you know, I started to have a good conversation. And this often happens when

get ready to do the couch, start talking about something season will say, save it for the show. But I know, you know, like you said, you played football. And then you transitioned into something, let's just say the industry, the football attention industry, right? Because so many people play attention to football. Or otherwise, the football information industry, there's a lot of different layers and aspects to it, which led you. And then you've been doing this, you've been doing, you've been on that side of things now for a long time, like 15 years. So what I wanted to ask you, Brett, is how did playing influence how you approached this 15 years in our sandbox? That's a great question. I think, man, obviously you just, you, you build a baseline for the game, right? You like, I naturally like new coverages, I need run concepts, I knew, run fits, and I knew how to kind of diagnose that. But like, there's a, there's a universal language you don't always learn

when you play. And so I think when I got to PFF, I went in kind of with an ego, like, oh, I know, I know my stuff and quickly found out, like learning from guys like Gunther Cunningham and several guys that they had on staff there, like, no, there's so much, so much I didn't know. And so I think it really, it did, it gave me a good baseline, but ultimately it just, it got me ready to learn, I think is what it was. Like, I got to learn very fast. And I picked up on things very quickly. And so, yeah, I mean, I, I've been doing this now. I think this, this actually might be my 15th season doing this. And so, but just that ability to learn the ability to take on new information, like that on an XSNOs level, it kind of fed an ambition to learn. And so what happened is, I started working at PFF, but I also was going to coaches clinics, you know, three, four coaches clinics in off season and spending a ton of time just grinding tape on my own. And so, but I think that's ultimately as a player, like when you, especially if you're athletically limited at all, you, you have to make up for that with, with knowledge, right? And so it just prepared me for

this constant learning, which I think has made me pretty good at fantasy. It's like, you've mentioned it a couple times, being willing to be, you know, have that open mind. I think that's really what it did for me. Yeah. Well, and being, I'm having access to sort of the underlying forces that are causing the things that bubble up to the surface where we see in terms of yards and touchdowns, you know, me, I'm a joker. I was peat novas on Twitter. It was like, what's the noisy, that noisy a stat that fantasy football players put too much stock into? I said yards and touchdowns, you know, because it's true. But, you know, this idea of it seems seemingly more like random or the process of some sort of equation when really as if you're engaged and again, we've started talking about things like play college. I mean, yes, there's X's and O's and understanding the terminology and understanding the structure. But also, there's understanding the personalities and understanding where alignment is and where alignment isn't, you know, and where there's not

going to be any chance of it. And, and just the directions that things are headed. So what is something else that you have that kind of thirst of for knowledge about? Like, if it wasn't football, like, if there's like, okay, Brett, tomorrow, it can't be football, but you get to do the same thing, but about something else. Oh, man, this is, there's probably a few. My, my wife always gets on me, because when I get a hobby, it becomes an obsession to the point where like, she's got to rate it in. Like, all right, maybe, babe, we have four kids. Maybe you can't train Jiu-Jitsu seven days a week. Maybe we got to get that down to like three, you know, so that's probably my answer to those. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, I'm a student of the game. I watch tape, like I do football. I haven't really competed a ton lately, but I do have aspirations of winning a world championship one day. So, so Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu would be that thing for me, I think. Yeah, and John Owning, I think, I mean, John, like, he's, I know John very well, yeah. And I think he's really, really into, I was, I think, I'm out of the fool for me from some of you Jiu-Jitsu. I know a parent here from another

kid in those youth group, you know, there's a way, I think, to approach Jiu-Jitsu that it's like a spirituality, it's like a spiritual practice, really. And it becomes that, I think, it's like transformational. And then you get into like Capoeira and the historical roots in terms of like the slave trade and, you know, there's, there's so much culture, there's culture in it, in addition. And I think that it's a metaphor for how some people like experience their life. So, I get it, like, I get how, how it can be that immersive. And I think that just finding that, so obsession, right, you said obsession, there's, maybe think of this author, there's a really great author, David Grant is his name. And the most famous book, I think, that he wrote, it's called The Lost City of Z. And it's about Percy Fawcett, who was the explorer in the, you know, around that exploration

period when all the spots on the globe, at least as far as Europe was concerned, weren't filled in yet. And he was the explorer that the other explorers were like, that guy's hardcore. Like, if you want to die, go on when it is expeditions. And sure enough, he was like, well, if you choose to go on expedition with me and you can't handle it, that you chose to come here, that's not on me, you know. And he was convinced there was a law civilization in the Amazon, you mentioned Brazil. And David Grant, you know, there's been lots of people have gone into the Amazon looking for him, or like evidence of what happened to him, he disappeared in the Amazon. And some people became obsessed with him. And David, David Grant, the book is about Percy Fawcett, but the book is also about how David Grant finds himself like traveling to the Amazon and going into places where he really, his wife is like, you really need to be doing this, you really need to be going all the way to like where Percy Fawcett disappeared to write this book. So he's getting sucked into it as he's, and all of his books are like this. All of his books, I think, are that I've read deal with

obsession and how in studying people that became obsessed with things, like there was one about this guy that was trying to find us, there's a giant squid and the whole history of the giant squid. You know, and this guy who's like his life was about, like because they've never been able to capture like a baby giant squid and like grow in captivity. And that was his obsession. And David Grant went out into the ocean with him looking for a giant squid. And I think that, you know, that search for purpose and that search for meaning is the purpose, you know, is that it's the feeling like communing with something. And the fact that you and Scott and everybody also over fantasy points commune with approaching the game through this analytic way, but still always seeking to understand it and with a humility, like I'm here to learn, not here to show what I know. Like you said, what you learned, it's a beautiful thing. And I think that Scott has

referenced us as a peer, you know, and I would put us under the heading of like mission driven fantasy football businesses, strange with that sounds. Yeah. With our tilting at win-win mills. So yeah, I mean, I don't even know where to go from here, Brett, except just to say like, just tell people, because you're taking over the daily show there. So people want more bread. Tell them what's up. Yeah, fantasy football daily on the fantasy points YouTube channel. That's Scott and I now. And so I have that show. I have First Read, which is a show I've had for a couple years now with Joe Marino of The Lockdown Network. That's more of like an exes and O show. So not super fantasy driven. There's some fantasy takeaways, of course, but it's, you know, we're getting it. We're breaking down O line, D line, plan, stuff like that. And so that's a fun show. And then obviously the the data suite is the big one. Fantasy points data.com data suite two is out. And I think if you use like DS two, you get 15% off as a promo code. And it is not going to destroy humanity. The

fantasy points data suite I guarantee you will not be the end of humanity. But that will be the end of the show. But now we have a football to keep us busy. Stuff to talk about, stuff to hang out and just be together and check it out because we appreciate that you do that for us. If you weren't there, there'd be no need for us. So you're giving us this opportunity. We want to really make good on that because it's precious your time, your attention, your life to spend time with us. So let's hang out. Maybe win a few championships and certainly enjoy the ride along the way and always staying classy. Get a record player. Start record club because it's the ritual. It's it's marrying music back to ritual. And whenever you take your record out and you handle it very gently because it's a precious thing and you put it on the record and that sound of a needle going on the record. We all know what that means, how that prompts you to remember it. And it's a moment in your life when you slow down and you make yourself ready to receive something.

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