Future 1st Podcast - Fantasy Impacts of 2026 NFL Coaching Changes

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But apart from that, man, everything's good.

It seems like, you know, I mean, it's been settled for a while.

These coaching changes, but I think now the dust has settled with free agency.

We saw what, you know, these new coaching staffs did where they brought in new players.

So I think it's a great time to kind of go over, you know, our best thoughts about, you know,

what is going to happen with these coaches? Is there anything that impactful?

Because there was a ton of when we were looking at doing the work for this.

There was a ton of moves.

It seems like everybody in the NFL mostly changed some sort of coordinator or some head coach.

So it should be a good episode, man. I'm pretty excited.

Yeah, we're going to dive into a little bit more.

We're going to try to hit them all, but there are a lot of them.

So we might breeze over a couple of them and just talk over.

Some of the ones that are more impactful for what we're doing here in terms of fantasy production and stuff.

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We're getting into the coaching changes, but first as always a quick hit.

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All right, welcome into the quick hit.

Today we wanted to talk about the AJ Brown trade rumors.

They've been flying around.

It feels like more or less they've simmered down.

There hasn't been a ton going on here in terms of, you know, who's been interested or whether he's getting moved or not.

But there has been a lot of smoke over the off season there for AJ Brown getting traded.

So let's just dive right into it man.

I mean, I think I've heard a lot from what's your name?

Is it Cynthia, Cynthia Freyland or something like that?

She's been the one of the main proponents of this trade happening.

And it kind of makes you wonder is she getting paid by the agent here or.

But it feels like this is likely likely going to happen, right?

Like if you had to put the over under.

I set the line at 50% where were you taking the over under on this trade happening?

Yeah, I mean, I think it's still on the over 50% happening, but I think it has calmed down significantly, especially since it seems like a financially everything points to the halfway until June in terms of like the contractor and all that stuff.

So, you know, the free agency happened a couple of, you know, spots dried up.

And then, you know, the Patriots may, you know, maybe they draft a wide receiver or do something to assess that wide receiver room instead of trading for AJ Brown.

You know, it may be draft day is the most likely scenario.

I mean, it'd be kind of funny for AJ Brown to get traded on draft day again.

But yeah, I still think it's more likely to happen than less.

I know Adam Shafter was also talking about it the other day and said, you know, if it happens at all.

So, you know, he kind of put a little damper on it.

I do think it'll be pretty interesting.

I mean, the Patriots are kind of the one team that makes the most sense.

I can't think of too many other teams that, you know, would really want to go out and spend that capital on a.

Soon to be or already 29 year old, you know, player who's shown a lot of, you know, tendencies to really blow up lock rooms or at least.

Well, not blow up lock rooms. He's not, you know, he might be a he was a fantasy.

Negative person to us last year, but he's not actually out there blowing anything up.

But no, like in terms of his problems in the locker room and with coaches and yelling on the sideline and reading his book and all that.

You know, all that typical wide receiver stuff that I think a lot of people associate with the position he's kind of.

I think the poster child right now and NFL for that.

So it's pretty interesting. I think for, you know, fantasy, obviously, the most important thing for you is there.

You know, between the Patriots and Rams who are kind of the last landing spots we heard.

I mean, you'd agree that the Patriots are probably the most, they're more interesting of the two, right?

Yeah, I don't know where, yeah, definitely the Patriots are the more interesting of the two.

And I'm just trying to think of like any other teams out there that might, you know, make this move.

Maybe the commanders, it feels like they're in kind of a window where they need to win now.

And they feel like a piece away in that sense.

And I mean, I mean, that would be a pretty old wide receiver core with Terry McClure and AJ Brown.

And I don't know, I guess they, they can both win in different ways.

You know, AJ Brown can be the more possession close to the line of scrimmage type of thing.

But I think AJ Brown wants to be, you know, the guy.

You know, he wants his ego stroked and he wants to go to a spot where he's going to get a ton of work and be happy with it.

So do the commanders necessarily work out in that regard for him?

I don't know, probably not.

And yeah, I mean, among all these other teams that we've heard that have been looking for wide receivers, you know,

or have rumors of drafting a wide receiver, like the Browns.

We've also heard the Steelers, but the Steelers don't make sense in terms of, you know, like a window and an age of that.

Maybe the Panthers.

I'm trying to think who else, who else we've been, the Jets?

Like none of these, none of these teams really make sense to kind of trade draft capital.

Maybe the Colts, but they're already too first down for trading for South Gardener.

So it's like, what kind of capital are they going to have to throw around to go get it?

And I don't even know what the Eagles are asking for.

Is there any rumors of what they want for AJ Brown?

It doesn't look good for AJ Brown and seeing Waddle go for a first and a third.

Yeah, I mean, I think that was something like that.

Like a first and a second, I think was some original rumors that that's what they wanted or that's what they had asked the Patriots for.

But yeah, I mean, I think that's in the ballpark of what the Eagles would want.

I think the longer it goes.

I mean, the more likely it is that he maybe just is there another year and then maybe tread that line.

If things continue to be as negative as they were last year, it's the time where they finally decide to pull the trigger and ship them off.

But, you know, in the off chance that he does get traded.

I think, you know, Davante Smith would be pretty interesting, right?

As the lone kind of guy there, say, Juan, I think it just hurts Jalen hurts overall.

Like I don't think not having AJ Brown for Jalen hurts who's been, you know, had trouble being a prolific passer and getting those passing stats would help, you know, obviously.

But what do you think?

How would you see like Davante Smith and the rest of the Eagles if AJ Brown was traded?

Yeah, I'm in on Davante Smith.

But I think that's also something you have to be careful about too in dynasty with where you think your window is.

I had to, I'm doing startup.

So like I know these guys ages pretty well.

He's 28 or he just turned 28, which was kind of shocking to me.

I was like, I don't remember him being that old.

But yeah, I mean, sure enough, he's, you know, 28.

So like if you want to go get him, like I feel like you have to be in, you know, a pretty firm contending window.

And I think it's wheels up either way.

Like I only see his dynasty stock rising.

So even if you're a rebuilder, I think you should be able to, and you have him on your team, you should be able to kind of flip him for some sort of profit for whatever you paid into.

And then yeah, like behind him, I think it's just sake on and got it.

I mean, they got who'd they get?

Deami Brown went to the commanders, but there were, there was John Dotson.

I think the, the Eagles picked him up in free agency.

I don't know if you have.

I think he was there before.

It wasn't.

Oh, who, who did they get?

They picked up someone.

I know the stats.

Yeah.

Yeah, there was someone.

For me, it's pretty much Elijah Moore.

Elijah Moore.

Yeah, man.

And Hollywood Brown as well.

Honestly, like, I don't really want to take shots on, on either one of those guys.

So yeah, I mean, as, as we'll get into in the coaching, I mean, they have no sea change, which is maybe not someone we're necessarily bought in on either.

So yeah, just lots of questions, I guess.

I think it's only good for Devantis Smith, to be honest, like, and, you know, Dallas got her in that respect.

Yeah, 100%.

Yeah, it's not.

Sometimes it's one of those things where it's not super complicated.

Not just a question to plus two equals four sometimes.

Yeah, especially in the Eagles offense, everything is very concentrated.

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Well, that's not the right word.

Here in our main segment today, coaching changes.

Yeah, that's on the flagship as we've always known it.

Yeah, I mean, we're going to be talking about coaching changes.

I think my overall thought when looking at coaching changes is that the market usually kind of overpaced for player movement

and underpriced is coaching continuity and competency upgrades.

So I think the best for fantasy when looking at these is just to see who got the shiniest new coach,

which I think for most people, at least talking NFL might be the harbob.

The harbob, brother.

I was getting confused.

I can't remember which one.

What's on that?

John Harbour.

John Harbour, yeah.

Oh, or like, Dable, who we're going to talk about, like those are kind of the coolest coach.

But I think it's which offense is now more likely to be like predictable, efficient and role stable, right?

Like how, which of these coaches do we know have set roles, how they like to use players,

how they like to run their offenses in very predictable ways?

I think for fantasy, predictability is actually great.

You know, it doesn't mean that who the ball is going to,

when the ball gets snapped is predictable.

But I mean, you know, when we know this coach loves their ex-receiver, loves their running back,

you know, to have a stud running back, loves to have, you know, a tight end that could catch the ball.

You know, the reliable and consistent things, which is I think what's better to track when looking at these offensive coordinator

and head coach changes is more so than like just the headlines.

Yeah, that's a really good point to make too.

You know, it's just being able to put a put a finger on what they're going to be doing.

And that way we have a better foresight into what to expect from their fantasy numbers,

from the assets on their teams.

So I think that's a perfect segue into the first team here that we wanted to talk about,

which is a team that we're high on because of the coaching change, the Atlanta Falcons.

They had hired head coach Kevin Stofanski to replace Rahim Morris.

And Stofanski was previously with the Cleveland Browns.

He also brought over his offensive coordinator from the Browns, Tommy Reese, to replace Zach Robinson for the Falcons.

The Falcons actually had a ton of changes as well, right?

I mean, they have a new president.

What's his name, Matt?

They're their quarterback from previous.

Who is the Falcons quarterback, Matt?

Right.

There you go.

Matt Ryan is their new president.

And they also got a new, I'm pretty sure, defensive coordinator, special teams coach.

A lot of kind of clean house and changed it all over.

So to me, Stofanski coming in to the Falcons is great things for Bajon Robinson.

Stofanski is very much, you know, a run first play caller.

And Bajon Robinson, putting him at the disposal of Kevin Stofanski is only good things.

I mean, Stofanski was the architects behind Nick Chubb for many years before he kind of faded into a relevance.

So obviously, I think we would like to think that Bajon is kind of a tear up of Nick Chubb.

Or maybe they're just an separate time, errors of time.

But nonetheless, I think it's wheels up for Bajon.

I also am pretty high here.

I guess let's pause there.

Let's go.

You're feelings on Bajon.

Yeah.

I mean, overall, I think this is a coaching staff, right?

It's coming together from Cleveland.

I think they also brought the quarterbacks coach.

Alex Van Pelt.

I think so.

Stofanski pretty much has moved his entire offense, at least the biggest cores over to the Falcons.

And I think by all means, Stofanski needed to get fired as a head coach,

just because it was happening in Cleveland.

But overall, I think offensively, his teams were decent and he was a pretty good coach.

So it's like a coaching staff that wants answers, not like heroics.

And from a fantasy standpoint, I think that can be very useful because it's going to be efficient

and schedule friendly offenses like that tend to produce.

And when you have a running back like Bajon, right, that's extremely easy to do, right?

Stofanski seems like a guy that wants to marry the run game in like the play action to help his quarterback.

So again, using Bajon and all that, I think it just makes it very stable.

You know what you're going to get.

And I think the biggest question actually has nothing to do.

And this is more like a Falcons question is on Michael Penix and his health.

And can he stay healthy?

I mean, if it's Tua, honestly, I think that's a downgrade for everybody around.

I mean, Bajon, I think it's still going to be awesome no matter what.

But in general, I think that's kind of the biggest question is the quarterback room and what they're going to do.

Also shout out to, you know, the Falcons.

I mean, Robert Blank put himself in his own ring of honor like that.

So hilarious.

And then, you know, Matt Ryan goes from having, you know, being their quarterback,

he left for in the for a few years or whatever that was.

But then they just create a job for him as the president, CEO, whatever the hell he.

You were just saying he became like what a what a boss move from the Falcons.

Like, hey, like props to them.

Shout out to our boy push the pig skin from the toe clan of the big Falcons fan of their suffering quietly through, you know, there.

There are problems is not being able to win.

But anyways, yeah, man, I think, you know, it's, it was difficult to see too much derailing Bajon.

On top of that, I'll cheer left right.

So it really is just completely wheels up.

Just make sure if you're in a startup or, you know, coming into read draft, you draft the right B Robinson since they did sign.

The guy from, from the 49 year.

Ryan Robinson, Jr.

How hard would it be for sleepers just to put the junior at the end of his name?

Like, I don't understand like that.

That move should have already been done.

But nonetheless, here we are.

Yeah. And I think also Kevin Stefansky's offenses have been really kind to tight end production as well.

So I think, man, I have to say it.

I have to say it.

Say it.

I think I'm going to be in on pits this year.

Yeah, I mean, the great thing is that when everybody catches on, I've already have him in most of my leagues.

So there won't be, you know, I don't need to be too in on it.

But you saw this move coming.

Yeah, of course.

Playing 5D chess.

No, but, um, I mean, it's kind of the same as last year.

I mean, it's, it's kind of Bajon.

Drake London and nobody really else, right?

Like it has, it is golf.

It's just kind of like the fault.

He's still one of the best athletes, one of the best players.

Surprisingly, he's still like, what is it?

25, right?

Something like that.

Yeah.

Still incredibly young, even though he's not playing on the franchise tag in his, what is 6th year?

So, um, and he's playing on a contract year.

So if anything, you know, we, I think there is some, um, data to show that when these players are playing on the contract year as long as, and on the tag,

um, as long as they stay healthy, they tend to ball out.

So, um, I'd agree with you on, um, pits.

Yeah.

Okay.

Let's, that's enough about the Falcons here.

Let's roll into the next offense that were high on, which are the chiefs.

They brought back the, their offensive coordinator, the enemy of past.

He was their offensive coordinator from 2018 to 2022.

That was the era of high octane chiefs offense.

The offense that we, I don't know, maybe you didn't grow to love it.

But I, I enjoyed the chiefs for, at least for fantasy purposes through that time.

But maybe you listening are, I don't know, a chargers fan or a raiders fan or Broncos fan, and it was not so fun for the rest of you.

But I think that's fantasy gamers love that offense.

It was very high flying.

Of course, Tyrique was part of that offense.

You never know.

Maybe he comes back still an opportunity at this point.

But yeah, I think in general, right?

I mean, are we going to just be expecting like a higher passing offense here?

Oh, yeah.

I mean, I think that chiefs have to figure something out, right?

Like, I wouldn't be surprised if they made a move for a wide receiver or, um, drafted one,

or you know, did something, especially with the rice news potentially coming down.

Um, I don't know if you can expect it to just bounce back because you obviously don't have Tyrique kill.

Um, I think they've thought they could do it with Tyrique kill him for a while.

They could, I think slowly Andy Reed is probably realizing, um, with Travis Kiss, C aging and like kind of all these like,

Gadgety kind of dudes.

I play a lot of the same roles and like, MBS like, that's just not it.

Like, I'm sure my home is also probably not super excited that that's what he's had to been throwing to.

For the last couple of years.

Um, it turns to be enemy coming back.

I mean, he was like even getting shouts for head coaching jobs and, um, I think, you know, it's cool.

But at the same time, I think most of the offense runs through Andy Reed.

So I don't expect it to be like a massive change.

Um, if anything, it's just probably all familiarity, you know, for them and just able to kind of, um,

integrate him back in a lot quicker.

Overall, you know, kind of just on the chief's train as we were last year with my homes.

Um, it was kind of crazy at three months and he was on a practice field throwing a football the other day.

I was pretty wild to see.

Um, so I think if he's healthy, having Kenneth Walker, like we've talked about in previous episodes as well.

Um, all just good things for the chiefs.

Like it's, it's a positive just because we're positive on the chiefs.

I think it's general.

Um, but the enemy, um, he was there during the best runs for the chiefs.

You can maybe hope to do that they can figure out a way to get back to that.

I think the real plus here is that it's, you know, addition by subtraction.

And then it's no longer Matt naggy.

The offensive coordinator.

No, 100%.

I mean, you know, you got his eyes out of the building.

That's right.

Like he said, a addition by subtraction.

That's right.

Yeah.

Okay.

Let's move from one team in the AFC West that we like to the next team.

There's actually quite a few teams in the AFC West.

All three out of four who were going to talk about the Raiders.

They hired Clint Kubiak, which was the Seahawks offensive coordinator this past year.

Super Bowl winning Seahawks.

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But Clint Kubiak is now the head coach for the Las Vegas Raiders.

They also brought over the quarterback coach from the Seahawks.

Andrew Chinaco to be the offensive coordinator for the Raiders, which I don't know.

Doesn't mean a ton.

It's going to be Clint Kubiak.

You call him the plays most of the time anyway.

And I think that we've talked about this quite a bit.

We really love this move for Ash and Gentie.

I think, you know, this is also just in general.

Really good for the offense.

But Brock Bauer is not that he needed any juice to his game, but I think that he is going to be hyper-targeted in this offense.

Because who else is going to catch the ball out there?

I assume they're probably going to draft a live receiver to give another weapon to the first overall pick as much anticipated, which is Fernando Mendoza.

So yeah, I don't know.

I'm expecting a lot for Brock Bauer's this year.

Like I think that he's just going to break fantasy, to be honest.

Yeah, I mean, you hope that they could figure something out.

And I think there could be some value in figuring out who the wide receiver one is.

Like kind of like Jacobi Myers had value there last year before he got traded.

I think the Raiders with this move, right?

They're trying to become an offense where they don't need the quarterback to be the superhero, right?

They want to keep the system on schedule, which makes a lot of sense.

If your idea is you're going to draft a rookie and probably haven't started pretty early on.

And he's not, you know, considered one of these kind of what's the word like elite, like Joe Burrow style coming out of college players, right?

You want him to succeed.

So I think that's where I think the Raiders are going and that's what they're setting up.

I think it creates stable, it creates stable production for everybody around him, right?

If Mendoza's not asked to do too much, he's just asked to kind of game manage, which I think for a rookie quarterback is makes a lot of sense.

If you can figure out who the primary pass catcher outside of hours, bowers is going to be.

You could probably get some late round or even like, you know, cheap thrown in for into deals type of player.

I think after the draft will have a little bit better knowledge of exactly who that's going to be.

It's probably going to be one of these other later guys that you're taking in like the second round of your rookie drafts.

Because I don't think, you know, they have a first and it's going to Mendoza.

I don't think they're jumping back into the first. I think they're going to let the draft come to them.

They did make a ton of free agent moves that were all pretty much defensive.

So that's good. But like you said, for genty, another running back, you I think you can expect that they did sign some decent old line.

So they try to, you know, fix that up and help Mendoza and genty.

I think you expect a much better season from genty to really show his talent.

So, yeah, overall, they're pretty high on the Raiders.

They're probably not going to be the best offense in that division.

But I think they, you know, they're going to be a little bit more competitive and relevant that I think people are giving them credit for.

Yeah. I guess if you had to pick one of their wide receivers here, Jalen Naylor, Trey Tucker, Jack Bash, Deontay Thornton,

are any of those inspiring confidence if they don't draft a wide receiver?

Which one would you take your shot on?

Maybe it's Naylor, or maybe it's Thornton. I mean, they didn't draft any of those rookie guys.

So I don't know how Stupensky might feel about him, I guess.

Clint Cuviac.

Clint Cuviac, sorry, yeah. Clint Cuviac didn't draft any of those guys.

So yeah, I think it's probably going to be whoever they do draft this year, especially if they draft somebody maybe in the second round,

or you know, they move up or do something like that.

I feel like it's got to be Trey Tucker, which is weird.

I mean, his role last year was kind of like a, you know, like a Z-ray receiver flying down the field with his speed that I don't know.

Maybe it fits their role differently.

And maybe he's got a role for Jalen Naylor lined up and that's the move to make here.

Yeah, I don't know. We'll revisit that one. Let's put a pin in that.

Yeah.

All right, let's move to the next AFC West team here.

The Los Angeles Chargers who hired former Dolphins head coach Mike Medaniel to be their next offensive coordinator.

Yeah, I think there's a lot of anticipation and excitement for this Chargers offense here.

Justin Herbert is now a QB6, QB7, and most startups that I see going on, which I feel like every, this happens a lot.

He kind of rises up into these ranks and then kind of falls back down.

And he just kind of like teeter totters into the two-year cycle.

It's like the high builds.

He gets into the top 10, has an underperforming or injured riddle season.

And then he drops and then the cycle continues.

And I mean, it does that because when you watch him play, you see the level of talent that he has, right?

So it's not like it's unjustified.

I think just for fantasy, the Justin Herbert for a long time has kind of shown us who he is.

And that's okay.

It doesn't mean that he's not on the lead NFL quarterback, but sometimes, you know, this is just who they are for fantasy.

And they'll have that spike year where they throw 35 plus touchdowns in 5,000 yards.

And you know, then all of a sudden they're in the top five, but predicting when, which year that is, it's extremely difficult.

I think he's the best QB2 you could want, right?

He's your QB1 in a superflex.

You're not horrible, but I think you want a little bit more from that position.

But I think he's like the top end QB2 if you could, if you could be your second quarterback in a superflex.

Yeah.

And I mean, this is obviously year two now with Jim Harbaugh as their head coach.

And last year it started off really great for the chargers before the wheels started coming off, right?

The chargers towards Achilles with their offensive line left and right were going down.

I think even their center went down at one point.

And then, you know, things kind of started falling off.

But I mean, to begin the season, they were, you know, passing above expectation.

They were like number two or number three for the first five weeks of the season, which was not the narrative that we all thought was going down.

That we all thought was going to happen coming into the season.

We thought Jim Harbaugh was just going to want to run the ball.

And they were beefing up the offensive line to do so.

And they've only made improvements to the offensive line this year.

And then they also, you know, got the blocking tight end.

So maybe we see more of that this year.

And, you know, Mike McDaniel is now there making some changes.

They brought in Keaton Mitchell.

I honestly don't know what to expect from this offense, but I do have high expectations for them.

And I'm trying to get pieces of them wherever I can.

And just hoping, you know, one of them hits.

Yeah, I mean, I think it's pretty interesting because you're marrying two, I think two different schools of thought between McDaniel's and Harbaugh.

Harbaugh kind of gives you that toughness structure.

McDaniel's is more of like the, I don't know, whimsical's the right word, but like, you know, new age she's creative, right?

He's going to be hitting his vape pen in the meetings with Harbaugh.

Maybe he'll get Harbaugh to do it who knows.

I don't know.

But for fantasy in general, I think that means that I'd be open to the idea that the charges become less like pure grind, right?

Like kind of how they were the first five weeks that you were talking about.

And they just become more efficient in the passing game, especially on like scheme touches and explosive place.

Which for Herbert Wright, who we're talking about, I mean, I don't want to buy into the hype right when it's going up.

But I do think that he could not, I don't know if he'll suddenly lead the league and pass attempts.

But I think he'll have way more high volume and not how sorry, high, high value, not volume, high value throws.

Like he'll have way better chances to throw those touchdowns and to just be more efficient.

And I think that's something that sometimes people chase volume.

They chase the attempts.

But you know, you could, if you chase the efficiency plus like the touchdown equity, you could really hit those numbers where the passing quarterbacks become really reliable and really good for fantasy.

And I think that's what you might see with McDaniel.

The top part is which wide receiver do you want?

I mean, it looks like he announced probably going to be out of the picture, but they did draft two dudes last year.

Camber, Lambert, Smith, or something like that.

And then another guy out here is Q just still there.

Lad McConkey obviously still there.

And Gatson as well.

So it's just going to go back to a roulette.

And it's like maybe it's only fantasy like best ball where you really want to have those guys and not have to choose which one to start.

I think besides that, Hampton becomes the only really reliable guy.

It seems like they're going to feature him and why not?

And I think passing game work, he could do a lot of damage this year.

I'm going to be surprised if he is in that top five if he can stay healthy for fantasy next year.

Yeah, I'm in general.

I just want pieces because I feel like the arrow is going up.

You know, maybe you catch a QJ explosion.

Like you had last year and you're able to capitalize on that.

Okay, let's move from the AFC West to the NFC West with the Rams.

I think we can kind of graze over this one.

It doesn't have too much of an impact, but they are hiring the commander's offensive coordinator.

And ex cardinals head coach Cliff Kingsbury to their coaching staff as the offensive coordinator.

So I don't know.

Like to me, it's still Sean McVey.

He's the play call.

Actually, it doesn't even say here that he is the offensive coordinator for the Rams.

He's not, he's like an offensive coach assistant helper guy.

Okay.

They made some title up for him.

He's not the coordinator of them.

Let's keep driving.

It's the next team.

But they promoted another guy too to be like they have like three co-offensive coordinators or something.

I don't know.

They promoted like the quarterbacks.

Co-offensive coordinator.

Yeah, they let's co-offensive coordinator and quarterbacks.

C-O-O-C.

Yeah.

I think Sean McVey just wants to make sure everybody knows that when these guys go good jobs,

that they're part of his coaching tree.

But I mean, you know, you've seen the memes of the guy that got paid to keep McVey off the field, right?

No.

Yeah.

You've seen that.

Oh, you haven't.

Okay.

So a couple of seasons ago.

So there's like little gentleman.

The guy that was on the sidelines and his job was to physically restrain McVey from going on to the field.

Like he'd literally be videos of him getting pulled back.

Just hire that guy to walk around with Puket.

Like at this point, I think that's the biggest concern for the Rams going into next season.

It's like, how many headlines will Puket make?

You know, just not great stuff.

You don't want to see it.

But in terms of the coaching changes, yeah, nothing changes.

Stafford's back.

Puket will probably be on the field.

And, you know, it's McVey and show.

And these guys are kind of just there.

I mean, Kingsbury, though, has been known to be a pretty kind of what's it called?

Innovative.

Innovative, yeah.

So, you know, it's just another super kind of smart offensive guide to add to probably the smartest offensive mind.

And the entire NFL, I think.

So, you know, just just another tool in McVey's bag.

But I think we can probably move on from it from the Rams pretty quickly here.

Yeah, let's do that.

To the next team here, the Titans.

They hired a defensive coordinator, Robert Salah, to be their head coach.

And they also brought in ex-Giant's head coach, Brian Dable, as the offensive coordinator.

If anyone deserves co it should be Brian Dable.

These guys should be co head coaches, right?

Just put them both up there.

Yeah, I mean, you know Robert Salah, well, I don't know what your thoughts were.

Is his time?

Sad.

Sad things.

Yeah.

I mean, he made a defense out of a bunch of real estate agents.

I mean, we went to the NFC Championship game with nothing.

So, I mean, I like, I like Dable.

It's, I'm sorry, I like Dable also, but I like Salah.

And it's sad to see him go.

I think it's a good fit for the Titans.

You know, and I think they have a, they could use like a buff to their defense.

And I'm interested into what this team becomes.

I'm expecting quite a bit out of their run game here.

And, you know, whether that means they go get Jeremiah Love.

And I think these guys are definitely in one of the top teams that is being quoted

or being, you know, reported as into Jeremiah Love.

And if they went and got Jeremiah Love and just put Brian Dable's head behind his mind,

behind that, it's only wheels up for this offense.

I feel like, and that does a lot for Kim Ward to, to be honest, like,

it takes a lot of pressure off of them.

I think that's a lot of the offense down.

And yeah, I don't know.

I'm pretty in on the Titans this year.

I'm expecting a pretty big leap from, from Kim Ward.

And these are just two great coaches that I feel I can turn this franchise around.

Yeah, I mean, we saw what Dable kind of did with Daniel Jones, right?

At least, at least for that one year, if he was there.

But when you were talking about Dable's head, I thought you were talking about

Jave's head.

So you can be far to the bald crew.

The bald crew.

Yeah.

I don't know where you're going.

But I don't think the Titans become a top five offense overnight.

But I do think that they have a potential to be like one of fantasy's,

like, for Kim Ward, best year two values, right?

Where the QB1, wide receiver one, whoever that is,

because they also kind of need wide receiver help.

Maybe that's Calvin Ridley.

Maybe this is the year instead of last year.

But, you know, it's kind of hard to bet on.

But, and then whoever the past catching running back is,

if it's, you know, if it's Spears or maybe it's Jeremiah Love,

obviously, if he's there, you expect him to be the leader there.

I think they could, you know, surpass their ADP.

We're done redreft.

And in general, be more valuable in the middle of the season,

even if you're a tanking team to trade away or, you know,

somebody to trade for now in a rebuilding scenario, right?

I'm sorry, in a contending scenario.

So, I think that's good.

I think David does stuff for the quarterback that is helpful.

He tries to fit the quarterback to what he has, right?

Like we saw, he had different quarterbacks.

He was able to kind of fit his system.

The quarterback was not forced into the system.

The system was kind of built around the quarterback to help him

be as successful as possible.

So, if you believe that Kim Ward has, you know, that ability in him

and can make the NFL throws and do and make NFL reads that he needs to,

then I agree that it could definitely be a situation

where you're looking at a big year two bomb for Kim Ward in that offense.

Yeah, and remember too, like Brian Dable probably was offered head coaching jobs.

And I think he took this job because he wanted Kim Ward in the 2025 draft.

And I think he wanted to work with him.

So, this is his opportunity to go do so.

And I don't know.

I'm expecting a pretty big leap here in terms of what that offense looks like in 2026.

But I guess there is still a lot of story to be told there.

Okay, let's keep moving here.

We're moving on from coaching changes that were high on to coaching changes.

We have some questions in.

And let's start off here with the Ravens.

They hired Jesse Minter, the chargers' defense of coordinator last year to be their next head coach.

And then they also brought in the Bears' offensive coordinator, Declan Doyle,

to be their new offensive coordinator.

I don't know nothing about these guys.

Other than Jesse Minter being like this highly regarded coach in terms of, you know, leading men.

But I don't know much about Declan Doyle.

Okay, he was the Bears' offensive coordinator, but it was really just Ben Johnson pulling the strings last year.

And I think he only had one year under Ben Johnson.

So how much can he absorb and bring over to this new system?

I think there's probably a lot of hope that the Ravens can kind of translate into some sort of resemblance of what the Bears have going on.

But I don't know, man, do you have a different perspective on this?

No, I mean, I'm not going to pretend like I know these two guys super well either.

I think one of my kind of hottest takes going into the next season is get out of the Lamar Jackson business.

At least that's what I think I'm trying to do.

I think that that trains come into an end as the elite fantasy option that you want.

And I think next season could be the one that you trade him away.

And he still performs really well.

But I think the bottom is going to fall out quite soon.

I don't love these hires.

I don't love what they've done for the offense.

They let likely go.

They kept Andrews.

It's Henry again another year.

Love Terry Henry.

But, you know, so overall, I'm just not very into the Ravens.

And I don't think any of these moves are either super inspiring or super, you know, like we were talking about.

Earlier, like, predictive of what the offense is going to look like.

So you got Lamar, who's obviously a stud.

I think for NFL purposes, he's still one of the best quarterbacks in the league.

But I think for fantasy, I think that elite kind of rushing upside is going to continue to decline.

And you're going to kind of see the decline of him as a top elite option for fantasy.

But besides that, that's kind of where I'm at.

But the Ravens, I'm not super excited.

You have to say that.

You just crash the whole roof in on them.

You're like, besides that, you know.

You leave me feeling not very good about the Ravens at all.

I got to send out some trade offers.

All right.

No.

Okay.

So there's just no hope for the Ravens on your end right now.

Or is there hope and you're just getting out of because of fear of what, what is on the other side of that hope?

Yeah.

I mean, I don't think it's, it's like doom and gloom like the entire offense is going to be horrible.

It just in terms of how Lamar.

I mean, if you're doing a startup isn't Lamar probably still going in a superplex as one of the.

He's, he's usually in like the back end of the first.

And right.

So what?

Okay.

So he's after that first kind of pack like all the white receivers and running backs go.

So maybe the market has already adjusted.

I haven't done a superplex startup.

So maybe I'm just in terms of what Lamar.

What he used to be or we used to be considered is where I'm mostly out.

I mean, in terms of pass catchers, like I guess Andrews becomes a little bit more interesting just because likely is gone.

But it's like like not like Mike Andrews was ever really putting up prolific yards, numbers and receptions per se is a lot of touchdowns.

So I don't know.

And overall, it's just like a, like we said, we have questions on it.

I wouldn't be surprised if the Ravens are just okay for fantasy.

Not super excited about safe flowers never have been.

Well, just just like like this.

This whole section for me is kind of like that.

It's kind of like the.

I feel a little bit better.

Okay.

Before I thought apocalyptic.

All right.

Let's move on to another coaching change.

And this one is like, I think in general, it's not because the head coach.

But I'm like out on these, but it's not because the head coach, right?

And it's the Cardinals.

They hired the Rams offensive coordinator, Michael Flurr to be their next head coach.

And they're hiring their Packers assistant and Broncos head coach Nathaniel Hackett as offensive coordinator, which is one thing that I'm not.

Not.

No, that's not it.

You know, just Nathaniel Hackett has been nothing but bad for offenses in general.

But I don't, I think Michael Flurr is the architect anyway.

He's like, I'm willing to just kind of cancel that out.

But in general.

The vibes in Arizona are just not good, man.

Like I just, I don't, I don't like what they put together.

And I'm just kind of out on this offense this year in general in terms of fantasy.

Yeah, I can see that.

I think the only opportunity is that it kind of just returns to.

Reset being able to, you know, keep the offense on time and just get the bottom.

McBride.

I think for terms of Marvin Harrison Jr.

Like his outlook, I think it's pretty bleak, man.

I mean, you're going into year three where he hasn't really been able to show anything.

And it doesn't look like it's getting better, at least for the offense.

They're definitely looking like they're in tanking mode for next year to get a quarterback.

Right?

Otherwise, why would they cut Kyler?

Like, or not just cut Kyler.

I can understand moving on from Kyler.

That's, that's the move.

But just the fact that they didn't bring anybody else in.

They're just like Kobe reset 30 something year old.

Like everybody kind of knows what he's at level.

And that's what they're going to go with.

It definitely seems like they're just going for the future.

You hope that their, their plan is to keep the floor long term and kind of let him build it out.

And that's why they're going to tank for a good next year.

But man, it's, it's just not inspiring for when you have one of the top in fantasy options.

Like McBride.

And you had a guy who a lot of people were really excited about it.

Marvin Harrison, Jr.

There.

It kind of just sucks for a fantasy that that's kind of the level.

You hope that it can be somewhat like last year where it was, you know, McBride had an amazing year.

For the most part, it's still caught touchdowns.

You hope, for a second, maybe just keep the offense going like that.

And maybe it turns a little bit into the Cowboys or Bengals where the offense is just having to pass and throw and try to keep up somehow

because the defense is so bad because it seems like their defense is also going to be very bad.

Very bad.

Yeah.

Yeah, I guess, you know, maybe there's some hope, you know, that we can get a little bit of what they were last year.

I mean, in their pieces were fantasy relevant at the very least.

So maybe I'm being too harsh on them, but I don't know, man, like at least in terms of fantasy wise, maybe.

Okay, let's keep moving.

We got a lot to go through.

I think we're just going to end up running long here.

And I think that's the best way to go about it.

So, all right, we got the Browns.

They are coming in with their Ravens offensive coordinator, Tom Monkin as their new head coach.

And they're hiring the Falcons defensive pass game coordinator, Mike Rittenberg, to be their next defensive coordinator.

I don't even know why I put that in there in my bag, guys.

You don't care about the defensive coordinator.

But we do care about Tom Monkin being their next head coach.

He's the offensive mind, you know, I guess so.

Like if you just take what the Browns were last, sorry, what the Ravens were last year.

And it put that into the Browns.

What do you expect to see from the Browns this year, right?

I mean, I'm definitely excited for Judkins, I think.

But I think outside of that, like the quarterback room is just so.

Who knows that nothing else exciting.

I mean, the only really pass catcher of no would be Harold Fanon, right?

You're decently excited about him coming out of college in what he did last year.

So maybe Monkin can, you know, do some Mark Andrews magic.

I say, I like these sort of situations.

But it's just the quarterback room is just so so bad that it's hard to get excited about.

But you are pretty excited about Judkins.

I think he seems like coming off his injury.

He's able to, you know, heal and everything goes as expected.

You'd be pretty interested in his system.

If, you know, he can design runs like they did for Derek Henry.

Obviously, it's a big difference when you also have the third of Lamar Jackson running and throwing the ball.

In compared to them, maybe like should do her sanders or, you know, whoever is playing quarterback.

Judkins may not just not benefit from the boxes being as open.

But I think he's kind of the only piece that you're, you know, relatively excited about on that offense.

Otherwise, you're kind of like, you know, Todd Monkin is not, you know, offensive mastermind.

You think like, okay, this is really good news for whoever.

You don't really know if he's going to, he was with Lamar Jackson.

So, you don't know if he can design a system to make one of these quarterbacks who have a lot less talent.

Be, you know, serviceable.

So it's, it's why they're in this section.

And it's just a lot of questions of what are we really going to get from them?

Yeah, yeah, I think that's, that's pretty fair to say here.

I don't know. I guess I would push back and say I'm a little bit excited about Harold Fanon just because what we saw from him last year.

And what the tight end position has been in these Todd Monkin offenses.

Right. I feel like that's at least something to look forward to, especially since it's pretty void of talent there.

And David and Joku is, you know, the, the Browns didn't hire him.

And I just, I just looked at that. He's been linked. He's still a free agent.

He's been linked to the Titans, the Panthers and the Ravens.

So that would be interesting if he goes to any one of those teams.

I guess that kind of shuts down.

If he goes to the Titans, that shuts down any hope of Gunner Helm, which there was kind of a stir for as Chico Conco left there.

So, okay.

That was a quick deter there from the Browns.

So let's keep going to the dolphins. We've talked about this one quite a bit.

So we can kind of maybe just glaze over this one a little bit.

But the Packers X defensive coordinator Jeff Hathley is now the new head coach for the dolphins.

And I guess one thing we haven't talked about. And this is his name.

I think I forgot his name last, last time.

But it's offensive coordinator Bobby Slowick, who is the X Titans coordinator is now the dolphins.

New OC. So I don't know. Give me your high level thoughts here.

Yeah, I mean, as we talked about not great the offensive coordinator higher for head coach.

Them shipping away pieces. I mean, now you're pretty much as left with H and like H and who else there?

Like literally nobody else.

It's Malik Willis, who I was decently excited for thought.

You know, maybe he could be a man as the oxygen has kind of gone on and seems like they're just in a transition.

And they're kind of just looking to retool, looking to return this thing around.

I don't know if Jeff Hathley's kind of like the the strong man to be there for a year or two while they.

And then kind of reset when they get their quarterback, but Bobby Slowick in terms of what he was doing at the Texans doesn't bring great confidence or excitement either.

So overall, man, you kind of fearful for H and ceiling now.

I think that's kind of the top of that is kind of come off, especially without McDaniel feeding him the ball.

It's like, you know, things get a pretty bleak if especially if you're thinking H and is like your RB one on a team.

You think he had that top five top eight potential.

I think that's a lot of that is kind of gone like those high end outcomes.

I mean, I think he's still a running back one, but he's probably trending more towards the late running back one early running back to category.

Yeah, I guess I'm I don't know what version of Bobby slow going to get.

I mean, 2024 with or I guess 2023 with the Texans looked a lot different than 2024 with the Texans.

So and I mean, I don't know how much we can blame on the offensive coordinator.

Maybe he was just the scapegoat, you know, when the 2024 season happened and it just wasn't wasn't great.

So maybe he was the guy to go.

So I don't know.

I don't know what to expect from this offense.

Obviously, it feels like they're taking so you can't put much on the coaches though to kind of follow suit with that.

That's really on the general manager to leave him with nothing to have.

And he's done a really good job of doing that.

So yeah, I don't I guess question marks around the dolphins.

Yeah, it's not it's pretty bleak though.

I think the signals are bad.

Okay, next up we have the giants and I think this one is probably could have gone in ones that were high on.

I don't know how you feel about it, but I have more questions than I do answers with this.

They hired former Baltimore Ravens head coach John Harbock, which we talked about a little bit here at the top.

And they're hiring chiefs offensive coordinator head coach Matt naggy as their offensive coordinator.

That's the part that just gives me pause and I don't really know what to think of at this offense.

So here you give me your thoughts here first.

I think you kind of naggy's not great, but I think he raises the floor faster that he'll raise the ceiling.

So I think it'll be kind of just safer for Jackson Dart, right?

And that passing core, you know, offense with neighbors if he's going to be on the field.

I think it's just yeah, you have a bad taste in naggy's like from what naggy was before.

So it's not it's not great.

But I think he's just going to be safe, right?

I feel confident that he'll he'll be okay.

Like I said, like I think it gives you a decent floor for the pieces there in the giants.

Yeah, I mean, I'm trying to remember, you know, what Matt naggy offense has been because he's been the offensive coordinator for the chiefs for the past couple of years.

And then before that, he was the bears head coach right with, and that was with Justin Fields.

And then they had what receivers did they have over there?

Did you have a teacher or they traded for you?

Yeah, I don't even know if that was Matt naggy at that time.

Yeah, so it's like I just remember being really down on the offenses.

So I don't know.

I'm hoping for the best here, but it doesn't it doesn't feel good.

I do like that.

Likely is over there.

And I'm really high on neighbors as a talent.

I'm just hoping that those those talents can kind of.

How does Matt naggy fail with all the people that he has around him?

I'm hoping that I'm just kind of hanging my hat on that.

Yeah, lots of question marks with with the giants there in general.

Okay, let's take a quick break here and then we'll finish up quite a few more teams to go through here.

So sorry guys, stick with us. I know we're running long, but there's a lot to get through here.

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Alright, next up here, let's talk about the jets who hired former colts

and panthers and Stanford head coach Frank Reich.

That's a, that's a, that's a former set coaching.

Yeah, exactly.

No, that's a good thing.

He's now their offensive coordinator, which I don't know,

like Frank Reich has done pretty good things in the run game for those teams.

So I guess I'm halfway excited for what breeze could be.

I'm not like going out and trying to buy him, but I'm more hopeful in his,

you know, production numbers this year than I am in years past, I guess.

But I mean, that entire staff is like brand new outside of what's the name?

Oh, yes, Sleepy Glenn.

Yeah, I don't know if he makes the jets very exciting,

but I guess he can make them draftable.

Is that how I put it?

Like, that's about it, man.

I don't know.

Like, it's so hard.

Like, you don't know really if it's Sleepy Glenn, the real,

I have this feels almost like a, I think we talked about it previously,

like a, like a safety pin in here, like a parachute for the jets.

They're like, hey, this guy's been a head coach in plenty of times,

like when we need to put fire Glenn after six, six weeks,

because we're all in six and, you know, he's doing some, whatever.

We'll have Reich to be the captain of the ship towards.

And, you know, get us to another top overall pick so we can draft a quarterback, right?

I mean, who, who's going to be their quarterback?

Geno Smith, right?

He's back.

How Geno Smith played last year when he was on another bad team that didn't have a lot of talent

does not give you confidence that he's going to do anything for Garrett Wilson.

Bruce Hall is going to have the opportunity of like what he did in week,

was at 17 or whatever where he, you know, took a couple,

he took one big one to the, to the in zone and scored a decent amount of points.

He always, he still has that ability is just, you know,

you know, when drives are stalling, when Geno's make incomplete passes,

and like the whole thing is punts, it's hard to be fantasy relevant, right?

So, I think maybe he gives them a little bit of a safer floor,

kind of like what we were talking about with the, with the Giants,

a little bit more stability, but overall, man, it's nothing exciting.

Yeah, I agree, definitely not exciting.

Alright, let's move over to the Steelers then,

who hired ex Cowboys and Packers Head Coach Mike McCarthy to be their next head coach,

replacing Long-Tenured Mike Tomlin.

They also brought in the Viking games, past game coordinator,

and Tydans Coach, Brian and Jeliccio as their offensive coordinator.

I probably definitely butchered that.

I thought it was a good attempt.

Yeah, what, thank you.

Yeah, I guess in general, like,

I don't know what to make of the Steelers offense, man.

We still don't know who their quarterback is.

They haven't brought back Aaron Rodgers yet.

I think we're all kind of expecting him to come back,

because they didn't make any free agents who was going to go get a quarterback.

Either that or they're drafting a rookie,

and it's not going to be the rookie that we want.

There's no one really inspiring to be out there,

especially in like a year or one,

we'd be looking at maybe like a Thai Simpson.

Right.

And then you have, I don't know,

Mike McCarty, an old head coach with a rookie quarterback.

It really feels like Aaron Rodgers is coming back here,

and if Aaron Rodgers comes back, I guess, maybe I'm halfway interested.

In some of these assets, hoping Mike McCarty can blow some...

Oh, phrasing.

Let's see blowing over there.

Maybe my needs to blow Aaron to save his job.

I don't know, but...

I was going to say blow some life into this,

and I should probably choose some better words here.

He can blow my life.

But I made my career some off.

But regarding Rodgers, we're not like that amazing, right?

I mean, they worked together for quite a while.

I mean, they had the Bonte Adams,

and I say produce some fantasy relevant numbers for Rodgers,

but he's a lot older.

With DK, they traded for Pittman.

I don't know.

It's an interesting, if people are down on it,

maybe by low on some of those players,

but overall, they're all pretty mid.

Pittman has never shown to be an elite fantasy option.

DK Metcalf, not really either.

Name alone, not only Aaron Rodgers,

even a superflex.

He's not somebody you're very interested in.

So the running backs is like,

can Rico Dowdle take a job there?

Can he kind of come in and do what he did with the Panthers

and just kind of make himself so good,

be so good through an injury,

or whatever that he kind of takes over?

That's kind of one of those messy backfills that you're...

You're in on one of them if the other one gets hurt,

because I don't think the backups are that likely,

like Caleb Johnson, I don't think anybody is waiting for him

or expecting him.

So at that point is just what fantasy goodness

are you really extracting here,

unless Aaron Rodgers kind of turns back the time

and then creates, makes DK,

or Pittman a useful White receiver.

I don't think it's happening.

I brought up his stats last year or last week,

but Jay, who was talking about Waddle and his fit

and the Broncos offense,

he also did something about Pittman and his fit

and Pittsburgh's offense.

It wasn't good.

The routes that he wins on the most are not routes

that Aaron Rodgers throws very well or throws often

in terms of success and stuff,

so I feel like I'm out on Pittman.

I don't know what you could give for him.

Maybe you're getting a second-round pick for him,

but I don't even think you're getting that at this point.

So if you can't get rid of Pittman,

I'm kind of leaning that way.

I'm just not really high on this,

the others in general, I guess.

Yeah, there's not much excitement there.

Yeah.

Okay.

Eagles hired the Packers quarterback coach,

Sean Mannion, as their offensive coordinator,

which we kind of alluded to at the top here.

What do you make in of that?

Yeah, I mean, I think it could be a little bit interesting.

I mean, he's a guy that is not going to grab a ton of headlines,

but I think if he can bring some stability to the Eagles,

I don't think the Eagles necessarily need like a revolution

in their offense.

You're wasted plays, right?

Like a lot of times when you're watching the Eagles last year,

it was just like, I don't know.

What are we doing now?

It's what are we doing exactly.

So if he can just bring a little bit of stability,

a little bit of kind of just common sense,

and you know, it seemed like every other week,

the Eagles offensive game plan was different.

Like sometimes it'd be, you know,

12 targets to age around the next,

and he only gets a couple.

Like it just seems all over the place.

So if he could kind of just bring some stability

in some, you know, kind of common sense, I think,

for the foundational Eagles players, I'm still in.

I'm still in on.

If it's AJ Brown, I'm decently in on AJ Brown.

I'm definitely in on Barclay again.

And so I think it's just going to depend on if they can make the offense,

make sense, and kind of, you know, stop the target hockey.

I mean, I think in that sense,

AJ Brown leaving would be the best thing for the team to,

to like help everybody going to get a piece of that pile

like as we were talking about in our quick hit.

You'd, you'd think Goddard would be pretty interesting.

He seemed to, you know, still have it last year.

It did pretty well.

So you'd be more excited about the third share.

You options there.

But I'm decently in on Barclay.

I'm decently in on whoever it is.

If it's AJ Brown over, it's Davante Smith.

If AJ Brown gets shipped off.

And, you know, pretty in on Goddard.

Yeah, so my, what I've found out, I guess here,

is that Sean Manion was recently with the Vikings

and Kevin O'Connell, and he likes to play kind of that

West Coast offense in terms of, I guess,

Sean Manion was also the play caller for the senior bull,

if I remember incorrectly.

And there's been some kind of extrapolation

from the plays that he called during that game.

And what they were taking away is,

it's very similar to like a Shanahan style offense

where there's a lot of play action

and, you know, lining up in the same formation

but running different variations of plays off of that formation.

So, I mean, I guess to me, like,

that's hopeful.

I just don't know how successful it can be.

Like, him actually calling it

and in the right order, right?

I mean, if he can do that, like,

Saekwon Barclay is going to have, you know,

a 2024 type season here in my eyes, right?

I mean, if you're plugging him

into like that Christian McAfry role for the 49ers

and I think it's only good things too for Dallas Goddard

and Devonta Smith for that reason.

If these guys are going to get moved around in the offense

to kind of, you know, get themselves, you know,

in motion or freed up as they're running their routes,

like,

and I think two of them would just simplify

the offense for Jalen Hertz.

So, I don't know.

I guess I'm more hopeful about this coach Ira here

and Sean Manion based on that.

I'm just have question marks whether or not

it can be executed in the same way,

because he doesn't really have that coaching experience

to kind of lean on to say that he has done that.

But hey, these are how the stars are born.

This is how Sean McVeigh became Sean McVeigh, right?

Yeah.

Exactly.

I'm not saying he's Sean McVeigh.

No, you just said it.

I mean, we're flipping it.

You just said this is the new Sean McVeigh,

Mr. Sean Manion.

He's got the same first name.

That's right.

And the same initial even.

Yeah, he goes exactly.

All right.

The Seahawks are hiring San Francisco 49ers

run game coordinator and Tyven's coach Brian Flurry

to be the next offensive coordinator.

I think this move was more done just to kind of

keep the same style of offense going, right?

Bring in, you know, another piece of the 49ers offense

and hopefully they can execute it in the same way.

Again, I'm just not.

I question it.

You know, you can't just pick and choose

anybody off these coaching staffs and plug them in

and, you know, expect them to have the same kind of play calling

and same master mastery of the playbook

and just execute it, you know, flawlessly.

So I don't know.

I guess in general.

And on that too, like, who are they leaning on

to run the ball there in Seattle right now?

It's who would they get?

Oh, man.

It's not good.

It's not a manual Wilson, I think,

is there starting running back?

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's not sharpening.

He's not back, which I don't think he would be.

Yeah, I think that's very interesting how they did it.

I think maybe they're thinking where they are in the draft

that they're going to be drafting a guy.

I think that that makes them the most sense.

But otherwise, yeah, like that offense,

I think it takes a big hit.

It's sharpening who does not appear to be going to be

healthy at that time.

And then there's a bunch of other guys.

I don't know what the manual Wilson really does anything.

But, you know, I mean, the run game coordinator,

the run game in San Francisco, as we know, I mean, obviously,

you don't have a Christian McCaffrey,

but the scheming and the ability to put players

in the right positions, at least,

is somewhat hopeful, otherwise.

I mean, you kind of just expect the ball to keep rolling there.

I think the coach is the main guy.

So the OC changing is a little bit over hit, right?

Because we really liked who the coach was in Kubiak.

But I think they'll figure it out.

I have a lot of high praise for McDonald and what he does.

So this is who he chose.

And it's also a division rival who he saw what they could do to him

when they were running the ball against him.

So I trust his hiring more.

It's kind of like, I'm not making many levels.

Obviously, because McDonald's only been able to do it, you know,

obviously, he's just starting his head coaching career.

But he is trending that way in terms of, like,

how he sets up the offenses and what he does.

Clip it.

Yep.

He's the next shot of the day.

Everybody's the next shot.

All right.

But Washington commanders are promoting,

Assistant quarterback coach David Blow to the offensive coordinator.

Wow.

Dave Blow.

I don't know.

I hear a lot of hype for Dave Blow.

And it's mostly coming from like players and other coaching staffs.

And this isn't necessarily.

So I don't know if this is just like them hyping up their own guy.

But one video I saw and then, you know,

Delmi Brown is now back on the commanders in there when he was being interviewed.

The way he talked about David Blow was just very, like,

like, hollow, like hollow compliments.

And he was just like, he's like, yeah, man, David Blow, obviously,

you know, he's he's coming from somewhere where he's doing some play calling.

And I have every faith, you know, like he, he obviously earned this.

But it was like a question, you know, he said, like, he earned this, you know,

like, and so like, I, I'm just going to go out there.

And I was just like, okay, that says a lot about like, who do you on me?

Brown thinks David Blow is.

I just don't know.

Like, I'm not super hopeful here.

But maybe, maybe this guy can actually put something together.

Yeah, I mean, I think this is one of those moves where maybe it's just not the,

the most flashy.

But I think with it being content continuous for Jay to Daniels,

I think that was the best case scenario, right?

Then promoting.

Now, obviously, always promoting within doesn't mean it's going to work.

But at least you know that the system, everything is kind of continuing on the same track,

at least, right?

He was in the building.

He was in the meetings.

He knows everything that's going on.

So although it's not the flashiest of moves, it's the one that could maybe just be the most,

if Jay Daniels can stay healthy, the one that returns to the most predictability,

which, you know, for fantasies what we want.

In that case, I would be in on the past catchers.

The problem is I just don't know.

Instead of Terry McClellan, who's going to be the 3031,

like who that's going to be.

It feels like they have to draft a wide receiver,

but they also need running bags.

Like, they need a lot of help.

They spent, you know, a lot of money.

And I guess that makes sense, given that Dan Quinn is the office as the head coach,

right?

They went out and kind of focused on defense.

So, you know, they need offensive pieces.

But I think that just means that whatever rookie goes,

I'll be pretty interested.

And not necessarily for David Blau,

but I think if we still believe Jay Daniels is who Jay Daniels is,

I'll be pretty interested.

And I think the market will be, you know, somewhat down on whoever gets there.

Talked about Chick O'Conquo going over there, yeah?

Yeah, I mean, I think we mentioned in the free agency.

I've just never been a super believer in the Chick O'Conquo hype,

but he is one of those guys, like we talked about that.

You know, he had the measurables.

He kind of had that athletic profile that, you know, always pops.

You just needed to put it together.

And then I fell and he just never really had the ability to.

And with the Titans, because they didn't really have a quarterback,

you know, the offense is kind of always a mess.

So, you know, I think, yeah.

Yeah.

So, I mean, I'd be selling on the hype, to be honest, but.

Okay.

Fair.

All right.

Well, let's move out here of the coaching changes.

We have questions on and get into the last few here, which we just playing don't like.

Let's start with the bills who have promoted their offensive coordinator Joe Brady to be their head coach.

Yeah.

I don't, I don't really know what else to say here.

They also brought in Bronco's senior offensive assistant Pete Carmichael Jr.

as their offensive coordinator.

Like, I just don't know what to, like, it's for me is Josh Allen, James Cook,

and check out in this offense.

Like, I just, they do, I feel so bad for Josh Allen.

He just gets like hung out to dry.

Like, he's obviously in the peak of his career and they've done nothing.

Just like really, and honestly, not even just nothing, just like detrimental moves.

Like, the key on Coleman in the early second is just like, what?

You know, and then like handing out the contract that they gave to clear Shakira,

which is like no shade on Shakira.

I think he's a good football player, but he's a good football player.

Like, they need to get, they need to get someone great in that building.

And like, I can, I'm only envisioning how draft Ryan's going to go here.

And like, I just, I feel like they're going to hire, like, bring in Denzel Boston.

And I'm just going to be like, this is Kim Coleman all over again.

Oh, poor Denzel Boston, don't do them like that.

All right.

I mean, maybe not a hand, but no, but I mean, I agree.

I mean, it's one of those franchises that you'd be, you know,

they'd be maybe in the jets sort of level or back to where the bills were for a while

before draw challenge, right?

Like, he's kind of propping up, even though he gets all the blame about not winning

and overtime losses and all that stuff.

And definitely he does have his part.

But I mean, you look at what he's surrounded compared to some of the other teams

like where's his Jax in Smith and Jake Boe?

Where's his dominant defense?

I mean, this is just more NFL takes, right?

Like, going away a little bit from fantasy.

Obviously, I think Josh Allen is great.

He's going to continue to be great.

I don't like, you know, that train does seem to be slowing down.

I think James Cook after last season kind of really solidified himself.

And with this offensive coordinator being promoted to hand coach,

it probably just seems like it's just going to continue, right?

There'd be no reason for things to change there.

You hope, at some point, they, you know, get a wider series.

DJ more of the answer.

I don't know.

I wouldn't be interested in DJ more though.

Like, do you, do you feel like his values spiked after the trade like that?

Like, I feel like you, what happened?

I don't think it did, right?

It does slightly.

But then, I mean, that was just because it was in the dumpster.

Right.

So I mean, yes, I would be in on buying a DJ more.

Like, I definitely don't think he is as washed or like, you know,

and unusable as the fantasy community thinks.

So I definitely, I'm not checking out completely out of DJ more.

Nothing that I expect to him.

But if I could get him for like a wide receiver to price when he's attached to Josh Allen,

which maybe could mean he has that special season where, you know,

I mean, we saw it with Justin Fields.

Justin Fields could get DJ more to be a top receiver for a season.

You know, I don't think that's so completely out of the question playing with Josh Allen, at least.

Yeah.

And I just, and I don't think a lot of people are kind of taking that into consideration.

You see, you're, you're gambling on that.

But I don't think it's a horrible gamble to make that DJ more could have one of those kind of type of seasons playing with Josh Allen.

I think that's probably where he's at.

There's like, you know, a wide receiver to price, probably like a low one wide receiver to.

I think it takes a first, at least like a, maybe even like a late first this year,

which is probably, you know, that's going to be hit or miss.

You know, it helped down people are on this class.

Yeah, I mean, if I'm a contender and I still had my first from last year,

because, you know, I won, I got a lead into the, you know, lost in the semis or whatever.

I have the 109, whatever it is.

I'm shipping that for DJ more all day, I think.

If you're a contender, you don't have your first.

I mean, you specifically.

Oh, me.

I had a league where I, where I did win and I still had my first.

So, you know, it's miracles do happen.

I don't even know who you are.

All right.

I'm going to go throw a 112 for DJ more right now.

Let us know.

Let us know if it comes back.

All right.

Next one we got are the lions who are hiring former Cardinals offensive coordinator,

Drew Petzin, and they're bringing them in for their offensive coordinator.

Like, I hate this higher.

I mean, it's probably okay because he's, he's not.

I don't know who's going to be calling the place here.

I mean, it was Dan Campbell.

He took over play calling last season.

So, I don't know if Drew Petzin is going to be, you know, more of the assistant or the, you know, like just kind of the guy feeding him.

I think what I heard is that they like Drew Petzin for his preparations and things like they want,

he's very detail oriented.

They want him to come in and game plan for these things and did it get staff projected.

Oh, man.

No, I just, I, I just think funniest image in my head when you said, pencing is there feeding Dan Campbell.

Like, Dan, I was just like lounging like flex it without a shirt.

Flexing his muscles.

And he's like crazy.

Yeah.

He can bend these or something.

I don't know.

It's not.

It's not.

You read.

Oh, man.

You're right.

It's probably chicken bones.

I don't know.

Well, it's coffee.

Yeah.

Oh, man.

Okay.

Well, tell us what you think.

I'm Drew Petzin.

Yeah.

I mean, I think the, the lines kind of fed into their own hubris.

A lot of my thinking like, oh, we lost Ben Johnson.

We could just hire the next guy up in that, that clearly didn't work right.

It was only one season and they took the play calling from him for Gibbs.

At least for Gibbs owners.

I think you want Dan Campbell to be the guy calling the plays.

But either way, I mean, I think Gibbs is will love you.

You were saying that you think B. Jean could break fantasy.

I think Gibbs has shown it more than B. Jean.

I mean, B. Jean was definitely more consistent.

But in terms of like high end really big numbers.

I think Gibbs has demonstrated to he could put those up more.

At least I would venture to guess he's had more.

You know, 25 plus point games.

And I think Gibbs is the guy that could break it.

Especially with Piceco is the guy now.

It definitely doesn't seem like he's going to be anything more than just like a spell back.

I definitely don't think you're seeing full drives of Piceco.

Like you were with Montgomery.

Even last year, it was still full drives of Montgomery where it didn't make sense for him to be out there.

And he still was out there.

Obviously towards the end of the season, that faded a little bit more.

And it started being more 60, 40, 65, 35 for Gibbs.

I think you're going to see like an 80 20.

I think you're going to see a full like Gibbs is the guy.

And this is like the backup slash give Gibbs a breather.

Maybe short yardage or something for Piceco.

I don't he doesn't really profile that way.

But in terms of Pedsing, I don't have a ton of knowledge about him.

I'll take what you're saying about it oriented in the details.

I think the lines to some extent relied a lot on that kind of Ben Johnson trickery, Ben Johnson.

Like in innovation that we were talking about.

And I think they kind of lost that.

So I think they're morphing into a bit of a different team.

I think for Jamo, that's pretty interesting.

What that's going to happen.

I'm on Ross in Brown.

But overall, I mean, you're not lowering the, we have them here in the don't like.

But you're not really lowering the, the lines of players significantly or even in a noticeable way.

Are you or I mean, if Drew Pedsing is a play caller, I think I am.

But I mean, I guess maybe I need to like revisit that if word comes out that that's not happening because yeah.

If you're telling me we're getting back to, you know, the 2024 lions here where they're scoring 60 points a game.

Like sign me up.

So yeah, I don't know.

I guess maybe that one should have been more about a question than it is ones were down on.

I just don't like the higher in general.

But it's okay, you don't, you don't have to like it.

I was just, I was wondering how far just your dislike go.

So I would have put them maybe in the more like I don't know, but I, you know, I definitely trust what you're saying.

So like, I was just trying to give like how much of a worry is it?

Like is it significant enough where, you know, you're, you're lowering them in your rankings because I'm pretty in on games.

Like maybe that's why I haven't been able to really trade him in a lot of places that I have him because I am kind of anticipating him to be.

This very, very high end asset and, you know, potentially be the RB one going into the next season.

But, you know, I mean, it's definitely something to consider if it comes, if word comes out of who's calling the place.

Yeah, I think even if it does, like I think you probably have some kind of insulation there where if things go bad, right?

I think Dan Campbell has no problem with as we've seen just taking over and doing, you know, what he thinks is right for the team.

And I think it's going to be really hard just to suppress that offense in general.

There's so many talented players in it that you're probably going to be okay, regardless.

Yeah, and I think, I think Gibbs is wheels up for him too.

I think that he's, he's very much in the top consideration or contention here for, you know, RB one on the season.

Sir.

All right, last team here and then we can check out is the Buccaneers hiring Falcons offensive coordinator Zach Robinson for the same role.

And honestly, like this one is also kind of man, like I don't necessarily hate it, but I don't love it.

It's just, you know, another offensive coordinator change for Baker Mayfield.

And it's not like Zach Robinson did great things for Drake London or any pass catching weapon over in Atlanta.

So I just don't, I guess, and also like if we're talking about what Bucky is going to become, then bringing in Kenneth Gainwell.

If you thought that Tyler old year was a pain in the side for Beshton Robinson, how do you think Kenneth Gainwell is going to be for Bucky Irvine here?

Like I don't, I don't love it for a Bucky Irvine Irvine.

Yeah, we're moving to the city of Irvine now.

I don't know.

I don't see an hour and a half episode man, we we're going.

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about the buck and ears and sack or Robinson and go to the city of Irvine. Yeah, buck

yearning. Yeah, man, it's just poor Baker, man. You kind of feel for the guy. He seems like

a really somewhat likable dude. He's just always out there. Like last year clearly seemed

like he was playing hard towards the end of that season where it was just not working.

In terms of the like the the offense, you hope for a book of say that now that Mike Evans

is out of the way that he can kind of explode. I don't know what sack Robinson brings to

that table in terms of coming from the Falcons. I mean, the Falcons didn't really ever have

a great quarterback. I think when he was there to really air it out, but when Pettex was

playing last year, Drick London was pretty, you know, pretty good and so was Kyle Pitt.

So, you know, it's it's interesting in that regard, but it's just a down because Baker

having to do this again. And then you can kind of foresee like the buck and ears not being

nearly as good as they were. They've kind of skated by on being in a bad division, but

I think this is what who's at bowls is the top bowls that goes there. Like I think he's

on the hottest of hot seats. I think he's another guy that, you know, they let him clean

out the staff again and scapegoat the coordinators. But I think, you know, they don't start very

well. He could be one of the guys that is getting fired mid season. And then that's another

whole roller coaster for for Baker to deal with.

Yeah, honestly, that doesn't make me feel good about Baker in general, right? I mean,

because he's coming up on the last year of his third year contract, too. So if they bring

in, if they clean house and bring in, that's, that's a, I'm not saying I'm there yet with

it, but that's, that's definitely something to keep eyes on if it does come to that because

yeah, who knows if it's a Bucky or sorry, if Baker is the one to catch Flak there or maybe

Bucky Irvine. I don't know. Who knows, man. All right. Let's hit this out.

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