Fantasy Football - The 2026 “My Guys” Episode! - Podcast for 8/26

0:00This is Hall of Fame, a martial funk, and you're listening to the Fantasy Football Ballers. Welcome to the Fantasy Football Ballers podcast with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Welcome in. Wednesday, August 26th, the My Guys Episode, trademark. Trademark My Guys. Yes. I like what you did on that post yesterday, Mike. I mean, I just posted. Yeah. Yeah. The My Guys trademark episode, the Fantasy Football Ballers, My Guys Episode.

1:05But I know people have been eager for our My Guys, and it is a balance deciding when we're going to reveal them because people want to know for their drafts, but there's still preseason and training camp and injuries. I mean, half of our comments yesterday were all aimed directly at Jason Moore. They were? Yes. What I do. Oh, was this the shirt? No, this not. I saw a lot of my shirt looks like I'm naked. Oh, was it? Were you wearing another salmon color shirt? Yeah, I was a skin color. It's what colors that is flesh flesh. No, that wasn't it, Jason. It was the fact that you made another one of your famous proclamations on the show that there would be no more injuries. And then immediately we had Ken Walker and Jamar Chase have their some scares. That's Mike's fault. But also they're totally fine. They're fine. Yeah, I mean, it was a little scary to see the replay of Jamar Chase hyper extending. It was. He went from there totally. Oh, no, no, I know he's fine. I'm just saying it. It was. It was a terrifying.

2:11Like, because that's that's no contact or no contact. Like that's you've seen ACLs. When you saw the so he after the play, he was like, oh my gosh, Jamar Chase, you know, limp soft knee injury and you're like worried. He says he's fine. You look at him in the, you know, the, the, whatever, the locker room. He's talking to people. He's like, I'm fine. I could have gone out and played more if I had to. It was fine. It's just I hyper extended a little bit. But then later the video comes out and you go, I've seen. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That exact thing before and it is a. And he went. The way he went down was like, no, no. But yeah, I think that he's perfectly fine. And Ken Walker. I mean, I guess little low ankle. They're just saying foot, but I think they're just resting him like. No, no, I mean, I, I'm saying like the video of him. He was at practice. He's in sneakers and he's just walking around. It didn't look like a guy was favoring a foot. No, he's going to have so much work. They need to get them healthy. So so much going on. Our live show is Friday. So we're so excited to see you guys there.

3:14If you're in the Phoenix area and you want to attend, there are a few tickets left. Ballers live.com should be about 800 strong in the Van Buren hosted by GMC. Impattsmart. It's going to be a sponsor by GMC. Impattsmart. It's going to be awesome and named after Martin Van Buren. Of course. Our favorite. Well, I don't want to say that because I don't know what he did. I don't know what he did. I'm afraid. But I mean, President Jason. He got a number of like a crazy hair. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. He has big chops. President number 26. Oh, you're a little little which way? I'm thinking earlier. I'm thinking earlier. Yeah, like 16 or earlier. 12 or earlier. Eight. Eight. Oh, I knew it. I'm already doing it. We know history. He should dress up as Marty Van Buren for Halloween. But Andy, you did know that because he has the. Yeah, you got them shops or something. He has the the Kastanza. Yeah. Or actually, I'll call it the Bosa, the clown. Yeah. Where it's he's bald on the top sides are coming out. But then it comes down into the chops. It's a it's a look. Yeah. I mean, that's what he's known for.

4:19Oh, or my goodness. Man. Man, that's that is an extreme Larry David S. Oh, Marty Van Buren. Wow. MVB. Well, this has been a detour. It is the my guy show. We got a quick question. We got news to catch you up on luckily nothing catastrophic right now. The quick question of the day. How was there any. There's Marty Van Buren on the back wall. Looking good, Marty. He boy, he did boy. He did a lot, right? I mean, you could tell from the I bags. How much he did. I mean, you're telling when was a Christmas Carol written. That is 100% written about that. That is a Yeah, that is a reserve and you're right. That's incredible. That dude's stealing turkeys. Quick question of the day, which NFL fan bases are you the most jealous of this one? How is there any answer other than the Patriots? Yeah, I mean, the Patriots are a clear answer. It's not to me. So I mean, the rationale to me is, but Jillians of Super Bowl in my lifetime, not like all time. Oh, the history of my team before is born.

5:29In my lifetime, they've won the most Super bowls by Gargantuan margins. Then after it was like, well, you lost Bella chicken Brady. You're done. Welcome to the doldrums for all. Wait. Wait, what'd you got two years, two bad years. And now you've got a young superstar runner up MVP candidate. You were in the Super Bowl. That's true. That's not fair. I am going with the Packers. The history of the team. They have four Super Bowl titles, not six before. They have this long history from Lombardi to. You know, Bart star to far to Aaron Rogers, but it's about the city. It's about the Lambo field in the middle of a neighborhood being owned by the actual fans. Like the team doesn't have. Dude. Guys. Yeah. Are you kidding me? Martin Van Buren served as the eighth president from 1837 to 1841 in 1843. A Christmas Carol is written. I knew it's not a joke. Dick is was written about President Van Buren. Charles.

6:32Oh, humbug. Charles. Dude. Now I know more about Van Buren. He was a grumpy grouch. The Van Buren's need to go after the Dickens state. There's not time for Christmas when you've got to lead the country at a time like the eight thirty. That man has outlived the average life expectancy by over 20 years in this picture. Oh, man. I'm sure you're anger. So for me, I'm going. I'm going. Packers. I think the storied history versus the. That's funny. When I grew up actually you guys maybe picked up football a few years later than I grew up. It was the Patriots were the garbage team of the NFL with the Cardinals because they would be the four and 12 teams. They're there. Yeah. Yeah. But anyways, yeah, I mean, I don't really count old Super bowls. Yeah, I just it's about the history man. Yeah, but I know that's an Al Boer. I know how Borland's happy about that. Oh, we have a. The biggest loser. We do have a fourth. Who lost to me in the I want you to remember that you lost to me in the listener league championship. And that's why you became a big shirt. I did. And of course you lose.

7:35Are on. Yeah, that's not a name tag that is printed on the shirt at the live show. There will be no mistaking who I always knew without the shirt. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You don't need that dude. Yeah, everyone can just look at your face is its own name tag. Hey, but good news. You are our dooster of the day. Do you know what that means? Yeah. Oh, what's this saying? He's he's he's pitching is on Twitter. All right, I'm going off of that camera. Black that. All right, let's let's talk some news. By the way, the Maggillable hosted by sleeper over 20,000 foot clam players. You can go there right now. Sign up. Play with us. It is the largest fantasy football competition in the world. Megalable calm. Everyone needs a good new league. If you haven't played in it before, it is so fun. It's fun. It's foot clan members. It's great rules. And you get a chance if you win. To get a foot clan ultimate subscription forever and more importantly play with us next year in the listener league. Megalable calm. Come play with us. I'm in. I'm in one. Yeah. I mean, there's drafts from the fourth through the ninth or eighth rather in the kickoff tonight. So

8:45Megalable calm for that. Let's talk news. News and notes from around the league. Biggest loser back there holding up an affiliate code for something, you know, we've got the Raiders head coach Clint Kubek saying Ashen Gentie is quote on the mend and he's quote not going to get into injuries. And I'm quote annoyed by that. And quote curious about his availability for one. I believe it is Saturday. Don't I don't guarantee it. But I'm pretty confident that Saturday is the day that the actual official injury reports have to happen. So we will know more on these injuries for all these guys, you know, at least a little bit more comes Saturday at it's like five PM. Did you see that Martin Van Buren was the same height as you? Oh, he's five of a level six. Oh, I've six. Oh, man. Uh, Bengals, water, seabed, Jermar chase left with an injury, spoke to reporter says he's fine. Could have played if

9:47they're what he said he tried to go back out there in the coaches wouldn't let him. Sam Laporta returned to practice on Tuesday. That's big. We weren't sure if he would get back before the regular season began. That is big because I think there was in the back of my mind as a Laporta, you know, long time supporter. Uh, in the back of my mind, this was a fearful reagervation of what he had surgery for. So if he's if he's there week one, then hopefully it was just basically a contact contusion. Ken Walker did not practice Tuesday, minor foot injury. This is not great because it's the second time in a week. Maybe it wasn't. Maybe it's the first time. But Josh Downs calf injury. He called it very minor believes he will resume practicing soon. But we have a lot of injuries in Indianapolis. Among the past catchers piercing downs and Warren's growing and that's why they got Keenan. I mean, I really do think Keenan in the first month of the season in a PPR league will be like top 20 wide receiver every week. I don't even know that I want to draft him knowing that. Yeah, but if I am in a deeper league, I mean, like let's say you're I mean, the listener league that we will be

10:53announcing next week, the people that get in. So if you if you submitted and haven't heard back, that means nothing so far. Yeah, we haven't replied to anybody yet. That's a 14 team. You're reviewing. It's a little deeper. And so, you know, later on in drafts, grabbing a Keenan and throwing them in the first week in a double flex or something. Brian Thomas, junior return to practice was wearing a non contact Jersey after the shoulder injury. Z flowers isn't practicing Wednesday working on the side also didn't practice on Monday. I don't care for this particular one of all the news that I'm the most concerned about just because we have no, I mean, it could be nothing, but you've missed two days of practice and it hasn't disclosed anybody what's going on, but working on the side is better than not being there at all. Say flowers. Get well soon for Mike's sick. Yeah. Jakorey Kroski. Oh, okay. Cool. Not practice everybody. I like the news today. Yeah, Mike is a why isn't he practicing? He doesn't know the fly sounded a little years was. Yeah, that's a grade seven.

11:56Josh Jacob off the bone. This is big. Packers general manager came out and said when asked about a potential Josh Jacob suspension, the team is preparing for that in case it happens. Yeah, I don't pretty confident we can sustain it. He said that does not mean that we wouldn't claim and running back, but we'll deal with that when the time comes, we're obviously been preparing for that. They don't this wasn't like new information in terms of like that's what I want. Yeah, they have they don't have a new inclination that it's happening. It's just that it is as has been stated, a possibility for both him and Puka right now, because they haven't been through the NFL's investigations. Therefore, maybe Marsha on Lloyd and so with an opportunity, Marsha on Lloyd definitely should be one of your last round picks at this point, just in case, because I he's just he's been a laughing stock because of injury. Like you don't we have that's right. We have nothing to evaluate him really

12:57on an NFL field. So you have to go back to your prior, which was like a long time. People are all people are all in on John of the Brooks, who's, you know, right slightly higher draft, but not that much higher draft of the Marsha on Lloyd. And we haven't seen anything from him. So it's it's interesting. He definitely has gotten to the tear of player like Tank Bigs B and a Blake Corum where I am very interested. I think the follow up question from the listenership on this would be how do you actually approach drafts this weekend next weekend when it comes to Josh Jacobs, because that is the ultimate like deflation is taking a player that you have to take in the top three rounds that you could find out. Look the way that the general manager worded it. It was like, well, it could happen mid season. You know, I mean, it might not be at the jump. It could happen at any time. And

13:58I just don't like that hanging over. I mean, Mike's already been out on Jacobs, but I don't know how much this is factored into it, just having that variable. It's just the piece of it. But yeah, I raised his risk rating in the UDK this morning. I think it's a more dangerous pick. I still think he is going to be very good one on the field and has a spot where I wouldn't pass up on him. But you know, if I take him there, I'd probably take Marsha and Lloyd late the draft to protect myself. Yeah, I think that's I think that's actually smart way to do that. That's the way you should handle it. Like if you draft Jacobs, I would force Lloyd onto my on my bench. I made a trade yesterday for Devonte Adams in a league of record. Then I proceeded to post Jerry Rice's age 33 season as inspiration to him. It's actually age 33. He was okay. 1800 yards, 18 touchdowns. How what? I mean, he's Jerry Rice is the best. I looked at some other guys too. And there

15:01were some pretty dang impressive year 33 seasons. All that being said, like one thing we haven't talked about with Puka's rumored potential suspension is like if he misses time, sure, they don't have there two two outlaws not even there to take anything. It's parents Ferguson. Terrence Ferguson is their wider. I mean, I don't I don't think I'm there, Jay. That's fine. But just be quick on the waiver wire. I don't know if I'm there because it's I know they're going to run a bunch of three tight end. That's the I mean, that's what they're going to run a ton of. I mean, he said he's been he said he never expected to have to learn to X the Y the Z. He's learning every wide receiver. I know I know I and maybe you're right. Maybe you're right. That's a lot of information. Yeah, which is why it's taking him two years to get totally. Are we sure they're not just going to snap the ball and he'll just be vibrating. I don't know where to go. I just don't know that he ends up being the highest fantasy scoring tight end on the team. That's the part that's really hard. I think they have a lot of talent. It's a crowded room.

16:01But we're going to jump into a break here. And then it's time. It's time for the my guys. One reminder here with big time draft weekends coming up. Don't forget that the ultimate draft kit is available right now. All of our tier based rankings. I mean, I saw mid show. Here's an update for you. I saw some of Jason's rankings updates. Go through mid show. That's how often this thing is, you know, this isn't the magazine that you buy. There's just permanently three months behind every bit of news information, depth chart news, training camp, 53 man roster, roster changes. Those are all updated with our tier based rankings. All of our player projection sleepers breakouts, bus and values that we've all agreed on, though, which do get updated. 100 plus player profiles were doing some updates to those. The new mock draft tool. Tons of resources. So those of you that have had it, you know, the resource it is for you on draft day. You can mark players, do all that stuff. That's ultimate draft kid.com. We're going to go ahead and jump into a break. And then it's time, guys, my guys.

17:04Now I'd be remiss before we start the segment to not give you guys any opportunity. Every year, I think it's my responsibility to give you a, a pedis, a Dante, a pedis moment. So like, right, we can change right before we reveal. I'm just saying it's going to throw production into a complete catastrophe over there. But we don't really know. We don't pay too much attention to that. So are there anybody? Is there anybody you need to pedest right now? Like withdrawal of my guy from it? Yeah, I'm feeling it's, yeah, for real good. No, it's Mike's feeling good. Yeah, I am too. But I'm going to I'm going to pedest Andy. You know, wait me? Like I don't even have my guys now. Yeah, I'm going to say your second one. Oh, you're pedicing one of my pit. Yeah. Well, you are the pedis. It was you. You are the original and the only, you are the pedis pivot. I could misdirect or something. Yeah, here we go.

18:05I am so happy that becadas. That's what I was going to say that the that animation that you forget every year only to just done so much work redoing animations that I just thought, this is an important show. Why didn't you fix that? Never never change it. He does say biggest loser. I'm sure loser. The problem with that. I don't have it rules. It's terrible. I know. That's why it rule. It's the first thing that people saw from us. It's the last thing they ever saw from us. Let's time to get into my guys 2026. My guys always look, this is hard because our goal with the my guys just to state it and you guys can add to it. The goal is not to take a player that is obvious. That is the layup. That is the simple way to do it. I'll take Jameer Gibbs. Right. I mean, that is not the goal of the my guys. The my guys is to find and plant the flag on three players each that we feel represent tremendous upside. I mean, we did a show yesterday. We were talking

19:06about some players are like which which players in the NFL have bust to, you know, league winning range and there's not a lot of guys like that. That's not necessarily the my guy. But just somebody with high upside and comes in at a draft value. A lot of the times are in the off scene. Our discussion around my guys is like if this guy's at this ADP on this date, he's going to be a my guy. Right. And so they fluctuated a little bit. I mean, before we get into it, you know, Alex Pearson a long time. I really wanted him as a my guy. This entire season. He was locked as a my guy. Until the last month, not enough progress. Yeah. You know, there were some other players like Kyle pitch that were inconsiderate. You have to save. That's my guy. Yeah, you can that's we have inside thoughts for reasons. I'm gonna let you guys go first. One of you guys go first. Alright, I will jump in. I'm going to start things off last week. I mean, you've got the button, right? Yeah. Okay. I just make it sure you know what to do. I got it. The fearless,

20:09the fearless podcast host of the fantasy footballers blessed everyone on the UDK. We've released three names a little sneak peak. So I'm going to start with with that one. Oh, Mr. Loveland. Oh, Captain Dogland. Mr. Love. I am all in unsurprised. I am all. You look, you're going to be very unsurprised by my my guy picks here. Close and loved one. My chips are all in. He's going in the fourth round. I have no problem with that ADP at all because of what I think he can become. So it's remembering the story of last year. Tent overall pick. He led the team in receiving yards as a 21 year old rookie tight end. He's the first rookie tight end to achieve this feat for the franchise since Mike Dicke. Mike Dog Bears. Dicke. Look, it was a slow win in a fight.

21:16Close and loved it. Mike Dicke. Oh, Dicke. Yeah, it's Mike Dicke. It took it. It took some time. You know, train camp. We missed, we missed some of it last year. But by the end of the season, he was the centerpiece of the offense. The final four games for the Chicago Bears. That's week 17, 18 and two playoff games. Like, you know, we talk about Ramondray of like when they got in the playoffs, they went to their who you believed in. They went to their guy and that ended up being Colston Loveland for the Chicago Bears over that time period. 49 targets, double digit targets, four straight weeks, including a wild card game against Green Bay, where he caught eight passes for 137 yards and a touchdown. And in those four games, targeted on 35% of his routes, where these empty targets as well. No, seven of the 49 were in the red zone and they are lining them up

22:17all over. This isn't just an inline player. Like, they're putting them in the slot. They're putting them out wide. He is the guy. And you have the quote from your your head coach that says, Colston Loveland is the son of the Bears solar system. You know, we've we've spent the off season debating, is it do you like Luther burn? Do you like Roma Dunes? A the answer is Colston Loveland. That one of those one of the one of the one of the wider receivers can absolutely pay off. Maybe both of them are pretty good. Colston Loveland is 100% the answer for me. I want Chicago Bears on my team. And the fact that it is a positional advantage in the fourth round of your draft, who in my opinion, like the reason he's a my guy is because I think that he can finish as the tight end one, which is a blasphemous thing to say when Brock Bowers is out there. I think that Colston can easily surpass McBride this year. And I think that he can contend with Brock Bowers, who's a second

23:19round pick, but you're getting him in the fourth round. Yeah. The the thing about trying to pick the Bears, we love the offense. You know, I would agree with you Mike. They love using their top 10 picks on offense. But whether it's Rome or whether it's Luther Burton, maybe maybe one of those two leads the team in targets over Loveland. But because he's a tight end, he doesn't have the bar as high as those two wide receivers to be able to have to be a top three at the position. So I I will say we're not sure exactly where it goes there, but it's it's hard to imagine him being a bad pick. It's what he showed in his rookie season was pretty amazing. You have him being the guy. You have Ben Johnson wanting to run up the score, which you know, he's making fun hyperbolic statements. But I think there is a bit of truth to that of I don't think there was of any any hyperbolic. I don't think there was an ounce of him being exaggerating. I think he genuinely is saying his goal is to set the new scoring record even better than even better.

24:23If you have the number one guy for team that one of their goals is to be the highest scoring offense of all time at a position that gives you a huge advantage over the rest of the league. I feel like last year people's arguments would have been, but can you count on Caleb Williams? And I don't feel like that's been a part of any discussion this year, even though we didn't love the completion percentage, you know, that's not a number that is, you know, well, we'll talk. We'll talk about him. Yeah, but it's just 10 targets, 13 targets, 16 targets, 10 targets. Like which was that was when the team was finally firing on all center cylinders. They're not trying to figure things out. They're like, this is what's going to work for us in in the big games that we have to win. I'm all in. Give me Mr. Loveland. Mr. Loveland. Well, Jason, I'll let you go next. Okay. All right. For my first, my guy of 2026, I'm going with

25:26Garrett Wilson. Yeah, baby. Yes. Not G No Smith. I know everyone thought I was going to go G No Smith, not G No Smith. He feels like you went G No Smith. He's going to make a sense. In a way, you did. In a way. Garrett Wilson is four years into his career. And I think that there is a lot of stank on the, the, the jet stank on his name is being a little overblown. He has played with an on one of, if not the worst team in his entire career. Except here's the thing. In those stinky years with the stinky jets, he is still only one of five players to ever begin their career with three 80 catch 1000 yard seasons. And he did it catching passes from eight different bad quarterbacks. Zach Wilson, old Camel, you might quite simmian, boil, strevler, old man Rodgers and Ty Rod Taylor, like Anne Martin van Bure. And

26:27I mean, minus, well, the ghost of he has been an outstanding wide receiver, even for fantasy, you forget, he's already been a top 10 fantasy wide receiver. On this bad jets team. And then last year, the most recent example going into year four, he had to deal with the literal worst passing offense, not like just of the year, which it was. I mean, I want you to understand how bad the jets passing offense was last year. They were the only team. There's only one other team in the last decade who threw for fewer yards per game. They didn't hit 2800 passing yards as a team. The second worst team last year, the pitiful Browns, they threw for 400 more yards. And how did Gary Wilson do on that putrid team? He was the wide receiver five before he went down to injury. You don't remember how good he was. And it was not just touchdown luck. I've heard

27:31that like, oh, you got it. You got touchdowns. He did have touchdowns. But if you take those out, he was on pace for 112 receptions at 1300 yards on the literal worst passing environment that has been out there in the last decade. It will be better with Geno. It will. There's no way. I got hopeful for you this morning just moments ago. Yeah. Chats offensive coordinator Frank Reich said he has quote been so impressed with Geno Smith's play. There's also a quote this morning talking about O.C. saying bell cow. Yeah, he's a bell cow. He's talking about he gets a question about Omar Cooper Jr. And then at the end of that, he's like, yeah, Gary Wilson is our bell cow. Yeah, Breeze bell cow, Gary Wilson, bell cow. Yeah, it was consolidated offense best players play. That just reminded me because people ask us, what do we listen to in coach speak time during training camp? The Bee Gees. Oh, sorry. It's a great band going. If Bee Gees, if you, if you're listening to a coach and he brings up a name unprompted, like you know, he's he tried to judo

28:34throw an Omar Cooper Jr. Well, what I love about no mar is is Garrett Wilson. Like those are things to pay attention to. Yeah. He had four top 15 finishes in the first five weeks before he went down to injury. Only J. S. N. Aminraw and Puka accomplished that feat. And I know what you're saying. You're saying like, uh, it was a great stats Jason. You're so handsome and funny. And you know, I, you inspire me to be a better person. Uh, but all those stats of Garrett Wilson, not even bald, uh, are from the past. What about 2026? What about that? Outlook upcoming. I'm glad you asked and I'm glad you asked like that. But phrase it like that. Target share for wide receivers is the stickiest stat per year and it is a predictive stat for future success through four seasons. Wilson is averaging 28% target share. Last year was 30% in seven games. If you short your platform 80 p by target share, you will see one player who is

29:36not anywhere near the others. All of the top 12 guys that anyone that had a 27% target share, they're all being drafted in the top 12. And then there's Garrett Wilson, who's being drafted around wide receiver 20. This is the list that would go J. S. N. then Garrett Wilson, then Jamar chase Puka, Aminraw, Jefferson, Drake London, Zayf Flowers, AJ Brown and Crystal Lovie. That's your top 12 because that stat repeats every year and Jason barely had enough breath for that. And the final, my final thought is I want to show you like the comparison here. Six. Go on. Wait, what was the head shake? Oh crap. He tried to catch me yawning again. This live show is taking it out of me. Yeah, yeah, listen, you are putting in work. Is putting in work in that top and on the job. If you look at those other players who had a 27% market share or or better, they are drafted so high in every fantasy draft year in.

30:37And yeah, it makes sense for a lot of them, right? J. S. N. Jamar Puka. What about Drake London? Drake London has a bad quarterback. He has a bad offense. Who's better? Pua, which is what I'm now calling Pinnix and Tua. Oh, yeah, it's a benefit. Yes, exactly. It's not as good. Yeah, but it's Pua. Oh, no, no, no. Who's better? Pua or Jino Smith? Let's say Pua is better, but it's or not. It's like one of these guys is going in the second round and the other is in the fourth or fifth round on Yahoo right now for Garrett Wilson. And you go, well, but we saw it last year. We saw it last year with Drake London with bad quarterback play. What are you talking about? Garrett Wilson outscored last year on a when in games they played. Garrett Wilson had a point more on average with his bad quarterback play. So to me, Garrett Wilson and the fourth in the fifth, I love grabbing him. I'm so confident that he is being drafted at his floor. He's being drafted around wide receiver 20 to 22. He's not finishing lower than that. And he has to me the potential

31:39to be a top 10 wide receiver this year. Did you see this was yesterday. There was a Ian rap reports. The quote came out he believes that two as play has made the plan to make him the starter at the beginning of the season quote impossible. That's yes. Yes it has. Pua like holy crap. He's a man on the NFL network is saying the dude is so bad it's impossible. And we thought it was impossible for him not to get the job because of how bad panic was last year. And this is take Drake London in a second. Do you know or take Garrett Wilson in the fourth? Yeah. One of the top training names on sleeper dynasty leagues right now is the Falcons third string quarterback. That makes me remember what his name is. No, it doesn't matter. It's not Pua. All right, my first my guy. Tracey and you did it again. What? You did it again. You're all been talking about. I'm Andre. You're crazy. This was all head wink. I didn't know I was that much in on hand.

32:44I get the apology now. I get the apology. And it's still worked. You ever see Austin powers too. God. It's a little bit alright. So tell us why. It's not travel. It's not travel. Now I don't know what button to push to get my real my god. Dejan Stribbling. How did I not see it coming? I don't know man. Dejan Stribbling wide receiver for the San Francisco 49ers is the official my guy. You've taken the air out of that sale. Here's the deal. I want to take shots at rookie wide receivers and fantasy. That's what I want to do since 2019. We've had at least four rookie wide receivers finish inside the top 36 every single year. Last year was an exception. We had two of them in that category. Things kind of didn't work out. But Dejan Stribbling right now we talked about this weeks ago. I actually told Jason yesterday. I feel like he's sort of ruining the my guy here by playing too well in the preseason. Yeah. And getting everybody's attention. But the fact is there's just

33:47not enough time between now and draft days or two weeks ago and draft days for his ADP to move up to a place that I would be uncomfortable taking Dejan Stribbling. This is the 33rd overall pick in the NFL draft. There are some things hanging over Dejan Stribbling in terms of why people have been slow to buy in and believe. One of them is the propensity for the 49ers to over draft players that don't work out. We've seen it with Tray Sermon. We've seen it. I mean you could go to Dante Pettis. You can go to any of these other guys. It's really difficult to trust them. Taking a player that not everybody projected to be drafted this high. Dejan Stribbling the actual player is somebody that you're going to fall in love with week after week after week for the 49ers. Not to not even saying anything about the fact Mike Evans is barely on the field right now. Ricky Peersaw has been knocked out. George Kiddles coming back from a in Achilles at an older age. Christian Kirk's already been hurt. Like they don't have other options in the receiving game. But it's

34:51not just hey, Stribbling is going to succeed because he's the last man left. Stribbling is going to succeed because he is a dynamic great NFL wide receiver. He's 6 2 2 0 7. You've watched the if you haven't gone back on watch Collegiate film. You've probably seen some highlights from the preseason. This is a huge catch radius guy. This is the best friend of quarterbacks. Great hands, elite ball tracking skills. And really if you see him with the ball in his hands above average yak for a big guy. Great acceleration ran a 436 at the combine. And when you look at what he did on the collegiate level, a lot of the big performances came right up until the final college playoffs. He had a huge average 84 yards game over his last five games. But what I love to see. He had put up huge games against Georgia, right? One of the best teams in college football three for 94 in a touchdown seven for one 22. The fact that they believe in this rookie wide receiver on this level. The Kyle Shanahan has put so much trust in him. We got to remember it was Dante Pedis in the dog

35:55house forever. It was Brandon I you could not get the kind of playing time. And really what I like a focal point of the offense, right? Shanahan draws up. We've looked at this in years past. We talked to use check. Like he draws up plays for players. He designs offenses for the strengths of their players. To me, the camp buzz combined with what we saw in the preseason, the draft capital, the availability of other players. Shanahan came out and said to said that stripping was picking up things in a hurry in his presser continues to look like if healthy, he could have a fairly extensive role early on. He's broken every record in terms of preseason target share for rookies. Brock party said he's a really smart dude. He's been a guy that's come in and shows that he understands everything. To me, this is actually the strangest situation for fantasy, which is a safe rookie wide receiver. That's what I think that still isn't struggling is that is right now. What's his ADP? 13th round on ESPN. Maybe that's a little delayed 11th round in sleeper. 10th round

36:58on Yau. Let's call him a 10th round pick. 1001. I take him ahead of that. Yeah, I take him way ahead of that. I'm with you of this is a shot worth taking of maybe maybe you got to jump in early and you're like, I'm going to take him into eight. Okay. Great. That's that's the eight round pick. What? Like the the true upside options in the eighth round. Like in the eighth round, you're like, I hope I get a guy who's going to be in my flex all year. Take some shots here. I love it. The like you said, Andy, Shanahan makes game plans around single players. It's been killed before. Yeah. Debo. Debo is the guy to me that like, I don't think if Debo was drafted for the jets, would have been a sensation superstar. I don't think his skill set was very unique to him. He was a tackle breaker yards after catch cut. This is the type of player that Shanahan is going to get the ball in his hands in space. Like I think if he had gotten a Luther burden or a

38:00stripling, it's just a match made in heaven. So I do love that. And there, there's been some talk. I think it was Malik Turner, another guy on the wide receiver depth chart was taking snaps above Debo. Who is on this team? Yeah, I think Debo. But like Debo's involvement in this offense is just not something that's going to impact stripling. All right, Mike. Let's go back to you. All right. You blew us away with the fact that you like Carlson. Yeah. I'm a call to the love land. There's another guy that I have just been waiting, waiting for him to finally be allowed. Mike could be in this show. Mike could not resist it. It's time has to be Kenneth Walker. Yeah, baby. It's time. Ken Bone Walker. There it is. We had to put Ken's Walker because there's some people knew the show. It's so respectful. Kenneth Walker got a diploma at the on the front of the stage. Kenneth Walker. Yeah, but then he walked off and flash people right there. AKA Ken Bone Walker. One of my favorite running backs of the modern era.

39:06Why do I like him? Well, I hear of my continues. He's going in the middle of the second round. And I think Kenneth Walker should be in the first round in terms of what he's going to provide for fantasy football teams. He just got paid a three year deal worth up to $45 million. It's the fifth highest fully guaranteed running back contract in the league. The Kansas City chiefs immediately went out and said, we need to fix things. And how are we going to fix it? We're going to fix it with Kenneth Walker. Last year, Kansas City was dead last as a team in explosive rush rate. One 20 plus yard run. Kenneth Walker had 10 by himself. 15% of his rush attempts went for 10 or more yards. Third best among running backs. Last year, the Kansas City chiefs, the entire team was just they were not explosive. They had four offensive plays of 20 more yards that resulted in a touchdown.

40:07The Kansas City chiefs, the big play high flying Patrick Maholam's chiefs could not score from from outside of the 20. They were tied for the fewest in the NFL. Kansas City dead last enforced mistackle rate at the two's number one at the running back position. Oh, Ken Bone Walker. Kenneth Walker, number one and force mistackle rate because he is always there. He is always there and now he's going to get his opportunity, speaking of opportunity, the playoffs over the three games in the playoffs. Kenneth Walker, 74 touches, 417 scrimmage yards. So that's 20 that's almost 25 touches a game in those guys, those games guys. He was averaging if you were playing fantasy, 23.4 points, the playoffs, the best of the best. And he's averaging over 20 points a game like the depth chart of Kansas City. There is nothing there in terms of challenge, truly challenging.

41:08Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Look, uh, uh, Demar Cotto is there. He seemed like the de facto too. Maybe it's Emmett now. Maybe it's Emmett Johnson. Maholam's is coming off of a major injury. They know that they have to figure this out through the running back position. The, the accolades, the, the talk of Kenneth Walker has been absolutely outrageous coming out of Kansas City of saying it's, he's a full package player. He's going to do everything. We didn't bring him in just to carry the ball. We're going to get him. We're going to throw him the ball as well. Let me, let me put you on the spot. Let me interrupt. I know, I know you, uh, you have the, the stats, the backup, Ken Bone Walker. But I'm going to put you on the spot with the my guy because he's a second round pick. Ken Bone Walker can finish as high as RB. How high can he finish? I just feel like the my guy is saying, you said he's a first round pick. Yeah. He is. We always look at it and we say, can they be number one? If Jamir Gibbs stays healthy all year, Kenneth Walker can't pass him. But if Kenneth Walker stays

42:14healthy, he could be the running back to. Okay. I wanted that sound bite. Do you like opportunities? Okay. Andy Reed. It's been an absolute dumpster fire for the last, what six or seven years since, really since cream hunt was able to do anything. But from 2004 to 2018, Andy Reed's running back won average 22 opportunities per game, 110 total yards per game, almost 20 PPR points per game. And they're, look, this is not a bad team. This, we want running backs on great teams. What do, what do lead backs on teams with 10 and a half win totals do on average? Over 1200 and 50 total yards, 10 and a half total touchdowns. Like, and look, the beginning of the season, the chiefs are very favored. They're, in fact, they have the by week in week five, but through their first five games, they're favored in all of them. And Kenneth, this is this, it feels like Christian McCaffrey of last year, where it's how does Christian McCaffrey fail? He gets hurt. That's it. If you want to bet that

43:19Kenneth Walker is going to get hurt. Okay. He's missed some games in his past. But when you have a player where the only path for failure is just getting hurt, I think that's a, that's a player you want to be all in on because literally any player can get hurt. But it's like, be John, be John's consensus number two. And I'm not going to argue it. Things could go bad. Like you mean with Pua? Yes. I mean, like the team environment of the Atlanta Falcons. Be John is an amazing player, because it wasn't great last year. But things could go wrong for Be John that are not in his, its control. It seems like games this year could could be started by Jack Strand or Cooper Rush on the Falcons. Yes. Which is terrifying. Yeah. Give me Patrick Mahomes. Ken Bone Walker. Yeah. Not a surprise. We'll take a break. Come back with five more. My guys for 2026.

44:24All right. We're back. Paulson Loveland, Ken Bone Walker from Mike so far, Jason with Garrett Wilson. I've got Day John's Stribbling. And Jason, you're back up. It is time to reveal your second. My guy. I've got Garrett Wilson, who I think is a value in fantasy football. I'm going with another value of wide receiver a couple rounds later. It's a rookie. Car now takes maybe on Henderson. You wish. Car now. Believe it worked. Yeah. I didn't even think about now. I'm going to think about it. Yeah. Two should question every twice. You don't even know if the next one. I don't know what the next one is. Did you say kumi twice? No. I think you said me. Shame on me. Who knows? I was going to compliment you on. Listen, that's a funny phrase. I might have said a horrible curse word. I don't have any idea. That's why you won't remember next year. And we will get you again. Yeah. My memory. We will. Car now take a wide receiver for the Tennessee Titans drafted number four overall. I mean,

45:29this is a super highly drafted potential superstar wide receiver who is not being drafted that way. And we know why he's not being drafted that way. It's worries about cam warden the offense. You know, you've got one day Robinson and a new coordinator, all that. But here's the thing. When you're drafted in the top 10, you are guaranteed 100 targets. You're really good. And here, here's I mean, he's really good. That is the lead here is do not forget what a sensational superstar carnal tape is. He was a five star recruit coming out of high school. He led the nation in pass rating when targeted five touchdowns of 40 plus yards or more. He shared the field with Jeremiah Smith, who is one of those generational wide receivers. Oh, man. I wish he had the first pick. Yeah. He's sharing the field with Jeremiah Smith. He missed three games and he still put up 875 yards with nine touchdowns and five of those over 40 yards. He caught 12 of 14 contested catches. He never dropped the pass. Like this is a great wide receiver early in camp.

46:33Everything was how he was dominating. And then the preseason hits preseason domination five target zero receptions. He's done. He sucks cam ward camp possibly hitting with this vanilla offense. I just want to remind people, Jamar chase preseason one reception on five targets, Drake London, one catch on one target, AJ Brown one catch on three targets. You're using 100% catch right in there. Yeah, I heard it. Sure. Sure. My point is the preseason. I mean, we remember when Jamar chase couldn't catch a football because the college ball had stripes and I felt like these are great wide receivers. He is a great wide receiver who is the clear best wide receiver on his team. Drafted number four. So that means he will be playing, you know, near 100% snaps from week one right out the gate. And he's not being drafted where these other highly drafted rookies have been drafted recently. You look at rookies right wide, wide, which, whoa, whoa, whoa,

47:36rookie wide receiver. Drafted this high. I mean, you had to take Marvin Harrison in the second round. You had to take Malik neighbors in the third. I'm already Cooper in the fourth even last year. Tadaroa was a fifth round pick. And he had a bad quarterback play. You, you now have car on. I'll take coming into a team and I just want to remind you two years ago, not long ago, two years ago, we had an offense that took a wide receiver number six overall that had Brian Debal running the show. And the wide receiver two was Juan Dale Robinson. It's literally the same offensive coordinator with the same human at wide receiver two drafting their potential superstar, you know, top five in the NFL draft. And Juan Dale had a ton of targets. That's a thing about Debal targets his wide receiver one like crazy digs both years in Buffalo neighbors. His wide receiver one is targeted. And I know the quarterback play is the issue, but I mean, look, I mean,

48:38Tommy DeVito drew lock Tim Boyle. Are they really that much worse or better than Cam Ward? That was who Malik neighbors was averaging like 180 targets. This is a good pick. He's being drafted at his Florida seventh round in ESPN and Yahoo. He has the potential to be a top 15 wide receiver year one. And he can't possibly be worse than where he's drafted right now like wide receiver 29 or 30. Get out of here. All right, Mike's my guy. Carnell tape. My next my guy. Mike's Caleb Williams. What did he say, Mike? Did we get that? I got to what did he say? Jason's my guy. Carnell tape. Caleb Williams is my my guy number two for the 2026 combo season. Yeah, I didn't know how long to wait to reveal the Caleb Williams with your coast and leveling, but I like it. Here we go. Eighthram pick on ESPN seventh round pick on sleeper. And there's there's a number of

49:43things I want to talk about with Caleb. Obviously you touched on what this offense wants to do with Ben Johnson. What his expectations are. I mean, you saw a massive uptick in performance from the Bears last year in year one of learning this system with Ben Johnson. And the only real negative thing we point at, which by the way, his ADP is the quarterback seven off the board. That's what he was last year. So that's the that's where he's being drafted. You've got rushing upside with Caleb Williams. You've got three elite receiving talents that we believe in and burdened Loveland and in a dunesay. He has, you know, his tendency is to give you valuable for fantasy passes. Fourth most in zone pass attempts in the league. And I expect a huge level up from him this year. And one of the things that people point out the biggest thing is the completion percentage. And they worked on his intermediate throws last year. Ben Johnson did. There's a great chart put out by Ryan Heath of fantasy points that looks at, I mean, literally like 100 pieces of data in terms of what

50:49things correlate in terms of quarterback statistics with the following seasons fantasy points per game. Completion percentage is one of the lowest correlations to fantasy points per game for that quarterback the next year. Thanks for selling. It's way down the list. You know, things like avoided sex is a map is three times as valuable in correlation to fantasy points per game for that next season. Then completion percentage. What have the the bears committed themselves to putting Caleb Williams in the position where he is not being sacked like he was as a rookie, which I almost broke the records or broke the record. Last year, they repaired this offensive line pressure to sack ratio. That's another high correlation. The things that they have fixed on this offense, they jumped from 28th and points per game to ninth in points per game last year. This is the scoring environment you want for fantasy. That's one year of Ben Johnson, one year of Ben Johnson. And so I think you see a huge step forward. You can go look at first round quarterbacks who finished top 10

51:55in year two and then say, Hey, how was year three for those guys? Well, 60% of them were up over that 20 fantasy points per game. You've got a long history of these guys that have made the jump. It's just something where I'm looking at this team. And if you wipe out a little bit of the just like the bears can't pass the navigate 4,000 yards. Look, I think they figured out this year. I think that, you know, both of us believe or maybe almost believe that the bears are making a step forward on the offense. What's wild is you're going to have two of the best offenses in football on the same division with with Detroit and the bears. But you've got weapons, offensive line play collar, pass catching, running back, rushing upside for Caleb Williams. He's dropped 15 pounds. I am just I love that. I'm so excited about Caleb this year. And bears fans can finally believe me when I say I've never been against you. Caleb just been. I've just been subject to the realities of the NFL. And sometimes that looks like you don't like a team or a player. We are water. We are subject to

52:57what's changing. Yeah. Caleb losing 15 pounds is such a big deal to me because there's a player that you want to know takes it serious. You know, he does that's like one of the noxes. Maybe he's not as focused as you want your quarterback one to be, but he is a Kyler. Yeah. I mean, if Kyler Murray could have taken one of those off season, it's like I put on two inches. That would have been so cool. You know, they each have their role to play, but Caleb, Caleb, dropped 15 pounds. He's taking it serious. We love the bears offense and all of those things go back. I will say this, my counter argument. And I think it's decently compelling the case against Caleb Williams. I don't know Andy if you have seen this picture. I don't think the irony is where you're sitting. You're where I'm seated. I feel very the picture is fine. Man, you know what that is? It's all three screens there. That's zoom. I feel but I don't I don't think the pictures was well. Here's the truth. Oh, what about now? What about now, Andy? I don't know. It's too

54:02sultry. Yes. It's too sultry. If you ever have them wearing these uniforms where they have those light colored like the light colored pants and the dark socks, these guys always look a little different. Look, this is the first time I'm going to say it this year. No butterfly stretch. No butterfly stretch. No, no, it's like he's actually kind of cringing. Well, I'm, this is your bet. I'm in the fire. I didn't realize and you are his bet. All right, my, the next my guy, the last one, one more each. All right. It's this is my Alec Pierce because this was a player that I've statted out the UDK. I was going through the all the doing the projections, you know, looking at the top level and then filtering things down of how I think it's going to shake out for that team. A player really popped like a when I went and saw where his ranking was, I would, oh, that's spicy. And it didn't work out for you with Alec Pierce of the injury stuff, but the news just kept getting. Yeah, I wanted Alec Pierce to be the guy. It just kept getting better

55:03and better. And here we are. Christian Watson. Christian Watson, wide receiver for the green bay packers. We are entering year five. They just gave him a fresh set of cash with a four year extension. The problem for Christian Watson has never, ever been talent on the field. Here is a wide receiver since the year 2000 average 17 or more yards per reception and catch 20 touchdowns through their first four years. DeShawn Jackson, Mike Wallace, Christian Watson, he can hit the big play absolutely. The problem has been volume for Christian. Hey, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm gonna say, if there's ever a player you need to hand shrink your insurance. Absolutely. I've that one. I that's your biggest risk. Ken Walker, I'll fight people on the health argument. Christian Watson, they're winning. Yeah, if you want to come in with the health argument, I'll say, yeah, you're yeah, you're probably right. But, but truly volume also was an issue because the green bay packers

56:08were rotating all of their guys. You had Romeo Dobbs, who was kind of their de facto possession, number one, wide receiver. Don Tavian Wicks would come in and just he would rotate players off the field because Wix is a capable pass catcher. Those guys are gone. It is now consolidated. It's Christian Watson and Matthew Golden as the two starters and then Jade reads the slot player. But last year, recovering from yet another injury from an ACL tear, but from week 11 on, he was the wide receiver 11 in fantasy football. He was giving you huge, huge spike weeks. During that time, the per route metrics were elite. Second in yards per route run behind only Luther Burton. He was tied with JSN for third in targets per route run. And then a metric that we know is fairly predictive for next year. Over that time period, he was first in this one's a mouthful, but first in the NFL first downs per route run. So like they're going to him. They're going to him early.

57:08When you look at the nine my guys and I know a couple of them are revealed yet, I think Christian Watson has the potential to impact fantasy teams in the most significant way of almost all the names because of where you're drafting him and what he represents for your team, which is a right now on sleeper, a late round sixth round pick. Late round six round. That's the way. Yeah. Sorry. Late six round pick on ESPN. I don't know what clown show business is going on over there because he's in the ninth round. Maybe just weird mock dress, but late six round for a player who can do what I think Watson's going to do this year. It's exciting. It's absolutely outrageous. Why don't we like Jordan love if we because we can make this you can make this exact same argument for liking Matthew golden, the consolidation. Yeah, you can make it for Tucker craft, the consolidation. We like Jane Reed, like whether his role like for Jordan love, he's great. I mean, even if Jane Rees not reliable week to week. So you got four names that are pretty interesting. And I feel like maybe Jordan loves been just like, I haven't thank you for

58:08bringing up Jordan love because that's why we're the reason why people wouldn't love Jordan rates because the Packers were 28th and pass rate last year. Yeah. However, Jordan love was efficient among 38 qualifying running quarterbacks with 200 or more dropbacks. First in EPA with a clean pocket, sixth and pass rating, seventh in completion percentage over expectation and fourth in pressure to sack ratio. Andy, some of the stuff you were talking about for Caleb. And this year, there's talk of stuff being a little bit different. More balance. They're playing under center more with more play action than than we have seen the Green Bay Packers in recent history. Watson's going to play the Z receiver role. So he's going to move. He's going to be in motion. The stuff that we love for fantasy football, he's being you can draft him easily as your wide receiver three. And I think before the end of the year, he's your wide receiver to maybe even a wide receiver one type of a player. They changed this is interesting. This is per Josh Norris. Look,

59:08Christian Watson's out routes from 2022 to 24, just 7.7 where he's breaking horizontally, which that's we need those routes. We can't have you just being the sacrificial X running a running. He doesn't break horizontally or vertically. I'd be happy. But so he went from 7.7 to 35% last year. They were using him truly in a different fashion. And with the consolidation, with what I think is going on with Josh Jacob, not just the suspension stuff with the efficiency of of I think that LaFlure is seeing that I got to start trusting Jordan Lovemore and changing this offense. Christian Watson going in the six is an absolute smash pick for me. If you had ever removed him from the board the last six months, I think he would have been somebody strongly considered for a my guy. I might I just I totally believe in the value. I think he's he's the perfect target for fantasy because the talent is there, but the fatigue is high. Yeah. The injury history is why yes, I mean, if he if he had played a full season last year or even the year prior,

1:00:12or ever, or ever, ever, he drafted higher. If he had ever played a season. Yeah. I mean, and that is genuinely the still the word. Like when I think about drafting Christian Watson, I'm still a little gun shy because of like the injury history. Yep. Just never been able to say how, but if you're getting him at like the six seven turn that upside. Oh, the injury risk is baked. I walked into that. Yeah. He grew up. All right. Well, I'm going to take a guy who was injured last year. Oh, Marion Hampton. I am in love with Oh, Marion Hampton. I all off season. This has been the guy that I haven't really pivoted from everything is set up for him to dominate. I love them coming out of college. I think he is a phenomenal three down fantasy football running back. What he does is perfect for fantasy football. He is the goal line back. He had 80% of the goal line carries last year, which would have been fourth in the NFL. He is a pass catching running back with a pass catching a past running back, check down quarterback. I mean, remember Austin Eccler,

1:01:17which Justin Durber in his, you know, in this short rookie season that Hampton had, he averaged 19 routes per game, 3.6 receptions per game. And he started out as that dude the first five weeks before the injury. He led all running backs and avoided tackles per carry. Now the change of everything around him is positive, positive, positive. I know that their new free agent center got injured. That it that does stink, but their offensive line is still significantly better. I mean, they have two superstar tackles and Joe Al Roshan later. They didn't have either of them last year. They're both back now. They're both on the field and they're going to dominate and mow these guys down. They brought Alec Engel in the fullback. Where did he come from? Oh, it came from Mike McDaniel's team that runs this outside zone to great success with a fullback, getting guys out pulling and breaking away opportunities for Devon H and Devon H and was the second highest yards per route

1:02:19run on those outside zone schemes. You know, who was third? Omarian Hampton. So you've got this team that I think is going to win a ton of games. They've got a good defense. They're projected to win a lot of games. You have an offensive line that is better. You have proof from his rookie season of how good he was. You have an offensive mastermind joining the fray who gets his guys the ball. Yeah, I know he says, oh, it's we're going to go hot hand. They're going to go hot hand. Tim is what they're going to do because he's going to get that Swiss. I got it. I got it in. That was a Swiss hand. I had to swipe it. I couldn't get to the booth. Yeah, hot Hampton. He's going to get the rock. Repeating it is always dead for him. I'll repeat it all season long because he's going to be running with the hot Hampton. Rookie, the thing is is when you draft a running back in the first round, year two, it pretty much always crushes in fantasy football. You 12 of the 15 players in that situation,

1:03:23they average 18 or more opportunities per game. Those players average average 10.3 touchdowns per game. I just think everything is set up. He's on a great offense. He is fairly alone. I don't worry about Keaton Mitchell being, you know, the goal line back or or the silky smooth, the regular Delses soon. The Delses soon is going to be a backup. He's going to touch the ball enough. He's going to catch the ball enough. He's going to be around the goal line enough. When I look at year two, running just like I would definitely take him over Gentie. The situation is so much better for Hampton. I don't see how he did. You said you're two guys are awesome. Yeah, I mean, that's what I'm saying. Gentie is awesome. I would take Hampton over him. That's why he's a my guy. All right. I didn't realize I had time this up so poorly. Same team. Lad Macon Key. Lad Macon Key. Here's in Chargers, baby. I guess so. I didn't even think about it when

1:04:24we had those two guys up on the board. But for me, Lad Macon Key has been the name that has been has the most lock on the board for the most amount of time. To me, this is, you know, Jason's talked a little bit about the context for the offense in Los Angeles. This is a team favorite to win the division. It's got Mike McDaniel. You know, Mike McDaniel himself came out and said, essentially, I think it's reasonable as an expectation to exceed whatever career highs, the wide receiver room has had across the board. There's untapped potential. We've seen great things from Lad Macon Key. But to me, he jumps off the page this year as sort of the JSN story that we got from last year. JSN was not, if you remember, he was not drafted anywhere near where he was finished or where he finished. And like, Lad had a very disappointing sophomore season. And you look at the numbers. And I'm, it's like six fewer targets year to year. Well, actually happened was the catch rate plummeted because just a Herbert was under fire all the time. And they had different

1:05:26injuries and struggles throughout this team, including Herbert's, you know, is Herbert elite, you know, that's a question that we need answered. But the situation there with the offensive line improvements, you know, Lad is one of seven wide receivers over the last decade with 200 plus targets, 1900 receiving yards, 13 touchdowns through two seasons. The other names Michael Thomas, Justin Jefferson, Waddle Chase, good company. And all of those players, anybody that's ever done that in the history of the league, we're all top 24 picks the next year. Well, that's not, you know, that's a tough situation where you're like, Hey, Lad McConkey has the potential to do what JSN does. There were doubts about JSN being able to play outside. There's no more keen and Alan soaking up that league. I mean, he was the team's leading receiver last year is gone. And Lad McConkey I don't think any of us has had doubt about his talent and ability. But, you know, last year, keen and Alan cost Lad a ton of numbers, a ton of production. This team has a lot of potential. And

1:06:28the biggest problem with the charges is just what will go wrong narrative. What's going to happen? I mean, that's the same thing I think about with Hampton. It's like, I traded Hampton. Do I want to, not really? I think we love them coming out of college, but I'm afraid of what's going to go wrong on this team. Lad McConkey is more than a slot receiver. His horizontal breaking routes. That's the bread and butter, but he can go deep. Last year, best yards per round run on go routes. Puka, Jaden Reed, AJ Brown, Lad McConkey. He was number four. And the draft cost is a round discount from last year. Yes, he was overdrafted last year. People expected that rookie season to continue and him to finish as a top 12 guy again. Didn't happen. But now you get a discount. So for me, I think this is one of those ones that seems really obvious. Mike McDaniel, Justin Herbert, a loss of their leading receiver last year. You're not going to have volume production out of Quentin Johnson. You're going to have Lad McConkey be the key cog in the receiving game. So that's why he's my guy. Lad McConkey is going to crush this year. He is going to be so good.

1:07:32Keenan Allen was the wide receiver eight a couple years ago. Keenan being gone, lad being the clear best white. I mean, I like Trey Harris. You know, there's a place for, for huge down the field, the ball is moving through lad and Hampton on a great offense. I mean, they moved Tyreek and Waddle around all the time under Mike McDaniel. They're going to move lad around. He's not just going to play in the slot. He's going to be outside. He's going to be moved around and focused on and he wins. He wins down the field. My concerns early in the off season. Again, Andy, it's never been talent. It was man. How do you have the rookie season that McConkey had? And then you bring in Keenan Allen and you're just like feels like you've replaced a second year player who looks like he was about to be a superstar. That felt really bad. It was weird. It took some time to get over that. Are they going to do the right thing? What of our opinion? Would they do the right thing and make sure that Lad McConkey is the focal piece of the passing offense

1:08:35and over the off season, my concerns have lowered. Yeah, McDaniel will do that. Yes. It feels it's always funky when you get to the end result and you're like, I can't believe I had some concerns about. But last year was that was so weird, but we're washing that away just like they washed away G-Row and then they bring in Mike McDaniel. So far, I mean, my read on Lad rookie year, I was all in. That was great. Yeah, sophomore year, I was out. I was out. I was out. I was draft. I am so in and so jealous that the Andy got lad. He's he's going to he's so good at football. Did you guys see the latest breaking news? Really smart. Do I need to hit a button? No, it's not that important, but it's just really, really smart work from Michael Pinnix. He will not play in preseason week three. So I can only assume he will be the starter. He's going to let to give him the job. Is that like skipping a political debate?

1:09:36Yeah, yeah. Maybe if you know that your opponents are going to fail on that stage, let them do work. We did it. That's a quick blurb. Luther Burton returned to practice. That seems good. Good. You're my guy. Yeah. We love it. Yeah, we love it. You need those weapons there. Thursday mock draft episode Friday, fantasy time machine Friday night. We will be live at the van beer and for our Megalah show, bold predictions episode. That means everybody out there listening, watching that isn't going to be there. It's a bonus episode of the show released on Saturday, which is super exciting. You get an extra episode this week, the ultimate draft kit for the weekend, ultimate draft kit.com. If you want to play in the Megalah Bull, that's Megalah Bull.com and we are saying goodbye. But only till tomorrow, folks. Hopefully you'll share your comments with us. I'm sure you will for all of those my guys, whether you're surprised ashamed. We'll see what happens. Goodbye.

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