0:00

My name is

0:03

Daniel Top. What's

0:14

going on? What's going on? My friend Mike

0:16

Clay. How you doing buddy? I'm pretty good although

0:18

I was just looking at these tins that

0:20

are right out in front of us here.

0:23

And I just want anyone to know like

0:25

if you're watching on the video that right

0:27

before we went on, Daniel reorganize these to

0:29

put them in his fantasy rankings order for

0:31

the year. So Justin Herbert QB one. Wow.

0:34

Yeah. Jalen hurts all the way

0:37

down at six. So we got hurt for those

0:39

without video. We got Herbert first, my home second

0:41

burrow third, Trevor Lawrence fourth, bold take their back

0:43

press Dak Prescott. Just yeah, that's about right. Yeah.

0:46

That's press. Jalen hurts with the disrespect down at

0:48

six. So I personally thought that was a bold

0:50

statement by you to put them in that order.

0:52

But sure. And Josh Allen, not even in the

0:54

top six. Well, you know, wow. I feel about

0:56

Josh Allen. That's true. It's disappointing. It's disappointing that

0:58

we don't have a Josh Allen tin. That's what

1:01

I would say. Yeah, it is disappointing. We need

1:03

to get one. I got these because I,

1:05

uh, cards came in all of these. Oh, so like

1:07

your card guy, I am a card guy. So they

1:09

all came in that. So can you come over to

1:11

my house? I have bought my dad's cards, my cards.

1:13

Can you go through them all and like value them

1:15

for me? I'll give you 10% of the profits. That

1:18

would be so much fun. Let's do it. Don't

1:21

even do it. Uh, summer, summer activity. I

1:23

am, I am very into coming over and

1:25

diving through your, you and your father's card.

1:27

I have a lot of Mark Martins. I

1:29

have a lot of Chad's cars. I have

1:31

a lot of Chad Pennington's, uh,

1:34

Andrew Jones. Like they gotta be worth $5. Yeah.

1:37

It's total. Yeah. Similar

1:40

to the field Yates card that we had. They've

1:42

been one digits. Yeah. Very close to that. Uh,

1:44

Hey, you and I are hanging out today. Yeah,

1:46

we sure are. We sure are. The draft is

1:48

coming. It is close. Yes. Yes. And

1:51

we're going to be doing a little bit of boondoggling as she does

1:53

field, doing a bunch of draft stuff. You've been vacationing

1:55

for a month or so now. I don't, I haven't

1:57

even seen that draft. That must be easy. It

2:00

looks like it. That's easy. There's how many guys

2:02

get picked? We know most of them. I mean

2:04

it seems easy He's already there's no way study

2:06

on long snappers and full backs and honors

2:09

Izzy. Do you have long snapper projections? I do

2:11

not look that's the only position that's not a

2:13

real position to me Like look

2:15

every team there's no way to measure how good

2:17

they are and every team is one Yeah,

2:20

that's all you need to know. I don't need to keep track

2:22

of those. I do but punters returners

2:24

all returns is tricky I've been working on that

2:26

because now with the new rules We're gonna have

2:28

maybe three times as many work kick returns Yep,

2:30

so last year was hard I even identify returners

2:32

because a lot of teams just never returned it

2:35

and now it's gonna be a lot different It's

2:37

gonna be quite different. We could have multiple guys

2:39

returning a lot. So it's gonna be interesting Yeah,

2:41

we got a lot of stuff in on store

2:43

in tap on tap. There it is. There you

2:45

go. They're all metaphors Yeah, a lot of stuff

2:47

that we are ready for today We're gonna be

2:50

filling a lot of voids for some teams based

2:52

on what the draft is looking like Mike Clay

2:54

But first let's get things kicked off with

2:56

the opening drive. Hey, what

2:59

show is this? Ff now to

3:01

do to do we need a sound effect. Yeah, we

3:03

do need a sound effect for FF now We

3:12

don't eclipse the last time before the last

3:14

time I saw you yeah, we did what

3:16

was your What's your level

3:18

of interest like one to ten like one? Yeah,

3:20

it's fine ten is like wow. I need to

3:22

travel to see this thing. It was a two

3:24

probably. Yeah me too I was busy. I was

3:26

busy shopping. It's been a Top

3:29

it for another day, but it's been a couple

3:31

weeks. Yeah, but yeah So doing all I was

3:33

out shopping with the girls and

3:35

you know, it was it was cloudy Did you

3:37

know that it got dark out a little darker,

3:39

but it just looked like a cloudy day So

3:41

there wasn't really much to see yeah from that

3:43

perspective. But yeah, it's uh, we actually is what

3:45

it is I actually saw on the internet. This

3:47

is probably my favorite. I saw a footage

3:50

of the eclipse We

3:52

have it from a Twitter user. That's right. I saw this

3:54

I retweeted this so if you miss it Yeah, we have

3:56

it. It's cool. If you are watching our YouTube stream here

3:58

to see right here for the owner real video.

4:01

And if you watch right

4:03

there, there goes the eclipse

4:05

across. For those

4:08

that are just listening to the podcast and don't

4:10

get to see it, it's a fantasy football trophy

4:13

and just had it slowly come into frame and

4:15

cover up the sun. So then he sent it

4:17

to his league so that you can know that.

4:20

Yep, that's the eclipse guys. I

4:22

just like if I receive this

4:24

and I thought, okay, my buddy just saw the eclipse.

4:26

I wanted to send it. I would watch it and

4:28

then saw that I would be so mad. I would

4:30

be mad. I would also chuckle. So good though. Yeah,

4:33

I love that. I love that. That

4:35

was my favorite footage of the

4:37

eclipse for sure. I agree with you. Shout out to

4:39

Mitch. Well done. imagine

4:43

like 300 BC, right? You're

4:46

out there Mike Clay, you're doing your fantasy

4:48

pocket talk. I don't know if you're big

4:50

into those ball games. Would I be chiseling

4:52

fantasy projections? Potentially. Yeah. And

4:55

then all of a sudden, the world just

4:57

goes dark. And you're like,

4:59

what is happening? What is that giant thing blocking

5:01

the sun? I can only imagine. Like nowadays we

5:04

talk about it. It's fun. Everyone

5:06

knows that it's happening. But like, if you would just, if for two seconds, put

5:08

yourself in the brain of someone that like doesn't have the

5:10

knowledge that we do. I think about that all the time.

5:12

I mean, just trying to eat things

5:14

or how things were first cooked or... Who was like,

5:16

I want it. That's the thing that I should try

5:18

to eat. Yeah. Like I just came

5:21

out of that chicken. I'm going to eat that thing. Like, who

5:23

thinks... Like stuff

5:25

like that. I think about that all the time. All

5:27

the time. It's bizarre. Oh my gosh.

5:29

All right. Really quickly, wrap this up. Before

5:31

we get into our football talk, I do want to say I

5:33

have been covering a bunch of UFL stuff. Me and my buddies

5:36

could be Megheza doing a show called UFL Today with Joey G.

5:38

Check that out. 6.30 PM

5:40

on Sunday night, a full recap

5:42

of the UFL slate. The entire

5:44

weekend we go through all the games. We talk about a

5:46

ton of fun stuff. So definitely go check that out. And

5:49

Then I write a sports betting column with my

5:51

dude Matt Willis. So Check that out around the

5:53

UFL as well. And Football has been fun, dude.

5:55

Matt Willis, one of the... There's like five NASCAR

5:57

fans on campus. He's one of them. If

6:00

he knows what he's doing so I, I, I,

6:02

I, I do We all know each other, we

6:04

actually get together and Sundays we we talk and

6:06

watch the races. Ah in silence is knows I

6:08

dunno like we're we're an M One company when

6:10

it's not as are so. Last

6:13

thing before we get into our big topic

6:15

ceiling the void. Four teams that have lost

6:17

players are just need to be able to

6:19

film a whole and their roster it has

6:21

been really tried. Saga this not of on

6:23

top of this is how it is not

6:25

yet coming up as a fun topic is

6:27

t As you say about Irises about. Ah

6:30

we have the receiver A situation that is

6:32

going on like right now. View

6:34

what we know. Just. Recently to him since and.

6:37

Find a way to figure out how all of

6:40

this is gonna seek out what it's gonna look

6:42

like for us and a fantasies the fantasy community

6:44

right now. but that doesn't in a. Very.

6:47

Thankfully nobody was hurt from the situation and under

6:49

serious way. I heard there a couple of mine

6:51

injuries but I think we're all kind of waiting

6:53

to see what is this gonna mean from a

6:55

fantasy perspective with rishi rice. And we're all kind

6:57

of waiting to see what that's gonna happen and

7:00

how it's gonna look like. Yeah, so if you

7:02

miss it. I was March Thirtieth or Dallas Highway.

7:04

There was a and traffic incident said in a

7:06

reportedly. Race: Is three racing. the

7:08

a couple cars got collided, die and

7:10

like to said minor injuries. Only a

7:12

lot of charges here which looks. Are

7:15

concerning for hims counts of collated involving bodily

7:17

injury, mechanically involving serious bodily injury, one count

7:19

of aggravated assaults according to the war, a

7:22

total of warrants or or charges excuse me

7:24

said all felonies, a scene and all the

7:26

stuff Right right? So yeah, so why are

7:28

you know we'll see how this plays out

7:31

in the legal process. I did reach out

7:33

to a friend of mine in the industry

7:35

might follow him on twitter and I'm I'll

7:37

grab his hand on a minute which I

7:40

did not know doukas and prepare very well

7:42

but I use Defense attorney to Davenport as

7:44

you just. suit search for him i now on

7:46

exit the were like does a great job at

7:48

the stuff over the years he again he's a

7:50

defense attorney so hill kind of and a fantasy

7:52

football fans we gotta roll through it ah what

7:54

the charges are and just kind of gives an

7:56

idea what to expect what he thinks the lead

7:58

will do in terms of suspension, that kind

8:01

of thing. And believe it or not,

8:03

he's projecting one to two games

8:05

right now. He says he doesn't necessarily think

8:07

it'll go as high as four. A

8:09

lot could change. I know it's a lot of

8:11

felonies that could always change going forward and there's

8:13

more information that could come out and change his

8:16

assessment or his projection here. But I

8:18

just want to say that because I think there's people out there and I've seen it

8:20

in a league you and I are in. Rice

8:22

is already getting traded in leagues back and forth. Don't, you know,

8:24

just let this play out. If I if you have him on

8:27

your dynasty roster, let this play out. You don't have to go

8:29

out and just trade him for a fourth round pick just to

8:31

get something back. Right? Just hold tight for now. Okay.

8:34

Good to know. Let's dive into Mike. We got

8:36

a bunch of voids that we are going to

8:38

fill. Filling the void with Mike

8:40

Clay. It's gonna be a new segment that we have.

8:42

Is that right? We're gonna do that year-round. We're gonna

8:45

do that. Probably at least once a year. I don't

8:47

know. We could figure out a clever way. We're working

8:49

on some fun segments for the season. So maybe we

8:51

can do something like that.

8:53

But this is cool. So we'll make

8:55

some predictions on obvious holes

8:58

and lineups relative to fantasy. Yeah. And

9:00

God, I'll let you take it. I've

9:03

got Mike Clay's projections in front of me. I

9:05

think this is a very cool thing. You tweet

9:07

this out every single year. Right now we're in

9:09

the offseason. You always have a big updated projection

9:11

model of the entire roster for everybody's team. So

9:14

definitely go check that out. Mike, you have a, I think

9:16

you have a pinned right now. It's your pinned tweet. Yeah,

9:18

my pinned tweet. You can find it on espn.com as well.

9:20

It's just a massive PDF. I don't even know how many

9:23

pages it is now. Like 90 or 80 something. 80 pages.

9:25

Yeah. So all the depth charts,

9:27

rosters, projections for every team, projected

9:29

leaderboards, team standings. It's awesome. Strength

9:32

of schedule. I do

9:34

have the schedule for next season in there out

9:36

of order. We don't know the order of game

9:38

chat, but we have the opponents. That's all in

9:40

there. So it's a lot of fun to do.

9:42

I keep it updated year-round. So I just decided

9:44

I'll clean it up and share it with everyone.

9:46

So, but yeah, I mean, you look through those

9:49

teams specifically at the four key fantasy positions, quarterback,

9:51

running back receiver, and tight end. And

9:54

you're going to look at that and you're going to

9:56

say, wow, like there's a major void there. This team

9:58

has to address this position. They're not going in. to

10:00

week one with Rico Daudel

10:02

as they're running back in Dallas, for example. And so we

10:04

picked out the ones that really stand out and we're gonna

10:06

kind of talk about what the circumstances

10:09

are and how they might address those positions in the

10:11

draft with some predictions from both of us. I love

10:13

that. So you get the most rate. Yeah, I think

10:15

you probably will get more. I don't know, I was

10:17

on a bullet I feel like, so we'll see. Let's

10:20

start this off though. Arizona Cardinals have the fourth

10:22

overall pick in the first round this year. Oh

10:24

by the way, we should mention this. We skipped

10:26

the first three picks because it should be quarterback,

10:29

quarterback, quarterback. We know Caleb Williams almost definitely going

10:31

to Chicago, New England and Washington are the third

10:34

and second pick in that order. Probably gonna take

10:36

a quarterback. Could they, could New England trade down?

10:39

Maybe, but I think they probably, we're gonna

10:41

assume for the sake

10:43

of this exercise that it goes Caleb

10:45

Williams and then either Jaden Daniels or

10:47

Drake May, second and third. So we'll

10:49

go to pick four. So they're gonna

10:51

wait for the Arizona Cardinals. Arizona Cardinals

10:53

lost Rondell Moore. They lost Hollywood

10:56

Brown. Right now, Mike, I'm looking at this projection

10:58

sheet that you have. You got Michael Wilson and

11:01

Greg Dorch as the top two wide

11:03

receivers. Obviously Trey McBride, the standout young

11:05

tight end there as a pass catcher.

11:07

But it seems obvious to me and it

11:10

seems obvious to Mel Kiper Jr. and Phil

11:12

Yates, you look at their latest mock drafts,

11:14

they have both Marvin Harrison Jr. go into

11:17

the Cardinals. Which direction are you

11:19

gonna go though at the fourth spot? Yeah, so

11:21

I agree. I believe their first pick in the

11:23

top half of the first round. If not, if

11:25

they stay put at four, it will

11:27

be wide receiver wherever they go. So my

11:30

prediction is they trade down. They seem like they're

11:32

open to trading down and that could be because

11:34

they don't feel higher since the number one receiver

11:36

or because there's maybe three, four, maybe ten guys

11:39

they like a lot because it's a very deep

11:41

wide receiver class. So I think they listen to

11:44

some of these teams like Minnesota who

11:46

maybe once JJ McCarthy. So that's my

11:48

prediction. I think Arizona trades down with

11:50

Minnesota. The Vikings jump up to four.

11:52

Wow. McCarthy will get to that later.

11:54

But I think that if that

11:56

moves Arizona down to 11, There's

11:59

still a chance that they Roma Dunes, so

12:01

that's what I have. them are predicted for

12:03

here, you know, good size six, three to

12:05

twelve. Maybe not quite the prospect of Marvin

12:07

Harrison, but maybe they like him to be

12:09

very similar in if you add another like

12:12

a feature first round pick from Minnesota, so

12:14

for another, you know something like that. Ah,

12:16

that might be worthwhile. So like him a

12:18

lot and he would step in a be

12:20

a great fantasy landing spot for any of

12:22

these top three. There's like a lot of

12:24

good receivers, but the top three really stand

12:27

out. Says I have a Levin. Overall a

12:29

Doomsday goes to Arizona. So I get what

12:31

you do in their i understand the trade. The

12:33

more pics I understand the space. The gap between

12:35

Marvin Harrison Jr. and And Dunes A may be

12:37

small. I don't know how the Cardinals feel about

12:39

it. That's the second organizational thing, right? Feel

12:42

like I'm in this. don't over think it's face

12:44

like Marvin Harrison Jr is. The looks to be

12:46

the cream of the crop here. He is one

12:49

of the best hours wide receivers to come out

12:51

in the last ten years. and that's the thing

12:53

that we've talked about. to be able to pair

12:55

him with a guy like Tree Mcbride and to

12:57

give Tyler Murray her a legit through wide receiver

12:59

one. I.

13:02

Realized that aroma do they can do. You.

13:04

Playing with fire by trying to drop all the

13:06

way back to eleven might stir up a think

13:08

about it, do you go have a dude? or

13:11

it's even Nfl roster A Now your Dm do

13:13

take. Admit what Minnesota's to

13:15

for Sanders this year as yeah. Okay,

13:17

so do you take Harrison. says.

13:19

Harrison or do you take a Doomsday and

13:21

another first round pick? That's.

13:25

The that's the decision you have to make. do you

13:27

think that apps really wide and Harrison's worthwhile and find

13:29

his They put you take him if not you take

13:31

efforts and you might get more assuming they make a

13:33

they were first set of fairness and thing as he

13:35

doesn't make it to eleven than I'm a saw you

13:37

them back up you know either because our Miami do

13:39

that pretty recently bakery jump up a couple spots but

13:41

the way I kind of mark out the first eleven

13:43

and I could see him getting their i really like

13:46

to know that Mike Lee as a Dm is is

13:48

that your wheel and and deal How I waste away

13:50

Saturn I love it and there are trying to trade

13:52

down and we're in a see a more More now

13:54

his. dad's the answer is

13:56

getting smarter and smarter oh yeah there's so much

13:58

value in trading down So 100% Arizona,

14:01

I believe, has said they're listening.

14:04

And they would be right to. And look, you don't get good value on it. If

14:07

it's a first and a third or something they're

14:09

offering, then no. You stay put, you take Marvin

14:11

Harrison. Yes, I went Marvin Harrison Jr.

14:13

You at Roman Dune's Day, obviously, with the reason of

14:15

being able to get additional draft

14:17

assets, which is fantastic. Nothing wrong with that.

14:20

Yeah. I like that, by the way. Regardless,

14:22

we think one of those receivers goes to Arizona,

14:25

and it's going to be excellent for fantasy. Trey

14:27

McRidle, soak up a lot of targets. James Carnell

14:29

will be busy, but that's it. I mean, Michael

14:31

Wilson, we like him, but probably best is a

14:34

two. Kyler Murray, I mean, that offense was

14:36

really good. They scored at least two touchdowns

14:38

in every game he played last season.

14:40

I mean, they were cooking offensively.

14:42

Some of it was garbage time, of course, but Kyler's

14:45

still one of the best in the business. So that'd be a good spot. Do

14:47

you, if Marvin Harrison or Roman

14:49

Dune's Day goes there right now, and I'm

14:51

looking at this projection, Trey McBride getting the

14:53

most targets on the team, does that wide

14:55

receiver immediately come in and get more targets

14:58

than Trey McBride? That's interesting. So

15:01

I wrote an article recently, it was the things

15:03

I learned while compiling those projections, and I wrote

15:05

about Trey McBride because his target share last year

15:07

would be, it's not sustainable.

15:09

I mean, it's just not sustainable. It'd be one of

15:11

the highest, I think it would have been the highest

15:13

target share or second highest target share of the last

15:15

decade at tight end over a full season. It

15:18

was Mark Andrews one year, was way up there.

15:21

So he's not going to match that. His targets will come

15:23

down. So if he's in the 20 to 23% range, which

15:25

is still high for a tight end, still enough to be

15:27

a top five tight end, I think that

15:29

receiver they take in the top half of the

15:32

first round would be very similar. So I

15:34

think close. I think close in

15:36

targets. All right. Let's move ahead and talk

15:38

about the Minnesota Vikings. They did a mock

15:40

trade with the Chargers for the fifth overall

15:42

pick. That's what JJ, excuse me,

15:45

and that is where I think, you can tell me

15:47

if you think I'm wrong, but like you

15:49

just lost Kirk Cousins. You've still got Justin

15:51

Jefferson. You've got Jordan Addison. You got TJ

15:53

Hockinson that eventually will be coming back. I

15:55

don't know how you go into this season,

15:57

not saying we've got to find the signal. caller

16:00

for the future that is not a shot at

16:02

Sam Darnold. It just feels like Sam Darnold is

16:04

the guy that's a holdover right now until you

16:06

get the guy. So when you

16:08

look at this roster, the only thing that feels

16:10

like it needs to be updated right now is

16:12

the quarterback position. Moving up the draft, I think

16:14

makes a lot of sense if you look at

16:16

Field Yates and Mel Kiper Jr. Excuse

16:19

me. They both have JJ

16:21

McCarthy coming off the board and going to

16:23

the Minnesota Vikings. Mike, where are you at

16:25

on this decision? Yeah, so same thing. I

16:27

have them going with McCarthy. It just feels

16:29

like a perfect fit, just him going from

16:31

Michigan up the street, essentially. Not really up

16:34

the street. I don't know which highway you

16:36

take, but it's close enough. It's in the

16:38

northeast, right? Is that what

16:41

we talked about? I think Minnesota officially

16:43

is not the northeast. I wouldn't call

16:45

that the northeast. Okay, Ohio, maybe. We

16:47

have a conversation. But Minnesota, not so

16:49

much. What is that? It's just the Midwest.

16:51

It's just the Midwest. So I

16:54

agree. Look, Sam Darnold's been back up for a

16:56

while. When he started, he's shown flashes at times.

16:58

He did that with the Jets. He did that

17:00

with Carolina. But he just hasn't shown

17:02

that he's going to be a consistently good NFL

17:04

starting quarterback. And maybe that changes. Like we've seen

17:06

it with Geno Smith. He came around.

17:09

Maybe it works out for Minnesota. They feel good about

17:11

Darnold and go another direction. But I

17:13

do think they need to address quarterback.

17:15

And again, I'm projecting the trade up

17:17

to the fourth overall pick and take

17:19

JJ McCarthy. Very interesting, super efficient, productive,

17:21

a winner at Michigan. But that was

17:23

an extremely run heavy offense. So we

17:26

don't know really what his ceiling is

17:28

in the pros. But that's

17:30

my prediction. Like you said, they have the skill

17:32

guys. They need the quarterback. I think they try

17:34

to do that. Yeah, they've sort of, they've, because

17:36

they had Kirk Cousins, they've got all the

17:38

pieces now. They've just got to go back out

17:41

and find that guy to be able to distribute

17:43

the football. Yeah. I'll tell you what, though, whether

17:45

it's McCarthy, someone else, whether it's Darnold, whoever, whoever

17:47

ends up being the quarterback there assessing

17:50

Justin Jefferson is going

17:52

to be interesting this year. No matter what

17:54

the situation is, we've already struggled with it.

17:56

You know, is he, You

17:59

know, is he quarterback? Proof. I mean he was

18:01

kind of inconsistent when he came back. I

18:03

should be some big games with the backup

18:06

quarterback situation. There's no, I use a tough

18:08

one, but we've seen superstar quarterbacks are superstar

18:10

receivers. Excuse me? And a zig

18:12

zags depending on who the quarterback was. A ninny was

18:14

in a very pass heavy high scoring. office of Kirk

18:17

cousins in and were great. When. He was

18:19

out of as you so good but not quite

18:21

as dominant. so easy to be. a tricky one

18:23

I think at the end of the day or

18:25

rank them where we have a now which is

18:27

midrange wide receiver. One cousins played that about half

18:29

a season give or take the average efforts him

18:31

as out yeah right member. He was out of

18:33

eight employment together last year so then he was

18:35

passes a little bit from her cousins and also

18:37

from Nyc Mullins and Josh Dobbs and Salmon Hall

18:39

the affray. any it again he had a couple

18:41

big games he was he really didn't think he

18:43

averaged twenty point to fantasy points. I gonna say

18:45

like the idea I'm interested a looks like he

18:47

was fantasy quarterback proof. Last year in

18:49

like this feeling situation but i'm i

18:52

wonder know like over the course of

18:54

an entire season know how often impact.

18:57

As can be willing to my eye for what is with them.

18:59

Asked him about the and this. An.

19:03

Hour. Or that decision to give the

19:05

Viking to signal caller to make sure they're able to

19:07

get the ball to them and get by that. by

19:09

the way think we're still going to stick with Jefferson

19:11

is wide receiver one but I'm worried about your and

19:13

Addison. I think he'll be over drafted and he day

19:15

I can send the Ac all make sell in Turkey.

19:18

Yeah play round pick by your he may miss a

19:20

month menace a month maybe more may be take time

19:22

to get going. Any one of her cousin says lot

19:24

of reasons to skip him on draft day as well

19:26

which is tough. May only thing that because I did

19:28

yeah consider my Dynasty roster not as a I have

19:30

to the August and and. Three. Mcbride

19:32

and you just humble brag rate is unsustainable.

19:34

You say bad things about both of my

19:37

I think you'll be okay. I think you'll

19:39

be okay with those with those guys again.

19:41

And I said yeah, Mcbride can afford to

19:43

lose targets that this would allow. He'll be.

19:45

he'll be fun to watch. Enough for Pm

19:47

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19:51

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19:54

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19:56

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21:00

that at none of us Assist nobody you

21:02

know have an ever years ecstasy Soren Hundred

21:04

and fifty more years I think. So we

21:06

want our Robinson Vila Hi it's. Various.

21:09

Laden a median waller. If he still gonna

21:11

come back and doesn't retire this is a

21:13

team that paid a boat load of money.

21:15

Do a quarterback. And

21:17

that quarterback doesn't have enough weapons to

21:20

throw the football to Mike. They gotta

21:22

go out and get a wide receiver.

21:24

If I look at mail and Fields

21:26

latest mock drafts, they have molitor neighbors.

21:29

Going there. I. Feel like

21:31

this is one of those decisions where you've gotta

21:34

make a decision one way or another. It's gotta

21:36

be a wide receiver them right? Do at least

21:38

agree with me on that the i think so

21:40

it could be quarterback or they make a shocking

21:43

development or you know, shocking move, move up and

21:45

much money to the I never even given the

21:47

opportunity I would he looks like yeah I, but

21:49

I agree with you. I think they probably safer

21:52

with zones first salary reasons. And ah, they get

21:54

a wide receiver Aziz. I mean, that's the thing

21:56

with a new Jones. i

21:58

don't know that he's ever habeas superstar but

22:00

he hasn't had a stand-up group around

22:02

him at all and you know he

22:04

really struggled early last season this offense

22:07

was atrocious but I

22:09

would like to see them go out and get a

22:11

superstar so neighbors could be the pick but based on

22:13

the trade I made earlier with Arizona moving down I

22:15

have the first receiver coming off the board at six

22:17

overall I know you the Giants are gonna be sitting

22:20

there like I can't believe this just happened but Marvin

22:22

Harrison Jr. is sitting there waiting for them at six

22:24

so that probably be a shocker if he made it

22:26

that far that would be but the way I with

22:28

that trade up to four it's definitely possible

22:30

so yeah so I do have Marvin Harrison dropping

22:32

to the Giants but I think Mel and Fields

22:34

pick a Malik neighbors make a lot of sense

22:36

as well yeah I followed Sue and went with

22:39

Malik neighbors because I already had Marvin Harrison Jr.

22:41

coming off to the Cardinals however if he is

22:43

on the board here and you were the Giants

22:45

you run as fast as

22:48

possible to the podium to turn that card

22:50

in if Marvin Harrison Jr. is there so

22:52

regardless they've just got to find a

22:54

guy to be able to be the number one

22:56

pass guesser for Daniel Jones in this offense to

22:58

understand whether or not this 40 million dollar a

23:00

year option can be fully realized or if they

23:02

need to move on so yeah I'm with you

23:05

and by the way you you mentioned this in

23:07

passing but I don't know if we have you

23:09

know confirmation on Darren Waller's future there

23:11

was a day a few weeks ago where the Giants on

23:13

the same day signed two veteran tight ends and I thought

23:15

oh do they know something we don't but

23:17

he is considering his future I have to imagine

23:19

the team will hope to get an answer from

23:22

him by the draft in a couple weeks so

23:24

we'll see how that plays out probably at

23:26

this point if he hasn't retired yet you would

23:28

think he'll come back but it's not for sure

23:30

yet so keep that in mind never know you

23:32

never know with people all right let's move ahead

23:34

and talk about the Los Angeles Chargers filling the

23:36

void for them and they've got a handful of

23:38

them at an S at the end a lot

23:40

of voids there's a lot of voids all right

23:42

here's the deal charges of loss some

23:44

guys Mike Williams now with the Jets Keenan

23:47

Allen now with the Bears Austin

23:49

Eckler with the commanders basically

23:51

the Chargers as we've known it from a

23:54

skill position perspective over the

23:56

last five years even Gerald ever yes

23:58

Gerald Everett moves on to the Chicago

24:00

running backs now are Gus Edwards

24:02

and Isaiah Spiller top wide

24:04

receivers are Quentin Johnston Josh Palmer Darius Davis and

24:06

then your best tight end is will disley. Yeah

24:08

bringing a blocking tie down What do you think

24:10

they want to do Gus Edwards and will disley?

24:12

What do you think their plan is? Well, you

24:14

know, I wonder if they have a

24:17

running like a coach just likes

24:19

to really run the football Yeah and a

24:21

coordinator here and a coordinator that really likes

24:23

to they're gonna run the ball So they

24:25

got pick 11 and they get 23 for

24:27

what it's worth at pick 11 Both field

24:29

and Mel have them going with JC Latham

24:31

and I'm fine with that Like it's tough

24:33

to argue with let's protect our franchise signal

24:35

caller. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely Yeah,

24:37

they need right tackle help. Obviously they have

24:40

Sean Slater there, but need could use another

24:42

tackle So so then pick 23 their

24:44

second thing in the first round is really where it starts

24:46

Mike I think we you at least need to get

24:48

one wide receiver if not two if you're a pick

24:50

23 Which

24:52

direction are you gonna go here? Yeah So first of

24:55

all by the way if if the draft goes how

24:57

it went for me I could see them taking Marvin

24:59

Harrison with five or a receiver when not shocked should

25:01

not shock us at all I mean again, they have

25:03

a left tackle so they definitely could go wide receiver

25:05

Yeah, because of what they currently have right now They

25:07

have to have 11 and 23 because of the trade

25:09

that they made in this exercise with the Viking Right,

25:14

so yeah, absolutely so they could they could go

25:16

that direction early on but I'm

25:18

with you I went tackle with them with that

25:20

first pick early in the first round. I don't

25:22

have them trading back I've been taking all with

25:24

that fifth pick and getting a love that tackle.

25:26

Yep. So with the 37th

25:29

pick I actually have them taking Lad

25:32

McConkie who I like a lot

25:34

wider seabrata, Georgia kind

25:36

of more of a Keenan Allen

25:38

and a Mike Williams, right? Is there a possession guy

25:41

kind of gives you like the Cooper Cup sort of

25:43

vibe the guy that just kind of soak up targets

25:45

in The intermediate and short range so

25:47

I I like him a lot And I

25:49

think he might go a little earlier than that, but I

25:51

think that would be a good fit for Justin Herbert Just

25:53

to get a guy That could

25:55

be like the cup to Stafford. He would be

25:57

that for for and

26:00

Herbert very well could have like a Pukin-Dakua

26:02

type rookie season. They keep making the LA

26:04

comps here but that's a guy that's a

26:07

you know would be a possession guy we love

26:09

him PPR good quarterback the offense that you know this

26:11

team's probably going to be around 500 maybe below they're

26:13

going to have to throw it a lot so that's

26:15

the first void. We have receiver and running back as

26:17

notable voids the first one filled for me is McConkie

26:19

early in the second round. So then who's your second

26:21

if you have a second player that you're going to

26:24

throw in here? Yeah my second would be a running

26:26

back to go along with Gus Edwards. I don't think

26:28

they're done at the running back position you can't be

26:30

Gus Edwards has never been a featured back you

26:32

know I just you expect maybe 200

26:35

carries and 10 targets out of

26:37

Gus Edwards. That might be it.

26:39

Yeah so I went the easy route here okay

26:41

their coach is Jim Harbaugh he's coming from Michigan

26:43

we just mentioned they were very run heavy offense.

26:45

Oh interesting. And who is their running back? Blake

26:48

Corum. So I have a fourth round pick I'm

26:50

not as high on Blake Corum which makes this

26:52

tricky but I have with their

26:54

pick 105 fifth pick of the fourth

26:56

round Blake Corum again another guy

26:58

that can jump right in there and compete

27:01

with Gus Edwards for for that role is

27:03

their their lead back so and the guy

27:05

that you know he's a capable pass catcher

27:07

so he can get involved in that direction that's what they

27:09

need they need a more dynamic guy to go with Gus

27:11

Edwards. All right so you went Lad McConkie and Blake Corum

27:13

which I can't argue with totally makes a ton of sense

27:15

they do need to get another pass catcher there. I

27:18

went with the 23 overall pick with Adnai Mitchell and

27:20

then with the 37 overall pick I went with

27:23

Lad McConkie because two receivers okay I like

27:25

it don't feel like Quentin Johnston showed me

27:27

enough to be like yep we can just

27:29

leave him alone he's wide receiver one for

27:32

sure on that team and Josh Palmer as

27:34

much as I've been a Josh Palmer fan

27:36

last two years he's had a lot of opportunities

27:38

to kind of take the reins there when guys have

27:40

been hurt when Mike Williams and Kean Ella have been

27:42

hurt and he hasn't really done that so for me

27:45

like I'm not worried about them running the football

27:47

we got running backs galore that Jim Harbaugh can

27:49

go through in the NFL what I want is

27:52

wide receivers for Justin Herbert and to have him

27:55

get back to that MVP level because he's got

27:57

guys to be able to distribute the football to

27:59

I would I want as many wide receivers there

28:01

as possible. I'm not worried about Jim Harbaugh running the

28:03

ball. I want him to throw the ball a little

28:05

bit more. He hasn't even started coaching yet. I already

28:07

want Jim Harbaugh to throw more than he's going to.

28:09

Yeah, it's an interesting one because when they were together

28:11

in the past in San Francisco, they called kind of

28:13

a balanced offense, but the Niners were so good. Remember,

28:16

they went to the Super Bowl. They

28:18

were ahead often like they are now under Kyle

28:20

Shanahan. And they were

28:22

able to run the clock out in the second half

28:24

a lot. So it made their numbers look a little

28:27

different than they actually were. So I'm curious how that

28:29

looks in LA. I mean, you have

28:31

one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL. Theoretically, you

28:33

should want to pass the football. So but

28:36

then again, their personnel move so far suggests they're not

28:38

going to. But I think maybe we'll get an indicator

28:40

with this pick. If they do take one of the

28:42

top three receivers instead of offensive line,

28:45

then maybe it's going to be more balanced

28:47

than we think. But yes, it's kind of

28:49

weird. Receiver is a bigger need than tackle

28:51

for them. And yet, yes, everyone's

28:54

projecting tackle because of their other personnel moves and

28:56

thinking they're going to run the football. So that's

28:58

going to be one of the big moves

29:00

in the draft. It's going to kind of point me in the

29:03

direction of how to project that offense. Yeah, this

29:05

is a very it's a very interesting

29:07

offense now that Harbaugh has taken over

29:09

with the guys that have left this

29:11

team. What's it going to look

29:13

like in 2020? Every year, every year there's a few

29:15

teams like that where it's just a completely different team.

29:17

We talk about Atlanta. They're the most obvious one. They're

29:19

going to look way different than they have in years

29:21

past. But the Chargers will as well.

29:23

Yep. All right. Moving ahead. Pick number 12, fill

29:26

in the void for the Denver

29:28

Broncos. Obviously, Russell Wilson has left

29:31

this team. They have picked

29:33

number 12. And when I look at

29:35

this roster, Mike, I got to tell you, I don't

29:38

love it. I don't love this. No, it goes

29:40

right. There's a lot of holes to fill. There's not

29:42

just one hole. There's this is another one where

29:44

it should be parentheses S. You look

29:46

at the quarterback, Jarrett Stidham is the guy there. Jevante

29:48

Williams, man, we all have high hopes for him to

29:50

come back and continue to be the running back that

29:53

we thought he could be early in his career. You're

29:55

some injuries. Yeah, you're too back from that knee injury.

29:57

This is the year we're going to find out if

29:59

he has it. And then his wide receivers, he's got

30:01

Cortland Sutton. Marvin Mims who was the exciting rookie from

30:03

last year didn't seem as much as we had wanted

30:05

Hopefully gets more running year two and then Josh Reynolds

30:07

from my Detroit Lions signed Patrick Don't forget Tim Patrick

30:09

come out and injury to so you have some receiver

30:12

depth there So to me it seems

30:14

obvious no offense to Jared Stidham, but you've got to

30:16

go out again I'm gonna find these guys. I'm not

30:18

offend them. Okay, Sam Darnold shirts and these are backups

30:20

This is where it's at. You're making a lot of

30:22

money So like I maybe you shouldn't

30:25

be offended by what I'm saying here But yeah, the

30:27

Broncos need to go out and find themselves a quarterback

30:29

I think Mel and Todd when I looked at what

30:31

they did Mel went a different direction Mel

30:33

took the cornerback in his latest mock draft

30:35

field though went with BONIX out

30:37

of Oregon So I'm

30:39

curious understanding what those two draft gurus did.

30:42

What would Mike Clay do in this situation?

30:45

Look You're gonna go into

30:47

the season with Jared Stidham as your quarterback I

30:49

don't know I don't think I would know I

30:51

don't think I would so what I better you

30:53

two options you Take the best quarterback available there

30:55

or you trade up one of the top guys

30:57

depends on who you like So I do think

30:59

they take a quarterback in the middle of the

31:01

first round early in the first round And

31:04

the best guy on the board when they're up I believe

31:06

will be BONIX So that's what I went with with the

31:08

12th overall pick the guy with a lot of experience and

31:11

he was outstanding Last year think

31:13

about all the quarterbacks. We already talked about BONIX

31:15

had the best in class marks and

31:18

passing touchdowns He had 45 his first in completion rate

31:20

at 77 percent lowest interception rate

31:22

lowest sack rate Which is actually an

31:25

interesting one is it pertains to quarterbacks

31:27

and lowest off-target rate very

31:29

low average depth of throw He's conservative But Sean

31:31

P and that a lot of success with a

31:33

low a doc I in drew Brees in New

31:35

Orleans So he could actually be a really nice

31:37

fit can run it a little bit So I

31:39

that's an interesting fit for me if Denver and

31:41

P and like BONIX I think that's a natural

31:43

fit right there in early in the first round

31:45

I mean low a dot which I

31:48

get you want to be able to push the ball

31:50

down the field the NFL I understand that but you're

31:52

talking about such a high complete completion percentage limiting turnovers

31:55

I mean like there these are things that within

31:57

an NFL offense. You don't just need a quarterback

31:59

that can at 70 yards. Sometimes you need

32:01

a guy that can make sure he's not turning the football

32:03

over. So, you know, BONIX has a

32:05

lot to offer. I think coming to this Denver Broncos

32:07

team would make a lot of sense for both him

32:09

and the Broncos. I

32:12

think it makes too much sense. I think both

32:14

of us going BONIX here filling the void with

32:16

the number 12 overall pick. From

32:18

a pure draft value

32:20

standpoint, 12th overall is high

32:22

for me for BONIX. But based on the idea that you've

32:25

got to get your quarterback, you got to do what you

32:27

got to do when it comes to the draft. That's

32:29

interesting because sometimes as an

32:31

industry, everyone doing the mock drafts, there's a lot

32:34

of group think you kind of see that. And

32:36

then the quarterbacks go way later than you'd expect

32:38

or vice versa. They go way earlier. At this

32:40

point, a few years ago, Daniel Jones was not

32:42

considered a first round prospect. A lot of people

32:44

were mocking him in the second. He

32:47

went what was it, fourth overall, fifth overall

32:49

to the Giants. And then, you

32:51

know, a couple of years ago, we had like Malik

32:53

Willis was like the second overall pick in mock drafts

32:55

and he fell to the third round, the third round

32:57

and Sam Howell, same kind of thing. So

33:00

that's always tricky. Who knows? Maybe BONIX goes in

33:02

the third round. Maybe he goes eighth overall. We

33:04

don't know at this point. But the

33:06

fact is Denver cannot go into the season with

33:09

Jared Sinem. It's just going to be all right.

33:11

He threw another pick. Let's let's give a bend

33:13

Anuchi a shot. It's over. The season's over. You

33:16

can't do that. You cannot do that. All right,

33:18

Mike, let's take that same energy and talk about

33:20

pick number 13. See, this

33:22

is what's interesting. Las Vegas Raiders. So many teams

33:24

need a quarterback, but not everyone can get one.

33:27

And then that's where the Raiders come in. So

33:29

we're at pick 13 in the

33:31

first round, right? With the way that we're talking

33:33

about this top three quarterbacks have already come off

33:35

the board, picks one, two and three. And then

33:37

we've also got JJ McCarthy already off the board.

33:39

And with this, we took BONIX with pick 12

33:41

to the Denver Broncos. You get

33:43

to the Raiders who are 13 and

33:46

their roster doesn't stack up super favorably either

33:48

when you look at it, they've got a

33:50

no Connell under or Gardner Minshew. He's there

33:52

as well. Exactly. One of those two guys,

33:54

the mere white and Alexander Madison. They're two

33:57

running backs as of right now. Devontae Adams,

33:59

a superstar. starting to come down with the age.

34:01

I mean he's been in this league for a long time. Loved

34:04

Jacoby Myers, you know an underrated guy. And then Michael

34:06

Mayer, someone that we really liked as a high tight

34:08

end, even though he wasn't the rookie tight end that

34:11

took the season by storm or the league by storm last

34:13

year. Who was that? Well,

34:16

Sam LaPorta, Mike, I gotta tell you, Sam

34:18

LaPorta looks really good. I can't even say

34:20

Lions by us anymore. It's fair. Maybe the

34:22

best rookie tight end season ever. I'm

34:25

at a spot where I look at this and

34:27

it's like, okay, pick 13. Mel

34:30

and Field when you look at it, pick 13, they're

34:32

going offensive tackle. The team needs to be able to

34:34

shore up that offensive line, not just for their quarterback,

34:36

whoever it is, but also for the running game. And

34:38

then you get to pick 36. Field

34:41

Yates, in his latest mock, has

34:43

Michael Penix Jr. coming off the board with

34:45

a trade to Washington. And if Michael Penix

34:48

is available there at 36,

34:50

Mike, I think it makes a ton of

34:52

sense for the Raiders to pull the trigger and go this

34:54

route. What would you do? Yeah, I can see them doing

34:57

that. I actually just have them staying put and taking him

34:59

with the 12th pick of the second round, 44th overall. I

35:01

don't know if that's going to do the trick, but that's

35:03

where, at least what I projected. So, uh, still liking to

35:05

feel the void though with the quarterback. Yeah, I think they

35:07

try to find a quarterback at some point. I don't know

35:09

when, but again, I think could they just

35:11

go with Aiden O'Connell and Gardner Minshew? Maybe. I mean,

35:13

Minshew held down the four last year. It's not a

35:15

great situation, but if you want to, if you don't

35:17

feel like you like Penix and the other guys

35:19

are gone, you might have to stay put, which

35:22

is what I said earlier. It puts him in

35:24

kind of a tough position. So yeah, Penix, uh,

35:26

kind of polarizing. He's an older prospect. He's had

35:29

a lot of major injuries. He's just kind of

35:31

a pocket quarterback at this point. So, uh,

35:34

but again, sometimes you got to throw darts if you don't

35:36

have a quarterback and that might be the answer for them.

35:38

So I have them going with Penix in the second round,

35:40

uh, but also another running back. You may have noticed or

35:42

another void there. You may have noticed was a running

35:45

back. Is it mere white? The future there. Alex

35:47

Madison was not a lead back in Minnesota.

35:49

We learned that very quickly last year.

35:52

So, um, this gives me an

35:54

opportunity to talk about a running back sleeper. You

35:56

know, I love running back sleepers. I do know

35:58

you love Jordan Howard's and Chris Carson. Carson's love

36:00

these guys, right? So a guy that

36:02

I really like is Isaac

36:05

Garendo from Louisville 6'221, really fast. So

36:09

think about that. He's 6'221. What

36:11

do you think his 40-yard dash was at the

36:13

combine? That's probably 21 pounds, don't you? Well,

36:16

I was going to say it's probably like a Kaitlyn Bellage type number. No,

36:18

it's 433. Whoa! 433 at

36:20

220 is unbelievable. He

36:24

kind of reminds me of Chris Carson a

36:26

little bit and that he never had a big workload in

36:29

college so that's yet to be seen

36:31

but his efficiency was kind of average

36:33

but that size speed compliment, you just

36:35

think Raiders, right? It's the Al Davis

36:37

way. Absolutely. Let's get this big fast guy.

36:40

So that's a fifth rounder. I like him more than

36:42

that but I think that's a day three running back.

36:44

You add him into that competition with

36:46

those two backs as well as Amir Abdullah. They

36:50

might stay put at running back this year as

36:52

well with White and White Abdullah and Madison, but

36:54

if they take a shot I think it's a

36:56

day three guy. Yeah, and I'm interested

36:58

to see the way that Michael Mayer takes a step

37:00

hopefully in year two in seeing what he can do

37:02

and like I said, Jacoby Myers, I really like him

37:05

from a wide receiver perspective. Givante Adams, I

37:07

would like to know what they're going to do for the future

37:09

of that position but that is not as important

37:11

as finding the next quarterback for this team. Yeah, and

37:13

they actually need some depth there. So they could be

37:15

looking at the future of receivers. You saw Trey Tucker

37:17

on there as their three so they do need depth

37:19

but it's a deep class so don't be surprised if

37:22

on day two they make a big splash for a wide receiver.

37:24

Yep. Let's move ahead.

37:26

Our producer, Tyler, is a huge

37:29

Bengals fan, massive Bengals fan. Joe

37:32

Mixon unfortunately has left his team

37:34

so they're at a situation where they're going to have to find a

37:37

new running back. Right now they did bring in Zach Moss, right? That's

37:40

another guy I like to slow start to his career but it

37:42

doesn't feel like that's going

37:45

to be the only thing. You look at the roster,

37:47

Joe Burrell obviously under center for them. Wide receiver is

37:49

Jamar Chase T. Higgins, Andre

37:51

Yasova, Trenton Irwin, Mike

37:54

Kiseki coming in at the tight end.

37:56

This year, excuse me. That's one of

37:58

those things where I think we've had this. customization. Mike

38:00

is sick in theory like should be so great

38:02

in this offense because he's basically just a wide

38:04

receiver but it never really materializes for fantasy the

38:06

way that we want it. No, he's had opportunities

38:08

elsewhere and has not panned out of

38:11

course Miami a lot of opportunity there and just

38:13

wasn't the guy didn't work out in New England

38:15

you know, he's had opportunities and was not featured.

38:17

So I don't I don't

38:19

even know if he's gonna start He might just be a

38:21

situational red zone target. They have Tanner Hudson there drew samples

38:24

back as a blocker So I wouldn't I would not get

38:26

my carry-to with Mike is sick. You know, I agree with

38:28

you I agree with you on that. I think that

38:30

leaves us in one of two spots You're either

38:32

looking to potentially replace Joe Mixon and to add

38:34

someone to that Zach Moss backfield Or

38:37

you could potentially say that T Higgins might not be long

38:39

for this team And do we want to look at maybe

38:41

adding another pass catcher as a part of this? So you

38:43

look at what Mel Kuiper jr. And field have done on

38:45

their latest mocks Mel met

38:48

went with a defensive tackle showing up the

38:50

defensive line there field though

38:52

Brian Thomas jr Grabbing

38:54

the wide receiver six three runs at that

38:56

awesome four three forty I mean he's a

38:58

big guy coming out of LSU looked really

39:00

good at the combine Mike Clay if you're

39:03

taking Brian Thomas here to Me that makes

39:05

me think that you're planning on life without

39:07

T Higgins down the road. Yeah, maybe not

39:09

next year I think they have other voids.

39:11

I don't know if they'll go receiver. We

39:13

I don't know if you mentioned Tyler Boyd

39:16

He's still a free agent so he could always come back

39:18

at a discount. So We'll keep

39:20

an eye on that. I don't know if they'll go wide

39:23

receiver that early I know Mel to have them taking

39:25

a receiver later in the draft which makes more sense

39:27

to me and part like you had said It is

39:29

a deep wide receiver. Yes We talk about the names

39:31

at the top because they're really good But like there

39:33

is a lot of names the deeper that you get

39:35

so yeah, I'm with you So again, I don't review

39:38

that as a massive need. I mean teams would be

39:41

Teams would be like I don't care of my three is if

39:43

I have T Higgins and Jamar chase like I'm right. I'm good

39:45

So I but I do

39:47

think running back is a spot they will address

39:49

and I have them actually doing that on day

39:51

two I had a third round Marshawn

39:54

Lloyd is one of my favorite running back prospects out

39:56

of USC again 5 9 2 20 has size to

39:58

be a lead

40:01

back, a quick fast ran a 4-4, 6-40 again at

40:03

220 pounds, but he has the best efficiency profile

40:07

in this running back class believe it or

40:09

not. His yards after contact,

40:11

third force miss tackle rate, first in

40:14

this class, has injury issues, some fumble

40:16

issues, and we'll see if

40:18

that ends up costing him the pros, but the nice

40:21

thing is about Cincinnati, if they take him in the

40:23

third round, first of all, we're going to love him

40:25

as a fantasy sleeper in that situation because he's going

40:27

to be the best raw talent probably

40:30

in that backfield, but doesn't

40:32

have to necessarily be the guy day one

40:34

because again they do have Jack Moss who

40:36

filled in great for Jonathan Taylor last season

40:38

and Chase Brown who's been kind of a

40:40

playmaker as a change of pace guy.

40:42

So I think that would be a really

40:45

good landing spot for any running back and

40:47

I like Lloyd a lot so don't be surprised

40:49

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get in time baby. I just

41:57

want to say I'm with you on whatever running

41:59

back you want to. talk about especially guys that

42:01

are that deep. I don't know running back that

42:03

deep into the draft right now Mike. Look in

42:05

your defense you're studying UFL guys. You want to talk

42:07

about CJ Maribel? I can talk about CJ Maribel. I

42:09

remember him from about five years ago when he came

42:11

into the league. Yeah like are you in on the

42:14

whole Jake Bates like bandwagon? Are you in on this?

42:16

I know what that means. I know what a Jake

42:18

Bates back to back 60 yard field

42:20

goal in the UFL. I am 62

42:22

yard. So anyways yeah I'm following

42:26

you when it comes to running back I'll dive deeper

42:28

into the running back position but right now I'm

42:30

all in on UFL here. Alright let's

42:32

talk cowboys next. Alright here's a

42:34

number 24. One of the biggest voids

42:36

in all of fantasy right now. Huge.

42:38

Quarterback, you know quarterbacks obviously a huge

42:40

one but from a strictly fantasy perspective

42:43

if you're trying to identify who will

42:45

the top scoring fantasy player be

42:47

next year top receivers

42:49

probably stand out but if it's gonna be a running

42:51

back that kind of ascends to that

42:53

post it might be the Dallas Cowboys running

42:55

back. Yeah because that offense is fantastic looked

42:57

fantastic last year with Dak Prescott under center

43:00

and right now they do not

43:02

have Tony Pollard. The two running backs that we're

43:04

looking at are Rico Dowdle, Deuce

43:06

Vaughn, the wide receivers you

43:08

got C.D. Lamb, Rayna Cooks, Jelen Tolbert, Jake

43:10

Ferguson we like at the tight end position

43:12

but it's so obvious when you look at

43:14

this roster the glaring hole the only void

43:17

it feels like they have. Yeah. The running

43:19

back position. You saw if you're watching the

43:21

video the end was missing from Vaughn there

43:23

that's the end stands for no running

43:25

back. The end stands for no running back because we don't we

43:27

don't have a starter right now so it could be a rookie.

43:30

I was sitting here trying to think of a joke

43:32

that was the best I could do. Are they gonna

43:34

bring Zeke back? Yeah maybe. Do we have a reunion?

43:36

Yeah I think Zeke rookie backfield makes

43:38

a lot of sense. Yeah we'll see how that

43:40

plays out. A little more committee related. But regardless

43:42

I think they I think they addressed it early

43:44

in the draft. So they got the 24th overall

43:47

pick in the first round. Too early. Too

43:49

early for a running back especially this year right that's one

43:51

of the things that we learned if you look at what

43:53

Mel and Field did they both had him going with the

43:55

offensive tackle position which makes a ton of sense. Tyron Smith

43:57

now move into the Jets so they got a show. sort

44:00

of that offensive line. Yeah, they lost

44:02

their center as well to Washington. That old

44:04

line is actually very suspect right now.

44:06

It's kind of a kind of sneaks up on you. Yep. So they've

44:08

worked to do there. But they do have

44:10

at pick 56, Jonathan Brooks from Texas. I think

44:12

the number one running back in this class, Mike,

44:15

coming off the board. I think so. It feels

44:17

like this would be a really good marriage right

44:19

here if he was able to make it that

44:21

far. Yeah, I think there is probably three running

44:23

backs in that top tier. Brooks has been knocked

44:25

a bit because he's coming off a torn ACL.

44:28

It looks like it was a clean break and

44:30

it'll be good to go for next season. Something

44:32

I really like about him, very young relative to

44:34

these other guys, only 21 years old, plenty of time

44:37

to get healthy and get rolling. So

44:39

I like him a lot. Also, we just saw

44:41

Breece Hall come off an ACL and

44:43

have a terrific season last

44:46

year. He was a fantasy superstar in a

44:48

good situation in New York. Bad offense, but

44:50

in a situation where very involved

44:52

in the passing game, and as a runner and

44:54

a top end talent, Brooks on tape looks fantastic.

44:57

He looks like a future star running back. And

44:59

again, if he goes to Dallas, there's opportunity there

45:01

right now with very little competition. So keep an

45:03

eye on that. Three down ability. He can catch

45:05

the ball. He could run it. So as long

45:08

as the recovery continues and he's healthy

45:10

and he's ready to go, I'm with

45:12

you. I have Brooks going to Dallas in the second

45:15

round. That would be a dream landing spot for any

45:17

of these acts. Makes too much sense as long as

45:19

he lasts that far. And this is one of the

45:21

draft day questions that I'm very intrigued in watching. When

45:23

is the first running back going to come off the

45:25

board? Because this is not like we've had in recent

45:28

years where it was Reese Hall first

45:30

round pick potentially, or Bijon Robinson, very clearly going to

45:32

be a top 10 pick. It's a different kind of

45:34

running back class this year. So interested to see how

45:36

that's going to work out. All right, moving ahead. We

45:38

got one more void to fill. And

45:41

it's with the Buffalo Bills, Mike.

45:43

Yeah, what could this be? Yeah, seriously. Oh, you

45:45

know what? Obviously. There's no one to throw the

45:47

football to. I think I say no one to

45:49

throw the football, because you don't like Josh Allen.

45:52

Josh Allen is the only Josh Allen hater. And

45:54

they have Mitch Trubisky as well. So they certainly

45:56

don't need to order that. No,

45:58

they got James Cook as they're running. back here. I

46:00

mean he is one of the exciting young prospects

46:02

at the running back position in the NFL. And

46:04

then you look at the wide receivers. Oh boy.

46:06

Curtis Samuel, Khalil Shakir,

46:08

Justin Shorter, Andy Isabella,

46:11

Dalton Kincaid, Mack Hollins, how about this, KJ

46:13

Hamler. Yeah, that's who's competing right now. You

46:15

know we used to have Stefan Diggs and

46:17

Gabe Davis there. They're both now in different

46:19

places. So we're at a spot where the

46:21

Bills need that big guy. Right now it

46:23

kind of feels like Dalton Kincaid would be.

46:25

I realized maybe Curtis Samuel is gonna get

46:27

more targets. I don't know. What does your

46:29

projection say? Yeah, I mean I bumped him

46:31

up for now. He's got five more targets

46:34

than Curtis Samuel. I bumped up. Once they

46:36

traded Stefan Diggs, part of it was bumping

46:38

up more back to more 12 personnel like

46:40

last year where you have more Dasa Knox

46:42

on the field for now. But that could

46:44

obviously change back if they address his position.

46:46

I think it's one of the safest bets

46:49

in this draft is that Buffalo will address receiver

46:51

with their first round pick. At least once they

46:53

need to. I think they should address it

46:55

more than one time. I think a couple

46:57

wide receivers especially in this deep wide receiver. I think

46:59

so. I mean it probably depends on what you think

47:01

of Khalil Shakir. Do you believe he's a top three

47:04

receiver? If so, then you go with him, you go

47:06

with Curtis Samuel, and you go with whoever you drafted

47:08

in the first round. But I agree they might not

47:10

be done there after the first

47:12

receiver. So when I look at this, Mel Kiper has

47:15

him taking Brian Thomas and Field

47:17

Yates has him going Xavier Worthy,

47:19

the kid that ran 4-2-1 at

47:22

the combine speedster. I'm

47:24

interested. I get that. I have

47:26

both of those guys unfortunately already drafted based

47:28

on the board that I have done with

47:30

you. So I went with Troy Franklin and

47:32

Xavier Laguette here with this one. Which direction

47:34

would you go at the wide receiver position?

47:36

Yeah, so I have a name Mitchell who

47:39

you had going to. He went to...

47:43

You had him going at the top somewhere else. But

47:46

the same part of the draft. So late

47:48

in the first round. So you would have

47:50

gone to the Chargers right. I have him

47:52

going to Buffalo here 6-2-2-0-5. He's had a

47:54

Texas big fast perimeter receiver. Very

47:57

high average at the target in college. I use him as

47:59

a vertical target. Very

48:01

similar to, fast by

48:03

the way, good project, had a good combine, but

48:05

more Gabe Davis than Stefan

48:07

Digg. So you're right, they might need more of a,

48:09

I mean maybe Curtis Samuel is the possession guy and

48:12

then Kincaid in the short and intermediate area

48:15

and then Mitchell is your lidlifter,

48:18

could be the scenario. So I don't know, Mitchell,

48:20

if he's used like that, he's going to have

48:22

limited PPR value, more value in non-PPR if he's

48:24

used that way, but they got to get

48:26

somebody. They have to get a playmaker in this offense. I don't

48:29

know why, I just love the term lidlifter. Like

48:31

it's my favorite thing now. Yeah. That's

48:33

fun. That's fun for you. So

48:36

that'll be a good one. But yeah,

48:38

the Bills obviously, I mean to go from

48:41

Stefan Digg and Gabe Davis, and

48:43

Gabe Davis, it didn't feel like ever

48:45

fully realized what we were hoping for from that

48:47

potential right, but still, it's a

48:49

big drop there. They got to shore

48:51

up that wide receiver position, give Josh Allen someone to

48:53

throw the football to. I'm

48:56

with you. And I think that's our show, Mike. Is it

48:58

though? Is it? We just

49:00

went, wait, is it not? You know, we didn't talk

49:02

about, you know, I'll cut here just real quick. Just

49:04

a couple of guys we did not put on teams,

49:07

other top guys. So I'm looking at my rankings, my

49:09

rookie rankings. So we have Marvin Harrison, Malik neighbors, Roma

49:11

Dunes. We put them all on teams,

49:13

right? We did not put Brock Bowers on the team. You're

49:16

right. You know, what's interesting

49:18

about that is everyone, almost everyone is mocking

49:20

him to the Jets. Yeah. With

49:23

that 10th overall pick. But that's not like, you know, the

49:25

Jets roster and say tight ends a big problem because Tyler

49:27

Conklin is a good player. He's a good underrated player. We're

49:30

not be surprising at all. If they address that

49:32

spot, they don't, they have kind of depth issues.

49:34

The receiver, aren't they signing Bubba Franks and, uh,

49:37

yeah, Michael Finley, all former, former

49:42

Packers, of course. Yeah. So,

49:44

uh, but that, that would be a fun one too. Um,

49:46

again, you don't view it as a major need, but

49:49

it would be awesome. It would be, it would

49:51

lift that offense. Like

49:54

would that be, if he

49:56

goes there, does he

49:58

have a lower ceiling because he Splitting time with Breece

50:00

Hall who's gonna get a ton of touches and Garrett

50:02

Wilson like do we want him to do like Will

50:04

he be a worse offense? Maybe Not

50:07

necessarily I I mean I could see Garrett

50:09

Wilson leading the NFL and touchdown catches because

50:11

this offense is gonna throw a plenty They

50:13

were they leaned toward the pass last year

50:15

game script adjusted with 2023 Mike Lee or

50:18

2024 Mike Lee telling me this about Garrett

50:20

Wilson Look Oh,

50:23

I know you so much. I'm so Aaron Rodgers

50:25

Aaron Rodgers lasted what three minutes of the season.

50:28

I'm not I struggle at that

50:30

No, I know. I know that because you know, so

50:32

I wish we that's not a bad take. I wish

50:34

we had like a month I know So

50:37

we have a better assessment like if they were struggling and then

50:39

he got hurt and I would be like, alright That's a no,

50:41

but it's hard to say. So Yeah,

50:43

I think I think going there would be great

50:45

I mean Mike Williams might you know, we already

50:47

know he's boom bust Gary Wilson's gonna be busy

50:49

Hall's targets will go down There's no doubt

50:51

about that. They just had to throw them last

50:54

year And

50:56

then after that Who

50:58

is it? You know, I think there's plenty of room for Brock

51:00

Bowers to be busy in that offense We should have them go

51:02

to pick 11 to the Chargers

51:05

because Jim Harbaugh needs a good blocking tight end

51:07

there. Mmm. Oh God You

51:14

never know what tight end so sometimes sometimes they were

51:16

Sam LaPorta Sometimes it takes them a few years like

51:18

Ingram and then Joku like it took them a while

51:20

to become a consistent fantasy Star, so

51:22

Evan Ingram, I think is one of those like

51:24

under the radar He is so much better than

51:26

he gets credit for with what he's done And

51:28

I've talked about this a bunch like he's not

51:31

a touchdown maker He's a chain mover, but if

51:33

you're playing in a PPR league and he's getting

51:35

you 90 catches and yeah 900 yards There's

51:38

so many tight ends like that. I mean Dallas

51:40

Goddard's another one It's just like if he has

51:42

scored six touchdowns, you're like, wow, that's great. I'll

51:44

take that. That's a big number That's a that's

51:46

a fine number for even a tight end one.

51:48

So yeah, I'm with you So a lot upside

51:51

there Brian Thomas, we briefly mentioned him But he's

51:53

another guy that could go middle of the first

51:55

round We mentioned lad mcconk gave him sixth on

51:57

my board and named Mitchell the

51:59

quarterbacks Caleb Williams, Jayden Daniels, how about Keon

52:01

Coleman? Did not mention Keon Coleman. Did I mention him out

52:03

of Florida State? That's another guy that could slip into the

52:05

first round and land on Monies. I'm hoping he goes second

52:07

round to my Detroit Lions, actually. I would love to have

52:09

a bigger bodied wide receiver like that. Yeah,

52:12

because you need, yeah, you need some competition

52:14

there, right? So, yeah, they have- Right, Amunrod,

52:16

J-Mo, Donovan Peoples-Jones, Khalif Raymond. Yeah,

52:18

so we don't know what we're gonna get out of

52:21

Jameson Williams, who's the real- This is it.

52:23

I mean, this season is the season where

52:25

J-Mo's gotta step up. If

52:27

you look at the big plays he had last year,

52:29

you see the potential, but they've gotta find ways to

52:31

manufacture touches on a consistent basis. Otherwise,

52:33

they gotta go a different direction. Yep. So,

52:36

Coleman, yeah, Coleman, Xavier Worthy, Xavier Legette, you're hearing

52:38

all of your- That's nine receivers in my top

52:40

12. That shows you all those guys are candidates

52:42

to go in the first round. Jonathan

52:45

Brooks, we mentioned- So

52:47

after mentioning 15 players, you

52:49

finally mentioned the first running back. Yes, basically.

52:52

13, okay. He's on the board 13. But

52:54

Trey Benson, Jaylen Wright, they're the other two in my

52:57

top tier. Running back, those could be day two

52:59

draft picks that make an impact in fantasy

53:02

right away. Troy Franklin, I've seen him go

53:05

in the first round of MOCs. Roman Wilson,

53:07

I think Mel projected to Buffalo, I believe

53:09

it was in the second round. Bucky

53:11

Irving. That's

53:14

about all I got. Enter. There's, I

53:16

mean, receiver, I keep going. We're gonna get into

53:18

the fourth round and have receivers there. I love

53:21

that guy. He should have been a second round pick. So,

53:23

yeah, there's a few guys we didn't

53:25

mention there, but a lot of you. A

53:27

lot of good fantasy options are gonna come off the board

53:29

here in a couple weeks. This is exciting from a dynasty

53:32

or keeper perspective. This is one of the deeper classes from

53:34

a fantasy asset perspective. I think it's gonna be very fun

53:36

this year to look at. Lot

53:38

of names. Lot of names coming off the board. Mike,

53:40

thanks for hanging out with me, dude. Of course, it

53:42

was fun. I appreciate it. We're gonna be back next

53:45

Friday, again, potentially. We'll see what

53:47

time. We'll be here. Not really sure. The show will

53:49

be here. Who will be here? This is the

53:51

question. It's a mystery. That's why you tune

53:53

in. I'll tell you what, I will be here. I know that Daniel will

53:55

be here. Okay. I am

53:57

committed to the show. We'll see who else is gonna be here with

53:59

me. But obviously we got a lot of stuff going on

54:01

draft is happening so people are all over the place But

54:04

I appreciate you being here with me, but yeah, it's always

54:06

fun buddy Thanks for hanging out with me follow Mike on

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the X at my clay NFL We love

54:10

you guys don't forget to love each other be kind

54:13

to yourself and aware Alright

54:16

right now stay cool not we'll see you that's too

54:18

hot out yet We know it's not but it's just

54:20

really good for reading today It's one of those things

54:22

one of the only things that helps prevent your skin

54:24

from getting like all Old and haggard

54:26

from the Sun all right, that's fair I mean, you know,

54:28

it's that time of the year now where it's like we

54:30

get teased with a 70 degree day I

54:33

mean it goes right back to rainy in 45. I hate that. Yeah

54:58

Oh