Fantasy industry vets Joe Dolan and Tom Brawley are bringing it all season long on the fantasy free agents podcast unrestricted, unaffiliated unparalleled fantasy football analysis. Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the fantasy free agents podcast. I'm your host Joe Dolan and it is Wednesday, August 21st. So it's a date early a day earlier than anticipated. But I will be talking to NFL films Legend Greg Cosell today. He is the senior producer of the ESPN matchup show on air Talent. They'll be returning week one to the ESPN networks family of networks. They're always one of the best shows if you love the science of football. I'm breaking down the film The Way Greg does and if you want to see the game through Greg's eyes with actual visual cues. Well, there you go. Watch the ESPN NFL matchup show as we've talked about and lamented with Greg for years. It is on at weird times, but we have this magical thing called DVR that you can use to make sure you never miss an edition of the matchup show and oftentimes some of the topics we're going to be covering on this podcast will be covered on the show. Greg will mention when he covered it on the show and you'll get to see everything in action that's going to be wonderful but we still have a couple weeks left of the preseason and as we've said before teams aren't doing anything interesting schematically right now. We are just evaluating the players and if you wanted to know how some of the players from last week did especially the quarterback position. That's what we focused on with Greg young quarterbacks. Second-year guys. Rookie guys, go back and listen to last week's podcast. It is up on our feed here. Udall the quarterback play from week one of the preseason but I sent out a call to action to the listeners last week and wanted to hear what some people wanted to know about maybe some of these under-the-radar fantasy guys that are getting the hype and that's what we're going to talk to Greg about this week. I sent him an email a little bit earlier in the week and he's going to do his personal evaluations of these players. Once again, he's going to relate to some of the things he saw in college because we're not looking at a ton of tape here from the preseason. But he's given them a look in the preseason. He's going to continue to watch these players for us and point out some interesting guys that we need to look for heading into the regular season. That'll be coming up in just a little bit Tom Brawley and I will be back on Friday. We're going to break down our rankings vis-à-vis the popular site rankings at Yahoo and ESPN. 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Greg Cosell from NFL films and the ESPN matchup show and Greg you and I were talking off air the first matchup shows a few weeks away, but you're already working on that and working on the scripts. Oh, yeah. I mean the first one, you know, the good thing about the first one the good and bad thing. I mean, obviously there's not real football yet this year, but there's a bunch of matchups some are rematches. I spent a lot of time this summer looking at At individual players and different schemes. So I even increased my familiarity with certain things. So, you know it we're able to kind of pick plays and that are very indicative and representative of teams and players. So we try to grind it out as early as we can spend a little more time and then of course it gets exciting, you know for me. I don't I'm sure you feel the same way Joe but week one once I have real NFL tape to look at, you know, we getting the Monday after the first Sunday at that really gets me excited. It gets us excited, too. Obviously when a whole offseason of analysis actually gets to come to a head and come to fruition. It's really exciting. But Greg these last couple weeks here are those of us in the fantasy industry. We're looking for just a little bit of an additional Edge. We don't want to overreact to positive or negative things from the preseason, but you do have to try to absorb them and put them in context last week you and I discussed the quarterback position. You have been dealing on those some of the some of the younger guys in the league the second-year guys some of the veterans who have been like Marcus Mariota who have been up and down. But today I wanted to take a little bit more of a unique approach. We're going to talk about some of the more under the radar fantasy players who are getting a little bit of hype here based on the preseason and I'm excited to get into this Greg and I know there's a little bit different positions here for us to go through. All right. Well, let's do it. I'm ready Joe. All right. Well, let's start Greg with the New England Patriots and I own the the problem with the Patriots wide receivers. Is there always seems to be a guy hyped up from training camp in the preseason every single year and the names like Ken Braille Tompkins and Brian Tim's come to mind guys who never really made him act in the way right now, but there's a guy young guy from NC State who is making an impact for them and is rising up the draft boards, and now people are considering what whether or not he's going to be a contributor this year because he's actually outplayed the first round pick. Nikhil Harry in Camp in the preseason that should Jacoby Myers and I know you mentioned to me off are last week that you would watch them. I'm wondering if you could give the people what you've seen from this Jacoby Meyers and what kind of player he might be. Yeah. I like Myers from what I've seen and I watched him some coming out as well. He was at NC State where they also had the other wide receiver Kelvin Harmon, but Myers, he looks to me like he could be a very effective big slot receiver. He's got an understanding of Route running. He's beating guys one-on-one. Inside he's got short area quickness. He's not an explosive vertical guy, but that's irrelevant and his running for catch. He's got strength and power and you know in that offense, it's far more predicated. When a lot of those what we call option routes Joyce routes working with throws that are under 10 yards and then run after catch and we know that the Patriots we've seen this for years with Julian Edelman. They do a great job with motion and stack Concepts to get receivers clean off the line of scrimmage and Myers looks to me like he kind of fits that mold now it is preseason. But we're talking about the traits and attributes of an individual player fitting into a system. That's pretty well defined over a number of years and in the rift Jacoby Myers, let's just say now we have a three-man receiving Corps or at least depending on what Myers does but we know who the two starters are going to be for the Patriots. It's going to be Julian Edelman and it's going to be Josh Gordon. Julian Edelman Greg in in your studies and what he's done over the years he has enough experience to play outside. You would think that much Meyers inside. Well, they do such a good job. I went through a ton of Edelman. Oh probably about two weeks ago and would they do a great job with him? He does play outside, but they'll often put them in motion and make him a stack player getting him those free releases. I'm sure a lot of people remember they SEC Championship game against the Chiefs and critical situations. They did just that at the chiefs were playing a lot of man and add almond wood motion behind whoever was in the slot at the time get him get him free access get him winning The Leverage battle right off the snap of the ball. I mean that's those are the kinds of things the Patriots do exceptionally. Well, so, you know, and and look I'm not saying Myers could never line up outside. We know the Patriots are not the Holden the way some teams are to a player can only do one thing, you know, they they create opportunities. For players to be able to do what they do. And so far Myers looks the part and Greg a couple weeks ago on the podcast. We talked about Josh Gordon. And you said he didn't look quite the same as he did six years ago. Well Greg, none of us. Look the same place. We did six years ago. It's just only the same as I did yesterday Joe, you know, I know I know how that feels Greg. I'm 33 right now. I've it's been downhill for me for the last 12 years. Well, I was once 33, but I can't remember. I can barely remember being 33 either and I'm 33 right now. I've been at NFL films longer than you've been alive Joe. Well, that's great. This is what we're dealing from. Where do you learn from experience now? Right. Right, right. I want to talk about Josh Gordon just a little bit because as you might imagine Greg the news that he has been reinstated. Well first and foremost, it's good news for him. And it's good news for football. I just love watching Gordon. I just hope he can stay cuz you know it you want the best players to play and he is one of their best players and although he might not be as explosive as Was in 2013. What does he give this offense that they lacked without? Well, first of all, he's a big receiver, you know, he certainly an outside receiver, which is you know, you'd always like that. I think he can line up as their x i so their single receiver to the boundary and you know, given the nature of the things they do a ton of play action with a lot of in Breaking routes. I mean, there's a lot of plays from last year where he basically ran the same things that Gronkowski would run though. As quick and Breakers and I think you'll see that because that's a major part of what they do. So and we'll see I mean, maybe maybe he'll gain some of that explosiveness back. You know, I wouldn't call him a highly refined route Runner, but I think you know, he's just a physically talented guy, you know, it'd be nice and who knows it be nice. If you could get back to somewhat of what he was because as I'm sure you remember for a couple years there you could make the argument that he The best receiver in football I'd love if he could get back to anywhere close to that level but he's obviously going to be a very important player for Fantasy Greg quickly before we move on from the Patriots Damien Harris had a big game this past week against the second-stringers now he was he was against the backups and he's probably still behind Sony Michel and James White, but they drafted this guy with a premium pick and when I questioned him and how does he fit what they do? Well, I think the Patriots are going to be a fascinating him to watch with what they do offensively because what Sony Michelle did down the stretch and the approach they took and now the drafting of Harrison the third round which is not a filler pick. Are they going to be a running football team first? I mean, he's your Damien Harris is your classic sustainer. He's a tough physical Runner. He's got Nach natural power. He's got enough wiggle to work away from the point of attack when demanded I really like them coming out and he doesn't have a ton of tread on his tires because of playing in Alabama, so I don't even think he carried more than a hundred. Fifty a hundred and sixty times in any of his years there. So when you look at the fact that they have Sony Michelle and Damien Harris who are somewhat similar stylistically in their downhill ability. You just wonder other Patriots going to essentially morph into a run first football team Greg. Let's go to a team that's definitely going to be a run first football team the Baltimore Ravens and he the one second-year quarterback. We didn't really talk about last week was Lamar Jackson. So I first want to lead off with what you've seen from him on the preseason tape thus far and And anything that's different from last year, you know, it's hard to say. I mean, you know, he's made a couple of throws. But again, it's so hard to get excited and say well look at the great Improvement. I wouldn't say that he's made any throws where you say. Wow, that that I'm really impressed with his Improvement. Now, you know, like I've said many times when I watched him as last year at Louisville. I actually thought he threw the ball. Well, he did not throw the ball. Well last year now that doesn't mean he's incapable of Throwing the ball well, but you know, I think with what they plan on doing with their run game and what they do with all kinds of formations and backfield actions, they'll be a lot of defined one read throws for him that will be predetermined by the design of the play because everything else about the play will cause hesitation and confusion in the second level of the defense and throws will be there. So again, I don't know if he's going to throw 40 touchdowns. I would doubt It but my guess is he'll probably be somewhat efficient and then they'll mix in some shot plate Concepts and hope that they can hit the big explosive plays off that Greg, you know, damn. Well that the Ravens ran more than 70 plays per game last year. That's number one in the NFL and even if they're not an explosive amazing offense, the more plays you run. There's more opportunities for Fantasy production and that brings me to the rookie running back fourth round pick. Oklahoma State just yep Hill and he is getting a lot of hype now. I like what Mark Ingram brings to this offense, but there are plenty of snaps here for multiple backs to get involved. How do you think he'll fits this offense? I think you fits really well because I think what you're going to get with that offense at times, of course, not every play is you going to get spread looks you're going to get a lighter boxes. You're going to get Jackson's running ability putting pressure on the defense and and impacting run support. I thought He'll coming out of Oklahoma state. Was it really intriguing Prospect? I mean, he's got really good running traits. There's a dynamic and electric field to his running at times the more I watched him the more I like them. He's Shifty. He's elusive. He's got creativity. He can generate big runs, you know, he's not going to be a quote-unquote feature back. That was really the question coming out of Oklahoma State because he was under five ten and under 200 pounds, but it's kind of a compliment in Kind of offense. I think that he can be a valuable piece and an explosive piece and one more player who people have been talking about is Mark Andrews the tight end because he hasn't played a ton of snaps with Lamar Jackson and the first team offense, but we know Nick Boyle is the blocker and this is going to be a team that's going to have a lot of a lot of heavy protections because they want to run the football they want they want to be almost kind of a finesse Power Team. I know that might be an oxymoron, but I know they're going to have Nick boiling there to block but what did you see from? Drew's last year and his connection with Lamar Jackson. You know, I think Andrews is a good receiving tight end. I think he'll fit this offense as well because again so much of this offense will be what did you probably call misdirection and deception and by that I don't mean gimmicks, but I mean so much backfield action the threat of Lamar Jackson running that puts definite pressures on a defense and I think when you're talking about a guy like Mark Andrews working between the hashes between the numbers as an Threat, he's got that kind of movement. I mean, he's not explosive in the way that lets say Travis Kelce is but he's got that kind of movement. He's not quite let's say a Jared Cook, but he certainly has enough movement to work at the intermediate levels. I remember last year. I think it was against the Chargers equal to 68 yard touchdown on a really well-designed shot play, you know, I think they can do those kinds of things with Mark Andrews. The question is how much he plays because they have Hayden Hearst as well and that's a big question for them. Only something that we're concerned about but he was the guy who had the connection with Jackson which is why we're intrigued Now Greg go into their division rival the Steelers applier who I know you've watched a little bit this preseason and is making a lot of waves is James Washington the second year wide receiver and he just looks a little more explosive to me. You know, it's funny when he came out of Oklahoma State you obviously made a lot of big plays long plays, but on tape to me, he didn't look like he'd be a true vertical threat in the league and I don't know whether he lost weight. I don't know, you know. Looks like to me at a good offseason probably as far as nutrition and weight training because he just looks a little Slimmer and and a little more explosive to me. And I think ultimately, you know, that's that's the kind of receiver. They would like him to be they've got a very intriguing receiving Corps because they've got some big bodied guys some guys who can run we know about Juju Smith Schuster who's just a really good receiver. I'm kind of fascinated by the whole thing with James, Washington. Donte Moncrief because as we've discussed many times Joe as you know, Moncrief is one of those guys that just looks like he should be really good and while he's had moments in the league, he's never quite gotten over that hump. I could not begin to speculate as to the reasons why but we'll see, you know, I don't think we know how the snaps will play out with a Moncrief or Washington. We just don't know I mean Ben Roethlisberger hasn't played and yeah Washington's been playing with the So I guess he is going to look more explosive against the backups, but explosiveness is something you thought he struggled with last year. Was there anything else that you thought he struggled with? Because I know Roethlisberger did call him out at one point last year. Yeah. Well, don't forget and then I actually had a chance to talk to her. I thought Swagger about this last summer believe it or not is you know, he's a guy James Washington who essentially lined up 98% of the snaps at Oklahoma State on the right side of the offensive formation. So when you get to the NFL, you know, you have to you can't just line up in one place. So there was a lot that he had to learn not only about receiving for him but then about coverages so he's still a work in progress and we'll see how that plays out. But he just looks a little different body type to me in a good way. The those of us who are concerned with Josh Allen's short to intermediate accuracy Greg and if you're not concerned with it, I'm wondering what you're looking at, but we know what kind of talent Josh Allen is, but I always thought Cole Beasley was kind of an interesting fit for them. Given Allen. In that area but it looked like in their second preseason game that the bills came out and made it a point to have Josh Allen Target Cole Beasley Target him often and if they had a little bit of a connection, what did you see on tape from that? Well, I and I thought that Josh made those throws pretty well. So, you know, I think that there was only one throw that I thought it still ended up being a first down. I think it was 9 yards on Third and five and I think the throw was a little low at Force Beasley to the ground which prevented run after catch but for the most part Part Josh me those throws well, and that's got to be a critical part of their offense because I tell you what you line Beasley up when he's number three two trips working inside his ability to run option routes Choice route often times. It could work against a linebacker doing that. I think that needs to be a meaningful part of their offense. Those are chain mover plays. They're not plays that make highlights but their chain mover plays and I think that's what's critical to the bills offense this year. Josh will hit some big plays. He'll run. Some big plays but it's these kinds of plays that seem like nothing plays Joe. Yeah that are absolutely critical not only to their offense but to their team because they've actually got a pretty good defense, you know, this is a team that could be pretty good if Josh Allen and again, we don't need him to be at 68% in Pro 40 touchdowns. He just needs to be able to move the change and be a little more consistent. How big a loss is Beasley for the Cowboys just flipping over I know they face. Signed Randall Cobb a signed copy. Yeah, but I would think at this point is Is basically almost a better fit for the Cowboys as well because cops find a he's been up and down recently. Yeah, I mean look, it was a couple of years ago that Beasley really looked like an important piece of what they did last year. He did not have the same numbers. He didn't did not seem to be as critical. You know, I think that that kind of receiver is always critical for a team because those kinds of slot receivers are chain movers. It's hard to get a feel for the Cowboys right now Prescott is not thrown. Many balls, I think he's thrown nine balls in the preseason. So you really don't have any feel for how they're receiving. Corps is going to play out Amari Cooper is not played now all of a sudden we hear he won't play it a week one, which is a little scary thought usually that means a guy might not played a week 3, you know, so we don't know we really have no idea what's going on there with their offense other than Tony Pollard is getting fitted for the gold jacket. Oh, yeah, he and Daniel Jones Greg. I saw him in care and this past week, but let's let's talk about 20. Because he's another one of these kind of mid to late round smaller for lack of a better term Gadget backs. We just talked about Justice Hill and we're going to get into Darwin Thompson as well. But what what do you like about Tony Pollard? And how does he fit this offense? Because I don't think the Cowboys can run their offense through him the way they do Zeke Elliott. Well, you know the Polish got very good abilities good-sized kid. He's never been a runner first. He wasn't in college. Anyway, I don't know about his high school career. But he's good sized. He's got some subtle shiftiness and confined space. He showed some finishing power. You know, the thing about running backs is there's a lot of backs with ability Joe the thing about being a true feature back in the NFL is there's a mindset that goes with that a mental and physical mindset. You know, Zeke Elliott to me was the best runner in the NFL and the thing about guys like that is they are really good in the fourth quarter of games because they have a mint Holiday that allows that I remember one point talking to a Damien thomlinson about that. So you have no idea about Tony Pollard if indeed this is the way it plays out. Yes, he's got ability. But is Tony Pollard going to be a guy that carries 1820 in a given week 25 26 times a game over the course of 16 games. There's no way anyone can answer that question. He's got no track record in that regard when you talk about an offense running through the I run game starting with the Run game Greg, you know as well as anybody almost nobody in the NFL runs the ball more than they throw it at this point, correct? I mean 45% run is a significant amount that in this day and age. That is correct. However, when you mention that team runs through the Run game starts with the Run game the way you have said the Cowboys do what does that mean from your perspective and tape study? Well, I mean from a tape study perspective. I don't know if it means anything, you know amazing. It's just I'll give you an example real quick example, like I think the Rams okay, I don't think their offense runs through girly in terms of the player. I think their offense runs through a back in the sense that they use the Run game as the foundation of everything they do from a conceptual. Standpoint another words the outside Zone run really does a great job in minimizing and limiting pass rush because D lineman not just linebackers now D lineman start to move laterally and they don't move up the old vertically to rush the quarterback. So I don't think that their offense is a function of Todd Gurley per se. I think it's a version of it's a it's what they do conceptually the Cowboys to me on the other hand. Are different their offense runs through Zeke Elliot. He's not used conceptually. He's used as the player. Let's give him the ball and everything will work off him and I think there's a difference. So in other words you think the Rams could run what they do with Daryl Henderson provided he's 75% of what girly is at his Peak the Cowboys cannot run what they do without Ezekiel Elliott. I would say that I'd lean in that direction, you know again, you know, it's always hard to make those definitive statements because there is speculation there and there's a pinion there but I would lean in that direction but having said that just as a matter of point of whatever with no inside information, I think that Jerry Jones right or wrong believes that Dak Prescott is on the verge of something big and that he is far far more. Oughtn't to the Cowboys than Ezekiel Elliott is so I think that he's not going to break the bank for Zeke and he will for deck and I mean you can argue the validity of that. He might well be right given the importance of the running back in today's game. I think I think he is right is as much as I love Zeke. I think that you know, it's the Cowboys had to line up with Zeke and Cooper rush. I don't think they'd be as good as if they had to line up with DAC and Alfred Morris and Tony Pollard, you know. But I don't think the Run game would be the same. Let's talk about another one of these a late-round back. She's getting a lot of Buzz Greg Darwin Thompson out of Utah State didn't get invited to the combine. But everybody is looking for that Andy Reid back that explosive back in this offense. And while he doesn't necessarily fit the mold of a feature back, he's making a lot of Splash place here in the preseason. Yeah, and he's a guy he's not very big that you know, that's the thing and so but but he's a very interesting player because he's a tough physical. All inside Runner despite his lack of desired size you ran really hard between the tackles and I would say despite his size. He's much more of an inside Runner than this catback type runner. In fact, I didn't think he had great perimeter quickness or speed, you know, it's not slower prodding. But you know, he didn't let's put it this way didn't strike me as let's say Brian Westbrook type player. I don't think he's at that level of player. I'm sure because it's Andy Reid some people probably see him that way and and you know, maybe he can be that to some degree in the context of that off. It's he did catch a 29-yard touchdown it you this year in the preseason to came on what we call a Texas route when he was offset in the backfield and he beat a linebacker, but I don't know if he's quite that explosive. It sounds to me like you're describing Phillip Lindsay. Honestly, don't forget. I know Lindsay had a great year last year, but he was also undrafted. So, you know, it's it's always hard to know that you know, obviously there's always guys who are either late round picks or undrafted who make it. It you know Lindsay's had one really good year as a rookie and we'll see what his career turns out to be but you know, who knows maybe there are similarities. Let's get to the Carolina Panthers. Great. We have a couple more teams. I want to get to and I want to get to them quickly Curtis Samuel and DJ more at the end of last year Greg. I'm not sure we saw exactly what these guys could do because cam was hurt. But yeah, both of these guys, especially Samuel or getting big time hype here in the preseason. What do you think Norv Turner? Do with these guys and could this be a really effective wide receiver pairing for cam? I think it could I think Samuels an explosive guy. I loved him coming out of Ohio State. He lined up all over for Io State including the backfield, but I thought he was a receiver in the NFL. He's you know, he has explosive traits more was that guy? I really really like now, I don't think he plays as fast as he ran at the combine. I think he ran a 4/4. I don't think it's necessarily that guy but I think he's You know in the context of a North koerner offense, I think he can work the intermediate areas really really effectively with a good-sized body get him a little stronger good run after catch. I think more could end up being one of those just really solid receivers, you know, and I think that they have those guys young guys Samuel 30 or more second year. I think it's a nice pairing because same you'll gives you the explosion and I think that more gives you the consistency in the short intermediate areas. More sounds like the classic X and Samuel the classic Z your you could be right, you know that does make sense and Harper relationship. Yeah, I mean obviously Samuels not as big as Harper, but I think Samuel is a movement guy and the Z is the movement guy because he's off the ball Greg. I know we do have to touch on this Kyler Murray the Cardinal offense looked really bad on Monday night don't want to freak out. I always point back to the preseason two years ago when DeShaun Watson looked terrible and to Shawn Kaiser look like he was going to be A Hall of Famer. We don't want to freak out but was there any concerns from what you saw what their offense? No, I mean first of all, I think that the Raiders said you know what you're not in the Big 12 anymore Cliff. So we're going to show you some stuff that you've never seen and it's going to pose a little bit of a problem and it did you know to me the biggest issue and the biggest challenge that college coaches face offensive coaches when they get to league is past protection and I think that look they want to get all five out all the time. They want to be Brad you know, they haven't shown what they're going to show we'll see about that when this regular season starts, but I think Kliff Kingsbury, he's gonna have to learn that in this league. He's not always going to get all five out. The team's defense is won't let him do that. I think that the wider splits of offensive lineman. I don't know if he can do that in the NFL. I think that that will cause pass protection issues. So we'll see what happens. I wouldn't put too much stock in what happened in the Raiders game. Well, you know, I think they open they open at home against the Lions which is to me a very interesting matchup because of Matt Patricia obviously coming from the Belichick school and we'll see about the receiving Corps, which I think is a little bit of a question mark and so is there all line I mean, you know, you got to protect in this league is as explosive as calamari is you can't spend every game just running around. I mean it's going to wear him down and once again, you can't game plan for that as well as you've always said, you know a great. We talked about it with Michael Vick Michael Vick would have games like he had against the Redskins where just everything worked well, but then you know, sometimes you go and you play the Vikings with Joe Webb and just everything goes wrong and you never know what quarterback you're going to get and I think Marie Greg, I know you love them too. I think he's going to overcome a lot of this but they might not be a good team year one know we'll see. We'll see how it plays out. I mean, like I said, I think Kliff Kingsbury you'll have some things that that he's gonna have to learn and look. I don't know Cliff never I met him maybe he's incredibly brilliant in three years or saying. Wow, you know, we don't know the answer to that but he was a college coach running a particular system. That's the system. He knows that's the system he teaches you'll have to make some tweaks to it in the leak Greg with the Seahawks. I remember last year you were one of the early adopters to hey, I know they drafted Rashad penny in the first round, but I think Chris Carson kind of fits what they do better lo and behold Carson has the big ear itself. It's what they do better. Yeah. Exactly and apparently penny is struggling here camp in the preseason. Have you seen that on film and Carson by the way for fantasy is moving up draft boards as Penny false here. Well, they're going to play the same way. I fensively so if Carson does not get hurt he's going to be the feature back in the foundation back and he'll get 250 plus carries and he'll probably do what he did last year because I think they have a pretty good ol line. And now that now that Mike Solari and his second years d-line coach. They're very well coached. I did not love Richard Penny coming out, you know, maybe See, I was in the minority. I didn't think that he was a physical inside Runner. I didn't think that he was he ran through contact or broke a lot of tackles and I think in this offense, that's what you have to do the key to this offense and it's white Carson were a Carson's not going to break 60-yard runs Joe that's not Carson. But what Carson will do is when it's locked for to who get 5 that's that offense, you know how difficult that offenses defend when Russell Wilson's constantly in second and five or third and three, that's a Really hard offense to defend and and that's really what they're about Greg one more player before we let you go. He hasn't been getting a lot of fantasy hype but somebody's going to catch the ball in Miami and the guy who's getting a lot of buzz in Camp is Preston Williams the undrafted. Oh, yeah. I remember watching him in car. Yeah. I remember watching him in college. I think he had some kind of issue but he had over 9000 acted stuff. Yeah. Yeah, and I don't remember what it was. So I hope it's not the kind of thing that gets him suspended but big kid, you know, I think he's a contested catch guy not necessarily explosive, but you don't have to be you know, I he's a talented kid in the cunt EXT of today's NFL because of his size and his contested catch ability Greg one more thing before we go. We talked last week about the Eagles needing to add a backup quarterback, maybe not but they actually go out and signed Josh McCown. Yeah, and I know Eagle fans are really interested because when says missed a couple of games in each of the last Two seasons a can he still play but be and I think this is more important. What does he bring to the quarterback room got really good hair. That's what you've got. You know, I know that yeah. Well look Josh been in the league a long time. He's a smart guy. He can learn systems. I'm protecting. My guess is throughout his career. He's probably been in in a system like this. I can't remember every team. He's played for it's been seven or eight list of NFL teams Greg and and that's the S of T that he's probably you know, and this means something it's a cliche but it's true. He'll be great in the quarterback room. He knows his role. He can probably help Carson Wentz just you know in many different ways if he has to play look was it two years ago? I believe it was the year before Donald got there. He actually played very well. So, you know, I think that they probably brought him in because such felled and you know, maybe they found out and they that he won't be ready till week five or six and you know, they Look, they have a really good team with a really good roster. Unfortunately, we you never know about went once there's a high high level talent, but the Eagles don't want to lose games just if went can't go for two or three weeks because their rosters pretty good and and rightfully so they see themselves as a Super Bowl team Greg. Thank you so much for joining us. I thought this was an enlightening podcast talking about some of the Lesser highlighted players Greg will get back with you next week. I know this is typically the dress rehearsal. Weak teams just aren't playing guys. And I don't know if that will continue this week Punk named. Well, you know, but you're right we'll find that out. I mean teams are so worried about guys getting hurt. So we'll see. You know, I'm going to Eagles game tomorrow night. I you know, they still haven't said anything about Carson Wentz. He might not play One Snap in the preseason. Yeah. So I mean and what the one thing I do think is will get an extended look at some of these rookies as they try to get more snaps and will filter through which of those guys actually played some meaningful snaps and we'll talk to you next week, right? Thank you for joining us. To appreciate it. What's up listeners? This has been kookiness producer of the fantasy free agents podcast. 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Last week, I think we did what Greg Cosell does best what he's known for breaking down the quarterbacks, but I also think he does a great job with some of these under the radar players because he studies everyone coming out of college. So even if he really hasn't looked at a guy in the NFL he has an idea of what the guy was from his college tape, and I thought this was a particularly enlightening podcast with some of these under the radar fantasy players who are getting some late hype and with the Advent of the 0 RB draft method or a modified 0 RB draft method some of these late-round backs like a Tony Pollard a Darwin Thompson a Justice Hill one of these guys is going to make an impact. Maybe it's somebody we haven't even talked about on the podcast who who is going to be able to make an impact a little bit later, but it's always important to know who these guys are. We even mentioned Preston Williams briefly from Miami at the end of the podcast. So it's not just the quarterbacks Greg knows it's everybody. And if I did an offensive line focused podcast he would deal on that too. It's just a wonderful resource and it's amazing to have Greg Cosell with us each and every week. Once again. Typically he's going to be with us on Thursdays but being with us on Wednesday this week because he is a very busy man as he said he was working already on the NFL matchup show. I wanted to get this podcast out to the people Greg will be with us next week to recap those quote unquote dress rehearsal games. I don't think anybody's going to be playing their starters into the third quarter the way they used to but maybe we'll get a little bit more of a glimpse of some of these rookie quarterback some of these younger players some of these second-year quarterback says we look for them to make a leap going into the 2019 season filtering Greg's analysis through the lens of fantasy is one of the things that I'm most excited about this podcast and I really hope you guys are very excited about it, too. I want to remind people that Tom Brawley is drafting in the nff. See wrote a wire online championship. Next Tuesday at 9:30 p.m. Eastern the spots are going quick. If you want to beat Tom have a chance at a two hundred thousand dollar grand prize check the show notes reach out to us on Twitter and we'll talk you through the process. That will be a lot of fun. 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Joe Dolan (@FG_Dolan) welcomes in the legendary film junkie Greg Cosell (@gregcosell) to break down some of the late-round players that could make an impact for fantasy this year. Joe and Greg touch on Jakobi Meyers, Josh Gordon, Justice Hill, Tony Pollard, Darwin Thompson, and more QB analysis in this enlightening episode. Don’t miss it! A special congratulations to our own Joe Dolan for finishing #1 in Draft Accuracy for the 2018 season among 140+ sites and experts! This was Joe’s second #1 overall and third top-3 finish in the last 5 years, making his rankings THE most accurate preseason fantasy football draft rankings on average since 2015. Check out the complete list at fantasypros.com/nfl/accuracy/multi-year-draft.php. Joe's draft was held on 8/20, but there's still time to beat Tom! To draft against Tom, join the Rotowire Online Championship and select the online draft time of 8/27 at 9:30 PM Eastern. Play for the $200,000 grand prize! 