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. It's another week here on the fantasy free agents podcast. We're pleased to be bringing it to you. I am Joe Dolan. He is Tom Brolly and Thompson's training camp is in full swing. We once again have another Monday weekend wrap-up of news to get to its gonna there's a lot a lot of stuff to get to in a lot of tidbits Tom that at this point they have to be adjusting your ranking. So we're going to get into some of the biggest news that that's happened over this weekend, and we're going to talk about Up, a lot of the rankings adjustments that were making up at Fantasy free agents.com Tom. It's good to be talking to you. I was away this weekend in New York City and it's that time of year where we do all of our industry drafts, and we do we start traveling and seeing people and kind of absorbing the information that they have. So we're going to review the flex traps that I was in a little bit later on in the podcast as well and we'll go through my mindset but a how are you doing? How are you? What do you do this? Weekend I swung the golf clubs for the first time again for three months. I don't know if people are aware but I dislocated my left shoulder a couple months ago and the most embarrassing athletic, you know Endeavor that I've ever done Joe you happen to be there. So I'm slowly. I got injured I dislocated my shoulder and I bunker in April, you know playing golf so it was quite embarrassing but I'm slowly working myself off the injured reserve here and I might be able to Get up soon. So I'm very excited about that. Well justjust for some background Tom not to further embarrass you but I'm going to further embarrass you. Okay go for it went to play Bedford Springs in Pennsylvania, which is like grated is like the nicest public course in Pennsylvania and trust me. Tom and I are not rich nor are we classy enough to belong to any private courses? So certainly playing the public courses on is is our best option. So we went to play Bedford Tom. I'm gonna hold this against you forever because you did dislocate your shoulder on the 16th hole you dislocated it on the second hole. So we had to take you to the emergency room as opposed to playing a beautiful course. Yeah, it was a fun experience the UPMC and Bedford. You know, it gave me some psychedelic drugs the pipe pop that thing back in I couldn't do it myself. It was actually a posterior dislocation which wire which was why I was having such issues getting it back in place myself. Usually there are anterior. So only a the the most common posterior dislocation. Asians are electrocution. So that's that's a tell you how hard I hit into the sand that you know, my arms were going backwards as I you know, my club got stuck in the in the sand there. So I'm glad that I'm almost you know back to full strength Heroes first started lifting weights again, and yeah, it's been an interesting couple couple months here. Well, well first and foremost, I also have to point out that you ended up having more fun than me and in matte Brown who was on our last Last podcast if you like college football, make sure you listen to that one, but it was the three of us and you actually ended up having more fun than us because even though you dislocated your shoulder, they put you on some good stuff at the I'm trying to think of what it was called. I'm blanking on the name right now, but I was tripping balls on the way back. I was I was completely out of it. I thought it was dying for the first like five minutes of it, but then I was your euphoric at the end of it. So it was Academy not what that's what it was. It was it came back to me ketamine that was the drug of choice to sedate me for 20 minutes while we do not we do not endorse anybody using ketamine for recreational purposes. If this was strictly a medical procedure Tom, yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah, I would not I don't think I'd want to do it again either. Okay. Well you had fun that time. I'm glad we're going to be getting back out on the course soon because I know you miss it. I mean you've been running around you've literally you've Been driving in the golf cart with us just because you just miss being out there. 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So probably a ten by fifteen dollar discount of where he would go. But the news is Antonio Brown is simply David day with foot injuries. I know he posted the picture on Instagram really? Thanks. Thanks a be. Holy crap. I did not make see that. Yeah, both his feet are just covered in blisters. Maybe that's because he was doing exercise and effing. Firs yeah, that might be it but both his feet are covered in blisters. I would guess Tom that's the issue here. Probably nothing to worry about but when you're coming in from an off season in which you forced to trade you arrive in training camp in a hot air balloon you go from Pittsburgh to Oakland and Oakland's offense might be a lot better than I think a lot of people are expecting, but the only reason Tommy Antonio Brown is available in the late second. I actually got him in the early third and a best ball last night. Right. The only reason he's available at those spots is because he's a complete nut bird. Like let's be honest. I mean the guys in all-time great receiver, but there is a problem child discount built-in. Dantonio Brown. So anything you hear about him going to see an injury specialist isn't the best news in the world, even at this appears minor. Yeah. I mean he quit on his team and week 17 last year. I mean that's I mean people, you know, don't forget those type of things. So, you know, and he's going to Derek Carr here, so, Even with just a you know, he's just missed a couple weeks of practice here, but I even had to adjust him down on a rank as I move my Kevin's up ahead of them. They were pretty close to begin with so, you know, I'm not getting to you know worried about Brown here, but he's losing reps, you know, you know, he's breaking in with a new quarterback here, you know, those reps can be pretty valuable. You know, it didn't matter when it was Big Ben and Antonio Brown in there, you know 7th 8th season together last year, but I think it does matter a little bit. Yeah, whenever you're breaking in with a new quarterback, so you will just them a little bit downward here. But I guess he's just going to get some good foot massages in the next couple of days. Keep the what those blisters heal up here. I mean, he posted it on Instagram trust me. It was disgusting. I know my sister is one of those. Dr. Pimple popper nuts. She loves going on YouTube and watching people popped. But if you're one of those nuts, maybe you want to check it out. But look trust me. It didn't look serious Tom it look like something that's going to heal in a few days, but it was just gross. Yeah, everything was the underside of his foot. It was like green and old comes into everywhere probably grow some people. I hope you're not eating dinner when you're listening this or making breakfast, but it was not if you're in that kind of thing. Go ahead look it up. It's quite something. Okay, Tom and here are some other big news that broke over the weekend when we were at the flex drafts and we will be talking about this later when we get to my team Josh Gordon has Officially applied for reinstatement. Now. I think the writing was on the wall here. The Patriots have his rights. He was working out with Tom Brady this offseason and quite frankly the Patriots didn't do a whole lot to improve their receiving Corps after the retirement of Rob Gronkowski the departure of Danny Amendola last year somebody they didn't really replace all in full. They did draft nikhil Harry but you look at what they did at the receiver position. They drafted to kill Harry. Who by the way is struggling in Camp right now. What drops and then they go in and they go dumpster diving not to say that Maurice Harris and and Dontrelle Inman might not work out for them. But that's who they are. That's who they went and got they got Maurice Harris and Dante hour and Min to go with nikhil Harry. It felt like they were planning all along to have Josh Gordon at some point. And this is just more confirmation that the Patriots anticipate having Josh born on their team this year. Yeah. It seems like they were pretty confident that you know, if everything went well that he would Be back in the full but then again, I mean Josh Gordon has been about as trustworthy. I mean, I mean it's been you know, the same old story with them all throughout his career and he's had real issues, you know staying on the straight and you know, Narrow Path here, so things are looking up for him here. I he's been I think my second most drafted receiver and best balls. He was just like my default number seven receiver and the 16th to 18th rounds the last couple months here, so I'm happy about it I box Play taken a quite a bit of Tom Brady to that was more of just because he was like at the end of the quarter back tears and I always would pair them up. I would you know, I thought there was a good chance that Josh Gordon would be back and you know later this week. I'm going to do you did your best ball ownership article last week and I'll do mine this week here and I'll kind of touch on that a little bit here with Gordon and Brady, but you know, it's looking like he's going to be back at some point this season, you know, it probably is Going to take a couple weeks till we actually find out, you know, even if everything goes perfectly, you know, he probably might miss, you know, the first couple weeks of the season but it sure looks like if he stays, you know true to his word here that he should be back but maybe sometime by the middle of September. So let's talk about my Approach with Josh Gordon first and foremost. If you have faded Josh Gordon for his entire career, you've come up on the winning and more often than not yes. And last year when he got reinstated Tom, he was drafted me. We were out in Canton Ohio for the Kings classic. He got reinstated. I believe that day when we were out there in the Kings classic and remember Julian Edelman was facing a four-game suspension. That sounds insane right now, but he was going ahead of Julian Edelman in those drafts now. I mean, he's always been a super popular player. I mean, he usually performs when he's been out in the field, but it just hasn't been out in the field quite enough. We even saw last year. He averaged 18 yards a catch last year. I mean playing, you know, Brady hasn't been the most efficient down feel Pastor recently. But you know, he still has those big play ability. Well look and this is what I'm saying. If you faded Josh Gordon for the majority of his career, I mean aside from the one blow up your but more often than not you've come up on the winning end. But here's the difference Tom and this is why you have to re-evaluate all at all times last year when Josh Gordon got reinstated and everybody's like, oh boy. I'm taking them in the fourth round, you know, I was fading that price right now. You're getting them in double digit rounds. I'm not fading that price. Yeah, what do you think is prices if say, you know, three weeks from now on August 26 on a Monday. We find out that he's good to go for the season. I'd see settle in as I was thinking about a seventh-round death round her. So that's what I was thinking. Yeah. I mean if you want to buy that upside get into it now and like this is what I kept saying last year. Look we're playing fantasy football. I root for Josh Gordon the Person, he has had some demons. He's battled through them. He's acknowledged them and he and from all indications. He's tried to get better and Tom. This isn't a straight uphill climb, right? You know, there's there's Peaks and valleys when you're trying to get better. It didn't make you some woke God of fantasy football to say, I'm drafting Josh Gordon in the fourth round because I don't think the NFL should suspend people, you know, like ultimately you don't get fantasy points for that. Okay, like but if you're Irish, Root for the guy at the price. He's at right now. I'll invest and I'll invest heavily in Josh Gordon. My thing is as you mentioned though, if the announcement comes out that he's reinstated or even Tom we're going to suspend them for the first three weeks of the Season. He's gonna he's gonna get into that. Eighth ninth round range right now is when you want to get in on the ground floor with Josh Gordon because legitimately has a shot to be the number one receiver on the Patriots and he's a double-digit round pick right now, and that's Yeah, John, I don't even think it was people being woken stuff last year him going to for I think it was legitimate curiosity. And I mean, hey, if you think back to it Edelman was facing the four-game suspension. He had a torn ACL year before there was real concerned that he might not be the same player. Gronk had been, you know, kind of deteriorating the you know in the recent season, so I think there was legit. Hey, this guy could be a leg winter. This guy could be a legit number-one receiver. You know, it didn't turn out that way. They didn't truly use some that way. I mean I Tillman, you know as we saw last year as you know, still fine, he's still it's hard to you know, it's hard to cover out of the slot as anybody and he's going to see a lot of targets but you know Gordon still has that, you know huge upside from week to week. And you know, I think people were very excited about him last year going in the fourth and fifth round, you know, some of it will probably be gone. But even you know, if we find out at the end of August that he's going to be, you know, eligible to play all 16 games, he's got I think he stole yeah, I still He has you know some potential value in the sixth or seventh round, right? But you know, you also have to keep in mind that when's the last time you finish the whole season. I mean, I mean and that's gonna hold him down in that spot. So but right now his floor is baked into like if I get him in the 12th round even and we will be talking about that and he doesn't play a game this year. Oh, well Tom, I took a shot if I but if I'm dressing them in the fourth round and he doesn't play a game that really hurts. Yeah, there's a big difference and that's been my general approach whenever I I take him it's on a team where I have six other receivers with them. It's you know, I'm drafting 7 receiver spots on my best ball teams. When I've taken him Tom one of the biggest sucker bets this offseason. I thought was drafting Deonte foreman and now the Achilles injury first and foremost. It is a fact that no running back has ever come back from an Achilles. And as even approached solid play that being said not a whole lot of guys have suffered the injury and a lot of guys have It towards the end of their careers. So that's something you have to keep in mind as well. The problem with de'aunte Foreman was this the news was wasn't great on him. He had the Achilles and frankly Tom. I don't think he was a great Prospect. Anyway, so combine all those things together and I thought he was a massive sucker bet. Well, I wish I had been more steadfast on saying that because the Texans released him. They think he needs a fresh start and Tom the thing that was startling to me is it wasn't a talk? About you know, the injury really held him down. They were extremely disappointed in his work ethic some off-field habits and certainly for a guy like Foreman coming off that injury first and foremost. You need to have a fantastic work ethic to get back. We know that also though again. I didn't think this was a guy who was like a spectacular. He was Uber productive at Texas, but honestly heat he was kind of a straight-ahead grinder. I didn't love him as a prospect and guys are going to separate from you if you You're if you get that injury and I feel bad for him suffering injury, but guys are going to separate from you. And this is why Bill O'Brien All Seasons like hey Lamar Miller Scott and Lamar Miller still the guy so there are a couple layers to break down with this Texans thing first and foremost Foreman. He might get a shot somewhere Tom. He's on draftable. He is like even if you're taking them in like the seventeenth eighteenth round of a best ball. What a he's not on a team be what has he shown you to make you say, you know what I should take a shot on this guy. So I think he's totally undrafted oil this jump high. I totally agree. I don't think he's even if he lands somewhere and the depth charts, then he has a lot to prove and I mean we've seen the tea leaves, you know, the last couple of weeks with you know, basically O'Brien says he's gotta learn the backup job. And you know now we see the work habits stuff that came out this weekend. So I mean, he's gonna he's gonna be in a real struggle just to make a roster out of Camp here, even if he does land in a pretty good spot to to make some noise. So he is I'm right there with you. He's completely on draftable for me. I have zero point zero shares of Dionte foreman and I will continue to have no shares. So second of all time. I want to ask you what is this due to Lamar Miller for you? Because as I mentioned in my most drafted players article, he has been one of my most traffic running backs and Tom. I still got him in the sixth round of a best ball last night. Yeah. I don't think his price is actually going to rise might I think people are just going to continue to hold him there in that. No, 60 to 75 pick range and you know, I get it. I mean he hasn't shown a whole lot of upside in recent Seasons, but there is still you know, he's gonna be your third running back and most situations and there is some upside to having just stability every week. You know, he's a guy that could get you, you know, 60 to 80 yards with touchdown potential and a couple catches. So there is something for that, you know, especially in your third spot. There's not a lot of upside but He does give you a nice floor. I just don't know what this means for the Texans. We saw the Melvin Gordon thing this morning from John McClane that they're not interested in it. I kind of find maybe not the Gordon thing, but I think they're going to be working the market here a little bit and maybe even free agency. We know Jay ajayi still out there. So, you know, the I think they're going to be working the markets here in the next couple of weeks for sure. And by the way, the reason people have connected Melvin Gordon here is first and foremost Lamar Miller is a A pro but we know what he is Melvin Gordon's better player than Lamar Miller, but I think I think Melvin Gordon is a souped-up Lamar Miller, you know, he's a better Runner and he's a better receiver. Even if they're similar kind of players, but there is a couple things here first and foremost. You said John McClane of the Houston Chronicle has covered Houston football dating back to the Oilers. He says they're not interested maybe things change. Maybe somebody gets hurt. Maybe maybe Miller tweaks and ankle and maybe something changes the Texans do have a lot of cap space. I think if they have the second most in the NFL Behind the Colts. So they're a team that could absorb and sign Melvin Gordon to a contract. Their offensive line is still a problem. Everybody's connecting them to Trent Williams. They don't have a general manager, which I think is hate major probably. Yes, that's been a big thorn in their side here the last couple of weeks the other layer we have to deconstruct right now is who is the backup to Lamar Miller and right Tom? They're going to get somebody whether it's a jockey whether it's Gordon whether they're just feigning disinterest. Whether they go get Duke Johnson somebody like that. They are the the Texans right now have to have a backup running back plan. They have Quran Higdon who who was a I thought a draftable be a draft Yeah, third day, you know and was a sixth-round type of guy who went ended up going undrafted but the guy that people have been talking up has been demarre a Crockett who's another UDF a he's probably a name to watch here in pre-season Tom, especially those of you in deep deep Dynasty leagues, maybe those who are going to be doing your best balls later if Higdon Or a Crockett one of these guys comes out and impresses. There's a legitimate chance if the Texans don't do anything significant at the running back position that these guys are getting snaps. Yeah. I mean Joe I'd be lying to you right now. If I would say I'm leaning one way or another for the backup. I mean, I don't know. I mean nobody we haven't seen these guys at least we've seen a little bit of Josh Ferguson, but you know, there's a reason why he's you know with the gone from the Colts and with the Texans now if I had the BET anything, I would go Higdon, but you know, I'm not you know going there right now. I want to see a couple games a preseason action here. But you know if I had to make a small wager, I would go with Higdon but it could go any way but I also think they're going to be a team that pick somebody up especially once Cuts come around towards the end of the month. He ran into September. So there's got to be a lot of movement. I think still in this running back depth chart here. Well speaking of moving on a running back depth chart Tom. I think one of the most bizarre things that has been happening this offseason is the Denver Broncos. Was insistence seeming insistence to reduce the role of Philip Lindsay who was pretty much their best offensive player last year. I know it's a new staff but the Denver Broncos they've been typing up Royce Freeman all offseason. They're saying Lindsay's good to go, but then they go out and they bring in Theo Riddick Tom and Theo Riddick was a guy who I was interested in seeing where he landed because if he landed in the right spot, I thought he could be a supplement to what they were doing in the backfield a compliment to what they were doing in the Backfield and might have some intriguing fantasy value depending on where he landed right now going to Denver Tom. This is a really freaking annoying spot for Theo Riddick because one of the places where I thought Philip Lindsay could make a true leap, even if they didn't want them to get 250 carries was in the passing game. Well now they go out and sign a guy who's one of the best pass-catching running backs in the NFL and can't do anything else that seems to put a cap on Lindsay's upside and it puts a cap on the snaps of Freeman and of course Riddick so this is a mess right now. How do you how do you view this Denver backfield? It's just one that I've basically started to avoid here. I think we have the real potential to have all three of these guys kind of sitting between 25 and 40 percent of the snaps, which is just completely frustrating for our purposes, you know, Lindsay, he's got a nice notice that he started to fall. I mean, I feel like he's a seventh or eighth round pick now at this point, I mean They've set it all off season long and every move that they continue to make indicates that they really want to scale back his workload. And if he's not going to have any kind of volume in the passing game or in the running game. It's time to really don't knock him down. I mean, I would still take him over Royce Freeman but it's still pretty close and I don't want any of the through your Theo Riddick at the end of giraffes here. I will see how this all kind of works out here 1 million guaranteed. So it sounds like you know, he's definitely going to make the roster with Kind of guaranteed money, but you know Devonte Booker's probably on the outs here, but one thing better stick, so yeah, that makes sense. But I mean Lindsay Tom this isn't just a guy to make the roster over Devonte Booker. This is a guy who catches 60 passes a year. Yeah. I mean he's going to be involved. He's one of the best passing backs, you know, he's, you know, very specific role in the backfield. But he's one of the best of what he does so he's they're not just going to you know, sit him on the bench and you know, use Phillip Lindsay over them and every passing situation, they're definitely going to be you know, mixing and matching in those situations Freeman's just boring to me. I understood people drafting them not to say I haven't dabbled but he just he just wasn't a guy who was all that appealing to me because I thought Lindsay's just the more explosive and he gets the more calorie-rich touches, but my question to you Tom and I'm not sure if you can answer this. Why what what they must they must have rules concerns about the you know, Lindsay's frame and just holding up and he you know, he did have the wrist in At the end of last year. So that is the only thing I can come up with why they want to reduce Lindsay's to work. They they maybe they think he's going to be more effective, you know with you know, I touch count I that's the only thing I can think of right now. I have them at 24 in PPR. I'm struggling to put them any lower than that at running back Chris Carson's behind him. He's got similar questions about his workload Tariq Cohen who's exclusively a receiving black Sony Michelle who's in nerd Tevin Coleman who is with the 49ers and I could see him moving up. I'll probably move up Lamar Miller here in a little bit from 29, but I'm still worried that they might go get somebody but Tom, I'm also having a hard time pushing Lindsay much farther down this down this list. I'll probably move Mueller in front of them, but it's really hard for me to move them anywhere because everybody behind him is questions, too. So this is a player. I'm really struggling with. Yeah. I just don't know what to do with them right now. I'm right. With you I I would move them down just a little bit. But yeah, it is pretty frustrating. We saw how you know dangerous he was last year and you know, it's pretty frustrating when you see a guy that's you know plays that well and you know makes such a big difference that they're they really want to scale back his work. It's frustrating to me and I mean that ultimately the answer could just be we want more weapons and that's that and and we want to insulate Joe Flacco, but it's frustrating. This was not a great spot for him. For him to land even the Saints I would have preferred because there's no way he's stealing snap from Alvin Kamara. Well, I'm Sean Payton does what he does anyway, but yeah this one this this is a this is a really crappy landing spot for Theo Riddick Tom anything on Andrew Luck still not practicing. I already moved them below DeShaun Watson, which I think is the bare minimum I could do at this point any concerns here for you since we talked about this last. Yeah. I mean, yeah, I mean most people know, you know listening to us at this point. We don't Babylon quarterbacks too early, but if I did I would you know, I would think about using picks on DeShaun Watson and even Aaron Rodgers and Baker Mayfield at this point. This is a start to get to be a major concern. I mean, this is bordering on three months Shore looks like he's not going to practice this week. Of course, we're getting the positive. It's Baja by the way, for those of you who don't know the starting to feel like Andrew Luck from two years ago where every report was pot. You know, we're just see the The Peter King says that you know, they believe he'll be ready. How do they freaking know that he's gonna be ready for week? I mean, yeah practicing three months like it's a kid, even you know run on it or you know, drop back on it. How do they know if he's going to be ready or not? I don't know. I mean it's a lot different than the shoulder obviously because I mean you can't hide a super serious calf injury like I mean a super serious calf injury. I look at Kevin Durant a super serious calf injury is an Achilles tear. Yeah, and you can't hide and achilles tear Tom, I mean If he has a torn Achilles, he's on crutches. He's in a boot. I think this is total speculation, but I think they're spooked by the Kevin Durant injury. I'm sure they are. I mean that you know, that's y'all pretty dramatic, you know example of it, but they're going to be cautious with them, but we're starting to get into the territory where I'm a little bit concerned with them, you know, especially, you know, I would have to think that there's a chance for reoccurrence and How would be exact I did all the season I do think the most likely explanation right now is they're being super cautious because like I said, you know a shoulder injury, you never know what's going on there Tom, you know shoulder injuries. They hurt like hell but there it's a little harder to get inside there with imaging and stuff to know what's truly going on the calf injury is I think it's pretty cut and dry in the MRIs have said it's just a strain. I think luck every time he's tried to ramp it up though. He starts to feel a twinge and it and it's frustrating for him. But my guess is they are being super cautious. So we're looking at we're looking at their offense though the fortunate thing here because I have a lot of T Y Hilton and I've started to really dabble with with funchess. I have a lot of 90 M Heinz is Jacoby / sets a really good backup quarterback. Yeah. This does concern me a little bit for the couple of the new receivers though, you know funchess and Paris Campbell and still, you know, they're not getting reps with the you know with luck right out of the gates. So this does have me slightly. They worried for those type of guy. I mean, I hate Devin funchess. I think he stinks. I don't have I haven't dropped to him at all. But you know God like Paris Campbell. I've taken a couple, you know shots on and you know, I wouldn't be surprised even if Locke does play right away from see, you know week one that those guys could get it off to a little bit bit of a slow start with lock Damien Williams still is not practicing. Tommy's got a hamstring injury and Chiefs camp and a guy who I thought I mean, I haven't drafted Carlos Hyde at all Andy Reid kind of unprompted gave him some praise here. Saying he's taking advantage of Damien Williams his absence. I know people were people are at the end of the drafts drafting Darwin Thompson out of Utah State just because you know, you want to get a piece of this offense and I understand all of it. What is your feeling now on Damien Williams? Should we move them down below guys like carrion Johnson Marlon Mac. And those type of guys is this is this just the Chiefs being cautious? And do you have any interest in Carlo side? I still don't have any interest in Carlos. I don't do I do have more interest in Darwin Thompson died. I've taken a couple shots on him at the end of draft so far this year and you know, I still think I haven't adjusted Damien Williams, you know his ranking at all, you know, I wouldn't just yet but it is making it more interesting obviously, you know, there's if he has a three down roll here, you know, he has a lot of upside. That's why he's been a second round pick all summer. But you know if Carlos Hyde gets more reps here and starts to impress the coaches and you know Williams takes till the middle of store the end of August to get back on the field maybe things get a little bit more interesting, but I'm still betting against Carlos Hyde and oh, yeah. I know what I've seen from on the field the last two years. So, you know, maybe he can turn it back a little bit in such a souped-up offense, but you know, I'm not betting it on. I'm still betting on Williams and Tom's and so I agree like Carlos I'd look if you if he is actually getting snaps in this offense. He's going to have value but he still needs to beat out more talented more man. I don't think it's Pretty telling you know his timeline here the last year. I mean it gets traded from Cleveland to Jacksonville for it was a fifth-round pick I believe and they immediately cut him after the season and all I get is a one-year deal in free agency. So, you know, his stock has just Fallen, you know dramatically in the last 12 months one of the running backs Tom who is flying up draft boards, and I'm glad I have shares where I have them because I feel like if he makes the play lays in pre-season that he's been making in training camp the guys going to just absolutely sore and that smile Sanders and Jimmy Kemp ski, who's in Eagles beat writer for Philly voice? He's he's a different kind of beat writer. He'll tell you like it it tell it like it is he's snarky and he's really bought into that stick. And even he is like he's always been kind of a pump the brakes guy with the Eagles a little bit. He likes to poke and prod and this is this is modern beat writing he likes to poke and prod. Cowboys and Giants and Redskins fans, just to get reactions out of them. But with the Eagles, he's always kind of grounded. He always likes to try to see through the BS but even he said holy crap miles Sanders just looks different than every other back out there Tom. I saw it from kenski. I saw it from other Eagle beat writers. They think mile Sanders is going to be the lead back before too long here in Philadelphia. Yeah. I'm pretty hopeful to obviously I've taken some Sanders shares. I mean his rice has gotten significantly discounted over. The last month was because Eagles that's why because yeah, it is warranted Peterson has been a running back by committee guy here, you know his first three seasons, but I mean, there's some real signs that he could commit to one guy here and used to 53 overall pick on them. And you know, go ahead, you know, it's not like with Jordan Howard. It's not like he's been expensive so it's not I'm not saying like this. Just kills Jordan Howard. Ron Howard's not expensive. He's get still have the the goal line carries and stuff to I mean that's a very real possibility and an offense that could rank in the top five. So yeah, I mean, I'm still investing in this backfield Sanders is getting much more expensive and and that's fine. And in a good offense mile Sanders could be a League winner fortunately. I've invested early here depending on how high the price goes Tom maybe if he gets into that David Montgomery, and this is a big jump, but maybe if he gets into that David Montgomery, Range in the fourth round. That's when you got to start pumping the brakes but he still available in the seventh and eighth rounds. I've seen them go as high as the sixth that's going to be happening. I don't know if he'll ever get to the David Montgomery. I still think there's going to be a built-in buffer here with you know, Peterson's past here and Jordan Howard because Jordan how you know, think about it last couple years. I mean, I mean, he was a second or third round pick. I mean he has a name that will keep people off of Sanders going that high so I don't maybe he climbs into the fifth. Round but I'd have a hard time believing he gets into the fourth, but based on everything that we know right now. Okay, Tom, so that's about to uh, there's one more note here. Just for those of you guys who are drafting Andy Isabella. Apparently Keyshawn Johnson the sixth round rookie has blown past both Isabella and to Keen Butler in Arizona that it's not Keyshawn like Tampa Bay Bucs Keyshawn Johnson. It's a slot receiver young guy who apparently has just been blowing it up and it's noteworthy Tom in Arizona only because I expect they're going to run. Tom Place, yeah, they're gonna run at Tom plays and they're going to be playing with three and four receivers quite a bit here. So it is notable, but we got a lot of games here. We got three rookies with Keyshawn Isabella in Hakeem Butler here. So we got a lot to play out here in the preseason games. Tom this week on fantasy free agents.com you ended up posting for articles with for post type candidates guys who every year Tom we just talked about a bunch of guys like miles Sanders who were getting really really getting smoke blown up their asses in training camp, but then there's the guys everybody forgets about the guys who might have been sleepers in the past who never really panned out or just boring guys who didn't have the huge years that we expected and everybody kind of forgets. Adam so you're going you're going to do an article on post-high candidates. Now Tom, what's interesting about this article is you brought up guys that you like and don't like but all fit the criteria of a post type candidate. So I want everybody to go to Fantasy free agents.com our blog and check those articles out. But Tom, I'm gonna you you have great reasoning in here and I want to dig through these these articles and just will highlight a couple guys to talk about the guys you find most interesting so you have four Quarterbacks you have Tom Brady Russell Wilson Cam Newton Kirk Cousins, Jimmy Garoppolo and Matthew Stafford of these guys that you listed who are your favorites here to have a bounce-back season or a nice season as a value for Fantasy? Yeah. I think you would agree with this one. Cam Newton has been one of my favorites and I think he's been one of your favorites and you know, he's been getting a lot of hype in the industry and it's still really hasn't changed his, you know, ranking in the quarterback standings here, you know, I'll put up until this point. Maybe that continue know maybe with more and more High P starts to climb inside the top ten, but you know, he's regularly going off the board, you know between 10 and 12 at the quarterback position people of quickly forgotten that he was off to a really strong start last season than the shoulder injury kicked in and he lost do complete control of his passes there, but he still completed sixty seven percent of his passes. They've moved on from the the big Burly receivers like Kelvin Benjamin and Devin funchess and you know, they're focused on DJ more and Curtis annual and Chris Christian McCaffrey Speedy playmaker. So he's one guy that I've really had my eye on here any of these other quarterbacks that that that caught your attention here is in the early going. Well, I mean Brady's Brady's intriguing just because how cheap he is. And yeah, like I said, I actually wrote him up as an overvalued quarterback in my opinion. It's really hard time to rank a quarterback is overvalued because the it's just sodium. That nobody is going at an unappealing price except the top guys and that's just because I don't want to pay the price Kirk Cousins through like 30 touchdown passes last year, but I know he he actually had a really strong seasoned but just the way that the tenor of the season for the Vikings and just the way it all played out, you know, kind of soured the whole thing, but he was still pretty strong and you know, maybe he becomes more efficient. I mean, it's hard to become more efficient, but you know, maybe he his yards per Temp goes up this year. I know was sitting around 7:00 maybe with a little bit more focused on play action and the Run game. Maybe they're a few more big plays down to feel for him this year. Do you have any reason to believe that Matthew Stafford could know I think is one guy. I've completely avoided the summer. I just don't like the way the offense is trending with Matt Patricia. I didn't like at the end of last year and you know, they've kind of cut back on, you know, you know tried and Golden Tate away. I mean he Is playing really dropped off in the second half of the up last year to without Tate? So I mean Danny Amendola will do his best Golden Tate impression, but I do worry about Stafford here. I haven't been too excited. I even though I think he is still a pretty high level player. All right Tom at the running back position Todd Gurley Leonard. Fournette Devonta Freeman, Jordan Howard Royce Freeman LeSean McCoy, Jerick McKinnon, Carlos Hyde, and Dion Lewis. You've got some guys here that I know you're not drafting at all. Who are some of your favorite guys to draft out of this tier? You know, some of these guys that I haven't taken our Du Pont Devonta Freeman Leonard fournette in you know, I've been taking Dion Lewis late just because I really that that Titans depth chart is still an Abomination behind Derrick Henry and Dion Lewis. So, you know, if anything would happen to Derrick Henry Lewis could be in store for a big workload, but for even in fournette have been two of my favorite guys the draft in the third round, especially if I get a receiver, you know if I go receiver heavy or you know even just take a receiver in the first two rounds, you know, these guys have been my a couple of my favorite are b-2s here, you know Freeman I get it, you know, I mean, he had three major injuries all in like a four or five weeks pan last year, you know, you had the concussion issues before last season, so there are major worries that maybe his body is breaking down but I mean every indication they spent on Offensive line, they lose Tevin Coleman, you know if he's physically able and you know ready to take 70% of the the workload here. He could be in store for a huge season. So I've been taking shots on him and for and that's kind of the same way. They let TJ Yeldon walk. There's a potential for him to catch a lot more passes in the passing game. I compared it in the article that you know, maybe we see Zeke like jumping in passing game work for for net here were you know, he was kind of I used in the passing game, but now that he's kind of the three down back and they don't have anybody really behind them. Maybe it really Skyrocket. So those have been two of my favorites you might have just heard my dog grown there as you're talking about Leonard. Fournette Tom right behind me here. I mean, oh boy C4 net is a guy. I really haven't dabbled in just because I'm not against it. It's just the I like other guys in his price range early in the offseason. I'd like to carry on Johnson more at his price now that carry on Johnson is getting more expensive. I kind of like Devonta Freeman and Aaron Jones a little more but I'm still sitting here. This is what for net is done to me. I am still sitting here worried that the year I don't buy in is the year he blows up. Oh and and I mean it's kind of a lot like Freeman to I mean, he's getting a new quarterback maybe the offense, you know, it's not gonna take much for the Jaguars offense to be more efficient and you know putting up more points. So I mean, there's plenty of signs therefore for net. But you know, I get the hesitate it's in there. There are concerns with the injuries and just the general, you know, efficiency of his play. We don't know, you know, if he's been under four yards a carry, you know, each of the first two seasons here. So maybe some of it is on him. We kind of don't know we need to see, you know, a quarterback that you know helps him, you know to face lighter boxes and maybe we'll skip finally get to see what the the true Leonard fournette. Is this season. I have zero interest in Jerick McKinnon the guys just I'm avoiding but I totally agree with you. By the way. I have been drafting Dion Lewis a ton in the last couple weeks. It's great. Cosell really started to talk me into Derrick Henry then we get the Henry injury the Luan suspension and then I'm like, you know what? Maybe this is just the Universe telling me don't draft Derrick Henry and this year Dion Lewis is far cheaper. I've invested in him quite a bit here in the last couple. Yeah. He's like the poster boy of a post type. I mean it was probably his his hype he was getting into the fourth fifth round last year. Year probably overdid it with that kind of, you know expectations for him. But now I feel like it's gone completely on the other direction. I you know, I think this guy is still a high level player. He can be dynamic and you know, maybe things change a little bit if Mariota can stay healthy and you know can actually get the ball to his receivers here post type candidates at the receiver position Tom. And this is a list of better players than you had at the running back position and Antonio Brown Keenan Allen AJ Green Larry Fitzgerald Jarvis Landry golden. Eight Marquis Goodwin talk about somebody I forgot. I got Corey Davis and Marvin Jones, which of these guys have you been drafting the most of the guys that I've really gone after or Keenan Allen? I feel like he's been a very nice bargain this year. He was a consensus second-round pick last year. Nothing's really changed to negatively affect him. You know, he's you know, he loses Tyrell Williams. You think that would help him now, we have the Melvin Gordon situation. Maybe they have to throw the ball more. I still think he should be a second round type and now you can get him in the middle of the third round. You know, I saw some videos of him Ballin Out and practice this weekend. He's still you know doing his his typical work and the other guy I've really been going after his Marvin Jones is you know, he's was pretty equal footing with Koenig all day through the first 10 weeks of the season last year. I think he even let him and Target share and are yards, but he's been severely discount. He's going, you know, essentially 18 to 20 picks after Koenig all day. So I haven't been a I haven't done a lot of Koenig all day, but I've been doing a lot of Marvin Jones because he's going three or four rounds later. Yeah. I have them quite a bit. I still believe in Corey Davis. I just don't believe in Marcus Mariota. That's that's been is you to so but I believe in Corey Davis and he's actually pretty affordable and I wonder if Jarvis Landry is going to have a little bit of a fission Syrian. I mean, he was always inefficient but last year he didn't catch a high percentage of his targets. I if he's going to have a little bit of a consistency Rebound with Odell Beckham there that's going to be interesting for me to see ya. Ah, he's one of the more fascinating guys and drafts for me. I just don't know what to make of them. I haven't selected them too much. I mean if you remember back to the second half of the last year Freddy kitchens and Mayfield were spreading the ball around I mean Richard hyndman Higgins was right on his tail and terms of targets. So I'm generally worried about Landry's usage, you know, because you don't bring Odell Beckham, you know into the fold to throw to him. It's time to game. You know, he's gonna be he's locked and loaded on his 9 to 11 targets a game. So that has me generally worried about Landry side been a little scared off of him. This this summer at tight end Tom. We got a bunch of guys who took harken back to an older podcast of ours are slower than whale shit. Yeah for the Post type candidates Jimmy Graham Greg Olson tray Burton, Kyle Rudolph, Jordan Reed and Jack Doyle on in terms of slower than whale shit. I think the only guy here who isn't is Trey Burton. Yeah, that's I mean, it's tough. Jordan Reed looked really rough last year that we've been getting a lot of positive reports about him in Camp, but I haven't been able to I know he's he's recovering for the first time in like forever. He's not recovering from an offseason injury, but he looked awful last year Tom and Jordan Reed is going at a spot where I'm just gonna drop down a pick or two and draft a mic is sticky or Darren waller or even an Ian Thomas and I'm going to try to get some upside and if I'm going to draft a Redskin for catches, it's going to betray Quinn. Yeah, that's my biggest concern. I mean, Jordan Reed was always an upside guy his first couple seasons on the job and I was looking through the numbers his last 19 healthy games, you know, he has just two games with 15 plus points. I mean that was what he was known for the big, you know, big explosion games being out the ceiling type performance. It's has so you know, and you know, he's gonna have Dwayne Haskins and Case Keenum throwing the ball. So I've had a tough time buying it on him. All these guys are pretty tough to buy it on just because that's the state of the tight end position at this point there. There's no guys that you're really in love with outside of the top six or seven guys at least for Me Maybe. I throw Vance McDonald in that group as well at 8, but you know, I have taken some shots on Jimmy Graham. I think he looks terrible but You can score touchdowns exactly. He scored only two touchdowns last year, you know, of course, we had Aaron Rodgers playing hurt. So, you know, I'm expecting you know, he scored 10 touchdowns with Russell Wilson and 2017. So I'm expecting a little bit of a bounce back in that department and you know trade Burton is another guy. I've taken some shots on. I mean, he's still he finishes the tight end six. I know it was unimpressive last year, especially I think he only top 40 yard. I don't even know if he topped. 40 yards in his last like 10 games last season which is pretty hard to do. But you know another year in the offense tree Biscay hopefully taking a couple steps forward and Maggie, you know, he was the guy that went out and got Trey Burton in free agency last year. So I'm hopeful that they may be, you know, scheme some, you know more plays for him here, you know, get a little more creative down the field. Well it see Jordan Reed just going back to him Tom. He is a guy who if I'm wrong on I will be totally fine with being wrong. On him because I see Zero positives. Yeah, I I'd I just don't see the top five, you know top eight potential for read. I mean he could very easily settle in as like the tight end 8 to 14. And you know, I think that is a real possibility for him, but I just don't see the ceiling potential anymore without offense. I'm totally fine on being wrong on that. I mean the red flags were there the quarterback situation is a disaster. The offensive line doesn't have its best player. It's that that's just one. My I don't get and like I will draft know a fat. I'll draft Waller. I'll draft kisi Ki a little bit later than drafting Jordan Reed because I actually feel like those guys have some upside. Yeah, those those three guys. You just nailed basically my plan, you know, you know in the 13th 14th 15th rounded, you know taking my tight end two or three. Okay, Tom, so I was in New York City this this weekend for the flex traps and what we did to Jake Sealy from the athletic David gah knows help. Together as well. But Jake Sully from the athletic is kind of The Mastermind. He's the guy who puts it all together. What we did we did three live drafts on Sirius XM fantasy sports radio. I hosted all three with Matt camp and I participated in one and this year. They were all Half Point PPR, but we did three different drafts. We did a super Flex snake a regular snake and we did an auction. I was in the regular snake just because it's the easiest one for me to be in while also hosting and I pick from the turn Tom from the 12th spot and Ended up really liking my team and I was thinking of going through maybe my plan when I did just in terms of so maybe somebody who's picking at the turn can be helped. So what I want to talk about this team just really quick and I'll throw a link in there to the draft board. So everybody can look at it. But my team goes as such Michael Thomas Joe Mixon third round Josh Jacobs, then I go for three straight wide receivers Stefon Diggs Cooper cup and Mike Williams, I think Vance Donald mile Sanders Carson Wentz Jalen Samuels, Dion Lewis Josh Gordon. Nikhil Harry Duke Johnson the Cowboys defense and Darren Waller. So here's my plan Tom. I was actually thinking I was going to go receiver receiver. But before my Michael Thomas pick at 12, how about this six running backs went with the first six picks including lady on bail at five David Johnson at 6, and then 6 wide receivers. Go as the final six pics of the first round and it through my strategy off a little bit Odell Beckham DeAndre Hopkins Odell Beckham on his wide receiver one DeAndre Hopkins Davante Adams, Julio Jones, Juju and Michael Thomas. And as soon as I knew that that Odell Beckham polio and JuJu were all gone. I didn't expect Hopkins or atoms to be where I'd picked. I knew I was going to have to drive Thomas in a running back. Yeah. I haven't seen a run like that in terms of receivers and and I've been in probably about 35. So far, I haven't seen a run run quite like that. I take it. This is a half Point PPR or a full plate Snappy. Oh, it's half past point. So yeah, I mean that is that that's pretty unique and Travis Kelce going. Did you even entertain him at all? No, I just don't once again Tom. I don't like the price. I just and that's me I have I've liked the price I but that's more of I I'd like the running know we kind of touched on Devonta Freeman and Leonard fournette. I like some of the got that running backs that are available, you know in The middle to end of the third round but God. Yeah people were just saying, why did you take mixing over James Conner and Dalvin cook and it's just I mean Tom you want to talk about splitting hairs. It's splitting hairs. I would probably like my team equally if I took either Connor Cook now, I've I've gotten quite a few shares of all three of those guys. I'm all hot. I'm pretty high on all three of them. I would tend to agree with you that I have mixed and slightly. I had a Connor at this point. I just think you know, the health is a little bit better than than Books mixing did Miss games but cook has had a big problem with that and the backfield depth chart. I would say for the Steelers to is a small concern for college. I actually ended up taking Jalen Samuel. So I know there's I was reading some stuff from the athletic are even this weekend here about how they want to get Jalen Samuels more involved, you know, just get him more play, you know more touches and more chances. So I mean, I think they're going to ride Connor but Samuels is a very real threat to get stuff. Well, how are you? What do you feel about Josh? Jacob's right now Tom because I took them as the our be 20 in this draft and I'm starting to dabble in his price a little bit. I don't want to miss out on just an absolutely massive workload and they took him in the first round and the depth chart behind him. I mean Doug Martin doesn't do anything for me. Jalen Richard is going to get the measles because he's an anti-vaxxer. So what are you okay paying the price on Josh Jacobs I have it's usually in that fourth round. I'll tell you why. We're talking about Kelsey a little bit. That was he's been a kind of a guy I Target for my rb2 in that, you know, if I take calcium like the ten, you know 10th pick range, you know coming around in the fourth round. I found myself taking Josh Jacob so I have been dabbling there. And you know, I'm I'm pretty fond of his potential as a three down back. Okay, so I think the most interesting thing I did in this draft was not to not to toot my own horn. So in the 11-12 turn I took Dion Lewis. And Josh Gordon I decided you know what this is a room of sharp guys who some of the other guys at this draft by the way, Steve Gallo Kenneth Cashman from Roberto where Chris re-bond cyr kyung from WWE but Jeff Ratcliffe, Brandon Funston, Michael Bell or Jeff has lie, Jani Eisenberg atomizer and Brandon Murchison all in this draft. So a sharp room I decided I was taking Josh Gordon in the 12th round and I was like, you know, I thought I wonder if people are going to laugh at me for taking him over to kill Harry but coming back around I was able to get the kill her. In the 13th round and I'm pretty freaking pleased with that stack because combined their my number five wide receiver. Yeah, that's a pretty remarkable. I've moved Harry down my our rankings here. And you know, I've moved him down I think into the mid 50s late 50s, and I thought maybe I was being a little too judgmental about the reports that have come out but he falls all the way to 67. That's a nice little I haven't been interested in him and all not at a certain price. Not at all. So I mean I was I was thrilled to be able to do that and it gives me you know, if Harry breaks that look I have arguably the top outside receiver for the Patriots and it's just two guys right now. I have to figure out which one is going to be the guy which guy is gonna be on the field. But I mean you have here that late into the draft both guys have huge upside potential if everything breaks right size. I like that price and I'd like some of the guys that you got towards the end here Darren wohlers been getting a lot of positive reports out of Oakland camp. Although he did pick up a AC joint injury and his shoulder. So that's something to watch and you know, we've touched on Duke Johnson quite a bit. I like him as for six months traded. I mean it's getting less and less likely but once again, even if he doesn't get traded, he's their number two back a clear number two for at least the first eight games of the Season. Yeah, and then he could get moved then. Yeah, he was certainly they can move him at the deadline and Tom I drafted the Dallas Cowboys defense. We talked about this on an earlier podcast, but how I drafty fences schedule timing Tom Talent is is part of it. You want a good defense, but I'm not drafting a great defense that has a crappy week-one matchup. I'm not doing it like I'm not dressed. I don't care if it's the 85 Bears Tom if they're playing the Chiefs and week one. I don't want them. Yeah, the Cowboys have a dream scheduled to start the ceiling got the Giants at Washington against Miami. So that's a nice three weeks stretch there. And yeah, I don't think you'll have to be Big pulling the Cowboys out of your line up here. They're gonna be probably a hot waiver wire pick up in week one. So I'm with you so I'm just like that looking at the Cowboys. Once again Philly plays Washington and week one. That's a great. I'm just going to draft for Week 1 defense and it's and it's a better D Phillies defense is better than Dallas has but they but then they have to play the Falcons. So, you know, you know, you don't want to play a defense really against the Falcons. So what I'm doing is by the way, I think it's in Atlanta. So that's on the fast Turf as well, Dallas. I'm just like I don't think anybody in the NFL is a better first three games in them in terms of a damn schedule. No, I totally agree. The other going to be a favorite of mine towards the end the giraffes whenever I have to pick a defense Tom before we wrap up the podcast we have to do our team to a days where we do a little bedding and fantasy preview. Let's start with in the NFC the New York Giants who of course Tom have made absolutely. No headlines this offseason. Yeah, I was gonna say we got the Giants and dolphins here they have this is probably our fewest Behind victories for two teams in the team to the to the team two-a-days easy for me to say Giants. They finished last year 5 and 11 under their six-and-a-half win total total offense 356 yards, which was 17th scoring offense 23.1 which was 16th Place for game 61 and a half which was 25th. Of course. They lost this guy Odell Corey Coleman already down for the year with a knee injury come on Brown along the offensive line key additions Daniel Jones. Owns the quarterback out of Duke Golden Tate Kevin's idler my kremers and Rod Smith on account of targets a hundred 32, which is 14th and the 2019 when total is at 6 with a little bit of money going towards the under - 120 over at - 110. Okay. So this was a team off season. I was like, all right. I know they've been had a crappy offseason and everybody likes to make fun of Dave gettleman for and for many reasons that are valid but I There's no way this teams worse than Washington because I think Washington could be a dumpster fire. And then of course everything happens Tom, they lose Sterling Shepherd to the broken thumb. Hopefully, he's back for Week 1 but Golden Tate is suspended for four games. Probably isn't going to win that appeal Corey Coleman tears his ACL. I think even the football gods are sitting here and talking to the Giants like man. You really mess this up. We can't help it. Yeah, it's everything. It's pretty tough to be a Giants fan right now and you know, They take Daniel Jones, you know completed under 60% of his passes and college, you know, six point four yards per attempt. I mean, that's a top ten pick. They used on them. You know, it's been a pretty rough couple of years since gettleman took over the o-line should be a little bit better here, you know, which is a positive for the number one overall selection sequin Berkeley, but everybody else here is pretty discounted Evan groans price has risen up here into the fifth round. You know, he was peace been pretty good throughout his career whenever Odell's been off the field and you know, I've been starting to dabble a little bit more in him, especially with Golden Tate potentially missing time and Shepherd. His price has gone down. I've noticed since the thumb injury, even though I don't think he's really, you know, I don't think his play is going to be hindered at all to start the season because of the thumb so I've started to dabble in him a little bit too knowing that Golden State's going to miss the first four games of the season the Miami Dolphins Tom, I think are the odds on favorite to Be the worst team in the NFL. They have a quarterback competition right now with Josh Rosen and Ryan Fitzpatrick Fitzpatrick seems to be ahead. But a Rosen has been making some plays recently. I don't think either one of them is going to be able to win this team many games though. Oh baby, the Dolphins quarterback competition has been a rollercoaster so far this offseason. It's Fitzpatrick is practicing. Well at the beginning and now rosen's catching up here with a nice scrimmage over the weekend. So we'll See how that kind of plays I kind of think they're going to go Fitzpatrick to start the season and he's Rose and into the into action may be in by October but last year's record seven and nine with which was over their sixth win total from last year. They got a lot of luck in those one score games, you know, the Patriots game being the most famous one with grown up missing the Kenyan Drake tackle total offense two hundred eighty nine point nine yards 31st scoring offense, 19.9 26 Plays for game 54.9 30 seconds. Oh man. That is that's sickening their Chauhan James key players lost 2-1 James Ryan Tannehill Danny. Amendola Frank Gore just sitting Ted Larson and Travis Watson key additions Josh Rosen Ryan Fitzpatrick and Dwayne Allen on account of targets a hundred eight, which is 19 and the wind total for this season is set at five with money going towards the under at minus 140. Plus 110 towards the over. I don't know what to make with that one. If if I get if we get some kind of confirmation that Fitzpatrick's going to start a significant amount of games. I think that the the five might be a little bit better betting towards the over but you see how this competition plays out here a little bit I have zero interest in DeVante Parker. I will not draft him at all. I will and if he goes for 1,100 yards so freaking be at Tom all the evidence is against them that be true. He's blowing up in Camp though. He's pulling up in Camp again. Yeah. All right. Well, one of my favorite players to draft is Kalin balázs. I didn't even think he was a good Prospect. But Tom he still going near the double-digit rounds. I'll even dabble as high as the knife at this point. If I need a running back on my team because once again, he has a good shot to be the team's leading rusher and he super cheap and Tom I'll take anybody if I think they have a good shot to be a team's leading rusher. Yeah. He's a slowly being adjusted upward here, but he's still readily available in the 10th or 11th. I just took them late night. With in a draft this morning, but yeah nice value there. They you know all signs seem to indicate that you know, both both coaching staffs here with gays now out of town and Flores in place that you know, they've wanted to limit Kenyan Drake. There's something there to that any interest in any of these other receivers though, you know with Parker not it not in the fix for you a little bit of Stills. Yeah, not too much. I think I have like one or two shares Albert Wilson as well. But yeah. Take Stills, but I'm not that interested in anybody else. Yeah, I've done some Stills and kiseki, especially, you know, if we get some signs at Fitzpatrick's gonna be the quarterback, I think Stills is a nice little value, especially best ball. He has since it came over to the Dolphins. He has 21 scores and three seasons. So that's pretty good, especially for best ball formats. Okay, Tom, that'll wrap it up for this edition of the fantasy free agents podcast. So great. Cosell will be back later this week Tom. I'm going International. I'm going to Canada so I'm gonna have to rely on you to do. A lot of the heavy lifting with the preseason games on Thursday. Oh, yeah, they got yeah, we should probably tell him our schedule here a little bit. We've been recording on Tuesdays, but, you know, we're going to record Friday instead because of 11 games on Thursday night. I am traveling to Toronto. I'm driving to Toronto on tomorrow. So we're going to take a little bit of time off here. Fortunately, Tom. Ben fennel from the athletic join Justin varns on the IDP podcast and they broke down four teams and on an IDP Center conversation and it is a really underutilized aspect of the fantasy podcast space is actual talk about defensive football. If you are a football nerd Ben is one of the sharpest guys in the industry and he and Justin absolutely dealt on that. I'd only time you don't need to be an IDP player to to appreciate this podcast. Look we know Justin Justin Barnes Tom symons. Those guys know that IDP is a niche market, but Justin is really trying to reach across the aisle here and give something to just football people can enjoy, you know, I used to say back in the day that the John Hanson great Cosell podcast. I thought it was the best football podcast like not just fantasy. You can learn so much from it and and been joining Justin here. You guys are going to learn a lot about defensive football if you listening Tom, I don't know if you've listened yet, but it's it's good. I have not I'll get to it here that you know, since we have a couple days off here, you know, Ben wait, you know, he's a former coworker of ours we work to season with them. He was breaking down films film for us. You know, he's short sale knows what the hell he's talking about. So I'm looking forward to listening to that. So that should be a really good one. Okay, Tom. So I mean once again sign up to beat Tom in the NFC August 27th, 9:30 p.m. There is a link to sign up and if you Want to get full instructions just reach out to Tom on Twitter at Tom Brawley. Follow me on Twitter @ FG underscore Dolan. We I am going International this week. So we have to make sure our connections are still good. I have to tell you great Tom. We're gonna have to test this out before before Greg because absolutely I mean, yeah, we should do that because we don't want to charge Greg like $200 to do the to the podcast because he's getting international rates. So he should be killed. We don't us. Yeah, we don't have that kind of budget here at the podcast. Just yeah, we need a lot more. Donations if we're going to be a you know, paying international rates, I also want to mention Joe real quick that on Friday. We're going to release our first cheat sheets of the year so far. Yes, you're going to be drafting this weekend. We're gonna that's gonna be a weekly feature on the site we're going to do every Friday will do cheat sheets PPR non PPR positions and then top 154 PPR and on PPR so look baby. I'm also doing the auction cheat sheet. Oh so five different cheeks. So here's what's going to happen. Tommy you're going Look at this. We're just talking through this time. You're going to put together the the positional PPR tiered cheat sheet, which you guys might have gotten used to we're doing that and then I take the PPR cheat sheet and make an auction cheat sheet based off of that. So we're looking pretty badass. Yeah. Yeah, we know, you know, you know with the flex drafts last week and you know, people are starting to draft now that we're getting into the the heart of August Here season actually starts really early this year with the early Labor Day, so people will Art draft in here this weekend and will have cheat sheets ready for you. So also people have been asking about a draft plan Tom. I don't think we plan on doing a written one, but what we are going to do and I'm going to mark this down time for next week. We are going to do a separate podcast for all four major positions and we're going to basically talk through our process and how to draft that position and we're going to talk like for the instance the quarterback position. We're going to talk about when we start looking who are the guys were looking at and the running back and receiver and tight end and On and for the positions like running back and receiver. We're also going to be discussing Tom. Alright, if you have an early pick, this is what we do if you have a mid pick if you have a later pick, this is typically what we do. So we're going to do a separate podcast for every position on how to draft that position and we're going to basically be using our rankings and I think that's the way we're going to do it this year. I think it'll be fun. It'll be helpful for me and you as well. Yeah, I don't quarterback and tight end that's a little easier to talk about Draft plans because you know, you're just not dressed as many players, but you know At least with the running backs and receivers what least highlight different guys that we like in each tier and you know, what kind of go through the process that way, you know, maybe maybe we can combine the quarterbacks in the tight ends into the yeah. We probably could yeah. Okay. So yeah, well, we'll be thinking of that but we will be having draft planned podcast and Tom. I just I already we're going to call it the running back draft plan. Just nice and official like that. I'm going to really enjoy doing that. So those look for those next week look for me with Greg Cosell later in this week. I'm going to be talking to Greg about some of the players. To have apparently been making a big Camp impact. Obviously, we don't have filmed watch yet. So Greg doesn't have observations from preseason, but I'm going to try to try to put a little a little bug in his ear Tom about some of the players. He should be watching when when he picks up his film study here Joe Greg's coming back to the podcast. I thought he went like Hollywood on us. So Hollywood, by the way, check out his segments with with Colin coward. If you want them, they were next amazing job, and it's funny. We talk to Matt Brown last week about Joy. In Love from Utah State don't you know that immediately the same day Greg Cosell says this is my sleeper quarterback at the classic guy who people could be talking about as a high-end first round Talent at same day. So Matt Brown knows his stuff too. Yeah. Yeah. I mean it was like he may be communicated with Cosell, you know, maybe there was some like, you know, because that was the Thursday that was that's normally Greg's day. Maybe he was channeling Greg there a little bit. So if you like college football go back and listen to our podcast with Matt Brown last week, that's Wait for Best Bets. Tom eventually after our Draft plans. We're going to get into some of our bets we're going to get into football betting podcasts and that's going to be kind of a precursor to what we're going to be doing on Wednesdays of every of every during the season of every week in season 2 17 weeks were going to be doing a little kind of line report. So for those of you who like bedding, so it's good. We have a lot of plans our rankings or up a fantasy free agents.com talk. We don't have a schedule for when we update them, but we update them pretty much every day. Yeah, I mean if I see some major news, I'll you know, I'll go in there and kind of tweak it around. So yeah, I mean just constantly check will be on top of a throughout the preseason here. 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Joe Dolan (@FG_Dolan) and Tom Brolley (@TomBrolley) are back to go over some 2019 Post-Hype Candidates (35:54) and to review Joe's FLEX League draft (49:46). They also review plenty of weekend news including Antonio Brown's disgusting feet (6:15), Josh Gordon's application for reinstatement (9:25), and D'Onta Foreman's release (16:10). They also hit on the ramifications of Theo Riddick's signing (22:28), Andrew Luck's calf (27:17), Damien Williams' hamstring (30:22), and Miles Sanders' superb play (32:25). The guys end the podcast with another segment of Team Two-A-Days on the New York Giants (57:40) and the Miami Dolphins (1:02:20). Joe's FLEX League draftboard: http://www70.myfantasyleague.com/2019/options?L=71571&O=113&CMD=GRID&DISPLAY=LEAGUE&ARCHIVE=* 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. To draft against Joe, join the Rotowire Online Championship and select the online draft time of 8/20 at 9:30 PM Eastern. To draft against Tom, do the same on 8/27 at 9:30 PM Eastern. Play for the $200,000 grand prize! 