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EP 21: Will Jaguars QB Trevor Lawrence Finally Live Up To His Potential? & Top 10 Fantasy Football QB Rankings · 3 Guys, 6 Balls NFL Podcast

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3 lifelong friends, 6 trusty balls and endless NFL takes.
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Welcome to three guys 6 balls NFL Podcast.
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Welcome to episode 21 of Three Guys, 6 Balls NFL Podcast.
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The first preseason game is this week.
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Football is in the air and that means fantasy football.
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Today we're going to be talking about fantasy football.
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We're going to rank our top 10 fantasy quarterbacks, and this
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is all PPR, even though it's not necessarily a thing for
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quarterbacks, but all of our rankings for fantasy football
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will be PPR rankings. And to get us started, instead
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of doing a game today, I have a question for you guys.
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I think I know the answer that Avery's going to give me, I
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think, but I could be wrong. I just don't know what Will's
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going to be in here. Here we go.
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The question I have for you guys is who is your favorite NFL
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player? Active or all time active?
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Active NFL player? Oh.
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I'm surprised Avery's thinking about it as much as he is.
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I'm trying to narrow it down. I'm also I'm actually curious to
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think who you think it is do. You want me to tell you?
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No, just just on the system. I'll say it and then you tell me
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if it was OK. I trust you.
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I could be wrong, I just that's who I think it is.
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Will do you have yours? No, I would not expect I you
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could have asked any question on earth, I would have had her
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answer probably. You don't have a favorite NFL
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player. I I truly don't think I do.
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It was Tyrone Smith, but he recently retired.
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I haven't found a new lineman to fall in love with.
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You know this would have been a good game to find out like your
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top like 20 favorite. Just give me your top 20 just
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randomly any order doesn't matter and then narrow it down.
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Go list by list to narrow down. Who's your favorite?
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Yeah. Who's your all time favorite?
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But I guess I'll go. I want to preface this by saying
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I've always been a fan of players and not necessarily
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teams. When it comes to professional
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ball. I don't know if I necessarily
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have a favorite favorite or at least one that I knew I had
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before right now. But I will say the player I am
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most excited to watch this next season is Bonex.
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That's who I thought it was. OK.
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Yeah. I was like, that's probably who
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it is, but. I want to know if you guys know
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who my favorite player is. Is he a cowboy?
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At one point in time. Oh, OK.
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All right. All right, all right.
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My second favorite. To the go someone out the
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window. My second favorite player is a
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cowboy and it's CD Lamb. It's.
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Got to be CD Lamb. OK, I said say because I was
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going to say at one point in time I would have said Dez
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Bryant. I truly think my all time
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favorite player that I've watched play and I'm going to
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get hate for this and I don't care is Tony Romo.
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I He's not a. Player.
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I know I said all time, I said all time my my all time
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favorite, all time that I've seen play, right.
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Obviously there are better players than him that were
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playing at the same time. Yeah.
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We're just talking about favorite.
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We're just talking about. Favorite My favorite that I've
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ever watched play is Tony Romo, and as I understand that I'm a
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Dallas Homer and there's a serious bias here, I just loved
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watching him play football. He was very good.
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I think he's the most under appreciated quarterback of
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Dallas's history, if not most under appreciated player of the
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2000s. 2010. He just, he got such a bad rap
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and he is just better than Dallas has seen in a long time.
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My favorite active player. Let me just say, when you think
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about Tony Romo, you just think about that spin.
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Like you just see the guy coming for him and you just think of a
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spin and I don't know how he knew the guy was there, but he
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just knew somehow. Blind side spin out, throw the
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ball deep. Does car wait?
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Joel, is your guy a stealer? No.
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Did he play for the Cowboys? No.
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Do you want me to give you a hint offense or?
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Defense. Offense.
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Of course, I should have known that was a dumb, dumb question.
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Give a vague hint, don't give it.
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No, it's not your world. Is he behind you?
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You know. Oh, OK, Good question.
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He plays in the same division as the Steelers.
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Jaden Daniels. Oh, it's not Jaden Daniels.
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Oh wait. As the Steelers see, This is why
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I should listen before I answer a.
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Question. It's Derrick Henry.
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It's Derrick Henry, he said. Oh shoot.
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Idiot. I didn't know that.
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I was just like, I'm going to go full confidence and then when
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it's wrong, nice. I was going to say, I've talked
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about this guy like a billion times on this show, so.
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I just thought it was because he was just literally the most
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dominant so it's like, I mean what am I supposed to do?
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I mean, that's part of why he's my favorite player, yeah.
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Yeah, I, I don't think I have a current favorite, but I think
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I'm most excited to see Max Crosby play this year.
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I think that I'm that, yeah. I mean, him and the Joe, the
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Bosa brothers, I, I love watching him play football.
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I love watching the things they can do.
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But I like Max Crosby's airs you better, so I like watching him
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play a lot. He does.
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Have some really good energy. Dude looks like the mascot for
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the Raiders. Yeah, just like Joe Flacco used
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to be the Raven. He yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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He looks more like the Raiders than the Raiders logo.
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I like, look at him like you're a Raider dude.
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It doesn't matter if you get traded, like won't let you
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leave. Right, Joe Flacco's a Brown, but
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he's still the Raven, yeah. All right, dude.
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Well, cool. With that question I was.
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Not yeah, I thought. I thought I might, but yeah, I
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knew Avery's answered the whole time.
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He just, he didn't know it yet. I just had to make sure I that
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that was where my mind went. But I'm like, wait, I've never
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really like thought this through.
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Well, all. Right, so now I have another
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question for will actually. Oh, no heart.
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Do you feel like doxing someone today?
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Sure, I'm in. OK, so last time you said that
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your Co worker requested that we talk about Trevor Lawrence.
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Yep. So who is your Co worker?
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OK, I've got this. I've got this sweet baby 19 year
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old employee of mine. His name is Kirk Davis.
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I often call him Kirkland's signature.
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I also call him Little Kirkin. All of this is true.
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He doesn't seem too fond of Kirkland Signature, so I don't
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call that one too much. But you know, in my head all the
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time, Yeah, he's a he's a good, good little guy.
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I mean, he's not that little, but good little guy.
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Just because he's young, he he makes me feel old because he's
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19. And when I started where we work
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now, I was 21, so I was barely older than him.
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And now I'm 31 and it's like, Oh my gosh, I've been there for so
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long. He was barely even born when I
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started working. Oh yeah, you're still for a
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little bit longer. You're still just 31.
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Yes, I am. So you said it's Kirk?
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Kirk Yes. Kirkland's signature is.
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His whole man, Alan Davis. OK, All right.
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Well, Kirk, we're excited that you're excited for us to talk
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about Trevor Lawrence. So let's get started.
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Will Trevor Lawrence finally live up to his potential this
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year? No.
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All right, let's move on. Look, I don't think it's his
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fault, though. I'm sticking with the answer no.
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And I don't think it's his fault, right?
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He's he's on another new coach this year, right?
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Yeah, Liam Cohen is a coach this year.
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He had Urban Meyer and then Darrell Bevel and then he had
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Doug Peterson, which everyone was way too excited for.
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Doug Peterson. Oh, he won the Super Bowl with
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with Philadelphia and now he's and now he's coming to
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Jacksonville. Listen, quality of team is just
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so different. Jacksonville just doesn't seem
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to give a hoot. It's something they're not
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trying. I think they're trying.
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They just, they just can't seem to put together Tom Coughlin,
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their most winning coach, 95 to 2002.
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And then since then they have not had a coach with a win, a
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winning win percentage since 2002 and they've had nine
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coaches since then. Well, eight if you don't count
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the one that hasn't started yet. Every single coach they've had
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instead of losing 1 percentage besides Tom Coughlin.
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You guys remember when Urban Meyer tried to get Tim Tebow to
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be a tight end? Didn't try.
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He made him do it. Yeah, it didn't work, but he
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made. Physically, Avery, do you have
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any thoughts on Trevor Lawrence? Yeah, I'm with Will.
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No, I don't see him living up to expectations, one, because the
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expectations were already very high.
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So I think just based on that technicality, no, I don't think
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he's ever going to get there. I can see him having a few
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flashy standout seasons that keep the hype train alive, not
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really rolling, but alive to the point where you'll eventually go
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to his like, you know, stat sheet, you know, for his career
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and you'll look at it and you'll be like, why have we been
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talking about this guy for so long?
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He's only got like out of like 10 or 12 seasons.
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You'll look at it like he only had like 2 like good seasons.
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Everything else was like just full of asterisks, whether it's
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like, well is no, his receivers were hurt or his offensive line
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got hurt or this or that, and it's going to be a bunch of
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excuses. That being said, I'm a proponent
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of you can't judge the quarterback just on his own.
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Like there are too many other things involved.
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And so I see that as like, he's in a bad situation.
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He's in Jacksonville. Like the Browns are like
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McDonald's after Super size me where it's like they got, they
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got crushed. Everyone was like, oh, they're
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the most unhealthy thing. Everyone was unhealthy.
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McDonald's just had a documentary made about them.
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It's like the Browns are the butt of the joke, but the
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Jaguars are in the same boat. They just don't get talked
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about. They're not even important
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enough. It's like Alabama.
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I live in Alabama. Everyone has jokes about
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Alabama, but everyone in Alabama is just glad they don't live in
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Mississippi. No one talks about Mississippi.
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Jacksonville is Mississippi. And so I just feel like, like
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Wilson, I don't feel like anyone else even cares over there.
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I just feel like there's not a lot of, I don't know whether
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it's just the market. They just can't get themselves
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out of it. They can't sign free agents,
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whatever it is, just dysfunction.
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I just think if he doesn't leave there, I don't even think he'll
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get those flashy seasons. OK, well, to go back to
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something that Will said, he mentioned the coaching.
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So they hired Liam Cohen this offseason and they also brought
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in a guy by the name of Grant Udinsky to be their offensive
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coordinator. If you guys aren't familiar with
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him, he was the assistant offensive coordinator and the
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assistant quarterbacks coach for the Minnesota Vikings last year.
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So he was part of a staff that helped Sam Darnold have one of
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the best seasons that he's ever had.
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And so, you know, you look at Liam Cohen as well.
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He took Baker Mayfield to the next level.
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Baker Mayfield had never done anything close to what he had
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done last season. And so you have Liam Cohen, who
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did what he did with Baker Mayfield.
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You have Grant Udinsky, who did what he did with the Vikings and
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Sam Darnold. Do you think that that could
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change the way that Trevor Lawrence plays this season?
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I mean, I think it has potential to, right.
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Obviously you're a different coaching and hopefully you get
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the team to buy into the coaching.
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But it's the same thing that Marcus Mariota ran into in
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Tennessee, just perpetual Vadnais and it was what, 5
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different offensive coordinators in four years?
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And it was just time of time. And for time, you change the
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system too many times. The guys that have been there
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for for a long time, I'm trying to learn another new playbook,
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another new offense, another new everything.
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You just get burnt out on it and you you just can't be successful
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because you're over learning with with different information.
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I just don't see a coach change doing much over there.
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From my point of view, I don't see a lot happening, at least
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not like record wise or making the play.
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I mean, doing anything in the playoffs, maybe they sneak in,
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but I don't think that coaching is going to change anything.
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I think it's more of a macro issue.
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I think part of it is just the Jaguars.
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I just never see them do anything.
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I don't feel like anything's ever really going to change.
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They'll get some stars on their team.
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They had that really good running back a while ago.
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Oh wait, now I'm thinking of someone else.
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You know, I was going to make a Ray Rice joke, but.
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About Bruce Jones, Drew. Yeah, that's who it was.
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But I was like, wait, no, that's the wrong guy.
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He didn't do that. Yeah, I just don't see it
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happening. I I feel like Trevor Lawrence is
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a good quarterback, but I think that there are, I think there's
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better quarterbacks and I just think he's in a bad situation.
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I think it would take him getting out of there and then a
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coach and a team set up to kind of be built around Trevor
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Lawrence to take advantage of what he brings the table to get
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his potential out. If I may real quick, this is a
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this is a an individual scout who wrote a scouting report on
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Trevor Lawrence coming into the 2021 NFL Draft.
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It reads Florence Blessings prototypical size, a strong
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right arm and purple caliber accuracy.
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He has the physical characteristics to step right in
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the in as a starter NFL starter. His underrating mobility
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poisoned in the pocket and unchanged ability to decipher
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defense and caused him to stand apart in comparison to the elite
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quarterback prospects of recent years.
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It goes on, but it's more of the same we had.
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We, as in Football America, had this guy put on a pedestal from
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day one. I mean, it was is the best
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prospect since that point, probably Andrew Luck.
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And we saw how that turned out. This is the best prospect since
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Peyton Manning. We haven't seen anybody this
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good in a long time and we just put these guys on such a high
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pen stool and then get confused as to why they go to the worst
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possible teams with the worst records and then don't perform
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well. It's no wonder the Browns have
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had 17,000,000 quarterbacks in the last 25 years.
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It's 'cause you, you draft a quarterback and nothing else,
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you don't get anything. I'm sure this will come up later
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in this show here when we talk about fantasy football
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quarterbacks, but you don't have to go first round quarterback
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talent Jalen Hurts, recent Super Bowl running quarterback with a
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second or third rounder. 2nd rounder, yeah.
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You can fight Tyler Shuck second round quarterback, right You can
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find. Did you just say Tyler Shucks
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going to be a good quarterback? That was a terrible example.
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I couldn't get that one out, sorry.
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I was trying. But you can find, I mean, I
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mean, going back to Tony Romo undrafted, you get all these
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guys who have talent. There are other positions that
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should probably be addressed early on in these teams like
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offensive line, defensive line, somebody to stop the run and
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somebody to, you know, stop people from attacking your
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quarterback. We're just put too much stock
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into these first first overall quarterbacks and early round
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quarterbacks and then question why they never pan out.
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That's fair. I personally am somebody who
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does put a little bit of stock into the coaching and I think it
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could potentially make a little bit of a difference.
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Richard Lawrence this season, because to go back to their
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offensive coordinator, Grant Udinsky, again, he spent last
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season with the Vikings. He was the assistant offensive
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coordinator and the assistant quarterbacks coach and nobody
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has ever been able to get that out of Sam Darnold before the
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Vikings did. The Vikings just have a way of
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doing it with quarterbacks and maybe he can bring that over to
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the Jaguars and Trevor Lawrence with Liam Cohen.
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He was only the offensive coordinator for the Buccaneers
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for one season, but look what he was able to do with Baker
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Mayfield. And last season, the Bucks were
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the only offense that finished in the top five in yards per
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game, passing yards per game, rushing yards per game, and
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scoring the only offense in the entire league.
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And it was the only offense in NFL history to complete 70% of
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their passes while averaging 5 yards per carry.
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Liam Cohen did an incredible job with the Buccaneers offense.
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I think he's going to bring some of that over to the Jaguars.
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I really do. If he can do that with Baker
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Mayfield and if Grant Udinsky can do what he did as part of
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that staff with Sam Darnold, I don't see any reason why they
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can't do it with Trevor Lawrence.
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I'm not saying he's going to be an All pro quarterback, but I
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feel like he's going to take a step forward and I feel like
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he's going to be a different version of Trevor Lawrence that
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we haven't seen this year. And also, I believe that this
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year is the best set of weapons that Trevor Lawrence has had in
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his entire career. He's got Brian Thomas Junior,
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he's got Travis Hunter. I know Brenton Strange is their
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tight end this year, but you know, he's kind of an
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underrated, kind of more unknown guy.
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But he did play and start in 10 games last season because
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they're starting tight end was hurt and so he does have a
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little bit of starting experience.
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I think he's underrated and I think he's going to do pretty
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well this year. To me, this is the best set of
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weapons that Trevor Lawrence has had and to me this is probably
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going to be the best coaching staff that he's had.
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Let's not forget they also have young Patrick Herbert, brother
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of Justin Herbert, on their team.
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They picked him up in well, I get to say, not after the draft
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undrafted free agent pool. I would like to make an argument
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on that point, Joel. I worry that they're going to
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try to use Travis Hunter too much and to handicap their
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offense. I'm afraid they're going to try
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to use him too much on both sides of the ball and he won't
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be able to perform because you, you can see it.
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I mean, you, you can watch highlights or blur lights,
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whatever you want to call him of Travis Hunter at Colorado where
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he's just taking offensive plays off or he's getting beat deep on
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defence because he's playing too much.
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And we've all said that he probably should stick to the
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corner rather than receiver because that's why they need
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more help. I'm afraid that he's not going
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to do that because I do believe it was Jackson Douglas said that
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sent out those two tweets. We have signed defensive back
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Travis Hunter and we have signed wide receiver Travis Hunter 2
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separate tweets of like, oh, we signed.
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He's going to do both. He's going to be that guy for
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us. But besides Brian Thomas junior,
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who had, I mean, last year was his working season and he was
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good last year, he put up point 1100 yards last season, right,
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something like that. It was more than.
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That sure put up quite a bit of yards last year and it was
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great. He he was a a wonderful fantasy
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player. But after him and we'll call it
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Travis Hunter, which is an unknown entity at this point.
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You don't have a lot if Brian Thomas junior gets a non contact
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injury torn ACL out for the season that team.
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Doesn't say that. Look, it can happen anything
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nice. Hey, it happened to Jalen Hurts
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or Joe Burrow or I want to either like curse the entire NFL
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that that's not a fun parlor, but it can happen to anybody
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anytime, right? Like if you can just you never
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know and if you are relying on one player and possibly a rookie
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who's going to be playing on both sides of the ball.
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We've already seen Trevor Lawrence and Travis Etienne.
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They're fine, but then you obviously need more and they
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don't have a great Titan Breton Strange, he said played a lot
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last year for to fill an injury wise and he did fine, but he's
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not he's not something to write home about, right.
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So I I mean, he's not Kyle Pitts, that's for sure.
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So he's probably better than that, but I I just worry that
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we're putting too much stock in too few of players.
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The, the coaching can can do everything it can what you can
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want to do. But as they say, it's not about
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the XS and no's. It's about the jimmies and the
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Joe's, right? It's about the players doing it
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and not the not the coaches coaching it.
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Can't you say that about a lot of teams though?
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Yes, absolutely. Like if Dallas, if.
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If CD goes down, yeah, If CD goes down, Dallas is going to
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win zero games. I mean, I know they have George
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Pickens and we don't know what he's going to be on the Cowboys
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yet with that whole dynamic. But I mean, he was the number
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one in Pittsburgh and but before this year, if CD Glenn was out
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of the game, there's no other weapons on that team.
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Right. I mean, you got Jake Ferguson,
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but he's a good tight end, but. They just signed him to a big
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deal. They did.
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They did. I feel like you can make that
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case for pretty much every team in the league.
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For a lot of teams, yes, yes, you are right.
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But we're not talking about the rest of the teams talking about
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Trevor Lawrence and his play. I think you guys are both right.
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Yeah, we did it. On all points.
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Both of us. Oh sweet, we're gonna lay down
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on that fence with an open mouth.
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Well, do you guys have anything else to add about Trevor
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Lawrence going into this season? He gets a big old red flag for
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me. He has the same red flag that
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he's had the past couple seasons.
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Except. I think he can do nominally
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better, a little bit better. I think it's a red flag seeing a
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deeper deeper red where as he gets older.
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Isn't this the last year? Did he recently resigned?
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Yeah. Well, how much longer is he
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there? I was hoping he'd try so.
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No, he's he's signed through 2030.
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I mean, good for him, shadow Trevor Lawrence.
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RIP. Yeah, no joke.
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They have a potential out after 2029.
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Good for them. Potential out?
21:19
After five years, $202 million potential out, man.
21:25
I mean, if I'm Trevor Lawrence, I could not be happier, right?
21:28
OK, I'm here for another what, 5-6 years and and I'm going to
21:33
keep making what was that number I just saw seven and a half
21:37
million dollars every single season on season start date,
21:42
which is July something early July 7 and a half million
21:47
dollars just for a signing bonus every single year as team option
21:50
bonus goes up from 7 to 14 to 21 to 28.
21:53
I said by $7,000,000 every year. Dude's making fourteen and a
21:56
half million dollars before he even plays 1 snap this year.
22:00
Not a bad deal. I don't I see why he signed it.
22:03
If I'm here I'm just going to sit quietly back and go.
22:06
You know what, if you don't want to sign it when you play on this
22:08
team, I still get paid either way.
22:10
I have one last thing to say about Trevor Lawrence, and it's
22:13
mostly about the the Jaguars, not Trevor Lawrence.
22:16
But since Trevor Lawrence has been there, the defenses have
22:20
been terrible. I know that that's not a Trevor
22:24
Lawrence thing, but you got to help out the quarterback.
22:29
It's kind of the same thing with Joe Burrow.
22:30
Like the defense was just terrible.
22:33
And when your defense is just terrible, your team's not going
22:37
to. You're going to lose.
22:37
Yeah, you're going to lose games, and that gets put on the
22:39
quarterback. So I think that's part of the
22:41
problem. Yeah.
22:42
Trevor Lawrence needs to step it up.
22:43
He hasn't played the best. But when your defense is
22:46
terrible and you lose, that falls on you as the did he?
22:49
Literally play the best. Like didn't he have like the
22:52
best like QB stats? I mean maybe he didn't pull out
22:56
some games because the defense made it insurmountable, but like
22:59
I thought Burrow had like an MVP season.
23:03
Last year. Yeah, Burrow.
23:04
Burrow did, yeah. Oh, who did I say?
23:06
Maybe I said were. You talking about Burrow or
23:07
Lawrence? I'm.
23:08
Talking about Burrow, Yeah, Yeah.
23:09
Yeah, Burrow had fantastic stats, but his defense was just
23:13
so bad. And you know, because, you know,
23:16
I think that's that actually might be the one time that
23:20
people give the quarterback a pass.
23:21
If you're one time, if you're basically the best quarterback
23:24
that year and you look at the stats, you're like, Jesus,
23:26
basically like 4800 yards, 45 touchdowns, 6 picks.
23:30
Like, OK, yeah, it wasn't your fault.
23:33
I don't remember any other time where where people weren't
23:36
blaming the quarterback for the losses and technically they
23:40
still had a winning season. They finished with a winning
23:42
record, they just didn't make the playoffs.
23:44
Too. That's rough.
23:45
That's where it was rough to be a Bengals fan last year.
23:47
I'm not one. I'm a Dallas fan.
23:49
It was equally It's rough. But I had a dream about.
23:51
It one time and it didn't go well.
23:53
To watch, to watch my team be that good offensively and that
23:59
bad defensively, well, actually that's pretty similar to being a
24:02
Dallas fan. And for being fair.
24:08
Dallas might have been worse. Honestly, Yeah, because they
24:11
didn't even have the starting quarterback.
24:12
It's not like the starting quarterback was in the whole
24:15
season. Most of the season it was Cooper
24:17
Rush, so. Dude, they love me some Cooper
24:20
Rush. I'm sad that he's not in Dallas
24:22
anymore. That was a player that did not
24:24
resign. I was legitimately sad for her.
24:27
But now. We have Joe Milton.
24:29
Yeah, that I'm pretty happy about.
24:30
In his literally one game he played well and he's like the
24:34
best backup in the league now somehow.
24:36
Dude, that's the that's the Matt Cassel treatment.
24:40
Yeah, Jimmy Garoppolo. Treatment and the Matt Flynn
24:44
treatment. Yeah, Matt.
24:46
I remember that. Yeah, it's a deep cut.
24:49
Matt Flynn, Seahawks signed him to a big deal and then tracked
24:53
to Russell Wilson and then started Russell Wilson into Matt
24:55
Flynn. Third round pick Russell Wilson.
24:58
See, here we go back to that whole quarterbacks don't have to
25:01
come out of the first round. I'm going to do an even deeper
25:03
cut in a different sport. Johnny Flynn.
25:06
Oh, do you remember that? I do.
25:09
Timber. Will's Will's like 3 years to
25:11
work. Big like. 3 or 4.
25:14
Point guards and there was like they passed on like all the best
25:18
ones and landed on Johnny Flynn. I think they passed on like
25:21
Curry loss, I can't even remember, but they passed on
25:24
some really good guards just to get Johnny Flynn.
25:27
Will's not a basketball guy, so he's like, I have no idea who.
25:30
Basketball guys don't know who he is unless they watch that one
25:34
season that he was in the league.
25:38
All right, well, you guys ready to talk some some fantasy
25:40
football? Let's do it.
25:42
All right, so we've got our lists of our top 10 fantasy
25:46
quarterbacks this season. And So what we're going to do is
25:49
we're just going to go around and we'll start at we'll, we'll
25:53
do 111222 and so on. Will, why don't you get us
25:56
started? Who is your #1 fantasy
25:59
quarterback this year? Probably to no surprise, and I
26:01
hope you boys have a similar guy here, I have Lamar Jackson.
26:06
I have Joe Burrow. Oh, I have Josh Allen.
26:09
Oh, and of course it's stat based, so let me tell you why.
26:18
Thanks. I'm Joel.
26:18
It's Dappy. Literally you all.
26:25
Right. So since 2020, Josh Allen has
26:28
been either first or second in fantasy points by quarterbacks
26:32
every single year. And the reason I put him first
26:35
is because last year he was second and Lamar Jackson was
26:39
first. There has only been two
26:42
quarterbacks since 2001 that have been number one in fantasy
26:46
points in back-to-back years. Josh Allen did it in 2020 and
26:51
2021 and Dante Culpepper did it in 22,000 and three and 2004.
26:57
Back when we were still playing fantasy football with paper and
27:00
pencils. Backyard football, dude.
27:04
I don't say it's. Called the Realm game.
27:06
So to me, that tells me that Josh Allen is going to be the
27:10
number one quarterback and Lamar Jackson is not going to be the
27:13
number one quarterback because he was the number one
27:15
quarterback. Or it could happen for 1/3 time.
27:18
Or that could happen, but it's there is a statistical
27:21
possibility that it is likely not going to happen.
27:24
Can you take your statistical possibilities and shove them up
27:27
your keister? But yeah, actually it could
27:29
happen. So that's why I have Josh Allen
27:32
as #1 and if he's not going to be #1 he should be #2 because
27:35
he's been one or two every year since 2020.
27:38
Yep. All right #2 who you got, Will?
27:42
I'm going to go with Joe Burrow because.
27:45
I already said him. Yeah, you did.
27:48
I don't know. If his defense can pull their
27:50
heads out of their butts, then I just can't leave more room
27:55
because, well, see. But here's the thing, if their
27:57
defence pulls their head out of their butts, he's not going to
27:59
do as much. He's have the new new.
28:02
Season. So it's kind of a double edged
28:04
sword there. I don't know, I like reading.
28:07
Last year they resigned. Both Jamar Chase and T Higgins
28:12
got the boys hyped in the locker room again.
28:14
I I they they can't sign any defensive players.
28:18
They did. They did finally sign Shamar
28:19
Stewart probably should talk about that.
28:23
That actually idiot. So the language is.
28:28
Still in the. Contract, yeah.
28:30
And they're not, they're not going to sign Trey Henderson and
28:33
he's hopefully going to sit out. And then they've got one guy who
28:37
had less Sachs in his entire college career than Trey
28:41
Hendrickson has in like 1 game in the NFL.
28:43
So like whatever. So there's that.
28:45
So anyway, Joe Burrow, I got him second.
28:47
I got Josh Allen and I'm sure Joel will now statistically tell
28:51
us why we're all wrong. I have Lamar Jackson and here's
28:55
why. Because he was number one last
28:56
year and so he can't be #1 in here statistically.
29:02
Statistically. I hate you guys.
29:04
And and who do you have, Joe? I have Lamar Jackson it too.
29:15
I just OK, I just feel like that Lamar Jackson had such a good
29:21
season last year that he threw 41 touchdowns and you know, his
29:25
rushing ability is always going to be there.
29:26
It will always be there. But I think he's going to take a
29:28
little bit of a step back in the passing touchdowns and passing
29:32
yards category. And it's not that you know, he's
29:35
taking a step back as a quarterback, it's just that his
29:37
season last year was just incredible and he's still going
29:40
to be up there. I think he's still going to have
29:42
30 plus touch passing touchdowns, but you still got
29:45
Derek Henry in the backfield. That's going to help him a ton.
29:47
But last time he won MVP and he threw 36 touchdowns in 2019.
29:53
The next season he had 26 touchdowns, then the season
29:55
after that 16, then 17, then 24 and then 41 last year.
30:00
So it's just not he hasn't been consistently throwing 30 + 35
30:04
plus touchdowns. So that's why I didn't rank him
30:06
#1 he's still going to be incredible in fantasy because
30:10
you know, the rushing yards is just, that's what you want in a
30:13
fantasy quarterback. But I just don't feel like he's
30:16
going to have as many passing touchdowns as he did last year.
30:19
And so that's why I didn't rank him 1 and I ranked him 2.
30:21
It's very reasonable tool. It's very, very reasonable.
30:25
Thank you, I appreciate you saying something nice about me.
30:28
And that was. That was statistically sound.
30:30
I appreciated it. Everything I say is
30:33
statistically sound. That is.
30:35
Probably. True and.
30:36
I can't. It's statistically true for
30:38
sure. All right #3.
30:42
I have Josh Allen. Did I say his name?
30:46
I already said his name. I have Lamar Jackson.
30:52
You're both wrong. Tell us.
30:54
About Lamar Jackson and Josh Allen, let's.
30:58
Get it? Great.
30:58
Avery, who do you have at 3:00? I have Lamar Jackson.
31:01
OK, I have Joe Burrow. OK.
31:04
Because see here we are now we have all listed the same 4
31:08
quarterbacks in the same 4 slots.
31:11
They may be moving around. Just three.
31:14
It's just 3-4 quarterbacks we've named.
31:19
We've named 9 quarterbacks. They all just happen to be the
31:21
same three people. You're right.
31:23
And. Technically in the show we've
31:24
named 4 because we talked about Trevor Lawrence before, so.
31:26
See. I win.
31:29
Yeah, we're talking the same 3 quarterbacks in the same in the
31:33
top three, just in different orders.
31:35
So it's really is a a pick em truly.
31:37
It really is. But to go your guys's ranking of
31:41
Joe Burrow is totally fair. I mean, there's not going to be
31:43
a whole lot of difference between 1-2 and three, but in
31:46
the three seasons that Joe Burrow has been fully healthy,
31:50
he's had a minimum of 4475 passing yards and a minimum of
31:54
34 touchdown passes. So if he's healthy this year for
31:58
the whole season, his numbers are going to be incredible
32:00
regardless of how good or bad that defense is because he's had
32:04
years where the defense was average, where the defense was
32:08
terrible, and where the defense was pretty good.
32:10
And in the season where he was fully healthy, he's been great
32:13
every single year. The lowest that Joe Burrow has
32:15
finished is, well, in a healthy season, I should say that he's
32:19
finished is 8th and that was his second year in the league.
32:22
And then aside from that, he's been ranked 4th and 3rd.
32:27
So in 2022 he was fourth. In 2024, he was the 3rd ranked
32:31
quarterback. So he's going to be, as long as
32:34
he's healthy, he's going to be right there in the top five
32:36
easily. All right, Will, who you got it
32:38
for? I think this is going to get
32:39
some hate and I'm fine with it. I have Patrick Mahomes, a lot of
32:44
people have him ranked way lower.
32:46
He has been. Joel, shout out you
32:49
statistically declining over the last three years, right?
32:53
20/22 he threw 2522 or excuse me, 5200 yards, 41 touchdowns,
32:57
23 He threw for 4100 yards, almost 4200 yards, 27
33:01
touchdowns. And last year, he drew for 3900
33:04
yards with 26 touchdowns. He doesn't run the same as
33:08
anybody. He doesn't run the same amount
33:09
as the three guys we talked about already.
33:11
I just think that the competition is getting tighter
33:13
in the AFC and he they're going to have to play better to be
33:17
better with the, the Bengals, the the Ravens, the Bills.
33:21
I mean, we just named three AFC quarterbacks, right?
33:25
Alan Burrow, Jackson. Now here we are me naming a
33:29
fourth AFC quarterback and this guy has the most playoff and
33:34
Super Bowl experience out of all of them.
33:36
I just think they, they, the competition, the AFC is getting
33:39
tighter and higher and the, we've talked about the AFC West
33:43
quite a bit. I think it's not going to be as
33:45
easy as the AFC West this year. And he's going to have to be
33:47
better. If they want to win, they're
33:49
going to have to be better. And so I think he's going to
33:51
have a good year. I glamour hit #4.
33:53
Yeah, I mean Patrick Mahomes. The thing is with Patrick
33:55
Mahomes is he could we have. We've seen him throw 5000 yards
33:59
with not very good receivers. Yeah.
34:02
We've we've seen him do it, but we've also seen him be not very
34:05
good with not very good receivers.
34:07
And so you could kind of you could get both honestly.
34:10
Right. I've got Jalen Hurts.
34:12
I have Jalen Hurts as well at 4:00.
34:15
I'll I'll let Joel explain my reasoning.
34:18
He'll do a better job than I will.
34:22
Tell him, Joel. Tell him why we're right.
34:24
Since 2021, Jalen Hurts has had at least 600 rushing yards and
34:27
10 rushing touchdowns every single year.
34:30
See. Last year he ranked 8th in total
34:35
points, but he did miss two games.
34:37
So if you look at his points per game, he was the 5th
34:40
quarterback. Oh yeah.
34:42
So yeah, that's exactly what you had written down, right, Avery?
34:47
That's a word for word, dude. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
34:51
His passing stats weren't as good last year, but I just
34:53
think, one, because he missed those two games, and two,
34:55
because it was just so heavy on Saquon Barkley.
34:58
But his rushing stats are always going to be there, so you can
35:01
always rely on his rushing stats.
35:03
At touch, push all. Right.
35:05
Time now because he was the 5th quarterback last year, I have
35:09
him as the 5th quarterback this year.
35:11
Oh, symmetry. That's statistically sound right
35:14
there. Thank you.
35:16
No, I actually I really debated whether to put him four or five
35:20
with him in the homes. Are we talking about hurts?
35:22
Yeah, Jane Hurts is what I have #5 I think that's simply because
35:28
of what he showed at the Super Bowl, that team, I mean, he
35:31
showed to the world. OK, fine, stop Saquin Barkley.
35:33
See, if we give a hoot, I'll just throw the ball over the
35:36
place and I'll run the ball over the place and I'll just do it
35:38
myself. And if the Madden curse does
35:40
come true, hopefully not. And Saquin Barkley has a down
35:44
year in one way or another, It's in there and a half.
35:46
Rely more on Jane Hurts and I think it's going to be
35:49
beneficial for him, right? Avery, who do you have a 5?
35:52
I've got Jayden Daniels. What do you have him?
35:56
I have Jayden down, who's at six.
35:59
Oh, I'm right this time. Who?
36:01
Do you have at 5:00? I have Baker Mayfield.
36:06
OK, OK, But you're a big Baker fan.
36:09
At that point, Joel, give us the comparison between Baker
36:13
Mayfield and Jayden Daniels. Why do you put Baker ahead of
36:16
Jayden? OK, so last year Baker Mayfield
36:20
finished fourth in points. He threw 4500 passing yards.
36:24
Fantasy points or NFL scoring points?
36:27
Fantasy points. OK, thank you.
36:28
We're talking about fantasy football.
36:29
Yes. So last year he finished fourth
36:32
in fantasy points. He threw for over 4500 passing
36:35
yards. He threw 41 touchdowns.
36:37
He also added 378 rushing yards and three rushing touchdowns.
36:41
So he has a little bit of that rushing ability.
36:43
It's not, you know, it's not on the same level as Lamar Jackson
36:46
or Jayden Daniels, but he does have a little bit of that
36:49
ability to get you some rushing yards.
36:51
And this offense is just loaded. You've got Mike Evans, Chris
36:55
Godwin, Emeka Igluka, Tez Johnson, Kate Auten.
36:59
Your running backs are Bucky Irving and Rashad White, who are
37:01
both very good runners and receivers.
37:04
That offense is stacked. I think they're going to be just
37:07
the same as they were last year, if not better on on the
37:10
offensive side. And so I think Baker Mayfield's
37:12
going to get a ton of touchdown passes.
37:15
I think he's going to add some on the ground as well.
37:17
And the reason I have him at 5 and Jayden Daniels at six is
37:21
because I, I know Jane Daniels is going to have his rushing
37:25
stats. That's always going to be there.
37:27
But my concern is his passing stats.
37:29
And it's not because he's not a good passer.
37:31
It's because Terry Mclaurin is holding out.
37:35
And so, you know, with this holdout that Terry Mclaurin has,
37:39
he's not practicing. And who knows what he's actually
37:42
doing when he's, I mean, he's at the facility now.
37:45
It's technically a hold in now, but he's not, he's still not
37:48
practicing. And so the longer that goes on,
37:51
the less ready Terry Mclaurin is going to be.
37:53
And we've seen in the past where receivers hold out and then they
37:57
get in the game in the regular season and they get hurt or
37:59
they're just not as good for the first four or five, whatever
38:03
amount of games. And so that worries me because
38:06
Debo Samuel is going to be your #1 receiver.
38:10
We all know that how I feel about Debo Samuel.
38:12
Like I I don't like Debo Samuel as as a #1 receiver.
38:16
He's not a #1 receiver in my opinion.
38:18
So without Terry Mclaurin, I worry about Jaden Daniels and
38:21
his passing stats. His rushing stats, fine, but his
38:25
passing stats, I don't think they're going to be as good if
38:27
Terry Mclaurin's not there. I concur.
38:30
So with that being said, you guys have a six?
38:32
I have Jaden Daniels, a six. I fear heavily.
38:36
I'm a sophomore slump. We've seen it time and time and
38:39
time again. So I was CJ Stroud last year and
38:42
this whole, as you mentioned, Terry Mclaurin thing, his go to
38:45
guide, not being there in the offseason does not help him at
38:49
all. He's got a year under his belt
38:51
and now people have the film on him.
38:53
They know his tendencies, they know that they know everything
38:55
about him. They know what he likes to sleep
38:58
in everything. And so it's not going to be as
39:01
easy, especially when you don't have your number one guy.
39:03
So I've got him in #6. I've got Mayfield.
39:06
So we weren't that far off. No, no.
39:09
I. Feel like it was just changing
39:10
his list to be right. I was already wrong.
39:18
All right, who's your guys's 7th ranked fantasy quarterback?
39:21
This year, Boseph Nicks. We got one.
39:32
We did it, yes. Does anybody have any specific
39:37
reasoning as to why that is? He's my.
39:39
Favorite player? Get out of here.
39:42
Dudes good, team's good good. He plays in the Mile High.
39:49
If people are willing to pay 1,000,000 of dollars to throw a
39:51
ball, he probably knows how to throw the ball.
39:54
That's why I haven't sent it. All right, Well, yeah.
39:56
Will you miss this? When we went on on the hop with
40:00
Thomas Terry, but we talked about this.
40:02
Avery and I both had the Denver Broncos as our fifth ranked team
40:06
in in our power rankings, in our top five power rankings.
40:09
We both did. And no, we did not plan that.
40:12
It just was. It just happened by surprise.
40:15
But the reason that I put the Denver Broncos at #5 is because
40:20
of their offensive line. And because they're returning
40:23
all 5 starters from last year, last year they ranked 1st in
40:26
both pass block and run block win rate.
40:29
And they gave up the third least amount of sacks with 24.
40:32
Which is one of the biggest reasons why Bo Nicks had such a
40:35
great year as a rookie. And I know his weapons aren't
40:38
great. You know, people, you know,
40:40
that's the the thing that they say that's, you know, not the
40:43
best about this offense, but it doesn't matter as much when
40:46
their offensive line is so good. So even though he doesn't have
40:49
the best weapons, he has one of the best offensive lines.
40:52
And that's why I think he's going to have another really
40:55
good season and he's not going to have a sophomore slump
40:57
because that offensive line is very good.
40:59
They also signed Evan Ingram as their tight end.
41:03
And last year, their top tight end had 188 receiving yards the
41:10
whole season. So you add Evan Ingram into that
41:13
offense, you're getting a big upgrade at tight end for Bonex
41:16
because he got pretty much nothing from his tight ends last
41:18
year. So that's only going to help
41:20
him. So that's why I happened at
41:21
7:00. And they still have.
41:23
Not that they're necessarily working, but I don't see why
41:25
they wouldn't be. They still have Amari Cooper
41:27
still available working in Allen's still available, but
41:29
there's some decent names here who aren't going to come in and
41:33
be absolutely All Stars but can definitely get you 1000 yards, 8
41:38
touchdowns. So they they've got options if
41:41
they need them. All right, who's your 8th ranked
41:43
fantasy quarterback? Sorry guys, this is where I have
41:47
Baker Mayfield. I have Jared Goff.
41:49
I have Jared Goff too. No way.
41:53
Yeah. Sorry, will you suck?
41:55
Yeah, get wrecked, Will Little. Baby, why do you have Baker
42:00
Mayfield that hey Will? Because I should have ranked him
42:04
higher but I forgot he existed and then I ranked him there.
42:06
I remember this game. Fair enough.
42:09
You're. Going to be a contrarian here to
42:12
try to be different. Break the mold.
42:15
No I don't know. There is every reason he should
42:18
be ranked higher. I just don't think of him the
42:22
same way. He's never my, he's never in my
42:25
top five thought about quarterbacks.
42:29
He's never a guy that I'm like, oh, you know who I can't wait to
42:31
see play? Or if the Buccaneers were coming
42:34
to town. If I had a football team near
42:35
me, I wouldn't be like, Oh yeah, I should have watched Baker
42:38
Mayfield play. He's not a guy that I think of
42:41
regularly, which is not fair to him.
42:43
He's he's great. He's he's a good energy.
42:46
He's great on the field, he's fun to watch play and he throws
42:50
the ball very well. I just often forget about him,
42:53
which is why I have him ranked in number.
42:55
Eight, I'm actually, I'm actually with Will here.
42:58
I'll be honest, I I haven't heard really anything.
43:01
Granted, I've been kind of unplugged from it.
43:02
I haven't heard anything about him at Tampa Bay.
43:05
I'll the last thing I really remember is all the drama in
43:09
Cleveland, and then when I saw that he's in Tampa and actually
43:12
doing well, it was surprising to me.
43:16
I just, I hear about him all the time because he's my third
43:19
favorite player. So what were you saying too?
43:23
Isn't he? Wasn't he recently in an
43:25
interview where they asked him? With the Kelsey's.
43:30
Yeah, with the Browns, you do a quarterback, he said.
43:31
It's not my problem anymore. Yep, I actually just watched
43:34
that video today. What?
43:36
Is this give me a run? He he was on the New Hyde
43:38
podcast and the Kelsey brothers asked what the Browns do with
43:41
the quarterback situation, and he said something along the
43:43
lines of, oh, it's not my problem anymore.
43:45
Yeah, it sounds like a man who's just glad to be out of there.
43:48
OK. Who do you guys have with your
43:49
as your 9th ranked quarterback in fantasy this year?
43:52
I'm going to continue to get hate.
43:53
I have Justin Herbert. I don't hate that.
43:57
I don't hate it. I don't have him at 9:00, but I
43:59
don't hate it. Who do you have?
44:00
Avery I. Have Kyler Murray.
44:03
I have Kyler Kyler Murray too. Listen.
44:05
Listen. Here.
44:06
Listen, listen, listen. I'm right over you will.
44:10
Jewel. Says listen, listen.
44:11
Listen better. Listen, listen, listen.
44:14
He's the same as a trusted source, OK?
44:18
Listen, Kyler Murray. He's going to be a disappoint.
44:22
He's going to be a disappointment.
44:23
He's a disappointment every year.
44:25
He's the Kyle Pitts of quarterbacks.
44:28
You expect him to do well and then he just does OK.
44:33
I have them on my list here, but I will say this, I will say
44:36
this. I think Kyler Murray and Justin
44:39
Herbert are in the same boat, I think.
44:42
Both of. Them massive potential and will
44:45
severely underperform, just as Justin Herbert did from.
44:49
The last year. Yeah, I just don't have Herbert
44:52
in my top ten because I just think that offense is just going
44:56
to be so run heavy that he's not going to put up like big, big
44:59
numbers. Not that he's not going to be
45:01
good, but I just don't have in my top ten just because of that.
45:05
But Kyler Murray I have in my top ten because of his rushing
45:08
stats. I mean, when he's healthy, he's
45:10
going to have rushing stats. So he runs like a trial with a
45:13
full diaper. He does, but it doesn't mean
45:16
anything for fantasy. Yeah, so stinky he gets away
45:19
from it for. You I also think that Marvin
45:22
Harrison junior is going to take a big step forward this year and
45:24
Kyler Murray is somehow going to learn how to see over his
45:27
offensive line and I was. Going to say, I'm sure Nike is
45:30
developing platform cleats for him.
45:33
Do you have any extra 4 inches of height?
45:36
That might cut down on the rushing stats a little bit
45:38
though. Yeah, maybe.
45:40
All right. Who do you guys have at 10?
45:42
I hate my #10 pick. Can you guess?
45:48
I hate it. Is it it's bra?
45:50
No, of course not, Gene. It's.
45:54
Dakota Rain Prescott. Oh, OK.
45:59
Look, he has not bad. He has all of the potential in
46:04
the world to do well. He's got George Pickens, he's
46:07
got CD. They have that Prescott.
46:11
He has the potential to do it. They just won't do it right.
46:16
They just, I expect five wins out of this team.
46:19
This is going to be a real a real Bronco or not Broncos,
46:23
Bengals of last year with a worse offense.
46:26
I expect 38, maybe 4000 yards out of Jack Prescott.
46:31
Oh, 25 to 30 touchdowns, 25 to 30 interceptions.
46:38
And it's just going to be sad. It's going to end up as a sad
46:40
season. I love the confidence in your
46:43
quarterback, Will. Well, no one else.
46:46
That's my boy. Throw the forms up.
46:50
One thing you can count on Dak Prescott, he'll always find a
46:52
way to get you less points than you're expecting because he will
46:55
throw an interception at some point during the last part of
46:58
the game. He will.
46:59
Yes, he will. So if you're winning by two,
47:03
don't expect to be winning by two at the end of the game if
47:05
you have Dak Prescott. Truth.
47:08
Take him out if you can. Sit him mid game, sit him.
47:13
Avery, who do you have at 10? I was going to go with Aaron
47:18
Rodgers and then the boring adult Avery made the executive
47:25
decision to go with Patrick Mahomes.
47:28
I don't like you hadn't said his name.
47:30
What he hasn't? You didn't realize I knew how to
47:34
say his name? No, I didn't realize you.
47:35
Hadn't you? Had not yet said his.
47:37
Name. Yeah.
47:38
But I think just because I just feel like something's going to
47:43
happen to Aaron Rodgers and I don't think he's like as if I
47:47
was drafting and there was Aaron Rodgers and Patrick Mahomes.
47:51
I'd probably pick Patrick Mahomes if it came down to those
47:54
two guys. But I think that there is the
47:56
potential. So I don't know.
48:00
I'm going to go Aaron Rodgers, Patrick, you can get that Aaron
48:06
Rodgers a a Ron. We'll.
48:08
Switch around him and DK Metcalf and have A and Johnny going to
48:12
have a nice season. All right.
48:14
I think my my 10th ranked quarterback, I don't think
48:18
people are going to like very much.
48:20
Ed Oh, is it going? To be oh, is it going to be
48:24
pretty? No, it's not pretty.
48:26
Wait, Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
48:28
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. It is.
48:30
I think it is. There's Tua.
48:33
No. No, it's going to be.
48:37
It's going to be. Oh.
48:39
Shoot. I.
48:41
Know it's in the NFC North. Yep.
48:45
Justin Fields No. Wait.
48:48
What? Wrong guy, Wrong guy, wrong guy.
48:50
Wait. Wait, it's between 2:00?
48:53
I know it's. Between 2:00 I.
48:55
Know it's between. I know it's between Jordan and
48:59
Caleb Williams. It's one of those two.
49:01
Guaranteed. I meant.
49:03
To say Caleb Williams. What's your final answer?
49:06
What's your final answer? Wait, wait, wait, wait.
49:08
Here you go, Jordan Love. I'll go.
49:10
Caleb Williams. So one of us is right.
49:11
OK. Well, I think it's Caleb
49:12
Williams, so OK. Jordan Love, it's Caleb
49:15
Williams. Ah, you're right.
49:19
You have two answers, but I'm like I already know which one I
49:21
don't. Know yeah, I have Caleb Williams
49:25
as my 10th ranked quarterback and that might be a little bit
49:27
controversial, but the reason I haven't met 10.
49:30
Just. A little dubbers.
49:33
Just a little bit. The reason I have him at 10 is
49:36
because he was seventh among quarterbacks in rushing yards
49:38
last season. But.
49:39
He was the only. Quarterback who rushed for more
49:42
than 250 yards, who didn't have a rushing touchdown.
49:45
I feel like that has to change. Like if you have almost 500
49:49
yards rushing and you don't have a rushing touchdown, that's kind
49:53
of like an anomaly. I feel like.
49:55
I feel like he's going to improve in that area with his
49:59
rushing yards. The rushing yards are great.
50:01
I'll take 500 rushing yards from the fantasy quarterback any
50:03
season, but I just feel like after not having any rushing
50:07
touchdowns last year, he's going to add some rushing touchdowns
50:10
this year and improve his game in that area a little bit.
50:13
I also feel like with Ben Johnson, he's doing everything
50:15
he can to recreate that offense he had with the Lions.
50:19
And so you can see it with the moves he's made.
50:20
The offensive line is supposed to be better.
50:23
They're, you know, they're wide receiver room.
50:25
They've made some moves to improve at wide receiver and
50:27
tight end. I just feel like that Ben
50:30
Johnson is going to help Caleb Williams to be a better
50:33
quarterback than he was last year.
50:35
And I feel like his stats are going to improve both as a
50:38
passer and as a runner. He's going to have rushing
50:40
touchdowns and I think he's going to throw for over 4000
50:43
yards. The touchdowns, I haven't really
50:45
decided how many touchdowns I think he's going to throw.
50:48
I mean, I could, I would say 25 as kind of like just to be safe,
50:52
maybe he could get above 30 by 25 just to be safe.
50:55
But I think he's just going to improve all around as a player
50:58
and that's why I put him at 10. He had out of the quarterbacks
51:02
who played 17 games last season, he had the second lowest fantasy
51:07
points. But that's a very small number
51:10
of quarterbacks that played all 17 days.
51:12
Yeah, if you look at the the points per game, it comes up
51:16
with players who had like one game and Jill Milton and stuff
51:19
around there. They're ranked in like the top
51:22
10 or something like that, but they only played one game, so it
51:24
doesn't count. All right, well, that's our top
51:26
10. So to end here, let's just give
51:29
one sleeper quarterback that. We all have one.
51:34
Just one. OK, who's going first?
51:38
Me. Thank you.
51:39
All right, I've got. Hey, Rick.
51:43
I know mine. I have Tua.
51:47
I can't possibly sit on this show and say he's going to be
51:50
the next ringless quarterback to win the Super Bowl and not then
51:55
pick him progressively throughout the season.
51:58
They have, they have all the pieces.
52:01
They just have to have a healthy Tua.
52:03
And when Tua is healthy, there's no one, but not no one.
52:05
There's almost no one better. I mean, if he can, if he can be
52:09
healthy for all 17 games, sign him up, right?
52:12
When he's in, he's on. He's worth, he's worth a late
52:16
round fantasy pick to put him on your bench because you don't
52:19
know if he can be playing or not.
52:21
I would say draft a much safer pick as well.
52:23
But I love to. I love the way he doesn't fancy.
52:26
I love the number he puts up when he's in.
52:29
He's just not consistently in. You know, between Tua and Jalen
52:33
Hurts, I know who Nick Saban would pick.
52:44
All right, I got my plate, I got my player.
52:47
It's a player that none of y'all like and none of y'all believe
52:50
in. Will Howard, I mean.
52:59
Who would lose it? No.
53:00
I hate that. But Aaron Rodgers is your #10?
53:08
Somehow they'll make it. They'll make it work somehow.
53:11
Yeah, have that safety pick. I am really excited for Russell
53:18
Wilson to get hurt so Jackson Dart can come in and show us
53:23
what's what. I like that worker out there.
53:27
Yeah, for Aaron Rodgers to Will Howard, then Russell Wilson to
53:30
Jackson Dart. I like it.
53:32
I just hit all the names I wanted to OK.
53:34
What do you think Jackson Dart's going to come in and start?
53:37
Depends on if we got like a Tonya Harding situation or we
53:40
just have to let things just play out naturally.
53:43
Probably like week 3. OK.
53:46
My sleeper quarterback is actually going to be a
53:48
quarterback we already talked about it is.
53:51
Trevor Lawrence, we spent the first half of the show taking a
53:54
shit on that guy. Now you're here bursting them
53:59
back. Yo, no.
54:00
So let me wipe that out for you. I'm so sorry.
54:04
Hey, I was the one who was saying that he's going to have a
54:08
better season because of his coaching staff.
54:10
Oh, you're right, you're right. That was just me talking bad
54:12
about him. Oh yeah, I'll take the blame
54:14
here. Yes, I just think he's going to
54:16
be better because I think his coaches are going to help him.
54:18
I think this is the best set of receivers and weapons that he's
54:21
had since he's been in the league.
54:23
And so I think he's I don't think he's obviously I don't
54:26
have him in my top 10, but I think he's a a sleeper
54:28
quarterback. I think he's going to have a
54:30
nice season. And so if you're looking for you
54:33
could maybe stardom, I think if you're looking definitely as a
54:36
backup quarterback, if you're looking for a solid backup
54:38
fantasy quarterback, I think he'd go Trevor Lawrence because
54:41
I think he's going to improve and be better than he's been in
54:44
seasons past. Oh guys, you said the thing and
54:48
and I have to tell you some fantasy wise because we're about
54:50
to be in the same right to Co run a fantasy team together.
54:54
I don't believe in backup quarterbacks in my fantasy
54:57
roster. Just pick him up when you need
54:59
him. I think it's a waste of a roster
55:00
spot. I mean if you get with.
55:02
Your very last pick. Stop giving away our strategy
55:04
will. I won't.
55:06
Because every other team is is is looking for little tidbits of
55:10
information to get an edge on us because we're so threatening.
55:13
You're right. Trevor will be fine enough this
55:16
year. He will be the guy that I will
55:18
pick up on anybody's bye week. Oh, Trevor's still here.
55:21
I'll take him. Yeah.
55:24
All right. All right, well, that's going to
55:27
wrap it up for our top 10 fantasy quarterbacks for this
55:31
season. The next week we're going to be
55:33
talking about the running backs and wide receivers.
55:36
So we're going to have top ten lists for both the running backs
55:39
and wide receivers next week. So stay tuned for that.
55:41
And as always, don't forget to keep your balls played with.
55:44
We'll see you next time. Bye.
55:47
Also Mark Davidson. Sarah Kyle still sucks.