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EP 62: NFL Rookie In Or Out Takes / Why Is 1,000 Yards Our Standard For Skill Position Players? · 3 Guys, 6 Balls NFL Podcast

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3 lifelong friends, 6 trusty balls and endless NFL ticks.
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Welcome to three guys 6 balls NFL podcast.
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Welcome to episode 62 of three guys 6 balls NFL podcast.
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I'm your host Joel and I'm here with my Co host Will.
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I'm back from my vacation, but Avery is still not with us
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because he's on his honeymoon. Will, how did you feel last week
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with it being your second time as host?
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A bit smoother than the first. It helped that I was not that
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I'm not comfortable with Avery, she was just Avery had the first
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time, but it was my own brother with me and so.
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I mean Avery does make me uncomfortable too so I I get.
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It well that that's different though.
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I mean, I, I don't think we're allowed to talk about that
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legally yet. So it's fine.
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It was, you know, just me and my brother.
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And so we just hung out. We chilled.
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It was, it was all good. So I don't know, it was fine,
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felt good, felt fluid. They get to closing right this
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time. You did.
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You did remind everybody to keep their balls played with, so I
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was proud of you. It was a little hard listening
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to you guys try to remember and pronounce some of these names.
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I'm not going to lie, but that's, you know, I should be
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used to that by. Now look, I've never going to
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claim I know people. I know pronunciations, I know
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people's names. I can barely say any word.
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You've heard me talk. I don't speak.
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Good. So here we are.
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Do another thing. If only podcast equipment was
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more expensive, right? Right.
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All right, well, let's get into our topic for today.
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So the 2026 NFL Draft just happened a few weeks ago.
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And so now that we know what teams these guys are playing
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for, it gives us a little bit more clarity on the role these
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rookies are going to play during the rookie seasons.
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So what we're going to do today is some rookie in or outtakes.
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And I want to shout out the Cheese Heads and the Bear
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Podcast because they do these in or outtakes all the time.
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So that's kind of where I got this idea from.
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So what we're going to do is, well, I'm going to give you a
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take and then you tell me if you're in or out on that take
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and why. So our first one here is we will
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see a rookie with 10 plus sacks this season.
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Are you in or out on that take? Of course you're starting with
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that one. Give me one second, please.
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So last year, I'm sure you've got all this stuff radio, but
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last year we had one rookie with 10 sacks, you 10 1/2 sacks.
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James Pierce, first round pick for Atlanta.
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I don't think we do it. There was some pretty big
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headlining names in the defensive line and linebacker
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core. You've got your David Bailey,
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you've got your Arville Reese, you've got your Finnish styles.
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Linebacker, not quite as much, but but you're Reuben Bain.
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Yeah, a key mess door. You've got some big names here.
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Well, big draft names here in your top round for potential to
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get there. I just don't think anybody does
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it this year. I think that the NFL is shifting
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styles again to where we are. And I've talked about this a
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couple Times Now where we're getting away from the pure
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passing lead and we're getting more into the disguise.
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Our offense, again, we're not just trying to throw the ball 60
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times, we're trying to run the ball more.
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We're coming. We're shifting back into a run
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first team, a run first league and then play action after it.
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And so I, I think sack numbers are exceeding to go down just as
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a whole. And I, I don't think the rookies
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are going to, I don't think they're going to underperform.
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I don't know what the sack codes are in the betting world for
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these rookies. I'm sure the numbers were out
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there. I'm not quite that degenerative
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A gambler, but I I just, I don't think we need anybody with 10
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1/2 sacks or 10 sacks this year, rookie wise at least.
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Yeah, I'm going to go out on this one as well.
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And the reason is, is because the way I broke this down was I
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first started by looking at historical data.
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And in the history of the NFL, there's only been 37 players who
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have recorded 10 plus sacks in the rookie season.
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So we saw it last year with James Pierce junior for the
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Falcons, but including him we've only seen six rookies with 10
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plus sacks in the rookie years over the last ten seasons.
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So those six players are James Spears, Junior, Micah Parsons,
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Max Crosby, Josh Hines, Allen, Bradley Chubb, and Joey Bosa.
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Now out of those 37 total players 29 of them have been
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first round picks which is 78.3%.
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So to me that tells me if any of these rookies were able to do it
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is likely going to be a player that was picked in the first
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round. So that leaves us with I think 6
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players because RR Reese. And the reason I didn't pick RR
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Reese is because we don't know where he's going to play, right?
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Right. He could be an edge rusher, he
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could be playing a linebacker. We just don't know where he's
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going to be playing full time. And he could do both.
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We don't know. So I feel like the fact that
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he's probably going to be doing both makes it so he's not going
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to get 10 plus sacks. So the other guys is David
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Bailey, Ruben Bain, Junior Aquin Mizador, Malachi Lawrence and
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Keltrick Falk. Well, I can tell you right now
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it's not going to be Keltrick Falk.
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He's just not a refined pass rusher.
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And so I feel like if he is ever going to get 10 plus sacks, I
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think it's going to be at least three years down the road for
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Malachi Lawrence. I think he's going to be a good
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player, but I don't think it's going to be him.
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And that's not a knock on him at all.
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It's just because I feel like Dallas doesn't have a number one
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pass rusher right now. I feel like they've done a
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really nice job of improving their pass rush, but I feel like
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what they have is several guys who are good pass rushers, but
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none of them are standout pass rushers.
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So I just feel like because they don't have a standout guy,
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there's not going to be anybody to take attention away from
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Malachi Lawrence and free him up as a rusher.
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So that leaves David Bailey, Ruben Bayne Junior and Akim
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Ezidor and as much as I would love for it to be Ruben Bayne, I
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don't think it's going to be him and that's because I think he's
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going to be viewed as the number one pass rush threat for the
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Buccaneers. So last year Yaya Diabi led the
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team in sacks with 7 and outside of him there's not much else.
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So I think what happens is is Ruben Bain junior ends up being
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in like the seven sack range, but he helps take pressure off
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of Diabi and helps him get 10 sacks rather than Bain being the
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one to get 10 sacks. So let's not walk away from his
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baby arms. And that's just going to be a
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problem for that's just going to be a problem for him.
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It's just going to be a problem. For him, I was never concerned
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about that anyway. So with David Bailey and Hakeem
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Ezador, I feel like David Bailey is kind of in the same situation
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as Reuben Bain. I don't think David Bailey is
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going to be the number one pass rusher on his team, but I think
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he's going to take attention away from Will McDonald and
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allow McDonald's to get his sack numbers up.
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McDonald's coming off a year where he had eight sacks, but
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the year before that he had 10 1/2.
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So I think David Bailey, like Reuben Bain, helps someone, one
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else on their team get 10 plus sacks.
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And so for me, if there was any rookie that's going to get 10
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plus sacks, I think it's going to be a key.
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Mizdor because I think he is the most NFL ready pass rusher in
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this draft. But I also think that the
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Chargers have multiple guys on their defense who teams have to
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worry about as pass rushers. So Twi Pelotu had 13 sacks last
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season, so he's going to require attention.
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Khalil Mack isn't what it used to be, but he's going to require
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attention. And their defensive tackle had
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six sacks last year, so they have multiple guys who can get
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after the quarterback. And so I feel like a key Mesador
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could be the forgotten guy on that defense.
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And so if anybody was going to do it, I feel like it's going to
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be a key Mesador. But I don't think we see any
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rookie this year with 10 plus sacks.
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Agreed. Well, let's move on to our next
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one here. This is we will see a rookie
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wide receiver with 1000 yards this season.
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Are you in or out? So we had three rookie receivers
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last year that had over 800 receiving yards.
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Not just receivers, but receivers, tight ends, running
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backs, right? So people catching the ball.
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Only three of them were over 800 yards, and one of them was a
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tight end and Tyler Warren. And then one of them was Mecca
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Ibuka, which I'm sure you remember after week.
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Then he only had one game over 50 receiving yards and his
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targets didn't drop off until week 14.
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So he was still getting 7 to 9 targets a game week 10 through
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week 14, and it just dropped off.
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He just wasn't able to maintain the production he had early in
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the year because people got back and they were healthy.
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And so Baker sort of throwing to everybody.
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And so that's the problem with some of these guys is that
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they're going on teams where if you get 6 targets a week
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throughout the whole season, that's pretty good consistently
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6 targets a week because you're not throwing the ball.
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If you've got if you've got 4 wide receivers, a tight end and
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a running back, that's six guys. If you're if everyone's getting
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6 targets a week, that's passing the ball quite a bit.
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And and six for a #1 receiver is not that many.
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And so before a, for a rookie coming in, it is quite a bit.
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And so looking at the receivers this year, pardon me as I sort
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through my spreadsheet here. And by my spreadsheet, I do just
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mean Pro Football Reference. I actually do think we get a
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receiver. I think we get one single
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receiver again this year. Sorry, last year we had one
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receiver who went over 1000 yards.
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Fred to mention that it was, as I'm sure you can guess,
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Tedderola McMillan. And I think we get the same
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scenario with Jordan Tyson. I don't think it's going to be
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Cardinal Tate. I don't think it's me Malachi
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limit. I don't think it's Casey
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Concepcion. I think we're going to get
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Jordan Tyson for New Orleans because we saw the increase of
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productivity of Tyler Shuck. As much as it pains me to say,
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at the very end of last year, they kind of said, you know
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what, Rattlers out, you're in, let's see what you can do.
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And he performed pretty well. I think we're going to continue
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to see productivity go up for Tyler Shucks.
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That is. And I think Jordan Tyson is
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going to reach the anything I don't remember.
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I can remember quickly here who all that's their that is their
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draft and players. That's no I don't know who all
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the receivers are in New Orleans anymore, the Saints.
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But they can't let. Me.
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Tell you, let me tell you. Is the lobby is still there?
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Yes, but if you look up the depth chart for the Saints, I
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guarantee you after Chris Olave, tell me a name that you've heard
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of after Chris Olave and Jordan Tyson.
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There's maybe one. There's maybe one I thought.
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You were going to list them. I guarantee you that especially
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the average fan never heard of any of these guys.
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Guarantee you the career high for all of the guys after Olave
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is 475 yards and after that there is a significant drop off
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to the next guy. The thing about the Saints is
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that they got ET ETN. Is that am I saying that right?
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Is this the ETN? I don't know anymore.
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I don't know anymore. This is the HN.
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That's right, apparently. It's apparently it's HN, but
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this is the I think that's fake. I don't know.
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That can't be real. Whatever, it doesn't really
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matter. He has said that he it's HN, who
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am I? There's no way that Devon HN and
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Travis HN's name are the same. That's just not possible.
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Newly acquired running back from Jacksonville, Travis Junior and
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Alvin Kamara. Now Kamara is not turning back.
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He used to be. And I think they're going to use
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him more in the as a receiving back anyway, as he's been pretty
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much his whole career. So I think they will take away
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from the WABE and from from Jordan Tyson, but there's a lot
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of love to be given in the passing game.
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And so I think I think if we do get one, I assume we get Jordan
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Tyson as the one. I think sharing the load is
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going to be the main problem for everybody else.
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Yeah, this one's an easy in for me between Carnal, Tate, Jordan,
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Tyson, Makai, Lemon, Which is Makai, not Malachi, by the way.
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You keep saying Malachi, but any Malachi.
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Yeah, you said Malachi last week.
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You said it this week too. My bad.
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You've also got because. Of Malachi because of Malachi
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Lawrence that I keep saying Malachi Lemon.
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I know his name is Makai Lemon, but but you said Malachi
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Lawrence earlier and so now it's just in my brain.
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So it's your fault, not mine. That's just how this works.
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OK, fine, whatever. But but anyway, between Carnell,
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Tate, Jordan Tyson, Mackay, Lemon, Omar Cooper, Junior Casey
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Concepcion, Denzel Boston, I feel like there has to be at
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least one guy who's going to get 1000 yards this year.
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And I agree, it's going to be Jordan Tyson.
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Again, if you look at the depth chart in the wide receiver room
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for the Saints, pretty much everybody has never heard of any
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of these guys that are on their depth chart aside from Crystal
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Labbe. So I feel like Jordan Tyson is
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going to have a lot of opportunities.
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He's going to have a lot of targets, he's going to have a
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lot of catches, which most likely means he's going to have
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a lot of yards. So if Jordan Tyson is healthy, I
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think he easily gets over 1000 yards.
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Now Will, I'm curious if I was to raise the number from 1000 to
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1200, would you still be in? I don't think so.
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I don't think so. We have this fictitious
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benchmark and I think we're going to talk about this later.
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Have 1000 yards for a skill player is like the end all be
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all, great job, good season kind of thing.
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But 1200 just seems so much more unreasonable than 1000 for for
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some made-up reason, right? Yeah, I mean, I could see it
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happening, but I feel like I'm going to learn more towards the
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1000 yard mark than the 1200 yard mark.
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But I can definitely see Jordan Tyson getting over 1000. 1200
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yards over your 17 game stretch is 70 receiving yards a game.
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That is not breaking it down that like that.
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If your fantasy football wide receiver gets 4 targets or 4
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receptions for 70 yards, you're mad at them.
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You're frustrated, guy, why didn't you do more?
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Why on earth 70 yards full receptions like like that is
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like you're mad, like I need a new wide receiver.
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But in reality, if you're reading 70 yards a game
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throughout the entire season consistently, you're going to
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get 1200 receiving yards on the season, and that's really good.
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All right. You got anything else out there?
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No, I no, I think, well, maybe I do actually.
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You say it like that. I would like to put a a sneaky
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honorable mention in here. And I know I've made fun of this
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guy a lot, but because of just lack of availability for other
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players, Dijon Stribling for San Francisco, that that team can't
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stay healthy, whether it's wide receiver, I mean, George Kettle
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somehow Christian McCaffrey, she helped me last year.
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So somehow. So this year probably not so
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much. I you can still technically on
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the team. They just don't have people.
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I I guess it's the right word to put there.
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And so he might be a sneaky one in there for 1000 third season.
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Now they have them now, but they won't have them out for Week 3.
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But like right now, they have them.
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But when when offseason training camp starts, they're right back
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out again. And, and so, so as much as I
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don't like that pick, and I ripped on that pick pretty good,
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it might end up being the right move because everyone else is
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hurt. So this is what we have.
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Yeah, I can see that, although I do hope the 49ers fail miserably
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this season because of the Mike Evans thing.
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So. Anyways, let's move on to the
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next one. Sure.
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All right, so the next one is we will see a rookie running back
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have 1000 rushing yards this season.
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Are you in or out? I am out.
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Oh, wait, so sorry, so sorry. I'm actually in.
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My bad. I'm in.
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So the host we got last year was Ashton Gente at 975 rushing
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yards. And that Raiders team was really
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bad. But that Raiders team also had
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at least the beginning of the season, other options.
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They had Brock Bowers the whole season.
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They had Jacoby Myers until they didn't.
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And and so they had other options.
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They also had Geno Smith who could kind of throw the ball.
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This is not going to be an unpopular pick here, but
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Jeremiah Love is the only offensive option behind Trey
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McBride in Arizona. They just don't.
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I mean, I'm sure people, Michael Wilson, sure, and you have
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Marvin Harrison Junior. The problem is is you don't have
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a quarterback like Jacoby were such great.
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Jacoby percent is good enough. I'm glad it's too strong of a
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work. He's good enough to put up 40
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points a game, but the defense is bad enough to let up 45.
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And that was what we saw consistently with the Cardinals
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last year is that they can't stop anybody.
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And so if they get down to it and they're trying to run the
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clock out, they're going to have to run the football, which is
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not something they did incredibly successful last year.
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Their offensive line was not good.
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And so I do think we get one. I think it's going to be
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Jeremiah Love because they're just going to have to feed him
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the ball the entire time to a make sure that he gets his use
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because he drafted in 3rd overall.
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We had to use him. We high drafted running back.
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We're probably only going to get four years out of this guy.
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Use them as much as you can, but I I don't think we see that
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Darian prices. You have to split a bunch of
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time. Kaylee on blacks going to have
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to sit behind McCaffrey for the first 3.
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He's not going to do anything unless McCaffrey gets hurt.
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He's going to sit behind McCaffrey for the first three
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games and he'll be in. The Raiders drafted the running
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back. Chiefs drafted the running back.
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The Titans drafted in the running back.
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The Ravens drafted the running back.
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Oh, wait, the Raiders did not. I'm sorry, the Raiders did.
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I'm just talking to my butt here.
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Doesn't really matter. I didn't get one.
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I think it is Jeremiah Love. We get one because they're just
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feel forced to use them. I'm going to go in on this one
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as well, but I'm going to go in with some hesitancy.
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I can't say with certainty that we're going to see a 1000 yard
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rookie rusher this year. And the reason why I say that is
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because I feel like Jeremiah Love should get 1000 yards
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rushing because of the player that he is.
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But at the same time, I bet you if we had asked this question
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before last season about Ashtagenti, everybody would have
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said yes, he's going for 1000 rushing yards, no question about
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it. And that didn't happen.
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And I bet you had me ask this question about Dejan Robinson
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and Jameer Gibbs in 2023, everyone would have said yes,
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you're going for 1000 rushing yards, no question about it.
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And neither of them got 1000 rushing yards in the rookie
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year. So I feel like Jeremiah Love
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should get it, but he's also part of a running back room that
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has Tyler Algier, James Conner and like 13 other running backs
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it feels like. So I just don't know how the
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carries are going to get split up between these guys.
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Also, you mentioned the Cardinals offensive line isn't
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that good. They were second to last in
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rushing yards per game last season.
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Now, some of that we can attribute to the ridiculous
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amount of injuries they had to the running backs last year.
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But the offensive line also deserves some blame there too.
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So I'm going to go in, but I wouldn't be surprised if we
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don't see a rookie rusher of 1000 yards this season.
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So we just talked about 1000 yard receivers and 1000 yard
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rushers. And so will you kind of mention
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that we're going to talk about this?
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So I have a question that I wanted to discuss because I
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thought it was interesting. So my question is, why is 1000
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yards the standard we have for skill position players?
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I don't know because 1000 yards a season is it's like 60.
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It's not even 60, it's 58.8 yards per game.
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Yeah, so it, it's not even 60 yards a game.
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I wonder if that's like an old carryover from like when you're
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back when it was like a 14 game season and so it's just always
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stuck. But maybe because it's the first
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4 digit number and so it looks prettier, but I I don't really
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know. Do you have an actual answer?
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No, I don't have an answer. I'm just, I'm just curious.
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I don't think there is an actual answer.
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I just think that that's what everybody thinks because that's,
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I mean, that's what it's been ever since I started watching
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football. It's like if you get 1000 yards,
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you're a good rusher, you're a good receiver, and if you don't
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get 1000 yards, you're just average.
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I don't know. That's just how it's always
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been. So that's why I kind of brought
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it up because I don't know. Yeah, I don't.
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I'm sorry. I was just saying a quick Google
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search here, I don't have an answer and it doesn't seem like
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anybody really has an answer because back when it was a 14
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game season, that would have been 71 yards a game.
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But it's been a 16 game season. Since like 1978 and it's just
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kind of to. 17 so it's just easier and easier to get it.
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Maybe it's just because the the game is better, like the skills,
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the skill level is up higher and so it's still hard to get.
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Now I'm not saying it's easy to get.
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I couldn't get 1000 yards in anything in the NFL.
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There's just no way I could probably get 1000 yards sacked.
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I could probably choose that 1000 negative yards as a running
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back. You could get a receiver to get
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3000 receiving yards on you. Yes, for sure, for sure, for
20:35
sure. I can give up 1000 yards for
20:37
saving in a game, a single game. I bet I do that.
20:42
I just, I don't have, I mean I don't have any real answer.
20:46
I mean, if you look at the receiving and Russian leaders
20:49
from last year, Jackson Smith and Juba got almost 1800
20:53
receiving yards 1793 and the Russian leader James Cook got
20:57
1621. So we're well past 1000 yard
21:01
mark. I don't think we would see 1000
21:04
yard like like 1008 or whatever. If you're getting 1000, just
21:08
over 1000 yards, that's a good benchmark, but you're not
21:11
winning awards with that. You might make the Pro Bowl, but
21:14
but who makes The Who doesn't make the Pro Bowl?
21:16
People are turning that down now.
21:18
I'm just not doing that. That is.
21:20
Something that we could do in the NFL is make the Pro Bowl.
21:23
I Chances are honestly, I could make the Peyton Hills Madden
21:27
driver and then get my whole city to rally around me.
21:30
I just, I don't know, I, it's a, it's a spectacular thing, but
21:34
it's more spectacular. I feel like at least I can.
21:39
I'm a very involved fantasy football player.
21:42
I, you know, this, I, I play multiple leagues every year.
21:46
If I'm looking at 1000 yard receiver, that's going to be
21:49
like my #3 receiver #4 receiver on my team.
21:52
They're not in my starting lineup.
21:54
And so I I think it's just a carryover from back when it
21:57
actually, and now again, it doesn't mean nothing, but back
22:02
when it actually meant more that it's like, OK, well, yeah, you,
22:05
you did 71 yards a game. That's great.
22:08
Now I would say you didn't even get 60 yards going back where I
22:10
said earlier, if my receiver gets 58 yards on five receptions
22:17
or 58 yards on 10 rushes, I'm looking at you.
22:20
Marry him over. I'm so mad.
22:23
I'm so mad. Like what are you doing?
22:26
Why are we not getting more yards?
22:28
You are the starting running back for NFL franchise.
22:31
There are 32 of you do better. But again, I look at me, I'm not
22:37
out there doing it. I'm just sitting behind my
22:39
keyboard saying why is this guy got better?
22:42
So I don't know. Yeah, I just find it funny that
22:47
when we look at a player who has 1000 yards, everyone says, oh,
22:50
he had 1000 yards, so he's a good player.
22:52
But when you look at a guy who had 900 yards, people say he's
22:55
an average player. And I'll give you the perfect
22:57
example, Ted McMillan versus a Mecca Ibuca.
23:00
Ibuca had 938 receiving yards last season and people are
23:04
saying, well, he's good, but really he's just average.
23:07
He's not a number one guy. But then you take Ted Mcmillan's
23:10
1014 yards and they say Ted McMillan is going to be one of
23:13
the best wide receivers in the league when really there's a
23:15
difference of 76 yards that they had over the course of the
23:18
entire season, which is 4.47 yards per game.
23:21
I think they're both going to be great receivers.
23:23
I just think it's funny how people look at one player with
23:26
1000 yards and they put him in a whole new tear over a guy who
23:29
had 76 less yards. When you break it down on a per
23:32
game basis, again, it's 58.8 yards per game for 1000 yards
23:36
over the 17 game season. I bet you that you could put
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1000 yards and 58.8 yards per game next to each other and ask
23:45
someone which number is better and almost every single time
23:48
they'd say 1000 yards even though it's the exact same
23:50
number. I guarantee you they would say
23:52
1000 yards every single time. So I just think it's, I just
23:55
think we get a little too carried away with 1000 yard mark
23:59
sometimes. So last year in the NFL, there
24:02
was 17 running backs who broke 1000 yards out of who knows how
24:08
many running back strikes you were.
24:09
There were seventeen of them. And then Ashton Gente is at #18
24:12
at at 975. There were 20 pass catchers, I
24:17
guess ball catchers, whatever you want to call it, 20 because
24:21
one of them is a tight end. Ball touchers is what we say
24:23
around here. Ball touchers.
24:24
There it is 12 See running backs touch balls too.
24:27
So ball catchers, OK, fine. I just wanted to say ball
24:31
touchers. Well, you little culture that
24:34
might can whisper it next time. We had 20 oh, touchers and Alec
24:41
Pierce being the last one I see. Two of them, A.J.
24:43
Brown and Alec Pierce were both tied at 1003.
24:49
So I have all the receivers. Only 20 of them got 1000 yards.
24:52
And so that's kind of why I think it's probably held in such
24:55
a spectacle still is because as much as we're like, yeah, it's
24:58
OK, Only 20 people did it last year, only 20.
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And one of them was a tight end. And with running backs, only 16
25:06
of them did it. 17 of them did it.
25:08
Yeah, 17 of them did it. And so 32 teams, only 17.
25:11
And I don't think there are any multiple 1000 yard rushers from
25:14
last year. Only one come to mind is
25:18
Seattle. They didn't do it no trouble
25:20
anyway at 730. So yeah, yeah, I just, I get why
25:24
it's still a big deal, but it almost feels as if it's still
25:29
overblown. It's not nothing, that's for
25:31
sure, but it just feels like it's kind of gone by the way,
25:33
like you said, 58.8 yards a game doesn't feel like a lot.
25:38
Right, exactly. Anyways, let's move on to the
25:40
next one here. So this next one is we will see
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a rookie skill position player get 10 plus touchdowns this
25:46
season. Are you in or out?
25:48
Oh, are we talking total touchdowns or are we talking
25:52
yes, total touchdowns? Total touchdowns.
25:55
I'm in actually. Ashton Gentsey got 10 total
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touchdowns last year, 5 receiving, 5 rushing.
26:02
If you look at just receiving touchdowns, Ted got closest with
26:05
7. Just rushing touchdowns, Trayvon
26:08
Henderson and Jackson Dart actually got closest with 9.
26:12
I don't know if you count quarterback in your skill
26:14
position or not. No, I'm not.
26:16
I'm that's why I said skill position because I'm not
26:18
counting the quarterback. I think I am.
26:21
Well, Trayvon Henderson actually got 10.
26:23
So we had two running backs last year.
26:25
They got 10 total touchdowns. Trayvon Henderson, I'm just a
26:28
liar. There's more than that because
26:30
RJ Harvey got 12. So we had three of them last
26:33
year with Ashton Genti, RJ Harvey and.
26:39
Trayvon Henderson. Trayvon Henderson, thank you.
26:41
I know I can read words. I'm in again.
26:44
I think I'm in with Jeremy. I Love Actually.
26:48
I also could be easily convinced that Kaylee on black for the for
26:52
Seattle. I feel like that could be a
26:54
sneaky steal a couple touchdowns off of Charbonet.
26:57
Wait, you mean to dairy and price?
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I do mean Jerry and Price. Thank you for that.
27:02
Appreciate it. I was looking at the wrong name
27:05
I don't think. It's in the same division and
27:07
it's all the same. Yeah, I don't think we get any
27:09
individual, like I don't think one guy has 10 receiving
27:13
touchdowns or 10 rushing touchdowns.
27:15
I think we get a running back who sneaks in there and gets 10
27:18
total. Possibly even like Kenyan Sadiq,
27:22
they they have some packages where he runs the football, like
27:25
a Gold Line package where he runs the football.
27:27
I'm going to go in on this one too because the last time we
27:29
didn't see a rookie skill position player get 10 plus
27:31
touchdowns was in 2022 where the leader had 9 touchdowns.
27:35
Well, for the last three years we've seen at least one rookie
27:37
hit that number. So I've looked through the skill
27:40
position players drafted this year and I feel like there's a
27:42
decent amount of guys who will at least have the opportunities
27:46
to reach this number. So the guys I was considering
27:48
was Jeremiah Love, Carnell Tate, Jordan Tyson, and Omar Cooper
27:51
Junior. And if I had to pick one of
27:54
those rookie skill position players to get 10 plus
27:56
touchdowns this season, I'm going to go with Jordan Tyson.
27:59
And the reason why is because I feel like he has the most clear
28:02
opportunity to do so. Like we've already talked about
28:05
again, the Saints depth chart at wide receiver is not good aside
28:09
from Crystal Lavey with all these guys that they don't have
28:11
on their team, there's going to be a lot of opportunities for a
28:14
Lavey and a lot of opportunities for Jordan Tyson.
28:17
And I just feel like if Jordan Tyson is healthy that he will
28:19
have the most opportunity to get 10 plus touchdown.
28:23
So the other guy that I think has a really good chance to do
28:26
it is Jeremiah Love. I didn't pick him though because
28:29
I just have no idea again, where the Cardinals running back
28:32
situation is. Like I I, they've got Love as a
28:34
starter, but behind him again there's Algier, James Conner,
28:37
Trey Benson. It's a really deep running back
28:39
room and I just don't know how these guys are going to get
28:42
used. So obviously Jeremiah Love is a
28:45
home run threat, but how many touchdowns is Algier going to
28:48
take away from him when they get down to the goal line?
28:50
How is James Conner going to be used if he's still on the team
28:53
when the season starts? I just don't know how the
28:55
Cardinals are going to split the carries between these guys.
28:57
Now with guys like Carnal Tate and Elmer Cooper Junior, I think
29:00
they do have a very good chance to do it as well because both of
29:03
them are very good Redstone threats in their own way.
29:05
Like Carnal Tate is more of a guy you just throw it up to,
29:08
while Cooper is the guy that you just get it to on a quick screen
29:11
and let him break tackles on his way to the end zone.
29:13
The question I have with their teams though is can their
29:15
offense consistently get into the red zone?
29:18
So again, I just feel like Jordan Tyson is going to have
29:21
the most opportunity to do it. OK, so the next one is we will
29:24
see a rookie tight end with 60 plus catches this season.
29:27
Are you in or out? I think I'm out on this one.
29:31
Kenyan State will probably be closest, but who is
29:34
quarterbacking for The Jets? Is it actually Gino?
29:36
We don't really. We don't really know yet.
29:40
We had two of them last year with Tyler Warren and actually
29:44
Harold Fanning junior. Shout out to us for that one.
29:47
That feels good. That feels like a nice win.
29:49
And then close to Loveland was right there at 58.
29:53
Gadsden snuck in there for the Chargers with 49.
29:56
So we had we had three tight ends right in the two that got
30:00
it and two more that were right in the vicinity of cats and
30:03
probably started a few more games then he he might actually
30:06
got there. But he he was a late bloomer.
30:08
They're looking at our starting tight ends here.
30:11
I just don't. I mean, you've got Sadiq and
30:15
you've got Eli Stowers and he's going to be battling with
30:18
whatever is going on in Philadelphia.
30:20
So I think the closest we get is King Sadiq, but he's on The
30:24
Jets. We don't know who's playing
30:25
quarterback there. And then you back to that.
30:26
You've got Eli Stowers and he's going to go through everything
30:29
that Philadelphia's got going on right now.
30:31
And who knows? They also brought in Malachi
30:33
Lemon. Nope.
30:34
See, I did it there again. So that's your fault.
30:36
Makai Lemon, they brought in Makai Lemon as well in the first
30:41
round. So you're going to throw more to
30:42
your first round running back, excuse me, first round receiver,
30:46
then your second round tight end.
30:47
And I just don't think any of these other tight ends are going
30:50
to get a fair shake to get a full 60.
30:52
The Rams for some reason drafted another tight end, so now
30:56
they've got like 8 on the roster.
30:58
And so there's just too much time to share there.
31:00
They're like 30. And so I, I just, I think the
31:04
closest we're going to get is Canyon Sadiq, but because he's
31:08
on The Jets, I just don't think it's going to happen.
31:11
Yeah, I agree with you. I'm going to go out on this one.
31:13
Over the last three seasons, we've seen at least one tight
31:16
end get 60 plus catches in the rookie year.
31:18
And just looking at the Titans from this year's class, there's
31:20
only two like you mentioned that I think could get it and it's
31:24
Canyon Sadiq and Eli Stowers. But I'm going to go out and I
31:28
think Kenya Sadiq would be most likely like you agree with as
31:31
well. But looking at the depth chart
31:33
for The Jets, this might be the most weapons that they've had
31:36
offensively for a long time. They still have a quarterback,
31:39
but they're supporting cast actually looks pretty good.
31:41
So with Sadiq, I just don't know where he's going to fall in the
31:44
pecking order of targets. Garrett Wilson is obviously the
31:47
number one guy and he's got Omar Cooper junior who does his best
31:51
work in the short area where he can just get the ball quickly
31:53
and make plays. And then you've got Breeze Hall,
31:55
who gets a lot of catches out of the backfield.
31:57
They also have Mason Taylor, who, believe it or not, led The
32:00
Jets in receptions last season with 44.
32:02
So Sadiq is going to compliment these guys, but I don't think
32:06
he's going to get 60 plus catches in his rookie year
32:08
because I just don't know where he's going to fall in the order
32:11
of targets. If we were to say 50 plus
32:14
catches I'd probably go in, but I don't think he gets.
32:17
I think I'm still out. I am still out at 50.
32:19
I just don't trust The Jets. If he, if Sadiq had a different
32:23
team, If you put Sadiq on, if you put him on Miami, OK.
32:28
Who right now is projected to be the number one pick in next
32:31
year's draft? That's how little people are
32:33
giving credit to Miami. I think Sadiq could get there.
32:36
I just had no faith in The Jets because they've proven to be
32:40
garbage consistently. I do believe my entire life,
32:43
except for a few years when Mark Sanchez was there.
32:45
But we're not allowed to talk about that guy anymore, so.
32:50
Just say Butt Fumble and everybody knows who you're
32:52
talking. About that's the one, I mean,
32:53
yeah. Yeah, I I totally understand
32:56
that. If we were going 50 plus
32:58
catches, I would still go in with Sadiq.
33:01
If it was Eli Stowers, I would still go out if it was 50 plus
33:04
catches just because as of right now the Eagles have A.J.
33:07
Brown, Devante Smith, Dallas Goddard and they all had 60 plus
33:10
catches last season. But even if you take A.J.
33:12
Brown out, they put Makai Lemon in and they added some really
33:15
good depth to their receiver room with Hollywood Brown and
33:17
Dontavian Wigs. So I think Stowers is going to
33:19
have a role for the Eagles, but I don't see it being a big
33:22
enough role for him to get 50 or 60 catches this year.
33:25
Dallas Goddard is on a one year deal and I think the Eagles
33:28
drafted Stowers to be the starting tight end after this
33:30
year when Goddard is probably not there anymore.
33:33
So I think he could get 50 catches over 60 catches in the
33:36
future, but not this year. I mean, in the entirety of the
33:40
NFL, we only had 46 players get 60 plus catches.
33:45
That's Titans wide receiver and rang backs.
33:47
So across everybody, only 46 of them dead.
33:50
So that's not an easy benchmark to cross, but it's not undoable,
33:55
obviously. All right, let's move on to the
33:57
next one. So this one is we will see a
34:00
rookie quarterback start 12 plus games this season.
34:02
Are you in or out? I hope not.
34:07
That's kind of where I sit with that man.
34:09
I, I just so don't want that to happen.
34:15
I don't even know how to say that.
34:17
I mean, I, I would assume Fernando Mendoza has the highest
34:20
opportunity, followed by Carson Beck and Drew Aller.
34:24
I I guess. Carson Beck is who I had at #2.
34:27
I think the NFL is going to be a better product if none of these
34:30
three guys start any games next year.
34:34
Absolutely. So for the love of ball, for the
34:37
sake of ball, I'm going to be out on this one.
34:40
OK, I'm actually going to go in on this one because I feel like
34:44
Fernando Mendoza is going to start at least 12 games a
34:46
season. The Raiders say they're going to
34:48
sit him. But when the Raiders are one and
34:50
four, maybe Owen 5 and Kirk Cousins isn't playing well, the
34:53
Raiders will make the switch. Just look at what the Giants did
34:56
with Jackson Dart last year. Their plan was to sit him and
34:59
they did to start the year. But Russell Wilson played like
35:01
trash and the Giants started Owen 3.
35:03
And so the Giants said, get this guy out of here, let's put our
35:06
rookie quarterback in and see what he's got.
35:08
So Carson Beck would be my number two guy.
35:11
Jacoby Brissett was actually pretty good last year and so
35:14
that's why I didn't put him first.
35:15
But I can see the Cardinals putting him in after they've had
35:17
a bad start and just trying to take the season so they can get
35:20
a better draft pick in a loaded 2027 draft class.
35:23
Although after the post I put out about the Cardinals losing
35:26
the draft, I'm really confused on if Cardinals fans think
35:29
they're going to be good or bad this year.
35:31
Cardinals fans are telling me they're tanking the season for a
35:33
quarterback in 2027, but then they're also saying that their
35:36
team is actually really good and the only reason they only won
35:39
three games last year is because of injuries.
35:41
They're out here saying picking Carson Beck in the third round
35:44
was a great pick and he's going to be the best quarterback from
35:46
this draft class. But they're also saying they're
35:48
going to play him so that they can take the season.
35:51
So I truly have no idea what Cardinals fans think of their
35:53
team. Are they tanking or are they not
35:55
tanking? I have no idea because they're
35:57
giving me mixed signals here. So I just, I don't know what
36:01
Cardinals fans think. I mean, tanking or not, the
36:04
Cardinals are last in the division.
36:06
Yes, the Cardinals could try their hardest to win every game,
36:09
which I think the players do. I don't think players tank.
36:14
I think organizations tank. I don't think head coaches tank
36:18
general managers, maybe I'm if he's there, but ownership, I
36:23
think those guys lean into like the well, we could get this guy
36:27
if we do bad, but that doesn't benefit any of these people
36:30
whose jobs are on the stake now. I don't think the is it Kubiak,
36:34
right? No.
36:36
Yeah, Kubiak's head goes down there and.
36:38
For the Raiders. No, no, no.
36:41
It's the floor. The floor is in Arizona.
36:43
Yep, it's the floor in Arizona. Too many, too many, you guys, I
36:48
don't think the floor's job is at risk no matter how the season
36:51
goes for Arizona, I think O and 17, they keep the floor at least
36:55
one more year truly, because I, I, I, I believe that because
37:02
look at the product that he is being given by his bosses.
37:06
The general manager is putting together this kind of team.
37:09
They whether the floor like it or not, they drafted Jeremiah
37:14
Love at #3 What am I supposed to do with that when the guy that
37:19
wants that I want to play quarterback in Jacoby Brissette,
37:22
I assume he wants me to play quarterback, want starter money,
37:25
but you guys are unwilling to pay it.
37:27
What am I supposed to do with my next guy up is Carson Beck, who
37:32
is not NFL style currently nothing.
37:38
He can't speak. I'm look, I'm trying to be soft
37:41
here, right? I'm I'm I'm shredding them apart
37:43
but I'm trying to be soft about. It just.
37:47
I just think that the organization might be going One
37:51
Direction with the players. Well, so even if even if they
37:54
the players are not trying to tank, they're still forcing
37:57
division. Maybe they get more than three
37:58
wins this year. I haven't looked in depth to
38:01
Cardinals schedule yet, but I don't think anybody's holding
38:03
their breath when, Oh no, the Cardinals are on our schedule.
38:06
Oh no, we have to go to Arizona and nice weather in December.
38:11
Dang it. I just, they're not scaring
38:18
anybody, is my point. Right all.
38:20
Right, let's move on to the next one here.
38:22
So this one is we will see a rookie head coach with 11 plus
38:25
wins this season. Are you in or out?
38:28
I'm in, actually. Now we're not counting.
38:32
We're not counting Falcons. This is just this is just first
38:39
time rookie head. Coach, to be fair, I don't think
38:41
Stefanski gets eleven wins this year.
38:43
I think Stefanski is not a fraud, but he fumble the Browns
38:48
so bad they didn't want him to head coach there anymore.
38:50
So let's leave that for what it is.
38:52
I think should be Joe Brady because we're getting a very
38:55
much Jimmy Johnson, Barry Switzer, moments where Barry
38:58
Switzer stepped in and ended up winning the Super Bowl, not the
39:01
next year, but the year after because of Jimmy, the team Jimmy
39:04
Johnson built, this is the team Sean McDermott and Brandon being
39:09
built in in Buffalo. And now Joe Brady who's been
39:13
part of the staff, now he's to be the dad in the chair instead
39:17
of instead of the older brother. Now he's the dad in the chair
39:22
and gets to run the team the way he's seen it run.
39:25
All he has to do is whatever Sean McDermott did 5% better.
39:31
That's it. That's all you have to do.
39:33
McDermott got that team to the playoffs almost every single
39:36
year, if not every single year he was there.
39:38
I don't know specifically. And so Joe Brady just has to let
39:42
his team function the way it's been functioning, but 5% better
39:46
and mostly on defense, and then you're going to get eleven wins
39:50
almost guaranteed. Do you play Miami twice and you
39:53
played The Jets twice? Can you get 4 easy wins right
39:57
there? You're not halfway there, but
39:59
you're close to halfway there. If Joe Brady doesn't get 11 wins
40:02
this year, that is a bit of a bad like a like a failure of a
40:06
season. Truly, he should win rookie or
40:09
coach of the year because he's a rookie coach and like, Oh no, he
40:12
did this first year. That should be a whole thing.
40:15
Yep, I agree with you. I'm going in on this one and the
40:18
two most likely rookie head coaches to get 11 plus wins are
40:21
obviously Joe Brady and Jesse Menter because they have Josh
40:24
Allen and Lamar Jackson as their quarterbacks.
40:27
But if I'm picking one, I'm going with Joe Brady because the
40:30
last time the Bills won less than 11 games was in Josh
40:33
Allen's second season in 2019. So part of that is because Josh
40:37
Allen doesn't miss many games. Lamar Jackson, on the other
40:40
hand, has missed some sort of significant time in three out of
40:43
the last five seasons. So there's potential there that
40:46
Lamar Jackson could get injured again and this time, which would
40:50
reduce the amount of wins that they have.
40:51
And obviously there's potential that that happens to Josh Allen
40:54
too. But Josh Allen has proven that
40:55
he has been consistently playing, while Lamar Jackson has
40:58
not proven that. So I also think that the Bills
41:01
helped Josh on out a little bit on offense.
41:03
I like them getting DJ Moore. I do think they gave up a little
41:06
bit too much to get him, but I do like that move to get him for
41:09
Josh Allen because he needed receiver help.
41:11
So I think that it's going to be Joe Brady.
41:13
But Will if I were to say we will see a rookie head coach on
41:17
a team that had five or less wins last season have 10 plus
41:20
wins this year, would you be in or out?
41:21
That leaves the Raiders, Cardinals and Browns.
41:25
No, I'm out. Yeah, I'm easily out on that
41:27
too. I was just curious what you
41:28
would say. Yeah, Yeah, the Raiders made
41:30
nice moves, but they have no real receiving threat outside of
41:33
Brock Bowers. The Browns are going to have 12
41:35
starting quarterbacks again this season, and the Cardinals are
41:38
just bad. So.
41:39
Who starts in Cleveland? I know this isn't part of our
41:41
thing today. We can we can go in depth more
41:43
later like who starts I really. Hope it's not Deshaun Watson.
41:48
It should be though, right? I mean, I feel like he's
41:50
probably the best quarterback like talent wise, but I just, I
41:55
don't feel like, I don't feel like he would be the best for
41:59
the morale of the team. I think if you win football
42:03
games, morale goes up. They're not going to win
42:07
football games with Deshawn. I think he gives them the best
42:11
opportunity. I don't like the guy.
42:12
I think he's a scumbag. He's never been charged no
42:16
matter what what allegations came out about him, never was
42:19
charged. So still think he's a scumbag.
42:21
We like to put that out there, but he's going to be your
42:25
starting quarterback for Cleveland.
42:28
I feel like the fans want to see your Sanders because they want
42:31
to see what they have with him. Like they want to see if he can
42:34
develop into a real starting quarterback.
42:37
So I feel like the fans would want to see Sanders, but
42:41
unfortunately there is. Yeah.
42:43
But that's that's it's Cleveland.
42:46
It is Cleveland. They're used to they.
42:47
Should not be expecting wins. Not my team, whatever.
42:51
All right, let's move on to the next one here.
42:54
All right, so this next one is we will see a rookie with 100
42:57
plus tackles this season. Are you in or out?
42:59
So we're talking solo tackles or combined tackles.
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Combined tackles. I'm going to be out on this one.
43:05
I just feel like as as the player base gets better across
43:09
the league, it is less responsibility of the individual
43:12
to hold up the whole team. And even like Carson Swessinger
43:15
last year, he's not a rookie this year.
43:18
And so they brought in other people.
43:21
I'm sure the Browns did something in the half season.
43:23
I truly could not care about this.
43:25
But the defenses as a whole, I think has was a pretty major
43:30
focal point for a lot of teams, as it should be every year.
43:32
But there were some glaringly bad defenses.
43:34
And so like the Rams was actually now this is not
43:37
tackling, this is secondary. They went out and addressed
43:40
their issues and I think a lot of teams actually did that.
43:43
Teams say they want to do that. You know, a lot of teams
43:45
actually do that this year. I don't think the burden of
43:49
doing all the work is going to be on any individual rookie.
43:52
I think we get better team play this year as a whole and so I'm
43:55
out on this. I don't think we get a single
43:56
rookie that has 100 plus combined tackles.
43:59
I'm actually going to go in on us seeing a rookie with 100 plus
44:02
tackles this season. We just saw Carson Schwessinger
44:05
have well over 100 tackles last season.
44:07
Part of that was because Carson Schwessinger is really good, but
44:10
the other part is because the Browns offense was terrible and
44:13
so the Browns defense was always on the field.
44:16
So if I had to pick 1 rookie to get over 100 tackles this
44:18
season, I'm going with Dolphins linebacker Jacob Rodriguez.
44:22
The Dolphins had a bad offense last year, but there's a strong
44:25
possibility that's that it's even worse this season.
44:28
So I think the Dolphins defense is going to be on the field a
44:31
lot this year because the Dolphins offense is going to be
44:33
bad because the Dolphins defense will be on the field a lot.
44:36
Jacob Rodriguez is going to be out there making play after play
44:39
after play just like he did at Texas Tech where he had two
44:42
straight seasons with over 120 tackles.
44:45
So I think Jacob Rodriguez is going to be on the field a lot
44:48
and because of that he's going to get over 100 tackles in his
44:51
rookie year. All right, so this is is going
44:52
to be our last in or out take here.
44:55
So this one is we will see a rookie with five plus
44:57
interceptions this season. Are you in or out?
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I'm going to be in. I feel like in is is cool.
45:03
In is like the right thing to do.
45:05
Let's just be hit with everyone. Let's be in.
45:07
I don't know how many times in a row we had it last year.
45:10
It just seems as if rookies, whether they are targeted more
45:15
because they're rookies and end up doing good.
45:17
But rookies and and like early, early career players are the
45:21
ones setting the interception record numbers.
45:24
Once you're a proven corner or safety, they just don't target
45:27
you as much. And so you have to do it early
45:29
in your career before you get known.
45:31
I don't know who if I had to pick people know Mansor the
45:35
lane's good. I feel like maybe Chris Johnson
45:38
because because he went to San Diego State and I realized I I
45:42
crapped on him a lot because he went to San Diego State.
45:45
But like you were just saying, Miami is going to be in the
45:47
field a lot defensively. The only thing going for him is
45:51
that it's possible that they get to a point where teams are just
45:55
running the football against him to run the crack out so there's
45:57
less opportunity. Colton Hood I feel like has a
46:00
stake in the game here if he ends up starting or playing a
46:03
lot because they've got a good front and so if they're getting,
46:06
if they're their front 7 or getting the quarterback quick,
46:09
the ball's trying to come out quick and it might going to be
46:11
accurate. I feel like the few guys that
46:13
that have actual chance to get 5 plus interceptions in their
46:16
first year, and fortunately Mansfield Lane is just not one
46:19
of them because he was good in college.
46:22
And so he's just the thoughts he's going to be he's going to
46:25
be good in the pros. But still you get these
46:27
quarterbacks like like Matt Stafford who should be like,
46:30
well, you're a rookie, I'm going to just challenge you anyway.
46:33
And sometimes the rookies win so.
46:35
I'm also going to go in on us seeing a rookie with five plus
46:38
interceptions this season. So in three out of the last four
46:41
years we've seen a rookie have at least 5 interceptions and the
46:44
one year that we didn't, they had four.
46:46
So the player that I think he's going to get it is Bears safety
46:51
Dylan Feeneman. Dylan Feeneman is a perfect
46:53
match for Bears DB coach Al Harris.
46:56
What does Dylan Tieneman do best?
46:57
He finds the football. And what does Al Harris teaches
47:00
DBS to do? Maybe better than anybody find
47:02
the football. If you look at the history of Al
47:04
Harris as a DBS coach, he helped the Bears lead the league in
47:07
takeaways last season and before that he was the DBS coach for
47:10
the Cowboys for five seasons where he helped the Cowboys
47:13
defense lead the league in takeaways twice.
47:15
Al Harris is one of the best at teaching his DBS to take the
47:17
football away. And so if I'm picking a rookie
47:20
to get 5 plus interceptions this season, I'm picking Dylan
47:22
Feeneman because I think he and Al Harris are a perfect match
47:25
for each other. I was going to say Jermad McCoy
47:28
just to mess with you, but I decided not to.
47:31
I don't think any Raiders player is going to have four or five
47:34
interceptions this year. I just.
47:36
Don't push The Jets player. We should have picked The Jets
47:38
player. Did The Jets even who did The
47:41
Jets even draft corner DeAngelo Pons?
47:44
Angelo Pons? Sure.
47:46
That's actually not a bad choice.
47:48
They need safety help. They did in the seventh round.
47:53
We should have. Picked.
47:55
We should have picked that guy. All right.
47:57
Will do you have anything else to add before we close out here?
48:00
I probably shouldn't. OK, All right, so that's going
48:04
to wrap things up for this episode.
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The NFL schedule is coming out this week and so next week we
48:09
are going to discuss projected win totals for teams and if
48:12
those teams will get over or under their projected wins.
48:15
And we'll be joined by our favorite Chiefs fan and multi
48:17
time guest on the show, Lincoln Cook.
48:20
But as always, don't forget to keep your balls played with.
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We'll see you next time. Bye now y'all.
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Also, Mark Davis and Sarah Kyle still sucks.