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Sanders. This is going to kind of be a

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news and note show. We're gonna start

0:32

off the top here in our first segment

0:34

discussing the Mookie Bets contract.

0:37

But Ricky, you you have you have some strong

0:39

feelings about about Mookie Bets.

0:42

Well, it's not so much some strong feelings. We should

0:44

talk about what the reported deal is. First,

0:47

it's ten years, three hundred and fifty

0:49

million, and this is after he

0:51

turned down three hundred million with the

0:53

Red Sox. So you had to assume that

0:56

if the Dodgers were going to take on his

0:58

contract, they knew they were paying him at least

1:00

that and that got me and friends to

1:03

talking that. Look, Mookie

1:05

Bets is now by far the richest mookie

1:07

on earth, with Mookie Blaylock

1:10

having some troubles with the law and just obviously

1:12

having a contract nowhere near that. But

1:14

then I asked my friends, I want to ask you the same

1:17

question. Do you know which

1:19

band that started off touring

1:21

by the name of Mookie Blaylock before

1:23

they changed their name. I

1:26

don't even know when the actual Mookie

1:28

Blaylock played. I'm at a, I'm

1:30

at a I'm at a big disadvantage

1:32

here, give me, give me an erra again, give me a time

1:34

frame, So nineties

1:38

two you could argue still, but

1:40

I would say nineties to the two thousand tens.

1:42

And the reason that this is in play is because

1:45

their band potentially could

1:47

be as rich as Mookie

1:49

Bets, which is why this is the conversation nineties

1:53

two. I don't I'm like I I don't

1:55

even like nineties like soft rocks. So I'm

1:57

so bad this I'm gonna guess third eye

1:59

blind. Third eye blind is

2:01

not the correct answer. Pearl Jam

2:04

is the correct answer. The first time they went touring

2:07

was as the band name Mookie Blaylock.

2:09

And just a few tidbits about that, Randy

2:11

Johnson was that their first ever contract

2:14

uh their first ever concert in

2:16

Seattle, so members of Sound Garden were

2:18

there as well. And for all you Pearl

2:21

Jam fans, which I didn't know until I was reading

2:23

this, their first album ten was

2:25

named after Mookie Blaylock, which

2:27

I love that album I had. I had no idea that

2:29

was the context, but we were just discussing

2:32

then was Eddie Vetter technically the most

2:35

profitable Mookie of all time? And I think this probably

2:37

still puts Mookie bets over here. But I just want to give

2:39

you that a little bit of trivia, because man, I don't

2:41

know. Three I bet, I bet Pearl Jam

2:44

has made more than three fifty million dollars.

2:46

Now, maybe maybe Eddie Vetter is not

2:48

seen all that, but I would I would imagine

2:50

the total profits for the career

2:53

of Pearl Jam exceeds three million.

2:56

They have like thirty five

2:58

live albums that to even be selling it short.

3:01

They're one of those bands that just like every time they

3:03

played solid album, So they probably

3:06

are up there in terms of like close

3:08

to grossing towards a billion as a band. Yeah,

3:12

I was, you know, I'm more of a Nirvana guy. I honestly,

3:14

I really have not listened to

3:16

much Pearl Jam in my life. That's a that's

3:18

a blind spot for me, So I never I

3:21

never was going to get that right. But I

3:23

mean, one of the things we should talk about is

3:25

if the difference was fifty million dollars

3:28

over ten years to what was eventually agreed

3:30

upon, how does Boston not pay them? I

3:32

mean, for for a major League Baseball team,

3:34

fifty million dollars? Is that's

3:37

like to Mike Mustakass over

3:39

a decade, you know what I mean? So like, how

3:41

is how is Boston which is a legitimately

3:44

terrible team now, I mean this, this

3:46

Boston team that is going to be playing in the

3:48

pandemic short and season is

3:51

egregious. And maybe maybe you know, we

3:53

know the Red Sox are an analytically inclined

3:56

organization. Maybe they took stock of

3:58

their their roster, their prospect, how

4:00

much money they planned to generate, and they were just like, look,

4:03

you know this this contract actually is going to be an

4:05

albatross because we are we

4:07

are not going to be We're not gonna win anything.

4:09

Well, two things, when you're paying Mookie Betts

4:12

un till he's thirty seven years old, and we've seen

4:14

with like the Pool Halls contract that once

4:16

you get to the mid thirties, it starts to become

4:18

a nuisance. But the real reason I

4:20

think that they made the deal was because

4:22

of David Price's contract, they were able

4:24

to take off the books. If you remember that, I'm

4:26

looking at the Price contract right now. He makes

4:29

thirty two million a year until so

4:33

the fact that they were able to ship him off,

4:35

they basically said that if they're trading Mookie, it's

4:38

so they can get that Price deal off

4:40

the books. And this was one of the few teams that could afford

4:42

that. So when you take in the other ninety

4:45

million, it actually does make a bit of

4:47

sense. Uh yeah,

4:49

I mean, the David Price contract definitely

4:51

matters. But like, let's let's be clear, Mookie

4:54

Betts is the best non

4:56

Mike Trout outfielder in baseball career

4:58

waited on bass average three seventy

5:00

seven career isolated slugging to eighteen.

5:03

Is a fantastic defender

5:05

in right field. I mean, maybe you could

5:07

argue that right field is

5:10

like it's a it's a position you want to have a

5:12

good defender in, but it is not a premium

5:14

defensive position. So maybe it's it's not

5:16

that big of a deal. But I basically would project

5:19

him to be one of the best outfielders

5:21

in baseball for the next three

5:24

to five years. Probably so,

5:26

I think Christian Yeology and Cody Bellinger

5:28

in that conversation, but Mookie

5:31

Bett is clearly one of the best four. Um.

5:34

I don't know how I've even ranked those. If

5:36

you go according to age, Mookie Betts

5:39

probably second or third there, something

5:41

like that. But we

5:43

can agree that that Boston team is now egregious.

5:45

Did you see their over under on FanDuel by the

5:47

way twenty nine and a half winds

5:50

basically being projected to be a sub five hundred

5:52

team, and you look at the top of their rotation

5:54

without David Price, without Chris Sale. I

5:57

don't know how you don't count the under here. I

5:59

think they're a team that like people love

6:01

because they're you know, a Boston in New York or Chicago

6:04

will always get you know, Jews from the books.

6:07

How are you gonna win thirty games with

6:09

Nate Yovaldi as your ace and Martin

6:11

Perez is you're starting pitcher two? And then it gets

6:13

even uglier from there. I think Ryan Webber's

6:15

lined up to be their starting pitcher three. Yeah,

6:18

Ryan Webber, Brian Johnson, a guy

6:21

named Matt Hall, who it is

6:23

my it is my job to

6:25

know about professional sports. I play daily fantasy

6:27

baseball. I I am all in on

6:29

this stuff. I have never in my

6:31

life heard of Matt Hall,

6:34

and he currently is projected to be their fifth

6:36

starter. And you know, it's not like the

6:39

lineup is as fearsome as

6:41

it used to be, you know, because you know,

6:43

Jackie Bradley Jr. Is now going to get everyday

6:45

at bats for whatever reason. Michael

6:48

Schavis is not going to be an everyday player

6:50

for the Boston Red Sox this year. So a

6:52

lot of Jose Peraza plate appearances. Maybe

6:54

they get a breakout season from Alex

6:56

Verdugo, but none of that seems, you know, overall

6:59

super likely. But everyone, we're gonna

7:01

go ahead and head into our first break

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Davis Mannock, joined by Ricky Sanders.

7:45

Gonna move from MLB news. We

7:47

discussed the Mookie Betts contract there at

7:49

the top of the hour. Now we are moving to the

7:52

NFL. Gonna go through some news and notes around

7:54

the league. Actually, the place we should begin with,

7:56

Rick, is the NFL and

7:58

the NFL p A agreed to

8:01

COVID nine team testing. You know, this was really

8:03

the this was the fly in the

8:05

ointment of you know, not knowing what

8:08

the NFL season was gonna do. We we think

8:10

that probably the NFL was

8:12

waiting to see what happened with Major League Baseball

8:14

and the NBA. Those plans

8:16

aren't really gonna be a one to

8:19

one fit for the NFL because there's so

8:21

much there's so many more players,

8:23

there's so much more more staffing involved. But overall,

8:26

I mean, I think you have to say good news that there

8:28

is the framework for

8:30

testing and and for player safety.

8:33

Yeah, and I don't want to be that guy who goes

8:36

into like for selfish reasons why we

8:38

needed this, but for selfish reasons. You

8:40

and I definitely want the NFL to play

8:43

for our job purposes, because you

8:45

know that's that's a big money maker for us.

8:47

It's a big money maker for a lot of people, and it shouldn't

8:50

only be about money. It should be about the health and safety.

8:52

It just made sense that, you know, if these

8:54

players didn't feel safe, the NFL had

8:57

to step it up. I mean, how can you play a game

8:59

where guys are constantly getting tackled, being

9:01

in piles uh, and not be

9:03

a hundred percent sure that the guys on the field don't

9:06

have COVID nineteen Now, I was telling

9:08

people that, you know, Australia has been

9:10

playing the National Rugby League, which they don't even have

9:12

face masks like blocking you out, and

9:14

you know scrums are a big part of that. So

9:16

quite literally, you know, multiple

9:18

times a series there will be a pile

9:21

up of guys and they've been able to get away with

9:23

it even in the era of COVID. So I wanted

9:25

people to be optimistic about the NFL.

9:28

But when you were hearing rumors of their

9:30

not being you know, anything in place. It was like, what

9:32

are you doing. I'm I'm very happy that this

9:34

has happened, and and really like

9:37

just just keep the testing going. We're seeing in

9:39

the other sports, how like constant testing.

9:41

It has been the answer all along, which

9:43

we knew. But yeah, thankfully

9:45

the NFL is starting to figure it out. Yeah,

9:48

I'm I'm glad that there is a

9:50

plan in place. One of the guys who right

9:52

now probably doesn't have

9:54

a job due to the COVID nineteen

9:56

pandemic is DeVonta Freeman. Chances

9:59

are that he would have, you know, had a couple of physicals,

10:01

probably would have went to work out with a

10:03

team or you know, with their coaches at

10:05

some point and uh, you know, according

10:07

to Adam Schefter on Twitter, Freeman

10:10

hired super agent Drew

10:12

Rosenhaus, one of the biggest, one of the biggest agents

10:14

in all the professional sports, and

10:17

uh says he wants a deal

10:19

you know pretty much right now. The exact quote

10:21

from Rosenhaus. We want to work at a deal in

10:23

the immediate future, and we are open to any

10:25

team. He's healthy, he's in shape,

10:28

and I'm on a mission to give him to

10:30

give him to a team to have a lift in

10:32

late July. Unfortunately,

10:34

Ricky, this is uh, this is

10:36

a game of musical chairs where there are

10:38

not enough chairs and uh, and too many musicians

10:41

there are. I I really, you know, kind of looking

10:43

around the NFL, I don't really see

10:46

a backfield where it makes

10:49

sense for him to be signing. Like

10:51

I think that the two names

10:53

that have been mentioned most often are Philadelphia

10:56

and Tampa Bay. But you know,

10:58

really, how is is DeVonta

11:00

Freeman better than Boston Scott right now? I'm

11:02

not sure he is. No, I'm

11:05

not sure he is either. And you and I

11:07

are in a slack chat together and

11:09

basically all of our reactions when when this

11:11

came out about DeVante Freeman is quote unquote

11:14

who is he going to kill? Obviously not in

11:16

a literal sense, but like, whose value is

11:18

he going to kill? I don't

11:21

think he is better than Boston Scott,

11:23

which just shows you, like why he probably

11:25

is unsigned at this point considering the money that

11:27

he's asking for. Looking

11:30

at other situations, I mean, Tampa

11:32

Bay could make a fair degree of sense depending

11:34

on how you feel about Ronald Jones. I know there

11:36

are a lot of people who are bullish on Ronald

11:38

Jones rushing ability out there, But

11:41

what about you know, reuniting if

11:43

Rathee moster wants U wants out

11:45

of there as the Tevin Coleman DeVante

11:47

Freeman duo in the backfield in San Francisco,

11:50

and it pains me to say, but like, why

11:52

aren't the Bears interested in him? I

11:54

mean, is David Montgomery anything special?

11:57

I love the volume that he's likely going to get.

12:00

I like the one to duo with

12:02

like a power back and Tarik Cohen,

12:05

But you look behind them, like I would be

12:07

fine with, you know, DeVante Freeman being the next

12:09

guy on the depth chart and you know, potentially

12:12

eating into some of that Montgomery work if he felt

12:14

like he was slowing down. But other than that, I

12:16

don't really see too many situations

12:18

where I look at it and be like, DeVante

12:21

Freeman will be a great fit there, even Washington,

12:23

I think he would just be like another guy in that

12:25

backfield. All right, here's

12:27

here's one and uh, this is a

12:30

this is uh, this would be kind of brutal

12:32

for value. But what

12:34

about Carolina their their backup running

12:37

back situation is Reggie Bonafon

12:39

Mike Davis who got cut from the Chicago Bears

12:41

last year, and undrafted free

12:43

agent running back from Minnesota Rodney

12:46

Smith, and then Jordan's Scarlett, who right now

12:48

actually is dealing with uh an

12:50

injury. He he was placed on injured reserve

12:52

with a with a knee injury

12:55

last year. I don't think that Scarlet.

12:57

Yeah, he had four Russia attempts last year

12:59

and that was that was it for Jordan's

13:02

Scarlett in the NFL. So you know, I I actually

13:04

think that Carolina as basically

13:06

the handcuff to Christian McCaffrey. I actually

13:09

think that is a spot that does

13:11

make a little bit of sense. So

13:13

that would pain me quite a bit because

13:15

I did think that Reggie Bonafon

13:18

looked good in the limited time that he got

13:20

behind Christian McCaffrey, you know, when when

13:22

the game was a blowout or towards the end of the year, when

13:24

he just got worked towards the end of the game, I

13:26

thought he looked pretty good, and so

13:28

I drafted him in basically every

13:31

best ball that we did you know late, but

13:34

I mean his best comparable and player profiler

13:36

dot com Sere would this is not a guy who's

13:38

special. Basically his best metric was

13:40

his birth score at eight eight percentile,

13:42

and everything else was very, very average.

13:45

So it would hurt me from a fantasy perspective

13:47

because I did think that if Christian McCaffrey

13:50

went down this year, you would get

13:52

like low end RB one production out

13:54

of him, just because of the scheme alone and the fact

13:56

that I think they need the backfield, the

13:58

backfield to catch passes to make everything work

14:00

on this team, etcetera, etcetera. But

14:03

I mean from a skill perspective, I think it could

14:05

be argued that he's probably better than him

14:07

where you know, the question is him versus Boston

14:10

Scott. I think Boston Scott's a more talented

14:12

player. Yeah. Another

14:14

situation that would make a little bit of sense would

14:16

be Houston, where their

14:18

third running back is a fellow by

14:20

the name of Buddy Howell. You would be you

14:22

would be forgiven for not knowing who that is.

14:25

Uh. To me, I think the team kind of used Duke Johnson

14:27

more like a slot wide receiver, especially with

14:30

the departure of DeAndre Hopkins.

14:32

You know, it's not like their wide receiver room is full,

14:34

it's it's the oft injured Will

14:36

Fuller. They have Kenny Stills. They have Brandon Cook

14:38

and then Kiki Cutie and Stephen Mitchell

14:41

Jr. Uh. Freeman makes some more

14:43

makes more sense as a direct like one

14:45

to one backup for David Johnson

14:48

as opposed to Duke Johnson, Like they probably want

14:50

to leave Duke Johnson in his role.

14:52

And we I mean, we know, we

14:54

know that Bill O'Brien loves to sign himself

14:56

some veteran running backs. I could I could easily

14:59

see Freeman ending in Houston. And that's actually

15:02

not a stone cold disaster for fantasy

15:04

because you don't think he will steal the

15:06

word from David Johnson. He probably is just

15:08

a handcuff there. Yeah,

15:10

Bill O'Brien, the anti moneyball guy,

15:12

where you're instead of projecting forward, you're looking

15:14

at the production from back in the day and

15:16

seeing like, Okay, that'll fit

15:18

in nicely David Johnson's year twenty

15:21

three year old season if we could get anything

15:24

near that where he is now. You

15:26

know that that's how Bill O'Brien thinks. But Buddy,

15:29

how by the way, we've been talking about rock I thought

15:31

for a second that was the Weezer song, But

15:33

that is not That is Buddy Holly

15:35

and I think he would be a fine

15:38

guy added to this backfield. David Johnson,

15:40

we don't know if he's dust like. He certainly

15:42

looked like it last year. So if you want

15:44

to go, you know, running back by committee,

15:47

just to see which back has anything

15:49

left between him and Devonte

15:51

Freeman, I'm completely fine with that. I don't know

15:53

how to feel about David Johnson at this point in his career,

15:56

honestly, all right. And another

15:58

one that I thought was interesting Jacksonville.

16:01

They hate Leonard Fournette. Right, All

16:03

of all of Leonard Fournett's backers inside

16:05

of that organization are gone. Tom Copland has gone,

16:07

The coaching staff the drafted him is gone.

16:10

So why I mean DeVonta Freeman a

16:12

better pass catcher than Leonard Fournette, write a more

16:14

a more efficient player. That uh that

16:17

that one would and that would ruin Fournett's

16:19

value right for Nett would be an eighth round

16:21

pick if they signed DeVonta Freeman. Yeah,

16:25

I mean Leonard four Nett is

16:27

a guy who can grind you out

16:29

some tough yards and I'm not sure

16:32

what else you're going to get from him. Now that Chris Thompson's

16:34

there, they want to take away some of that passing

16:37

work from him. Not only do you have Thompson, you have

16:39

the fact that Laviscus nald will be lining

16:41

up in the backfield. So from a fantasy perspective,

16:43

I'm already concerned about Leonard Fournette.

16:46

Uh, he would be someone that I probably wouldn't

16:48

draft, almost regardless of how far he

16:50

fell. If they signed DeVonta Freeman, yeah,

16:54

you know, I I think that there is a need

16:56

for a pass catching role there as well. You know, that's

16:58

why they signed Chris Thompson and then backup

17:00

running back situation rich Will Armstead Devon

17:03

o Zigbo. You know, these are very

17:05

replacement level players. This team is in desperate

17:08

need of playmakers, and Freeman

17:10

when healthy, is you know, a pretty good NFL

17:12

running back. So I could definitely see that as

17:14

possibility. But we're gonna go ahead and head

17:17

into our second break here on

17:19

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17:21

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17:26

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18:17

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18:19

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and Ricky drama.

18:24

We're We're back. Antonio Brown is

18:26

tweeted that he's done with the game.

18:29

Uh, personally, I'm not. I'm not

18:31

buying it? Are you? Are you buying this? Yeah?

18:34

I secretly wonder. I guess not so

18:37

secretly since we're saying it on this broadcast,

18:39

but I just did this same

18:41

sort of thing, and I wonder if this is what

18:43

he's doing here. I was buying a mattress

18:45

literally two weeks ago. I decided that

18:48

my queen size bed basically is

18:50

being taken up by both my fiance and

18:52

my dog, and I have nothing left. So we decided

18:55

we were going to buy a king size bed, but

18:57

you go to the mattress store and their

18:59

charge you an arm and a leg, So

19:02

we legitimately weren't you know, having

19:04

it, and there we're it just so happened

19:06

three furniture stores in the same basically

19:08

little mall that we said, you

19:10

know, we're leaving, we're not paying these prices,

19:12

and we ended up coming back later and

19:15

getting him to lower the price. I wonder

19:17

if Antonio Brown is doing the same sort of thing,

19:19

like you guys haven't given me the deal that I wanted.

19:21

So I'm walking out the mattress store right

19:23

now, but I'm still willing to deal

19:26

with you as I'm walking out or when I

19:28

walk back in. And I wonder if that's

19:30

the case here, is that Antonio Brown wanted

19:32

more money than any of these teams were willing to offer,

19:34

so he basically says, Okay, I'm retiring,

19:37

but he still has his phone on, and if

19:39

any of these teams call him and give him the number

19:41

that he's looking for, he probably would

19:43

un retire and or walk back into the store

19:45

really quickly. So I wonder if Antonio

19:47

Brown and my mattress shopping are a

19:49

little bit similar here well,

19:52

what's um. You know, what is so

19:54

interesting about this is I

19:57

don't really understand why Seattle

19:59

wants to sin him. Um.

20:01

You know, Tyler Lockett is pretty much at

20:03

the peak of his powers. DK Metcalf

20:06

is, you know, he's not like DK Metcalf

20:09

is not a super versatile wide receiver. He's

20:11

not someone you can move around all over. But clearly

20:13

they're not benching DK Metcalf. They

20:15

should as an organization want to give him

20:17

more targets and let him grow into

20:19

that role. I mean, I

20:22

I view Antonio Brown is like a very

20:24

bad fit in Seattle. Basically,

20:27

yeah, a guy who probably wants

20:30

volume when he gets there. I mean, that's

20:32

sort of his thing, is he wants to be the guy.

20:35

I just don't know looking

20:37

up and down rosters where he

20:39

could go and immediately get volume

20:41

and for it to make sense for the team to win

20:43

football games for him to get

20:45

that sort of volume. I agree with you on

20:47

Seattle that if Antonio Brown

20:50

were not such a headcase and he were

20:52

willing to just kind of fit in and

20:54

be the guy who could take on his role, I

20:56

think similar to what Rob Bronkowski

20:59

is going to do if UH

21:01

with Tampa Bay is just he's willing to be

21:03

like the third wheel there. If Antonio

21:05

Brown's personality allowed him to do such

21:08

things, I think it would be really interesting

21:10

with Russell Wilson, who's one of the most underrated

21:12

quarterbacks potentially in NFL history,

21:14

with how he's thought of just because

21:17

of some you know, playoff basically things

21:19

that were out of his control. Uh.

21:21

And I think he would be a good number three

21:23

here. You would have Tyler Lockett is the guy to

21:25

stretch the field, you have dk Metcalf as

21:27

a big receiver, and you would have Antonio Brown

21:29

is your possession guy. I think that would work

21:32

incredibly well for Russell Wilson.

21:34

It's just a matter of the personality fit.

21:36

And because there isn't a personality fit,

21:39

I don't think he could work. Um.

21:41

I mean now it is It is worth noting

21:43

Seattle does love to bring in

21:45

dusty old vets, right, that is like their

21:48

number one thing. Right, Trade

21:50

for Jimmy Graham, trade for Percy

21:52

Harvin, bring back Marshawn Lanch after he's

21:54

been on the couch for two

21:56

seasons. I mean, it really is. Pete Carroll

21:58

loves veterans. Pete loves to uh

22:01

you know, Pete Carroll loves to do this. So

22:03

I think that from that sense, like they

22:05

have no problem making a thirty two year

22:07

old Antonio Brown a key cog of

22:09

their offense. I just think, like, you know, if

22:11

if you overall believe that

22:14

that like targets are an indicator

22:17

of quality. I

22:19

mean I I just think that Tyler lock in a DK

22:21

metcap are so much more likely to

22:23

get out there and earn those targets. Where

22:28

where else do you think, like,

22:30

if if you were to come back

22:32

off the couch, who do you think like a surprise

22:35

team could be? I always include

22:37

my bears and things, just because I don't think

22:39

they're talented, and well they love vets

22:41

to be vets exactly.

22:44

I mean Ted g Jr. If you'll bring him in,

22:46

why not Antonio Brown? Um?

22:48

But yeah, I just I'm

22:51

looking up and down rosters. I don't see

22:53

very many places like I have one.

22:55

I have one where he could walk into a hundred

22:57

and fifty targets and and I we we

23:00

can go through some more teams, but I think that it is

23:02

Washington. Uh. And we we saw

23:04

a couple of videos last or maybe two weeks

23:06

ago of Dwayne Haskins and Antonio Brown

23:09

working out, you know, throwing with one another. But

23:11

you look at the wide receiver depth chart in

23:14

Washington, so they have McLaurin, then

23:16

it's Cody Latimer, Antonio

23:19

Gandy, Golden steven Sims, Tray

23:21

Quinn, you know, maybe Antonio Gibson plays

23:23

a little bit of slot. Then at tight end they have

23:26

Jeremy Sprinkle, Hail Hentages, and

23:28

Logan Thomas uh. And then in terms

23:30

of pass catching running back, probably just Antonio

23:33

Gibson not not expecting to see you know, wild

23:35

amount of targets for Darius guys. Peterson

23:37

probably gets no targets, uh, you know, ten

23:40

targets or whatever over the course of the year. So

23:42

I think Antonio Brown could walk

23:45

into the Washington professional

23:47

football team and and get fifty

23:49

targets right away. The

23:51

question is, for a guy like Haskins,

23:54

who basically has been

23:56

extremely inconsistent with his accuracy,

23:58

is a smaller receiver like Antonio Brown

24:01

really a good fit for him? And by the way, how

24:03

dare you not mentioned Daddy's moss as

24:05

a target on this Your boy, Your boy, I forgot.

24:08

I've drafted him everywhere hoping that he could

24:10

ascend to the top of that tight end depth chart.

24:13

But yeah, I mean, I guess you've

24:15

got to give him a second target of any sort

24:17

of quality. And if Steven Sims Jr.

24:19

Is your alternative, I think

24:22

Antonio Brown obviously is

24:24

a guy that I would take a shot on for upside

24:26

over him considering just how he torched the NFL

24:28

in the two thousand tents. Yeah,

24:31

I mean, I like, if Antonio Brown signs with

24:33

Washington, Like, what where do you where do you

24:35

think he goes? Where do you think he goes in drafts

24:37

and he signs with Washington. If

24:40

he signs with Washington, he's

24:42

probably a seventh or eighth

24:45

round receiver. Oh

24:47

no, way, No, you think he's higher

24:49

than that. Antonio Brown,

24:52

like, and Antonio Brown right now, not

24:54

being on a team, goes in like the eleventh round

24:57

sometimes. Okay,

24:59

So I guess I'm think of Scott fish Bowl where

25:01

you had the two quarterbacks and he had like a crazy amount

25:03

he was going to Like the round

25:06

he signs with Washington, which is Dwayne

25:08

Haskins, who is considered to be one of the

25:10

lower end quarterbacks. I think

25:13

probably seventh round is where I would

25:15

take him. I don't think I would be reaching

25:17

on him for much more than that. I

25:19

guess he had like eight targets in that one game with Brady.

25:22

They force fed him. I don't know if that would be the yeah.

25:24

I mean I personally then would

25:27

not end up owning him much if he signed there. If that's

25:29

where you think he goes, um,

25:31

well there. You know, there are a couple other potential

25:33

spots. I think San Francisco, especially

25:36

with the Deebo Samuel

25:38

injury. You know, we think of San Francisco as this really

25:40

talented you know, they have weapons everywhere, but

25:43

these are their day one, you know, week

25:45

one wide receivers, assuming Debo is not

25:47

back from their foot injury. Uh, second

25:49

round draft pick rookie Brandon aiyuk uh

25:52

total flame out, Dante Pettis, Trent

25:54

Taylor, who right now is injured, might not be ready

25:56

by week one, and Jalen heard,

25:59

I believe Max Mcca a freeze also technically

26:01

on the roster, but I mean that is a that

26:03

is a bear bones group

26:06

of pass catchers. Now, obviously they have George

26:08

Kittle, so that you know their number one wide

26:10

receiver is actually their number two pass catcher.

26:13

But I mean that is a group that is a wide

26:15

receiver group that needs some help for sure. Yeah,

26:18

that that is extremely ugly. I haven't

26:21

I haven't really taken I've been on aok

26:23

in most drassed and I've looked at Jalen Heard,

26:25

but i haven't taken a moment to step back and just look

26:27

at the wide receiver room here, and

26:29

it's pretty brutal. So if there's a team

26:31

that should be calling Antonio Brown

26:34

to, you know, get him out of retirement, and

26:36

you assume that Brandon Ayuk is probably

26:38

not ready, you're not gonna get you know, as much mini

26:40

camp, You're not going to get any preseason this year. So

26:43

rookies are just gonna be in a tougher spot.

26:45

In general, Why would this team

26:47

not be on the phone with Antonio Brown considering

26:49

all the pieces you have around them. You've got a strong defense,

26:52

you feel really good about your run game, especially if

26:54

most are just ends up staying there and

26:57

you just need another receiver. I mean,

26:59

Antonio Oun should be a guy, even

27:01

if he's a little bit of you know, a

27:03

personality that might not mesh

27:06

perfectly with this locker room. You need a receiver

27:08

so so I think you need to be on the phone with him.

27:11

Another one where I could see a

27:13

clear role for him, But I think there's no chance

27:15

this organization signs him. Is Philadelphia,

27:18

they have you know, injured al Sean Jeffrey,

27:21

always injured de Sean Jackson, though he is

27:23

not injured yet j j R. Say a Whiteside,

27:25

Greg Ward, and then Jalen Reagor, who you know

27:27

hopefully is ready to play by week

27:29

one, you know, as as their first round,

27:32

their first round draft pick. But again Antonio

27:34

Brown, he starts in base personnel

27:37

for Philadelphia and earns you know, a

27:39

hundred thirty targets

27:41

probably right away. You think, yeah,

27:44

I don't think there's any chance of it happening. And by the way,

27:46

de Sean Jackson mentally injured of his own

27:48

making very recently, but we won't talk

27:50

about that. Um. Yeah,

27:53

I mean, I think you look at this wide receiver

27:55

for if all Sean Jeffrey is not going to be healthy,

27:58

you could use some help. I think Jalen Reagor,

28:00

the as it's set up, could be the

28:02

number one scoring, you know, rookie receiver, especially

28:06

if Deshan Jackson is going to have any blowback

28:08

from the things he said, or

28:10

if he's going to be injured, or there's just like

28:12

a wide range of potential negative

28:15

outcomes for Deshaun Jackson before we even

28:17

get to the positives. You certainly could use

28:19

another receiver here. They do have Greg Ward,

28:21

who looked pretty good last year. They did sign

28:23

Marquise Goodwin off the street as well, So

28:25

like a guy who's quick as well, forgot

28:27

about the Marquise Goodwin signing. That's a that's

28:30

a yeah, that's ah well, I mean

28:32

he might have to play snaps for them this year, oh

28:34

no question. If if there's any issues

28:36

with the Sean Jackson, you will see plenty of Marquise

28:38

Goodwin. But yeah, I don't think

28:41

they would they would call upon him. But looking

28:43

at these receivers in worst case scenarios,

28:47

there are some doomed day scenarios for the Eagles receivers

28:49

basically other than Jalen reagor big

28:52

time. Yeah, I definitely agree. I also

28:54

think one more team that

28:56

that might make sense is the New York

28:59

Jets because uh,

29:01

well you know they I guess they invested in

29:03

the position with Mims and Perriman this offseason.

29:06

But I mean, I just I think Antonio

29:08

Brown clearly makes them a much, a much better

29:10

team, But they probably don't view it that way. They probably

29:13

are happy with the guys they have in the building. No,

29:16

I think they're happy with Bishop Perriman. Even though

29:18

you've seen people on Twitter tweet

29:20

his stats in a warm and cold weather, he

29:22

has not enjoyed the cold weather in a small

29:24

sample. But I don't know

29:26

if you're signing Antonio Brown just because you're worried

29:28

about the temperature of the ball game. I

29:31

don't think that's happening. Yeah, I mean, I

29:33

think there are clearly spots to go. And

29:35

I think part of the reason why Antonio Brown threatened

29:37

to retire is, uh, he wants that

29:39

bag. He he wants to secure the bag when

29:41

and if he gets signed. He's not coming back to

29:43

play on the Veterans minimum, you know, he would rather hang

29:45

out on on the couch. But we're gonna

29:48

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29:50

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29:52

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29:55

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29:57

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30:00

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30:33

news and notes here Today on the

30:35

program, we discussed some DeVonta

30:37

Freeman locations where Antonio Brown

30:40

might sign if in fact he does not end

30:42

up retiring as he threatened via

30:44

tweet this last weekend, but actually

30:47

fairly significant fantasy football news

30:49

in my mind. We got We finally got

30:51

some Sean McVeigh quotes on

30:54

what he plans to do with cam Akers,

30:56

Darrell Henderson, Malcolm Kelly or

30:58

Malcolm Brown and John Kelly.

31:01

So this is what he said, and it's it's not great.

31:03

I think he'll just naturally work itself out.

31:05

I think if you look at the success that San Francisco

31:08

had last year with that running back by committee

31:10

approach, what I thought Kyle Shanahan and

31:12

their players did a great job is is saying,

31:14

hey, we're gonna have an open minded approach,

31:16

We're gonna be committed to trying to have some balance,

31:19

and then we'll go with the hot hand.

31:21

Never like to hear that or whoever really

31:23

expresses himself as deserving of the carries.

31:26

We've got four backs that we all feel

31:28

like our NFL legitimate starting caliber

31:30

backs and not feeling like you've got to force

31:33

carries or touches to any of them.

31:35

Ricky. I mean, as as someone who likes

31:37

cam Akers, and I believe that you are in that

31:39

bucket with me as well. This is

31:42

the and I know he has

31:44

to say this, but this is the last thing you

31:46

want to hear. I

31:48

don't know if you can see my reaction in real time because

31:51

I have been focusing on getting ready for the MLB

31:53

season most of the time, so I've not been able

31:55

to keep up with these news and notes. But

31:58

we just had those Scott Fish Bowl draft offs

32:00

on Twitter, which are you know these basically

32:02

an industry wide draft with thousands of teams,

32:05

etcetera, etcetera, where you draft for a league

32:07

of twelve. And I finally got a cam Aker share

32:09

and I was very excited about it, and

32:12

this just is painful. Alluding

32:15

to that San Francisco

32:17

team, which I guess Raheem Mostert did end up

32:20

with fourteen touchdowns, So let's let's hope

32:22

he's saying that, you know, Cam Akers is going

32:24

to be my Raheem Mostert, but alluding

32:26

to that backfield where it was kind of a crap

32:28

shoot and there were multiple guys involved,

32:31

and there was a run heavy offense where

32:33

you know, they were clearly playing the hot hand.

32:35

We saw that multiple times. I

32:37

hate this. I hate this so much.

32:39

I thought Sean McVeigh was clearly,

32:42

you know, a number one back sort of guy

32:44

with Todd Gurley, and he still maybe, to

32:46

be quite honest, they may get a look at

32:48

Cam Akers, and cam Akers just may have the

32:50

hot hand for the entire season because he's

32:53

the best back. But knowing that,

32:55

you know, Darryl Henderson and Malcolm Brown still

32:57

could be part of the plans. This just

33:00

destroys how I

33:02

feel about cam Acres in

33:04

the sense that you know, I was I was

33:06

on him as a rock solid fifth round

33:08

pick. He's probably going earlier in some

33:10

leagues that aren't two quarterbacks, so probably like third

33:13

fourth round pick. Uh if he's the best

33:15

available. If we're talking like RB one,

33:17

I was all in on cam Akers.

33:20

This this hurts. I mean volume

33:22

matters for running backs. It's the reason that David

33:24

Montgomery is going pretty highly is because

33:26

we expect him to get a ton of carries, even though

33:28

we don't love the talent With cam Akers.

33:31

I thought he could get a similar workload and was a much

33:33

more talented back, and it was on a in

33:35

a system that would commit to him and had the

33:37

opportunity to balance the pass. If

33:39

this is the case and we're talking about like

33:43

of the rushing workload for cam Akers

33:46

as opposed to like sixty seventy seventy

33:48

five, this really hurts me.

33:51

This hurts so this

33:53

is why I don't buy it. So one

33:56

of the guys he mentioned was John Kelly. John

33:58

Kelly has been on the Rams roster for

34:01

two years, including some time on the practice

34:03

squad. He's been active for eight total

34:05

games. He has thirty total rushes

34:07

for eighty three yards along of

34:10

seven yards uh. He has three

34:12

targets over that time frame.

34:14

I I don't buy that Sean McVeigh believes

34:16

that John Kelly is his starting running back

34:19

right. I just I don't. I think

34:21

if he thought John Kelly was a starting caliber

34:23

NFL running back, he wouldn't have drafted Darryl Henderson

34:26

and he really would not have drafted Cam Akers

34:28

the next year. Right, because the Rams

34:30

roster is totally hamstrung

34:32

by Jared Goss contract. They have

34:34

a bunch of dead money for Todd Gurley. They're

34:36

actually still paying part of Brandon Cooks's

34:38

contract, who is now applying his trade

34:41

for the Houston Texans. Like this nightmare, Like

34:43

they don't have first round picks, Like it's a total nightmare,

34:46

and they spent a second round pick and

34:48

back to back years on running backs, on

34:50

Darryl Henderson and on Cam Akers. To

34:53

go even further, John Kelly never even had

34:55

a one thousand yards season in college.

34:57

Uh, you know, played in a backfield win

35:00

with other NFL players Alvin

35:02

Kamara and Jalen Heard, and uh

35:04

was was a backup behind those guys. So

35:06

I'm not I'm not buying it for John Kelly.

35:09

The other guy that he mentioned is Malcolm

35:11

Brown, who you know, folks

35:14

might remember I really liked as a

35:16

as a sleeper last year. He scores

35:18

the two touchdowns in Week one Ricky. I thought

35:20

I was rich, right, I was like, Malcolm

35:23

Brown's gonna be the dude, and

35:25

uh man, he just

35:27

blew it, right he I mean he blew

35:30

it. This is this is actually crazy. So

35:32

Malcolm Brown an undrafted

35:34

free agent at the University of Texas. How

35:36

long do you think he's been in the NFL? Just if you had

35:38

to guess four

35:41

years. He's about

35:43

to enter his sixth year in the NFL. He

35:45

has been on the Rams for so long.

35:48

He was drafted and played for the

35:50

St. Louis Rams, not the Los Angeles

35:53

Rams. He was on the St. Louis Rams.

35:55

That was the first team he played for.

35:57

So he's been in the NFL for five years. He's

35:59

racked up a hundred and ninety seven carries

36:02

UH. Last year when he got his audition

36:04

as the starter, you know, he was awful against

36:06

San Francisco, ended up finally

36:08

at the end of the year sixty rushing attempts

36:11

uh three point seven yards per

36:13

carry, was targeted only six times

36:15

in a in a year where you know, he

36:17

started more often and and played more

36:20

often than any other year of his career. So basically,

36:23

those two guys are should

36:25

not factor in the equation at all. I think, like,

36:27

I mean, do you do you think either of them were going to

36:29

come into this at all? I

36:32

think Malcolm Brown has a much better chance.

36:34

Look, John Kelly played three offensive

36:36

snaps last year, so yeah,

36:38

I don't. When I was saying I'm

36:41

heartbroken by this, it wasn't because I

36:43

thought John Kelly legitimately should factor

36:45

in. It's the fact that we might get

36:47

a three running back committee, which

36:49

which I think is believable. I

36:52

don't know. Malcolm Brown was pretty ugly

36:54

last year when when given the chance. You mentioned

36:57

that like big first week, but he

36:59

was given some opportunities after that,

37:01

and I remember multiple Daily Fantasy

37:03

weeks where Malcolm Brown was the stone chalk

37:06

and it was like we were talking like mid forties

37:08

in terms of yardage and that was about it

37:10

from him. I mean, Malcolm

37:13

Brown not

37:16

not someone that I think it's

37:18

gonna be, you know, the top back, But if you

37:20

factor him in for like twenty of the rushing

37:22

market share, he becomes annoying. I

37:24

think Darryl Henderson is the guy that they probably

37:27

have the most faith in of the ones who are on the roster

37:29

now. But you think about it, would they have drafted

37:31

the second round back if they truly, truly

37:33

did have that much faith in him.

37:35

And you know, the more I think about it, the more this

37:38

just feels like coach speak because

37:41

you know, cam Akers very talented

37:43

back. They had missed Todd

37:45

Gurley, who was their guy with this similar

37:47

personnel. I still happened

37:50

to believe that, you know, even in worst

37:52

case we get like a back end

37:54

RB two situation from

37:57

uh obviously from

37:59

the new act and and as he you know,

38:01

works in like the second half of the season,

38:03

that's where you're gonna get your reward with cam Akers.

38:06

So I'm still drafting him

38:08

with a fair degree of confidence. But

38:11

you know, reading the tidbit on him while

38:13

you're drafting him is gonna just make you feel

38:15

a little bit uneasy. But it's a rookie running back, so

38:17

of course you know there's a there's a wide range

38:19

of potential outcomes here. Yeah,

38:22

So this is I think, this

38:24

is why I don't believe Sean

38:27

McVeigh. He he voted with his pocketbook.

38:29

Right, That's what that's what we say kind of in in

38:32

the world in general, right, that

38:34

that people in general do vote with

38:36

their pocketbooks. Right. It takes. It takes

38:39

money to change anything, and Sean

38:41

McVeigh has a very limited number of ways

38:43

to improve his roster. Uh.

38:45

You know, that's just the way. That's the way that the Rams

38:48

have chosen to go about building this team,

38:50

and in the very limited way that

38:52

he can build his roster. Uh.

38:55

You know, he spent that second round pick on Cam

38:58

Akers a year after spending that pick on Aarl

39:00

Henderson, and I think I think that,

39:03

uh, that selection is an admission

39:05

that Darryl Henderson is not going to be a

39:07

good enough NFL running back. Yeah,

39:10

you're I think you're probably correct there.

39:13

I mean, I'm just on Pro Football Focus looking

39:15

at the graining from last year. It wasn't great. I

39:17

mean, wasn't a very good receiver,

39:20

wasn't a very good pass blocker. He was

39:22

a decent runner um,

39:24

but you know, clearly not a guy

39:26

who screams that you need to be given

39:28

him all the carries. I think cam Akers

39:31

should get every shot to shine. And

39:33

like I mentioned, I think Cam Akers quote

39:35

unquote having the hot hand throughout the course

39:37

of the entire season is possible,

39:40

like a Raheem Mostert last year, where maybe the

39:42

coach did even have intentions

39:44

of it being a big split, but once

39:46

you see cam Akers run the football, it's just gonna

39:48

be like, all right, let's keep giving this guy the football.

39:52

Um. Yeah, speaking of Raheem Moster.

39:54

By the way, we got a report from rap

39:56

sheet Ian Rappaport on Twitter that Raheem

39:59

Mostert has spoken to a

40:01

number of the high ranking members of the forty

40:03

niners hierarchy to clear

40:06

the air and get on the same page

40:08

moving forward. This is per Ian Rappaport

40:10

on Twitter. So most Hearts, set

40:12

to make three million dollars this year, recently

40:15

requested a trade if they

40:17

couldn't match Tevin coleman salary,

40:20

and uh, basically I think

40:22

that, Um, this is like,

40:25

this is most Art saying like all right, whatever, you

40:27

know. It's like it's like when you bluff in poker

40:29

and then you get called, or like you you bluff

40:32

on the turn and then you get called and

40:34

then the other person checks to you on the river,

40:36

and then you just check back and you're like, all right, I give

40:38

up, Like I'm I'm not actually gonna go all in

40:40

in this scenario. Like that's what happened to her emost

40:42

Heart. He raised on the turn, but he was not willing

40:45

to go all in and like actually like hold out or

40:47

do anything. Well

40:49

when three million dollars is sitting there on the

40:52

table. Uh, you understand why.

40:54

I mean it's it's it's different for him than

40:56

it is for obviously someone bluffing and poker,

40:58

because you realize you're probably losing the hand.

41:01

Uh. If he plays the hand as is,

41:03

if he just checks all the way through, he's

41:05

got three million dollars headed his way. So

41:07

it's really tough for him to to

41:09

lose it. I think it's another you know, Mattress

41:11

scenario where he's like, Okay, I'm leaving if you

41:13

guys don't pay me. But he's actually walking back

41:15

in the door and be like all right, I'll take the three million. And

41:19

I mean it's a good set up for

41:21

him, you know, for productivity. If they're not gonna

41:23

pay him this year, if he you know, headlines

41:27

a heavy rushing attack for this forty Niners

41:29

team, again, maybe teams do consider

41:31

paying him. Uh. We see it all the time with

41:33

running backs. All he needs is like a one to two year

41:36

contract where he gets a sizeable amount

41:38

and that will make his career um

41:41

and again I think this offense is set up

41:43

well for him. He was five point six yards per carry

41:45

last year. Fourteen receptions wasn't huge,

41:48

uh in you know the passing game, but ten

41:50

total touchdowns and

41:53

I love Raheem most in this

41:55

offense. I know you you like haven't been

41:57

a fan of him, but I think by the

42:00

fault he ends up leading them and because

42:02

they're gonna be so run heavy, he

42:04

may not be fun in PPR leagues, but

42:06

like not leagues that don't reward for

42:08

receptions. I still think he's gonna be a

42:11

fine investment in all formats.

42:13

I know you're not quite as high on him, but

42:15

look at those receivers now, I mean without Deebo

42:17

Samuel, Like, what else is this team going to try and

42:19

do to win? So

42:23

I like most are a lot. As a rusher,

42:25

I think he's I think he's a really good

42:28

runner, right you you hand the guy that football,

42:30

you you get him outside the tackles, he's like,

42:32

actually, he was a better track athlete

42:34

in college than he was a

42:37

football player. He never even got to a thousand

42:39

rushing yards when he was at when he was at

42:41

Perdue in college, which you know, I always

42:43

think it's fascinating for an NFL player

42:45

obviously to have not been a good college

42:48

player. But you know, a big part

42:50

of what the forty Niners do is they throw the ball

42:52

at the running back, right Because Jimmy Garoppolo

42:54

is not they don't want him throwing the ball down the

42:56

field a ton, So they use their running backs

42:58

in the passing game a lot of specially in more competitive

43:01

games, you know, not when they're blowing out the

43:03

Green Bay Packers or or whatever. So

43:06

I think my concerns with most of are I just

43:08

don't know if he has that passing game skill

43:10

set. Basically, no,

43:13

he I don't think he does. Like I mentioned, fourteen

43:15

receptions in total last year, so

43:19

he's a guy who's gonna have to get most of it done

43:21

on the ground. I just think this is a team that's

43:24

more committed to the ground than most,

43:26

So I think the opportunity should

43:28

be completely fine. Uh.

43:30

It's never fun to roster back

43:33

in PPR leagues where you know you're barely

43:35

ever going to get a reception. But

43:37

I think he's one of the outliers that you could still consider.

43:40

I don't want to call him at Derrick Henry Range

43:42

but like two tiers below Derrick Henry

43:45

in the same thought process. I

43:47

mean, if most are gets there from

43:50

a fantasy perspective, he will have done so in

43:52

a way remarkably similar to what Derrick

43:54

Henry does, where it's it's pretty much all

43:56

touchdowns. So everyone, we're gonna go ahead

43:59

and head into our final

44:01

break here on the Daily Road To Hour. We have a few

44:03

minutes left on the program. When we get back,

44:05

we are going to discuss the recent report

44:07

from the Colts offensive coordinator

44:09

about t Y Hilton and how he expects

44:11

the offense to work in So

44:14

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44:18

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44:45

Hello everyone, and welcome back to our final

44:47

segment here on the Daily Road to Hour on

44:49

sports Cred TV. This has been Davis

44:51

Mannock and Ricky Sanders Covering our last

44:54

little bit of news and notes here,

44:56

we got a great quote from

44:58

the offensive coordinator of the Indianapolis

45:01

Colts about how they expect their offense to work

45:03

in. Nick Serrani said

45:05

about t Y Hilton, I expect a

45:07

great bounce back year for him. He had a lot of

45:09

injuries. I expect the version

45:12

of t Y Hilton if he stays healthy. There's

45:14

no doubt that this is who the

45:16

past offense is going to run through.

45:19

So in that season,

45:22

Hilton recorded seventy six receptions

45:24

shade over twelve receiving

45:26

yards and seven receiving

45:28

touchdowns, which, by the way, how crazy is

45:30

it that Andrew luck is still retired? Just

45:32

like you kind of forget that happened, but it was

45:34

one of the wildest things um at

45:37

the time. So Hilton has bet a guy Ricky

45:39

for a large part, I have avoided up until

45:41

this point, but I gotta say, the prospect

45:44

of a healthy t Y Hilton just

45:46

getting that insane target workload

45:48

again, I'm pretty intrigued here.

45:51

Yeah, it's hard to not believe

45:53

a coach going out and saying something like that.

45:56

That doesn't feel like a thing that

45:58

they need to have coach speak of out. And

46:01

you look at t Y Hilton for a one,

46:03

two, three, four or five six years stretch,

46:05

a guy with at least a hundred nine targets

46:07

each of those years, and in eighteen

46:10

he missed two games, he still had

46:12

a hundred and twenty targets. So if

46:14

that's gonna be the case you had been selling me

46:17

on Paris Campbell, I am not gonna lie guy

46:19

who is just a pure speeds there best

46:21

comparable according to player profile, it was a Santana

46:24

Moss. You look at the forty yard dash, a four three

46:26

one uh in the same speed score.

46:29

I think it's still makes sense for this to be a

46:31

multi receiver offense. And I still

46:33

have some interest in Paris Campbell.

46:36

But man, if you're you're telling me that

46:38

Philip Rivers is gonna walk in here, who has really

46:40

done great things, you know, with the volume to Keenan

46:42

Allen, and you're gonna use him in

46:45

a similar fashion and just get him. You know

46:47

that that those sort of targets basically on pace

46:49

for like one one fifty.

46:52

I have interested him again in fantasy. Now

46:54

I've met t Y Hilton. He's like half my

46:57

girth and I'm taller than he is and he's thirty

46:59

years old, so it's hard for me to believe

47:01

that body hasn't broken down at all. But if

47:03

you're gonna get anyone that many

47:05

targets, I think you gotta have some interest. Yeah,

47:08

I mean, especially because we have seen t Y

47:10

Hilton do it. He gets to play in that dome

47:13

that's just a perfect perfect fit for

47:16

his skill set, and he does. He has very

47:18

little competition for targets. You know, Jack

47:20

Doyle and Michael Pittman, A lot

47:22

of guys who are are just okay. So

47:24

everyone that's gonna do it for us here today

47:27

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47:29

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47:31

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