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Free Agency Fallout Part 3: How Loaded are the Jets + Hollywood Goes to KC and Keenan Allen is a Bear (Episode 706 with Evan Silva and Adam Levitan)

Free Agency Fallout Part 3: How Loaded are the Jets + Hollywood Goes to KC and Keenan Allen is a Bear (Episode 706 with Evan Silva and Adam Levitan)

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Free Agency Fallout Part 3: How Loaded are the Jets + Hollywood Goes to KC and Keenan Allen is a Bear (Episode 706 with Evan Silva and Adam Levitan)

Free Agency Fallout Part 3: How Loaded are the Jets + Hollywood Goes to KC and Keenan Allen is a Bear (Episode 706 with Evan Silva and Adam Levitan)

Free Agency Fallout Part 3: How Loaded are the Jets + Hollywood Goes to KC and Keenan Allen is a Bear (Episode 706 with Evan Silva and Adam Levitan)

Free Agency Fallout Part 3: How Loaded are the Jets + Hollywood Goes to KC and Keenan Allen is a Bear (Episode 706 with Evan Silva and Adam Levitan)

Tuesday, 26th March 2024
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0:00

Hello and welcome

0:02

to episode 706

0:05

of the

0:07

official establishtherun.com

0:10

podcast. My

0:22

name is Adam Levitan. I am one

0:24

of the co-founders here at ETR as always joined

0:27

by fellow co-founder Evan Silva. And

0:29

the best players left in free agency are

0:32

now Dustball as we're talking about Ryan

0:34

Tannehill, Tyler Boyd, Clyde Edwards-A'Lare, Logan Thomas.

0:36

So I think it's finally Evan. I

0:38

think it's finally safe to say that

0:40

we can wrap up free agency, put a bow on

0:42

it once and for all. How's it

0:44

going today? It's going great. And

0:47

that means we're going to move full head on steam

0:49

into the draft very, very soon. We got a bunch

0:52

of great shows coming up, but we got

0:54

a bunch of stuff to cover, you

0:56

know, from this last wave of free agency. I'd

0:58

say we're about 80 to 90% done with free agency. There

1:02

were a ton of signings this year.

1:04

Obviously we got that salary cap bump by 30 million

1:06

up to 260 million. Teams

1:09

were very aggressive. But

1:12

yeah, what's left of the

1:14

free agency class is crumbs. On

1:17

today's show, as Evan mentioned, we're going to discuss

1:19

the fallout of the moves that were made since

1:21

we last recorded. So since we last recorded, that

1:23

was March 14th. So there's

1:26

been a bunch of really important moves that have happened

1:28

since March 14th. We're going to break all those down

1:30

at the end of this show. We will also highlight

1:32

our 10 biggest fantasy

1:34

winners of the free

1:36

agency period. Before

1:39

we get into it today, two

1:41

quick reminders. First, it is with

1:43

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1:46

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3:15

right, Evan, let's get into it here. Here

3:17

are the 12 most

3:19

important things you need to know from the

3:21

final 10 days of free agency. Again, these

3:24

are moves that were made after on March

3:26

14th or later.

3:29

First biggest move was one I actually tweeted about

3:31

before it happened and Jets Twitter picked it up

3:33

and they went nuts and it was positive. And

3:35

so NetJets Twitter loves me now. Shout out to

3:37

you guys. Of course they hated me when I

3:39

was saying bad things about the Jets last year.

3:41

But anyways, Mike Williams, who

3:43

was of course cut by the Chargers,

3:46

does a one year up to $15

3:48

million deal with The

3:50

Jets. Now Mike Williams has had his fair

3:52

share of injuries. He's coming off of an

3:54

ACL tear, but they desperately, in my opinion,

3:56

needed help. opposite. Garrett Wilson. Al Lazard was

3:59

a mess. Last. Year. So now

4:01

you give Aaron Rodgers. Three. New

4:03

op eds of lineman you give him gear

4:05

wilson you can breeze have give big Mike

4:07

Williams get of argue the an arguably the

4:10

Nfl best defense. And. they had attended.

4:12

Overall pick. On. Paper at him. And.

4:14

I want to get to get of the Mike Williams

4:16

move but just on paper this roster. I

4:19

think it's really good. Man, I took some long

4:21

shot futures on them. I can talk about it

4:23

a second here this past week. or what you

4:25

think of Mike Williams. Signing. With

4:27

the Jets world's first of all, the

4:29

blur roster does look good on paper.

4:32

They. It's like the biggest boom bust roster

4:34

in the Nfl because it's a bunch of

4:36

due who are. Have. As

4:38

had you know, quality Nfl careers

4:40

but are on the on the

4:42

downside of their career or coming

4:44

off of significant injury. I thought

4:46

the Mike Williams deal was worth

4:48

every penny though, and it was

4:50

initially. now says up to fifteen

4:52

million. Look deeper. It's a point.

4:54

Three million. One years. A point Three million.

4:57

I think that's entirely worth it. For.

4:59

A player that was playing at a really high level.

5:02

This past season what it was only

5:04

three games was averaging almost ninety yards

5:06

per game. Ten. Yards for to heart

5:08

target. The year before, he averaged almost ten

5:10

yards for target. You. Know where

5:12

We saw him as a featured part of

5:14

the offense with the Chargers. He flashy ability

5:16

to be a one a receiver. So

5:19

but it will come down to health. he's not. This is

5:21

gonna have to have that on his plate. With.

5:23

Garrett Wilson. And. The Just I

5:26

think right now it to just three. If

5:28

if the season worse are today, the Jets

5:30

three receivers set would be Mike Williams and

5:32

Dare Wilson on the outside. Out.

5:34

Some combination of our Lazard and

5:36

Xavier Gibson. On. The inside. I

5:39

mean, I. Do Not

5:41

think that Mike Williams fantasy.

5:44

Outlook. Is as strong as it is

5:46

as a real life move. We have a huge

5:48

gap between Gary Wilson and Make Lives. We have

5:50

gear Wilson eleventh overall. In our underdog

5:52

rankings right now. Mike Williams ninety third overall,

5:54

so that is a big big gap. Mike

5:56

Williams has been a big. Touchdown

5:59

guy. I think that

6:01

Aaron Rodgers highlighting running backs and

6:03

my reason we have Bruce Hall up there

6:05

as a very nice first round pick as

6:07

well. He's going to get a lot of

6:09

touches too. So it's not like I'm excited

6:11

or overly excited about Michael Williams from fantasy

6:14

from real life though. I did take jets

6:16

30 to one Superbowl jets, plus 300 to

6:18

win the AFC East and Robert Saleh, which

6:20

I don't even love because God, I feel

6:22

like coaches could hold this team back, but

6:24

Robert Saleh 25 to one to be the

6:26

coach of the year. A little sprinkle there

6:28

as well as we start to build the

6:30

futures portfolio for Yeah.

6:33

Nathaniel back, Nathaniel Hackett back

6:35

safely as the Jets offensive coordinator. All those, as

6:38

I was putting those bets in, I was like,

6:40

I can't believe I'm betting on this dolt Nathaniel

6:42

Hackett again. I can't believe I'm putting more money

6:44

on this guy, but yeah, I

6:46

do like the roster a lot speaking

6:49

of the chargers. So once Mike Williams went, it

6:51

was kind of assumed or thought at least that

6:54

Keenan Allen would be staying. Turns

6:56

out chargers went to Keenan Allen, asked

6:58

him to take a pay cut. He said, nah,

7:00

man, I'm coming off my best year. I'm not taking a

7:02

pay cut chargers say fine. We trade

7:04

you to the bears for around

7:06

four pick. So this one I thought was

7:09

a little surprising to me. I mean, they

7:11

left themselves, the chargers did with absolutely nothing.

7:14

Josh Palmer and Quentin Johnston are their wide

7:16

receivers. Their tight ends are Hayden Hearst, Will

7:19

Dustley and Donald Parham. They're running backs are

7:21

Gus Edwards and Isaiah Spiller. They have, they

7:24

they've come in here, this new regime and

7:27

given them no weaponry, given Justin

7:29

Herbert, no weaponry. And it scares me. So

7:31

first, Evan, what'd you think about Keenan Allen

7:33

going to the bears for around four pick? Well,

7:35

it was extremely critical of the bears off season

7:38

and the last show that we did, I thought, and

7:40

then I think it was the same night that we,

7:42

that we sent that out that they made the trade

7:44

for Keenan Allen. I was like, this

7:47

is one of the better moves of the

7:49

off season. I think, you know, giving an

7:51

incoming rookie quarterback, a steady, sure-handed,

7:54

great route running possession

7:56

receiver to compliment DJ

7:59

Moore. Keno knows

8:01

how to get open. That's something that

8:03

I think, I mean, look, he's what, 33

8:05

years old now. And yet this is not

8:07

necessarily a move made for the long

8:09

term. But it's

8:11

a guy that I think that into his mid 30s

8:14

will still have the capability to get open. He's

8:16

always, you remember him coming out of college, he ran

8:18

like four seven, but he's had like

8:20

a borderline hall of fame career because he

8:22

just knows how to get open period. Especially

8:27

on because Caleb Williams is so good as

8:29

like a second reaction, improvisational

8:33

quarterback. Like this guy

8:35

is someone that he can rely on to get open

8:38

in those scenarios. And even when he's playing within structure,

8:40

I thought it was a really smart move by

8:42

Ryan polls. I thought that the

8:45

price was great for what they got

8:47

him for. So big

8:49

clap for the bears on this one. Okay,

8:51

our first run of ranks here, we have

8:54

DJ more 28th overall, Keenan Allen, 55th

8:56

overall market has it a little bit tighter

8:58

there. But I think that's fair given how

9:01

well DJ more perform than where Keenan Allen

9:03

is at in his career. The question

9:05

I have for you Evan is what are the

9:07

charges going cuz I'm concerned. I am very concerned

9:10

that they are gonna try to turn Justin Herbert

9:12

who I think is very good young quarterback. I

9:14

know people disagree. I

9:16

think Jared's nervous very good young quarterback and

9:18

who can play aggressively. They're gonna try to

9:21

turn him into like Trent Dilfer on those

9:23

Ravens teams. The problem is he's not gonna

9:25

be that efficient. I don't think given the weaponry around

9:27

him, the run game led by Gus Edwards and Isaiah

9:29

Spiller and I understand they have to track the draft

9:31

coming up and they have the high pick. I believe

9:33

they have the fifth overall pick but still man, what

9:36

are the charges doing? They have nothing at the

9:38

skill positions right now. Well,

9:41

Jim Harbaugh at Stanford

9:44

used Andrew

9:46

Luck as a low volume passing

9:48

quarterback then he had Alex Smith

9:51

in San Francisco. Greg

9:53

Roman when he was in Baltimore Lamar Jackson

9:56

very low volume quarterback. That's what I would

9:58

expect at number. 5

10:01

overall, it seems

10:03

like it's going to be wide receiver or

10:05

Joe Alt out of Notre

10:07

Dame. And it wouldn't

10:09

surprise me if they went with Joe Alt

10:11

because of the philosophy that they seem to

10:13

be pursuing right now. I mean,

10:15

but you're right. It's almost like they are punting

10:18

at wide receiver. As

10:20

you mentioned, Josh Palmer, again, I

10:22

don't think you can rely on anything coming from

10:25

Quentin Johnson after what he put on tape as

10:27

a rookie. The good

10:29

news is that the wide receiver class is really, really

10:31

deep. So in later rounds, they'll have to, they'll be

10:33

able to take some shots, but it wouldn't

10:35

surprise me if they went with the tackle at number

10:37

five. Okay. You want to be a really good running team. Your

10:40

running backs are Gus Edwards and Isaiah Spiller, you know,

10:42

so I'm not even that excited about that. And

10:45

I understand that they can get running backs in the draft

10:47

also just worried about what they're doing. And

10:49

we do have Justin Herbert very low in the ranks. We have

10:51

him as our QB 16 right now in

10:53

fantasy. And I believe last year we were up way

10:56

higher on Justin Herbert market is around

10:58

QB 16. We're at QB 12 on Justin Herbert right now.

11:00

Again, we're at QB 16 on him. A

11:03

very telling decision that they made, and I'm

11:05

not even saying, I'm not saying that it's

11:08

a poor decision or anything like that was

11:10

that they elected to keep those two pass

11:12

rushers. Remember they were in a position where

11:14

they can move on with Mike from Mike

11:16

Williams or Keenan Allen or

11:19

Joey Bosa or Khalil Mack. They wound up

11:21

keeping Mack and Bosa and letting go of

11:23

both of the wide receivers. Yep.

11:25

Yeah, clearly. I'm not going to

11:28

be focused on defense right now. Maybe you know, if they're focusing on both

11:30

lines, maybe it'll be all or maybe they'll trade back and try to get

11:32

multiple picks, but we're going to have a lot

11:35

more draft speculation coming up soon on

11:37

future shows. All right.

11:39

This one is exciting for fantasy. I think

11:41

Marquis Brown, Hollywood fake Hollywood

11:44

from Hollywood, Florida, not California, Marquis

11:46

Brown, one year deal with

11:48

the Kansas city chiefs just

11:50

makes a lot of sense for me

11:53

from both sides from Marquis Brown's side.

11:56

If he can stay healthy and

11:58

not drop the football like other charges. other

12:00

Chiefs wide receivers did all last year. Marcus

12:03

Brown is going to hit free agency again in 12

12:05

months at a very young age. And he just saw

12:07

Cala Ridley get 50 million guaranteed. I

12:09

mean, assuming Marcus Brown plays well with Patrick

12:12

Mahomes this year, he could really break the

12:14

bank. I like that from their perspective, from

12:16

Marcus Brown's perspective, from the Chiefs perspective,

12:18

Marcus Brown is best wide receiver

12:21

talent. Mahomes will have had since

12:23

Tyree Kale left, I think pretty clearly.

12:27

So yeah, I think it's a win-win on both. Evan,

12:29

what did you think of Marcus

12:31

going to the Chiefs? Yeah, Rashid Rice is

12:33

pretty good, but they play different roles. You

12:35

know, I mean, this

12:37

is what they need on the perimeter. As

12:40

you mentioned, you know, he's not a consistent

12:42

touch for the football and he's battled injuries,

12:44

but his skillset when he's healthy.

12:47

I mean, I think that, you know, this is a

12:49

guy that can absolutely separate, get behind the defense,

12:51

take advantage of what Patrick Mahomes brings to the

12:54

table. I really like this signing. You know,

12:56

it's not like a long-term investment by any

12:58

means. Marcus Brown is 26 going on,

13:00

27 years old. I

13:03

still think they need another dude opposite

13:05

him. You know, it's like enough

13:07

with the playing, Justin

13:09

Watson, you know, 60% of

13:12

the snaps, you know, you obviously can't rely on

13:14

Kaderius Moore, Sky Moore. I think it's pretty much

13:16

a dust ball at this point. I

13:19

still think that they should look long and hard at

13:22

a wide receiver with the 30 second overall

13:24

pick. They should not

13:26

be done here. Well, especially since Marcus Brown is only

13:28

on a one year deal. And if he has a

13:30

good year, he's going to be very expensive and the

13:32

Chiefs might not be able to bring him back. We

13:35

do have Rashid Rice, 21st overall, of Marcus

13:38

Brown, 62nd overall in

13:40

our rankings right now. One

13:43

thing on philosophy, we were just talking about

13:45

this, we've been working on the Travis Kelsey

13:47

ranking, which is a very difficult ranking. Chiefs

13:50

philosophically, though, like what they did last year,

13:52

rely on the defense, run the ball more,

13:54

run the ball in the red zone more.

13:57

I think that could still kind of be sticky. people

14:00

are all that's going to regress. They're going to go back

14:02

to being super pass happy. I don't know. They're, they put,

14:04

give a lot of money to Chris

14:06

Jones. Obviously they lost speed,

14:08

which we'll get to in a second here. They still have McDuffie.

14:10

So I don't know. I kind of think that the way they

14:12

played last year might be the best way for

14:14

them to win right now. But yeah, that's

14:16

definitely an interesting philosophical question on how the

14:18

chiefs are going to play. Well, one of

14:20

the things about the chief's defense last year

14:23

is it was really, really young. I mean,

14:25

Brett Veach has been on fire hitting on

14:27

draft picks, uh, on the front end and

14:29

on the back end on defense.

14:32

And so, and they're bringing like the

14:34

vast majority of those dudes back and

14:36

they re-sign Chris Jones. Yeah. So no,

14:38

no question. See Spagnolo back as well.

14:41

You know, the chiefs like that they're going to

14:43

be really good on defense can be unsticky from

14:45

year to year. Okay. But on paper, they look

14:47

like they're going to be one of the best

14:49

defense in the league again. Yep. Okay.

14:53

Speaking of wide receivers signing with

14:55

AFC contenders, I like this

14:57

deal. And you know, I did some, you know, kind

14:59

of harmless tweet where I was ranking the remaining free

15:02

agent wide receivers left and I had Curtis Samuel

15:04

up there pretty high and people were getting all

15:06

over me. People do not like Curtis Samuel. I'm

15:09

not, I have not given up

15:11

on Curtis Samuel out of all those guys that

15:13

were left, he was clearly the youngest. He's super

15:15

versatile. He can play all over the field, play

15:17

in different positions for the wide receiver. Bills get

15:20

him for three year deal worth up to 30

15:22

million. I'm sure the real money

15:24

is nowhere near that. I

15:26

think it's a good move for the

15:28

bills who desperately, desperately need weapons, especially

15:30

after losing Gabe Davis. Evan, what'd you

15:32

think of the Curtis Samuel deal? I

15:35

liked it, you know, and the bills have

15:38

had players like this before and

15:41

they've had levels of success with

15:43

them. Isaiah McKenzie, Deontay

15:45

Hardy, Khalil Shakir a

15:47

little bit. Um, but

15:50

I think Curtis Samuel is better than all those guys.

15:53

Uh, if I were to do rankings and I liked

15:55

what Khalil Shakir did, I would have

15:57

Curtis Samuel above Khalil Shakir. Right

16:01

now, yeah, Curtis

16:04

Samuel can be a high percentage. He's at first

16:06

of all, a player that you can hand the

16:09

ball off to the back and they can

16:11

make plays that way. But

16:13

he can also be a high percentage receiver

16:15

might make life a little bit easier on

16:18

Josh Allen, bring that, you know, make sure

16:20

that completion rate stays high. I

16:22

liked it a lot and I think that the actual

16:24

numbers of the the base value three years, 24 million,

16:28

very, very palatable. Yeah. And the way that the

16:31

bills played down the stretch last year was not

16:33

the way that they played for most of the

16:35

Josh Allen era. They went to a far more

16:37

run, heavy scheming fewer three and four wide receiver

16:39

sets. We have that reflected in the rankings a

16:41

little bit here, Curtis Samuel. We have 130 overall

16:44

clear Shakir 132 overall Kincaid up at 77 James

16:46

Cook up at

16:51

59, but yeah, you know, super

16:53

interesting offense and excited to see

16:55

Curtis Samuel with Josh Allen

16:58

and more of a featured role than what

17:00

he's had. I'm interested to see if anything

17:02

might happen between now in the draft regarding

17:04

Stefan Diggs because I'm just

17:07

not a hundred percent sold that

17:09

he's going to be back with the

17:11

team. I'm obviously I don't know anything,

17:13

but you know,

17:15

I just I don't know. I'll be

17:18

waiting to see if anything happens there with

17:20

Stefan Diggs. Yeah, really tough ranking on

17:22

Stefan Diggs. He's been going in like

17:24

the end of the second round, early third

17:26

round in drafts and it's hard to

17:28

pass on him there, but things there's

17:30

definitely a lot of smoke down the stretch each of the last

17:32

two years. A trade

17:35

a rare NFL trade of skill

17:37

players. The Falcons gave up Desmond Ritter

17:39

to get Rondale Moore

17:41

from the Cardinals. Obviously

17:44

Ritter will be there to back up Kyler

17:46

Murray. More interesting for us is how Rondale

17:48

Moore fits in this new Falcons offense. Obviously,

17:50

we're expecting them to run a

17:52

ton of three wide receiver sets this year.

17:55

That will be it looks like will be

17:57

Drake London Darnell Mooney and Rondale

17:59

Moore. Now, I'm a

18:01

Rondell Moore guy. I like Rondell Moore.

18:03

I was scared at his inability to

18:06

earn targets last year, especially because Greg

18:08

Dorch was out there earning targets at

18:10

a way higher rate than him, often

18:12

in the same role. So I don't

18:14

know, maybe Rondell Moore is

18:16

better in my head than he is in real life. What did

18:18

you think of the Falcons trading for Rondell

18:20

Moore? Well, you know, I've

18:22

kind of made my thoughts clear on Rondell

18:25

Moore for the last couple of years that

18:27

I think that he should be not

18:29

a wide receiver and more of like a slot back

18:32

or even like a change of

18:34

pace back, who you give the ball to on the

18:37

ground five to nine times per

18:39

game. And

18:42

in the NFL, he is averaging five

18:44

yards per carry this past year. He

18:46

averaged over six yards per carry in

18:48

college. He was at like eight yards

18:50

per carry. He's not big enough to

18:53

even do, you know, what Austin Eckler

18:55

did. But, you know, that type of

18:57

player, Austin Eckler, earlier in his

18:59

career. But I think it

19:01

with the Falcons right now

19:03

on paper, they are Drake

19:06

London as their number one. On

19:09

the outside, Darnell Mooney is that field stretching role

19:11

player on the other side and then

19:13

Rondell Moore probably in the slot and

19:15

maybe used a little bit in the

19:17

backfield, although they are bringing back Bijon

19:19

Robinson and Tyler Algier. So

19:22

they may not find any room for him

19:24

in that capacity. I think that, but I

19:26

think that he projects right now as their

19:28

starting slot receiver. Yeah.

19:30

I mean, there's not much of an appetite for

19:32

Rondell Moore right now. We have him ranked 204th

19:34

overall. His ADP is like 212 right

19:37

now is Rondell. Darnell Mooney is going much higher up

19:39

in the 150s range. And

19:41

of course, Drake London. I mean, we'll get to him

19:43

here in a second at the end

19:45

of the show, but yeah, very excited about him. One

19:48

thing I think that is somewhat

19:50

important to note as we start

19:53

to talk more about fantasy football is

19:55

the impact From like the

19:57

Falcons, their defense right now. Needs

20:00

a ton of work. I mean they're

20:02

good. Players are are are on defense

20:04

are starting to get old. They got

20:06

to defensive backs that are good and

20:08

then. Almost nothing else.

20:10

Grady Jarrett is getting old. They have

20:12

no edge. pass rushers, a minister a

20:15

projects as a shootout team. Of

20:17

as they move on to Zap

20:20

Robinson. I either. Oh see, I

20:22

mean classic Her cousin seem right? how many

20:24

Kirk Cousins teams have been thrown from forty

20:26

yards? Give up four hundred yards? You know?

20:28

it's like. Yeah. It's shaping

20:30

up really well for falcons infinity more

20:32

on that at Canada, so. Does

20:35

the fields We will talk about this. I

20:37

feel like for two months Finally finally we

20:39

have a resolution to the Just Field saga.

20:42

Goes. The Steelers for conditional

20:44

twenty twenty five Round Six.

20:47

Pick. Mike. Tomlin said that Russell

20:49

Wilson is still in pole position. To.

20:51

Start and I have with him. I think

20:53

Russell Wilson will start. Week. One I

20:55

guess the question of in his d thing

20:57

just the fields make starts for the Steelers

20:59

this year. and what you think about the

21:01

Bears. Moved. To finally get rid

21:03

of him for effective week pennies. I mean fractions

21:05

of pennies on the dollar? Well, it was your

21:07

snowballing in the wrong direction. You know? There was

21:09

a time like entering the Combine, I thought that

21:12

the Bears might be able to get like a

21:14

second in a five. And went to

21:16

the Combine. Didn't. Think they were

21:18

going to get that and then I was like

21:20

other human gonna get a five and they wound

21:22

up getting what a conditional five that. I.

21:25

Am twenty twenty five. So.

21:27

Essentially a six users was would just

21:29

down around. Is. A mean that

21:31

the i'm in a. They. Had

21:33

to come up for nothing at the

21:35

same time, I don't understand why there

21:37

would be any pressure to start Russell

21:39

Wilson under Just And Fields. Just And

21:41

fields the work for another. Give me

21:43

one of the most run heavy teams

21:45

in the Nfl. Justin

21:48

Fields ring so much more in

21:50

the running game. Then. Does Russell

21:52

Wilson? interesting feals? Has a chance a

21:54

chance? I'll be a

21:56

perhaps slight to be the Steelers quarterback.

21:59

Of. the future Russell Wilson does not have

22:01

that. So,

22:03

I don't know, can you make the case

22:05

for me why Russell Wilson should be favored?

22:07

I understand that he's had more success from

22:10

a one-loss standpoint over the course of his

22:12

career, but so is Joe Montana,

22:14

and he's retired. Exactly what

22:16

Mike Conlon said. He said, body of work, right,

22:18

body of work. And I think in

22:21

NFL circles, Justin Fields is not

22:23

highly regarded, and maybe Russell Wilson still is

22:26

at some level, at least his body of

22:28

work is. So, I know you've talked about

22:30

Justin Fields being unable to process, when

22:33

he drops back, unable to process fast enough

22:35

at the NFL level that can send coaches

22:38

to the moon. I agree with you, though, if they want to win the most

22:40

games this year, to me, it would be just

22:42

start Justin Fields and run the ball 30 times

22:45

a game, you know, and try to win that way.

22:47

This is an off-topic tangent, but I

22:50

thought, and the owner's meetings are going

22:52

on right now, and there's

22:54

a coach's breakfast where the reporters go,

22:57

all go around and talk to the coaches, and

22:59

Shane Steichen, I thought, the Colts' head coach, had

23:01

one of the most interesting interviews

23:04

talking about, like, their

23:06

specific roster and what they want to do,

23:08

and talking about Anthony Richardson, Justin

23:10

Fields, we talk about how he's a slow

23:13

processor. Shane Steichen, who has had an incredible

23:15

amount of success with various

23:17

quarterbacks throughout his time as

23:21

an offensive coordinator head coach, was,

23:23

like, a boullient about Anthony Richardson's

23:26

ability to process quickly. We didn't get to see

23:28

a lot of Anthony Richardson as a

23:30

rookie, but Shane Steichen admitted that he was

23:32

blown away with how quickly Anthony Richardson processed

23:34

information. I know that you love Anthony Richardson.

23:36

He's going to be such, he should be

23:38

such a fun player if he can stay

23:40

healthy this year. He's going to absolutely smash.

23:42

We have him up as our QB five

23:45

right now, so, I mean, we're not sneaking

23:47

him past anyone. His ADP is QB five

23:49

also, but, yeah, he's, Anthony Richardson

23:51

is going to smash. Okay. Speaking

23:53

of quarterbacks, a small one here, Sam Howell to

23:55

the Seahawks for some pick swaps. The only reason

23:57

I wanted to bring this one up is

24:00

A, it's obvious now that the commanders

24:02

are taking a quarterback with their first

24:05

pick, but B, some people

24:07

think Geno Smith is on thin ice. Geno Smith

24:09

isn't good enough. He's not an NFL starter. He's

24:11

a sub-average NFL starter. And they bring in Sam

24:13

Howell, who took so many sacks last year, but

24:15

had some decent moments as well. Do

24:18

you think there's a real competition here, Evan, now between

24:20

Geno Smith and Sam Howell? And how do you

24:22

think that plays out? I do not,

24:24

but at the same time, it's an

24:26

entirely new coaching staff. So, you

24:29

know, if for some reason the new coaching

24:31

staff gets frustrated with Geno Smith, maybe

24:33

they could look into Sam Howell. There were moments early

24:36

in the season last year and

24:38

even around mid-season where Sam Howell, like I thought,

24:40

all right, he looks like he has a starting

24:43

skill set. But

24:46

I think that that kind of ran its

24:48

course. And he just reminds me

24:50

of like Ryan Fitzpatrick. He could have a

24:52

Ryan Fitzpatrick year, where he hangs career, where

24:54

he hangs around like 10

24:56

years. He gets in there. He's

24:59

a high variance backup. I kind of liked the

25:01

idea of having a high variance backup instead of

25:03

a quarterback who's just going to run the offense.

25:05

And you know, you got to run the ball

25:07

to move the ball. And you end up punting

25:09

a lot. Like you have a high variance quarterback

25:11

who gives you a chance to like actually

25:13

win games and score points. And I think that

25:15

Sam Howell gives you that because he's willing

25:17

to be aggressive. He's also probably going to

25:19

take too many sacks and he's going to make

25:22

some mistakes just like Ryan Fitzpatrick. But

25:24

you know, Ryan Fitzpatrick had runs where I mean, shoot,

25:26

you won like 10 games in

25:28

a 16 game season with the Jets one year

25:30

and they have weapons.

25:32

So they give Sam Howell, let's say

25:34

Geno Smith got hurt. Sam Howell would like become

25:36

an interesting fantasy quarterback. Like last year, Sam Howell,

25:39

I think he finished as a top 15 fantasy

25:41

quarterback in for a lot of the year. He

25:43

was a top 12. Yep, for sure.

25:45

And he gave you a little bit with his legs.

25:47

Also, yeah, it's an interesting point because like the

25:50

Browns went to Joe Flacco last year and he's,

25:52

you know, his lows are really low. He throws

25:54

a ton of pick sixes, but his

25:56

highs are really high too. And you saw that with the Browns. He

25:58

won't come back player of the year. going nuts. So

26:00

yeah, it's an interesting thought on backup quarterback strategy.

26:04

A couple of defensive moves I wanted to touch on here. I know

26:06

we don't normally do too much on

26:08

defensive moves, but this one I thought was

26:10

interesting. Ligeria Snead, the Chiefs trade Ligeria Snead

26:13

to the Tennessee Titans for a 2025 round

26:16

three pick. Titans then turn around and give Ligeria

26:18

Snead a $76 million deal with $55 million guaranteed.

26:20

Now, the Titans are

26:25

blasting. I mean, Snead, $55 million

26:28

guaranteed. Ridley, $50 million. Lloyd Cushionberry, the

26:30

center, $26 million. Chuduia Wozier, the cornerback

26:32

who will play opposite Snead, $19 million.

26:35

Tony Pollard, $10 million guaranteed. Kenneth Murray,

26:37

$7 million. I mean, they're going to put a

26:40

lot of talent, I guess, around Will Levis,

26:42

but I still don't have a great feeling about them actually being

26:45

good. I'd probably feel better about it if they had Ravell to

26:47

be honest, but of course they let Ravell

26:50

go. What do you think about the Snead

26:52

move and then also the Titans just absolutely

26:54

blasting in free agency? Yeah. Well, they had

26:56

a lot of money and

26:59

they spent it. Their

27:04

new head coach is Brian Callahan. You

27:06

brought his dad,

27:08

Bill Callahan, one of the

27:10

best offensive line coaches along. I

27:13

guess they're going to mostly bank on that. I

27:15

think that they'll probably draft another offensive lineman. They

27:18

actually probably should draft like freaking three of them,

27:20

but their offensive line looks really

27:22

bad right now, even

27:24

after they signed Lloyd Cushionberry,

27:27

like glaring holes

27:29

at multiple positions.

27:32

That would be the biggest weakness that

27:34

I would see. That's a

27:36

very big one because it doesn't mess well with

27:38

Will Levis whose sack rate last year was way,

27:41

way, way, way, way too high. That

27:43

would be the biggest concern. I

27:46

guess the feeling right now is that they're going to keep

27:48

DeAndre Hopkins, even though they could create a

27:50

lot of salary cap room by letting him go.

27:52

They don't necessarily need that salary

27:54

cap room. I don't know. The whiteout

27:56

court has a lot of potential on

27:58

paper, Tralon Burks. Calvin Ridley,

28:01

DeAndre Hopkins. We like

28:04

the talent of Chig, Akanko.

28:06

You know, can't say the Titans don't have weapons. Um,

28:10

what do you mean about Levis? Just,

28:12

just generally, like Levis is going to be

28:14

an interesting fantasy player,

28:18

I think as like in two QB leagues

28:20

and in these super deep. That's

28:22

Paul Lee. He certainly has some weaponry around him now

28:24

and given their running back room, like they

28:26

don't have a thumper, right? They have Pollard and they have Spears. They

28:29

could be really throw heavy. I think it is not because

28:31

of line thing squared away. Any thoughts

28:33

on Levis? I mean, shoot, Brian Callahan comes from

28:35

the Bengals who've been very, very throw heavy, a

28:38

lot, a lot of shotgun, a lot, a lot

28:40

of passing. Yeah. I pass rate. So yeah,

28:43

that's, that's definitely a possibility with

28:46

the, with the stated offensive line. I think you're going

28:48

to want to get Will Levis

28:51

getting the ball out of his hands as

28:53

quickly as you as humanly possible. Because

28:56

he ran into the sack problems and

28:58

their offensive line is such an issue.

29:00

I don't know. I think that the

29:02

jury is out. Obviously, Will Levis, Levis

29:04

came out and he looked great initially.

29:07

And the more he played the worst that he got.

29:09

And there were some really bad games there

29:11

down the stretch. And there, the history of

29:13

second round quarterbacks is just, it's

29:16

not very good. So

29:18

I definitely have a level of skepticism, but I

29:20

mean, I'm trying to stay open minded on him.

29:22

And again, the weapons, like he's got the weapons.

29:24

Yeah. I mean, a quarterback

29:26

who can move a little bit with Hopkins Pollard,

29:28

Ridley Spears, Chig, Burks,

29:30

I mean, his ADP is

29:33

230th overall right now in one QB. All right.

29:36

Another move. I just want to give a tip

29:38

of the hat to Aaron Donald to make a decision to

29:41

retire, even though he's still playing at a dominant level.

29:43

So shout out to Aaron Donald, certainly one of the

29:45

best players of our generation. And

29:48

then just what the Rams are going to look like this year, I

29:50

was kind of thinking they've

29:53

spent a ton on their interior offensive line, something

29:55

crazy, like a hundred million or something. They spent

29:57

this all season on the interior of their offensive. Line

30:00

defense though without Donald could be

30:03

bad. Again, leading to my

30:05

shootouts, Puca is going to be a top

30:07

10 pick. Kyra Williams is

30:09

going to be a top 12 pick as

30:11

well. But yeah, Evan, any thoughts on the

30:13

Aaron Donald retirement and what the Rams defense

30:15

is going to look like this year? They

30:17

did steal Kobe Turner in the third round

30:20

of the 2023 draft, which takes a

30:22

little bit off of that. But

30:24

I mean, don't you think that Kobe Turner benefited from playing

30:26

next to Aaron Donald? Of course he did.

30:29

It's almost like losing two players, maybe

30:31

even two and a half. That's how

30:33

high impact of a presence Aaron Donald

30:36

was. I mean, I

30:38

think that this is going to be a shootout team. It

30:41

looks like a shootout team on paper. They

30:43

also lost their defensive coordinator who

30:45

did such a great job. Raheem

30:47

Morris replaced him with Chris Shula.

30:50

But yeah, I mean, their offensive line all of a

30:52

sudden looks really good, especially

30:55

that interior. Stafford showed

30:57

that he can really still play last season.

31:00

Cooper Cup showed that he's

31:02

probably on the downside, but

31:04

not totally finished. Once

31:07

he finally got healthy last year, and obviously Puka,

31:09

a baller. And yeah,

31:12

Kyra obviously a baller. So I think they're going

31:14

to score a lot of points again. Yeah, I

31:16

mean, we're above ADP on Puka. We have a

31:18

seventh overall. We're above ADP on Cooper Cup. We

31:20

have a 34th overall. And we're

31:22

pretty close on Kyra as well. So three

31:24

huge fantasy players on the

31:26

Rams for sure. Let's

31:29

go to a couple of small ones

31:31

here. Dante Foreman signed with the Browns.

31:33

So the Browns running back room now

31:35

looks like Jerome Ford, I would consider the

31:38

number one. Then Dante Foreman.

31:40

And then Pierre Strong. And then maybe Nahim

31:43

Heinz on the roster too. Of

31:45

course, I did not mention Nick Chubb, who we do not

31:47

expect to be ready for week one. We do not expect

31:49

to be ready for week four. We really don't know exactly

31:51

when he'll be ready. But man, Nick

31:53

Chubb's left knee has been through absolute hell going back

31:55

to the Georgia days. I mean, we're talking about like

31:58

decade of. left knee

32:00

issues for Nick Chubb and going through

32:02

a very difficult rehab again. So, hard

32:04

on expectations there, but I did think

32:07

Deontay Foreman for real cheap was

32:09

a fine signing for the Browns. What do you think

32:11

about that and their running back room? Great

32:14

sign. Have you ever since Deontay

32:16

Foreman made it back from

32:18

that Achilles, you know, he's

32:20

been, and it took him four years

32:22

to come back. I

32:24

mean, I think he's been really impressive.

32:26

He was impressive in Carolina. He

32:28

was impressive with the Bears. Now he

32:30

goes to a team that has a great running scheme, a bunch

32:33

of, you know, stud run blockers. I

32:37

was going to be like high, really high

32:39

on Jerome Ford, actually. And this

32:41

takes a lot of air out of that

32:43

balloon, I believe, because Deontay Foreman is a

32:45

guy where you can put it in his belly, 15, 16,

32:48

20 times in a particular game,

32:51

and he can be really productive

32:53

and wear down a defense. I mean, he's like, you

32:55

know, Derek Henry minus, you

32:58

know, 20 pounds, but I mean, he's, he's

33:00

a big boy. He's a horse. And

33:03

yeah, this really hurts my outlook for Jerome

33:05

Ford. Okay. Also, speaking of the

33:07

Browns, I just want to tie up the

33:09

bow on the Jerry Judy thing. So last

33:11

time we talked about Jerry Judy getting traded

33:14

this time, what happened since we last recorded

33:16

was Jerry G got an extension. Now the

33:18

reported numbers were 41 million guaranteed. That sounds

33:20

like a lot, but that was baking in

33:22

the 13 million that he was already going

33:24

to get this year, no matter what. So

33:26

it's only 28 million in new guarantees for

33:28

Jerry Judy, not a ton for a good

33:31

wide out. The question is, is he a good

33:33

wide out? Now, one thing I did think from

33:35

this extension was we were talking about who's going

33:37

to be ahead, Jerry Judy or

33:39

Elijah Moore. Given this contract, I kind of think

33:41

that Jerry Judy is going to be ahead of

33:44

Elijah Moore. I'm curious who you

33:46

think is better between those two. Evan, any

33:48

thoughts on the Browns decision to go ahead

33:50

and extend Judy early here? It

33:55

was a little bit surprising. I thought that they were just

33:57

going to maybe write it out on that one. The

34:00

the the fifth year. Yeah,

34:03

but I mean that way it was a large sum of money

34:05

They wound up pretty much just guaranteeing that and the next year.

34:08

It's really a two-year guaranteed deal You

34:12

know Jerry Judy's 24 years old

34:14

let me see when he Yeah,

34:17

he turned art so he turns 25 in a month But

34:20

I mean that is really really young still

34:22

yeah for a dude who it feels like

34:24

he's been in a league for like You

34:26

know six years, but I mean I think

34:28

it's worth a shot. He's had You

34:30

know repeated high ankle sprains, which

34:33

just torpedo seasons especially for a

34:35

for a wide receiver That

34:37

that works like Jerry Judy. I mean

34:40

he's you know very reliant on agility

34:42

and footwork So you suffer in

34:44

high ankle sprain that can be really tough So

34:47

much of the fantasy outlook comes down to I

34:50

think to Sean Watson They're

34:52

gonna I mean, but yeah, I would

34:54

agree in two receiver sets Amari Cooper

34:56

at X Jerry Judy

34:58

at Z Elijah Moore

35:00

in the slot that's the three receiver set

35:02

in two receiver sets Amari and Judy Yeah

35:05

I was Actually like Jerry Judy's

35:07

gotten so much crap from everyone and so publicly

35:10

from Steve Smith at the Steve Smith thing people

35:12

were like Steve Smith is gonna

35:14

cause Jerry Judy money because now everybody you

35:16

know everybody respects Steve Smith so much He

35:19

still got his you know 28 million extras so

35:21

you know good for Jerry Judy all

35:23

right Last

35:25

one year before we get to the biggest winners

35:27

of free agency as their Madison stays in the

35:29

league I thought maybe there was a chance he'd

35:31

be out of the league But I was very

35:33

Madison stays in the league gets a deal with

35:36

the Raiders now The question is what will the

35:38

split be between is Amir white and Alexander? Madison

35:41

or maybe they'll add another

35:43

person another back to this

35:45

room We have a projected with

35:48

Amir white pretty far ahead and a bunch of the

35:50

Antonio Pierce comments Make me

35:52

feel pretty good about that, but what do you think

35:54

about Madison to the Raiders and how that shakes out

35:56

for Zimir? Well, Antonio

35:58

Pierce was asked about Alexander Madison

36:01

and Harrison Bryant, specifically

36:03

Harrison Bryant, who

36:06

the Raiders signed to I believe one year deal only 1.5 million.

36:08

I might be a little bit

36:11

more away from the Browns of course I won

36:14

a Mackie Award and the response

36:16

was a resounding Harrison Bryant, Alexander

36:18

Madison are gonna be backups to

36:20

Michael Mayer and Zamir White. I

36:24

like Zamir White. I don't know what his ADP is

36:27

right now but I will plan

36:29

on being ahead of him in my

36:31

rankings. Zamir White ADP right

36:33

now is a hundred and third overall.

36:35

That is nice. I

36:39

do think it will come up as people start

36:41

to digest what the Raiders are doing

36:43

here and how valuable really that role was on

36:45

the Raiders last year. I mean running backs starting

36:47

right back for the Raiders was heavily involved in

36:50

the past game, heavily involved the

36:52

goal line and seeing volume of 20

36:54

plus touches so that included Zamir when

36:56

Jacobs was out. That included Jacobs not

36:58

having a very good year and especially

37:00

Antonio Pearson. He would talk about carry

37:03

numbers in his post-game press

37:05

conference like we want to

37:07

get this dude a certain number of carries. When

37:09

you can have that kind of accountability

37:12

and reliability from

37:14

your fantasy running back especially if we get

37:16

him at freaking number 100 overall. I mean

37:19

that would be really really nice. He should definitely be

37:21

in the top 75 right now. Alright

37:25

now we are going to do

37:28

whatever he wants. Everyone's lists, everyone's

37:31

rankings. We're gonna give that to you

37:33

now. I'm gonna start

37:35

with number 10 and go to number one

37:37

the biggest fantasy winners of the

37:39

free agency period. Drumroll please.

37:43

Number 10, Josh

37:46

Palmer and maybe, maybe

37:48

if he has any ability at all, Quentin Johnston

37:51

of course when you lose Keenan Allen and you

37:53

lose Mike Williams I do think the Chargers will

37:55

be very very run-heavy and it will not be

37:57

pretty and I think they're gonna add someone

37:59

but still. When you lose Michael Williams and Keenan

38:01

Allen, it opens up so many targets, Andrew Eldeverett

38:03

opens up so many targets, Josh Palmer

38:06

and Quentin Johnston, at the very least,

38:08

our volume beneficiaries right now. Number

38:11

nine, Curtis Samuel, talked about this

38:13

one already at the top, goes

38:16

from maybe the third option, from

38:18

a Sam Howell offense to

38:21

perhaps the 2B behind Dalton

38:23

Kincaid for Josh Allen, pretty

38:25

valuable boost there for

38:27

Curtis Samuel in projection. Number

38:30

eight, Zach Moss.

38:33

Of course, Zach Moss, Bengals made the decision, hey,

38:35

we prefer to have Zach Moss. Over to you,

38:37

Mixon, you're gonna head back to the episode that

38:39

we talked about that went on, I believe it

38:41

was two or three episodes ago. Can check out

38:43

more for our thoughts on Zach Moss. Number seven

38:45

is the guy we just talked about, Zameer

38:48

White, stepping into some form of

38:51

the Josh Jacobs role now is Zameer White.

38:53

By the way, if you go on

38:55

Twitter, and you search Zameer

38:57

White videos, there's some videos of him lifting weights.

38:59

I love watching these guys lift weights, man. This

39:02

guy was putting up some serious, serious

39:04

stuff. Number six, Christian

39:07

Kirk and Evan Ingram, Cal

39:09

Ridley is now gone, Gabe

39:11

Davis is in, clear out the

39:14

middle of the field for Christian Kirk and Evan Ingram. Number

39:17

five, George Pickens. If Russell Wilson

39:19

is the starter, at least on

39:21

paper, what George Pickens does

39:24

well and what Russell Wilson does well

39:26

really fits, and now Deontay Johnson is gone

39:28

also. So certainly a big win

39:31

there for George Pickens. Number

39:33

four, the big dog himself, Derek Henry,

39:35

I mean, Lamar Jackson and Derek Henry

39:37

in the same backfield, talked on a

39:39

previous episode about how we did not

39:41

think Derek Henry really lost the spot

39:44

or lost a step at all last year, I thought he

39:46

actually had a pretty good year did Derek Henry last year.

39:49

Number three, Josh Jacobs goes from Vegas

39:52

to this ascending Packers offense,

39:54

expecting them to have a really big role. They

39:56

did bring back AJ Dillon, but as

39:58

you saw last year, it's really hard for them. anyone

40:00

to rely on AJ Dillon. Number

40:02

two, Marquise Brown, who we

40:05

talked about on this episode with the

40:07

Rashid Rice and Travis Kelsey, fresh from our

40:09

homes now is Mr. Brown

40:11

and number one,

40:14

biggest fantasy winner of free agency,

40:17

Drake. London. And

40:19

maybe Kyle Pitts. If you think Kyle Pitts is

40:21

good, they will get the NFL's

40:23

biggest scheme change year over year.

40:25

Last year, the Falcons were dead

40:27

last, dead last in 11

40:30

personnel and three wide receiver personnel under Arthur Smith, just

40:32

29% of the time, which

40:34

is outrageously low under

40:36

Zach Robinson, the Rams last year, massive

40:40

89% of the time they were in three

40:42

wide receiver sets. Current 11 set is going

40:44

to be cousins, Bijon, London, Mooney, Rondale Moore,

40:46

and Kyle Pitts. I like

40:48

taking shots on all those guys, but Drake London

40:51

to me, he's been going like second or third

40:53

round. I don't think it's crazy to

40:55

take Drake London and the first round early

40:57

second round right now.

40:59

Super, super exciting. And then the Kyle Pitts

41:02

stuff. God, Evan,

41:04

you want to weigh in on the Kyle Pitts stuff. There's

41:06

an all out war going on in Slack right now about where

41:08

we should have Kyle Pitts ranked. There's

41:11

just so much to consider, you know, the

41:13

MCL, PCL injury. I

41:16

was listening to a Ross Tucker podcast recently

41:18

and he asked Greg to

41:20

sell his thoughts on Kyle Pitts, but Ross

41:23

wanted to energy. Ross does a lot of

41:25

sideline work before and after games. And

41:27

I mean, he knows all the coaches and a bunch

41:30

of the front office people. And he was at a, he was

41:32

doing a Falcons game and the, the, the

41:35

clear cut feeling was that, you

41:37

know, among Falcons personnel was that

41:39

Kyle Pitts was just not healthy.

41:42

And so that, but I mean, like how long

41:44

is that going to be the excuse number one?

41:46

And like, it's not like you had a recent

41:49

surgery to fix that. And we did have the

41:51

initial surgery to fix it. Like it

41:53

clearly didn't fix it. So I mean,

41:55

is his knee just shot? You know, there's

41:57

one scenario that I've thought about is. the

42:00

Falcons trading Kyle Pitts on draft day

42:03

and drafting Brock Bowers at

42:05

number eight overall. Brock Bowers of course played

42:08

at Georgia. That's just

42:10

something that has like crossed my mind. But,

42:12

you know, he

42:14

had the 1000 yard rookie season. He

42:18

hasn't been good the last two years, but he had to deal

42:20

with Arthur Smith and pour

42:22

quarterback play. I mean, there's just so many moving

42:24

parts here. So if

42:28

he's healthy, I think he'll be

42:30

used in a more conducive way. I mean,

42:32

his ADOT was so long last year. Meanwhile,

42:34

guys like LaPorta and Kelsey are getting these

42:36

like short layup targets constantly. Let's get him

42:38

a few of those. Cause, and we've

42:40

talked about this. I'm not sure he can win against defensive backs.

42:42

In fact, Kyle Pitts probably can't

42:44

win against cornerbacks. Get him against linebackers. Get

42:47

him against safety is not

42:49

cornerbacks. So I don't know, man. I

42:51

think a scheme change away from Arthur

42:53

Smith will

42:56

do wonders for Kyle Pitts. And I'm excited about him.

42:58

And he's not as expensive as he was. You know,

43:00

he's just, I'll check his ADP, but it's just right

43:02

now, it's just people have kind of had

43:04

enough. It was another thing

43:06

from the Kirk Cousins introductory press conference.

43:09

He said that he was talking to Kyle

43:11

Pitts because they were the same number. And

43:14

Kirk Cousins like, yo, I'll cut you a

43:16

check, whatever. You know, I just need that

43:18

number eight. And Kyle Pitts was like,

43:20

no, man, just throw me the ball. Like that's all

43:22

I care about. Just throw me the ball. Yeah,

43:25

Kyle Pitts going around 70th overall right now.

43:28

So it's not as, opportunity

43:31

cost is not as high, but yeah. Certainly a

43:33

lot to think about there on all the Falcons

43:35

stuff, but certainly feel great about

43:37

Drake, London right now.

43:40

All right, finally, finally, that is gonna

43:42

do it for our free agency coverage

43:45

here at Established to Run. Tons of

43:47

free agency articles up on the site.

43:49

You can check those out if you

43:52

want. More detail there starting next week.

43:54

We'll be going full blast on the

43:56

draft, starting with ranking

43:58

of prospects. spring back our old

44:00

friend Mike Renner for

44:04

Evan for Bruce

44:07

Orion for person Luke be

44:09

sure to subscribe on YouTube or

44:11

your horrible person I am Adam good

44:14

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