In this episode, Taylor reacts to the Arizona Cardinals releasing Deandre Hopkins and what it means for Nuke, Hollywood Brown and the Arizona Cardinals. Then he talks about his experience drafting 35 Underdog fantasy Bestball drafts including Bijan Robinson RB2 with a bullet, offenses that should get better (Chargers, Ravens, Patriots, Jets) where quarterbacks are going, stacking, tournament play and much more!
In this episode, Taylor reacts to the Arizona Cardinals releasing Deandre Hopkins and what it means for Nuke, Hollywood Brown and the Arizona Cardinals. Then he talks about his experience drafting 35 Underdog fantasy Bestball drafts including Bijan Robinson RB2 with a bullet, offenses that should get better (Chargers, Ravens, Patriots, Jets) where quarterbacks are going, stacking, tournament play and much more!
Taylor: What's up, everybody? I had already recorded a full 45 minutes of podcast when the news came down that DeAndre Hopkins had been released by the Arizona Cardinals and it's the first, like moving, earth shattering, not really earth shattering, but it's the first news we've had in a little while. So I thought we'd give a little quick forward. Not that we talk about the Cardinals a lot, mainly because I'm worried about Kyler Murray and that had me kind of overlooking Hollywood Brown and DeAndre Hopkins as I drafted. I would still draft them, but only if they fell a bit. Instead of targeting them, like it seems like you can now at where they're going to be at when you're drafting. And this is going to change a lot as they're probably going to go up as I got to think that number one, that DeAndre Hopkins is going to get a better destination mainly because he's going to get to choose his destination and he seems like the kind of guy that he's made a lot of money. He's probably going to prioritize winning as opposed to money. You would think, but you never know. He could absolutely take somebody's $16 million and go to the Carolina Panthers or something. I think if I was the Carolina Panthers, I would have saved that Thien money for something like this. But I'm still drafting Thien and all that as well for DeAndre. He had been going 43 overall in this nebulous zone that I talk about having trouble with when I'm in the regular part of the podcast here. And it's right where it's Christian Watson at 40, where there's Calvin Ridley, Debo Samuel, Mari Cooper, then a little gap, then Christian Watson, Mike Williams, Jerry Judy. And that's where DeAndre Hopkins had been going right after Jerry Judy, but before Keen Allen, DJ Moore, Drake Lund and Terry McLaurin. Right. So right in this nebulous spot I'd been having trouble with and I wish I'd been mashing more of DeAndre Hopkins during this time because I think he's going to get a big boost from here in his closing line value when he signs with the Chiefs or the Bills or something like that. Teams that we're talking about trading for him in the first place, those seem like decent destinations, but we really don't know at this time. But really anything is better than what I was thinking about Arizona because I'm really worried about Kyler. He tore his ACL pretty late in the season. Don't really have a whole lot of reason to bring him back in a timely fashion. They're not going to win this year. They're kind of resetting their timeline a bit. They also own Houston's draft pick, which a lot of people are projecting to be really high and they just don't have a whole lot to play for at this point. So it makes a lot of sense that they wouldn't bring Kyler back as soon that has me worried that Cole McCoy is going to be the quarterback. Otherwise the roster a little top heavy, especially on defense. I think the defense is going to be a disaster. The thing is, though, bad defense doesn't necessarily hurt an offense. So I don't know, I should have been more on this, but the Kyler uncertainty hasn't been an uncertainty that I've been attacking, which is something you're supposed to do is attack uncertainty, especially in these tournament games. So you get better closing line value, meaning that the ADP, when all the information is known right before the season, how much better did you do than that with your drafting? And I got to think this is going to vault like if DeAndre gets a really sexy team, it's going to vault him way up. The ADP up above that range I was talking about earlier and into the range more where it's that Calvin Ridley, Debo, Amari, Cooper, DK Metcalf, if he gets a sexy team, that team is really going to make a difference for him. He looked great last season coming off that suspension and is a technical route runner who can go up and get it as well. Didn't look like he lost much as far as step and step and his speed is good, but it's not the basis of his game. He's got a good amount of power, too, and so you can't really redirect him. And then he's a great technical, amazing route runner, like top of the line route runner in his technical ability. And really, quarterbacks key in on that because they know exactly where he's going to be, so they can throw it to his spot and he's going to be there and he's going to be able to make a catch in a really large catch radius. So I think he can really bring something to the team and it's unfortunate I haven't gotten him more and I'll be looking forward to stacking him with a quarterback once he kind of gets a landing destination. Hopefully it's somebody interesting as far as his quarterback goes because I'll tell you, I haven't been drafting wide receiver, goes crazy in underdog, so you have to be really aware of that. The other thing for this, as far as DeAndre getting out of Arizona, is that this is really good news for Hollywood Brown, who when DeAndre was suspended, looked like a number one receiver and played like it and was getting the targets and getting the workload and was doing something with it and looked like an incredible pick. And then DeAndre came back and the offense got out of whack and it just really messed everything up. And so certainly makes Hollywood a more attractive situation, especially like when you draft Eagles and you stack hertz with AJ. Brown and you want to get an Arizona Cardinal on the other side of that because they play Week 17. I think this vaults Hollywood up a little bit higher as a sexy option that could really get you somewhere. He's going at 78 currently, which we'll talk about this range. You'll notice I kind of gloss over it a little bit because I'm more interested in the George Picken, Deontay Johnson, Tony Gabe Davis, Johann Dotson, I'm more interested in that. But we talk about this range a good deal in the pod. So I think this is going to push Hollywood up into that. Tyler Lockett at 65 IUK it's going to push him into that range, I would think, where there's a little bit more stability with their roles, whereas the next flight down has a little bit more of a variance to it because you just aren't sure, you know it's going to go one way, but you're not sure which way it's going to go. And so there's a lot of sliding door situations going forward from here on out with those drafts. So we'll see how Hollywood comes up after this information. But I felt like there wouldn't be a lot out on this with Memorial Day coming, so I thought I'd give my thoughts on here. That big boost to DeAndre, depending on the team, obviously, if it's going back to the Texans, that's not quite as sexy. Although, hey, they don't have a lot going at wide receiver, so he could get in there on those targets. And I don't necessarily not believe in CJ Stroud without seeing it a little bit, so not out on the Texans either, necessarily. Just not something I'm bloodthirsty for, like I am some of these situations, which we're going to talk about now. So thanks for sticking with me. Well, the rest of the pod I felt really good about, and I talk about a lot of different things fantasy wise, so get dig in, guys. Here we go. What's up, everybody? It's the Roundtable sports podcast. My name is Taylor McLean. Excited to be back with you. There hasn't been a ton of stuff going on with the NFL. We finally have some Ota actions this week, so it's been kind of a dead period. So I've been taking a little time to get my life in order so that I can come to you with NFL content for the rest of the year and kind of have all my ducks in a row. And one of the big things that I do during this time is draft fantasy football teams. And there is a finite amount of fantasy football teams that I can be a part of and actually manage themselves. You're making trades, you're picking starters, you're dropping and making waiver claims, and there's a lot of management. And if you're doing it right, there should be a lot of talking to people and chatting them up. If you really want to make trades, if you're not talking to people when you're not making trades in leagues, if you only come to them with trade offers, you're probably not going to get a lot done. It's about the people when it comes to that kind of thing. But I only have so much energy for those type of endeavors. If you're going to up your game and have more skin in the game, so to speak, you probably need to pick up what is called bestball. And it's just now gaining popularity. I believe this is the fourth year that they've had best ball mania in underdog, which is mainly what we're going to be talking about today. But it's on other platforms as well. And what happens is in a best ball tournament or just bestball league, you draft your team. There's no starters or bench players, there's no trades, there's no free agents or anything. Your team is your team as you draft them at that point, which takes all the management out of the scenario and just allows you to draft, which to me is the most fun part of all of it. And of course, getting together with your bros is a big part of it, but when that's not always available and you only get to do that so many times a year, best ball allows you to do so because you don't have to pick your starters or anything like that. It's an optimal lineup. So each week, whatever your team scores, if Kenny Pickett outscores Patrick Mahomes and he's on and they're both on your team, you take Kenny Pickett's score, even though there's no circumstance, typically, unless Patrick's on a buy, that you're going to do that. That's one of the cool things about bestball, is there's no FOMO as far as fear of missing out on starting someone. You get who you have now. That's a big problem with injuries and with things going not the way you thought they were going to go. With the regular fantasy league, you can kind of correct course and you've got a lot more information. You've got a lot of in season information to go on. But in best ball, it's all about your draft. It's all about what's going on at that time. Like, for instance, Ezekiel Elliot doesn't have a team right now, but you can still draft him. And if he gets a great team, somebody's running back gets hurt. God forbid. You've already had a couple of drafts and you've got some Cam Acres or something. I had that happen to me. I had 18 drafts at the time that can't win. Cam Acres tore his Achilles, and you know what? He came back and he got a couple of scores in the end. But that sucks. And that's part of best ball, and those are all things you have to bake into this scenario. And then in some leagues, if your team scores the most in that given week, you get a payout, in some you don't. And it just varies on what kind of contest that you enter as far as how the scoring goes. But each week, your optimal lineup is your score and then it adds up the scores. And at the end for Underdog, there's a playoffs. So Week 14, the top certain amount of teams advance. Same thing for the next one until you're left with two teams and then those teams have one more final best ball for the championship. That's for regular leagues in tournaments, which is what I've been doing a lot of it's the same thing. You're the top couple advance and then you have a series of best ball tournaments from there all the way through Week 17. And then you have your prizes at that point going all the way to $3 million for first place in the Best Ball Mania Four tournament. And that's kind of what's got me turned on a little bit to Underdog best ball. I'm definitely going to do some Yahoo. They just don't have the big prizes, but there's a lot less savvy competition in Yahoo and then Underdog has it as well. And I'm interested to see what Underdog has because I think they're going to have some big tournament prizes as well. And I'm going big or I'm going home as far as this thing goes, so I'll be going after that. Stacks having players that play in the same game in Week 17 is a little bit more important in best ball, too, when it comes to the tournaments especially. But it is something to look at as well and something to be considering when it comes to assembling these teams. Maybe we'll get into that a little bit as we go along here. As a matter of fact, I know I won't be able to stop talking about it as I'm talking about some of these players and where they're going in the draft so far. Now, Underdog itself is kind of a wide receiver heavy gambit a lot of people go wide receiver pretty exclusively in the first round and sometimes you'll see where they've got one running back and like six wide receivers. I've seen that. I saw it last night. I was doing a best Ball Mania last night and that definitely happened. And sometimes that sucks some of the value out of a position and pumps it into another. So you just kind of have to roll with the punches and let the chips fall where they may. It is kind of a gamble in the end, especially with these big tournaments, so you have to kind of bake that into what you're doing. But in the big tournaments, it's still a fantasy league. You're drafting your team just like in all these leagues. And then you're going to be going up against other drafts, so you might be going up against some of your own players when it comes to that, because it's just a finite amount of players. And really the good ones, the first two rounds, a lot of the times go the same way. Not exactly, but I'll break it down for you right now? Yahoo. Most definitely. I've done some Yahoo drafts and to be clear, I've done 35 so far. I did a couple before the draft and it's really kicked up since the draft. So where is my expertise in this subject coming from? It's coming from the fact that I've done 35 drafts so far and I have a pretty good memory on how it goes. Mostly it's underdog. That's mostly what we're going to be discussing today. But I'll mix some Yahoo to give it some perspective as well. So underdog very wide receiver heavy, as I said. Typically with Yahoo, it's the opposite. It's running back heavy in the first couple of rounds, which goes towards, I think, the more old school strategy. A lot of the times for Yahoo people, that we are a generation that started playing on Yahoo because it was really one of the few platforms that was available and free and then Google took over. Yahoo used to be somewhat comparable as a search engine. Now I don't think that's the case. It might be number two, but I think it's a distant situation. Regardless, that was still where I play a couple of my home leagues and it is more running back heavy because the ADP right now is Justin Jefferson, Jamar Chase, Christian McCaffrey, Tyreek Cooper, Cup, Travis Kelsey. That's the top six and it doesn't always go that way, but those are typically how it's going up there. There's some sort of order there. Christian McCaffrey is one of the few running backs that gets mixed into that mix. And then it's funny because a lot of the time Bijean Robinson is the number two running back off the board with a bullet. And that was the first point I wanted to make with all of this, is that there's a lot of belief in Bijean Robinson. Where he landed, who he landed with, and I don't necessarily disagree. I love the way he looks on film, his versatility, the amount of power he's able to generate with his speed and with his toughness. He's got a good pad level, he's got great shiftiness and tremendous balance. That's part of what makes him so good as a receiver is his body control. And that goes for him as far as lunging for the ball and going and getting it. And it goes for his ability to stay balanced and break tackles and not be taken off his feet by weak situations and weak arm tackles and stuff like that. He is going to run through that on an NFL level. We haven't seen it translate because we haven't seen it yet, but I believe it will. And this draft capital that you have to sink into him definitely lends itself that way. Other than Bijean, every other Falcon is pretty depressed, though that is one thing to think about. It's a lot up front, but then if you're going to do like a Desmond Ritter desperation stack at the very end. Maybe you've also gotten Kyle Pitts or maybe your same game stacking it because you have the Chicago Bears as well. That's also an option because Justin Fields is going off as the fourth quarterback. Typically a lot of times he goes after Joe Burrow, but it's a little bit more affordable than when some of the top four quarterbacks, I say he's going fourth, he's going fifth. There's also Lamar in there, too, but I digress. We're talking Bijean here? And it's funny because it's probably going to switch up a little bit. And ever since Austin Eckler's situation has firmed itself up as a Los Angeles charger situation, he's been a little bit higher drafted as well. There were some people kind of giving Austin Eckler a little bit of a discount because of, I guess, some uncertainty in my mind when he didn't get the trade right up front, he was with a bullet at least the third running back, probably the second. In my mind, I was drafting him second, especially after the campaign last year. And I believe that the Los Angeles Chargers are going to be better as an offense this year. And you don't have to draft them that way necessarily, way after the top six go, justin Herbert goes late fourth to fifth round. He's currently 52, which I guess is closer to the early fifth round when we're talking twelve, I got to get my it's not ten picks, it's twelve picks, which just things a little bit. But regardless, I find that to be a little bit more palatable of a price. And if you're stacking for tournaments, mike Williams and Keenan Allen go just a little bit before that. So it's pretty easy to get one of them and then come back around and get Justin Herbert doesn't always work, so you have to be aware of that. But since I believe that the Chargers are going to be a better offense anyway under Kellen Moore, because I hate Joe Lombardi, let's go ahead and get into Joe Lombardi real quick. I didn't mean to go all the way to that so quickly, but since we're here and I don't mean to fly over Bijean as number two, I think he's a solid top three, top four back. I'm taking him as such. I love Saquon. I love Jonathan Taylor, Austin Eckler, Bijean. I'm okay with any of that. So not to gloss over it, but let's talk about Joe Lombardi here because I can't express how much I did not like the way that he was calling plays and doing things, oh, God, with his team and with the offense here, it was not good. It was not good. And part of the big thing to me, and everybody seems to point this out as I'm listening to others podcast about this, but the average depth of target, he didn't really give Justin the reins to be able to work the ball down the field. Maybe that's because the wide receivers aren't as fast. Exactly. But at the same time, Justin Fields has the hose and Mike Williams can go up and get it. Keenan Allen has good body control, so he's not opposed to going up and get it. And now you're going to have Quentin Johnson in a much more creative offense. Kellen Moore was ten times as creative when it came to everything, when it came to pre snap shifting, when it came to working the ball on all the different parts of the field, using the running back, using the receivers in creative ways, being able to scheme the offensive line, to be able to block and pass block, that was huge. That was something Justin didn't get a lot of help with. And I know they lost later at a certain point, but still it was not good. None of it was good. And Lombardi was really complacent in the way that he did things like the pre STAP, like the amount of he moved Justin around, he would move him around a little bit and then he would stop. And he really needed to put Justin on the move a little bit because the offensive line wasn't really doing a lot to give Justin the time that he would need to be stationary in the pocket and pick him apart from the pocket. And that's part of why you're seeing more and more mobile quarterbacks, is because it's harder and harder to do that in the NFL. Creating a pocket used to be a lot easier when pass rushers wasn't the paid for position. It used to be running backs, it used to be the quarterbacks. It's still the quarterbacks, but it used to be those type of guys that would get paid. And now it shifted where you can get paid a lot of money to be a pass rusher. And it's been so long since that's been the case that a lot of the premier athletes come up playing pass rushers. So teams are having a harder and harder time creating these pockets to be able to protect their quarterback and have them be statuesque there and pick the defense apart. That doesn't exist anymore. So that's why you're seeing guys that are be able to move around, be more and more successful because it lends itself more and more to the modern NFL. And to my point, Kellen Moore is running a modern NFL offense. Say what you will about the Cowboys, but I don't think that was their problem at all when it came to the Cowboys and what they had going on. And I can't wait to see what Kellen Moore is going to do with this offense. So, Austin Eckler, Mike Williams, Keenan Allen, Justin, Herbert Hell, Gerald Everett, kind of towards the end when you're having a draft, more than one tight end in these best balls, count me in. Quentin Johnson, too. Quentin Johnson, his ADP is a little higher for what you would think it's a little higher on this platform than I like. People are really all over the rookies on this platform in Yahoo. You can get him cheap, so cheap he's going 85, which that's kind of expensive for him. But if you're stacking, you know what, he's got a lot of talent, too, for where he's going. But then again, David Montgomery is going around there. Brandon Cooks, Deshaun Watson, Alexander Madison, Jahan Dotson. Those are all players that I'm into around that range. So you have to really want Quentin to go there. And rookie receivers have a pretty checkered past, so that's something to keep in mind. But I do like Quentin a lot. I love the fit. I love what I think he can do on the outside with Mike Williams, Keenan Allen in the slot, and then Quentin on the other side with Gerald Everett and Austin Eckler. That is a stud filled backfield skill position, all of it. And they're all going to get some kellen, kind of spreads it out, sure. So maybe they don't reach their ultimate wide receiver, one for the best quarterback in the league type thing. But I don't know. I'm just telling you, I'm in on Justin, I'm in on those ADPs and that's definitely something to consider, especially when it comes to the stacking. And then they play the Broncos, and while Jerry Judy, where he's going, I love the talent, but he's going in that same range like Mike Williams is going 42, Jerry Judy, 43, keenan Allen, 45. That's kind of a range I struggle with, too. DJ Moore, Drake London, Terry McLaurin are all in that range. Christian Kirk kind of finishes up that little range right there. That's the one I'm struggling with right there because I'm ending up around there and it's like, what do you do? Do you dip down into the running backs that have teams that are a little worse, like Green Bay and Carolina, or do you stick with those wide receivers? One of those guys is going to pop, so it's a question of which one. Christian Watson, very highly drafted in underdog, not quite as much in Yahoo. Big time, differing opinions on him. I don't find myself getting him as much unless he falls, mainly because I'm not sure how much I believe in Jordan Love as a quarterback. Got him like one time in Yahoo, which is tough because there's probably some meat on that bone and some targets there. And while I'm drafting Aaron Jones a good amount because he drops to the fifth round and I think that Jordan Love is going to have to do some checking down. I worry about that offense overall when it comes to creating points consistently. So that is something I'm not fading it exactly, especially since they play Minnesota, and I'm going to have a decent amount of Minnesota Kirk Cousins stacks, especially with Justin Jefferson going number one with a bullet too. That's something that's happening in these underdog drafts you have to deal with while we're sitting around in the first round. AJ. Brown, number nine, he's like number 21 or something crazy on Yahoo. So that's something to jump all over. If you want AJ. Brown, though, and you want to stack in with Jalen Hertz, you kind of have to take Jalen Hertz in the second round to make sure that you get him. That's one thing that I want to discuss, and it gives a little bit of context to the Justin Herbert Love, is the fact that Patrick's going 19, Jalen's going 20 and Josh Allen's going 22 and Jalen was going three, typically, but ever since Josh Allen said he wasn't going to run as much, that's been a little different. Jalen's been creeping up. But to my point, if you want to make that stack, especially for a tournament, if you're drafting Stefan Diggs or AJ. Brown in that range, you're pretty much making a decision that you're going to draft their quarterback in the second round. And typically you get it. But especially in the tournaments, there's a lot of people that think they have to have that top quarterback and they're not as concerned with the stacking as you are, or you should be because stacking is absolutely a part of the tournament play. If that's what you're doing, I don't worry as much about it in the regular drafts where it's like a home league where I'm not having to go up against 400 people in the final. That's how the tournament plays work. So it's a little different on that part. But to my point, it's pretty much Josh Allen. Patrick Jalen hurts Josh Allen in that first round where at the same time you could be drafting Nick Chubb Sequan, maybe one of the wide receivers, fell like Amen Raw, Garrett Wilson. Jalen Waddle is also in that range as he's being drafted. And then after the quarterbacks, you've got some tony Pollard, devante Smith, Alave T. Higgins. So that's what you're giving up. Also derek henry, josh jacobs, ramandre stevenson. Right after that. So that's what's in that range that you have to give up to draft those quarterbacks. So it's really a commitment this time because fantasy, a lot of it, is drafting off of what happened last year, especially the ADPs, they get kind of lumped into what happened last year. That's what their price is going to be this year. So you kind of have to predict if that's going to be the same that's going to go up. How much do I believe in that? And the play of the top quarterbacks last year really has driven up the price of quarterbacks this year in these drafts. And the good thing about Patrick, he might not have a first round wide receiver, but he does have Travis Kelsey, so you can go Kelsey and Patrick. That definitely creates some weirdness as far as running back. And wide receiver goes, but it's workable. For sure, it's workable. And then Patrick has a lot of other stacks, too. You can get all of Patrick's wide receivers really late, so you can take some gambles on Cadarius Tony or who he's the priciest of the non Kelsey guys. He's going kind of right after the last bit of the stability guys like Tyler Lockett. Jordan Addison isn't a stability guy, but you just project his carries out there. George Pickens. Deontay Johnson. Tyler Traylon. Burks is right in this range here, but Cadarius at 70, pretty pricey. But I still managed to get him some there, and that's something you could do with your Patrick Stacks, too. And then in week 17 for your tournaments, the Bingles play the Chiefs. So it's an easy way to mix some T. Higgins in there. Maybe you didn't go Travis kelsey with your patrick. Maybe you go Jamar Patrick and then you get some Cadarius Tony later on. Have a feeling that there's going to be a lot of tournament teams with the Patrick, joe Burrow, a lot of those players in there. But still, I think Cadarius is an interesting way to kind of go around that a little bit and still get something there. But you do have to give up something there. There's upside running backs. There. DeAndre Swift, pacheco. Cam Acres, maybe? Damien Pierce fell right there. That's also where my boy Kyle Pitts, he's around 63. We'll see if Kyle actually gets it going this season. He's got so much talent, so much ridiculous amount of talent, but that's kind of the range. Maybe IOK fell. IOK goes a little bit before all that. He's more of a stability play, and then you start getting into your Hollywood Browns. Gabe davis johann dotson. Right? So it does seem like there's kind of like a shift right after that point in the wide receiver game, and it gets a little bit more wide open. And that is one thing I like about that range, too, is that that's where your Baltimore wide receivers start coming in. That's where some of your Denver, your Cleveland stuff comes in and Joku and the like. So there's a lot going on right there. And you can kind of pick your favorite Baltimore wide receiver, especially if you missed, like, Mark Andrews, because Lamar and Mark Andrews are going right next to each other right now at 31 and 32. And if you're going to stack that, you have to get lucky that Mark Andrews doesn't kick off a little bit before that. And just like I like that the Chargers offense is going to get better, I'm also thinking about the Ravens a lot, too. They're one of the offenses that I think could take a big leap this year because they got rid of an offensive coordinator that I don't like. And I do watch a ton of film. I watch at least ten games from each team, and I can tell you that. I think this is going to be a big upgrade for the Baltimore Ravens and the Chargers. Those are two of the big ones for me that I think are going to make a big leap this year. I'm also in on the jets, too, but not much because of the offensive coordinator on their end. It's more about Aaron Rogers on their end, obviously. But like I said, if you want Lamar, if you want Mark, you kind of have to go right there if you don't end up getting Mark, but you do end up getting Lamar, who may run less, but I'm telling you, Monkin is going to make them have a more efficient passing game. Plus they have better options now, too. So while I think Mark Andrews is still going to be a beast, they're going to throw the ball more, and that's going to behoove Mark Andrews in a big way. I still like Rashad Bateman, I still like Zay Flowers, and I am big on Odell Beckham, especially since Odell is the Polarizing one of the three. So it starts off in the ADP with Rashad Bateman at 94. Then you've got Odell at 110. Actually, I'm sorry, I did that out of order. Zay Flowers is at 88, so you actually have to pull Zay Flowers a little bit earlier if you just have wide receivers up it's. Quentin Johnson, Zay Flowers, Michael Thomas, Rashad Bateman, Courtland Sutton, Elijah Moore, james and Williams, just to give you a taste of what's going on there, they're all drafted within a round of each other, and a lot of indecision on all that. Quentin and Zay are rookies. Michael Thomas hasn't been relevant in a while, even though he definitely could be. We'll see. Rashad Bateman, Courtland Sutton. I love the talent, but they seem to be out on him. Elijah Moore, who knows how much the Cleveland is going to throw the ball. Then you got your James and Williams suspension. Juju, new team. I do like New England as an offense. That could get better. Spoiler alert for what I'm going to talk about. But then you got your Odell. I think it's downright disrespectful that Odell is at 110. I really like the way he looked as a Ram. So get him in there with a quarterback that can hit him and get him the ball deep because Lamar can throw the ball deep, unlike Baker, and I think there could be something here. And we saw what would happen with Matt Stafford, and Lamar isn't quite the same proficiency as a passer as Prime Stafford, or not prime, but Super Bowl, let's call it Super Bowl stafford wasn't prime, but it was still really good. Then I get that part. But when you can stack them so late, you can kind of attack wide receiver right there. Maybe you missed out a little bit earlier because you went Lamar as early as you did. You got some running back depth there. It's a good way to fill that out, to be able to get two of those guys when there's a lot of indecision there. And it's a good thing in a lot of these things. You get a lot of value when you attack indecision, and it doesn't feel great at the time, but just know it's going to work out one way or another. And especially with these tournament teams, if it doesn't work out, you're probably going to be danged anyway, so you might as well go big and go with your gut on a lot of that. And I find myself pulling the trigger. Like, I have a rashad and Zay one. I have a rashad and Odell one. I draft Odell a lot of the time when he falls just by himself because I'm getting such good value. Like if he's in the 11th round and you're still able to get him, I think that's going to be good because they're going to throw more. It's going to happen. This isn't last year when they didn't have anybody to throw to. Do you remember what they did when they had people to throw to? Remember what they did to the Dolphins that year? Just lead it off and Romar won the MVP. That can happen. That can happen again. They've freshen things up, and they've got somebody that has quality offensive chops. So I'm in on that. I'm in on the chargers. I mentioned the patriots. I don't want to spend a ton of time on the Patriots exactly, but they are another team that got an offensive coordinator that I believe in and that I think can turn around a situation that was horrible. The Patriots had one of the worst offensive coordinators and offensive situations in the league last year. And other than Matt Canada not getting fired, I can't believe they that's. One of the most confounding things to me going into this when I think about football decisions is that they made that decision with the coaching on the offensive side, with a young quarterback like Mac Jones, with kind of like a deficit at wide receiver, too. It all was not well, but I think that they're going to get better. Mac is essentially like the last starter taken as a quarterback, which is one of the things I like about him. And you can get Mike Gasicki really late. You can get Taekwon Thornton really late. Only patriots you have to draft early are Ramandre Stevenson and Juju Smith Schuster. And another thing I like about Ramandre, too, is if you do go with that stefan Diggs, Josh Allen stack, you can draft Ramandre Stevenson on the other side of that. And the Bills played the Patriots in Week 17. So that's really good for your tournaments. Granted, that's your first three round picks built into that game, but you're going with that stack. You're going for that game anyway. And I really like Ramandre Stevenson. I think he gives them a nice base as far as the Patriots go with his running style, with his ability to catch the ball out of the backfield and just do everything that they need him to do. Bill O'Brien has had great success with that, and I think they've upgraded their receiver core as well with Juju Smith Schuster, which we talked about kind of where he was going in that indecision range at 104, kind of that same range as Odell. I don't get him as much, though, because you can go later, so much later, and get Taekwond Thornton. That's kind of like your late round picks. You can get Mike Gasicki as your third tied in, typically, and I think Mike Gasicki is going to have a big role. It's a situation where a team has been watching this guy kind of work film and watching him on film twice a year, and they're finally able to bring him in, and I think he should get some work as a wide receiver, and that's going to be big. And the Patriots honestly have a nice history of working two tight ends into that anyway. So he could be the move tight end in their situation. And we're talking about drafting him after Matt Laporta talking about, after Michael Mayer, talking about in pick number 193. So you can get that late. And he's probably going to get more receiver snaps than a lot of these guys that you're looking at there. And then, of course, Devante Parker, you can get him in the very last round. So it's an easy way to stack around Mac, and then they play the Bills. You can kind of get some bills around there. The Bills have some interesting guys, including a former Patriot, Damien Harris, who I'm interested in, james Cook, not as, but still Gabe Davis, et cetera. So if you don't get Stefan Diggs when you're Josh Allen stack, there's still some hope there, including Dalton Kincaid, who I think we're talking tight ends as being a little overdrafted. He's the tight end. Eleven. Right after Pat Friarmouth, but before Dalton Schultz. O. Congo cole Comet. Greg Dolci. Tyler Higby. It's a lot to ask of that rookie tight end, but that's the kind of upside he has. So if you want that part of the stack, you got to go pretty early. I'm more likely to draft David and Joku or Friarmouth right before that, like a round or two earlier. Like Joku is kind of a nice 10th guy. Friarmouth is kind of a 10th, 11th guy. I believe in both those guys, and if Pittsburgh would have changed offense, a coordinator, I'd be even more in the bucket for them because I believe Kenny Pickett is going to make a leap in his progression. I liked what I saw from him a lot, and I think he's going to jump up. So I've been drafting Pittsburgh Steelers pretty regularly, and especially stacking them because it's easy. You can do NAJ as your third or second or even first running back and then Friarmouth around this time pickens and Deontay go around the same time we were talking about in the 7th or 8th round. So they're kind of easy pickens, no pun intended, actually, as it turns out, and that's kind of it. You can do Alan Robinson later on, too, so you kind of have to put the cart before the horse when it comes to your Kenny Picket stacks, but they play the Seahawks so you can get you an early round seahawk and then worry about your Kenny Picket later because Kenny goes as the quarterback 24 174 overall. So 16th, 17th, maybe 15th, if you're really getting spicy there. Jimmy Garoppolo is one of my favorite targets. That late, too, but now he's hurting. Brock Purdy isn't necessarily a guarantee to come around. CJ. Straub, Bryce Young, Matthew Stafford, I'm getting some of that Jordan Love, but as you see there, there's a lot of indecision in rookies in that area. So Kenny is one of the people that I find myself getting in that range, not because of Matt Canada, but because the offensive line is going to be better. And then you saw Kenny making strides, the game should slow down, and then you've got all these skill position guys. So a little bit longer in the pocket, though, these skill position guys in there with Kenny, and that's something I'm in on. So another one of those guys, another one of those offenses that I'm trying to invest on that I think is going to get better. And I haven't mentioned much about, like I mentioned Cincinnati and Philadelphia and the Chart and Buffalo. I think those offenses are already going to be good. Don't get me wrong. I think these offenses that I'm talking about are going to be better. I think Cleveland is going to get better. I think Deshaun Watson, it's not an offensive coordinator thing with him. I think just Deshaun Watson having more time to practice, get back into the swing of football and everything, I think that they're going to look a lot better. So I'm drafting Amari. Definitely drafting Nick Chubb. No kareem hunt means more leverage plays for nick chubb, more receiving, hopefully for nick chubb. So I'm in on that. And then in Joku, like I talked about, that's something I'm really targeting because Deshaun Watson was targeting him as one of his guys. And while they've added some talent to the pool at wide receiver, it still feels like that's the way to go with your Amari, with your injoku, with your Nick Chubb, and then you can kind of do some stuff later with Tillman or with People's Jones, if you want to go that route with it. Elijah Moore, you kind of have to pay up on a little bit just because of the talent and because I've definitely seen Deshaun Watson work some guys of the Elijah Moore build when it comes to his wide receivers. So I'm definitely in on all of that. And you don't have to commit to Deshaun so early because he was so raw looking last year. You can kind of get him as the first quarterback of the next rung of quarterbacks. So it goes Patrick Jalen, josh, like we talked about, that's the second round, third round tier and then 3rd, 4th is Justin Lamar. Justin and Joe Burrow are kind of in that range, too. It depends. Call it 4th, 5th. I've seen Joe Burrow go really early if they're trying to secure the T. Higgins Jamar Chase stack, but that is what it is. Then we've got Justin Herbert at 50 or 52, trevor Lawrence at 62, and then Deshaun Watson at 83. So there's this big kind of drop off there between those two tiers as far as the drafting goes. So you kind of sneak in there and get in on your Deshaun Watson if that's something you've already stacked earlier on. And then once you've made that commitment, then you can kind of go to your in Joku and your Elijah Moore at that time. So that's a good one for me. I like the Cleveland. I like Deshaun to get better. One thing that you notice when you're talking about Deshaun right there is who goes around him and right after him said Deshaun at 83. Anthony Richardson is next at 89, dak Prescott, 94, tua Tonga Violoa, 98. And then there's another little and then kirk. Daniel Jones. Aaron Rogers. Gino. Then it kind of drops off again to Jared Goff. There's kind of this middling tier where everybody kind of takes shots. But it's interesting that the earliest shot a lot of the times is Anthony Richardson. And trust me, nobody's more excited about Anthony Richardson than me. I have some stacks there. I drafted him number two overall in my Dynasty draft, so nobody's more in on him than me at this time. But that is a little rich unless you got to really be thinking about it. And it is one of the more variable guys out of all those guys. I've seen him go as early as the fifth round, which was a really weird team and it was a tournament team, but I've also seen him go as late as the 11th, so it's a big variable there. The good thing is about him, I think he's going to be fantasy gold from the beginning just because he's going to have to run. I don't think that's going to be an option. He has it's going to look a lot like Josh Allen year One. By the way, if you didn't watch Josh Allen Year One, watch him run quarterback sweep after quarterback sweep, trying to get his team to win. That's how I knew he was going to be good. I hope I see a lot of the same things from anthony this season and if you're stacking Michael Pittman's up in the 50s so you do have to be forward thinking on that end. But after that it's not Jonathan Taylor too. Obviously that's something early. I do have some Jonathan Taylor Anthony Richardson stuff going on. And that is the reason that Jonathan Taylor falls down a little bit is because there's a lot of belief that Anthony Richardson will take some of his touchdowns away at the goal line because he's had, like, the goal line to himself recently. And now it's not going to be that way because Anthony Richardson should be a beast when they get down there. To my point, Alec Pierce, Josh Downs, the other stackable pieces for Anthony Richardson, those go way later on and I think have some validity to them. And Gilani Woods, you can make him your last tight end as well if you wanted. And then the Raiders aren't a hard team to same game stack when it comes to the Colts either. So I do have some of that going on. But man, having him be the quarterback ten already, I wish it wasn't so it feels like there'd be greater value if people weren't so hype on him. But that's part of the if you're going to get Anthony Richardson in a draft, if you're going to set out to get him, you kind of have to pull the trigger because you just never know where he's going to go. And I think that's part of it. I think that's part of this because, I mean, you look right down right below him, dak Prescott way better track record, obviously he's played a bunch of seasons and he might not be sexy and he may never win a Super Bowl, who knows? But he's going to have something here. He's got great weapons and I don't care how much Mike McCarthy says he wants to run the ball, he's going to be throwing it too. And I think some of the DAC hate Kurt Cousins kind of is what it is. This is where Aaron Rogers starts to go. I think a lot of that is overblown. So to see Anthony right there is a little startling, especially when you don't see another rookie until 170 with Bryce Young, right, who I would take, I am taking. I think Bryce Young is going to have some juice coming right out of the gate. But as like my third quarterback, you have to take Anthony as your first or second, depending on what you did earlier. I have way more second than I do first, but I do have like an Anthony Gino team, stuff like that, so I'm rolling the dice with it. But that's when he falls, that's when people aren't going crazy because there's some craziness to it too, and that's what's pushing the ADP up and that's how underdog ranks it too. They have it ranked on the ADP. So that's how you see it. That's how people are drafting it and seeing it. So you kind of have to be able to free your mind from that kind of stuff more than other places that have their like Yahoo has their ranks on there, right? So you have a little bit more stuff coming at you information wise when it comes to that. I'll leave us with one final thing. It's an offense I'm not sure what to do with, and I think a lot of people aren't given their track record, but it's the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Baker Mayfield has something, but I'm not sure it's capable of supporting in the way that they're used to be supported. Chris Godwin, I'm not as worried about just because that he's Baker's style, and I think Baker is going to have to rely on him. Mike Evans isn't. I don't think that Mike Evans can be supported by Baker at this point because of the deep ball. Mike Evans was more dependent on the deep ball than ever last year, and Tom Brady was putting it out there pretty good, and they weren't connecting. Baker Mayfield does not put it out there pretty good. He has to put his entire body into the throw to be able to make it viable, and it just doesn't quite get there a lot of the time, or it's just so inaccurate that it gives the defender a chance to make a play. And you really have to have a precision throwing when it comes to the downfield passing, and Baker just doesn't have that throw on. The fact that you have to draft Chris Godwin in the 50 area where Miles Sanders is going pittman, JK. Dobbins Joe Mixon and IOK. Trevor Lawrence, Kyle Pitts. And then you have Mike Evans lockett. Addison. I like them more than some of the stuff that's going after that, but the stuff that's going around and before them just hasn't been for me because I don't believe in Baker. I believe him as a low end starter ish, but I don't believe maybe a good backup, but I don't believe in him as a guy that's going to be able to support Mike Evans in the role that he's going to need to be successful at this time in his career. And I don't believe in the offense overall, nor did I believe in Kyle Trask. That's the other option. Now, I'm going to be really screwed if Tom Brady comes back. And to be clear, I haven't seen Tom Brady drafted a single time, so I think everybody believes that he's not going to come back, but Lord help me if he does, because I don't find myself getting Godwin or Mike Evans all that much. Well, a lot of talk. Hopefully you found it interesting. A lot of just what's going on in best ball currently should have more of that. I have a lot of EXP going right now because been doing so many drafts, and I can't plan to keep doing so, so look for more content on this. Hopefully we'll have some more news coming out of OTAs to talk about and look for more videos. Should have them, especially some live streams with my drafts. And have a great rest of your day.