Fantasy Football - Unsolved Mysteries + Camp Injury Updates - Podcast for 7/30

and maybe why it's frustrating is the off-season, they're just made for conversation. I feel like every off-season, we have tons of conversation around the Chargers since Herbert became their quarterback. And there's so much, and there's a lot of positivity around all their players, every off-season. But I'm at the point now where I want to see it proven out on the football field, and I don't feel like we ever allow for the middle outcome, that you're just kind of, you're kind of okay. Is that what you?

think for what do you think this offense regardless throw the you know the years in the past in the garbage or whatever this offense do you think they will be a middle offense a top offense or a poor offense not every offense has the opportunity to reach a top five offense and this one does with the personnel and the coaching but no i think the most realistic outcome is that they're a eight to 15 offense on the positive side

I think that's the most realistic outcome for the offense. Yeah, I usually like splitting the league when I think of offenses in thirds to really think like the top third offense are good offenses and the bottom third offenses are ones I want to avoid. I think they'll be in the top third, which I think you think that too based on, you know, the 8 to 15 is more in the top third. No, no, that'd be more in the middle because a third means there's three groups. Yeah.

But it goes past 8. 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15. Yeah, 11. I mean, you can't, you can't evenly split 32 and 3. 8 to 15, like, what numbers are more in the, the more numbers are in the middle? Well, but if it's, do you count 11 as the top third? Because you can't. It's, oh, because there's 32. Yeah. I did break it up 10, 10, 10 in my head. Yeah.

I shouldn't, we shouldn't have really been. No, that's, hey, you could take two teams and just be like Cleveland, we don't count you. We will get our calculator out. I will say, with the chargers, if you're going to draft them, I think their schedule matters a ton. They open against Arizona where they're nearly 12 point favorites. Then they play the Raiders, where they are eight and a half point favorites. This is incredible. Like last, it's just a reminder. Last year, Justin Herbert in week one,

scored 28 fantasy points and became so locked into everyone's roster that you're like, we did it, it's happening for Justin Herbert, then it fell apart. I bring that up because week three is set up to do that again? Week three is at Buffalo, week four is at Seattle, then it's Denver, and then it's on the road against Kansas City. So while I think they're going to have a great first two weeks, saying sell. I'm not saying sell. I'm just saying

be honest with yourself about what just happened. They're going to beat the crap out of the out of two of the like Arizona and Vegas. Let me audit my comment. I think they will be a top one offense for two weeks. Okay. Let's take a break. I'll be right back. This episode is sponsored by prize picks. Football is back and prize picks is giving.

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Or we discuss the backfield for the Jacksonville Jaguars and how it will be split. Oh, well, that one's not a mystery for Mike. I think it's right now not a mystery for Mike or I. Yeah, I'm a little gassy. Yeah, baby. Welcome. Oh, yeah. Come on board. Let's go. Let's go. This is the day. Today is the day that Chris Rodriguez just got. Yes.

active to go make plays in camp to go train on the side yeah yeah but he can do it now i i simply look tuton should i mean he's a high upside all the all the offseat hold on let me let me find it um chugger chugger where's our up off season you know best player in camp so far but we haven't seen anybody else to say so are we discussing that one yeah let's go there let's go there

No, I don't want you. How will the Jacksonville Jaguars backfield be split? Travis A. Chan Jr. is vacating 312 opportunities, 260 carries, 52 targets, six receiving touchdowns. We have a lot of red zone attempts that he had in that offense that are, you know, going to be up for grabs.

I think that's part of the discussion, right? 53 rushing attempts inside the red zone. That was the fourth most in the NFL, and those are gone. So you got, that says, it's a great offense. That's what that says. You've got a great offense that was in the red zone at a time, and the guy they got the ball the most there. I mean, that's right behind McCaffrey, John the Taylor, Derek Henry, James Cook, and blank space for Jacksonville. So Chris Rodriguez was one of the offseason signings, had played at Kentucky with Liam Cohen, not placed on Pup.

starting to do individual drills at camp. He's coming off foot surgery. He did not participate in minicamp. Bachel Tutin, sophomore. We brought it up on the show. When Liam Cohen talked about him, he said in year one, did a lot of great things, but also had to learn a complicated offense, pass protections, you know, figuring out what to do, and a lot of it was not reacting. A lot of it was thinking. A lot of it was processing. And we all saw, you know, to me, what I saw the most out of Tutant,

as a rookie was explosive plays that ended up just happening more in the passing game on a play here or there than it was, you know, chunk plays in the backfield over and over again. But he has that capability. He's a fast runner. He's 432. Yeah. At 209. Like this is, he is his build. Oh, boy.

I'm sorry. You just seeing the glass eater? Yep. Yeah. I'm just, we got another. Oh, that's a good quote. Now, we've had a, hold on. We've had a cran eater before and we know who that is. And his favorite color crayon is blue. Yes. Did we ever, hey, did we ever share that? Yeah, we did. Okay. Yeah, Cam Scadaboo said his favorite cram. He's a cram eater, right? We got another category, Mike. Liam Cohen came out on Wednesday and said. This is troubling. About Crodd. About Chris Rodriguez. He doesn't say a ton, but he's tough.

He's one of those glass eaters. He is. He's going to run through a wall for his teammates, for his coaches, and for their organization. So we're eating glass now. Okay. Which is more dangerous than crayons? Oh, yeah. By a... Children can eat crans. Are crans, like, completely, like, non-toxic? Not toxic? I think they probably have to be. Huh. There probably was a time where they were very toxic. Be a fun poop. The...

creating a toxic oh just no not a toxic poop okay a non-toxic cran poop would be a colorful the glass one would be a painful wait what it's I don't think it would be a colorful I think it would still be brown I'd yeah there's only one way to find out oh man there is only one way to find out and and Google the Falcon just throws in the Slack channel $2,000 and I'll eat a box oh my falcon we know that Josh will do it for way less Josh would eat a box of crans for way less money

Let me take lowest bids from the news. Okay, no, we're already down to 1,200. Keep the bids coming in. 1,000. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Are we talking like 64 counts? No, no, no, no, no. Standard children's, whatever that is, 12, 16, the normal pack. We all know what that is. 1,000. 900, 800, 400.

Whoa. Oh, there we go. Let me tell you this. Okay, now we're into a price when I do it. We're out of range where someone might be eating crans. We're out of range where I chip in 100. You guys chip in 100. We just needed one more. We got to get it to 300. Jeremy's good for this. I'm out. I'm out. I'm out. $300. $300. I'll chip in. That's what I mean. Oh, yeah. I'll take care of that. Matt, you're on the hook now. I got a new teddy. I want to buy. Are you eating a box of cramps for $400? I have good news for you. This might change your, this might change.

Yes, eating a box of crayons can make your poop colorful. So there is actually not just money in this, but an exciting time. Crayola has tested their products to ensure they pose no poisoning risk, though eating them is still not recommended. Due to the crayon. Oh, man. A box of 24 is the crayon standard. Okay. We'll get back to this. Wait, 300 and you got a deal. 400. I'm setting the line at three.

Four. All right. You chime in if you change your mind by the end of the show. You said you have a new putter to buy, but you must not want it that bad. Listen, this does matter. Like, Crodd is a glass heater. Yes. And there are 53 red zone opportunities available. Chris Rodriguez, there's a fatigue and kind of like dismissal of him because of the years of injury and not getting opportunities. He was four or five a carry last year on a decent, I mean.

I think it's more than six touchdowns last year. No, he was actually, he was some of the advanced metrics for Chris Rodriguez were very good. We've always liked him. Like as a show, Crodd, we've always said when he gets his opportunities, he's been pretty good. But it does really seem like he's the backup, for one. Simply he's coming in. He's got to learn this new offense that Liam Cohen said it took. It was very hard to learn. He knows it from.

from Kentucky, but go on. There'll be some differences. Kentucky's offense still, but then you have the biggest question to be in this backfield is who's going to catch passes. Because Travis E.TN, that's where his fantasy points came, was really in the receiving game. That is an important part of this offense. Now, neither one of these guys have a huge production profile in the NFL, but Crod, year one as a rookie, had two targets.

The number went down to one. In 13 games played. And then last year in 13 games, he got his new career high with four targets on the season. So it's like that really, maybe he does steal the goal line. And that could be a problem. That's a problem. It is also possible we should keep the door open, the undrafted free agent running back. LeQuinn Allen could be involved in the receiving game. He is a good pass protector. And so.

But it does seem like if you're taking your shot on someone who's going to be, one, explosive, and two, involved in the passing in where most of the fantasy points are going to come from, you know, I'm gassed up for Tutin. Also in the range of outcomes is that Bay Shaltuton is a total workhorse. You know, it's like when Cohen was in Tampa Bay, when healthy, Bucky Irving was.