The “My Guys” Episode! - Fantasy Football Podcast for 8/20

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Every fantasy player in the world will go into their draft with some sort of rankings. Even if it's just the average draft position on the platform, not everybody's rankings are the same. Our rankings, we don't want to toot our horn too much. But you always do. Look, they've been top 10, three years in a row. They're very accurate. And they are tier based with blurbs that break down. The differences between players in the same area. Everybody who gets it usually gets it again the next year. They love it.

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players for 2020. It's always an adventure getting to this point. Last year we had the My Guys show early. Very early. A little too early, which was tough, but we had the tour and we wanted to do the My Guys event on the tour. Well, that was the infamous Dante Pedest turn. Tevot? Yes. Yes. Which, look, from My Guy to Anti-Gy. I mean, that was right on the money.

Yeah, I'm really... That was a close one. Quite pleased with that decision, to be honest. But we're going to jump right in. Each of us has three my guys that we're going to bring to you. Did you want to add anything to that introduction? I mean, how do you look at these players? So for me here, and you know what, I will kick off the show here. I will give my first my guy. It's a wide receiver going in the fifth round. Planting the flag saying, this is my guy. Am I saying that...

DJ Chark is going to be the number one wide receiver? No, but I'm saying, that's what I heard. I heard it. Cut that up. Cut that up, ship it. Fine. DJ Chark, number one wide receiver overall. The draft value is absolutely incredible. I believe he will return ADP at the bare minimum. I love his upside. So here's what I want to talk about with DJ Chark. First, six, four, 200 pounds, top.

4% speed score was drafted in the second round, was absolutely left for dead. Guilty, I left DJ Chark for dead. I wanted nothing to do with him in the rookie drafts. He went to the Jaguars. The fantasy stench of the Jaguars is a real thing. And it happened throughout the entire season. But DJ Tark still finished as the wide receiver 16 in 15 games. And honestly, before his week 14,

ankle injury, he was the wide receiver 8. Went over 1,000 yards, had 8 touchdowns, and what I really like moving forward about DJ Chark, aside from his ADP being in the fifth round, he's being drafted behind where he finished last year. Gardner Minshu is now the full-time starting quarterback. Gardner Minshu had the best passer rating.

on deep passes last year. He's actually a very competent quarterback. Last year, DJ Chark, 13 catchable deep targets. How many to come down with all 13? He was tied for six with deep perceptions with Tyler Lockett. He's an incredible deep threat. And Minshu was talking about his relationship with DJ Chark. And he said, I mean, this is a quote. I mean, last time, this time last year.

We didn't get to work together very much at all. We had a few reps in the preseason, and then we were kind of thrown in there in the regular season. That was the production that we got from Gardner Minshue. They weren't planning on Minshu being the started. They gave Nick Foles a huge contract. They draft Minshu in, I believe, the sixth round. I mean, he's a complete afterthought. He's not getting reps with DJ Chark or the receiving crew, and yet he came through, and DJ Chark...

Like I said, the wide receiver 8 before going down with his ankle injury in week 14. Now you get an improved offense. You get Jay Gruden is now the offensive coordinator. Jay Gruden offenses have finished top 15 and passing touchdowns in six of the nine years that he's either been an O.C. or a head coach. And you know who's got experience coaching a later round QB? Jay Gruden, people don't really remember this.

Kurt Cousins was a fourth round draft pick. He was not drafted to be the guy. But they found the talent. I believe that Jacksonville has found their talent in Gardner Minshu. It's all systems go. They're giving him the chance to be the guy. And I think that the connection with DJ Chark, it was just natural. Now let's spend an entire offseason beefing that up. On top of that, I mean, DJ Chark, DJ Chark is a...

solid route runner. I'm not going to crown him as an elite Keenan Allen type of a route runner yet, but he is very solid. He scores very well in reception and he's the number one target. He is the unquestioned number one target for this team. They might be trailing a lot, but when I say might, I mean, they will be trailing a lot and they're going to have to go to DJ Chark.

Yeah, last year there was question marks as to who is the number one guy. And this year it is clear. So what I heard is that Gardner Minchew is like a my guy light. You're just like you're in on. I'm fine. I'm fine with late round Gardner. He's actually his guys own my guy. Like DJ Charks, my guy is Gardner. That makes sense. Yeah. You see him shotgun in those energy drinks? Two, two questions for you though. Because you've talked about Chark a lot in this off season. I'm not surprised he's a my guy.

One thing, just to point out, the end of season for DJ Shark, fantasy owners need to remember this, it just ends up being reflected in the ADP sometimes. It was a sour end of the season just due to injury, and all of a sudden he's a fifth round pick. The other question is he's being drafted as the wide receiver 20. He's your my guy. I think, not that you're calling for him to end up there, but what is the actual ceiling in your mind? When you say he's going to be a value at that position,

Does that mean you believe he's a top 10 wide receiver? The ceiling is absolutely a top 10 wide receiver to me. Top 5 is that's probably a little bit too far out of the realistic projections. But like I said, he was a top 10 wide receiver before he went down with the ankle injury. He missed a game and then he tried to play through it in the production. It simply wasn't there. So it's not that he hasn't done it. He just a couple games kept him out of the official.

Top 10. So to finish as a wide receiver 16, I don't think it's a stretch to say, yeah, that guy could probably move up into the top 10. I love the pick. I'm going to go next because one of the kind of points of reasoning that you have for a DJ Chark is one of the same for my guy here, which is you have the evidence last season in a stretch. Now it wasn't 16 games, but you have the evidence in a stretch that he could be a top 10 guy.

My guy that I have the most confidence in of any player, maybe in the last three or four years, is Josh Jacobs. Josh Jacobs is my guy for 2020. I think he is a guarantee. I think he is 100% guaranteed to take the next step in fantasy. I don't know if I've been as sure of a player as I am in Josh Jacobs. He's that guy that I think is going to go from that second or third tier running back to a top five running back in fantasy football.

And that is the league winning type of pick in the late first round, early second round. I think he fits in the category of somebody that could be the number one overall running back. You know, we always say at the beginning of the off season, it's like, okay, these three guys are here. But the odds of these guys actually repeating very, very low. We never know who's coming on. Last year, it was Dalvin Cook. Delvin Cook, I got him wherever I could. He made the jump. And...

One of the reasons why is the same argument you have for DJ Chark, and that is Josh Jacobs actually broke out and most people don't even realize it to that level of talent. Starting with the talent, look at Pro Football Focus's overall running back grades. Nick Chubb's number one, he's number one, every metric you can in running back. Christian McCaffrey is number three. Number two on Pro Football Focus is running back grades last year.

Josh Jacobs. Absolutely dominant. And what's crazy, Josh Jacobs had fewer than 50% of the total snaps of Christian McCaffrey last year. And yet still ended up an elite producer. He had that span I'm talking about. Eight games in the middle of the year, weeks four through 11, top five running back in fantasy football last year. With a busted shoulder. With a busted shoulder and almost no passing work at all.

And if I've seen it in a stretch, I know he can do it for a long stretch if he stays healthy. Second in red zone touches per game among all running backs. Say what you want about John Gruden. Do the impressions if you want to. But listen, man, he trusts his running backs in the red zone. Now, to be, was that an impression or was that simply using his terminology? Hey, man. Terminology. Terminology. Terminology. Same question. Same question.

Listen, man. It's not good. Trust it in the red zone, as I said. And he was a rookie. And I love seeing that. Like going back two years, we saw it when Marshaun had an opportunity in Oakland. Now Josh Jacobs coming into year two. There's one caveat for success with Josh Jacob. It's actually the same with Dalvin Cook or any other running back. And it is health. Gruden came out. He agrees on the fact that he needs to be much more heavily involved in the passing game.

And this offseason, Josh Jacobs said 60 catches, at least. Last year didn't even come close to that. Gruden said he had a great year last year. We expect more out of him this year. Have to get him involved in the passing game. And more importantly, more on the field on third down. You get him on the field and third down. He's going to make a play. And the irony with Josh Jacobs is, I like that. Yeah, man. I can't do it. Yeah, thank you. Thank you. It's harder than you think. I just need some more sentences prepared for me.

Did you see the impression of Sean McVeigh that's going around Twitter? No, no, I haven't. The McDonald's order by Sean McVeigh, unbelievable. Stay with me. Stay with me, man. But if he can stay healthy, I think Josh Jacobs is a stone cold lock to be in that top five running back realm. I love it. I think his production goes way, way up. Like I said, half the snaps of Christian McCaffrey. Do I think he gets all the way there? Of course not. But the opportunity is right in front of him.

passing work is going to mean so much. The passing work, you said there's one big question. Of course, health is there for everyone. But the big question really, assuming that every running back plays 16 games and that auto question is out, is the passing game work. And that's why I love Josh Jacobs so much this year. If you go back and look at any rookie who dominated on the ground over 1,100 yards as a rookie, and then...

was fewer than 30 targets, they all go up. We forget sometimes that Marshawn Lynch, Todd Gurley, some of these guys came in, and in their rookie year, they weren't involved in the passing game at all, even though they had that skill set. Final thought, you know, when you talk about flag planting on a player, I answer the question that people have of, you know, which draft spot do you want differently because of Josh Jacobs now. People had, you know, if you could draft the draft spot.

One, two, three. No, I want to be at 10. I want to take Josh Jacobs with my first pick because I have that much confidence in it. So I will talk about this next, my guy, because in multiple drafts this season, I have been at the 10 in one and the 11 in the other and twice came away with my guy in round one and your guy in round two. And I'm talking about a guy that should not be surprising because I've been talking about him for a long time. Kenyon.

Drake. Yeah, here we go. Let's go. Let's go down the rabbit hole of Kenyon Drake's career. I, Jason, we do have to keep the podcast. We can cut for time if we have to. Yeah, you're going to want to edit this in post, okay? Because you can't stop me right now. Yada, yada, yada.

My guy. Yada, yada, yada, my guy. King and Drake is very talented. I loved him coming out of school in 2016. Unfortunately, he was drafted to the Bhole when Adam Gase came to the Dolphins, and they drafted him. He was the third running back drafted that year. How did they use him? In his rookie year, he had half of his games under 5% of snaps. All but two under 20%. He wasn't used in his rookie year at all. Second year? Oh.