Good Vibes/Bad Vibes + Upside Names

is to just let the ball rip and let his fast receivers do the thing. We've talked many times about last year if you combine Fitzpatrick and James Winston, Tampa Bay had the second highest scoring fantasy quarterback in all of football. So Ryan Fitzpatrick was interesting because he might bring these wide receivers some value just of how much he hyper targets that one position. And we've seen guys years and years and years have value with Ryan Fitzpatrick.

It's not, now we don't know. I'm talking as of two days ago, Brian Flores, Dolphins coach says, eh, could go either way. That's, when you're at the preseason week three has ended and you don't know who your starting quarterback is. That is a absolute panic alarm. Then you throw in, okay, Kenyon Drake got hurt, Caleb Belage looks like he's going to be just this super sneaky value.

Allegedly, he's tearing it up. He's dominating the Miami defense. He's looking great. Gets his shot to shine, and he's just a gust of wind is knocking him over. I mean, there's no balance. If he doesn't get a wide hole and get going like Fred Flintstone feet, you're going to knock him down and he's going to do nothing for this team. Kenny Stills, who...

I've loved Kenny Stills forever. I think he was a good wide receiver. They're shopping them, allegedly. I mean, there's just, there's so many areas where I thought there might be sneaky value for Miami, and they have all imploded. Well, it's ironic because the two good vibe teams you both brought up were division mates.

And then the other one is the Patriots. Yeah. So you've got the Patriots, the Jets, the Bill's looking better. Yeah, the Belage was on my, I mean, I got a couple names written down here. Kaelin Balaj has got the bad vibes right now. I guess this is proportional to Chris Carson, but Versad pennies. Yeah, pennies on my list are on the way down just because it seems like this team, did you write down Penny to? I've got a penny on my list. So it doesn't mean that he's not going to be.

productive in some fashion. I just think my expectations are going down with him. And then Derek Henry. Derek Henry, my vibes are down on Eric Henry. Marcus Marieto looks atrocious. If they make a transition to Tanna Hill, you know, I just feel very uncomfortable with Derek Henry on a team that I don't know how it's going to go for them. At the beginning of this off season, I felt a lot better about Tennessee. I know their defense has improved.

But you need to win games for Derek Henry to win you fantasy games. If that makes sense. He does not score points in games they lose at all. It goes from 80-something yards a game to 50. Goes from touchdowns to none. I mean, he's a 50-yard, no touchdown running back in games they lose. With no receptions. And the thing is, is he needs space to work. Once you get him going with a head of steam, good luck. Good luck tackling him. But the problem is right now, part of the reason Marks Mariotas looks so bad is because the offensive line.

for the Titans has looked terrible. And then the first four weeks of the season, you're losing one of the best left tackles in the league in Taylor Luan. I mean, Ryan Tannenhaus looked really good, though. That's the funny thing. I mean, you're not wrong. I'll get backups. Sure. Well, you know, Mariotta took three, had three throws and came off the field. And then Tannehill walked into the same roster and has looked very good in the preseason. So it's just one of those things where things could turn quicker in Tennessee than we hope. Right.

The report so far on A.J. Brown have been kind of mixed. Corey Davis is Corey Davis. I just don't know if they have enough firepower in this offense unless Mariotta takes a step forward, which he's coming off a really, really rough injury-riddled season. We haven't seen the best of Marcus Mariotta since, you know, a year and a half ago when he was giving you consistent games mostly due to his legs. So it just feels bad. Yeah. I would give.

bad vibes as well to all preseason long and it's preseason they're not necessarily running their scheme yada yada but to a man i feel like the atlanta falcons offensive line has just been beaten senseless every time i watched matt ryan dropped back and this and he was

you know, to his credit. He was still dropping dimes out there, but he was running for his life or taking sacks. It was not good. And that was a team. I was really excited to look at how their offensive line had improved. I've heard people from Atlanta say, oh, don't be worried. And I've heard people say, I'm really worried. And bad vibes, of course, still to the holding out running backs. It doesn't sound great from Melvin Gordon. And we now have.

Let's see about an hour ago. Another quote from Zeke says, I love playing for the Dallas Cowboys. I love the organization, my teammates. I do want to be a cowboy for the rest of my life, and hopefully that's a possibility. But even Emmett Smith, the greatest running back ever, ended up going to play a couple years for another organization. Zeke's thrown a counterpunch just to Jerry. This is ugly, man.

This is why you can't get caught up, in my opinion, with CBA speculation about these situations anymore. We've been through it with Lev, Gordon, Zeke. The situations are very different from a contractual situation. They are not different whatsoever from a emotional, human, pride, entitlement situation. And that's not to say, that's not me saying,

Zeke is the only person at fault in this situation. He's just trying to get the bag, man. No matter who you are, what comes into account here is, I play for a limited amount of time. This has been brought to the forefront with the Andrew Luck situation. You know, these players get beat up. They have a very small window to do this. So they're going to flex with the levers they have. They're going to use public pressure in the ways that they can. And they're not going to.

relent just because fantasy analysts tell them that they'll be in a certain contractual boat next year it doesn't matter because when a resolution comes all of those fines all of those circumstances they all wash away or they move on so i was going to take your temperature mike because we've been very optimistic about zeke's situation being different than the others you know that's all i've heard elsewhere still expect him to play but i mean he went first in our league of record draft on sunday

uh if if i draft zeke and man it's it's getting shakier and shake here unfortunately that that's the worst part of these situations is we just have essentially a gut feeling of what we've seen other running backs do if i have if i take zeke among the power for players i am reaching for tony pollard i'm going to secure myself i'm going to try and buy

That's really smart. Buy wins at the beginning of the season. I don't think Zeke has gone the entire season, where I think Melvin Gordon will be gone for the majority of it. But man, it just keeps getting worse and worse for the Zeke holdout. Yeah, if you do ensure that you grab Zeke and you grab Pollard, then you should be fine because Pollard's going to dominate while Zeke is out.

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