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on your team, you're almost certainly going to franchise that player. You're not going to lose them. They're yours. Then you don't get to pick two more. You get to pick three more. They cannot be the same position as the first. So if I franchise Christian McCaffrey, and I've also got Joe Mixing, well, too bad. I can't throw him in my pool. I have to pick three other players. It can be anybody outside of the same position. And then we have a fun event. Oh, man. It's the best. It is so fun. We do it different ways every year, you know, whether it's just.

the ping pong balls in a ping pong ball hopper or colors, you know, on a fridge or whatever it is, where you randomly, you've got your three players in your pool and we draw two of them that you get to keep and the third one goes back in. And what this does is it means that even though you're keeping three players per team that are the best in the league out of the league, the draft still matters because all of a sudden you chose to make someone...

You know, you wanted to take your chance at getting a lot of good running backs. And, oh, no, Zeke is back in the draft, even though it's a three-keeper league. Every year, our first round is, you know, stock full of. Right. Stock, chalk full? Stock full of, that can't be right. It's got to be chalkful. I think it's both. Like, I mean, I get where chalk full is coming from, but you also stock up on things. So, sure. My stock is full.

Okay. I feel like if I Googled that, they'd say, did you mean chalk full? Let's find out. You keep going. A lot of talent is in the beginning of our drafts. It's really, really fun. And that extra lottery moment adds one more day into the off season where the league comes together, talks trash, has fun, remembers that, oh, yeah, I've got this team I can make transactions with. It's a really, really fun event. Yeah.

that we look forward to every year where you are in and you pick you get to pick so like whoever the host is of the video gives you like red yellow green and you pick the two colors so you control your own destiny and we all just watch and root for everyone else to lose their great oh every time you just want so much fun you want their sadness that's what's the best about this event is man it's so fun when they lose their guy although on the flip side

When you lose your main. Oh, that sucks. Yeah. Not fun so much there. Off of Twitter from at KPC the 12, aka Twitty McTwitface. Do you think Juju will be undervalued or overvalued this coming draft season, underwhelmed on the field, but also could be getting Big Ben back, which narrative will rule the day? I think in a normal redraft league,

he will more than likely be appropriately valued. Most guys near the top are at this point, this day and age. I think that maybe I'm giving people too much credit, but I think the fears of this last season and what you saw will be weighed in. Now, I will say this, in a dynasty league, he is way overvalued right now. Is he? I think so. I've seen people as high as having them number two, like overall, or, you know, he's certainly in the top, you know, 10. And that's scary to me. He was easily moving up.

Last off season, that was kind of a fun debate to have. You had kind of the old guard, like Otto Beckham, DeAndre Hopkins. They had been the number one guy for several years. And then all of a sudden, Juju did what he did and was way younger than them. So he skyrocketed towards the top. So you have, that's where I was going to move the question to is last year, I mean, it's almost, it's really, it's a pass.

To me. Oh, yeah, for sure. He had what felt like a third string and eighth string quarterback. He had a fourth string quarterback playing for, like, he could not get it done. You put other superstars on that team, and I bet you they're not getting it done. Look at O'Dow Beckham. Odo Beckham had pretty bad quarterback play for most of the year from Baker Mayfield. Didn't really get it done. Jarvis was fine.

Fine, fine, but I'm not saying that Baker was as bad as what was going on in Pittsburgh, just saying the quarterback play matters to these wide receivers. It absolutely matters, but what you did see is that because the quarterback play matters so much for Juju, and he wasn't able to succeed without a competent backup there, which currently they still don't have. How long does Big Ben continue playing? Does he come back this year and regain form? And if he does,

Is that the last year, the second to last year? Long term for him, there's a worry there. And so I think you've got this combination where, okay, he comes back and you didn't even know as the number one with Big Ben what he would do. We were projecting that. Right. One of your bold predictions last year, which I heard it from a few places, so not just you, Juju's going to be the number one guy. Yeah, I was bullish. So after seeing what happened this year, that has...

completely knocked you off of that horse? So it hasn't knocked me off the talent that I believe Juju has. I think he is as talented as possible. But now there is like three extra layers of risk involved because you're a year later into Big Ben's career. Now Big Ben has an elbow injury. Now you know through evidence that their backups can't get the job done. So basically if everything goes right, I think Juju has that ceiling.

If Big Ben comes back and is awesome and he's thrown for 5,000 yards, a juju is his number one guy, he could be the number one wide receiver. But there's so much more risk that wasn't there last year, a year later to an injured starter with known terrible backups. This one's off of YouTube from Andrew Nelson, Cooper Cup or DJ Chark. Now, it's not classified if this is Dynasty or Redraft. So just answer the question however you want.

Sure. You know what? No, I want to frame a dynasty. Oh, okay. Cooper Cup or DJ Chark? I saw this before we started the show, and I started to think about it. Because Cooper Cup, obviously, the one who's had the incredible production. DJ Chark did have a breakout of a year. It looks like he'll probably have Gardner Minshu as his quarterback. And Cooper Cup completely fell off the map towards the end of the year.

How do you feel about these two guys? Was that a blip for Cooper Cup? Was the breakout a mirage for DJ Chark? I mean, there are so many variables floating around here for both these guys that there could be not just a clear winner, but there could be a clear loser as well out of these two guys. I don't believe either of those two things you mentioned are true. I don't think it was...

you know, a mirage breakup for DJ Chark. I think DJ Chark is legit. He has the physical tools. He showed it on the field, dealt with injury, dealt with quarterbacks going back and forth. I think he is for real. I also think Cooper Cup is phenomenal. He's one of my favorite dynasty targets right now. If I had to pick between these two guys, I would pick Cooper Cup. Because Cooper Cup has done it more sustained. I believe he is...

clearly on an offense that while we were super disappointed, right, you wanted the Rams of the previous two seasons, not the Rams of this current last year. Well, I just wanted the Cooper Cup of the beginning of the season to kind of go through the whole thing. Absolutely. But I think we still have to be realistic that Sean McVeigh and this Rams with golf, with the older girly, their offense is significantly better than the Jaguar's offense. So I'm going to take, and I know there's like a three-year age gap here, but Cooper Cup's 26 years old.

He's also now going to be a full year removed from his ACL injury. So I'm in on the Cooper Cup side. But this is a fascinating debate because if you believe in DJ Tark, you could argue they're both great and you'll take the younger guy. You know, he's the clear one on his team. Whereas with Cooper Cup, you say, well, he was for a minute, but then it was Robert Woods. You know.

They share the ball better. So where are you on the Cooper Cup versus? I think I lean DJ Chark. I like the, like when it comes to just. What a dummy. Oh, thanks. You're welcome. Thank you. I would pick Chark. You'd go, oh, what an idiot. Shiming in. Oh, yeah. Owl? Chark. Yeah. This is a Chark show.

Pro Chark. I'm biased because he's on my team. Oh, there it is. There it comes. Chark is the more talented wide receiver. Cooper Cup is, I'm not trying to take away from him, but he is a benefactor of a great offensive scheme that is putting him in a good position a lot of the time. Oh, no. That sounds terrible for him. No, I know. That's what I'm saying. I'm not taking that away from him, but DJ Chark, 6'4, about 200 pounds. He's fast.

had the breakout year with last year with Gardner, a thousand and eight. And that was, that, is that the ceiling? I guess, let me ask you that. Is that the ceiling? No. For DJ Charker, does he go up from there? No, I think that, I don't think it's a guarantee he goes up from there, but I don't think that's his ceiling at all. I mean, you, you've got a talented player who can definitely go past a thousand and eight. That being said, you know, if you're talking about

great season from him and a super disappointing season um well it wasn't a super disappointing season it was a really disappointing second half right for cup and so you know that's kind of my point is that what what was cooper cup uh wide receiver four i believe on the year he finished at four he was one of only two wide receivers with double digit touchdowns and so yeah he had that disappointing stretch but cooper cup is great and he's still only 26 so go trade for cooper cup because clearly everybody out there does not believe in him

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