Top Rookie Picks + Mailbag, Scratch That Itch!

But he has a lot of ways that it can go wrong, starting with the quarterback. I mean, you can make the argument. He had a poor version of Mitchell Trevisky this year. The offensive line was struggling. They lost tight ends of blockers. And he still finished as a wide receiver won. So, you know.

What more do you want? And if he finishes as a wide receiver one, you're getting him in third round. It's good. I understand that argument. And I do believe he is talented enough to repeat. But there are so many ways it could go wrong, starting, of course, with Mitchell Trubisky, the target share numbers that he had, when all of those other receiving options were down, and it basically just became a two-man receiving core.

that obviously could go away and you have to bring up. He's got an injury history. If you look at his career, you know, okay, he broke out with that awesome, you know, wide receiver six finish in 2015 and then spent the next three years of his career pretty much disappointing you until this season. One of him he would tour his ACL on the first reception. And that's not good. I'm not blaming him. I know it's not. Well, it sounded like you were.

It sounded like you were disappointed in him that he tore his ACL. Oh, I was a little bit. I'm not blaming him, but I am disappointed. I'm looking at some best ball ADP. These are wide receivers going ahead of Alan Robinson. Let me ask you if you would rather have them. Okay. As you're one. We just talked about him. Cooper Cup. Yes. A.J. Brown, the hotness of last year. Yes.

I think he'll read. That was reluctant. It was reluctant because there's risk there too. I think everybody's all hot and bothered because how awesome he looked towards the end of the season. Right now, we don't know who his quarterback is. We don't know if Derek Henry's back. So there's hesitation right now to answer that one. Amari Cooper. I will take Amari Cooper. I know it brings you sadness to hear that, but I would definitely, look, if you want to take a running back, running back, and then Amari Cooper as your wide receiver won, I am fine with that.

I do believe that there was more to him being injured the second half when he sucked. You know, in the first half when he dominated, I believe that narrative to be not a narrative. You believe that happened five years in a row? No. But it's only full season as a cowboy where we watched that happen. I believe it happened. Fair enough. All right. Last one for that, because he's going right before Alan Robinson. Cortland Sutton from the Denver Broncos. No, I'm not.

If you're that early in the draft, you have to take, I love taking risk later in the draft, but I don't want to project that forward in the third round with my first wide receiver. This one's from Twitter. It's from Greg. Just finished my first season in a dynasty league. Currently, waivers are off, but trading is allowed. Plan is to turn them on after the league's rookie draft. Is this how you would recommend?

In our leagues, we have everything open. Once the, well, the waivers are always open. They are open, but they are, we run on a fab system. So they're not, it's not just first priority. It's there's a free agent auction budget every single day. So the waivers run.

once a day and then they're locked again until 10 o'clock the next day. So it's not just news breaks and it's whoever sitting at a computer gets to go grab the player. Right. I mean, and that's how it is all season, all off season, but we don't lock waivers down where no transactions can be made if, you know, someone out there.

You get a good camp report and you want to go out and see if he's there. You know, Matthew Barry just wrote a great article postcom mind of some of his takeaways. It's a great article every year. He brought up Bryce Love that, you know, the Washington is they believe in him still, and he could be on waivers in dynasty leagues. I like being able to see offseason news and take action. That's why you play in a dynasty. Like, so I'm much more in favor of having.

waivers available to run in a dynasty league because that's the whole reason I play in a dynasty league is for off-season action. Completely agree from- A scratch that itch. What? Whoa. That's what dynasty is. You've got to scratch that itch. It sounded like you were trying to scratch it with your voice. It was in my throat. Facebook, Aaron Proudfoot. Okay. Yeah, I know he's proud of his feet. Well, one of them.

Oh, that's true. He's not proud feet. No, proud foot. He's just that left, man, he's got that left foot. It's so much bigger than the right foot. He's so proud of it. Love this foot. Look how big it is. I wear a size 14 and an 11. I've got to get two pairs of shoes. Oh, that'd be expensive. In his question, pizza rolls or pizza bagel bites. Hmm. I'm going to go bagel bites for sure.

Not close. Really? Don't hear what I'm not saying. They're both delicious. But you said not close. Not close because one of them can scald my mouth unexpectedly. Those pizza pockets, they retain heat. Oh my goodness. Sometimes you get that squirt of pizza sauce in your mouth that will just take your jaw off. I don't want to eat lava. So what you're saying is you want pizza in the morning. Pizza.

In the evening pizza at supper time? Yes, I am 100% fine with that. I just don't want it to destroy. I just don't want to murder my mouth. See, I'm a little bit more of a risk taker. I like the pizza rolls more. Now, I know what I'm getting into. Here's what I will say in your defense. That they're bitter. If, well, they're way better, not close. No, in your defense, if it's temperature controlled, if these are like,

You hit the right time. They set out for the right amount of time. You have to cook them in the oven. You can't nuke them. Who nukes them? If you're listening and you have taken these things that put them in the money, either one. People do this. Don't do that. This is upsetting. Don't put things that are supposed to be in the oven in the microwave and have soggy, nasty garbage treats. These are treats. Treat yourself with an oven. But when they have cooled to the right temperature.

The rolls, like, so peak bagel bites, peak rolls, the rolls are superior. Heck, okay. So we're both there. Yeah. You just, you don't like to take on the wrist. I've had too many injuries. Too many times. It was a pizza related injury. Fool me once situation. From YouTube, this is Joe Wallach.

What is Devante Parker's value going forward? Is he a one-year wonder, or will he be a consistent wide receiver two in my lineup next year? He'll be a consistent wide receiver two in your lineup next year. I think that that is fair to say, at least for the first half of next year, because I think we're all confident at this point that there's not a week one rookie starter.

That's what it appears. For Miami? Which means Fitzmagic should be there as the week one. That's how I'm answering the question. And if he is, the level up was real because you watched the games. You saw separation. You saw contested catches. You saw great routes. You saw the physical talent that we all saw coming out of college realized. And so I like the way this person has asked the question. They're not saying, is he going to be a wide receiver one and going to be a dominant force from the dolphins?

He's just saying, is he going to be a reliable wide receiver too? I think that's a great bar for him. Yeah, I think it's fair. I would put him right around there. If, off of Instagram, D. Mero, 27, what is the best sports moment you've watched live? That's easy. I mean, there's, if you said what's the second best sports moment I've watched live, that's a hard, that's a hard, I don't know. I don't know.

But I was, and you were. I was there too. I was there too. I don't believe any of us were together. We just happened to be at the same game. We didn't even know each other yet. But we were, it was a fival situation. We were under the same moon. And 2008, right? Yeah. The NFC championship game, the Kurt Warner led Cardinals.

Against the Philadelphia Eagles to go to the Super Bowl. Spoiler, we won. We went to the Super Bowl. We went. Yeah, that's where it ends. The story is done there. But the game, the game itself was incredible. You had everything. We got out to a huge lead. The crowd is awesome. We're mocking the Eagles fans right around us. Just like, in your face, we destroyed you.

They come back and take the lead. Freaking Deshaun Jackson. And we're like, oh, now we're going to lose. But then we came back and we won. Confetti reading down. It's literally the highest game that you can go to at home for an NFL franchise. We won the best home game that you can win, and we were a part of that. It was awesome. And I'm curious for you how this felt, because when I, my experience of the game, I,

I have never experienced noise like that. I'm talking about the crowd noise. Our stadium can be loud sometimes. But I have my chest, like it was difficult to breathe because it was so loud in this room. And that sounds ridiculous. I was, I was affected by the sound. I couldn't breathe. But legitimately, it was harder to breathe with everyone being so freaking loud there. Yeah, I mean, you have asthma.

I do. Thanks. No, I do know what you're saying. It was, it was, but that made it incredible. I mean, it was just, you were, every, every sense on your body was experiencing greatness, including taste, because I had so much food there. Instagram. So, it was a real. How could you eat at a time like that? Well, I wasn't like on the final drive putting down a hot dog. I'm just saying on the day.

I'm sure I had several. Instagram from B22, Ball 2. There's a lot of unique names coming in. Deontay Johnson or Christian Kirk next year. I do love the outlook for Deonté Johnson, but I'm not going. Deonté Johnson from Pittsburgh, Christian Kirk from Arizona, both. Well, I guess I won't say it's fair to say that both are projected to be the wide receiver two. Deonti Johnson theoretically should be the number two behind Juju Smith-Schuster.

Christian Kirk is the one. Could profile as the one. He is the one. I mean, especially another year older for Larry. What if they take C.D. Lamb or Jerry Judy at number eight in the draft? That would change things. But right now, he's not on the roster. And to me, I would much rather have Christian Kirk. The pace of play, everything you saw from the Cardinals this year from a rookie quarterback.

projects for enormous fantasy value going forward. This past year, I know Chris Kirk was my guy for Andy because of some of those systems. I was opposed to it on the full basis that rookie quarterbacks don't throw enough touchdowns and usually not enough yardage to really support that. But in that second year, that goes away. And so I think it does. I mean, you saw the percentage of drives that got to the red zone versus

the percentage of red zone touchdowns. They were one of the craziest, you know, gaps in the league. And that is something that's going to change with a year under the belt for Kyler Murray. And I think you could talk about, you know, adding three or four touchdowns to Christian Kirk outside of the yardage. And Kirk showed flashes of being a true. Yeah, that game against Tampa Bay, which a lot of teams did that to the Tampa Bay secondary. But Christian Kirk absolutely went off.

At least a glimpse of what could happen. 100 and something and three touchdowns. Yeah, he was awesome. And Kyler was excellent as well. The next question is from Facebook, Julian Ferreira. Who's a better buy in Dynasty? T.Y. Hilton, Brandon Cook's A.J. Green. Oh, man. That is. That's a nasty question. Who is the best buy of these three cells in Dynasty?

T.Y. Hilton, Brandon Cooks, or A.J. Green. I would go T.Y. Hilton. Yeah? He dealt with injury this year. So his value is low. He has the chance to have a quarterback upgrade. Maybe. Maybe. I mean, you know. Possibly. Could be a downgrade. Could be a downgrade. They could get Philip Rivers. Oh. Boom. Shot again.