Fantasy Football - NFC East Breakdown + Late Round Picks - Podcast for 7/23

He is going, I lost. You guys have him ranked much higher than I do. But he's going as, like, QB 11. Ninth round. As a quarterback not being drafted as a top 10 who will, if he plays 16 games, Dak Prescott will finish as a top 10 quarterback. How many times has he done it in his career? Almost basically every single time that he has played a full season. He's been the quarterback 6, 10, 2, 7, 3, and 5. So, he's done it six times. As long as he has played 13 or more games, he has been a quarterback one.

I want to play a game. It's a Javante Williams-centered game. Oh, man. Do you want boring Javante? Okay. This game is called boring or exciting. Okay. Do you want boring Javante or do you want exciting Cam Scadaboo? Jason, I'll let you go first. I want Cam Scadaboo. I want... Oh. I think I want boring Javante. Do you want boring Javante or exciting Jeremiah Love? Jeremiah Love. Do you want boring Javante Williams or do you want exciting Travion Henderson? Travo. I don't want to answer this. Mike has to answer that one because I know he's going to be on the Javante side.

It's Javante. Last question for you. Do you want boring Javante Williams? Let me pick a good one here. Or exciting Quinshawn Judkins? I'll be on Javante there. Okay. Give me the offense. We found... I feel like you've... You're always answering Judkins. Yeah. So, Javante, that's... Yeah. I mean, you look at just the difference in touchdown opportunities between the Cowboys and the Browns and makes it pretty easy. The most exciting thing about Javante is that this is not... There is no debate in this backfield of any kind. It is the most plain and simple. We paid him again and he's our running back and this is the running back for the Cowboys.

Like that... I have zero fear of anybody else in that backfield. Yeah. You can say Jaden Blue or Phil Moppa or... Malik Davis. You can say... It's irrelevant. None of them matter. It's going to be Javante. The team got a lot out of him last year. It's the same coaching staff with an offensive line... Former offensive line head coach, right? Wasn't that what... Clayton Adams was a former... Yeah, the Cardinals. ...line guy. And he's like, yeah, let's just bring him back. So, I mean, there is something to be said about being able to start that guy every week. You never think about it.

But even in the Bayshall Tootin, Chris Rodriguez stuff, we have to have in the back of our head, oh, is he going to come off on a third down? Sure. Now, Javante's not good on it. He can't catch the ball, but he's going to be their starter. Yeah. I mean, you can't ask for much more than is he the goal line back? Absolutely. A hundred percent when they're on the goal line, he's going to get the touchdown opportunities in the rushing game. Is he passed to? Yeah. Over 50 targets from Dak last year. He's had over 70 recently when he was in Denver.

Yeah, he won't do anything with him, but he's going to get the ball. Is he on a good offense? Yeah. I mean, the real issue here is, do they win games? That's, you know, they might be a sub-500 team. This will be a fun one to predict. Yeah. We have the Giants... I was just in real quick. ...in Washington starting their season. Jake Ferguson in the... This is... Fantasy football is wild. Jake Ferguson, last year, eight top 10 fantasy finishes, second only to Trey McBride on the season. And I won't draft him. No, because... How many of those games were CeeDee Liam out for?

That's the whole thing. I mean, it's nice. Sign him immediately if one of those guys goes down. Yes. He is... He... Apparently, like, as much as Prescott loves throwing to the tight end position, there's... I guess there's only enough to go around for two. And if one of those two is Jake Ferguson, he's going to be great. But otherwise, I would avoid him. All right. The Washington Commanders. It was a lost season. 5-12 after having a great year with the Jaden Daniels rookie campaign. Their projected win total going into last year was 9.5. Oh, just missed. Yeah. They had... If they doubled, they would have covered.

The Eagles were the healthiest team or one of the most healthy teams. This was one of the most injured teams. Nine starters missed at least seven games. Third most adjusted games lost due to injury. It's exactly what it felt like. You never even got... Like, Jaden and McLaurin didn't even get to play together. I think they had three games out of 17 together. And so it was a disaster. I mean, this year, the win total has been nerfed down a little from that 9.5. So it's at 7.5. I'll be honest. I mean, there are some teams I have a really good vibe, feel, understanding of what it's going to look like.

This team, with the departure of Cliff Kingsbury, with the Jaden Daniels trying to get back to health situation, with, you know, question marks in the wide receiver room... And a vampire calling the offense. Blah. David Blah. Well, yes. I don't think I know what they're going to be, is my point. I feel like we're so far removed from seeing the offense. Vegas doesn't either. Vegas says, uh... We'll go 7.5. 7.5? Yeah. I mean, I don't... Most of these reviews were, like, looking at what they did last year. This one, I feel like it's kind of... Not only is it unhelpful because you have a change in offensive coordinator,

but it's unhelpful because you just didn't have players in place last year to do anything that are going to be in those spots to start this year. I mean, Jaden has got an offseason to get healthy. Terry McLaurin's going to be back out there. They have made some changes to the offensive side of the ball. They brought in Chigakonkwo. They brought in Rashad White. They drafted Antonio Williams in the third round, a player I think we all kind of... We like to film. We said goodbye to the old dudes, Debo, Ertz, Eckler. That was kind of, like, stopgap guys that...

Like, none of those... Well, Ertz was, but the other two weren't a part of the previous season, right, where they had the success and went to the playoffs. So, I don't even know if Ertz was, now that I'm thinking about it. But, um... He was there. Yeah, Ertz was a part of that. I couldn't remember when he left Arizona. No, no, he's been in Washington for two years. Okay. He got... Yeah. But last offseason... 24, he played the full year. Like, Eckler and Debo were parts of the conversation in the draft area of the year last year. Yes. They're gone.

What are they going to be? What is this team going to be on offense? Because you've got to tell me that there's some reliable pass catchers for me to believe in Jaden. Yeah, I mean, so obviously there is a reliable pass catcher in Terry McLaurin, so you've got one. Antonio Williams, high draft capital, wide receiver that I think fits the mold for a wide receiver too. Pretty good. He's a last-round dart throw in a lot of... I mean, we've been taking him in mock drafts as one of those later rookies who has opportunity and talent and a good quarterback here in Jaden.

And the... For Antonio Williams, he did play 93% of his routes from the slot last year. And yes, I know that things can be overmade about that where a college player plays in the slot and then they're like, no, I can do everything. But this isn't a first-round wide receiver. He's a third-round guy. Does that give you any concern that should they follow the trends and only have two wide receivers out there that he won't be the second guy? Yeah, I mean, obviously, if he's just being a slot wide receiver for the commanders, then he's not going to be great for fantasy.

You know, you look at how the team lines up and I would imagine, you know, you've got Luke McCaffrey kind of... No, bro. You've got former first-round pick. Traylon Burks. Oh, they've got Traylon Burks there. Remember that touchdown? Oh, man. Touchdown was sick. Yeah, I agree with you, Andy. They don't have a lot of weapons, but Jaden Daniels is a weapon in his own right that can make up for a lot of that. I mean, will he... You could ignore all of the weapons and just say, look, anybody with the rushing floor of Jaden Daniels' ilk, I mean, this is going to be a guaranteed fantasy-producing season.

It's funny because, you know, you try to hope that he can comp to Lamar and develop into, you know, that level of a player. If he does, then you go, okay, well, who do they have? They've got Zay Flowers and an old Mark Andrews and, you know, some rookies coming in, and you don't really worry about it there. So I think it comes down to, is Jaden going to be great? Last year, he went into the season in the third round. People were assuming, okay, this is that next superstar. Now he's a sixth-round pick. He's dropped a lot. Some of that, I'm sure, is the weapon.

Some of that is probably the durability. The fact that we saw him get injured as an undersized mobile quarterback last year. But I'm fine taking a shot on a guy with the, you know, the total potential to go out there and rush for, you know, 800 yards. He was basically on pace to break all scrambling records. Yeah, he was not doing anything different running-wise last year in the games he was active. He just got hurt. And through the air was not as good. Well, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes, you can explain it away with all the personnel. But statistically, completion percentage dropped 8%.

Yards per attempt went down by .7. Touchdown percent was down almost a full point. We've seen this a couple times in a row where, you know, I've talked about it a little bit with the Patriots last year and their schedule. The schedule for rookie Jaden Daniels and the Commanders was a cakewalk schedule. And so last year it got harder. They only won five games with the injuries. I think their defense is not very good, which is good for fantasy. But I don't expect them to win a ton of games this year. At the running back position. Yeah, who are you taking a shot on?

So, I mean, first you got to. I didn't think we'd be doing this whole dance again this year, to be honest with you. Yeah, I thought they would do more than add Rashad White. We thought Jeremiah Love might be going there. So, Bill, Ja'Cory Krosky, Merritt, it does start with him. You know, they're very close in ADP. I think they're very close in terms of who I would prefer to have on my team. This is very much a training camp. We need more news on how they're handling things. Like Rashad White can come in and he can already do everything.

He can, maybe it's not he does everything great, but he does everything perfectly acceptable for an NFL team. Where Bill is the one who has the juice. And everything they've kind of said about him in this offseason so far is the, when he doesn't have the ball, he has to be better. You know, like in pass protection, in the actual receiving game. And if those, if it sounds like the coaching staff is going to become more confident in him in those things, I think there's a chance that Bill becomes just a true, like he's on the field all the time.

But this is, like I said, you need the news because it could be a nothing burger and it ends up completely being Rashad White. There are Chigakonkwo believers out there. I've been one before. Three years, $17 million deal arrives to be the tight end one. I'm sorry, Mike, but the tight end one on an offense that like financially. Zach Ertz was a big part, way too big a part for you to handle of the Washington offense when he was catching passes here. We just talked about the absence of pass catchers in the wide receiver room. There's room. Let me just put it that way.

There is room for Chigakonkwo to make his mark in this offense. I am a Senate. Oh, gosh. You can acknowledge everything I said and still like Ben Sennett, just so you know. Yes. Look, Ben Sennett year one, five receptions. Year two, 11. Year three, 24. I'm just saying, at this rate, we're growing exponentially. Jason, I need somebody to talk about Chigakonkwo because that might matter. Look, Chigak is a very athletic tight end that we've seen have some breakaway plays. They need him desperately. They paid him. He will have the opportunities. They pass the ball. The trick is that they paid him desperately as well, which maybe is the case.

They pass the ball a lot to Zach Ertz. I think that the opportunity will be there for him. Absolutely a sleeper. You know, he's basically an undrafted tight end that is, you know, it's like if you wanted, if you told me that one of him or Goddard was going to have a breakout, it's more likely that Chig breaks out. Yeah, because he could be the, you know, a high volume passing attack, number two target in the offense. There's really very little competition for that second target. And so, yeah, I would say Chigak has the opportunity to break out. I'm not betting on it like the biggest loser is.

That's his guy. But, yeah, I mean, to me, I feel like the piece of this offense I want is Jaden Daniels. And I'm not very excited about most all the other pass catchers. We haven't even mentioned Terry McLaurin, but, you know, he's older. He was thriving on touchdowns a couple years ago. The ceiling is wide receiver what? Ceiling? The ceiling's still solid. Wide receiver? Like seven? I don't think that high. I do. I think the ceiling is easily a top ten player. I'm realizing as we're doing all these teams from this entire division that all their tight ends might be the same player from a fantasy perspective.

Like I can make an argument that Ferguson did it for a bunch of games. Goddard did it for a bunch of games. Chig has had big games. In fact, the last two years he's ended with like top six performances like multiple times in the last handful of weeks. He loves the end of the season. And then now we're going to talk about Isaiah Likely. So we're just in the same boat of there's a lot of these guys. I want my I mean, they're starters. Yeah. The difference between like tight end four and tight end 24 is not that much. Not enough for you.

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They were one in seven in one score games. Did anyone hit their projections? They all hit. Like go over? Yeah, they all hit their under. Yeah, that's kind of how it felt. There was a little bit of like all the teams, the air let out of them. Yeah. But one in seven in one score games cost Brian Dable his job. There were games. Honestly, it was like, could you figure out how to lose this game? And if you gave me that opportunity to try, I would have still won. But he lost those games. There were some crazy games last year.

Yeah, I forgot about all those. He lost nine straight games after week six. And in week six, they had beaten Philly on Thursday night. Oh, that was the game, right? Yeah. That was the dart scat game. Yeah. Remembering that, right? Where they took over the TV at the end and it was like you came into work on Friday like, holy crap, guys. It's happening. And we didn't get a long enough run. No. Neighbors, we didn't get to see him. He ran 11 routes with Jackson Dart before he suffered a season-ending ACL that has turned into a difficult recovery. The recovery of Cam Scadaboo seems to have gone well.

Yeah. He's doing flips. Because when he went down, that was like, that was a tough one to see, a tough one to watch. It's one of those visually, you know immediately what has happened to that player. And it's disturbing. And it was such an emotional gut punch for the fantasy football world. John Harbaugh takes over. Replaces Brian Dable. The New York Giants. Then Mike Kafka is gone. Replaced by Matt Nagy. So after you watch. Oh boy. Do you think Matt Nagy might have sucked the energy out of that room? Is that what happened? The budget magician had already performed and there was just not enough energy left in that press conference or that team meeting?