Fantasy Football - Bust & Value Picks for 2026! - Podcast for 8/20

He was, I mean, buried on a depth chart with two superstars. Two superstars. So I don't completely blame him for not being able to break into that rotation at all. I mean, you know, we had last year, I'm sorry, three years ago, Parker Washington, 132 yards, Parker Washington, year two, 390 yards. And now Parker Washington's the hotness. It's not impossible. It's not probable at all.

But I'll put my bet on the third year veteran. It was a tough decision for me between those two. And I will say the underdog in this situation, unfortunately, you know, the guy with maybe the most talent. Oh, yeah. And we're just with Chris Bell. Chris Bell is a, he was a fringe first round pick, tore his ACL, drops to the third round. But from a talent perspective.

You know, right now their coaches say he's a long way away. Yeah, that would be next year. In a dynasty league, you know, after the draft, I had Chris Bell ranked ahead of Caleb Douglas because long term, I think he is the more talented player coming out of college. In redrafts, when you're at your draft right now, Chris Bell's. Yeah, that's an ominous bell. And I would say that he. It tolls for thee. He's completely undraftable.

Uh, that was leader of the pack presented by PetSmart. Visit your local PetSmart store or go to PetSmart.com today. PetSmart anything for pets. News and notes from around the league. Well, the Colts tight end, Tyler Warren suffered a groin injury. We talked about it earlier. Yeah, that is the, I mean, not all groins are equal, Mike. No. No, they are not. This one's, I mean, those are big boys. Yes.

Right now they're saying there's no... Just shut it down, please. Yeah, right now they're saying there's no worries for week one of the regular season. And we had some weird reporting because it was like... It went adductor two to three weeks and then it circled back to one week with a groin. Those are connected probably? I don't know. The adductor is connected to the abductor. Right. I don't know. There's a machine that does that thing. Finally, good news in the news section. Yeah, Mackay Lemon is returning to practice on Thursday. Hey, all right. So...

Don't pull a Jordan Tyson. He's coming back from a hamstring. Stay on the field. Yeah, that's tough always. I got a snake, man. The snake himself. I don't know I feel about that anymore. I just don't. It's just not. Okay. Okay. Mackay Lemon's press conference lives forever. I don't have any other big time news. Was there anything that like, I will say this, the commentary right now, let's talk Giants running back room for a second.

Yeah. We brought up the Najee Harris signing, which was easier for me to dismiss without seeing any film of Najee Harris recovering from this injury. He looked good in the limited amount of film we had. The little individual drills, yeah. His cuts were nice. And Mike brought up the missed block by Tyrone Tracy Jr. was significant. And then more news around New York came out that like dip.

It shed a different light on Tyrone Tracy when he missed a block, allowed their future, basically. Their franchise. Jackson Dart get blown up. And Najee, you mentioned, being a very good pass blocker. But the whole point of this that I want to bring up that we didn't discuss was, and I know you adjusted him down, but the possibility that really Cam Scadaboo doesn't maybe play as much as we think he will for the first half of this year in terms of volume. Yeah. And I would say these are not.

I'm not setting off panic alarms by any stretch, but you've got to pay attention. This is a new variable. We know that it's being reported by Jordan Renan that it's a veteran minimum deal. There's no guarantees. So this could be Noges a camp body. It could be. And then he gets cut and then, okay, but there, I mean, there's smoke. When you have a guy coming off an injury, you have a player.

with one of the biggest pass block wits we have witnessed in the preseason. Oh, man, it was bad. It's just, it's something to pay attention to. All right, that'll do it for news. We will take a break and we've got some bucks. Oh, Kyle saying, Noggi's workout was set up even before the Tracy nonblock. Yeah, I mean, that lends itself even more towards like just what involvement will Scataboo have Tracy, singletary and depth. I mean, you just, you need it. I want as a.

an absolute lover of cam scataboo's playstyle film history everything i want to be so in like coming into this off season i was like he's probably going to be my guy and i i i just have bad vibes there i don't love i i'm not quick to pull the trigger right now i think it might be a slow start to the well we're going to continue the conversation here because we get to talk about this team again in a moment my last point on it is again i

I'm just trying to, you know, think out loud and not, I don't want to be an alarm, Mr. Panic, but it's just like, we've seen this before. We've seen day three running backs, come in and have success in fantasy football. We love these players. And then someone new comes in, and they're gone. And like, it doesn't make sense. What, you know, we just had, uh, we had the Damien Pierce year where he comes in. He's pretty solid for fantasy football. And you think, well, he's got to be the guy.

moving to next year, absolutely not. They just got rid of him. Well, it doesn't help that there's a change in... That's what I'm saying. Like, you have a... Like, SCAT is not a hard boss guy. Like, there's a turd at offensive coordinator. Yeah. But we can just move on because we're going to talk about this team. Okay. What's up, Foot Clan? You are confident and disciplined and focused on details, just like everyone here at the fancy footballers, right? Those are words you used to describe us. In other words...

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Well, in the bust case, be fearful of. Let's get into it. Busts. All right. Well, these guys are not guaranteed to fail. We have consensus busts in the ultimate draft kit, but we are kind of looking at situations we think are high risk. Maybe look really good from the outside, but kind of buyer beware situations. And unfortunately, I know that this name is not agreed upon here.

No, no, we have a difference of opinion, and it's not really difference of opinion at all about the player, the talent, the ability of them. It is a concern with the, I mean, you just, you love Cam Scataboo, but you have concerns about the, you know, situation, the vibes. Yeah, the vibes aren't great in New York, and that makes sense with Matt and Aggie there. Yeah, and so my, my bus pick, the one that I am not.

Like if I took this player in the draft, I know it's a good value. And you can take the shot on the first couple weeks. I don't think that's a problem. It's not like you're overpaying. But you might not get a starting quarterback out of it. My bust pick, unfortunately, regrettably, is Jackson Dart, Jason's fifth overall quarterback. In four-point passing touchdowns. I know. People hate it. Well, the people want to see Jackson Dart and the New York Giants have success. And with Harbaugh's arrival, I thought it was on the way.

When Greg Roman and Matt Nagy pulled up in the car behind in the Uber. Someone need an offense to fix? We're here. In the Uber pool. When Cliff Kingsbury was the offensive coordinator, if you don't remember, Cliff Kingsbury basically, the report was. Yeah. Cliff Kingsbury signing to be the offensive coordinator for the New York Giants. It was like, oh, baby. And then it was like, no, just kidding. Nagy. One of my, so I don't like the vibes. But that's like, you know.

It's Matt Nagy's history, Greg Roman, and the changing office. I don't like that. But here's what I do not believe is compatible for Jackson Dart. I do not believe you can simultaneously run the way Jason wants him to run and play enough football to make you happy in fantasy. He had 10 games last year. He went to the medical tent in five of those 10 games. He has already gone to the medical tent in one game. You cannot.

be in a position where at any moment your starting quarterback runs with such reckless abandon, finishes runs with reckless abandon, and then in press conferences tells them that's just who I am. If you're not built like Cam Newton, I have concerns. Maybe he's got like a cappuccino machine in there or something. He loves the blue tank. In the medical team, just a little pick me up. I think you either see a fundamental change in the amount that he runs, which is very, very possible, I think.

with these old heads as head coach and offensive coordinator. I think you could see a change in offensive philosophy that is concerning and is going to require Dart to do some things we didn't get to see evidence of last year, which was be under center more often. Make the right read. Don't run the football. And so I think there's a lot of excitement. I understand that he represents high rushing upside, but I do believe that he will be hurt.

if he does what he's been doing. And I think Harbaugh is the kind of guy that's going to rein that in a little bit for the sake of his team having a quarterback that is healthy. And, you know, it's a concern. If you look at last year, he was on fire to begin the season. First seven starts, 23.3 fantasy points per game, 3.1 design runs per game. Let's go. Oh, wait. You got concussed. You come back.

You have another five-game span. All of a sudden you got 1.4 design runs per game. That's a big difference. You go down to 16.6 fantasy points. If I had to guess where he ends up this year, it's more in that range. It's 16 to 18 fantasy points a game. I don't think the upside is as high as Jason does because I think that there's something that's going to go wrong. And I won't get into just how horrible Matt Nagy is, but yes, I will.

Brian Dable, by the way, after he was fired, the offensive system changed. I love Brian Dable. I think it's one of the reasons I've been in on the Titans making a progression forward. Brian Dable was the key to some of what Jackson Dart was having success with. Matt Nagy, man, he does not press the easy button in the modern NFL. Second lowest motion rate of any play caller. Third lowest play action dropback rate since 2021. So we're not going to pretend to run.

Right? Let's not do that. Let's not give an easy opportunity for your quarterback. Let's just do what no one else is doing anymore and put him in behind center. They ran a ton of no huddle last year. I think Dart was great with that. Dart was, Dart's like metrics and stuff when they were going, no huddle and hurrying up and, you know, playing some streetball. His numbers were elite. He was pretty much one of the best in the league and no huddle and one of the worst in the league.

In not, no huddle. And I will say this, like, you're going to, here's the last piece of the puzzle. We are not huddling. The last piece of the puzzle is kind of wild, and I'm going to paint the picture for you. You're going to start with some matchups that are okay. They're favored in three of their first six. They have the Rams in week two in L.A. That's a tough one. But that's your acclamation to the new system. So how quickly does that happen? You go from week seven on, I don't know if there's a worse schedule.

It's a gauntlet. You're in Houston. You're in Philadelphia. You're in Seattle. Bad, bad, bad. Detroit. Detroit's defense should be injured by that point in the year. I mean, you are favored. They are favored in two of their final, what is that? The rest of the season, the final 10 games? I said the first six. So the final 11 games, they're favored in two. They've got to play Cleveland. They've got to play San Francisco.