Top 10 Countdown + Stash the Smash

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Oh, welcome in. Mike is here. I'm here. Doing kind of like a slow motion run, jog into the studio. Jason is present, accounted for... I'm half here. Where's your other half? I'm here with you, Mike. I can look to the right. Yes. I just can't look at Andy. It is Saturday. I'm here with two geriatric July 6th. Old men that just...

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We've got a top 10 countdown today on the show going to roll through our top 10. That's usually what a top 10 does. Excited for that. So top 10 countdown starting at 43. Yeah, we're going to pick 10 separate players in our top 43. That's a top 10 countdown. Well, we always have a lot of questions like at the back of the first round. Should I take the best wide receiver or one of these running backs? And you might get that answer today. You might.

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point per reception league. Here are the Colts players in where they're going. While you guys ponder. There's a lot of them. Why you noodle this. T.Y. Hilton, 212. Marlon Mack is going one pick later at 301. Andrew Luck is going as the third pick of the fifth round. Eric Ebron, the 11th pick of the sixth round. And then you get down into the deep...

doldrums of the draft. You drop from the sixth round of the 12th. Yeah, Devin Funch is 1202. Naim Hines 1303, Paris Campbell, 1308, Jack Doyle, 1311. Who are you most likely to end up with on your team if you have to pick one out of those players? If I got to pick one out of that crew, it's T.Y. Hilton, right now my number seven wide receiver in half point to get that kind of a value at the back of the second. So, meaning...

You know, I've got Sequin. I've got an elite, elite running back. And then I get a guy who's a top 10 wide receiver, has top five ability. I think that's absolutely sensational. Are you comfortable with him as your one? Yes. Okay. So that's the thing about TY versus the guy that I will probably end up with more in drafts from the Colts, which is Marlon Mack, is because they're in that early third round, you're talking about, well, what were your first two picks?

Did you go running back, running back in which case, you know, TY might be your one, or did you go running back wide receiver? I tend to, and of course we never lock ourselves into a position than position. But more often than not, lately, I've been going running back than wide receiver. And if I can add Marlon Mack as my running back to a stud running back and wide receiver, I'm all about that life. I'm going to go with Naim Hines.

At 1303, aka free in my drafts. Yeah. Naim Hines at the end of last season, three of the last five games had seven or more receptions, heavily targeted by Andrew Luck. He is my, in case of emergency, break the glass. I can start him any week and hope it's a high reception total week. But when you look at him and people want to talk about the value of getting an Austin Echler, a rotational backfield piece later, I see.

a lot of similarities between the value of Hines and Echler, only you don't pay for Hines. Hines is basically free. He's going to be heavily targeted, caught more receptions than Echler did. It just didn't get into the end zone the way Echler did. Echler had those burst weeks because he kept showing up in the big play. Yeah. Hines, I think, had two touchdowns on the year, and they both came in the same game in the receiving game. So it just didn't happen in that regard to him. Very talented. We know Max's not going to catch a lot of passes.

I think Heinz is the guy that I'll take the free shot at him. I can't disagree with the value on Hilton. So I just didn't want to go double up on Hilton. Right. So, Mike, I'm surprised you didn't bring up Jack Doyle. I was as well. Maybe you just don't draft him. No, I like Jack Doyle. I mean, he's in that free category as well. I'm just so madly in love with Hilton for this year. I didn't want people to think, well, you know, they're just trying to take the late values. No.

T.Y. Hilton at the bag of the second is fantastic. My dynasty team, thanks you, Mike. You are very welcome. I appreciate all puff pieces about my dynasty. Players, all the hype I accept. Let's get into the news. News and notes from around the league. Presented my sleeper. Well, the Raiders. Some news out of Raiders camp ahead of... This is so bizarre. Ahead of Hard Knocks. Running back, Josh Jacobs remains unsigned in negotiations.

have not been going well. This is via Twitter. There's a growing belief that Jacobs will not be there at the start of camp. That's... This is over signing bonus distribution. This is rare to see for first round draft picks anymore. Yeah, I mean, it really only happens when there's some kind of organizational dysfunction because...

No. Yeah. So, I mean, you would expect him in. I will say this, you know, we, I've been joking recently about Josh Jacobs is one of those guys that's going to really get pumped up through hard knocks. And then, you know, maybe, maybe his value in the draft isn't there. Maybe, maybe he can skip a couple episodes and get back in. Yeah, it's a, it's a weird situation because.

The only thing you can even debate right now is like the payment schedule and when you get your money, all the contract values, all the bonuses. They're all predetermined. Which is so strange. The only wiggle room is with that like, you know, payment schedule, when salary guarantees have offsets and stuff like that.

Maybe he's like a tax genius, and he's trying to schedule it perfectly. I'm going to go ahead and say it's the agent who's saying they need something. A lot of leverage with no running backs behind him, pretty much. Does this scare either of you two right now? Not yet. Not yet. But this is one of those. You better put a little flag to check in on Josh Jacobs, how he's doing. If he's missing, if he misses two weeks of training camp.

That's a problem. Into the preseason, then I'm going to start getting a little worried. Someone like Gruden, he's vindictive. Yeah. And if you've made an effort, if you're not complying with team philosophy, crampus, you're up. He's the kind of guy that says, you know what? Sure, we'd love to have you out there, but you're going to sit and watch because you wanted to make this decision. It's just the way some coaches are. Right. Might not be the best thing for the on the field product. Probably pretty stupid if you've signed and they're paying a player.

But it's what happens to teach a lesson. Paul Perkins. Yes, Jack. Yes. The return of Smash Jackson. He ran with the second team offense. Of course he did. In Giants camp and at offseason. I'm sorry, not Giants camp, at offseason workouts, recovered from a year-long injury. It's only a matter of time. Smash Jackson in a world. Is back on the field. Smash Jackson is the backup to Sequin. He is the handcuff.

to Sequin, and I believe if he gets the opportunity is irrelevant. I just don't think... Hold on. So you're more... It's more Paul Perkins. So, I mean... Yes, it's Paul Perkins. Smash Jackson is RIP. But for dynasty purposes, are you going to stash the smash? Look, if I've got a 30 person roster and I've got Sequin, sure, I will stash the smash. I mean, people were, they're stolen with Galman, right?

Right. I'd rather stash the smash. Uh-huh. Quick cash. I'd rather not touch the non-Sacquan. That's how I feel about the Giants offense. I love it when there are hot debates over backups on a bad offense. I mean... Oh, could you, man, that offer, if Singleton Barclays the best time, that office. Oh, New York. He was to counterpoint the kind of, like, Sequan was so good last year.

Yes. Not just a little good. Like so you look at the eight-man fronts he faced. You look at the total rushing attempts the team had. They were so bad. And he was so good. So we're going to be talking about Seguan. Are we? Maybe. Well, I guess if we're starting in the 40s. He might be in our top 10. Yeah, he's in our top 10. All right. One more piece of news. According to the athletic, John Ross is, quote, hoping to reinvent himself this year. Got to need to. Ross is even changing numbers. Maybe so he hopes.