Surprise LIVE Episode! Bounce Back Players + Ask The Ballers - Fantasy Football Podcast for 4/6

Well, I mean, you did post it. You posted it in the Slack. It's not in the show doc. We found out that Rashi Rice was driving the Lamborghini that was evolved in the pile up. Yeah. And then you post, did you post the update moments ago? Yeah, well, yeah, it is now breaking on Twitter that there was 10.8 grams of marijuana found in the Lamborghini that Rishi Rice was driving, which the reports I'm looking at that is considered a.

felony, a state jail felony amount in Texas. He also fled the scene. Yeah. He says he's cooperating now. I'm actually a little bit surprised that we haven't heard more from authorities in specificity about what charges may arise so that we can extrapolate the impact to his availability. But I would say that, you know,

Dynasty leagues, we haven't thrown a lot of shade on the situation because we believe long term he'll be okay. But in a redraft format, do you start to like, do you get a glimmer in your eye for Hollywood Brown all of a sudden? Or this news coming out right now being even just the fear of, okay, the chiefs could lose, you know, half a season. Maybe they lose eight games this season from Rice. Then.

were a couple weeks out from the draft. This is another one of those situations that could make them use their first round pick on. Oh, no, another McColl Hardman. Maybe a McCall Hardman if they want to grab out of Night Mitchell or they could grab Troy Franklin or Xavier Worthy, have a really, have a really good draft pick. So they'll be. Try to sneak that one in. There, Dallas police, there will be charges.

So we'll just have to wait and monitor and discuss that as they come. Let's get back to that Diggs situation, right? The trade. Yep, because we had an update. And the Texans removed the final three years of Stefan Diggs contract in the transaction, making him eligible for free agency after this year. And they moved some money around so that he will make more this year. Yeah, all the guaranteed money that he was owed in futures, they just gave it to him now, said, hey, play your best. You're going to be a free agent. This is a great move for Houston.

You think so? There was a little bit of question mark at the end of that. Okay. All right. So I think that the trade to get Stefan Diggs is a great move for Houston. They don't carry a lot of risk. They had the money to spend this year. He's not a long-term prospect. If he comes over and he stinks, whatever. Now they've canceled the contract beyond here, they don't worry about it. If he comes out and balls out and he's a free agent, he's going to go get the bag wherever he wants.

At first I thought, oh, this would be great. You get a third round compensatory pick and you basically gave up less than a second to get him. So it's almost like a free rental. But he's a 10-year vet. So the best they could get in a compensatory pick would be a fifth round pick. Right. So, I mean, it's good for Stroud. It's good for the Texans in being better as a football team this year. But specifically canceling the contract.

I don't know. I think the things you do to just like motivate players is like if you have to do this to motivate them, it probably won't work. If you don't have to do that to motivate them, then it's irrelevant. I think it's a good one year move for them. I mean, the second they lost Tank Dell last year, you saw the change in the way the offense function. Like Nico Collins and Dalton Schultz wasn't going to be enough for them to make a playoff run. So at least you add depth in that regard.

I'm on the camp that you guys are where, like, Nico Collins is the biggest worry to me. He's an outside wide receiver. He unquestionably will give up targets to Stefan Diggs. That has to happen. Whereas Tank Dell, younger, certainly has a, you know, a connection with Stroud and plays from the slot oftentimes. And so I think his role is more secure. Yeah, I already had. Prior to Diggs coming over, I had Tank Dell ahead of Nico Collins in my...

startup ranking. So this season, I expected it to be better. Then you add in the fact that the kind of position that you expect is to play impacts Nico more. But I do have the glimmer of all of, you remember the huge games where Noah Brown just exploded because it's like people are focused on these other two good wide receivers. It's like that third guy gets loose behind. Well, now maybe if Nico Collins is playing the Noah Brown role, it's like bomb city.

Yeah, yeah. I mean, it could go bounce back candidate-wise, Stefan Diggs. Maybe. What I'll throw out, though, is... That's going to be a hard one to predict. My couple thoughts are the Nico versus Stefan Diggs this year will be fascinating. Because if Stefan Diggs still has it, he'll get the extension. If Nico Collins is a better player than Stefan Diggs this year,

then I would put my money that Nico Collins gets the extension and Stefan Diggs goes to free agency. I'd be shocked if Diggs went back to Houston no matter what. I put my odds at like 5%. But the question for you guys, though, of like, you know, before Diggs was there, I don't mind. You have tanked all ahead of Nico? That's fine. The larger question will come with how do the Texans manage their personnel? Because they were.

If I'm remembering it correctly off the time I head, they were not like a huge 11 personnel team where you have the three wide receivers on the team or on the field at the same time. So when there are two wide receivers on the field, to me it will be Stefan Diggs and Nico Collins. It will. So like you're, that doesn't make Tankdale go away. But you just now if you, the more snaps that Tankdale doesn't even have an opportunity to get a target. Like that, it.

It matters. I agree completely with both of you. The only caveat being that you would imagine now that you add Stefan Diggs, you're going to be in three wide receiver sets a lot more. Your personnel has three great wide receivers. You're probably running out of 11. And you trust Stroud more than he did last year, maybe in the 12 personnel protection sets. I mean, it is an offensive philosophy, though, of you feel like, well, no, we want to have greater protection for Stroud. I'm really excited.

to watch Houston play football. Yes. And former Houston quarterback, Deshaun, Watson, the last piece of news to discuss, maybe not discuss, just say out loud. It was a little bit interesting that he said he'd be ready for week one. Like, that seemed like it should have been a foregone conclusion. Yeah, the expectation, when I saw this news, I pulled up the ultimate draft kit, looked at our injury report that Betts puts together, and the expectation that he should be fine by training camp.

And that's a long time before week one. That's, you know, training camp, then preseason, then you're going. And so, yeah, it was like, don't say that. Yeah, I don't know. Is he saying that he's going to remember how to play quarterback by week one? Okay. Oh, he'll be ready like mentally. Like, I'm going to, I'm going to remember. I'm going to get it. I knew. I was good at one time. I knew there was danger in bringing up this kind of non-news news news. And I don't know if I was like, I secretly wanted all those comments or not.

But we are going to jump into a live mailbag. We don't have any more news to talk about. So you can submit your questions wherever you are watching. If you're watching live, we're going to answer them. If you are not watching live or if you're listening on the podcast app, you can just enjoy the debates on these issues. So let's do it. Mailbag. Mailbag. It's live.

All right, you know, it wouldn't be a live mailbag if you didn't take your first question from someone named Poopie Butt. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I wrote this is my question. Yeah, Poopie Butt says, is Sequin a top five pick? And what do you think? A top five pick, I mean, again, we don't have our full projected.

Well, we're getting into them real soon. We are very close. But so, I mean, off the top of my head. CMC. Yeah. Tyree Kill. Yep. CD Lamb. Yeah. For the top five? For the top five? Jamar. I could see a debate between a top running back though and CD. But, okay, let's just look at running backs first. Yeah. Okay. Because he might not be in the top five running backs. Jonathan Taylor or Sequin.

I think I lean Sakely. I lean. That's really close. I lean Jonathan Taylor. Christian McCaffrey's obviously above him. Brise? Yeah. Give me briefs. Bejohn? Yeah. Yeah. Uh, Kieran? That's the edge for me, man. For me, I'm Kairn. Jemir Gibbs. I'll take Sakewon. So Sakewon's around running back five. Yeah, he's around running back five. You add in a couple of wide receivers and yeah, he's not. Okay.

I do think that this is a very exciting season for Sequin, you know, which we haven't. It is. Having to see him on a good offense? Like, that's awesome. Yeah, getting that opportunity. Seems like it would be fun. All right. Well, do we have the Gus bus drop here? Can we get, there it is. Mike says is Gus Edwards more valuable than Cortland Sutton in a Dynasty League. Yes. Yes, this is where I'm at, Mike says.

Yeah, he is. I don't hate the question. Gus Edwards, I think we were talking about him on the footcast of he is fascinating because everyone, the entire world expects the Los Angeles Chargers to spend a higher draft capital pick on a running back. But what if they don't? What if they take their first running back in the fourth round? And now it is a proven veteran with...

in O.C., who likes him on a team that is high T and run first? I don't care if they draft the running man. Because even if it's Blake. They'll be the goal line guy. I think Gus Edwards will be relevant for fantasy this year, no matter who they take. Because think about the possible outcomes for drafting a running back. Like, they're one of the higher, like the third is the earliest I see for them. Because they are drafting very high in the first and second round.

and I don't think that's where running backs belong. I don't think they're going to force that when they're trying to build an offensive line and they spent the money on Gus Edwards. So I think worst case scenario is you get a third round pick at a running back and maybe you don't. And if you do, it's a rookie that doesn't have the trust of Greg Roman, that doesn't have the pedigree that put up 13 touchdowns in the top offense last year. I think Gus Edwards is very valuable this year. I will say that in defense of what you're saying, if they were to

grab Blake Corum, who was Michigan's running back with Harbaugh, who scored 27 touchdowns, and they take him as the first running back off the board. You can go back to last year at Michigan and see that Blake Corum was very, very good, relevant. It could be the first running back drafted, but he was in a timeshare somehow still for Michigan, and they used another back a lot. So you could very easily have...

Blake Corum come in as the number one back and still have Gus Edwards involved in a system like this. So I don't discount that, but he's a running back, he's older. I do think he's going to be supplanted on the depth chart. And you've got Cortland Sutton who's thrown on the ball, though, Jay. Well, the NFL draft's going to change a lot. I mean, it might be a rookie coming in. How many are the cars did Corlin Sutton have last year? Do you know off the top of your head? I'm guessing 7.50. Jason is a legendary guester for everybody out there.

772. He had 59 catches. How many touchdowns? He had 10 touchdowns. Double digits. He had 10 touchdowns and he finished it wide receiver 35. Where's Jerry Judy? Not on the roster. Jerry Judy wasn't on the roster all last year. He was just running around on the sideline. You're doing a Cortland Sutton Bragg session. This dude's like been 181, 46, 43, and 35.

Give me the guy that makes a difference on my team, not the guy that I might regret starting. I will say that it is a comically fair debate between Gus Edwards and Cortland Sutton. Cortland Sutton is going to turn 30 by the time that a quarterback will be stepping up into relevance for the Broncos. It would is the most likely outcome. We might need to get a louder bus horn if he delivered as the number one in Los Angeles.

Yeah, that sound, give me a sound again. Because that sound, that's backup running back sound. That's compliment running back. Okay. He's not, he can make a difference when. Who's better? Who's better, Zemir White or Gus Edwards? Zemir White. He's not. I'm saying for fantasy. I'm not saying as a running back. Who's better, Alexander Madison or Gus Edwards? Gus Edwards.

As a running back. As a running back. And also last year we were sitting here going like, just because they have the job, they're the guy. Madison was the starter last year, right? I mean, there's a handful of guys that are just the default starter. Miles Sanders was the starter last year. I just, I'm going to just be slightly on the more bullish gust side. Okay. You're allowed to have. Because they believe in it. They just like the cut of his jib. Well, I mean, and they've worked really fast, right? He was signed really fast.