NFC East Breakdown, Josh Doctson, August Hype!

The value in best ball, I agree with you, Mike. I have not been a Delaney Walker guy in the past, but I'm soaking them up everywhere. All right, and we do try over the course of camp hype season to read between the lines and tell you what you should pay attention to and what you shouldn't. Everybody's having a great camp. They're either injured or they're having just great camp, really impressive. Yeah, and so there are things that are more important, there are things that are less important. For instance, Alex Smith.

He looked really comfortable throwing the ball to Jameson Crowder yesterday. That was a piece of news, apparently. Well, he did it from the comfort of a lazy boy recliner. Oh, I get it. Very comfortable. Just ultimate comfort. Brought to you by lazy boy. Send me a lazy boy, please. Send me a lazy boy. All right. Here's a bit of news that does matter to me. Seahawks wide receiver Doug Baldwin. This is all injury news now.

Dealing with a sore knee will be sidelined a few weeks. Yeah, this is not... That's not something I'm excited about. This is an unfortunate thing, and I don't remember where the quote came from, but coming out of the area, they have said that Doug Baldwin coming into camp didn't look quite right on top of that. So now you have that news that's surfacing. He's going to be out a few weeks. Not that Doug Baldwin has to have training camp to come in and be great,

The Seahawks, everyone is great. Everyone is going to be healthy all the time when Pete Carroll is talking. And the fact that Doug Baldwin is going to be out a few weeks is concerning for me because in a few weeks, would we be shocked if this turns into surgery? Uh-oh, Doug Baldwin's going to go back in and get another MRI. He's going to get things re-evaluated. I'm not saying that we have no news that that's going to happen, but that is definitely a concern now.

Press the pause button on all your acquisition of Doug Baldwin and Dynasty League. That's what I'm doing. I just don't want to wait and see. This was big news. Redskins running back Chris Thompson says he likely won't be fully recovered from his broken fibula until November. Now that's him giving himself 100%, not saying he's not playing until November. He's going to play. It's hard to not overreact to training camp videos, but watching him do certain drills compared to the other guys on the team.

It's not the same high pass, fast feet, Chris Thompson we are used to. On top of that, the injury he had, yes, it's an awful injury to have, but a broken fibula, all the medical people said, I mean, he should be fine right now. It was not a displaced fracture. Is that correct? Off the top of my head, I do not know. That, yeah, that's an injury you generally come back from quicker.

It's troubling for Chris Thompson unless he's just, you know, milking it out, just soaking things up. But Darius Geis is going to move up ADP from this news. Yeah, I agree with that. And we already saw last year, even when Chris Thompson was maybe the best efficiency back in all of football, they still weren't willing to give him a massive workload. So I imagine they're going to be careful with him on the way back. Yep. This is big guys, Jordan Matthews. Yeah.

Jordan Matthews has a significant hamstring injury. According to news breaking this morning. Of any injury to pay attention to in training camp, a significant hamstring injury is, there is a direct correlation with a player being hampered the entire season, have re-injuring the hamstring because it's just such a, there's no.

test of oh it's it's fully healed guys i waited two weeks it's no you think it feels fully back and then two plays in you retweak it to make things dany woodhead last season you know they gave him a lot of time and then he it happens all that demarkal murray was the same his was an in season but once he hurt his hamstring demarkle murray was never the same so i pay attention to these

Jordan Matthews was trying to earn a spot on this roster. His contract was a very minimal commitment for the Patriots. Difficult offense to learn generally for a wide receiver to come in as well. So he will be missing time. If it is in fact a significant hamstring injury, I would not expect Jordan Matthews to make the team. And the other guy is there, you know, that have a, you know, that are on that bubble of making the team Philip Dorset, Kenny Britt, they're not slot. You know, that's not kind of there. He had a great opportunity here with.

with Julian Edelman missing four games. Come on Quarterill Patterson. I think that Eric Decker will sign him to happen. I think that's what's going to happen. The free agent, Eric Decker, he won't cost a lot of money to bring him in. He's been around the game long enough. I think Bill Belichick likes Eric Decker quite a bit, but needs to know if he has anything left in the tank. We don't know if he does or not. When you're 28th and past attempts last year, Mariotta has such a down season, maybe it was just not enough work to see what Eric Decker has left.

Another piece of news today, Sonny Michelle walked off under his own power to a medical tent and practice. We know nothing else about that. He has not returned to practice. So we know nothing else other than the fact Sonny Michelle went off with some sort of injury today. No news that it's significant or bad. Titans wide receiver, Richard Matthews, is on the pup to start training camp. It's very mysterious. We know nothing. We know nothing. We're like John Snow. We are. Yes.

Tyler Eifford has passed his physical, been cleared to practice, was on the pup for four days. Welcome back. Maybe that's just like one of those, like he's so comfortable being on the pup that he's just like, let me just have a few days on the pup to get my year going. He's, no? Yeah, he's warming up the pup. You know, he's, they're like, well, let's put, let's put Eifert in there. He can warm up the pup, get it ready for other players. He's good. He's, you know, a veteran. So why, if he's.

cleared to practice, past is physical. The news on somebody like Jordan Reed has been good lately as well. Does Tyler Eifert and Jordan Reed, do they need to move up your board? Jordan Reed has been very far high up in my rank. Very far high. I couldn't get out of it. Special sentences. I could not get out of it, but I've had Jordan Reed ranked very high. And they have, did you hear the news about Jordan Reed of his surgery? Allegedly they removed? He was saying they removed bones.

Don't need them. Yeah. Don't need them. I'm done with these bones. Rule 806. That toe just, that toe just flops there. Get rid of that toe bone. Cannot have a toe bone injury without toe bones. That's his philosophy. Deonti Foreman's on the pup list. Cameron Meredith avoided the pup list. This is good news for it. That is late round value there. Yeah. I mean, that's huge. If Cam Meredith avoided the pup, he is a forgotten man right now. Agreed for what his value could be in that offense.

Kenneth Dixon tweaked his hamstring. Yeah. Did not practice Monday. Pay attention. Elijah McGuire is going to miss three to six weeks, probably longer with a broken foot. Yeah, I will say Dr. David Chow on Twitter, a physician we reference frequently, he commented on the situation and said, this is very optimistic for him to be back back quickly. Yeah, he should probably miss more time.

than that. That's good news for Elijah McGuire. And it's good news for McGuire to miss more time. Good news for Belal Powell. Thomas Rawls. Anybody trying to make the roster. And they're bringing people in. What, Alfred Morris? Yes. Came into town. Orleans Darkwood did as well. If, oh, man. Orleans Dark was signed with the Jets. Sneaky. You like it? Well, it's just, it's interesting. And I think that muddies things up for what you're hoping for from Crowell because I,

I believe that Dark was a good running back who can rise up the depth chart. I agree with you. All right. Before we get to the NFC East Breakdown, I want to thank today's sponsor, Seat Geek. Guys, the Seat Geek app is the easiest, best, most effective way to get tickets to your actual. Your point, Emmy, what you got to eat? I just want to let people know my son's turning seven years old. I just bought tickets to go see the Phillies game on Seat Geek.

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East last season. The Eagles 13 and 3 on their way to a Super Bowl. A Super Bowl. Victory. The Dallas Cowboys were 9 and 7 after their emerging year, the year before. The Redskins 7 and 9, the Giants 3 and 13, putting them into Saquan Barkley position for the NFL draft. And we head into 2018 with I think a lot of optimism around some of these rosters, a lot of opportunity to improve. And then, you know,

Today on the show, we're going to break down the fantasy value and the changes that have happened on these rosters. Eagles. Let's talk Eagles right out of the gate. The man has demanded the Eagles. Those are so jarring. I mean, he's just rumbling with that voice. All right, the Eagles. Let's talk about it. Some key additions to the Eagles this off season. Look, they lost Trey Burton, but they brought in Mike Wallace. They lost Tori Smith, if you call that a loss.

but Mike Wallace signed a one-year deal, a great value. Upgrade. Yeah. They drafted Dallas Gadere. Gader. Gader. And then Richard Rogers is there as well. But this was an offense that moved big time last season. Just laughing. That's like that cheese? Yeah. So delicious. Just laughing in our pronunciation. No le garrette Blunt anymore, but J. J. J. Corey Clement. Darren Sproles returns from injury. Look, I love the Eagles. This is an NFL where, look, injuries can just.

disrupt the entire season. And right now you're playing Russian roulette with training camp. Every day you hear somebody, the Packers just lost a linebacker to an ACL tear. But as of right now, I think they are far and away the favorites in this division. They had the number one offensive line last year by PFF grade. Guys, what are you expecting from this roster? Where are the fantasy surprises? Where are the fantasy disappointments?

Yeah, I mean, I don't really want to go first because, you know, I worry about the Eagles as an offense. Solely, you know, I know that it's hard to be down on the Super Bowl champions who have young talent locked in, but I have my concerns from the fact that your starting quarterback, your number one wide receiver are both recovering from offseason surgeries while you lost two great offensive minds. Yes.

Doug Peterson is at, you know, he's at the top of the game right now. He is in charge. That's great. But his number one guy and his number two guy, those things matter. You know, Frank Reich was great John D. Philippo, you know, for years, his name's been surfaced. And now both of those guys are gone. So I do worry with a little bit of the Super Bowl hangover when it comes to just all of these different weapons, Alshan, J. Ajay,

I know that we have different opinions on this offense here, Jason, and you proved yourself very right in this regard last year with the Atlanta Falcons. However, I look at Doug Peterson and his play calling a lot differently than I look at Atlanta. We've seen New England go through turnover at the offensive coordinator position year after year after year. It did not affect them when you have the foundational pieces of Tom Brady.