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NFC West Breakdown + Hype Train | Fantasy Football 2025 - Ep. 1769

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The terrifying Hype Train returns as a cartoon

The internal camp-highlights channel is renamed the Camp Highlights and Hype Train channel. The hosts say they miss the old drop even though it sounded like an imminent car collision and drew complaints; the published video supplies a visibly safer replacement, a colorful toy train carrying a HYPE sign across the desk.

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The panic alarm becomes a studio blackout

A Chris Godwin update earns the panic alarm, but the cue plunges the desk into near-black red light like a power outage. A Deucers Alley cut reveals three producers while the hosts search for the culprit, narrate Al slowly turning right, and trigger a second visible booth blackout.

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The alarm breaks Al's mic and Kyle saves P90X

When the hosts ask Al for a Tony Horton phrase, his microphone is said to have broken during the panic-alarm incident and Josh is blamed. Kyle then supplies 'Do your best, forget the rest' from off camera and receives two direct thank-yous before the hosts remember the ripped-pants line.

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Mike loves Kenneth Walker's warts all the way to last place

Mike calls 2025 Kenneth Walker's year and last chance, names him Seattle's most confident pick if he stays healthy, and embraces the combination of warts and talent. The desk turns that tolerance into a Ricky Bobby first-or-last identity and imagines a CMC-Walker lineup requiring anonymous donations to both medical staffs.

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Falcon predicts a Super Bowl and hides on camera

The hosts call the last-place 49ers losers and ask Falcon for a reaction. Matt answers 'Future Super Bowl winners,' immediately ducks behind his laptop, and is held in a direct Deucers Alley shot while the hosts point out his red face and order him to sit in his shame.

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The 49ers become the Mike Wright team

San Francisco's Shanahan-era record alternates between six-win collapses and double-digit contenders. The desk calls that all-or-nothing profile 'very Mike Wright' and says the identity makes sense because Christian McCaffrey is there; Mike immediately likes the team.

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Jason and Mike exchange CMC and Kittle train tickets

Al's repeated ten-foot-pole refusal frames the CMC risk, while the hosts call McCaffrey and Bijan Robinson Man of Glass and Man of Steel. Jason then agrees to ride Mike's Christian McCaffrey train if Mike rides his George Kittle train, and Mike confirms McCaffrey as his number-one overall player despite a recent history split between devastation and championships.

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Matt's closing microphone is off too

At the final sign-off, a host asks Matt whether he wants to add anything. The video cuts to the full three-person Deucers Alley row and Matt answers, 'My mic was turned off,' extending the episode's broken-microphone theme before being told to talk louder.

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Episode notes

Direct review of the complete published video shows Andy, Jason, and Mike as the three main-desk hosts. Early in the show, a real colorful cartoon train labeled HYPE rolls across the bottom of the frame while the hosts recall the retired train sound that made drivers feel as if they were about to be T-boned and drew complaints. The first major production event is also real: a requested panic alarm turns the main desk nearly black under deep red light rather than producing the expected flashing effect. The video then cuts to a three-person Deucers Alley row while the hosts investigate. Jeremy is narrated as Al slowly turning toward the right-hand seat; Falcon and Owl are named in the culprit discussion, and the alarm darkens the booth again on the second try. Later, while the desk searches for Tony Horton's P90X phrases, Al's microphone is said to be broken because of the alarm, Josh is blamed for breaking it, and off-camera Kyle supplies 'Do your best, forget the rest.' The camera stays on the hosts during that exchange, so Kyle is voice-only and no additional seat is guessed. Mike's Kenneth Walker loyalty dominates Seattle: this is his last chance, he can ignore Walker's warts, the choice is first place or nothing, and a CMC-Walker pairing would require anonymous donations to both medical staffs. The 49ers segment produces the clearest crew appearance. The desk calls to Falcon; Matt answers 'Future Super Bowl winners,' the video cuts to the left Deucers seat, and he visibly ducks behind his laptop while the hosts keep the camera on his reddening face. The team's boom-or-bust history is then called very Mike Wright, especially because CMC is there. Al's repeated refusal to draft Christian McCaffrey is contrasted with Mike's auto-pick stance; a spoken Man of Steel versus Man of Glass comparison receives praise from the hosts but no literal graphic or costume appears. Jason offers to ride Mike's CMC train if Mike rides his George Kittle train, and Mike confirms McCaffrey as his number-one player before the desk prescribes a therapist for the risk. At the close, the video again shows the full three-person booth when Matt is asked for a final word and answers that his microphone was turned off. The closing transcript's 'Go ahead, Jay' occurs over the unchanged regular-host desk and is ordinary Jason address, not Jay Griz; no Jay image, cardboard bear, fourth host, theme, or sound cue appears.

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Welcome to the fantasy footballers podcast with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Oh, welcome in Thursday, July 24th. Somehow, July's almost over already. We had the realization today. that next week is the last week of the year that we will not be doing daily morning record and release. It's coming, Foot Clan. We are just minutes away from August. Yeah, we're going to be doing shows every day. It's a good thing. It's a fun thing. It's beautiful. And it's starting on August 1st, which is a Friday. Weird. So we'll have a show on August 1st. And then forever.

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or so until the end of time it's super exciting for those following along at home the uh well the channel's been renamed mike is constantly people didn't know how to use the channel so i had to rename the channel a lot of people out there have already asked for an invite into the camp highlights channel which is now called the camp highlights and hype train channel which is so many characters that i've thought about renaming it many times but i mean it is what it is yeah there's that hype train yeah because we we need to miss our old hype train um well the very dangerous very day the the the train that sounded like you were about to get t-boned while you're driving and everyone complained about it but stop train something just to fell off your yeah power line fell off your toilet mike uh but no i mean that if i had a nickel for a time that's happened

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I'm looking at this channel, and it's, you know, Jackson Dard's first pick six. Yeah. J.K. Dobbins, first up. Yeah. You know, we've got, we've got Kyle Pitts walking to camp. Yeah, but the walk had a lot of swag to it. So we've got, uh, we've got, uh, we've got Teteroa McMillan, uh, tweet. And then I watch and then I watched that video and I'm like, I think it was just him like shuffling around. He's just barely in the view. Like I said, not everyone understands how to use the channel. We've got Mike sharing the first play of seven on seven for the Jets was a little throwing by the quarterback and catching by the receiver, Garrett Wilson. And it was in slow motion. Uh-huh. Yeah, yeah. You do know how to use the channel. The reporters. Anthony Richardson overthrowing his receivers already. The reporters on the Garrett Wilson, they said that that would have been a touchdown.

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Did they? Yeah. Okay. Caleb Williams looking very uncomfortable in training camps so far. He threw three picks. He's real itchy. Through three picks with his brand new offense. And we've even got old busted former NFL cornerbacks like Quentin Jammer jumping into the camp hype time of year. And Ladd McConkey had a nice little one-on-one drill catching a pass. Quentin Jamper. Quentin Jammer running in and saying, I would not have let that happen. I got to take a little on range with your with your shuffling around comment on on Tet McMillan. Okay. You guys clearly did not watch that whole video. I guess not. Was there something else that happened? It was real boring. No, he's not the first guy. He's the second guy.

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He's doing this. He's doing this drill and a coach walks in his way. Oh, and he catches it with one hand. He just, he just he Velcro catches that ball. Jason, you're not helping the camp. Yeah, baby. You're not helping the camp. Oh, yeah. The video was way too long for that. I agree. I agree. I didn't get to see. That part was cool. That's the that's the that. Okay. New rule, Jason. You got timestamp things for me too. All right. So we've, we've reached the inevitable. exaggeratory phase of fantasy football, which is, it's part of my favorite time. It's really the best time. Every single one of you out there undefeated on the season in fantasy football, right? All of our picks could be perfect. All of our rankings. Our takes are so good. Very likely perfectly accurate. But as the news comes in, some of it.

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is very relevant and some of it is moving around some UDK rankings. Things more depth chart oriented, right? We were talking today about Mr. Besh in Las Vegas, Mike and Thornton and the way things may look in year one for Mr. Jack Bess. Yeah, the Raiders. Not a great opportunity for him potentially. I mean, we're in very early stages, but, you know, early reports saying like, hey, look, Jacoby and Thornton, they seem like. the two outside wide receivers and that bash is actually competing with trey tucker for a starting job so it's that's a camp battle that we will be keeping our eyes on but then like it's wild of a bash is the second round pick and was thornton to fourth i believe fourth yeah and so to have that already swip swapped is is interesting

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Jason lost his mind over a Trey Harris catch yesterday as well. Oh, yeah, but two of them. Against rookie cornerbacks in one-on-one drills. Yeah. Pryor's confirmed. That's all I need. So it is. It's really exciting. I saw a hard knock starts up on August 5th, so that's not far away. Buffalo will be the team covered there. It's an exciting time of year. That's why we're going to five days a week. There's just so much to talk about. And you can. secure the Ultimate Draft Kit at Ultimate DraftKit.com. That is all of our rankings, all of our sleepers, breakouts, busts, and values that we've all agreed upon. We'll have some more episodes in August with our individual picks in those categories. And, you know, the My Guys episode is coming up, fantasy MVP episodes. There's a lot on the table for August. So thank you so much for supporting the show. If you watch it, YouTube.com slash the fantasy footballers. Make sure you subscribe over there. Click the bell.

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every Sunday morning. Most often it's Mike going live with Sunday Live pre-NFL coverage of the fantasy football latest news. Yeah, it's making sure you're all caught up on everything. Start sit decisions. So that's a great way to do it. And then if you're on Spotify, Apple, wherever you're listening, click that follow button, drop us a review. That would be an awesome way to support the Ducers, is what I'm saying. The Ducers over there, they feed on the reviews? Yeah, they like them. like thank you Josh yeah so there you go let's jump right into some more news news and notes from around the league I should have I should have said let's jump into some actual news right the other stuff that's camp highlights and hype but here's here's some good news Malik neighbors practicing fully in training camp so we like that the lingering toe injury that goes way back to LSU that took some time from him last year he's practicing

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Yeah. Did you guys see the camp highlight video of him getting that touchdown? Yep. From Mr. Russ or? Yeah. Yep. Okay. Chargers head coach Jim Harboss, as he doesn't know when Najee Harris will be back for training camp. This one is actionable and a big piece of news because like we're the fantasy community is very excited for Omerian Hampton. A first round running back. First round running backs are generally speaking fantasy gold. And it was like, oh, if Naji might be in the way for a bit, how long will he be in the way? I mean, they're being drafted like Hampton is going to be the starter sooner than later. I think, you know, Hampton's in front of him by a few rounds, I believe. But the fact that Naji might not do training camp, like that is a, that's a huge, huge deal. If he misses camp, all of a sudden it feels like he's not, because he's new to this team.

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Right. You know, the whole, like, he's the starter to start the season. He's the veteran. He's the proven NFL player. It would have been different if it happened in Pittsburgh where he had been. Exactly. This is like now it's like come week one, who's the vet for the chargers? Because Hampton has more time there potentially. So we definitely need to monitor that. Hampton's ADP will. Take a rocket ship to the moon. You guys tell me whether I need to hit the panic alarm on this piece of news we got yesterday. Buccaneers wide receiver Chris Godwin underwent a second ankle procedure in the spring. He's starting on the pup. Yeah, yeah. You should hit the panic alarm. Yes. Black us out. That was not more of a panic alarm. That was really like a power outage.

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Did I do something wrong there now? No, you didn't. Okay, all right. Somebody back here did though. I'm going to guess it's not a falcon or an owl. We're all trying to find the guy who did this. He looked when, so those that are listening at home, the panic alarm now comes with some special effects in the studio. The lights go out. And the lights normally flash like a panic alarm. And the second that the lights just turn off. i see al turn to the right yeah oh yeah he just a slow glance to the right stare down so i don't know if anybody's taking responsibility for that but i know i know who's not going to take responsibility oh yeah it happened again perfect perfect but yet it is very troubling i mean there was the did you guys see the uh that we went subruda film on the there was a photo of godwin in a jersey and it was like one of those ankles is here's what

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Looks a bit puffier than the other one. Help me out here. Explain this to me because if he had not been paid, let's just pretend this scenario was Chris Godwin actually had another year left on his former deal. Right. And he had not been paid. We would not have been in on Godwin for the year. Correct. At all. Not with McMillan playing well, with the Ibuka draft pick, with any of that stuff going on. It would be, I wouldn't say we wouldn't beat. in but it'll be very very hesitant i think i'll go as far to say i would have been out i would have been okay because we've been here he's had an injury it was a major injury we saw him leave the field significant i think what happened was they paid him and we did the math equation it's money equals he's good

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Yeah, I mean, they are the ones with the information on the injury, on the timeline, on the surgery, on the recovery, and they came out and they paid him a lot of money. That gave us confidence that they are not worried about the injury, the recovery timeline, any of that. And they very well might not be from the standpoint of they're not playing the same game we're playing. We have to draft a guy and have him be ready week one. They're trying to win a Super Bowl. Right. So by the time they get to the playoffs. Maybe he's good. Long term, this is more than a one-year contract. Maybe he's good. But for fantasy football purposes, Chris Godwin is someone that I would not be drafting him personally, certainly not where he's being drafted. I don't even know if I... I mean, he was off my board before this news, and now he's very off my board. And I, on our NFC South show, I was so close to making some comments around that were probably too hyperbolic and extreme about...

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Like Mike brought up Egbuka and how interesting that selection is, right? I am so in. But I almost made the comment like what we see right now with our eyes on that team is Evans and Godwin. But what might be the reality for this team genuinely by the end of the year could be Egbuka and McMillan. Right. Like both, not just one. McMillan is not a bad player. He had 461 yards as a rookie and caught eight touchdowns from Baker. And yet the elder statesman, their time might be ending sooner than you think. And the draft pick of a Bucca maybe has more of a backdrop now. Maybe that's even more of a, we knew Godwin wasn't going to be around. Yeah, I'm glad you brought up Jalen McMillan. He was a rookie wide receiver last year. He is the perfect example of someone that, let's say you had a bad fantasy year last year and you start checking out towards the end of the season. You might not realize how.

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electric he was the last five weeks of the year because he really didn't do much for the majority of his rookie season. Chris Godwin was everything. Mike Evans was there. And then the last five weeks of the season, I mean, he put up monster. He put up over a thousand yards in the last five weeks. So he would have paced over a, yes, he would have paced over a thousand yards over a five weeks span. No, you were really breaking news. He's the greatest player of all time. He would have been on pace for 1,074 yards and 23 touchdowns because they all, they all came that. Egbuka and McMillan are in the 11th round right now. Godwin is to me untouchable in the 6th. And then Evans is 312, which is fine. Yeah. I mean, you know, if Godwin starts off slow, I would certainly have even more confidence in Evans.

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How are you? Well, the other guys get it figured out. So let's say even cost holds for Jalen McMillan and Egbuka, which direction do you prefer to go? If even caught, Egbuka, because I just think, I think the skill set. Could be a boat. Yeah, it could be a boat. It could be a boat. That's how I am, but I wasn't sure if you guys were willing to sacrifice the eight touchdowns. Yeah, I would be fine with either of them where they're going. But if I had to pick one, it would be a buck. He's. All right. I mean, he's a better prospect. He's a better wide receiver. He's a first round pick for a reason. And, you know, and he's from Ohio State. You bet on those guys. So it was a secondary procedure. The team says that it's not a surprise to them. That's what was reported. Not a surprise to them. And that he's doing well. So there you go. Terry McLaren officially did not report to training camp. This is what we've been talking about.

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It is still a back and forth between Terry McLaurin and the team, much like Michael Parsons and Trey Hendrickson. And we'll see. Darren Waller, starting on the PUP, this is called Coming Out of Retirement. It's a little PUP, get the body warmed up, I guess. Yeah. It's OLD. Oh, okay. Yeah, PUP for old. Yeah. Wait, how old is Darren Wander, by the way? I think he's 33. Is he older or younger than Adam Thielen? That's what I'd like to know. He is, he will be 33 this season. So he is younger than old men. All right. Joe Mixen is starting on the NFI. So not the PUP. This is the non-football injury list. He was in a boot this spring. The team has come out and said that he should be back out at training camp soon. I saw more positive things about it, but I don't want to let it. I don't want it to over-emphasize or under-emphasize it. I also don't want to.

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you know, an isolated high ankle spraining week two of the season to somehow just make me like gunshot and Joe Mixing now if it's unrelated to that injury. But, you know, you just don't want to see players in there the last couple years of potential production to be heard already. Yeah. And, you know, this is one of those. I haven't heard of, you know, a procedure that was done with. We were talking about him being in a boot, you know, back whatever was a month or two ago. And it certainly seemed like the way that that was being reported was, it was nothing. It was, don't worry about it. You know, he's got some soreness so he's in a boot. But now we're in training camp months later. And if he's not ready to play, it's like, okay, there's something lingering here. So it does give me a little bit of the hebie-jeebies. I went in the ultimate draft kit. I upped his risk rating because I think he carries a little bit more risk. Aaron Wilson of the Texans insider said that.

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Joe Mixon is his quote is, quote, doing great after injuring his right ankle earlier in the off season. So he's been able to ramp up his workouts. He's not off the top yet. So we'll see. And just to confirm it, Nick Chubb was the next man up. Yeah, and a lot of people speculating if they knew that Mixon was banged up. Was that why they signed Chubb? Damian Pierce hanging on for dear life. One day. Woody Marks. Zach Moss still on the is on the NFI list for the Bengals. There's been a lot of positive Chase Brown news related to their offensive. Offensive coordinator said some big things about Chase Browns. He said the thing that like I, you know, you don't want to overreact to.

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News. I need I need him to shut up. Yeah, I know. Normally I want his drop value. I want the OC to do this normally. Now I'm like, ooh. But what he said was he really, you know, he talked about like, oh, people are going to know him. He's going to be a superstar, whatever. But he said he can do everything Austin Echler did. Yeah. Like, and the, the reason that we love Chase is because what you saw during the second half of last year with Joe Burrow and with this offense and when they were winning games trying to make the playoffs.

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was an outstanding, outstanding amount of passing work to Chase Brown, a la Austin Echler, and what made him the running back won in fantasy one season is 100 targets his way. I'll go as far as to say, like my confidence level with Chase Brown and Devon A-chan, who are lower draft picks than like Gibbs, right? Or maybe a Henry. Sure. Like if I was a team, if you're in a keeper league, you've got low draft capital, I would be willing to trade. to go get Chase Brown and something. I'd be willing to trade an upper echelon player. I feel like someone's being pitched right now. No, they're not because, look, honestly, I would have rather not said that because he's talking about my horrible draft spot in League of Record with Gibbs. But the same goes for A-chan. Like, I think that's one of the things, I mean, I do it in Dynasty all the time. It's like if there is a player in the Chase Brown tier, which is lower, you know, he's a lower tier than the Gibbs, then Henry,

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than some of the other running backs, Jacobs even. I think Jacobs is going ahead of Chase Brown in all drafts. Yes. So it's like if I could go trade Jacobs off of that huge touchdown year and I could get Chase Brown in a pick. Like that's the kind of home run trade that I'm looking for. Sure. Players never finish in the same order as the year before. You need to go make a bet on tier jumps. And I think Chase Brown, Devon A-chan are two players that I would target that maybe aren't viewed like the upper echelon. Yeah, I... I agree completely. I think Devon A. Chan is viewed pretty upper tier right now. I think he's the fifth running back off the board. But he's not in Gibbs tier, right? No, no. I mean, he's not in Gibbs tier. But Chase Brown is not even, Chase Brown's going behind Kyron, John and the Taylor, Josh Jacobs, Bucky Irving. You know, I think he's a great value. I mean, you probably trade Bucky Irving. Yeah, let's, okay, enough. I agree. Yeah, let's move. Oh, yeah, I would trade Bucky for Chase Brown. Chase Brown sucks.

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Just get that quote. Send it to your league mates and keep his ADP low. 49ers injury section of our news. John Jennings. Go trade Brees Hall for him. John Jennings is on the field. Brandon Ayuk, not anywhere close to having a concrete timeline. Ricky Pearsall to be elevated off the pup list within the first few days of camp. Jacob Cowing, wide receiver now suffered a hamstring injury running routes. and the Niners had to sign Equanimia St. Brown. So I don't know what the turf is doing there, man. I know Mike has been doing it for years. Nobody on this planet loves Christian Caffrey more than Mike Wright this year. Yeah. But I'm not one of them because the 49ers and their injuries, man. We start every year going, how in the world would Garindo become a relevant fantasy player? That was last year. Grindo was fourth on the depth chart last year. Fourth.

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The 49ers, man, that training staff has got him doing some weird stuff. I don't know what's going on. Matthew Stafford, limited to start camp with back soreness. Jason shook his head. I mean, maybe just like. No, it's, it's real bad news. They said he'll be fine for the season. But I mean, you're talking this. The season's pretty far away. And he's old and he's dealt with neck issues and, you know, back soreness keeping him. I think they manage reps with him. I mean, I hope so. You know, but you've got new players here. You've got Devante Adams that you want to come in and have, you know, a good rapport with Matthew Stafford. So I don't know. When they're that old and they're this close to retirement, it just makes me worry a little bit. They do have for if it gives you any, you know, hope at all, Jay. They do have Jimmy Garoppolo as the backup. Oh, yeah. I mean, I mean, like it.

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It's not... Could be worse. It's not the same as, like, multiple years ago where you're like, oh, man, if Stafford goes down, this team, every fantasy piece disappears. Yeah, but Matthew Stafford is... I mean, like, for Puka's targets and the way that... I feel like Jimmy Garoppolo spreads the ball around a little bit more. Stafford's like... Oh, if Jimmy Gropolo is a quarterback, it's devastating for those guys. Devastating. They drop tears. For sure. Yeah, they won't disappear and go to nothing. Did you remember Jim Garpoena had the opportunity to fail to get the ball to Devante Adams for weeks and weeks at a time. And it was one of the most embarrassing things I've ever seen on film where Adams was beating guys down the sideline time after time after time and Groplo couldn't hit him. Oh, man. Do you remember that? In my head, I'm like, what team are we talking? Oh, yeah. Yeah. That was supposed to be the great combo. Yeah. And Grappolo couldn't get it to him. It would be bad. Stefan Diggs.

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Not feeling any limitations from the ACL tear, not on the pub, and he's going to play. That's what's going to happen. Okay. Which is great for Drake May. I forgot, Kyron Williams, the last news on his contract, he says he anticipates it getting done, does not have a timeline. He will practice during training camp and get ready for week one, even if he has not signed that extension. Say that part out loud, Karen. He's trying to be a good man. Yeah, but it's not out loud. Speaking of good men, Jimmy Grandpa has retired after 13 seasons. Jimmy Graham. I believe he had more touchdowns for the New Orleans Saints in the last couple years than was it Chris Oliva? Probably. I mean, sometimes I think I've thought Jimmy Graham was retired for years now. If you are newer to fantasy sports and you only know him as Jimmy Grandpa,

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Go watch some Saints highlights of the years. We had two years where he was like 1,200 yards and double-digit touchdowns. I mean, these were electric times. Jimmy Graham was awesome. Yeah, he was a game changer. He was a fantasy football wrecker. He was a super strong. It was always him, him and gronk. Last piece of news that's, I don't see in here. No, Brian Daibald just came out and officially announced that Russell Wilson is the starter. So there's no confusion there on the depth chart. For now. Yeah, mid-season. We saw those first row games. Yeah. All right. We'll take a break. We'll come back with our final divisional breakdown, the NFC West. Let's get divisional. Well, we'll get to talk about Matthew Stafford and the Rams a little bit more. Talk about McCaffrey and the 49ers a little bit more. Our Cardinals.

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and what they have in store for us for fantasy football and the Seahawks after a 10 and 7 season, just narrowly missing out to the Rams and the tiebreaker for the division. We're looking at rookies. We're looking at head coaching offensive coordinator changes, player changes, ways the offenses may be shifting in 2025. And we'll give our takes on the wind totals that Vegas has for these teams and the big fantasy implications for each of them as we round out the NFC. here with our final divisional breakdown episode. So the Rams won the division with a negative 19 point differential scoring wise. Should be ashamed of yourself. That is the lowest ever for a division winner that had 10 wins. Their projected win total last year was 8.5. They won 10. They started 1 in 4. It seemed like it was going the wrong direction. They ended up 9 and 3. That is kind of the Matthew Stafford experience. When he gets cooking,

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and he's got the receivers that are healthy and available. They're just, still just a difficult offense to stop. They were definitely a team people did not want to face in the playoffs. No, and they were 9 and 5 and 1 score games. This year, that win total is bumped up to 9.5. Middle of the pack schedule in terms of difficulty. And, you know, never doubt Sean McVeigh, never doubt that offense with Matthew Stafford. It is a team where that health of Stafford is as the, you know, the team's going to go with Stafford. I know that Garoppolo is a better backup. He certainly is. But we would all be crying if we had Pook in the cooler, Devante Adams, or Kyron Williams. Not saying it's a big difference, but. So no more Cooper Cup. No more to Marcus Robinson. We add Devante Adams. And we still got Kyron. We still got Puka. We got a second round tight end rookie in Terrence Ferguson, which I, I.

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I'm a big fan. Me too. Me too. They drafted a fourth round running back as well. Last year's market share was dominated by the wide receiver position. Number one in the league in terms of targets broken down more to the wide receiver than to the running back. Chiron did not catch a lot of passes. The running back room did not catch a lot of passes. The tight ends didn't catch a lot of passes. Higby had been hurt. Yeah, they came back very late. They brought Parkinson in, but he, you know, the big money, but he never turned into a pass-catching threat for them. Tyler Higby, though, it, we talked about this in the office, guys. You know, you like Terrence Ferguson, the rookie. I'm like, Tyler Higby is back, though, and then I went and looked, and the first two games are absolute nothingness. So, but Tyler Higby just came back from a devastating knee injury.

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