The “My Guys” Episode + Players to Forgive: LIVE in LA

of Zeke for me just to mitigate that top four risk because those guys are yeah you're all sensational you can't ignore the news even if you realize that the odds are that he's going to be playing week one you can't ignore it especially when like you said the other three guys like Zeke is my 101 if he was in camp and signed and you know we know for sure he's playing I am not

taking him over those other three guys at this point. And the longer it goes on, the more move him down. But we obviously have more concern for Melvin Gordon missing time than we do for Zeke. All right, slightly, slightly different running back tier. Theoretic signed a contract with the Denver Broncos. Where's the mediocre signing of the week for that? I don't. Thanks for asking. Because it doesn't even deserve that. Yeah, it really doesn't. Look, Theoretic, you hang your time. Mediocre signing of the week.

Just add into the list of players we've insulted on the show. Yeah, look, this only matters if you were one of those diehard Devante Booker truthers. Which, for me, like, he's been on my Dynstein team forever, and all this means to me is... You can cut Booker? The day is coming. The reckoning is here. I'll be able to cut him soon. You don't think this eats into Philip Lindsay at all, because I do. I actually...

I do not believe as firmly in Philip Lindsay. If Philip Lindsay, you know, is that right now it looks like Royce Freeman's at first. Second down back. Philip Lindsay's electric. But Theo Riddick, I mean, I've got some stats later. Those two guys are going to share first and second down. That's the thing. Last year, DeVosy only had 47 targets. Yeah, exactly. Booker came in last year and annoyed people. Now Riddick gets to do that. Okay. All right. Josh Gordon applied for reinstatement. That was reported today. That's good.

I'm curious about the reaction to Josh Gordon. Look, we're all happy that Josh Gordon is still trying to play, but... I will say this. He's not... If all the... Look, I had someone tweet at me, Josh Gordon is back, and I said, Josh Gordon is trying to come back. He's not back yet. Let's say he gets approved, and the reinstatement is here, and he's on the field.

He's a great wide receiver. What he did in year one with Tom Brady is better than what most players do in year one with Tom Brady. It says something to me that they held on to him through obviously his withdrawal from the team. And Brady spoke highly of him. Brady likes him. Gordon is clearly a great player. But if you think that Gordon like, oh, there's no risking Gordon anymore, he's back for the 17th time. Like, I root for him. I hope everything is great and he can be there for the rest of his career.

everything in history of these guys who have repeated to make the same mistake over and over and over and over and over, get suspended or have to leave for personal reasons. It keeps happening. So I do not see, let's say he is tomorrow reinstated. I do not see him as a 16 game guy. I just don't. I think it would be irresponsible of me to stat him as a full go all season. No worries, no risk. But the thing not to be missed is if he's reinstated.

I do think it affects Julian Edelman. Yes. And this thought that he's going to get every single target coming from Tom Brady, I expect Gordon to be reinstated. But we'll find out. Do you pick him up now? Obviously, you have to take your shot on him in a dynasty at this point. No, people still have him in Dynasty leagues. It's redraft. Where are you going to start taking shots on him in the double digits and then move that up as time? Everything I said, I'll still take shots if it's double digits. Very important question, Jason. I need your answer. Oogie dogy. How's Andrew Lux, Kaff?

Aw, why do you got to go there? It just needs more time, Andy. It just needs a couple more days. And then in a couple more days, we're probably going to hear it. It needs a couple more days. I moved him down. Yeah, I mean, I was worried about it on the first day of training camp. The Colts training cam opened, and he was not available. It was the same calf from...

literally two months prior, and that is not a normal recovery schedule for a calf, even a severe calf strain. And the fact that he then got back into practice and now has had a new reaggravation, I worry, I think you have to move him down a little bit. I mean, we're still so far away from the season that everything could be fine. I've said it before. The Colts right now I have winning the Super Bowl is my super early pick. Obviously, if Luck's not there or if he's injured, come.

preseason games I would change, but it's worrisome. And if you're doing a draft now, you have to move them down. Do you agree with that? Yes. All right. Damien Williams, very insightful, Mike. I'm here for you. Damien Williams, this is more up your alley. Yet to practice with the chiefs. Soar hamstring. Andy Reed is. He's got a back problem too. Aggravated. He's got a talent problem. He does not have a talent problem.

Andy Reid said he missed quite a bit. He missed a lot of plays. It's been great for the other guys. Carlos Hyde has done a great job. Well, now Andy Reid's got a lot of reps. He's taking advantage of them. Yeah, but then further on in this report, it still said they want Damien Williams to be the guy. Here's what I'll say. I went in to see if I wanted to adjust Damien Williams in my rankings. I only had him for like 190-something carries to begin with. That offense is so good that even if he has limited work, he will be more efficient than people think.

But this is not good for him. He is not tenured. No, no, it's certainly not good. And I'm the Damien Williams truth. I still think they were saying, oh, they've added depth of the fellers that they have conglomerated into that backfield. Damien Williams still fits the scheme the best and should receive every chance to be the guy. We're still very early on in the process. But if Melvin Gordon did the Chiefs. Oh. Oh, man.

Oh, my goodness. They can't afford them. I just wanted to throw it out there just in case. If that happens, I will move Damien Williams down. That's big of you, Mike. I can admit something. You always say stay water. Yes. That's so. And I will move Melville Gordon way up. That would be pretty incredible. Last news report. Today, Antonio Brown visiting a foot specialist. We haven't seen him on the field. We've seen his feet, though. Dude.

I don't recommend that Instagram account before a meal. That dude needs to exfoliate. If you guys have not seen the picture of Antonio Brown's feet, congratulations. Because it is rough. I mean, if my feet looked like that, I would be seeing a foot specialist immediately. So, I mean, this is bad, but it's still early. We're going to have extra insight into the Oakland Raiders camp. He was smiling in the picture showing off his feet.

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Our my guys are frequently startling. I mean, this is, it's go time. It's August. This is flag planting time. These are players that will be associated with your name, Mike, for the rest of the season until you convince people to forget about that if they struggle. So I, my guy is Sequin Barclay. All right, all right. You're here for them. I'll go first.

I've talked about him previously. My guy number one is Carson Wins. Ooh. Yeah, I like a lot. A hush falls over the crowd. Two guys. He's currently being drafted at quarterback eight. I haven't met quarterback five in my rankings. Here's the first thing. I can see the future. Whoa. Why are we doing this show? Let's go to Vegas. The Eagles are going to win the Super Bowl. Okay.

I just report the facts. And here's the thing. Amazingly enough, I can actually look into the past as well with incredible accuracy. Let me get to it. Oh, I can. Yeah. Yeah. I see what you did. Yeah. Yeah. I can look back. Remember how good Carson Wince was. People need to remember how good he was in 2017. Nine of 13 weeks in the top six quarterbacks. Five, two, three, three, one, eight, four, six, five, two. That's also my password.

I probably should not have shared that information. It's a live show. But look, he was very consistent. And I've made some arguments for Carson Wins before. And the big arguments have been things about talent, right? He's got Jeffrey and he's got Ertz and Goddard and he has Miles Sanders and Aguilar and Dijax. And on a previous live show, I talked about the fact I went back and looked every single quarterback that has ever played with Deshaun Jackson in the history of his career, which has been several.

has had significantly better fantasy seasons, except James Winston, who was more of an enigma in and of his own right. But I wanted to bring forth a couple of other interesting facts. This one blew my mind. I was looking at the game splits. Alshan Jeffrey is healthy right now. When he's healthy, Wince has been unbelievable. He's played 16 games without Alshan Jeffrey, 24 with. When Jeffrey is in and healthy, it's one...

0.25 more touchdowns to Carson Winst's numbers when he's in the game. That's a lot. That's a lot more. And the other thing I look at here is what has made great quarterbacks kind of like the next level over the last few years? We talk about it, this regression number of touchdown efficiency and throwing touchdowns and throwing touchdowns around the goal line. And you look at this team and you say, is Jordan Howard going to bang it in inside the tin or is Doug Peterson?

going to let him throw the ball to Zach Ertz, Alshon Jeffrey. They added JJ Arsega Whiteside, whose nickname is Arsegatron. What? Oh, get out of here. That's terrible. I didn't name him. He's gigantic. It's right there. Shut up. I'm telling you what he prefers. Wait, he likes that? That's what they call him. That's changing my view on him. That's terrible. I really want my nickname to be someone else's nickname. Slightly.

Megatron was decent, Mike. Mike actually had this idea. He's like, I want to be, I want to be like mine. Yeah. It was a pretty good one. Yeah, you remember that? You don't want to be comp to Jordan? No. Okay. All right. I mean, yeah. I think they're throwing around the goal line. They have the bodies to do it. Goddard will be a goal line weapon as well. And so I think Carson Wentz is up for a great season. Dallas Goddard in the crowd.

I was going to say, that's his... That's Jason's cousin. So I... My guy number one, Carson Wentz, because they're going to win the Super Bowl. I love it. I love it. All right, Mike. You want to go? You want me to go. I'll jump in here, and I'm going to give everyone the warning. We got a small sample extrapolation and narrative street incoming. Well, look, one of my guys, I've tried, and I've tried actually to remove him from my my guys, but I...