REAL Preseason Takeaways + RB Rankings, Jason’s Mixon Love

multiple above average elite NFL throws. He made his touchdown pass. Two, three guys in the NFL can make that throw. I was impressed with Josh Allen. I just want to throw that out there. I'm not trying to give you confirmation bias because I'm a believer in him. Jason probably believes that's what I'm trying to do. But I logged every play. I put it out there on Twitter. Sure. You can go read through it. You can go watch the tapes. Two errant throws out of 19. It didn't fulfill the narrative to me. And just to just to qualify that.

one of those errant throws was not the touch the 60 yard out of bounds throw right i did not call the no that's not an errant throw that's not an errant throw he threw the ball out of bounds no it was a completion therefore it's not errant an errant throw is a ball that you were qualifying as a cam newton airmail by four yards he completed every one of his screen passes he completed every one of his underneath passes he threw with touch i'm just saying you can't call an incompletion a completion

I didn't. It says incomplete on my game law. Incomplete out of bounds. Well, no, but like 10 seconds ago, you just said it was a completion. I'm qualifying errant. It's not an errant throw if the ball is completed to the player. Sure. And I will say I watched it. I watched every one of Josh Allen's throws as well. And he had a couple plays. The touchdown pass was incredible. And there was one where he was rolling to his right off his back foot. That was a throw that.

Number one was just a... To the big tight end? That play? That was amazing. It was an awful decision. Yes. But it came through. And that... I was more watching Josh Allen for his decision making. Because I've... Yeah, he can throw a ball over the mountains. I get that. I've never argued against how strong his arm is that he has an NFL armed talent. But I was watching for... Was he ever flustered in the pocket? And I only recall...

one play where pressure actually got to Josh Allen. And to his credit, he looked like Newton on that particular play where there was people draped all over him and he managed to get out. I think even the commentator's like, he's not going to avoid the pressure. Oh, he got out. So that's to his credit. But at the same time where if you want to, because the comparison's inevitable, but Baker's night and Josh Allen's night.

Baker was under pressure frequently. Josh Allen was in a very clean pocket for the majority of his snacks. And before I hand the torch to Jason for his takeaways, don't get me wrong. I am bringing him up solely. He's not the hill I want to die on it. The bills are awful. I think they're going to be awful. I'm sorry, Bill's fans. I do. I don't think you're going to be great this year.

I don't think you have the weapons. I don't think it's like if you look at Pat Mahomes situation walking into his first starts and what Josh Allen faces, I don't want to die in the Josh Allen Hill. I'm only bringing him up because I was tired of seeing the narrative fulfillment with screen caps on Twitter. I'm just telling you what I believe. If my eyes told me something different, I would believe something different. Jason, you're up. Yeah, so I've obviously I've got a million notes from game week one or the first night of real preseason games. But the only one that I'll bring up.

that I think is relevant to just continue paying attention to was that Peyton Barber was the starter. He got the first drive. He looked great. He ran well. They moved the ball down the field over and over. He was picking up good yardage. And then he got in the end zone on a great run, you know, in the red zone. So he was great. And then Rojo comes in the game. And they throw him a nice easy screen pass that he.

looks like he does not know how to catch and dropped it to the ground. So I'm not saying that to fulfill. I'm not saying that to fulfill the Ronald Jones is a bust thing. But what I am, it's not about Ronald Jones. It's about Peyton Barber. Peyton Barber did nothing to lose where he currently is at right now. Okay, let's get into the news. News and notes from around the league. Mike, Redskins rookie.

Darius Geis. Exited with a knee injury on a beast run. Yes. Initial diagnosis this morning via Sleeper bot update. Sleeper. Yes. If you have used it before, it was Sleeper, but it's now the sleeper app. You can do the leagues and everything. But I got an update this morning that the initial diagnosis was a sprained MCL. He's still going to have an MRI to confirm. But if it's a sprained MCL, you're going to miss time. Yeah. You're going to miss.

probably most of the preseason just to be safe, right? You don't want a chance to re-endron. He looked great on that run. Yes, it was holding, but he was, you know, when you get him in the open field, he creates yards after contact. I would say this, you know, Rob Kelly's been left for dead in fantasy football. But it appears he's the clear next man up. Yes. Over Somaget. Yeah, he would be the starter.

All right, more injury news. Marlon Mack exited with a hamstring injury. We don't know how much that's going to limit him in the coming weeks, but it is a concern. Bobby. Well, Bobby Turbin is. No, it's not Bobby. Bobby Turbin was next man up, but he's suspended to start the year. And who was next? Jordan. Nope. Who was next? I didn't get to watch that game. Kristen Michael. By the Kristen Michael special.

Oh, Mike. Necessity. Mike. If Mike. No, you can mic me all you want. No, no, I'm seeing Mike in you. If Marlon Mack is hurt, and we talk about all the time on this show, handstring injuries are the worst. Yeah. The worst. That's not what you want to see in the preseason. If Marlon Max hurt. And Robert Turbin. Robert Urban, this is not an if he is. This is Robert Turbin's missing four games. Kristen Michael, as of now, is the next man up.

Just saying, what a world. What a world that we live in. You're like an evil genius cackling in the night. Because it's just hilarious. I've never seen you so happy. George Kittle and Matt Barita both left with shoulder injuries. Kyle Shanahan, head coach of the San Francisco 49ers, said both players will, quote, miss some time. This is unfortunate. Both were having great camps. George Kittle was probably the only.

tight end outside the top 10 rounds that was likely to get every day on type of snaps and have an opportunity to emerge. It was on a big play. Now, Brooks. Brooks, you just traded for George Kittle yesterday, right? Hours before, maybe two or three hours. Yeah. Congratulations. So we'll, we'll find out more and break it down with you on Monday. It really was. Matt Burrito getting hurt is unfortunate. It's unfortunate. It's fortunate news for Jerich McKinnon.

because Joe Williams looked, eh, well, Derek McKinnon looked the same. I mean, you know, one of my notes, and I, I'm not putting, sure, I'm not going to put a lot of stock in it, week one, whatever, but he, Derek McKinnon ran exactly like Jerich McKinnon ran when I always hated Jerich McKinnon. He's a freak athlete, but it's like, wait, why didn't you go there? Why didn't you, you know, burst now? Didn't he have, like, three carries? Yeah, I mean, it was just, it was just the first drive.

But my point was not like, that's why I said, I don't want to overreact to it. But it wasn't those three carries that was like, oh, man, he sucks. The three carries reminded me exactly of the 50 to 100 carries that he's had when he had the opportunity to start in other teams where it's just so frustrating because there's opportunity there and he lets it down. But then Brita goes down and McKinnon is as safe as it gets right now from a volume standpoint.

All right. John Dorsey, Brown's GM said there is no timetable for Josh Gordon's return. And Des Bryant is going to visit the Browns this week. Did you see the timing of the tweet? Oh, look, 100% Des Bryant was watching the game and going. Tyrod balls out. Tyrod looks pretty good. Baker comes in, balls out. And then Desk goes tweets. He's like, I'm coming to Cleveland for a visit. It was unbelievable. Because you know what?

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the running backs all the way down to what, 24 Brooks? Yes, sir. Number 11 on our consensus rankings. As of this morning, are these ranks as of this morning? The individual ones are. Yeah, the order might be a little shifted on these consensus because of updates from last night. And now, for instance, McCaffrey is going to get brought up. And he's now in our top 10. I was going, that was the name I was going to bring up. I tweaked McCaffrey a little bit up based on, you know,

what I believe he is going to, the workload change. Number 11, Jerich McKinnon. I have him at 10, Jason 13, Mike at 11. Right now, his PPR average draft position is the ninth pick of the second round. Last year, Jerich McKinnon showed enough to convince Kyle Shanahan to give him a whole bunch of money to come in and be the Devont of Freeman in the San Francisco offense.

He's going to have to overcome an offensive line that is ranked 28th for 2018. In fact, it won't just be Jarek trying to overcome that. It's going to be Jimmy Garoppolo, who Mike, you brought up, looked a little rusty yesterday. A little rusty. McKinnon flashed. Not so handsome. He didn't look so good. Impossible. Game one. And last year, McKinnon flashed at various times, especially in the receiving game. Last night, he did have a reception on his one target for seven yards.

Jerich McKinnon at number 11. Is there something you want to bring up about Jerich that our listeners need to know about? Everything with Jerich McKinn is going to be very similar to the argument for Christian McCaffrey. It's going to be the passing work. Kyle Shanahan is a master of using his running backs in space. His running backs get targets. And Jerich McKinnon, like you said, he should be. The comp is easy. Devanta Freeman.

Sometimes when the comp is that obvious, you have to take a step back and go, what am I missing? But I think in this case, it's literally right there, is they are similar players, they have similar skill sets. Freeman's probably the better player, but Jerich McKinnon is a great pass catching running back, and a target is worth more than a rushing attempt. So even if he's only getting 200 carries, he's going to be up in that...

what, 60 plus reception area, which is elite for fantasy football, you mix in some goal line work, and Jerich McKinnon is safer than he, safer than his, than he feels. Yes, I agree. And if Burita is banged up, the goal line is where McKinning could benefit the most. Because last year, you did see him lose goal line work.