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One MANS Opinion: Episode 312 – Coaching Breakdowns 2026

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One MANS Opinion: Episode 312 – Coaching Breakdowns 2026

In this episode of "One Man's Opinion," Jeff Mans returns with his voice restored to deliver a packed show focused on fantasy football strategy. He begins by reflecting on the ESPN layoffs, criticizing the industry for rewarding those who merely fit in rather than produce challenging, innovative content. Mans argues that job security depends on carrying an audience with unique work, not coasting on contracts or social media followings. He then promotes Fantasy Guru, emphasizing its non-corporate, affordable approach and its coaching-focused draft guide, which he believes provides a key edge. Mans also endorses Drafters.com for best ball drafts, citing superior human competition versus automated opponents elsewhere. The core of the episode is his breakdown of the Scott Fishbowl draft, where he had the first pick. He explains his strategy of selecting Josh Allen for consistency, then targeting elite wide receivers at the turn of the second round rather than following positional runs. He critiques other drafters for chasing lower-tier players in those runs, advocating for targeting top-tier talent at any position. Mans details the league’s wild scoring system—including bonuses for long plays and tight end premium—and advises listeners to avoid checking boxes and instead focus on securing the best players early. The episode underscores his belief that coaching knowledge and strategic draft decisions, not conventional thinking, drive success in fantasy sports.

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[MUSIC] Welcome to One Man's Opinion, brought to you by the Elite Fantasy, Fantasy Guru, and EliteSportsBetting.com. And now, here's your host, Jeff Mans. >> I command everybody to another episode of the podcast that's Sweep of the Nation. Episode 312, One Man's Opinion, that's right. Yeah, boy's got his voice back, at least pretty much. I think it's all the way there. Although I will say, after doing some radio earlier this week, my voice has been, my throat's a little scratchy, a little, if you, I don't know what exactly even was the problem if I threw my voice out or whatever. But we're back at it, we've got a jam packed episode. Thank you, everybody who listened last week. I know there was probably a tough one on the ears, although who knows? My voice is normally tough on you one way or another. But we got through it, got some good useful data, and information out there to you as well. This episode, I have so much, now that my voice back, I have so much to talk about. We are going to launch into coaching breakdowns. But I got, Scott Fishbowl draft, I want to get to, I've got some other things I want to get to, just general concepts and fantasy football information as well. So we got a lot to get to. Thank you for being here, everybody. And thank you for liking, favoriting, downloading, subscribing, commenting on the podcast. It is so appreciated. Ladies and gentlemen, I do appreciate each and everyone you hang in there with us on this one. Shout out to my producer, Sean Engelth, always doing a great job producing it. My name is Jeff Mans by the way, you can hear me weekday afternoons to three to six PM Eastern time on serious sex and fantasy sports radio channel 87 on that network. I host a show called Elite Sports. And I will also be hosting serious sex and fantasy football pregame show with Bob Harris, at least that's the plan. As of like six months ago, I was signed to do that show again. And then like a month or two ago, there was some uneasiness or so I guess something. I don't know. Somebody is vying for that job of that show. It's a weird, our industry, and I've got a lot to say about the ESPN layoffs and things like that. But it's, it's a cold-hearted place. And it's not that anybody shouldn't want the job or want my job. It's when people are legitimately gunning for you that they're leveraging, trying to weasel their way in. It's like, can't you just earn the spot? But I do believe me and Bob Harris are back. We've got confirmation on that. So take that for what it's worth. But one thing that's always there, I am the owner and chief content officer over at fantasy guru.com. That's the place to be folks that places like fantasy guru.com. We are not the corporate types. We are not those entities. We are not the type of, we don't, we're not laying off our staff. We're not over budgeting. We don't overpay people. Not that that, you know, we'd love to pay everybody more. But we are within our budget. We also don't charge an arm of leg for our services. It's why we are the largest active community in fantasy sports. So get over there, support the business, support what we do. There's a ton of great content. Fantasy football draft guy, 2026 is out now. You notice there's coaches on the cover of our magazine this year. Why? Because that's what we believe in. Because coaching breakdowns, like I'll talk about today, is something that gives us the greatest advantage in fantasy sports, in DFS, in bedding, than anything else. Player evaluations only take us so far. But once you know what these coaches are, what they do, you have all the power in the world. And that's what we are about. Get over to fantasy guru.com. Now support at fantasy guru.com. If you're looking for discounts or membership bundles, upgrades, whatever on your docket, we are here for you. 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The Jeff Man's all one word. Facebook Instagram snapchat tick tock threads at Jeff Man's all one word on blue sky. So a lot to get to here today. I mentioned drafters.com make sure you get their promo code man's 100% deposit bonus as well on that. Ladies and gentlemen, so we have partnered once again with drafters. That's my preferred best ball site of choice. Not that the others don't do a good enough job. They do a fine job of drafters. The cost. The lack of people. I did a draft the other day. I've done a couple of drafts on each of the big best ball sites. Now tell you the one difference between drafters and the rest. I know that when I'm on drafters.com, I am drafting against a human being on the others. I am not sure. And if you print me down, I would say I'm pretty much guaranteed I'm not drafted against human beings. And there is a lot of automation, a lot of timing out, a lot of, you know, go every single pick. People just sign up, leave their computer, let the automation kick in. And it's a terrible experience quite honestly. I'm having a real hard time even accepting this in our current environment. But that is what it is. So that's why we strongly endorse drafters.com as well. So more information, get into discord at fantasy guru.com there as well support my guy Sean Engels work in our in ask our coverage, the Thunder guru podcast with Rich Milletto every single week. It's a thunder guru hour, but it's actually like two hours every single talking all things NASCAR for all the NASCAR folks out there. These boys do a great job. Strongly endorse that work as well. Dive into it. So today I'm going to do my coaching breakdown since my voice is down. It's back. It's so I'm so pissed off. By the way, this is an unsensored podcast. So I'm going to say some swear words. I'm about to curse right now just so you know I could speak freely on this program. Nobody could take it away from me. Let me comment on the ESPN layoffs. It sucks. It really, really sucks. However, this is going to continue to happen in fantasy sports and reality in the big box and the small box, all these places. I mean, and I'm not trying to sound callous or mean because I absolutely don't want anybody to lose their job or livelihood or any of that. The problem is we can't pretend as if doing mediocre work and okay, I don't mean it like that. I don't mean mediocre work. You can be doing great work. But if it's not seen by people, heard by people, read by people, it's fart in the wind. It doesn't really exist. And that's unfortunately a big part of our environment. And it's a big part of things. I'm sure you guys, a lot of my supporters, I'm sure you guys get challenged and questioned all the time. Chefman's, fuck that guy, I fucking sucks. Fuck that guy, loud him now. He sucks. I mean, I can't believe I found a Reddit channel recently where somebody said, "Who did you ever win?" Fuck it like a million dollars plus dollars, dumb fuck. What do you mean? What have I won? What the fuck of you won? I get fucking, I am certain that's starting to really, but I could tell that it's out there, that people say this kind of shit. But my shit, all my accomplishments are wide open to the fucking public. Why the fuck open? We've, I mean, it's just, it's happened. I have trophies. I have checks. I have, you know. That part pisses me off and it's also, like you think, serious ex-semin would have kept me around. Are you fucking crazy? Guys, we have the highest rated show year after year after year. Every fucking year. One of the highest rated shows because we, you know, Hanson was very popular, Radcliffe was very popular, right? End of list. Nobody's close to us. Nobody else. It just isn't, it is what it is. It's not that they like us the most or anything. Why do we get three hours? Because our numbers are fucking ridiculous, it good. And why are they good? Because we keep doing profound work. We talk to actual people. I feel like sports, entertainment, engagement these days is these are engagement farming for social. And people will follow you. People follow folks on social and never think about them again. I think it's the most overrated shit on the planet having a following on social. I think if you're, do good work, you're going to have some sort of following, but the engagement farming doesn't help anything. So that's the most overrated shit and the planet. The bottom lines, can you carry an audience and does your work? Is your work any different than what the common person can do? Can a 20 year old fresh out of college do the works that you do for much cheaper and so on and so forth? That's the problem with sports analysis this days. Everybody, there's, I look at the ESPN layoffs and many others and all I see is now great, great fucking people. I know these, some of these people personally and they're amazing and they do good work and it's unjustified that they are getting let go. But I do see a lot of folks who have done, who have spent years and years fitting in and fitting in, I suppose there's that the audience, you guys, I suppose that you could fit in and if you're likable enough, the people will watch you every day. But in my experience, the most likable people aren't the ones that get the highest ratings. I get the highest ratings. I'm unlikeable. Steven A Smith gets the highest ratings, unlikeable. No, to some, I mean, it's obviously you guys might like me or Steven A Smith, but you see what I'm saying? We, if you don't challenge people, if you don't challenge premises and ideas and if you don't give them interesting and informational and educational stuff to talk about, you are going to lose your job eventually. There's just not enough to sustain it. Whether you're ESPN and I see a lot of people get that ESPN tag and get that umbrella and they just sit on it like it's an egg and they think, well, this contract, this is all I have to do. And they just sit on it and don't ever evolve or change or challenge. They just sit on it so much and part of it's because ESPN is so corporate that you have to under the, they still under the Disneyland Bro, yeah, they are. I mean, it's this corporate as it fucking gets and thus you can't but Mac if he gets away with it, he says fucking shit on the air to write down the fucking airways. So you can't tell me you can't be done, but it's got to be done right by the right people. It is a sad day, but it's just another reason to just stop trying to fit in all the fucking time. Just stop it. It fitting in is such a coward's approach to anything and especially in what we talk about on this show and others that I do fantasy sports and betting and DFS and just even in general life, honestly, fitting in, fitting is great when it's the right thing to do, but just fitting just taking a side is the most cowardly act I think people can do. And we see it in politics and we see it in, fuck, we see it religion, we see it in everything. And again, have your politics, have your religion. Absolutely. But think through it. Care about it, believe in it. And if and when whatever the politics, the religion or whatever, when it starts going against your ideals, fuck them. You don't have to fucking stay. Fuck you. That's what I say. Don't fucking nobody. No fucking, I used to be Catholic growing up. Now I don't like have a big problem. That one of those people deep seated, but I became a born again Christian because I just the path I've went down and met my wife and married my wife and that. So like I, and I don't bludgeon people with my faith or anything either, nor should anybody. It's for all of us to decide. And the minute they fuck around, I'll leave them to I don't give a shit. I'm going to be myself and be the best version of me and best person I can be regardless. And I'm not under anybody's umbrella. Not serious XM, that race, politics, any that shit. And I hope you're not either. It's a bad place to be if you are. All right. Let's, uh, no preaching. Talk about that. And, uh, let's get into some things. The Scott Fishbowl draft has concluded my, Scott Fishbowl. I was in the double dragon division. I had the first pick. It's a 20 round draft. And just so you guys are aware, it's a fascinating one. 20 rounds. And the scoring is wide open. And what we mean by that is number one, the, there is no teams. All right. And by the way, great organization fantasy cares that net. It is a, just a tremendous, tremendous uh, organization, the Scott Fish and many others at this point run and navigate and they do a lot of great work for charities. And it's just I'm happy to be a part of this win loser drop. Right. So it within this one, it is a 12 team league and the rosters are wide open. Meaning every week, there's no assignments in terms of roster spots, running backs, receivers, tight ends, any of that. None of it. You're starting lineup is 10 players a week. And you could have zero to two quarterbacks and zero to eight or zero to nine. I think every other position quarterbacks running backs or I'm sorry, running backs receivers tight ends. You got anything else that you want, right? So you start 10 players a week and that's just what it is. So up to two quarterbacks, play it however you want. The scoring is fucking bananas. Six points for all touchdowns passes or otherwise, right? Half point per reception, point per reception, except for a tight end. If you were a tight end, you get a point per reception. You get a point per first down as well. It's also a point per first down just in general. Our hams are its half point per rushing receiving first down, except for tight ends. And then there's tons of bonus points, 300 yard passing, 10 points, 100 yard rusher receiving 10 points, 100 yard combined rushing plus receiving 10 points, 40 plus yard passing plays running plays 10 points, 20 plus yard receiving plays 10 points, like holy fucking shit. It's wild. So it's impossible to really project it. And thus, it's just a fun time. So I'll take it through this draft and see some of the things you do. So because of the assignments, because of the roster, I went into this, into the Scott Fishbowl draft. And I said, all right, I'm going to get two quarterbacks. Anytime you can get two quarterbacks, super flex, two QB, you get them and you get them as soon as you can. Provided they're the right guys, of course. And I have it. My two quarterback chart is live over at fantasy guru.com. As we speak, I just finished that up this week. So I check that out. How do I off the presses? So when I had the first pick, I got the first pick in this one. It was a no doubt or for me was Josh Allen. Other people, I think Puka was, Nuku was the number one consensus in that. But the beach on one second in my league, Puka went third in my league. Jermar Chase went fourth, Jermir Gibbs fifth, Lamar Jackson sixth, Brock power seven. You know, all the extras for tight ends. You knew they would go high. Jackson's mid in jigba eighth. I'm on Ross St. Brown ninth, Tramick pride tenth, Aston Gentile 11th and Jonathan Taylor 12th. What a great diverse mix that is. Couple quarterbacks, couple tight ends, receiver running back. That's how you know, this is a good fantasy league. It's a fun fantasy league. Just that mix. Don't assign it. Just get the points. Who cares where they come from? It's a great mix. I really enjoyed that. So I went with quarterback. The reason you may be asking yourself why would you go quarterback? I went quarterback first because the quarterback is the position that is the steadiest, the most secure, they have the ball on every play. And their points from week to week, month to month, year to year, they are the most consistent. We went over it on the series XM show consistency week. We have a consistency guide over fantasy guru.com and point to pendability guide as well. It is what is quarterbacks are going to the best quarterbacks are going to the Josh Allen. There is nobody more steady and secure. And somebody outscore Josh Allen. The last year, Christian McCaffrey outscored Josh Allen. I think Puka and B-John also outscored him from that mistake it by a couple of points. But it's not a steady. It's just not a secure any of those other positions. And hence why I made the choice I did when I came back around. I'll tell you the second round then I'll just get to my pick. So I mentioned Taylor was pick 12. Justin Jefferson, 13th overall. I'm surprised. People don't like Jefferson in this league with two quarterbacks already out the more and two tight ends Jefferson still goes 13. Surprising. HN 14, Drake May 15, CD Lam 16, Christian McCaffrey 17. Pretty good. Yeah, that's good spot. Holster. Loveland now, 13. See Joe Perot 19, Jaden Daniels 20, Caleb Williams 21. that's the group I don't like very much. Because in my opinion, this is what I urge you not to do in drafts. You see a run of a play, of a player group, a quarterback, running back receiver, whatever. Don't feel, oh my God, I have to get one of those guys. See, that's the losing mentality. Right? You shouldn't be going for the fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, best of that position. You should try to get one, two, three, four, five, best at any position. You know what I mean? Like it makes sense to go after the top quarterbacks or receiver or tight ends. Based on the scoring system early, it makes sense to go after that. But when you start going to your two, three, four at the position in just the middle of the second round, I got a problem with that. Like you can't, I mean, Christian McCatrey versus Colston Lovlin, come on, man. Let me come on. Right? And like I have all, I understand the risks of McCatrey unlike anybody. You guys know that. But I mean, these aren't, these don't resemble the same human being. And one guy gets McCatrey at 17. Another one gets Lovlin at 18. See, that's just checking the box because others did it. And I know that's why people do that. And again, I actually don't mind Burrow Daniels Williams that much. Because you should get a quarterback. And the fact that you were eight, those teams were able to get elite players at other positions and come back with a quarterback that I also have my top five or six. That's a good job. I have no problem with it. But it does feel a little unceremonious, I suppose. George Pickens, 22nd overall, Drake London's 23rd overall. And then it was my turn at 24 and 25 overall. I had back to back picks at that point. And at this stage of the game, the best player that was on my board was O'Maring Hampton. And this is really the part of the draft where I said, all right, what am I going to do here? It's going to be different. And I'll be, I'll, I really dove in at this point to the structure of the league. And one of the things I thought to myself, because they're not a lot of running backs necessarily going off here. There were a lot of receivers. Receivers will score more on a general basis than running backs because all the bonus points, just 20 yard reception and stuff like that. So I felt let's grab a couple still elite wide receivers and see where the rest of the draft takes us. Even though I wanted O'Maring Hampton and James Cook actually was up on my board too. I passed both of them. I took Nico Collins, who's the second highest overall player on my board left. And then I took Devonta Smith of the Eagles. If you listen to the World Cup of Wide receivers, you know how I feel about Smith this year. If just being straight up, I did that because I want them on my team. That's it. It probably and I would say pretty definitely wasn't the best pick. I could have made. But it's the guy I want it. I wanted the receiver. I want to him on my team. I think the 20 plus yard category is going to be really, really big for him as it will be for Nico. So there's an argument to be made. But I and I passed it because I'm having more fun with this league building it. The team that I wanted as opposed to players that I just was stuck sort of getting. When I came back at picks four. So I went and Nico and Devonta Smith. I come back at 48 49. And at that point, there's some quarterback. I was really getting excited because they were quarterbacks that were still on the board. Like Jalen Hertz is still on the board coming up to me. Trevor Lawrence is still on the board coming up to me. And I was like, oh shit, this could be really fucking good. And I got on the clock and those guys both got taken. Patrick Mahomes got taken. And I was like, player that was fifth, two years ago and 30th last year overall in this format. And I'm at pick 48 49 was Jared Goff. I got Jared Goff to be my second quarterback. I got two top 12 quarterbacks. I love that position. I also took Garrett Wilson, another receiver there, which in hindsight, should have done better. Kyron was still on the board. Could have gone that direction. I was thinking about Luther Burton, but I also knew later on the draft. I can get a different guy in that spot. And that's what I did. So 48 49 Garrett Wilson, Jared Goff come back around 72 73 overall. I got Roma Dunes a fucking thrilled out of this world with that pick. Love Roma Dunes a and I took DJ more. Two guys. Joshua. I got Josh Allen's number one receiver, DJ more great combination. I got a Dunes a who I have ranked ahead of Luther Burton this year at fantasy guru.com. And I got him a full two rounds later than I was considering taking burden and burden, what 58 overall. I got a Dunes a 72. I think it's a steal. Coming back in the eighth round, I realized that picks 96 97. That's where I waited too long on the tight end position. When I was at picks 72 73, I thought, okay, we still got a bunch of great guys Ferguson Kelsey, Kittle, they're still on the board. Yeah, I'm they will likely last until picks 96 97. No, they did not none of them did. I did wind up getting Dalton concade who is my only tight end that I drafted in this league. I also took Bay Shelter who I fucking love Jackson will Jaguar running back to again, if he doesn't fun bowl away his opportunity. This guy is every chance to be a top 10 fantasy running back this season. I got him a pick 96. Very happy with that one. Concade. I have a good feeling about again. I have Josh Allen. So now I got a mini stat with Josh Allen DJ more and Dalton concade. Remember, you start 10 in this league and they're all flexes. So I'm going to have a big chunk of that bills offense coming back. Pick all 121, 2121 rounds 10 11 took Rico Dowdell and Aaron Rogers. I did not want Rogers. I want to Malik Willis. And Malik Willis want pick 119 one pick before me son of a bitch. I really wanted Willis is my third quarterback. Cause again in this format, I won somebody cover those by weeks. So in hindsight, take the quarterback running back that spot. Not ideal and not great. I got Rogers for the protection. Maybe I just he else is a good matchup during week six and seven or the by weeks for my guys. So I got golf and week six and Allen Josh Allen at week seven off. And Rogers plays like Tennessee, I believe those weeks. So, you know, I played a little bit with that wanted that third quarterback. And, you know, I'm hoping that it winds up working out. They play. Oh, they play the bucks in the Saints. I'm not bad. I could live with that. So anyway, got my third quarterback there. And then it was just best player available the rest of the way. And one of the things that I knew I was going to do. I was going to do a bit like I did a somewhat zero RB build here. I was just going to take a bunch of backup running backs because they're backups anyway. So those I don't want to be in the middle. If I'm going to win this league, it's an overall point type thing too. So you got to have a lot of things break your way. And I went with a lot of backup running backs in premium backfields. Meaning they're going to produce a lot of points. And, you know, Rico Dottles, sort of the first one Kyle Menungai in the 12th round Kenny Kane, well in the 13th round, pick 145 Holy shit. Do I love Kenny gain well. Holy shit. That might be my favorite pick of the entire draft. Very excited about that. And picks 14 and 15. I took two jets at a night Mitchell. I went for the distance scoring there with him. And then Braille and Allen of the jets. They're on love Braille and Allen last year. He was going in the sixth round for crying out loud 15th round pick 169. I'll take the chance there. The breeze hall. Now they's got a contract gets injured. Took Nicholas Singleton in the 16th might keep Mitchell in the 17th round get some of those receptions from the Chargers running back and backfield there as well took James Conner in the 18th. More I look at it. The more it's obvious to me that James Conner is going to wind up getting dealt. He's going to go to a team. I think he James Conner going to Detroit. Something about that connection. Just where I think it's going to happen. Don't trust Pacheco to be the Montgomery of that backfield. I just so I took a little bit of a shot there. Bryce Lance. Praying off of the injury to the Olave and Jordan Tyson injury history there. I love Bryce Lance. I don't know where to go to state in the 19th round. And the final pick of the draft with Quint Allen get used to that name everybody. While y'all are talking about Chris Rodriguez. I'm going to the quit Allen on that deal. If you want to really protect the Bay shell to an investment, the quit Allen's a better, better investment than Chris Rodriguez, at least at this stage of the game. So there you go. That's my Scott Fishball team. Let me know what you think. I Jeff underscore man's on Twitter. You could also hit me up in the Manscafe Discord room fantasy guru.com. Then a fell room as well. All the all the football rooms. I'm all over there. Let's get into the coaching breakdowns. And I'm going to be as quick as I can with this because there are 10 head coaches. And on the serious sex I'm show I covered all of those teams. The Cardinals falcons, Ravens, Bills, Browns, Raiders, Dolphins, Steelers, Giants and Titans. I covered those. But there's 21 new offense coordinators. In addition to those 10 Chicago Denver Detroit Kansas City, Chargers, Rams, Jets, Eagles, Seahawks, Buckeneers and commanders all have new offensive coordinators. And then there's 17 defense quarters. I'm not going to talk defense for on this episode. I break down the defense aside of the ball. I want everybody to know that unlike anybody else in my industry, nobody takes on the defensive side like this. And those the couple that like talk a lot of IDP, they almost exclusively talk IDP and they're really good at it. But I talk about the defense of scheme on top of the offensive scheme. And so knowing the entire team and how they play football gives us a big advantage again. The only place on earth to get those coaching breakdowns and break it down fantasy guru.com. So I'm going to whip through all of them, all offensive changes. Start with the Cardinals. It's a Sean McVey offense, usually 11 personnel, spread formations and all that. But I think it's going to be a modern McVey meaning more tight end usage there as well. And I know a lot has been made who's going to be it's something I'm paying attention to. Michael Wilson versus Marvin Harrison Jr. they're both really, really good investments in those middle rounds at the wider receiver position. Right. If you can get either one of those guys and I lean Harrison to be your rider, see verse three or even four, I think you've done a great job. So in that spirit, you know, the way this benefit benefits those two wider receivers. I think this offense isn't bad for Tremac bride, but compared to what Drew Petsing did the last couple of years, this offense lowers Tremac brides expected output. Meanwhile, the wide zone blocking scheme with the duo overlay is very good and benefits Jeremiah love tremendously. Al Jir has average just three and a half yards per carry three point eight and outside zone runs over the last three years. So really doesn't feel like he's that much of a threat. Maybe on goal line opportunities, they'll share my love six one two 10. I don't know. Jeremiah loves going to walk away with this, this one. So he fits the system very well and I would definitely take a shot on Marvin Harrison Jr. there as well. So and then we get to Atlanta, the Atlanta Falcons, new offense here and they take the Brown system from a year ago and they're moving in here. That means wide zone rushing, which is perfect for B. John Robinson. I want to tell anybody that it's also very good. The Kevin Stefansky and Tommy Reese don't rotate. They give a lot higher volume to their lead running back. Something B. John Robinson has not had in his three years in the league with Arthur Smith disaster and then even Zach Robinson in Ricky Morris last year in Atlanta. This is like Brian Robinson is the backup and he's just not a threat. He is not a threat at all. So I'd be John Ease and should be the number one running base. It's why I want to move genty over him, but I simply can't. The other part of the Falcons though, this offense is very West Coast short, quick pass, play action, quick release. That's what everything is. And to me, not just to me in life, that means to a tongue of I lower over Michael Penex. Michael Penex is deep drop, long drop, long exaggerated routes, deep balls down to sidelines to your ex-receiver, Drake London. That's what it is. It's not the system that running Atlanta anymore, folks. Big change. Big change. They don't want deep drops and they don't want time. The TT stat time to throw. They don't want that. Ball out immediately. It's two. It's catching run more than deep passing routes. So that helps be John and Kyle Pits. And if you're looking for a deep sleep or it's Zachariah Branch, but those are the best fits here for the offense. And I think two is going to start more games as well for the Falcons than Michael Penex does. So there you go. Baltimore Ravens. It's a defense of minded coach. They go get Declan Doyle who's the offense coordinator of Chicago. Now you have to be careful because he didn't call any plays and he was not in control of the Bears offense at all last year. But he will be completely in control of the Ravens offense. And I think that's a great thing. We saw the OTAs. There's a renewed energy which was needed. Somebody's got to break through to Lamar Jackson. And if it's the youngest offense coordinator league, so be it. That's what Declan Doyle is. So running game is a big piece of this wide zone outside zone, I should say, but with a lot of duo and right now we don't know if he's going to Declan Doyle is going to incorporate the split zone runs the way that Ben Johnson's offense is to. So we, I expected them to, but we saw an OTAs. It doesn't seem that way. Seem like they're going to go outside zone and layer it up with duo runs where you pull somebody around to steal the edge defender out and get that lead blocker out there for Derrick Henry, which I think is obviously great. I mean, Derrick Henry surprisingly does very well on outside zone runs, which is surprising. The outside zone is for the speedsters guys who can get to the edge and make lateral quick this. Very stunning. How well Derrick Henry's numbers have actually gotten worse the last three years in inside zone and power runs than they have on the outside. So he is just a different species is all I got to say. And I think Henry's fine in the system. I like him more this year than I did last year because the offense, but I still, I'm going to probably not draft a 32 year old running back. Pre-stamp motion RPOs absolutely a lot of pressure on the quarterback to understand and execute and make reads at the line of scrimmage. Buying into that playbook is a very, very big deal as well. The thing is they want to push the ball down field. The Declan Doyle style of offense, explosive plays, run game and pass game, meaning the play designs themselves is you will have a lot of motion and movement and players running routes that are ever really a part of the reader, the play. They are there just to draw the defense in and for the quarterback to then hit the receiver in the pass game with either something short and high percentage, meaning with a good run after the play or something deep down the field. The Marlikes throw the ball deep down the field. He especially likes deep down the field in the middle of the field. So that'll be fascinating because they brought in all these other guys. Jacobi Lane, Elijah Sarah, and Devon Des Walker, they already on teams, they flowers who can get deep but smaller. You can tell by those personnel acquisitions, the Ravens are going to go deep a lot this year. I think it's great for Lamar. I think it's a good idea to buy back into Lamar Jackson. This is also very good offense for the tight ends. This is one of those situations. Normally when the system overrides the player, for me though, I'm out of Mark Andrews. If I had to or if it's a best ball, multiple tight ends, and he's my number two, great. Yeah, no problem. But no more Isaiah likely there. They did bring in and draft to other tight ends. It seems like it's a good spot for Andrew, but Andrews has not been making contest to catch us. He is. His drops have gone through the roof and his body's breaking down. So I really don't have a lot of hope in Andrews and for where he's going to draft, I'm just out. I can see him blowing up and having a good season. I really could see it because he fits the offense. I personally am just out on that. The Buffalo Bills basically Joe Brady was off his corner, takes over as head coach. There's really nothing. No problems there. I don't think much is going to change although they got DJ Moore, you know, getting DJ Moore, it finally got an alpha healthy. and Kade is good. Not going to change a lot. They're going to run the ball tons of RPOs like normal. Nothing really to change their Josh Allen is going to be who he is. A lot more. He has full control of the offense. He can check in and out of any play he wants at any time. And that's a good thing. It's a good thing because he's not like some of these other some other quarterbacks. Want to check out a place because they feel they don't want to like Aaron Rogers will check out of a play because he doesn't. He doesn't want to throw an interception, put the ball in harm's way, or you know, throwing in completion for God forbid. Oh, my completion rate. Yeah, things Josh Allen doesn't give a shit. He'll attack when it's time to attack. He'll put the ball in risk if you have to. He just better at it than other quarterbacks, which is why I have him so high. But so that's the change. The the Bears press Taylor. You know, press Taylor offense corner for the Bears is Zach Taylor, the head coach of the Bengals brother. Yeah, press Taylor has been around quite a bit and been around a while. But he has to do offense quarter. There's no change here. Declan Doyle was a sharper mind in my opinion, obviously. So they lose that element. But this is Ben Johnson's team and it's specifically Ben Johnson's offense. Cleveland. The fucking the worst the worst higher there ever was Todd Monkin. It's way too old and too out of touch in my opinion. Monkin his entire system has always been. Give the quarterback the clipboard every put all the decision making into the quarterbacks hands. The problems don't have a quarterback. I don't know how this is going to work. See, that's the thing about Monkin is he relies on players like, you know, Carson Beckett in college and Stetson Bennett in college. And Lamar Jackson and James Winston, you know, all the quarterback, he gives them full rain and then takes credit for when they do well and passes it off when they don't. They don't have that guy here in Cleveland. I don't know what they're going to do. Start four quarterbacks. What the fuck is that? It's a fucking disaster. They will use a lot of 12 and 21 personnel meaning a lot of two tight end and two running back setups. That means we're going to see. You know, Harold fans that could be alone on the field. A great deal. You're going to get other guys they'll they got rid of and joke with this off season. Also two running back setups with Dylan Samson will likely accompany Quenchon Jenkins on the field with their defa going to use Michael Burton. Their free agent acquisition from the Broncos are going to use him as full back on Bonshire as well. So you're going to get a lot of those set up a lot of lead blockers as well. So, you know, I have some like for Quenchon Jenkins a little bit. They're going to try to use our POs although. I don't know. I just they also run a lot of vertical routes in a Todd Monk and offense. And Denzel Boston, Cedric Tillman, Tylin Wallace, Isaiah Bond. Those are the guys likely to go vertical while Judy, Concepcion and fan and work the underneath catch and run stuff. As far as what fits Quenchon Jenkins to me, that's the piece even though I really don't like this defense without Jim Schwartz is a big fucking loss and then Miles Garrett. I mean, please do not think that the Browns have a good defense. Don't go into your leagues thinking that those days it's over. It is over. That whole thing is over. So that's I don't usually like draft and running backs from bad teams of bad defenses. Because the game script gets away from too much. But I have for where he's going and the setup here for Quenchon Jenkins, the talent. I do like the improvements on the offense line for what it's worth. He's a guy I'm interested in. Fanon's okay. But I Harold Fanon with Shader Sanders. Okay. Now we can talk about him being a top six fantasy tight end. But without him Watson and Gabriel and I just don't know. I really try to stay away from these past catchers even at the tight end spot. Include. I just I can't do it personally. Denver Broncos new offense quarter. They fired Joe Lombardi for no fucking reason and then promote the Davis who sounds like he owns a country club. No change to the Broncos offense. I don't anticipate anything being different for Denver. It's still Sean Peyton still gimmicky and weird and we'll never know week to week who's being used. And that's the alternate downfall for Denver Broncos. Now the Lions. They go get through Petsing interesting. I drew Petsing one of Ben Johnson's scrumsman. Everyone's talked about that motion before the snap. It's their Arizona Arizona Cardinals offense from last year. Rhythm based progressions. That's quick high percentage throws to the short and intermediate levels. And that is I'm on Ross St. Brown. But the other thing and it fits Jared golf great. So it's a real that's another reason I draft a golf is I just love the fit here. It's why Jacobi Berset put up such good numbers. Right. But wherever Petsing's been Minnesota Cleveland Arizona. The tight end has been the focal point of the passing game. He loves to move tight ends around a great opportunity. Down the seam specifically. I think that Sam Laporta is going to be back on top this year. Now he's had back surgery now of season. But that could be a good thing because he's fully recovered, participating in training camp as well. So this is a really great fit for a player just about to hit his prime years. Very, very big guy. I like Sam Laporta. Andrew Petsing's offense. He's you can't expect him to put up. He's not going to put up. Tramick pride numbers. But he I mean, we'll take 60%. Well, they're 60. We'll take 75%. Tramick pride. All old dude. Oh, fucking day. Here. I think that's the best golf. I'm an arousers. The stud Gibbs is stud. We all know that. The Gibbs. The one good thing is it looks like he's going to get more of a share though. I did speculate and not speculate. I mean, the numbers. Jameer Gibbs. I'm not. I don't give any player. He doesn't get to decide what his value is. I decide based on what he proves to me. And Jameer Gibbs is great as he was put up 55 point games last year. Down the stretch of the season. That dude fell apart. No body's talking about it. Nobody. It worries me. He's going to get a bigger workload. He fits the system incredibly well. He's a great talent. He doesn't have David Montgomery to spell him. And down the stretch last year Gibbs and staff numbers went up. Montgomery's went down and the production for the run game went down. And when Gibbs didn't either catch a ton of passes or get in the end zone. He did absolutely nothing. What 2.8 yards per carry or less six games. It's not good. It's just not good. So there you go. Kansas City. Matt Aggies gone. Eric B. Enemies back. And the reason they did this. A couple of things. It's Andy Reed still in charge of everything. And he's going to make the decisions and play calls. He was brought back because they know what he brings to the run game. And with Patrick Mahomes recovering from the ACL. They went out, spent big ass money on Kenneth Walker and drafted Emma Johnson. And they are getting this run the running game is back for Andy Reed and company. And it's a great investment. Kenneth Walker's tremendous, tremendous investment. They have made everything about this run game. And the enemy was in Chicago under Ben Johnson last year as well. Don't think for a fucking minute the Andy Reed and getting some of that action. Meaning split zone runs as well. So not an under a Matt naggy chops up his backfield. So I you saw two guys, three guys the last couple of years in Kansas City. That's never happened before under Andy Reed. And it's also why Matt naggy doesn't is in Kansas City anymore. The Raiders. Oh, I did a whole podcast on the Raiders. Do I need to even get into them? You guys know what I think of the Raiders phenomenal Clint Kubiak. Got the Joker, Roll Baby, Brock, Bowers, Ashen, Gentie. I mean, I have a whole show on the Raiders. I don't need to waste any time on them. I mean, I fucking love those two guys. You cannot draft. Gentie or Bowers high enough for me. You just can't. So Clint Kubiak, Rick Dennis and offense lengths could be so much better. Everybody's going to be so surprised. I get to week five and six, but go over. You know who's not that bad. The Raiders don't that bad. And I'll be sitting here. You guys will be said. Hopefully you guys are sitting there in your office spaces and your recrooms on Sunday saying, I fuck it. Told you guys. Why fucking drafts and Gentie, baby. You left when I took him fourth overall. Now you're all sucking my ball bag. You know, that's what you should be saying at least because it's the truth. Chargers. I talked about them a little bit. Talk about petting. but McDaniel, Mike McDaniel, just what I'm getting, Mike McDaniel loves speed and he loves getting blockers. He loves having the mix of strong blocking for elite level speed. And we like that. He doesn't have the speed yet in Miami at all, but he's got just bulldogs in O'Maring Hampton and Oran DeGaz, David and Joe Kuh. I mean, he's just got, you know, nothing but playmakers everywhere. And Justin Herbert, the straw that stirs the entire drink. So it's a tremendous set up here. I think the best we want the running back. We want O'Maring Hampton desperately. I actually like Herbert fits the system, but it's going to be quicker passes. They don't want to get him hit. They don't want to get the quarterback hit. It's quick drop backs. It is. They don't they're not going to run as much. Herbert, that's another area that Herbert's going to regret. He had like 500 yards rushing last year and that's going to go way down. 498 to be exact. That's going to go down. So he's going to have to really up the usage there. Also they're going to use 12 and even 13 personnel, which I don't know what this does for Lad McConkey. I don't know what it does for the entire receiving core here. I really don't because Quentin Johnston, Trey Harris, Lad McConkey. They also love Brennan Thompson, fourth rounder that McDaniel begged for because he runs a 429 40, even Lambert Smith, a round of 4348 a year ago. These are big dogs, but very vertical oriented players. Well, Ad McConkey can't play just a slot because if you have multiple tight ends on the field, I don't do go empty backfield. Like you're not going empty backfield. So what do you do? You can't have two tight ends, three tight ends and a slot receiver. That don't work. So somebody's either Lad's going to have to play outside, out wide, I should say, or tight ends though aren't multiple tight ends aren't on the field, which I know, no, no, no, that's not happening. They're going to use a lot of tight ends that you don't go out and you have a rendezvous instant and then you sign Charlie Kohler and David and Joe Kuh, yeah, you're using multiple tight ends. It's blatantly obvious. So the entire receiving core worries me. To me, it's, it's all Marin Hampton all day and then if I took a late shot, maybe I do take a late shot on Trey Harris, but I don't want to, I don't want to mess around even the tight ends. To me, it's too fractured. Gatsden would be a tremendous situation. Kohler is going to play more than Gatsden and I think in joke, who's going to be a healthy David and Joe who's going to be right there because he's so much better of a blocker. It's another thing. Gatsden technically is a receiver, not a tight end. So I don't know. This whole thing is kind of kind of fucked, you know, like who, who the other receiver is, it's not something I'm going to be drafting. The Rams, no change there. They lose Matt LaFlaur or Michael LaFlaur to the Cardinals and so they just promote Nathan Shielhasi. Shielhasi. He's, he's not going to matter. He's carrying a clipboard for Sean McVeigh, but he'll be head coach in two years because he is that close proximity to Sean McVeigh. Miami Dolphins talked about them last time. I like Bobby Slowick, another outside zone scheme. Just Devon H. Ann incredibly well. Really throwing for their life in Miami as well. You know, that's the thing about half lays a defense of mine to coach. So at least we know we're getting a true Bobby Slowick offense. They just don't have the offensive line or the receiving weapons or the quarterback to make it work at a high level. They don't. He'll also be interesting from a fantasy standpoint because he's going to run for his life. He's going to because so many of their mobile quarterbacks are regressing as far as they're just getting older and that's like we're not getting big rushing yard totals from Josh Allen or Jalen Hertz. Lawrence will go down. Herbert's going to go down this year because of that a guy like Malik Willis who will likely wind up 700 plus rushing yards because of that he's going to get 250 to 75 fantasy points. And that's going to put him right in that quarterback 12th area probably. Now I just the reason I don't rank him there and I can't put him there's I don't know what he is throwing the ball. If you told me Malik Willis is the guy from Green Bay and that's who he truly is then I would say yeah he'd probably be quarterback inside top 15. Let's put that way. I don't believe it. I don't believe he's as bad as he was in Tennessee either but it's not a situation and then who's catching the ball even if he is on time and on point is anybody going to help him. I don't think so. The coach isn't going to help him. So the big thing that the dolphins have going for them is that two way go route meaning so ball snapped the receivers the inside receivers run they have two ways to take their route. They have their route call dig or post or whatever they're running hook or whatever and they could take it inside or outside and it usually depends on where the coverage is at. Inside the coverage that they'll run it if he's shading outside he runs it in shading inside he runs it out so on and so forth but it's that's a lot of dominoes and it takes the quarterback the receivers be on the same page the same time accurate the whole it's going to take some time to get used to and I just ultimately think there's too much rotation within there. I would think could thrive in this system but I'd rather just have Devon H.N. The giants we've talked about them before John Harb all Matt Nagy will everything that the Kansas chiefs lose the giants get with Matt Nagy that means it's a dual backfield. That means it's a ton of screen passes Matt Nagy you know frustrated we bet with Patrick Mahomes the last couple of years why he doesn't throw the ball down field and the one thing that we never really understood or we should have and shame on me personally because I should have connected those dots but it's hard you know I didn't do it is Matt Nagy's offense is fucking constantly throwing at her behind the line of scrimmage. It's true there's 70 there's a screen on 75% of his offensive pass plays it's fucking ridiculous the next highest is 63% in the NFL it's ridiculous all right they also run deep as a high low sort of a multiple deep routes that usually are crossing each other deep crosses are post a lot of those and then you end up with the screens or something so you kind of he likes drawing the coverage deep and then opening up the underneath stuff which is why the catch and runs with Rishi Rice has been so good so be careful on Rishi Rice by the way Travis Kelsey continues to progress because the catch and run routes and the underneath stuff now Kelsey's done it with five offense coronaires so but Matt Nagy who's going to get those catching run routes there's nobody. Malik neighbors would be fantastic but there's no way whether he starts a season there or not which you most likely won't at this point there's no way that Malik neighbors is going to be running after the catch that much that would put him in a lot of danger get hit way too often so Isaiah likely cams cataboo and Tyrone Tracy is incredibly intriguing to me so receiver place running back he's been better at running back than he you would think now they have jujus mischews through there and auto back them there so there's a big conglomerate for those catching runs I ain't messing with any of them. Late round Isaiah likely even though I told you last week Theo Johnson is too close to Jackson Dart for me to go all in unlikely right but I like Tyrone Tracy too I'm not going to go after any of the pass catchers I if you want if you are into the pass catchers or you're into the Giants offense you better off just go in Jackson Dart because you'll get a lot of runs out of him a lot of mobile yardage and if he opens up in the receiving game high completion and you believe in this receiving core to get yards after the catcher well then Dart's going to have an amazing fantasy season. The jets fucked the jets. Frank Reich old-ass Washed up motherfucker just can't be worse if there's a silver lining Aaron Glendiz and nobody's doing wants to use multiple backs in the backfield which is bat shit crazy They love overloading one side three receivers will be running routes into one part of the zone coverage So when they identify The coverage they're gonna run three receivers into that zone trying to make that Those cover guys bite on whatever to leaving one other receivers free open if you will and Yeah, cool sounds great. You know it doesn't sound good. Geno fucking Smith throwing them the ball. Geno Smith trying to react to that no fucking way No fucking way no way. Uh-uh. No way I'm not on no. I did draft Garrett Wilson. I got a great value on you and Garrett Wilson I'm hoping for the best That's the I am not overly optimistic. I'm okay with it. I love breeze all love Garrett Wilson. These are very good players But they are in they are on a team that unfortunately doesn't know what they're doing. There's just nothing there I drafted Braille and Alan because I who knows now that breeze all got his money. I don't know what they're gonna be doing I really don't but they're gonna they're supposedly they're gonna run three running backs Which means I say Dave's I say they have only useful catching the ball Which means you're cutting into breeze hall catching the ball, which is fucking ridiculous Braille and Alan on duo runs I do like but oh this is a situation stay away from the jets Whatever you can do now again, they're going to be better. I know I was all in on them last year You know one thing I've realized also And I've gotten better at I believe is I'm just waiting out this team. I know there's talent I know there's players I like. I'm just gonna wait them out. I'm I'm waiting it out until we get the new staff and You know, you know and the great example is Javante Williams Number two years ago. I said how great Javante would be if he goes to the Dallas Cowboys Remember what I literally said that over and over on the radio show constantly and I didn't have either the Portitude or the courage or would have you to go in on Javante last year. I should have just waited out He was fucked in Denver Players are just fucked. I mean they'll be production from the jets and the Broncos, but who knows when and how it's just deeply upsetting just wait them out Either wait for the coach to leave and get fired or wait for the player to eventually leave and go to a better place That's that's where I'm at Sean Manin. He's the new offense quarter in Philadelphia and that's interesting There's I don't know it's one of the harder coaching profiles for me because Manin's never done anything but be a quarterback coach For the Reamei Packer saw You know the system that There and saw by the way, it's the fifth offense coordinator in five years for a team that's been in the Super Bowl twice and I mean they Kevin Pettulo and Brian Johnson are two of the all-time worst offense coordinator hires in the history of this game Just horrible and every year they do it we'll see What Manin is about the one thing that he's doing for sure is attacking the underneath portion of the defense teams have gotten so reliant And that was what Kevin Pettulo wanted to go deep all the time and we saw it Jalen Hertz the offense line and Jalen Hertz The receivers AJ Brown most notably they weren't comfortable running deep routes all the time. They just weren't so Everything it's gonna be underneath a lot more really attack that sort of eight to twelve yard area and try to pick up chunks of yards after the catch as well The biggest thing with hurts is to listen to your feet approach Sean Manin The good thing he's worked a quarterbacks for most of his coaching career post quarterback career and he wants the the past The entire offense to be in sync with the quarterbacks drop So that means the offensive lines the routes that the receivers are running and the progression from the quarterback is making all coincides with Jalen Hertz feet a couple years ago When he had admissible down the stretch Jalen Hertz his feet got all fucked up And they couldn't quite get those right so that was the Brian Johnson the golfants and so it's a great idea If they could get Jalen Hertz in rhythm and his feet right We may hit an Oklahoma level of production in the passing game for Jalen Hertz In which Jalen Hertz becomes a candidate for quarterback one in fantasy football And needless to say I'm kind of buying it I'm kind of buying it You know mostly because I'm not gonna have to pay a premium The run game well that that's I don't know if it's good or bad, but they completely Are throwing everything that they used to do in the run game and gone and losing Jeff Stoutland their offense of line coach For the last 15 years 14 years 13 years that's terrible So I don't know stoutland his the reason the filio for eagle said such a great offense line for the last decade and a half He is the guy he developed Lane Johnson and Jason Kelsey and Cam Jordans and all these guys So it's gonna be a new world and they're gonna go wide zone blocking scheme Lot of pulling a lot of moving for offense line. That's the oldest in the national football league So say quantum average 3.3 yards per carry and wide zone runs last year though Should say two years ago it was over five so Saquon used to fit wide zone very well at this age. I don't know I don't know Not in or out on Saquon. It's one of those things where I'd have to get him at the right price If I'm in but I'm more interested in the jalen hurts and specifically the divante smith that is what I want to vante mother fucking smith That's who I want in this eagles offense for sure Pittsburgh Steelers Mike McCarthy Brian Angelico Angelica's no say so whatsoever. This is a Mike McCarthy offense Through and through the Pittsburgh coast offense man It's a new day in Pittsburgh Things are gonna be more open unlike other Systems that are going more heavy tight end. I mean Steelers played the Second heaviest or the heaviest personnel in the league last year It's gonna look like they're playing a fucking spread offense compared still gonna use plenty of multiple tight ends But they're gonna also use three wide receivers. They go out they get Michael pitman I think is a good Get there as well Ultimately This offense aligned and lost their entire left side over the last two years They can't protect as well Rodgers cannot drop back as far as feet aren't as strong his arm isn't as strong so That's gonna put a lot of focus on the shorter passing game here in Pittsburgh you know McCarthy likes to lay around forcing coverage to commit One way or another so a lot of rub pick routes that do get called back so be careful with that So you're gonna see a lot of those sort of double crossers mesh concepts as well that they just Move people around and try to interfere if you will with that and get somebody open for a catch and run opportunity it doesn't fit dk Medcalf area well It's much better now The the standard offense fits dk Medcalf because they're they love their vertical routes The last time McCarthy and Rodgers were together it was all the vertical routes. It's all they fucking did It was Jordy Nelson and Greg Jennings and it was a lot of short stuff to play deep and that was the whole Kitten Kaboodle Rodgers just doesn't have that arm anymore plain and simply does not have The arm for it any longer and thus i don't think i know i saw dk Medcalf open over and over and over and over and over Last year and him not get the football he got the football only an underneath catch and run led to the most yards after catch dk Medcalf has ever had So in my world It's a no for me big dog It just it just is On dk Medcalf If Roger somehow finds the fountain of youth and maybe like by the way Like let me just say about air Rogers Fuck yeah Back with his family like taking pictures and stuff. I don't know how much is that is true or what have you But hell yeah man good for him. I'm Let me just say I am never against people forever You know what i mean? I really hope that that relationship can be rekindled or at least you don't have to like your family, but I think you just don't disown family. You know, I really don't. You let buy guys be gone. You can't, can't make old friends. You can't make old family. You just can't. They're going to know you and support you better than other people. So if that, those reports are true. Big thumbs up for me, man. I absolutely love it. The run game in Pittsburgh is interesting. I want the pass catching running back because I did that study about 37 plus year old quarterbacks. They either get banched or they retire, AK bench to retired. They completely not early shit the bed or they learn to check down. There is no other options. That's no quarterback in the history of this league has been successful age 37 or later with a high rate of deep passes, deep pass or rating, deep yards, intended area, it doesn't have it has never happened. And it's not going to now. It's checked down city. To me, Jalen Warren is likely that guy in Pittsburgh and he's going to get the he was running back 16 last year in fantasy football while his teammate Kenny Gainwell was running back 15. So or I'm sorry, 16, 17, more than was 17. So if Warren does the same thing he did, but he picks up those those catches 33 more catches, 150 more yards and extra touchdown. Jalen Warren's the top 10 top seven fantasy running back. Now I don't I don't think it's going to do that. I think Warren is going to run. He's going to have a gain will type here 500 yards rushing 75 plus targets 55 plus receptions, 400 rushing a couple touchdown. So, but that again, for where he's going, I think it's a great investment. It's the better investment. If I had to choose a receiver, it would be Michael Pittman and just ultimately, I don't want to go there. Ultimately, I don't see at all. Brian Flurry, he's going to call plays is the most inexperienced play collar in the history of a super bowl champion. That's a mess. I'm not doing anything with Seattle. Jackson within Jaguar. That's it. Nobody I don't want don't I don't a j barner. I don't want the running backs. I don't want anybody. Absolutely not Tampa Bay. Ooh, I like Tampa Bay Zach Robinson. What do I like in Tampa Bates? Kind of similar to Pittsburgh past catches to running backs. Wide zone blocking. The Atlanta Falcons offense is coming to Tampa Bay. Again, this is another team that has five coordinators in five years and they've hit and missed on several of them, right? But it's a much more old school Sean McVey type of offense for Zach Robinson. I mean, they are going to spread it out 11 personnel. Play action all the time. You know, that's they're going to also keep the Baker Mayfield is going to be in shotgun formation a lot of the time. Okay. So running out of shotgun is how we're going to see the Tampa Bay run game go. So it's tough. Bucking your ring had an amazing rookie year. Did a profile on him on serious exam. It was all well and good. It was great rookie season, terrible second season. I'll just cut to the chase. I love Kenny gain. Well, I love Kenny gain on this offense. He has over five yards per carry in his career out of the shotgun. Remember, he did that a lot while in Philadelphia. He catches the football. He's great at the wide zone scheme. I really love it. You know, I really like this. This offensive line is very good one healthy too, which they weren't at most points last year. So I dig it and I did Kenny gain. I think he's a tremendous acquisition. There are so few running backs that once you get to the round six was that pick 72 overall. Once you get past pick 72 man. I mean, really and that's like the Bay shell to Deandre Swift. I like Jalen Warren. He's he's right in that. But after that, yeah, maybe you get Hubbard in price. If you like price, it's just dog shit. So to get a guy like Kenny gain while we're on pick a hundred. You know, ninth round. Now we're talking. You know, that that's the value of the player in the round. I think needs to be talked about even more. And I think there's a lot of opportunity because gain. Well, there's a very good chance. He's not just the best power runner on the team, the best pass catcher on the team. He's the best overall running back on the team quite possibly. And again, I'm a bucket. Irving guy. I do like bucket. The fears that we had going in were dispelled in year one and then reinvented in year two and the fact that he had to be shut down because of mental awareness issues and stuff. That just that worries me big time. But that's the offense here. Amika Buker is going to be moved around. I'll look for Ted Hurst also to get on the field as that ex replacing Mike Evans. No, we just replaced Mike Evans. He's not going to get a thousand yards, but he's going to play that role while at Iqbuka is going to move all around the formation. So in that regard, I like amika Buker. I think is a quality get in that fourth round dish, third, fourth round wide receiver. Final one, we'll talk about today. Tennessee Titan. Oh, shit. I'm way over. I'm giving you guys bonus today. All right. Another secret that I have. I love the Tennessee Titans this year. Whoa. I'm I've fallen in love with Cam Ward. I knew I liked him in college. I didn't I don't invest in Ricky quarterback. So I was kind of out last year of course. Second year. The offense under Brian DeBal. The fact that I love Robert Salah, he hired DeBal because he didn't want another Shanahan or McVeigh offense. He wanted something different. He's getting something different. That's going to be good for Brian DeBal. Brian DeBal helped Tom Brady, Josh Allen, Daniel Jones all get their careers on track. Eric kept it on track if you were the for Brady and reinvented Brady a lot of ways by the way. Doesn't get enough credit for that. But I mean, he made Josh Allen and he made Daniel Jones. So what can he do with Cam? More Cam Ward won me over if you watch the Netflix show quarterback. This dude's a hard ass worker. He is guys fucking serious about his job. Work hard. Get it after it. Don't take no shit. He just got that I had the tiger that I really like. And what they Brian DeBal's offense is, it's very pro quarterback, you know, pre snap motion, settle the quarterback, get the pre snap, read out, RPO, play action, a ton, just like most offenses, but mostly receivers running routes in the quarterbacks. I mean, he went where the quarterbacks looking, where the progressions are, they're all the same. Instead of the quarterback having to move his head, Brian DeBal teaches a very subtly effective trick in Josh Allen uses it to this day where he's not looking left, right, look, the dramatic. Sometimes he's the Stafford and the homes. These guys are making dramatic reads. They don't have to in Brian DeBal's offense because everything's happening in that vision. You know, and they went out got one Dale Robinson. I hate to say this, but I like one Dale Robinson, a lot, a lot this year, 78 million dollars and four year contract guys caught 90 balls each the last two years. And he's playing in the same offense now with a quarterback that's about to take a big step up in year number two screens, drag routes, crossing routes. Oh, really good for one Dale, right, and good for Cam Ward. So I like this. Now, I'm not drafting Cam Ward as a quarterback one, no way. He will give us a little bit of rushing, but not a lot. So I'm not drafting him there. He's just, he doesn't have anything. He doesn't have enough yet to be in that top 12. All right, but I think a big jump is coming. And I think people will be very happy and super flexed for him as well. Cam Ward, I think everybody drafts one Dale Robinson. You're going to draft him as wide or super four, five or six maybe, and you're going to start him almost every week in a PPR format. That means it's a good pick, right? So, uh, Colonel Tate, we'll see what he's got. I love Colonel Tate too. They've got so many weapons. The running backs. This is weird. Keeping Tony Polly to strange. The, the Carmen Bersillo, who is a multiple offensive line coach, meaning he does man gap and all forms of wide and inside zone runs as well. I was surprised to see it. Pollard is a better zone runner. And I would assume that they're going to feature more zone runs there. But Nick Singleton, Nicholas Singleton Penn State is a real good man gap runner. I wouldn't doubt it all because the ball and Bersillo always keep this multiple. I wouldn't doubt if we're going to see a lot more split between Singleton and Pollard, not Taj peers and Pollard in Tennessee. So that's what we have right there. Yeah, the ingredients are all here in Tennessee. I think they're going to take a big jump. All right, folks, I have talked to your ear off for a long time. 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Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. Jeff Mans announces his voice has recovered and outlines a packed episode covering coaching breakdowns, Scott Fishbowl draft analysis, and general fantasy football concepts.
  2. He criticizes the ESPN layoffs, arguing that many in the industry fail to evolve or challenge audiences, and emphasizes the importance of doing unique, engaging work rather than just fitting in.
  3. Mans promotes Fantasy Guru as a non-corporate, affordable platform with a large active community, highlighting their coaching-focused draft guide and membership perks.
  4. He endorses Drafters.com as his preferred best ball site, citing a better experience with human opponents versus automation on other platforms.
  5. Mans discusses his Scott Fishbowl draft strategy
  6. He explains the unique scoring system of the Scott Fishbowl league (e.g., no roster assignments, bonuses for long plays, tight end premium) and advises against chasing lower-tier players in runs.

Summary:

In this episode of "One Man's Opinion," Jeff Mans returns with his voice restored to deliver a packed show focused on fantasy football strategy. He begins by reflecting on the ESPN layoffs, criticizing the industry for rewarding those who merely fit in rather than produce challenging, innovative content. Mans argues that job security depends on carrying an audience with unique work, not coasting on contracts or social media followings.

He then promotes Fantasy Guru, emphasizing its non-corporate, affordable approach and its coaching-focused draft guide, which he believes provides a key edge. com for best ball drafts, citing superior human competition versus automated opponents elsewhere. The core of the episode is his breakdown of the Scott Fishbowl draft, where he had the first pick.

He explains his strategy of selecting Josh Allen for consistency, then targeting elite wide receivers at the turn of the second round rather than following positional runs. He critiques other drafters for chasing lower-tier players in those runs, advocating for targeting top-tier talent at any position. Mans details the league’s wild scoring system—including bonuses for long plays and tight end premium—and advises listeners to avoid checking boxes and instead focus on securing the best players early.

The episode underscores his belief that coaching knowledge and strategic draft decisions, not conventional thinking, drive success in fantasy sports.

FAQs

The host, Jeff Mans, discusses coaching breakdowns, the Scott Fishbowl draft, general fantasy football concepts, and his opinions on industry layoffs.

Jeff prefers Drafters.com because he believes he is drafting against real human beings, unlike other sites where automation and timing out are common, leading to a worse experience.

He advises against panicking during a run on a position and taking lower-tier players; instead, aim for the top 1-5 players at any position.

He selected Josh Allen because quarterbacks are the most consistent and secure position, having the ball on every play and offering steady weekly points.

It features 6 points for all touchdowns, half-point PPR for most positions, full-point PPR for tight ends, points per first down, and various bonus points for yardage milestones and long plays.

He thinks they are unfortunate but believes that doing mediocre work or not evolving can lead to job loss, and he criticizes fitting in without challenging ideas.

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