One MANS Opinion: Episode 316 – Jeanty at 2

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 Manz. Oh, the man everybody too, what's going to be a very lively episode. Number 360 and One Man's Opinion podcast. Thank you for being here. Thank you for tuning in. Thank you for downloading, liking, favoriting, subscribing, thumbs up, heart emoji, and this podcast, this episode, this show, appreciate each and every one of you very, very much. We've got an hour plus of fantasy football talk. It's going to be loud and passionate today as you can probably tell if you're a loyal listener to this show and or my radio show or my website or any of that stuff, you know where this is going. And yeah, it's probably going to reach that level that you thought. So you might want to turn a volume, you may want to turn a volume down a little bit because I'm going to get passionate. I'm going to get cursy. 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You also produces our shows, produces live streams and all that kind of stuff as well for us at fantasy guru.com. So shout out to Sean Angle always doing a great job. All right, episode 316. So if you have paid attention at all this week, my week start out kind of weird. I've actually, it's weird been dealing with like a stomach bug type of issue for like a week and a half now. I'm not sure what the hell this thing is, but can't seem to kick it. I think I'm just turning the corner. And I and Monday night did a series XM host league draft. I love the host league draft. I enjoy the leagues. Listen, I have 49 years old. I hate saying that. I'm never going to say it after I'm 50. I'm probably never going to say it. I will because I'm a heathen. But I'm getting older. But the thing is I've done this, this job for so long. 20 plus years in the industry really at the top of the industry for about 16 years and counting. And I'm just done playing the dumb fucking games that so many people play. Right. And also I'm not interested in the things that other people are interested in. And I get why they're interested. I get I understand the engagement farming and the desperation that need for followers and follow accounts and to seem like you matter. I really do understand it. But I fucking hate it. Same time. I don't respect it very much. I respect hustle. I shouldn't say I respect hustle. I don't respect when it's fake. I feel like a lot of shit is fake. So anyway, I am selective over the leagues. I do. I was invited to do pros versus shows again this year for what would have been like the 12, 3 in a row. And I backed out because I quite honestly don't feel very supported by the organization. I felt kind of slighted. And I just am not going to do those things, you know, quite honestly the NFFC pisses me off to not the guys who run it though Tom hates me. I don't really understand. I'll never get that. But he just got this chip love Greg love Tom, but Tom doesn't like me. Whatever the reason is. Maybe because I talked about a scandal that they had once I have to. It's my job, but nevertheless. Anyway, so I'm selective over the leagues. I do and I love doing host leagues on serious sex and fantasy sports radio. I like. I really love the channel and I respect and really admire the people who are in it. Now that great stuff too. I do. So I like it. So I do it every year. They asked me to be it. I'm it and I did. And I drew the second pick. And I knew what I was doing. I told my producers Phil Bakert and Sansro and Nello who are familiar to you fantasy guru dot com as well. But at the same time, I told him what I was going to do. I also went into the discord over at fantasy guru dot com. I did not think this is going to be a big deal. But I told everybody on before the draft on Monday night said, Hey, I'm going to draft the action. Genty at second, overall. Now, felt like, in my mind, its Bijan, Genty are the two running backs, one and two, and then Chase is the wide receiver, one pretty clear, number one. Love almond rot too. Also, I should say, and I was trying to explain everybody, because listen, listen. Honestly, I don't get. Okay, I'm already in that fuck mode. I'm about to cut loose here. I don't give a fuck. I'm gonna be honest with you, I don't give a single fuck about sensitivities and fucking Twitter and the fucking fantasy industry and these stupid fucking losers who fucking suck at this fucking activity. Some of these people fucking suck. They are shit stains, and they are so beneath me in terms of knowledge, it's fucking embarrassing, right? Fuck you and your high horse bull shit nonsense, right? Fuck you in the ass, pieces of shit. You guys don't. What I forget at 49, I forget shit that you never knew. It's the only reason we're close in any knowledge base. I do all the work, all of it, and I know you don't. I know the projection models, I know the fake analysts, I know them, I see them, I can tell. Nobody, they love to fight me on Twitter, nobody would fight me in an argument, nobody would argue at me face to face because I'm bigger and stronger, and they wouldn't fight me mouth to mouth, meaning microphone to microphone, because I'm fucking way more faster, smarter, I'm quicker, and I'm way more educated. There's no fucking way you compete with me, but in 140 characters you got a shot. Congratulations, you're the kicker and defense of this fucking activity. Fuck all those people, man. I, what I care about, what matters to me is those of you who trust my information, knowledge, experience in my content. It's legitimately all I give a shit about anymore. If you don't like me, get the fuck out of the way. Go home, yeah, little bitch, right? I'll fuck you wouldn't fucking step to me in a million years, you little pussy-ass bitch. I know you wouldn't, you know you wouldn't stop playing the game. I'm bigger, I'm just a bigger person, stronger. I am, even at my advanced age and older, still. I look down, I see it. I stand at these events and I'm looking over everybody. Fuck off. Get the fuck out of the way the train is coming through. Get off the tracks and the trains coming through. For those that ride with me, you are the ones I love and the ones I appreciate and the ones I respect and the ones I work my ass off to try to help. And that's all I care about. So when I knew I was gonna do this, I thought, I thought taking a running back over Jamar Chase, who is number one on my board. I thought that would be the thing and I didn't want to be disingenuous to my users at fantasy guru. I felt, I respect them too much to just do something that's against my own advice without an explanation. The reason I did it is I knew the league that I was trapped against. I knew the counterparts, I knew what they're about, I know what they're about, I know who they are, I know exact, I know everything about these folks. And I knew they're gonna be running back heavy. Everything I said is exactly how it went. So I was right on the money with all of it. So I wanted a running back, I had the second overall pick, I didn't want to come back and I picked 23, I'm sorry, 27, I'm sorry. At pick 27, I didn't want to sit there and have slim pickings at running back. So I knew I would like the receivers quite honestly, I mean, I'm going to do that in most of my drafts. As much as I like Jamar Chase and Almanra and I have no problems starting out a draft at those guys, I pretty much want to lock in a running back. Bijon, Gentie, Gibbs, Cook, HN, like I need, I need to delete running back if not two of them. I think running back depth is very important. And also, when we get into that late round two in this league, but in the other leagues, round three and four that pick 30 or 25 to 36, 25 to 48 range, I really, really like the wide receivers there. You know, receivers like in that area, you get Malik neighbors there, you get Alavi there, you get Nico Collins there. Love those guys, love Zay flowers, love Devante Smith, Igbuka is dealing with the turf toe, still love them at that spot, right? DJ Moore, fucking love. Roma Dunes, they love Luther Burton, one or the other. I know I got one of the Chicago boys, I'm in. It's like 79 wide receivers that I really love in that spot. And in my rankings over at fantasy guru.com, I have several of those players, those wide receivers, specifically Devante Smith, who is wide receiver nine on my board. And Malik neighbors, who's wide receiver 10 on my board. Alavi's eight, Devante Smith nine, Malik neighbors is 10. Pickens is available in that area, he's 12. Odunzay's 14, DJ Moore's 15, Zay flowers is 16, Luther Burton 18, like, no problem. I'm starting on my draft of one or two of those guys. I'm set, that's why I want to take running bet. And that's what I explained to everybody. And everybody in fantasy guru.com really understood it. They get it, they know what I'm about, they know what I'm doing. And that's how we wrote. Well, it's the, I can't fucking believe. It's so pathetic that you make a move. Ashen gentie's ADP right now is about eight. I said it was seven, I was looking around. It's like, it's between seven and nine. He would have went sixth in this draft for sure. I know it for a fact. I took him second. The fuck the entire world fucking flipped their shit. And I don't understand why the sixth pick, being the second pick freaks people out. Like, I'm sorry. But if you're not able or capable of going four picks, ahead of what general population thinks in order to secure a player you have and you rank as better and you believe as better, then why are you playing this fucking game? This is not a competition for you. You, these, some of you folks are so addicted to ADP. It's downright fucked the opioids, man. You're addicted to ADP. Holy sheep shit, man. That's fucking bananas. And I, I'm getting a lot of flag. I'm also getting a good amount of support too, which is very nice to see. You know, it's just crazy, you know what I mean, for that. And like my track record on this stuff is insanely good. Like, it's insane. And it goes, it goes back to Matt Forte in 2015 and put him on the cover of my magazine. And everybody, you know, flipped out. The morning show called me piece of shit, whatever they did. And of course, I was right. I got my come-up hits for that. They had issue apologies, all that shit. I remember in 2021, Joe Lombardi goes to the chargers. I say, well, Austin Eccler's the top five running back. And everybody's like, they remember another morning show guy on serious exome called me hipster. And yet Austin Eccler was running back to that season. I remember, I don't even know how long ago it was 2019. I think it was when I loved Dalvin Cook and he was a piece of shit after that. And then Dalvin Cook explodes, was running back six in fantasy football. Like, I mean, my track record is unmistakably perfect for this type of argument, not all arguments. No, I've been wrong. I've monster hits and misses. Some monster misses over my career. Your cadarious Tony a couple of years ago. Ellen Robinson a few years ago. Like, I've had some big old misses. Chenty's not gonna be one. Outside of an injury, there's nothing that's gonna stop Ash and Chenty from being a top five fantasy running back. Like legitimately nothing. And so the question is, what people freak out about is why I could take him over to mere Gibbs and I've made this case a million times. I don't know why I have to keep doing it. And I feel bad doing it on the podcast. And by the way, this whole episode's not gonna be this bullshit. I'm just trying to keep it real with everybody. I know you guys have been riding with me this entire season, but just in case any of these snowflake bitches from Twitter wanna come on in and think they got it. By the way, you could yell at your microphones and through Twitter all you want. You'll never face me, motherfuckers. Never, I know you won't. You can act tough. You can pretend you're tough. you're not fucking tough, you're a fucking nobody, nothing. And I know you are. So stop. being a little bitch. Alright, so there you go. Anyway, the Jemeer Gibbs thing, I guess, between that nobody seems to notice. Oh, I'm going to get to Deep Sleepers on this episode, right? Deep Sleepers, that's 80P of 108 and up. Now, I'm going to try to limit it to 108 to 192, which is roughly 10 through 16th round. I'm going to do another super deep sleeper run. Maybe next week I'll do that, not the full show, but a part of the show. I want to get into some my real super deep for those of you that are playing real deep leagues, but I'm going to go through some of my deep sleepers here as well. I got some news and notes preseason week one takeaways on this episode. So this episode, get ready because this one might go, may go long today. So I do apologize for that if you guys don't like it. I don't apologize if you do like it. But here's the thing about like Jemeer Gibbs. Love them. Don't love them. What do I mean, how could you not love them? When everybody loves Jemeer Gibbs, I would think, right? So the thing about him is that down the stretch last year, last season against Washington, week 10, I believe it was. That's when essentially John Morton was let go, even though he wasn't let go. Dan Campbell took play calling duties away and gave Gibbs the full assortment of everything, right? So in that spirit, he went crazy and they gave him the ball. And Jemeer Gibbs was fantastic. And he exploded for 142 yards, couple touchdowns, a couple of weeks later against the Giants. He just destroyed and what for 55 points, the most points of anybody in any game last season. And it seemed like at that point. So up until that point, to understand that Jemeer Gibbs concerned first, have to understand Jemeer Gibbs snap count and snap share his first two years in Detroit was about 51.9 percent, barely over 50 percent. He obviously shared with Montgomery. For the first nine games, nine weeks of last season, it was 55 percent, snap share. And after that, Jemeer Gibbs snap share went up to 75 percent, 75.6 percent. So huge difference. And obviously his usage skyrocketed. And the fantasy points were tremendous as well. And I'm excited about that. I think that's great. However, we can't just pretend that he didn't fail down the stretch. And I shouldn't say fail because he was kept alive by a lot of production receiving the football. And hopefully he could do that again this year, right? We really hope that he can. I think that he could and what not. But over the last six games, the Lions go four and two, Gibbs's 88 attempts for 272 yards, three touchdowns on the ground, 3.1 yards per carry. Is that son. That's a pace 250 attempts for 770 yards. Now he got three touchdowns. So it's a pace of eight touchdowns. That's really fucking good. They're touchdowns that saved them. Now the catch is good 39 catches 29 receptions 237 and a touchdown. So okay. So that amounts to about 600 yards receiving in 72 catches. Okay. We'll give him what a four touchdowns. Other receiving. Nevertheless, last season, Jameer Gibbs gained 300. He scored 366.9 fantasy points. That's what he did overall. He was running back three in fantasy football behind McCaffrey and B. John Robinson, right? So, but if you were to take just those last six games, suddenly he's running back seven just ahead of Chase Brown with 288.2 fantasy points. I mean, really very good. But then you, okay, if that's the only issue and we say, all right, you could segment, you know, that's fun with numbers, chef. I think that's fair to say that. They lose their starting right tackle. They lose their starting center now. Right tackles gone. Not Taylor Decker's not coming back. Cade mazes out for half the season. Right. Detroit has a blitter. Lost Terran Arnold. Lost Kirby Joseph still hurt. Brian Brant still hurt. Not going to start lose Alex Anzaloni. They're starting Mike Lambecker. They did not add another perennial. A great pass rusher. Their defensive backs include Chuck Clark, Christian EZ and Roger McCreary. These are dog shit. I mean, fucking dog. I mean, legitimately bottom of the barrel secondary members. This defense is no good. That doesn't help the game scripts for the running backs. Right. So we have a basis of the last six games. By the way, and for those, I know it's the same people that say the last six games don't matter. Well, then what about Parker Washington? Huh? Oh, you're on Parker. See what I mean? You can pretend it doesn't exist, but it does. It's one way or it's the other way. Which one do you want? Which number do you want to play with? You can't say it matters for one player because you like that player. It doesn't matter for the other because you also like that player. Because it's you either speaking truths or you don't in this game. And I think gives is immensely talented. Highly paid now very good. But the offense line is shit. The defense is terrible. And they're going to be in passing situations. If I'm drafted, I'll get right line in the first round. I want it to be I'm on Ross St. Brown. I don't have a problem with Gibbs. I don't fear Gibbs like I fear McCaffrey. But I think he's closer to James Cook than he is to be John Robinson this year. Right. And I strongly believe that. All right. So that's the way it goes. And that's just the fact of the matter. And that's why I drafted I faded Gibbs and took Jenny. Well, let's look at the genty side. And I've talked about this shit over. No, we go back. Right. Go back and listen to the riding with the Raiders podcast. I mean, I talked about this shit. Clint Kubiak, Rick Denison. The minute they took over in Las Vegas, I said, yeah, I'm probably going to be on genty when they signed a lender bomb the center. And I'm blanking on the left guard from the from the 49ers. But when they signed him was pretty perford when they signed perford and lender bomb. And then they drafted Traysune, who I love that A&M and the draft season's why you should listen all your round and do this all year round. Like I fucking do for 20 years. Well, then that's you come up with that kind of information. Right. So let's take a log. Let's just take one more stroll around this. And I'll go into something I didn't go into on the radio show. And that's Rick Denison. Because I don't know what else I could do. Ash and genty is one of the best running back prospects in the history of football. The last one that was one of the greatest was Seikwon Barkley and his rookie year in 2018 was one of the greatest seasons in history. The last one was Bijan Robinson, who fell into a situation who got drafted behind a guy in 2023 and Tyler Algier coming off a thousand yard season. And what do you know? Bijan Robinson, Russia's 976 and four yards caught 58 passes for touchdowns. He was okay. But running back nine, it was a little ho-hum. The next year what happened? Well, I mean, I say obviously, but maybe not so obviously to some people. But going into 20 after that season in 2023, they fire Arthur Smith. They bring in Rahim Morris, Zach Robinson's the play caller. And next thing you know, Bijan Robinson got more of the carries, more of the touches, 304 carries. He rushed for 1456 yards and 14 touchdowns. Oh, and also caught 61 passes at 431 and another touchdown, right? So his second year in 2024, Bijan Robinson goes to the fucking moon and is wide receiver three behind Gibbs and Barkley. And then last year, same offense, same everything else. Bijan Robinson is running back two behind only Christian McCaffrey runs for another 14787 touchdowns, 79 catches 824, receiving like 370 points there. Bijan Robinson's a stud. All he needed was to get out Arthur Smith's system and maybe some wonkiness is a rookie. Well, same for Ash and Gentie. He now has clinched Kubiak. Kubiak just want a fucking Super Bowl. Everybody, I swear to God, you guys forget that Seattle existed last year. And you think that Mike McDonald won the Super Bowl by himself because he's a great defensive coach. He is a good defensive coach. He was a good defensive coach of 2024. It didn't amount to shit, right? What matters is that they got an offensive coordinator in there in Kubiak that and Rick Denison, who helped the offense line. Remember, Seattle had the 27th ranked offensive line in the National Football League in 2024. They draft great Zable on North Dakota State, the left guard. That's it. No other improvements. They did nothing. No free agents, no draft picks, nothing. And last year, they were seventh. Best offensive line, Rick Denison mentoring them, right? Meanwhile, P Carol leaves Seattle, goes to Las Vegas where they had, you know, 19th best offensive line and plummets them to 32nd. Fucking awful. Thanks to his stupid son who didn't deserve the job, right? And Seattle goes from a 10 and seven solid year, you know, not bad. All right. It's 14 and three, the following year, thanks to Kubiak, Rick Denison, the company. And then they get the job in LA. But let's focus on Rick Denison. What the fuck this means? I've talked about this a lot on the radio show. Rick Denison was a low level assistant 1995. He's been around a long time for the Denver Broncos. It just so happens to coordinate with my guy Alex Gibbs, who is the father, the mentor, the inventor of zone blocking scheme. It's why Terrell Davis went from a six-round pick out of Georgia to an MVP 2000 yard rusher back to back Super Bowl champion. It's because of Alex Gibbs. All right. And Gibbs kicked around for a long time. And during this time, Gary Kubiak, back up quarterback, then became a coaching assistant eventually offense coordinator, eventually head coach of the Denver Broncos more on that in a minute. But here's the thing. When you go in 2010, anybody play football, fantasy football in 2010? I'm guessing not by the responses on somebody's Twitter fucking things. But in 2010, they are in 2009 Houston, Texans were 20th in Russia, temps 30th in Russian yards. And so they fire coaching staff, they bring in Gary Kubiak, or Gary Kubiak, I believe was there. But Kyle Shanahan was the coordinator in 2010, by the way. Kyle Shanahan. Now everybody's favorite in San Francisco and Kyle Shanahan, Fair enough. They brought in Rick Denison to be the offensive coordinator. In 2009, Steve Slate and running back of the Houston Texans was running back 29, 161.4 fantasy points. 2010, the year Rick Denison took over his OC, Texans went from 30th in Russian to 7th in the league in Russian. Aaron Foster put up 1600 yards and was running back 1, 392.0 fantasy points, running back 1 and fantasy football the first year with Denison. And Denison's four years in Houston, his running backs were first, fourth, third and eighth. In 2015, Rick Denison goes, he leaves the Texans, goes to the Broncos, Peyton Manning, by the way, that was that year. They win the Super Bowl. Right? Broncos, CJ Anderson, well that was his running back 13th year. Oh no, you rang back 13 was a year before that. That's my bet. That Broncos improved from 20th to 12th in fantasy points amongst running backs, one year to the next. Right? And that's after a historic season, 2014, they didn't get it done. In 2017, Rick Denison takes over offense coordinator of the Buffalo Bills, Lusham McCoy. The Bills were sixth in Russian. Lusham McCoy running back seven in fantasy football. In 2018, this is a bad one. He goes to the Jets. Now he goes to the Jets. The Jets chopped up member. What was it? Isaiah Crowell. Anybody remember Isaiah Crowell? Remember that one year out of nowhere that he had? Well, it turns out that was the year with the Jets where they had a hodgepodge mixture of assets there. But overall in team running back fantasy points amongst the team, the Jets went from 25th and 2017 to 11th and fantasy points amongst the running backs. And Crowell led that year for whatever it was worse scored six touchdowns, whatever. All right. So and then 2019 and this is where by this time, now I was in on Aaron Foster and I knew systems matter. So I was not as hot and heavy on Denison as I was before. But then in 2019, something happened. And it's where Gary Kubiak comes back into football. Because remember, he had a hard issue. He retired from coach after winning the Super Bowl at the Broncos. And then he was out of football. He comes back as an executive or what a or assistant with the Minnesota Vikings in 2019. And he brings Rick Denison in to be the offensive line coach for the Minnesota Vikings. And this one I was on like Donkey Kong. In 2018, the Vikings were 27th and Russia attempts and 30th and rushing yards. Right. Dalvin Cook was running back 30 in fantasy football that year. I told and nobody liked Dalvin Cook. If they said they did, they fucking lying to you. Because you liked what came after. See, everybody knows after. I'm not an after guy. I'm a before guy. I jump on beef. I've learned. This is what 20 years in the business does. You learn how to jump on the boat before it's left the dock. And I remember specifically on the air. It's serious talking about this that Kubiak and Denison in Minnesota, the elder Kubiak, Gary Kubiak, with Rick Denison is going to improve that offensive line. Oh, it's dog shit. Well, the offense line went from 30th to 5th. Dalvin, the Vikings went from 30th and rushing to sixth and rushing. Dalvin Cook went from 30th and running back production to sixth 292.4 fantasy points. Cook would go on to be running back to in 2020 and running back 10 in 2021 under with Rick Denison lead and Kubiak lead in the way. Even after, by the way, like Stefansky left. And he was the offense corner by name only that year. And he got the judge sale that worked out in Cleveland. Well, then after a couple of years, remember, then Denison got in trouble because he said some anti-vax stuff and everybody went after him. So all right. So then his son, Gary Kubiak was out of coaching, but Clint Kubiak starts rising up the ranks, starts making a name for himself teaching the same type of system. He in 2024 goes to New Orleans where he brings in old familiar friend Rick Denison offense line coach and executive assistant executive. I'm senior assistant. I don't know what I'm saying. In 2023, the Saints had the 10th most rushing attempts and they were 21st and rushing. Then the 2024 when Kubiak Clint Kubiak this time and Rick Denison get there, they were 21st and attempts, but 14th and rushing yards. Alvin Camera went from running back 13 to running back nine. And by the way, what have been running back for if he played any of the last couple games, remember, that's the year they shut him down. And then last year in Seattle, they jumped from New Orleans to make a big dent there. They come to Seattle and see actually 29 10 attempts, 28th and rushing and had the 18th most fantasy points amongst running back some fantasy football and then 2025. They were third in attempts, 10th and rushing yards, and they had 11th most fantasy points of fantasy football. Now that's the one. If you want a bitch and complain to moan and be all upset because they split that backfield, I don't blame you. That was a fucking cluster and that pisses me off too. But the facts are the facts and the reason they did it, John Steiner, the GM, this is why we pay attention. He fucking blasted Kenneth Walker. He didn't want to pay Kenneth Walker. He was never paying Walker bottom line. Never. He was not going to do it. And so Walker got his bag to go, you think Andy Reed is stupid. You think that chiefs are stupid? They're not stupid. They know exactly what the fuck they're doing. So they go out and get that and immediately, you know, pay Kenneth Walker and it's fine. So there's no chop. Genties not splitting the backfield. Washington had a nice run. Washington's a big guy. We knew how good Washington was. It's why I want Ash and Gentie. So I want a handcuff him. Now in this draft, I didn't handcuff him. But that's not nobody talks about that. I made several mistakes in this draft. I'm not a perfect drafter by any stretch. But nobody's talking about what everybody wants to talk about. Gentie overgives. Fuck that. Again, I have a wealth of information. I just poured into this microphone, explaining it to you. If you still can't process it, you're a dumb fuck. You're just a dumb fuck. You don't have to agree with with it. I am not saying that if you disagree, you're a dumb fuck. You're not. You can absolutely maybe I am a dumb fuck for fall for maybe that happens. But it can't be injury related. No, no, no, you're not getting bailed out with an injury. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Ashen genty plays 15 and more games. Let's see what's up. He's gonna match Gibbs on a point by point basis. He really will end being younger and a little more explosive. And the Raiders playing for more possibly with a slightly more competitive games. A lot more the games are going to be even within the division are bad. But they don't have the gauntlet that the alliance have. I like the genty side just a little more. It's not the easiest decision in the world, but it's the one I made. It's not at all. If you think it's ludicrous, then you are a dumb fuck. This is what uninformed stupid people think. But meanwhile, informed, educated, smart people, they can make a different decision and come to a different conclusion. That's fine. No problem with that. And if you don't like that, that's any one of you. I don't blame you. Take Gibbs over genty. No problem. But don't blast me for what I do because it's not like I'm doing it willy nilly. And I'm not doing it for attention. You dumb fucks. Last thing I ever want to talk about is a stupid fucking draft. And now this, no, all right, that's my case. By the way, I didn't draft the tight end of the strap. Chico Conco is my starting tight end that I mean, what a fucking travesty mistake that is not a purpose. I just make this league draft a 26 tight ends. It's a 14 team league. So I just can't believe how many tight ends went. I am going to wait for them to drop because I know they're going to drop them guys like TJ Hackett's in Chuan Johnson Hunter Henry, maybe even Isaiah likely, even though I think that team, that's the one I really wanted late couldn't get him. I want to Kelsey desperately, but he went earlier surprised. The fuck out of me went like the seventh or eighth round. Um, somebody's going to drop somebody. And meanwhile, like I'll Conco and Kenyan Cedeek. I'll ride with them early. And I'll make a move once somebody else drops. And that's the way I'm going about. But that's a mistake. You want to blast me for that? Yeah. I don't blame you. That's a mistake. Um, preseason week one, you know what? I want to get to these deep sleepers. I don't want to run out of time. So let me say that here's my ultimate takeaway and something I did not do in the host league draft either by the way. And I wanted to though, is I want a piece I have now decided that I want a piece of the Steelers passing game. I really love it. Obviously, I love what I saw Duraler. Oh my God, I told you it's going to be great. And that system I told you I told you I fucking told you and he is going to be great in that system. I want Aaron Rogers to go down and get out of the way. And then Duraler will be fantastic. But never good less. DK make a Michael Pittman on a firmly back on my board. I've been around, I've been out on DK make out this entire offseason. I was in on pitman, then out on pitman, then in on pitman, out on pitman, I'm back in again. And feel like they're both going between pick 76 and 82, which is, they're both going in the seventh round average. So that's where they're going. And I really wanted to grab one of them in round eight. That's sort of where I was looking at I tried to I got all the running back depth in my draft. And then I failed to secure the bag with either one of those guys. And that's a real detriment because I wanted a piece of that. I'm rethinking things quite considerably. I think one of those guys, and it comes down and ask which one? Well, mad calf. If you're frisky, what was that? You know, that if you're feeling frisky and you're willing to take a shot on a massive upside play DK Medcalf in the system could blow the doors off. He could be a top 10 fantasy tight end. Michael Pittman, if you're conservative and want to play it more save. You know what I mean? And in that regard, it is, you know, that pitman's, I think, a much safer, more secure asset in this Mike McCarthy offense too. But I love it. I mean, we might be curvy, produces massive points of these wide receivers. They chucked the ball a lot. It run deep routes. It's it's more than what I saw and what I realized on whatever it was Friday night or Thursday night watching the Steelers was, I was reminded that the play design of Mike McCarthy is so good. And that's how you get some of these guys, these little hitch routes that got broken for big gains in that game. That those are things that are going to be even bigger gains when Medcalf and Pittman play, right? This little just the way they layer the routes in Mike McCarthy's offense, you know, he's been off for a year, but it was so good in Dallas of so good in Green Bay. And I'm sitting there watching that thinking, Oh, yeah, motherfucker. Why am I so against I know why I'm I know Aaron Rogers arm is shot. Like I know, I know he's shot there, but who gives a shit in that offense with those play designs with those that caliber receiver, I strongly recommend everybody get a piece of Steelers passing game. I really do. Alright, so that's my I think that's my biggest like fantasy intricate takeaway of what to do there. Get one of those guys, they're both highly affordable. And I don't think anybody's going to regret it. Let's get in my deep sleeper list for 2026. Now for this exercise today, I'm going picks 108 through 192ish. And yeah, about 192, because I'm going to add next week, we're going to go super deep. And we're going super deep. That's going to be like picks 192 and beyond, right? That's going to be players that aren't generally drafted in most leagues, 12 teams, 16 rounds, right? So 192 is 192 players. So that generally that's where it is. At quarterback, it's the same too. I have every single time, but it's Malik Willis, ADP 144, end of the 12th round. If there's going to be a quarterback, that's drafted after pick 120, which is the end of the 10th round, that jumps up. It's not going to be Tyler Schuck or Kyler Murray, who are now squeezing up towards that, it's going to be Malik Willis. The rushing angle, if he could throw the ball, even below average, just like slightly below average, passing the ball, his running ability and the game scripts Miami will be in will be enough to catapult him into top 15 and probably the top 12 of fantasy quarterbacks. And then there's my guy, Cam Ward, I just a believer, it was a bad preseason week one, but I don't care about that ship. I think he's got a Colonel Tate and Duke Silver and these other assets, Calvin Ridley, Gunner Helm, Pollard, and Singleton. There's a lot with Brian DeBall designing the offense. I think it's going to ultimately be good. Cam Ward looked rusty. And he just, he didn't make the right reads in that first drive. It was just a clunky, I guess, is the word not rusty. That's the word I'm looking for clunky. But ultimately, I believe in the system. And I believe in Cam Ward taking that year to leap now. He doesn't have as big of a way to go because he's not as mobile as Malik Willis, though, Cam Ward will run the football in and around the goal line. He is not afraid to take it and run running backs. There's so many running backs. I shouldn't say there are few running backs to take after pick 108, which is, you know, I should say 109. Because they're obviously taking steps, but there are a couple of guys who are starting running backs that are not getting any love. And one of those guys is Jordan Mason with an ADP of about 114 right now. And Jordan Mason starting running back Minnesota Vikings now. This is a great offense line. No, was it a great offense? No, but I do like mobile quarterbacks that help running backs out. Kyler Murray should be able to do that. It's, it's a depth play. But I mean, you know, it comes down to it, you know, in my mountain, in my hosting draft again, I drafted Jeremiah love. People hate that because he is high ankle spring. But I have, he's right now he's third on my depth chart. He's not even a starter. I drafted him earlier than the backup, Basel Tutin. But you know, people don't get it gain well, I like a lot. So is what it is, but you got to get those depth plays. And Jordan Mason is one of them. Chakuri Croskey merit ADP of 128. He's leading the charge. Rashad White is not a full service running back. Now unfortunately for JCM, he's not going to be a pay. passing down guy and that's going to limit his floor and his ceiling quite a bit. We're going to have to deal. It's going to be a split back field, a lot in Washington. But Bill Croskey, Bill Croskey, he is going to carry the mail as they say on early downs. Another guy benefits from a mobile quarterback. So he's going to get a lot more touches, it's going to be a lot more impactful than like last year, the thing about Croskey Mary, he dominated lesser competition, like he destroyed he but fucked the giants. He killed them because they were fucking terrible. But other teams, he kind of placed this competition. That's the problem. Chris Rodriguez. I mean, I drafted him. I drafted Basel Tutton and I drafted Chris Rodriguez. And I did it early because I knew the savages were going to be out and try to usurp me on him. So I grabbed them early. It's going to be the early down running back, possibly for the Jaguars, I want to say early down running back. It's going to be the goal line guy and the hurry up guy. So he will frustrate us, Basel Tutton owners a little bit, but it's still worth owning Chris Rodriguez. He has his stand alone role. That's the thing. If Tutton were to go down, I'm not worried about Tutton, you know, injuries are injuries, but Tutton's fumbles are what worries me and why I made it priority to get Rodriguez. 143.64. And then let's not forget Zach Sharbonne. And I'll say Sharbonne is running back 50 at pick 155.6 right now. He's going to start the season on the Pupp list. But in most fantasy leagues, hopefully you've got several IR spots. So you draft them toward the last round, last couple rounds, whatever. And then immediately you put him on IR and then you go pick up somebody else on the waiver wire once that opens up in your league. I think that's a good chip to have as I got some good player to have. And then when he comes off, Pupp list, it could be week five, it could be early. You're going to be very thankful for that running back depth, all right? And wide receiver now, wide receiver position. It's a mix because when you first start out, when you get to pick around that round 10, pick 109-ish. You've got a couple of players that should not be there and do not belong there. The first one is Jacobi Myers of the 80P of 110.09. Like, holy shit, everyone loves Parker Washington so much. And they hate Brian Thomas Jr. And then Jacobi Myers is just like indifferent. Like people just don't acknowledge that Jacobi Myers exists. And that's something like I just don't really understand. He's the piece that drew everything together for the Jaguars last year. They signed him. What was it? Like four games in to his run last year, maybe five games in. And they signed him to a $20 million a year contract. So like I don't really understand what the problem is. And when you look at his numbers just with the Jaguars, by the way, he was on a pace for 125 targets, 85 receptions, 990 receiving yards, and six touchdowns. You know guys, that's my receiver 19 and fantasy football. Yeah, I mean, that's pretty fucking good. It's pretty good. What did he finish last year? He was up there last year too. I mean, if you take both numbers combined. He was Ryder Siever 31 last year if you take both combined. So yeah. So that was Ryder Siever 20 pace. All right. So I mean, pretty fucking good. He's a mid-level, low-level Ryder Siever 2 that's being drafted in the 10th round. That's a value. Now after Myers, it's a lot more hairy, a lot more risky. And one of the guys I have my eye on and I took him in the host league is Matthew Golden. Now I don't really love Matthew Golden. I didn't like him coming out. He should never been a first-round pick. He's a one-trick pony realistically, one and a half-trick pony because he does do okay in and around the goal line in short yardage, at least he didn't Texas. Didn't do it in Green Bay. He had that run in the playoffs where he took a pass and sort of joked and got in, which was a huge play made, like Will's numbers look better, but I don't know. So I'd love my bet. But I still hold out hope for him. Now I have Jayden Reed over Matthew Golden. And a lot of people are saying that's not true because Matthew Golden played in two Irish he resets on the first preseason game, however, that's not Jayden Reed got $18 million man. So he got a big old contract and they're not going to do that to not use Jayden Reed. So take that for what it's worth. But Matthew Golden, the ADP won 17.62, Debo Samuel did, I think I took him, oh shit. I didn't mean this whole list to be my late round picks and my latest draft. But evidently it's working out that way because Debo Samuel, I mean, you can't simultaneously be pissed off and angry at the San Francisco 49ers and everybody say everybody's hurt and then say, but nobody else is going to produce somebody's going to produce. Remember Shanahan loves to use Debo Samuel in a variety of ways. And if McCaff research like he is kiddles hurt like he is Christian Kirk is hurt like he is Mike Evans is hurt like he is like all of a sudden, Debo, put it this way, Debo Samuel is going to be on the field a lot more than this on Stribling. Mike Evans is going to play week one. Debo is going to be on the field and if they go to three wide receivers sets, it'll be Kirk not Stribling. So get out of your mind with our lads.com has because it's wrong. All right, now when Evans goes down or Debo, and both are injury prone, Stribling will then jump up fine. But right now Debo Samuel, the ADP of 132, which is the final pick of the 11th round is a value. And then another player that I always talk about is Trey Harris of the L.A. Chargers. I like Trey Harris a great deal. It's sort of a hodgepodge right now. Quentin Johnston left practice on Tuesday due to an injury, turns out he's going to be just fine. The Chargers actually several injuries there. By the way, Parker Washing also banged up. It's another reason for Jacobi Myers to encapsulate that because Parker Washing isn't around. Jacobi Myers is going to be top 20 fantasy wide receiver and nobody is thinking about it. Johnson got hurt. I didn't Trey Harris just ahead of Quentin Johnston on the totem pole. I just do. He's a, you know, they have more invested them. They need to see him more. They're not going to pay Quentin Johnston anyway. Johnson is a hand error. I'm sorry. He's a body catcher. He's been good at touchdowns, but it's way, he can't run any kind of variety of routes. It was Mike McTee. I don't want you to do. He wants you to run after me. He wants you to run catch and run Johnston's not that type of receiver. Trey Harris much more fits that system. And is the guy you could play the true X spot, which is what Johnston would do otherwise. So at 145.38 ADP, Trey Harris is another wide receiver sleeper that I like for 2026. Then at the tight end spot, I wish I would have done, I wish I would have had any of these guys in my, I'll hopefully drop it. And number one, when we get to pick 110, it's exactly where all my favorite tight ends are. Essentially, because starts with Dalton, Concade, 112.46, this is ADP right now. I love Dalton, Concade. We talked about what he did the first four weeks, first five weeks of season for Buffalo. Now you got DJ more on the outside to draw coverage away, Concade is going to be a big part of this. And I expect the big touchdown season out of Concade to Alan through strike to him. And I think he caught touchdowns in both playoff games last year after getting healthy. So I like Concade. And I really like Travis Kelsey, I thought for sure my host league compadres, I didn't think they had the guts to take Kelsey, I really didn't, but it was suit. So like, it's such a good pick late Travis Kelsey at pick 126.5. It's like, I don't know if you're never going to get better bang for your buck. You're just not like sure thing. Could you hit on a rookie or somebody who breaks out? Yeah, absolutely. But Kelsey tied in three in fantasy football last year. Nothing changes. Like nothing. In fact, you'll have better quarterback play because tied in three last year was Chris fucking Ola Dukin throwing him the ball for the last month. What the fuck are we talking about here, right? It's the most slam bang easiest click you'll make is Kelsey. And then Isaiah likely, my third and final sleeper at the position. We know why it's John Harbaugh's similar system. It's a difference. It's Matt naggy system and fairness, you know, John Harbaugh's the coach and he brought I say hello. likely. But Matt Maggie loves throwing at around the line of scrimmage. There's a ton of screens. He loves featuring the tight end like he did in Kansas City for Travis Kill. So, you know, as they are likely younger, sprightly, or fellow, it gets the majority of those stamps. Really like it. You know, I really like the, I say, a likely ad for the Giants. And I look around and think the Giants are very unsettled. That wide receiver room that just dropped. Uh, Juju Smith Schuster, they released that, um, as well. Uh, Malachi Fields, you caught a touchdown in the preseason game because you could throw it up. That's where he fits. But Calvin Austin, Darnell Mooney, Braxton, Barrios Odo, Beckham Jr. Oh, what the fuck are we doing? Odo Beckham, guys? I mean, Dairy Slayton, it's just a hodgepodge between after Malik neighbors. And thus, I say, likely is the true number two receiver for the New York Giants. And oh, by the way, Giants added Najee Harris earlier on Tuesday, a couple hours ago before I started recording this. Um, people ask me for my opinion on Najee. I have no, I want to see what kind of shape he is. Remember, I have a very, very strict policy and it is, you, you do not invest in running backs that have torn their Achilles. You just don't do it. Right? On any circumstance. It's why I'm not in on Jardarian price. And he tore it three years ago. He played a year of college football, even though they had to spare him. Right? I can't with Najee Harris. It's good to see. I hope he gets back on. I think his career has been underwhelming since playing that final year with Ben Rothisberger, where he did some, you know, real good things. But, you know, he's been a better running back than what the community has given him credit for, put at the same time. You got the, the Giants running back room is not bad. Scataboo, Tyrone Tracy and Devon Singletair. Pretty freaking good. Like, that's a good room. Scataboo is a tank. Tracy is a wide receiver playing running back that is proven to be elusive. And Singletair, he made a big play in the passing game. And the first preseason came to like, he's been around the block and Ben the bell cow for the Texans and kind of for the bills too, what he first started. So I don't think Najee Harris going to make a big dent. And I don't know if he sticks here in New York either. I think it's more of a showcase. Get him in camp, let him run, see what he's got. I want to see it. I want reports on what he's doing. And at that point, maybe another team, maybe he catches on with another team somewhere down the road for Najee Harris. So there you go, all right, look, we're just over an hour. Not bad. Got off to a hot start. Talked a lot about the Ashen Gentie thing. Hopefully you guys understand. I, I, I yell and I scream. I don't mean it towards those of you who ride with me every season. And there's a lot of you. You know, I hope there's an understanding that I'm blasting the people that are to Johnny come lately. I know the people will see the title of this podcast and go and click on it. And yeah, I want to yell at them tell them to go fuck themselves. Because that's what I believe. Go fuck yourself. Like if you want to, if anybody wants to have a real discussion with me, then let's do it. The problem is you can't. I am where I am within the space because of what I do. And that's I know everything about every player and every system. Doesn't mean I'm going to be right. Doesn't mean I'm going to be right about this one. But you're not going to out-talk me. You're not going to out-think me on it. The process, you're not going to out-process me. You can out-guess. And if your guess is, well, he did it last year, which is the entire thing with Gibbs versus Gentie. The entire thing is he did it last year. That's not going to, it's not going to work. So I'll just say I'd really think that you've got to be open-minded. Stick to your guns, draft the players you like. And if you don't like Gentie over, Gibbs, I don't do it. No problem. I wouldn't blast anybody for going. Again, I think the opposite way and I proved I would do the opposite. But would I bash somebody for going with their druthers? Would I bash somebody for taking Puka at second overall if that's their guy? Or if they would take, fuck, McCaffrey. Oh, McCaffrey, you know how I feel about McCaffrey? I get it. I disagree, but I get it. It's not like I'm like, oh my god, your license should be taken away. No. Do you know the risk? Did you back it up? Hope so. If you got your guy going, get him. I urge everybody, everybody. Go get your guy. Right? Just get him. And if it fails, so be it, but at least you fail your way. If I lose this host league, then I'm going to lose with the team that I built. And I like the team I built. Not going to lose the team that ADP told me to draft. All right. That's a good place to stop. Episode 316 in the books. Everybody take for indulge me on that deep sleepers there. 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