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And now move the sticks with Daniel Jeremiah and Bucky Brooks.
What's up everybody? Welcome to move the six DJ Bucky. Ret back with
you as we are looking back at a double dip on Monday night. Buck,
before before we jump into these games, thumbs up, thumbs down, double
headers on Monday night. I like the double headers. I wish they were
spaced out a little bit. It was too tight to tight to each other. Like
give me a little space so I can see one in the city. Oh, come on,
guys, I mean, we need it. We need to be a ability to go back and forth.
One game's not given it to you. Let's go get it from the other, you
know, if you're not into if you're not into some tough quarterback play in
the Cleveland, you know, Pittsburgh game, go watch, take some hill,
essentially win this game for the Northern Saints. So it was a lot of
fun to kind of go back and forth in these two.
Yeah, fortunately, the Padres have spared me trying. I don't have to flip
over to the baseball game, Buck. So I just I got two football games and I
have to worry about the baseball games. That's what my team did to me this
year, unfortunately. So I don't even get me started. All right, let's
let's go. First of all, there's a couple of these points I want to make
here, but I want to start first of all with this Cleveland Pittsburgh
game. This is a big win for the Pittsburgh Steelers coming off of a week
where we talked about it. They just got hammered by the 49ers. And while
they're they're still plenty of things to fix offensively, Buck, I'll
shoot it over to you. And I know the big headline from this game is going to
be Nick Chubb. We'll get to that in a minute. But I want to give my
due to the Steelers. First of all, this defense, you know, putting up a
couple touchdowns, this looks like it has the chance with the depth and the
talent up front, especially to be kind of one of those old school legit
Steelers defenses that put last week behind them and had a really nice
showing. Yeah, this is a team that we thought we were going to see based
on how they performed during the preseason, dominant performance, really
get absolute quarterback. I think six sacks, scored a couple of defensive
touchdowns, really set the tone for this team to get a big win at home
against the division rival. And as this defense continues to play at
this level, you may have to make some modifications to your offense in terms
of, hey, let's just play to the defense. We don't need to be risky.
We don't need to throw it. We can run it. We can do some things that a
little more conservative in nature, because this defense is going to keep
to score down. This defense is going to set us up for scoring
opportunities. This could change the way that they go about their
complimentary football plan. And guys, by the way, in the first of what's
going to be you heard it here in the first instance of a phrase that
you're going to hear a couple of times today. And you heard it here first
to move the sticks or with you guys in general, remember 2019, remember
our conference USA schedule on NFL net or if you remember the scout
side that we did when we had a Charlotte on Alex Smith coming off
the edge. That's right. Let's go. You heard it here first on move the
sticks. I mean, he was like third round pick, but has obviously has
obviously, you know, proved his worth far beyond his draft position.
They compensated him like one of the best edge rushers in football.
Obviously helps to have a defensive, a perennial defensive player in
the year candidate in TJ. Why, but those two guys right there, I
mean, name us a better edge rushing duo right now, because they
are absolutely winning the day for that Steelers defense.
Yeah, they've got some good other young players they're rolling
through in that front as well. So it's got a chance to be a really,
really solid unit TJ. Why it's got four sacks now for the first two
weeks. He's having a monster season now offensively. You know,
Kenny Pickett missed some throws was not clean was not smooth.
But when you've got George Pickens, he gives you the big long one.
Pickens ends up with four for buck 27, including that 71 yard touchdown.
So you get the big strike ability. They're not running the ball at all.
And that's two good defenses. They've going up against an in San Francisco
and a Jim Schwartz lead Cleveland Browns front. So they've got to find a
way to get a little more of that ground game going. And I don't think the
bar is very high in terms of, you know, what they need to do to win football
games because the defense is going to be really, really good.
You know, that that's going to be a good match.
You know, that that's going to be their formula. But let's switch over to the
other side of the ball buck offensively. Man, it just feel you feel sick to
your stomach when you see the injury that Nick Chubb suffered just
thrashed thrashed that knee. And it's going to be it for him for the season.
He's one of the not only the great stars in the league and one of the best
players in his position. It's one of those rare instances where the running
back is literally the leader of your team. And that's how he was in college at
Georgia. That's who he's been for the Cleveland Browns. They replaced some
of the production. I mean, look for Jerome Ford goes for over a hundred yards
rushing. To me, it's going to be more of the leadership side of it that's
going to be even bigger than missing him. The player.
Yeah, so much of their identity is wrapped in Nick Chubb being kind of
a bruiser between the tackles. They have the leader run the football sets
to table for the Sean Watson and the passing aim to get off on play action
passes. And for a long time when they lost it, it was not only just the physical
loss of not having, you know, one of the top brushes in the league, but the
emotional loss of the guy who really carries us who does so much for our
offense recessive our defense. This is a tough one. It's a really a tough one
for the Cleveland Browns because this is a team that you can see early.
They look like they could be the class of division when they have all of the
pieces in place. You remove Chubb. Now that division to me is really up for
graphs. And I don't know how they replaced that kind of production. I really
don't know how to replace that kind of leadership because he's a huge loss
in the locker room. Yeah. And look, I think there's some concern.
Obviously, you know, for Nick Chubb and the injury and certainly hope that he
can get, you know, the recovery that he needs. But with this Cleveland Browns
offense, you've got a quarterback into Sean Watson with top five ability.
But what that's probably playing somewhere in the neighborhood of a 15 to
25, you know, rank quarterback at this point. And so when you were worse,
right? So when you don't have the high level quarterback play and now you
moves the ability to hand it off with confidence, you know, in the run game.
Now look at drum board, you know, maybe ends up, you know, being fine.
They signed somebody and they can still pound the rock a bit, but not the
way that they could with Chubb. Not the way they could rely on it with Chubb.
They helped buy some time to figure out what's going on with Watson and getting
back playing at a very high level. So that part of it is concerning good news
is their defense is really good.
Yeah, defense is good. It wasn't wasn't on them. Obviously, 26 points for the
Steelers 14 come from the other side of the ball. So Cleveland defensively is
going to keep them in every game. They've got to get Watson playing better ball.
Let's get to the next one here, Carolina New Orleans. This is a game.
The Saints here, they are two and oh, the Derek Carr areas off to a pretty good
start here. Let's start on the winning side of things, Rhett.
What do you see from your hometown Saints there?
Well, so I think outside of four explosive plays in the past game,
this was really all about Tason Hill. I'll get to Tason Hill here in a second,
but the explosives were really, you know, they were big.
There are a couple of, I mean, two of the highest degree of difficulty catches
made in the NFL this week. Michael Thomas, down inside the red zone, goes up
and gets one, initially ruled in, complete. And Chris Olave comes up with a
huge one that essentially tips to himself, makes it diving grab.
Those were big time plays in the past game. And then maybe the biggest was the
Rashid Shaheed. Just straight speed down the right side line.
Carr finds him. That sets up the touchdown that eventually gave them the winning
margin. So I thought those explosives were big from the Saints in the past game.
On a day where offense, like, wasn't really that potent on either side,
but for the Saints, they had the ability to turn to Tason Hill.
Seven QB design runs. He goes nine yards, seven yards, nine, 11, five,
13 had one for negative yardage. So almost every one of those QB design runs
were big time chunk plays in the run game. You know, lead blocker for a bunch
of them, which I thought was a cool little design wrinkle. They brought in an
extra offensive lineman at times. Tason Hill was a big piece of that win.
I felt like for the Saints.
Yeah. I kind of, one of those deals where you're like, oh, he's still,
he's still playing. I forgot about Tason Hill in the back of your mind.
And then you see them on a prime time game, like, oh, he's still out there.
Look, I want to flip it over to the other side.
Buck, this is something I feel like we've been consistent with this message,
talking about Bryce Young, 153 yards. I watch the tape and you go through and
you get to the top of the drop and you freeze it and you're like, man,
there's not a lot of wins out here. There's not a lot of great options.
He's getting hit. The thing he's doing well is he's buying time.
He's extending place, trying to give his guys an opportunity to uncover.
And yet still, he's having a tough time finding people.
So I didn't come away from this game watching it.
And in the box board doesn't look pretty, you know, 153 yards.
He took four sacks, you know, didn't throw a pick.
But obviously the hits add up and it ends up, you know, resulting in a fumble that he lost.
But I don't know how this gets better in the short term.
You know, to me, I guess the only thing is you're going to have to just say,
we got to commit to the run where we got to put extra tight ends.
Let's put it a sixth offensive lineman.
They're going to have to do something creative in the run game buck because
if you don't have the guys, you don't have the guys.
And this, he's buying all kinds of time and there's still nothing.
I don't know what the answer is there.
Yeah, they need to upgrade the offensive personnel around him.
We can talk about him being in them one over a pick,
but they just don't have enough firepower to make you change the way that you play
defense.
These give him the day one books.
And there's no way that you, there isn't a way for him to dictate the terms.
You can't force someone double team and wire receiver.
He doesn't have that guy.
You can't force someone to drop another defend in the box because he doesn't have
a high end player and those positions.
This is one where he's going to have to jump into it right away,
put his mark on the game as a, as a passer,
but also as a scrambling artist that creates big plays on the move.
He's going to have to empty the tool bit to allow this offense to play at a high
level.
Yeah, one of the things that I want to transition is here because one of the things
I was thinking of watching that was, man, okay, first overall pick.
It's going to be tough.
You're going to go to teams that don't really have a lot around you.
But I want to look at this list of first overall picks and how they're doing so
far this year.
We see the record that they have their prices is 0 and 2 there at the top.
Baker Mayfield's only one who's undefeated at 2 and 0.
When you look at this collection of names, he look at the offense at Trevor Lawrence
went into obviously a tough rookie year with him.
The Urban Meyer thing did not go well.
Joe Burrow had a lot of pieces around him.
Baker Mayfield had that run game and offensive line around him in Cleveland.
Jared Goff did not have anything around him early on until Sean McVay came
and then Matthew Stafford as we all know, you know, kind of inherited a winless football
team and had to build that thing up.
So you find yourself in different situations.
So to kind of finish up the thought on Bryce, look, you just got to be patient.
You can't have any verdict on him this year.
You're going to need to be patient with him as you see some of those other guys in the list.
Let's wait till you get more pieces.
Buck, go ahead.
No, so my thing is he's going to be fine.
They will be fine.
And I expect him to eventually play the high level with DJ.
It's not only the weapons around.
I kind of worry a little bit about Frank, right?
And the amount of hits that Bryce Young is taking, can we come up with a protection
plan that keeps him upright and available?
So I just worry about that.
I worry about that for the fans because what I saw is he's really talented enough
to play the high level.
But man, they got to keep him from getting rocked and socked when he's in the pocket.
Yeah, look, I think one of the positives of this second game for Bryce Young was
that last drive, right?
They need their down.
What was it, 11?
They need to go down there, getting Hamla scores.
And man, you know, the Saints are rushing three dropping eight.
There's nowhere for him to go, especially as we're talking about with the,
with the personnel that he's got there on the perimeter.
Yeah, it's hard to find some completion.
So what does he do?
He stays patient.
He takes what the defense is giving him.
He's hitting Chuba Hubbard for four or five yards.
He's hitting little spot routes to, to Mingo.
They're getting out of bounds or moving them all down the field.
And then, you know, when he has to push it down the field, when there's an
opportunity to push it down the field, he hits Mingo and that corner out
down inside the five, they end up scoring on the three yard deal and touchdown.
So I, I just think that, you know, that shows some maturity from a young quarterback.
Look, you've been frustrated all game long.
You're trying to find some big plays.
They're not there.
He could have easily forced those things and into that game prematurely.
Instead, he gives his team an opportunity to go down.
They weren't able to get the ball back and go for the tying score.
But I thought that showed some maturity from a young quarterback.
Yeah, there's positives to take away from it.
And I want to look at some of these other names on this list, guys, because you know,
Buck, we're always looking at from a scouting standpoint of what can we learn?
And if you're a team that's sitting up there with a number one overall pick
and you've got multiple quarterbacks you can choose from, I think one of the characteristics
that you need to possess to be able to take on that burden, the pressure, you know,
of taking over a team, picking first overall, you better have guys that can deal
with adversity and can come out of kind of the rubble and survive.
And when you look through this list, I think you see it with Trevor Lawrence, the adversity
he faced in his first year, and you saw him, man, that was tough.
You know, Bryce is facing this tough.
These guys are going to have a rough time early.
You better have thick skin and you better be able to learn from it and not get just
completely crushed by it.
But you saw that with Trevor.
Yeah, this year with Trevor.
And the difference is Trevor had an inexperienced coach kind of guiding them through.
Bryce and some of these young guys have experienced coaches who've kind of dealt
with the young quarterback and have the young quarterback mature.
As a process, you would like to have a vet in the room to kind of walk them through, show
them.
You decide, you decide to get for a Monday night game, a Thursday night game, a Sunday night
game, all these other things help them put their own plan and processes in place.
So when they do become the four-time starter, they're ready to go and they're ready to compete
at the high level.
Yeah, to be, you know, when you look at the rest of this list, the one guy I want to hit
you on, then we'll move on and take a break here.
But Matthew Stafford, that should be an example of somebody who walked into a situation.
Obviously, you with Calvin Johnson there and that's that's a pretty good spot to be in
with him.
But this is a team that didn't win games like any.
You talk about having pressure on you to come in there and fix something.
He had it there and we've seen Stafford go on to win a Super Bowl.
Yeah, and you want to talk about the ability to kind of reverse negative narratives.
I mean, you guys remember the first couple of years of Stafford's career goes down with
the knee injury, has the shoulder and all of a sudden you got people talking about,
he's never going to be able to play a full season, he's injury prone.
He goes on like this incredible Iron Man streak, but the last part of his is Lions career
into the beginning of his Rams career.
And I think, you know, just going back and watching this 49ers game, I mean, when he's
healthy, I mean, he has, I mean, that arm talent is, I mean, as we talked about when he's
coming out of Georgia, it's incredible, right?
I mean, like that the throws he makes from the right hash to the left side line, 25 yards
down the field on, you know, on a deep outrout or a deep corner, I don't know there's anybody
to like it, you know, with the way that he can layer that thing in there and push it down
the field with such great accuracy and velocity.
I mean, it's so much fun to watch when he's healthy, he's moving around all over the
place.
And here's the other thing I'll say for Stafford, you know, when someone's working,
he's not going to abandon it, you know, and when Puka Nakua is just out there getting
to open all over the place, we're just going to keep feeding it.
And so right now Stafford to Puka, Stafford to Cooper Cup, when he comes back, I think
we kind of left the Rams for dead, you know, in this off season and leading into this
season.
But I'll tell you what, with a healthy Stafford and some of these, you know, the established
weapon in Cup when he comes back, the emerging weapon in Puka, like might be some fun to
watch here in this season in that energy West.
Yeah, I'm just, hey, I'm just drinking a warm cup of Nakua here.
That's it.
That's what we're going to call this Rams offense here, little cup and Nakua.
All right, Buck, what last one here real quick and that we'll hit this break.
If I told you of all these situations that they're currently in, I would say Joe
Burrow has the most around him right now on this list and here they are sitting O2.
I know the cap.
I know in this training camp, but I don't want you to put a percentage on it.
But should we be like legit, worried somehow this Bangles team doesn't make it to the tournament?
Yeah, no, I think we should because we just don't know how long he's going to be gone.
And to drop off between Joe Burrow and Jake Browne is massive.
You heard Jamar Chase is on the wire receivers way in on why Joe Burrow is the guy that they
want.
And really why Jamar Chase wanted Joe Burrow to sit at the early part of the year because
he thought this could be a consideration in terms of injury down the road.
If you take Joe Burrow out of that, they may have better weapons, but they're not going
to perform as well.
It brings him back to the pack.
It makes the group an even Steven contest as opposed to a lopsided training that it could
have been.
Yeah, not to start the Joe Burrow or the Bangles wanted without question.
All right, we're going to take quick break.
And we come back.
We are going to jump into this rookie draft, which somehow I am just sucking at.
We'll get to that right after this.
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All right, let's jump back into this here.
We've been doing this all year long.
It's something new.
It's the rookie draft where we draft a quarterback running back in a pass catcher each week.
They have to be rookies.
We change up the draft order.
Here's where we are in week two.
First off, the fantasy points.
That is a resounding win for Rhett.
Yeah.
He's impressive.
52 points.
I don't know.
No, no, no, no, no.
He's not going to take a very good breath on that because last week when I was all excited
about my fantasy win, you were like, yeah, it doesn't matter.
No, like, it doesn't matter.
This is what matters.
This is what matters.
What we're looking at right here.
This is our scoring.
I give you the fantasy points just so you feel good about yourself.
But you still won on our scoring system.
He got six points, Bucky.
You got four.
I got two, measly two, but so if we go overall for the season, Rhett's leading with 10.
So he's got 10 points.
That's depressing.
I guess I'll give, I guess I'll give Rhett the floor here.
Go ahead.
I mean, Stroud.
First of all, I would have won the quarterback.
If Richardson didn't get hurt, he already had two touchdowns and then he got, he's out.
So he hits his head and he was done.
We wouldn't be sitting here having to listen to this buck.
Go ahead, Rhett.
Go ahead.
CJ Stroud.
I mean, my guy CJ Stroud did throw for over 300 and he let a nice comeback for the Houston
Texans in the second half.
Now they, like, they got down early and well, here's the moral of the story for CJ Stroud.
And this is both fantasy and reality.
When he gets Laramie Tonsel and Titus Howard back and when they start playing, when that
offensive line starts picking it up a little bit, he's going to be dangerous, like even
more dangerous, especially within this division, because his pinpoint accuracy is ball placement
and his ability to hit those tight window throws.
You saw the back of the end zone throw to Nico Collins.
He had some, I mean, absolute, threading the needle throws in this game, the confidence
to go out there and do it and then the ability to execute it from a rookie.
I just really impressed with that.
I think he's only going to get better.
So that's going to be a lot of fun to watch.
And better targets than I think people are giving the Texans credit for, like Nico Collins
is showing up this year.
Obviously Robert Woods is steady at he, Hank Dell coming along and then they just get
John Mechie back last week.
So I think that's going to be something to kind of watch moving forward.
And then look, Bijan, whoever's got the first pick, I mean, just lock Bijan in, right?
Oh, you're wrong.
That's just going to be the answer to me.
Too much fun.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's every week.
Look, I have the first pick today.
We'll get to that in a minute.
I'll tell you right now.
I'm going to take Bijan.
You have to.
Buck, when you look at me, I'm coming into the league.
Is there anybody?
I might talk to about LT.
I'm like, I hate comparing people to Hall of Famers, but when you watch the video, he
looks just like LT.
But can you compare this?
I know a Carolina, you guys had back-to-back first round running backs, right?
You had what Jonathan Stewart in the Angelo, was that back-to-back years?
I mean, close proximity, it was doing a run where we were taking the first round backs
all the time.
But it's funny.
DJ.
Yeah.
The Lodanian Thomas comparison is really valid because I go back to watching ALT when he
was at TCU.
I remember going to Nevada, watching him run.
He ran for like 250 yards against the Wolfpack.
And it was very similar to the way that Bijan Robinson runs the football.
Stop start quickness, burst power.
And then you fast forward, he goes to the chargers and he becomes a machine that can not only
do it as a runner, but he can catch the ball out the backfield.
And you just think, I think you had a hundred receptions.
His rookie season, your turn, you're just giving it to him every way that you can possibly
give it to a running back.
And that's Bijan Robinson.
And what I love about the system that he's in is we know that Arthur Smith knows how to
use running backs.
And he is going to feed Bijan Robinson and some of the other running backs there.
But Bijan is going to be the feature guy.
He's a guy on the marquee.
He's a terrific player, man.
Look, he's rare.
He's one of a kind of in gaming.
Yeah.
I'm pulling this up right now because when you look at when you look at ALT and people,
you know, I think sometimes it's easy, even though you're a Hall of Famer, I think people
can kind of look at and go, I kind of forgot, you know, what he was and what he was all about.
That first year, his rookie year, he went for 1236 yards and 10 touchdowns.
And then it just went up from there, 1600 plus 1600 plus 13, 14, 18, 14, 11, 11,
100.
So I'm not starting to talk in the touchdowns, 10, 14, 13, 17, 18, 28, 15, 11, 12.
Like, this is the type of player we're talking about here.
We're not saying like, oh, he's flashed.
He's done some good things.
He could be a real, no, we're saying this dude has a chance to be one of the best.
And when you watch him with his combination, it's just rare.
When you see the speed and the power, you'll see guys that have that, right?
They are explosive and they can run through tackles and they're strong and powerful.
And then you'll see the change, there's change of pace guys, the shifty to make you miss,
the instinctive field runners who are, you know, 4, 6, 5 guys,
but they just have a great feel and sense and vision.
He has all of that.
So that's what makes him such a special, special player.
And one of the rookie I'll hit on here before we move on to this year's draft.
Jordan Addison, I felt like, you know, there's a lot of hype on him at Pitt.
He transfers to USC.
The ball got spread around a little bit with the Trojans and it was kind of like, okay,
kind of came back a little bit.
What are the expectations with him and the draft?
He's under size.
We talked so much about that, 170, something pounds.
And then you get on the field and like, dude, the guy, all the guy does make plays.
You saw it on the deep posts against the Philadelphia Eagles where he knows how to stem
and weave and lean and create separation.
He's just a skilled, skilled route runner and buck to me.
It's another example we talked about with Pukin Nakuha.
You know, Rhett's Godson that these guys have come into the league.
Zay flowers another example.
If somebody's just having immediate success, polish route runners, drop them in plug and
play off again.
Yeah.
I mean, I think what we're seeing in a lot of these things, DJ is more production and
polish performance over the potential.
We can talk about how a player could develop and what he could be at the next level.
It's a lot different when you go after the guys that you see, do it over and over again
and their skills are transferable.
These route runners, like Jordan Addison, like Zay flowers, they have it.
They had it and you can see it.
You can see how they were able to win.
They weren't winning just off their natural tools.
They were winning off of the technique and just understanding how to get it done.
Jordan Addison is one of those guys.
He's going to find a way to continue to get open and playing opposite Justin Jefferson.
He's an easy one to fall in love with because he's going to have so many one on one opportunity.
And as we get to this week's draft, guys, I just got a sense and I don't not forecast
if I'm not taking them or not, but speaking of these white outs, JSN, Jackson Smith and
Jigba, it feels like that big game is coming.
It's getting close here.
So that's just dropping that on there.
First pick, John Robinson.
I'm not going to waste your time.
You guys know what I'm doing.
I don't need to waste any time on that.
I got B-John.
Buck, you're up.
That's easy.
Well, B-John isn't an easy one.
Dang.
Cordray, give me CJ Stratt, which is going against Ronald Normal Roozar.
I typically don't play fantasy against my team, but he's going against the Jaguar.
So I have a little bit of a rooting interest kind of that he'll find a way to put us
in points.
We don't precious.
Dang.
I'm going to get CJ there with one of those next two picks.
No, you're not going to get him back to back weeks.
Okay.
Well, I mean, I have to take a quarterback here because I'm not going to be left out in
the cold if Anthony Richardson doesn't play this week.
So, uh, Bryce Young, I'm just going to be a choice here, and you're done.
You should have thought about that.
You should have thought about that.
It's a screwed.
Give me Bryce Young, and then give me Pukka Nakula.
Oh, wow.
I mean, I mean, you're targeting him 20 times.
Fantasy's all about target share is about volume, like he's getting volume more than anybody.
So give me Pukka and Bryce Young at picks three and four.
Okay.
I think it comes back to me.
So then I, I mean, I get a chance to take Zay flowers, right?
So I take Zay flowers because OBJ probably isn't going to suit up maybe.
Just for an ankle.
So let's go with, uh, let's go with Zay.
All right.
Zay flowers.
Then I get my next two picks.
Well, one of them is Richardson.
So I can just say that and, uh, here's to a healthy week to rehab there and, uh, get
yourself ready to go.
Uh, so I, I feel like I'm going to win the running back.
I'm not feeling great about one of the quarterback.
So I've got to win the whiteout spot here.
So Zay flowers is gone.
Pukka Nakuwa is gone.
I've got Jordan Addison, uh, against the Chargers.
So I could do what Bucky's doing and take the flight that you're going to see.
Yeah.
That sounds like a win.
Live and in person.
Um, I'm tempted.
You don't know how bad I want to take Tank Del.
I would love.
I'm a Tank Del guy.
Yeah.
He come.
I got you.
Yeah.
What do you have?
He had eight for 74 last week.
Yeah.
I don't know how I don't take Addison.
So I know we want to get some new names in the mix, but I, I, I have no choice.
I've got to take Jordan Addison there.
Fuck you.
You're up.
Don't worry.
I go.
It's easy.
It's to make gifts.
I'm going to take to make gifts from the Detroit.
That's easy.
I got him.
All right.
So you're going Jameer Gibbs.
Uh, I guess, you know, just hasn't seen the, we haven't seen the production in the run game.
And he's on one of my actual fantasy teams and, but they are targeting the heck out of
them in the past game.
So like you're thinking you're going to get a few, you know, more than a few receptions
here.
One that I am quite interested in here, guys, and happy to have fall to me here with the
final pick of our draft, Roshan Johnson.
So.
Hey.
New name.
New name.
New name.
Yeah.
You know, they did not.
Well, let's just call it like it is.
The Bears did nothing of note on offense outside of a couple of throws, a couple of plays
by DJ Moore.
But Khalil Herbert went down in that game.
If I'm not mistaken and Roshan, while you only got four carries, he popped off, uh, 29
yard run.
Uh, he, I think, I think we're going to start to see some take over here.
I might be a little early on the Roshan train, but I, I'm, I'm willing to jump on right
now and have him, uh, have him lead me to victory.
All right.
The, uh, the only thing I'll say about this to kind of wrap this up, uh, Rhett, the only
flaw in your logic is that you might actually have to watch the Bears offense.
Well, wait a second, let me rule number one and fantasy football.
Do not draft players.
If you do not want to watch their team and that is not an easy watch right now, with
Chicago.
Yeah.
Against the chief.
So I'm sure they'll be running it a lot.
They won't be chasing points at all.
That's Rhett.
He does homework each and every week.
How is this guy winning this thing?
It is an absolute mystery.
I have no idea.
All right.
Puka.
Puka thought I need one man shot unbelievable.
Unbelievable.
Unbelievable.
All right.
Now the rookie draft is in the books.
Man, I've got to get better at this.
This is embarrassing.
I can't, I cannot allow Rhett to, uh, to continue to maintain his lead here.
I need Bucky or myself to, to overtake him.
Uh, so hopefully this is the week that happens again.
We'll come back next week.
We'll recap the scores, uh, update the standing, see where we're at, but, uh, keeping
around these rookies.
Fun way to do it.
Uh, we're definitely enjoying that.
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