 The NFL preseason is underway and that means our time to draft season-long best ball rosters is dwindling. However, we still got about a month left before the NFL season. That is plenty of time to gym and more drafts before week one. We're going to do one right now today over at Vanduul.com and talk through our thoughts. It's a 12 team draft. It's drafting live on air. The tilts will be real. We're going to talk through each of our picks here. This is the Fanduul Live Q&A on the Fanduul YouTube, Twitch, Facebook, and Twitter channels. My name is Jim Sonnis. I am a senior writer and analyst for numberfire.com. Here to guide you through today's draft and talk about our picks live on air. Joining me today to break down their drafts, we've got JJ Zacharias and Brandon Goduo and Rob Lopez. We'll start here with JJ, the editor-in-chief of Number Fire and Fanduul JJ. Your players to avoid lists came out today. How have the Twitter streets been so far? As you would expect, not the greatest. Actually, it hasn't been that bad. Usually with players to avoid, article people aren't very happy because you're talking bad about players. People typically react more favorably to players to target than players to avoid. But so far, it hasn't been that bad. Did have Derek Henry on that list. Not that I think that he's terrible, as you can see by these expert rankings. I think I have him at RB5, but he's being drafted to RB3 on average. We'll see where he ends up going in this draft. What I heard there was you hate Derek Henry. That is the correct takeaway. The Derek Henry truthers, of which there are many. Feel free to hit up JJ at late-round QB to direct your vitriol towards him. Let's talk to Brandon Goduo, who has never been hurt by fading Derek Henry in the past. Definitely not a thing that occurred at any point last year. Brandon McCose and the Heat Check Fantasy podcast are weekly DFS show. He is also the managing editor at Number Fire. Brandon, hello. Happy Friday. How are you doing today? Yeah, I'm good. The Derek Henry stuff is, you know, I was going to mention that I've never been hurt by Derek Henry. I did actually look earlier this week at his workload and just kind of how that stacks up historically. And, you know, there are a lot, like there's the curse of 370 touches or 400 touches or whatever. I mean, there are reasons to be concerned, but honestly, for his age and for, you know, the guaranteed volume, I think that there's not enough reason to be completely out on Derek Henry like I typically would be. So I kind of learned a little bit and looking at Henry's workload. Yeah, you and I both have him as the third overall player for this year. Does it make me nervous? Yes. Can I find any alternatives put there instead? No, that's why we are where we are right now. Talk to Rob Lopez and Rob, you are the video content manager at FanDuel and you've been around for a while now, but I haven't had the pleasure of being on a stream with you yet, I don't think. So I felt jealous, which meant that I had to get you on here today so we can get you on for this best ball stream. How are you doing? I'm good. I'm good. I'm also going to say I'm a big Derek Henry fan and I'm scared of him. He is rather large, so I'm Derek Henry all the way. You're the smartest person here. I've decided based on the way you answered that because yes, we should all be afraid of Derek Henry, very large human who is very good at football. So we are drafted today. Obviously there are more people in this trap. Well, all four of us are in this trap. We're going to break things down and get you set for the 2021 NFL season talking through our tilt and more here on the air. Of course, we do have the check going Twitch, YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. We have live Q&As each and every day here on the Fandle, YouTube, Twitch, Facebook and Twitter pages. I do MLB DFS. That is every day at 4 p.m. We will still have MLB DFS later on today. That's going to follow this stream. So if you're here, if you're like Jackie Moon over on Twitch here to watch the baseball stream, we will still have that later on today. But first, we had a best ball draft to do and the way you can do this, if you are watching along and want to get in on the best ball action, there is a QR code up on the top right-hand corner of the screen. If you scan that QR code, it will take you to the best ball lobby you can play. Whatever size you want over on Fandle, you can now enter your own personal rankings, which I did not do because I'm a big dummy, but you can do that now. Enter your personal rankings in case you auto draft for whatever reason. The drafts do start once these leagues are full. So I try to be like the last person in. That's not a super sustainable strategy at all times, but hey, that is how I try to navigate around that. But in case you are more paranoid than that, you can enter your own rankings and your pre-draft queue to get set there. So with that all said, let's just do this thing. JJ, you are the final one to enter. I'm going to invite you to do so right now. Let's get this puppy started. Let's do it. I'm in. Okay, here we go. I'm picking seconds. Rob, you're first. Okay, so are you going to go Derek Henry and gift me someone else? Or what do you think in here with the 101? Oh, man. It's tough being at the top, as they say, right? Have you used the crown? Yeah, I'm looking here and it's a lot of running backs, I think, at the top and I think I kind of have to go. I'm going to go with Christian McCaffrey. I can't not go with Christian McCaffrey. Okay, so this is a hyper unfortunate for me because I have had the second pick often in these best ball drafts and I've been hoping to get some Christian McCaffrey shares. It sounds based on what Rob is saying, but that won't happen this time. So Rob, can I bribe you? Are you open to bribes to not take Christian McCaffrey? No, you know what? I'm going to keep CMC. I believe he's had a, you know, last year wasn't the most, I guess you could say the funnest year for a CMC fan. You know, he's in on the lineup. I believe he's going to come back strong. I think he's going to have a good year. I'm going to stick with that. I'm going to stick with the number one pick. Okay, so you went with McCaffrey, which means I have really no choice but to go Dalvin Cook. I feel like there is a pretty significant drop-off after that. So do you want to get that in? We've got Ryan drafting now. Ryan drafting third overall, Brandon picking fifth, and JJ is picking eighth for today. Brandon, how are you feeling about that fifth pick? I'm sure that's your favorite spot to draft from, right? I mean, I can at least get one of the running backs that I would be targeting. It's not ideal. Little early. Little early. Yeah, I mean, with Camara and Kelsey gone, I feel like Derek Henry is just the obvious pick at this point. So I'll go with the guy that we were talking about and I'll go with Derek Henry here. Your tormentor has become your ally now. As you take Derek Henry, fifth overall, Crawdaddy on Twitch is saying that he'd rather have second or last. So he wants one of McCaffrey or Cook, I'm assuming for Crawdaddy, or he'd rather get at the turn with the 12 and 13 overall picks. Sam, our projections, Zara, and Number Fire went with Zeke Elliott. Bennett goes with Aaron Jones. Okay, JJ, you are up with the eighth overall pick. What are you considering here? Well, I was going to go with Aaron Jones, I think, but I'm actually, I like going with a more modified 0RB approach. And it gives me a little bit more flexibility as well. I'm actually going to go with Saquon Barkley here. And, you know, may look like a slight reach, but I'm fairly bullish on, you know, his injury outlook. If you listen to the doctors on Twitter, they seem to be feeling pretty good about Barkley's situation. You know, the first couple of weeks of the season are rough for the Giants, but I'm really just buying into volume there with Saquon. Brandon, it looks like you have a fan over on YouTube. Well, Mann's Coin. This is a Peter Mann, a Mann's Coin reference. The Woman's Coin says Conley with two exclamation points. So, Brandon, at least you're not alone in adoring Chris Conley. You have a friend here. I went with Tyree Kill. We have Alicia, one of our editors up at Number Fire now. And Cal, if you are a regular on the MLB DFS Q&A stream, this is producer Cal, producer Cal on the clock, which meant that I was supposed to be like super distracting and giving Cal a lot of tasks. Is there a comment I can, you know, force to bring up here, force Cal to bring up to distract him from his pick? My goal is to make Cal's team as bad as possible in order to make mine better. Unfortunately, Cal seems to be impervious to my wooing. And he went Nick Chubb. Okay, so I tried to distract Cal. Could not do so. He went with Nick Chubb at the 11th pick there. And we'll pick again. This is Abe picking at the turn here. And we'll go back around to JJ in just a bit. So, JJ, you mentioned you wanted, say, Quant Barkley there. Does that mean given you alluded to the, there's no one on the stream who's picking before you. So I'm okay asking you about strategy. Are you thinking wide receiver with your second pick? Yeah, I mean, to be fair, you know, one of these other guys that we're drafting with could be listening to the stream. Why would you possibly watch this if you didn't have to? Like that's my question here. I'm open to going a lot of routes here because, and I think that you should be, you know, if you look at the wide receiver position, there's still a lot of studs left. You have digs, Hopkins, DK Metcalf and Calvin Ridley, I'd say are the go-tos or would be the go-tos of my next pick. But even a running back, I mean, I think that you can easily make the case for Najee Harris, Antonio Gibson or Joe Mixon with this, with the second pick. So I'm just going to sort of see who's there and what's there, you know, and not just feel locked into going with a wide receiver heavy approach after that, that Stake 1 Barkley pick. So Cal is the one who made the YouTube thumbnail for this and he asked who we should do. And I was like, oh, just do Najee Harris. Najee Harris is getting a lot of buzz. Najee Harris played a bunch of first team snaps with the Steelers and Cal has stabbed us in the back and taken Najee Harris with the 14th overall pick. So I see where your loyalties lie, Cal. I get it. I'm just going to have to torment you during streams throughout the rest of the week. You just know that this will be remembered. OK, Nick goes with Stefan Diggs, Alicia with Calvin Ridley. JJ goes Joe Mixon. Was that just because Mixon fell further than you were expecting him to? Sort of. I mean, I was between him and Antonio Gibson. I think that they're in the same tier. You can go either direction. I just feel a little bit better about Mixon's floor from the standpoint of volume through the air. But I do think Gibson has a top five ceiling absolutely this year. So if anyone's listening to this and you're freaking out that I went Joe Mixon over Antonio Gibson, I understand. You can go Antonio Gibson if you'd like to. But yeah, I saw those two guys. And after them, I felt like there was a decent dip. I think there's maybe one more running back that I would feel good about. There's a decent dip after those guys. So I just wanted to lock in that RB2 and I'll probably, you know, look to wide receiver in the third. So maybe you were right if you've been watching this stream because Sam did go with Antonio Gibson with that. With that next pick as you were talking about him, which puts Brandon back on the clock here. All right, Brandon. So you got your arch nemesis Derek Henry. What you doing here with the second pick? I'm going to go receiver because like JJ said, I think there's a teardrop. I just literally wrote an article today about Justin Jefferson. I compelled to him. I felt drawn to him. One of the best, one of the best aged 21 seasons we've ever seen in football. So I just kind of had him on the brain. She went with Justin Jefferson. So Tom got the stacks. I think he had Kelsey as a first friend. He did. Of course, those of you who watch here know Tom. Tom is in this draft. He went with Mahomes, got the Kelsey stack, DK Metcalf taken. And I haven't gotten Darren Waller yet. And he has this little Q nut next to him. It's not like the ankle is okay. So I'm not too worried. And I want to lock up that tight end spot. I feel more inclined to get one of those top tight ends in a best ball situation where I can't stream tight ends. So I'm going to take Darren Waller there. Someone who I haven't gotten a whole lot of so far this year. Rob, you're up at the turn here. You got your Christian McCaffrey. What you looking to address next? You know, I'm kind of in the same vein as you there. I'm thinking tight end, but I'm tough. I'm going to go pits. I'm going to go crazy. Okay. Kyle pits goes in the second round to Rob. I'm going to go pits over Kittle there. And then you know, for me, I'm scared of it. But I also really, really, really think it's going to be a good year in Tennessee. So I'm going to go AJ Brown. Okay. So you go AJ Brown and that's probably going to push me towards Keenan Allen. It's between Keenan Allen and Clyde Edwards-Elaire. Given that I could get access to Kansas City offense, but I feel like I do want to get Keenan Allen. It is after what I would at least seem to be that tier falloff that Brandon and JJ were alluding to before. I do think that Allen is a tier below Justin Jefferson specifically, but I still think it's worthwhile to take him there. CEH, I mean, Ryan just picked him. And I was very tempted to go with CEH just because again, could get a passing down role for the best offense in football, could be a running back tie to Patrick Mahomes. That's something that I always want to get access to. It was a tough decision for sure. But I think that I do feel okay with Keenan Allen. The floor there is just so good. Justin Herbert has been tremendous. So I do feel good about that. Rob, who were you considering outside of AJ Brown for that second pick? I mean, I was honestly considering another running back, but then I'm looking at the running backs, and it's just like, right now we're at a spot at the time. It was pretty much Clyde Edwards, and then the rest was a falloff. And I was kind of thinking the same thing, you were at the tight end there. And for me, with the first pick, I wanted to come out with the tight end, either one of the picks. And I'm looking at it, and I might be crazy for it, but I think I kind of trust Matt Ryan more than either of the San Francisco quarterbacks combined. I don't know if that's crazy, but I like pits. I like it. I don't know. I don't really, I don't know. I don't know. Kittle's not my cup of tea, I don't think. Maybe I'm crazy. I like Kittle a lot. I've got him 23rd, 22nd overall for this year. I think that I could possibly be too high on him, as Bennett just takes Kittle there. But the reason that I am so inclined to take him is because I have a lot of faith in this offense, having just like massive, massive levels of efficiency. I want touchdowns out of my tight ends. I think that they will generate those. So although the overall passing volume might not be super high, I think there'll be touchdowns, and I know that he himself will be efficient, and the overall offense should be efficient too. So that's why I like Kittle quite a bit. But I mean, pits is fun. And Rob, like, I know we are playing this tour. And that's part of it too, and I'm just like, you know what? I like this dude. This dude's a big monster. He looks impressive as heck. Why not? Let's roll a dice. This has been fun. Okay, so we did have a question over here from someone actually in the draft. So clearly Abe is watching. Abe was asking about that first pick, the first turn. He's about to pick here once again. Should I just pick two wide receivers there at the turn? Best running backs on the board were Taylor, Mixon, and Harris. So the picks that Abe did wind up going with were Devontae Adams, Jonathan Taylor. So he's asking should he have gone with a second wide receiver in addition to Devontae, or should he have gone with Jonathan Taylor? So JD, I want to direct this to you. So would you have gone with Jonathan Taylor at that spot, or would you have gone Calvin Ridley, Stefan Diggs, someone like that with them on the board over Jonathan Taylor? No, I mean, I think it was a good turn for Abe there. I think it made sense. You know, a lot of people are going to be hesitant with Jonathan Taylor right now, you know, because of the Carson Wentz injury. But Wentz seems to be on the earlier side of that timetable. I mean, look, my feeling with Jonathan Taylor before and after that Carson Wentz injury was that I was out on him before the injury, but I was more in on him after the injury because I think people were sort of overstating Carson Wentz's impact a little bit. And the fact that they were assuming that he would be on the latter part of that timetable as opposed to the earlier part of the timetable. And so I think that, you know, at the one-two turn for Jonathan Taylor, it makes a lot of sense. You know, the difference for me between, you know, a guy like Taylor and someone like Nick Chubb where they score points, they're projected to score points in a pretty similar way where they're both early down backs, don't see a lot of receiving work or a ton of receiving work is that just, just because, you know, you have other pass catching backs on that team or on those teams, I do think that Jonathan Taylor's ceiling as a receiver is a little bit higher than what we'll probably see from Nick Chubb unless an injury happens, I'm on the clock right now. And so that's why I'd probably be more okay going Jonathan Taylor. That probably didn't make that much sense, but I have to not pick. Okay. So the dynamic JJ talk was on the clock intentionally again, just the whole point of this draft is sabotage. That is my goal here at least personally. J.K. Dawkins went to Nick, Alicia went with Deandre Swift. So running back starting to go and JJ goes Amari Cooper and on the subject of Amari Cooper, Brandon, you took CD lamb with your last pick. You're about to pick. So I'm going to distract you now and ask you a question. Was that tied to Amari Cooper not being fully healthy or do you have a lot of faith in CD lamb, faith in the Cowboys offense? What drew you towards a very good and very fun player outside of the faculty is very good and very fun. Well, Jim, I love the Cowboys offense. You know that I'm a big Dak Prescott fan, but a lot of it had to do with the fact that my Excel crashed and I didn't have my rankings up and I panicked. So I took CD lamb. So that had a lot to do with it. I appreciate the honesty. I'm not here to lie to the people, you know. I mean, I do it. We do it all the time. You know, why not? So, okay, I'm trying to figure out what I'm going to do and honestly, like I got a lot of these quarterbacks here. I like Josh Allen more than everyone else. I might just go with Josh Allen here and see what comes back to me. Okay. So you did go Josh Allen, which puts Tom on the clock. Was it because you were unenthusiated with like these skill position players at that point or what drew you towards Allen? Yeah, I think just in a best ball format, Josh Allen has a lot of appeal. And I'm down on Aaron Rodgers and Russell Wilson specifically for different reasons. And I think that there's a little bit of an uninspiring group of skill position players here. So I saw the drop off being bigger at quarterback. I was pretty annoyed because I did want to go Chris Carson, but then Tom took him. I should probably not set my cue, given people can see what I'm putting in my cue. That seems suboptimal, but... Jim, don't flatter yourself, man. Yeah. I don't know if people are drafting based on who's in your cue. That's fair. So Jim, why'd you go Miles Sanders, Jim? Because of my rankings. I put a lot more thought into my rankings than I have into this and kind of like Brandon and I'm panicking because I had to talk at the same time as trying to pick. So I'm like, on my other computer, I'm like control effing to like try to find where I've got guys. You pay attention to who you have to draft next. I'll talk about Miles Sanders a little bit. So I think... Brandon, I don't know where you're at with Miles Sanders either or Rob either, but my general thought with him is that I'm a little bit worried about the pass catching potential right now, even though that was something that I thought that he could do well, especially coming out of school. I think that where you got him, Jim, was perfectly fine. So I'm not trying to like, you know, poop all over that thing. No, it's fine. Poop all over me, JJ. You know, it's not like I'm the host or anything here. Cool, fine. I think it was correct where you got him. I'm just saying that, you know, if you look at the trajectory of everything Miles Sanders, you know, he's utilized his receivers first two years well enough from a target share standpoint. And then you look at the actions of the Eagles. They do utilize Boston Scott a little bit. They go out and get Kenneth Gainwell, who was a really good pass catcher in college. And now they're talking about how he's dropping all these passes in camp. It's just a little bit worrisome. There's just some worry there with him. But again, I think every, I think that's starting to become embedded in his cost given where you were, you were able to get him there. So it makes sense that you were able to do a, you're still, you're still getting him at a reasonable price. I'm curious, would you have taken him over Josh Jacobs? Yeah. Trying to see ETN, Mike Davis, Cream Hunt, Miles Gaskin, guys like that, or would you have gone with one of them over over Sanders? Yeah, I would go with, yeah. I think that you take him over those players. And so that's why, you know, I like, I saw him as almost like a tear break. Maybe you could throw ETN in there because I'm high on ETN in his situation as a pass catcher there in Jack's move. But yeah, I mean, there's a clear tear break. And I think Jacobs is like far below Miles Sanders. So it made sense to get him where you got him. So as we go through this draft, I kind of feel like I need to move ETN up because I've got him at 46, which is actually the highest of the three of us. But like from a sentiment perspective, I didn't draft him, but I was tempted to do so. And I feel like that means I should probably just move him up from where I've got him right now. If I was that tempted to actually take him at that spot. Brandon, you've taken Cooper Cup. How dare you? We do not speak that name in these streets. How could you possibly score me this way? I wanted running back, but ETN went right before me to Tom. I wanted Julio Jones as well. I just, you know, I don't like to take positions that I feel like I need when I'm unenthused with the talent. Similar to like what led me to Josh Allen. Right. I just like to kind of pick the players who I think are the best values at least at the top of the draft. I'll be a little bit more position sensitive later on. But I mean, it kind of led me to Cooper Cup, who I'm not the hugest fan of, but, you know, I thought he was the best receiver there. So you got the initials connection here. JJ went TJ. JJ Zacharison took TJ Hawkinson. It does seem like there's a pretty drastic tier fall off at tight end. Like, but look at the, uh, the top tight ends by ADP after Hawkinson went. It's Robert Tonion. Uh, and we love Big Shot Bob. We love Big Shot Bob here on the, the fan dual slash number fire content team, but I'm not going to take Big Shot Bob anywhere near TJ Hawkinson. It seems like you just kind of exploiting a teardrop off there. Correct. Yeah. The other thing too is I've done a lot of research on tight end breakouts this off season. I mean, I did it for running backs and wide receivers as well. But one of the things that was very clear is that when a tight end in the middle rounds, I mean, TJ Hawkinson is a fringe middle round guy. Cause I really looked at rounds, uh, six through, through nine there. Uh, but tight ends that are drafted in the middle rounds, they hit at an exponentially better rate when they're the first passcatcher being drafted from their team. So TJ Hawkinson being the first lions passcatcher that gets drafted by ADP. Uh, you should feel confident in that. Mark Andrews being the first passcatcher being drafted. You should feel confident in that. Uh, and then after those, those five guys, you know, the top five or six tight ends are off the board. Uh, that's when things, you know, as you noted, uh, there's a, there's a pretty big drop in tier there. Um, and so that's, that's the main reason why I wanted to lock up Hawkinson and not really have to worry about the tight end position that much through the rest of the draft. You did fail to mention the biggest reason you would possibly take TJ Hawkinson, which is due to exposure to a tier of golf offense. So I found, I will add that in for you. Um, as you pick here once again, you went with Deontay Johnson. Of course, the, uh, the guy who gets as many targets as he can possibly handle for that Pittsburgh offense. And it's interesting because obviously it does seem like they want to run the ball more this year, but I feel like that's another thing that, you know, that's, uh, that's accounted for in the cost of these Steelers guys because Deontay goes pretty late, Jujus, Ms. Huster goes pretty late, Chase Claypool went earlier in this draft than a lot of other ones. But JJ, I mean, like targets are targets and Deontay is probably going to get a lot of those once again this year. Look, people hate on Deontay because he had a lot of drops last year, uh, and that, you know, his average at the target was low. His average at the target was low because the Steelers offensive line was horrendous last season and they had to get the ball out quickly. That's why Ben Rothesberger wasn't sacked a whole lot and why his time to throw was, was quickest in the NFL. Uh, so Deontay Johnson to me, you know, he's locked in for a pretty high target share. I, I like, I actually do like Chase Claypool to have a higher ceiling than Deontay Johnson. Johnson has, I think, the easier floor. Um, but yeah, I mean, I love Johnson. I think that, that he's an incredibly good route runner, uh, really good wide receiver and don't forget everyone when, when wide receivers are seeing targets, even if they're not converting at a super efficient rate. Uh, if you're seeing a target, that means you're talented. Uh, targets are a talent statistic. You know, wide receivers have to get open in order for quarterbacks to throw them the ball. And the fact that Deontay Johnson was seeing as much volume as he saw last season, that's only a good thing. It's indicative of talent. So I'm excited about Deontay getting your two. I really like Chase Claypool as well. Um, you know, I think the Steelers offense, you know, could be, could be one that's a little bit better than folks are projecting. We've been talking about teardrops and I was sweating for like the past five picks. I was, uh, nervous to put this guy in my queue because I thought he might go, but I think there is a big tear fall off after Dak Prescott. Actually we've already gotten past the teardrop. I know he's hurt. I don't care. I do not care. Um, I'm taking Dak there every single time. Quarterbacks tend to go pretty high in Fandall because the ADP has meshed between smaller leagues and these 12 team leagues. So quarterbacks go early, but getting Dak at 6.11, given where the quarterbacks have gone, I was sweating there quite a bit. Like I was like, do I put him in my queue? Do I kind of blow this? But I think people were, were shying away as a result of the injuries I get. So, uh, but I really, really, really wanted Dak there to get a piece of that offense. Now, Rob, you've gone, James Robinson, your first pick, I'll let you make your second pick and I'll ask you about that one as well. Cause I don't want to distract you too much. That seems a little harsh. And you went with Antonio Brown. Okay. So James Robinson and Antonio Brown, what sold you on those two guys specifically? Well, we're, the way I see it now, we're kind of in a, in a space where a lot of these guys are, for the most part, are sharing time, as we'd say, right? So obviously Robinson there and Jacksonville is going to be sharing the backfield. But the one thing I did like, and looking back at Antonio Brown's Super Bowl even, I think he had the most targets or the second most targets in the whole game. I mean, you know, it's a Super Bowl, but at the end of the day though, it's still the Super Bowl of Tom Brady trusted to throw the ball to Antonio Brown. And like you guys are saying he got to open, right? There's a reason why he got all the targets in the game itself. And, you know, it's a risk obviously with Antonio Brown, just, you know, you don't know if he's going to play one week for the next, but from what it seems like he's on the right path. So I'm kind of just banking on, you know, him kind of playing alongside Mike Evans and that offense and kind of making the most of an opportunity there with Tampa Bay. And James Robinson just kind of being a guy who can, you know, run the ball when ETN's out there doing some crazy whatever, whatever they're doing with ETN down there in the offense. But James Robinson, I think a consistent back. And for me, I just needed another running back honestly too. And you were talking about Antonio Brown. I'm not in Super Indian Antonio Brown this year, but I will say the one thing, point you made that I tend to value quite a bit is you were talking about his getting target Super Bowl. And I think that what we want to do is believe teams when they show us what they want to do. And the Bucks showed when things matter the most, they want to get the ball to Antonio Brown. So although I'm not super on him this year, I think that line of thinking is correct, you know. And to me, that applies to someone who will probably come up later on in Zach Moss, where Zach Moss, he's hurt right now. So that's definitely to consider. But last year in the playoffs, Moss looked like he was going to be like a focal point for the Bills in their playoff game against the Colts. He had four targets early in that game, then got hurt and we didn't get to see it. But like when the when things were on the line, they had Zach Moss out there. He was catching passes and he was involved in that offense. So I think the broad point of valuing what teams tell us when things matter the most is a massive key thing to keep in mind. Okay, let's catch up here some picks. Brandy with Big Shot Bob Tunyon to fill that tight end slot. I think that was your first tight end, correct? Yeah, it was. Yep. I know touchdown regression is on the way for that entire offense. Aaron Rodgers, if you combine his net expected points, which is our expected points metric at Number Fire and the yardage that he threw for, he overperformed his touchdown expectation by the biggest amount since 2000. So it's coming, but at least with Tunyon, I think that the share of touchdowns is still going to be quite high and for a best ball format, I'm all right. I don't have to chase that week to week when he scores. I kind of benefit from that. Yeah. I mean, get exposure to good offense, which is why JJ got Cortland Sun, I assume. You got the Jared Goff offense before. Now you're getting either Drew Locker-Teddy, Bridgewater, both former guys for me. So I think you're just basking in the most efficient quarterback play you could possibly get here. I sense you just coming back at me after I trashed Miles Sanders a little bit. I'm not trashing. You know how much I actually like, I try to hide it. I try not to make it public how much I like these guys because like they're not good, but like, you know that I'm being genuine when I talk when I speak well of Jared Goff, Teddy Bridgewater and Drew Lock. It's true. It's true. Yeah. I mean, look, Cortland Sutton has a pretty low ADP on Fandle and I had to sort of scroll down to see him sitting there. So yeah, I went after Cortland Sutton, who I like Jerry Judy straight up more at this point this season, but Sutton is still going to be a red zone threat and still get his. I mean, he's someone that you can confidently project to see, you know, like a 20% plus target share and then offense. Now I'm up on the clock. You know, I'm a little bit nervous right now because the quarterback position is the way that it is on this platform. I kind of want to go with quarterback because I feel good about my anchors at running back and wide receiver and tight end and I don't want to get cute. You know, I'm thinking Jalen hurts, but I'm a little bit worried with all the rumors going around with with Sean Watson. I'm just going to play it safe and go with Matthew Stafford, who I think is just a high floor, you know, generally speaking, pocket passers for them to have true top five ceilings and fantasy football, they're going to have to have some sort of an outlier year and touchdown rate. You know, last season, Tom Brady, the quintessential pocket passer, you know, he throws 40 touchdowns is the second or the third highest touchdown rate of his career and he's still the QB 10 in fantasy football on points per game basis. So, you know, you really need that rushing juice for sure. But I think that if you're looking at all of these like later round or latest round, you know, like the low end QB ones in fantasy football, Stafford is one of the guys who definitely pops as someone who would no one would be shocked if he had like someone who'd been outlier season and touchdown right, just giving the weapons that are there, the new offense that he's in, you know, he's talented. He's good. So, you know, I just went with Stafford. It's a fairly safe pick. They're not going to be stacking him though, either, because I already had, you know, I already lost out on Bobby Trees and Cooper Cup earlier on. But I do think there's Tyler Higby there. I do think he's a safe enough pick though. OK, so I'm up here. I'm going to go. I want some Debo in my life. I feel like I'm higher than on Debo than a lot of people, partly because I expect him to get a couple more downfield shots this year based on what he's been talking about with his role and stuff like that. So, I want Debo there. I want to bring up Ryan Hammer. He had a question earlier on. He's actually in this draft. What's up, Ryan? He was asking before thoughts on his pick at three. He couldn't do Henry. He had to take Camara. And I think that's the right discussion to have because, like, I have been nervous about who I want to rank at third overall. Oh, my gosh, Rob. OK, we'll get back to Ryan in a second. But I purposely took Debo because I assumed Hardman would be there for my next pick. I didn't know you were high on Hardman, Jim. I'll send you an offer in our dynasty league after this. I have him. OK. I'll take whatever. I'll talk about the questions. Because you have to draft right now and you don't know who you're taking. Rob, my dog is very mad at you too. She's barking. And I'm assuming it's because of you. So, Rob, we might have to kick you out of the stream at some point. It's just, whoa, OK. Whatever. I was kind of I was kind of in the line in the mindset of I see Kansas City. I want a piece of that offence. I think that's. Yeah. I mean, that's the right mindset. That's what you should be doing. Just don't do it when it negatively impacts me next time. That'd be great. The. So I was that. The Derek. Alvin Kamara thing. Here's the bottom line for Derek Henry. I know we talked about him a little bit to start off the show. Derek Henry is coming out of a season where he rushed. He's one of eight running backs in NFL history to rush for 2000 plus yards. He scores 17 touchdowns. I don't know how Derek Henry can have a better season if we assume he's utilized in a similar way through the air as he's been utilized. And maybe that changes. But I don't know. You know, it's a sixth year in the league. You know, is he all of a sudden going to be a 10% plus target share type back? I doubt it. And so that's why, you know, and by the way, last year, he was RB three from points per game basis behind Kamara and Alvin Cook. You know, I did my analysis more for full PPR. This is half PPR, but it's still, you know, converts in some way. I just think that, you know, you're buying into to some degree. I haven't met RB, RB five. So you're buying into some degree. You're buying into a ceiling. Okay. So I'm going to go and I'm going to have Rob and Brandon fight on air because Rob took a Lombardi Lenny Leonard Fornette and Brandon took for Ronald Jones. He had the stone hands. Brandon, do you prefer Rojo over Fornette, a Lombardi Lenny, or is it just the way things broke for you? Just the way things broke. I have a hard time with both of them this year, but once Tom Brady got acclimated to that offense, they were basically the best offense in football. And I think they're full season stats. I mean, they still show it, but with their like, if you kind of look at just whenever things started to click once they got Antonio Brown acclimated, just an elite offense. And I figured, you know, all these, all these are all these running backs are in committees to some degree at this point. So I might as well take one that's tied to one of the best offenses in football. Okay. And Rob, what was the selling point for you on Lombardi Lenny for your most recent pick? I hate to go back to like, you know, recency buys, but, you know, Super Bowl playoffs. I mean, again, who would they give the ball to, right? So and I think it's really similar where Brandon said, I mean, it was kind of a coin flip at that point because, you know, for net could also just be on the shell full, you know what I mean? And then, hey, there we go. So I just kind of went with recency buys, I guess in my mind and also getting a piece of that offense, you know, it's a good offense and should be good this year too. Okay. I got a question over on Twitch from Glenn Sweden. I'm assuming that's how you say that. Glenn is wondering who should you draft between Fields or Lance? Who has the highest ceiling? I mean, it's in the sort of JJ, the late round quarterback guy, a couple of guys who fit that mold very well. Obviously, we don't know yet who will start for either team, but both these guys getting a lot of positive buzz and camp, both these guys, highly efficient college quarterbacks, both these guys, runners, both these guys look good when you watch them as well. And at least for Lance, a tremendous situation in San Francisco. So JJ, you had a pick between Lance or Fields. Who is your preference right now? I'm going with Lance because I think the ceiling is higher. I think it's a little bit different, and you could flip flop a little bit more in a best ball league where I have more confidence that Justin Fields is going to start earlier than Trey Lance. But I just think that San Francisco is going to get to the point where they just don't have another choice because he's showing off so much in camp. And I just like the situation a lot more for Lance. Number one, I think Lance is going to have more design runs and be a bigger rusher at the NFL level. So that's going to bring some juice and fantasy football. But then number two, I just like the personnel a lot more in San Francisco. It's kind of hard not to. And the situation with Kyle Shanahan. So yeah, I'm a big, big Trey Lance guy. I like Justin Fields a lot too, though. If you're waiting on the quarterback position, those are the two that I would go after. And quarterbacks do tend to go pretty fast in these formats, as we alluded to before. Currently, 13 quarterbacks off the board. And actually, this one's been a bit more reserved at that position than a lot of other fan dual best ball drafts. I've been, I think, because we're all drafting live and not no one's auto drafting right now. I think that's a massive factor there. It's allowing us to actually pick quarterbacks in a more sane matter than has been the case previously. OK, so JJ, you're picking here in around number 10. You do have your quarterback. You got five wide receivers so far. I'm a little bit jealous because I have been neglecting wide receiver and I feel pretty bad about it. But you and Joe Burrow, what sold you on Burrow there? You know, honestly, I could have waited and gone with, like, a Lance or something, but I just took him right now. Or I could have just gotten Lance. I think I have Lance higher than Burrow in my rankings, but I'm playing it a little bit safer with this build. Mostly because I feel good about the other assets that are on the team. You know, if I need a little bit higher of a ceiling, then I would just go with a guy like Trey Lance. But, you know, I just think, you know, Burrow set up in a pretty good spot having Burrow and Stafford. I think I'm going to go with a low end QB1 with a quarterback position. Feel good about those two guys. I think they're both low end QB1s this year. And I got a little bit of a sincey stack, sort of, with Joe Mixon. So that's at least something. But I just went for safety there. I think Burrow's a good enough bet to give you a low end QB1 season this year. All right. So I'm on the board and I need wide receiver help pretty badly. The problem is I think I should take Michael Thomas and I'm going to take him. Do I want to take him? No. Will I? Yes. And I feel a lot better about Thomas and best ball than I do season long because I don't want to burn that bench spot in season long because it's such a key to have these guys who could have roles like running backs who could have a role. I want to use my bench spots on guys like that. I don't use any guy who probably going to be out until mid-October at the earliest and maybe even much later than that. So in season long, if this were a waivers league, I would not have taken Michael Thomas there. But I think in this format it actually I actually feel okay that I'll take Darnell Mooney here to get another wide receiver because I'm pretty behind at that spot. But I wouldn't have taken the season. Nemesis, man. No. That was when his quarterback was Mr. Trubisky. When his quarterback is either Andy Dalton, which is better, I guess, or Justin Bealds. I'll take it. So the reason I hated Darnell Mooney last year is because he would get all these deep targets. It didn't matter because his quarterbacks were poop. But like his quarterbacks might not be poop anymore. So I'm good at it. He's my guy now. I also had to do it to like because we don't have Ryan Williams in the stream today because Ryan obviously the other stuff going on. But I have to represent Ryan Williams here and get his wants and needs. And we have to get the Darnell Mooney trutherism out there. So as a proxy for Ryan, I will take Darnell Mooney. But also because I do like him here. So I felt like I had to do that. I got to clarify. I was trying to put Matt Ryan in my queue and it became my turn. And so that's why I drafted Matt Ryan. I just wanted to make that note. I would have waited a little bit on quarterback. And Matt Ryan was about as good as Andy Dalton was last year without Julio Jones. So I'm not that high on Matt Ryan. But I wanted to explain that little snafu there. Sure, buddy. I believe you. Sure. Definitely believe that that's exactly how things went down. Brandon, I do want to ask you, though, about season long versus best ball because that was a big dilemma with me with Michael Thomas because I was saying where if it were season long, I would not have taken him because I don't want to burn that bench spot best ball. It's different because I have more. I mean, the bench spots obviously I can't. I can't add people on waivers and stuff like that. So that's what allowed me to take Michael Thomas. Where was it? Where was the tipping point for you have been on Michael Thomas? I think about here feels right just based on what you could expect. Now, I think it does depend on the quarterback situation. I would not be surprised. And this is subjective and I try not to be. But if Michael Thomas maybe misses more time because I don't think he's very happy. But I think this is about right because Michael Thomas at Michael Thomas's level still one of the highest target share receivers that we can get. And I don't care really who your quarterback is. Volume leads to production. Yeah. I think that that's probably correct. Cal to Justin Fields. Why don't we need to get Cal out of you? I could run the stream like we don't. He's just listening to our stuff and taking the players we want to take. I was probably going to take Fields around the next time to get my second quarterback. But now I'm going to have to settle for the boy Kirk Cousins or something. That's upsetting. I would rather not do that. But we'll see. OK. So I decided to go with the other Saints wide receiver here, Marquess Callaway. Also got Sammy Watkins. So I think those are interesting picks as guys who could have roles. Watkins now with Marquis Brown, banged up for the Ravens Callaway as a result of Michael Thomas's injury, but also sounds like he's been impressing a bit during camp thus far. We'll see how things shake out at the quarterback position there. JJ, you are James Connor and a guy who had a rough year last year to be sure. But goes there is zone. And we know Chase Edmonds has in general not been a guy trusted towards the end of the season. Was it the reason for you to pull the trigger on James Connor? Yeah, look, I mean, I'm not high on Connor this year compared to a lot of fantasy analysts because there's a lot of fantasy analysts that like James Connor and think that he's a big value. I did research this off season that led me to what I what I dubbed the ambiguous RB one theory, which essentially I'm going to make my pick really quick. Wait, OK, good. Which essentially I thought that I picked Devon Singletary, but I got Marquis Brown. I did this research on the ambiguous RB one theory that basically says if you have two running backs in the middle rounds historically over the last 10 years and they're from the same team. So that's between round six and nine and they're from the same team. The RB one on those teams by ADP breaks out and has a much better season and a much more significant rate than the RB twos, which tells you that we're actually pretty good at predicting who these RB ones are going to be. And so Chase Edmonds would be would fit that a little bit this year. Jerry Sermon over Rahim Mostert, Travis Etienne over James Robinson, Givante Williams over Melvin Gordon. So those are the players that you hypothetically should be targeting. That doesn't mean that you shouldn't target, especially in best ball. It's a little bit different. This is all from a season long perspective. But in best ball, I still think that James Conner is going to see goal line work in that Arizona offense. I still think that James Conner is going to see some early down work in the offense. And I don't have to predict when that's going to happen. So it's a lot easier to predict that James Conner in a situation like this, an environment like this, as opposed to if any of you are drafting this weekend in your home league. You know, I'm not as high in James Conner because I don't think he's going to be all that predictable. But in this kind of format, it's a lot easier to go after him. And he slips. He fell into the mid-eleventh round. And I think a lot of that has to do with the fact that he had that IR next to his name, but he's on the COVID list and he's not really actually banged up. Right. So that makes sense here. OK. I'm on the clock with my 12th round pick. And I don't really want to pick any of these guys. I guess I could go with, like, a Randall Cobb to get exposure to the Packers. I'm not really feeling great about that one, but I need to get more tight ends because I have just Darren Waller. So I took Randall Cobb. Well, no, I was going to say I was in the middle of a middle of a sentence, Brandon. And OK, look at the screen Brandon, and look at these tight ends. I was going to take Evan Enger potentially, but then you took Evan Enger. Yeah, I know. I know I get it. Also your nemesis. Jim's got a lot of nemesis out here. I was, no, he was my nemesis when they were using him like Jason Witton last year because, you know, Jason Garrett can't wrap his head around the fact that a tight end would be not Jason Witton. So I hated him, but, like, that usage eventually changed. So my tune on him changed, but like, do I want Gronk? No. Do I want Jared Cook? No. Do I want Gerald Everett? Maybe later. Hunter Henry is banged up. Going to miss a couple weeks. Like, the tight end situation is pretty grim. So I really didn't have a ton of choice. Trayquan Smith apparently hasn't been practicing for a while now. Rashad Bateman just had surgery. I don't really know what I want to do here. There's nothing super enticing. Is there a running back I want? OK, let's panic. All right. Let's nope. They're all bad too. Quarterback. Oh my goodness. I'm going to time out. That's been my thought process for about the past six rounds. Like. I didn't. Oh, man. Tua, you like Tua? I love Tua. But I don't want to take him right now. That wasn't a bad pick. I don't know. I panicked. I don't know. I mean, look at the other quarterbacks that are on the board right now. It's not like. That's true. So I think it was a good pick, Jim. The reason I went to Tua in my panic is because I do. I do believe that Tua will be more efficient this year. I feel like once he gets more fuller back, both in the injury and the suspension, I feel like that'll be a solid thing. Apparently. Bert Albert Wilson's doing a lot of stuff in practice. A training camp. Davante Parker is there. Jalen Waddell is there. I believe it's Waddell. I think that's actually the way it's pronounced. I don't know. I'm going to double check this, but someone was tweeting about this anyway. Someone said it. That's how he says it or something. I think his family says it that way. I always feel like a weird thing. I can't do it. I can't do it. It's like the Tyrod Taylor thing. I feel like a weirdo, but like, hey, I mean, that's how they say it. I'll say it. Oh, that's Kels. That's the Kels now, too. Oh, my goodness. That was intentional. It seemed like where he just wanted to make everyone feel bad. But Rob, you went with Cam Newton and Cole Beasley there. Let's see. I'm going to pull up your team here. Trafunzies. Where is it? I can't read in my defense. Okay. Here we go. I think they're sorted by order. That doesn't help me. Okay. If people watch the MLB DFS stream know that I don't know sequential order. Okay. It's really good UI, Jim. We have to promote the UI. It is good UI, but I'm stupid. The user interface doesn't matter if the user is very stupid. And that's me. Most families are much smarter than me. So I'm a little slow. But I can never find sequential order. Anyway, Rob, you've got Aaron Rogers and Cam Newton. Are you done at quarterback or you can try to add to that later on? I think I'm done at quarterback. I don't really love anything. I was queuing up quarterbacks to add and feel it was going and all these guys were going. So I was like, all right, cool. I mean, the only other guy could maybe consider, like I think that I kind of like a little bit is Jameis. But only because it's, you know, might not take a fire at this point. And the same thing obviously can be said about the Sean Watson, you know, that's a high flyer to take, I guess you could say. So I might go back to QB, but I was, just speaking of the double C. Off the board anyway. But um, but yeah, so I just went, honestly, I was going to go Cobb. I wanted the Cobb stack with Rogers. I believe then Rogers getting his boy back in town. So I was looking at that, but then I decided to go cold easily. His targets are pretty high last year. So I hope that kind of translates over this year. So that was my thinking there at the end. We're getting in this space where it's, you know, we're kind of hoping for a lot of good, a lot of good outcomes for a lot of these guys. Maybe they're getting outcomes because the median outcomes ain't great, man. For anyone at this point in the draft. That's why I was so flustered trying to make my last pick because there's no one I actually want to take. So there has been a rough one for sure. Titan starting to go. JJ goes Hunter Henry. We saw. I mean, Alicia took a tight end. He's, he's, he's a quarterback here, but he's a tight end. It's Jason Hill. Cal. Cal took Zacher. It's Nick took Jared Cook. So all the Titans starting to go. And then there's Anthony Ferxer. I like, I'm actually okay with the fact I didn't take a tight end, but they're starting to go now. And now Sam goes play Jarwin. I was going to take, I wasn't like the reason I didn't take Jarwin earlier is because of the Dalton Schultz love that we've been reading at a camp. It seems like Schultz might have a bigger role, but like, I was going to take Jarwin because I believe the talent. So yeah, I really hated the tight end. So I was hoping for Gerald Everett in the last round when I took the high end, but Everett got, I got sniped a few picks earlier. I don't really, I, this is the first time I basically like drafted Hunter Henry this off season I'm not, I'm certainly not high. I'm pretty high on John. I think John was the dude that you would point. But just the way that things are trending with tight ends right now, it's kind of insane. So I just had to, had to jump on the guy that I liked most to pair with Hawkinson. Okay. So I feel good about this. I was worried I wouldn't get Austin Hooper. Hooper's because I read a tweet, not not even a full story, a tweet from Mary K. Cabot today, a great Cleveland dot com bee reporter talking about how Austin Hooper would be more involved this year. I didn't get to read the thing. I was like, OK, Mary K said this. She's smart. I'll get Austin Hooper. Great process, Jim, right? I mean, end of round 14. Sure. Just go with a tweet. That's all that I mean, what better reason could there to be? Could there be to draft a tight end? Then I saw a tweet seemed to tweet. OK, so I'm going to address tight end lakes. I think there are a couple of guys I can get later on who I feel OK about. So I'm going to go with an either a running back or a wide receiver. I'm going to go Nelson Agalore, get some some patriots love in here. Agalore obviously played really well with Las Vegas last year, got a pretty fact contracted. There's been a lot of Jacobi Meyers love recently, but I kind of like Agalore. So I went there. Rob, you did go with Rob Bronkowski and your namesake, I guess we could say. Yeah, I'm Tampa Bay, too. Yeah, I'm Tampa Bay over here, too. Now I have I have four net, brown and ground. I mean, I'm just looking at Gronk. I'm just at this point, it's just like I kind of can't. It's Gronk, you know what I mean? That's a very favorable matchup. I kind of got to go there in Sturley Shepherd. Honestly, I'm a Giants fan. I like how he plays on the field and I kind of was like looking at it. I'm at the stage here. I'm just like looking at some of these dudes and that, you know, it's, you know, old reliable here or can this guy produce? Have I seen him do some stuff here and, you know, you're mixing that in and hoping, at least for me and the Giants, that he's going to do something this year. So because you're a Giants fan, I get to ask you thoughts on Danny Dimes. We're going to see a year three break out. I'm looking at him, too, right now on on the I think he has to like coming from a from an outsider, not even like a fantasy thing. Like this is a big year for the Giants, right? Like Barclay's coming off an injury. Danny Dimes is, you know, coming up on the contract. Barclay with a contract, too. And it's a big year, like besides it being New York and the NFC East and all the lore that comes with the Giants, it's a big year for the Giants. Like this could be a year that they really make or break a lot of the roster outside of the guys they signed for long-term deals. But I'm hoping if he doesn't turn the ball over, he gets a little bit more Carson. When he holds the ball a little bit too, too, too much longer than he would like then maybe we're doing something good. But the turnovers have to stop with them. Yeah, he cannot hold the ball behind those tackles. Unless unless unless things keep getting better. Thomas, he needs to get rid of the ball. So agreed there. Carson, when he is what we want to avoid at quarterback. Actually, just a couple of questions on the chat. My bad guys, let's talk to Matt first. I use a dynasty question. He is he can trade Alexander Madison in a 2022 third round rookie pick for Justin Fields. I am assuming based on that that this is a single quarterback league. So JJ, a single quarterback league, would you trade Madison and a 2022 third for Justin Fields? Yeah, yeah, I would. Even a single quarterback league, you know, Madison. The thing with Alexander Madison is when he's gotten the call, he hasn't even been, you know, a passing specials back. You know, we saw last year against Atlanta when the game script flipped for Minnesota. I mean, everyone remembers that game because everyone's using Madison and DFS. But you know, Madison was was not the dude in that negative game script like we saw with Dalvin Cook. He's just purely a handcuff. And now he's more of an early down handcuff, too. And a 2022 third is not going to be all that valuable in a single quarterback league. So I'm taking Justin Fields. I agree on that. Let's stick with JJ here and talk to Don't Touch My Radio over on Twitch, who are some late round rookies you're targeting. So JJ, you went with Gio Bernard, not a rookie, but who are some late round rookies you are turning to this year? I did draft two rookie wide receivers in this draft, though, because I have Amon Ross, St. Brown and Devante Smith on my team. OK, perfect. So Amon Ross, St. Brown, someone who's likely. I had to get the lion's stack, of course. I mean, who wouldn't want to gobble up as many Detroit Lions targets as you can with Jared Goff? Amon Ross, St. Brown will likely play the slot. And he's sort of like a thick slot. You know, he can he should be able to do a lot there for them without, you know, good perimeter wide receivers. I mean, Tyrell Williams is going to probably play the X there at this point. So I don't mind Amon Ross, a late round dart throw. I like Devante Smith in the middle round. Still, I know the injuries there. But, you know, he's someone who if you look at historical ADP data and if you are getting the top passcatcher on a team without any other passcatchers being drafted around them, it's usually a good sign. Devante Smith is good. And I think that he's going to be able to walk into a 18 plus percent target share in the Eagles offense with room to grow there. So I really like Devante Smith this year and redraft. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, those are some of the random that the two. I mean, they're both of my team. So I will call them out. Those are the two that are like popping into my head right now for whatever reason. But Ryan with Rondale Moore, any thoughts on that? Yeah. So I've seen I've seen Rondale Moore getting more and more hype. Look, he's a really interesting prospect, a smaller dude who had insane production early on in college at Purdue, which Jim probably knows well all about. I do not. How dare you? As a Northwestern guy, he had like 350 yards against Northwestern in his first freaking game. It was fun to watch, despite the fact it was just gutting to watch the entire time. Yeah, look, I mean, the way they utilize him, I'm assuming that the the Cardinals are going to utilize him in the slot. They should utilize him in the slot. That's sort of what he is. He's basically if it's Gerald, you know, they're the same thing. So it's just a pretty natural progression from one to the next. Yeah, exactly. So yeah, I mean, he didn't play a lot of traditional wide receiver in college. So it's a little bit tough comp when you're looking at college to pro making that jump and making that transition. But it's the right offense for him. I mean, right now you have two guys in the perimeter and AJ Green and obviously DeAndre Hopkins, who are our big dudes who can take away some of those looks and take away some of that coverage for Rondell Moore. And if Moore ends up being the dude in the slot, then yeah, he's going to get some looks and he's going to be, you know, fairly, fairly effective from a fantasy perspective. I just, you know, he's fine as a darth row. I mean, that's that's basically my I'm not like you absolutely need to get the guy. But yeah, I mean, if everything translates, he's a freak athlete. He's smaller. That's that's the downside. But he's a freak athlete. He's got great hands. You know, he can he can do a lot close to the line of scrimmage. And I think that's how they're going to utilize him and he can he can break out some big plays, which is great for best ball. So yeah, I like Rondell Moore too. If you guys want to target him late and drop. So Ryan, you were watching previously on Twitch. Ryan Hammer, who is in this draft. And if you're still watching, we're now fighting because I again, I try to get too cute. And I was like, oh, I can get Jeremy Kinn next time around. Figured I'd be good to go with that. And Ryan foiled those plans by taking Jerick McKinnon. It seems like he's been impressing quite a bit at chief's camp. And I, I believe in Clyde Edwards. He layer, given the draft capital spent there, given the talent he showed in college, I believe in him. However, he's a guy who's getting a lot of buzz in camp. Ryan is watching. You wanted some insurance for CEH there. So I get it. But we were fighting and I wanted to take him because I like the buzz and I like that offense. I wanted to get exposure there. But hey, I still like Rashad Penny. I know he's banged up once again, but Chris Carson is a guy who has had his issues and not a lot of draft capital spent there. Penny had talent coming out. No, Brandon, you liked Rashad Penny a lot. See someone on your list this year, Brandon, or have you fully divorced yourself of the old Rashad Penny endorsement? Yeah, I mean, I like them, has not gotten off to the right start. A lot of injuries and now like just not really. I mean, he was on my queue and I was I was planning on probably taking him, but you did. Yeah, but I mean, he's got to like now a lot of competition. I would feel better if he was just the like the RB two, but DJ Dallas getting some some some buzz. So right, I've kind of given up on Rashad Penny a little bit, but I would have taken them there for sure. Yeah, I think that there's enough there to like justify a later on fly. And we're still getting him pretty late. So I do think there's enough to do right now. OK, the other guy I took was Dan Arnold. There were a couple of tight ends I was considering. And it was either Dan Arnold or Dalton Schultz because I do think that the hype he's been getting in camp is based on not just camp, but also what he did last year when Jarwin was out. Wanted to get this back with back. But the reason I would Darnell or with Darnell, it is Dan Arnold, the Darnell connection. Darnell to Arnold was also starting with a D. The Darnell connection there. The reason I went there was because it does seem like he is a pretty easy path to being the past catching tight end for Carolina. We know Sam Darnell does not have the best outlook given the way things went in New York. But it's Joe Brady. It's a decent offense. We saw him be efficient last year with Teddy. Obviously, I think that Darnell is a downgrade from Teddy because everyone is a downgrade from Teddy. But I still think that Arnold, given what he showed with Arizona at times last year and at times with the Saints. Previously, I think that Darnell war or Arnold, my gosh, that's going to be terrible this year. Hopefully it's not relevant. So I'm worried about this. This is a nightmare. This is a situation for like two. It was like Damien Williams and someone. It wasn't there. Someone else who was like the same last name. Anyway, I'm just confusing myself. It was a nightmare to write about. Darnell, Arnold is going to be a nightmare, too. So let's just avoid this and let's let Ian Thomas somehow win that job. So I don't have to worry about this because it's just it's terrible. JJ, you went Donald, Donald Parham. We'll add in the Donald Arnold. Donald Parham. Is this just a old leftover XFL love or taking a shot at a guy who has a lot of good talent? I think people are sleeping on Parham this year as like a late, late dart throw. He's going to get reps. He's getting reps with the first team. He's going to run with the first team at times throughout the throughout the season. And he's he's six, eight. He's huge. He's massive. If any of you guys watch the XFL, you know that you watched him last year. You saw him as a red zone threat. And I'm banking on that sort of translating as we've seen, you know, with other sort of like later career breakouts at the tight end position with these just like physical freaks. I think that Parham could end up being that guy, you know, for for the Chargers. So I think that, you know, he's my I have the luxury of just getting a tight end three because I feel good about where my lineups at right now. And I think that that, you know, just throwing that dart and going with that insane upside, I think was worth it. I agree. Given the state of the tight end position, you might as well swing to the fences because nobody here is a floor. So why not shoot for a guy who actually has a path to a ceiling given, you know, not the biggest competition for playing time there. So I went Tyro Williams, shout out Al Seidenfeld, Tyro Legazelle back. And again, getting exposure to the Lions offense. What more could you possibly want? But just easy to get targets. And at this point, the draft, if I can find someone who will get that, I'm going to have a hard time turning that down. OK, second pick here. Don't want to go Donovan Peoples-Jones kind of do. Let's do it. We got Otto Beckham, Jarvis Landry, of course, there, but Peoples-Jones, a workout freak coming out of the draft at Michigan showed some flashes at times last year. Now, in a second year with Baker Mayfield, I expect that offense to be pretty solid. So I'll take Peoples-Jones there. OK, Rob, you have Mark Ingram in another ambiguous backfield because the Texans have Phillip Lindsey, David Johnson, et cetera, et cetera. And you want to Samajia Pirai, who seems like probably the next man up after Joe Nixon. What drew you towards those guys? Yeah, I was just kind of looking at the outlook there with Ingram and the the the projection is that he's going to split time and use his back to start week one there. So fine, let me get a piece of that. And then same thing with Samajia Pirai. I was kind of looking at the one running back from Miami here at the end. I forget which one it was. I'll stop my head and Malcolm Brown. Yes, Malcolm Brown, his goal line output there from Miami's offense with two up because we all know some of the. Two is going to be in the end zone often. Yes, I agree. Yes. So I was looking at that. I was interested in that. But yeah, I mean, the one thing I was curious about you guys are talking about everybody here. So when we get down to these right, like these these lower rounds here and there's like, you know, old, reliable, good players on bad teams. How does it for you guys? What is the impact there? Right. Like a guy is, you know, number one running back on the jets. We got to balance that out some way, right? Like for you guys, is that a factor or you're just looking at I don't care what team he plays for. He's getting the workload of carries and we're good. Yeah, it's it depends. I want a path to upside and whether that be via a lot of volume, like I think Tyra Williams could get there via volume or via a good offense. Those that's what I want. I want a path. I don't care what the path is. Ape took Tim Tebow. Come on, Abe, what are we doing here? I know I know tight end is gross, Abe, what are we doing here? Come on. Also, DJ is asking no MLB DFS day. No, we will have MLB DFS after this DJ. So if you're here for MLB DFS, stick around. We'll wrap up the best ball stream. Talk to Rob, Brandon and JJ about their teams. And we'll talk about that next. So DJ, stick around. We'll get to MLB DFS in just one second. OK, but I like that one more. He went Harrison Bryant, who's actually a functioning NFL player, so I get that one. That one I like. And Tim Tebow, come on. I expect that, Abe. Come on. We got high expectations out of you here. Final picks coming up here. I did see Albert Wilson go. I like that pick by Alicia, given the buzz he has gotten. JJ, you went Nico Collins out of Houston. I think it just seems like we're taking advantage of ambiguous situations. That seems like the thought process of Nico, correct? Yeah, I'm just kind of loading up on rookie wide receivers right now. This is that was my third rookie wide out. And I'm actually taking another rookie wide out right here with the last pick, if I can do it. Yeah, so I took Josh Palmer with my last pick. Just going throwing darts. We know that rookie wide outs aren't necessarily the best investment from a season long standpoint. They usually get off to kind of slow starts. But we could see that switch a little bit during the second half of the season. And both Nico Collins and Josh Palmer have paths to seeing the field. I wasn't that high on Palmer as a prospect coming out. Didn't have great production in college. But he should be able to find the field in three wide receiver sets, or has the opportunity to, at least. And then with Nico Collins, he could be starting. He's playing with the first team already. Whether that says anything, because he's playing with Houston is remains to be seen. But yeah, Nico's already playing with the first team. So I think that he's a strong pick to just see volumes sort of late in drafts. Brandon, you went with Sam Darnold. Was that your second quarterback? Third quarterback? OK, so we're, yeah. Yeah, but like, I forgot about Matt Ryan. It's a Joe Brady offense, man. I mean, I'm kind of high on Sam Darnold. I think he's already. Yeah, no, I get it. Like, DJ Moore's great. He's going to be able to check down to some guy named Christian McCaffrey. That might be nice. That might pass the stats. I don't know him. Ravi Anderson can get that. I mean, he's not going to like, he's not someone I'm targeting. But at this point, you know, you never know what's going to happen to a quarterback. Honestly, if I felt better with my second quarterback than Matt Ryan, just because of my concerns without Julio, I wouldn't have gone quarterback. But I think that people are probably too low on Sam Darnold. He's still really young. I think it's going to be easily his best situation. So compared to I did not draft Chris Conley. That's my maya culpa there. But yeah, I think that it's worth mentioning that Sam Darnold is pretty interesting. Chris Conley is a big Twitch guy, too. So you might be like watching this and like, I'm sure that he cares a lot. That would be the worst thing ever is if you didn't draft your your your hero when he's watching. Yeah, sure. He cares deeply. I mean, if you saw the beginning of a show, then I mean, that's true. OK, so that does wrap up the draft. We're going to get to MLB DFS here in just a little bit. Cal says that Sam Darnold will get bench for PJ Walker. So that's where we're at. Jerry says go go Colts. And that relates to my final picks. I went with Paris Campbell kind of shocked he was available. So I I don't mind like I'm not super into Paris Campbell because I mean, he's coming out the injury that offense not off to a great start giving the injuries to Wenz to Fisher to Nelson. But hey, I mean, it's, you know, former guy with some draft pedigree going that late for my team. I feel pretty good about things. I had to go really hard at wide receiver. I took 10 total because I just didn't get enough early. But I feel like I had to make up for it. And I feel OK with the way things broke, should get some guys with some volume there. Do you like my running backs a lot? Javante Wilms, we didn't talk about I have Lord in my ranks as a result of the it sounds like Melvin Gordon is getting a lot of first team reps still. So I've lowered him. But I think in the seventh round, I am OK with that. So do like my team overall want to go to Brandon next because just because you're beneath me on the screen. So let's go to Brandon and pull up your screen. OK, glad you. Yeah, it's it's not because I really want to talk to you. It's because you're there before being fully honest here. You did get your Josh Allen, got your Derek Henry, got Justin Jefferson. How do you feel about this team? I mean, I could feel better about it. You know, I'm totally fine with Derek Henry in the first as we talked about. I like getting Josh Allen. I think he's in that tier of just elite quarterbacks who are worth taking as high as the fourth round. I like the young guys with CD lamb, Justin Jefferson at receiver feel like I got some value throughout. But honestly, I instantly regretted a lot of picks at the Matt Ryan mistake. Took every pick. So you're fine. Took Jamar Chase over T. Higgins, which is kind of egregious on my part. But, you know, I feel like it's a it's a pretty balanced lineup. And I have a lot of past catching running backs kind of late where that that might. Well, I guess not really just McKessick and Cohen, but that was kind of the those are the guys I was targeting. And they weren't always there by the time I was back back up on the clock. I don't think the Matt Ryan pick is that bad? No, it wasn't. It wasn't. But I wanted to explain I wouldn't have taken him there because he was in a big tier. But like, it wasn't a bad pick. It's I think it's kind of like the two of pick for me were like, I didn't want to do it and I felt kind of bad about it. But like, it wasn't it wasn't the end of the world. So I do like this team. I think you dropped it. Well, I like the the aggressiveness with the the wide receivers you had and kind of getting top top end guys and Josh Allen, stuff like that. So I think the team worked out pretty well. So Brandon, managing editor at Numberfire, following him on Twitter. I could do a 13. Appreciate it. And I'll talk to you again soon. NFL heat check just around the corner, baby. Yeah, twice a week. What could be better? Can't wait. That was Brandon. Let's talk to J.J. Zacharyson. Now, J.J. I need to find your team. Again, I'm just very stupid with these things. OK. Got Stafford and Berra quarterback. Got Saquon and Nixon. I love that starts. Lockett, Cooper, a lot of productive wide receivers in your core. And then TJ Hawkinson. I think that what you did well was getting into positions before the teardrops occurred. What are your final thoughts in your roster here? Yeah, you know, I'm I'm satisfied with it for sure. I got the anchors at running back. I wish I had a mobile quarterback, but Joe Burrow and Matthew Stafford should be able to give me spiked weeks. You know, you know, they'll have random three or four touchdown weeks and they should be fine. And then, you know, was able to get a couple of satellite backs late and Joe Bernard and Naheem Hines and then have James Conner be sort of the more volatile piece that can kind of slide in there if need be. And then I just went not strafing a lot of why I have 10 wide receivers on this in this build. And I feel good about them. So, yeah, I mean, I went after a lot of rookie wide receivers late in the draft and then I was able to get Hawkinson as the anchor at tight end. So I think it was balanced all around. I feel good about it overall. Yeah. And you get the the I don't it's like a revenge stack that you get like the old teammate stack with Stafford and Hawkinson. So like maybe that counts only to either way. That's JJ Zacharyson. Follow him on Twitter at late round QB and check out the late round podcast as well. JJ, I appreciate it and have a fantastic weekend. Thank you. All right, let's finish up here with Rob Lopez. Rob, you got Aaron Rodgers with your fifth round pick. You got McCaffrey, obviously a great way to start things. How do you feel about your draft after McCaffrey for today? I'm risking biscuits. I'm looking at my team here and just risk, risk, risk. But it kind of what makes it fun, you know what I mean? A part of it is, is I'm looking at in McCaffrey's even a risk. I mean, he's probably the most guaranteed guy on the squad, but we saw what happened last year, right? A.J. Brown's going to be split in time. Cal Pitts in the second round by me is kind of a reach, I would say in my estimation. But in that situation, I was kind of stuck between two tight ends really and see who we can get to give me some tight end production there. So a lot of risks here, I think for me personally, if I had to reflect on it, but I don't mind it. I think it's going to be a lot of fun, especially, you know, what we have in Tampa Bay down there. I'm going to have to be rooting for the Bucks this year a lot, I guess. But overall, like it, I'm not mad at it at all. I'm hoping for some upside, even at the tight end there of Troutman. I know that somebody that could potentially have some nice upside. And same thing there with Pittman there with the Rydersevers. I'm kind of hoping that one of those dude breaks out. Hopefully Beasley plays this year. He was among, but he was among the NFL's leaders in targets and stuff. So I'm hoping for some little upside there in those Rydersevers. I'm glad you don't mind your team because, again, I do. I'm still mad at you for the Miko Harbin pick. We will have, we'll change words about this later, but we'll leave that for a separate time. Make sure you follow Rob on Twitter at R0BATO. Rob, appreciate it. Have a fantastic weekend. Thank you, Jim. All right, let's move now into our MLB DFS Q&A for today. And look at that. It's already set up. We are ready to go with the MLB DFS Q&A. So no matter where you are watching for today, YouTube, Twitch, Facebook, Twitter does not matter. Get those questions in. We'll take them live here on the air to get you set for tonight's slate of MLB DFS. And it is a full 14 game slate for today. We're starting things off with DJ over on Facebook. He is saying, Shane McClanahan, Blake Snell, Charlie Morton or Cole Irvin for a starter. I think there are two guys there. I'm going to consider DJ. I would say the one I like most is Morton. I actually have Morton ranked third overall for my pitchers for tonight. Really good numbers for him. Based on the Nationals, it is a repeat matchup, which I am never a huge fan of, but it's the Nationals. And they've kind of stripped this thing down to just the studs. And Morton did well against him last week. 30% strikeout right over his pass. 10 starts with increased velocity in his curveball. Really good number and just a good pitcher. So I like Morton most. I will say that the Blake Snell is interesting. It's another guy in a repeat matchup. He was awesome though in that first matchup. I had been off Blake Snell for, I bet him to win Cy Young. So I was not off him in preseason. I'd been off him in season for a very long time, but it did show life there. A lot of strikeouts. And it seemed like he was going more towards his slider. I think he threw it like 42% of the time. Let's pull this up here and actually check that out to see what the number is. I didn't actually highlight today. Okay, here we go. I'm pretty sure it was like a 42% slider usage. So a different approach for Snell in that game. Which I think is encouraging. Cause if a guy's going to have like a spike game, I want there to be a reasoning deviate. Yeah, 49% slider usage, cut out the changeup, really cut out the curveball as well. And 13 strikeout there. So DJ, I would say that both Snell and Morton are a consideration, but Morton very much so the guy I believe more in because his success has been more sustained. Also it's a very good matchup. Also a very good pitcher. So I do think that Morton is number three. Now I mentioned that Morton is number three. That's because I have a couple of guys higher. Those two guys are Zach Wheeler and Robbie Ray. Zach Wheeler facing the Reds. He's at home. He is just a disgusting, really good real life pitcher. But he also gets strikeouts. This is what we want for DFS. We want to sell it for strikeouts. And Wheeler does get those over his past 12 starts. This is since the sticky stuff discussion began. Still the 27% strikeout rate, the best skill interactive e-array on the slate. And he gets there because he has great batted ball data. 26% hard hit rate, 22% fly ball rate. You gotta love all that. So Zach Wheeler number one, I have Robbie Ray number two. There are more recent numbers for Ray are not super flattering. But part of that is due to the schedule. He faced the Red Sox three times over his past five starts. That's a brutal road to go through. Faced the Mariners this time. Super high strikeout team. Not great against Lefty. So it is Wheeler one, Ray two. DJ says his video got interrupted. I said I would go with Morton among that group by a wide margin, but it's now also a consideration among those guys you alluded to. Let's talk to Alvin. Are you worried about the Brewer's weather and the Ray's watered down lineup? Uh-oh. I've not seen the Ray's lineup yet. Alvin also says welcome back. What's up Alvin? Thank you. Nice to have you back in my life as well. Let me check out what Kevin Roth said on Rotor Grinders about the weather for things. I'm going to be doing the NFL best ball stream, so I've not checked things out recently. Okay, he says not a ton of organizations in the system, so I can't give any specifics, but the overall coverage and intensity of storms in the area looks somewhat worrisome. Delay seems likely postponement possible, and so it does seem like Kevin is worried about the weather in Milwaukee. That was from this morning, so let's refresh what Dark Sky Weather says here. Of course, I trust Kevin over Dark Sky Weather every time. Does seem like it looks it better than we did this morning with the Rainby Movebacks. What I'd say Alvin is follow at KevinRothwx on Twitter, see what he says for his 530 update about what the weather says there, and trust him. Right now, I'm okay with it, but I would trust him over me every time with regards to weather. Second question from Alvin was about the Ray's lineup. Let's go over here and refresh and see what that Ray's lineup looks like. They're facing Michael Panetta, so I'm into them broadly. Oh no, that's bad. There's no Austin Meadows. That's not great. Oh, gross. You're right Alvin, it is watered down. Basically, it's because there's no Meadows. That's the one thing. And there's no Jiman Choi. What in the world are they doing? Okay, so I like Lau and I like Franco. We like Cruz, a little bit of high salary. Wendell's been in a pretty bad power rut. Let's check out Wendell and see. I wanna check out his batted ball number specifically since the All-Star break and see if we should just abandon hope on the power numbers he showed earlier on this year. Because I'm inclined to abandon hope because it's been a rough little bit here for Wendell. Let's go since the All-Star break. One barrel did come last night, but that's not super inspiring. The ground ball rate increasing, that's pretty bad. So Alvin, your intuition was correct. This lineup sucks. So I think that like a three player stack of Lau, Franco and Cruz would work. Arosa Reina, I'm okay with. I tend not to be as into him versus Reides as I am against lefties, but versus Reides, still a 155 ISO, can steal some bags. So I think that does work. He's over salary to me. Yachty Diaz I'm not gonna get to. It's kind of just these top four guys honestly and like that's tough. So I would downgrade their Reis a pretty decent amount based on that lineup. So yeah, Alvin, I'd agree with you with your intuition on that Reis lineup. Let's talk to you, Savon. What teams would have the most offense? So I liked the Reis before, Savon. Do not like them as much anymore. I do like the Brewers if we get the all clear on the weather. I think they're the top stack for today. Facing Mitch Keller, Keller is a guy who has struggled for like the last three or four years. Ever since he had that one big year, but a lot of hard contact. His first two starts back up and the big leagues have not been good. So I like Keller a lot. I also liked the Red Sox, Facing Spencer Watkins. I know I will not be alone in that, but those are the top two teams. The Reis and the Padres were battling for third before, but I feel like I need to bump up the Padres here. So I'm gonna bump up the Padres to three, bump the Reis down to four. I can sleep as the top four guys on that team. So I'll still keep them in play, but I am gonna downgrade them. So Savon, I have Brewers one, assuming the weather's okay in Pittsburgh. And then I'll go with the Red Sox two. We'll go Padres three against Bumgarner. He's been good since he came back, but underlying numbers not as flattering, a lot of fly balls, not many strikeouts, a lot of balls in play. So I'll stack the Padres three and then I will keep the Reis four, but I don't feel as good about it. Let's talk to Jerry running a Boston and Dodgers and Cubstack. What players do you play? Okay, so we're going with a, probably a like a four to two type situation here. Dodgers, where are the Dodgers? Oh, Dodgers facing Tyler McGill. I actually kind of like McGill personally, Jerry. So I'd actually be a bit lower on them, especially with no Mookie. I think for me personally, I think McGill's pretty good. So I'd probably be lower on the Dodgers personally. Decent weather for hitting. I think the wind is blowing out at 89 degrees. So I do think that you could justify it, but I'm a pretty big believer in McGill. So I am not super into the Dodgers. I do like the Red Sox though, facing Watkins. Let's pull up the Red Sox lineup over here, assuming it is out. It is not, because of course, why would it be? Yeah, no Red Sox lineup yet, but the main guys here will be the guys we like. Kiki Hernandez, JD Martinez, Xander Bogarts. Actually it sounds like Kyle Schwarber might be back. I didn't, again, I've been in the stream for the past hour, but yeah, Schwarber's back. Okay, so Schwarber, we're gonna like that for sure. So I would say Martinez first. Let's see some salaries here and some other guys. Michael Schwarber second, honestly. Just because it's Schwarber, let's have some fun. Devers three, Kiki Hernandez four, Xander Bogarts five. Hunter Renfro probably gonna be six. I'm not sure if we're gonna be back. He's in the bereavement list, I believe, or paternity list, paternity list. You can move to a different list, either way. Potentially would not be playing for today as well. So Martinez, Schwarber, Devers, Kiki, Bogarts, Renfro, the ranking for the Red Sox. As far as the Cubs go, I would use the guys who are okay. So Schwindel's fine, Wisdom's fine, Bodhi's fine. Outside of that, it's rough. So I would say these three guys are the ones to focus on for the Cubs. I'm not super enthused because I do like overall lineup strength to be a major factor. And their overall lineup strength is pretty bad, but I think that those three guys specifically, the two, three, four batters can work. Let's talk to Jerry. He likes Panada. Okay, so Jerry likes Panada and honestly like with the raised lineup, I understand it. Not enough strikeouts for me, so I'm not gonna use Panada. I'm still inclined to stack against him, but it does help that the lineup is bad. Austin, our friend Austin Swame over on Twitch saying, did the raise forget they're facing a righty today? It appears so. Is Meadows like hurt? Am I being unnecessarily harsh here or did he just get a day off? Because if he's got a day off, he'd be very mad. It appears it's just a day off. Sick, love to see it, love to see it. He's in a rut, but he's gonna go yard. So whatever, whatever, the raise hate us. It's fine. Let's talk to Savon. How do you feel about Oakland, Toronto and the Giants? Trying to touch the non-chalky teams. Okay, so let's start with the Giants here. Facing Gomber, I like Gomber a lot. This is his past horse starts as he came back, 28% strikeout rates. They're very good against lefties, very good team against lefties, but he's a good leftie. So I would say lower on the Giants, despite the fact that I would agree they will be less popular. A's are facing Dane Dunning. Tends to get a lot of ground balls. This is the past six starts with less moving on a sinker. Still a 27% fly ball rate allowed. That's a bit low. Does let up some balls in play for sure. Let's just pull up Dunning's results here. I've got the peripherals. Let's see what the results look like for Dunning in this time. Pretty sure he's coming off the IL. I think he had an issue. So if you wanna play that angle, if he struggles coming out the injured list, 2.70 ERA in that time. It's a very small sample, but it's tough. So not as into the A's. Blue Jays, okay. The Blue Jays are facing Chris Flexin. Now the guy who does suppress hard contact, let's pull up again. The results here, see what things look like there. Suppresses hard contact, but does let up a lot of balls in play. I don't tend to sack against Flexin just because the batted ball suppression has been so good broadly. 3.42 ERA, he has had rust starts at times and the Blue Jays are a team that can generate rust starts for sure. So all of those teams that rank the Blue Jays highest followed by the A's and then followed by the Giants in that order amongst some options. DJ also considering going with Starling Martay, Matt Olson and Jed Lowry. Always loved Jed. Not as much for DFS, but in general, do love Jed. Yeah, I think that they're fine against Dunning just because Dunning is not like a shutdown type pitcher. The reason I'm not as high on them is 100% because of the batted ball suppression, keeping the ball on the ground, that is an issue for me. Let's talk to Alvin. If given the all clear, some of the Brewers, which team would be the better three-player stack? The Reys or the Red Sox? And Michael also asked about Milwaukee. So let's go through Milwaukee really quick here and see if their lineup is out. Okay, it is. Okay, so we've got Wong, Adamez, Yelich, Eduardo Escobar, Guaranteed, Dinger tonight, Luisa Rias is in there. So that's good. Jayce Peterson is the guy I've used pretty often recently just because he's a low-sourced exposure to the team. So let's pull up the Brewers' numbers here versus Reides. Yelich, I do wanna look at his current form because the overall numbers are pretty bad, but he's had a bunch of injuries. I would be willing to consider him to things that have been looking better recently. So let's look at the recent numbers here for Yelich. I know we had the COVID stints, so our recent numbers are gonna be pretty slim. But since coming back, put six balls in play, two were hard hit yesterday, making some hard contact, at least. I guess that's something. Not a lot of fly balls, has had some barrels. It's not the most optimistic outlook I've ever seen. That's for sure. 51% ground ball rates. See what the ISO looks like here. 094, that's tough. That's tough, that's the way I'd phrase that. So let's go back over here and let's put in Wheeler as our pitchers. We're gonna assume we are scrambling in terms of salary here. As a result of my assumed need for salary, put a Rios in there and we'll go second base, because second base usually stinks. So we'll do that. And okay, after we do that, Adonis 225 ISO versus Rioties, I'd like to get there if I can. $3300 actually is not too bad. I can make that work pretty easily. Probably gonna want Jace Peterson because of the salary savings. He's $2300, Peterson has been okay, versus Rioties. So far this year, a 190 ISO, 41% fly ball rate. I can live with that. Also six stolen bases. So I actually feel pretty good with that. So we'll go at the Domus, or Rios, Peterson if we're trying to save some salary and then it's between Wong, Yellich, Narvayez and Escobar. And I'd like to get to Eski if I can. Big fan of him. So if you can afford to water Escobar, definitely go there. Definitely go there, he's a good hitter. If not, probably Narvayez, I would say. So if we go Escobar at third base here, fill the infield, that's 2975. Probably can make that work. If I go Narvayez, it is 3125. So you can probably make both work. You get the 567 situation there with Narvayez, Rios and Peterson. But I think that Rios and Peterson are guys I'm very willing to go to to save salary, which I'll probably need to do for today. So I think that that works. It sounds like you were considering a one-off for the Brewers. I would say if you wanna give yourself more flexibility with regards to getting to JD Martinez, getting to all those other guys on the Red Sox, I would consider Rios or Peterson as your one-off here on the Brewers to give you that salary flexibility. So better three-player stack between the Rays and the Red Sox. I'd probably get Red Sox. I know they'll be pretty popular. So if you want to avoid the popular stack, I would say check out the Rays instead. Maybe the bad lineup will scare people off. So I would prefer the Red Sox straight up. But if you're looking for a discounted roster rate as a result of just a really bad lineup, the Rays could work there. But I honestly, I think the Brewers are pretty good. So hopefully we get the all clear on the weather. I'd love to just stack them and feel good about it, but it is pretty dicey to say the least. Okay, Savan says the Padres did me filthy yesterday, especially the pitcher. Yeah, I used you too. It was not great. I'm right there with you, Savan, feeling it. It was not good. Not good at all. If I picked them today, how would you rank them? Okay, so let's go to the Padres here. I'm guessing the lineup is not out yet. Let's pull up a recent lineup versus a lefty and see what we can expect there. It depends on if Tautis is activated today. Sounds like it'll be this weekend, but I don't know if that means it'll be today or not. Hopefully it is because that would increase the value in everyone. Let's see if there's been an update on Tautis so far today and it does not look like there has been. Hopefully it gets activated because that would help a lot, but we'll see on that. If we assume Tautis is not activated and we are trying to scramble to save some salary here, probably be pretty high in Tommy Fam in the outfield. So we'll put Fam in there. Will Myers is really bad numbers versus lefties, but like at some point I feel like he kind of has to hit. So we'll put Myers in there too. So my face, Garrett, they had Myers and they had Fam there. Kronoworth, Frazier. Frazier actually has weirdly good numbers against lefties. I don't think that'll stick because he's not a very powerful hitter overall. So I'm kind of expecting that to come down. So we're gonna pull up his numbers against lefties. They're gonna look good. I don't think that's gonna stick around personally, but maybe I'm just too dismissive of him. 167 Isis is pretty good. For Kronoworth, 203 Isis, that's really good. Okay, maybe just go Kronoworth. Is he shortstop eligible yet? No? Okay. 37's a lot when I'm trying to get to Wheeler. So that's kind of tough. So we'll just go with Bichotto here. $4,000, that's fine. I can live with that. And then I guess it depends on who plays. Let's see what Grisham's done. I don't really wanna pay 32 for him against leftie, but 215 Isis is good. So I guess we could go Grisham at 32, but I would say Fam and Myers to save the salary are guys you wanna turn to Siobhan to allow yourself the flexibility to get to Wheeler. Siobhan also asked for some thoughts in Detroit. I don't mind it. I didn't get to them in stacking because it's not a great overall team there's not a lot to play for there. So the motivation factor is pretty low, but Zach Plisac hasn't looked very good since he came off the IL. So I am broadly okay using batters against him. And I think given the Brewer's weather, given that the Ray's lineup is pure stinky trash, I think you could potentially get to the Tigers as being a team to stack. Just saw Plisac last week. Pretty sure I bet the over on their team total for that one. Four runs there, gave him six runs to Ranta. That's a tough team. The Ray's are tough too, but hey, I mean, he's been rough. So yeah, maybe we check out the Tigers line up here to see if we can get some salary savers there. Okay, so Grossman lead off. We have Scope, Cabrera, Heimer, Renato Nunez, Castro, Haas, moved down to seven. Okay, so let's go to the Tigers. And I also want to check out salaries on Detroit to see if we can get some salary savers here. Where are they? They're there. Okay, so Grossman 32, not bad, can deal with that. Let's see what everyone else is. My gosh, they got a lot of guys out. Oh, just the offfielders. Okay, cool. So we'll probably go Robbie. Cabrera had a double dog, but I'm pretty sure that was against the lefty. A little bit ago. Miggy, 155 ISO is actually higher than I thought it would be. So let's go over here and see if he's had some sort of alteration to his batted ball data recently. We'll look at him since the All-Star break specifically to see if there's been a shift. I did a homerun yesterday too. I guess that's kind of intriguing. All right, in this time, actually the launch angles up, barrel rates 12.9%. Hard hit rate, 54%. Interesting. That's not bad. 237 ISO, huh? Okay, Miguel Cabrera might be good again? Weird, okay, so let's just do it. Let's do this. Let's rock with it. Okay, didn't want to put him in the out very utility, but whatever. Okay, let's put Miguel Cabrera to that catcher slash first base. Let's put Haas in the outfield. I'd probably go scope. I know he's got much better numbers versus lefties and righties, but whatever. And then among the other guys, probably Candelario, I would guess. Haas against righties, 209 ISO, a lot of strikeouts, but against police act of my moment. Maybe we just go Haas. I mean, I know he's been at seven, but who cares? So I already had him in there. I'm gonna do that, whatever. Anyway, I think that Detroit's in play. Long answer to a very short question, but yeah, I think that they're in play. DJ will do the final one asking about Abraham Toro. Mariners are facing, pretty sure they're in a rough match. They're facing Robbie Ray, so no Toro for me. So I'll pass on that one and just I think that Robbie is a real good pitcher. So no, nothing there for me. That is all that we have here for today on the Fanduel Live Q&A. Appreciate all of you sticking around though for whether it be for the best ball draft or for the MLB DFS Q&A. Thank you as always. Make sure before you check out to subscribe to the Fanduel YouTube, Twitch, Facebook, and Twitter pages. We'll be back once again on Monday for MLB DFS Q&A. And of course, lots of NFL content coming up this year as well. Thank you to JJ Zacharyson, Brandon Gadoula and Rob Lopez joining me earlier on for the best ball draft. Everyone for doing the best ball draft earlier on. 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