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Trio of Positivity Podcast - Episode 42
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In today's episode, the boys recap the Bears week 3 preseason game and safe to say #CalebMaina has arrived on the podcast for MOST of the hosts. They also talk Hard Knocks Ep.3 and analyze some awkward 1:1s in our own careers. They then introduce the starters for the Bears defensive unit and now PFF needs to update the ranks on one of them. They finish up the episodes with the top TEs and WRs in fantasy as you are likely entering your own fantasy drafts soon.
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Transcript
Introduction and Host Updates
00:00:21
Speaker
it feels good to be back. Just that music makes me feel alive. You guys know this is a podcast where we look at the Chicago Sports Landsmake Weekly, bringing you our unpolished positivity. I have my boys here to do it with me, but you know, it's been hard to find these days. Maybe today will be different. I am Boopan, joined by my fellow positive brigade members, Miller and CJ. What's up, boys? Oh my God, CJ, I haven't heard that name forever. Wow, that was an old agenda. My bad.
00:00:55
Speaker
Wow, rumor on the street is two of us got our hair done and look all sexy? Yeah, I need to do it. Hey, I trimmed my beard. I don't have to, you know, that matters. It does. It does.
00:01:10
Speaker
quick social plug. We're on Facebook, true or positive podcast at Twitter, true or positivity on YouTube is true. Positivity podcast. So website is up and running as well.
Bears' Preseason Highlights
00:01:21
Speaker
We got a big episode for you today. We're talking preseason week two slash three for the bears.
00:01:27
Speaker
Hard knocks episode three will give you I'll talk about the Bears defensive units tell you the names to look out for see Give you some idea of like how we think would fare for this year And we'll finish up the episode with the top tight ends and wide receiver to look out for in fantasy That's a lot to talk Chris, I'm gonna throw it to over to you Tell us about the preseason game. What was your takeaways there when we played the Bengals this week? Oh my God, I choked on myself. Bears beat the Bengals 27-3. We learned a couple things from hard knocks, which we'll get into here in a little bit, but Caleb was
00:02:10
Speaker
off on a slow start he did get a nice little touchdown drive at the end okay go we're done or done back seat we need some energy but we're talking about caleb okay we don't need this fla new that was going to happen oh i knew that was goingnna happen i know i was william Slow start, he started 0 and 3. We all know that's because of the audio issues that we found out on Hard Knocks. Obviously, because he's a perfect specimen. perfect specimen. After that, he had two more drives, led two 50-plus yard drives, resulting in 10 points. Damn, including
00:02:51
Speaker
the fucking Hall of Fame plate of fucking Haudunze on the fucking sideline. oh And if Haudunze doesn't step out of bounds, we're talking about a touchdown pass. Oh, come on. Caleb lit it up again in the second quarter. We're going to disregard the first quarter. But we do not come into this positivity podcast with fucking bullshit when we're talking about the Lord and Savior, Caleb Williams.
00:03:14
Speaker
I love that Miller got here this episode. I was there last episode. Chris is dying over there. I love it. Uh, but talking about rope guys, I told you guys, okay. I told you he was, he's going to be not relevant, not, not relevant in this offense. I think I could be wrong. You guys can correct me. Remember the play they were talking about where he was like, Hey, when you go to the post, go outside. I think that was the play that scored the touchdown on, right?
00:03:42
Speaker
He didn't score a touchdown. He didn't score a touchdown. Typical not knowing what's going on in the game, but that's okay. Because Lord and Savior Caleb can have three
Bears' Management and Strategies
00:03:53
Speaker
and outs all the fuck that we want, but... Hey, he said it was not working. Three times. Two for five. I will take two for five.
00:04:04
Speaker
everyone I didn't want to go this route, but I'm gonna go this route bear friends. Calm your tits. Okay. Calm your tits. I Had a whole discussion about it on my on my group chat. My guys are fine. Thank you. You guys are Way first of all, here's the rule. Don't tell other people how to fan That is a rule. No. You don't tell other people how to fan. Bro, America, bro. You don't tell other people to do shit. You don't tell other people how to fan. No, wait a minute. Okay, so have we not learned? You do you. Hold on, timeout. Have we not learned our lessons from the last two quarterbacks? But let us be excited.
00:04:42
Speaker
You could be excited, but you first of all, this is the first Heisman trophy winner that we've had on our team. This is the first first round overall pick that we've had on our team. And this is the first quarterback that's actually gotten praise outside of the city of Chicago. All of those are better. not true He looks better than Trubisky and Fields did.
00:05:01
Speaker
Like, probably their whole tenure here. I'm sorry. They do. It's two games. He's reads. He's like progression. He's there, dude. Are you saying he throws perfect spirals to and reads defenses? Are we going to go that route? We're going to talk about that in hard knocks. Jesus. Chris, keep it coming. Moving on, our potentially future trade pick in Tyson Bajan also put on a show once he entered the game.
00:05:30
Speaker
lighting up things, scoring two more touchdowns. Dude, this kid looks like he is legit as much as I hated on him last year. He looks like he knows his shit. Can we talk about him? He's like his build hair. I think he looks the part. You're right. Like he may be some other teams might come calling for him. I think like he looks like this year, probably not next year. It'll probably be a general Jimmy Garoppolo situation. We'll trade him maybe in the third year once we find out that Caleb is a future Hall of Famer.
00:05:58
Speaker
But but he he clearly said I have bigger plans than be a backup and I was like, oh, that's a great line I know we're I know we're kind of sprinkling in hard knocks lines in here. Sorry um But that's probably was my favorite part of the episode was him getting some love Okay. Unexpected, right? I was not, I was not expecting. I don't think, I think a lot of what happened last year was like, okay, we're not going to our knocks. Thank you. Okay. Moving on. I'm still gonna answer this. Last year, when he had the cover for us and he had those wins, we kind of was like, okay, this is kind of nice. This is neat. I think now we're seeing him in a more different light where he's taking the approach of wanting to teach Caleb, but also he wants to be a guy. He wants to be the guy.
00:06:44
Speaker
Yeah, no, 100 percent. And his dad is a character. But yeah, more could come in in hard knocks. um The defense guy's solid. We've given nine points, I think, in the last two preseason games. Kyle Gordon, our own Spider-Man was great. ah Blackwell made a huge difference in the secondary, too. um Man, we are blitzing. We are covering. We forced an interception. I think defense is like like delivering in all freaking cylinders. I love to see it.
00:07:13
Speaker
We'll talk about it. It'll be interesting to see how it carries over. I mean, I don't know if our talent in the back end is just better than everybody else's talent or what's going on. But it's been two dominant preseason games. I mean, it's a third year together, right? Second year on the same system, third year together. Still new players. New players and somewhat of a new system. We're talking about second and third rat string for the most part.
00:07:37
Speaker
That's true, that's true. But yeah, we we allowed 82 yards ah with a 3.3 average. Bengals had one completion of 15 yards or more, guys. I mean, I know it was the second and third and fourth string playing, but again, ah those numbers look good good on my books. um Any other takeaways from the game?
00:07:58
Speaker
It's preseason. Yeah, but you guys care more about Caleb and all that, but you want to criticize the defense. That's fine. It's fine to criticize the defense. No, you guys are not giving a full, full credit on the defense, but you guys want to give Caleb all the praise and shit. That's our Lord and savior. We've been over this. Yeah. Fucking say sorry before I say Lord, say Lord, say Lord. where its italy Um, did want to bring up Felix Jones. Uh, he looked good last week. I think our good ish running the ball. He had a pretty bad week this week. He had 13 yards and six attempts. Uh, you know, longest yard of seven rounds, 2.2 average. I don't know. His running back stint might be night now last that long. He may not be make the team, but yeah after Dante Pettis scored a couple of touchdowns. It's a blessing. It's a blessing. Thank you. Let's move on.
00:08:48
Speaker
Listen Miller's been ready for this since like last year. So maybe two years ago. So ah Next up bears go to Kansas City on Thursday No starters on the bear side at least are supposed to start for sure. It's pretty simple norm, by the way Is our that's the last season game? Yeah, okay Yeah, I mean less with the wake Caleb ended last game They not they were gonna play him Yeah, i just i just find that normal that we got that gre season yeah i but I was I just find it interesting we got that news what like Monday or Tuesday or something like that Normally you don't get it so early. I think we have a third playing Thursday that help keep in mind It's the Bears to and with us having the Hall of Fame game. We already had technically three preseason games Where everybody else this will be their third that could that could play a role too. But I
00:09:36
Speaker
Plus, like, the last preseason game, everyone does this, right? Most games are on Saturdays, and, like, none of the starters are minimal starters to play. Supposedly, Russell Wilson is playing. Well, that's because they don't have a real starter over there. Yeah, I was like, that's gonna say, I don't know if that says more. It'll be it'll be interesting to see the backup roles and how they play, how the agent continues to play. and Also, it seems like, well didn't there used to be like a cut from 90 to like 70 and 70 to 50? I think that went away like a few years ago. So they used to go from 90, 90 to like 53 in like one week or like whatever, two weeks time. that's like
00:10:13
Speaker
So a lot of people we saw on Hardinox coming up soon that we'll talk about. We won't be there very soon. Chris, take it away. Um, to recap, Hardinox episode three.
00:10:28
Speaker
um It was probably one of the better episodes I would say a little bit probably the best one so far in my opinion um there was a couple things that I Want to point out but I think the one that you guys would be more interested in talking about was the ah the trade for Judon. Mm-hmm. I was saying his last name, right? No almost trade so This is what I was waiting for from Hard Knocks. It's this kind of behind the scenes. It's this kind of ah wording or however you want to put it in which polls is essentially talking to the the president of the bears and saying like, Hey, he had a bicep injury, but listen, this is how we can go about this. And then he's talking to someone else and he's like, listen, we'll, we'll get a trade, but the trade is not going through until we talk about a contract.
00:11:25
Speaker
So, polls already knows that unless the contract gets made, he's not going to care too much about what round he wants to give up, which... Well, no, he did. He made it. He only wanted to give it the third. No, he was... He wanted to go four. They were asking for a third and he was willing to meet the third depending on the contract.
00:11:47
Speaker
Yeah, and it came down to the contract. It came down to the contract. and And that's one thing that I think a lot of people need to realize from polls is he knows what's going to happen with the money three, five years from now. I don't think anybody needs to realize that. You could see it.
00:12:02
Speaker
Just look at how he's approached. Look at how he approached all the contracts that he's signed. people like I mean, look at the Roquan situation, the Jalen situation. He very much, from the very beginning, he has these values. He definitely is because he doesn't overpay.
00:12:20
Speaker
So he doesn't get the top tier talent because you have to overpay to get that talent. But he has numbers in mind for each individual. And if they don't meet it, then he moves on. He's pretty staunch about it. And you could so see it in this episode where they set up contract parameters with Judon. And I don't think he was down for that. And that's probably why the trade fell through.
00:12:41
Speaker
Which is like so fascinating, right? Supposedly he's not getting new contract from the Falcons. Like he's like, but he's all okay with that. He's like, and yeah he I'm sure they've discussed, but I think maybe it's a, they were are low type of thing and he needs to prove himself. So he's saying all the right things to try to get that big.
00:13:03
Speaker
maybe but like the other thing i want to bring up is and this happened with hard knocks giants too it's weird to hear them talk about these players like we would do you know if you were talking about oh bears are getting i don't know like uh the guy from red redic right asan redic let's say we get it from the jets right if we were to talk about that what would we say we would say oh he may be a cancer in the locker room whatever he is, his age, he' his injury, he's younger than Judon, right? They were talking about players just like that, which I thought the conversation would be like much more analytical and much more like, see maybe a different way, maybe more, um you know, like enlightened, like maybe like,
00:13:46
Speaker
Insights into his PFF grades or something you and back yeah get the far away from p but they don't care about me and dude and what up paian but Like the like the the the way they talk about these players is just like how you and I would talk about it Which like one makes me happy that we are probably but like also like kind of makes me sad I was hoping it would like more things to look into when you you say that and I took it the other way It was clearly analytical in my opinion because as soon as they were talked about his injury they talked about how many games he played that took into the contract talks like that helped to make a decision when it came to the contract so there was definitely analytics involved the one thing that I enjoyed watching is holes was already dead set on we're making an offer it's just gonna depend on the contract so the question then becomes
00:14:44
Speaker
Did the player know his value was low because of what the Bears offered, that he was willing to go to the Falcons without a new deal? I think he supposedly he chose to go to the Falcons. but I thought New England would send him to the Falcons, right? Chances are for better pick that way was my take. But the fact that he chose to go to Falcons, there may be something else going on. There could be a few things, right? He could be looking at the
Caleb Williams' Performance Analysis
00:15:11
Speaker
landscape. Falcons have a weaker division. you could take that in the account, he can look at polls and maybe he set up contract parameters where he wasn't going to budge past a certain number and maybe the Falcons were willing to. So but yes, he doesn't have a contract right now, but maybe it could happen in the future after some training camp or in mid season type of thing. And here he already knew the expectation with polls. It seems like a lot of things that he does are written on his sleeve in the sense that he's pretty transparent.
00:15:41
Speaker
He wants the cap flexibility. He doesn't want to be in cap held at your point. He's planning three to five years down the line and he doesn't want to be stuck in this shitty contract. It's a lot more noticeable now when we were talking previously, um, about some decisions that he made or how conversations were where were previous contract extensions were on the line. You can kind of see now where he's like, he will not be handcuffed and he will do his best to make sure that if he was to be handcuffed,
00:16:11
Speaker
it's under his terms. also like talking about like his cunningness right like the whole austin booker draft thing that they showed man like they were done for the draft right we had no more picks and was still in the room talking me like but do we want is there anything we want okay hey what would it take they call like seven different teams to be like what would it take can we give you a fourth next year to move up and then when they pick that that was like so cool to see again I think that's a part of hard knocks that we wanted to see the insights right into the draft room and how that trade talks happen and they're talking to seven different teams and telling them what it would take the fact that they came back into the
00:16:50
Speaker
draft when they were done for the night and then like picked up Austin Booker who was like having a hell of a preseason like just tells me like how much of like talk and politics and like you know just like relationship building goes into that too. So hats off to freaking Ryan there too. I thought it was so interesting how there were like four or five different peoples that they showed on camera that had access to teams.
00:17:17
Speaker
So it was like, it seemed like he had like each person had like three or four teams that they were more unquote in charge of talking to. I thought that was pretty cool. Like the Ian Cunningham guy, who's our assistant GM, we renewed him for three more years. Everyone keeps telling me that like, he's supposed to... Doesn't matter, he's gonna be gone. It's just... we say yeah The fact that we signed him doesn't mean anything. Do we get the money back? We don't still release him. No, if they're gonna move up, then they can just leave.
00:17:48
Speaker
and Right. But the contract probably voids. Or the other team is responsible for a percentage if it's a... I'm sure it's voids. If you have paid attention, he's in the room every time. ryan bolt He's talking about like contracts or money. He's in the room. So that tells me that he's very involved with it. Again, another a cool thing too. Moving on, ah we did get a little bit more insight with Caleb, ah your Lord and Savior. um One of the things that was even noticeable that I've heard on the news today was that he was not nervous for his game. I hope so he's a professional. I don't know why that's a big deal full of shit, dude.
00:18:29
Speaker
First game at Soldier Field. Come on. Come on. He's a professional. He's played that fucking at the Coliseum. I almost call bullshit. I think it's bullshit that he's not nervous. I think that's fucking. I think okay every athlete is nervous going on the field. You hear it all the time from these professionals. I heard it from Pat McAfee. They say they're nervous. I was about to tell you, I think there's a difference between nervous and anxiousness. Like maybe you're anxious to start or maybe you're anxious, but you're not really nervous.
00:18:59
Speaker
I mean, that's fair, but you feel something. I think you feel something. Okay. I thought when the three announced were happening, that was what it was before I knew the mic was out. There was some overthrows and some throwaways and stuff like that. I thought that's what was happening. First game at Soldier Field, a lot of anticipation coming in. It probably could have been. I thought that's what was going on along with the radio. It wasn't. I mean, we clearly had an inside look at with Hard Knocks and you guys are saying it
00:19:29
Speaker
It's not that big of a deal. We can move on. I mean, the radio can cannot impact his throat, right? i dont think i I think that's bullshit. I don't think it's real. I mean, it could have been an issue, but there is throws that he just missed. If he didn't know, like, I'll give him credit. Calling plays when your stuff is not working, and ah some of those were just missed opportunities. They weren't like bad throws. I'm sorry, did you give Caleb credit? I'm a realist, unlike you guys.
00:19:58
Speaker
I'm a realist when it comes to... I think it's a word that starts with an H. Oh, you got a homework. That's what you're saying. Yeah. The one thing with with him was you can see that he has control of the huddle. And when your stuff is not working and you want to get some plays out, I think that's where the inexperience of knowing what you have comes in.
00:20:22
Speaker
He's a rookie. He's going to learn. Eventually he'll get better at it. That's why to me, it's not a big deal. Plus it's like the first 10, 15 plays, usually deals plays that's like supposedly going into a game first 15, 10, 15. Yeah. It's the same play that they, have they plan I don't know if they have that type of plan in preseason. They may.
00:20:42
Speaker
But it's also like a learning opportunity, right? Like it's good for us to see him in a situation where he is running into adversity with equipment. How did he handle it? How did he go about it? Obviously, the play on the field wasn't great, but he still had the opportunity to deal with that. We got to show that, hey, oh shit's not going well, but he still maintained his composure and still did his thing in the huddle. But then you also look on the other side at Rome and the perfectly placed pass by our Lord and Savior, Caleb Williams, and back to the end zone.
00:21:14
Speaker
when caleb started to celebrate cuz he thought it was a surefire touchdown and caleb and roam is. Out of bounds it's like the things like that when it comes to rookies. You're you're not happy to see it happen but it's a good time for it to happen this right now this is real games and and it's it's a learning opportunity it makes.
Stadium Location and Fan Engagement
00:21:37
Speaker
roam, sit there and say, okay, I have to be more on top of these lines. I have to be more on top of where I am on the field position. Okay, I did notice this second time now. You know the sideline? There's like the grass and then the white line. like White's like shaded white. There's a huge patch of white. And the end zone too, like end zone's like a different color and then there's grass at the end. Maybe it's like too early in the season.
00:22:05
Speaker
I don't know if you noticed when he went out of bounds, he was on the grass beyond the white line, but it was not like a different color of grass. Have you guys noticed that? um Even in the sidelines, the sideline area is not like marked with like... I mean, I heard a lot of excuses for this situation. Some people came out and said, oh, the end zone was two yards short. Other people came out and said, oh, that grassy area that was green is supposed to be white. And that's the issue. and I don't know. Whatever. It's a learning opportunity. I like I this is the second time not for the bears overall with them in a really good tip toe like catch. And it looks like they know they're in bounds, but they've been out of bounds like two different plays. I've seen. That's what I was asking. It seems like the regular pain pattern has changed a little bit. I i just want preseason. there's It's never complete in preseason. You know, also, you have to remember but the Metallica concert was like the day before.
00:23:01
Speaker
Yeah, so they they wouldn't want to put too much fresh paint on there if it's it and also the weather plays the weather plays a role. its It wasn't complete. You probably see a complete and also they go through some changes. It's it's the Chicago Park District. Don't get me started with them and how they take care of the field. Oh, you mean you don't want the stadium to be built on the lakefront like they showed on the show? Can we talk about that?
00:23:27
Speaker
you know the yeah So yes, I no one cares I'm kind of with you I'm like No one cared. No. No, no, no. Boop it. Okay, okay. the Okay. Okay. Drafting Kayla. You're talking to two guys. Hold on. You're talking to two guys who hyped about where the new stadium was going to be. And these two guys are now telling you no one cared about the stadium conversation in heart. Because it's not in Arlington Heights. You guys are being fucking. No. Even if they didn't give enough information for it to be relevant.
00:23:59
Speaker
I think it was done on purpose. I think it was done on purpose. I agree, but it was stupid to throw in there. They talked about some fucking chairs. I mean, they didn't provide any information and the outcome has been determined. That's what it's meant to do, guys. So, okay, they're building the story, right? Agenda, Miller says.
00:24:17
Speaker
Caleb's here, the team's looking good, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. like there is There is this this agenda, for a lack of a better word, ah for like the who's going to pay for it. If they can build enough momentum behind this team, like like maybe State will come in and cover 30%. I don't know. There's a lot of conversations happening on the backend, and that Clip guys is gonna help that conversation down. It is not you're wishing on hopes and dreams right now Okay, let's why would they show this random ass clip of like them talking about the seats and the stadium then they wanted to show the new stadium? Given it was a pointless conversation. Okay, let me put it to you this way in the last
00:25:02
Speaker
I mean, a month and a half, Miller, month and a half. We officially don't know where the stadium is going to be located, right? Officially. We know they want to be in Chicago, but we we know that Chicago is still not in play because of whatever factors and Arlington is still in play. Can we agree in that? No. OK, you know, you're taking too long. To move this point, you're not going to let me finish my moment. There was no negative for putting it putting it on there. It's either a play and Chicago, which I'm not.
00:25:32
Speaker
being on that, or it's a play to Arlington Heights. It's saying, hey, we have this shit down, but we're ready. Look at this stadium. This is where we're ready to go. Like it was a lose-lose situation. I just think it was irrelevant because it was stupid. Nothing of substance was actually discussed. It showed a- It showed a good stadium. It showed a great stadium. You don't know where it's going to go. You could use that in Arlington Heights as well. Right. ah That's where I was going to go at.
00:25:59
Speaker
I was going to go at the stadium, had no notification if it was in Chicago or if it was in Arlington. Well, it was on the lakefront. Well, they showed it on the lakefront, so it kind of asked me. Okay, but they showed the design of something that wouldn't reflect the lakefront. It's something that the Suites can... Well, it's covered, so it's covered. It can be altered as much as they want. The Suites that they discussed.
00:26:18
Speaker
is relevant because regardless of the stadium, that's where it would be. So they discussed something that was completely irrelevant to the entire situation. But I would be willing to bet anything that it will be in our lifetime. Okay, we got to bet this right now.
00:26:33
Speaker
It'll be in Chicago, nowhere around it. Hold on, Boobie, let me ask you this. Were you very excited to see what the owner suite or all of the other suites would look like? No, but that's not the point. Okay, so then why do you care? No one cares. That's not the point. The people watching Hard Knocks, like what? The 60%, 80% will probably never see this inside of a suite. Who gives a shit? They talked about the people with money.
00:26:55
Speaker
But it's like the hype. It's like the hype. Let's move past the stadium because we can talk about this. Hang on. Hang on. Good point, though. Good point. Great, great point there, Chris. Like, you know, like it's important. It's important to like.
00:27:09
Speaker
like HBO and whatever like what like the potato of the people that watch it is maybe 50% 60% will never even come to the stadium in person right? i have ninety percent yeah night like I was gonna give a whole like 40% of our Bears fans but maybe even say like a lot of them are never gonna come here but the hype that they are generating on the field they wanted like capture that, move that forward, whatever. That's why they showed it. was a ploy It was a ploy to get people to start talking about the money. That's it. Also like Warren, like otherwise the only thing he had done in the show was like say yes to Ryan Paul. That's all he had done. so you are But you didn't really have to. Okay, let me let me let me show you on anything else.
00:27:52
Speaker
This is how you show excitement for a new stadium. You literally go, all right, guys, we made some movement on the Chicago stadium. Here's what i get alone that alone would bring more excitement than what was happening. When I saw it, I thought they were going to put some bullshit in there about how they were going to improve aspects of the Chicago Bears. Like I legit thought they were going to talk about like tailgating or parking yeah just to make the play.
00:28:19
Speaker
talking Talking about tailgating and parking unrelated to hard knocks.
Coaching Dynamics and Player Development
00:28:23
Speaker
Supposedly Ted Phillips was in the parking lot partying up with the Bears fans and tailgating with them. Supposedly in the preseason. But where where'd you get this source? Don't tell me. Don't tell don't don't tell me Twitter Reddit. Twitter doesn't exist. X whatever. And with with that, we are going to essentially end it with my favorite thing where everyone is talking about the Chicago Bears don't curse.
00:28:50
Speaker
They do not curse. They do not curse. We are sweet boys. Not on TV. Yes, they don't curse on TV. You're right. We don't curse on TV. ah I did hear on Pat McAfee where the ah bears, they feel that bears ownership is taking control of the episodes to kind of have this narrative. They already came out. HBO did it to respect the Makaski family.
00:29:11
Speaker
oh it came out i didn't hear i didn't read that part um i do miss the cursing uh but that kind of goes to show where the first couple episodes you can kind of tell we're not hitting with the realism and stuff like that overall this episode It was OK. I better than the first two. Yeah. So you were on a seven or a eight, I think last episode. So I think we were all on an oven. We were all on it. Yeah. But like I think the stadium was bullshit. I think that's the only thing that I really didn't care too much about. um But yeah.
00:29:42
Speaker
No, but like, um, it's just, is you know, they don't, they don't know we exist. Um, we just want to CHGO, I think is a Chicago podcast. They had someone from HBO on after it was right after the episode aired. And they were, that's why they talked about that. Just want to give them a shout. You know, we, we, we know you exist. We, we, we watched you grow. So is anybody, is anybody sick of the whole, um, Ibrahim loose Caleb dynamic?
00:30:11
Speaker
God, it feels so forced. It is forced. It's got to be forced. OK, but how many one on ones have you had in your life where it was it felt that way, where it was like, I don't want to be here. The question you're asking me is so rehearsed. But realistically, how often is your quarterback going to meet with a defensive head coach? all that That was the only also like number one quarterback, right? Like not just a quarterback, a quarterback that probably needs to grow in that aspect.
00:30:40
Speaker
It was a very insightful conversation, but Caleb didn't want to be there. It it is very um Lord and Savior-ish how awesome he is. like we never so We never got to see this with Fields of Dribiski or at really any quarterbacks.
00:30:56
Speaker
that the bears have ever had but for him to talk about like defensive situations defensive schemes what he would do with a ball in a certain situation how he was how he was reading the defense even with tyson bajan on the sidelines and them quizzing him too it's just like Did we have this before? like yeah was Were we able to have this? like You see it sometime with Mahomes and Rodgers when they come back and they have that recall of like a game that happened 15 years ago, that certain play that hit that they still remember. And it seems like Caleb has that like same trait. He can remember shit that in situations. And it's just like, it's cool to see that from your own quarterback. Can I be honest with you, though?
00:31:42
Speaker
one of the things that i loved about hard knocks that same conversation would actually be recorded while the game was happening and those questions would get asked where it's like Hey, what did you see here? Oh, I saw this and this. Like you would get it in that aspect. This is where I don't feel like hard knocks is getting like harder. You probably don't do that in game. I think you'll break their confidence, Chris. No, you don't. Yes, you do. You don't ask the quarterback what you saw or didn't see there, dude. That would just be... Yes, you do. What do you think they're doing with the binders and the pads? They have pictures of every pre-snap. What do you think they do with that? They're checking out how good they look in the opponent's jersey.
00:32:20
Speaker
ah You can't think that their their mental stability is that fragile or you're gonna break them just yeah ask them what did you Momentum continuity something I don't think you do that. He had he had three three announced. What momentum was he gonna carry?
00:32:34
Speaker
Like, if anything, positive. Like, so you don't say, hey, were you fucked up here. See where you fucked up. Tell me what you saw. No, that's not what I'm saying. What I'm saying, what I'm saying is the same conversation that he had in his office, they have it in the sidelines during the game. Why didn't they show that conversation at that time?
00:32:54
Speaker
I don't think that's his job. I just think the Bears have more control. Hang on. I don't think that's Everflux's job. There's a QB coach. It's not that Waldron can do it. That's the thing. It's the QB coach. There's Waldron. There's other people do that. I don't know if Luz does that. Yeah, but to Chris's point, why don't they show that? And that's the thing. It's weird that they're forcing this Eberflux Williams narrative. And I get that he's a head coach, but he's a defensive head coach. And why don't you just have Waldron in the room if you're going to force this bullshit anyway?
00:33:20
Speaker
My criticism, and I've been a hard knocks fan for a while, ah my criticism criticism is Because bears didn't want to be on it, it looks like they have more control over the editing and what gets shown and not gets shown. Truly, the opening is so much better in other shows. Watch last year, watch the preseason. This whole like, monster is the midway and the boat going to downtown with like this narrative in the background truly ruins it for me. I think bears have a lot of editing control. I agree with you guys there. They're not showing a lot in that aspect. I'll totally agree with you there.
00:33:56
Speaker
The only reason I'm saying this episode and we'll move on to the next topic. The only reason why I'm saying this episode was more exciting was because we got to see what the possible trade scenario was going to look like on the background then. We also got to see issues with Caleb's ah headset. That's about it.
00:34:14
Speaker
No, I thought you got more in depth with things. You got to see the trade room. Again, another aspect, the trade with Judon. Austin Booker. You got to get into the depth of some, the Caleb, talking more football. There was more football talked about than there has been in the past. They've just had more fluffy things rather than the football.
00:34:36
Speaker
one thing I want to talk about and I put in the note someone took it out was the punter the Australian punter guys we gotta talk about him come on no we skipped because we're running all the time he needs a new nickname come on he needs a new nickname any any suggestions come on throwing it to you guys kick the ball
00:35:00
Speaker
That's a great nickname the pun I mean not to be rude because we all know he hates talking about where he's come from because everybody talks about it But I think crocodile punters. I Think like it it has a like he died. I respect so um and red Reddit had some names from subreddit Chai Bears We have the punter taker kind of like the undertaker but punter taker that was Jason Let's just I like this Tory tombstone Taylor He's also a big golf fan supposedly, so TaylorMade has been out there too, but I got a lot of joy. I can't believe- I personally like TaylorMade more than I like the fucking Torrey Toomes fan. What's up with the wrestling references there? Well, because wrestling is bad. Undertaker and the fucking Tombstone fucking shit. There's got to be something about Iowa, but
00:35:55
Speaker
um The fact is, he was a construction worker in freaking Australia. That seemed important in Iowa. Why does it need to reference Iowa? I think that's where the rest of thereler thing came from. Something must have happened there. I don't know. it This is from freaking Reddit. That's why we don't look at Reddit. We look at X. Come on. Yes. All right. Let's move on. We've already spent too much time and we can't be saying that word around Jesus. Jesus.
00:36:23
Speaker
Now I actually have to do some editing and bleep it out. Good Lord. No, you don't. That's actually happened on this podcast. No, we didn't talk about that. We get sued for seven dollars. We've talked about it. Hasn't been disproven. All right. So these two ums are going to go ahead and talk about what the Bears defense looks like. So I'm going to go ahead and throw it to them. ah What do we look at for
Bears' Defensive Analysis
00:36:51
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defense? What are what are some points we want to look at?
00:36:53
Speaker
Awesome. Thank you, Chris. We looked at the offense last week. Let's look at the best defense this week. um um I divided it up by the three different units. Starting up front, probably our weakest unit is the D-line. We had 27th ranked per PFF. I know you guys hate it, but um that that was one of the stats we found. Monte has sweat up there.
00:37:16
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oh on the edge with DeMarcus Walker. Sweat proven commodity. He had a great end of the season last year after he was drafted. DeMarcus Walker, second year player. Huge potential, huge expectations. He kind of decides how high this unit goes.
00:37:34
Speaker
um On the defensive tackle side, we have Andrew Billings, solid run stopper and Jevon Dester. Again, second year player, lots of expectations. it It depends on how well he does to how well this line does. um Talking about D-line, we also have some trade rumors like we guys talked about. Matthew Judon was supposed to be traded here, which would be a huge addition to this line.
00:37:59
Speaker
But ah more names out there, Hassan Radek, who's like with the Jets, but not playing for the Jets, is thrown that he might possibly come here. So people like that being thrown out there. But on top of that, some of the people that have been showing out in preseason like Austin Booker, who we talked about,
00:38:16
Speaker
um Also, Daniel Hardy has had a pretty good preseason too. Those are the names being thrown out in the rotation there, but probably our weakest unit and ah probably where the defense has some holes to fill in my opinion. Just sign Nagakwe and just move on with things, thank you. Actually, they've supposedly been talking this whole offseason, so that's a possibility. to Yeah, apparently he wants too much money.
00:38:43
Speaker
Uh, moving on, um, the unit in the middle of the linebackers, actually, this is our best rated unit.
Fantasy Football Tight Ends Analysis
00:38:51
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We had third ranked as a unit per PFF. yeah Okay. PFF rated. Okay. um' be real Okay. Behind the jets and the 49ers. I don't know why they hate.
00:39:03
Speaker
But TJ Edwards, who's the 11th best rated linebacker individually and Tremaine Edmonds, who's ninth, make sure, may give us that 11th rank, sorry, third rank unit. We also have the second coming of Christ, Jack Samborn out there. Shout out Ben. Um, you know, Caleb doesn't play defense. So that's the linebacker core. Again, I think i according to me, our second best unit, but according to PFF, our best unit out there.
00:39:33
Speaker
Let's talk about the people in the back. I think our best unit, ah PFF, check your freaking rankings, edit it. One time this offseason, please. We still have the 19th ranked secondary. According to them, yeah ESPN has a seventh. There's some units that have top five. I get it. We only have one big name, Jalen Johnson, who's the fifth best individual quarterback out there.
00:40:00
Speaker
The rest of the names are not like household names. So I get why you rank us so low, but I'm hoping I'm i'm praying that we are better than 19. That's BFFS ranked us. We have Tyric Stevenson and Kyle Gordon out there. Huge expectations on both of them. They have done good things this offseason. I'm hoping that carries into the offseason but into the season. Our safeties are Jaquan Brisker and Kevin Byard, who's replacing Eddie Jackson. I think Eddie Jackson is probably a more household name. that would probably pumped us higher, but as Chris will tell you, he's the worst. Kevin Bayard is much more of a household name than Eddie Jackson. I don't I don't agree with that. You went to multiple profiles. He has. But i you didn't know his name two episodes ago. OK. I don't know his first name or last name just came to the team. The only reason I know Eddie Jackson is because he was on my team for four years. And you yell that of every episode about how terrible. Where did Eddie Jackson sign ah Baltimore?
00:41:01
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Chris didn't know that. i Listen, sure. Why do you guys care so much about PFF ratings?
00:41:11
Speaker
Okay, okay. me Give me an alternative. That's like well respected out there. There isn't one. that These are all opinions. These are all opinions. I mean, the they are like the benchmark for better or worse. That's the what like established ah Ranking out there they rank individual quarterbacks and reunits none of the other people do it ESPN does it but they again? Yes, they're basically the only the only company that actually really dives into the ranks
00:41:45
Speaker
And there's some really good people there. I just feel like there's a lot of weight that gets carried with PFF. And at the end of the day, when they're wrong, they hate to admit it. They just say they overperformed. And that's why a lot of players don't like PFF rankings. I did hear that. But again, it's just the only real company that's out there that throws rankings on each player. Chris Collinsworth owns it. Come on. It's got to be good. Yeah, that's a good one. Let's move on to the actually important things.
00:42:16
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Fantasy Football Wide Receivers and Draft Strategies
00:42:48
Speaker
Different one. different okay yeah So one league that no none of us are in. He wins. One year league that is the $200 buy-in that I won last year. yep Thank you.
00:42:58
Speaker
What's moving on? None of us are in it, it's probably a bunch of bozos. Doesn't matter, I still want it, and I want a lot of money, so it doesn't matter if it is or isn't much bozos. Alright, go on. Moving on to ah um tight ends and wide receivers, let's run through this first. We will start with the wide receiver position.
00:43:19
Speaker
Many of which deem this one of the most important positions this year because of the high-end talent. And as the running backs turn from more singular into multiple, uh, or what's the word I'm looking for? Moving committees, running back committee, running back by committees, the wide receiver value has tended to go up as of late.
00:43:42
Speaker
Really, I'm gonna start off with the top six and then we'll dive into others. So the top six wide receivers this year.
00:43:51
Speaker
It's an opinion, but I think CD Lamb is arguably eligible to be the number one pick in the draft. Obviously, that's contingent on a contract. If he doesn't get paid, then he probably shouldn't be there because you don't know what's gonna happen, potential holdout and whatnot. But I rank him as number one, Tyreek Hill behind him. Both of those are very good pickups at the top of your draft.
00:44:16
Speaker
Amon Ra, St. Brown is as consistent as you can be, possibly up there with Lam and Hill in PPR draft because of his consistency and the fact that he is the Detroit offense. Jamar Chase, the big home run talent that he is, is number fourth, A.J. Brown, fifth, and Justin Jefferson is when it starts to get a little risky out there for my taste, but you know what? When you're the best wide receiver on the planet, you have to be in the top six.
00:44:46
Speaker
After that it's really a crapshoot anything can happen and all these guys have question marks a few things to highlight here I think Garrett Wilson's ranked a little low Personally, I know his ADP is a little high but the rankings out there Consistently have him outside of the top ten. I think if Aaron Rodgers does stay healthy. I think he is potentially a top five player Debo Samuel and Brandon Ayuk, I tend to stay away from them right now. No one knows what's gonna happen in San Francisco. If Ayuk does get traded, Samuel could potentially be a top five play if he stays healthy. um But if Ayuk's there, it's anybody's guess. Devontae Adams, I don't know what your thought is, Boopen, but with me,
00:45:31
Speaker
With the with um the announcement of Gardner Minshew being the quarterback in Oakland, I think the stock rose for Devontae Adams and really all weapons in that offense. What is your thoughts? Yeah, 100%. I had Pittman in a couple of leagues last year. Minshew carried them, like Minshew, like nature. Like he he gets his role, right? I don't think he tries to do a lot of things. He's like, I'm a backup, better than average backup.
00:45:57
Speaker
He gives the ball to the people that are supposed to have the ball and like that's why Devontae is I think gonna eat. He's gonna be a PPR machine I think. and I don't know if it's like the touchdowns and the yards will be there. The receptions I think will be through the roof. Definitely. I think Minshew is the better play as far as passing than Aiden O'Connell.
00:46:17
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um There's a lot of players this year in committees that are ranked very high. Talking about Puka Nakua, he is rated high. You have him with Cooper Cup on that Rams offense. You have Nico Collins, you're talking about Stefan Diggs and Tank Dell in Houston. A lot of these guys that are very high up, so just be concerned, just realize that yes, they're ranked very high for a reason. They do have talent.
00:46:43
Speaker
You have a lot of pieces on these offenses that could take away from them. Mike Evans, I don't know, he's ranked high. I doubt him. I doubted him last year and he led me to a Super Bowl. I'm being humble, you know, you know me. But um it's hard to consistently bet on Baker Mayfield.
00:47:01
Speaker
playing to that ability. Again, especially with the loss of their offensive coordinator. um Marvin Harrison, a rookie. I think this is probably the highest I've ever seen a rookie go in a draft. Some people are projecting him top 10. He is going to be the sole wide receiver in that offense. so We'll see if Kyler Murray can hit him and if he lives up to the the name. And then obviously Jalen Waddle is that second wide receiver for that Miami offense. At least you know with that Miami offense, you're going to get offense because Mike McDaniel does know what the fuck he's doing down there. So those are just some of the wide receiver names. What are your thoughts, Boopen?
00:47:40
Speaker
No, but one name up there that like probably gets like single guy Chris Olave. There's no competition. Derek Gar. Competent quarterback, maybe a slightly below average.
00:47:52
Speaker
That offense, I think offensive line has some issues. Who knows where Kamara is, if he's going to get paid and start playing. But I think Olave is going to get fed again. Don't know if the touchdowns will be there. Don't know if the yards will be there. He will get receptions like a mofo. Agree? Yeah. When do you give up on Olave? You know his talents there, but this was the same conversation we had last year. This is the same conversation we had the year before.
00:48:20
Speaker
Like- The talent is there. Like, I don't think the talent- I don't think it's an alive issue. I think it's a quarterback issue. I- I can get- They're not upgraded. It's an offense issue. Yeah. Like the idea is it's like the same quarterback, the same system, another year, right? Like it's it's supposed to get easier for him, less competition. They know who he is, what he brings to the table. Like i it's gotta be a better year than last year. It's just what I'm going on. Plus like what you said, like Pooka and Cooper will lead into each other. IU and Diva will lead into each other. Olave probably has less of a competition. That's what I'm going off of more than anything.
00:48:58
Speaker
But that's fair. It's fair. I just keep I'm with you a lava. I keep looking in him and being like damn New Orleans Let's do it. We're so used to having that Drew Brees automatic successful story out of New Orleans like a lot of people is where you are Miller and it's not sexy, right? They're like, oh it doesn't appeal to me. So he falls a lot to like I feel like he's he's not a nobody like pick if he like falls and Like maybe like a couple of positions below his ADP, I'll fucking take him. I don't think he'll have a terrible year. I just see like, it's not like, it's not like, you know, like Waddle, he's a second on his quarter, like on his team and he's going with Olave. Like I would rather have, um, like I know Waddle has, will win you that week if he hits, but like Olave has that floor that sometimes, you know, you can, you can deny that is what I'm looking for mostly. Fair.
00:49:50
Speaker
All right, let's jump in a little bit to the tight ends. Obviously, these can make and break your teams. But the the real storyline with tight ends this year is the, I don't know, the ah lack of consistency, I would say. I mean, realistically, what you're looking at is tight ends, you have about five or six players that are going to give you that consistent way, they're going to be involved, they're going to get you the points you need. And then after that,
00:50:17
Speaker
really a crapshoot. So let's kind of go over them. Obviously you have the big names and Travis Kelsey and Mark Andrews. The big thing with Kelsey is one, are they going to continue to play him as much as they have been now that Kansas City potentially has so many more weapons or are they going to start to kind of diminish his playing time um to prepare for the playoffs because you know they'll be there.
00:50:42
Speaker
um la porta Just keep in mind, a lot of people are taking him very high in the draft, and I think I said this stat before, but no tight end with over 900 yards and over 10 touchdowns has repeated that same statistic the following year. So while I hope the porter does meet his ADP and he is successful, the top of the third is an awful lot for a second-year tight end.
00:51:09
Speaker
um Two tight ends that I have my eye on are Trey McBride and Dalton Kincaid. Trey McBride. was of the Arizona Cardinals and he really tore up the league till the end of last season when Kyler did come back. Him and Kyler had a huge connection. Now, things could change with the with the arrival of Marvin Harrison, but I still think in this offense, McBride does make a play and he is going to be a solid tight end option and could push for the number one overall tight end. The second guy is Dalton Kincaid out of Buffalo. Obviously,
00:51:46
Speaker
Buffalo's offense. They still have Josh Allen. He's still gonna throw the ball. Who's he gonna throw to? Curtis Samuel just got hurt. He's weak to weak and then you had the Stephon Diggs leave. So where are these throws gonna go? Dalton Kincaid was fairly highly drafted out of college. This is his second year. I definitely can see a bump there um hitting him. yeah George Kittle, go ahead, Bhoomin. No, like, don't be a huge point. He was a first round pick, supposedly. That did not click for me. But um no, um he's the number one target probably in the offense has to be. There's a rookie that's like competing. I think Keon Coleman is his name.
00:52:30
Speaker
yeah that's that's his competition so while the rookie make him come on later in the year but he has a very solid floor out of all the names you said i think i like him best to be the number one tight end at the end of the year especially with him going in the fifth round um George Kittle, he has the same concerns of Debo. We just don't know what's going on with the Niners. We really don't. they' They have a lot of injuries. Two holdouts right now with Trent Williams and Brandon Ayuk. You don't know what that offense is. They're going to be up to snuff and still produce. he so He's a hit or miss guy. He has big games. He has bad games depending on ah the the the offensive game plan that Kyle Shanahan comes up with.
00:53:11
Speaker
Kyle Pitts. It's fucking Kyle Pitts. Every year we have the same conversation like we do a Lave that he's going to break out. This is the first year champion. He should have just get a crown every year. This is the first year that he actually have a quarterback. Is he going to live up to the ah fantasy draft or is he going to continue his mediocre to below average performance? Who knows? We'll see. I think he'll be good. I think like Kirk Cousins, Hockinson, right? Like he's he's he's decently good there.
00:53:41
Speaker
Probably like him more than George Kittle. Talking about Kittle, the series receivers on Netflix, he clearly said that they look at the team they're playing and they have a Devo plan and a George Kittle game, an IU game and a McCaffrey game. So like there will be some games where George Kittle will primarily be blocking. He may get a catch, may get a touchdown, but The primary assignment he has is blocking and there'll be games where he is the go-to Like he had that three touchdowns against the Raiders or somebody like so like it was very Like amazing to see that the team is so clear about what they do and what they do Well, that that's their role. So the The like hesitation with George kiddo is hundred percent there But this year I probably like the people you're gonna talk about next more than I probably like George kiddo
00:54:33
Speaker
moving forward. Yeah, but you know, George Kittle, he has some of those games and having a tight end be able to win a week for you is pretty clutch. But um two guys, in my opinion, it's really like top five, top six players. Like I mentioned earlier, I probably draw the line at King Kade and above. Those are the guys I'm targeting. I'm i'm probably not pulling the trigger on Kittle pits or Ingram, but later in the draft,
00:55:00
Speaker
Two guys to look at is Jake Ferguson out of Dallas and David Ninjoku. Ferguson, I feel like going at the beginning of the eighth is a fairly safe pick on tight end. He's not gonna, he doesn't have top five.
00:55:16
Speaker
value, but he is in a high powered offense where all you really have is CD lamb. So he he's going to get the targets. He's going to get the opportunities to perform in Dallas. So you are going to have that safety there. David Nijoku had a really great end of 2023. The question is,
00:55:40
Speaker
since Joe Flacco isn't there anymore, is Deshaun Watson gonna be able to do the same thing? That is a huge question mark going into the year. I don't necessarily think that...
00:55:52
Speaker
will translate. That's why I'm staying away from him. But those are two of your end of the first or the end of the top 10. Another guy to keep in mind. I know we were talking about Devontae earlier. Brock Bowers for the o the Las Vegas Raiders. He was just drafted. I think he was on top 15 in the NFL draft.
00:56:15
Speaker
They're using him all over the field and he's going mid seventh. The rankings are a lot lower on him. So if you're willing to take a shot with Brock Bowers, he could be a potential like.
00:56:30
Speaker
tight end, but he's also gonna be playing slot. So he could have that upside um despite ah being ranked a little lower. So who knows, man, those are your fucking tight ends. There's your wide receivers. What are your thoughts?
00:56:45
Speaker
Fucking dinettes, I love it. Ah, Joke and Joke, who has supposedly been the standout of the season? um Cleveland has a lot of injuries. O-line injuries, like Chubb isn't there. Supposedly David and Joke has been like the standout of the preseason, the training camp, whatever. Take it for what's worth. Whatever magic he had with Flacco might carry on this season. Bowers, I just saw that he got hurt today.
00:57:13
Speaker
I don't know how serious he is, but like, that's the only thing I want to see. But Ingram is like someone I'm looking in some of the drafts. He's going pretty late. And with that really being out of there, um you know, and like Kirk, like, you know, like the rookie behind him, Brian Thomas, I think Ingram might have like flashy and a quietly pretty good ear. I feel like he may have another like, you know, for what are you paying for him? He may give you a solid floor.
00:57:40
Speaker
more than some of the people around them is my i is' my a question for my fantasy duo here and if I put you on a spot I apologize ah do you guys see an increase in fantasy production for commit So, so here, I've gotten a lot of questions about this because yes, I feel these fantasy questions to all my, my supporters because I am valued very highly. So you guys are all blessed. I regret asking this question. Did you say supporters? Yes, I roughly did. So my issue with Komet is he's not ranked very high because like there are so many weapons in this offense.
00:58:20
Speaker
Yes, he could. Like at the end of last year, everybody was projecting Komet to take a huge leap and be top 10, potentially top six or seven as far as tight ends in fantasy football. But because of the additions that we've had to this team, you're talking about Keenan Allen, you're talking about Odunze, and you're even talking about the tight end from the Um, the chargers that we brought in, you're talking about three additional pieces that are going to get part of this offense. So the value with commit, I mean, he's going 13th, 14th, um, tight end overall is just not there because you're just not going to know how much of this offense he's going to get.
00:59:03
Speaker
Yeah, no, great answer, Chris. I think um yards wise, he won you won't have the opportunity, right? There's only so many throws, so many catches. I think he'll score some touchdowns, but touchdowns are such a like a weird thing to predict in fantasy football. like The week he scores, you're happy with him. The weeks he doesn't, he'll give you like four for 40 and you'll be pissed, right? It's such a hard thing to predict. So I think that's what Komet will get you.
00:59:33
Speaker
um But if one of the top three deceivers were to go down or something were to happen, I think he easily finishes top 10, top 12 in tight end. But I think it probably takes an injury for him to be fantasy relevant. But Everett has to get hurt too, because you know he's going to play. yeah both They're both past catching tight ends. It's not like Everett is being brought in for his blocking ability. It looks like we are playing a lot of two tight end, at least in the preseason.
01:00:03
Speaker
Like again, our old line is not great. We have a rookie quarterback. Maybe that's what it is. But we have a lot, both tight ends are on the field a lot. So far in the preseason, at least the game, game film obscene. Um, so like it, they may both be on the field and commit is a legit
Cole Kmet's Fantasy Potential
01:00:20
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receiver.
01:00:20
Speaker
I don't want you to under undercut that. He can catch the ball. He can go up and get it. Everett is older. I am guessing Everett might be an outlet in the play here and there, but Komet would be the probably a higher option than Gerald Everett is. But again, I think it's more about how many options Caleb has. By the time he makes it to Komet, he's like the third, fourth, fifth read. So that's the hard part. So the yards.
01:00:47
Speaker
And the touches may not be there, but I think he'll score some touchdowns in the red zone for sure. Which is a hard thing to predict. And with that, we end our fantasy section of
Conclusion and Personal Plans
01:00:59
Speaker
the podcast. We are excited to announce that next week we are going to actually have our fantasy mock draft, which I still don't know how the fuck we're going to do that, but I got some videos for you. I got some. OK, we'll try to get some of that going. ah Boys, to end the episode, what are we looking forward to this week?
01:01:18
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I'm gonna say it good got a couple of vacations coming up weekends with some people I haven't seen in a while and we could enjoy so I'm heading up to Wisconsin for the next two weekends um Let's go. oh Yeah look looking really looking forward to that plus I get to do this with you boys again next week I'm getting ready for some fantasy drafts, so diving into it a little bit more. So let's bring it on. Let's do it. Let's get this fucking season started and let's start winning some. wait Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Miller is our draft before our next episode. Our big draft that we care about.
01:01:57
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It's Tuesday, isn't it? Next Tuesday? No, it's Thursday, I think. Thursday, okay. Never mind. Never mind. I have homework, which kinda sucks. Sorry, buddy. That's about it. What class? What can you tell us? I'm not gonna get too much into that. I don't even... I have stories to tell you guys. I'll tell you guys about it later, though.
01:02:15
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But with that, we're going to go ahead and end the episode boob and send us away. Thank you, people. Thank you for listening to us. Hope you got some joy into your life. You know, if you did give us a like, give us that follow. We're just three boys hanging out, bring you some positivity, I promise you. But until then, we'll suffer in this misery