Welcome back to Goo and go like Jesse Cofield here
, Mike Golic. Junior, Jason fits in for
senior and guys DFS salaries for week one are officially
live in the DK lobby. It feels like Christmas
around here. We love it. We love to
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first place. It's$5 to enter. So let's
talk about some of these salaries for week one.
We got some of the most expensive guys on the
gonna be Josh Allen. Ok. He is gonna
cost you eight K versus the Cardinals. Jonathan Taylor
for running backs, 7800 CD lamb leading the way
for wide receivers at 8900. Trey mcbride, tight
end 6100 and the Cowboys DS T is gonna be
3900. So guys, what do we think about
these week one salaries? It's our first look at
how things are going to be shaken out. Jesse
. It's so true in the way that this makes
my body feel like the serotonin rush of this coming
off a weekend where I said watching the Olympics having
the gold zone on with Scott Hansen and Andrew Ceciliano
having all these different sports fits. You mentioned being
able to wake up at almost any hour and see
it, it feels like great training for college football
and the NFL where you're used to wall to wall
coverage. You're having to make decisions about what you're
going to allocate to what screen and how you're going
to fuel yourself through that entire time knowing you don't
want to move from the couch at all. So
this feels like home. That being said DFS for
DK might be the most home that I feel before
long before I ever started working here, I played
in a weekend DFS league with my family and a
couple of friends here, Darius Rucker, friend of
the program in that league as well. And so
I love hunting for value on this right here.
So Jason, you are traditionally very frugal man.
I can't imagine there's a world where you're going to
go off the top and take the very high price
. Josh Allen even though, and this is the
dilemma when you're talking about fantasy and DFS is we're
always gonna see prorated for mobile quarterbacks, dual threat
guys. And this year especially Josh Allen is walking
into a season where more is going to be asked
of him the way it was in the back half
of last year than a lot of other quarterbacks in
the NFL, given the way they've jettisoned weapon this
off season and not really replaced, replaced all of
them and Gabe Davis and certainly Stephan Digg. So
Jason, how are you feeling about the quarterbacks from
a fantasy standpoint heading into the 2024 season? So
I like Josh for everything you just mentioned because uh
covering the NFL draft this year for Yahoo, we
did a show with Damien Harris who obviously knows the
Bills incredibly well. And one thing he made clear
is that organizationally, Buffalo believes that Josh Allen accounts
for touchdowns and they don't, they don't care what's
around him. They believe that he still accounts for
that number of touchdowns. So now I'm looking at
it and saying if the Bills believe that the secret
to their offense is still gonna be roll it out
and put it on Allen's legs or shoulders, that's
still gonna result in something. And if he doesn't
have trust with his receivers, he can be mobile
enough to be able to get so much done in
the red zone. I just, I think Josh
Allen is still a really smart play even at the
high elevation. And plus I think that Cardinals defense
is gonna be trash. So I, I actually
really like that matchup for Josh Allen. The one
on the list that for me, it stands out
is the toughest to absorb is Jonathan Taylor taking on
the Titans, not because I don't like Jonathan Taylor
, but because I think the Titans are just a
wild, uh, who knows this year, new
coaching staff, new regime, new everything. And
then Jonathan Taylor coming in frankly on the Colts team
that we don't know what they look like with Anthony
Richardson either. We, we remember what they looked
like for a short sample last year, but I
don't know. I'm, I'm Risk averse week one
with Jonathan Taylor more than I am with Josh Allen
. So the interesting part here is you mentioned the
season long production. That is absolutely what a team
like the Buffalo Bills expects from Josh Allen, but
you're right. So much of DFS is week to
week and matchup based and I think that's what makes
it interesting for quarterbacks when I build lineups. I
always pick the quarterback like fourth or fifth on the
list of players as I'm drafting them. I go
a lot more of the running back and receiver talent
first because at the end of the day, like
in season long fantasy quarterbacks only going to account for
so much. And so you look further on down
that list, you mentioned Anthony Richardson. Fascinating.
Look at him, a quarterback coming into ostensibly his
first real season after getting nicked through a couple of
games last year, he cost you$6300 and going
up against the Houston Texans in that week, a
defense that last year, certainly one of the better
defenses in the NFL overall. Maybe run stuffing an
issue at a couple of points there. But Richardson
is a quarterback that a lot of people expect to
have a really special Josh Allen type of season in
Shane Stein's offense. So if you're looking, especially
for a dual threat guy that can get you a
lot of value, I think him down just$100
more than Trevor Lawrence and 100 less than Kyler Murray
if you want to bet on upside the way we
talked about with Jordan Love earlier. That's a pretty
interesting place to start to look a lot this season
before he gets expensive. Once you start to get
that proof of concept, I, I want Anthony
Richardson to be wildly successful. I just think we
need to remember what we were saying when he was
drafted, which was really good, potential kind of
up and down and needs game reps. He just
needs reps. The most consequential thing that happened last
year for the Colts to me. Isn't that they
won football games. It's that Anthony Richardson didn't get
the reps that he needs. So I have,
I genuinely have no idea like a R here's the
hell out of me because when he was in,
he looked great, but then all of a sudden
he's not in and now we got to figure out
the rust portion of it. We also got to
figure out the adaptation portion of it. The evolution
of where he is as a player, knowing the
things that we said coming out. I, that
one makes me nervous, but I'm, I'm very
quarterback nervous in case you can't tell coming into this
, maybe it's because my favorite team has Aidan o'connell
and Gardner Minu. I just find myself in a
world of hurt when it comes to quarterbacks. I
was going to say this is an all politics or
local situation and Jason Fitz staring at an uncertain future
under center in Las Vegas probably has a little bit
to do with all of this. So I,
I think some other ones interesting there, uh,
to look at Baker Mayfield, uh, week one
against the Washington defense that's going to be in transition
right now. Could be a fascinating matchup in year
two. Although Baker Mayfield, as we've talked about
going to be in a different offense this year,
one more out of that Shanahan mcveigh Tree than it
was last year since his offensive coordinator. And,
uh, uh Canalis is now the head coach of
the Carolina Panthers, I think could be fascinating there
, Geno Smith in that new offense in, uh
Seattle as the Washington contingent comes over from there to
get ready to take them into the future. We've
talked so much about Mike mcdonald's defense during the off-season
. I don't think we've talked nearly enough about that
Seattle offense and how different that group is going to
look as well. Jason, let's look at some
of the running backs though, Jonathan Taylor, the
one you mentioned there right below him, Bijon Robinson
, the Atlanta Falcons taking on the Pittsburgh Steelers in
that first match up here. And this really seems
to be a bet of how much do we believe
the departure of Arthur Smith and that co coordinator,
head coach in general was holding back. One of
the most talented running backs in the NFL that people
felt was constantly misused last year. Are you buying
now this year, Jason as Zach Robinson, a
guy with that Shanahan mcveigh DNA all over him,
comes over to call plays for the first time in
Raheem Morris's team is gonna be the one that helps
Bejon Robinson elevate to a guy that could be RB
one. Yes, I, I believe that wholeheartedly
and I think that's a great, like just the
, the subtraction of Arthur Smith helps in every possible
way, no offense to Arthur, although I don't
know how I can not take offense to that,
but the other side of it is Mike as you
well know, I don't love quarterbacks that are 3722
years old and coming off an achilles injury. So
I do get a little nervous that we're just presuming
that Kirk Cousins and Aaron Rodgers would be just fine
. So how the quarterback situation plays out because that
will impact the ability to run that offense. But
having said that if Kirk is able to come in
and play the way that they believe he can play
. He also has the understanding of the basic tenets
of that offense. He's gonna be able to be
a field general for them on the field. I
think the offense is gonna be explosive from week one
. Like the Falcons are not even sneaky good.
The Falcons are just flat out good this year.
They, they fixed the main hole that they had
, which was Desmond Ritter. So I think,
yes, Bijon takes a massive step forward this year
and is a home run for most people. Yeah
, I, I think it's worth remembering that when
Sean mcveigh first got to Los Angeles, the DNA
of that team heavily relied on the running back and
Todd Gurley, who was on the roster and if
you look at even the latest iteration, Kyron,
uh Kyron Williams last year, uh the Notre Dame
product became a huge focal point of that offense.
Now getting into the weeds, I don't think they'll
be as downhill duo centric gap centric as that team
was. This was an offensive line in Atlanta that
returns all of their starters. That was a lot
more of an outside zone team. Some of the
stuff that we traditionally saw from Shanahan and mcveigh and
these guys. And so I do think there'll be
a lot of that in there. I think you
look further down on the list. Fitz people are
going to be looking at how does the carry allegation
slot out for Naji Harris in that backfield with Jalen
Warren in Pittsburgh. They go into a new offense
that had some interesting choices with the running back last
year. Arthur Smith now lives over in Pittsburgh.
So that's certainly going to be interesting. We talked
about for Kenneth Walker and company in Seattle, how
that offense might change things. But of course,
I look further down the list from the running backs
, Devon, a Chan in Miami 6800 bucks.
That guy is a home run waiting to happen.
I saw headlines recently. He's going to be a
guy that if he pops off the way that people
believe if he can win healthy is going to win
a lot of people, their fantasy leagues as we
head into this fall. So that's all I'm saying
is obviously there's gonna be some big names at the
top. They have earned their place there. Christian
mccaffrey is gonna be a mainstay at running back all
season long. Justin Jefferson is gonna be up top
at wide receiver. It's important to go out there
and hunt those individual matchups to look at the defense
. You're gonna get that week and try and make
it work.