00:00But he is probably the guy in fantasy football this season at the position that if the guy comes out and he throws three touchdowns and 280 yards in the first game, he's going to be on every roster in a 12-team league, and he's going to start to get started in some leagues, too.
00:17People are going to wait.
00:18They want to see him.
00:20Yeah, because we don't know.
00:22We just don't know.
00:23Got hurt last year in preseason.
00:24He's had a decent preseason this year.
00:27You got JJ, right?
00:28So we love him.
00:29Addison suspended for three.
00:30So we just don't know what to expect from McCarthy here.
00:33And, you know, unless you're Gabriel Maranci, who's pretty much the president of McCarthy's fan club, no one knows.
00:39I don't know.
00:40I've got him in a super flex league, but he's my quarterback three.
00:43You know, so we'll see what happens there.
00:44But we just can't be sure.
00:46And, by the way, this is what makes me worried about the other guys we're about to talk about because what if McCarthy sucks?
00:50I know he's not technically a rookie, but what if he plays like a rookie this year?
00:55You mentioned he could have a great week one, and then week two and three is he can't complete a handoff.
00:59You just don't know what you're going to get from these guys.
01:01So I would be very, very cautious.
01:03Greg, it's why in that draft that people see running on Sport Grid where I think I had the second pick or whatever it was, it's why I took CeeDee Lamb over Justin Jefferson purely for this reason that I can't.
01:13I just don't know if I'm willing to really trust J.D. McCartney from the get-go.
01:18Yeah, no one really believes you on that.
01:19They know you like the Cowboys, but it's okay.
01:22The running back situation in Minnesota got a little—
01:23I never disparage the Cowboys.
01:25The running back situation got a little murky when they traded for Jordan Mason this offseason.
01:31Mason, a nice young player for the 49ers who didn't want to pay him to be the backup running back there.
01:37Aaron Jones is the RB1.
01:40Mason is their RB2.
01:42Many people feel that Jones' career is not just on the back nine, but maybe the final five holes of his career in the golf terms.
01:51And then Ty Chandler's there as the third-string guy.
01:54Do you like Mason more than Jones?
01:55For the value, sure, if you're going to look at it that way, because Jones is going, once again, round three-ish, maybe round four at best.
02:05People are taking Aaron Jones because no matter what you think about him, he should be the touchdown guy, right?
02:09Even though, you know, I don't think he's going to get double digits there.
02:12But Mason, you can get later on.
02:14When I mentioned earlier that, you know, running backs are flying off the board, all the backups.
02:18People are taking backups like crazy when you get to round eight, round nine, because we all need running backs.
02:22Mason's probably at the top of that list.
02:23All right, because I think some people think he might take over this job, and no one expects Aaron Jones to play 17 games.
02:28Craig, he's going to be 31 in December.
02:30I mean, for a running back, I think when you put it nicely, right, last five holes of his career, it's pretty much what it is here.
02:36So I'd rather have Jones, but for the value of Mason, who I think is going to play, I think this is a 60-40 split, something like that.
02:43You know, so for the value of Mason, maybe four or five rounds later, yeah, I'd rather have him.
02:49Makes sense.
02:49All right, Jefferson was the number one pick in fantasy a year ago or two years ago.
02:54Now he's usually the third pick overall or the fourth or the fifth, and I'm a little different than George.
03:00I feel like he's quarterback-proof.
03:02I'm not concerned, and I would easily have him the top five pick in fantasy.
03:06Jordan Addison, who we talked about, going to miss some games.
03:09He's wide receiver 38, a massive drop-off on Minnesota's wide receiving core, maybe just as much or more than any team in the NFL, from wide receiver 2 to wide receiver 38.
03:19Then TJ Hawkinson is a top-10 tight end, once again, in fantasy.
03:23Adam Thielen, who they just acquired, is wide receiver 60.
03:26And then Jalen Naylor.
03:27You know, this is the kind of guy, George, where I have a feeling, like, I have to check what time the Vikings play, but, like, 108 Eastern, 7-0 Vikings, 60-yard touchdown, Jalen Naylor.
03:38We all want to be like, what the bleep happened here?
03:41Like, that's that kind of guy.
03:42Other than that, I got no interest.
03:43He's the guy, when he heard about Thielen getting traded, probably went, oh, you've got to be kidding me.
03:49All right, because he would have had some fantasy value for at least a couple of weeks or a month or so, right?
03:52But now with Thielen there, that gets kind of hurt, because that's, I guess, who he's replacing.
03:57That'd be Naylor.
03:58So, you said it already.
04:00Addison, you want to take him.
04:01You're going to lose him for three weeks, and you hope that he can come back and be ready to play every four.
04:04But in my mind, you've really lost him for over a month.
04:07So, listen, unless the value's there, you know, double-digit rounds, fine.
04:10Hawkinson, I have a little bit better than you.
04:12I'm in top five, top six.
04:14I think he's going to eat this year, especially without Addison that first month.
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