00:00I want to talk about one more top, two more top-run guys, okay?
00:04We'll put them together, and then we'll just start to fly through
00:06some of the options that you like.
00:08Jackson Smith and Jigma, Stephon Diggs.
00:1250-yard gap, pretty much, between the top two pass catchers.
00:15I know.
00:16Gives you an idea the season that JSN has had.
00:20It also speaks a little bit to Diggs right now being more of a popular name
00:28than a big-time producer.
00:31That's not to disparage Stephon Diggs, but he did not have himself, like,
00:37some all-pro.
00:38He's not the guy that was in Buffalo.
00:40His best game was against Houston, where he scored, right?
00:43Had 40 yards and a score in that game.
00:45He, against Denver, five grabs, 17 yards.
00:49Not a lot of those on the menu.
00:52Dinkin' and Duncan.
00:52The idea, I think, though, for people, right,
00:55why I think people will be drawn to these guys is, one,
00:58and they are, again, very popular names.
01:00Number ones on the team.
01:02And Diggs, a lot of people have been resurfacing the photo of him
01:06watching the Chiefs celebrate in the AFC Championship game,
01:08I believe the 13-second game.
01:11Maybe that was the divisional round, so I guess it was the first.
01:15One of the conference championship games,
01:16Stephon Diggs is staring at the Chiefs, being like,
01:17oh, my gosh, how do we let this happen?
01:19And that then kind of, like, set the tone.
01:22Whether it's backing or fading,
01:24do either of the number ones interest you in this football game?
01:27It would be JSN, Kev.
01:29If JSN is going to be pedestrian in this game,
01:32I think they'd get blown out.
01:33How about that, Seattle?
01:35I mean, if you're telling me we're going to have a three-catch performance,
01:3917 yards, and one touchdown,
01:42that's what he had against the 49ers?
01:44I know they won that 41-6,
01:46but that's because he basically started the game
01:50and, you know, San Fran just folded.
01:53But if he has that type of performance,
01:55three catches, 17 yards,
01:57they're not going to be anywhere near the 20 points.
02:00They need him to be JSN.
02:02They need him to be, you know, 15 targets.
02:05They need him to out-duel Gonzalez in this matchup,
02:09and they need him to get close to his number.
02:11Now, can he get to 80 and, you know, a touchdown and still –
02:16and they be effective?
02:17Absolutely, because then that means he's opening things up potentially
02:22for Cooper Cup, Rasheed Shaheed, and Barner underneath.
02:26You know, I don't see a world unless you tell me
02:31Kenneth Walker's going to rush for 160 yards and three touchdowns
02:35where JSN can't be anywhere around his number,
02:38and they're in this game.
02:39He's that important to that offense.
02:43Yeah, I think there's, like, a baseline level of production
02:44that you need from Jackson Smith and Jigba.
02:45I know, you're going to throw games out that he performed well
02:48and they had low total count.
02:50Not even that, no, no, just –
02:51But in this game –
02:53Well, no, all I'm saying is JSN and their three losses
02:57has at least 100 yards on all of them.
02:59What I'm saying is, because, oh, they're losing at the throw,
03:02and that's just even more of a guaranteed workload
03:04for Jackson Smith and Jigba.
03:05I share the same expectation that he plays well.
03:09I will say this, though.
03:10I have no interest in betting him to score.
03:15Absolutely none.
03:17Like, he scored now in each playoff game.
03:20He had 10 receiving touchdowns in the regular season.
03:24He had only one stretch of football where he had consecutive touchdowns.
03:29Now, it was a three-straight run, to be fair,
03:32but JSN's season was not defined by being like a touchdown machine.
03:38So there is not a big level of interest for me to back him in that market,
03:43though I think he is more than capable of having a really big day,
03:46and that's one of the reasons I'm playing Cooper Cup for an anytime touchdown.
03:49Because I have seen this New England team give up so many passing touchdowns,
03:56significant gap when we talk about touchdown allowance on this season.
04:0127 of their touchdowns have been passing to just 11 on the ground.
04:06That's postseason included.
04:0819 of those went to the wide receiver position.
04:11So that's why I'm not looking at Walker.
04:12I'm not looking at Barner.
04:13I'm looking for wide receivers.
04:14We can talk Shaheed, right?
04:17We can talk Bobo.
04:18But Cooper Cup jumps out,
04:20and I don't think it's irrelevant that he's played in a Super Bowl before
04:24and caught multiple touchdowns.
04:26So I like Cup in this game to score.
04:27I mean, he's an experienced veteran.
04:29That's why he's there.
04:30And again, he stepped up two weeks ago against the Rams
04:33and scored and hit paid dirt.
04:35And if he's going to be that type of player where, I mean, you know,
04:38Darnold hit him on a critical third down to keep the drive going,
04:41and in the fourth quarter he made a little rub route
04:44and caught it out in the flat, he could be that security blanket.
04:47I guess the problem that I have with Seattle is the consistency
04:50with the tertiary wide receivers.
04:53We haven't seen the consistency, Cup and Rashid Shaheed.
04:56I mean, outside of Shaheed's 50-yard bomb, I mean,
04:59he's been nonexistent in the passing attack.
05:02I feel like the guy's running routes for no reason, right?
05:04So if you want to throw the kitchen sink at New England
05:10and force them to guard the whole field,
05:13which will ultimately then reopen up JSN, right?
05:17Because when you force feed JSN, basically all you're doing
05:21is you're cutting down two-thirds of the field and wherever JSN is,
05:25then that's been a problem because he's been in the backfield formation-wise.
05:28You don't know where he's going with motion.
05:31But ultimately, if you're throwing to Cup and you're throwing to Shaheed
05:35and you're throwing to Bonner, now they've got to worry about everybody.
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