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let's get into our top five busts now to clarify these are not players that are going to have a disaster season be bad this is a bust at Cost we don't like them at the price they were going at they are expected to potentially underperform where you're spending to get them and the other thing we should clarify here is that these busts and not that I disagree or agree but these busts are Jay and Conor's busts so if you're watching the show and you're like well I disagree with that at Croucher JD at Conor J Rogers like because I'm doing love hate tomorrow like I don't need like which is in essence you know a sleepers and bus column right you know little differently package a little bit differently it's also about ADP love hate is but in essence I didn't want to you know basically steal my own Thunder as it were uh my Thunder from Down Under but uh which is you as well Jay I would get that reference yes of course a man from down as well as well you should Jay gun I so these sleepers and Buss uh and Jay put their uh Collective heads together I'm sure they were on the Tex stream that I'm not a part of they went back and forth and they came up with their top five bus for the season top five sleepers which we'll get to again this is all based on Yahoo ADP our board of directors had a meeting last night without you to come up with of course of course we'll start with Josh Jacobs right now this isn't an order Josh Jacobs isn't projected to be the biggest bus this is just a collection of players Josh Jacobs right now on Yahoo ADP around 28 which would be rb12 now Matthew you you have him ranked 47th overall the RB ranking pretty close at RB 13 but obviously the overall ranking compared to where he's going that's a pretty significant difference with of 19 spots yeah I mean I think it's just about draft philosophy in terms of where you're going earlier in the draft and so you know I I've I've created My overall ranks in terms of where you know what I prioritize and obviously the first round has a lot of wide receivers and because I think you can get running backs later on Yahoo that is not the case and certainly not with Josh Jacobs again I have at 47 overall I like Josh Jacobs this year I think he gets a ton of volume but yeah I mean I'm I'm not reaching two rounds to get him which based on my ranks and based on Yahoo's ADP I would have to do the biggest problem is he was just bad last year he was bad and I know he was amazing the year before and he won the rushing title but he is someone who has taken uh a lot of hits over the journey a lot of wear and tear he's dealt with injury issues now he's playing in a better offense uh arguably a better offensive line he should be in scoring position more often but Packers last year they didn't run the ball in the red zone and lefur historically has like to use multiple running backs yeah and I think the biggest issue here is guys he's going ahead of Drake London Nico Collins Debo Samuel and Cooper cup depending how you feel about those guys that have their own injury questions but once again the cost to get a Josh Jacobs right now is give me all those guys give me all those guys over Jacobs again the the argument for Jacobs and we like Jacobs friend friend of the podcast Josh Jacobs we we like Jacobs but the the challenge here to you guys point is that you know will he catch pass right I mean this is somebody that you know that's been a big part of his game right he's gotten like you know 50 targets last couple you know last couple years so he he gets he he um he he's used in the passing game will that happen because there's a lot of mouth de feed in Green Bay and to your point like do we see does you know used to drive me crazy right with a free Aaron Jones but the fact is is that even when AJ Dylan was just like running through mud they would still give him too much work and now Marshon Lloyd now he's dealt with a little bit of injury but I know you like Marshon lyd coming out of college he was also injured in college so you just start to wonder like this is now trickling into summer of the NFL but the talent is phenomenal with Mar lyd so if Marshon Lloyd can get on the field does he does he eat into what Jacobs is doing because without insane volume then you need to then you're hoping for efficiency again he's my running back 13 I like Jacobs this year I actually think Green Bay is going to kind of run him into the ground if you look closely at that contract the guaranteed money is only for this season so if they want to if they think marshan Lloyd's the future they can just be like we're just going to you know uh whatever give give Jacobs 300 touches and not worry about next year uh but yes I think in terms the overall ADP at Yahoo I'm with you guys here it's just it's it's too rich he's he shouldn't be going as a top 30 overall player I is barely as a top 50 overall player because again there's better wide receivers out there our next one here Jay Michael Pitman which might surprise some people right an ADP right now and Yahoo a 44 a little around there Barry has him as the 38th overall player why wide receiver 24 though compared to on yahu he's going as wide receiver 21 and Pitman you have to like the floor but I don't know if he possesses the same upside as some of the guys that are going after him like Malik neighbors Devonte Smith now I would take Pitman over Stefan Diggs I know that's going to be a popular name over there but he is going ahead of him as well yeah I think the thing with Pitman is that historically you've just been able to pencil this guy in to finish Just Between the 12th and the 23rd best wide receiver in fantasy but a couple things one he does doesn't catch touchdowns never catches touchdowns he has one season in his career with more than four touchdowns and then the other thing too is that didn't have a great rapport with Anthony Richardson now I can't read too much into that because Richardson played so sparingly but his production last year came with gardam mchu and also as excited as we are about Anthony Richardson and the upside Richardson might be the highest variance quarterback in the entire league like you could go south there and like yesterday the reports out of the joint practice with the Bengals were atrocious like the Colts were so bad Rich had a bad practice the Colts were so bad that the Bengals were upset that they weren't getting a proper like offense to go he had a great summer by the way he the training camp overall has been very positive but to your point yeah I saw the reports from the Bengals like the Bengals the Bengals defensive players this is what they were saying about Richardson they were like he's not reading anything he's just Lally thrown to spots he's not thrown to guys like he just wasn't it was a bad day at the office for Anthony Richardson the entire Colts offense in the joint practice with uh with the Bengals but the other thing that I'll say about Michael Pitman is is that again we're doing this is off you off of Yahoo you know as you know NBC Sports has a partnership with Yahoo you got a shot at winning $1 million um and we'll talk about that in a second but ultimately Yahoo's default settings is half PPR and and the the argument for Pitman is like just again huge volume as you mentioned lack of lack of touchdowns here but on Yahoo where you're doing half PPR he loses that value because he's you know that's the argument for Pitman it's like he's he's seven for 87 every week kind of thing you know and just that doesn't make as much sense I will say that Pitman is a great player going to get a plug in here but it's true he is a great player if you want to draft him for like a guillotine League again where you in a guillotine League where you're literally just you're hoping for floor you're not trying for upside in a guillotine League you just want floor consistent production week in week out because in the guillotine League the lowest team the lowest fantasy football team in the league gets cut uh and you do that every single week and you know whatever guillotin league.com I'll I'll throw a plug but the point is is that a pit is great in that format because he's so consistent but like there's no upside to your point and he loses value in half PPR hey it's Matthew Barry from nbcsports.com and rotor. and I want to thank you so much for watching whatever it is you just watched or if nothing else being too lazy to click out of the autoplay after this video started after whatever it is you actually wanted to watch finished but now that you're here I'd like to take a moment here to ask you respectfully respectfully now okay I'm asking you respectfully to subscribe to the NFL on NBC YouTube channel you'll get the latest rot to World fantasy news headlines all sorts of great shows including my own fantasy football happy hour so go subscribe now again I'm asking respectfully

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