Matthew Berry's Mailbag: Is Jags' Travis Etienne a RB2? | Fantasy Football Happy Hour | NFL on NBC

over the weekend i and i alone tweeted this out this week on the fantasy football happy hour available wherever you get your podcast please like and subscribe and i mean that by the way please like and subscribe our podcast here at the fantasy football happy hour we are doing an ama ask matthew anything so what do you want to know football nonsense leave your question below and we may use it on the podcast and on peacock tv so we got a bunch of responses now again at uh at nbc sports they didn't

tweet it out at snf on uh on uh nbc didn't tweet it out at you know at nbc sports edge fb didn't tweet it out me me alone social media team was off on the weekend it was just me hey matthew we need you to do our jobs for us so it's fine i did i did because i'm a teammate player i'm a company man your team player so what kind what came through i haven't looked at these questions yeah i don't look at my mentions so forgive me if i butcher any of these handles which i surely will but the first one

is an easy one atwit baldwin says who was your first fantasy football draft pick ever mine was sean alexander okay and by the that was wit's first one that was white one was steven jackson i think i think he let me down not enough touchdowns on those rams pick up going two and four times that's jeff fisher's fault not stephen jackson uh we love steven jackson here on the show one of my favorite players ever stephen jackson by the way just randomly so again this is one of those like this is a sn

eaky question because you know what it is this is like hey barry how old are you that's exactly right that's exactly right this is i'm going to ask him how old he is without asking how old he is you know it's like it's clever from that wood bowl it really is it's one of those like you know like on sometimes like on tick tock or instagram like you know tell me you're a blank without telling me you're blank that's what it's tell me you're an old f you know without telling me you're an old f so um

that's what i am uh uh my very first time ever playing fantasy football i started playing fantasy baseball in 1984 when i was 14 years old uh when i was in 1994 my second year in college was when i started playing fantasy football my first pick that year was marshall faulk which worked out pretty well that's a pretty good one a pretty good one yeah yeah worked out really well my first baseball pick ever by the way my first fantasy baseball pick back in 1984 was mario soto okay the the former red

s pitcher but my second one was tony gwynn yeah it was a yeah so that one worked out tony gwynn worked out pretty well um but back in 1984 no one had any strategy or anything like that it's like oh mario soda should be a good pitcher like whatever i was doing an auction draft and so soda came up in east marshall folk that's a good one okay next one from jung elon musk right is travis etienne a viable running back too right by the way as far as we know here on the fantasy football happy hour not

actually related to elon musk that's our best guess yeah that is our best guess we cannot we can either confirm north of uh uh deny um yes i mean look i have etn ranked 18th so obviously i think he can be a top 24 running back i don't think the the challenge for him to get there is that high again i mean we sort of talk about that running back dead zone and some of the guys that are going around him but my expectation here is that even if james robinson gets into the mix here uh we think that et

n we think he's a special player we think reconnected obviously with trevor lawrence his college quarterback should be good think about this last year james robinson on a disaster of a team everything that could have gone wrong for the jaguars last year went wrong and james robinson yet still was the eighth best running back in fantasy from weeks one through sixth i so the jaguars have actually thanks to james robinson been able to produce fantasy relevant running backs we expect this under doug

peterson to be a much more uh fantasy-friendly offense and a much more pass-happy offense and obviously etn is going to be the passing down back and i i believe that uh when you think about sort of how he plays those kind of big play that big playability of etn i think that to me i don't think he has to do much to return a profit he's going at running back 22 and 44th overall on yahoo again i'm at 18 at 37. so i truly believe he can be a top 20 running back this year a rb2 a viable rb2 and obvi

ously yahoo drafters do as well so yeah i think the the thing with etn and the jags in general is that it's going to be a committee that's how doug peterson does it eagle got more than 180 carries under doug peterson correct it was a mismatch a lot of ryan matthews cory clement legarrette blount my namesake j ajayi yeah so i think that etienne he doesn't have the immense upside because of that committee he's not going to be a jonathan taylor who doesn't have that in his right but you're not expe

cting that when you're drafting him and he seems totally fine to me as an rb2 yeah i mean look again assuming you play in a league where that's it's ppr at least half ppr his pass catching and his yards after the catch ability and the fact that he's going to be so involved in so many different dynamic plays i think is really interesting to me so i just think there's there's upside in that player i agree with you i i don't think he's got a shot at getting an rb1 unless something really freaky hap

pens but i do think he's got a higher floor based on the pass catching than some of the other guys going around him yeah okay so the next one is from at the sincere cabin okay and this one i like that he uses sincere like just just so we know this is this is a genuine question all right what do we got so this one is for jay to see how well he knows his new co-host at matthew berry tmr okay jay do you think matthew was born before or after world war one not even not even world war ii world war on

e what is this guy's name at the sincere k-bane yeah all right i mean that's silly i mean the question would be world war can we take that can we take a single of me here on one here for one quicker hey just see i don't know if you can read between the lines here but um that's what i'm world war one come on come on not that old i'm old but i'm not that old no world war ii would have been the question that would be so that ended in 1945 so it's over under 77 and a half years um yeah so they're cr

uel you guys are cruel that's what you are okay very cruel at sean mansfield 15. how boom or bust is cd lamb this year can he truly get to 1400 yards and eight touchdowns i believe you can i look i i don't i don't think there's any chance he busts barring an injury yeah he's going to get a massive target chair i think about amari cooper and cedric wilson leaving for a free agency there is now a 28 target share from last year on the cowboys that are now available and so you think about okay what'

s his competition for targets dalton schultz is still there i mean we're talking about michael gallup who's coming back from a very serious injury you've got jalen tolbert there like noah brown like it's that by by releasing amari cooper they basically jerry jones and that team basically said like hey cd lamb you are the guy so my expectation here is that he just gets a massive massive target chair this is a guy in his first two years in the league got over 100 targets right 104 last year and so

cd lamb who's been a borderline top 20 wide receiver each of the first two years with all those other targets around there he's he he he gets into the number one role and i also think about this offense and see the lam's versatility he can play inside he can play outside they're gonna be able to move him all over the line of scrimmage to create mismatches i don't think there's any bust in him barring share before see how it operates at the same time there's probably not been the gap that there

is between cd lamb and the second best receiver on the team who right now is jalen tolbert potentially so there could be some change there i mean his his totals for the season are set at 11 75.5 yards seven and a half touchdowns that's what we're expecting is the average it's all over yeah so that's both of them and that's a very high flaw as well there's not many guys who are set at that level so yeah i think there's a lot of boom with cd and there's no real bust unless he gets hurt uh next que

stion at trader tennessee matthew if you could be any fruit out besides a berry what would you be that could be any fruit it's a great question from at try to tennessee really because i think it's a terrible question if i could be any fruit besides a berry what fruit would i be um i mean um that's a good question like uh i mean do do choco tacos count as a fruit i absolutely count they do not count as a fruit i mean i would probably be i i mean i'm just trying to think of my own um you know list

en i think i would well you know it'd be an orange i'd be in orange i went to syracuse okay go like or look everyone loves oranges right i mean i went to syracuse so obviously go orange but i mean listen you're handed out halftime of kids soccer's games you know you come in a nice you know protective seal um uh you know you can you peel off you know you can be shared among people as well like the little little slices as well you can be squeezed and made into a delicious juice a lot of versatilit

y to an orange give me an orange i'm going to be an orange that's a lot tougher question than the cd lamb burn or bust questions yeah okay next one at king jar one two one okay do you think he's really a king do you think he's actually a royalty i'd say it's uh plus fifteen thousand it's actually king okay which receiver with an adp between rounds five and six do you believe has the best chance to finish top five at the position i got three okay i'm gonna give you three and then you tell me whic

h ones you like yeah so i i i have the i pulled it up right here i've got the i've got the yahoo adp uh in terms of rounds five and six and here's who's going on yahoo between rounds five and six that qualify at the position of wide receiver tara mclaren or terry mcscorn as i like to call him mike williams jalen waddle cortland sutton deonte johnson alan robins and d.k metcalf and i will say there are three that jump out to me that have a chance of being top five and of course they all do right

but i'm going to say terry mclaren i'm going to say of course well massive tar he's going to get a massive target chair he has every year of his career and he's playing with the best quarterback of his career not particularly close i'm going to say mike williams like we've talked about on this show before and i know we're going to talk about elsewhere like we talked about earlier right um justin herbert you know and just in what we expect that offense to be we expect justin turbo to have a a you

know a massive massive ceiling we talked about on yesterday's show as well right so i think if you're just like could mike williams put it all together this year you know i'm already i'm betting on sort of the that keenan allen takes a step back this year michael and takes a step up so i think mike williams especially if the touchdowns get there and then i'll say allen robinson your guys my guy who's by the way been abort i don't know that he's ever been a top five but he's absolutely been a to

p ten fantasy wide receiver he may adjust that he has been there exactly again we saw what uh adding matthew stafford to cooper cup last year did for cooper cup and so if defense is focused this year on hey we're taking away cooper cup i my expectation is that allen robinson with some touchdown luck could get there as well definitely yeah i think you mentioned two of the guys that i had and when you're talking about someone who's going fifth or sixth round and the upside to become a top five at

the position you want variance you want huge ceiling and what creates variance is the unknown and the unknown is a new quarterback situation right carson wentz for terry mclaren and matthew stafford for alan robinson so they definitely have that upside just because we haven't seen it before a lot of the other guys we have so i'd like those too okay at mantana sauce now would you would you have put under that same scenario cortland sutton also has a new quarterback would you put him would you hav

e put him in that list i would i just don't think he's quite as talented as terry mclaren and alan robinson i think he's far off but i believe that those two guys have more upside they've just shown more and i also think russell wilson you know with any indication of what he's done in his career he likes to spread the ball around yeah you know russell's a big you know uh team guy they're going to run the ball as well but by the way actually other than jalen waddle they all have new quarterbacks

dk metcalf now has gino smith well um right johnson now has mitch trubisky and maybe um uh you know maybe can he pick it at some point so they all do you know there's upside there okay we're sure anyway okay what else sauce okay uh do you have any other cool or funny george carlin stories that you could tell us i have a lot of funny and cool george carlin stories i don't know if i can tell it on the air um let's see let's be careful after the alvin kamara exploded yeah i mean can i tell i'm tryi

ng to think if i can tell this story on air i probably i probably can't um here's what oh i'll here's a version of this here's a story i can tell you so george carlin is famous for the seven dirty words on television routine and it's actually i remember talking about it and when i worked for him i was working for him on the george carlin show which was a sitcom on fox and so i was the stage assistant so in essence i was george's assistant for the year and we did an episode of that show where uh

that was a play off the seven dirty words that george was a cab driver in the show when he gets he he gets he he starts cursing in the cab and somebody calls him and he gets he has to go to court for his taxi license whatever whatever all it was was a base it was a loose premise to get to the seven dirty words you can't say on television so seven dirty words you couldn't say in a cab and um and so it's a famous routine i remember saying to george i studied dude in college it's like what do you t

alk about like i went to syracuse university i took a class called comm law shout out to professor flocky wherever she is and i took a q i took a course called comm law and i said so we studied these you know famous uh you know court cases that involved communications in some way and one of them was i believe it was wbai versus the fcc and that was a radio station in long island that played the seven dirty words routine and so i studied that and so i mentioned that to george and george says you

know it's fascinating right he goes um uh he goes i that routine is in is in the law books as what is the definition of profanity what is the definition of profanity and um he goes and what's amazing is is that that routine is like i had like i had to come up with a new 10 minutes he goes and so you know that night i'm like i'm drunk out of my mind and i'm just trying to come up with and i was just like ah nine words six words seven seven dirty words that sounds funny that sounds funny he goes a

nd then i'm going through the dirty words and don't worry alex i'm not going to say him but like he's just like i'm going through like this word this word this word oh this is a funnier sounding word like you know okay what what means this this or this or this you know and it's just like oh that's the and he's just like i he's like i literally made it up in like 10 minutes like drunk out of my mind right and all i do is i was trying to come up with the funniest sounding dirty words yeah and he g

oes and that's the definition of profanity in america today something that i came up with drunk out of my mind at like 3 a.m and so uh anyway that was george and if you've ever watched any of george's routines and i highly recommend going to youtube and watching like a bunch of his routines because he was brilliant some of our younger viewers may not be aware of it he was truly a truly a brilliant man and language was always a big thing for him like and he would always say like language isn't im

portant it's the intent behind the language that means everything he's like because you can make anything sound inappropriate or not you know it's all about the intent he's like you know ask me what i did this weekend what'd you do this weekend well uh me and my wife i uh we took the dog out for a walk that's good that's what we did yeah took the dog out for a walk what is this in the morning and the evening that's what we did again like i mean like so that seems like there's another meaning to

it but i'm just telling you that's all my wife and i did we took the dog out for a walk so i like so that was george's whole thing was just about it's all about intent and not about the language and so george was brilliant about language he's brilliant and i loved working for the man whatever this is the other thing i will say is that george was a brilliantly uh brilliant comedian but also like an incredibly kind boss unbelievable man and loved working for him and the complete opposite of how he

was on stage like he was the sweetest most gentle guy like if you didn't and then you'd see him on stage like you know he's this crazy ranting angry guy but off air he was like the sweetest most gentle you know i i love the man so anyway rest in peace there you go our producer alex was on the edge of her seat i'm sure entire segment but we've got alex i will tell you that story off air because it's it's funnier with the curse words i'll just tell you that it's definitely funnier with the curse

words okay at masshead 99 is drafting gabe davis at pick 37 before guys like deontay johnson mike williams cortland sutton and marquis brown so outrageous um it's not outrageous i'm a big believer and hey get your guys right i'm a big believer and get your guys uh so and get your guys when you want to having said that i mean you know by taking him there you're basically taking out all profit you're taking i mean like taking them that high right you know before guys like johnson sutton marquis br

own guys that have produced at a high level four i mean i know it's been a while for sutton but we've seen him produce we expect better things obviously with russell wilson on her center you know deante johnson has been nothing short of terrific and we think he's got a quarterback upgrade this year hollywood brown reconnected with his college quarterback we expect him to have a big year in arizona as well so you're basically drafting him at it at you know his his peak like like there's not a lot

of room for profit on gabe davis at that adp upside that hasn't happened yet that's correct yeah so i don't think it's outrageous because i'm big i'm a i'm a big believer in the player and i think he has a monster year i'm all in on gabe davis i love him i have on every dynasty team want one and i'm annoyed at the one guy that won't trade me gabe davis in that one dynasty league i've tried a million times but uh but yeah you're you're buying them at a high profit so it's not outrageous just und

erstand what you're getting yourself into you don't have a lot a lot of room for profit you do have room for downside if you know the touchdowns don't end up going his way yep no i agree with that and the last one i'm just annoyed too i just realized because we're anyway well i'll tell you the hair i just anyway sorry go ahead what else okay the last one i've got no chance of pronouncing this handle so it's at shiloh's gma how much emphasis do you place on pre-season games if any some i think it

's all situationally dependent like so on one hand like you don't want to be sucked in by you know players having monster games against uh you know vanilla defenses backups that kind of thing so i tend not to get sucked in by performance what i do get sucked in is by usage that's what's important right and so the idea of like so damian pierce is somebody who skyrocketed up adp this year because of he's had really strong performance but what's important to me is usage like they held him out of th

e second preseason game normally like a fourth round rookie doesn't get held out of the second preseason game but that made you think oh he's their starter and it's clear that you know he's we think he's the best guy on that team so seeing how many snaps a player plays with the first team offense seeing how many snaps how many routes somebody runs with the first team quarterback like like um uh mo alley cox who i'm obsessed with mount moyer cox max but like honestly mo ally cox has been playing

a ton of snaps with matt ryan in the first team offense and he's been running a route on over half of half of the snaps that matt ryan's been understanding you're like okay that's interesting so i i think over 70 percent uh if i have that correct shout out to dwayne mcfarland uh who who uh who charts that and so i don't know like that's what i'm looking for in the preseason game is usage in terms of are they playing with the first team how many snaps are they getting what's the rotation you know

how many routes are they running with the first team quarterback underneath under center are they being held out with the rest of the starters that kind of thing so that's what is um i think interesting in the preseason having said that it's still the preseason it's the preseason for a reason the ravens have never lost a pre-season game in history as far as i can tell they have lost regular nfl games it's the pre-season scene i think logan thomas is jealous of all this mo alley cox chat he's no

t logan knows logan knows where he was what's up knows where it's number one but i i do have a weird obsession with mo ally cox you know hey it's matthew berry from nbc sports and rotaworld.com just want to thank you so much for watching what you just watched or at least being too lazy to click out of it after the you know autoplay just kept it going so either way thank you so much for just letting it scroll by your screen and now i'd like to ask you respectfully respectfully respectfully okay r

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