Aug 31, 2026 · 1 hr 8 min · 10 segments
A tight episode on whether to hold or move assets you don’t trust, how mainstream narratives (hello Jayden Daniels) hit your leagues, and how to push back without selling low. We get into timing…
Can I ask you a question, Jake? This is a guy who I feel like was kind of under the radar, at least for us, or, you know, definitely didn't get much airtime, I would say.
Seth McGowan, backup running back for the Indianapolis Colts, potentially the running back two for that team.
fourth of a draft we were doing and I ended up taking Marlon Klein over him when I did have an opportunity and I was really kind of going back and forth in my head and I was like well I don't know if there's any opportunity other than you know him just kind of filling in if there was ever an injury but I don't think that that would ever turn into kind of like a full-time role or anything so that's where my brain went was like maybe Marlon Klein can be the next tight end for Houston or something like there's just more potential there maybe I think and so that's why I went that way do you think that was a a bad decision.
I think that has a lot more to do with the fact that we did our rookie drafts pretty early on and he just really wasn't anyone supremely on the radar.
It's like, you know, like most people weren't drafting Cyrus Allen on May 1st or late April, but he was getting picked up definitely like second or third week of May across leagues.
And so for Seth in particular, I think it's, relatively similar ish narrative to DJ Giddens last year.
It's like, if you were the number two on the depth chart, you give yourself a great opportunity until you lose that opportunity.
If whatever comes your way, I think a veteran running back that can be picked up during the middle of the season could easily steamroll their way into a role there.
If something were to happen to Jonathan Taylor, but, uh, Yeah, I don't know if we're too low on him.
The only thing I will say, if I'm ever comparing those types of picks at the end of a rookie draft with relatively minimal tight end premium, I'm more likely to go with the running back just because I think that they'll be more flippable.
They'll be easier assets to add on to other... to other pieces to kind of amplify them.
And especially like when I think about where your build is at in that league in particular, I think that's probably what I would just aim for instead of just go like pure ceiling.
But like, I would be hypocritical because in that same league, I have a very similar build and I went pure ceiling at the rest of the draft.
basically went and strayed away from any like late round running backs and just went like ceiling wide receivers all the way through, which I will probably burn, you know, five roster spots on my fucking team.
It's like, if I can get him or if I was able to get him like after my rookie drafts in April and May, you know, one to 5% worth of fab, something like that.
Can I ask you a question, Jake? This is a guy who I feel like was kind of under the radar, at least for us, or, you know, definitely didn't get much airtime, I would say.
Seth McGowan, backup running back for the Indianapolis Colts, potentially the running back two for that team.
fourth of a draft we were doing and I ended up taking Marlon Klein over him when I did have an opportunity and I was really kind of going back and forth in my head and I was like well I don't know if there's any opportunity other than you know him just kind of filling in if there was ever an injury but I don't think that that would ever turn into kind of like a full-time role or anything so that's where my brain went was like maybe Marlon Klein can be the next tight end for Houston or something like there's just more potential there maybe I think and so that's why I went that way do you think that was a a bad decision.
I think that has a lot more to do with the fact that we did our rookie drafts pretty early on and he just really wasn't anyone supremely on the radar.
It's like, you know, like most people weren't drafting Cyrus Allen on May 1st or late April, but he was getting picked up definitely like second or third week of May across leagues.
And so for Seth in particular, I think it's, relatively similar ish narrative to DJ Giddens last year.
It's like, if you were the number two on the depth chart, you give yourself a great opportunity until you lose that opportunity.
If whatever comes your way, I think a veteran running back that can be picked up during the middle of the season could easily steamroll their way into a role there.
If something were to happen to Jonathan Taylor, but, uh, Yeah, I don't know if we're too low on him.
The only thing I will say, if I'm ever comparing those types of picks at the end of a rookie draft with relatively minimal tight end premium, I'm more likely to go with the running back just because I think that they'll be more flippable.
They'll be easier assets to add on to other... to other pieces to kind of amplify them.
And especially like when I think about where your build is at in that league in particular, I think that's probably what I would just aim for instead of just go like pure ceiling.
But like, I would be hypocritical because in that same league, I have a very similar build and I went pure ceiling at the rest of the draft.
basically went and strayed away from any like late round running backs and just went like ceiling wide receivers all the way through, which I will probably burn, you know, five roster spots on my fucking team.
It's like, if I can get him or if I was able to get him like after my rookie drafts in April and May, you know, one to 5% worth of fab, something like that.
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