Welcome everyone to the score fantasy football podcast.

I'm your host, Justin Boone, the lead fantasy analyst at The Score. Thank you so much for downloading the show today. I was actually going to record this on Thursday, but we had to take one of our cats to the emergency clinic. That is never fun. Thankfully, he's home now. He is on the road to recovery. He's showing some good signs. So hopefully he keeps that up. But for this episode, we're putting a bow on free agency we've had the first

two weeks that's always the busiest time we're still waiting on aaron rogers and russell

wilson they got to pick their new teams and the giants seemed like they got sick of waiting on

those guys they went out and signed james winston and i know the reports out there suggest that

they're not out on rogers or russ and they could still be. We'll see if that happens. I'm not sure at this point if they're going to do it. But I think this is a smart move by the Giants because now they have James, who is an upgrade on what they had at that position last year. There's no other way to look at it. And he could be a really fun bridge quarterback you know if they end up

getting a rookie which seems pretty likely you have james there to give you at least some sort of

baseline quarterback play and winston could potentially have like a yolo starter year if they don't

really land anybody they like or anybody that they think can start this season in the draft and

for fantasy we know james is going to be great for Malik neighbors because he will just lock on to his top target. He will pepper him all day long for however long he's under center. And it's not always pretty with James. There's going to be turnovers. There's going to be some bad decisions, but he will rack up stats. And I don't think people even realize

how much of a change it was in the Brown's offense last year after he took over. I mean,

if you look at week 8 to week 15 when James was starting, Jerry Judy was the wide receiver

three overall, not a wide receiver three, the wide receiver three, the third highest scoring

receiver during that span. He was averaging 17.6 fantasy

points per game and half ppr cedric tilman he had a couple big games in there before he got

hurt david and joku was the tight end six during that time and james himself was the qb 10 so he was

putting up low end qb1 fantasy numbers so this is great news for neighbors. I already had him ranked high,

though. Adam is the top five fantasy wide. We love neighbors here. This gives him that baseline of

serviceable quarterback play, like I said. And don't get me wrong. I don't think James is going to be

the starter all year long. I think that's probably unlikely. He might start the season and then

eventually turn it over to a rookie. But James is a great backup. It's a really probably unlikely. He might start the season and then eventually turn it over to a rookie.

But James is a great backup.

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