This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed Human. Hello, everybody. Welcome into the Fantasy Pros football podcast. I'm Ryan Warmly joined by Andrew Erickson and by Jake Sealy from The Athletic. And we are talking takeaways from the AFC West. We have been taping these division kind of takeaways from the fantasy perspective all day. This is the last one we're doing. So I believe the other ones will have been released already by the time you're listening to this. So if you miss them, be sure to check out the east, north, and south. Like I said, this is our West takeaways. We'll start with the Broncos, who won the division. First time the Chiefs did not win in a very, very long time. It was Denver coming away on top. Jake, we'll start with

you on this one. What's your takeaway from the Broncos this year? Stop expecting Sean Payton to be

anything but Sean Payton because Peyton is going to Peyton. And I mean that for the backfield

and the wide receivers is we knew this when it came to the Saints and things changed a little bit with

Camara during that time where it's finally down to mostly, and I say mostly not because

all the time, but mostly two running backs. And then the wide receiver situation was a little bit

different there, but he comes over to the Broncos and he's back to what we see most of Peyton's

career is multiple running backs and a lot of game script dependent and matchup

dependent. Multiple wide receivers after Cortland Sutton. And I know Pat Bryant's part of his was

injury, but it was Troy Franklin and Pat Bryant and like other noise here and there. And it's just

like, and even the tight end position, like just as what Peyton does. Peyton uses everybody up and down his roster. He uses multiple options any given week, depending, like I said, depending on matchup, depending on game script. And the worst part about it is, is it's not like we sit there and watch Sean Payton go against a man-heavy team and be like, oh, this is specifically what he's going to do against the man-heavy team. Or, hey, this team plays blank. This is specifically what he's going to do. It's just Sean Payton being Sean Payton, and that's part of what makes him good and part of what makes him a successful NFL coach. But for us in fantasy, it sucks. And the thing here is just to understand that R.J. Harvey can be a cool RB2, and it took half the year for him to finally get there and injuries. And, you know, Cortland Sutton could be a cool wide receiver too. But after that, when we try to chase our own tail of picking this person up and picking this person up and picking this person up and then three weeks later, we'll like, fine, we're done, we drop them. And then guess what? That player you just dropped is the one that has the good week right after that. So stop expecting anything more than what Sean Payton's going to do. You probably get two, maybe three if you want to include Bo Nicks at quarterback, fantasy pieces out of this roster. And that's pretty much what Sean Payton's just going to do to you. Erickson, you are kind of going along a similar path here for the Broncos.

Yeah.

This Denver Broncos takeaway brought me back to a Slack message from you, Warren, when you

asked me about some Denver Broncos player, and I just responded, don't trust Sean Payton.

You're like, this player or a Denver Broncos player, and I was very much, hey, when in doubt, don't trust Sean Payton for fantasy football.

I mean, look, who did he tell us was going to be the Joker?

This Evan Ingram thing.

You know who the joke?

You know who the joke was on?

Us.

Us.

Like, we're the people that are looking in the mirror with the clown mascot be like, I listen to Sean Payne.

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