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why are addition of the pod. This is the first one of its kind last year. We'd usually do Monday night football podcast afterwards and I go through a little bit of waiver stuff. But you know what everyone watches Monday night football. I thought why not have a special guest in here.

Have time to plant things out a little bit better and ultimately give you guys more actionable fancy information. Because at the end of the day, we're trying to make sure you guys win your fancy championship.

Telling you all, you know, staying up until midnight to tell you all about a game that 90% of you watched anyway. I'm not so sure fits into that. So without further ado, I am happy to be joined by, you know, a guy that's on here three, four times a week. If not more, I can't even keep track at this point.

So I'm like, Farland, you guys all know I'm love them already. Dwayne, we have conquered week one now around the week two. How you feeling?

Man, I feel good. I mean, you know, there's always things we get right and there's things we get wrong. I probably should start to show the couple of apologies. So I think I said, David Montgomery and Michael Williams suck on Sunday on our start set.

Start set my eyes all messed up last night, but I was well enough to see that David Montgomery look good and I was like a man like, okay, I'm apparently going to miss on him. So did he get as many routes and everything as I wanted, but wherever I saw, like he was basically could add like 70% of the rushing attempts, heading out left the game for a little bit. So sorry, David Montgomery.

And then also Michael Williams, sorry, because Ian, you gave me a double take when I said he sucked. So yeah, believe it or not, people. We did not nail 100% of the start set questions, lobber away on Sunday. But I think in general, we did see a lot of, you know, the volume, the storylines that we're hoping to play out come to fruition. So if you guys didn't catch the Monday edition of this podcast, you can catch myself basically going through all the Sunday afternoon games with key snap notes.

You know, take away beyond the box score and things of that nature. So check that out if you missed it today. We got to weigh in the house. So I want to quickly go through some of his top takeaways. You can always find his utilization report on pff.com on Tuesdays. Correct.

That's right on Tuesdays, one that trying to get him to where they're coming out Monday afternoon evening ish. I'm still working on today's you know how week one is like there's so much like I'm just trying to make sure that I cover it all. But yeah, it'll, it'll be hitting any time either tonight or tomorrow morning.

So if you people like what you're about to hear, make sure you check that out because there's a hell of a lot more of that where it's coming from. So without further ado, let's get after it. Dwayne, we'll be talking with some Detroit Lions. Man, Detroit Lions Houston Texans, you know, just a wild week warm. But first of all, TJ Hawkinson. I guess the one member of this offense, you know, in addition to Deandre Swift, who we might just be talking about too.

That we felt good about and that did come to fruition career high eight catches 97 yards in his debut in Jerichoff that 97 yard mark only trails his career debut set back in 2018 or 2019. Excuse me. And also an 85% snap rate with Dwayne. I think it'll get more into because right now sure looks like Hawkinson is a lion is number one pass game.

Yeah, man. I mean, so it tied in what you really want to see is you want to see a player that gets up over 80% of the routes. I mean, they're not having to stay in the block. I mean, 70% is still good. But like when you get up over 80% and you start getting close to 90% that's where it really becomes interesting because once you get over 80 and 90% even if you're only being targeted.

And like say 20% of your routes, which is really good for for a young tight end, which is where Hawkinson is, you really start to get into that recipe where you could be in for, you know, top four top five season.

We'll talk about pits here in a minute, but I think Hawkinson and pits have a chance to really push for us to expand the conversation. I don't think it means they hurdle wall or Kittle or any of these guys, but I think, you know, their numbers look good enough that we could be looking at it at the end of the year and wow, there was actually five really good tight ends, right. Maybe Kelsey still the top top, but then instead of it just being wall or right in an injured Kittle.

I think it very easily could be a wall or Kittle Hawkinson, you know, and then we'll talk about pits in a minute. But if you look at Hawkinson was in a route over 81% of the passing plays.

That's up from 73% last year. He was targeted 22% of his routes. He was 19% his first year in the league, 20% in his second year in the league. He also improved and is receiving passing grades each of his first, I shouldn't say each of his first two years because his first year is a rookie, but last year he improved.

And so we're just continuing to see that growth. And I mean, it's what you just said when you look at the Lions, it's really swift Hawkinson and Jamal Williams. Like that's that's their best players contest Quintez, see this actually looked good at the end of that game. So I'm interested to see if he gets some more work. But I think it's where the volume is all squarely going to set, you know, with these three players. So over 80% of the routes over 20% targets per route run.

That's a top tied in that's a top five tied in formula pretty much over and over and over and over and over and over again. And if you're going to miss the top five, you're talking like top six top seven. So if you, and that's where you had to draft Hawkinson.

But it's going to be worth it. And I think he has upside like I said to push towards the other guys.

As great as Kelsey Waller and Kittle or I think if we had to rank like real life, tight ends that a lot of people will still have those guys in your top three so much of the fancy success success just comes from that very same volume like last year Kelsey and Waller each had 145 targets.

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