Buffalo Bills 2024 Season Preview: Key Fantasy Insights

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00:00Time for the Buffalo Bills team preview.

00:06Joe, listen, the fantasy black book,

00:08I honestly, I'm not, I don't get paid to say it.

00:10You don't ask me to say it,

00:11but I honestly think that you've changed

00:13the way people think.

00:14And that's all we can ask for in this day and age.

00:16When I look at this Buffalo Bills roster now,

00:19based off of how I've learned to think,

00:22given the black book,

00:24it's gonna be a tough season in Buffalo.

00:27Am I wrong?

00:29Look, last year, I sort of was poking around the idea

00:32that the window was getting closer,

00:33being shut for this Buffalo Bills team.

00:35I'm not the biggest Sean McDermott fan.

00:37You saw a change in the offensive coordinator.

00:39I was the only person talking about

00:42being concerned about Stephon Diggs

00:44as the season would go on.

00:45And I hate being the fortune teller of negative things,

00:50but that was the case.

00:51Stephon Diggs was dreadful.

00:54And I had knocked down drag out fights

00:56and the analysis was very simple,

00:57which is you don't get wide receivers

00:5910 years into the league that end up maintaining that pace.

01:02It starts to fall off at some point.

01:04And my point was,

01:05it was about time for the drop-off to happen,

01:08and it was inevitable.

01:09And you saw some of that other disconnect

01:11between the wide receiver and the quarterback growing

01:13in terms of tension.

01:15And we put those two things together.

01:16It was a no-brainer to fade Diggs going into drafts.

01:18Now, I looked really stupid

01:20the first six weeks of the season,

01:22but after that, looked pretty good.

01:24So Stephon Diggs is gone.

01:26Josh Allen remains.

01:27And Josh Allen last year had a phenomenal season.

01:30Let's be honest.

01:31In terms of touchdown equity,

01:33you can't ask for much more than he gave you.

01:35I mean, 15 rushing touchdowns, 29 passing touchdowns.

01:38The guy was brilliant.

01:40He's not my number one QB on the board though this year.

01:43And it's because I think this offense is in a transition.

01:46You look at this wide receiver core,

01:47Curtis Samuel, Keon Coleman, they drafted,

01:49who I think has some talent, but you have to be patient.

01:51I don't think he's the same level wide receiver

01:53of guys like Marvin Harrison and Malik Nabors

01:55and those guys, but I think he's got some talent.

01:58Is he ready to step in and be a number one

02:00in the NFL in rookie season?

02:02That's a big question mark.

02:03And I don't think the answer is unequivocally yes.

02:07Khalil Shaqir, nice player.

02:08You can play in the slot a little bit.

02:10Dalton Kincaid has a lot of upside in my opinion.

02:13And I think, you know, having watched him in college,

02:15Dalton Kincaid, you're just scratching the surface

02:17of what he can do.

02:19He's very talented.

02:19You can line him up in the slot.

02:21You can use him in different ways

02:22as kind of a weapon X kind of guy,

02:25but it's a transition, make no mistake about it.

02:28And you look around, I think the defenses

02:30in this division are still pretty darn good.

02:32And they're gonna be facing some tough defenses.

02:34You can't count on him having 15 rushing touchdowns.

02:37That's almost twice as many as he had ever in his career.

02:40That's gonna regress.

02:42Now I am bullish on the potential of Dalton Kincaid

02:44because that is somebody who could lead his team in targets.

02:48And at the tight end position, that's incredibly valuable.

02:51Volume is king.

02:53So if we can get Dalton Kincaid to get the bulk

02:54of this volume in this offense,

02:55he's gonna be a huge win for people in fantasy this year.

02:5980 receptions right now, 780 yards, five touchdowns.

03:02I think that's the baseline of projections

03:04you're looking at right now for him.

03:06I could see him going as high as having a 900

03:09or a thousand yard receiving season.

03:13Now, touchdowns might be trickier

03:14because when you get to the goal line area,

03:16you do have the option to big body,

03:19to Josh Allen, run the football in.

03:20And you do have James Cook in this backfield.

03:23And now another running back that you've brought in here

03:26that has some equity at the goal line, Ray Davis.

03:28And I think that's the guy you might see

03:30a little bit more of than you realize.

03:31From the Kinks?

03:32So Cook.

03:32Yeah.

03:33Yeah.

03:34Sorry, go ahead.

03:36Nobody watching got that except you and me.

03:38Thank you.

03:39Maybe one or two people.

03:40Although it is early on a Sunday morning watching.

03:42But I will say this, you have,

03:45and that's Ray Davies for the record.

03:47I know, but that's the pronunciation.

03:48I know, but you and I can make that joke.

03:51But James Cook had a really good finish to the season.

03:53Will that carry over?

03:54That's a question.

03:55We know the regression is going to be there from Josh Allen.

03:57We don't know any of these wide receivers

03:59are up to carrying the load.

04:00Do we see a version of Josh Allen

04:02all of a sudden becomes a really proficient passer

04:04to just whoever's open after spending

04:06the majority of his career,

04:08just forcing the ball to Stephon Diggs over and over again?

04:10A lot of question marks here.

04:12So it's not that I'm fading the bills altogether,

04:14but I'm still looking at Josh Allen coming back down

04:17a little bit from that number one spot,

04:19trying to maybe get through the growing pains.

04:21I think the biggest winner here potentially

04:23is Dalton Kincaid.

04:24But Matt, you're somebody coming back into football.

04:27I'm always in football and you're still in baseball mode.

04:29When you start to look at this roster,

04:31what are your thoughts?

04:32Well, like I said, at first I was concerned,

04:34but when I think about how the league has been going,

04:37at least in the last two seasons,

04:38it's high-end play becomes pivotal.

04:40So when you look at a team like Buffalo,

04:42you can either see that their offense is rebuilding

04:45or they are ahead of the curve

04:47because offering such a strong tight end set

04:50with the way that the game and the league is changing,

04:52like you said, I mean, some of those numbers

04:54are unheard of for the position,

04:56but when, to use your term, the Weapon X comes into play,

04:58now all of a sudden the entire game is changing.

05:02So maybe I'll pause on my expectations on Buffalo

05:06and listen to some things that you have to say

05:07a little bit more.

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