“What If” Players + Fantasy Fears | Fantasy Football 2024 - Ep. 1625

Intro Oh, Foot Clan, it is almost time, the NFL season right around the corner. We've got a great show for you today. We're talking about some waiver wire gyms getting into the news, answering your questions and a reminder, two more draft times remain for the Megalobol. Head over to Megalobol.com and get in there. Make sure you like and subscribe and enjoy the episode. More and Mike Wright. AHHHHHHHHH WELCOME IN! Two more sleeps! Okay, grandpa. What? I like it. Yeah, we got football this week. Mike's not going to talk on the show today. That way his football time can be maximized. Yeah. Volume, tone. This is the first time ever. This is just realizing in my brain right now because we were talking about this. Yes, yes. There will be two It's Football times this week for the first time ever. Wow! Because we're walking there. Yeah, it was. Wow. Because there's a game on Friday. Yeah. The NFL is trying something out, I guess. Well, they always do like, you know, sometimes the first week, Monday, they do a double header. I am laughing at the idea that they're trying something because, yes, they're having a Friday game in Brazil. I wonder how it's going to work. That's all I'm saying. I bet you they know A plus B equals money. Yeah. Well, they do weird stuff like start two games on Monday at the same time. That's true. We have criticized that. They try things out and generally speaking like Monday night does not get its own. It's football time. But I don't know, man, for a Friday standalone game. You just said there's going to be two this week. Yeah, it's happening. It's happening. Tuesday, September 3rd, two days away from meaningful, actual, real NFL football that's going to count for your fantasy roster. And we're here to help you through the entire season. It's amazing. So we are our week one rankings are live and I was working on them more this morning. And just before the show, I'm I'm literally looking at the order of these players and who I would start and all of this. And it dons on me. I go, the answers are days away. Like we get to know who is the better player this week. Right. You know, you spend these months of just all this hypothetical, all this analysis, all this talky talk talk nonsense. And now it's like the points are are coming. They're here days away. I'm so I'm just I mean, this is not part of our normal plans today. But is there a singular player and I'll give you a second to think about this that you are the most excited to see play football in week one. I know my will. Put Malik neighbors out there. The rookies are always in that category and then compounded with just the my guy in the anticipation for him on the field. Is he the next Jamar chase Mike? It's Caleb. And I have team captain Caleb Williams. I currently have, you know, very little personally fantasy invested in the Chicago Bears other than, you know, making my projections and everything. It's just it hasn't worked out for me. Although I did. We were in a our league of shadows. I did just double up my QB. I took Caleb with my second to last pick. Nice. Just in case. Yeah. Just in case. But watching him like the preseason is was very impressive for Caleb of making like really difficult throws. What's going to happen though when it's an actual NFL defense and not a preseason defense? Will that will he still be able to do it? I would say the first player that just naturally came to mind that I'm very like, I think everyone in the world needs it to work. Let's say together Colby Parkinson's CJ's Drowd. You can't you do. You can't fail you. I mean, you can but please do not because there is so much writing on you leveling up and being that dude. The whole team have you know front to back like the Texans are supposed to be an awesome offense. Nico goes high digs is you know, you got to build that foundation on rock. Jason right. Can't be saying you. I mean, it's just got to work. Please see Jay Stroud. How do you ask him to do what he does great be the player that everyone thinks are going to be because we were here. We were here with Baker going into year two when he was. Oh, don't say that he was the dude. You know, man. What do you get? Oh, no Beckham added to the roster. Yeah, Landry was on that roster. He was going to be the next greatest quarterback. Was that Freddie Kitchens that year? Yes. Yeah, there was. I believe so. Too many kitchens in the kitchen. Yes. We have a lot going on. We got news to talk about. We got a waiver wire segment where we're talking about the undrafted gyms that you can pick up. I just took one of them. Actually, I don't know if it's in this list, but I took one of these guys with the last pick of our draft. Our League of Shadows. So we'll talk about some names, some players that you may want to hot swap off of the back of your bench and maybe put somebody else in there that has some upside. And then we'll jump into the mail bag. We got voice mails. You guys have sent in. We got tons of questions coming in to the show. As we get ready for the season to kick off, I can feel the energy in the room. It is palpable. We are ready for football. We are ready to see these teams and see our fantasy team succeed. But I just wanted to say in general, thank you for this past off season. It's been awesome. Thank you for those that came out to the live show, for those of you that have joined the foot clan over the last month, that have become a part of our community. This show is going into the 10th season of doing this. And I know I can speak for all three of us to say that we have the same excitement, energy and joy. Also, I can't stop buying more and more things to help support the draft. Yeah, good for you. Because I am the champion. Good for you. And there is a rule in fantasy football that you should be delusionally rude to your league mates when you're the champ. So I have got. Being the champ is. It is so good. It's so good. It's the highest high, my friend. It is. And it's also, it's expensive. Oh, and you know what? That's it. It's like. That's right. Fantasychamps.com. What keeps happening is I think of one thing I want to bring to the draft and then I put it in my Amazon cart and then I realize I need that $25 limit to get. Oh, you got to get the shipping. Yeah. So I'm like, oh, what other thing can I buy? And then I just keep buying them. But yeah, I got some stuff in store. Oh, very exciting. It's going to be very fun. But no, the point there was not that I'm the champ, although that's always the point. It's that we're very thankful to have you along for the ride. We do have two mega lobal draft times remaining the 5pm tonight draft for the mega lobal, which is the largest fantasy football league. It's the one with all the footclan members. It's going to be super fun this year. And I actually was talking to a ton of footclan people this weekend. And one of the comments was like, I always love playing in the mega lobal. But when you guys pulled trading out, I quit. Yeah. And I said, trading is back, baby. Yeah. Trading is back. The playoffs are a little bit easier to make. I expanded. We really mirrored the mega lobal to our league of record format. So the scoring, everything is how we like to play. So and the people that are in these leagues are awesome. They are our people. They are you. You listening or who's playing in it. I have not done my draft yet. So if you want to try to guess which draft slot I'm in, we've got one left tomorrow and you can still 9am, 9am, September 4th. So there is time. Megaloball.com. Sorry, Jay. What are the prizes? And that's Pacific time. Yeah. The prizes are very specific. The prizes are the winner of the mega lobal, plays automatically. They are in our listener league in 2025 and you become an ultimate footclan member for life forever. So that is awesome. Jason also mentioned at the top the week one rankings are up on the site, the start sit tool, all of the in season things are happening right now at the fantasy footballers.com. And tons of free resources for you. Amazing articles from a really talented writing staff coming out every single day. And it's go time. I mean just if you're like me, just soak it up all day every day no matter where you're at. And your family would totally support that. You can follow the show over on X at the FF ballers. Let's jump in. I think this is the button. Here it is. Waiver Wire - Undrafted Gems Welcome to the waiver wire presented by NFL Sunday ticket on YouTube TV. I got to graduate my button pushing to in season mode. That was still off season. Yeah, it takes some time. Hurry up. All right, we're looking at week one stashes some players some undrafted gyms the what if players right like if something goes exceptionally well in week one or the hierarchy maybe at the wide receiver room or running back room changes and you know things that we're not expecting what are some of these names in your mind for week one. Yeah, it's really common for me to finish a draft and then look at the waiver wire afterwards go I would rather have this guy. You got a lot more time. That's normal. Yeah. One of the first names I'll bring up is the one you drafted last in our in our league we just did Andy it's some of JP Ryan. He's going to be very interesting. He is he is extremely valuable. This is a role. I mean you know I'm all about Isaiah Pacheco and it seems part part of the news this week is that Clyde Edwards a layer was put on the what is it the NFI yeah the NFI and so he's going to miss the first month of football if not more right so now we know why they went and got P Ryan so I'm not as scared about P Ryan for Pacheco however this is this is an important offense. We saw Jerick McKinnon have value. This is a player who caught 50 balls last year for a bad offense and now he goes over to the chiefs so he's just sitting there on the waiver wire as the backup to Pacheco who will be involved. He's going to be active this Thursday already. So P Ryan is I think a must you know hot swap type of player. Yeah I'm just genuinely curious how the team uses them and how fast he gets integrated into the offense. Everything you said is right. You had the one thing about P Ryan that's interesting to me is that you have respected coaches that seems to want him and trust him or Zach Taylor to our own demise continued to trust him in Cincinnati. He was picked up by Peyton last year. Obviously they went out and they found McLaughlin that was an unexpected player in the running back room and then they drafted Estime so there was kind of no room for him. But then Andy Reid picks him up and you know where if there's anybody that can utilize less talented players for greater fantasy output. We often talked about Damian Williams and whether he was a legitimately good running back or not. He was almost a Super Bowl MVP on that team so a fun player to watch for sure. I mean last year this is the show where you could have brought up names like Pukinakua and Kyren Williams Sam LaPorta who was only 54% rostered after drafts last year. So I think that's a good one. I'd also bring up another running back in March on Louis. That was the next most important name to me. Running back for the Green Bay Packers rookie running back. We talk about it every year somehow some way. At least two rookie running backs seem to break into the top 24 and we're sitting here going. You know a couple weeks ago. Well how's that even going to happen this year. Then all of a sudden March on Lloyd's not put on the IR. AJ Dylan is and he's also back at practice which the timeline for his injury. You know when he was going on IR it seemed like he was not going to be ready for the season. I'm not positive he will be. He might not be. Even if he is not active week one you should still pick up March on Lloyd. He's an explosive running back in a committee with no AJ Dylan in front of him for a good offense. So he must be rostered. And Jacobs has missed a little bit of time here and there and it's the what if right. Like is that the kind of offense where suddenly March on Lloyd. If he was by himself to he would be an interesting player to add to the roster. The only problem there is I don't think Lloyd plays in the first couple weeks. So if you that would be a longer stash and you might want some quicker return might you have some names. I mean the quarterbacks to pay attention to like Will Levis from Tennessee. He could turn into a late round guy who's really giving you points. And I get a Caleb Williams was probably drafted in your league. But now that casual leads are going on I'm seeing him drop lower and lower where he was 80 P atop. He was like QB 11 which that's right on the fringe of may or may not get drafted. But I think that he is a really good pickup and see with your other quarterback one. And then at the running back position. I'll say it again. Taysom Hill for the doers. You say at the running back position at the time. It's whatever man. He's everything. Taysom Hill is tight and eligible for a lot of platforms. And we don't know what the Saints are going to tell you. I'm telling you Mike. Yeah. I'm with you on this. I hate it. I have I have this feeling right now that we're going to come out and see so much Taysom Hill at running back in this game. I think so. They play against Carolina in the opening week. They're favored. They're at home. If you're talking about you can say it's their favorite. Like their favorite team to play. Everyone's favorite team to play against. So yeah I mean you talk about like I was looking at the rankings. I was like oh that's great for Alvin Camara. I think they're going to be up. Maybe it's more of a grind game. Maybe it's more of like a Jamal Williams. And I'm like no it's Taysom. It's Taysom Week one. And the other tight end I just in our family league completely agree. I had grabbed. It was really late and it was everyone had their starting tight end. So I took Hawkinson as I'm going to stash him and then I was going to find someone else to play. Unfortunately someone took Taysom Hill before I was able to go and I had to scramble. What am I going to do. Greg D. Greg Dulcich of the Denver Broncos is and he's an electric athlete. We love seeing that. And who was who's established for the Denver Broncos passing attack right now. Cortland Sutton. That's it. I mean like the running backs are going to get their targets but no one else on this team is going to go out and that you would project. Oh this is a 20% target type of player. He had a great target share as a rookie just has been hurt. But so he is a very late tight end that I think you should even like if you have that one spot. I think Stash and Greg Dulcich isn't the worst idea. Other players that I think might surprise you in week one. I think Michael Wilson and Greg Dorch in Arizona opposite of Marvin Harrison might be a surprise in week one against Buffalo. Diamond Brown is going to get an opportunity in Washington. Jaylen Tolbert what's his role going to be as a wide receiver in Dallas in week one. As he's had a good camp. And so those are some other names worth bringing up and. Yeah I'm so excited. I would throw out a couple of rookies as well. Adonai Mitchell and you know I and Malik Washington. Those are guys that I think they're kind of third on their depth chart but they've got an opportunity. It's the surprise. You know when I when I look back at like the breakouts every week one. A lot of times it's the rookies. I mean last year's Puka right. It was like you just didn't know you didn't know he was going to be involved that involved. Malik Washington is an excellent Stash right now. I like I liked the player and yeah reports are now positive for Jaylen Waddle and Tyree Kill but they're both coming off an injury. Yeah it's like oh they're both finally back to practice. Yeah if Waddle goes out there and it really it was a really bad calf injury that we we didn't know about. And he tweaks it in week one. Malik Washington is going to be very heavily sought after on that Tuesday waiver wire. All right thanks again to NFL Sunday ticket on YouTube TV watch every game every Sunday when you bundle NFL Sunday ticket and YouTube TV sign up today at YouTube dot com slash fantasy footballers reminder local and national games on YouTube TV NFL Sunday ticket for out of market games excludes digital only games device and content restrictions apply. NFL News News and notes from around the league presented by USA insurance. All right Mike I'm going to give you the power of telling me whether I hit this button or not but Jamar Chase. He was present at practice on Monday he did not participate in Zach Taylor who has learned a thing or two. He came out and said on whether Chase will play on Sunday against new England are you asking about will just firing the full panic alarm. Yes I. Are you. Do you want. I'm not at no I'm not at sound the sirens but I am at the point of. Let me get the quote in there. He said we'll just take it day by day. Go ahead. I if you haven't drafted yet I can totally understand letting him like the other big wide receivers that we've been talking about who like like A.J. Brown. Yeah he's the man would you take A.J. Brown Jamar now. If it was today I would. Yeah if I'm if I'm drafting now I think both are great players. Right. I love both players so taking one that I'm not sure plays this week over what are you talking about over there. I am I'm chuckling to myself because I think I know you're not I you're given. I think I just know that Jason is in a unique position on Thursday in our League of Record draft. You think I'm being selfish over for if it would be beneficial to him and Jamar Chase fell a couple of spots. I don't think he's going to make it. Yeah yeah I'm too far for that. But point being I like I honestly my true belief is Jamar Chase week one suits up and plays football. I guess that's that's the question. I think he does. I think he's two years. I think he doesn't. I think he does. He has two years left. There's also still we're look we're at we're at the 11th hour. There is a chance that a contract comes through. We were getting some rumors that they were close. I don't I don't know what in the world is going on there like CD lamb. There there it is. There it is Cincinnati. You go. Hey look Mr. Jamar Chase. Here's what CD got. Would you like that as well because we're look we're not going to give you Jefferson number but but we'll give you CDs number. Let's get that done sometimes. That simple and then this morning we got news that Trent Williams will be back for the 49ers. That is that is gigantic. That is literally yeah he's got gigantic news. He was it was not looking good for him to start the season playing for the 49ers and that dude will hold out. Yeah he's already proven a year right. I'm saying if you do if you don't give Trent Williams his money he is not showing up to work. He's not going to set a precedent but the 49ers got their deals done to the point that Mike was making they got him done. I you and Trent Williams back on the roster. That's great news for McCaffrey who returned to practice today. So McCaffrey is on on schedule and again he plays on Monday night football against the jet. Oh my gosh Monday night football 49ers jets. Yeah. I want that game. I want that game. Yes. Oh my gosh. All right. Mark Andrews not on the injury report. So that's great. Hollywood Brown ruled out but they do. They are talking like Hollywood's back in week two. We'll see. I would be surprised. I don't know where the optimism is coming from. I mean obviously they they know but this injury in the timeline to me it made sense. Obviously they didn't put him on the IR so you expect that he's not going to miss four weeks. But I don't know man. I am less optimistic just based on the actual injury and the normal timeline for that that he plays a week to. I think yeah I thought that it came from Andy Reid but I can't find the quote right now so we'll see. Not that you would like do you put Hollywood Brown on these like if you're not drafting him. I feel like he should be on a roster. I really do. You think he should be on a roster. I mean people are sitting here throwing if you've got season long just sky more and Justin Watson these guys are landing on rosters like Hollywood is much better than if you have an IR spot that's fine if you don't have an IR spot I'm not personally wasting a bench spot on a guy that can't like like let's say he was active next week in week two so it's we know he's not going to play this week. Would you start him week two first game back from this. No no you're not drafting him as a player that you're going to start. Like I agree. I would put him on the back of the bench. I think that is a wise decision. Clyde Edwards a layer. We mentioned that he's placed on the NFL list. He's going to miss at least four weeks. Ricky Pierce. Yeah man. Oh my good. I guess we went through all this all week and long but Ricky Pierce always shot in an altercation in San Francisco in the chest. Yeah through the right side of his chest. He is he has already been released from the hospital which is outstanding news that he was that fortunate from the incident. He's been placed on the NFL list so he will not be playing at a minimum four weeks. I think it'll be longer. Yeah the bullet went through clean no organs which is great. It came out the back which is just wild just wonderful. I mean if you're getting shot. Yeah. Best case scenario. Terrible. I mean he was an inch away from death. That's just wow just insane. Yeah that news was absolutely wild. Jalen Warren practice expected to play in Week 1 Dallas Goddard also expected to get back in practice. He actually resumed on Sunday so Goddard should be back out there. That was today's news and notes presented as always by U.S. A.A. insurance. You can learn more at U.S. A. A. com slash insurance. We will take a quick break and come back with your questions. I bet we will. No still still offseason mode. All right. Let's jump in. Mailbag. Sweet one. All right if you have a question for the show you can go to the website the fantasy footballers dot com click the submit a question button you can find it in the menu. Mailbag You can also dial our voicemail hotline 30246 for T. F. F. B. lots of questions coming in Jason. And all we've got to do is get them all perfectly right. It's all we do. All right. Let's jump in. We'll go to a voicemail. Hey ball. My question is when you're drafting multiple leagues you try to diversify your teams or do you want to keep them as similar as possible. Thanks. Diversifying teams over multiple leagues Oof. It's a mix for the for me personally. The question is when you're in multiple drafts. Are you trying to target the same players or do you want to diversify just in case the players that you're targeting. They are the bus picks of the year so you want to balance things out or do you want to put all the eggs in one basket. I'm not a coward man. Well I mean when you say you're drafting in a lot of leagues obviously it's very different if you are you know if you're filling out 150 entries into the best ball mania that you want to diversify that's just smart strategy to make sure your portfolio isn't just completely going to get wrecked but otherwise this isn't really a strategy thing. This is a personality. It's what do you enjoy and for me basically I've got two league types the like three leagues that really really matter and I'm just going to try to draft the best players which I end up getting the same guys because it's who I believe in this year. I'm going to win everywhere or lose everywhere and then there's the like like our family league where we're playing with our boys. I don't really don't care about like being awesome in there so I grab the players that is fun that I want to have that I don't have anywhere else. Yeah strategically speaking if you have conviction about players that's what the offseason is all about like you I don't approach it with cold feet about oh man this is going to be the third league I have Cooper Cup in or Calvin Ridley and I'm always thankful to get those guys at the spots that I'm getting them at and you know your roster is never mirrored top to bottom like if you've got the same players maybe you have two or three or four of the same players so I would not go away from them for you know the if you were drafting number two in five drafts maybe I'd split Tyreek and CD up a little bit like stuff like that but later on in the draft I'm not doing yeah and the on Sunday when you don't know if cheering for a player like if a player scores is this good or is this bad I don't know because I have everyone and I'm playing against everyone you can avoid that. YouTube question from Joseph writes in do you think Christian Kirk's involvement in Jacksonville is concerning coming over from a or coming from a scared Christian Kirk manager is not been on in two wide sets that's the same thing that happened last year. Christian Kirk outlook I'm not worried. I'm not worried about Christian Kirk he does he has kind of turned into one of those invisible players I believe he was dealing with an injury over the over these last couple months as well. What it comes down to for Christian Kirk is I believe in the town of Christian Kirk I think that the Jaguars do as well so he's a you can't keep him off the field like you gave gave Davis the money I understand Christian Kirk is is actually good and will help your team win football games. Yeah I mean he was last year played with Calvin Ridley and in the healthy games he got injured in week 13 up to that point he was the wide receiver 23 his 17 game pace was 130 targets for 1100 yards I mean he's going to be super involved in this. Yeah I think the thing with Kirk is like like what you said this is a to me a low in two type of player with some upside on a week to week basis but he's not a dominated right like he has career high in receptions in the years 84 that's nice. But this is we know what Christian Kirk is six years into the league and sometimes he can feel blasé to select because yes because you can be taking you know he's going to go in every draft ahead of where Brian Thomas is going. I enjoy drafting Brian Thomas way more. You're getting 10 fantasy points in a half PPR like just book it. You got creature Kirk in there. He's 10 fantasy points. Yeah that's yeah that's good in some scenarios but yeah his ceiling is definitely a little bit more capped. But that this team does not have enough options to eliminate Christian Clark Christian Kirk outside of injury. So in Gromen Kirk are going to soak up so many targets. I think the rise of Brian Thomas like the noise of the rise of the noise of his second half of training camp is helping to squeeze out your excitement for Christian Kirk. What is your biggest fantasy football fear heading into the 2024 season. That's the next question that we have. What is the biggest fear Jason might have accidentally mentioned his yeah I did. Stroud failing. Yeah it goes to Tank Dell as well. You know I'm very bullish on his unstoppable ability. And so if he gets injured or is he gets John Dotson for some reason that will be devastating. I think that I think that it's the the CMC one on one working out the way it's supposed to. He's been there and it's hard to repeat. We take it for granted with CMC. Everything should be fine. I think the 49ers in general are a question to me of like does everything just come together perfectly. The signings this week are going to help tremendously but at the same time like. The vibes have been bad there for a while and now everything's coming together right at the right time. It's working out and then Philly like a lot is dependent on Jalen Hertz just like CJ Stroud. If Hertz cannot step up his game in this offense which is a he's going to have to make more decisions in this offense. There's a lot more option routes. There's a lot more movement. This is not as straightforward as what he was used to and he's going to have to handle protections. He's going to have to handle things and you're depending on him for AJ Brown and Devante Smith. So that's an interesting one to mine is selfish and but it is also related to the group of the elite wide receivers who didn't practice who have not done training camp. Are they still elite wide receivers to start the year. They're hammies brand brand and I you CD lamb Jamar Chase and I'll just toss Justin Jefferson in there. Not that he's not practicing but he's an elite wide receiver who we have some concerns about. That's four guys who are very early picks that three of them have not really practiced. They they for for the most part have skipped training camp. All right. Let's turn to another voicemail question. For Keeper League do you prefer keeping players at their previous year draft value or making everyone use their first and second round picks as their keeper picks. Thanks. Keeper question. Do you get to keep a player for last rounds draft cost or no matter what it's your first or second round pick. We have we have hotly debated this a thousand times over the years. Maybe not hotly but just different opinions of what we think. I think there's only one hot part because both of these formats are great. I don't I don't really have a preference between either our League of Records. Basically no no what against last round. So what I am very against is waiver wire pickups being used as the last round pick like that is. I agree. So if you're in the format where you keep a guy at the value of last year's cost. Gotcha. I can't stand when you get to get a waiver wire pickup that wasn't drafted. You know. Yeah. But then what what's last year's cost for a waiver wire. You shouldn't be able to keep you didn't draft them. They weren't drafted. They're not a capable asset. I hate that. Or or keep them at 80. So you're the guy that had the foresight to go get Kyren or Puka or I guess I should say Puka. You're right. I did. I drafted Puka last year. But you don't get to keep them because you're in a Keeper League and you're the one that that you pick them up off the waiver wire and you don't get to keep them. You can keep part of being a great manager for a last round draft pick. I am fine for waiver wire. Two rounds by an ADP because you did something great. How about that? That's fine. I'm totally fine with that. Yeah. Let's put that in. That's the hotly debated part of either ADP value for the waiver or if you want to give one to two round bonus because you pick them up and kept them. But is that what you just said? Falcon. Do you do you play in a league with two rounds by an ADP? No, but that would that would. Yeah. It makes sense. Personally though, the first or second round, I don't love that because there's going to be teams out there that they just they don't have a player that's worth being kept for a first or a second round pick. And now you're you're already behind the eight ball against these strong teams. So that's I have my concerns there. And it's I like at where you drafted them because that's in a keeper league, you're rewarding players for the future for drafting by the way. Our League of Record is a keeper league. Yeah. There is not a cost. No, we do in our league. We're freebies. We give you three players. One, you lock in as yours, guaranteed. And then you pick three more from your roster that don't match that franchise players position and we do a lottery and two thirds of them come back to your team and one goes into the draft and we don't have a draft costs associated with it. Just have restrictions. Yeah, I guess part of the fundamental reason why there's not a draft cost is because we try to encourage players to trade their picks all over the place. So if you are, you know, you could work that into the mix, right? Like you can still trade your picks and then if you don't have your second and you're a keeper, you draft in the second, you don't get that chance to keep them. But that's we just do three and no cost. Yep. All right, Kyle in Indianapolis, we'll get to your question in just a second. We'll take a quick break and come back with more mail back. All right, Kyle's question. I have James Conner in a redraft league, but not trade Benson. Should I trade Chuba Hubbard for Benson to get the Arizona backup or keep Hubbard since he looks like a great depth piece and a late round pick at the moment? I would be very on the Hubbard side. Yeah, I think I'm keeping Chuba. The player that drafted trade Benson. I mean, you're going to be crossing your fingers, of course, but if three to four weeks go by and James Conner is the James Conner that has been the Arizona Cardinals running back for the past couple of years, trade Benson is probably going to hit the waiver wire. Like a pure insurance running back takes a lot of will and commitment to hold on to that player. Yeah, it's hard when you are rostering those guys to see a player on the waivers that pops and not just drop them. It's really difficult. You know, I've been the most, I think, anti Chuba, not that I'm super against Chuba. I think he's a good pick at value, but I would rather roster him than trade Benson. One of these guys is the current starter. Every year you're shocked at how thankful you are to have any depth at running back to start on buys and injuries. And all of a sudden, if you have a starter or a high role player, you're so thrilled because you just need them so often. The problem with Conner is like, okay, if Conner went out for the season, trade Benson is a spin at all. If James Conner went out for a game, it's going to be a committee. It's not just going to be trade Benson, the rookie taking over every snap. There's going to be other players involved. So that complicates it. All right. Tom writes in on Instagram, where will DJ Moore finish? Well, what a great question. That is, I'm going to need the time machine. I love DJ Moore. I think that he is, he's not going to be at number six again, like he was last year with Justin Field. But I don't think, I think he can, let's ask it this way. Do you guys think he can compete to get in the top 12? And then where do you think he'll finish? I would be surprised if he does. I think he'll finish closer to wide receiver 16, 17, 18, somewhere around there. You've got more target competition, which he didn't have last year. And a rookie that you historically, they won't throw as many touchdowns. And that will be the one thing that hurts his fantasy production. Yeah. I'd put him at the, you know, looking back at his career. He had a season of 12 and a half, then 11.9, 11.2. I'd put him in that 11 points per game area. All right. I have a question for theducers today, because we are, we just finished, I think, three drafts recently, the three of us or two or three of them. First of all, have you guys knocked out any drafts that like, are you done with, like how many have you finished out? I've got two down, two to go. All right. What about you, Papa? Two down, two to go. All right. Four down. Four down. So we got eight drafts over there. All right. I want to know, because, you know, you're regular people. How do you feel about your draft so far? Oh, I'm thrilled so far. So very, so thrilled, but yet monotone. Papa Josh. Papa Josh, how do you feel? I feel really good. Ask me after Thursday, though. Is that your big draft? That's the league record. Oh, league record. But I don't have any picks. Goodness. Are you not showing up? Oh, I'm showing up. I'm talking to Andy. He's like, what's Thursday? I hired a celebrity to do a proxy for me since I'm the champ. I'm getting a massage. And then what about you, Falcon? I feel really good about two teams, but my Megaloball team is not good. Oh, no. Not good. So you're increasing the odds of the footclan to make it into the Listener League. That's good. All right. And what about the ones that we just finished? How are you guys feeling? Pretty good so far. Listener League, League of Shadows. Oh, I feel awful about my Listener League. We told the story of that. Yeah, you were driving. Don't drive and draft. Was that the advice? Yeah, don't hospital and draft. Don't drive and draft. Now, was that out? Those are harder ways to succeed. Falcon, didn't you drive and draft your Megaloball team after he gave you that advice? Biggest fantasy fears Yes, I did. And I also hot tub and drafted too. Oh, hot tub and draft. Oh, hot tub. Yeah, that's fine. A hot tub and draft. Honestly, you're giving me a new idea for Thursday. Oh, yes. Please bring in a hot tub. How cool would that be? He's committed to staying in it the entire draft. And by the time it's over, it's just wrecked. I.G. question from Brooks Fangs. Talk about the path for Drake Linen to be a wide receiver one. The path is very clear. Kirk Cousins is very good. The offense surprises. They've got an easy path, a great... Like, if you look at strength of scheduled tools, obviously the defenses they play, they're going to change from last year. As of now, and including, you know, just wind totals and expectations going forward, especially in the playoff stretch, like they remind me of what happened last year, how the schedule lined up for the Cowboys, where you could look and you could say like, man, the, the, they're playing good defenses against the run, bad defenses against the pass. Kirk Cousins is healthy. And Drake Linen is his main target. He could easily, easily be a wide receiver one this year. You have been, you were very close on one of your bold predictions to being very bullish on Atlanta. Yes. You have talked about that a lot. There is a little bit of me that looks at Atlanta like we did when Matthew Stafford and the Rams. The Rams. And we were all spending the offseason just, we weren't willing to hand the baton to them yet. But like, let's just, if you just concede that Cousins is fine. If you say that out loud and carry it to its ends, Drake Linen should be great. Kyle Pitts should be good. Bijon should be great. Mooney should be involved. Like they're, if you just said he's fine. Who's a better... I don't think we've been willing to really say that. Who is a better wide receiver? Let me ask it this way. You're a general manager. Okay. And you are on the clock and you get to draft either Chris Olave or Drake London. Who would you take for your franchise? That is, I am so upset that you said that out loud because that is the, those two have been the most difficult thought process for me. I... And I lean Olave. I'm going Drake. There you go. I think I lean Drake. And so it's one of those... You do get the benefit of no Derek Carr if you lean that way. But that's what I'm saying is the quarterback, if Kirk is healthy, he's clearly a better quarterback. So if you're saying that these guys are the same tier, the same talent, or even that London is better. Yeah, if... He might be a better quarterback. Fair. Yeah. You know, I... Do you remember when I was a defender of the Carr? Of Derek Carr? Yeah. We all make mistakes. I just feel like watching that offense last year was so painful. There were times, Amari Cooper and Michael Crabtree, that combination together, all that he did for Darren Waller, awesome. Very fun. Last year it was just awful to watch. It was the hardest to watch team. But if you take the Jets out that didn't have a quarterback, they were the hardest to watch team because the actual offensive system was like that. It was like they didn't have one. That's what it felt like. It was like, what are you doing? What is this offense? He does. Bad vibes. I've been really trying to get my head around what Chris Olave is capable of doing in this offense because we all love the talent of Chris Olave, but we have to acknowledge the tendencies of quarterbacks and offensive systems in the schedule and the fact that you think Dennis Allen will be on the street soon. Like Carr has been able to throw the ball deep successfully in his career, but last year they were not on the same page for the first half. Could not get into the end zone. There are a lot of people out there that think Olave will be one of the bigger busts in fantasy. That is a prevailing opinion. It could easily happen. Thankfully, Clint Kubiak is in town. You got Kub's bringing his system. So hopefully the offense is just dramatically different looking than it was last year. Is this a real question, Kyle, from Instagram about why don't you work on Labor Day? I believe President Grover Cleveland had something to say about that when he signed that into law in 1894. Yeah. You know? Look at it. And by the way, just for the record, a bunch of us did work on Labor Day. Yeah. We were rushing to get everything for week one, so a bunch of our team did work. And I get it. Not everyone is afforded the holiday off, but there is something very ironic about, let's celebrate the labor of America by working. Like what? Yeah. We did have a really cool Labor Day release on YouTube that I should mention. Mm-hmm. We had the biggest loser, Brian Ketrin, and then Brooks put together a 2023 highlights video, which just spoiler alert, my favorite highlight is when I sniped you in our mock draft, and you literally raised your fist with fury and said, You're driving me insane. Yeah. Yep, you were. So that's part of the highlight video, but you can check that out and, you know. That's a fun watch. Don't worry. You were going to have five days a week for the entire rest of the season and an extra episode as part of the foot clan. We're going to take off Christmas too, guys. Yeah. Get prepared. I'm trying to get more Labor Days on the schedule. Talk to Grover. Not enough kids. You got to give me a Ouija board. Not enough kids named Grover anymore. No. Well, I wonder how many. There's got to be some. Oh, in my head. Grover Cleveland. In my head, I had flipped it. I was like, his name was Cleveland. But no, no, his first name was Grover. Yeah. Like when he, he was, you know. Isn't that the Sesame Street character? That's what I was wondering. I was rocking my brain like, is it worse? What's that name? Grover is, yes. Yeah. That is Sesame Street and, you know, I don't know, like he was Mr. President to all the professionals. The little blue guy, the blue Elmo. Yeah. Okay. No, he's not. He's much larger than Elmo. Is he? I don't know these things. Man, he's just a photograph. Your name is used for like a Muppet or a very well-known pop. Josh looks like Grover. Just looks like a Grover. Oh, he looks like a Grover. He could pull it off if we, if his name was not a show. All right. All right. Jason's jaw just dropped. YouTube question. Shane Falco or Johnny Utah? Now we're picking fake quarterbacks. Fake quarterbacks. Shane Falco or Johnny Utah? Make it quick. Come on. This is Johnny Utah's way cooler. I mean, if you need, if you need an actual football player, you got to go Falco, but Johnny Utah, the replacements, right? With Shane Falco. Yeah. And Johnny Utah is point break. Chase Brown or Brian Robinson Jr. Instagram question from Gabe Holden. Chase Brown or Brian Robinson for 2024. You can, I'm on Brian Robinson's. I'm on the Brian Robinson side as well. I, man, I'm going to go chase Brown. I don't mind Brian Robinson. It's just, it's very difficult for me to see the path to actual real upside. He'll be a very competent fantasy player, but if chase Brown can take over, then his upside is, is a lot. Yeah. I get picking the better offense, right? Yeah. You think the Bangles have a chance to be a really good offense. It's going to be difficult. Their depth chart just came out and Zack Moss is the starter. Yeah. I mean, that's the thing. I'm still on the Zack Moss side. So when I look at those two, both, both players are in committees. I believe that Brian Robinson is the back I want out of Washington. And I believe Zack Moss is the back that I want for the Bangles. Cole in Tucson has a pretty good question. Will Dissly and Hayden Hurst Some names we haven't brought up a lot. When Greg Roman was the OC for the Ravens, all I hear, all I heard about was how he skimmed tight ends in the passing game. More than wide outs. You have Will Disley and Hayden Hurst both sitting on waivers in most leagues. Hawaii. Yeah. It's, it's a, it is a fair question. I think, you just brought up Hayden Hurst. I just drafted him with the second to last pick of my best ball draft, looking at another tight end. But disley was paid off season money to come in there as well. It's also worth noting personnel, right? Like Mark Andrews might have been why he's skimmed tight ends so heavily because he had one of the best ones out there. And now it's Will Disley and Hayden Hurst. It's fair though. They don't have, they don't have the wide receiver room with experience and ability that it actually kind of imitates what Baltimore dealt with for so many years was. That's fair. Like they don't have them. Which one would you take? Between the two? Yeah. I would take Hayden Hurst. I would. Because I think disley's just going to block the pants off of people. I mean, Will. Wait a minute. I mean, what are we doing here? Yeah. How are you? We got a big Montana question. We're going to want a big Montana to come through for the charge. Will disley, big Montana. I don't think we need to change that jersey on there by the way. That was close enough to Chargers colors. The sound of football. Was doing a, you know, a quick look back because it was Mark Andrews, Vernon Davis. Like of course we're going to use these guys. It was the couple years of Buffalo. I couldn't, I couldn't put my finger on it. Is it? Guys, it was Mr. Nessus. Oh, Charles Clay. Yes. Yeah. Okay. I think that this, yeah, this is a great point. This should be brought up. I, you know, I, Greg Dulcich, the reason why I think he's interesting is who are the established passcatchers for the Broncos? Who are the established passcatchers for the Chargers? Lad Mconkey. Unestablished. Yeah. So I don't know. One of those guys could come through. All right. We're going to wrap it up for today. We'll be back with another episode tomorrow and a reminder, there are two remaining times for Megalobold Drafts, 5 p.m. Pacific tonight if you're listening on Tuesday and 9 a.m. Pacific Wednesday morning. The final two draft times you can get in there still. Megalobold.com. That is going to do it for today. It's just going to be one day away tomorrow, Jason. Yeah. Oh, two more sleeps. Bye-bye.