QB Rankings Part Two + Cam Newton Hype, Best Ball Tips - Fantasy Football Podcast for 8/14

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Hey! It's Friday. It's Friday time. August 14. There's a great man once said. It's Friday time. Oh, okay. You're quoting yourself from a moment ago. I said a great man. Uh-huh. No, I heard you. Did I not? Did I stutter? Andy Mike and Jason, the fantasy footballer is back with you Friday. Oh, that means the weekend. Comes tomorrow, which means we get to sleep.

Maybe. I've heard good things about sleep this past week. I'm looking into it. Yeah. We had a couple of shows, well, the past two days. We had the podcast in the morning, and we had the footcast. In the evening. And then we had the podcast. At supper time? Then we had the serious show. Yes. And now we've got the podcasting. Oh, so much. This is the podcast, right? Right. Footballing.

That's because things are ramping up. People are getting excited because football's on the way. As they should. I mean, I'm really, look, we're all Suns fans here as well. Oh, gosh. NHL yesterday, Suns today. Yeah, I mean, look, as a sports fan, our team, if you're not aware, if you're not into the basketball.

Our great team. Incredible. Undefeated. It was invited to get into the playoffs when undefeated and didn't get in the playoffs. But the point that I'm making has nothing to do with that. It has to do with the unfathomable level of passion that me and my boys were watching a basketball game with. I mean, when football kicks off. You better not be no camera on me during these games because I went nuts last night. I deleted.

UDK access for all people from Portland. As you should. As you should. Damian Lillard definitely doesn't get a UDK. He had bought one. We removed access. He probably has his own. Football draft kit? Probably. He's good. If he wanted to, he could. Shooting from half court, you jerk. All right. Back to the show. We have quarterbacks on today's episode, the second quarterbacks rankings episode.

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All right, the Kansas City Chiefs feeling a little bit like the Los Angeles Rams of last year, where they have infinite money to sign infinite players. Well, they did begin this offseason with $141 in cap space. And that is not an exaggeration. I thought that was a joke. No, they had $141. Somehow they have signed.

Ten-year deal to Patrick Mahomes. Half a billion dollar deal there. Chris Jones paid. Yeah. Oh, yeah. You can pay your stars. Apparently when you win the Super Bowl, they slide some money under the rug. Take that 141, double it up. Got almost $300 for the cap space. They've been pretty clever with their future cap usage. What this means for fantasy is really related. I didn't even say who signed.

Oh, you didn't. Travis Kelsey, a four-year extension on the heels of the kiddle deal. But go on. So he's under contract now for six years. And where this matters for fantasy is in your dynasty leagues. You might be looking at, you know, if you're a Kelsey owner, you're worried about, okay, you know, he's great. He's dominant. But when do I capitalize on the talent and move him? The fact that he has more years, it really does matter. It moves the needle for me as far as confidence long term. Zach Gertz is great.

Zachertz is a little bit younger, but he doesn't have a contract now. And when he comes up for as far as, you know, a long-term contract, when that comes up, the cap space of the team might just dictate that they've got to move on to Dallas Goddard. But we know that Kelsey will be the guy until his legs stop working. Well, and George Kettle just signed a contract extension. And the difference when you look at these two players in terms of who do I rank number one, who do I rank number two? It's like, you know,

Kiddle got the butt tap yesterday. Kelsey comes out today gets the butt tap. Like the difference is... They're just two peas in a pod here. Didn't because we had the situation where Kelsey had the record, the yardage record for a tight end, and then Kiddle broke it like an hour later. Oh, is it that direction? I thought it was... I can't remember off the time of it. My memory is that Kiddle... I can vet it. Yeah, you vet it. But one of them definitely broke the record. The broken record in the end. Oh, he did? Okay. Well, there you go. Yeah.

But I mean, you're right. These are two, it's nice to have these extensions for these foundational tight ends. And, you know, they're the two players that you look at in fantasy drafts and you kind of, if you want to take the shot on them, you know what you're getting, right? Outside of injury, it's kind of bona fide for both of those tight ends. Yeah, absolutely. All right. We laughed a little bit. New England Patriots running back Lamar Miller joined Sony Michelle on the pup. It was very bizarre. Upon signing.

I want to believe that he went, we've seen Hard Knocks, we've seen the signing room, I want to believe he went and signed it and then he was led off to the pup. Like the pup is a physical place to go to. Right. And Sonia Michelle's there. You go to the pup room. Yeah, we're going to take you right over to your regularly scheduled PUP.

I like to think he signed his contract, got up, turned around. Oh, my knee. He probably signed it sitting like you would have. The reality here is that's not great news for his recovery. You know, he was brought in basically as an insurance option because of Sony Michelle's recovery. So Ben Cummins just put out an article on the fantasy footballers that was.

Contrarian. Yeah, I was surprised about it. I checked the date on it. I know because it was it was yesterday or the day before yesterday. Certainly before this news, but he was he was pulling for Damian Harris as a good late round dart throw. And then with this news. Yeah, you got to keep your eye on him. Maybe he's on something. Yeah, these two injury plagued veterans ahead of Damian Harris. It's not like Rex Burkhead is an injury plagued in his own right. Right.

smoke screens for the Damien Harris late round. Like, would you take him at the very, very back of a draft just to see what happens when we won? I would be willing to do it. Yeah, absolutely. Especially now. I mean, we had the smoke of the running back coach talking up Damien Harris and his ability and like some other respected minds who are, you know, NFL guys who break down film and have said, Damien Harris is very good. He's probably better than Sony Michelle. I mean, you get a little.

The draft capital thing starts to infect your mind a bit and the fact that he couldn't get on the field last year. But yes, you need to be paying attention to training camp or if you're drafting right now. I would take the shot on Damien Harris before the ADP goes up. And I'll piggyback one more story. Just the hype train, at least in my mind, is moving for Cameron Newton. Welcome aboard, my friend.

Well, it's just been very positive out of New England Patriots camp. Cam is a dominant personality. Yeah. And, you know, some people were talking about the fact that Ryan Pace in Chicago couldn't bring Cam Newton in. Oh, yeah, because he would be the starter. He would swallow Mitchell Treboskey. Yes. All the other Bears players would be like, that's my guy. Yeah.

I think Jared Stittam is like, yeah, that's my guy. Yeah, because Cam is awesome. Like, you know, he's, he's an outlandish personality, but he's also fun and charismatic. And he's smart. He's a smart guy, too. And he wins. And Bill Belichick had some comments yesterday just about him coming in. And he's learning the system. But his competition is Jared Stim. Did he call him like a hardworking kid or something? Yeah, they're all kids to Bill. Yeah, Bill's, he's a little bit old.