Jacobs Fallout, Preseason Takeaways + Mailbag - Fantasy Football Podcast for 8/31

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Mobile Network in the U.S. is based on analysis by Ucla of Speed Test Intelligence Data, second half of 2025. I'm going to law school. I just signed up. I registered online. It will be a digital degree, but I'm going. Keenan Allen arrested on Sunday morning charged with DWI and DWI endangering a person. This will not affect Keenan Allen this year. Seems unlikely. The legal situation will not be figured out until the end of the year.

That's via Drew Devonport as well. He was also under 0.8 and not driving the vehicle. He was in a parked vehicle. It is still a DWI. I'm not excusing it. I'm just stating the situation. The anticipation there from those that are more knowledgeable and have completed their online legal degrees is that this will get pled down to something innocuous and go away. Aaron Donald returning.

We talked about that. Sean Tucker agreed to a one-year deal, did not get cut. This is so sad. Sean Tucker had a $3.5 million deal, and then they at the end of the training camp said, you can have nothing or 2.5. This man deserves so much more than what the bucks are doing. It's really kind of sad. I mean, I don't know. I don't agree because he chose to sign with him before the season. He did not have demand.

from other teams. He could have found... He was tendered. Was he tendered? All this meat and tindering. I'm getting hungry. He was tendered, which means that they... He didn't have a choice. They claimed him. And then they're like, hmm, well, now that there's no jobs available. Yeah, but he was tindered at what level. I mean, any team could have come out and fought them for him. I'm guessing $3 million. No, I'm talking about pick level. Oh. Yeah, because there's a pick compensation if someone comes and takes it. I'm just saying a team could have come and saved him. That's all.

It just thinks that the human had to be like, like, for instance, let me put it this way. How great would it be to go to Matt, the Falcon, and be like, dude. Oh, my gosh. We want to cut your salary by 25%. And you get to keep working here, but we just don't want to pay you as much. Could you imagine that? Because I would love it, but I don't think we'd do it. Yeah, it's tough in the streets. NFL running backs, it's, you know.

In the Buccaneers defense, maybe they got play from another depth running back, and they, you know, you don't know what conversations took place in the preseason where they're like, hey, here's your 3.5, but fight for it. I don't know. Tons of roster cuts. Say goodbye. Everyone start waving right now, and I'm going to say names while you wave. We'll love us. See you. Jaden Blue. Phil Moffa. This is interesting. The Cowboys waved all of their backup running backs other than Malik Davis. Did you not have Davis as the two already?

I did. I did, but I figured at least Mafa or Jane Blue would hang around. Demarcato, waived by the Chiefs. Joliel McLaughlin, waived by the Broncos. Jay. Jonah Coleman. Damien Pierce was waived by the Eagles. Also related, Damian Pierce was with the Eagles. Yeah. Greg Dorch left the Lions. We thought maybe he'd have a role there. Jalen Hyatt, goodbye. OBJ is a member of the Giants.

He's a member of the Giants and the player that had his number is no longer on the Giants. I did notice. I 100% notice Hyatt. Those seem conspicuous. Here's a big one. Zach Charbonnet will remain on the pup to start the season. You're going to get Judarian Price as the lead back mixing in with a heavy dose of Halani. This is a humongous opportunity for Judarian Price. Sure is. To quote, establish it.

Yeah, I mean, we're going to see out the gate day one whether or not he is good enough to hold off an undrafted free agent who has touched the ball like 25 times in his career. Hope he is. He should be. I'm not too worried about Halani. I'm getting more and more bullish on just the opportunity around Judarian Price. He wasn't my favorite prospect coming in. But I mean, you just, it's a layup of obvious.

You know, upside. Jordan Tyson on IR to start the year. Yeah. Tank Dell on IR to start the year. James Connor, Christian Kirk. The James Connor one going to the IR, I would imagine that is, I mean, you have to put him on there if he's hurt, but it's like the moves they have made where they wave Trey Benson injured and now Connor with this. Jeremiah Love with his ankle, probably good to go.

Puka Nukua returned to practice on Sunday, was dealing with the hip flexor. Puka also was not placed on the commissioner's exempt list, which is noteworthy in light of kind of, you know, this was the time to do it. Todd Bulls reported that Emeka Abuka is hopeful will be ready for week one. I am at this level with Abuka. This is a bummer. Because turf toe, for one, it takes longer than you think to get better from. Two, it can recur. Three, you don't produce at the same level.

as when you're not recovering from it. Four, he didn't play well through injuries last year. Yes, it would have been my four. Yeah. But I appreciate it. Yeah, I mean, you're right. All of those things, again, Chris Godwin is undrafted or late round. Pay attention to him. But I think there, I mean, McMillan is hurt as well. Yeah. Uh-huh. I mean, it's right to say, yeah, I got an opportunity.

I mean, Ted Hurst. A pack a chainsaw! Yeah, I mean, the opportunity is there for Ted Hurst to start the year. We'll see how much they lean on the running game. And Luther Burden looks 100% according to Ben Johnson. Hazar! That's great. Good news. You guys want to do some mailbag and see if we can answer some more questions? I feel like... Let's try. I feel like all we have is questions, Mike. Just a world of questions. Yep. Hopefully we get some answers. Mailbag. Mailbag.

Yeah. Visit the site and click submit a question. If you have a question for the show, the fancy footballers.com, dial the voicemail hotline 302-464 TFFB. We'll kick off today's mailbag with a voicemail. Hey, ballers, this is Jameson from good old Alabama. I was just wondering if the legendary Obi-Wandale Robinson could actually be the wide receiver won in Tennessee this season overtake.

He is a Jedi after all. Thank you. Thank you, fellas. First of all. Alabama, man. Incredible call. Pretty good. I didn't know if it was a bit at first. I think it was real. It was real. And could Wondale, let's say the percentage chance we think Wondale could end up as the fantasy wide receiver won for the, hopefully, Carnell Tate-led Tennessee Titans.

I have my percentage down. What do you guys think? I'm going 15. I go 35. Oh, higher. I row a three. Okay. I mean, it's a vast minority in any of it or not. I think a full PPR, I guess the odds change. I will say this. If he is the wide receiver one for that team, it's not. Things have gone terribly wrong. It's not going to be like, oh, so then Wondale's a great value and dominated. No, it's in that team.

is not the team that they were hoping to be. But there is absolutely a world where Wondale is useful for fantasy. Sure. Yeah. I think it's better. It's better. Wondale has a better season for fantasy if Tate is good. Not if Wondale's the one. Yeah, yeah. All right. Missy in South Carolina writing in about a chopped league, which by the way, we're in the middle of our second season drafting that right now.

I'm trying a chopped league for the first time. Would you please speak to draft strategy and how to use and save Fab? A chopped league is the same as like a guillotine league. It basically means we have, in our league, there's 18 different teams to match up with the amount of weeks in the season. Every week, the lowest scoring team. It's chopped. See you later. You're gone. Goodbye. And all your players go to free agency and then you can pick them up.

I don't know if you guys – this will be fun because I don't know what strategies we go through. Yeah, we're still pretty new to the hot format. I know that my initial strategy going into the year has been like I am not drafting Josh Jacobs, right? I'm drafting players that I – Imagine. Imagine. Players that I know with certainty have opportunities to start the year and high opportunities. So that's kind of the direction I went is that I'm guaranteed production from my starters.

to begin the year. But Fab strategy is another discussion, too. I would say early in the draft, I really like having workhorse running backs. I'll take them over really good wide receivers simply because we talk about it a lot. Wide receivers, even really good, you know, top six wide receivers, they're not nearly as consistent as running backs. They'll have their big boom games, and then they'll have games where they just don't score a lot. And all you need to do in a chop league is not have the least amount of points. Do you turn my Hall of Fame bust around?

You did. Sir, disrespectful of the hall of the family. It's too close to my head on the video. But so I do prefer earlier running backs. And then I don't mind taking a quarterback. If it's, if there's a really good quarterback, I don't mind pulling the trigger a little earlier. Because again, you just need a lot of points to to not finish last for those first few weeks. And the best advice I can give. What's happening? Are you laughing at the, no, I'm here. The statue?

I'm sorry. Do you want to finish the point? And then I'll tell you why I'm laughing. Sure. It was, save your fab in the beginning. I know it's so tempting to go all in. And then you get, you get a ton of, you know, you get that guy for the whole year. But if you're going to win the league, you really need to hold on to money for a while in your, in your family. So I'm looking at your, and this is not for the.

audio audience very much but i'm looking at this bust of jason more which he inducted himself into the hall of fame on go watch it is a good good time youtube dot com slash and and people have asked us was that a bit no well i mean well it was a bit that mike and i were aware of no in fact like i almost like

apparently like they had this hiding backstage and I almost unveiled it. Oh, you literally touched it and started to take the sheet up and I was like, Jer! Here's why I was laughing. I was like, this is too close to me. I miss Batman, right? So I'm like, well, maybe Jason wants it back behind him. Uh-huh. Yeah. Or you were trying to put it on the fake shelf? I was trying to put him on the shelf behind him because I, it's, there's nothing there. Papa Josh can attest. I came in this morning and started laughing. I did the exact same thing. My plan was to put him on the shelf behind me. And I walked in here and went,

Those are fake. You'll have to digitize him. Yeah. Oh, goodness. That we can do. Mike, any other thoughts on the chop situation? Just the, like, optimally, you need to have some, some fab at the end. And in terms of how much do you bid on players, our league was all over the place. Like, you'd have weeks where it seemed like... Desperations spread wildly. There was weeks where it's like, oh, there's not really someone who should be, uh,