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

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 the whole time. 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 three and a half million dollars. No, I'm not talking about pick level. Oh. Yeah, because there's a, 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. 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. Jalea McLaughlin, waived by the Broncos. Jayne Calman. Damian 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 time. I 100% notice Hyatt and 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.

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. I 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. Upside.

Jordan Tyson on IR to start the year. 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. He 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, he's 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.

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. Yeah. I mean, Ted Hurst. A pecker 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. Hazzah! That's great 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. Yeah. 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-1 Dale Robinson could actually be the wide receiver one in Tennessee this season overtake. He is a Jedi after all. Thank you. 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 wrote a three. Okay.

I mean, it's a vast minority in any of it. Does take the full PPR, I guess the odds change? I will say this. If he is the wide receiver won for that team, it's not good. 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 then 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 chop 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. 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 turn my hall of fame bust around you did sir disrespectful of a hall of my head on the video

But so I do prefer earlier running backs. And then I don't mind taking a quarterback. 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 not finish last for those first few weeks. And the best advice I can give. What's happening? Are you laughing at 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 fat. So, 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 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, 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.

worth a ton of fab and then a ton of fab gets spent on them. And then the next week you're like, oh my gosh, this superstar goes for way cheaper. People are still trying to figure it out. I don't know that there's like a boilerplate of this is the strat. At the end, you want to have something. It's the one place people ask us, do we care about biweeks? That is a place that it is a major impact.

teams got regularly chopped on weeks that their stars had buy weeks. Jonathan Taylor's week. It happened all the time. And like, you don't know, I think this is part of it. There's a lot of managers, but you don't know who's feeling the pinch and afraid. Like you get it in, you look at your roster and you go, man, I got these two players on buy. I am in so much trouble next week if I don't spend. And then they spend more than you expect.

That was the league where Brock Bowers became a curse. People kept signing him. I don't know if this is prescriptive or not. So Brock Bowers frequently hurt last year. So people kept trying to buy low, so to speak, of like, I'm going to get him on my roster here while he's hurt. And then when he comes back, it's going to be amazing. I'm going to have Brock Bowers. And then that team would just get cut. It was very, it was the ring. They watched the tape. I will say that as a side league,

A great thing. It was a side league, very, very fun. It was just a different vibe. You just feel like it was, it was just fun through and through. There was something consequential every week, somebody you make fun of robustly every week. My favorite part of this league, and it's so delightful. Oh, I know what you're going to say. I was all in. It was important to me. Every single week it was important. It was like, oh, I just made the cut. Oh, the waivers. It's fun. What's my lineup going to be?

The first week I was out, I made it, I don't know, halfway three quarters away through the season or whatever. As soon as you were out, just didn't care anymore. Like I didn't, it was like, it was gone. It was off my play. It was great. I think for us in a lot of big leagues doing this full time, that was a relief to be able to say, I'm either all in or all out. This question comes in from Instagram. How do you decide between drafting value for team need when you're at the turn?

or for team need, I'm sorry, drafting value or team need when you're at the turn. The implication being if you're at the turn, you've got a long wait. You don't necessarily, I think that's the position where it's the most difficult to trust ADP, right? Because you have to wait for such a long time if you, you know, you have to either reach or pray. Yeah, I don't, I mean, obviously value is going to drop to you and you're going to know, oh, look, I can't believe this guy fell. Great. Scoop him up.

But in general, I'm not going by ADP value when I'm at the turn. I'm going by what player do I want? I never ever. You just can't play the game. I mean, you can say, hey, around round eight, these type of players are usually there at this position. But you can't play the game throughout your draft of like, oh, I hope this guy makes it back to me that you're maybe considering with this pick not going to happen in any kind of competent league. So you just have to genuinely say,

Of all the players that are in, you know, wide range, who do I genuinely believe scores the most points for a position I need? All right. We'll take a break. Come back with some more questions. We're still good on all that news. Nothing else crazy happening. Not seeing anything right now. Nobody else getting cut that we didn't expect or something like that. We'll let you know. All right. Mar Chod comes or writes in from X.