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

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to the fantasy footballers podcast with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Oh, welcome in. No more breaking news as we start the show. Nothing else going on? Not yet. Okay. Welcome in to the fantasy footballers podcast, Monday, August 31st, September nearly here, kickoff nearly here. And a weekend. Two weekends in a row where we have

One, a ton of fantasy drafts taking place and two, a ton of fantasy news that can entirely disrupt the drafts. Yeah. But that's what we're here for. You know, what's a shame is that the good news isn't ever the news that like really rocks your draft. You don't ever go into like, oh my gosh, guys, this guy's good. We found out. You know, I mean, technically speaking, if you were in an IDP league this weekend did contain that news.

Oh, I guess that's true. I guess that's actually true. Because Aaron Donald decided to say, I'm back. That just doesn't happen. Dude. Doesn't happen on the offensive side. 20 million dollars up to 30 million? How do they do that right before kickoff? I like the comment that you said, which is like, I hopefully this gives you that magical, amazing best defensive line ever, but they almost like never, the super team never works out. But.

I think I saw something where the last 20 teams that were favored by this wide of a margin, like they're the clear favorites for the Super Bowl, the last 20 times as has happened, they've gone 0 and 20. Not that that's shocking because the field will usually have it if you're betting on 31 out of 32 teams, but it doesn't ever, like I genuinely, I mean, I'm a Cardinals fan, kind of, but they're not a serious organization, so I'm not. The.

I'm like rooting for them to wreck the league. I just want, sorry everybody else, but I love the idea of those two guys just literally shutting out every team. And it won't happen. It just the NFL, there's too much parity. Well, injuries. I mean, you've got to stay healthy. And it's like asking the elder statesman, Matthew Stafford, the elder statesman, Devante Adams, returning from. The other statesman, Aaron Donald. And then Miles Garrett. And, you know, one of those guys goes down. It changes it. But.

Does this count as positive news? Zachert's reunion with the Eagles is on the table, Jason. Oh, man, that is not. Not quite where are you? No. Not Arnold Donald levels? No. That is nasty. That is, oh my gosh, is that nasty. You even like Dallas Goddard. That would be. Right. Yeah, that would actually be bad. So much going on.

We have a quick question of the day, preseason takeaways. We have news and notes to cover, including our complete breakdown of a situation that we cannot provide every single answer for, but we'll have a lot of analysis for the Josh Jacob situation. Oh, boy. We'll get into mailbag questions on the show today. It is a huge week. A lot of drafts took place over the weekend. A lot more happening this upcoming Labor Day weekend. We just got done with a live show.

here in Phoenix on Friday night. It wasn't just a live show, Andy. That was, that was a mega. It was out of control. Look at if you're watching on YouTube.com slash the fantasy footballers. That was like an entrainment ceremony. Oh, my. Yeah. Jason surprised us with some shenanigans that I apparently almost ruined. You and me both, man. Yeah. I mean, we, we, well, I'll just let people watch it. But it's up on YouTube. You can watch the show.

humongous shout out to the 800 plus people that came out for that show. I met, I mean, we hung around as long as we could. We met tons of people with amazing stories, met people, multiple people that came from Canada, New York, Boston, Tennessee. Nashville, yep. I didn't even get to talk to my family was there. All of our families were there. Met JD and Lewis. JD came from Texas, a double amputee.

who listened to the show throughout his entire recovery process. But those stories were throughout the night. I mean, we met so many amazing human beings. And it just gave me so much energy for this season. I think people had a good time. I think Jason had the best time. I definitely did. And, you know, obviously our bold predictions will be right on the money. Of course. I had one friend who had... They're really just things that are going to happen.

I had one friend who literally, so I said some good things about the bears and they're like, did you say that because of me? Yes. Yes, friend. That's the only answer you could say. Of course, that was all I was thinking. I stay up at night thinking. So the bold predictions episode, an extra one this week on on the YouTube for Saturday. Instagram.com slash fancy footballers on X. You can follow us individually at Andy Holloway at Jason Moore at FF Hitman.

and at the FF ballers for the show. But the quick question, we did have preseason football, and we just wanted to throw like, what's one kind of reaction takeaway from this final week of preseason? I think there were a few. I mean, I have brought up, and I know that I don't have to do it, but I've brought up the fact that Kyle Pitts in this offense for Atlanta, I think, is going to be incredible. Lee Sloat.

I mean, I saw that play. I mean, that's a tight end. That's not Austin Echler trying to run down the sideline. It's a tight end who used to be fast. I like that you, I mean, Kyle. Kyle Pitts looks fine. He had a 37-yard run up the sideline and escape the defense. So it just when you have Kyle Pitts is going to be great. I'm just telling you. It was more of a like young Kyle Pitts, but pre-injury Kyle Pitts houses that. And so it just kind of felt bad.

My takeaway I wanted to bring up was just that, like, Chris Bell, wide receiver for the Dolphins. Like Caleb Douglas got a little bit of attention. This offense gets a lot of negative attention for how bad it's going to be. But I think Chris Bell, we got to see him. I think it's a very, very good thing for the Dolphins' offensive potential. This is a first round talent. Chris Bell, wide receiver, in for the final preseason game. You start to look at that offense. Thank you. I don't know if he's earned it yet, but thank you.

And you say, well, I like Malik Willis. I love Devon A. Chan. What you want from this offense is just to not be a bottom 10 offense. You know what I mean? Someone's got to do it, though. And they might be. That is actually not true. That is actually not true. We always say that. Like, they all, it can't get worse. Someone's got to. Someone doesn't have to. Like, they can just be. Someone has to be in the bottom 10.

Oh, that's what I mean. I thought you were saying someone has to step up for the dolphins. Oh, no, no, no. That doesn't happen to happen. I think Chris Bell being available to this team is a big deal. And when you look at what they had on offense last year, you're like, oh, they have nobody, right? They got nobody. Well, they didn't. It's not like they had Tyree Kill last year. You lost Jaylon Wado. But if you have a couple of rookies that can come in and step up, if you have Greg Dulcich, if you have A-Chann, if Malik Willis can run the football and keep them accountable,

I still think they're going to surprise a little bit on office. I'm not talking about a top 10 team. I just mean middle of the pack means that A-chan can be a little safer than people think. Chris Bell can be a little more interesting in redraft. That was one of my take away. Yeah, it's awesome to see him out there. It's crazy to see him out there how quick it progressed from like, you know, camp opens on the pub. It's not going to be ready. And then it's like, oh, he's playing in preseason.

Awesome to see it. Could be a steal for them. It absolutely could be. I don't think I'm drafting him even with my last pick in a redraft league, but you're keeping an eye on him. I've got three rookies as well that just little takeaways. One is that McKay Lemon played. It's similar to Chris Bell. It's like, oh, good. Now, he didn't play well. He had like three catches for three yards, a drop to turn into an interception, plenty of bad publicity. But it was nice that he's healthy. He's on the field as a first round wide receiver.

I'm far more confident that he will, if he's healthy, be worth a shot at a late round redraft pick. The other ones, Zavian Thomas. Yeah, this is the 4-2-8 wide receiver for the Chicago Bears. That's very short. Swish! No, I loved it. I actually loved that. So he's tiny, right? He has only 190, but I guess at 4-28.

190 so he's a thick boy but uh blazing speed he showed it uh for the bears i think it's not relevant to him but it's relevant for Caleb Williams you know and he's my guy Caleb Williams who he believes can can have a breakout it's always nice to have a fourth weapon in there that can you know completely you know burn the the the field

And then the last one, I would say on a less positive note, Cyrus Allen, rookies had great drumbeat throughout camp, looked like he was playing exclusively with Mahomes. It did. You saw he was playing behind Worthy, Rice, and Tyquan Thornton. As a non-first-round draft pick, I'm more hesitant to draft those in redraft. I still like the outlook in Dynasty for the potential there to step up. But in a redraft, I don't know that he starts.

at 70 plus percent of snaps. And if he doesn't, which it looks like he's not going to, then is irrelevant for the beginning of the season. I mean, if he does, he's a super outlier. Oh, super outlier. You don't go from a fifth round pick. Yeah, other than puka, I get it. But a fifth rounder to a week one starting type. It takes the course of the season for those types of players. I'm just going to highlight the rookie running backs who, you know, like Emmett.

Emmett in Kansas City where DeMarcato had been running as the backup to Kenneth Walker for kind of what felt like the majority of preseason and training camp. Demarcato got waived. Emmett has looked fantastic on the field. So he looks like he has, like if you drafted him in your rookie drafts, he looks like he's already the true backup. He has some hilarious similarities to Isaiah Pacheco when he was at his best.

When you compare the way that those guys run, kind of a violent, aggressive runner, he has looked good. There were a couple of the backup running back situations that, and it seems like Pacheco in Detroit is all but not involved. They're willing to go into the season with, you know. Dan Campbell said I'm comfortable with the name of this player. I've never heard of him. Oh, yes. Sailors? Sailors. Yeah. But so you got him. Sailor Jerry.

I think is who it was. Jacob Sailor. Jacob Sailor. A sailor. Mike Washington, not only is he looked like the direct insurance running back to Gentie, but he looks like a player who might actually get on the field. The Adam Randall situation for Baltimore was interesting because he was looking. Yeah. He was looking very good. Rookie running back. For rookie running back for the Ravens. But then they put him on the short term IR. So he won't miss the first four weeks. So it's just, you know, trying to get the landscape and, oh, crap.

The Colts running back, his name is escaping me. Seth McGowan? Yes. So McGowan, it looks like he is, he's the insurance back for Johnny Taylor. Over DJ Giddens. Yes. All right. By the way, we are still in the midst of filling the Megalabal. 14,878 is the count as of 10 seconds ago.