Top 10 TE Rankings + Fantasy Nosedives - Fantasy Football Podcast for 8/17

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Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Oh, welcome in. Andy Mike and Jason, the fantasy footballers, welcoming you into Monday, August 17th. The beginning of another week. I think it's 24 days until kickoff. Oh, really? Jerich McKinnon keeping it real chill to start the show. Look, your boy's strong. Your boy's strong. Maybe.

We'll find out. We're excited to have you with us. We have a tight-end rankings episode for you, some big announcements, some big news to talk about a very important, actionable quick question, in my opinion, that could help your fantasy team. And, no, it's exciting to be talking football. It's exciting to see we are fully in just unmatchable hype train season. Oh, man.

I'm telling you right now, this is the worst. What? This is the best. Let me, let me rephrase. This is going to be the worst hype season because the conjecture. It's like a game of telephone now. We don't have preseason games. We don't have as much media. We don't have people attending camp that are third parties to watch with the eyeballs. We've got coach speak extraordinaire. We've got limited padded practices. We've got.

I mean, I've seen some news reports, and I'm not going to put any specific organizations on blast, though very tempted to. But these reports are like, you know, this player is expected to be considered to be expected to be very good. That's a news report. That's our job to say stuff like that.

Yeah, I mean, you've been doing that about Blake Jarwin for months. Speaking of, Blake Jarwin's season is upon us. I hope all are ready. Yeah, you're ready. Here's the reality. And it's, you're right, Andy, it's compounded this year. But the journalists, if we can call them that. Oh, come on. They still need to write their articles. But here's the thing. The consumer, and I consider myself a consumer in all ways.

need those articles. I'm thirsty for football. You don't want them to stop. They're just... I want to hear about the expecting, hoping to expect a good year. Like, I'm in on that. Now, I will not allow it to affect my fantasy rankings and we will have to see through it, but I still want to see it. What about that AJ Dylan picture? Is that affecting your rankings? Of course not, but it's affecting my heart. Which affects your rankings. Essentially...

Workout videos, pictures from camp. I, you know, A.J. Dillon looking especially special. Yeah. I don't even. Here it is. Oh. I do. I mean, the reactions to that picture of A.J. Dillan's cabs and quads and tree trunk legs. It was immediate, like fear in the hearts of Aaron Jones drafters. Look, last year. Immediate. Last year, there was fear in the hearts of.

Tyler Lockett owners when all the D.K. Metcalf pictures were coming out about like, oh my goodness. That's impressive. He's an impressive athlete. Guess why he was drafted. I like that's your example. And now D.K. Metcalf is in fact being drafted in front of Tyler Lock. But he shouldn't be. And he didn't outperform Lockett last year. Well, Andre Williams of the Giants used to look.

Like AJ. Oh, yeah. A.J. Villain did. So I wouldn't be too worried. Like Jason said, these are professional athletes. When you take a picture of them, they should look better than us. That's true. Barely. Just barely. But it is very exciting to be in full hype season. We'll try to wade through the coach speak for you. Some coaches are more prone to, you know, a rosy outlook for each and every one of their players. But...

You can get ready for your draft right now, Ultimate DraftKit.com. I encourage you to go check it out. Get in there. Get your rankings going. Get yourself set up. Our drafts, I think our big ones are basically right before the season starts. Most of our big drafts are right before the season starts. That weekend leading up to September 10th. That weekend of...

glory, the holiday weekend as well. And there's going to be another big, big draft going on the weekend before. The Megalibol is here. Jason is, uh, hashtag hype. Jacked up. That's with the, uh, the inverse three. Jacked? Jacked. All right. The Megalibol is here.

You can get in right now. Year number two for the Meglabel. This is the largest fantasy football league on Earth. I think it's three. Yeah. This is year three. This is the last year was when it really, it went to the moon though. And we had more than 7,000 playing last year. This is your chance to be declared the Megalibald champion. This is your chance to win a 2021 listener league spot.

It's very exciting. Yeah, I mean, that's the thing. So listener league entries, they've been awesome. We are grateful. I think tomorrow we will probably be sending out our winners and the announcements for the listener league entry. But it's all right. Because if you didn't get in...

This is your way in. Someone in this year's draft won last year's Megalibol. They are in the listener league this year. And look, this is just, these are fun leagues. These are our listeners who love fantasy football, who are having fun, playing in our preferred scoring format. It's a lot of fun. And you want to prove that you're good at fantasy football. Take down the Meglabel. Yeah, it's a tournament-style super league built to allow the Foot clan to compete.

thousands upon thousands. It's very exciting. People have been waiting for the link to get in. And you can only do that as a member of the foot planet, join the foot.com. So if you go to join the foot.com, you can get your free entry to the Meglabel, very, very excited. Brooks is so excited. You could hear it in his voice. Oh, yeah. That was true. I mean, that might be the longest awe he's ever given. That was great. Been storing that up just for this moment. Mike's eyes went big.

He will now hibernate until next Meglabel announcement. Oh, that's awesome. Okay. So head over, join thefoot.com, get in the Meglabel right now, and you'll get to pick your preferred drafting time, and that will determine what league you're in. And you can see all the rules, all the regulations, everything. You can go to join the foot.com and check it out. Quick question of the day. Brooks has titled this Team Nosedives. What fantasy offense

What fantasy team do you think will take the biggest nosedive in 2020? So this doesn't necessarily correlate to, you know, an NFL's high-scoring team that collapses, although most often it does, is more about like the fantasy options on that team going from a bunch of relevant players to maybe fewer in 2020. What do you guys think? For me, it's the Los Angeles Chargers. And I feel a little bad because I,

I think it's easy pickings when you take a team who loses, you know, a borderline Hall of Fame quarterback that they know and who knows the system who's been there for 50 years. And you go to, you know, a perennial backup and or rookie probably both this season at quarterback. But you have a lot of important fantasy pieces. You have Keenan Allen and Hunter Henry and Mike Williams and Austin Eckler. These really valuable pieces from the last several seasons. And I think overall,

The offense is going to take a nose dive. They all are still just as talented as they were last year. But if the team, which I think, and here's the thing, if you're a Chargers fan, if you're one of those two or three out there and you're listening, you don't have to be sad because I think your team's going to be better this year from an NFL standpoint. Your defense looks good. I think you're going to try to do less on offense. But so, but.

That's the problem for fantasy. If you're trying to do less on offense, you know, slow the game down, play good defense, protect your rookie quarterback, things like that. The touchdowns aren't going to be as high. The yardage will be lowered. It just won't be glorious for all these players. I'm going to throw San Francisco out there, which might surprise some people. Look, nobody ever.

When things go very well for a team, they make the Super Bowl run. We saw this with the Rams a couple of years ago. Nothing could ever go wrong. Sean McVeigh is a genius. Kyle Shanahan's a genius. Everything is perfect, always and forever. Because you don't see the future. You see the present. San Francisco made a tremendous jump last year. They went from 21 points a game to almost 30. That was number two overall in football. It's just hard for machines to stay machines in the NFL.

Certain seasons, they just go right. And your backbone of this team is not Patrick Mahomes or Lamar Jackson when it comes to year-to-year offensive prowess. You lost Debo Samuel, Emmanuel Sanders. I mean, you lost Debo for maybe a couple games. Everything went right for them last year. And we saw what an offensive line could do all of a sudden in Los Angeles, moving them from a top-scoring team down into, I believe they dropped to 11.

or 12 last year. And when I look at San Francisco, now that you have, you do have Jerich McKinnon in the back field with Kevin Coleman. Yeah, he's back, apparently. He claims to be. And then you lost Debo, so you got Brandon Ayyuk, but you got Trent Taylor. You got Trent Taylor back. You got Trent Taylor back. Look, the only player that you might even. We got Trent Taylor back. Yeah, he's the starting slot receiver for the team. My point is, is when the team moves the football, who are you playing in San Francisco this year?

Are you going to get... You're playing George Kittle. End of list. Jimmy Garabolo? In a super flex, I'd play Jimmy G. So when the foundation of your team is Jimmy G and he's been a little bit up and down, I'm not saying he's a bad quarterback. I think he's done exactly, he's done the golf. He's done the exact golf role in the San Francisco offense, which is to execute, not to take over a game. I think it could, you could see that downgrade for the 49er fantasy options.

I'm going to throw out the Houston Texans. When you lose a Hall of Fame wide receiver, that really hurts things. But just on top of that, what is the identity now of this team? I still like Watson. I still think that he could be a solid fantasy quarterback. But David Johnson, what's left in the tank? Maybe he is a value. The story of the Houston, Texas skill players is...

Maybe they're of value. All of them. Oh, David Johnson. Maybe he's a value. Oh, man. Will Fuller? Maybe he might be an incredible value. Brandon Cooks, man. Oh, dude. He could be a huge value this year. He is maybe a huge value in this draft. Look, if you want to go deep, you know, Duke Johnson. Oh, man. This is the year. This is the year that he might be. He might be a value. And look, sure.