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The only way you upgrade Darren Waller is Tom Cruise, Mike, and we all know that. Great, great friend of the show, Tommy C. I don't know if you guys. Tommy C. Yeah. I never heard him called that at all. You must be close, close friends with old Tommy C. With old T-Cat. Look, we're text buddies, clearly. We get along great. I don't know if you saw, but he has had his fill. Like Tom Cruise legendary.

Actor does all his own stunts, does, like, insane things that most people would never even give two thoughts about doing. And he's like, no, no, I need to do this for a movie. Have you seen this blur that Tom Cruise, the next step is, no, his next movie, he needs to shoot the entire thing in outer space. This is what, this is where Tom Cruise has to go. He's done everything he needs to do on Earth. Yeah, not make a space movie. That's been done.

Shoot the movie. It's make a movie in space. And what I think is kind of incredible about that is like he's going to get, if this happens, he will get so much credit of like, oh my gosh, he shot a movie in space. The camera people who have none, none, none, everybody up there, the whole crew getting things ready for old Tommy's, you know, big wild publicity run. It's a fair point.

Do you get an Oscar just because you filmed a movie in a really difficult location? Is that going to factor in? Yeah, for sure. For sure. Did Apollo 13 win anything? No, it's not necessarily for best actor, but they'll get some Oscars because they did that. Special credit. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. For going through space Oscars. Space Oscars. The whole sweep, clean sweep. Welcome to the fantasy footballers podcast Thursday, May 14th. Buy sell on the show today. We're going to answer a ton of mailbag questions.

Talk fantasy football. The rankings are our inaugural first set of rankings. We've all gone through player by player, team by team. And we've done it. We've made it through. They're perfect. They're never going to change. They're absolutely the exact same as the final end of year finish will be. So you're talking about my rankings. That's right, Jason. Okay. That's why I didn't bother to do them.

Right. Your rankings with Ryan Tannehill in the late 20s. Those rankings. It was surprising to myself. But the rankings are so much fun to look at. They're surprising to Mr. Tannehill, too. He told me. He was very aghast. He's not happy. But, you know, I just calls him how I sees him. Jason Moore. How dare you? This next week, we're going to have a Splane Yourself episode going through some of those rankings where we disagree. That's going to, I am really looking forward to that. I think that's Tuesday's episode. Yeah. So check it out, the fantasy footballers.com.

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T-Cat? He has a man of a thousand names. Yeah, Space Cat. Well, he wanted to remind you about the Ultimate Draft Kit, which you can find at Ultimate DraftKit.com. It is out in just over two weeks. Yeah, we're getting there. That's the new way that I'm going to phrase it. Just over two weeks away. The Ultimate Draft Kit, it is the best way to get ready for the 2020 season. You get access to the app. You get access online.

You get pre-sale pricing right now. Yeah, yeah. Jason's very excited about it. I know that. I am. We've worked so hard this quarantine season on getting everything done. The app is looking great. I mean, I'm very excited, although also nervous about the timeline, just so much to do. Well, I mean, most of the most years that we've had the ultimate draft kit.

We're able to walk away from the stats for a little while, but now we're quarantined with them. So it's close quarters with the stats constantly. Yeah, you can't social distance from spreadsheets. No, they're everywhere. Let's do some buy sell. Buy or sell presented by pristine auction. All right, buy or sell. Levy on Bell, having a better fantasy finish in 2020 than he did last year.

For the record, he finished as the running back 17 in half point per reception leagues. I'm buying it. I'm buying it. All right. Now, I only have them ranked one spot higher than RB6. That's a buy. But it's a buy and the price. The price will be so much lower this year unless we do something stupid on this show and change the price. How dare you insinuate we do anything stupid?

Yeah. Stupid for me. Stupid for me getting Lev Bell is a middle round running back value type of player. So look, I love going running back early. I love it. It's what I do every year. But if you promised me that I got Lev Bell and David Montgomery in the middle rounds and I could load up on the best wide receivers in football, I would be tempted. I think those two guys represent interesting high volume middle round players.

But Frank Gore's joining this team. Where do you guys have Lev Bell by yourself? Yeah, with Frank Gore joining the team, obviously being a year older. I know they improved their offensive line and hopefully they'll have Sam Darnold the whole year. Although if you look at the game splits, he was actually a little worse in the games. Darnold was playing. I have him at 18. So I'm the opposite of you, Andy. I have him one spot more than he finished last year. That makes me officially a sell. And I am a...

Pretty strong by. I have him just outside of my top 12. The target numbers, I believe, will still fully be there. They will be intact. Frank Gore doesn't really make me that nervous. Maybe Gore comes in and takes a carry here and there. And it's the overall Jets offense that I will buy as an improvement. You had Mono Boy. Like, when was Sam Darnold actually healthy? I don't know. I mean, I guess I never had mono, so I have no idea how long it takes you to.

return from that, but I can't imagine you go from being bedridden with mono, like right back to an NFL field and be anything close to 100%. Lev Bell with three rushing touchdowns, a 3.2 yard per carry average last year. I think both of those things go up. So I'm buying, I'm going to buy the Levion Bell dip. Not that I think he's returning to a top five fantasy superstar, but I think he, like Andy, if we're getting him.

In the fourth round, that's unbelievable value. He only had three rushing touchdowns last season. So there is, there's an easy path to get better. I will admit that. But obviously he's, he's not getting younger. And I just don't, I don't trust the office. I'm not buying that. He's not getting younger like Frank Gore is. Right. Frank Gore is actually getting younger. Lovebell did finish an RB17 in 15 games last year.

Mike, you talked about Sam Darnold improving. Last year he had to deal with the physical restrictions. I am curious how he will deal emotionally with being called Mono Boy moments ago. That may cause him some issues. They have invested on the offensive line.

and it will be interesting, you know, by the dip. I think that's what at least Mike and I were saying. Yep. And Jason, I tend to believe you think he will be a value if you have them right around where he finished last year, but the price goes down. Yeah, I have no problem with Levi-on-Bel is, I mean, he's going to be a solid RB2. There's just so much volume there that if you get him, you know, in the third round or later, that's great. A young, high volume, but disappointing.

David Montgomery or Lev Bell, who would you rather have in 2020 right now? I'll take Lev. I will check my rankings. I will take Lev Bell as well. I do too. I have Lev a couple spots higher. Just curious. You guys want to do some mailbag? Yep. Mailbag. No motto. All right. If you have a question for us, you can go to the website, the fantasy footballers.com.

click the submit a question button or you can dial our voicemail hotline 302-464 TFFB. A wide variety of questions. Let's jump into it. Caleb on Twitter, what is the best way to evaluate proven commodities for future draft picks in a dynasty league? Devante Adams. For example, how do you look at moving proven commodities and what kind of compensation?

equation do you bring to the table? You know, it's rare that I look to trade proven commodities for draft picks, almost ever. You know, I might use draft picks as an additive to, you know, go from one proven commodity to a slightly less proven commodity who's, you know, still, you know, is still a veteran. I still know what I'm getting. But it's, it's rare for me to take someone that is solid.

You know, if he's throwing out Devante Adams as the example, we're talking about really proven commodities. Yeah, that's rough. I'm never going to be trading them for draft picks unless I'm in a complete rebuild and they're old. You know, Julio Jones, 31 years old, still carries great value, still going to be a great asset this year. You should be able to get a draft pick. That's when I'll move off. But, you know, Devante Adams has several years ahead of them. When you trade him for the 101, you're, you're.

you're trading him for a complete risk. I mean, Nekeel Harry last year seemed like just an unbelievable prospect, first round pick, goes to the Patriots, and it just doesn't, you know, it doesn't always fall the way you hope. Yeah, Corey Davis comes to mind too in years past. Those players that you think are guaranteed. That whole draft, you had Corey Davis, Mike Williams, and John Ross. I think all those three guys were in the same draft class. I could be mistaken.

Just because you're an early first wide receiver does not guarantee that you are going to hit. I will say a, if you're trying to go after like a 101, if it's a running back being drafted in the top 10, that carries a lot more weight to me because those guys are going to not necessarily be elite players. Teams miss on their evaluation, but those guys are going to be given.

opportunity after opportunity to really fail. I mean, even Leonard Fournett. Well, they don't, they don't really fail at all. I mean, they just, what you're saying is right. They don't fail. If you're, if you're a top 10 NFL running back draft pick, you are hit. And I think we all can say was it was a failure. If you're talking in terms of dynasty, yeah, he had his rookie here. It was great for fantasy purposes, but he didn't continue. He had no sustained success. So if you had traded a player,

like Devante Adams for a 101 and gotten Trent Richardson, you'd be really upset with that. I think what we're saying here is what you're hoping for in these draft picks is to have a proven commodity someday. So keep it. Well, and the thing is, in Dynasty, you are, like the stock market, you are looking for signals of when to unload a player before the wheels fall off. I mean,