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Oh, welcome in. Oh, baby. Welcome to August. The fantasy footballers are here. Jason Moore, Mike, the fantasy hitman. Right. I'm Andy Holloway. And it's go time. Yes, sir. My kids, they're in school now. That's right. Get out of my life. You get rid of the kids. You bring the football in. Get out of my life. It is. Hey. No, I mean, Dad's got drafts. Dad's got drafts.

Welcome to August. Welcome back to the show. Monday, August 3rd, five days a week from here through the end of the season. We are thrilled to have you with us. We've got big announcements. We've got news and we've got ice and fire on the show today. So we're kicking off August the right way. I'm already salivating in anticipation for the drop. And we are...

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And I hope you're listening because this will be your only chance to listen to this announcement. The listener league for 2026, the entries. You can send them in right now one week only. This is the one time we announce it. We never talk about it again. Listener league at fantasy footballers.com. But Andy? Yes, voice of public opinion. What does that mean? What do I submit? You are submitting your entry?

It could be a video. It could be anything that you want to get our attention. It can't be anything you want. It can be anything you can send anything you want. We know from years past that they have taken that literally and that's okay. Well, I'm saying don't, if you send a wall of text. We don't read well. That's. Yeah. You know how long it takes to read? Yeah, we don't reads a lot. But if you want to send us something to catch our eye, we will review the listener league submissions.

We will pick a number of lucky individuals to join us in the 2026 listener league. Show us the personality because the listener league is not the, oh, I'm so good at fantasy football. I could all beat you guys, I promise. We want a league that has fun people with fun interaction throughout the year. Yes, you're good at fantasy football. We know. We know. You listen. Yeah, you're listening to the show.

But we just, the listed league is always about good vibes and good people. Yeah, I mean, this is where we met Brooks. This is where we met the biggest loser. What an idiot that guy is. But we met, you know, close people now that we obviously love and adore through the listener league. It's a great time. It's great league. Come play with us or try to. So I will say it one more time, listener league at fantasy footballers.com. That is where you send your listener league entries. If you send them to our support people.

They will delete your email. If you send me a DM and you say, hey, has anybody looked at it yet? I promise every single one of them gets looked at. That's one of the cool things. Our team, we review them, we see every entry, and we will respond to every person in time. But it takes a while. So there you go. We'd love to play with you. Let's talk some news. News and notes from around the league.

Don't you feel the energy, Mike? Don't you feel the energy right now? I do, man. I'm nervous. Yeah. Do it. Ricky Pearsall. There's the energy. Out of the building. Oh, man. Oh, is that the electrical substation? Oh, no. It's getting everybody. I just. Yes. And no. Ricky Pearsall placed on season ending IR. It's coming for you. Mike Evans. Electro.

PCL reconstruction surgery for Ricky Pearson. Dude, big time bummer. Pierce, like, Pierce, like, Pierce, if, if you want to buy in anything to the substation, Pierceall was not an injury guy in college. He goes to San Francisco, immediately an injury guy. And, uh, getting shot guy. At first he got shot. Yes, that is fair. That wasn't the substation, was it?

We will never know. It's a bad neighborhood around, you know, subsstations. Every player in the NFL has a story, and unfortunately the story of Ricky Pierce saw is one of injury now. That's the story for him. Whether he comes back from it. It's a bummer, man. I mean... This is a tough one to come back from. I know you see a lot of ACL injuries, and a PCL reconstruction is worse, and so he's already lost the beginning of his career, basically. Now he's got to... The team is going to move forward. They just have to? Yes.

And then he's got to come back and somehow earn his way back on. I hope he can. I hope he does someday. But it's an uphill battle from here. One of the best ways to come back and be relevant at some point is when you have Mike Evans and Debo Samuel on your roster who are older and may move on at some point. But Debo Samuel was also added to the roster one year deal. Ricky will be, Ricky's turning 26 real soon. So he will be 27 and like.

Dynasty managers shed a tear. San Francisco has to do something. Would you trade him away for a third? Look how sad the Falcons. In Dynasty? Look how sad the Falcons. No, I would not. He's so sad. Oh, the Niners fan. DeJohn Stribling also held out of practice. That would be the 49ers, up and coming wide receiver hamstring. They should hold him out of the rest of all the practices. All players practice off.

They can't get injured if they're not practicing. I mean, this is not the only injury. I mean, they have like a handful already, their rookie defensive end. Not to bypass it. Debo Samuel was signed to a one-year deal. Everything the team is saying that this was going to be something that happened regardless of the Pierce Law situation. He said they're going to use them in kick returns, punt returns, all over the field.

Debo, if he's going to be successful again, this is a good place to try to do that where they know his strengths and weaknesses. They can use him in the offense and there's a need because everybody's hurt all the time. Yeah, I think this is a good landing spot for him and it's good for the Niners. I don't know that it's very fantasy relevant. I expect at this point he's going to be used a lot close to the line of scrimmage, special teams, that type of stuff. TBD, but obviously I like Mike Evans, a variant on Mike Evans, but...

You're holding your breath. I'm holding my breath. Because of electrical substation. Yeah, I mean, that hamstring is like beef jerky at this point. And, you know, it's just one wrong cut. And all of a sudden, you know, Debo's more needed. I think I initially have Debo ranked right now at wide receiver 44, which is probably higher than Mike has him, probably higher than you have him. But that's not super relevant. Chris Olave, baby. Oh, get dashed for money. We got that drop for Chris Olave.

This is the opposite of the Ricky Pearsall story. This is an injury plagued. Yeah, we like this one. Terrifying future situation that has turned into a four-year $132 million extension for Crystal Lave. $90 million guaranteed. That's how the team feels about the injury risk. Yeah, they are.

They are bullish on Olave. I've always loved, I mean, we've always loved Olave since he came out. And he just became scared. Yeah, I mean, you look like you are one head injury away from the career being over, but they are invested. They believe in him. He was awesome last year. I had someone be like, well, Wednesday played a full season. Last year, he, week 18, he took off as all players should and all fantasy managers should. Yeah, I know. It was, it was. He didn't take it off. Well, he had a blood plot. He sure did.

He took it off for a blood clot. Okay. Mike, do we accept that? What are you doing? I'm saying that he played without injury. He didn't get injury. His soft tissue issues, his concussion. He did get injured. He had a blood clot. Would you call that an injury? Yes. For real? Yes. A not a football related injury. Yeah, just an injury. I guess I wouldn't call that an injury. I see Al shaking his head, no. He wouldn't call that an injury. That's just a medical condition. Yeah.

Like, would you call diabetes an injury if you had to, like, you had a low blood sugar or something and you're like, I can't play? I don't know. That's a fair point. Regardless, for a medical reason, he didn't take it off. Okay. That's a fair. That's a fair. Okay. I counterpoint. Okay. If someone's like, I can't go to work today because I'm having severe issues with my diabetes. Yeah. Would you say, oh, you're taking the day off?

Yes. Okay. Out with illness. The point here for the fact that they are all in on Olave, they paid the money because he had such a successful season and really his career when he's been on the field has been awesome. Jordan Tyson also very healthy. We had all the hamstring issues coming in at the draft and even early camps. It was like,

Is he going to be a, these two guys, I know you're in on Tyler Shuck. Oh, yeah. These two guys, I'm starting to realize. Very much. They're a top, they are already, I believe, today a top five tandem in the NFL. Oh, come on. No, for real. Top five's crazy. No, I don't think it goes. So you got Jamar and Tehiggins. Cowboys and Bengals are top. Cowboys, lamb and pickets are done. I think Puka and Devante Adams, they're above them. I think Amon, Ron, Jameson Williams.

They're above them. That's where, okay, now you go. The fifth is where they could go. Jefferson and Addison. Okay, sure. Maybe you put them ahead. You can't give Tyson that level of respect without a snap. Sure can. I mean, you can. And I think it's dessert. I think he is an absolute maniacal stud. I don't even know if he's better than Olave. It's August. You got to bring out. Jordan Tyson is there? I mean, then you're going.

I mean, Waddle Sutton? Look, Andy can have them outside the top five while we are here and then he's going to have to scramble to catch up, but it will be too late. Yeah, I think that they are there. They are at that tier of in that fifth tier. Personally. Okay. That's why we have the show. Tucker Kraft activated from the PUP list. Realistical take part in joint practices.