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to the fantasy footballers podcast with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Oh, welcome in the fantasy footballer. The, the. I don't know. The people, Mike, they know they can tell that its football time is coming. It's coming closer, Mike.

It's percolating. Not that you'll throw one out there for the Hall of Fame game with our Arizona Cardinals. I did wonder about that this morning. I was like, there is football, but does it? I don't know. Stay tuned. You know how stupid I am? Yeah. Yeah, we do. Okay. That's all. How stupid are you? I'm stupid enough to not realize that the Hall of Fame game is always between two teams.

Really? That's okay. No, that's not the end of the same thing. That's very stupid. I see how dumb you are. That have players going into the Hall of Fame. I didn't realize we had the chance to visit the Hall of Fame. And Luke Keekly and Larry Fitzgeraldor, you know, two of five players going into the Hall of Fame and the Panthers are playing the Cardinals. That's how dumb I am. I just thought that they were just randomly chosen teams. I don't blame you on that.

I really, because I didn't realize. You didn't realize that either, but I don't, I think it's because he just learned it just now. I didn't realize it because I didn't care. You know, like, why would I give a crap? I do kind of like, like, maybe it was just, you know, like Luke Kikley, we got to watch him play. Larry, the goat, my favorite player of all time. If you told me that every year, like, like Thanksgiving, well, every year it's the Lions and someone else, I would have believed you.

I'd be like, cool, I don't care. It's a high school game. But maybe like this, you know, Cardinals playing for the honor of Larry and then the Panthers playing for the honor of Keekly. Maybe there's more gravity to it now. Just two incredible teams. Well, Kenny Pickett's going to start. Kenny Pickett is the starter. Baby hands. Oh, man. So we, I mean, look. The hands memes have been, they've been very strong. AI is doing, AI is very powerful when it comes to accentuating someone's physical.

Problems. Man, how long until we speak only in memes? It's not far off. And it's going to be the downfall of society. I mean, like, what? We all started this like hieroglyphics drawings. And we're like, yeah, no, we're coming back. Now we're sophisticated with our language. And now we're like, smiley face, fart cloud.

memes do say something that words can't say yes they do i pretty much there's you can feel the emotion i try to only respond in gifts but not for me yeah it's uh no it really does and frequently we we text each other and i mean it's it's full on the key and peel sketch when they're texting each other and it's just something that's lost in translation of just words right

But when you send the meme or the gif, it's like, no, I know exactly. I hear you. Nothing is mistaken. Does that mean that we have just become very bad at using words to convey what we want to say? Because I think that's what we just said. We're not good at the words. I think we've grown even beyond just words. Well, we have a great show today. Speaking of a meme, it's the bell curve meme where everyone's dumb and then you.

And then you get to the end and you're back where you started? Look, Cardinals, Panthers, our first kind of football game is coming. And then before you know it, Mike will be screaming out. It's football time once a week. And we will be in the season and you will be on your way to a fantasy title. And I'm excited. We've got a new segment today. We've got news to talk about. We have a quarterback rankings countdown episode. It is August, boys, which means the ultimate draft kit is out right now.

The big headline this year, thousands of you have used this product over the last 12 years. The mock draft tool for the very first time is live in the UDK. So we've never had a mock draft tool native to the ultimate draft kit. It is there right now on mobile. It is coming to the web very soon. It is a beta product. We've added keeper support. There's a lot of amazing tools and resources. But I don't want to bury all of the other things that are part of the UDK, 100 plus player profiles.

Sleepers, breakouts, bust and values are consensus picks for those. You've got the ability to go through and mark, you know, players inside the UDK and the mobile app on the web. So you're prepared for your draft. So you don't forget the guys later that are important. Yeah, this is like setting the foundation for your entire season right here, is getting the draft right. A lot of you have many drafts over the course of, you know, the entire month of August and into September.

sounded like very tiny drafts. Like miniature draft? That's what I was just talking. It's like, uh, some of you have mini draft. That's basically a mock draft, you know? So we've got a new mini draft tool. You say those words differently? Like many, mini, many, many. Yeah, there's different letters and stuff. Yeah. Many, many. What's the problem here? Uh, he, you missed, he thought I said miniature drafts. Oh. Like mini drafts. Which maybe you do. Maybe you have some small 16 team leagues. A 16 league is a mini draft. Anyways. Many.

We support large, regular size, and miniature drafts with the UDK. Mani. That's Ultimate. See what I say. Mani. It's over. Just use a meme. Ultimate draft kit.com. That sounds like M-E-N-Y. Many. Mike, be quiet. My mind is broken, man. Shushabai. We've got a new segment we've got to jump into. Performance Climers, presented by GMC. Yeah. Sounds awesome.

We have a brand new segment and we are talking through all the way to the top. A number of players that are rising in ADP. And what we think about that rise, whether the value is still there, where you think they're going to end up on draft day. So I've got three names to talk about. But I will say, very excited about the segment. One, two, very proud of what you did with the music there. Thank you. Playing in with the climbers because it was climbing. That was great. All right. Isaiah likely.

has moved up a round in the last couple of months. Isaiah likely I am finding, I've raised him in my rankings a couple of times in the last couple months. There is a lot of talk about him having a featured role in the offense. Familiarity with the head coach.

I don't view Malik neighbors as a reason, like his health, if he's back a little sooner than we think, which it seems like is the case. I don't necessarily view that as like some negative for Isaiah likely. It's better for the offense as a whole. There aren't a ton of targets in this offense. Juan Dale is gone. Malik neighbors is acclimating. I find myself more and more interested in Isaiah likely right now. He's still an 11th round pick. He's moved up in the interest and in the ADP charts.

Signed the big contract, three-year, $40 million deal, $26 million guaranteed. He's been a 12.5 point per game player with No Mark Andrews. You know, the Giants reports. I mean, Connor Hughes talked about them featuring him alongside neighbors. Are you, like this is the discussion we had yesterday about Travis Kelsey as a likely. I'd rather take the shot on the up-and-coming player.

Are you on board with Isaiah likely? A lot of things make sense here. We talk about in order for a tight end to really truly be impactful for fantasy, if they're not scoring double-digit touchdowns, they pretty much have to be the number one or number two target in their offense. Most of these guys, even when we look at some of the players that we really like, like Colson Loveland, it's possible he's third. Here with Isaiah likely, there's a clear one in Malik Neighbors, and then there is a wide open.

Total opportunity to be the number two target. He's 26 years old, and we've seen plenty of times in history where a tight end changing teams going to that second contract, that's when they become more fantasy. Delaney Walker style here. Delaney Walker, Greg Olson, Evan Ingraham. I mean, we've got examples of where a guy changes teams at the tight end position, middle of their career, and they become more fantasy relevant. I personally struggle with Isaiah likely.

I've had them in Dynasty, and I've waited, and I've waited, and I've been disappointed every single year, and I feel like, I feel like there's some palm leaves that I do not want to walk on. Oh, like a little jungle trap. There might be a hole. Yeah, there's, I'm just, I don't want to fall for the trap again, man. I don't know if Isaiah likely is good enough. Oh, I think he's great. The, what's, what's hard about it, Jay, you're like, yeah, we've seen these guys change teams. Have we seen?

This is a question. I don't know because this would be a factoid. Have we seen a tight end change teams to the exact same head coach who last year told us that that player would be a pro bowler? And the answer to that was the other guy on the team got an extension. I will say this, you know, to excuse away some of that conversation, like.

He got disrupted instantaneously. I mean, Isaiah likely didn't play the first three weeks of the season. He wasn't playing, you know, he missed his opportunity to kind of have that breakout. I just know what I see on the field. Hyper athletic, talented, move tight end as the capability of being a red zone target. That was a constant, you know, he went up and got balls in the back of the end zone for Lamar Jackson. I find myself more.

Look, look, what is excitement for Isaiah likely? He's moved from the tight end 21 to 17. So we're not talking about, and he's a late round, tight end option, if Jason somehow, and this won't happen, but just hypothetically, if Jason misses out on Sam Laporta, again, it won't happen. Right, he's mine. But if it happens, to me, this is another player that you can look at later in the draft that excites me a lot more than Dalton Schultz. Yes, I am with you of like, I'm not planning any of my team structure.

around Isaiah likely. You know, where last year we had when Loveland and Warren were rookies, I was very okay missing on one of the elite tight ends because I'm like, these guys are late and they seem like we are, we're pretty sure that that player is going to hit. ADP says that we're not 100% sure likely is going to hit, but once, if you miss out on the elite guys, which that I'm with Jason, that's my strategy this year. I want one of them.

But after that, you know, it's like Ferguson, who he needs an injury in front of him. Gadsden, news has not been good. I mean, range of outcomes on Gadsden. There has been, as it's been a lack of news. And then it's like Mark Andrews, what does he have left? That's a great one. Andrews v. likely. Yeah, so at that point. That one is a great thought process. Upside is on the, is on the likely side. So I'm fine.

with this, as long as we don't get out of control. And it's worth noting, like, Mike and I were in New York a couple weekends ago interviewing Jackson Dart and Cam Scadaboo. And we asked Dart, like, you know, Wondale's gone. Malik is coming back. Who's the first target to? Who are you looking at? And the name he brought up was likely. Parker Washington, wide receiver for Jacksonville. The headlines the last few days have been Travis Hunter Center. We had early offseason.

Brian Thomas Jr. We got a contract for Britain Strange. I mean, I can, they have a lot of past sketching targets, but Parker Washington has been oftentimes the favorite in camp so far for Trevor Lawrence. He has moved up around in the last several months. He's an eighth round pick. He averaged 71 yards a game, was the wide receiver 11 from week 9 on last year. No Travis Hunter in that spell. I mean, again, this is.