Undrafted Gems + TNF Preview, Week 1 Hype! - Fantasy Football Podcast for 9/8

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The fantasy footballers podcast Wednesday, September 8th. Buy sell on the show today. Fantasy football news to talk about some undrafted gems that we'll be talking about. I am, look, I'm very excited for today's show. Don't get me wrong. But if I had that click remote from the Sandler, yeah. I'd be fast-foring the crap out of you guys right now. Really? Oh, because tomorrow, man. Yeah.

Peace out. Today sucks. Today's the last day of sucks. Today is in my way from tomorrow. What are you guys are looking forward to the game? Tomorrow is football time. As I always sing during the Thursday intros. I, Jason. You're referencing the fact that we got a tweet saying how much somebody is looking forward to your classic football time? That's right. That's right. It's one of my staples around here.

So certainly not mics. And you're the announcer as well, right? I do. Yeah, a lot of people always wonder who does our drops. That's me. How do you have time for just the regular show with all the things you do? You're very busy. Yeah, that's true. All right. A couple things at the top here before we get into Buy Sell. I want to remind you you can head over to join the foot.com and join our fantasy football community. You get a bonus weekly episode of the show. Bonus. You get some premium perks. And when is our...

final megalible draft time. I believe that is tonight. So you could still get in when you're listening as long as it's not after tonight. That is true. And spoiler, my draft, it will be tonight. So you could be drafting with me if you haven't drafted yet. I will be drafting tonight at, I believe it's seven Eastern. And Foot Clan, not a pleasant experience drafting with Jason. Just not very pleasant. Yeah, because you get dominated.

You did steal a ton of my players in the last two drafts we did. Happy to hear it. We have our weekly show on Green Room, our live show on Spotify Green Room this afternoon, 3 p.m. Pacific, 6 p.m. Eastern all season long. We're doing this on Wednesdays. And you can download the Spotify Green Room app. You can follow Fantasy Footballers on there. And you'll be notified each Wednesday when we are alive. So that was a lot of fun last week, our first Green Room show, and we'll be doing it again today.

Without further ado, let's do some buy-sell. Buy or sell, presented by pristine auction. Well, now I'm excited because this is a week one by yourself. Yeah, baby. And we're going three different buy-cell choices here. Are these to choose from, Brooks, or are we doing them all? Doing them all. Okay.

Oh, goodness gracious. All right. A lot of work today, guys. I think a couple years ago, we did five. All right. Yeah. We were younger men. We realized it was too many. Yeah, next year it'll be one. I need to hydrate. Rahim Moster taking on Detroit. Buy yourself 70 rushing yards in week one. Oh, baby. That's a big time. Buy a BTB. Yeah, I'm going to buy this too. I mean.

First game of the season. Let's let Trey Sermon work his way into the offense in this matchup. I mean, San Francisco is a heavy favorite already as they should be. And Detroit, sorry, lions, fans. It's going to be tough in the streets for this season. And with that game script that I am projecting, I think that Rahim Moster should.

easily hit the 70 rushing yard mark. Yeah, it's a universal buy. I think the bigger. Ooh, and in sync. The bigger question is, will it take more or less than five carries? That's honestly my question. To get to 70 rushing yards. And I'm going to take the under. Yeah, I was going to say, does he get it in the first half? Corey Davis, buy or sell seven total targets against Carolina.

Yeah, I'll buy seven targets against Carolina. Yeah, this one is always interesting because this is what we saw, the question of, okay, what we saw in preseason, is it real? Does it translate? Are there other reasons? Like, you know, we know that their rookie pick, Elijah Moore was not out there. And so Corey Davis was hyper-targeted. I believe what we saw. I think Corey Davis is going to be even with Elijah Moore on the field. I believe Corey Davis will be the.

Clear number one target for this team. And you have Jamison Crowder. Yes. We don't know yet whether or not he'll be able to get through the COVID list and get off in time for the game. But there's a good chance he misses the first week of the season. Yep. And for those reasons laid out by Jason, I'm also a buy here on Corey Davis. I think seven targets is no problem. Mike, let's turn to our third by sell Logan Thomas, Washington.

Football team, tight-hand breakout season last year, five receptions against the Los Angeles Chargers in week one. I'll jump in here. I'm going to sell this one. Despite the breakout campaign of Logan Thomas, he only hit that mark four times last year. And it was all, guess what, in the second half of the season when the quarterback change had happened. Logan Thomas will be a fine.

tight end. The reason that I have been off of him over the off season is the addition of Curtis Samuel. Now, if Samuel, we don't know his status, they're being very fuzzy. I don't think he's playing. Being very fuzzy about it. They've kind of said either he's all in or he's all out, which I, as in like he's not, they're not going to be limited with him. If he's going to go, he's going to be a full-time player. I got you.

But just for the reasons of not really doing it last year, I'm going to sell that Logo Thomas hits the five reception mark. I'm going to buy it. Five on the dot. Yeah, I don't think Curtis Samuel plays. Honestly, Logan Thomas in the preseason looked more integrated into the offense than I thought he would. So I'm going to buy it. Yeah, he was one of the preseason risers for me. Prior to the preseason, he was pretty much undraftable when I went in.

to any mock drafts, real drafts. But then watching his involvement, I think he could be good for fantasy this year. But that line at five, I'm selling. I'm with Mike on this one. Okay. Yeah, the odds are in your favor for sure with Mike's stat last year, only hitting it four times. Anything else? He dominated four reception games. Did he? Yeah. Five is a lot for a tight end in general. I was happy this line was set so poorly.

Made it easy. All right. That was Buy or Sell brought to you by pristineauction.com. Prestineauction.com. Use the code ballers. You'll get a $10 credit. News and notes from around the league. Presented by Sleeper. Buy yourself Brooks setting the lines. Oh, I'm buying it. He still has to do it. Oh, yeah. I mean, I know for a fact he does it. So I'll buy. Saints have released running back Latavius Murray after he declined a pay cut.

Believe it or not, last year, I believe, was Latavius Murray's best yards per carry of his career? And I believe yes, best yards per reception as well. They also, the Saints made a transaction this morning to pick up a cornerback. You wonder if these things were connected in the sense that, look, they just didn't want to pay Latavius that much money to be a backup running back when they had Tony Jones Jr., former Notre Dame running back as a backup option that they were content with.

He's a cursory pickup, and Latavius is, he is in the clock tower staring down the barrel to decide which backfield to make a problem. It could be Atlanta. It could be Baltimore, I guess, still, although they signed Lev Bell. I mean, Latavius represents a real problem in the open market. Although Lev was, was that practice, just practice squad? It was practice squad with the...

caveat that he'd be called up to active roster as soon as he's acclimated. That was before, though, Latavis. Promises are crazy, man. Promises are crazy. Yeah. What do you think Latavius ends up? Do you have any? Well, I'm going to start with Tony Jones. Congratulations to him working your way up from an undrafted free agent to being in this position, which the backup Saints running back. That's a good position to be in. We've seen it have success for fantasy football. We've seen it have success for real life football.

Latavius Murray got done kind of dirty here pulling up at the last second to say, hey, man, if you want to be on this roster, we're going to need to take a pay cut even though the season starts this weekend. But Tony Jones is interesting. He should, like if you have a six bench league, Tony Jones should probably be picked up in the chance that he has standalone value. He's not just.

he might not just be a backup running back. 100%. I mean, Tony Jones is an undrafted gym. This is a guy that is on your waiver wires right now if you've already finished your drafts. And he should probably be picked up by half of the teams in your league. Probably have a player worse on your bench than Tony Jones. Because this is a team that...

has dominated total fantasy points at the running back position for the last decade. And they're going to need that more than ever. Latavius Murray, you know, had spot starts last year where he was good. And the truth is he was cut because of what they saw out of this undrafted rookie running back coming. He's good. He has juice.

He looked really good in preseason. I remember a play where he was running away from defenders. This was early in the game, first stringers. And I was like, wow, I wasn't even sure who it was at first. And then I found the name and the ball started rolling. And now they cut Latavius. So I think he has value this season, even in redraft, not just dynasty. Undrafted Free Agent Challenge. Would you rather have Tony Brooks, Jr. or Tyson Williams. Tony Jones, Jr.