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Call 1-800 Granger. Click Granger.com or just stop by, Granger, for the ones who get it done. To the Fantasy Footballers Podcast with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Welcome in. Thursday, July 30th. Mike Wright, Jason Moore, Andy Holloway. Welcome into the Fantasy Footballers podcast.

At the FF ballers over on X, Instagram.com slash fantasy footballers. Jason's looking extra golfy today. That's a golfy shirt. It is a golf shirt indeed. I have golf shorts on and it is time to do the laundry. So wait, did you, we golf this morning and you showered? I did. I changed out of that golf gear into this golf gear. That's what I was wondering. So you switch from like the gear you played golf into now gear you're not playing golfing. Correct.

Because of the laundry. Because I've worn all my regular stuff. But you keep an abundance of golf out. I have definitely purchased a lot of golf gear. Do you... That is one of the keys to golf. My shirts in my closet are outrageous right now. Because I had a wardrobe before I took up golf. And now I have an entire golf wardrobe. Do you change at the turn?

Well, if I need to, yeah. You've got to bring an extra shirt. How often do you need to? Well, usually it's the mustard and the ketchup from the hot dog. So yeah, it's pretty much every time. Hot dog bowl. And sometimes he drives home from the turn. Yeah. Yeah. Sometimes you have to do that. I never turned around. Sometimes I wonder if Mike doesn't come to golf as much just because he doesn't want to follow the decorum and rules of golf. Which part?

Like collared shirts and... The collared shirt part is pretty weird to me. I assumed it bothered you. Well, yeah. Because they're like, hey, your shirt looks just like mine. But that one. Have you seen what's going on with the neck? Holy crap, that's a fancy shirt. Do you feel the same way about a, like, a fine dining, not letting you wear like a hat or wear, and you have to wear a collard shirt in a restaurant, too? That one, I at least... I can vibe more with that one. Is it because of the, like...

Well, it's like you're all in an enclosed area. When it's like when you're golfing, it's like, they don't see you. No. The only people who see me are the people behind me because I'm so bad and too slow. I don't think Al Borland likes the dress code either. Luckily, he dresses like a golfer all the time. I do, but some golf courses make you wear a belt. I don't, I don't ever wear a belt.

and uh why like you have to tuck in your shirt and me and kyle and jason went to a restaurant once and i got turned away because i was i didn't have belt loops on my pants i just can't stand dress codes man i mean i've been in the restaurant where they made me take the hat off and what was under the hat was not good

It's like, you prefer this? And I was so self-conscious the rest of the time. We have a great show today, Unsolved Mysteries episode, talking about belt loops. Yeah. Yeah, I didn't need a belt for the restaurant. I just needed belt loops. Oh, I missed that. I was wearing some, like, expensive joggers, but they didn't have. Oh, wait a minute. You were wearing joggers? Yeah. What's wrong with that? I mean. At a fancy restaurant. That's like sweatpants. No. That's sweatpants to a restaurant. These are nice joggers. Are they made of sweatpants material? No.

Or they made a... When you walk, does it go... No. That's the khakis make that sound too, my guy. Unsolved mystery, some NFL news to talk about, and the Ultimate Draft Kit is here. Ultimate DraftKit.com. More updates to the mock draft tool have been made. We're getting the keeper support into those and some other tweaks and changes to the settings for you. You'll probably see new updates to the UDK every day or two for the rest of August.

The draft analyzers is in there as well. Mike, you were going to add something? I was just the news. I mean, news is starting to pour out. Another, you're just saying you can get your news feed inside the UDK. Well, you can get your news feed. I'm saying for the changes. Like, you know, you had, like the last month or so is really just a couple vibes here or there from some beat reporters. Now real stuff is happening, which.

Like injuries. Always happens is the injuries. Yeah, that sucks. All right, quick question of the day comes in from Adam in Los Angeles. Hey, ballers. How do you go about prepping for a live draft without a common ADP displayed and the randomness that can come from everyone following different ADPs? Should you reach earlier on players that you must have?

Well, if you must have them, probably. Or should you trust that players should fall to their, quote, normal ADP? It's a good question. I mean, our main league of record, we purposely every, we have a draft room. There is no ADP sorting there. You come prepared or you don't come. And so we're used to this format where you are, and I prefer it. Obviously, we have the UDK.

that's what I draft with. That's what I bring to my draft. So the order of players I like are in there. But I do pay attention to the ADP on that. Like our charts will always show the ADP of a guy. I'm not going to reach two rounds for a guy. Even if he's like the next up in the ranking, especially in the first half of a draft, that's just malpractice where it's like you still want to squeeze as much value as you can. So you will take some risks of letting a guy go that you know usually goes later. I will say that you also need to know your league.

I know in our league, we're a keeper league. Rookies. Yeah. Rookies, ADP, throw that crap out the window. If you want a rookie, you are taking them two or three rounds ahead of ADP sometimes. And so you just have to know that. That's not going to be the same in every league. Yeah. And positionally, like, you know, in our, because we're in a keeper league, we know that there's a bunch of running backs that are kept. So all of a sudden that.

the shift of the supply of really usable running backs, it depletes rather quickly. So you have to know all those things. But have your rankings and just, I mean, just be ready. Just be ready to take your guys. Yep, absolutely. All right. Let's talk news. News and notes from around the league. Okay. We have a decent amount to talk about Jamir Gibbs, Bijon Robinson, both on.

fifth-year option contracts, rookie contracts, not practicing on Wednesday as they await new deals. Get that's money. Yeah, that will be happening very soon. I wonder, like, who's going to get it first? Like, what's the approach here? Are the Atlanta Falcons waiting, they're waiting for the Gibbs contract to set the baseline? Oh, man, they should be talking. They should be a solution. No, the two.

General manager should be talking to each other. I believe that's called collusion. Yeah, I was thinking Bijon and Gibbs should be talking. Yes, they should. Whatever, just go get the same contract. They're both going to get so much money. But I do. It is interesting, the game of chicken of like, whoever goes second gets more. Yes. Because they'll be like, I want, even if it's the quintessential, I want a dollar more. Yeah. Whoever signs first, like the smarter franchise is whoever signs the first one to a contract. Bejohn Robinson is 24.4 years old.

Jamir Gibbs is 24.3 years old, same draft, same spot in terms of like the leverage is gone for both teams. Like Algiers gone and Montgomery's gone. They're in such identical situations. They're the number one and two picks in most fantasy drafts. There's plenty of times where... And they both get paid. And right now they can't get hurt when they're waiting. Yeah, where a veteran player is holding out for a contract and you're not sure if they're going to get it or not. There's no one unsure here. This is a situation where it's like just...

figure it out. Jonathan Taylor. Let's try that again. Who is that? Jonathan Tyler. He is at practice. He wants an extension as well. He says, quote, I have faith. There have been some good conversations, but I have faith between my agent and the front office. So he is not a hold in. That's one where if he was holding out, that would scare me a little bit more. He already did. Like he did that years ago and then got the money. So maybe they have a better relationship now.

Chris Solave has no restrictions and is, quote, full go. We love it. Jordan Tyson participated fully in 11 on 11. Love it. You're not going to love this one. The 49ers news is always 49ers news. We already last show, Christian Kirk, not practicing. No one wants to hear this. Ricky Pearsall, not practicing because of swellness, swellness. You're thriving. You're really crushing it today, Andy.

My knee is swell. Swellness? I mean, I had French toast for lunch. All right. That's, I don't do it. Someone told me to get the. Do you feel swellings? Okay. Somebody told me to get croissant French toast because they said it would be good. And then I did. Here's what's really funny about that. And now I'm not so swellness. At lunch, you're doing just fineness. At lunch.

at the end, Andy offers if anyone wants some eggs. Because we ordered from a breakfast place, and it was just some, like, healthy eggs. It was like scrambled eggs. And I literally thought to myself, wow, good for you, Andy. You went healthy. Oh, like I didn't eat enough. Like, you didn't eat enough, but all you got was like some eggs. Did you just find out I got croissant french toast? Yeah, I did. You should try it. It's so good. Kyle is letting us know that swellness is a rare archaic word, meaning the quality.

of being swell. Well, Ricky Pearsall's knee is not swell. No. But it is swollen. Yeah. And the team says all options are being explored. There are concerns. He missed like six weeks last year with a PCL strain and then missed more time later with knee and ankle. And it's the same knee. That's the same PCL. And all options, they are the S word. Surgery. Yeah. No, that's the fact that it is the same knee.

that he had an entire offseason for, and it is, um, it is, you all right? Yeah. Did you have some French toes? No, um, I saw a funny slack message from you, Andy, you got me. Uh, look, the, uh, the issue here is it's already swollen up and it's the same knee that he struggled with last year. Yeah. They are probably going to have to, rest didn't fix it. I'm not a doctor, but I mean, the options are rest more and.

pray more, and then hopefully it's fine, but what would lead you to think, oh, this time it'll work? That's a scary, scary proposition. I mean, the implications here, you know, Kirk, Pierce, Paul, Mike Evans is. Mike Evans is tied with Devante Adams as the two oldest players being drafted in the top 72 in fantasy, the first six rounds. Those are the two most vulnerable to, you know,

I looked at this. I looked at the old players that we've taken, the top five that we've taken over the last three years in the top 72 and how things worked out. And the basic conclusion is this, that if you have age baked in as a discount, they kind of can work out. If you're paying up for them, there's been some years where it can be injury. I mean, look at Mike Evans last year. He was a loss last year. Yes. He was one of the oldest again last year, and it was a loss because of all the injuries.

standing in the way of, this is all to say, standing in the way of rookie, Deshawn. Stribling. Stribling. Yeah. Is a 33-year-old Mike Evans right now. Because Pearsall, and Kittles hurt. And Pearsall's hurt. And Kirk. And Kirk is hurt. And Joanne Jennings is gone. So, and all the news has been so positive around stribling. So. Yeah. Stribling is, he's definitely a beneficiary here.

But also I do think, I mean, Mike Evans, I stand a little bit more on an island. I mean, he is the clear one right now for this team is currently healthy. And I do think that there is, I don't know what your study was as far as injury dip based on whether where that player has historically gone or just what rounds of the draft. But obviously Mike Evans is not being drafted where he used to be drafted. No, no, he's priced where there's an age discount right now. Him and Adams are. So that's good.