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This is D.D. Westbrook here with the Jacksonville Jaguars, and you're listening to the Fantasy Footballers Podcast. To the Fantasy Footballers Podcast with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Oh, welcome, man. Treat! I like that, Mike. That's not bad. You like that, and you just stared down into the oblivion. You got getting people hyped over here, man. Well, it was just a little loud to me.

It caught me off guard. I was a little surprised. I apologizing for hyping for too loud. Too much hype. Thursday, June 11th, welcome into the fantasy footballers. That's what hype men hear frequently. Sir, I like what you're doing. You're bringing up the energy, but have you thought about doing it quieter? Are there a lot of hype men out there? Is this an organization? Oh, are you a member? Are you a founding member? I'm not a founding member, but I am a card-carrying member.

Did you get in by saying it's football time? That was actually, that was my application. You know how I have to do a thesis for your doctorate? That was my submission. Oh, my goodness. How have you changed the hype community? I said, Exhibit A, it's football time. Well, I'm glad you got accepted. You've done a good thing. And I'm just getting acclimated. But excited to be with you for Klan. Mike is here in studio. Jason is.

At home. I'm in my studio. But with us. But I am here. I'm excited as always to be part of this great show. Now, if you're watching on YouTube, YouTube.com slash the fantasy footballers, you say you're in your studio. I know for a fact, you came in here. You took a picture of the back wall. That's right. You made it your green screen background. That's right. So that I feel. So you can feel right at home. Right at home. And I can see you guys and you can see me. This is great. This is, I mean, the technology.

That's great. And you're feeling better today. I am feeling better. But for the sake of all, I'm going to be cautious and stay here and work hard. Well, thank you. You're welcome. We appreciate that. I don't really believe the last part. No, that's fine. But it sounds good, right? All right, great show for you today. We have buy or sell on this show. We're doing some keep trade cut, have some news to talk about. A reminder, you can get the ultimate draft kit, which is out right now. Desktop, app version.

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And a reminder, you can subscribe, review the show. It's a great way to support the show. Very easy to do. Apple podcast. You can listen on Spotify, ad free on Stitcher Premium. Lots of ways to listen. Let's do some buy sell. Buy or sell presented by pristine auction. All right. Buy or sell for today's show. Brooks put an over under of 4.5 wide receivers with 100 receptions.

in 2020. So to give you the history here, he wants us to buy or sell over under, four and a half wide receivers that hit the 100 reception mark this upcoming year. Last year, there were four. Michael Thomas, Keenan Allen, DeAndre Hopkins, Julian Edelman. In 2018, there were eight. In 2017, there were five.

What do you think, that four and a half number? Are you taking the over or under? Several people last year were super close as well. Julio Jones had 99. So he does not qualify as hitting the 100. Alan Robinson was 98. But I am definitely. They also would not count for this.

This wager as well, Chase. Yes. No, I'm just, I'm just saying when we say four hit last year, it was very, very close to being six. But yeah. Well, Julian Edelman hit 100. So he was very close to not being 100. That's what I want to bring up, though, is that Julian Edelman is not going to repeat. His situation has got worse. Keenan Allen is not going to repeat. His situation got worse. And DeAndre Hopkins.

While he certainly has the talent and still a good quarterback, his situation has completely changed. So with three of those, you know, five that did it, I'm going to take the under. And, you know, of course, we've statted every single player out. I currently have three hitting it this season. That's how I see it, too. I have three wide receivers right now on my projections, so I have to take the under. And I will take the over.

Who are your five? Who are the five that you have going over? So I have the same three as you guys, Thomas, Devante Adams, Julio Jones. That feels like as close to a lock as you can possibly get. But then I also have DJ Moore because I have the breakout continuing and I think he'll be a PPR machine with Teddy Bridgewater. Yeah. And I got Bob Woods. I got Robbie Woods. I love that because I have him in our main leagues. That would be great. Just with the way that things have changed for him.

We have to go in one way or the other. Do you believe that it will be more two tight-in sets, which then there's not another wide receiver as often eating into what Bob Woods and what Cooper Cup could be doing? So I got him going over 100 as well. A couple of years ago, the other names on the list were Thielen, Ju-Ju, Antonio Brown, and Stefan Diggs. Like, Thielen, to me, Thielen and Ju-Ju could easily go over 100.

Like something we didn't focus on because I think it's too early to have the, let's analyze the Vikings without Dalvin Cook situation of, because I believe that Dalvo Cook is actually going to make it back. But if Dalvin Cook is gone, yes, Alexander Madison gets a huge bump. It becomes awesome for fantasy purposes. But does that change how the Vikings call plays? Like, will they actually say, okay.

Yeah, not if Madison's not good. That's what, like Madison, are you getting 18 carries a game, or are we now transferring over, you know, three to four attempts per game into actual passing attempts? And that makes a really big difference for Kurt Cousins and Adam Thielen. A couple other names that I have getting close for what it's worth. Alan Robinson, I have projected for 96 receptions. Certainly could do it. And DeAndre Hopkins, I had projected at 99, so he's somebody always in that category since he's done it.

so many times. Yeah, I've got DJ more close as well at 91. Talking to Robert Woods, Mike's guy, I don't have them that close because Mike said, you know, you've got to choose what system is it. You got Cooper Cup pretty high? But at the same time, you know, you look back those last seven games when they did make that shift for the Rams. Do you want to know what Robert Woods was on pace for? And that's not too small a sample. It's almost half a season. He was on pace for 119 receptions.

And 1,500. That would qualify. 1500 yards. He was a beast the second half of last year. Okay. So we have two cells, one buy. That was by yourself from Pristine Auction. Use the code ballers at pristine auction to get a $10 credit towards some sweet sports memorabilia. Let's talk news. News and notes from around the league. All right.

It's the offseason, so we'll start here. The Seahawks running back room, Carlos Hyde told reporters, quote, everybody knows Chris Carson is the starter. It's just more evidence. We had the report from Seattle as soon as the Carlos Hyde signing happened that said, Chris Carson is the starter. He is the starting running back, which is why at the time when Carlos Hyde was signed, and we react, we have nothing else to react to in the off season, despite.

Best ball drafts are happening, dynasty drafts are happening, where we said, Chris Carson is still the guy. Don't worry about Carlos Hyde. He is an insurance policy. So this is just a little bit more proof that if even Carlos Hyde knows that he is there for insurance purposes, that's why you still have to draft Chris Carson with the injury risk. The fumbling risk.

Sure, a little bit of that as well. But to me, it's more of the injury risk. Is he actually going to be ready for the beginning of the season? But he looks sneaky right now. Yes, he does. ADP1. Yes, he does. The NFL issued protocols to clubs laying out plans for players return to club facilities. I'm just going to hit this drop because I need the hype. Mike, you are the official hype man. So does this excite you the fact that?

The NFL is getting ready to return to club facilities. They floated the idea of starting training camps as soon as mid-July. We had another report this morning about maybe even shortening the preseason. Right. But is any movement good movement towards football? Yeah, absolutely. So far in the NFL, they have said nothing of slowing things down. The NFL schedule is going to start on time.

This is what we are aiming for, and we've heard nothing contrary to that so far. So, yes, all seemingly small news bits like this still, they still get into my blood. They still get the heart pumping a little bit of, yes, please. Football. Just so you two know, I am ready for football. I am, my body and my mind are ready for football to happen. Well, that's good. Premier League was announced today. Football. A resumption.

These are all good signs, good things. People out there wondering, hoping. We need hope. Yes. And there's a lot of it. The NFL has a lot of reasons to get it right and they have the time to do it. So we want everybody to be safe, but we know what normalcy means with sports being played. And I think it means a lot to the psyche of us locked down individuals. Yes. All right. You know, one of the things Daniel Jones struggled with last year.

He had these up games, these down games. He struggled with ball security. 18 fumbles and 12 starts. Yes. Now, three, what do we got? Three fumbles recovered by a player. Yeah. So that's not good. And, well, because the news here from the athletic is that he's going to increase his ball security this year. So that'd be good.

Yeah, I would say that's necessary. That's like James is going to work on throwing fewer interceptions. He did that by being a backup, so check. And then Daniel Jones actually is going to have to hold on to the ball this year, which I imagine he can fix that to some degree. Although there have been those players, Kurt Warner, Kirk Cousins, who deal with fumbling problems, you know, pretty much their whole career.

All right, and then Hayden Hurst hype. I want to talk about this. Matt Ryan was talking up Hayden Hurst, newly acquired tight-in. Austin Hooper is gone. Hayden Hurst taking over. Matt Ryan described him as one of the fastest and most athletic tight-ins he's ever played with. He is faster than Austin Hooper. Has he played with him already? I have to imagine he has, unless he's just looking up his 40 time and being like, well, he's supposed to be fast. Hayden Hurst was drafted. First round.

with the capability of being this dynamic past catching tight-in. Now he's given the, you know, you're taking capability, you're given an opportunity. He needs to stay healthy. But the compensation that they had to give up to get him tends to lean towards a valuable role in the offense. Now, he's being drafted as the tight-in 12 right now. That's great. That doesn't seem like a...