Early 2018 Values + Movie/Player Comparisons

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to the fantasy footballers podcast coming to you from draft.com studios with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Welcome in. Another episode of the fantasy footballers podcast. Were you falling off a cliff? I always watch your face, Mike. When I do the introduction to the show, I don't blame you. I'm always watching the adventure that is your bearded.

Well manicured face. I've seen my face. It's a good face. It's looking all right today. Thank you. I'm happy to be sitting across from you, Mike. Jason's here as well. I am. You can be sitting across from you. I know. You're welcome that I decided to go to the side of you. You don't have to look at this. All of YouTube. All of YouTube has to deal with that. I apologize. Your best look is profile, Jason.

No, no, no it is not. Face for radio. That's what they always say. My best look is a black shirt straight on. A black shirt straight on. Well, welcome in. We have early values on the show today. Very excited to talk about those. You know, if there's one thing I'm known for, it's, you know.

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Handful of tickets. And what I say that, I mean, just the amount of tickets I could fit in my hand. That's how many are left. Yeah. All right. For the quick question today, we're going to do something a little fun. The question that came in is if you had to compare an NFL player team to a major motion picture, who would it be? Ooh. Let's head to Hollywood, fellas. Oh, it's time to visit the movies. Glamorous. All right. So, Jason.

Jason, why don't you tell us your... I feel like I need to lead us off in this voice. My movie is a terrible atrocity that never should have been made when it was. I'm going with... I'm going with Dumb and Dumber 2. Not the prequel. The sequel. Dumb and Dumber 2. Oh, no. Who's the player? The player is...

Andrew Luck. Oh, no. Last week, we had an incredible article by Matthew Betts come out. Yeah, we got to do something about this. All right, so last week, we had this incredible article come out by Matthew Betts, kind of detailing, really taking you down through the. All right, all right.

Yeah, taking you through the history of the injury and what's happening. And this is why I say that he is Dumb and Dumber 2. Because Dumb and Dumber was great. We're talking classic all-time top five list. I mean, Andrew Luck was drafted to be one of those Hall of Fame first ballot, first ballot caliber guys. And he was great. You loved him. And you want to know what you wanted. You wanted more.

You wanted another one. I wanted a sequel to Dumb and Dumber. Are you kidding me? It was so good. And then they took too much time off. And they went away. And when we finally got it, it just wasn't the same. This is so sad. I know. And I think that I worry that we're not going to get the same Andrew Luck. And by the time he comes back, I mean, look, there were some funny moments in Dumb and Number 2. Wouldn't you still go see the movie? Wouldn't you buy the ticket? I sure did.

I guess regret. You know, I don't think money well spent, you know, maybe I should have skipped the concession stands and saved a little bit of dough. So Andrew Locke is dumb and dumber too. It's dumb and dumber too. Oh, that's sad. That's sad. I'm going to go with, I'm going to go with Tom Brady and the Patriots here. It's not Lord of the Rings anymore. It's the departed. All right.

The Patriots feel a little bit like a mob organization these days. A little bit. There's like a rat spilling the beans on all these insider situations and closed door meetings and extensions in retirement and what the trainer for Tom Brady. Plus, I'm going to just, I'm going to double use the title to this movie. His weapons have departed. Well, you could, you know, similar to in the movie, many people do.

Depart the movie. Exactly. Forcefully. Not through free agency as much. No. Although Edelman was forced out. Cooks, Edelman, Dionne Lewis. These guys are gone. You're going to need a vintage Jack Nicholson performance from Tom Brady to pull things together again this year with all the weapons he's missing and all the tumult in the organization. Not that I expect them to falter. They found a way through every challenge.

thus far, whether it's, you know, spy gate or deflake gate or Aaron Hernandez gate. Oh, come on. Hey, hey. Too soon. Ah, we're talking about the departed here. Boo. Oh, boo. Oh, goodness. Boo. Oh, this. I, abort. Okay. Well, move on. Your turn there, Mike. He's going through the hole. Let's pick up the mood a little bit. Yeah, seriously. All right. Good luck. Now you have to try to do it. It's impossible.

It is not impossible for this professional. All right, go on. The movie I would like to bring up. The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Indiana Jones. Oh, no. Fourth movie. Oh, that was so bad. And I am comparing it to the Raiders. Once Proud franchise standing at the top. A once proud franchise. You had an action hero.

You had Indiana Jones who could carry. You had Jordy Nelson. He used to be able to carry. Rinkly Jordy. And then last year he looked like a 70-year-old man doing his own stunts. Oh, no. Similarly to the way Harrison Ford was punching people. And it made me sad. Yeah. And they thought, okay, well, we can bring in a young gun. In the Kingdom of the Crystal School, we've got the replacement. We traded from Artavis, Brian. They've got their own Mutt Williams.

Is he actually that good? Can he carry the new Indiana Jones? And then who's running things? Right? Spielberg. He used to make great movies. But now he just makes a ton of money to make movies that people don't actually want to see. That's John Gruden? That is John Gruden. I very much enjoyed Ready Player 1. So I can't wait for Gruden's next stop. It was, it was. Wow. So this is an incredible comparison, though.

And that was the worst movie I've seen in theaters in maybe my life. And it just, it compared, other than Blade Runner. It makes you sad. Yeah, Blade, you want to know, my other one I was going to go with. Yeah, let's hear it. Was the, the new Avengers movie? Yeah. I was going to compare him to Kareem Hunt because not only were they.

wildly successful. I'm incredibly excited to see the new one or I was. And yet my co-host over here continues to bash on Kareem Hunt and superhero movies despite everyone loving them and them being great. For the record, and this is a very important record, the co-host you speak of is Andy Holloway. Oh, thank you. I am way on these superhero movies. I don't need to see any more superhero movies. Exactly. I've seen all the Jeremy Hell movies and they don't.

Go eat your worthers. They don't live up to their billing paying $18. Watch your silent films. 3D movies that are all the same. It's not. Charlie Chaplin's way better. Citizen Kane is the number one movie of all times. Seriously. All right. Let's move ahead to the values before we get in trouble here. Values. No. I remember. It was a, that was more of enjoying the drop. You do realize that's your fault entirely.

Yes, I do make them, so you are welcome. All right. Let's talk about values. This is simple. We're talking about players that are being drafted well beyond where we think they deserve. Players that you can get at a better draft day value, maximize the talent on your fantasy football roster, and give yourself an opportunity to basically steal fantasy production later in your draft. Yes, guys that will outproduce their draft price. Yeah.

I'll go ahead and kick it off with maybe a controversial one. And I'm going to go with Devante Booker, running back for the Denver Broncos. Current starter, maybe. He is currently in PPR leagues. He's 1009 in fantasy drafts, which is more than two rounds later than a guy like Duke Johnson who just signed his extension. And we know Duke Johnson has represented a PPR value in fantasy leagues. And I look at Devante Booker as...

Duke Johnson a couple rounds later. I think you guys have shown a lot of confidence in the fact that you think Case Keenham will get this offense back on track. And like you said, right now the incumbent is Devante Booker. But I want to be clear. This recommendation for a value on Devante Booker is exclusive to PPR leagues only. And I want to be clear as well. I don't think he's a good runner. I like Royce Freeman. I think the proof of Devante Booker's running between the tackle's life.