The “My Guys” Episode! - Fantasy Football Podcast for 8/20

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Austin Neckler, and you're listening to the Fantasy Footballers Podcast. To the Fantasy Footballers Podcast with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Welcome in. It's my got time. Hey! Yeah! Hey! You just got me jacked up. Yes! Yes, I was... Yesterday I was excited for today. I was not excited today.

Also, welcome with the fancy footballers. Wait, you were excited yesterday, but you weren't excited today? No, you burned out? I was tilty. I tried all night long. All night. To trade for two of my my guys that are on the same team. And it seemed like it was so close, kept getting strung along. Okay, I think I like it. I need more time, any more time. And then eventually it came to the morning. I got to tell you in the morning. I don't know.

And then I wake up. I'm ready to record my my guys episode. Come in. Talk about how I traded for my guys. He's like, nah. My gut says no. When your trade partner says, I'm going to sleep on it. You should just go find another trade partner. I'm sorry they didn't work. I tried to do the same thing this week with my my guys. But certain people just, uh, they were not budging.

It's a bit of a catch-22 because they kind of pick up on the fact that they're your guys. And then the price just keeps going up. Now, Mike, I kept my welcome in short because I thought something might be coming there. I thought you might be jumping in. Now everybody. Man of the people. Now that you've all. Now that you've all turned your radios down after that introduction. Your radios? Yeah.

The transistor is a little loud today. Don't you still call it a radio in your car? I mean, I guess it's just... What do you call it? It's a funny word. If you play your podcast, what do you play it on? Uh, your phone. Okay, but... I play it in my car. Through what? My car. Your stereo? Okay, so you say stereo. Yeah. That still sounds old, Mike. Not as old as old time. I did not say old time. You said radio. That is old time. It's...

We're on Sirius X-Im radio this afternoon. We're on satellite. Yeah, satellite. This is the future. We're not... Ladies and gentlemen, today's news on the AM radio. Brought to you by Bain. No, I like that impression. Moving on, the Ultimate Draft Kit is available at Ultimate DraftKit.com. If you get it before our Friday live stream, we're going to be giving away an Ultimate Draft Kit for life.

live on that event, uh, that is 6 p.m. Eastern will be on YouTube, Twitter, Twitch, Facebook. Make sure you follow us. Um, there'll be a countdown on the live stream. We'll be answering fantasy football questions throughout. And then we're going to give away that UDK for life to be eligible. You need to have purchased the 2020 UDK prior to that moment in time. So if you've already got it, you're entered. If you haven't got it yet, ultimate draft kit.com. It is the my guys episode. Hooh ha! Very excited.

YouTube.com slash the fantasy footballers, by the way. If you want to watch the My Guys episode and see Jason slowly gaining energy over the course of the morning. Let me just say this. There are, yes, thank you, Mike. You have filled my soul. It was depleted. Let me just say this to all the folk land out there. You know, I would say the majority are podcast listeners. Maybe you have never even looked at the YouTube. Maybe you've gone when we've had a funny show moment.

But maybe you haven't subscribed. Right. Just go over there and give us that subscribe. So 195. Exactly. It's getting close. You guys want to talk some news? Yep. News and notes from around the league. NFL network reporting that Dalvin Cook and the Vikings have broken off contract talks with the, you know, hopes, they had hopes of an extension. It's not going to happen. He's focused on week one. Do you care for fantasy purposes? Nope.

Yeah, I mean, if anything, this now means it's an official contract year where we know he's not holding out and we know he wants to get paid more. So what do you have to do if you want to make that money? I mean, he's not going to get paid the same if he gets injured this year. So all the incentive to play well, play hard, play through injury. But I agree with Mike. I was already drafting him like that. You could have a situation where the salary cap comes down next year.

Not as aggressive, and a bunch of agents are in trouble because they didn't get things done in time before this happened. And you also have the franchise tag is available for Dalvin. DeAndre Hopkins returned to practice on Wednesday. He had a hamstring tweak, but he's back. That's good news. That is good news. Did A.J. Green get back? Not yet. Okay. He's almost back. He's coming any day now.

ESPN reporting Miles Sanders will be ready to play week one. There was the week-to-week injury. We just have a quote from an unnamed source saying he'll be ready to play week one. Those are upsetting to me. The unnamed source? No, not the unnamed source. He should be ready to go week one is not good news to me. That implies that there's the concern is that he might not. Well, here's the thing that.

That I'm going, my confidence is in Coach Peterson was, I mean, at least verbally giving the old, the pat on the back to the running back room saying even with a couple guys banged up, they're still secure in the running back room. They're not looking to add anybody. Now, could they still add somebody and blow that statement up? Absolutely. But at least what we have to go on is they're still confident that Sanders is good to go. We'll see, though. Is it good to go for a big workload in week one?

That is the bigger question. If you're making a decision in your draft with any sort of difference maker in the equation, Miles Sanders, or maybe some of the players who talk about today, this could be the difference. I did tweak my risk rating. And as far as looking at where I would draft Miles Sanders, there are two players today we're talking about that are now in front of him because they're all great. Why take the one with current risk of...

of possibly missing week one. Devante Adams. What's the latest on the injury for Devante Adams? So if you didn't follow along, this is, I mean, this is a hot tip. You got to get on Twitter. Number one, you can follow the show at the FF Ballers. But follow beat reporters. This is what we have to go off of right now. I mean, Rodo World is a tremendous news source, but go right to the source. Get those beat reporters. Follow lists.

Well, my source is a man who follows the source. Yes. And I don't want to use like a, like, you're a druggy kind of comparison, but like you're super a druggy for these news bits, man. I am mainlining all training camp news directly into my body.

And like Andy knows it is like, hey, Mike, is there news? That's, that's Andy's news source. I love it. Well, I know when there's not news. You know, after about 45 minutes, starts shaking. And I know there has not been any breaking news. Come on, baby. We got to get Mike some beat reporters fluff piece at the least. Right. But so yesterday, Devante Adams, he got shook on a reception or I can't matter if he caught the ball. Anyways. But he went down.

left the field. He did come back to participate in the final walkthrough, but he is now not participating in today's practice. I'm not reading too far into it, but these are always just put a little checkmark down. I got to take a peek ski in on Devante Adams. What it did bring to mind was, like there are two situations in the NFL where if a guy goes down, I have no idea what happens.

to that part of the offense. Devante Adams, if he goes down, what on earth is the passing offense in Green Bay? You lost Funches, you don't have other weapons. I mean, Lazard is not going to be your one. He would be the de facto. I mean, he would be. That's the problem. It would take Aaron Rogers, who is, I mean, look, this is the latest you've ever been able to draft Aaron Rogers. I think he still has something left, but, I mean,

We can't be certain, which is why he's being drafted at the end of, you know, at the end of fantasy drafts. But if Devante Adams misses time, you're not playing Aaron Rogers. No. And so Adams, and for what it's worth, he hasn't played a full season in four years. So he probably, you know, he's missed a game or two. Each of the past three years goes down, makes you think about it a little bit. The other situation is Derek Henry, the running back in, you know, in Tennessee. If he went down and the whole offense is built around him.

Darrington Evans anyone? Yeah, doesn't the Devante Adams situation just highlight how head scratching that draft was for the Packers where it was like there were so many great wide receivers. It just, I mean, when they were on the board and then they took A.J. Dillon who, hey, he looks, he looks great in those tiny shorts, big thighs, but you've got a good running back core.

Now if Devante Adams goes down, that GM... Yeah, but just wait. In three or four years, when Jordan Love gets a chance to start, we won't be talking about them not drafting a wide receiver. Will we? Yeah, I don't know how this team ends up repeating anything close to last year if they lose Devante Adams with their... They had won so many one-score games. I mean, we're talking about a long time. Look, I don't think Devante Adams has really hurt long term. We're just prognosticating here what would happen.

What's the news on Rob Grancowski, former superstar tight end? Sure. So shout out to our friends at Roster Watch. They have some boots on the ground at the Tampa Bay Buccaneers training camp. And all morning, it has simply just been a reminder. Don't draft Rob Grunkowski. The name is gigantic. He has a Hall of Fame tight end. But O.J. Howard is still the number one guy there. And they're saying, look.

They're comparing Rob Grunkowski's usage, at least in these practices, to that of late career Antonio Gates. Yeah, Antonio Gates, he came through in the red zone. He was a specialist there. He's catching touchdowns. But Rob Grunkowski, if you're drafting him, don't think you are getting Rob Grunkowski from three years ago if you are drafting him. I think you just have to, I mean, O.J. Howard, I mean.

terribly disappointing season last year, destroyed fantasy owners. Yeah, do we get a post-type bounce back for Howard? See, I was going the other direction. I'd steer clear of all. Bruce Ariens and his history with tight-ins combined with a depth chart that has three different guys that are going to be out there and a ton of actual, you know, Scotty Miller is back. You have Watson, you have Godwin, you have Evans. I don't know if you're going to have any consistent production from any specific tight-in in Tampa. That's fair.

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