Free Agency Madness + Brees Retires, Big Stimmy - Fantasy Football Podcast for 3/16

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the podcast. That's the Fantasy Footballers podcast. If you're nasty, I'm your host for today, Mike, the Fantasy Hitman Wright, joined by none other, none other, than my best friend in the whole world. Oh, man. I'm so happy to be here with my best friend in the whole world right now. Jason Moore, how are you doing? I'm doing well, Mike, the Fantasy Hitman Wright.

That is my birth name. That is your birth name. And you can find you on Twitter at FF Hitman. And they can find you at Jason FFL. What teamwork we're using today. Welcome into the show. It's free agent time, everybody. Look, this is exciting. And can I just say this? Because I know, look, peel back the curtain here for all the listeners. Mike is super pissed off. Mike is so disappointed. Mike is like, we're recording. And there's just.

We are so spoiled that we want more news. We have a ton of free agents to talk about today. But we are not, we're not happy. We're like, I want more. Where's the big name? Where's the giant, you know, why aren't all five big name wide receivers signed already? It's been hours. We are recording this Monday afternoon slash evening is. And I guess I can say this where I'm perturbed.

Jason is the biggest free agent that we're going to talk about has some ramifications for my dynasty team. And I'd rather not spend more than two seconds on it. But we will. Welcome into the show, everybody. YouTube.com slash the fantasy footballers. If you want to watch the show, I mean, speaking of watching, I haven't seen Jay Grizz. Like me personally in.

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Just before we jump into the news, just a little quick, you know, because when you're on Facebook and you're on these social platforms, and they're like, you know, do you remember last year and they give you a throwback? Sometimes people do throwback Thursday. Wasn't something last year on this day pretty cool? One year ago today, which, and it was just the two of us and the bears. Oh, my goodness. Oh, that's when the DeAndre Hopkins trade happened.

Forever and Lord. I think the Texans fans have had enough of that. I don't. They don't mind it anymore. They're gone. The Texans fans? A lot of them have accepted the official fantasy footballer's invitation to join us as Arizona Cardinals fans. That is true. I've seen a lot on Twitter. Make sure you check out the ultimate draft kit. Ultimate draft kit.com. The UDK Plus has dynasty content right now, and the team is ferociously.

dare I say, ferociously making sure that this thing stays up to date as the free agent signings are happening or as it would be not happening right now. But that thing will be up to date the second you get in there. Let's get into the news. News and notes from around the league. The Saints have their own block in this news section because they have been busy. The big one, of course.

Saints quarterback, Drew Breeze, one of the real ones. First ballot, Hall of Fame, Super Bowl winner, super studly NFL quarterback. He is retiring. He played for 20 seasons? Oh, my brother. That is a lot. When he came into the NFL, there had been one player who ever threw a 5,000 yard.

season. Is that true? And he has done it five times since he retired. Oh my gosh. Great job, Drew Breeze. We, uh, we had a lot of fantasy fun. Thanks to you. And absolutely. I am so happy that you hung him up. It was time. It was time. It was absolutely time. But Drew Breeze will never be forgotten. Number one in passing yards, completions, completion percentage, second and passing touchdowns now.

Tom Brady might break a few of those. We'll see how things go. Yeah, he's got like 12, 13 seasons left, so probably. But Drew Breeze, salute to your service to the NFL, enjoy your time with your family. So, now it gets interesting for fantasy. For fantasy football, yes. Who's the quarterback? Mike, is it Tayson Hill? Is it James Winston? I feel like we did this before. Well, what if I told you, Jason? Okay.

that the Saints have signed quarterback Taysam Hill. Okay. To a four-year, $140 million contract extension. Incredible. I guess he's the starting quarterback. I mean, no doubt. Yeah, but here's the details. Every year of the deal is voidable, and it feels like this extension simply spreads out Taysam Hill's cap hit. Because if you remember, they gave him a really big contract.

Last year. I do remember mocking that. Yeah. And so obviously the Saints are in just just cap purgatory. They're held hostage right now. What's this button do? There you go. We're figuring it out live. There was a button labeled chiching. I'm used to the, there is the Brooks drop, the money drop. But there was a button that called. Yes.

Thank you. But there was a button said, chiching, and I had no idea what it would do. So Taysam Hill had the big payment. He's obviously getting a long extension so they could spread out the cap hit. This is going to be bad for the Saints for a while. Like they still think they're contenders, and they've got enough pieces on the roster where they will be a good team, and they're going to try to win games. They are not about that rebuild. But I think they're going to find that another couple of years as they continue to struggle with what they got themselves into with cap trouble, it's not going to go that.

Well, in which case... Maybe. So with the four voidable years from Taysam Hill, that actually says that James Winston might be the starting quarterback of the future. Yes. Ian Rappaport saying James Winston is likely the starter. They have been working on a deal for a little bit, still working on it at least at the time of this recording. So we just don't know what the Saints are going to do except finding this.

incredible loophole where you give a contract a player that's not really a contract. We'll see if the NFL has anything to say about that. I wonder what the limit is. Could you just do a hundred year contract? It was like this, dude, we found the ultimate loophole. We could spread this over a hundred years. No problem. Buccaneers have signed Tom Brady to a one year extension. So he will be back at least for a, uh, looks like another couple years for the, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers as they try and run it back.

Alan Robinson, who was, dare I say, unjustly franchised, Chicago, shame on you. And yes, I'm talking to you. Bear, Cardboard Bear and Bears Management. How dare you? Wait, you're blaming Jay Gris? You should be consoling Jay. He did nothing wrong here. Well, he's happy. He's happy that Alan Robinson is under the franchise tag. I'm just shaming everybody that I possibly can for my man Alan Robinson.

But Robinson has zero plans to sign the franchise tag. He has until the 15th of July to actually sign that, which means that he still has some leverage as they're trying to figure out what is happening in Chicago, who's the quarterback? Because Mitchell Trubisky is not. Yeah, from reading a couple of articles on this, there is a chance. And we're just bringing this up now because obviously there's dynasty players and implications here. There's a some percentage chance that he could actually.

Hold out through camp, hold out miss preseason, hold out in season. We saw Levy on Bell, obviously, miss an entire season, not wanting to play for the franchise tag. And he's not happy. But as of right now, obviously, he can wait, see what they do in the draft, see what they do with the quarterback position, and wait to sign the franchise tag. But he's not happy about being a bear right now. I'm going to hit this button, Jay, and I apologize that the drop says frenzy.

Okay. Because it's not a frenzy. This is a frenzy. There's a lot of news. This is a lot of news? This is, there's some, there's two big names. Free agent frenzy. I'm so sorry, Mike. The Packers, good for them. They have re-signed running back Aaron Jones to a four-year $48 million contract. All of our predictions were incorrect. A.J. Dillon.

master of the quads second round pick will now return to the backup roll stupid freaking packers uh but also don't hear what i'm not saying aaron jones is fabulous he's an incredible player and he's going to be fantastic for fantasy purposes just so everyone is clear yes the sadness is just solely that you have a j dillon on your dynasty team and you're very disappointed that he's not like a big breakout star thing this year

That is accurate. That is accurate. So for everyone else, like I'm sure some of you out there can relate. It's not everyone else. There are other people who have Dylan on their team. That's what I'm saying. Some people out there can relate. They have Dylan and they don't have Aaron Jones. And there's dozens of you. And you're all sad. But thank you. Feel our pain. The reality here, this is a great thing for Aaron Jones. Yes. Now, they did lose their center.

who is one of, if not the best center out there. We'll talk about that in a little bit. But it's great news for Aaron Jones. I expect that, you know, Jamal Williams has already said he's put out on social media that he's not coming back. So this is great. This is still good for AJ Dylan. Not great. But AJ Dylan is going from a third stringer who spent the majority of last year not on the field at all to now being that.

in the one-two punch the way that Jamal Williams was, but I expect, because we saw games that Jamal Williams missed, and the routes run looked really, really good. I mean, Jamal Williams was still running like 35% routes run of his snaps. Jamal Williams is an excellent pass catcher. And if you have AJ Dylan and Aaron Jones as your two main options, who are you going to run out there to be the pass catcher? And it's not that Dylan's a bad one, but.

Aaron, you're going to go with Aaron Jones. Aaron Jones managers were so frustrated every two-minute drill. Yes. When they're like, oh, this is fantasy gold. The two-minute drill is fantasy gold for offenses. And there's Jamal Williams running the two-minute drill. That will be Aaron Jones next year. So I think this is good for Aaron Jones. If anything, I think he gets a bump up from last year. And it's good for AJ Dylan versus last year. So, you know, be happy, Mike. I'll be happy.