Early Top 10 QB Rankings, Splash Zone

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Fantasy footballers back once more. Jason Morris here. Mike, the Fantasy Hitman, present. And accounted for us. That is correct. We've been warned. We have been warned. We have? Yeah. Jason had some hot wings for lunch. Oh, yeah. Jason had some hot wings. We've been warned that bodily functions may become audible. Well, I can't. Yeah, so it's just like you might want to listen through your iPhone speaker.

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We should be on the lookout for whatever post-lunch recording extravaganza. Jason will bring our way. How were the wings? Honestly? And this isn't very hot takey if you've actually had them. It sounds red robin.

Hashtag, not a sponsor. Not a sponsor. Could be. So, hey, Mr. Robin, Mrs. Robin, if you're out there, I love your wings. So fly on down. If they wanted a sponsor, you would take it full payment in wings. 100%. Well, I also want burgers. Probably all flats. Yeah. As opposed to the wings. All right. We got a great show. Quarterback early rankings today. I'm excited. We're going to get through as many as we can. Probably not going to linger at the top. Pat Mahomes, very good player.

Very good player. Aaron Rogers, ever heard of him? He'll be in the list. Yes, but people are mad at him. Yeah. Yeah, they're a little upset. And we're not just talking about Mike McCarthy. No. We're talking about fantasy owners. We're talking about apparently Greg Jennings. Oh, well, you have to fill me in on the Greg Jennings. Wasn't it James? Oh, yeah. There was a article that came out. Yeah, you know, when people are. When people are done.

playing football and then someone else is still playing football, the done people are very better. I can't wait to feel that way about podcasting. When you're done? Yeah. What you're going to say about us? Yeah. Let's say we can't really, we can't wait for that time. Because we will still be podcasting. Right, right. And you'll have been kicked off. And there'll be this article that goes up on the athletic or something. And Mike will be like, man, those guys, the egos. The egos. All right. Hey, listen, we have a very important announcement.

Look, Glenn! Listen! Listen to your father! Big announcement, all right? It's not as poignant when it's listen. I mean, we're usually assembling people. Assemble and listen to your father. Before we get into the news, before we get into the quarterback rankings, we have a very exciting announcement. The NFL draft. In case you haven't had the, you know, the radio on, listen to podcasts, go to uspn.com. Radio?

You go with the radio. Well, I mean, out here in Arizona, we're trying to kill the radio. When I flip on the radio, all they do is talk about the NFL draft. That was what was on my mind. It's in, well, it's just like a week away. Just a little over a week away. And now is the time to pre-order the 2019 Ultimate Draft kit. And let me tell you why. The reason why is we have a very special UDK NFL draft pre-sale bundle going on.

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where you get to be part of the Slack channel, you get to be part of the whole kit and caboodle. And if you win, you come back for the next year. We're giving away one more spot to a lucky winner. We're giving away two custom jerseys from Fantasychamps.com. We are giving away a special tour prize because our live tour of the podcast will be announced very, very soon. And a lucky winner will get two VIP tickets on the next tour to front row seats.

A signed limited edition poster, a tour t-shirt, a special meet-and-greet with the three of us at the show. The front row of our live shows due to Jason's sweat. No, his sweatiness. It's actually a splash zone. It is. But we will provide the ponchos. Yeah, the first three rows, really. I run a little hot. I want to say the similarities between Shamu.

I saw where it was going. I'm kidding. Oh, I thought you were at least going to go with Gallagher. He knew where it was going and I didn't know whether to finish the sentence. For the record, I love Jason so much. I love you too, brother. You're proud of me for finishing the joke, right? I am. If you wouldn't have, I mean, a lot of times, I'll read a YouTube comment or something like, oh, you guys are so mean to Jason. Like, here's what, here's an insight.

We're all three actually really good friends. And I... You've also never seen Jason win a shuffleboard game because he pays it back when he wins that. I'm a monster. That's just the truth. And so yeah, give it to me. I can take it. All right. So that's what we're giving away. You can go to Ultimate DraftKit.com to snag your UDK before April 28th. And you will be automatically entered to win. By the way, if you already have yours... I was going to make sure. I didn't hear you say this yet. If you already have yours, no, you did not need to wait to get it now. You are also entered to win.

Yeah. You were just already in. You were already in and you were part of the previous giveaway. And if we run more giveaways in the future, you're in if you buy it now before the April 28th, double your chances. Yeah. Here we go. News time. News and notes from around the league presented my sleeper. All I'm doing is picturing like Dan Rather or Anderson Cooper. News time. Here we go. News time. That's right. That's right. All right.

Big maybe for you guys. A big, big maybe. Here's the deal. Russell Wilson, we're recording this show late April 15th for, you know, obviously now it's Tuesday. It's April 16th. But we don't know whether Russell Wilson has signed a contract with the Seahawks or not. It's not trending that way. He gave a deadline. A source told Mike Florio that the Seahawks believe Russ wants to play somewhere else. And if he does not sign,

or hasn't signed by the time you're listening to this. According to Russell Wilson, he will not sign an extension with them at all. Peter King. Yes, according to Peter King saying Russell Wilson will not sign an extension ever. Essentially, if they don't get something done now, then he's going to play out his contract. You can franchise tag him if you need to. He'll go the Kirk Cousins route, which does lead to the idea that trade. Maybe he would trade. There's a lot of possibilities or maybe he really does want.

You know, I think Tyron Matthew was out there saying he, you know, he wants to play in New York. He wants to play in New York. Yeah. Also, big news. Whoa. Adam Thielen. He got that bag. Adam Thielen, four-year, $64 million contract extension. So Adam Thielen, officially getting paid. The Vikings rewarded Adam Thielen. He would have gone into the season making $8 million this year. He's going to make double. He will make $16 million this season.

I saw some tweets to this extent. Thielen Diggs, both locked up, big, big money, poured into quarterback and wide receivers for a team that wants to run the ball more. Yeah. I was saying about 90% of their cap is the two wide receivers and their quarterback. But I have been more insistent and more on the other side of that equation where the over-talk, the over-discussion of the running game. Look, I love Alvin Cook because he's the only man in town, and they do want to run the ball. Well, when push comes to shove,

They had a defense that struggled last year. They have to, I mean, you're not going to, how much money is locked into feeling digs and cousins? 100 million dollars? The truth isn't that like when we talk about the Seahawks or the lions really wanting to be a run, first run only type of team. That's not what Minnesota is wanting to do. They just want to be more balanced. Before they fired, who was there, DiPhilippo, before they let him go, it was a really.

obnoxious ratio as far as to Zimmer, to Mike Zimmer head coach. So they just want to be more balanced. They want to be able to run the clock out when they're up. They want to be able to play good football. I think there's a good move. I mean, obviously I've been saying, and Andy you've been saying, Thielen is their number one receiver. He will be the number one target. And I think it's going to be a good offense. It's just, it's a crazy situation speaking for the NFL business side because when Adam Thielen had his breakout,

coming from his undrafted state, worked his way up, had a little bit of success, not a huge amount. They were rewarded. And they gave him money. I mean, and they took the gamble on their side saying Thielen is for real. And Thielen took his gamble of saying, I need to cash in on this unless, he got the best of both worlds. If something terrible happens, teams don't do this where a player has massively outperformed their contract, even when that contract was already.

a big payday for that player to start with. So this is a very interesting business move by the Minnesota Vikings to me. Do you agree with the fantasy football sentiment that we talked about last week with the wide receiver show that you take the guy at the best value between Thielen and Dick? Only if Thielen is the better value, yes. No, see, I'm all feeling all the time for Jason. They're very close to me. So yes, I would just take the better value. Chris Hogan signs a one year deal.

With the Panthers. Okay. I spared him. I spared him the drop. Oh, that's nice of you. I spared him the drop. The Jets signed Time Montgomery. It's interesting. Formerly of the Ravens Packers last year to back up Lev Bell. Yeah, it's... Or be a piece of that puzzle. He is their new ballpah. That's what he is. He's the new ballpah. Well, and Ty Montgomery is far more like Levi-on-Bell than the other guys that they had on the team. Have we not talked about Leonard Fournette yet? No.

Leonard Fournett was arrested in Jacksonville on Thursday for speeding and knowingly driving with a suspended license. So here we are. Do you get a lesser punishment if you say, I knowingly? I did not know that it was suspended. Well, of course you want to say I did not know. You don't want to go around being like, yeah, I just didn't care. Well, this would sound, this sounds to me like Leonard Fournett admitted that he knew it was suspended for, uh.

Here's what fantasy owners need to be aware of. It's been a very, it's been a tight row block for Leonard Fournet with Tom Cofflin in that organization. They already pulled out the guaranteed money on his last year of the deal. Now you have this situation where Tom Cofflin has been talking up Leonard Fournett. Fantasy owners are expecting big things. There's not a lot of competition. Alfred Blue is there. Like I said, it's a clear path forward for Leonard Fornet. And now this...

there's something that happens here that gives people like Jason who own him in a lot of leagues, at least a little bit of pause to say, will this be the straw that breaks the camel's back for Tom Coughlin? It's not good. It's not good when you've got someone like Tom Coughlin who really does genuinely care about that stuff. I mean, Leonard Fournett laughing on the sideline while they're losing, a lot of coaches would just whatever. He's a human. This was not okay for, you know, grandpa.