Players We’re Embarrassed to Love + Jeanty Madness! - Fantasy Football Podcast for 8/24

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How are the groins doing these days? Are we butterfly stretching? I think more butterfly stretching has been taking place. We're getting the word out. Yeah, we're trying our best. But yeah, fewer, the groins are. Can you patent like a move and no one else can use the move without paying you? Your stretch? Like a stretch? Hmm, I'm going to look into that. Like you catch somebody doing it and you're like, that's five bucks. I would like to patent the butterfly stretch. Yeah. All right. Well.

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Yeah. I mean, says an unflexible person. I mean, do you? Inflexible. But what can you do the splits? Get wrecked. I can't recover after that. I'm sorry. Can you do the splits? That's one of those like really cool things. It feels like a shameful thing. Like I'm embarrassed. This is the I'm embarrassed to love. Yeah. I would be embarrassed to be like, watch me do these slurs. I'd feel that way too. I would be like Jean-Claude out there. I'd be like any excuse to do the splits. I'd be like,

You need that light turned on. Let me let me put it. Let me ask you this way. You got, oh, I see your counters are close together. Splits. If we were walking out into the lobby for lunch. Yeah. And Matt Pingree, the Falcon, just drops into his dead splits, just drops on the floor splits. Well, that's embarrassing. Yeah. You have to have a fake reason to do it. Okay. All right. Because he wouldn't. He'd just drop. He just dropped. Like maybe he dropped his wallet.

What if he did it on purpose, though? Whoops. Well, yeah, I would do that. Like I said, any excuse. All right, players were embarrassed to love. We've each got a name or two. It's time to go public. All right. I mean, I feel like mine and Jasoners, people already kind of know about it, but yours is. Yeah, I mean, I can start. You could still, you could pivot. I already told you Romandre, but.

This, no. You can change right now and no one will be, none the wiser. Let me say this. Let me say this. We know, but. This was the pivot. Wait. It was worse than this? This was the pivot. It was Watson. I knew it. No, it wasn't. I knew it. No, this was the pivot for Kyle Pitts. He was placed in a couple other spots more significant than being on the players. I'm embarrassed to love show. This was. He's not your MVP or my guy anymore. This was a my guy and an MVP candidate. Oh.

And you guys said the same thing in the office. You don't have to do this. And so he found a home on this show. And it's Kyle Pitts, tied in for the Atlanta Falcons. You were loving that Michael Pennix news. Gross. I am obviously embarrassed to say that I love Kyle Pitts this year. Yes, you should. But I do. I do love Kyle Pitts this year. He will be on so many of my teams.

because of the draft cost, because he will be a seventh round, late six round pick. Last year, you know, the fantasy finish, what was he, two, tied into? I know he had the insane game, but look, the capacity to have a game like that, signs the three-year, $36 million guaranteed extension. The two left-handed, mediocre quarterbacks that he has, especially the one that's going to start the season, is so inept and

What do you call it when you're like in the puck? Gunshy, like just absolutely afraid of pressure and throws the ball short all over the plays. I think Kyle Pitts, look, I have more confidence that he has a season worth being proud of than I do right now about like the Drake London having the Jefferson style year. He led the Falcons and Rout, targets, receptions, receiving yards last year. Only McBride did that in the NFL. Tua's area of the field is low A-DOT.

We know this. 80 or sorry, 63% of his temps under 10 yards. The one preseason game we saw them together, it was like four out of five plays. Kyle Pitts caught a pass. I think the PPR value of Kyle Pitts is going to be through the roof. Kevin Stefansky's coming in as the head coach. This is the one that can, I mean, it does a sway, but if anything was going to do it, it would be this one. Kevin Savansky, his target share for the tight-in position.

that's a routinely targeted position for Stefansky in 2025 last year, 32% of the targets. But it's like 26% or higher for the last six years as a head coach. And so to me, this one is a, this is an easy button to tie in, which Pitts has never been. He has been drafted now in six consecutive years. This is the second lowest draft price that you've ever gotten on Kyle Pitts.

And so basically here's what the fantasy community did. He was drafted in the 10th round last year, basically the 11th. He had a tight-in two season. He won people fantasy playoff games. And then they're like, we'll move you to the mid-seventh round. So nobody's bought in to the degree. They're burnt more than they're bought in. And so to me, this one is an obvious, look, I don't like it. I'm not proud of it, but I'm there. And Kyle Pitts will be on a ton of my teams. Where are you guys with Kyle Pitts?

He'll be on none of my teams, but that isn't because I'm anti Kyle Pitts. I think that where, I mean, I've talked about this a lot. Whether you like Laporta, for you guys, you love Kraft, obviously, if his injury is totally gone. I get that. But all those middle round tight ends, you're sacrificing running backs and wide receivers that I think are more valuable shots to take. So I won't have him. If he was in, you know, if he drops to the 10th round, like he should.

I would pull the trigger on them. I do think that there is enough talent there. They paid the man. There's enough opportunity there. Really, I mean... And let me bring up... Sorry, go ahead and finish your thought. I was just saying, you know, we were talking up Zachariah Branch, a late round draft pick who weighs, you know, 100 pounds at wide receiver because someone else has to catch the ball there. A lot of people want to point to the three touchdown 16-yard game in week 15 as...

being the only reason that Kyle Pitts had a good fantasy season. It kind of, he turned it on from week 13 on. And I know Drake London, the injury, but you saw the ability, 82 yards, 90 yards, 166, 57, 58 yards. It was a good end of the season. They paid him the money. He was going to have suitors. I'm in. I'm trying to do the thing. We said, wipe the slate clean and look at it objectively. And to me, like, let me give you an example. My league of record team.

is going to need a tight end. I mean, but that's it, really. Yeah. And it's a, it is the strongest roster in the, whatever, the 20 years. Strongest roster going into season. That's a lot of pressure. Oh, it's factual information. Yeah. Yeah. Did you want me to read it? Yeah, I will. Josh Allen. Please. Jamir Gibbs. Okay. Kenneth Walker, Devon A. Chan, C.D. Lamb, Amon Ross, St. Brown. Right. In a three keeper.

You have managed to take everyone's keepers. Yes. Everyone asked me when I posted that this morning. They go, how do you have six keepers in a three keeper league? After our keeper deadline, you can trade picks for players. I had a lot of picks. I traded for some of the players. If you don't win, what an embarrassing. I know we're setting this season up this way. I want to get it out of the way. Terrifying. You've had a super team before. And it lost a lot of games. It started poorly.

Jason, let me ask you a question. Super teams don't win, man. Super team over here. The superest of... It is the superst of super teams that the League of Record has ever seen before. Yes. Week one. I would be going for a repeat. Which of those... Who am I rooting for? Yeah, which would you prefer to not happen. I want Andy to win a hundred times more. All right. So you are on team super team. Mike going... Just for the record.

that is like the question of is Sean Watson a better you said you're telling me two terrible options two terrible options but you love the Dodgers right that's what you're saying Jason does love super teams like when Kevin Durant joined the Warriors you're like that's what I'm saying I will say this I want the Dodgers to break baseball so that they fix it

I want them to... This was a Kyle Pitts discussion. Not lose another game until you... All I'm saying is is like Kyle Pitts is one of the targets for me late in the draft, depending on where he dropped. I have what I was going to say is... And if you want to take him from me, I dare you. Like, I already have Kyle Pitts projected under market, so he's not a player that will be a target for me. Okay. Well, Jason... We'll move on to a player that I am embarrassed to love because it just seems like...

Old busted for a young third year wide receiver. Old busted Roma Dunesay. Nobody likes him. It's Colson Loveland. It's Luther Burton. You look at the ADP right now. Luther Burton is everyone is in love. You watch the film. I'm in love. But also, we're projecting him to have to usurp Luther or Roma Dunesay in targets in a way that he didn't do last year. You know, you look at last year Rome led the team in first read targets.

led the team in first read target share when Caleb was pressured. Like that was the guy that he looked to. Now, maybe that whole thing flips. Fine. But what if it doesn't? Because one of these guys is sitting in the sixth round. And Roma Dunzee, here's the thing that, the embarrassing thing for me to say. I think he's good. And I feel like that's pretty embarrassing. Yeah. See, like Mike, you talk crap about Rome. You know, oh, I can't separate. You know, he's slow. Now you got the foot problem.

I'm embarrassed. So you're embarrassed in. You must have Rome above burden. Otherwise, it wouldn't be embarrassed. I have Rome and burden basically back to back in my rankings. I have Rome in almost every draft. We just did a mock draft. Friday, our last episode, I took Rome in that. You have consistently been on the Rome side. Yeah. And just as a reminder, I brought this up in the early off season, but to remind you, or if you're back for the first time, Roma Dunzee in year two, as a top 10 NFL draft pick in year two,

broke out. He was awesome. The first month of the season, he was the wide receiver three in fantasy. He got injured leading into the week nine game. That's when he popped up on the injury report with the foot issue. So that's a big chunk of the season. The first half of the season, he was a wide receiver one going into week nine. That seven game stretch, he was on pace for 136 targets, 75 receptions, 1150 yards, and 12 touchdowns.