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What's going on, everybody? Al Barlin, Judge Giamatti, standing by. Enough of you, Jason. I am freaking out excited for next week. This coming week is going to be incredible. We have big announcements. The NFL draft is happening, and I am like full into rookies right now. I cannot wait. I'm so footballed up right now. I just want you two to know how your football-y-y- I am. Oh, I'm shoo-ha.

Sitting in your high rise. That's right. That's right. I'm up on the penthouse. Quarantined and watching film. That's right. Mike, how are you doing? Any breaking news from quarantine land? We're doing all right. We're doing all right over here. The breaking news would be I had eggs and potatoes for lunch. That's the breaking news. That's the world we live in, man.

Breaking news. Let's check on Jason's Dintymore Soup count. Oh, yes, that's a great point. How many cans of Dintymore Soup have you consumed? First of all, I know I'm Mr. canned food, but they aren't cans. There are packages. You just peel and microwave. It's fantastic. Wait, what? Yeah, oh, they've upgraded. You've got, you've got, you can come over and pick up, you know, I'll leave them on the porch. You can come get 20 or 30. I've got plenty to spare.

But they are delicious. I'm down three. I've eaten three of them. We've been buying our groceries online, which means that there are a lot of those situations where you get the replacement, you know, where someone is shopping for you and they say, would you prefer this or that? We did one of those. And then we got the milk, and the milk came a carton without the twist off. It was like an old-fashioned, you know, the like...

Bend and Open milk gardens. Called the bend and smush. What, like a school lunch? Yeah, like a school lunch. So the milk we got. They still make that? I didn't know that either. It shocked me. I was like, it was just very strange. The other problem with online food ordering is produce. If you ask for bananas or avocados or whatever, you're getting the worst ones, the people that pick that stuff out of like, you're getting the ones or it's like, well, leave the good ones for the customers who walk in and know what they're getting.

Yeah, what are you going to do? I mean, speaking of eating, Jason, uh, the Jason eats follow up video. We're all very, very excited for that thing to drop this Friday. How is the filming going? Has it happened? It is about to happen as soon as we finish recording this. Very nice. I'm not looking forward to it. I, well, are you hungry right now? Is that, that might change your opinion of the dish. I am actually starving.

at all times so yes you're always you're always ready that's my secret always ready to film always ready to go i'm always hungry you can uh see all of our episodes including the very special once a week jason eats episodes youtube dot com slash the fantasy footballers jam pack show diving into quarterbacks if you're watching on youtube you can see uh i am getting very political on the show today guys don't don't hold me back don't stop me

I support this platform. Do you? Okay. Because I am going Murray Hopkins 2020 for president. I thought you were calling for co-MvPs of the NFL. That is acceptable, Mike. Or one Super Bowl MVP, one regular MVP. I think you'd go president, vice president, Super Bowl MVP, regular MVP. All of these things work for me. But, no, very excited to get into it on this show. Talk about Kyler. Talk about some of the.

quarterbacks even further down on our consensus rankings, the kinds of value quarterbacks that we end up with in most of our leagues that can help, you know, deliver top tier numbers, but not with that top tier price tag. Right. And then you can find us on Twitter at theFFballers Instagram.com slash fantasy footballers. Quick question ties into the draft. Jason, you said you're very excited. Stoke. He's footballed up.

He's footballed up. What are you most looking forward to? For me, it was just new stories, the rookie rankings and dynasty rankings. The fact that we can dig in, the fact that you can kind of wrap your head around a roster for these teams. Why is it no longer that?

Yeah, you did say it was. You were very emphatic on the past tense there. You said, for me, it was. It was all of that. But now it's my political platform. Oh, okay. All right. For me, I'm looking forward to the supreme technical difficulties. If this thing goes off without a bang, I and the world will be so not surprised, disappointed.

I want the problems so bad. I want them to go to a camera and have, you know, Gettleman knock his binder. We've all seen the photo of Gettleman on his, with his little, little itty-bitty laptop with the binder that could, that could be used as a murder weapon. Mounds of paper everywhere on that desk. That's going to make it quick action.

There will be jokes. There will be lots and lots of jokes based on watching each and every room. And you know the memes that are coming out of this thing. It's going to be great. It'll be ridiculous. The actual football thing I am looking forward to. I want to see how high Jonathan Taylor goes because I think he's a supremely talented back, the best back in this class. But it doesn't seem like he has the buzz or the team needs at a high position. You know, we talk about...

the other, you know, backs that have gone in the top 10, whether it's Leonard Four Nett or Christian McCaffrey or Zieg or these guys. It just doesn't seem like that can happen for any running back, but, you know, especially for Jonathan Taylor. So that to me is the one thing I'm watching for. Is he going to go on the first round? Because he needs that draft capital, that team to invest because he can carry that massive workload. And I hope a team is investing, you know, in telling us with their actions, we're going to give it to him.

We have draft-related shows and draft reaction shows coming up pretty much all next week. Mike, what are you most looking forward to? So I am most looking forward to our big announcement that is happening next week and the follow-up to said announcement. That's what I'm really looking forward to. It's going to be very, very special, but to do not just leave people with the tease of what's going to happen next week. Sort of like Jason, he wants to see how high.

Jonathan Taylor Thomas goes, I want to see, does the NFL actually believe in this wide receiver class the way that fantasy and dynasty players have been touting them for what's, it seems like 2020 wide receivers have been being touted for about eight years now in Dynasty land. So will four or five somehow end up in the first round or will it really just end up being?

Judy and C.D. Lamb is the only first round wide receivers. It's interesting to me the depth at the position and the fact that there are legitimately, you know, more than five players that could be star NFL wide receivers. Does that make it to where more are drafted in the first or fewer because you go, well, look, it's such a deep class. I'm going to grab these positions that are more scarce in the first.

And I'll grab, you know, there's four guys I love. So I'll grab one of them in the second, you know, does it end up actually having the opposite effect on draft capital? Or does the run, the run happened where we had a couple years ago where it, it seemed like the wide receivers were not going to go early. And then all of a sudden it was, it was Corey Davis, was that also the Mike Williams here? Corey Davis, Mike Williams, and John Ross or stuff. Like they all just rattled off in those first few picks. I'm just.

To follow up on your Jonathan Taylor comment, I'm now curious because based on you saying you're excited about that, that infers that Jonathan Taylor is your number one before the draft where Swift is mine. I saw Silva come out with his list this past week. Mike, who do you have at the top of your running backboard pre-draft? Do you have Taylor? Yeah, Taylor's at the top. He's the guy I just, I like the most. It's a little, it's a little bit different for me because I...

usually fall in love with those guys who have the massive production in the passing game. But I believe that Taylor can be an absolute just beast of a man on the ground. And I think that his hands are solid enough that he could, like Leonard Fournette. We didn't, no one envisioned Leonard Fornett as a pass catching superstar. And not that he was necessarily great with all the opportunities he had last year, but he still caught a whole bunch of passes. Like I think Jonathan Taylor can.

can do that except be a far better running back overall than Fournet. All right, let's talk news. News and notes from around the league. All right. Let's start here. A report this morning about Joe Mixon, quote, prepared for a holdout. Uh-oh. If they can't reach a long-term deal, he is obviously vastly underpaid in the moment. I think he's on the books to make like a million dollars this year.

Does this concern you right now, or are we just so far out that it's not of great concern to you? Concerns me immediately. If you threaten to hold out, then there's a really good chance you end up missing games. And so, yeah, I think this has an immediate effect. If you're doing best ball drafts, if you're doing some kind of startup draft now, I would certainly, at the very least, tie break with other guys in his tier that don't have the threat of

non-injury missing games. It's interesting. The Bengals do appear ready to work with him on a new contract. The McCaffrey signing certainly, you know, I don't have any quotes from Mixon himself. This is a report out of the athletic, but you have to imagine that that contract gets your brain going. I believe that Mixon did a cartwheel when he saw Christian McCaffrey's contract.

He looked over, he said, I'll have one of those. Yeah, and the Bengals did the... I'll have the same, please. The Bengals did the sit on the wall and slide down maneuver. I think they'll get a deal done. I'm not concerned yet, but obviously when you hear the words hold out and what we faced in off-seasons in recent years with certain players. Hopefully, Joe has watched specifically like what happened to Melvin Gordon, where we don't have the numbers of what the charges were offering him.

but I'm going to put the probability at 90 plus percent that they were offering him more money than he got from his new contract this year with his two-year deal. All right. Speaking Tuesday, New Panthers coach, Matt Rule, John Rule, said he wanted to avoid having Christian McCaffrey on the field for every snap. This is not the first we've heard of that. We had reports earlier in this offseason. People reached out to me talking about the fact that they have been.