Dark Horse Teams, Big-Time Questions, Geography Lessons

I think you're going to hurt your team, trading him for the future and saying, I'm going to win next year or the next year. The problem, like, you're just, for me, trading Edelman is what are you actually going to get? I mean, even from a, I'd say I'm a contender. I want to buy Julian Edelman.

I'm giving you draft picks. Yeah, but like a second. If you were going to do it, you'd do it after he starts hot. Like if you're a rebuilding team, let him start hot this season. That would be much better. Prove himself and then trade him if you're not in contention. Just saying even if I'm a rebuilding team, I would rather have Edelman on my roster in case things turn around quickly. He just got an extension. Yeah, two year extension. So if you have three years of Julian Edelman, let's say he's great for two of them.

I'm not trading that away for a second round pick. That's not worth it to me. All right. This question from ant.rb says, Jason, how is your snack count? Oh, it's still 100%. Unfortunately, I can't get it below 100%. I try to like take a break, but then it's like, it's always 100. Always 100. All right. Ely Worcester says, who is the better breakout candidate? Christian Kirk.

or Anthony Miller. That is a great question. Let's just all formulate that in your head and then say it at the same time, either Kirk or Miller, okay? Formulate the answer. You ready? I've got my answer. All right. Three, two, one, Kirk. Oh, there we go. My reason, so I love Anthony Miller. I do too. Yeah. My reason for worrying it all about Anthony Miller is that his touchdown rate.

You look at him and you go, oh, man, in limited action, he was dealing with injury. He had seven touchdowns as a rookie, so he's going to be this touchdown machine. That's not how touchdowns work in the NFL. That's not what happens year to year. He has a, you know, the touchdown rate will come down for Anthony Miller. If that comes down, it's going to be difficult for him to then break out. A breakout player is somebody who's going to have all of his metrics rise, and you think, okay.

Anthony Miller had, you know, portions where Alan Robinson was dealing with injuries. And, you know, he had. Yeah, Trey Byrd missed some time. Other players missed some time. He filled in. And he had the offense already doing better. The offense for Arizona last year was atrocious. And, you know, I don't think Anthony Miller can overtake Alan Robinson as the one this year.

Christian Kirk could overtake Larry Fitzgerald. Yeah, absolutely could. He's 22 years old. Larry Fitzgerald is 35 years old. Christian Kirk has played with Kyler Murray as a freshman in Texas A&M. I mean, this is a situation where they have a relationship. Kirk is a young, up-and-coming receiver. Again, it's not projecting that it will happen.

But you asked for the best candidate, and he has the chance to be the number one on the team. And Kirk absolutely flashed last year. You talked about... Yeah, 590 yards last year with Josh Rosen. The Cardinals' offense was terrible, and the one bright spot was the potential you could see from Christian Kirk turning into an actual fantasy star. Absolutely. A quick reminder, we do have some tickets available for our live tour. You can go to BallersLive.com, Chicago, New York, San Francisco, L.A., Phoenix.

Check that out at ballerslive.com. Grab tickets while you can. We should just start saying Midwest instead of Chicago. Oh, yeah, because from what I understand, Chicago is in the Midwest. Right. And so if you are also in the Midwest, we'll see you in Chicago. And then let's do this. Christine Day of the day. All right, Melvin Gordon signed Los Angeles Chargers jersey yesterday at pristine auction.com.

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Five bucks. Use the registration code ballers at pristine auction.com. Before we close, I'm looking at a map of the United States. The way you were talking about Chicago, it's the Midwest. And I test my geography here because it's terrible. No, no, no. But in that area like Minnesota, it's, it's the Midwest. But if you look at a map, I don't know why we call it. Oh, I've.

Why is it not just... Look, everything's west of it. To me, it's that... Is it the Mississippi rule? Everything west of the east coast. But I mean, like, you draw a line right down the middle. I don't know why you would refer to that as the Midwest. I am curious than it is west. Yes. Especially Chicago.

What is everything Jason knows about the Midwest in 60 seconds? Oh, that is a great question. All right. Everything you know about the Midwest and 60 seconds, Jason. The Midwest is known as the upper north middle of the United States. If they don't refer to it as the Midwest, it includes such states as Illinois and Minnesota. And, and also.

Are you looking at a map right now? Indiana. It's still struggling? Indiana. Michigan. Okay. There are great lakes in the Midwest. I know that here's one thing I really do know about the Midwest. Fantastic food. It is not healthy for you. It is probably where I will go to retire for that reason alone. I'm interested in these lakes. What do you know about? And they love football. The lakes, especially the names of the Great Lakes. Yeah. There's Lake. Lake Erie.

Uh-huh. Ah, crap. Lake, Lake, uh, withuki. You know. Thank you, Jason. Thank you very much. I'm surprised. There's no another one. Yes. I'm surprised you didn't. Like, if you asked me about the Midwest, I think about those insane tornadoes going on. Yes. That's the Midwest, right? Is it? I feel like that's the central. No, I mean, that's the mid.

But I think, is that area called the Midwest, though? Brooks is the only one that can possibly speak to this because we are horribly illiterate Arizona fools. Brooks, where is the Midwest, according to you who is, you grew up in Michigan? Yeah, I think I'd be, I think more north like that, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, some of those states. So what is Oklahoma? Where are they? Are they part of the South? I don't know. But I feel like I wouldn't call Midwest. I know they're in. I don't know if that's accurate. Ohio is Midwest. Yeah.

It's right, yeah, right below in Michigan. Ohio is so far east. Why is this in the Midwest? I don't know. Geography from the Fantasy Footballers. Thanks for joining us on the podcast today. All your support. We'll be back soon with another episode. We'll see you next time. Goodbye. Thank you for listening to another episode of the Fantasy Footballers podcast. Join our fantasy football community on Jointhefoot.com. And follow us on Twitter.

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