Best Draft Spots + Double Flex Advice, Fresh Money - Fantasy Football Podcast for 7/23

Then it's Leonard Fournett. You can't be done, man. I mean, it's tough. It's not right. It's not right. Thank you. Like, stand up for what is right. It's not right. But I mean, if you can go Justin Jefferson in the first round, Cooper Cup, Jamar Chase, Stefan Diggs, and you come back and you grab Leonard Fornett and David Montgomery, like that is the least sexy pair that can probably win you a title totally fine that nobody's going to acknowledge.

Yeah, sounds like a couple gross running backs are going to be pretty good. You can throw Connor in here. I was going to say James Connor, I would prefer over Fournet. Over Fournet? I would definitely perform over Montgomery. Yeah, in Montgomery. But those two are often, like if you started early, so let's say you're at the 103 or the 102 and you do take Cooper Cup, Jamar Chase, Justin Jefferson, whoever you like there at wide receiver,

That's the spot in the draft where in your second, third round turn, you can often get Leonard Fournett and James Connor. I think there are two classifications of running backs in fantasy football. One's that when you hear their name, you think what can go wrong. And ones that when you hear their name, you think what can go right. And I think that's the first impulse that you get on certain players. Gibson, for two years, what can go right? Yeah, right? And it's upside. DeAndre Swift.

What can go right. Giovante Williams. What can go right. Awesome. But then players like Connor with injury histories, Montgomery, troubling teams and committees, even, you know, those are the what can go wrong guys. And I think that that emotion can just change who you draft. We're only human, Andy. Yeah, you know. YouTube question from Jimmy. When does the Megalibol start again for 2022?

It is starting very, very soon. We will probably spin it up here in a couple of weeks once August. What's the Meglabel? The Meglabel is the greatest, best, most specialist league that you can join. It's such a vocabulary. Yeah, such a, it's like I'm a walking thesaurus. It's the gnarliest. Thank you. Most radical. So what is the Megal Bowl?

The Megalobole is where all the Foot Clan gets together. Join the Foot. We join a single league. You're going to be in your own 12-person league. And then there will be playoffs in the playoff weeks from the top three teams from each league. And eventually all of these thousands of teams, there will be one victor, a Foot Clan winner, the specialist person out there. Oh, boy. Oh, boy.

Lucky winner. Not lucky. That impressive drafter that deft fantasy manager will be in our next year's listener league guaranteed a spot. And so if you... It's a massive league. Yes. How many thousands of players were in it last year? Do we know the total? I don't remember off the top of my head. There were 17,000 plus in the Foot Clan right now that are eligible to enter. So...

It's a pretty big deal. Yeah. Yeah. And so that tournament will begin very soon, and you will get access if you're supporting the show at Jointhefoot.com. Join me. Yeah. We play those leagues on Sleeper, so it's very easy to get in. And we're making some improvements this year. We are. If you played last year and some things frustrated you. Yep. We're going to go deep. We're going to have the fantasy playoffs continue to be what everyone's league's fantasy playoffs are this year. So it'll be weeks.

15, 16, 17 in the, so no bi-week players in the playoffs. In other words, we're making an adjustment to move it forward to match traditional leagues because it's been later in previous years, which caused some, or earlier in previous years, which caused some issues. And, you know, shout out to Ray, who works to commissioner, this multi-thousand-player extravaganza.

It's a lot of fun. It's engaging. We put up the leaderboards on the website. You can see last year's at megalobole.com right now, but that'll be being updated soon for 2022. And I might be around with the scoring a little this year. Oh, that's a good idea. Yeah, so. Yeah, make drafting a little bit more. Get to do what I want. So pay attention. Dig deep, Fookland. Yeah. That's a cool idea. I think we should do that. Keeper League question, Mike.

We'll wrap it up here. Okay. T. Higgins are Keenan L. Oh, man. I love it. Wow. I think it's Keenan Allen. If you're just like in a Keeper League, if it's just one wide receiver or a couple of players, you know, I'm not looking three years down the road. It's just who would I rather draft this year? And I think it's Keenan Allen.

Ask me, Andy. Okay, Jason, if you had to choose between Keenan Allen and T. Higgins. T. Higgins. Easily. It's easily T. Higgins for me because I think touchdown upside, if you had to say which one of these guys, I mean, they both got great quarterbacks, both got quarterbacks, could throw a ton of touchdowns, but which player projects to be able to have 10 touchdowns? Because they both project to be very important parts of the offense, have a ton of targets and receptions. T. Higgins, to me, has a much better chance of having 10 touchdowns than Keenan Allen, who.

It's just proven. That's just, that's not really is. Who had more touchdowns last year? Come on, mate. I don't know. Who had more touchdowns last year? I would, I would have guessed Tiggins, but because you're asking the question. The same. They're the same. Okay, you dirty. They were the same. Well, sure. But I mean, look, Keenan's far safer. Let's, let's just put that out there. I mean, Keenan is going to catch more total passes. You'll have more total targets. He has more tried and true. He's been a top 14 receiver five consecutive years.

He really doesn't get hurt anymore. That's not a part of the Keenan Allen experience. I mean, he's played 16. You know, except that one playoff game. For Mike, yes. He will get hurt for you. It was not just me. It is. Don't sit me. There are dozens of us. It is amazing that, you know, we bring up names all the time. If you've played for a long time, Matt Forte, Frank Gore, guys that were just injury problems. They were never able to stay healthy who then became.

Ironman. And Keenan is another one, right? The first, you know, the first, uh, four years of his career was just like, guys, great, but can't stay healthy. And now he plays every game. So like Debo, you know, who is like the giant injury risk to me or Christian McCaffrey, um, maybe, maybe they're not. Maybe they're going to be iron men the rest of the way. I'm taking, I'm taking Keenan, Ellen. Bad decision, but I understand.

Who are you taking, Andy? Yeah, I hoped you were going to do that. It is a very, very difficult question. I think I feel much more comfortable with one of the two players. It's so hard. I think T. Higgins does have a higher touchdown ceiling without question. Yes, I would agree. So, I mean, if you're looking for... Which honestly... I think I have Higgins ranked like a couple spots higher in a half point. Full PPR, give me Keenan, half point.

Flip a coin. Standard. Give me T. Higgins. It's baffling. Because Justin Herbert is one of the guys that could easily throw over 40 touchdowns in a season. How is Keenan only getting six of those? Do better. It's a great question. Do better Keenan. Herbert's doing just fine. Yeah. How about do worse, Austin Echler? How much you stop scoring so many times? That's really not fair. Especially after we talked to you last year on the show and it sounded like you weren't going to be the touchdown guy.

Liar? Yeah. I mean, I mean that respectfully. Oh, with the utmost respect. I think we might talk to him again this year. Oh, I hope we do. We love Austin. Awesome. Excellent. Who had more receiving touchdowns. Austin Eckler or T. Higgins? I see your trap. It wasn't Echler? It was. Oh, okay. I thought so, too. But that's just, that's absurd. That is absurd. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know what it is about certain players. You know, Julio had it for a long time with touchdowns. DJ Moore is allergic to the end zone.

There are certain players that just... It doesn't make sense. We need the scientists on this. Yeah. We've got to figure this out. T. Higgins is big and strong and mighty. And Joe Burrow is good. You decide. That'll do it for the fantasy footballers podcast. Talk to you next time. Goodbye.

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