Fantasy Wildcards + Stack Attack, Mysterious Upside - Fantasy Football Podcast for 6/9

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Brief absence. Brief absence. Welcome in, Mike. Virtually. I mean, to the user at home, they are none the wiser that I'm not there. But yes, I'm here for the recording. I'm here for my hot, spicy takes. Yes, we have a wild cards episode today. Jason Moore is here as well. I'm a wild card. You've always been a bit of a wild card. That's right. And the deucers, we've got two-thirds of them in the building.

Say hello if you want. Hey, what's up? And, uh, Mike is entertained. Yeah, not the greeting you expected, Mike. Well, it's just, it's always so incredibly awkward when they like jump on the mic because they, they're not really sure. Should I jump in? What do I say here? And it's just, it delights me every time how it remains awkward every time. Yeah, we're over a thousand shows in. It's still like. Every time.

Yeah, I can assure you it's equally as awkward for us. Yes. It comes through. Did you hear the mailbag drop from the Tuesday show? No, I heard the deucers handled it, but I have not gone back yet. That's right. We kind of had a moment on the air where we said we might, would it seem like we might just choose somebody to do it? And craftily, Al just said, we'll all do it together.

He did not want to be singled out. He was very fearful. And then on the footcast this week, I made Andy do it by himself. So go check that out. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Yeah. Is that what I did? Thank you for joining us today. YouTube.com slash the fantasy footballers, Twitter at the FF Ballers. You can find us on Instagram. We're on TikTok, wherever social media things are. Fantasy footballers over there. Brooks is smiling. Are you a TikTok or Brooks? Do you tick to the talk? No, I don't.

he's got a huge channel he does all the dances oh man that would be so great i don't know what kind of reward i could give you if i discovered that late into the game like thousands of subscribers in like of all of us in the office who would have if they actually had a real popular channel doing the dances which one would be the best yeah i mean i

It's ironic. Somebody asked us who was the best dancer in the office, and none of us could remember ever seeing you dance at all. Oh, I'm terrible. So we all went with our developer, Andy Schneider, who, you know, we just feel like he's kind of good at everything. So he's probably pretty good at dancing. Yeah, I never seen him dance. I'm sure he crushes. Probably. Jerk. Quick question of the day, gentlemen. This one comes in from Twitter.

Is there a quarterback wide receiver stack you're interested in drafting at their current average draft positions? So, I mean, it's fun. In fantasy, it's fun to have a stack. I don't go into my draft saying I have to get one. But when the draft goes a certain way and that opportunity is sitting there, it's a situation where I might move.

quarterback up around to get it. Yeah, and if you're in best ball, I think stacks are even more important. They peak your performances. If you're getting a quarterback who has a good day and you've got his wide receiver, chances are you maximize points. So I look for it more in best ball. My go-to quarterback wide receiver stack this year is actually the one that Mike is going to talk about. But since he...

Put it in the dock first. My backup plan would be Mike Evans, who I find myself taking pretty regularly in the third round. I think he's a really good value there. He's, to me, a wide receiver won this season. So to be able to get him in the third is good. And then Brady's always a good value because nobody is hot and bothered by the old man Brady. You're getting him at least in the eighth round, if not in the double-digit rounds.

So that's a stack that I am happy to go with. Mike Evans, Tom Brady, neither one costs a lot. So at their average draft position, I'm happy to pair them together. Mike? I really like Russell Wilson and Cortland Sutton, Denver Broncos duo. And it comes down to, you know, the actual ADP looking over on what's going on with the over on Sleeper right now. Sutton's like a back of the fifth.

wide receiver going behind Alan Robinson and Michael Thomas. And I have my projections for Cortland Sutton are massive. And Russ, who until last year with the injury, had never finished outside the top 12 as a fantasy quarterback and giving you several years of elite production. Like he's going, you know, in the seventh or eighth round. So I don't have to pay up for Russ. And I think that, I think the top five finish.

is still in the range of outcomes for what Wilson could do if he's actually unleashed in Denver. Let me ask you a follow up there, Mike, before I tell you mine, does having that stack in particular where you get a bargain on a guy like Cortland Sutton or in your mind a bargain? Right. And then going with Russ later, do you feel more committed to either player? Because at a certain point, obviously,

You know, if you're investing a higher draft capital pick on a wide receiver in a stack or a higher pick on a quarterback, you know, that's kind of your guy. But if you're getting guys later, do you feel like having the stack would like force you to lock those players into your lineup as opposed to if you had Sutton apart from Russ? Would you be more liable to move on from him if it wasn't working out? Possible. Like,

The hard part for the Broncos is we just, we don't know for sure who will actually emerge. And even the three of us have a differing opinion on who that's going to be. I just, I think it's going to be Sutton. And like, even if it's not him, so say I end up being incorrect on that with the, the back of the fifth, that's not too bad to take the shot there for what I think he could be. But for Russ, I think that.

Are we all in agreement that no matter who is the best fantasy receiver for the Broncos, Russell Wilson's still going to be a top 10 guy by the end of the year. Russ will be top 10, yes. I at least agree with that. I don't know. Yeah, I haven't ranked that way as well. I think I haven't at seven or six. So we all agree there. We don't know where the target distribution will end up because it's a pretty diverse set of weapons in Denver. And you...

Haven't seen it before. It's ironic that we're talking about that topic because I find myself actually, even though I said that Russ and Sutton are my kind of go-to stack, I don't actually land them often. And what ends up happening is I get Tim Patrick in the double-digit rounds when I've got Russell Wilson. And it's just a cheaper version of the stack where Tim Patrick isn't going to be a weekly...

must start guy. But if I do start him on that week where I'm hoping for that touchdown, it's great to just stack with my quarterback. What's funny is that that particular stack is identical draft costs in redraft leagues for Jerry Judy pretty much. So it's somebody may want the exact same stack, but they may go at the different wide receiver shooting their shot that they get that value. My pair is, it's pretty similar to what Jason's doing. If I can get Citi in the top of the third round,

And then I can go get DAC in the seventh who I think people have just some level of fatigue with DAC for whatever reason. I am pretty excited about that pair. I think CEDY is a top, you know, six wide receiver this season. Evans is tried and true. Citi has the mysterious upside. And then DAC, you know, Brady, very similar costs. So that's the one I would go with. Were there any other ones that just kind of popped up?

Actually, there weren't. And when I say that, I mean, like, usually I love, I, I, I enjoyed looking at this question. Mooney and, um, Fields is that year? Look, if you want to go budget, Mooney and Fields. I don't love a lot of the stacks this year. There are, um, you know, like, I like the value on Kirk Cousins, but most of the quarterbacks that I really, really like, like I'm, I'm in on Jalen Hertz a lot.

But I don't like the value of AJ Brown for where he's being drafted right now. So most of the quarterbacks I like at the value, I don't love where their wide receivers are being drafted. There were also a number of historically consistent stacks that have been deleted. Like Mahomes and Tyreek, that's gone. And you don't have Adams and Rogers anymore. So some of that has changed. It was interesting. I didn't have a whole bunch of them either when I was looking at it. Yeah.

Sorry, did you catch me smirking? I can't help if you're on YouTube. I can't help every time I look at the monitor, laugh at Mike. I currently have... You're laughing at Mike? I'm laughing at my glasses. Oh, because you are... Wait, you have one arm? I have one. Are these called arms on your glasses? The little... That's what I call them. I...

I have like the old school, you know, one, like the monocle glow. Well, we were playing pickleball and the glasses flew off the head and they exploded on the ground. And so now I'm hoping to get this fixed before our live show in Detroit next week. There's a chance he's doing the live show in Detroit with what you see. Oh, this is fabulous. It looks so ridiculous. Every time I see it, I'm just like, I just looks so stupid. Dude, get a piece of elastic. Oh, yeah.

And just strap them to your head. Or commit to the monocle. I mean, you don't need your eyes old. Yeah. All right. News time. News and notes from around the league. There are, I mean, there are plenty of funny things on the monitor. So I wasn't sure which one you were trying to point out. I thought you might have been laughing at, you know, the mustache. And I was going to feel very disappointed in you. No, I love the mustache. It's a visual delight today. D.K. Metcalf, not present for mandatory minicamp.

Contract talks have not yet resulted in a new deal. Yeah. This is a story for a number of players right now. But let's talk about something. I mean, do you think he gets a deal, I guess? I'll ask that question before I move on. Yeah, I think he gets a deal. You know, there were enough teams interested in paying a lot for a wide receiver on the trade market. They didn't choose to trade him. So I think he gets a deal done. Which you also believe about Terry McLaren?

I do. I think both of those guys will get deals done. All right. This was, this one's more interesting. The Steelers, Najee Harris, there was a report about reducing his role. And Najee kind of came out and said, like, I'll be playing on certain downs, which is just certainly not the case last year. All the downs were Nazis. And so it's a very interesting situation. The three of us, you know, we didn't come together and.

um discussed nausea before we projected him for this season but we are lower on him than the consensus of industry experts and that's before any of this news and you know they have that kind of what might be non news about his playing weight but nausey was so past have it was such a pass heavy situation for his fantasy points like he was not a breakaway runner like he

He had a lower percentage of 15 plus yard runs than Leonard Fournett had last year. And that was a problem that went back to Collegiate Days. Like that's not what he did. He did not have a significant amount of breakaway runs, ran for a low yards per carry. So I think that was kind of what was behind some regression maybe in the receiving game without Big Ben, the noodle arm, have to find the underneath checkdown guy. Right now Mitch Trubisky is the quarterback.