Fantasy Football - Breakout Picks + MEGALABOWL is BACK! - Podcast for 8/19

The Fantasy Footballer Studio is sponsored by Walmart. To the Fantasy Footballers podcast with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Welcome in. Tuesday, August 19th, the Fantasy Footballers podcast, Jason Moore, Mike Wright. I'm Andy Holloway. Welcome, one and all. Preseason week two, officially over.

And it's a big time show. We've got a huge announcement on the show, something a lot of you have been asking about. So we'll get to that momentarily. We have undrafted, undrafted gyms on the show, some NFL news to talk about. And it's a breakouts episode. So we're each kind of mentioned, did you growl again? No, that wasn't me. Did you growl, Mike? No. Okay. It might have been. All right, go ahead. I mean... It's time, baby. The Megalobole has done launched. We are... It's done launched this thing. The Megalibol is the most fun, biggest fantasy football tournament in the world. You can go to megalobole.com to get all the information, but basically you're going to play in a totally normal league.

Just like how we set up our main league of record other than the keeper system. Same scoring, playing against medians, same roster construction, half PPR. And you're going to play against other Footland members in your 12 team leagues is going to be awesome. But here's the thing. There's 20,000 people playing in the Megalabole. And so at the end of the season, when you get in the playoffs, you're playing against a ton of people. You've got to make the top half. Then you've got to make the top half again, and then you've got to be the highest score to take down the Megalabal. Say and prove that you are the best fantasy football player of the year. And if you win, you will automatically be in the listener league with us next year. So if you're not sure, like, we're still waiting to get back to all the entries. Thank you, everybody, for submitting your listener league entries. We are a smidge behind on getting through all those, but we're working hard on them. And thank you. If you don't get in.

Just go win the Megalobol. It's so easy. We're also going to give you, I think the winner gets a UDK for life as well. I'm looking at the draft times. You want to go right now. You want to pick your draft time. Megalobole.com. We've got a couple Saturday drafts, a couple Sunday drafts, a couple Monday, Tuesday, and then the final draft will be Wednesday, September 3rd in the morning before the season begins. If you are a supporter of the show, there are 35,000 of you out there. You all get a free. entry into the Megalibol. So you don't have to do much. Just go to Meglabel.com, click the button, join one of the draft cues, get placed in one of the leagues, and you'll be part of the largest, most fun, fantasy football league on the planet. And to my knowledge, one of the only shark-themed leagues. I think it's the only Meglabel shark-themed, Megalodon shark-themed fantasy league in the universe. I feel like calling a Megalodon a shark is...

Not fair to it's not paying real honor to the Megalon you're saying but it but what it wasn't what it was a shark what if it's King shark okay now it's a little bit more honorable okay King shark biggest of all sharks yeah right? Yeah, right? Yeah, for sure. So yeah check that out chance there are still some like that we don't know in the ocean right? Yeah, a thousand percent because if you ever been down there? We don't know. I don't know what's going on down there. Yeah, to the bottom to the bottom think so. Could they be swimming down in the deeps? Like the only one who knows for sure is James Cameron. Yeah. Don't they get bigger the farther down you go? Isn't that where the big squids? Aren't the big squids way down deep? They are. Yeah, those are. But you know, the angler fish? Yeah. The terrifying monsters that have the lights. Yeah, they're actually very tiny. They're small. They're not that scary. Well, when you zoom in. Yeah, you zoom into the face. Oh, yeah. Yeah. We are scientists.

Some Bill Nyes over here. Meglabel.com head over there. Like I said, if you are a supporter of the show, you already have an entry. One of the things you can do, if you are somebody that purchased the ultimate draft kit, and we should mention this, we give you a dollar for dollar credit for the ultimate draft kit purchase, whether you bought it yesterday or back in February. If you would like to become an ultimate foot clan member, that is the top tier of our membership at join the foot.com. It gives you everything. You get the UDK every year, the DFS pass, draft analyzer, in-season app, all the tools and resources, the dynasty pass. You get 100% of everything, and we just give you a dollar-for-dollar credit from your UDK towards that if you want to upgrade to the ultimate tier. Did you mention the extra episode every week? And there's an extra episode every week. There's a lot of perks. Literally every single thing. Megalop perks.

that we offer. There's no other thing to add on ever if you are an ultimate foot clan member at join the foot.com. It's the easiest way. It's a Tripoli burrito a month. And you get everything we do forever. All right. We better get into it. We got a lot to talk about. Undrafted gems presented by Walmart. All right. During this month leading up to kickoff in the NFL, we're identifying some late round undrafted players to keep an eye on. as training camp and preseason rolls on every week. We bring up a different name that we're paying attention to. In case you're curious, it's undrafted gyms, G-E-M. It's not like just players named Jim. Right. The pool is so small the location. Right. Right.

Like, get your pump on. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, undrafted gyms. Oh, yeah. Like lifetime, Mountainside. I needed to work through it. His face is like, I have no idea you're talking. We often don't know your references, Mike. So we're used to just powering through. You're trying to connect too many dots. No, just a just GYM. You know, regular word. No, I know. It's also not the, uh, popular female band. Oh, gem. Yeah. Truly outrageous. Thank you, Mike. Let's talk some fantasy football players. My undrafted target here at tight end. It's Mason Taylor. My brain's trying to find another gym reference. Don't do it. Mason Taylor, rookie tight end for the New York Jets. He is 21 years old. He is not being drafted. He's down at tight end 22 right now. This is going to be one of those players that I think ends up a waiver wire pickup really, really fast. He's going to play all the snaps.

Tyler Conklin vacate 72 targets. I know we don't like Justin Fields the passer, but you go beyond Garrett Wilson and what are you left with? Is it, you know, Breece Hall out of the backfield? Correct. Dot, dot, dot. I mean. Josh Reynolds is the clear cut. It's, it's been confirmed that he is the clear number two wide receiver here. And just think about what I said. Josh Reynolds is right. No, look, Mason Taylor's good. He's a really, really good player. And people need to pay attention to him. And so for me, that is one of those players. If you're going to end up streaming tight ends or you have a tight end injury that happens or you just want to throw somebody at the back of your bench right before Sunday morning when the Jets play and you just want to see what, you know, 90 to 100 percent of snaps looks like for Mason Taylor on this offense, you know, you talk about Justin Fields likes to check the ball down. Well, tight ends are very good for that as well. He was.

Did you say he was a second round pick? I mean, no, I didn't mention it, but he's a second round pick. We love Colston Lovell and Tyler for good reason. But Mason Taylor went in the second. I wish he had the dog. Oh, you don't think he has the dog. Oh, no, I know he doesn't. He's been through the machine and there is nothing in there but just a tiny little kitty cat. That's a dog debate. No, there's go watch the tape. So here, here's, I'm in the middle between you guys. Mowson Taylor. I agree. that he's not like he's not like your bin senate type of guy that's looking to deliver the pain and run over guys like a third same tight in got it but he is a very good player he's son of a hall of famer he's a he's a pro as a rookie so i i really like the the bringing the bringing meousa table taylor up

I think it is worth. Jason, who's your guy? Let's move it. Meals and Taylor just. Let's move it forward. Just became a thing. Okay, okay. I hope you guys haven't seen my guy because my guy is an undrafted gym. I feel like it's you cheating on another one of your guys. It's, it's an undrafted gym. What if I told you that three of the last five games he played last year, he was a top six wide receiver on the week. My wallet knows that. Oh, yeah. Oh, so you and I had a little bit about this player. But he plays no snaps. It's Marvin Mims Jr. Marvin Mims is a really talented player who I will, you know, I've been pretty out on. You don't go into year three not, you know, having ever played snaps, looking talented, showing flashes of brilliance and then still never getting, you know, he's a gadget player, is a guy who's been used. He's literally never played more than 47% of snaps in a game ever.

And so you, that's why he's undrafted. You know, he'll, you can be in a deep league. He won't go drafted. However, what we saw last week in preseason is at least a glimmer of light that maybe just maybe the words Sean Peyton has said before of like, we've got to get this guy on the field more could happen, which Peyton, you can. In preseason week two. He played 16 of the 19 snaps with the starters. He left at the same time as Bo Nix. In 11 personnel, both Sutton and Mims played 11 of the 13 snaps. In 12 personnel, the Broncos used Sutton and Mims. Every single play except for one when my dude came in from one. Here's another undrafted gym. But I mean, if...

I don't know. This is preseason. This is just trying things out. See what works well. And so maybe this coming week it'll be Franklin in for every play. But if this is what happens and Mims grabs a hold of the wide receiver two role, I believe he is good enough to be very successful in fantasy football. He is a fast big play machine, highly productive, collegiate profile, young breakout age, has pretty much every single thing that we look for. across the board other than opportunity. So if this opportunity comes, Marvin Mims will be an important player this year. All right, Mike. What do you got? So I'm going to throw this out. This wasn't the player I'm going with this week. We talked about the Colts quarterback situation, which that'll be in the news if you didn't hear. Daniel Jones is the starter. And I was looking through ADP of just guys who were going real late. I was like, man, Michael Pittman.

Like, as much as we love Josh Downs, that's all fine and well. But it's like, Michael Pittman is a good player. And he's just really being forgotten about. But I really thought it would be Richardson. So just like, want to throw that out that that. Michael Pittman, pay attention. And Pittman is a, he's a squeaky wheel. He really is. He's got a little bit of the diva wide receiver in him that I want. He's paid like one. Oh, for sure. He's paid as a true number one alpha wide receiver and he demands the ball. I mean, there were quotes earlier this off season. I think it was Daniel Jones who was who was being quoted. Correct me if I'm wrong, Kyle, where he was saying basically Pittman makes sure I always know where he is. Like he's like, that's what I want from right. Not not if I'm like.

The coach of the team? Yeah, yeah, yeah. But for fantasy football, we play a different game. We sure do. But the player I'm going to bring up is because of a different quarterback situation that got settled. For the Cleveland Browns, I want to talk about Cedric Tillman. Just don't forget what happened in that stretch of it was only three games. So it is the smallest of small samples. But Amari Cooper gets traded midseason last year. And James comes in, and Cedric Tillman just goes nuclear for three games, eight for 81, seven for 99 and two, six for 75 and a touchdown. And then, unfortunately, he had a concussion in week 12, and then he was just out for the regular season. So this is a, just pay attention to the Cleveland Browns of we're excited that Joe Flacko has named the starting quarterback. How long will he be the guy? We don't know, but at least the beginning of the season.

the wide receivers will have more value than... He's Winston Light. I mean, Flacco is Winston Light right now. Andy, this is a... You weren't in the office when I was showing this to Mike. I don't know if you remember, but two years ago, Flacco started three games for... The Jets? No, for the Browns. Oh, you're saying. Oh, okay. For the Browns. Yes, yes. Two years ago, he started three games for the Browns. And I was like, I wonder what his pace... I remember he threw the ball a lot. I was like, because... he had a couple starts last year that was the that was the time that i won the championship because of nijoku because of joe flak yeah so uh his pace through the first three weeks that season of attempts um you want to take a guess how many attempts i mean it's got to be like five they're like 700 yeah that would be outrageous it would have been eight hundred to 78 i mean you just throwing the ball over 50 times a game yeah he is um

I would say that like the news, again, we're going to talk about the news in different quarterback situations. We got the news we wanted for fantasy. Yes. We got the news we wanted for fantasy in multiple situations. We're not rolling the dice with unproven passers that are going to run too much for these receivers to get targets. We got guys that are going to chuck it. So just kind of the closing argument for where Tillman is like Jerry Judy is the player who's being drafted. Jerry Judy, you know, for how long his career has been. It's been okay-ish, and then we had the second half of last year. And for three of those games, Cedric Tillman was also doing those things. So it's a, you know, depending on your lead format. It makes you nervous. But Jerry Judy is like what, six or seventh round pick? Where's Cedric Tillman? It could be Tillman. All the camp news about Tillman has been positive. If it was the opposite, like he's the perfect player to pay attention to the news because.

The depth chart, does Deontay Johnson take over an opportunity from him? Those type of questions, I think they've been answered. Deonti Johnson was playing in this most recent game. Tillman has not been. Tillman is going late. He will be starting on the outside. And if this team has to end up doing a Joe Flacco, let's chuck the ball. And like, Tillman might be the guy. The only problem is the Browns have a good defense. I wish they didn't. That's a shame. But with Deonti Johnson, we don't even know what team he plays for come week three. Yeah, I mean, the Brown's schedule-wise, they might win a game or two. If you look at their schedule, I think you can give them between one and three wins. On the beginning what?

No, no, for the year. Oh, wow. For the year. For the year, I think if I look at that schedule and I'm generous to the Browns, I see one to three wins. I think they've got too good of a defense and the NFL has too much parity for it to be that low, but they do have a very, very rough schedule. All right, that was undrafted gyms presented by Walmart. Who knew that you could get what you need in as fast as an hour? Get free delivery on your first express delivery order with the Code Express. Valid for First Express delivery order, $50 minimum, subject to availability. Restrictions apply. It's time for news. News and notes from Around the League. Presented by Progressive Insurance.

The Colts have named Daniel Jones as their starting quarterback. Head coach Shane Steichen came out and said it is not, he's not planning on it being a short-term arrangement. His quote was, he's the starting quarterback for the season. Stuyken said. I don't want to have a short leash on that. Like the length of Stuyken's season. Well, yeah, Stuyken season could be shorter than a full 17. But one, I think it's the right move. We talked about this on the show yesterday. I thought they might go Richardson because the path of the change is clean that way. If you bench Richardson now, like we didn't really talk about if they made this decision. If you bench Richardson now, to me it's a full... Forever. You're done. You're done with Anthony Richardson. You should trade him. The experiment. It's over. And so I think that decision was made. I think this is Daniel Jones is our starter. You can debate it. I think he's a better...

passer. I think he's a much better quarterback. I don't think that's fully debatable. It's just could Anthony Richardson have gotten there? Because he needs reps. He needs practice. Completely fair. And this coaching staff is like, we don't have time. Right. Why draft him in the top five then? That's the question. Yeah, it's weird. You can call that on the Indianapolis. Like if you, if you draft a player that has almost no college experience and needs reps and you don't give him reps, now he's been injury prone. He's been inaccurate. They obviously made a decision that goes beyond the preseason games where they were pretty even and said Daniel Jones is our guy. But my goodness, am I happy about this decision? Yeah, Tyler Warrens. And my guy for you, of course you're happy about this decision. And Josh Downs, we like Josh Downs, whether he's there week one or not, Michael Pittman, the office. Jonathan Taylor. I love Jonathan Taylor. It's a huge deal for Jonathan Taylor. It's great for everybody. It's great for everybody other than Anthony Richardson. He had standalone.

upside, you know, magma potential for fantasy. But here's the thing, Daniel Jones is not in and of himself. He's not a terrible fantasy option. If he's going to start the season, like if you're in a Super Flex league, because he was named the starter later, I mean, this is a guy that is not, you know, he's one of the last players drafted, but he runs the ball. He's got good weapons. Four out of his, believe it or not, Daniel Jones played 10 games last year. And four of those games, he was the top 12 quarterback. including a top five finish because of what you're saying. He runs the football. I would say he definitely has more talent around him right now than he had in New York and the receiving room. And on the offensive line. Yeah, and with the running back, I mean, they didn't have Sequin last year. So it was Devin Singletary to start the year when Daniel Jones was quarterback. So it's not to say he's the savior of the franchise. It's going to be an uphill battle for Indianapolis, but it's very good for fantasy.

unless, of course, you're a dynasty manager of Anthony Richardson, in which case, he may be on the Tray Lance path at this point. Yep, feels like it. We did mention the breaking news yesterday. We just talked about it. Joe Flacco is going to be the week one starter. He had a bit of a different quote around the longevity as being the starter. Yeah, he was asked, are you the starter for the season or until further notice? His answer was, we all know how that works dude joe flacco's quotes at this age he's 60 45 something like that he's 40 on the dot 40 on the dot um he i don't know when it was i think like three years ago he turned into the old man i don't care and i love it his quotes he is he's cool

He's so cool. He's so cool. Joe Lago's cool. I love him. You see David Nogoku's joy in Flacco being the starter? I felt so much happiness and relief. Like I felt the weight off David Nogu's shoulders. He was clearly so afraid it was going to be Kenny Pickett. And he couldn't say that because it could have been Kenny Pickett. And that would have been his quarterback and he would support him, of course. But when Flacco got the starter, he's like, Flacco, yes. They're going to keep four on the roster. Which is supposedly. Which I don't think a team has done in a really, really long time. That does go a little bit towards your prediction of not winning a lot of games. Because those quarterbacks don't help them on the roster. They take up roster spots from other players who seems like they need. Their weird situation is they didn't spend top draft capital on Gabriel or Sanders. And then Kenny Pickett's certainly not the future. So if you end up with one to three wins or their Vegas line, five and a half, you're in the running for the number one, number two, number three pick again.

And that should be on the table for you. If you didn't spend high draft capital on a quarterback, it's going to be tough for Cleveland, but they do have a great defense. The commanders, Terry McLaurin, Brian Robinson, Jr. They were not in attendance to last night's game. So not only not playing, but not even in attendance. Brian Robinson is counting down the days, hanging up the for sale sign on this house. Yeah. He does not seem like he will be a piece of the commander's offense. He will be a piece of someone's offense. He's a good enough running back. I'm afraid of him right now.

Right. He could ruin a lot of situations. You hear, you hear the Texans, right? Like if he goes to the Texans, it is a death knell for Mixon. It is basically saying everyone. I wouldn't want Robinson. I wouldn't want Mixon, Chubb. No, but it would be like saying Mixon's injury is. Yeah, they would be admitting it. So, and then, you know, Chicago, it gets brought up, right? And then like, what in the world do you do in Chicago with that ensemble? That would be awful. I think the best. Cincinnati's been brought up. I mean, that would be a, that would be a problem. It would.

I think surface level, but overall, I wouldn't be, honestly, like, I wouldn't be overly concerned about Chase Brown. It would certainly hurt Chase Brown's total volume without a doubt. I think the best landing spot where a team needs him is the Dolphins. Sure. They desperately need a larger back, a goal-on guy, you know. a short yardage back to mix it with Devon H in. And I'm kind of the same way that you are with Chase. If he were to go there, I don't think that kills Devon H. And it certainly eats into his opportunities, but it doesn't make him, you know, a terrible fantasy asset. So we because of the absence of Brian Robinson, we got Chris Rodriguez starting. People for watching to talk about it. But everybody was paying attention to. Oh, Bill. Twitter. Croski.

Lost its mind. They're watching the game last night and the snaps and the runnybacks. So it's Jacori Kroski Merritt, who we're talking about the seventh round rookie for the Washington commanders. He goes by Bill. He goes by Bill. Now, what can we take away from last night's game? You know, Jaden Daniels played four snaps. Chris Rodriguez played those four snaps. So as of that moment in time, Rodriguez is ahead of Bill on the depth chart. And my biggest takeaway watching that game last night was Jerome Ford is in play in week one for the Cleveland Browns. Yeah, you're saying because of... Because they're playing the Cincinnati Bengals. And there was a point where the Bengals were giving up like 20 yards per rush to the team. Here's, when you talk about Jacori Kroski Merritt, who's the player that...

you know everybody's all excited about final running back taken in the draft first of all his story's insane because if you know the actual like he didn't play in power four power five conferences until he played in new mexico which was a bad team was amazing he dominated but if you know what happened is he transferred arizona he played one game dominated his old team and then was ruled ineligible to play because he had a six year of eligibility that was taken away. It came down to some controversy about him like giving his jersey to a different player and losing eligibility because that player played with his jersey, all this crazy stuff. But his actual numbers, his metrics were high percentile numbers. For the New Mexico year, yes. For New Mexico in just terms of like some of the raw talent and ability. But here's my bigger point is that you can buy into the hype, you can not buy into the hype. You can talk about how many seventh round running back succeed, how many don't. The point is,

Chris Rodriguez and Austin Echler or Jeremy McNichols are not the reason Brian Robinson is going to be let go. They don't make that decision because of those players. They make that decision because of Bill. Yeah. Who? Bill. That is an actual, we held a microphone up to Twitter. That is what it sounds like on Twitter. Twitter. Twitter was very fun last week. That is why it can be, you know, you can pick up a Chris Rodriguez in a dynasty league. You can pick up some other players and hope that it works out. Rodriguez numbers last year, like his advanced analytics are good. They could perform, but I don't think your upside exists for those guys the same way it would with Bill. So take it for what you will. I think this is an indictment on Brian Robinson is not needed. Right. Because they have these other players. I'm guessing behind the scenes, this hasn't come out yet, but I'm sure it will. Brian Robinson is kind of spearheading a lot of this. He wants more work. He wants, you know.