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Jason Moore and Mike Wright. Oh, welcome in. I play the guitars with the drums, Mike. Jason was playing along with the intro. You looked like one of those toy monkeys that plays the drums. Yeah. Excellent form. Did you ever... Did you have any music in your past, Jason? Was there ever a time in which you aspired to be as...

musically inclined is Mike the fancy hitman. Honestly, I really wanted to play the drums when it was, what is it? Like third, fourth grade? I can tell by that form. You go to the band meeting and you pick your instrument and you drop your name in a hat and you get that instrument if they've got one or whatever. And so I went there to get the drums. Wait. What kind of a crappy system is that? Is that how they did it? Kids that want to be musicians, it's just the luck of the draw, what you get to play? They only have so many instruments.

So if five people want to play the drums, and they only have two drum sets to get out. Okay, okay. But here's what happened. The hunger games for music. You're the saxophone player, but I want to play the trumpet. Too bad. Here's what happened. This is super quick, because obviously football. This is important. No, but what happened is I went to put my name in the drums, and at the last second, I wanted to make my dad proud.

He played the trombone. He was a great trombone player, so I hear. Is that a trombonist? And traumatist? It's got to be a traumatist. Just a shorthand bonus. And so I put my name in the trombone. We called them trombies. Trombies. Shockingly, I was the only name. I got it. You got the trombon. And I played that thing for a solid four days. And then I was like, this sucks. The only allure of the trombone is you can go, oh, yeah.

You could illustrate fantasy football weeks with different sounds like that. That is true. You could be like Bell. Welcome to the fantasy footballers podcast, not the intro I expected, but one I enjoyed very much. Andy Mike and Jason back again. It's Wednesday. And we've got a bunch of great stuff on today's podcast. We've got a new segment called What Would You Do? So we're going to talk through some of the top 30 picks or so in the NFL or in the fantasy draft.

uh drafts that took place and what do you do with them now uh we've got drop uh pump the brakes on today's show apparently i don't even know what's going on the show and we got a bunch of mailbag with footclan questions a little reminder it is wednesday your waiver wires have gone through and you want to make sure you check

Drop it like it's hard. Yeah, you want to drop it like it's high. You want to check on who's been dropped because there are a lot of biweeks again. Especially the biweek players who there are certain teams that they got to win now. They had to make a very unfortunate decision. Guys like Vance McDonald, Aaron Jones. I bet you Aaron Jones hits waiver wires because of the biweek. It's very possible. So go have a little peekski. Hopefully Aaron Jones is not just a little booby trap for your roster. Yeah, I was going to say, I'm not sure I wouldn't.

I saw you drop Jamal Williams. I did drop Jamal Williams. So, yeah, pay attention. Vance is a good name. Last day for footclang giveaway.com to win a sign Corey Davis jersey and a championship belt. You can go over to footclang giveaway.com, enter for free. Check us out on Twitter at the FF Ballers. You can follow Jason at Jason FFL. Follow Mike at FF Hitman. That's the name. You can follow me at Andy Holloway. And the website's the fantasy footballers.com. It is Wednesday, which means.

Oh, oh, oh, O'Reilly. O'Reilly. Otto hearts. Ow! It's Pump the Brakes with O'Reilly. We're pumping the brakes. That was the best one ever, guys. Thank you. I think it was. Good work, team. We were very simultaneous in the beginning. I felt your intro. While you were away, when you had morphed into Advocation, did you hear the producer, Brooks. Yeah, he got in on it. He sure did. Not only did he get in on it, he demanded. Before we started the show, he said, he said, guys.

Shut up. It's my time to shine. I'm in. Yeah, that sounds like me. Yeah. Can we make him do all the parts by himself next time? I 100%. Yeah. Pump the brakes. Here we go. My pump the breaks for the upcoming week is, it's a two-parter. It's Dak and Cole. Oh, yeah. So it is, Dak Prescott. He's a great jazz player. Cole Beasley. Look, they're traveling to Washington. We talked about it a little bit on Monday, Studs and Duds. Dak had a great week.

Cole Beasley had a great week. This was the first quarterback one performance from DAC since week 14 of the 2017 season. He's been a QB1 twice in his last 14 games. That's the headline. And then the opponent, Washington, divisional game on the road. They've only allowed 236 passing yards per game. Honestly, when I hear that, Dak's like, man, if I could get there. If I could get to 236. But look, last week it was a lot about it was about the legs, 81 rushing yards.

Washington's given up the ninth fewest in the league in terms of passing yards. So I think it's a trap. I understand you're in a position to stream various guys. So look, if you're stuck doing it, at least you might have a rushing floor there, but I don't like Dak and Cole. I have no bids in on either of these players. I think, you know, a lot of people reacting to Cole Beasley, Tyrell Williams, this week. Look, we have enough of a sample size from Cole Beasley to know that more often than not you get a...

less than performance. He does this. He does do this. He's good enough to have huge games here and there at least a couple of seasons. Now, Jason had pants written in here until moments ago. Now, why were you pumping the brakes on pants? Yeah, they're uncomfortable. They are unnecessary. You need to upgrade your pants game, man. I love pants. They're necessary to those around you. I agree to disagree. No, my pump the brakes this. The unders are fine. Yeah, my pump the brakes this week is on a

A man that I have loved for a long time, but it's Eric Ebron, the number one tight-in in fantasy. I believe he's actually number two on the season so far. Six touchdowns in six games has been an absolute dominant beast. So why am I pumping the brakes on a guy that I really like who's been finally the guy that we hoped he was when he was drafted number 10 overall? Yeah, how mad are the lions right now?

They didn't use him in the same way. And honestly, here's part of the pump. The Colts won't use him in this way. The Colts have to use him because no Ty Hilton, no Jack Doyle. Those are your first two targets for Andrew Luck and they're both gone. There's a buzzer. What's going on over there? Huge buzzer. For what? I'll let Jason speak. So my pump the brakes is not one that is saying, oh, you've got to bench Eric Ebron this week.

He plays Buffalo. Buffalo's defense has been very solid lately, but it's not like you have to bench him because of Buffalo. I think they've given up one reception for six yards in the last two weeks to the tight end position, but they haven't faced any juggernauts there. It's much more so I want to capitalize on what Ebron is doing. I want to shop Ebron. If I have him on my roster, now's the time to package trade him. People are in desperate need of tight ends.

It's buy weeks. You can get valuable things back for Eric Ebron. And if you can do that and pick up off of waivers, Austin Hooper or CJ Uzama or someone like that, I wouldn't be shocked if they outscore Ebron this week. I mean, if you really look at what Ebron has done, despite, you know, the great...

fantasy finishes, he's had plenty of games or three for 26, five for 33, five for 40. He's getting bailed out with a touchdown. And when those players come back, Doyle, I don't think Doyle's back necessarily, you know, this week or even next week, but I think that they're going to get their past receiving weapons back, and that will eat into Eric Ebron. So I'm pumping the brakes on Ebron as this top five tight-in rest of season. I don't believe that happens.

Yeah, I'll just weigh in and just say that I disagree completely and think he's great. And I don't think Doyle is a surefire, you know, come back and be the number two target by any stretch of the imagination. They paid Ebron. They brought him in. He scored six touchdowns. Andrew Luck throws three to four a game. They're coming back all the time and he's being used like a whiteout. So I just disagree. So you would buy him then. I mean, but this is my point. No. My point is that.

I'm not buying him. I'm just not, I'm not trading him, and I'm not, and I don't believe that Yuzama or Hooper are, like if I'm getting this kind of production from Ebron, I would just keep him. But your desire to keep him is what I'm saying will allow you to get valuable. I mean, people, if people believe if someone is like, yeah, this guy is going to be the guy, he's going to be a top five tight end rest of season. They will pay up for that. I think we're saying different things.

We are saying different things. Because when I hear pump the brakes, I hear pump the brakes on his production. I don't think his production is going to change very much. Therefore, I don't pump the brakes on him. You're saying that you do believe it's going to change, so go trade him. I believe it's going to change, and I believe that his value is so incredibly high right now at a position where you can easily replace it.

So Mike's pumped the brakes is Trey Burton. I think the value of Trey Burton is higher than Eric Ebron. I don't think it, I think it's hard for people. The value? Like as in trade value? Probably. No. Due to hype. No. I mean, Trey Burton scored three touchdowns. He's still a tight-in one. I mean, I would, if I had, if you had them both, I would imagine you're going to get far more for Eric Ebron. That's how I would assume, too. That's just how I would see it. But Jason, Jason came in here last after I had already organized an entire argument of.

of pumping the brakes on Trey Burton, and then just copied everything I was going to talk about. Trey Burton right now, there's a difference. There is. Trey Burton is fantasy fools gold at this moment to me. In the past two weeks, Mitch Trabisky has thrown nine touchdowns and 670 yards. Over the course of the season, Trey Burton is averaging, averaging three receptions for 40 yards. That's...

That's completely replaceable, tight end value. He's just been bailed out with a couple touchdowns here and there. And my argument for Trey Burton is exactly what Jason's arguing for Eric Ebron. I think that Trey Burton still has name value.

He has value because he's still a top 12 guy right now. And I would try to ship him off and grab one of those guys off of waivers like Uzama. So Jason, OJ Howard. Thanks for ruining everything for me. Well, I honestly, I didn't even know who your pump was. So I apologize for nothing. Look, the big difference between those guys to me and why I believe in Ebron is Ebron has 52 targets on the year. Trey Burton has 23 targets. Yes. Even though there was the buy weekend there, I looked at it. And it's 8.6 a game for Ebron.

That's wide out numbers. 4.6 for Burton, that's not good. I would much rather have Ebron than Burton. I would as well. Ebron is the third highest targeted tied in in the league, more than Jimmy Graham, more than Cook, more than Kittle, more than Hooper, more than Gronk, whereas Burton's in the 20s for targets. But I just don't, I honestly can't wrap my head around how you think that T. Y. Hilton and Jack Doyle, having not been on the field,