Fantasy Football - Preseason Hype + Fantasy Curses - Podcast for 8/14

But if Colson Loveland has a breakout season, really good. If he dominates and becomes like, hey, he is a tier one tight end, which a lot of people are projecting. I know we are pretty bullish on him. If that happens, I don't think that Bird and O'Donzee splitting the rest will be a top 15 wide receiver, in which case, Cardinal Tate should easily lead this team in targets.

I think he gets 140 plus targets this year as a rookie. Ooh. Yeah, that's a lot. Yeah. And if he does, it would be very... You're not worried about the, like, Wondale and Ridley and any of those guys contributing to the... It wasn't, I mean, it wasn't a good day last night for Tate, not that it needed to be. He didn't catch a pass. But I was just curious what you thought there. Let's take a break and we'll jump into some more mailbag. I'm still mad at Falcon, by the way.

That was one of the worst things that's happened on the show in a long time. We were literally doing a recording of a podcast listened to by millions, and he made it worse. But then you made it better. Okay. By making him do that. By making him do it again. Yeah, it's good, but it's been a tough two days for him. We'll take a break. You're picky about your fantasy draft. You got rankings, sleepers, mock drafts, and too many tabs open. You know what else you should be picky about? Buffalo sauce.

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The falcon. Fly. Fly, falcon. I accept. Oh. All right. I sensed a tiny bit of humility in his reply right time. Tiny bit of humility, a tiny bit of shame, a tiny bit of sadness. Not enough of any of those. Not enough. That's right. That is what I was saying. Instagram question from GS-Laney 41. People say, I want to work for the ballers. No, you don't. Good job on that video yesterday. Great job. Thank you.

No, you were talking to me on the swing. Yeah, yeah, because you left the... It was not the swing. You left the microphones out at home. When is a time you threw analytics out the window on a player you had a gut feeling on? I mean, I think part of me is doing that with Devon A-chan right now because... Sure. You know, you, we've... I understand you can comprehend all the arguments of something and still choose to reject them because arguments, analytics, those are percentage odds of something happening.

Let's say you have something that has a 70% chance of happening. You might say, well, I'm really up against it. Well, there's a 30% chance that you're wrong. And so for me, I'm throwing out Malik Willis's lack of passing to the running back. Why? Because it's a chance and he doesn't play starting quarterback very much. I love that take. It's true. You are spitting in the face of the probabilities. But you're right to point out that the-

probabilities are not guarantees. So, you know, if you believe that this is the exception to that rule, there are exceptions to that rule. That's, I would say this year, the player that I am that way with is Trayvion Henderson. Okay. I totally recognize, totally recognize that Ramandre Stevenson is kind of that starter, that Remandre Stevenson is good, that Remandre Stevenson is a better pass blocker, that Remandre Stevenson is an important part of this offense. And I'm like,

I don't care. Trayvion is better and he will take over this backfield and score a ton of fancy points. I feel like it's almost a great segment is I don't care. It's just called I don't care. I don't care. Yeah. Yeah, there are going to be players and you know what? I'll tell you this. One, we tell you to go with your gut all the time. Yeah. So if you don't, don't just go blindly with ADP or our opinion. And that way you can be mad at yourself. Right. But you can also, there is no better feeling than when you press back against the consensus opinion.

Oh, yes. You're a hero. Yeah. I mean, it feels great. So, and by the way, all the consistent opinions, they're not going to be right. Not all of them. And that point I was talking about earlier on the 10 tips and tricks, we're going to talk about some of that as well. Skyler. What a show coming up. Skylar Jensen writing in, would I be a dog if I took C.D. Lamb in the first and George Pickens in the second. Oh, man. Or is that cat like Jason? So it.

That can win, however, genuinely, no joke. If you draft those guys, you absolutely have to get Dak Prescott. There are large-scale tournaments that have been won by a double stack wide receiver for a quarterback. If you pick the right time, the right season, the right team, the quarterback with their two main weapons can work.

I won with Reggie Wayne, Peyton Manning, and Dallas Clark before. I ran I won with Peyton Manning, Demarius Thomas, and Julius Thomas before. So you have to have Peyton Manning as part of this? I did notice that part. Yeah, no, but I mean, Jimmy Graham and, you know, Drew Breeze with Colston, like those things happened. They can happen. If you believe, go with your gut, it's putting a lot of eggs in a basket. But it might be a real nice basket.

It's like, whoa, that's comfy. Those eggs ain't ever freaking. Nice basket. Trey. Would you do that? Would you be tempted? If you had C.D. Lamb? No. I wouldn't either. No. I'd pivot away. Why isn't Bayshall Tutin high? I mean, I also don't want to play Jason Higgins on the same team. I mean, I just don't. It's just not part of the way I want to run my roster. Trey wants to know why isn't Bayshall Tutin higher on draft boards?

The reason Tutin isn't higher on draft boards is simply the reality that he might not be the pass catching back and he might not be the goal line back. If he's neither of those, he's a terrible pick. Right now he projects to be the starter and therefore have the most work, which would include some goal line and some pass catching. LeQuint Allen has been working in as a pass catcher.

Crod was not there for the off season, so he was not, we didn't really see what the split would be, but this could turn out to be a three-headed backfield. Now, the, you know, the coaching fallacy of like, will they do the right thing, or what is the right thing, if Tuton is truly good enough to take over the backfield. He's so much more explosive. I mean, it's like four, three, two speed.

If he really takes it over, he'll be an outstanding pick in fantasy football. This could be a very good offense. I think the Teuton bros are super bullish. But if you're asking the question, why isn't he higher on our rankings? It's because we project more of a timeshare.

40x40 writing in on Instagram. Does J. Gris prefer smoked or unsmoked salmon? Oh, he is. Of course smoked. He's been so domesticated. He's like, oh, raw fish. Yeah, it used to be raw. Oh, he would right out the river. Right out the river. He'd bite that head right off. But then he's like, I'm cardboard now. Smoke that. Yeah. But you said smoked? Yeah, he won't smoke that. Mark, for defense and kicker leagues, does it make sense to reach for studs?

It actually kind of does, but less so at defense. Is that like the Brandon Aubrey and the Seahawks defense? Yeah. The thing about the defense is a lot of times in years past, it's been very hard to predict. You think it's easy. Before the season, you're like, oh, well, this is clearly going to be the one. And then all of a sudden, you know, defenses take 11 people on the field at once. And if things don't work out, great. You go, okay, well.

I reached for this defense, but then they're the fifth best defense. Which is not a good place to reach for the fifth best defense. Right, exactly. Now, if I had to, like, if I had to guess on the defenses right now, like the Texans defense is unbelievable. Yeah, I mean, I think you're very safe there. I think you're safe with Seattle. I think you're safe with Denver.

Yeah, Denver. Those feel like the safest ones, but I wouldn't, I mean, again, I give you three names. So why take the first of the three? Yeah, that's fair. I could not, I could not confidently say one of those three teams will be the number one. I'm very confident. I mean, the Rams. If you've got Miles Garrett and Aaron Donald, maybe they should be the number one. I don't know. Whereas I think a kicker, it's like, okay, Brandon Aubrey, yeah.

Go ahead and reach on him. He's going to score more fantasy points than probably everyone else. Tyler brings up a good question here because it was almost the answer to my quick question of the day. Is Adonai Mitchell the best sleeper no one is talking about? I think that is absolutely the case. I mean, I think he's one of the best. It was him or me mentioning Naylor. Adonai Mitchell is going to have a prominent role in a Jets offense, probably playing every down.

All the arguments that, you know, you have made for your boy, Gino Smith, apply to Adonai Mitchell in terms of more targets, more yards for the Jets than they've had in your years past. And I think he showed when he arrived in New York last year that he could play with not good quarterback performances. So to me, he is a deep sleeper. But that's the category for me is deep sleeper. I think he would have been in a...

appropriate answer for the quick question of like who would be the snap goblin keeping someone else upset like the if there's Omar Cooper junior believers out there first round draft it's so weird I don't remember the last number the last time we had a first round NFL drafted wide receiver who's not injured that's like I mean he's undrafting he's undraftable it's funny because that that you know

In fantasy. I mean, it was Omar Cooper and Sadiq there, right? Neither a guy. No. Looks like they're going to be super relevant. Sadiq is trying to get back by week one. I think Adonai Mitchell will be the clear wide receiver two for this team. I don't know. My Gino argument of the Jets having more passing work, volume, yardage counting stats than they did last year is true. But I do think Garrett Wilson soaks up. He's he's.

such a target hog and I think he's going to have a 30% target share of this offense. Yeah, I look at Mitchell more like, you know, what Trey Tucker could do at times in Las Vegas last year, which ironically was with Gino. Like there were games. Yeah. Like Trey Tuck, like Adon and I Mitchell is going to be a downfield threat very often. I think big play potential for him. He's going to be up over that 13, 14 yards of catch. But yeah, I mean, you should have more arguments against the sleeper than for them. That's what makes them.

Not drafted or drafted very, very late. Last question from Joshua. It's a good one. Right now we're in the middle of our UDK for Life giveaway. What is the best way to use the UDK to do tier-based drafting? I think you touched on this earlier. But what about specifically with the way the UDK functions in terms of the app or the marking players? Functionally, I like doing it personally on an iPad. I mean, not everybody has an iPad. You could do it on your iPhone. You could do it on your laptop, your desktop, whatever.