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

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the fantasy footballers podcast with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Oh, welcome in. Friday, August 14th, the fantasy footballers podcast, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and the bear. Back again. We have to assume that Mike has the lettuce diarrhea thing. Hope, Hope is the, I'm sorry, I said assume, hope.

Right? That's the word we're looking for you. We have to hope. Thank you, Al, I think. He was close. He's close to coming back. He'll be here Monday for sure. Yeah, he's in preseason form. You know what I mean? And he's a man of few words. He hasn't really even given us details about what he's. No idea. The only thing he said is he's like, whatever he's got, hit him.

like a ton of bricks, and he's down for the count, and we choose to believe he has the lettuce diarrhea thing. Hope, Andy. We hope he's got. Hope he has the lettuce diarrhea. The funny thing is, is the difference between him being infected and normal. He wouldn't know. He has no idea. He's had the lettuce diarrhea thing for 15 years, 20 years. It's been a long time. That's how he keeps in shape. Yeah. I think one of the ways they treat that is the hot.

salsa at Chipotle. I think that's one of the treatments. Something like that. We have plenty to talk about though, Jason. We've got the preseason games going on. I mean, maybe LaFleur is a good coach. I don't know. The Cardinals quarterbacks are like 49 for 55 in the preseason. Maybe. Maybe. Maybe it was preseason defenses. We will. Time will tell. We will talk through what we saw last night. That'll be a big part of the show.

We will get into some mailbag questions. And right here right now, Jay, just start using that brain of yours to decide which of our deucers will do the mailbag drop and why. So just think about that. We got a while before that. We have a little bit of time. I will work on it. I'm going to workshop that. Keep them all guessing. Yeah. And I've got good reasons for all three. Right. I want you to pick. I want you to pick one and then give us the reason when.

We get to the mailbag. And then we'll find out together. It's really good. Let me see. I'm looking at the faces. I want to see who's sweating the most. Three happy people. Okay. Oh, Josh, giving the thumbs up. Josh is playing the reverse psychology game. Our Megalus show, our live event here in Phoenix, presented by Series XM and sponsored by GMC and Pat Smart Friday, the 28th, it's two weeks away. That's two weeks from today. We'll be live in Phoenix.

800 plus foot clan. There are a handful of seats you can still grab at ballerslive.com, but that is coming up. Super excited to be in person with you before the season kicks off. We'll be doing bold predictions. You'll be part of a live episode of the show. You'll get to do the mailback. Like right now, it's an honor. So whoever, whichever deucer I may do the mailback today is an.

I'm honoring them. Yes. Yeah, you are. And we want to honor everyone of the folkland that will be at that live show. Ballerslive.com. Might not be honoring the ears of the listeners, but the people doing it. It's an honor. You can follow us on X at the FF. Ballers. Hitman. Jason at Jason Moore. I'm at Andy Holloway. And it's a great time to jump into our free Discord at ballers discord.com. If you want to be part of the community, I don't know what that number's at. It's probably 60,000, folks in there. Great place to find leagues.

talk about your upcoming drafts. It's just a great community of human beings that you can check out. Our quick question of the day to day, Jason, you ready for this? I am ready. Who is someone that's going to be annoyingly relevant in fantasy this year? So you might give this type of player a nickname like a snap goblin. Somebody that is just out there either stealing snaps or somebody else.

or stealing production from somebody else. The Tyler Alger of the past and possibly the Tyler Alger of the present as well. My answer for this is there's two things that have to come together to make us really angry. One is you take a talented player and you put them on the bench in certain situations and two is the coach that is required to do such things. So to me it's Tyrone Tracy.

Oh, this is a Matt Nagy attack. I mean, I do think by the end of the season, Scataboo will have established it. But to start the season, like I love Cam Scadaboo, loved his tape coming out. I mean, we've talked about that for, you know, a year and a half. And then he proved he was the dude that he was in college on the NFL field. He could continue to run people over. And then unfortunate injury. And it looks like.

He should be the centerpiece of this office. Him and neighbors should really be the engine that makes it work. But I just don't trust Matt Nagy. I think that Tyrone Tracy is an above average back. I mean, it does take a back behind the starter who is capable. They're not going to throw in, you know, a Zemir White and be like, go, you know, take over. But Algiers good.

Blake Corum's good. Tyrone Tracy's a good player. He's not a bad player. It would be annoying if two-minute drills were Tyrone Tracy. Yeah, if he gets involved in the passing game and all of a sudden you're sitting there with 14 opportunities a game for Scataboo. You'll be really upset. I have two names. One is Dantavian Wicks of the Eagles. I think that will be an annoyingly relevant player because he will stand in the way of what fantasy players want to see the most. You're saying...

McKay Lemon. Like a rookie wide receiver having success. That's fun. You know, a kind of journeyman, rarely relevant player that switches teams. Let me push back on that. What if Wix becomes a very relevant wide receiver flex play on a weekly basis? Would that, like I don't see Tyrone Tracy.

doing enough where you could start it. But what if Wix is startable? Because I think that's in the range of outcomes here. It's in the range of outcomes, but it'll still be annoying because the process of a wide receiver two or maybe the third or fourth target on this team when you consider Goddard and Sequin, that player's probably not getting stronger over the back half as McKay Lemon gets healthier and more involved. So that's where I think it might be annoying because I don't know if you can ever count on him, but he will stand in the way of somebody.

I also just want to mention this. This is more annoying, I think, just like you guys or other people that don't want him to have any success for some reason. I think Jalen Naylor is going to be annoyingly relevant for the Raiders. So this is like you think he's good. I think he's better. And that will annoy me. It would very much annoy me. To put it in the most plain, stupid language possible, every offense plays four quarters.

and they have to have somebody go run routes on the outside and receive targets. And this team has got very few names that aren't Brock Bowers, but they're going to get the ball. And I think Jalen Naylor will be an annoyingly relevant acquisition that I think will be, I think it's more likely that Jalen Naylor is that flex guy that you can start than it is Dantavian Oakes.

And that would be the annoying part of it. I don't think so. I think Brock Bowers takes over, but that is to your point. That would be annoying, wouldn't it? That would be super annoying. Other shout out names, I think if LeQuint Allen is involved for the Jacksonville Jaguars, oh man, everyone will be upset. Because it's like, if it's not tooting, let it be crawled. And if Lequent Allen comes in for passing work, it's just going to be nobody. Kenny Gainwell, obviously.

He was a thorn in the side for the Steelers backfield last year, leading the team in receiving. Bucky managers will be not happy there. And then we saw it in preseason. Charlie Kohler, he could end up being very, very, very annoying. Why can't you say Kohler? Well, now I'm going to go further. It's not, you don't like. It's Kalar. It's not Kalar. No, it's Kalar. Like Kalarni sauce? Yeah, that's right.

Like a molar? Like you pull your molars? Yes, exactly. Dummy. All right, news time. News and notes from around the league. I've never heard that in my life until you said it yesterday. Yeah. I mean, every time I've ever heard Charlie Kohler's name. Oh, gosh. Yeah. No, I just want. And then yesterday you just invented, I mean, maybe I'm going to leave the door open that I've said it wrong my whole life. No, no, no, no, no. And everybody else has said it wrong in their whole life. But that.

You don't need to leave that door. Okay. This is not inside information where I'm trying to correct you. Okay. You don't have a video of like his mom when he was three years old referring to him with his last name. We had a preseason night. Yeah, lots of news. I want to kind of go through a ton of names and talk about some things that I saw. Talk about what I loved. Talk about some things I hated.

I will start with what I kind of said at the top. It is kind of a weird thing to say because the Cardinals have the lowest projected win total like we've ever seen. It's four and a half wins. Three and a half. Three and a half? Yeah, it moved down. It opened it four and a half. It's unbelievably low. And this is a 17 game season. We have not seen that in decades. So to say all that through two weeks, their quarterback play, their offensive play calling.

All of that stuff, even if vanilla against bad defenses, it's hard to ask for much more than what you've seen. Jacoby Resett was perfect yesterday. Great touchdown pass to Marvin Harrison. You saw the week before how good Carson Beck was. Gardner Minch who was 12-014. The Cardinals are 49 of 55 or something like that at the quarterback position. So I'm just saying like, and then what else you saw from Arizona last night was Jeremiah Love's debut. Electric. It is like the minimum.

possible descriptor. 11 for 58, 3 for 14 comparisons to Adrian Peterson on the cuts. Amazing work in the receiving game. And to me, it's a headline move to have so much work given to Jeremiah Love and not like just be splitting it with Tyler Algier the whole time, who did get work. But like, I don't know. It gave me more confidence that this is just something that's going to be obvious and in place. Cardinals are going to be trailing in a million games.

Jeremiah Love is going to be the pass catcher in all those situations. What I saw last night was a top back in the NFL and whether the opportunities are there or not. I'm just saying crack the door open that the Cardinals' offense, even if their team sucks, their offense might be a lot better than people expect. Therefore, Jeremiah Love could be better than people expect. Yeah, you can never shut the door on someone that talented. Every time he touches the ball.

He will gain extra yards above expectation. There's just he is, I mean, he's truly a sensational elite level. You're talking about the bejean, the Gibbs, you know, the gentie, those guys that are drafted, they're, you know, going all the way back, Zeke, and those types where it's like, yeah, this is a difference maker that other guys can't replicate it. So it's just a matter of how many times does he touch the ball? And is he?

catching the ball or getting carries more and then how many opportunities around the goal line that is the whole argument against uh jeremiah love no nobody out there is saying he's not he's not he's unbelievably good we broke down everything that it takes to be a running back one in fantasy two shows ago you average 10 touchdowns you get probably not going to happen