It's FOOTBALL TIME + Super Bowl Picks - Fantasy Football Podcast for 9/9

to the fantasy footballers podcast with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Oh, welcome in. Hey, Baltimore! It's here, baby. We did it, world. What a journey it's been. Eat my butt, summer. It's time for football. It's time for football. Get the temp down. Yeah, no, it was not a bad morning out here.

Clouds were out, which in Arizona, that's a great thing. It covers the big fireball. The most important thing here. Jason has a golf rule where basically if clouds equal golf. Yes. If no cloud equal no golf. Correct. And it's a great rule. It's an important one. But here we are. I mean, that has to be, I mean, Kyle's the historian, but that has to be the first Wednesday. It's football time, right?

There has been a game on Wednesday before. I don't know if we football time that day. We've definitely played a Wednesday. We own, I think we might own Wednesday Night Football Day. I think we did at one point, but it's expired. But I mean, it is here. It is football time, guys. We did it. We got here. The games count. Thank good. The fantasy points. They matter. Do you guys have big plans for the game? I actually do. All right. I do.

I have to watch on my phone. Oh, no. Freshman football is Wednesday nights. Oh, no. So your boy has a game? What a loser. But at least you can do it. Oh, yeah. It will be. It will be perfectly fine. You won't see her son, but you'll be there. I have priorities. Yeah. I'm there. And he'll look up and be like, hey, dad. I'm like, yeah, son. You probably had a good play right there. Was that good or bad? Oh, my gosh. Well, it's going to be so much fun.

New England, Seattle. Like, oh, my God, Halani scored again. Tomorrow's football time, too. Oh, my gosh. I mean, I'm rooting for it because I would just love to come in tomorrow and you or George Halani. George Halani is so perfect for Mike. He finds these people that nobody. No, I'm not in. I'm not. He's just on my roster. Did you cut him yet? Did you cut him yet? No. He's got to see what happens. Did you see who I picked up this morning in our League of Records? I didn't. Wait, you made a waiver move? Yeah, we got to. So did you.

Mr. Devon Vele? Yeah, baby. Your team is living large. How in the world did you pick up Devon Vele when my guy was sitting there? Which one? Pat Bryant? Pat Bryant. Because I will legitimately be playing Devon Veil this week. Oh, oh, oh. Congratulations to you. So much going on. We have Super Bowl picks on the show today. NFL news to talk about. Plug them in. We're good. The final Megalobole draft. I don't even know if this is going to come out. It'll probably come out like an hour before.

Maybe the last draft. So you might be able to rush over there and get in there. Megalobol.com. If not, I just want to say how excited we are to play with 25,000 foot clan members in the Megalobole. It is the in-season mode. It is the time of year where you switch from that UDK app over to the fantasy footballers in-season app. So we have two different apps. One's the draft kit and one is the in-season, which has all of the...

all of our rankings in it and you'll find the podcast stuff listed in there you'll find our ultimate dashboard all the tools and resources we don't really do anything that's not ultimate we have done quite a few ultimate things yeah which um you know might i say we do them well that's what i'm saying that's what jason we've named it appropriately um

But, you know. Yeah, the articles. Thank you, Brooks. All the articles are in there as well. Yeah, which our writing staff is amazing. And we have new stuff coming out every week. If you still know how to read, that is how you do that. You can't, like, swipe an article really fast, like a reel, but you can read them and they're fun. And they're well researched. We have bonus episodes every single week answering your questions. That's part of the Foot clan as well. And all of that at jointhefoot.com. If you want to get in there and get access.

And then tons of free resources on the website, the fantasy footballers.com. I should remind you, I know this is the time of reminders, but Sunday morning, every week, we have Sunday live. And so an hour before kickoff, most often it's Mike. Occasionally, Jason and I pop in. But Mike is live with Sunday live, answering last minute questions. Things change. Weather, injuries, inactives.

All that stuff's happening, and Mike tilts live on YouTube, completely free. It's the best. YouTube.com slash the fantasy footballer starting this week. Subscribe over there, click the bell. It'll let you know when Mike is here with one of the producers. Which guy, which producer this week? It'll be Al Borland. Yes, sir. And so he'll feed in all of your questions. And that's going to be a blast as well. There's just so much going on. How are you doing, Jason? I'm doing pretty well. I've overcome.

caring about golf. So my spirit is good. You know what I mean? Good for you, man. This morning. There were two ways to fix the problem. That's right. Way number one was to improve a golf. To fix it. I tried. Number two, though, was to accept. Except. And I've gotten to that point today. I do feel like you've been having fun. I happen. And what's funny is owl. And I can't, I mean, it hasn't gotten much. Owl this morning played.

horrific he played as bad as he's played in in forever i will say and i don't without overstating it just to be fair to al it was the worst i've ever seen yeah him play and like and so he really did not have any fun he couldn't he just couldn't have a good time it was terrible i don't know what happened because i want the audience to know how al is generally like the best golfer out there he's been playing very well compared to us and

We basically tied today. And so he realized, you beat me by two strokes. Yeah. Thanks for sugar coating it. But you realized how bad I am today. You're like, oh, I did. I was like, you play this bad all the time. This feels awful. Yeah. So I've just decided to not care. So I'm doing well. Quick question of the day. Here we go. Who are your Super Bowl picks for 2026?

It's the day of kickoff. Oh, wow. I didn't see your guys' answers. I am going to start us off here, and I'm going to do it again because it's got to happen eventually. I keep trying to get them there. I'm taking the Buffalo Bills over the Detroit Lions in the Super Bowl. That's a plus 6,300. Yes. So there you go. I mean, I love the Rams. Obviously, there are a handful of teams.

in the AFC that I think could be competing there. But I'm going, bills, that's, yeah, that's plus 6,300, not for the bills to win. No, no, for that matchup. Just for that exact matchup. But I'm taking the bills over the lines. I will jump in. I have kind of been saying the, I'm feeling the Bengals the whole offseason. I'm going to stick with it. I'm calling for the rematch. We get the Bengals. We get the Rams. We get it again, except this time.

It will be Joseph Verbe. Oh, over the Rams. Rematch. Yes. You know, it's funny. Preseason, especially, you know, the game is at SoFi Stadium this year. And I thought that this is another legitimate chance for an L.A. versus L.A. in L.A. game. I could see that happening. Chargers, Rams. The L.A. Chargers? You're like, you're like, they can make it to the Super Bowl? Yeah. Jason. What? You don't.

Wait, I'm so confused. Why do you think that that's... I'm a little confused, too. I'm not sure where the angle of the joke goes. Are you just mocking the Chargers of success? They're the seventh highest odds. That's not, that's not outrageous. But I am actually, I came in and I wrote down mine. I had to look at your guys. I am, Andy, lions over bills. No, you're not. Yeah. Really? Yeah. So...

I uh okay we're in the same well that would be so fun if we got there yeah we could I'm I would be happy with either one way to be clear it would not care that would be a very fun Super Bowl I'm curious if our producers have any uh is it what Packers Saints over there Packers versus whoever okay cool cool who that baby okay so Tyler Shuck in the Super Bowl I was talking to Jason yesterday I was looking at the NFC and it's like man I've

feel like there are very few teams this year from the NFC compared to the AFC where you're like, I feel like they can really make it. I'm going to say something, again, you can practically hit a button that says you don't have to do this. Yes. Okay. My, let's all say a dark horse. I'll give you a moment to think about it. I gave you the Bengals. Sure. I, okay, whatever. You don't have to say dark horse. Whatever you want to describe. I do think.

that the Dallas Cowboys will be very good this year. I think Caleb Downs and that defense will be, I think they will be good. I think they actually are, when you said the NFC when I think of contenders, you know, everybody in the West minus the Cardinals. Yeah. Almost everybody in, I mean, the Packers are a good team. The Lions are a good team. The Eagles and the Cowboys, I mean, those are kind of like the leaders of the pack. Nobody from the South to me looks like a Super Bowl contender.

But, I mean, here we are. We're going to look dumb in like six weeks when Carolina is 6 and O. And Bryce Young's throwing for 400 a game, right, Jay? Yeah, we will. I mean, the whole world would look dumb. Bryce Young, please throw for more than 200 yards more than four times this year. That's a very low bar, but please do it. There are too many weapons on your team that we like for fantasy that you are ruining. My dark horse team, I don't know how dark horse it is.

They've been there a couple times in the last few years. Oh, that's like a light horse. A light horse. But I think that the, because right now it's like from the NFC, it's the Rams. Like the Rams are. It seems so favored right now to come out of the West. And it makes sense. They are the highest odds to win. Yeah. Yeah. Of NFC and NFC. It's plus 500. But I think. Too bad that the Rams are going to win is only plus 500. That's wild. I.

I think that people are... To win? Not just to get there? Yeah, those are winning. Wow. That's what I'm saying. Goodness gracious. The Eagles, to me, are a team that I think people are ready for the end of the Eagles. AJ Brown is gone. Hertz is older. The push wasn't, you know, as successful last year. Kelsey's gone. And it's like, we're just waiting for the collapse. And I think that there is a world where...

They have a bounce back and they look great this year. Their defense is awesome. Mannion fixes the Petulow problem from last year. So they're more my dark horse, but obviously they're not like, you know, some bad team that is that I'm calling a shot on. All right. There you have it. Let's see yours in the comments. We'll see what happens in week one. Let's get into the news. News and notes from around the league.

I think we mentioned that Trevo was ruled out yesterday, didn't we? Yes, we did. Yeah. Aaron Donald will not travel. We'll not be playing in week one for the Rams. They're going to let him ramp up. Andy Reid said that... Rampe up. Nice. Oh, gosh. You did it. Are you sure they're not just protecting him that he didn't get his passport in time? Hmm. We've been there. You would have had to go to Tucson. Look. It turns out. Andy Reid said a good chance. Patrick Mahom starts week one. I would say a great chance. I'd say a guarantee. But...

That's the way he's framing it right now. Well, with their left tackle, not being available. And so their starting left tackle is going to be an undrafted rookie free agent protecting Mahomes off of an ACL. It's like against the Broncos front. Let's send Ken Bone to the right. Yes. He will get tackled from behind. All right. Baker Mayfield, guys.

Yeah, good for you, Baker. You let the team know you were disappointed and they've figured it out. Three year, $165 million deal, $55 million per year. And I'm glad that this. Thank you. You did that for us. Glad this.

Got done because it seemed like a month, whatever it was, a month, two months ago. He said he wasn't going to negotiate anymore. Yeah. And they must have slinked back to him saying, please. He had the most honest podium conversation with people of like how disappointed he was. It was so very refreshing. Yes. And it was so genuine. And I don't think he said anything that was out of line at all. And then there was the reports that the Buccaneers were very upset with him for, you know, airing.

It's not even dirty laundry. It's just like airing the laundry out to dry. You know, it's clean. Yeah. It's very clean. But it was truthful. And I thought that there was going to be some bad blood there and he'd hit the open market. Part of me as a Cardinals fan was hopeful for that. But this is good for Baker. Yeah. Yeah. I don't think we have anything else to talk about right now. The StartSit tool is on the website. If you guys have those questions, without further ado, let's do it. Thursday night breakdown.