Carson Wentz Reaction + Jason’s Collections, Mailbag - Fantasy Football Podcast for 2/23

You're not at a camp because, like, this player is currently the best. You're like, because they can teach me how to be better. Well, and there's a lot of NFL players talking about the video, like talking about how Cam had way more patience than they would have had for the stuff this kid was saying. And, uh, but Cam did, I think Cam did just keep saying, I'm rich. Brooks approach here. He's just like, I'm rich. I'm rich. I'm rich. He is. Um.

All right, Twitter question from Brandon Hatch. When's the best time to start a dynasty startup? Oh, you could start the league whenever as far as like getting your people together, getting the communication going, because you can even trade picks before you ever have a draft. You know, even you just, you set the draft order and if someone wants to trade up for these picks for those picks, that's fun. But I wouldn't recommend starting it until like doing the actual startup draft until after the NFL draft. There is, it's,

And that's my question as well. I like having let free agency go, let the draft go, because the draft will happen and there will be a team that you didn't expect that spends a day two pick on a running back. And you go, okay, so that guy I just drafted in the fourth round, his ADP is about to plummet by six rounds. That would have been nice to know. So it's, I think it's better to have the information. Do you want to play without that information? Like, do you want to play with that risk?

and where you're drafting someone like Aaron Jones, who, if Aaron Jones goes back to Green Bay, status quo, man, he's going to be great for fantasy. If he goes somewhere else, he'll still be good, but is now, but now there's a greater chance that he is not as good as he was when he was in Green Bay. So it's just, it just depends on with how much risk you want to play with and how much the other players want to have, or do you want to have more information?

All right, Chris in Cincinnati with the Young Dynasty Wide Receiver question. In Dynasty, put these wide receivers in order. Jerry Judy, DJ Chart, Brandon Ayukin. I've got my order. I've got mine. I don't want to say it and sway y'all. Oh, man. Nothing you say could possibly change my opinion on anything. I was speaking to Mike and Al Borland. I did not want to sway them. Oh, my goodness. What do you got, Mike?

I have mine, but I'm not going to say it. And now Mike's first, Max first up. We both touched our nose there. Oh, what do you do? Dynasty. I am going to go, I have no idea. This is unbelievably difficult. All right, let me see if I can sway you. I think Jerry Judy is the best player out of the three of these guys. DJ Chark's situation is about to get a whole lot better going from Gardner Minshu and.

Mike Glennon to Trevor Lawrence, presumably. Then Brandon Ayuk is a, I mean, he's in a great system for the skill set that he has, but we have not seen the 49ers be at full strength. And can I throw another wrench into the situation? Absolutely, please do. DJ Chark will be an unrestricted free agent after this upcoming season. Okay. So he may get, he gets rookie year, Trevor Lawrence, but if he's not part of the future, if they draft somebody else, they sign somebody,

He could be not long for that team. And, you know, it's hard to see him being a dominant one somewhere else. Yeah, I'm going to, I'm taking Brandon Ayuk first. He's the clear first to me. Interesting. Yeah, I mean, if you look and you say, okay, Jerry Judy and Brandon Ayuk, two rookies this last season. Obviously, Brandon Ayuk, way outplayed Jerry Judy this current rookie season. It doesn't mean it will always happen.

But that's a pretty good barometer for future success as past success. Then you say, okay, what's the situation for their teams? Part of the reason why Jerry Judy wasn't that great was the quarterback play. We don't know that that's going to be improved. I'm going to trust Kyle Shanahan, the offense, what we saw from a great rookie season in IUC. And then I think I might actually go chark over Jerry Judy. Oh, no. Yeah, my outlook on Judy, I still think he's a great player. But if it's Drew Locke, if they're not able to upgrade the quarterback.

position. Then I don't know when Cortland Sutton comes back and Judy's the two or with Patrick and Hamler, is he the, is he the three possibly for a Drew Locke? It's so interesting. It's really, it's nebulous there. And I think the other two are good players with, you know, good opportunities this coming season. Well, Jared Judy is my number one. So I have them in a different order. Jerry Judy's number one because his physical traits, abilities, and skill.

I think have the highest ceiling. Who's Brandon Ayuk's quarterback this year? Right now it's Jimi Gropolo. Right. It will be Jim McGropolo unless they upgrade. Like they're not looking to just replace him for, you know, willy-nilly and draft someone they don't believe in because they don't have a quarterback. They got Super Bowl with them. But they're a team where they're always looking, like if they can get.

a player that shouldn't be on the market. If they can get to Sean Watson, they're going to go after them. They're in the same boat that the Rams were in with Jared Gough. They're, except for, they're more discontent, I think, than even the Rams were with their quarterback. Except they're in a better position financially. I don't think any of these three have a guarantee at quarterback for the next few years. So, yeah, you might be right with Iyuk. I don't see him as a prototypical one. I see Judy being able to get there. So I'll go, I'll go Judy.

Iuke shark. Mike, you get to give your answer. I end up, I'm siding with Jason. Going I yuk first? Yeah. The interesting though, I'm looking at the draft order. And to me, there are, I think we're going to see five quarterbacks taken in like the top 15 this year. I think there's going to be a bunch of, there usually is, but this year in particular, I think we're going to see that. And.

I mean, it depends on as well, how does people see Mack Jones, I guess. But sitting at 12, the San Francisco 49ers, they could be in play for someone like Trey Lance, and that changes everything drastically, which is why we're, again, talking about when you do a dynasty startup, the separation between these three guys after the NFL draft will be far more clear than it is right now. All right.

Twitter question. What is the hardest part of being a fantasy analyst that people don't usually get to see? Ooh, getting things wrong. That is the correct answer. We put a lot of...

We joke and we have fun, but we put a lot of energy, work, effort. We're all building our own stat tracking docs and algorithms and projection models and all these things that we can do. We then, especially during the season, look at every matchup, every piece of information we can get a hold of, and we put our strength and belief behind certain players, certain weeks.

And oh, brother, when they just go out and suck because they're still human beings on a field with 99 other players over the course of a game, it just hurts. It feels bad. And that's what you don't necessarily see. We care a lot about getting those things right. And that means we care even more about getting them wrong. That Twitter question came in from at Can You Take Me Hoyer?

So it was Al Borland felt it necessary. When a Creed reference can just enter into the fray, it's important. Absolutely. Or Pearl Jam, too. I mean, you got Al Borland. Henry said if Aaron Jones doesn't get resigned, I almost said resigned. What is the ideal? It's always a tricky one when you're writing.

Resign because you have to have the hyphen in there. You need the hyphen. You're putting the word resigned. Yeah. It's like a real overthrow situation. If Aaron Jones doesn't get resigned, what is the ideal landing spot for him? Is Arizona a destination for Aaron Jones? Arizona would be fantastic. That would be actually really, assuming the replacement of Kenyon Drake, that would be phenomenal. The first place that came to my mind was Miami.

This is a place that made Miles Gaskin very relevant, and then Ahmed very relevant. They're willing to give the ball in a workhorse fashion to an undersized back. That's what I want for Aaron Jones. And if they spend a bunch of money to bring them in, I would be happy with him there. I can't wait for the draft. I can't wait to see, and, you know, free agency in the draft and just get a lay of the land and start projecting ways for.

Jalen hurts the fail. This offseason is going to be so much fun. All right, Twitter question from Barry Brunetti. Give us one under the radar skill that Andy Mike and Jason are really good at that no one would know. I saw this question beforehand. And so I thought about it. Oh, Jason wants to answer these? Yeah. I want to, I mean, we should all answer them. But I've got my answers. Mike, you're whistling.

I thought you weren't going to be part of the show. But his whistling is unfathomably good. Like, you've never heard someone whistle like Mike. Can you give us just a little? I know, I don't put you on the spot here. It's a little bit, it's difficult to whistle when you're, when you're laughing. And whistling into a microphone, like, yeah. Okay. Yeah, no, that wasn't fair. It is. Not my best. Oh, but he is, he is excellent. I felt like I was, you know, walking on a breezy sunny day right there. Oh, yeah. I go for songbird. Yeah, that was songbird.

Yeah, you've got like a vibrato in a whistle. I don't know how you do it. And Andy blows my mind with multitasking. We'll be in the middle of somehow two completely different conversations, one on Slack, one on somewhere else. And then he's posting messages on a third thing going on. About a fourth thing he read, it's like he has extra time in the moment. In his brain? Yeah, well, I guess that's more what it is. He's got, it's got more real estate to connect things.

Yeah, I'd just been browsing NBA Top Shot while we were talking anyway. Exactly. And Jason, what's your special skill then that no one knows about? Expert level Sudoku player. I've actually been getting into Sudoku a lot. I used to like 20 years ago and I just picked back up. I've never done that. Do you have to be smart? You've got to have logic. I mean, it's just, it's a logic puzzle. But man, I've really been.

hammering them lately. Really? When you smash a high-level Sudoku, like it really, you feel like you have a buff brain. Is there a Sudoku high? Yeah. It's like getting a pump. You know, you work out. Well, Andy, some people work out and they get a pump like where their muscles are engorged. And that happens to your brain after a good Sudoku, man. Oh, yeah. You finish an expert in under 20 minutes. Your brain is like thumping.

Got your heartbeat shown up there. Smartest man alive. Whistling sucks, Mike. Kyle Pitts. Oh, here's a good Kyle Pitts question. Wait, Kyle Pitts has a question for us? Oh, fantastic. It's about Kyle Pitts. He's too busy scoring touchdowns. All right, Twitter question from Noel. How high would you take Kyle Pitts in the rookie draft? Assuming a decent landing spot. Look, Kyle Pitts is going to be drafted potentially in the top 10 in the NFL draft. So I would assume a good landing spot for Kyle Pitts.

Would you? I mean, the most recent- Yeah, I expect him to be someplace that, look, when you spend a pick that high on a tight end. Right. You better use him. Like Detroit and T.J. Hawkinson, like the Denver Broncos and Noah Fant. Like Detroit and Eric Ebron. Like, uh. Stop using Detroit in your arguments. Well, what if they do it again?

If it's Detroit, then we've got a problem. Like the Cleveland Browns and David and Joker or David and Jok. Okay. No, you're right. You're right. I'm thinking top five though. I mean, none of those guys went into the top five in the NFL. I've seen him mocked in the top five. I, this is the way that I view it for Dynasty. For Dynasty, he'll probably be a back first half of the first round prospect. I'm going to take most of the running backs and wide receivers that I like above him.

When it comes to tight ends, I don't want, you know, it's like what kind of stocks do you like? I don't want a stock that I feel is going to have to take two or three years before it's valuable. I'd rather trade for that stock in two years before a breakout. And maybe, maybe he comes out and has a phenomenal rookie season because he's otherworldly. He's, you know, more talented, more special. But like, even the greats. Gronk, you know, didn't Zeus missed his rookie season. Kelsey,

Kittle didn't have a good rookie season. And they're the world's best prospects. And so I just don't love rookie drafting tight ends all that much personally. It's very difficult because of what he could become. His goodness gracious, you watch Kyle Pitts play. I mean, if you don't draft them, you never get the good ones. I mean, if you don't invest on, you have to live with the bad rookie year, even from a potential upside guy. Put him in, let me give you two spots for Kyle Pitts.