Busts & Values + Monty News, Butt Thorns - Fantasy Football Podcast for 8/27

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the shadow you shall not have on this chance to send your league mates into the fly you fools to autumn draft kid dot com the fantasy footballers podcast with your host Andy Holloway Jason Moore and Mike Wright welcome in Thursday August 27th

The Fantasy Footballers podcast, back with you. Mike, the Fantasy Hitman Wright, is here. I am here. I cannot believe with his schedule. Yes. Our good friend. That Gandalf. I mean, Gandalf's pretty busy. Yes. Is he the local wizard? Oh, he might be someone's local wizard. How dare you insult him and call him a local wizard?

He's the world's wizard. He's more of a national. At least regional. I mean, come on, man. Jason Moore is here. It's got magic. I am hyped. I'm excited for this show. It's going to be a good one. We have busts and values on today's episode of the podcast. And you can find us on Twitter at the FF Ballers. The communities join thefoot.com. You can get in on the megalobole. You can find some Foot Clan leagues. You get an extra episode every week. Join thefoot.com.

And as our good friend, Gandalf reminded you, Ultimate DraftKit.com, if you want all the tiered rankings, if you want all of the Sleepers Breakouts, busts, and values, consistency charts, 100 plus player profile videos, sometimes people message me on Twitter and they say, my draft is tomorrow. Do I have time to really get up to speed with the Ultimate Draft Kit?

And I think the answer is yes, because not only do you have time to cram, but there are tools for the active draft. You have the app and you can mark players as drafted. You have the printable cheat sheets that you can bring and give you an advantage at the draft. Yeah, I was going to say, I mean, it's nice to get early where you can do the prep and look at all of the stuff. But the truth is, if your draft is about two minutes from now,

That's when you're going to use it the most is, you know, look at the tiers, look at the rankings, the cheat sheet. That's my number one tool. So this weekend should be the biggest draft weekend of the year. It's possible. It is. What else is going on? You guys doing all right today? Yeah, I'm doing great. I think holding up. I think we're going to have a fun show. That is the best you can do in 2020. Yeah, hold on.

Just hold on. Oh, just hold on. I went, we've been very busy. A lot of these days, we have multiple shows like today. We're on Sirius X-Im later this afternoon. I haven't had a lot of time for chores around the house, and it's been very, dare I say, warm. In Arizona? Oh, that's fair. I walked around my backyard last night. Nude.

No, no, no, I have my clothes on, Mike. But thank you for adding some flavor to that story. Really seals it is. But I'm telling you, like, at least a quarter of the plants in my yard are just dead. They gave up, they let go.

I have a tree in my front yard that's just like, I'm out of here. I mean, they're just crumbling into, I mean, this is like the scene from, as a Terminator where it blows through the fence. She has the dream. Oh, yeah. I mean, it's over. They gave up, like, we were supposed to get rain. We've had 34 days so far this year with over 110 degrees. How do you know stats about that? Google.

You were just Googling them now? It is on my screen. Okay. I'm following, I'm adding to your story. This is weather calendar. Professional over here. There are just plans that have given up on any rain anymore. So, but I thought it was like a little bit of a metaphor for 2020 is. We're just holding on. The plans in the backyard are holding on. Hold. We do have a season. And how many days away is the season now, Brooks? I think we're two weeks. Two weeks away.

Let's talk news. News and notes from around the league. All right. Just after the show release yesterday, we had the startling news that David Montgomery was out for the season. Man, it was rough. That's how it seemed. A day after I forgave him for last year. Yeah, Reaper. Non-contact injury carted off. That was the initial thing said.

And then it wasn't quite so true. He was able to limp off and then taken back on the cart. And then it comes out that it was not his knee as it was first reported. Ah, my groin. He hurt his groin. And thankfully, it does not appear to be a super long-term injury. He's not going to miss this season. In fact, right now it's being reported two to four weeks. You ever hurt your groin? I have not.

I have heard a groin. It is unpleasant. Yeah, uncomfortable. I think we have the audio from when that happened. Yep, there it is. Two to four weeks. He does have a chance of being available for the opener against the Lions. We thought about what kind of analysis. We want to bring something to the table here, but we're still kind of learning what they're going to be doing depth chart-wise. They don't have.

anything traditional behind David Montgomery in the running back room. You have Tariq Cohen, and that is the instant kind of fantasy football reaction is. But the truth is, Tariq Cohen has not been a very good runner for... He's a satellite back. He's an undersized guy. He's like Darren Sproles. Yeah, he'll get some carries, but you can't give Tariq Cohen 200 carries. Someone else has to step into that role. Right now...

It seems like that's going to be Cordero Patterson, who was a wide receiver and is now converting to running back. But he's had great success in the rushing game. Will they add a veteran? I would put the probability as they will add somebody. Now, what happens with David Montgomery in the draft? I'm citing that David Montgomery is going to be out for up to four weeks. On top of that, you have the...

You have risk of re-injury here. If he comes back too quickly just throughout the season, it is something you're going to have to worry about. So do you take the draft dip? Because he's not going to, he won't be a fourth round pick anymore. A guy if you're not, you're not even sure he's going to be ready for week one. He's going to drop down to what would you guess? Round six. Oh, I was going to say maybe even eight. If he has a chance for being available at the opener, look, today's show is values.

I had a paragraph and a half written up on David Montgomery. He was my value pick coming into the show. He is not my value picked today. But when you have a player that has a high probability of 275 plus touches in an offense, has a chance of being back in week one, and you can get that in the 6th, 7th, 8th.

So you're going to buy the injury dip? I would consider it, yeah. I mean, because he could be back in week one and get 275 carries this year. And that is a price that, you know, who are you grabbing in that realm? Right. Are you going to take Carry on Johnson in your draft ahead of David Montgomery right now? That's a good name to throw out there because obviously one is the presumed starter and one is the presumed 50-50 guy in a backfield.

You know, the thing with me is I have not been in on David Montgomery. I just think his ceiling is basically a repeat of what we saw last year with, you know, an extra touchdown or two. That being said, if he does drop into the eighth, ninth round, where I'm not relying on him as a starter at all. I'm just grabbing a guy for my bench. I don't think that, you know, I don't think you're going to find a better bench guy for depth.

You know, in that part of the draft. Here's a great question for you. Are you taking David Montgomery if you drafted today over Tariq Cohen? Oh, that is a good question. Because that realm of Carry on Johnson, there's James White, there's Sony Michelle, there's Philip Lindsay, there's Tariq Cohen in that range. Because of where that is in the range of roster construction, I would probably take David Montgomery. I'm not relying.

Unless I'm going zero RB. If I'm going zero RB, then I'm going to take the pass catching higher upside. I'm going to need this guy to start for my team. This might be one of my first two running backs I'm selecting, in which case I'd go to Rick Cohen. Otherwise, the way that I could struck my roster, I would be taking David Montgomery in that range. All right. We'll keep you up to date on whether the Bears add another body. They have Ryan Knoll as well with his career.

of two carries for eight yards on the depth chart. All right, Joe Mixen has not been at practice. The report this morning was that it's due to migraines. Now, Melvin Ingram on Hard Knocks has set a precedent for what we might start seeing, which is the hold in, not the whole doubt. And you've had doubts about Dalvin Cook coming to the surface. Oh, is Dalvin Cook? Right.

You know, Adam Schaefter came out and talked about, oh, if he doesn't have a new contract, I'd be worried about Delvin Cook. Joe Mixon, another player that's been pining for a new contract, some concerns about a hold-in, but now this report of migraines. So do you believe that? I mean, is this a situation that you're just monitoring? You can't really make any distinct call on whether he has migraines, whether he is doing this as, you know, a contract.

negotiation, you know, peace. What you do need to be aware of is that he is in a contract year does want to have a bigger contract. And there's at least some risk of that boiling over. I don't expect him to miss any games. But, you know, when you're on the clock and you're drafting.

in that range and you're looking at Joe Mixon or someone else, you at least need to be aware of it when you make your decision. Now, Andy, he's one of your my guys. Does it give you any pause? When you're on the clock, you know, we just had our family league, right? And you went back to back my guys with Josh Jacobson, Joe Mixon. Is there any chance you would not have taken Joe Mixon if this was an important league to you that was starting today with these conversation pieces?