Fantasy Wildcards + Hype Check

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Hi, this is Randall from Bettendorf, Iowa. My fantasy team is Pettis, Pickle, Onion, and Tomato, and you're listening to the Fantasy Footballers podcast. To the Fantasy Footballers podcast. Coming to you from pristineauction.com studios with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Oh, what's going on? Petis, pickle, onion, and tomato, huh?

That's how I order my burger. Sands the tomato because the only way to eat a tomato is throwing it straight in the garbage. That's just throwing a tomato away. That's not actually eating a tomato. That's where I come in. I grab that tomato out of the garbage. Go to town. You go to town. I call those garbage tomatoes. Yeah, no, I get it. I understand why.

Welcome into the Fantasy Footballers podcast, Andy, Mike and Jason, back again. Great show for you today. Fantasy Wildcards! Wild cards on the show today. Difficult to rank players. They could end up in a lot of different places, Mike. Do you understand what I'm saying? I absolutely do. That's why I picked one who's ranked highly, but he could finish low. Oh. And I picked one who's ranked low. Lowly, but he could finish high. In other words, you could...

You know, they start off looking like a tomato in the garbage could end up being a tomato in the belly. They start as a tomato in the garbage. They end up as a garbage tomato. Yeah. As Jason would call them, apparently. For you to eat it, it would have to become another fruit out of the garbage. Yes. Yes. You're not a big tomato fan. No. You overtly and aggressively pick them off of things that they come on. The problem with them is throwing them is they ruin everything they touch.

Is there no scenario where salsa? No, like, tomatoes can be used in other ways. Like ketchup is great. Okay, but salsa is great. But tomato, buy as a standalone product is absolute trash. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. But you can't make the ketchup. Like, salsa has chunks of tomatoes.

by themselves. Oh, I totally get that. But it's like... Do you have pasta sauce that has the chunks? Sure. You don't mind it. No, no, no. Okay. Well, I mean, it's like relish. Relish is apt. Like relish in tomatoes both belong with the garbage, but I love my Thousand Island dressing. Okay. All right. I'm a little less picky. I don't like the big, gooey tomatoes that can end up on your cheap cheeseburger. But I, if you get me some finely nice tomatoes on a taco, that's good. You have a different take. All right. Hey.

Quick question of the day, guys, from Twitter, which off-season acquisition will end up being the most over-hyped? This is funny to me because I don't think that there are almost any off-season acquisitions that are hyped. I agree with that. But who's hyping Randall Cobb to Dallas? I agree with that. And I also disagree with you, skipping the name of the kind patron who asked us this question. Wow, I thought it said cold hands, warm feet? No, it didn't.

So the Twitter patron, this is their name, is Cold Hands Warm Fart. That's correct. Okay. And I know that you would not stand from me omitting anything toilet related. But I'm totally with you that there's no super, I guess there's one. And he's my overhyped guy. And that's Levy on Bell. Because other than that, there's not like Vincent Jackson.

going to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, free of the shackles of the Chargers. What can he become with this new team? That's a throwback. Yeah. We really. Okay. There's no Alshon Jeffrey going from the Chicago Bears, free of the shackles of the Bears, and now he's with the Eagles. Because almost all of the players who were somewhat fantasy relevant, you're talking, these are lower tier guys like Cole Beasley and Adam Humphreys where not hyped up for Alfred Blue?

I guess we could, you know what, I'm going to change mine. Okay. I was going to say Nick Foles because I don't think it's going to change a lot in Jacksonville for the offense with Nick Foles. But again, not hyped. Not for fantasy. Not for Fats. I think Jacksonville people are very hyped for Nick Foles. Well, and fans of Jacksonville's other fantasy players are hyped for Nick Foles, and I'm not. But I'll say Kareem Hunt. Okay. Because Kareem Hunt is very hyped.

very people are excited for cream hunt they want to find the secret value of cream hunt and i think on this show we've been very demonstrative in the fact that look you cannot draft cream that that's what you cannot draft footclan if you're in a redraft league you cannot draft cream hunt they have an earlier buy week he's suspended eight weeks so that's nine you're going to have to hold a player till week 10 that's your you're

You already know if you're playoff bound or not by that point. And you've hampered your team and your bench ability to make, no, I mean, look, I had two names written down. One of them was Kareem Hunt. So who's your other name? My other name is Jared Cook. I think that Jared Cook is getting. Okay. I'll allow it because I'm hyped for Jared Cook. Me too. A lot of people are. And I am not one of them. I think that you're going to have.

more Benjamin Watson, less Jimmy Graham. And, you know, you always want to have the... Are you forgetting how awesome Benjamin Watson was once he broke out for that team? Benjamin Watson had one good season, but not every season was good. When he came back, he was nothing. So that was the question. Who, you know, who's going to end up being the most overhyped? I think Cook is...

He's definitely hyped. A lot of people are really, really excited about Jared Cook based on what he did last year. My whole argument is what he did last year was based on being the only guy in town. And there are plenty of other viable targets. And when you take the target numbers for Jared Cook, who has not been a great player, his career, and you say, hey, you're not the number one or the number two or probably not even the number three. He could be the two.

No, Alvin Camara and Michael Thomas. Okay. They will be the one and two. All right. I haven't met seven. Is that too high, Mike? Or Jason? I mean, the reality is finishing at number seven at tight end is going to stink. I'm trying. Trey Burton finished at number seven last year at tight end. I'm trying to recall who was the best quarterback? Well, I guess didn't Jared Cook? Jared Cook had a year with Green Bay. Didn't Jared Cook have a year with Nick Foles?

in Los Angeles, too. I mean, he, yeah, he was on Tennessee for a long time. I think it's certainly a fair answer. They were St. Louis at the time. Certainly a fair answer, no doubt. Okay. Follow us on Twitter at the FF Ballers. If you want to stay current with the show, you can follow Jason. If you're more interested in Jared Cook hate at Jason FFL, you can read unlimited supplies. Such a good follow. I recommend it. Yourself.

You're recommending. Jason FFL. Yes. At Jason FFL. Mike is at FF Hitman. I'm at Andy Holloway. We have something very exciting to announce. Now, this is the only time we're even mentioning this. Is that right, Brooks? One time. Oh, yeah. So we have a very special live tour contest at footclan giveaway.com. We are teaming up.

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We are killing the demo. They make me smile. Footclan giveaway.com. All right. We don't have a bunch of news, but we do have some news. I want to jump in here real quick. The old sleeper alert went off, and the Patriots released, tight end, Austin Safarian Jenkins. Okay, well. Yeah, the guy's got some personal issues. He's trying to deal with. So young still. It's been a career situation for him. I'm very unfortunate for.

for him to have to deal with all of this stuff. And so you go from Rob Gruncowski to, okay, maybe Austin Saffarian Jenkins. There was a time when it was maybe going to be Jared Cook. Cook goes to New Orleans. And then Benjamin Watson's there. And then Benjamin Watson gets suspended for four games. No. And between Jared Cook and Adam Humphreys, spurning the Super Bowl winning Patriots, what's going on there? I, you know.

Tom Brady. They don't pay as much. He's the old. He's the old goat. No, they don't pay as much. Thank you, Jason. Yeah. So week one, you're looking at somebody like Matt Lacoste, potentially being the starter. For fantasy week one, you're looking at non-patriots as your starter. Yeah. Yeah. So that's the gist. Let's go ahead and jump into the main event. No, I'm saying, no, guys, why aren't the brakes working? Because I cut the brakes. Wild car. Wild car.

You were really into that drop. That's always sunny. Is that right? That is correct. I never went through Always Sunny. You missed out because there were some years of greatness from that show. But then on top of that, a full on musical reference to things that are wild. Guys, I can't tell you how pleased I am with that. With yourself. Yes. I hadn't heard it in a long time. Yeah. So so far the takeaways from this show.

Jason believes he's a great follow on Twitter. Mike is a big fan of his own drops for the show. Yeah. So I'll figure out what I love about yourself. How about my fantasy wildcards? Here we go. So these are players that are very difficult to rank. I'm excited to hear your thoughts on these players. For me, I'm going to kick it off with Darius Geis, Running Back.