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The Fantasy Footballers Podcast, if you're nasty. Oh, well, I'm your host yet again. Mike the Fantasy Hitman Wright, joined by the current reigning heavyweight champion of my best friendship. Thank you. Jason Moore. When you can eat like I can eat, I am the heavyweight champion of your friendship. And eat we did.

We had a lot of beans. We had a lot of rice. And then I was like, we had a lot of food. It was very nice. I was like, you know what I should. Oh. Yeah. We went to a full poem. Then I said, you know what beans and rice? I should have a cheese enchilada as well. I ordered. I won't. I'm not going to poop for three days. Responsibly, I got these small cheese crisp. You weren't very responsible. I mean, well. But they brought me the large bank error in your favor.

Yes. There's nothing better in the world than when you go to a restaurant and you order healthy, you're like, I'll get the salad. They're like, sir, I'm sorry, we're out of it. There's a lettuce shortage because of E. coli. Yeah, Romaine. We can't do it. Yeah, I'll take the Big Mac. You did this. That's on you. These calories don't count. That's right.

Because it's on you. Welcome to the fantasy footballers podcast. It is a mailbag special. I like that my healthy choice was the small cheese, Chris. Can you take a tortilla cover it in cheese, a lot of butter and salt? Let it go. I like dipping it and sour cream. Welcome to the show. On today's show, we're going to talk about, of course, our current reigning fantasy Valentine because, you know, tomorrow.

Tomorrow, I hope that everyone is prepared. I hope you have a nice evening plan for your significant other. If you are those, like maybe you don't have a significant other. I hope you have a pizza movie night planned. By yourself. Oh, just get the biggest pizza. Play those video games. Get some ice cream in honor of Andy. Let me ask you this. Can I cancel my plans with my significant other?

and then just have my own pizza night with video games? That sounds... So that sounds way better. So basically you're saying, can I cancel my marriage? Sorry, wife. Can I cancel my marriage so I can watch... I think you can do that and you'll end up watching movies and eating ice cream and playing video games. For a long, long time. But instead, Mike, I would keep those plans because we're going to see Nate Bargatsi. Oh, that's a secret. I haven't even told them yet. Don't tell any... Don't tell my wife.

If you want to follow the show, if you want to watch the show, go to YouTube.com slash the fantasy footballers. If you want to follow along on the socials, Instagram.com slash fantasy footballers. Jason is also on Instagram working on that post at Jason FFL. How is that going? So my post is going live any day now. I have any, I can't, I've been waiting.

For this literally for months. But here's the thing, Mike. And you don't even know this. It's going live in a couple days. Hold on. It's like, I'm not even joking. Breaking news. That's right. That's right. I've got a post ready to go. Everyone go follow at Jason FFL on Instagram. But make sure you follow me as well at FF Hitman. I got to keep my numbers up. I got to keep in front of Jason. Mm-hmm. And Andy is at Andy Holloway. Our Twitters are the same as well.

The Fantasyfootballers.com. That's the website. You can listen to the show everywhere podcasts are available. If you'd like to listen to AdFree, that's available on Stitcher Premium. Jason, do you have your Fantasy Valentine prepared to talk about, to gush about, to publicly announce your admiration for it? Yeah, I think I do. I think I do. So this Valentine's Day, I'm reaching out to someone who is, you know,

It's usually associated with Halloween. It's a little scary. No, we've abandoned that. We've officially abandoned that. Scary Terry is what some people call. Terry McLaurin, I want you to be my Valentine this year because I believe in you. I believe in your talent. And I also believe you have some problems. Like when I reach out and I'm looking at who do I want, sometimes I want a little baggage. Sometimes I want some...

Some issues. Sometimes you want some violins to come in at the right time. Right. And so your quarterback is going to keep your price down. It's going to make sure I can get you where I want you in the draft. And so I believe that it is worth the gamble. Okay. When you've got a guy who has that much talent and he showed it in his rookie year, his speed, his route running, his hands. And he, you know, he was great with Case Keenum. And then he had a problem.

which was Haskins came in and was terrible. But towards the end of the year, Haskins started actually showing that maybe, like, there was some signs of life. You know, with Josh Rosen, true. You never, ever saw signs of life. Never saw, like, that game that's like, you've given me hope. You never got a photograph of him with today's paper. There was no proof of life. And so, yeah, you know, I think that he is not going to be some overdrafted hype man.

because of Dwayne Haskins. But I'm going to take the gamble because if Haskins takes that leap forward, then the payoff will be there with Scary Terry. Or we've abandoned that. The F1. F1, the McLorian, Terry McLevin. He's got a lot to choose from. We're going to need Terry to sit down and let us know what he's going to go with. Terry, you have an open invitation to come on. Oh, absolutely. I'm sure he listens to this podcast. It's one of the many, many of our.

NFL players listen to this show. Shout out. What's up, Kyle. Use check. I know you're listening. You've also got the invite. Tell us your Super Bowl experience. Come on the show. Andy's not here. He gave us his Valentine. If you haven't been listening to the show for the last couple months, then you wouldn't know. If you have, then you know, of course, his, his Valentine's Joe Mixing. Yes. The man is borderline obsessed. I was going to say, I think he's too in love with Joe Mixing. But he is in love. While he was gone.

He doesn't even know this yet. The subpoena came. The restraining order. It showed up while he was gone. I accepted it on his behalf. It's 500 miles. Yeah. Usually it's like done in yards. I think. I don't know. Spoiler. I don't have any restraining order. I don't have any restraining order. I don't know. Apparently you have a restraining order, Mike. I just have seen very many movies where they hand them out.

And they hand them out willy-nilly. And they also have to deliver them to you in person. So you can just hide in your bathroom, apparently, when they knock on your door. So they have to get you like punk so they jump out of the bushes. That's when they come with the- Gotcha. No, you come with the big check and the balloons and the camera crew. And you come and ring that doorbell. And you're like, Ed McMahon shows them. Yeah. You've been restrained. All right. My Valentine for 2020.

I'm going with a second year player like Jason, where, and honestly, I mean, I was, I was, you know, sort of into this guy. I like the draft capital, third round pick. I like that he landed with a team that historically has been known, at least as of recent, that they just hit on wide receivers. They have some misses, but they hit a lot on these guys. Deonti Johnson.

I like him. Pittsburgh Steelers. He led the Steelers and targets and receiving yards as a rookie. He had the thirdmost receptions of the rooks. And he was playing with Mason Rudolph and Duck Hodges. What he was dealing with was a full Shakespearean tragedy. What he had to encounter as a rookie. Yeah, Duck Hodges, metaphorically speaking, came in.

and, you know, he killed Mason Rudolph. And then Mason Rudolph came back and then Mason Rudolph killed himself. Yes. It was a true Romeo and Juliet situation, metaphorically speaking. Like, that's how the season played out. And I'm interested. I mean, yes, Juju's there, but look, Big Ben is going to be back. Deonti Johnson is just, he's so fascinating that he was able to do what he did with, with the quarterback play around him.

I know that James Washington is interesting as well. But I don't know. No, Deontay Johnson is definitely the one that you want to focus on there. Younger, I think has shown more in both of them have a short career, has shown more. Deontay Johnson looks to be, you know, he passes the eye test. He didn't have the team that could support him. Hopefully next year. I think it's easy pickings to say the Steelers are one of the biggest.

improvements on offense because whenever you go from no quarterback to a quarterback, it's going to help. And if I said receiving yards, I just meant targets and receptions. He also, because Washington had more yards than he did. So I'm not sure about team wide, maybe one of the quarterbacks had him beat, but I'm very confident in positional players that he led in fumbles as well. He had a bit of a fumbling problem as a wide receiver, but I think he can get that taken care of.

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of the fantasy footballers listener league, Jason. I know you're going to be there. I'm a two-time champion of that league. I am now a silver medalist. I'm proud of you. I'm just, man, I'm crushing the silver medals these days. You know, the last few years to come through with a gold. You have been in a lot of championships that you have lost. I am snake bit right now. I mean, I feel I don't want to, I don't want to say Brian Catron, but I think I just did.

I'm going to need you to take that back. We'll see by the end of the episode. You have said a lot of things to me, a lot of mean things to be. None meaner than what just the curve. Calling someone a straight loser is very rude. And so I do apologize. Thank you. News and notes from around the league. The Chargers officially.

announced that Philip Rivers will enter free agency. Jay Glazer came. They will be moving on. Yeah, Jay Glazer came out, I feel like a month ago, said that. We presented that. And I don't know that we ever officially talked about the fact that he was, he wasn't presenting that as a fact, but that's his strong belief. He's usually right, so we didn't really bring it up. Turns out he was right. This one is official now. Philip Rivers going on elsewhere. And it looks like negotiations with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are at least real.

There is interest there. I know the Vegas odds right now you can bet on things like this. Of course you can. Why not? Or you could say the worst odds as far as money for your dollar would be the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. That's where they have him going number one, number two to the Colts. The third place bet is actually to retire. So they think it's more likely that he goes to the Buccaneers or the Colts than he retires.

bananas to me that the Tampa Bay Buccaneers would be wanting to get Philip Rivers. I completely agree with you. The bucks were seven and, look, Philip Rivers is great. We've talked about on this show, had debates of with Philip Rivers, the numbers that he has put up over his entire career, does he actually have a shot to make into the Hall of Fame? Because he is a production monster. He never won a Super Bowl, but production monster.