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Because there may have been a mustache hair in Mike's coffee mug. To be fair. We don't know for sure. We're running forensics on it right now. It could have been an eyebrow. It could have been a beard, a mustache. And we don't know if it's yours? Yeah, we don't know. That's why I'm getting to the bottom of this. If it was yours, would you have drank it down?

That is an excellent question. Like if you could confirm, forensics were here. We just got it back. It was yours. You watched it fall from your face to the mug. Yeah. Yeah. And then drift to the absolute bottom of the cup. Right. Right. We noticed Mike was looking at the bottom of his cup too often. We're like, we can't start to show. Is it weird that I'm saying no? I'm like. That you wouldn't drink? Yeah. I mean, I don't think any of us have to drink mustache hair. But it's just weird. My mustache is.

in my mouth all the time. Like, if you're out there and you've had a mustache, you've licked your mustache. But is your mustache in your belly? Right. That's the difference. All of a sudden, it detaches from my face and I, and I shun it. This is, this is, I do not claim ownership. You used to be part of me. No more.

Oh my goodness. So, but we pressed on. We had Al Borland take care of that problem for you. Yes, he saved me from myself. And here we are in week one of the National Football League season. Unbelievable. I don't know how we got here. Much like the mustache here at the bottom of the mug. I don't know how it got there. I don't know how we got here. And we'll never know. We're so close. It's...

It's happening. It's this week. We're talking week-run football. Yeah, it's great. And we have so much to talk about today. Hope everybody had a safe, healthy, happy, wonderful Labor Day. We took that time for a final breather before the season. And here we are. We're stoked. We're excited. The Megal Bowl, today's the final draft day for that. So people have been drafting. That's been really exciting.

We did surpass last year's total amount of meglable, meglable entrance. Which means it is officially the largest fantasy football league of all time. You mean because it surpassed last year's? Which was the largest fantasy football league of all time. We have yet to be corrected on that front. Which means it is the largest fantasy football league.

of all time. If you're just joining us for the season, welcome in to the show, the fantasy footballers, Andy, Mike, and Jason at the FF Ballers. You can find us on Twitter at the FF Ballers. You can follow Jason at Jason FFL, Mike at FF Hitman. I'm at Andy Holloway, the website, which now has the week one rankings and the start-sit tool, the fantasy footballers.com, and the community of nearly 13,000 strong at Join the Foot.

So we have a lot of news and notes to get into today. Everything from extensions to roster cuts, some signings. But I thought it would be fun. We're right here on the precipice of the 2020 season to do some predictions. So let's predict. Let's do some predictions. The Super Bowl, what do you got, Mike? I am going with a bounce back.

For the Pittsburgh Steelers, I have them making it in. The defense was elite enough to almost take them single-handedly to the playoffs last year. And with Big Ben back and the weapons round, I got the Steelers making it. I also have the Saints representing the NFC. I think that the team remains solid over there. And I'm taking...

The Pittsburgh Steelers. Oh, yes. To win Super Bowl. And which Super Bowl are we on here, fellas? Oh, geez. Let me think. Dude, some math. Oh, yes. I love that pick. I think that the Steelers. And really, if you look at Vegas odds, Vegas is expecting big things for the Steelers this year outside of those top, you know, teams that are perennially there over the last couple of years with the.

greatest quarterbacks, the Lamar Jackson's and Pat Mahomes. The Steelers are in that mix. I really like bringing that up. I like your pick more than mine because it's more fun. Mine is super chalk, but the truth is I wanted to do what I believed. And I think in this COVID season, those teams with continuity, the team's returning the same offense, the same defense for the most part, have a leg up. And I've got.

The Ravens versus the Saints as well from the NFC. I've got Lamar Jackson winning his first Super Bowl at Super Bowl 55. Oh! Try to get it in there again, huh? Well, we'll just see how you do. All right, I did not go talk. I am sticking with my early off-season Super Bowl pick, which is the Buffalo.

Bills. Oh, yeah. I am going to stick with them. I don't know if one of the extensions that we wouldn't have talked about today because it's on the defensive side of the ball. They extended Trudevius White. If you saw the video of Trudevius White, I retweeted it. Incredible player. Incredible video. I love the bills. You talk about continuity with their head coach, Sean McDermott, Josh Allen making the next step and that defense being so foundational.

I think Buffalo can get over the hump this year, so I'm going to take the non-chalk, Boulder prediction. I'm taking the Buffalo Bills, and I'm taking them over, and this is the change. I'm going to take them over Tampa Bay. That feels like maybe the popular NFC pick of the moment, but I believe it. And the reason is not because of a super team narrative with Tom Brady and bringing in Gronk, but because...

They were an ascending team regardless, and Bruce Arons is a really good head coach. Bruce Arons led the Arizona Cardinals with Carson Palmer to a 13 and 3 season. He's been a great coach everywhere he's gone. I believe that he has the personnel to get them over the hump, so I'm going to take the bills over the bucks in Super Bowl. Thank you.

So NFL MVP picks. All right. You want to do those? Yep. I got Drew Brees. I got the Saints making it and I got Breeze being the one carrying him there. I'm going to go Mahomes. He's the best. Boo. You booed all you want. And at the end of the year when Mahomes is actually the MVP, you'll be like, boo, you got it right. Yeah, I mean, but then other people will have gotten it right too. So you'll just be one of them. Yeah. Enjoy splitting your jackpot.

I will enjoy that more than having no jackpot. Yeah, fair enough. I'm going to give it to Josh Allen. Obviously, I have the bills winning the Super Bowl, having a great season. Josh Allen, I'm going to go with him. I'd love to have said Kyler and the Cardinals in the Super Bowl. That would have been cool, but. Yeah, that would be. That would be awesome. Ain't happening. You know, speaking of the Buffalo Bills in continuity, I don't know if you are aware, they are the number one.

team in continuity ranking done by a snap percentage from last year, they are returning 88% of their snaps, 94% on the offensive side of the ball. So they have extreme continuity when you talk about offensive line, defensive line, the whole team. I love everything they're doing. I mean, bringing in Zach Moss, huge for that team with what they needed, and then picking up Stefan Diggs to accentuate.

You know, what Josh Allen help Josh Allen with the deep ball and then continuity across the board. So obviously I knew that statistic. Obviously. All right. Last one. Offensive rookie of the year. It's hard for a quarterback not to win this. So we all think Joe Burrow will win it. So I guess we're saying runner up. Sure. Offensive rookie of year, runner up. And it's also tough for a rookie wide receiver.

to come in and take it. So I'm going to go with a running back. Come on. You know I'm going with Antonio Gibson. He's both. So perfect. Oh, man. Yeah, there you go. I think that if it's a running back, which I, you know, if it's not Joe Burrow, it will probably be a running back. It's going to be Jonathan Taylor, who means far more to the Colts. If he gets the opportunity and the Colts are a really good team, they could win this division. They could get in the playoffs. If that happens, it will not be Philip Rivers that's.

That's really the reason. I think it'll be Jonathan Taylor. Well, and I'll go with one that isn't if he gets the opportunity, one that already has it. Clyde Edwards-Alair, Kansas City, that offense from day one. It's a joke. News and notes from around the league. Al, can we get a mustache hair into Jason's mug? Probably. I'll work on it through the show. Yeah, I don't have an almond, so we can go mustache hair. All right. Deshaun Watson got paid. Not a 10-year deal, though.

But he got a four-year $160 million extension. Good for him. Great player. Outstanding player. We get to see him Thursday. It's the second highest, you know, contract of all times behind Pat Mahomes. And it's $160 million, which just makes, when I saw that, I'm like, wow, that's the second highest, $160 million. And Mahomes got $500 million contract. That's just like.

That is. And the big thing to me, the takeaway, one, yeah, you had to lock Watson up. Excellent. Great work by the Texans. Dak Prescott is sitting just on the side going, you should not have franchised me. Remember when they didn't want to pay him 30 million a couple years ago? The bill just keeps going up. If you're Dak and you've had a strategy session with your agent and your team.

And you're like, yeah, let's just, let's just kind of hold on and see what happens. And the next thing that happens is a $500 million contract to Patrick Mahomes and a $160 million four-year deal. And what's like the really bizarre, like funny thing about it is, so the Cowboys franchised him. I mean, he's making a lot of money this year. The Cowboys want him to do well.

The Cowboys want to win games, but winning games means that Dad Prescott's contract price just continues to go up. So the better the Cowboys are, the worst the Cowboys are going to be. It's quite the quagmire going on in Dallas. Keenan Allen signed a four-year extension, now the second highest paid receiver in the NFL. DeAndre Hopkins, close to an extension, Alvin Camara.

close to an extension. I love it. Let's go. So that's big. I mean, the Alvin Camara won. I'll bring up this fantasy question for you. We know that Drew Breeze is not going to play out whatever this extension is for Camara. He's not going to be around for however long this extension ends up being. How do you view him in dynasty formats? It's hard enough to value running backs. He's obviously a pass catcher. Breeze could retire after this season. Sure.

You know, when I'm in a dynasty league and you're going on to that second contract, for almost every running back, I'm hoping to sell high. I'm hoping to get out of them because Camara still has an enormous amount of value. He's, you know, he was my running back four up until a week ago when, you know, the epidural news was coming out. He's a phenomenal back. And when you sign an extension.