Fantasy Football - Draft Steals + MORE Free Agent Frenzy! - Podcast for 3/12

That's when he had the run for fantasy players. Yes. Which, you know, he's never really been, I mean, he's always been outside the top 20 at tight end in Tennessee. But he had top 10 finishes in three games from week 12 on in 2024. It's interesting. He has athleticism. He has needed an actual opportunity. Took a while for Johnny. Maybe, maybe. Maybe. This is, this is cool. This signing is another one. It's kind of like the Crod deal. Former Ravens running back, Keaton Mitchell, is signing with the Chargers. Two-year deal. Okay, that's not a giant name added to the backfield. It also feels a lot better going into the draft. Like Hampton, Mike McDaniel's the new offensive coordinator. They've brought in a fullback. They've brought in offensive line weapons. They brought in it blocking tight in. Are we going to get the Hampton Express?

I think this signing is great for Hampton. It's not a red zone threat. Exactly. And, you know, it would with Kamani Vidal, Sassoon. So silky. Yeah, so silky, so smooth. I mean, I like it. I think it's fun for the Chargers. Good for Hampton to be a workhorse and then having actual good depth behind him, you know, just in case some other player has to take over. Yeah, it makes me, Mitchell's never had a carry inside the five in his career. Really? Never. Well, I mean, when you score from so far away. He's a little, you know, thunder and lightning situation. Well, Mike, Aaron Jones. The people hate it. The people hate all these moves that negatively impact my dynasty team. I think the booing you're hearing is from Mike's dynasty roster. It is. Aaron Jones is now back with the Minnesota Vikings. Yeah. We had just talked on the footcast about.

like Jordan Mason and potential and, you know, how bad the offensive line was, if they can fix that. And then Aaron Jones, they released him just to bring them back and restructure the deal. Yep. And now the backfield's going to be Jones and Mason again. Yep. And that's all you have to say about that. Yeah, it'll be messy. And unless they fix the offensive line, it will be really nothing for anybody. Well, we are recording and releasing this show on Thursday, the same day that Kyler Murray is going to visit and I think, signed with the Minnesota Vikings. Kyler was finally formally released. Arizona owes him a cool $36.8 million. It is a very weird thing when you release a player that is probably a better quarterback than the two that you have on the team. That is probably going to instantly be signed by somebody known as a quarterback whisperer on a very competitive football team. It is weird when another team judges that the guy that you're letting go is a must have instantaneously. Yes.

I've talked about this. The Cardinals, the clock ran out for like the Arizona experiment with Kyla Murray. But I will not be shocked if he's successful in Minnesota. I will not be shocked if he makes Justin Jefferson successful again in Minnesota. That team has so much structure around it defensively with the weapons on offense. I mean, do you expect it to work for fantasy if he lands in Minnesota? Yes. I believe in Kevin O'Connell that much in his offense. would be, I think, a much safer situation for fantasy football players of, you know, that earlier pick on Jefferson. It should be just fine. We've seen Kyler hyper-target, you know. When he first got Hopkins, Hopkins got all the targets. We were frustrated with how the offense wanted to use Hopkins and hit not a route tree, but a route bush. It was all just at the line of scrimmage. That won't happen to Jefferson. So it is the...

It's the clearest, most obvious thing that should happen. Is Kyler go to Minnesota? Did you see what was put out, though? I saw that he's going to go talk to. He wanted to check some other places. It was like, you know, starting opportunities for Kyla right now would be Pittsburgh and Minnesota. I think that's really it. Like those are the two options. Now, if you could go to a team like the Rams and just hang out, collect a big fat check from the Arizona Cardinals. Learn the McVeigh system, which people want McVeigh players. So I don't think that's a terrible option should Kyler feel like it's not a fit with Minnesota. Yeah, I think the stuff getting put out is he wants a starter opportunity. That's not going to happen. That's not going to happen with McVeigh immediately. Right. I think it was reported by your boy, Tom Pelliserro, that he's going to have Zoom meetings with executives from three to five teams.

that potentially have a need for quarterback in 2027. So it's like what you said, waiting another year. I don't know if he wants me to say it or not, but I'm saying it anyways. Lead injury analyst, Matthew Betts, for the fantasy footballers. Also a co-host of the DFS and betting pod. Also recovering from an injury. Yeah. Yeah. Great guy. I get a message from Betts about two days ago. He's blocked by Bellasaro. Matthew Betts is blocked. And he's like, because he throws in a comment or something. He's like, I have literally no idea. I have never interacted with this man one time. And so the, it was just, it was hilarious of somehow Betts catching a stray, an online social media beef when I am the, I am the hornet of this conversation. Yeah, you certainly are in, and. So I mean, Tom.

Tom, come on. Let's bury the hatchet. Why are you blocking our guy bets? What are you doing? So if you believe in the quarterback whisper, Kevin O'Connell, which you've always said on the show. Yep. It feels like that could go two directions with your J.J. McCarthy belief. Because it's like, I would think you'd be like so out on McCarthy quickly because it didn't work for McCarthy. And it's worked for everybody else. So that would be like an indictment on McCarthy. The other view, I guess you could take is that he'll figure it out with McCarthy. That's where I lean. of McCarthy was not good last year. You know, there are, you can pull up some advanced analytics and make McCarthy look like essentially the worst quarterback of football last year. Maybe that is totally correct. They did win a bunch of games at the end of the year, and he has, he's had very little actual starting opportunity. This was his rookie year.

His true rookie year was completely lost injury, and then he lost a whole bunch of this year to injury as well. So that's just, I think JJ could figure it out, but the time may already be up. It might just be Kyler. Yeah, the pressure cooker situation in Minnesota with everything else being so good, and the career of Jefferson on the line feels like they can't. Even if it's not Kyler, it feels like you got to bring, I mean, Kirk Cousins could absolutely end up in Minnesota. Yes. That would be like, if Kyler doesn't go there, I think it ends up being Kirk Cousins.

But we'll see. I mean, we'd have to see with contracts and stuff, but it's all, it's not impossible for Kyler Murray to go to Minnesota and not win the job. Yeah, I guess if McCarthy, at least you can short leash McCarthy. Let's take another. Which would be hilarious. Oh my gosh. You think. That's your dream. Well, it's, it's my dream. Because as a Cardinal fan, I'm a little upset with Kyler Murray. Yeah. He didn't bring us anything. They're. Maybe it's just his personality, you know, rubbing me the wrong way. But it always, all the call of duty stuff, all the, in the extension, they literally put in a, you have to study time. You're saying you know behind the scenes. There are some things. Yeah. He got cut. They're giving him $37 million to go away. Yeah, his, I mean, his leadership. The differential between Kyler, this is undebatable. You can, I mean, there are Josh Sweat of the Cardinals.

Doesn't want to play without Jonathan Gannon. Gannon got fired. Like other people took the fall. The leadership difference of Jacoby Brissette and Kyla Murray has been well spoken up. So for for Kyler to go to a team, us of just be like, no, I'm the starter. Well, that's one place would be just there will be some poetry. Have you seen this nine guy? That might be the one leadership situation. Kyler wins the day on. Yeah. Mr. Uh, Mr. Makeup in the locker room. Oh, man. Yeah, we'll take a break. We'll talk some more free agent signings and jumping us to mailbag questions. A couple of last minute mentions, Khalif Raymond, I think we might have talked about that. Goes to the Bears. It's a good signing. He's a pretty good player, special teams guy. He's a good special teams guy. And you just don't got to worry about his snaps in Detroit anymore. No, you don't. And, oh, that's a, yeah, go ahead. Oh, the lights came back on. I bet you you were a little worried over there, Al.

there was a second that yeah i was like oh those are off for good we've been doing some work on stuff and i wasn't sure if it was hooked up properly yeah i guess it is it's la no more caliph raymond jane just back to the 49ers bucks placed an exclusive rights free agent uh tender on yeah that that was news that they were not going to tender him apparently but they did so sean shan tucker will be back the ton just won i think is important for fantasy football as Jake, yeah. Jake Tongis with no George Kittle has been good. Yep. Like good, not just a serviceable tight end, good for fantasy football. Brock Purdy and that, whatever it is that's going on in the system, Brock Purdy can find the tight end and it has a connection. So he will be interesting. Should you get the report, hey, George Kittle is not, maybe pop, maybe miss four weeks. And you can, in your draft, just take Jake Tong just late and then figure it out.

Off of the waiver wire. We'll find out if they do this multi-acillies thing. Oh, our new plan? With kiddle. Well, I don't know the status of kiddles like grandparents. Right. I don't know if he has any, any Achilles to attach. You have to, they have to be living? Well, that could, yeah. Maybe it's like a kidney. You're just like, I'm done. Wait, what do you mean? They don't take kidneys from dead people. No, no, that's what I'm saying. Like, I can donate a kidney while I'm alive. I see. And maybe you're like, you're George, little Georgie. I think maybe the veracity of all of our speculation here, it's starting to come into question. I'm not sure any of this is really possible. I'm not positive, but I don't think, I think we may be talking out of our butts. Hmm. But what, you know, let the comments tell us. The Texans signed tight in Foster Monroe to a two year deal. They had just re-signed Alton Schultz to a one-year deal, Moreau Schultz.

Panther signed John Mechie, who continues to find deals in the NFL. Cardinal signed Bam Knight to just further twist the knife into Mike's Trey Benson adoration. What else is going on? We got those fullback signing. Wait, Kyle is breaking. This is, this is... Come on, Kyle. This news is too good. Kyle, don't trust the Internet, man. Kyle, did you vet this? That George Kittles' grandmother... His what? George Kittles' grandmother, Lou Jean? Lou Jean, first of all, that's a great name. Also, AKA Lucky. Well, that's why I would go with Lucky instead of Lou Jean. Well-known, beloved figure who turned 103 years old? In January. You want an 103-year-old Achilles' Mike? You want to take this woman's Achilles? She's probably not walking, though. It's probably available. Lucky. It's probably available. George needs you. So literally, so he's got a 103-old grandma. That's wild. With a tendon just sitting there.

That could be completely fake, but I want to believe it's true. Her tendons fake? No, that she's 103. Kyle, you can't know any of this information about George Kittles' grandmother. This is true. Don't doubt Kyle's research. She resides in Iowa and recently stopped driving around the age 101 or 102. She doesn't know which of those she stopped driving. Grandma Kettle rules, man. Grandma Kittle. I feel like it's got to be a little safer in the open roads of the Midwest. For the elderly. Yeah, then like L.A.? Is that safer? Like a little old lady from Pasadena. Yeah. What is happening? Some backup quarterback signings. I guess Teddy Bridgewater went back to Detroit. Jake Browning to Tampa, Sam, Hal, to Alice, and I don't care. Let's answer a couple of questions. Mailbag. So lucky kiddle. The Jake Brownie won to Tampa Bay. I mean, so the Bengals.

Who's the Bengals backup quarterback right now? Yeah, who is it, Falcon? I'm looking real quick. Sean Clifford. So there was some reports of that Joe Flacko might go back to Cincinnati. We'll find out. Which would, oh man, we need it. You need it. Yeah, this is. No, the world needs it. Your dynasty team needs it. An insurance quarterback? No, it would be good for Chase and Kittle. Kittle. Higgins, the sponsor of the show, T. Higgins. T. Higgins. Welcome to T. Higgins. Brought to you by T. Higgins. I like that bit. Yeah. That's an example of the kind of attention you'll get on this show. If you sponsor it. Austin Echler, you want a piece of this? I'm asking. Kyle, use check. You want fullbacks to get more attention, Kyle? If you sponsor this show, I guarantee you the base salary of fullbacks go up over the next five years.

because of awareness. Yes. It's awareness marketing. It would only be us. It would be... Nothing to do with a constantly rising NFL salary cap. We will be the push for full-backed salaries. You're losing money not sponsoring this show is what I'm saying. Juice. Get together. You got a great nickname. This could be called Juice's house. Could be. Spitball in there. We're going to have to come up with a different name. All right. Some questions for you. Website. Question from Case. Dynasty trade question. Neighbors for Ken Bone Walker. No. As in... Like, you don't trade neighbors. You get neighbors? No, as in you trade neighbors to get Ken Bone Walker. I would not do that. No. I mean, do you believe in neighbors long term? I do. He should be good, right? I still... I'm not letting the ACL change how I think about neighbors. Carter wants to know, Mike, Instagram question. More or less excited for Drake London's situation this year? More or less compared to what? To Cousins playing quarterback?

I think you just said last year. Same. Yeah, it's same or less. Cupcake Craig writes in, should I trade T. Higgins, former sponsor of the show, for Jalen Waddle. He's already done. He's already made it through his entire sponsorship. I have got any checks in the mail. It was a sample. It was a bit of a tease. First one's free. First one's free, T. T. Higgins, should I trade him for Jalen Waddle in a dynasty? I have Malik Willis for the stack. I'd rather have Jaylon. Really? Yeah, I would. I would rather have T. Higgins. Okay, there you go. I mean, the stack is not really factoring into my equation there. I just think with Tyreek gone, I think we're in store for a really good Jaylon Wattle years. I like Jalen Waddle. I think he's a good acquisition for a fantasy team right now, but... No, I get it. I think it's fair to say that you prefer Higgins. Both guys love getting hurt. Right. They love it. Yeah, so if you're going to...

say you're out on T. Higgins because it gets hurt all the time. No, I didn't say it. Don't go get Waddle. I didn't say it. And T. Higgins. He's a sponsor of the show. Never would. If both are healthy, T. Higgins will be more productive. Instagram question. This is a great one to finish on. Jason writes in. Jason 23, not Jason Moore. Current landing spot crush for Jeremiah Love. Here's your top 10 picks. There's only one. Top 10 picks in the draft right now, Las Vegas. That'll be Mendoza. So the Jets, Cardinals, Tennessee, Giants, Cleveland, Washington, New Orleans, Kansas City, and Cincinnati. It's really Washington or bust for me. That's too aggressive. I think Tennessee is, I think Tennessee would be a really good home. I think Tennessee is the perfect situation that you're like, well, do I really like that situation? And I think you will. I think I like Cam Ward. I like the change in the head coaching position. Offensive coordinator, Brian Dable. Tennessee works for me.

Okay. So if I was picking a spot there, I would say Tennessee, Washington, the end of the, you know. Tennessee and the Giants. What if he goes to Cincinnati? Because if he drops to 10, Mike, it will be, the pressure will actually be on Cincinnati to do it. It definitely would be, and that would be the end for Chase Brown. That would be bad. I just don't, I don't think he can possibly get to 10. The fact that the Saints at 8. and Kansas City at 9, who both would have sprinted to the podium, should Jeremiah Love go there? The reason that they dished out the money is they know 100% that Love will not make it to 8. I agree with you, and I actually, you look at the drafted odds right now, Tennessee's number one, Washington is number two, the Giants number three with the Cam Scataboo situation, and the Cardinals are number four tied with the Giants, and the Cardinals are absolutely in contention here. Mike, is that not the most?

The Cardinals have no money tied up in running back. They really don't. The Conner deals worth nothing. Vincent, nothing. Bam Knight, nothing. Algiers deals teeny. If I still cared about the Arizona Cardinals, I would be furious. Okay, okay. I think that it could happen. Go ahead. Do it, Arizona. I mean, it is. You got it. You know what's great? A top five wide receiver contract, just waste it. Totally waste him and all that cheap year, the cheaper years for Marv. No. Jeremiah, I love. Yeah. Go ahead. Waste his career. Yeah. Arizona. Mike's feeling good. All right, that is going to do it for today's episode of the show. We'll be back next week with Jason Moore. Tuesday episode, coaching changes. We'll jump into all the big moves of the offseason, the fantasy implications with these free agent moves. We'll catch you then. Special thanks to T. Higgins. Goodbye. Thank you for listening to another episode of the Fantasy Footballers podcast. Join our fantasy football community on Jointhefoot.com.

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