The Fantasy Court + Gibson Hype! - Fantasy Football Podcast for 9/4

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Hey, this is Mike Kisicki, Titan with the Miami Dolphins, and you are listening to the Fantasy Footballers Podcast. Fantasy Footballers Podcast with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Ah, Leo Gibson, baby! The time is here! Producer's staring at levels. I can see the eyes of Albert Warren. Yeah, let's go. Let's go. I apologize to everyone.

Yeah, that was not fair. To my microphone. You know it was coming out there. Look. Okay, I got to start here. We got to start here. Oh, my goodness. Welcome to the fantasy footballers, Andy Mike and Jason, Friday, September 4th, also known as Antonio Gibson Day. All right. Now that the show has begun. We got to get this out of the way. Look, Adrian Peterson is one of my favorite players of all time. His picture is up in front of my desk. I think they did him a little bit dirty. I hope he ends on a contender.

Okay. Having said that, now we get to the part where we celebrate Antonio Gibson is. Mike is at a morning. Look, on the drive-in, this was full, and producer Borland will appreciate this. This was full yellow card, Ocean Avenue. The volume was at maximum. I need a new steering wheel because the drumming going on in the car on the drive. I've dismantled my entire car.

Oh, man. I'm picturing the cartoon car. You know the cartoon car where, like, the top of the car goes way up, it goes up and down and up and down, and the wheels stay on the ground. And it's like, yeah, with hydraulics. Yeah, except that was just me bouncing my car. If you are new to the show, welcome in. If you haven't gathered yet, Mike, the fantasy hitman right, has been a long time if there is such a thing at this point already. Truther of Antonio Gibson, pre-draft, post-draft, hyped him up after the third round pick.

And after, you know, the presumed starter, Darius Geis was released. It looked like the path was there. It was emerging. And the emergence has completed as far as you can complete before NFL games start. And not even just the emergence. If you follow what the beat report is like they, they talk to Peterson. And on the way out, Peterson himself was saying, you know, I was noticing how they were using Gibson, how they're using McKissick.

They want to have a main guy. And then the player he kept mentioning was Antonio Gibson. Like it's. Yeah, because your first reaction, Mike, when you found this out was, well, they maybe didn't want to guarantee Adrian Peterson the money. Because to this point, Adrian Peterson had been taking every first team rep for the majority of the soft season, been a leader in the clubhouse. And so Mike's reaction was, well, maybe they bring them back after they, so they don't have to guarantee him that veteran money. Mm-hmm.

And I was like, well, you should read the comments that Adrian Peterson made, which was that, hey, they brought in Antonio Gibson to be this guy, which is a type of offense, which is the type of offense where the running back needs to be able to catch Christian McCaffrey level of passes if it's possible. So very, you know, if you were one of the many, many, many people that have drafted already.

and you buy into this hitman fella, then you probably have Antonio Gibson on your team. So we'll talk a little bit more about this. I have a specific question for us as it pertains to this situation and how we see it playing out. It is Friday though. Put Clan Friday.

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Get it together. What's going on here? You can use the code ballers over at pristine auction when you're browsing for Antonio Gibson merch and you get $10 off. Also, I had teased on Twitter that we were having a Patrick Mahomes interview today and we thought we were. That has been kicked down the road a little bit. So we do expect to still be able to air that interview for you, but not today.

And what else is going on? Mike has an article up on the website, his ultimate value hit squad article. It comes out each and every year where he is finding the best values in each and every round of your draft. So if you have drafts still on the table, all of our major drafts in here are still to come. And you can check out that article at the fantasy footballers.com. Quick question, tying into the Antonio Gibson situation. It's basically this.

How many carries do you believe Antonio Gibson will receive this year in Washington? Peyton Barber, according to camp reports, has had a strong camp. Another reason you could let go of Adrian Peterson. J.D. McKissick is there. Bryce Love makes the team. Yep. We'll have some opportunities in this offense. But as we said, also, you know, Adrian Peterson on the way out the door understands that Antonio Gibson will basically have the best summary.

he'll have as many opportunities as he can possibly earn. Yeah, that's a great way to put it, is they wanted Antonio Gibson to be the starter, and they're going to find out. I mean, I'm taking the world's largest preseason victory lap right now, and I know that, but look, this is just way too much fun, but Antonio Gibson still has to succeed on the field, but they're going to give him the chance now. Jason and I were speaking before the show, Mike.

while you were strutting in really slowly from the car for like an hour, just parade. You'd be surprised how slow you move when you're levitating. Yes. It's not as fast as you think. No, it's not. I was wondering, do we have the CGI capability to just make Mike glow? He's already wearing the white shirt. I was going to ask in Al Borland, if he could get a harness and, like, and lower me down. Oh, my goodness. I could just fly around the set. But I have, I, I, we've gone through the ultimate draft kit is up to date. It's, it was.

We move quickly on the changes in the ultimate draft kit because we know people are drafting and need to be ready. I have Antonio Gibson down for 107 carries this year. Oh. Jason has him up at 199. I have him at 185. Okay. Okay. That was going to be figure out which side you were on. How do you think it breaks down with the four running backs remaining?

In Washington, then. Would you take a shot at Bryce Love in your drafts? I would. Yeah. So now let's say your drafts have already happened. You missed out on the chance to grab Antonio Gibson with one of those late picks. I would probably look at who I drafted with my last skill position player and put Bryce Love on my bench. I mean, I haven't been on team Bryce Love, but now you have to play the game of probability. You have to look at what could possibly happen and what could happen.

is Bryce Love could be very involved in this offense. So yes, 100% I am with that. I have him projected for just 75 attempts, but in fantasy football, keep your eyes open of what could actually happen. I have it down for a decent time share where I got Gibson at 185. I've Peyton Barber at 120 carries. The difference maker for Gibson, it's the receiving work. We already knew that that was going to be.

The difference maker because he, his ability to hit the home run, especially in the passing game, is tremendous. He currently sits as my running back 22. And people are asking, well, okay, where do you draft him now? I'm drafting him in that range. If you were going to take a running back where you take David Johnson, Todd Gurley, Melvin Gordon, those players there.

No freaking way am I drafting those guys over Antonio Gibson. I'm going to take the upside chance that Antonio Gibson gets the workload that they whispered about right after the draft. If Antonio Gibson works out, right, for your fantasy team and for the NFL, this will be, when we go to the future.

And a team drafts a player specifically on physical traits, not on collegiate production. And you know how that happens? And sometimes we criticize the, whether it's, I don't know, is it Denzel Mims' size or something? Right. A certain player comes out and it's like, man, that's the next Des Bryant physically. This will be why. Because he will be a player with 33 carries that teams could see through that situation to the upside. It reminds me of a player who's drafted last year.

who had very little college production, but was, by comparison to the top picks, but had a good draft capital and his athletic profile was fantastic. It's his teammates, Gary McLaren, who was awesome last year and is now, you know, a big breakout candidate this season. The reality is the weight-adjusted speed score of Antonio Gibson, which is otherworldly. You're talking 99th percentile. It's up there with Jonathan Taylor. It's up there with Sequin.

When you get the opportunity to be on the field and utilize those things the way that, you know, it took a long time for David Johnson, his comp to actually get the opportunity to thrive in that offense. As soon as he was given the ball, he succeeded with it. It took a while. This is a team that's saying, and all the camp reports have been glowing. I know Adrian Peterson was getting the first team reps.

But so was Gibson all camp long. It was Adrian Peterson and Antonio Gibson getting first team reps. And now with him out of the way, I really believe that this is a...

system and an offensive coordinator that wants to use a primary three down back. That was the quote from Peterson is they want a main guy. They want a three down capability on the field. They drafted him to have him there. He has the physical talents that have been showing out in camp. And I think he's going to touch the ball enough to be very, very fantasy relevant. He reminds me. Exact quote from Adrian Peterson. The system really fits him.

I feel like I can do that pony style too, more as a receiving back. We were all working on it, but they really want one main guy to do it, and they drafted Gibson to do it. Boom. He had the conversation. This is that, you know, we're entering the fantasy court today. This is eyewitness testimony to Ron Rivera and the offense, because when they had the conversation with Adrian Peterson, who they respect, they put the tweet out this morning.

You know, a leader in the locker room all through camp set the tone. You know, some beat writers talking about, look, Adrian Peterson was there to set the tone at camp. And Mike, you said they did them dirty because it's seven, six days to the season. But that leadership, they had that throughout camp. Adrian Peterson is the one that talked to them. The discussion was.