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The Fantasy Footballers podcast. Coming to you from Christineauction.com studios with your host, Woody Holloway, Jason Moore. First live show of the 2019 tour. Not bad. Not bad. I can see the Tony Cucco jersey right now. This place is jumping. We've got a great podcast for you today. That man did 30 curls right before entering the building.

And it's looking good, sir. It's looking good. Sun's out. Guns out. Those are white like yours, Jay. Those are white like that. Welcome into the show. Great one. We got breakouts and bust today. Got some news. Got an interesting quick question. Mike has been hyped all day long. I'm rubbing my hands like a, like I got an evil plan. You're ready. Now, Jason, you've been to Chicago a couple times. I have. I love Chicago. Great improv scene here. Great people. The foot.

Is out? The pander bear is out. Oh, the pander bear is always here, baby. Oh, if you think he's out, just wait. Now, if you've been a few times, I know you love the food here. Of course. I love the food here. Someone just yelled pizza. I like pizza. In fairness, one of the things I like the most about everywhere I go is their food. That is true. Now, I'm curious everything you know about Chicago in like, I don't know, 55 seconds. 55 seconds.

Chicago is home of one of the largest groups of Foot Clan in the world, which is what they are primarily known for. In addition to that, they have several sports teams, one of which is the Bears who have a quarterback that will throw a mountain. That's right. That's right. I said it. Wow. They have the Cubs, who after 178,000 years won a world title. Yes. They have the Chicago Bulls.

who Michael Jordan, one of the best, I would say the best player of all time, and he won five championships. I do not count, I do not count the championship against the Phoenix Suns. That was fair. That one did not exist or I would not be here. That's 55 seconds. That's pretty good. That's pretty good. Yes, Chicago, you're the first stop on the People's Fantasy Tour. New York next week, then San Francisco, L.A. and Phoenix.

You don't talk about that in Chicago, apparently. It's not even inner division, and they're angry. It's New York. Boo the Packer fan. Don't boo us. Yes. There we go. Let them have it. But Ballerslive.com, ballerslive.com for tickets, all you out there listening. We got a live mailbag on the show today. But right now, we got a quick question. Now, I want to talk about growing up, because we've already done it. Some of us. Physically. I'm waiting.

I want us to pick a player under 25 years old, and I want to talk about what player they're going to be like when they grow up. Okay? So a young player now, what's the comp? What do they grow up to become? What did you? I wanted to be Michael Jordan when I was a kid. I fell short of the goal in many ways. You got the shooter. Nobody wants to grow up and be deadlift shrimp.

They want to grow up and be... You apologize to the shrimp family. I would be very happy if I grew up to be deadlift shrimp. That's not the ambition. I wanted to be Jordan. It didn't work out. But what about you guys? You wanted to play basketball, too? Oh, certainly. A lot of people don't know this about me. Some do, the diehard fans that have listened a long time. But most people don't necessarily know that I can beat everyone out there in one-on-one in basketball. And that is true. I'll kick it off here.

The pander bear is out. But in fairness, this isn't pandering. This is actually my comp pre-NFL draft. If you remember, David Montgomery. Careful. Who got renamed into David Mopportunity. I'm talking about David Montgomery.

Rookie running back. I love that they cheer like, yeah, he's got an opportunity. He does have a great opportunity. He's our running back. So when I was scouting him, literally what I wrote, and I quote, was that I think he could be a great workhorse back if a team invested in him. I don't think they will. I was wrong with the second part because the Bears invested in him, and I believe he will be a workhorse back. My comp for him, I believe he grows up to be Frank Gore.

Are you happy about that? Yeah, I'm curious. I would imagine you'd be happy with Frank Gore's career. I would be happy with that. You're talking about a guy who over the last decade has been the running back 14 on average. Frank Gore, to me, he's not except. They want more. Sure. Okay, he's going to grow up to be LaDadian Tomlinson. There's the panderbair. So here's the thing. Frank Gore, I believe, other than...

aging is not exceptional at anything but he's very good at everything there's no there's no fault in his game and that's what david mopportunity is he is a very well-rounded back look him and frank gore they both run a four six three no one's blazing yes a blazing four six three no one's confusing them with ted gin and i you know i think he is well-rounded

I believe he will be about that, like a running back 14, not necessarily a top 10 back, but a high-end RB2 for a long time. His body, his frame, I think he can hold up. So I believe David Mopertunity grows up to be Frank Gore. I think any reasonable Bears fan should like that comp. They should be content with that. Mike, what do you think? What did you want to be when you grew up? Well, when I was very young, I wanted to be a dinosaur.

Okay. It didn't work out. My parents told me I could be anything. No. They were liars. Liars. Yeah. Then I wanted to be an astronaut. Uh-huh. And then I wanted to be a global sensation rock star. Uh-huh. You kind of did that. Oh, yes. My new best friend in the crowd. I didn't make it. Yeah. But, I mean, I guess we're touring with the podcast, so it's good enough.

Good enough. But the player I want to talk about, a wide receiver I loved coming into the draft, Paris Campbell. He, thank you. Look, the guy has great hands, check number one for a player whose number one job is to catch the ball. Yeah, solid. He is, unlike David Mopportunities 4-6, Paris Campbell is crazy fast.

And I got him who he can aspire to be when he grows up. A fellow yak master, the yakmaster of the past 10 years? 10, that's a little bit long. I was going to go 4.5. But Golden... Let's go 10. Okay, sure, 10 years. Why not? Who cares? No one's listening. We make the rules here. But Golden Tate has been incredible, an incredible wide receiver, especially once he was...

freed from the shackles of the Seattle Seahawks, and he got to be the slot wide receiver for the Detroit Lions. He got to excel. That's fine. We can boo the lions. I don't really care. But, thank you. But he was an incredible... He just gets those short yards. The short yard passes. The air yards, they don't matter. They do not matter to Golden Tate because he can break tackles. He makes moves. And Paris Campbell is much faster and shiftier than Golden Tate.

But if you were aspiring to be a great slot-wide receiver, why not want to be Golden Tate when you grew up? Nine years. That's how long Golden Tate's career is now. But how long is? But not good. He was only good in Detroit. In Detroit. Right. When he started the high target totals. Yes. All right. You like Paris Campbell a lot. I do. Can he score more than Golden Tate scores? I think so. Because he's so fast. Where Golden Tate can get caught.

Paris Campbell, similar to Odo Beckham, if he makes the first man miss on a slant and the defense is in the wrong position, Paris Campbell is going to score. An 82% catch rate last year, 809 yards after the catch. I think that was a sensational pick by the Colts. The reason that I would say, like I was not a huge Paris Campbell fan in the drafts, only because...

He wasn't a downfield receiver. We don't know if his routes are good or not. He's just blazing fast and can make a man miss. But going to Andrew Luck, going to Frank Wright, I think that he fits their system and what they're doing. So I'm higher on him now. I like that cop, that Golden Tate Comp. All right. I'm going with Calvin Ridley here. Wide receiver, Atlanta Falcons. Okay. And I brought this up in the studio yesterday of what comp I was going to go to, and you looked at me sideways. You said you're on board now.

Yes, I'm there. We got there. And it's strange, but stay with me. I think Calvin Ridley grows up to be not quite Julio Jones. Okay? Almost. Oh, so close. I've accomplished my dream. So close. Of being not quite somebody. He wants to be Julio because you don't, you don't grow up wanting to be Delft. You grow up wanting to be Jordan. He grows up to be Julio. But listen.

Julio is another physical specimen. You can't repeat it. A different Calvin did, but that's Calvin Johnson. You're not going to get that out of Calvin Ridley. He's 6'1, but he's a little guy. Julio was 98% tall everywhere. This is not a physical comp. This is more a career comp in so much that when you look at what happened to Julio Jones, when he came out, Roddy White was the incumbent number one and a dominating fantasy performer in Atlanta.

Well, Roddy White was 29 years old when they drafted Julio Jones. Julio Jones was 29 years old when Calvin Ridley was drafted. Calvin Ridley was also 29 when he was drafted. Calvin? Did I say 29? No, no, no. He was just an old rookie. It's just a good body. He is an old rookie. Calvin. They both went to Alabama. They both had massive production in Alabama. In fact, Julio in 40 games there, 2,600 yards, 15 touchdowns.

Ridley in 44 games, 2,700 yards, 19 touchdowns at Alabama. The rookie seasons, pretty comparable. Julio Jones, 54 for 9, 59, and 8. Last year, really good season for Calvin Ridley. I don't think anybody expected that kind of production, even if it was bursty, even if it was this game and then this game. And the reason why is the same reason it was for Julio in his first couple of years. You have an incumbent number one.

Ridley's rookie year, 64 for 821 and 10. The torch will get passed to Ridley. He may not be fully Julio, but it will happen either via injury or age over the next few years. And I think it's a very, look, it's an ambitious comp. Sure. He'll be the number one guy there, and I think he can, I think he can perform to the degree of Roddy White, what Roddy White was before. So they've drafted their next.

Superstar number one for fantasy. I mean, they spent the first round pick on him. Both first rounders. Calvin Ridley is an excellent route runner. So where he lacks in Julio's freakness, so to speak, Calvin Ridley can be that technician more like, not to go away from the comp, but Antonio Brown, where he can't rely on the fact that I can just outrun players in the NFL. But it...

I'm on board. Did you expect the big plays last year you got from Calvin Ridley? No, I didn't expect 10 touchdowns. It was ridiculous. I think he showed more big playability than people expected when he came in to the NFL. So before we get into the news, that was a quick question. I do want to give a special shout out to Carleen and the team from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Give it, come on. They are here. They are awesome. They're here with us tonight. We are extremely proud to be partnering with them throughout the entire tour.