Fantasy Football - Breakout Picks + Injury Anger, Mike Returns! - Podcast for 8/17

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Monday, August 17th, the fantasy footballers podcast. Jason Moore is here. I'm Andy Holloway. And guess what? He's back. The mucus king returns. Mike, the fantasy hitman, returns to the studio. No bear. Extraordinaire in my chair. No. We have the full crew back. And it is a huge week. Breakouts, busts, values.

sleepers 10 tips and tricks episode mock draft mayhem and too many injuries to talk about yeah i'm i'm so this was like listen this was a this is a regular week in season amount of injuries to our guys every year we i've lived in arizona my whole life and every year the summer surprises me

fresh and how much of an inferno it is, how hot it is, how horrible it is. Every year, I'm like, oh my gosh. Yeah. And the same thing happens with injuries in fantasy football because we have an offseason of anticipation and excitement and joy. And the worst part is we have like.

done work to try to decide on how something's going to happen, and we never get to see for some players. It's unbelievable. We have a board that has my guys, or maybe our MVPs, or, you know, we've got breakouts today. And it's like we've got all these players we're looking for and waiting. And then all of a sudden, behind the scenes, we're excited to talk to you about, so, my groin.

my offensive lineman oh my toe i don't have a knee anymore this this game is brutal i don't know if you guys knows football is a rough and tough physical but we must go on without knowing how some of these situations will turn out and this is why you're like we've had a hard time people have been asking us for our my guy picks and we kind of have to thread the needle a little bit like on the timeline on the timeline like i i i

I'll say this now. Like I really wanted to make Alec Pearson my guy for most of the offseason. I can't really do that right now. I can't go say invest on the draft pick and start him. I don't know when he's going to play. Maybe it'll be week one. I don't know. But those are coming next week as well, the my guy picks. Your drafts will get started. Ours is on Labor Day. So hopefully you've pushed yours back as far as you can because this is why we say draft is close to kick off as possible. I think that's important because.

Maybe people don't realize that kickoff is a week later this year than it usually is. So instead of doing it, like if your league always does the second weekend in August, I guess you would be done, but, you know, whatever. If you time it that way, you should push it later. And we always say every year, like, push your draft as late as possible towards kickoff. I would recommend having it be after the third and final week of preseason because there's no, there's no fun in like,

you leave a draft, you're excited. And then before the first week, before the first fantasy point is scored, a guy you got in the second round is like done for the year in the week three of the preseason. That stinks. So push them like. Yeah, push them as far back as you can. The exception being if you can get people together for in person drafting, do that whenever you can. It's the best. But what else do we got going on? We got one week left in our UDK for Life giveaway.

We're giving away the ultimate draft kit for the rest of your natural life, and we have added the bequeathing capabilities to this gift. What about unnatural? If it's in writing. If you have an unnatural life, it's really up in the air. We won't really be able to apply anything. It's too gray. It's really just it. It's just us giving something. Wait. It's just us giving because I think right now everyone who's preparing for drafts, they're getting an ultimate draft kit anyways.

It's like, we're just also including the fact that you might get it forever for always. Yep. And maybe a signed Jamar Chase jersey as well. Ultimate draft kit.com. Winners will be selected during our live stream next Monday. It's for sure happening. Yeah, it's definitely happening. But maybe for each individual, right? Only maybe you will be the one to get it. Not every person is going to get it. That would be a bad business move. What it sounded like for a moment. If we gave everybody a free Utica forever.

But if you've purchased it already, if you're an ultimate foot clan member, you're automatically iner to win. The community is over at jointhefoot.com. You can follow us on Instagram, Instagram.com slash fantasy footballers. We had another just-the-tips episode hit YouTube. YouTube.com slash the fantasy footballers this past weekend. Our quick question of the day is, it comes in. What part of doing a fantasy football podcast is something that most people don't know about? Maybe it's a part of the daily, weekly process.

What is something most people don't know about? Let's see. I mean, there's definitely a few things. I guess the one I would say is what has really changed is the the ebbs and flows of the calendar. Like when we weren't in it, fantasy football was still life. You know, I was all in. When I was not, yeah, when we were doing the podcast. But like when you hit June,

It was like you could really feel it inside of like, oh, baby, football's coming back. Football really never leaves for us. Oh, so you miss the... So I find that that I don't get the same... It's Christmas Forever for you type of thing. Exactly. Yeah. I don't get the same juice ramp up inside of the natural time. I still... You're always juiced. I love football. Like, I... With the preseason on, it was, you know, it was... Oh.

Thank goodness. Thank goodness this thing is back because it has been too long. I love football every day. But it's just that that's the natural ebbs and flows of timing that you know your circadian rhythm of sports. We don't really have that. Yeah, like a decade ago, the idea of hard knocks coming out. It's like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I got to throw that on now. It's like, I would consume everything. I would love, I love watching clips. I don't know if I'm going to sit down because I know I'm going to be.

sitting down watching film all the time. But I think the thing people might not know about doing a fancy football podcast is like, we do the show for about an hour a day. How much goes into it prior to that? The amount of research and reading and Google sheets and work behind the scenes. We try to come on here and sound as relatively dumb as we can. But, you know, we're...

We are putting in the... You'd be shocked how much we prepare to sound this dumb. Yeah. Yeah. I always think it's funny. Like, we do so many shows over the course of the year and how many times we're, like, doing the dance of, like, timing recordings so we don't miss news so that we get... Like, we're trying to thread the needle of, like, record where, like, the work... We've done pretty well, I feel like, except for your, like, Cortland Sutton thing in the middle of the show. Oh, that was the best timing ever. I think we made a show moment of the year.

But just like when we record and we like know stuff is going to happen, we try to dance the recording times around the news, which is kind of fun. But yeah, I, speaking of like Christmas year-round analogy, Mike, did you see that they're opening a coffee shop down the street? Oh, yeah. That is from us? Yes. It's a Christmas. It's a Christmas. It's a Christmas. It's Christmas themed in Christmas music and Christmas 365. What do you think of that?

Is that going to ruin the magic or is that amazing? My initial thought is very optimistic. I can't wait. If you're telling me at any point in the year, I could just take off. That AC better be. Oh, it's got to be frigid. It's got to be frigid. Oh, that's a good point. If it's not like kind of snowing in there, like a little bit falling from. If I can't wear snugly hoodie. That's not Christmas. That's not going to work. I can walk there from my house. I can't wait. It's that close to you. Yeah.

I'm very hopeful. I think they're optimistic. I'm, I'm optimistic. I'm optimistic. I'm optimistic. I think that might be too much, but I'm excited. One way to find out. You're willing to find out. We'll see if they're opening your half from now. People will decide. Yeah. Let's jump into the news. News and notes from around the league. This is a.

Oh man, the people hate the news today. This time of year is just all. I was going to say this is a breakout show, but the news is going to feel like a breakdown show. We are the message or nothing. We didn't make it happen. The first piece of news, like Mike, you weren't in here, but we came on and got to talk about the preseason game Cardinals Raiders and Jeremiah Love and how good he looked. I mean, it was ridiculous how obvious. Hope you enjoyed it.

How obvious it was that Jeremiah Love will be a dominator at the NFL level. It was almost like they could have known that before they drafted him, number three overall in the NFL draft. Well, he ended up receiving 14 carries for some reason, and the 14th carry resulted in a hip-drop ankle sprain. Looks like a high ankle sprain. They just weren't sure, you know, that 13th carrier. We got to get, let's see what happens next. They're still hopeful that he will be ready for week one against the Chargers.

That terminology means it's high ankle. You usually miss three weeks. Come back. And then you lose production. Often times you lose peak production for a couple of weeks. Obviously, if they are bringing him back off of an injury and his first time back is week one, they are not going to take this young future centerpiece of their team.

and say here's 25 touches in your first week back from injury. It sucks so much. I mean, and Connor isn't even back to 11 on 11, which means there's a really good chance. Tyler Alger is like the starting full-time running back for the Cardinals in week one. Oh, by the way, their other top four picks are also hurt. Yeah. They lost their guard for the year, their second round pick. Carson Beck is hurt. They lost their D.T. In the fourth round, yeah. So there's no, they don't have a draft this year. That's cool, man.

Breeze Hall suffered a strained groin at practice. This one is, I mean, I don't know on the groins how often it's due to physical contact or not. But this was, you know, this was just on his own. He's running a route, catches a ball, no defender, and pulls it and goes down. Butterfly stretch. Thank you, Mike, is what I've been trying to tell everyone. You are the leader of the charge.

Butterfly Stretch.com. Jason Moore's. Jason Moore's physical therapist. There should not be groin injuries, guys. Butterfly stretch. How are there so many groin injuries? Makes no sense. Flap. All right. Let's hypothesize here. Christian McCaffrey has now missed one full week of practice. Originally, it was revealed it was due to, quote, tightness. Perhaps the tightness of the wallets of the 49ers? Genuine.

genuine question because mike you have a much better memory than anybody alive okay this was going on it was either last year or the prior year it was one of the last two years where he's going to be fine but that was the two years ago yeah okay and it kept seeming like yeah totally going to be fine nothing to see here and so then two years ago it wasn't it there was something to see there and it was very very bad i'm okay