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Coming to you from pristineauction.com studios with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Oh, welcome in. Welcome to the show. It's going to be spectacular. It's real, and it's spectacular. Wednesday, September 4th. I like Seinfeld references. Mike. You're welcome.

You win the day. Welcome into the fantasy footballers podcast. Jason Moore, Mike, the fantasy hitman, right. I'm Andy Holloway. We've got a great one. Buy and sell on the show today. Some news, some big news, some big money news, some undrafted gyms, and a Thursday night preview. The fantasy season is upon us. Oh, tomorrow. We'll talk about what's in store for David Muppertunity.

Aaron Jones, Aaron Rogers, all the errands will be discussed. And I'm excited. You can follow us on Twitter at the FFBallers, the website. I encourage you to go check it out. The Fantasy Footballers.com are week one rankings, the start sit tool. The end season shenanigans begin now. Yes. And based on what I was seeing last night, you're very, very interested in week one.

The Foot Clan is ready for real football, as am I. And last night we also had the first two megalobol drafts take place. And my goodness. Hundreds of draft rooms filled with the Foot Clan, all vying for fantasy glory and that spot in the Listener League 2020. Also, heard your feedback about...

The auto, occasionally you had like an auto drafted person that popped into a megalobole. They just couldn't be there for the draft. We got some feedback about how that took quite a while to get through the drafts. We passed that along. That's going to be improved, fixed for next year. We've also removed those people from the Earth. Really? Yes. Well, I'm not taking responsibility for that. Look, they're fine. They're on the space station. Okay. Thank you, Mike. I didn't say we like, now we're safe. We're hurting people. We just removed them.

But lots of drafts yesterday, today, for the Meglabel, and then obviously tomorrow, week one begins, bears Packers, and we'll talk about it on the show today. There's still time to go win assigned Alvin Camara jersey at footclang giveaway.com. And I want to tease out the next couple of days. Thursday, Friday, we'll have fantasy forecast. We'll have starts of the week.

Jason's boom boom kicker returns. Oh, get ready. Because us removing kickers from our league of record does not remove them from all leagues. Unfortunately. Jason's research, you normally begin around like noon on Wednesday. You wrap that kicker research up by Showtime tomorrow. Yeah, I mean, I started months ago with deep preparation just for week one. I mean, get ready. I love.

Kickers. Can we get that sound bite saved to his soundboard? Foot Clan Friday coming up on Friday, in or out, all the injury reports, the second half of the fantasy forecast. And we got a new segment, Ballers on a budget that is coming on Friday, where basically our little DFS segment where we're going to give you some of the best priced players, our favorite picks for, if you're playing on. It was Tony Pollard.

Yeah. Back to the drawing board. Back to the drawing board. But it is Wednesday today, so we'll kick it off with some buy sell. Buy or sell presented by pristine auction. All right. Brooks has selected a number of week one buy or sell decisions. He calls it faces in new places. Yes. So we'll start with Mark Ingram.

Will Mark Ingram surpass 100 rushing yards in week one against Miami? Bye. Bye, bye, buy, buy. You both believe yes. Purchase. I'll sell it. Bye. No way. I have not been the largest Mark Ingram supporter through the draft season. I think Gus Edwards eats in a little bit, but this is.

This is the matchup that you're looking for. This is where you're a heavy favorite. You're going to run the clock out in the fourth quarter. You don't have a great defense in Miami. You know, Markingham, he'll cross 100 yards a few times this season. I would project a game like this to be the one where it gets done. Now I would prefer that it's in Baltimore, but it is still Miami. I think you'll get more Gus bus than you hope. I mean, my draft?

persona is happy. Your draft persona? What? I'm just, I'm saying the part of me that is draft focused. I've been more on the Gus bus and not just that marketing room is going to get everything, but the week one persona. You're saying it would be happy if you were wrong about your buy.

That is correct. Okay. Either way I win. Very confused about what's... I have no idea what's happening. So you bought the marketing and we'll have 100 rushing yards, but you're also happy if he doesn't. I'm happy if Gus Edwards is the reason he doesn't. All right. Buy sell Antonio Brown 100 receiving yards to open the season week one against Denver. I will buy it. I will sell it. There you go. I'm going to buy as well. He looked.

really good this last have you guys are you guys up to date on hard knocks i am not caught up i have seen luke wilson get cut on hard not oh luke wilson the cuts are always hard because those are humans vying for jobs can we not do a better job than this long prolonged like

one intern to the next intern handoff like you know where you're going but these poor souls have to walk with these players for like 15 minutes to bring them to a special cut room can we not text this at this point right they know what's going well they want the human interaction but do they

Well, the coach time. The coach does. FaceTime. Maybe a couple people, but I wouldn't want to do that all day long. Yeah, I'm going to buy Antonio Brown. I think they're going to force feed him the ball week one, try to get their new shiny toy off to a hot start. This one is close. I'm really on the fence about Antonio Brown. A hundred yards is a lot for Derek Carr. I mean, last year, even as great as Antonio Brown was, he was only over 100 yards five times.

With Big Ben. So I will take the under. That's fair. But I, you know, week one, he's got something to prove. He wants to show he's the same guy. I'm going to go by. Is he going to throw himself the ball? He doesn't need to. He doesn't need to. Odell Beckham Jr. Week one, new face, new place. Cleveland taking on Tennessee, 100 receiving yards for Odell, week one. I will sell that as well. I will sell it. Tennessee is not a terrible defense at all.

And even though we're talking new face, new place, I would much rather have Baker Mayfield being my new face at quarterback over Derek Carr. There hasn't been enough time. We need some actual game action for Odo Beckham. Certainly could, but I'm going to sell this one. Look, three names, three buys. I'm in. Wow.

I think that the – Jason says the defense is going on break. He just wants a great week one. Maybe I'm just too doggone excited for week one football. But we'll know with number four if you're how excited you are. O'Dowell Beckham is widely right now. I think he's the consensus number one wide receiver on the week because some of the other top options have really tough cornerback matchups. Really? Yeah. I mean, saying he Beckham's number one? I mean, I would – he was when I looked yesterday. Thomas? All right.

Sure. Not for me. Yeah. I'll sell that one. Lev Bell 100 receiving or sorry. Sell. 100 rushing yards. Also sell. With his debut. Mike, you're selling. Jason, what are you doing? I am selling. I don't buy it. Adam Gase and that offensive line. I will sell it until I have been proven wrong. I don't think he gets 100 yards. Buffalo is a great defense on top of that.

All right. And then the last one, Duke Johnson, does he reach 100 total yards? Wow. So not rushing, but rushing and receiving combined. Are they adding him to the kick return game? Interesting. Because if not, then I will sell full heartedly. I don't, I don't, you know, I think Carlos Hyde still eats into the work. We brought up Alford Blue and I'll buy it.

You're buying. I'll buy Duke Johnson 100 total yards. Yeah. I think he can go 50, 50, 50 on the ground, 50 through the air, no problem. I will sell. And this doesn't mean that he can't because I think Duke Johnson is a great player. I'm very curious how many times in his career he's ever been over 100 yards. Because it can't be more than just a handful. Yeah, it's probably not many. But I like him week one.

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which is show up for week one after an offseason of tumult. Or Melvin Gordon. Or Melvin Gordon. Now, Zeke got a lot of money to show up. Yes, he did. Six years, $90 million. What a great offseason for Zeke. Like he got out of everything, rested his body through training camp through preseason whilst in Cabo and then gets...

gigantic bags of money. He's doing it right. So it's a done deal, which means we have to reconfigure the Tony, Tony Pollard experiment. Right. Right now, the Jane Slater from NFL Network, according to her report, 20 to 25 reps on Sunday. The rookie Tony Pollard behind him, I mean, you can't play Tony Pollard now.

No, you can't. I mean, look, we've seen this before. In 2017, when Lev Bell held out for a long period of time, came back for week one, and still dominated that season. He only had 10 carries that week one. So it can happen where, but that doesn't mean that the backup is going to get a bunch of work and be valuable. I am still, like the question is being asked now, are you just full force with Zeke week one, especially now they're talking about maybe, you know,