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That was combine. That's right. Okay. Get hyped for the combine, baby. Because it's combine time. It's easier to be hyped for combine time than CBA time. That is true. Right? Negotiation time. Doesn't do it. It doesn't flow off. Legal paperwork time. Excited to be with everybody. Welcome back in. The Fantasy Footballers podcast.

Mike Wright, Jason Moore, Andy Holloway, back with you. It's February 25th. We have been following the CBA. Mm-hmm. I believe we're all pro football. You're pro football. I'm pro football. Mike. I'm pro football. Yeah, I like it. Yeah. Brooks, you pro football? Yes. Yeah, I am too. So I didn't even realize we had so much in common. But we'll see what happens. This show's coming out on Tuesday. Is that their go-to?

The negotiation strategies. So we'll see what happens? No, the hate players. Oh. We like football. You guys like football. Let's play football. Sign this. Hey. Hey. Hey. Let's get it done. There's a bit of money involved. Come on. It's a profitable venture. Football. This football thing. So we'll see what happens. Maybe there's some news that has come out between recording this and Tuesday morning. But the last I heard is that there was potential for a vote Tuesday afternoon. We'll see what happens. I could be wrong.

I'm optimistic. I hope something gets done here soon, and we know that we've got another, what, 10 years of labor piece? It will be a new 10-year contract, but it will take away the current year. So it'll add 9 to what is currently happening. And no matter what, even if it doesn't happen and they storm out of the room in a very childish manner. It doesn't matter. We're still got football next year. This is for 2021. Yeah, we're just paying.

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And then think about how many people have been in the fantasy footballers' listener league. Wow. Have there been more people in space than who have been a part of our listener league? Certainly in space. Yes. If you had said on the moon, we would have really had to think about that. That's why I made sure I did not say that. Yeah. And you could be like Brooks. We found Brooks through the listener league. Yes. Yes. Be like Brooks. Have you been to space, Brooks? Nope. See? Not yet. I don't know what that proves.

Let's do some buy sell. Buy or sell presented by pristine auction. All right. This is a great one. Right now in a Dynasty League, are you buying or selling Robbie Anderson? Free agent wide receiver. Man of much hype. Years gone by. Robbie Anderson in a Dynasty League, though, we've talked at length about...

landing in a new home as a wide receiver. It's tough. It can be. It's tough, but we've also, in recent history, seen players who escape from Adam Gaze and his offensive system, all of a sudden start to thrive. Guys that we had kind of written off as there'll be nobodies in the NFL. Move along. And then you're like, oh, no, actually they're.

They're just being used him properly. Yeah, and he is a free agent right now. The expectation is that he will not be a jet because he has set his heart on testing free agency. Well, they've already replaced him. I was going to say the same thing, Mike. Sorry. No, we all were going there. They signed Josh Doxon, so they good. Yeah. But, yeah, I mean, he is, Robbie Anderson is, you could argue, could be the second biggest name.

in free agency at the wide receiver position. You've got Amari Cooper who, if he leaves Dallas, obviously he would be the gym of the wide receiver pool. But outside of that, I mean, you're talking about. Sure, AJ Green, older missed last year. Like some people obviously might like that. But Robbie Anderson is 26 years old. They'll be 27 this season. AJ Green is by far a bigger catch in free agency than Robbie Anderson. My point is he's going to get.

paid. Tyrell Williams last year got paid. That's why you won't be a jet. I think they'd be happy to have him back. Darnold could use Robbie Anderson and all of his talents. It's just going to be the money problem. I also, do you really think Robbie wants to go back to the jets or would you rather go to a new team? I think he wants to get paid. Maybe who just wants the money? Yeah. That's just, look, that's also a very fair thing. But he's 6'3. He has 4-4 speed. If he lands in the right place, then

He will be very interesting next year again. I know we all, I'll speak just for myself. I like keep going in on Robbie Anderson and it blows up in my face. But I still think he's an exciting player, still young enough. And if I have to buy or sell him in Dynasty, I would be buying him if that's my choices. He's available. I have him. So I will be selling him.

I believe that we have seen enough history of flashes where he will get paid. I would not be selling him right now. Do not sell him until he signs the big contract because he's about to sign a big money contract and that will always. I mean, we just have too much evidence over the years. When someone goes somewhere for a new big contract, their value in fantasy leagues gets usually overinflated. And so.

I am more of a seller because I don't believe that he changing teams, going to a new system, new quarterback, whatever, will definitely work out. I think there's a chance it just implodes. We've never really seen him put together the entirety of a season that we were thrilled with. He's just had short spurts of promise. And so him changing teams, you know, one of the things you wanted to remember, Mike, this year was that when guys change in free agency, it doesn't always work out.

Most of the time it doesn't. Well, one of the caveats I at least had when Mike brought that up, though, was that I have less confidence in a player, a good player going to a new team and somehow leveling up because of all the hype around the transaction and the move. Brandon Cooks to the Patriots, that type of situation. But with Robbie, you're right. I mean, he's going to get paid money. He's going to make more than $10 million a year. Yes. And that's going to be a huge investment for another team.

So depending on where he lands, you know, the talk of Philadelphia. That seems like one of those places that looks on paper like a great fit. It would be a big upgrade for Robbie Anderson. Like Robbie Anderson is not played in the most optimal situations with quarterback. 114 targets, 63 receptions. 94 targets, 50 receptions. Yeah, he's a field stretcher. So his catch percentage isn't going to be up in the 70%. But part of that, I was trying to add to your fuel maybe.

That's on him. Oh, sure. It's more about the quarterback throwing him the ball there. Now, Brooks, these dynasty trade offers, where did we get this list of possibilities? I pulled up some rankings for 2020, Dynasty rankings, and players that were close to that. All right. So, Jason, you are the seller of Robbie Anderson. I think I am too, by the way. Okay. I didn't weigh in officially, but I think I agree with Jason that I would wait for him to sign because there is a little bit of the off-the-field history.

So have you combined some height with that risk in Dynasty? I think I'd be selling too. Okay. So if I came to you and I said, I will give you a 2020 late second round pitch. No. Give me Robbie. Get out. A late second is, you know, I feel like I look at that as you've got a solid 30% chance of getting a player who can make it in the NFL. Philip Lindsay. Yeah. I mean, if I needed running back help, I think I would. Fair trade? Yeah, fair trade. Darius Geis.

No. Give me Robbie. I'm so hesitant on Geis in general. All right. Kareem Hunt. Well, since we're going to wait until Robbie Anderson signed someplace to sell, if Kareem Hunt were to be signed someplace that makes him a starter, I would definitely trade him for Kreme Hunt. So what if he's back with the Browns? No. Because he's not a starter there. He's an okay running back option. He'll be, you know, you could put him in your flex, but he's behind.

Chub. Okay. That was buy or sell. Presented by Pristine Auction. Check them out. Pristineauction.com. Use the code ballers. Ballers. Get $10 towards your first sports memorabilia purchase. Let's talk news. News and notes from around the league. Clearly no bigger news than the news we just couldn't help but drop earlier. Josh Doxon. Yeah. Signed with the Jets.

Always a good sign when you're signed before a free agency really officially begins because you didn't have a team, right? That's a big signing. Look, they've wanted Josh Doxon. That's the narrative. Josh, please pull a Devante Parker, please. He's not going to, but I can dream. All right, you're saying it at the beginning. It's combine time. What's going on with the combine? It's combine time. What do you mean? What's going on? I mean, like, the schedule. What do we got going on?

So Thursday will be the quarterbacks, wide receivers and tight ends doing their drills. And Friday will be the running backs. That's kind of the fun, interesting things where you can go and you can get hyped about how fast people actually are. The measurements, that's already happening. We're already seeing how big guys actually are.

People are already freaking out about the size of Joe Burroughs hands. Oh, my goodness. Don't. I love it. Don't worry about it. No, no, no, Mike, you don't understand. He has nine inch hands. And that's really small. And that's really small. But Patrick Mahomes has nine and a quarter. That's totally. That's cool. That's cool. That's cool. So people always ask, what are you looking for in the combine? I mean, for when it comes to the metrics and the measurables of on the field stuff, like,

Yeah, I want to see Sequin Barclays. I want to see the D.K. Metcalfs go out there and just blow up the high score and be like, holy crap, and get really interested in these players and build the height because it's fun. But I like seeing how big guys actually are. That makes a really big difference where the weight. Yeah, the height and the weight where a running back, I'm really interested in running back acts. They come and they weigh in. They're only 200 pounds. That's.

that's a little bit smaller, generally speaking, that I want my running back to be, if I'm going to make a high rookie pick investment. Are you thinking about Ronald Jones right now? Is that what you're thinking about? No, I mean, the years past. Sure, he was a bit smaller, but it doesn't always come to fruition. Like, Devin Singletary was a smaller guy, and he also kind of stunk.