Dragon Slayers, Hype Train, Fantasy Q&A

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Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Oh, welcome in. Welcome in once again Monday, recording the show Monday, which is why Mike isn't here. Because Mike is having some troubles. Mike lives at the airport now. Yeah, we fully expected to have the hitman back in action today. It's just Jason and myself again, and of course, Jay Gris.

But who's always willing to fill in? And I got to give him credit for that, considering. But Mike was supposed to be here several days ago. But unfortunately, him and American Airlines are having some. They're having words. I didn't put this together. But apparently, so Mike, he had his plane canceled twice. Two different planes canceled. He's with his family on vacation. And his family there at the airport. And I did not yet put together. Both.

times the equipment malfunction and the planes were called in, they said, by a bear. And I did not yet put that. I did not really think about the fact that this is probably just Jay Gris trying to stay on the show. The thing is, I understand Jay Gris wanting to keep the role. It makes sense. Of course. It's covetous. It's a very wonderful job and he does it well. But.

Why make Mike with his family of five sit on an airplane on the tarmac for 90 minutes, then debaward waiting an airport for seven hours, and then get sent home to a hotel and then be compensated with nothing? Look, that just seems over the top rude. Just don't cross Jay Chris. That's rude. But we do have a great show for you today. It's going to be a fun one. We've got a great quick question.

I'm going to quiz Jason on the quick question a little bit. We've got some mailbag on the show today, a ton of hype train. We'll get your fantasy football team ready to go. Get it right. We'll be in Chicago. All of us will be in Chicago on Friday for the first live show on the people's fantasy tour, which I'm sure you're very excited about, Jason. I am super, super excited about it. If you're in Chicago, you've been waiting to get your tickets. They're going to go soon. So go to ballerslive.com. We'll see you on Friday.

Yeah, that'll be a lot of fun. You're going to do any more jumping off the stage? So what Andy's referring to, I believe it was the New York show where I decided to leap in the beginning before the show off the stage. You were very hyped. The hype train was real. The music was playing. And I leapt before I looked as the phrase goes and I fell before I landed. Yes. And I promise everybody out there.

I will be leaping again. There is no, there is no fear. Regardless of how high the stage is. No, I will do a show with a torn ACO. And then I'll go to the hospital. Just to kind of relate to your dynasty running back. Oh. Don't don't be smart skirley here. Let's move on. All right. Quick question for today's episode comes from Hayden in Texas.

Hayden writes in, it's a good question, says, hey, ballers, huge fan of the show. What is your opinion on drafting both Mike Evans and Chris Godwin this year? And are there any other receiver stacks that you would consider? Does it change if you've got three wide receivers to start? Jason, you are squirming in your chair over there with the...

Nobody could see me. Yeah, I think everybody could see you on YouTube. No, no, no. I was off screen. Thanks for calling it out. I'm sorry. Jason was trying to get his monitor headphones working and I don't know what was happening. It would have like an exorcism. It would have been funny. So what are you quizzing me here? Well, I first let's answer to that one. Would you ever want to draft both Mike Evans and Chris Godwin? Yes. You're looking at a wide receiver stack situation.

Yeah, I mean, there is a situation where I would want that. I don't seek that out, though. Like, I don't prefer that. If I took Mike Evans and I'm on the, you know, in the draft at a place where Chris Godwin is going near other good quality guys that I've got ranked the same, I'm going to, I'm going to pivot. I'm not going to try to do the double or, you know, sometimes people view that as having the handcuff if either goes down their other gets better. I'm going to try to spread it out, but. Probably not going to use a first and fifth round pick.

to try to handcuff a wide receiver. Right. But, you know, on the flip side, though, if Godwin started falling where I feel like he is more valuable than the other wide receivers around there, I would absolutely, I'm not against having two wide receivers on the same team. We have a long track record of usually on average, there's about five teams per year that produce multiple top 24 wide receivers. So you should be able to do it. There's.

A number of teams that I look through, and I'll ask you which ones you'd be happy with. But you do run the risk that, you know, a bad week for a team and you're, you know, if they're starting two wide receivers, you're in trouble. And I'd be much more inclined to do that on a great offense and in a league where I'm starting three wide receivers on a regular basis to mitigate some of that risk. Geronimo Allison and Devante Adams. So yes, 100% I would be willing. Just because Allison's free. The cheap extra piece. I will say this, though.

I am starting to strongly open the possibility that it could be MBS. I'm not positive. You know, rewind the clock a month, and I thought it was pretty much a shoe in for Geronimo Allison to have that number two role established. But all the camp reports, beat writers, Aaron Rogers himself, the way they're talking about. Marquez Veldez Scantley. Yeah, I mean, he appears to be the number two. In fact, in two wide receiver sets.

It's been Geronimo on the sideline. So what about kind of some of these maybe more middling situations? Alan Robinson, Anthony Miller. No. Sean Jackson, Al Sean Jeffrey. No. Thielen and Diggs, that's one that you're going to smile about. I would be fine with both Thielen and Diggs. Any two of the Rams? Woods, cooks, cooks, cup, woods. Yeah, give me any cup of.

Cooks and Woods. What if you're in a three wide receiver league and you can get all three? I would play all three. I'd be all right, huh? I genuinely would be fine with that. Mike Williams and Keenan Allen. Yeah, that one's a little bit rougher. I guess it's somewhat similar to Mike Evans and Chris Godwin. It is. It seems very similar. It's very similar. So it's just a matter of the cost of Mike Williams. AJ Green and Tyler Boy. That one, you know, I was looking at wide receiver stacks. That one's so interesting to me because I feel like I'm fine with them.

But at the same time, I'm not fine with Andy Dalton. You know what I mean? So it's not like taking the shot at the Green Bay Packers, you know, whether you take the shot at MVS or Geronimo Allison, they're cheap, whatever. You're still taking the shot on Aaron Rogers supporting multiple top in wide receivers. I'm fine with that. Hopkins and Fuller? Yeah, I'd be okay with that. Landry, OBJ. No. No? I think Landry's price, unless it's changed.

drastically in the last two weeks is too expensive for how Baker's going to spread the ball around and how O'Dow Beckham will command targets. It's not, when you're as talented as he is, he's not going down in the target count. Jay Gris says he's fine with Anthony Miller, Taley, Gabriel. Oh, really? Even that far. Doesn't mind it whatsoever. Wow. Follow us on Twitter at the F.F. Ballersmore on Instagram, Instagram.com slash.

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proclaim the greatness of our writing staff because they have put out so many high-quality articles this off-season. So I really encourage you to go to the website, read some of their work. There's a number of articles. I love the...

path to a wide receiver one articles that have been coming out this offseason making the case for a number of the you know the godwin mike williams type is there what are the odds of a robbie anderson becoming a wide receiver one a sammy walkins sure oh man you and i had it out on sammy walkins we have had it out in the public domain we went to the town square

On the show, off the show. We just keep going back and forth on Twitter most recently until I found out he believes he's a lizard person. I might be off of the Sammy Watkins train. So all the statistical arguments aside, like those you are willing to dismiss. Yep. We can frame them however we want. Yeah. But the lizard person thing is a little different. Yeah. The lizard person, that's a hard bill to swallow. Brooks. I'm sure Brooks is over there saying like.

Do people know what you're talking about? No, people don't. I didn't know. Do you want to explain that, Brooks? I mean, you're aware, right? Go ahead, Jason. Okay. So, Sammy Watkins believes he's... That means he's an apologist. He believes he's a lizard person, too. He believes he's a lizard person. That's the whole story. That he's not human, and it's not a joke. So that's a joke. So you might be fading him due to reptilian problems. Due to, you know, I've been worried so much about... That's cold-blooded, Jason. Oh.

I've been worried about, you know, like injuries below the shoulders, but I, you know, with Sammy, like, all the way down to the feet, but I think maybe I've been looking at the wrong. It's above the shoulder. Give me some issues. A reminder, head to ultimate draft kid.com. If you want to get the absolute best tool for your upcoming drafts, updated all offseason, and $1 of every UDK sold goes directly to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. They're also our partner on tour.

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All right, we have some news and then we have some hype. And so we'll talk about both of those. We'll talk a little bit about how much you as a fantasy owner should read into the hype because it's fun. I mean, I say it every year. All the hype for my players on my dynasty team, oh, it's, I love it. It's the best. All right, here's some news from ESPN, Chris Herndon.

facing the likelihood of a two-game suspension, Chris Herndon, I would say a surprisingly productive tight-in in his rookie season last year, some startable games, startable games, and a rapport built with Sam Darnel. Yeah, he showed out very well. I would say him and Mark Andrews were last year's rookies that really, you know, rookie tight-ins don't do much. You've got to look for specific flashes.

And both of those players showed it. But Chris Herndon isn't a player that you're going to be drafting now, especially if he's facing a two-game suspension. So to bring this up in the ultimate draft kit, we do currently have Chris Herndon as a sleeper tied in. With a two-game suspension, do you change your outlook on that? Is he somebody that you will be petitioning Mike and I to remove from the sleeper category because of the two-game suspension? Yeah, I mean, I don't want to encourage anyone out there to draft someone.