AFC East Breakdown + Big Announcement, Dance & Song - Fantasy Football Podcast for 7/13

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Welcome back. Oh, it's good to be back. Tuesday, July 13th. The band is back together. No more bear. Fantasy tan man is here. Oh, I like it. You are looking rather tan. A very, very nice color on you. I know a lot of times people who maybe come to Arizona, maybe see us in person.

Yes. Stay tuned. They say, why, why don't you have a tan? You're in Arizona. You're so much sun. You're ghastly. Yeah. We burn here. But where you were, you tan and you look great. Well, you're really breaking down the whole illusion that I had been building all week. We had told most people, I don't know if you listened to the show. No. Goodness, no. You were on vacation, but I had been spreading, you know, rumors that you were barefoot backpacking through.

I believe we went through the Himalayas. Well, it was a jungle that I believe was on the top of mountains. You can, you can tan up there. You're so close to the sun. Right, because of the distance. Yeah. The scientifically proven. The best tanning is up on Everest. That's I have heard that. Why else would you climb it? That's a good point. It's for a sweet tan. And then you zip line down and it's fine. Welcome into the fantasy footballers. Mike is, in fact, back in action. We are.

on episode three of our divisional breakdown shows. So a jam-packed episode, there is so much to cover when we do these very important divisional breakdown episodes. We've handled the AFC South and the AFC North, and today we'll be in the AFC East. We've got some mailbag if we have time for it, some news to get into. I do have an announcement. So, okay, all the horns. All the horns of the world.

This is a big announcement. I heard that horn a lot on Everest. Right. Yeah. We have a live show. We're back, baby. We're back. In person? Yes, we do. We have a live show. It is the only live show of 2021. We did not. That does make it the best. Do a big tour this year. But we will be live in Phoenix. Here's the details. Saturday, August 28th. So right before the kickoff to the 2021 season.

The show will be at 7 p.m. We are once again very proud to partner with St. Jude, Children's Research Hospital. $10 of every ticket sold. We'll go directly to St. Jude and support their mission of finding cures and saving children. And you can get tickets at ballerslive.com. So there will be limited tickets available. You can come and join us in person for a live episode. It's always a lot of fun.

I'm so excited. I mean, you know, we took, obviously, everyone took last year off from traveling and doing live life, live life with others. But it's going to be so nice to have that one show. So if you're anywhere nearby, we're excited to see you have you out. Those shows are always a blast. It's fun to be in the crowd. It's fun to be in a, it's basically a rock show. Well, Jake Gris is going to be there. That's true. Brooks is going to be there. So you might just randomly get a million dollars.

while you're at the show. If Brooks is feeling generous. Yeah. He's not usually, but it's possible. He carries millions of dollars on him. He just cash. This is cash. Just look for the man with the briefcases. That's him. And then if you find someone that you're like, I didn't know they were, you know, letting him in, that that would be Al Borland. So they'll be usually next to each other. Yeah. And the Borgogan will be there. Kyle will be there. Matthew Betts will be there.

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You can check out the Ultimate Draft Kit at Ultimate DraftKit.com. All right, news time. News and notes from around the league presented by Sleeper. We'll get a live reaction from Al Borland on this piece of news. Aaron Rogers said Saturday that he'll figure things out in a couple of weeks when asked by NBC about his plans for the season. So a couple of weeks, huh? He's going to figure it out. Oh, that actually sounds promising to me. I'd like to know.

Before August? I mean, him saying a couple of weeks that there's going to, that you're going to figure it out. That is insinuating that there is an answer, that there is a conclusion. Because there has to be. Well, right, but a couple, I mean, otherwise you just retire when kickoff happens. Like, it's, would you rather it be a couple of weeks or would you rather it be just kickoff? But how long is a couple weeks? Two weeks. A couple weeks could be.

that Aaron Rogers shows up. After training camp is done, he's like, yeah, I'm going to start for the Packers now. That's still the most likely case. Maybe. It's just a little bit of a tug-of-war going on right now. Where are your odds? Let me hear them July 12th. Aaron Rogers back? Mine are far more on Aaron Rogers being back.

I think as time has gone on, as more stuff has been reported, more of the contract stuff coming out, I do think he'll be back and play with the new contracts. Yeah, yeah, I think it'll probably take some kind of extra little money. I still think he's, you know, not a long term. Even if they extend him, I expect that he'll be gone. Really? Yeah.

Yeah, because they drafted Jordan Love. That is their future. They don't want Aaron Rogers to play for them for the next five years. They want a transition to Jordan Love. I believe that. Yeah, but that just doesn't make any sense. Yeah. How do you extend him and then you're saying he's going to be gone? That's not going to work. Unless you're talking about a one-year little boosted single-year deal. Yeah, because if you extend him with a multi-year deal, then you're just creating a cap disaster for yourself when you eventually do try to...

trade him or move on to Jordan Love. I think if this is pivotal of if you extend Aaron Rogers, he's your guy, you bet. You're talking about the MVP of football. Yes. You bet incorrectly that Aaron Rogers would not be your starting quarterback in three years and you just eat it. And Jordan Love, you trade him on like the last year of his deal, kind of like it's.

It's not as insane, but Jimmy Garoppolo. I mean, they spent a second round pick on him, which is, like I said, that's not crazy for a backup quarterback. That's the path that's more likely to me if you extend Aaron Rogers. But as far as him being back with the Packers, I mean, I guess I'm, I've been under 50% and I'll say I've moved closer to the 50% that he is back.

So slightly trending in the... Yeah. Did you guys talk at all about the golf game with him and Brady and just... No. All the razzing. Like Tom Brady... It looked entertaining. Tom Brady has gone into full troll mode, which is spectacular. And to Aaron Rogers' credit, I felt that he just... He just was no problem. It was just watered off his back. It just was like, what? Yeah, whatever. Yeah. I'm figuring things out a couple weeks.

Maybe I'm there. Maybe I'm not, Green Bay. Well, I think Brady has so many things going for him in this equation where obviously you could say, hey, you've got all those championships. You can just troll everybody. But I think it's also funny because he just broke free. Right. He broke free from the Patriots and Belichick and that organization. He is, and then he can kind of look at Aaron and go, you're where I was. Salka. See you later. I go to the beach every day. How's it up there in Snowsville?

Yeah. Someone pointed it out the other day how, and I don't remember who tweeted it or I'd give you credit, but someone was just saying, you know, Gronk came out of retirement to go hang out on the beach, catch two touchdowns in the Super Bowl and win another ring. That ain't bad. Life's all right. Sequin Barkley declined to answer on the Rich Eisen show whether he would be ready for week one. Essentially, he said he's taking his recovery day by day.

There is a new article up on the website from Matthew Betts, our injury expert, talking about the Sequin injury. The expectation and the timeline is still that he will be there for week one. But it was a significant knee injury in the timeline. Even though it was early, the surgery had to be delayed. So if he gets off to a slow start, I don't think people will be shocked, but you'll be disappointed.

The article was specifically about Saquan and Joe Burrow. Saquan had the ACL, MCL, and Meniscus. Burrow had those three and then threw in the PCL as a little bonus. Oh, yeah. If you're going to do something. Do it all the way. That's a champion injury. Yeah. So there's some concern, I think, from bets, specifically regarding being more hands-off on Burroughs, certainly at his ADP. We talked about this on the AFC North Show.

Joe Burrough is going so much higher than we have him ranked and higher than we'd ever take him. So he's not going to be on any of our teams. But Mike, I don't know if you're aware. He's like a top. He's like 12. He's at 12. I've seen that it's, that's crazy because I don't know that we saw enough from, I think Joe Burroughs are going to be a great player. But did you really see enough from him last year? Well, you saw a 23-yard scrambling touchdown in week one that you're not going to see.

Yeah, exactly. I saw enough to where if he finished the season healthy, and you're coming into this next year, I could see taking the shot on that, right? Because if he, you know, just goes to that next level and his next year, the way that, you know, we saw from homes, you've got to pay up for the chance. But with the knee injury and the timeline of recovery, it's just not worth that capital.

And with regards to Barclay, him being ready, I don't know if he's worth the risk at his ADP. You know, we talk about the target demands from Kennedy Gallaudet. We talk about Daniel Jones's risk. We talk about Sequin. You know, I think Jason, you made the case about Saquan on this show about maybe viewing him through a lens a little bit too rosy from the first year and a half. Yeah, his sophomore year that was forgiven with injury, if you go back to the game logs, he had.

a long stretch of games where he was mediocre and that and then he got injured and it was like oh he would have been great but he was injured but it's not true so we'll have to see i mean he might just be somebody you have to make a call on and whether you're willing to try for the upside bears running back to rick cohen did not participate in june minicamp looked quote a bit a bit stiff walking around with the right leg wrapped and you called this from forever ago before the injury i believe that you just