Explain Yourself! + Rankings Debates, UDK Releases! - Fantasy Football Podcast for 5/31

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Tuesday, May 31st. It's not going to be May no more. That means it's UDK time. Jason Moore, Mike Wright, Andy Holloway, the fantasy footballer's back with you. Big show today. Explain yourself. Ranking debates on the show. News to talk about. Jason mentioned it. The ultimate draft kit comes out tomorrow. A lot of you know what that is. If you don't, you should find out.

Nicely done. The ultimate draft kit, it releases tomorrow, which means that the app will be available, all the content in the UDK, which means 100 plus player profile videos, all of our projections, rankings. But the headline is that this is a living, breathing, ever-changing resource for your draft season. This is not just a release, and then we, you know, sail off into the sunset.

See you later. Good luck. It's only just begun. Thank you, Jason. That was good. Okay. I felt like you semi committed to that. Yeah. I started. Yeah. Okay. And then I realized I can't sing. Did you get a little shaky? Yeah. Kind of hit the eject button there. So updates. Too much top gun. Updates will happen throughout the entire off season. Very excited about some of the upgrades.

You know, you guys can share what your favorite thing is. I'm most excited about the cheat sheet creator upgrades this year because that's how I've always done my drafts. You paper people. I'm a paper person. You're an analog boy in a digital world. I live in the digital in the research, but when I show up on draft day, I like the paper in front of me. I like the smell of the Sharpie. You know, careful with that. I know. Listen, the picks later in the draft are worse than the beginning.

But I like, and so this year, we've always had the ability to print a cheat sheet out. But you've never really been able to customize it with what you want on draft day. If I want to have all the keepers hidden on the cheat sheet, if I want to highlight all of the players I've marked, if I want to see the sleepers breakouts and busts or the, you know, turn the buy weeks on and off, or any of those features, we've built them into this year's UDK. It's brand new.

I think you're going to love it. I cannot wait to get feedback from people tomorrow when it goes live. Yeah, my favorite new edition is the complete overhaul we've done to auctions. We used a PhD student in mathematics, wizard Matt DeSorbo behind the scenes, our CTO. We have really ground up, rebuilt it to where not only is it.

amazing if you're in any kind of auction league. You could customize it to your budget, to your league size, to your roster construction, and it will do the calculations. But I find that a really valuable insight now knowing how good the math is behind the scenes on that of just seeing, like, in my league settings, how valuable is this player versus another player in the same position or even across positions? But my favorite feature of the ultimate draft kit personally, it's the injury report.

I use it all the time. My brain, I cannot like remember the dates and the specific, like, okay, I know they got injured here, but when was the surgery? What's the timeline on that? I don't have to remember nothing. Nothing. I just pull up the injury report. It's fantastic. And I'll jump in here. If you have not checked out the player consistency portion of the UDK, one of the...

You know, the pieces of our podcast. We are, it's fantasy football, but, you know, essentially we are a news podcast. Like, we got to get it out. You got to get the information. It can be tough to put out more evergreen content that you are like, I'm going to go back to that episode because like the waiver is week two. That's no good to you. However, we do every year after the season is done, we put out our truth series where we talk about how did these players actually perform? Were they consistent? Did they just finish?

Did they hit a couple big spike weeks and end up in the top 12? And that's misleading of how that player actually helped your team throughout the season. And those numbers, like we have them beautifully displayed for you in the consistency area. So you can see like, you know, Travis Kelsey was a top 12 guy, 70% of his games. And then you might be surprised, oh, Gronk, 66% of his games. He was actually in the top 12. Like, Gronk was crazy good.

when he was actually playing and not hurt. Meanwhile, you look at, you know, Darren Waller, who's supposed to be great, under half of his games is the top 12. Yeah, and we're going to talk about some of that consistency, even in our rankings debates today. But when you get in there, when you get into the Ultimate Draft Kit, share your feedback with us, let us know what you like. We're always listening. We're always making upgrades based on feedback. And if you want to grab it right now before it releases,

Ultimate draft kit.com. News and notes from around the league. David and Joku has signed a four-year extension with $28 million guaranteed. He's the fourth highest paid tight in now for some reason. Sort of. The numbers are a little misleading. This is a lot of options and things. It's essentially like a two-year commitment to him. And then after that, they can.

you know, kind of move, move out. It's still a bit surprising because of the narrative around David and Joku for years. It was like this team didn't even like him. And so it does throw some cold water onto Harrison Bryant breakout truthers. It does. In dynasty leagues. And it also gives some value to David and Joku just from a breakout candidate standpoint. There are opportunities in this offense. You have a quarterback that can actually get it done.

in Deshawn Watson. You have Amari Cooper, who knows where he's at, in what stage of his career. Donovan People's Jones has been inconsistent. David Bell, who knows? So Injoku could provide some upside. It could. And this only adds fuel to that fire. Yeah, Austin Hooper had 61 targets in this offense last year with not as good a quarterback. So in Joku, if you haven't been in fantasy long enough, when he was coming out several years ago was a...

superstar athlete first round pick. Like he was supposed to be great and has definitely disappointed for his career. But the fact that he's getting money, Austin Hooper has gone, quarterback upgrade, there is a path towards a breakout. It won't happen because it never happens for tight ends. Please understand that. But the path is there. Yeah, we've seen. He had 639 yards, four touchdowns in his second season, finished at nine at the position. Last year, 475 and 4. And we've seen, you know,

Watson throw touchdowns to the tight end position. You had that Darren Fells year back in 2019 where he had seven touchdowns. That's where my hope comes from. And Darren Fells is like at the time was he was not David and Joku. So yeah, there's there's hope for a guy who's in the prime of his career. It appears that Jerry Judy's legal situation may be coming to an end. Yep.

The district attorney's office filed a motion to dismiss charges. So that is a good piece of news. Yeah, that would most likely indicate no suspension coming. Now, you remember, yeah, we would like the personal conduct policy of the NFL, which is kind of always evolving. Like they've had some changes here where Roger Goodell is not the final say anymore of the player conduct suspension. So.

Still possible that something comes down, but the DA has said this is nothing and move alone. Two pieces of injury news before we move into Explain yourself. Explain yourself. Thank you. You're welcome. James Winston moving with a visible limp at OTAs. He also had surgery on the meniscus. So talk to Matthew Betts, our injury guy. He's not surprised. Thinks he'll be okay for week one. I mean, I'd rather no limp. That's one of my policies. But.

Not unexpected. Right. The limp was expected given the surgery in the timeline right now. What I have heard. He's just limping on the other leg, though. I have heard, he is, I mean, you know, this is the season for this kind of. Ooh, tis the season. Tis the season for this kind of stupid fluff pieces. But I heard it from an actual player and not a beat reporter that they are really impressed by James Winston. He is there.

He's first one in every single day. He's there when everybody gets there and he's working his tail off. So, I mean, that's good. You think he might? He might eat some Ws this year. Oh, at least a few. I watched that clip again. He plays the Panthers. If you have, if you have not seen James Winston attempt to hype his team up by eating a W. It is one of the most embarrassing things I've ever seen.

And his teammates just had to try to support him in it. It was great. One of the most embarrassing things I've ever seen and at least top ten for James. Top ten. Get this guy like some motivation. What was the collegiate shrimp situation? Crab. The crab. It was crab. Did he steal some crab? He did. Yeah.

as a younger lad. Seems like there's better things to steal. Yeah, he made a mistake. You said, see, I thought where you were going with what we need to get James Winston is a camera crew that just follows. I mean, talk about great reality television. I would watch a James reality show. Life as James Winston. Give me the Winston's. All right. George Kittle. I didn't like this. Set to miss OTA's lower body injury. You see, the reason I don't like it is we haven't played football yet. Right.

George Brittle is somebody that you just, look, if you want the pat on the butt to put him in the upper echelon of tight ends to draft them like that again, we just had a mock draft episode. If you didn't listen to it, it was last week, you can go run it back. But George Kittle was sitting there as a maybe steal where he went in the draft, which I think was fourth round. That is correct. And maybe not. I mean, this is.

Don't watch the games. Just hold your breath and hope he makes it through. He just seems like he is on that trajectory to just be marked by injury for years and years. And maybe I'm overstating it because obviously your injury prone until you're not. But just the way he plays the game. Right? We always used to say that about Thomas Rawls or about certain players. They just, they play the game violently. No regard for his body. He plays. That first down is more important than my body. Yes.

So be warned. I mean, that is a risk, and that's part of the UDK. We put a risk rating on players, and that factors into things like their auction value. I mean, if you have a higher risk rating, even if we have you ranked very high, that may impact what you should go for in an auction draft. Any other news, Bruxie? No, sir. That's false. You are now married. Oh, Bruxie. That's breaking news.

And my favorite part was any pictures that were shared from that wedding were immediately followed by like 50 comments of which yacht were you on. And just so you know, the pictures were spread across all the yachts. So it wasn't just one yacht that the pictures were taken on. We moved between multiple yachts during the wedding. It was the first time we were actually invited onto the yacht, which was nice. Yeah. I mean, he still has his private yacht that only.

He and his wife go on. And the staff. And the staff. I took some silverware. Oh, nice. Did you? The little tiny spoons? Yeah. Yeah. With the big B on there. I took some crab. All right. Let's move on. Quite well. Thank you. No. Clearly you are not. No rational person would do as you have done. Explain yourself. Explain yourself. As one third owner of this company.