Stunning Russell Blockbuster + Fantasy Fallout, Q&A - Fantasy Football Podcast for 3/10

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I would like it on the record. Okay. Hold on. Hold on. Get the stenographer. Yes, please. I strongly considered its birthday time to celebrate the life and the rotations around the son of Al Borland. Right.

Because at the time of this recording, it is actually his birthday. Yeah. But the moment the listeners are hearing this, it is not his birthday. Now he's just an old man. I just wanted to know that I acknowledge your birthday, but you do not get its birthday time because the show is not releasing on your birthday. In case, you were confused, Al. I appreciate you. I got a shout out on a really huge podcast, so I appreciate it. Which podcast?

Welcome into the show. Obviously, a lot happening around the NFL right now, especially with the quarterback position. So we're going to talk about all the fallout of some blockbuster trades. A reminder today, if you're listening to this on Thursday, March 10th, this is the final chance to get in on the listener league giveaway at ultimate draft kit.com.

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comes in, it's producer-related, so I'm surprised we don't filter those out. But it says, with the wide array of nicknames for your producers, I'm not entirely sure how many there are, can you give us a rundown? There are 22 producers here. We have, it's funny, I have heard this quite a bit, actually. The biggest thing that I've heard that is inaccurate is that there is but one with two nicknames. Yes. So some believe that Brooks la Judge Diomati

is also Al Borland. And I am here today the day after the birth of a one Al Borland to formally let you know there are two of them back there. Yeah. So you have Owl Borland, who is Jeremy. And so those are the two main producers. And then we brought on the Borgogan, as we refer to him. The editor-in-chief sometimes is his nickname Kyle Borgignoni.

Which you can see by the last name. That's why we have changed it. That's right. We have some difficulty with it. So, so Brooks, Brooks was the OG producer. We call him Judge Giamati. We've had segments on the show where he has been the judge and settled debates for us. Fantasy court. And Al Bornan is kind of, I mean, he's a jack of all trades. He's great. Master of none. That's the production side of things. Great with all the tech stuff. Yeah.

But he gets Al Borland because Al Borland was very capable on the old home improvement show of doing repairs and things. And he's done a lot of that stuff for it. Well, that was Al Borland. And then on the spinballers, it changed to Owl. It just became Al. I don't know why. And here, if you would like to follow our producers on Twitter, you can follow Brooks at Brooks Carmeen. You can follow Owl at producer Borland.

Kyle at Kyle underscore Borg. Am I right on those three? Yep. Amazing. And Kyle will be coming soon to a microphone near you. Now, okay, so this is a question here. Filter his response for me, Jeremy. Was Kyle Borg taken? Like you needed the underscore? That was not available? He's typing. Oh, no, I said filter the response. I was looking for a response. He said there are other Kyle Borgs. Okay.

It's a really popular nature. I imagine he had plenty of Star Trek jokes in his early days. Yeah, that's true. Resistance is futile. Twitter, at the F.F. Pollars. Hot start today, fellas. And every day. And every day. Today is more of an unlimited day. An unlimited day. I forgot that there's a graphic on the YouTube for that.

Audio. Unlimited. Why did we give him those eyebrows? He's got just ferocious eyebrows. Yeah, the quarterback carousel has been insane the last few days. It's a lot of fun. Let's just get right into it. Let's do it. Russell Wilson was traded. So that sentence was unbelievable. The Broncos have acquired Russell Wilson in a fourth rounder. They traded away. Drew Locke. Noah Fant.

defensive tackle Shelby Harris, two first round picks, two second round picks, and a fifth round pick. So it's hefty in terms of draft picks. Really, I don't know that's like, I don't know that there's an actual price you can put on a Hall of Fame caliber franchise quarterback who still has multiple years left of his career. He's 33.

The Seahawks have been his home his entire career. Obviously the Super Bowl championship also went to another one. That time that he totally lost one. Let me ask you a question. If you had, so they got just two firsts, right, in two seconds. Yeah. If you used all four of those picks on quarterbacks, what are your odds of getting a Russell Wilson? Very low. Very, very low. Yeah, I mean, Russell Wilson, I think, will be.

a first ballot Hall of Famer. He is, I think he gets another Super Bowl. This is a great team for him. And I think the Denver Broncos are going to allow Russell Wilson to cook, to open it up, to show how good he is. Obviously, he was terrible at the end of last year. The question becomes, is he falling off? Or was that the injured hand? I believe it to be the injured hand. There was before you get into your adoration, because I know where you're heading with Russell Wilson to Denver. And we're going to talk about.

I want to talk about all the fantasy implications. But before that, before the hand, there wasn't a period that I'll call the overcooked Russell Wilson. The back half of the previous year, he also had a slowdown. You remember this? Where D.K. McCaff came out on fire and the team was throwing the ball a ton. And then interception started to happen. So it's easy to say let Russ cook almost in the way that it was like,

Let a running back with a high yards per carry on limited touches start to run. Lamar Miller or CJ Spiller or some of these guys. But you don't know what they are in that capacity till you let them do it for a season. So first, do you expect Denver to move? How far does the pendulum swing in terms of passing volume for Russell Wilson?

And then what are the, what's the fallout here? Who are the big winners in Denver? Yeah, well, the biggest winners in Denver are the past catchers, right? You've got Cortland Sutton and Jerry Judy and Tim Patrick. But the main two, Cortland Sutton and Jerry Judy go from, you know, someone that I really don't even want to draft. I don't want to have to roster these guys and deal with Drew Locke or whoever the mediocre quarterback is trying to get him the ball based on the wide receivers talent, blah, blah, blah, to now these are.

fellas that I think are going to have great seasons. I mean, Russ is going to throw for 30 touchdowns and you divide those up among those receivers. Noah Fent exits in this trade so it gives a little bit of clarity to the pecking order. So I think that there's a lot of fancy value to be had. As far as the pass run thing, I don't think that this is a team that's great at running the ball. Jvante Williams, they might bring back Melvin Gordon still. We'll have to wait and see. I don't think that they're going to just say, oh, we're

going to pass it nonstop, which is good for Russ. Nathaniel Hackett over the past two seasons as an OC in Green Bay, top 10 in neutral pass rate. Yeah, so I mean, the reality is... I would be too with Aaron Rogers. Right, and I think he will be too with Russell Wilson. Whereas the Seahawks over the last decade, they've really wanted to be a defense and run the ball team that allows Russ to kind of play mop-up duty and...

finish the games. And so for fantasy purposes, I believe Russell Wilson is in for a very big fantasy year. Top five? Yeah, I think that's in the cards. We'll stat all these players out on every team once free agency and the draft is over and see where he lands. I'm certainly not calling him guaranteeing top five right now. But hopefully this last, the last part of last year, you know, I think we, but I know I was saying

Trade for Russell Wilson and Dynasty because, you know, I think that there's brighter, greener pastures ahead, and I'm very sad that... These pastures are bright. These pastures are green. They're filled with passes. They're pastures. They're pastures. Neon green. Yeah. Well, not anymore. So, obviously, if you were holding Cortland Sutton, Jerry Judy, I mean, this is make or break for Judy in terms of fantasy value because you have everything you need.

and you should see the leap, right? There are some questions to be answered from Jerry Judy. For sure. Because it's one thing to be super athletic and have the draft capitals, it's another thing to perform on the field. One thing we've seen from Tim Patrick, as little fanfare as he gets, quarterbacks seem to like him. He doesn't drop passes. Quarterbacks seem to love him. And Albert Aguibon is going to have an opportunity.

to be a red zone force with Russell Wilson, something we've seen before. Hard to be under, like I'd go pick him up in a Dynasty League if you thought you could. Sure, for cheap, but the sentiment I'm seeing on Twitter is people are, like, I've seen more excitement for Albert O, personally. It could just be anecdotally, but Albert O, I've seen more excitement for him than the other actual wide receivers on this team. I think that the, I think the pendulum is swinging.

way too far for what he will be in this offense. Yeah, you could be right. I think part of the problem, maybe not problem, part of the challenge, is identifying who you really think is going to be worth what pick. Because it's not like you're not going to have value there. They're going to be very impactful. And I would put them Sutton, Judy, Patrick.

I would as well. When you combine what I think the depth chart looks like with opportunity, upside ceiling. The ceiling for Judy is much higher than Patrick. But if we went out there and Tim Patrick had more total receptions than Jerry Judy and the same amount of touchdowns, I wouldn't be shocked just based on how the offense goes. You know, one thing that's interesting about this trade, the Denver Broncos are a franchise that is trying to.

sell they're they're like on the market right now to sell the so this this trade's no as a team not players yes as a team the franchise itself is basically available for purchase so if you're looking to you know get into the NFL team if you're out kickstarter going here yeah we should get a kickstarter I would love to own the Denver Broncos so if you're interested in a team with a great quarterback there for sale if you were looking for draft picks they're not as attractive that's what's so funny is they the current ownership doesn't really care about the future right

They care of it. Like, oh, we lost a lot of picks in the future. Now, my problem. We're better Super Bowl contenders now. The value goes up. It's really hard to argue with the recipe right now in the NFL. The recipe for Tom Brady and the Buccaneers, they win a championship. They go all in on veterans and, you know, Brady, obviously. Then you follow that up with the Rams who have been doing this for years, you know, selling future assets to pick up the –