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Coming to you from pristineauction.com studios with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Oh, welcome in. It's going to be a doozy. So much fun. Oh, it's time to go. What are you sitting in? Oh, is that a 700? That was a little cryptic message. Well, you held it up and the light was reflecting off it. No one could see it. Not so cryptic because...

Yeah, it was just a message. This is show 700 in our illustrious history. And it's the illustrious. We're still beta. This is still a beta. For sure. Once you go 700, that's when you try to figure out, do we have something here? Do we go on? I guess we keep going at this point. Is there like a Charlie that we can go to before release? If you saw me, you can check the tape. I'm looking up. I'm trying to think. You go alpha.

Beta. Oh, you're looking for a Charlie? Right. Alpha beta. No. All right. Might not make it to 701. We have a show that may go on forever. Hey, good news, though. I mean, this is an awesome show. This episode. This is the fantasy footballers podcast, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, Mike, the fantasy hitman, right. Paul Giamatti slash Brooks running the way.

I'll just say on the whittles and the dials. The ones and the twos. Yeah. It's always been my goal. And maybe I've never said this publicly. But I've always wanted to have enough money someday to hire somebody just to.

pull levers and you put them in an office with a bunch of switches and they don't it doesn't do anything they look like they're in the engine room from titanic and i mean like steam is blown out they're shoveling coal this is intern stuff i mean we should bring an intern in for this i bet there would be a lot of people willing to take that job for sure but i mean we'd have to invest at least a few hundred bucks in the buttons in the pulleys in the i would take that job a big it'd be a big wheel in there we're hard day at work today honey

The problem with the job is we tell you that it is of the utmost importance that you don't screw up your job. And every time somebody comes. And alarms are going off. Alarms go off. Jason goes in there every once in a while. And just asks if, you know, did you push that button? Make sure you push that button. It's like a lost situation. I got to enter the numbers or something will happen. This is the kind of business I want to run. This is my whole life goal. Show 700, everybody. All right, free agent frenzy.

Oh, my goodness. I thought we would be coming in here, and it would be all about Levion Bell and him finally signing a deal slash releasing a single. And we'd be just talking about what team he's on. And instead, the bomb was dropped by Gettleman and Dorsey. I wouldn't say Gettleman dropped a bomb as so much. Laid an egg? He had someone, like, sneeze in his face. Who, was that Dorsey?

Yeah. That's what a good trade is? It's a sneeze in the face? Well, Dorsey, Dorsey pulled off a great trade. Gettleman just had the bubonic plague spray in his face. Gellman was yawning. Yes, yes. And Dorsey happened to be walking by, sneezed directly into his mouth. I posted a meme that said, look, every fantasy league has a brand new owner. And Dorsey took advantage of Gettleman in this trait. Odell Beckham Jr. If you haven't heard.

That's why we're here. He was traded from the New York football giants to the Cleveland Browns official today, actually official yesterday because you're listening to this on Thursday. We're recording late Wednesday. The league year has just opened. Tons of deals have become official. We may have breaking news here on the show, but we're going to spend time talking about all the major signings, including this monster trade. Odell Beckham Jr. traded.

essentially for a first, a third, and Jabrille Peppers, the safety from Cleveland. Welcome to the Browns. Yes. There's going to be a lot of Browns talk this year. The hype train, it's official, it's going, the offensive position players. When you talk about fantasy football, what more do you want? Jarvis Landry, Odell Beckham Jr., Antonio Callaway. Injoku. David Injoku at Tight-in.

Nick Chub, Kareem Hunt, Duke Johnson in the running back rotation. It's unbelievable. One of the funnier tweets, I apologize, I would give credit if I remember who said it. But they essentially said, you can't even assemble this squad on a fantasy team. Yeah, I think it might have been Silva that said that. Was it Silva? But here's the thing. I have a bunch of questions for you. Because fantasy owners have questions. I have a team where I've got keepers. I had Sequin and Beckham. I'm sitting.

I'm like, I'm happy. I don't got two guys on the same offense run by Eli Manning. Right. But let me ask you this, Baker Mayfield. That is where we begin the discussion because you cannot assemble better weapons for a player. We saw what Pat Mahomes did year two. Tons of weapons. Tyreek Hill and Sammy Watkins and Travis Kelsey and Cream Hunt. Baker Mayfield belongs where?

in your fantasy rankings after this news, and then the follow-up question, well, let's answer that one first, and then I got a second one. Baker is going to be awesome. I mean, I've seen him in a lot of best ball leagues. He's being drafted, and this was...

this was foolish a couple days ago, unless everybody out there has a crystal ball. He was the fifth quarterback taken off the board, ADP, in best ball. You were bemoaning it. I was surprised. I was like, what is Baker? Like, I love Baker. I'm on team Baker. But he was going, you know, fifth off the board. Now, with O'Dell Beckham added there, all the weapons, I think he, I think he deserves to be around that area. I mean, I would take him ahead of Drew Brees. I would take him ahead of.

Cam Newton and Stallworts, who for years have been great because Baker, I mean, it will depend a little bit what his ADP is, right? Because if he ends up as going to go crazy. If he ends up as the fifth quarterback and he'll be higher than the fifth quarterback in the sixth round or higher, then I'm out. There's no way I'm drafting Baker there. Mike, quarterbacks that will be drafted ahead of Baker Mayfield. Pat Mahomes. Yeah, Aaron Rogers. Aaron Rogers. Russell Wilson? No. Andrew Luck? Yes, Andrew Luck.

Andrew Luck will be drafted. Probably. Is that it? And then I would think Deshawn Watson will, but I think you're talking about that fluctuation from four to five is where Baker will fall in. I looked up our Dynasty League last year, the rookie draft. Okay. Established Dynasty League, Baker Mayfield went in the back of the second round. Right. Drop Baker Mayfield into this year's rookie draft. Where does he go? Ooh. He's probably a middle of the first. Oh, really? Yeah.

I guess I was thinking where would we draft him? I would draft him if he fell to like the third, if it's a single quarterback startup dynasty. No, not a startup dynasty. I'm talking about a rookie draft. Rookie draft. Rookie draft. Tune in, Jay. Tune in. Okay. Make the connection to my question. I said, you're dropping Baker Mayfield into this year's rookie draft. Last year in the rookie draft, he went in the back of the second round. Now that you know what you know, where would he go in this year's rookie draft if he was dropped right into the middle of it? He'd probably be my one-on-one.

Woody. In this year's, there's no Sequin. I don't think Josh Jacobs is going to get drafted to be a star somewhere. So, yeah, I mean, I would take him over anyway. I have a purpose to that question. And that is to say, historically speaking, in these rookie drafts, quarterbacks go later and later. Okay. And you have a player, Kyler Murray, no matter where he goes, Arizona number one, New York number four, five, or five, six, Oakland at four, whatever. You look at players like this.

Pat Mahomes has done it young in his career. Baker Mayfield just broke the record. The way the game's changing, Kyler Murray, he can run the football. Right. How high does Kyler Murray belong on your rookie draft list? For what you project him to be in the pro. I still need to see what team he goes to because what we know about Baker, which is changing the situation for him, is the head coaching situation for him has improved.

infinite. I mean, exponentially up from Hugh Jackson, to Freddie Kitchens and Todd Monkin. I mean, they're going to air it out. Look what Monkin was doing in Tampa Bay. He's talking about passing to set up the run. This is fabulous for Baker. So it was the situation changed drastically. I liked Baker his dynasty outlook.

But adding a Hall of Fame caliber wide receiver certainly changes the equation for any quarterback. So circling back to the Brown's offense, O'Dell Beckham Jr. joins it. Here's one of the voice of public opinion questions that people want to know. Is there enough to go around? Plenty. I think there's enough to go around certainly for.

for Odell to stay a top star. He gets an upgraded quarterback, maybe a downgrade in target volume or, you know, target percentage. But I don't think there's enough to go around where, like, for instance, before this trade, David and Joku would have been a spot or two higher in my tight end rankings. He drops a little bit. He's, you know, he's still a great red zone target, but the idea of him taking a huge step up in target volume probably not going to happen this year now, the same way it would have happened without Odo Beckham there.

Antonio Callaway breakout potential is now nullified. Yeah, it goes down. He'll be likely relegated to those. Think of Tyro Williams last year where there will be games where he hits on a deep touchdown, but more often than not. But I guess if ruining your flow here, Andy, but Jarvis is, that's what's interesting to me because I think everyone's getting upgrades, you know, but meanwhile Jarvis is no longer.

the number one guy on his team. That's where I was going next. I was going to ask you the question of whether O'Dow Beckham Jr. or Driver's Slander will have more total receptions next season. O'Dell Beckham. You both believe Beckham well? He's the one. Even though Jarvis is much more of a possession, not the field stretcher. I still think you've got to target Beckham more. And Beckham can do that. Beckham's not Alshon Jeffrey where you're happy that he's in the 60 reception range. O'Dow Beckham plays every role.

of the wide receiver position to a perfection. Yeah, see, I don't see this as everybody gets a bump up. O'Dell Beckham, to me, stays the same as he was. Baker goes way up. Baker, to me, is now set up to take that year to jump forward. But every other pass catcher, I think, takes a slight bump down. I think Jarvis takes a bump down. I guess I'm thinking of Calaway. To me, O'Dell goes up because his quarterback is tremendously better.

His first three seasons in the league, 130, 158, 169 targets, 91, 96, 101 receptions, 1,300-plus yards, and 10-plus touchdowns. The last two years, obviously, the big problem in New York was going to be getting into the end zone with Eli Manning and Saquan Barclay. Flip it to the other side now, because we're going to exhaustively cover this. The giant side of the football.