JULIO Trade Noise + Big Gulps, Dynasty Download - Fantasy Football Podcast for 5/25

When you're that big and you've led the league in touchdowns at the position before, sure. When you're that big and a team has given you that much money. I do have him over the 150 target threshold. Really? Yeah, he's my wide receiver 12 right now. If Daniel Jones wants a chance to succeed, he ought to. He better. He better do that. Yes. Austin Eckler question from YouTube. Nick wants to know in a PPR league.

How high is too high to draft Austin Echler? Oh, man. Should I be picking Tyree Kill and Stefan Diggs over him if they are on the board? Ooh. I mean, that is the dilemma, right? When you get towards full PPR, you get towards the end of the first round. Man, I think I would take Echler. Austin Echler, just for some context, when he returned, he played from weeks 12 through 17 last year, coming back from injury. His...

Target pace was 136 targets. Oh, brother. 104 reception, 733 receiving yards, and 5.7 touchdowns. Receiving only, right? That's all receiving only. There is not a world that I can see or a player on this team that is going to threaten Austin Echler. The only thing that will threaten him will be his own health and bad fortune. Because if he's out there, he's probably a steal.

The offensive line for the Chargers was one of the worst lines in the league last year, and they have invested as much or more than any other team in the NFL this season. They've upgraded their center drastically, which always helps the running back a lot. I have Austin Echler as my running back nine right now in half point, I'm sure even higher in full PPR. I have no problem drafting Austin Echler even ahead of Stefan Diggs, who's my wide receiver three.

Now, if this is, you say full PPR, if it's a three wide receiver two running back league, then you're going to want that depth of wide receiver or multiple flex. Sure. Then, you know, I would take that tip top wide receiver over him. But otherwise, if it's two running back, two wide receiver and a flex and it's half, or this is full PPR, I'm still willing to take Austin. We're there. All right. Instagram question from Anthony Castia. Can we be friends? Oh, yes, we can be friends? We're not? I thought this question insinuates that.

Right now actively, we are not friends. Yeah, because you don't ask a friend. Are you guys fighting right now? No. You guys in Anthony? I didn't think so. I didn't know we were, but I think we must be. It's really, you don't ask a friend if you can be friends. That's true. Not something you do. So friendship retracted. Oh, now the answer's no. Well, the current, yeah, that's what I mean. The current friendship has now been retracted, but do you offer a new friendship contract? Yeah, I'm taking my left hand back, but I'm extending my right. I'm saying nice to meet you again.

Come be my friend. You went full circle. With Anthony. That's right. Full circle. 360. So I turned my back on them, but here I am again. I'm right back there because it was just a one, you know, it wasn't a 180. Two of them. So here we are. Two of those. Two of those. As they called in the biz, two 180s. Remember when Tony Hawk did that double 180? Yeah. Pretty sweet double 180, man.

Oh, so you do 4-180s? That's crazy. So you're friends again. Yeah, we're friends again. That's what I got. All right. YouTube question, running back question. Who is the last running back that you would feel comfortable starting as your RB1? So is Echler in that discussion? Echler, I would be absolutely comfortable starting him as my running back one. For me, I think the one that I would be comfortable with as my RB1, the lowest on my rankings, would be Antonio Gibson.

I am a believer in him as a running back one this year. I think he gets the workload that he started to get before his toe injury at the end of the season. That's how I'm projecting the Washington football team. And while I would love to have a better running back than him, I'm still comfortable with him being my first running back. I will answer it slightly different with the first one that I'm not comfortable with, which would be DeAndre Swift.

I am not comfortable with DeAndre Swift as my running back one. Gibson, I'm with you. I'm comfortable there. Do you know who I have? Ackler. I'm comfortable with Josh Jacobs as my running back one. While I disagree with that, I'm looking at my rankings. The running back I have right after Antonio Gibson is DeAndre Swift. So we have the same cutoff line between those two. Of my list, like, I mean, I'll.

Really like most of the guys in my top 20. And I mean, you're balancing your opportunity costs because you're saying if this person is my running back one, I have Travis Kelsey. I have elite wide receivers. So I would be willing to go down to someone like Chris Carson as my running back one to pair with a powerhouse at the other positions. All right. Twitter question from Brandon. What is your preferred best ball strategy going into the season? I know we have some news on that front, Mike.

The best ball front. We do have some news on the best ball front. Number one, it's a very fun format. If you've never played it, and essentially what it is... Do do, do, do, do. Super fun format. Thank you. You're welcome. You draft, and then the computer puts in your best optimal lineup every single week. Once you draft, you are done. Thank you, computer.

And I know sleeper's adding it. There's some other places that you can play as well. And if you are going to play, boom. We have best ball rankings that are coming into the UDK. Plus they will be supplied by our DFS. Kyle the Borgogan and Matthew Betts are our PT, our football PT here. They host the DFS pod. They also host the DFS pod. So if you want access to those.

The UDK Plus, which is at the lowest possible price right now. I would also piggyback with talking about what they do with best ball and say if you want some really good best ball tips, go listen to the fantasy footballers DFS pod that covers best ball. Because your question has a bunch of nuances and things like that. I'll throw out one little tip. I really, really, really, really want mobile.

quarterbacks in best ball. I mean, I do in both formats, but when you've got multiple quarterbacks, you want those monstrous games because you have to win the whole league. And those monstrous huge, gigantic blow-up 40-point games usually come from someone who can run the ball. And we're getting a lot more of those players now. It's wild when you look at the incoming crop. We just added Trey Lance and Justin Fields, very mobile guys. And Trevor Lawrence is no slouch when it comes to...

to get used. If Russell Hill wins the job. Jalen Hertz. Kyler, Lamar, Josh Allen, Dak, Russ to a lesser extent now. So apparently I just want a quarterback. I'm just saying that that's the, we're going to have to reevaluate the quarterback position, especially once this new crop establishes that they're in play for fantasy because no longer will it be, well, just wait because you know that at the ninth round, there's this very mobile quarterback.

who is going to give you an incredible floor and an incredible ceiling. Last year, it was easily Josh Allen. A couple years ago, you're like, Lamar Jackson is just not being drafted and you're not paying attention to what his ceiling can be because of the scoring discrepancy. Just thrown out that we have a change coming here to how we should be valuing a quarterback because now the group is so condensed. No longer is it clearly just two guys at the top with that upside.

All right, Instagram question. How many players on your fantasy team is too many from the same NFL team? Depends on the team, my man. I mean, I would say two from the Jets. I would say that's too many for me. Yeah, one from the Jets is too many for me. Sorry, Jets fans. I'm really just jabbing you there. If you're a great team, I can have three on a team. If you're a great, a prolific offense.

and I've got three players from your team. What about four? You don't want Clyde, Mahomes, Kelsey, and Tyreek Hill? I don't think I would want. If I had that, like let's say I somehow left the draft with that, I would be very happy, but I would be looking to move, you know, Clyde for a different running back or one of those pieces. That's just. Yeah, you're losing when the chiefs are shut down. You're guaranteed to lose if your quantity is so high on one team. Yeah, and I will say this.

In years past, there's been debate over obviously the advantage of stacking a quarterback and a wide receiver, a quarterback and a pass catcher, really. It could be a pass catching running back. That is a great, great strategy. I love doing it, but it has taught people that putting a wide receiver or a pass catcher and a running back on the same team is not good. And for redraft, that's not true. You get more consistency. You just can't both score.

you know, a touchdown on the same play. And that over the course of the year, if they're both good players, you're going to be consistent and still win. I was told a quarterback cannot throw a passing touchdown and receiving touchdown on the same play. And then Marcus Mario had proved you wrong. That is fair. He did do that. That was awesome. His highlight. Yes.

as a professional. Truly the pinnacle of his career. That has to be the highest scoring play of all time, right? When you can, for a single play, you get a receiving touchdown and a passing touchdown. Maybe. I think it was only like seven yards though. Yeah. Dynasty running back this or that question. Gulp. Big gulps? Instagram. W. Drake Hill asks this difficult one in my opinion. Joe Mixing or Aaron Jones.

In a dynasty? Correct. That is very difficult. I want it. They're both on the same contract situation, same age. No. Aaron Jones is much older. Two years. In running back years. No, I'm agreeing with you. In running back years, that's a lot older. I will take Joe Mixing. Man, I feel like I... But you knew that already. I feel like I have Aaron Jones higher in my rankings, but... Because I think that the way that Aaron Jones plays and it's not a...

grinding him into the ground. It's more like Alvin Camara. So I think he has an extended shelf life in the NFL. Has his shelf life without Rodgers? But if Aaron Rogers is gone, his scoring opportunities are going to plummet. He's still going to be a great player and good for fantasy, but he's not going to be scoring 13 rushing touchdowns. I have mixing in redraft ahead of Aaron Jones right now. There's no question mark about his quarterback leaving, and he's two years younger. So for me, it's an easy mixing.

But then you think I'm super disrespectful to Aaron Jones usually. So there you go. I do normally think that, yes. What is the current status in your mind of Aaron Rogers? If you had to handicap it today, Tuesday, May 25th, and Rogers percentage chance of returning to Green Bay. I would say 35% chance returning, 65% chance leaving. Wow, Mike. I don't even know which side you're surprised about. Like, am I too high or too low? I am.

Much higher that he's going to leave. I would say higher than 65%. Yeah. I would go as like 75% chance he's gone. I think he stays. Well, that would be nice. But I want that percentage. 60, 40. Okay. No, no, let's go 45. Oh, yeah. There we go. Al Borland. You're on the microphone, right? Yep. And you're a fan of the Green Bay Packers? Yes, sir. Are you happy with my prediction? Yes.

So you would like him to return? Have you moved past the... Like, I know there's a lot of stages of grief and things of that nature. There was a time when you kind of wanted him to move on if he didn't want to be there? Do you still feel that way? Yeah. I don't... When was there a time you wanted him to move on? That happened? What I said was that if he didn't want to play there, I'd rather see him go. Yeah, he was being... Oh, for his sake. You were doing this for Aaron? It was very noble. No, no, he's doing it for... He's just saying that he doesn't want the locker room cancer of a...

Quarterback Hall of Famer that doesn't want to be there. The cancer of Aaron Rogers in the locker would win you more games. He didn't want to be there last year. If things went all right. Due to it being Aaron Rogers. Yeah. So I just want to point out that the Packers fan is happy with a 55% chance of Aaron Rogers coming back to the two. That's the place we are at right now. Well, it's the best option he got from the three of us. You two are like shipping him down there.

I'm not, no, I'm not shipping him. I'm just, Aaron Rogers is a, I think he's a stubborn man. He's definitely someone who would retire. If he, if he, if he digs his heels in and says, I'm not coming, I'm not playing for you, you know, unless you fire the GM and they don't do that. And he just goes on, then I retire. I still believe this is about respect. And I think respect is often shown in cold hard cash in this, in this business. That's really why I feel so disrespected from this job.

Right. And so I think that that respect will materialize financially. To Blake Poros. I think he stays. All right. We make my job easier here projecting these Green Bay Packers. It's better for football that I believe that fees in Green Bay. Yeah, 100%. Green Bay is a great franchise that is fun to be good. And I hope he's back. I just don't think. And no one else can put up those numbers in the snow.