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

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It's Corland Sutton, wide receiver for the Denver Broncos, and you're listening to the Fantasy Footballers. To the Fantasy Footballers podcast with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Oh, welcome in. Landing the plane in the swamp. Oh, that was creative choice. Oh, that was art? That was art. I went growl. Totally by choice.

The art does what the art wants to do. See, Brooks is right. I was going to say whatever you do. If you throw out, oh, that was art. No one can say anything. Oh, yeah. You ever seen a bad performance art? No, because it's not for you. Yeah. It's for them. You didn't like it. It's not for you. You don't get it. Oh, yeah. You don't. This is what you didn't get it. Lou idiot. What did you see? I know that.

Some of you appreciate you sharing your concern from my voice. I mean, I was a little under the weather, lost my voice, worked to get it back. Didn't sound great on the old mock draft episode. But the real reason that I didn't have it is I sold most of my voice as an NFT. Oh. So I actually don't own the rights anymore. Like a half Ursula? Right. So I'm very wealthy because it went for big money, obviously. Clearly. They took it away from it.

but I don't actually own it anymore. My voice is the possession of somebody else. Here's the problem, Andy. We're in the middle of recording over 100 player profile videos for the ultimate draft kit, and you're going to need to buy that back. You don't need to buy that back right now. I license my own voice from this person. Oh, okay. Yeah, I'm good. As long as there's a deal. Yeah, Tuesday, May 25th, welcome into the fantasy footballers podcast. Thank you for joining us. If you're brand new, that introduction was about all you need to know about us.

But we are here to help you win your fantasy football leagues. And we are year round. And we are getting you ready for 2021. It is a very exciting time because, as Jason alluded to, we do have the ultimate draft kit, which is coming out in one week. This is our baby. Our pride and joy. A lot of work from a lot of people has been poured into this. And we'll continue to be throughout the off season.

Yeah, this is not like a magazine where you get it and it's fun and it's cool. And it's like, wait a minute, this player is not on that team anymore. We are, I mean, this is our full-time gig for, you know, going on most of the last decade. So I would say a lot of effort, a lot of time. We are in like the Braxton Hicks contraction. Correct. That's exactly right. Because we're a week away. Birth, not yet happening. No, those is the way. It's not ready. But after it's born, after it's born next week, so it can get better.

It's going to grow. It's going to become your child. We nurture it. Yes, it's right. Feed it. It's like a Tamagotchi. We've never done the baby. I don't know, man. I'm grasping it straws. It won't stop. A Tamagotchi reference. You got the half Ursula and the Tamagotchi. You're just killing it over here. One week, one week from today. And I'm, I will say this. I'm really excited for those of you that pre-ordered.

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You have the new rankings for the year are up on the website. They are. The Fantasy Footballers.com. All of our rankings are up there for 2021. And so that's pretty exciting. We'll have Explain Yourself shows next week where we will call one another out for their outlier rankings. Yeah, that's one of the nice things about having the three of us. We don't always agree on players. And so where one of us disagrees heartily with the other two, we will.

take them to task and see who can change the opinion of the others, if possible. Well, I'm going, what, five, six, straight years of perfect ranking, so this will be your time to challenge me. YouTube.com slash the fantasy footballer, subscribe, click the bell. If you want to watch the show, here's the quick question. It is a multi-flex question from J24Killow says, how does your draft strategy change in leagues with additional flex spots? Not super flex leagues. Right.

More flex starting spots. Yeah, so assuming that you're not in the old fashioned yet still referred to as standard leagues. Yes. And really, I would actually say it includes standard as well. Certainly though, half point and full point PPR, wide receivers become much, much more valuable when you have multiple flex spots. Because, you know, at the very tip top of running back versus wide receiver, the running back score more.

than the wide receivers do. Then the next 15 or so players at both positions, well, they score about the same. Maybe it's more consistent with running backs, bigger boom, bust than wide receivers. But at the end, they're going to score about the same. Once you get past those top 20 players or so, and the further you go, you get down to wide receiver 36 versus running back 36. Oh, yeah. Wide receiver 45 versus running back 45. I mean, it's not even...

You can't start a running back. You can't start one of the running back 45, you start them and you're going to lose. So that's where in a multi-flex league, I think wide receivers just become far more important. All right, let's talk news. News and notes from around the league, presented by Sleeper. The end of an era is coming. Julio Jones, not long for Atlanta, the trade rumors.

abounding. I see it as the beginning of an era. It's about to begin, Andy. How dare you refer to Julio as being done? Yeah, that makes so much sense because normally when like kind of iconic superstars change teams later in their career, that is the, that's a birth. Yeah. Tell that to Randy Moss. Go on. Go on. Aaron Rogers. Soon you mean? Yeah. Yeah. Well, I look.

I apologize if I'm not extremely excited about Julio leaving where he's produced robustly for fantasy players and finding a new home. We went from rumors to the man himself saying, no, I'm out of here. And when he was, we don't know how those tactics came about with the Shannon Sharp calling him while he was live on the air. I don't know if it was guerrilla tactics. I don't know if Julio realized that he was on the.

TV giving out trade secrets, but we heard directly from Julio Jones on a television program saying he is out of Atlanta. He wants to go to a winning franchise, and then they dunked on the Dallas Cowboys. That part was pretty funny. So what are our thoughts here on Julio Jones? Can his value possibly go up? Can it possibly tread water, or is it just going down? It's just going down. I mean, I don't.

I'm sitting here racking my brain of all the different destinations that are somewhat realistic. I would say there's about a third of the league that you could maybe make some kind of argument for, and there's really only about half of that third that is truly, you know, a team that seems like they would make an offer and go after him. And I can't see a situation where he would...

even stay the same. Because staying the same for Julio with Matt Ryan in a passing offense that, you know, I think I've got Matt Ryan throwing for well over 5,000 yards this year in this new 17 game season. Sure. He's probably, if him and Ridley are on the field at the same time, probably still the one. That's just not a situation that you're going to go to. There's one team. There's one team that I actually think this one season, year 32, that he could produce near the levels in Atlanta.

And that's the team I think he's going to. Now, there are only six teams with $9 million of cap space, a need-wide receiver, and are considered a contender if you want to qualify it by the... I kind of find that one funny because he said, I want to win, right? Sure. But I want to win also includes getting paid his full salary. And a team willing to trade an asset for him and take on that salary. So let's go, one, two, three.

And then you say where he's going to go. Are we saying the team, the last part of the name or what? Yeah, the, yes. Okay. Not the city. All right. The team name. So one, two, three. Chargers. So Mike and I said the same thing. Yeah. Because we're willing it into existence. You get out of here with your Patriots stuff. The universe is rejecting that. Fantasy football is rejecting Julio Jones going to the Patriots. The universe apparently follows two-thirds rule. Yes. Oh. Yeah, you didn't know that? We should really vote on more stuff, guys. So the.

Chargers is the name that Mike and I threw out. And that is the one place that I actually believe he could go. I do too. And see the same amount of value because of Justin Herbert, because of the passing volume, because of the fact that Keenan Allen is a possession receiver. And Mike Williams is kind of a ghost at this point. He doesn't even really appear on the field for four quarters anymore. And they don't have anybody else. So that's the one place that I think.

Makes a ton of sense. The other teams with $9 million in cap space in that category. Dave Richard tweeted this out. Washington, Indianapolis, the Chargers, San Francisco, Arizona, and Baltimore. I do think the Colts are in play. I do think Arizona's in play. I know that's outlandish. And I don't know if it was on this show that Jason brought it up. But if they somehow traded for Julio Jones and A.J. Green.

Julio Jones, DeAndre Hopkins. Oh, they'd have to have Larry Fitzgerald come back just for comedic value. But they have Capspace, Baltimore. Comedic value? The comedic value of having Larry Fitzgerald, A.J. Brown, Hulio Jones, AJ Green, and Julio Jones and DeAndre Hopkins on the same team. But yet, just a couple years too late. It's like when the, uh, the old, the stars of old, they always get together and make some type of movie. Right. The expendables eight.

Yeah, or like there was that Morgan Freeman one. I think they were robbing a bank. You're going to need to be more specific than that Morgan Freeman. Robbing a bank. I threw it out there. Well, other older gentlemen with Morgan Freeman. Yeah, I remember that movie. I can't think of the name though. Nobody saw it. Nobody are. Oh, yeah. People saw. They're just 20 years older than us. Is there an opportunity for fantasy players to, like if he gets traded into the Chargers, for example? Is that the name, Al, going in style? Yep. Thank you.

Doesn't sound good. They went out in style. If he went to the- Wait, is Hackman in that movie? Oh, Ryan Hickman, Michael Kane and Alan Arkin. Oh, Arkin. That's what's thinking of. Yeah, sounds like a real treat. Is there a world where you could capitalize on the trade hype? Like a trade happens and then there is the unknown, right? If we think that the odds are that it's going to get worse when he plays.

I doubt it. I mean, you're bringing up one team where it is possible his value stays the same. I still would not say that his value stays the same. I think that the charters have a much better defense than the Falcons and they will not be throwing for the same amount of yards. And Keenan Allen already has an established, you know, relationship here. So I...

You know, it's just as likely that maybe he goes to the Baltimore Ravens and a tiny pie. Universe rejects that as well. Sure. The universe can reject everything you want, but the problem is if, for some reason, it squeaks through the universe's attention, then it's bad. I mean, where you capitalize on the trade value is, oh, I've got a giant Baltimore Raven fan in my league, and they just traded for Julio. But that's too much luck involved. It's going to be, I mean, this might be the last year, Julio has.