Free Agent Preview & Predictions + Silent Andy

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The Fantasy Footballers podcast. I am your host today. Mike, the Fantasy Hitman Wright, joined by my best friend of this Tuesday. I was wondering. See, usually when Andy is... Jason Moore. Absent. Right. I'm your best friend on the show, and that's... De facto. It makes me... Well, of course. It makes me feel so good to be a de facto best friend.

But I wasn't sure today because Andy is not gone. Yes. Andy is, in fact, here. He has just, his voice is completely gone. He sounds like a squeaky mouse when he attempts to say anything. So he's sitting the show out, but he said, no, I will power through at least the sitting part. Yeah. So he is sitting here and he will be enduring the show. He's got his papers. He's going to be working on some things.

If you can check that out at YouTube.com slash the fantasy footballers. If you want to see what we're having to do or endure here with Andy. But I am doing well. Jason, how are you doing? I'm doing great. And I would just like to say you definitely want to check it out on YouTube. Not only is Andy ridiculous. And you'll want to see that. But in addition to that, we have, you know, now that it's March, right. Of course, we have our 2019.

highlight video that is up on YouTube. It's going to be awesome to see. Perfectly timed. We're getting it together on such an important day. Well, there's so many highlights to go through. So many highlights. It takes a while. It's, it's an 82 minute, uh, stravaganza. Uh, and, and we're, we're launching it here on, um, your birth.

That is correct. I was going to say on today's show, we got Buy or Sell, news and notes. We're going to go through some free agent preview and predictions because we're about two weeks, two weeks away from free agency, and now is the time to be speculating, to be dreaming, to be salivating on what could possibly happen. But it also happens to be my birthday. Happy birthday to me. I'm also the host of today's show, which means I get to do whatever I want. Andy has to listen to it. Like, if we're going to talk about Tom Brady.

We're going to talk about the plant man. We want to hear like the best drop I've ever made? Preseason power up. Yeah. It's not even preseason time, but I'm going to do whatever I want to do. I feel powered up. So we will start the show in just a moment. But like I said, YouTube.com slash the fantasy footballers. Find us on Instagram.com slash.

fantasy footballers, all your fantasy football needs over there on IG. You can follow us. Andy is at Andy Holloway. Jason is at Jason FFL. I am at FF Hitman. That is both Twitter and Instagram. Jason, are you ready to buy or sell? I am very prepared. Buy or sell presented by pristine auction. Today's buy or sell. Aaron.

Rodgers. Aaron Rogers will not be a top 10 fantasy quarterback. Are we going to buy or sell? It has not been the best of times fantasy-wise for Ann Rogers as of late. QB6 a couple years ago, QB 9 this last year. He used to average about 38 touchdowns a season. For the past two season, that number has plummet to do 25 and a half. Jason, what do you make of

The perhaps demise of Aaron Rogers and his fantasy value, granted.

Devante Adams, his number one option missed weeks five through eight this past year. Are you giving him a pass because of that? I'm not giving him a pass because of that. Ironically and weirdly, his numbers were better for fantasy in games that Devante Adams missed, which was super weird because Devante Adams was very efficient himself. So the thing is, what you alluded to, right, I don't think this is the same Aaron Rogers from 2011 to 2016.

You had a six-season sample size where he was a 16-game pace of 38 touchdowns a year. He was the man. He either finished number one or number two every single year. Now the last couple of seasons, you drop down to 25, 26 touchdowns. That's not going to get it done for where you usually have to draft Aaron Rogers. So this is a really interesting question. Do I buy that he will not finish as a top 10 quarterback?

And I hate this line because in general, I feel like I'm out on Aaron Rogers. I don't, I'm not, I don't think he's going to bounce back to elite fantasy production at all. He's, you know, less and less mobile at this age.

You know, a couple hundred rushing yards a year is harder to come by now. And the touchdown numbers aren't there. Obviously with LaFleur, they're wanting to run the ball more. We saw that with Aaron Jones and his outlandish touchdown total. Say there was that for Rogers. There was just the very bizarre touchdown total, rushing touchdown total for Aaron Jones, which taking away the opportunity. Aaron Rogers has always been a sensational.

touchdown thrower inside the red zone and inside the 10 more so than other quarterbacks. So are you, how are you factoring that in? Very eloquent. Well, so I think there are two reasons here that I am going to sell him not being in the top 10, meaning I believe he will be a low end top 10 quarterback, probably, you know, nine or 10 next season for two reasons. One is the touchdowns.

that were so asininely run heavy. And I think that that will rebound back more towards his career average. The other reason is, you know, look, I know in the games that he didn't have Devante Adams, he performed well for fantasy. Those, you know, he had a couple of monster games. But I don't believe that the wide receiver core around Devante Adams is even decent. You don't think they're going to address that? I do. And that's my point.

My point is it has been atrocious. Jimmy Graham is legit your second best option, and he's atrocious. And he's gone. There's already been rumors with them trying to get another tight end in. You know, they're kicking the tires on Austin Hooper or rumored to be since they can't kick the tires yet. And I think they're going to bring in another pass-catching weapon, which will benefit Roger. So yes, I think he's going to be a top 10 quarterback.

I am probably not going to pay up for his name and his inconsistency. But where do you land on the buyer's selling? So you are selling that he will not be a top 10. Correct. I'm using the double negative. I don't know why. Why did we phrase that he will not be? I look only to Brooks. Yeah. That's me. That's on you, Brooks. It would have been a much tougher decision had you said top five. I feel like I'm right where you are, J.

I'm outish on Aaron Rogers, but by the end of the year, if he plays a full year, he'll be a top 10 guy. He's not just going to completely fall out of there. He's a 4,000-yard guy. He'll have at least upper 20s in the touchdowns with the opportunity to be far more. So I will sell that he is not the top 10. I mean, like, yes, we have no bananas. Exactly right.

So that was buy or sell. Andy, I'm sure, is buying that Aaron Rogers will not be a top 10 fantasy quarterback, but we won't get into that right now. That was by herself from pristine auction, pristine auction. Pristine auction. Use our registration code, ballers, and you're going to get a $10 credit towards your first purchase. Who's on the wall today, Brooks? We got, oh, DeAndre Hopkins, a signed DeAndre Hopkins jersey glowing on the wall. If you want something like that, go over to Pristine auction. News and notes from around the league.

Busy, busy week slash weekend for the NFL, the NFL Combine. The underwear Olympics took place. A lot of dudes out there just running their hearts out, lifting the weights. You see the punter? Oh, doing the reps? The punter just crushing the bench press? Yeah, that's how I want my punter. Upper body strength is one of the things I look for the most in a punter. Why is a punter doing the bench press? Right.

What GM in the history of the NFL has ever looked to the results of the bench press for the punter and made any kind of tiebreaker like, I'm between these guys, but that guy had two more reps. Best case scenario for this guy who crushed the bench press, I guess is this, that we're talking about. I don't know his name. I'm not going to bother to look at up. No need. Sorry, Mr. Punter. Very impressive what you did with the weights. So that's best case.

Worst case scenario was he hurts himself doing the bench press at the combine. Which? Good odds. Good for the punter to really hurt himself. I know you're going to be the running back. We don't have you do some kicking drills. Just see how you, how you fare just in case. The Cincinnati, and we'll get into some more combine reactions. Michael Turk. Michael Turk? We don't disrespect. I feel like he was ASU. Is that correct?

Or is that out of my butt? I'm not going to look that up, Mike. I looked up one thing. One is enough. How dare you? All right. Well, you maybe look that up. But before we get into our combine takeaways, the Cincinnati inquirer, inquirer. I sounded like one of the guys from the wonder pets. Enquirer. Oh, that's right. Or marriage does want us together.

So anyways, some paper in Cincinnati. They're reporting the Bengals plan to franchise free agent AJ Green. I like that we get to talk about AJ Green right now when Andy is off Mike. Oh, this is wonderful. He gets to be here far to be smirching and cannot stand up and defend AJ Green, who he believes is the best free agent wide receiver in this draft or in this class. And yeah, and is incorrect.

So you think he will be back with the Bengals? Yeah. But you think this is the incorrect move for the team? A franchise is fine. I mean, I think a franchise tag is perfect because if AJ Green comes back strong, he's worth every cent of a franchise tag. He is a top five wide receiver in the NFL. Has been. Yes. I'm saying if he comes back strong, he is. So he deserves the money. But this is nice because you don't want to give a guy at this age.

who just missed an entire season, a long-term deal. That's a way to have a bunch of dead cap in the future. And how many games did he miss? Do you know off the top of your head the season before? Oh, no. I was like 16. Okay, so yeah. So he played nine games in 2018. So it's, yeah. We'll see. Me, you're right. If he is back, then he's well worth the money.

ESPN's Jenna Lane is reporting. The Cowboys are expected to franchise tag Dak Prescott. That is not breaking news by any stretch. If you can't get him signed, you have to franchise tag him. It does have implications, though, for Amari Cooper. Because now Amari Cooper will get to just go out to the world and start trying to get the most money possible if they can't get a deal worked out soon. The charges are expected to franchise tag Tide-in Hunter Henry. What are your...