10 Tips & Tricks to Win Your Fantasy Football League - Fantasy Football Podcast for 8/18

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for the ones who get it done. Hey, Foot Clan, the 2020 Megalobol is here. You can compete in the largest fantasy football league on earth with fellow Foot Clan members. Go to join thefoot.com right now for details. The fantasy footballers podcast with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Oh, welcome in.

The fantasy footballers, Annie Mike and Jason. Got another show for you. Got a great show for you. It is a great show. I always look forward to the Tips and Tricks episode. Bringing some new stuff your way this year. You're going to love it. Tuesday, August 18th. Today is the top 10 tips and tricks to help you win your league. We do this show every year. We do not do the same tips every year. So we are bringing you some new...

thoughts and I'm excited. There's a lot of nuance to building a fantasy football dynasty, which Jason unfortunately knows about champ champ and calls himself champ. Almost Duvante every day. Oh, is so gross. For our dynasty. Do you remember the draft, Jason, the dynasty draft when you finally selected Devante Adams? I do not remember.

I believe it was in like the double digit rounds. What a great pick. And when you did, it was like, all right, I'll take Devante Adams. Oh, man. At that point, it was, he was in full bust mode before becoming a top five. What about all my other great picks that won me back to back, champ champ. He did not even complete sentences anymore. I don't think you have to when you champ. I know, you begin sentences with champ champ. You end him with champ champ. Look, champ champ, champ going to chomp.

Yes, I am. You can find us on Twitter at the FF ballers. We're on our journey to 200,000 subscribers on YouTube, and we're not there yet. I'm ashamed to say. I'm ashamed to hear it. Because y'all want to keep us a secret. But you can go subscribe. YouTube.com slash the fantasy footballers. Subscribe, click the bell. This shows every day from now until... The end of the year. Yeah. It turned it came to mind as well.

But no, very excited to be with you today. Quick question of the day. Well, let me pause for a second. We do have something else special going on. Oh, man. It was slightly below the quick question. We are doing a, we're doing a live stream on Friday, and we're giving some. Big news. We're doing, that's not it. Never been done before. What? It's a lot like a podcast. It'll be like a television program live.

We're doing a live stream on Friday afternoon, 6 p.m. Eastern answering questions. We've done live streams before. They're spectacular. But during the live stream, we were giving something very special away. For the first time ever, we're giving away a UDK for life. Whoa. You guys didn't pass this by me. That's, uh, that's just nice to you.

Yeah, and Jason's certain to live 100, 200 more years, and that is a lot of UDK. So we're giving away a UDK for life on Friday, and the way that you are eligible to enter is you have to have the 2020 UDK. That's it. The ultimate draft kit. Yeah, if you've bought the ultimate draft kit this year, you're eligible to win. We're giving that away. We're given away a signed Alvin Kamara jersey on the live stream as well to the winner, and you can win a UDK for life. Never pay for a UDK again. Wow. So that...

That's a big deal. I get them for free and it's a great deal. Yeah. They'll be like Mike. Yes. You want to be like Mike. Ultimate draftkid.com. Order it before Friday to be entered to win and we'll give it away on that live stream. Here's your quick question. Who's a player that you're avoiding at all costs in 2020? So this is not necessarily somebody that you're saying is a bust, although that could be true. But someone you're willing to miss out on because there are players on all of our boards where we're just...

There's zero chance for having them on any of our roster. Yeah, mine is pretty easy and obvious. We've debated this player a lot over the last several months. I'm out on AJ Green. This would have been my answer prior to yesterday's hamstring issue. But for the same reason somehow, because when a player just gets over the hill and then is dealing with injuries at the same time, it's difficult to come back.

And that's what AJ Green has to do. All the comments of when he's on the field, he's great. He's barely been on the field. He is over that, you know, number you want for a wide receiver. And now he is sidelined at camp with a hamstring issue. I just, I realize I could be wrong. I mean, there's no doubt. If I let him go at a value and someone else takes him and he plays 16 and he's healthy, he could be a steal. But I feel like the.

The odds that he is lighting a pick on fire are too great for me to dabble. At what point in the ADP, Jason, are you, would you be willing to draft him? Or is that just you are, you don't care. Round nine, AJ Green is still there because he, like, this injury causes another dip in, in his draft value. Round nine, are you?

Are you taking the chance then? Yeah, round nine, I would probably take them. You know, we do everything tier-based here. So it's not so much this round number. It's what players would you be willing? You know, if I'm deciding between Anthony Miller and AJ Green, I'm going to take AJ Green. I'm not, you know, insane. This sucks. I mean, by the way, T. Higgins being held out for similar reasons as well.

Not quite their history of AJ game. Look, the My Guys show is Thursday. I'm so displeased. You were teed up. I was teed up. And the thing is, is this is like, to me, this is like I'm going to buy a house. And on the outside, it looks wonderful. Let's say it's a Hall of Fame house. Okay. And the price, it's ridiculous. I see it in print. I'm like, I got to buy this house. The price is so low on this beautiful house. And then you get there.

training camp, and you open the door, and it stinks inside. Your first whiff of the house, someone didn't flush the toilet. And I'm like, I want to live in that house. But I'm not living there with that stink. And I'm sure, you got to get the stink out of the house before I can live there. Hope they weren't smokers. That's hard to get out of the walls. The AC unit is on the house. You have mob colored toilets. Wait a minute. Was this built on a burial ground? What's going on with this house?

I get it, Jay. I get it. Like if you were sitting here and you're like, man, I'm in on Carrion again. And then we get that Carryon Johnson news yesterday where he's in the brace. I mean, I'm not a moron. Like, are you? No. Looks like Jason learned his lesson. I will, well, he said he'd draft AJ Green at a certain price. And maybe this will drive it even lower. But the fear has been put into me instantly. This is like AJ Green going out and just.

I want to see the house has to smell good before I live in it. That's all I'm saying. And our first impression at camp is two hype videos with Joe Burrow and then he's down again. A little stinky. Yep. It's not good. It's not good. Juju's the wide receiver for me that I will avoid at all costs. And it's because of the cost.

So, I mean, if he was a fifth round pick, I'm happy to roll the dice there. You have Chase Claypool. You have Dante Johnson, James Washington, Eric Ebron, Big Ben coming back from injury, Juju disappointing last season. And the question not being answered yet of, you know, whether or not he can put up prolific numbers without Antonio Brown. I watched Greg Jennings talk about juju and Greg Jennings. I watched him talk about the value of.

a player like James Washington, they need somebody to take the top off the defense for Juju to function underneath. So if James Washington can do that, then, you know, the opportunity's there for Juju. I think he'll probably have a very solid season, but you have to pay a very high price for him, and I'd rather take my shot somewhere else. And for me, it is, it's Todd Gurley. I just, I could be wrong. Maybe Gurley is back.

I feel very confident that he is not going to be back, and his situation has been downgraded moving teams over to the Falcons compared to him in that McVeigh system. So there's just, there's no way I'm taking him. Where's he go? Fourth round right now? Third, I think. Third round? Third, fourth? Oh, no. Oh, yeah, definitely not happening. I'm out on Todd Gurley right now. News and notes from around the league.

All right, it is hamstring season. AJ Green is not alone, believe it or not. T. Higgins, like I said, sidelined with a hamstring injury. DeAndre Hopkins, he's missed the Cardinals' last two practices with a hamstring injury, had people thinking maybe he was holding out. Did you see that? A lot of speculation. He wanted a new contract when he was in Houston. That's part of why he was traded, but he is not after a new contract. He is not holding out. Did you guys see the Melvin Ingram news from the Chargers of how he's.

I will now coin it the hold in where, hmm, because he's not holding out. He's there. He's just kind of avoiding practices. Well, that's what you have to do with this new CBA. Look, the rule is that you have to be there. I don't know if there's like specific rules of you have to go in when the coach tells you to go in. Stop jogging. He's just in practice. Like, uh, I'm going to hit the bike, coach. I'll be over here if you have a.

Like a new deal for me. Well, that was the thing. Going out there barefoot. This new CBA when Dalvin Cook just swim trunks. Yeah. Floodies. You got your pads on backwards. I know. You know, when Dalvin Cook was rumored to hold out and then he was there on time, it was basically, I remember the news being reported that this CBA kind of.

makes the holdout irrelevant. You're losing so much money every single day. Is it 50,000 a day? That was what it was for Cook. I don't know if that's universal. I consider that a large sum of money. I think even Dalvin Cook considers that a large sum of money. So, yeah, maybe this is the new, the hold in. Yeah, we'll see. That's just so much more confrontational and awkward for these players. Yeah. It's easy to be like, all right, agent, you talk to them, I'll stay away. But now you've got to go in and just be a jerk.

All right, Nick Chub evaluated for a possible concussion. Early reports indicate he's fine. I was asked this morning whether or not this affects my view of Nick Chub or Kareem Hunt. My answer is that it does not in any way, shape, or form affect my view of Nick Chub. For me, it's probably not, but you do have to wait and see. The concussion situations are all over the map. Like we see guys where it was always reported it was a light concussion. That player's out for six weeks.

Or they looked like a devastating head injury, and they're back in two weeks. And we just, we don't know. So I'm not saying you're wrong, Andy, if I'm not altering things right now. But you better be paying attention next week of how things are going for Nick. According to the rounds, like I said, taken off apparently fine after an injury scare. But you're right. Pay attention. This is the time of year where.

Here's another stinky house. T.J. Hawkinson, the ankle is still not quite 100% after rehabbing through the offseason. So there's a little bit of question. There are some question marks around his injury. And I don't think we've talked about this enough. But it's possible that his injury was more serious than the timeline that was originally expected. And the fact that he's not 100%.