Preseason Power-Up + Rankings Reactions, Megalabowl! - Fantasy Football Podcast for 8/23

The only friar I can think of is the... From Disney's Robin Hood. Well, not the Disney one. I was thinking of Prince of Thieves. But yes, and he had, what, like a lot of beer. Yeah, was he... He was bringing a transport of beer. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, they've done it. Before we... We know a lot about monks. So we'll workshop, but we got a long time before I'm Rogers arrives in Pittsburgh. That's right. One year. Before we move on, I do want to throw one other name out. Logan Thomas.

has moved up my draft board. Coming into this offseason, the signing of Curtis Samuel, bringing in Adam Humphreys, it seemed like Mr. Necessary was going to be unnecessary, and he was pretty much destroyed in our rankings. Preseason has really shown, like, he is out there every single snap, and he is running routes a ton. They paid him this year. He is going to be a big part of this offense, and I think that... Can I push back a little?

By all means. No Curtis Samuel is preseason. Fair enough. And Diami Brown looks awesome. Yeah. That being said, I think that the wide receiver positions are going to be whoever's on the field. Like Curtis Samuel gets there, he'll probably get more targets than whoever's there now. And Diamie Brown's great. But I think they're going to use the tight end because they have. They did last year and they have so far in preseason. Yeah, I mean, he got a really terrible pass targeted to him in the end zone this past weekend.

The question is, Jason, so you moved him up, but have you moved him up where you're comfortable that he is the Titan 9 in 80P? The Titan 9 in 80P? I think you could take your shot around there if you want. If you wanted to tell me that. Goddard or Logan Thomas right now? I have them back to back in my rankings, and I would take, I guess I'd take Goddard, but I see them very similar. Robert Tunyon or Logan Thomas. And Tunyon is ADP currently after Logan. Irv Smith, or Logan. Logan.

Let's do a couple of mailbag questions. Mailbag. Mailbag. If you have a question for the show, head to the website, the fantasy footballers.com. Click the submitted question button, or you can dial the voicemail hotline 302464 TFFB. Question number one. Steel City in Pittsburgh writes in. He says, would you recommend drafting Chuba Hubbard in the 15th round if you drafted CMC? PPR Redraft League.

I have no, in the 15th I have no problem with this. Jason was kind of alluding to it that in the draft process, you often do not know who your true backup, your true insurance running back is. But I think we've seen enough from the Panthers' usage of Chuba in the preseason that if McCaffrey is missing time, I think they would use Chuba the same way that they used Mike Davis last year. So he would become incredibly valuable.

If you're the kind of person that drafts insurance running backs, then fine. It's nice to know. But it's like in the 15th, that's a really, really deep roster. Right. I'd rather just play around with those roster spots on upside players at this point than to roster and injury only. That's just philosophically what I would do. I would rather be.

Taking a shot on a breakout player. Like Elijah Moore or something. Let me ask you. He's not going to be there in the 15th. No, 15th round. Let me give you some names. So like Rashad Penny, Ramandre Stevenson, would you want to take the shot that one of those two guys has a bigger role? No, I'd probably grab my insurance if it was between those three players. Damien Williams? No. Those are the running backs in that range. Marlon Mac. Why don't you read me some upside players that you could grab at the 15th that have like, like. Okay, Marquez Callaway.

Yeah, I'd probably see what happens in week one with him. I would rather draft Calloway. And then Baldess Scantling got at Green Bay is probably there in the 15th. Yeah, I'd probably take my insurance. So I mean, maybe. Xavier Jones? No. Okay, well, there you go. Yeah, all right. Maybe I'm wrong. Dan in the UK writes in. Oh, bonjour. Says, hi, guys. I love the show from across the pond. I wanted to ask if you take into account schedules and strength of offensive lines when doing your rankings. We, um,

Oh, and he also asks, we usually get over 80,000 people at Wembley Stadium. Would you consider a London show in the future? Dan, if you can promise 80,000. I'll go do it from the field. What's your overflow policy?

Like, I feel if we go to Wembley, 80,000. Not enough? It won't be large enough. And that could get dangerous. You don't want one of those crushes. Right. Yeah, a lot of standing room only situations there. You can only hold 80. For that reason, until you upgrade the actual capacity to a real state, you put the U-100K this and then maybe we'll fly over. That's a good point. For those reasons, Shark Tank. Yeah. I'm out.

I mean, to be honest, I'd love to do a show in London. That'd be amazing. Do you take into account schedules and strength of offensive lines when doing your rankings? I mean, certainly we take into account schedule when you're drafting a defense or a streaming quarterback to start the year. And obviously, when we do our rankings throughout the season, these things factor in a lot. Your schedule is going to be massive, your matchups and all of that. When you're talking about...

draft season rankings. Obviously, we do factor in offensive line. We consider that with guys who have a great one or a terrible one. You don't really factored in with the middle of the pack. It's really the outliers that are going to make the big difference. And I don't really take too much, to be honest, I don't go too wild with strength of schedule in draft rankings. Andy is cackling over here. I have no idea what's going on. I.

We're going to close us out with this next question, but I'm just shaking my head and laughing at it. Jason, your answer was great, but I was distracted by this question. Kevin in Denver writes in with an important title called Highly Suspicious. He says, Hey, footballers, I'm suspicious that the commissioner may secretly be playing as a manager of a second team in our league.

We've never met the other manager, and there have been multiple incidents that came across as highly suspicious. The commissioner is a friend of mine. I'm not sure how to approach him about it. Do you see why I was laughing? I need to know what the suspicious transactions are. Are these two teams just trading all the time? How would you?

What would make you suspicious other than... Yeah, I mean, multiple incidents, so it has to be trades. There's a bad person here. You just don't know if it's you or the commissioner. Okay, because... Yeah, you may need to look in the mirror. Yeah, I mean, one of the two is at fault here, because either this is true and shame on that person, and you've got to call them out. There's only one way to find out. You got to face-to-face IRL say, hey, brother, I love you. I got to ask you, man.

Are you Team 11? Are you team? Or, and then when you find out, no, that's, and then he shows you pictures of him with, you know, his buddy or whatever. Was Shmandy? Uh, which was Mandy Malloway. Um, you got to look in the mirror and say, I, I, I saw those transactions and I felt like he won and so I could only assume. Can't you try to, he was transacting with himself? Can't you try to bait him into a phone call or a Zoom call? Like, I've got a trade offer that is so good, but I want to.

I want to lock it in on Zoom. Or do a league-wide Zoom meetup. Yeah. Yeah, but they'll just say they can't make it. But I think you back them into a corner where they have to zoom with you. But then you're going to get someone just, it's just going to be shadow face. And it's going to be all just. Hello. Greetings. I don't like that trade offer. It's a mega mind. Like, how can you, trying to think of a way that you could mole? I'm not locking it. Just offer them, you know, real nice trade, but you got to lock it in on.

On Zoom. And then another guy shows up on Zoom. And you're like, oh, no. Right. Well, that's what you get for thinking bad about your friend, the commissioner. Is it thinking bad? I mean, yes. You're thinking that your friend is colluding with himself. Yeah, I mean, that's, that's, that's pretty bad. Private investigator is the answer to the question. Do a weekly Zoom meet up for your league and see if he misses.

every single week. And then say, hey, I want to make sure we could schedule one where he could get on and then see what happens. Oh, it's funny. Or do nothing and then just be suspicious for years. Don't be suspicious. Don't be suspicious. Don't be suspicious. All right. We want to thank Pristine Auction for supporting the show. Mike Evans signed jersey up there right now. Antonio Gibson signed jersey. Jonu Smith, who I'm warming on.

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