Buy or Sell + Fantasy Q&A, Open-Faced Sandwiches - Fantasy Football Podcast for 2/11

Doing well. We should have a chat. What's new? Nothing. We don't have Judge Giamati in studio today, so you're back there. Have you sitting in his seat when that happens? No, I'm still in my seat. Really? So there's just an absence to your right? Yes. I'll be rubbing my butt all over that seat. Take this rich man. They're no pants on this seat. Now he's in Barbados, right? Is that the... Yeah, he's just going around the world.

What do you pay all these different names for like famous vacation destinations. They're all the same in your head, right? Yes. Key Largo? Yeah. Barbados. Maybe why don't we go? The Kokomos? Yeah. They're all the same. Yeah. Brooks. Brooks is actually at a location that us common folk don't even know about. Really? Yes. Oh, the unknown rich people islands? Yeah. Like he let the name slip. I don't remember what he had said.

But then he was like, oh, I didn't say that. Is that where Jeff Bezos is? Yes. Okay. It's actually, he's in outer space right now. All right. Our first question is a voicemail question. You can send yours in 302464 TFFB. You can also go to the website, the Fantasy Footballers.com. Click the submit a question button and send us your question. Here we go. What's up, Ballers? This is Paul from Chicago. Big fan of the show.

I want to know from a fantasy perspective what are some of your guys' favorite landing spots for the free agent wide receivers this off season. Thanks, guys. Keep up to great work. Okay. I mean, it's a good question. There are teams that kind of jump out as great potential opportunities, and that goes beyond free agents. That goes to some of the top-tier wide receivers that could be drafted and what opportunities that they will have. Mike, I'll let you start here. Is there a team or two that you think?

Yes, let's go there. Number one, it's nice because if that dynasty pass that we were talking about, Andy broke down team opportunity, all of those things are carefully laid out there. And we are taking into account on those lists looking at restrictive free agents. If someone leaves, then what does the opportunity look like at that place? But my favorite landing spot right now,

It's probably the Packers because I just believe Aaron Rogers is so excellent, and you have Devante Adams, and they need the number two guy. I still, honestly, I still believe, like, Lazard can be that number two who's good enough for the Packers to keep going, but I believe that they could upgrade, and then you could have another.

another great fantasy option at the wide receiver position. We have plenty of history where Aaron Rogers was able to sustain two quality wide receivers, three quality wide receivers. If he's got a good player that's getting open, he'll get him in the ball. The two teams that stick out to me don't quite have the same level of quarterback, but I think the opportunity is greater. That would be the Detroit Lions, who say what we want about. Jared Gough, he's not.

a world beater, but he's also not, he's not the worst. He's not the worst. He's not the worst. Say what you will about Jared Gough, but listen, he's not the worst. Listen, there's somebody worse than him out there. Yeah, he's not the 32nd best. He's at least in the top 30. But why is it so much easier to downgrade players when they're on Detroit?

Oh, history? History of losing is probably the number one reason. Ah, history. But with Goladay and Marvin Jones, both free agents that aren't necessarily expected to return, there's a bunch of targets available. So that's one spot. And the Raiders or the other one to me, they desperately need a legitimate wide receiver option. Do you think they will really bail on?

Ruggs and Brian Edwards that quickly. I think they will and should bail on Brian Edwards. And the way that I've seen Henry Ruggs from the moment he was drafted from before the draft is he's not a possession volume guy. He's not a guy you're going to give 130 plus targets to ever. He is a tool, a weapon to be used. And I think his utilization...

is opened up if they go and sign an Alan Robinson, bring them in, and all of a sudden now the defense has key in on these guys, and you've got lightning speed on the outside that can go deep and stretch the field. So I don't think that would be bailing on Henry Ruggs. I think that would be accentuating what he does well. My favorite destination is Tampa Bay. Sure. Presuming that Chris Godwin leaves. Correct. If Godwin leaves, I think that there's just such a huge opportunity there.

The offense, you know, the ball's going down the field. Brady can, you know, he's got another year, I think, or more. So I think Tampa Bay is a great opportunity. It's hard because a lot of these destinations are the situation that, you know, it's like I get excited about the Raiders, but then I think about Rugs, and I think about Darren Waller, and I think about quarterback to Malt, and I think about they're running, you know, wanting to run the football, and I don't know how much I trust it. The thing about the Bucks, if Chris Godwin does leave, I, what do you guys put the, the,

Your percentage odds right now that Chris Godwin does leave Tampa Bay. 85%. Okay, so you're going way up. I would put it more like 50%. Yeah, I'm around the 50% mark. But the nice thing, to me, when I'm thinking about the bucks, you have Bruce Ariens coming back, not a lot left in the gas tank as far as coaching. Tom Brady, yes, he seems to be infinite now, but the clock will run out on Tom Brady. They're not going to just sit around.

If Chris Godwin leaves, they're going to add somebody else and say, we're going to maximize this window that we have. Well, what's ironic is there are two wide receiver free agents here, Antonio Brown and Chris Godwin. If either of them resign and one of them doesn't, it's really good news for payment. I'm looking at Tyler Johnson there, too, because I think he really flashed and Brady likes him. So if they were to leave and not do a lot in free agency, like that, they're a team that could end up, you know,

being a Marvin Jones destination to me. And that could be very interesting touchdown-wise. By the way, we have free agency shows coming out in March. So we'll be talking through a lot of these things. Instagram question from Cupcake Craig. Oh, Craig loves those cupcakes. Man, after Melonard. Who hates cupcakes, though, you know? Nobody. They've grown on me. They've grown on me. A piece of cake or a cupcake? Oh, man.

piece of cake. That is a piece of cake question. Why? Because you get more moisture. You know, when you get the edges. But you don't get the top. Well, the top, yeah, I still get the top. No, but you don't know that you're like, I'm not cutting the sideways piece of cake from the bottom. I guess I'm thinking more of a muffin. Well, I think cupcakes tend to take more liberty with volume of frosting on the top.

That's true. Well, no, cake has a, I mean, there's a lot. I mean, I might even have frosting in the middle. I've never seen frosting in the middle of my cupcake. That's true. You have swayed me, Jason. We need to, here's the question. In a single keeper redraft league, which. Jason had five more minutes of material. I did, but I have one important at least. Okay. All right. You know, look, the folk clan, we care about them. It's the offseason. Go for it.

Pro tip, if you are eating a cupcake, is you take the top off of the cupcake. You rip the little muffin top off, including the frosting. Yeah, I know where you're going. Flip it upside down. And you got yourself a delicious sandwich where the frosting is so much easier to eat. And you can think of me later. It's in the middle then. That's where it is. That's also a lot of mustache problems. Exactly. So you really give a lot of thought to the mustache with the cupcake?

Have you ever taken a bite of a cupcake with a mustache? Yeah, I have. Yeah, then you've had a lot of frosting in your mustache. In a single-keeper redraft league, which running back would you keep on your squad? Joe Mixen, Antonio Gibson, David Montgomery. Oh, man. Single keeper, redraft league, Mixing, Gibson, Montgomery. Ooh. I will, this is a tough question. I will go Joe Mixon. Yeah, this feels like a pro Joe.

episode because I think when I look at these three guys, a single keeper league is a redraft. You don't look at this with age of Gibson over Mix. If this was dynasty, maybe I would lean that direction. And there's too many question marks with David Montgomery and no quarterback situation. So right now I'd say Joe Mixon, I'm with you. Okay. I'm going Gibson. I'm going to go with Antonio Gibson. I'm going to go. Gibson has not scratched the surface of what he

can become. So it is a little bit of going with. I think he scratched it. Hasn't he scratched that surface? Yeah. Maybe like. Like when he finished as the running back two, seven, eight, six. But he's doing all that without pass catching. That's what I mean where they're like, this is a finger tip scratch. This is not a nail scratch. So maybe a rub, a gentle rub and caress at what Antonio Gibson. Yes, of the surface of what Gibson could become if, if they do.

work him into the passing game. And Joe, I'm, I am very concerned about Joe Burrow. I, I think Joe Burrow might be a pop list candidate type of person. You're more confident in that quarterback in Washington. Did you see Taylor Heineke play that playoff game? I was just waiting to find out who it was. New two-year deal. Better performance against the, the Super Bowl champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Oh, no. Taylor Heineke. Don't do it. Or Patrick Mahomes. Patrick Mahomes.

Not in the Super Bowl, but in like week 12 when he dominated. In the playoffs. Oh, okay. That's not us. We would never, we would never bring something like that up. All right. Before we get to the next question, we want to thank today's sponsors. First Leaf.

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I heard a good friend of the show, JJ Zacharyson, talking about Cortland Sutton, and he highlighted that in startup, the startup ADP from Dynasty League football, that Cortland Sutton was wide receiver 15 last year. He has dropped all the way to wide receiver 25 or 26. So just like the public perception of Cortland Sutton and his role, his security as a, like he's not even a.

top 24 wide receiver and Cortland Sutton is a dominant player. A dominant player. Yeah, I remember when we were talking about stinky sandwiches? Yeah, I know where you're going. Yeah, yeah. There's a first, you know, piece of the bad bread and that was the drafting of Jerry Judy. And then there was the like other side of it, which was like injury slash future at the quarterback position. Yeah, Drew Locke is the issue to me here because.

while when he was drafted at the beginning of last year, you had a hope. We all didn't know for sure what we had in Drew Locke. And there was potential that Drew Locke becomes something relevant, something that can really lift up Jerry Judy, Cortland Sutton, Noah Fent, and taken offense to another level. I think what 2020 showed us is that that's not Drew Locke.