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We're on to 2021. I don't even remember it. I don't either. But this year, the UDK, look, the pre-sale, it's already going on. Are you going to get the ultimate draft kit? You can get it for the lowest possible price. And this year, the UDK plus, the new and improved megapak, it's sweeping the nation. All the kids are talking about it. Do you have rookie fever?

Well, in the UDK Plus is our brand spanking new Dynasty Pass, and you can get in that thing right now. The content is available right now. Go check it out. Ultimate DraftKit.com. To the fantasy footballers podcast with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Welcome in.

The Fantasy Footballers podcast. Back with you, Annie Mike and Jason. Thursday, February 11th for real. The real February 11th this time? Yeah, that's ain't no. February 9th masquerading is the February 11th. No, this is the real one. That's sneaky snook. It almost got away with it, too. Welcome into the show. Excited to be with you. You can find us on Twitter at the FFBallers YouTube.com slash the fantasy footballers. Make sure you subscribe. Click the bell.

And that'll let you know when we're going live for special events or have special things going on. Well, worth it. It's just a click. It's just a click. Yeah. I mean, just if you add up all of the clicks that you have to do to navigate through the internet to get to YouTube.com slash fantasy footballers or the fantasy footballers. I don't even know the URL. It's very, you're saying it's not. It's not much time at all. No, it's not bad. Clickety clickety click. How many wasted clicks have you had elsewhere on the internet? And this is one that's worthwhile.

I can't, I don't even know. Yeah, yeah. Carpal tunnel. We have buyer sell on the show today. That's a mailbag, going to be answering some questions. I want to kick things off here at the top. Oh, yeah. Want to say congratulations. Oh, yeah. We got to, we got to get this. Yes. Congrats to our very own, our content manager, editor-in-chief extraordinaire, excellent writer, Kyle. We call him Kyle the Borgogoggan, Kyle Borgignoni.

He is the winner of SF, uh, of the FSWA's fantasy football article of the year, which was just announced. You're darn right. He is. That's right. We did it. That's right. We had the best article of the year. Jason, are you taking credit for Kyle's article? You're darn right. I am. I mean, well, it was a team effort. This was a complete.

fantasy footballers article. So yeah, we've got to take full credit for Kyle's work. I think he would want that. Congrats to Jason. Thank you. And Kyle. And Jason and Kyle for their article, the fantasy football article. You can find it on the website, the evolution of language in 2020. And it's a great read. Congrats. Congrats to Kyle for the recognition. A lot of a lot of time thought.

effort went into that article, and I know that a lot of people have really benefited from it. And heart. And heart. And earth and wind and fire. Anything else going on at the top here you guys want to talk about? Nope. We got some rookie profiles up on the website as well. So if you are hungry, thirsty, it's time. It's dynasty time. It's rookie time. And I can say the...

The Dynasty Pass and the UDK Plus has been really well received. We are going to continue to add to it. If you don't really know what it is, there is a lot of rookie content in there, team opportunities, where we go through and individually grade every single team at every single position for possible, basically good destinations for rookies to land at in. No, you land. And free agents, too.

And we have our dynasty startups. We have the rookie rankings. And there will be three major releases of the dynasty pass this off season. So the first one is up and available. There'll be one kind of post-workout. And then there'll be one post-draft. And so you're going to have a complete picture of the dynasty landscape. And I know more and more people are into dynasty leagues. And so we're going to help you out. Let's do some buy-sell. Buy or sell presented by pristine auction.

All right, buy or sell. Joe Mixin, will he top 1,400 total yards in 2021. Joe Mixon in 14 games in 2017, got to 9-13, 2018 got to 14-24, 2019 got to 1426, and then he only played six games this past year. In fact, I think Joe Mixon was almost one of the more forgotten players. Six games played, but his 16-game pace was...

1,509 yards and would have been the RB5. Yeah, he had a great stretch right before the injury. If you remember how, you're right, Mixen is a very forgettable character from this previous season. And the reason why is because it was an awfully delicious sandwich with terrible bread.

You had the start of the season where he had three games in a row. You drafted him. You wanted him to be the guy. And he didn't finish in the top 25 running backs in week one, two or three. It was like, oh, no, what have I done? And then you got the Joe Mix, the great experience. He was the running back one the next week, 23, eight the next week. And then he got injured. So he had. I am struggling with your sandwich.

metaphor here, Jason. Is there a top piece of bread? This is an open face sandwich. Well, no, because the injury is the back of the sandwich. You had a crap start. Oh, okay. The bread's bad. The inside's good. That's exactly what I'm saying. And so. Stale bottom, delicious fillings. Pastrami in the middle. Oh, yeah. Pestromi for sure. Mustard and a little bit of 1,000. But then the top bread is just...

pure mold. It's not even bread anymore. That's right. It's gone bad. Okay. So maybe you turn it open face because you want to get rid of this piece of bread for safety reasons. That is what we do with stats. But now imagine that the following year, you are like, I'm going to have that sandwich again. I don't think you're going to want it. You took a bite of a moldy sandwich. That's right. You're going to say not today. And so I think people will undervalue Joe Mixon, who is currently still not 25 years old. He will be 25.

this season. He's a young man. I believe in this offense. I believe in Joe Burrow. And I think the depth chart dictates that he will be a 1,400 combined yardage back in 2021. With an ADP lower than this past year? 100% has to be lower than it was this season. Now there is some optimism.

about Joe Burrow potentially getting back in time for the start of the season. Yeah, I'm not putting my bet there. I'm not going to put my bet there, but it would matter to me a little bit about how I look at Joe Mixen starting the year. I think I will buy 1,400 total yards. I think he will be forgotten a little bit. Didn't really help your team. I mean, an injury knocking him out of the whole year, and he had the Christian McCaffrey situation where it was like when he first got hurt, you said, well, he's probably going to come back.

Well, probably this week. But he never did. The Bengals did string that one along by never placing him on IR. Unfortunately, the nice thing, though, is look at his percentage of work. Joe Mixen was a workhorse. Now, those first three games, I mean, he's still pulling in almost all of the running back attempts, 95%, 94, all of them, those first three weeks. However, his target share was very low in those first three weeks, which has been.

been a problem with Joe Mixon. So those first three games, it was, ah, crap, here we go again. Joe Mixon is a great pass catching running back, but they're not throwing him the ball at all. But then those next three games, he had a target share, the next two healthy games, a 17% target share and a 28% target share. Like for the team, that's not just the running back target share. So that is a very good sign of life that as Joe Burrow was getting more acclimated, we saw him.

starting to look at Joe Mixon. So there is reason for optimism, but the dude's body just doesn't like football. He gets nicked up. That's been the biggest problem so far with Joe Mixen has been injuries. He's only had one season completing 16 games. That was in 2019. Yeah, I feel like with both Joe Mixen and Josh Jacobs, both players that I was really bullish on, I got to deal with injuries and then I got to deal with unexpected or unfulfilled.

pass-catching promise for both players. And it feels a little bit like, you know, J.D. McKissick and Antonio Gibson in, you know, for the Washington football team where, yes, you can throw to McKissick, but when you throw to Gibson, he can do more with it, but they just don't do it because they specialize. That was what happened with Geo for many years. Once they started getting the ball to Joe Mixon, he was putting up big numbers. They're like, well, Mixing, we can't throw you the ball because this is all that Giovanni Bernard does. Right.

But I'm really good at it. Yeah, but it's all he does. If we don't throw it to him, what else are we going to do with him? I'm telling you that. He's just there now. Now he's just on the bench. Enough coaches get fired to where that's really true. And it's true on the goal line for certain teams where they're like, well, that's just what he does. Bring in the heavy back. And look, people are losing their jobs with this philosophy. DeMarco Murray should have been sat down for a Derek Henry explosion years before.

But it's, no, we're kind of, we got our debt chart filled out in ink over there. Like, we're not going to change that thing. What else am I supposed to do with DeMarco? Yeah. I don't know what to do. Did you buy yourself? Oh, I have done neither. Okay. I got the impression you might sell it with the injury. The injury is a concern, but I'm, I don't want to be a man who's betting on injury, so I will buy it. Because I feel like if he plays.

the majority of the season of 14 plus games, then he will hit that mark. This is important for you to know out there when you think about running backs. All three of us bought 1,400 total yards. Out of the last five years, 40 of the 41 running backs with that total ended up a top 12 running back. But the one who didn't? Yeah, the one who didn't is Joe Mixon. It was Joe Mixon in 2019, which is one of the reasons why it was kind of his year, right? He was on RB5 pace.

At the time of the injury, it was like, okay, he just didn't score enough, and that'll get fixed, but no, it didn't. All right, that was Buy Your Sell brought to you by our wonderful friends at Pristine Auction. They have hundreds of daily sports memorabilia auctions. You can check them out right now. They got pop culture auctions. They got different sports. Yeah, but do they have Taylor and Heineke stuff? I do not know, Mike. I know he got paid. He did. So he may be, like, buying up some of his gear and then distributing it to auctions to get some hype up.

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Not nothing. It was precautionary. Yeah, but another precautionary. No, he was dealing with it and ran for his life at the Super Bowl. Well, that's what he would say. He said my foot hurts a lot more when I have to run at all times when I have the ball. All right, you guys ready to do some mailbag? Let's go. Mailbag. Mail bag. Yeah. All right. Al Borland, how are you doing today? You're on the microphone? I am.