Draft Steals + MORE Free Agent Frenzy! - Fantasy Football Podcast for 3/12

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There was just a unfortunate series of timing of events. So he's on spring break right now. His kids are on spring break. And so he wanted to go out with the family. We're all running out of time. Our kids are on spring break next year. Next week. Or next year. Next year. They will have that too. Next week, yeah. I mean, all of our oldest are in junior year right now. So we have two years of spring break left with the kids. And then they're gone. There was an unfortunate... Jason's in some way too cool school. So his kids are on spring break this week. Ours are on spring break next week. So we're like, okay, you go ahead. You, you could take the week. It's fine. And then two weeks ago, we had an advanced medical procedure. We can't disclose, but he's completely fine. He is totally fine. And someday he'll disclose it. Something happened to him. Yeah. Everyone will find out later. And he's okay. But he's okay. He's great. He's still a part of the show. I saw a couple of comments that were like, is Jason not on it anymore? It's March people. Yeah. He'll be back. It just, it worked out that way. It'll be a full set of three man shows for next week's shows. So you're not going to, you're not going to miss out. One of us might get sick. Don't over-probate. Okay. You're right. I guess I'm, I'm setting this up for failure. We've been running into some weird stuff lately. That's, that's fair. It is March 12th. We have a good quick question on today's show. We have some more free agent frenzy. We have your mail bag questions. And, you know, the landscape of the NFL has changed a lot of new faces and new destinations. We talked through a lot of them on the last show. We said some things that are completely untrue on the last show because apparently you can take things back. It's like Jason was going to be here this week. And he decided to retract the deal. The deal is not done until it is done in the system. So we'll talk through that as well. The 2026 ultimate draft kit. The pre-order is available right now. Lowest possible price at ultimate draft kit.com. It will be the best ultimate draft kit you have ever used because we continue to add features and the mobile app has gotten a complete reworking. It's been upgraded. We have new features in the dynasty past like the scouting report tool or prospect scouting reports that is. And so there's a lot going on there. You can check it out at ultimate draft kit.com. Our quick question of the day is a simple one. Which underperforming player in 2025 will be a steel in 2026 drafts for fantasy? Going with the word steel in your answer. I mean I agree that your guy should bounce back but steel. Well I don't think Terry McLaurin will be properly valued in fantasy drafts. So that is my answer. Best ball wide receiver 24 right now. Yeah. Which seems like Terry McLaurin should easily outproduce wide receiver 24. I understand a little bit surprise it's that high like 24 in best ball though with what he was able to do the year before. Last year feels like a deleted year for Jaden Daniels career. Yeah. And for Terry McLaurin. Yeah. I mean he he's a really really good wide receiver. He is the the alpha on this team. If he's drafted at 24 like you said I think that's a really that's basically the basement barring another significant injury. And he missed seven games was he played half a game there in the middle you know against Kansas City where he did end up three for 54 with a touchdown in about half of the snaps so I mean he got hurt re injured I should say in that game so he pretty much missed eight games. Yeah. And it was wild because he came back got re injured like you said against Kansas City and then the next game out he gets 14 targets. I mean this is the dude for the team. Debo is not going to be a part of the equation here. I don't know where else they maybe they draft somebody maybe they get more value out of one of the news pieces that we were going to have to break. But I'm going to I'm going to tease that one. There were and I've seen their name connected with some of the other higher paid wide receivers as well of like it's like Romeo Dobbs who went to the Patriots will talk about that. But Washington they need somebody reportedly was in they were trying to get him added to the squad. Obviously he didn't go there. So I think I think Terry McClure and I'll end up a steal. I think the resurgence of the offense of Jane Daniels returning they only played three games together last year weeks one two and fourteen. It was a lost season. Best ball wide receiver twenty four probably where he goes and redraft and I think he'll be a steal. And I'm going to bring up Chuba where look at you Chuba hub because I've never longer stands in the way of Rico. I have never had ill will to Chuba. I like to I think that you know what was it three years ago. He was a very interesting later round guy who really came through last year. It was I I felt that Rico was good enough to take Chuba off the field. It got really Chuba start is like it got real real messy there. You know halfway Rico takes the job then Rico or then Chuba takes the job back. It was just kind of a mess at where the the depth chart stands right now. You know Trevor E.T.M. was a later round rookie that they took last year. And then Jonathan Brooks second round pick from a few years ago. All accounts of his second ACL tear is like the recovery is going well but it's still recovery from another ACL tear. And right now in best ball Chuba is the running back twenty nine. Oh that's a great one. I mean it was a great pick. He have Trevor E.T.M. who I think will probably get more. I feel like Trevor you should more work than Jonathan Brooks. Oh yeah. I don't know how it's going to shake out other than I truly believe that Chuba will be the main guy. Not that I don't think Chuba's got you know the super sneaky top 10 in him but RB twenty nine for a player who will be very valuable on on multiple weeks when you you need those nasty running backs from time to time and the Panthers that's who they want to be like they nasty run backs. Some teams just truly truly want to establish it and that's what the Panthers want. And people forget he got paid. I think that the the shake up of last year when you're that paid and then lose your job to Rico who's not getting paid. It can it's understandably a frustrating situation and confusing but I think that that confusion now is just leading to a discount of a player who me too was probably a running back two with with some spike weeks in there and he's not even drafted there. No I think it's it's fair. It was a weird year for Chuba for sure. Dotto caught fire. He was he was everybody's favorite for about three or four. Dotto was 51 percent of the carries. Yeah. Of last year is Jonathan Brooks and Trevor E. T. and that company is are they good enough for 51 percent of the carries. I don't know. It might be down in the 40s. All right. Let's go ahead and move on. Jump into free agent frenzy. Free agent frenzy. I'm actually going to I'm just going to follow up the Terri McLaurin news with the news that I teased which is that the the Washington came so Mike Mike. Yeah. I mean it's been the year of Mike things worked out for canine Romeo dobs in the free agent frenzy but not everybody that Mike has loved ended up with a good. Because if that's impossible this one is well look the first thing that happened was the Cardinals added another running back. They signed on a bit. Oh yeah. Which puts what's so Zahn of a night Tyler Alger and James Conner are there all to ruin Trey Benson for you. They saw Benson's five and a half a carry last year and they're like we don't want any other. That's you know what that's too good. That's too good for what we're trying to accomplish. Get us the number one pick and then the news yesterday. Man pretty big news. Chig Chig a conco. Someone got primaried. A three year deal. Right. Chig a conco three years up to 30 million dollars leaving Tennessee. Oh that's right. That's right. He's got his own drop to battle the Senate there. The commander signed Chig a conco. Zachary says he wants to come back and play and now Ben Senate lives. I just wanted to see if he could be good. You don't get to. I know. You don't get to see that. The it's so frustrating. It's so incredibly frustrating to be. You got to rewide the tape of I was a big stand for Ben Senate. And I'm like you know in the in the tight end landscape of that draft I thought he was way better than people were talking about. He ends up being the second tight end drafted that year in the second round. And it was like this full redemption of my my scouting of his tape and his peripherals and his production and everything. It was holy crap. You know people were not on him. I loved him. And then it was OK. He'll we know he'll probably take a year because Zach Hertz is there and Cliff Kingsbury just loves Zach Hertz. And then now there's was going to be gone and it was the Ben Senate time. This would be like if the Cardinal signed Chigacanquo right before. Yeah. Right before the break out. No you got Trotman. You know you got Trotman. Yeah. All right the big news. They're the ones that spent a second round pick on Ben Senate. Right. It's really the jokes on them. Yeah. One thing you notice though this entire off season is that teams have had to run out and they're signing these Charlie Kohler. Yeah. Run blocking tight ends. The meta. I mean the meta Ben Senate could still be on the field. What. Tonjus MacBasketball just got an extension. Well he had to. Yeah. Well of course. I mean with George Kittle not going to be ready. But yeah if you do the dirty work you get paid. Same with these the fullbacks that have been traded and paid. The fullback landscape is going to be fascinating to see if it works out because the like I said the meta of the defense it just it changes over time. It always does. It catches up to the offense. The offense can no longer do what they want to do. So they have to figure out a different way forward. And this I mean the Rams feel like they're the ones spearheading this. And I mean the Seattle did it a lot too. I've just you're like oh you're a little bit smaller now because you wanted some speed to catch up with all the wide receivers. Well now deal with our big guys. Yeah. All our defense isn't big enough. Reggie Gilliam Alec Engel Patrick Ricard all moving teams this off season at fullback. All right the big news that we didn't get to talk about because we reported the trade that is now no longer Max Crosby the Raiders. They woke up to news that the Ravens had backed out of this deal. I was reminding Mike and you're going to have to be an old head in fantasy football to remember it. But the Ravens have done this before. Yeah. Brian Grant was an emerging wide receiver from the Washington Reds. Ryan. At the time. Brian or Ryan. No it's Ryan. OK. And or is it Brian. Now you've got me double thinking. Well you're the one who said Brian. No it's Ryan. OK. And he had signed or in the in the open negotiation period he was going to sign a four year deal with the Baltimore Ravens to play wide receiver. The Ravens end up getting news that Michael Crabtree is going to be released by the 49ers. Yeah. And they back out of their deal all of a sudden someone's not healthy. Yeah. Ryan Grant had not missed a game in Washington and then gets failed on a physical and they end up picking up Michael Crabtree. It didn't end well for for the career of Ryan Grant after that point. He ends up with a year in Indianapolis. That one. That one felt really bad. So because he didn't get his money. Yeah. I mean people are going to speculate. I don't know. I mean obviously Max Crosby was hurt in the year. He had surgery. He had a surgery. He had surgery. And then the raiders go out and spend all the money that they were going to save for Max Crosby. And now Max Crosby is going to be back. The Ravens signed Trey Hendrickson. See that's where it gets extra suspicious. Yeah. I know you're paying for Trey Hendrickson. You trade for Max Crosby for it because you have a need. And so you if you no matter what should Max Crosby have truly they found something in the medicals that they were very concerned about giving up two first round picks for. So maybe they found the meniscus and the and the patella tendon was a way out. Right. That's what they found. It feels bad. But Max Crosby put out a post essentially declaring that he's just he'll be a raider now. Yep. Where. Well all the other teams that were in on him went and spent free edge of money. Like there were there were trade rumors for Dallas. And then Dallas goes out and gets Rashawn Gary and they make other moves and they spend their money and you know the Raiders they were going to do this deal because they got a haul. Not they don't want to go settle and then lose Max Crosby. They've got to look at it like hey they just acquired Max Crosby in free agency again after they went out and made their team better. It seems like he'll be back. Trey Hendrickson is going to be a member of the Ravens. So you know he is a significant deal four years 112 million and he will replace Crosby and they will not lose any first round picks. And Burrow still loses. Burrow loses always. Colts signed Daniel Jones to a two year deal worth 88 million dollars up to 100 million in potential value. OK. Quarterback six in fantasy from weeks one through eight. No more Michael Pittman big money paid to Alec Pierce Tyler Warren emerging and will continue to emerge Josh Downs. Would you have rather. I mean the two year deals interesting would not make it a long term commitment. If you're if you're running an NFL team would you have rather done this gone in on Daniel Jones coming off the Achilles tear for that money or gone Malik Willis. I would rather have Daniel Jones. OK. Yeah. Is it. I mean he was really really good. He was a 7 to 1 team when they traded for sauce. He was. But you have to have at least some concern for the injury. That's a big time. Yeah Achilles. And number two Daniel Jones has done this. Are we figuring the Achilles thing out. Like have we scientifically now gotten to the point where we can look at this differently. I mean Jason Tatum just came back midseason. I it's still TBD though. I think someone invented a new little surgery or something. I think we need to just when everyone you go into the NFL you go and they just they graft something onto your Achilles. They say they should do it beforehand. Yeah we're getting. We're going to strike. We're way too strong now. Like the our Achilles are not evolving. What if you were getting bigger and thicker and stronger. They're the same one the same tendon. This may sound really complicated science wise. So if you can't keep up I understand we're obviously experts. Of course. What if you pre-tear everything. No. I don't think that's the all at the same time. And then you reinforce it all. OK. Do you know what I mean. Like they say if you break a bone it heals. Yeah but that's a bone. I'm right about all. Bone and tendon are very different. You break all your bones. They all heal stronger. You're like Wolverine. That's what I'm saying. Can you pass down your Achilles to your child. Yeah. You know like we have like organ donor on my license. You know should something terrible happen to me. This is more of a bequeathing. Yeah. Yeah. It's like as I pass for for my oldest son. How does that work. They take my Achilles and they. Why does he want yours. Because it makes it stronger. Oh yeah. Double. Oh yeah. You're making scientific sense. Yes. So you got a. What's better than two Achilles for. So your uncle your grandpa. Yeah. They all they all can't walk. They're just rolled around. I mean pretty soon you're going to have a lineage of like a kid with 16 Achilles. Yeah. No I this is. What do you think Jay. Yeah. I honestly will have a shoe problem then because you're not going to fit into a shoe. Actually Jay Gris makes me think about maybe you start using animal Achilles. Oh like a bear Achilles that's got to be real strong. Yeah. But not necessarily for people. Hmm. All right. So Daniel. Okay. There we go. You keep doing that. Jay we're taking your Achilles. Daniel Jones is. He doesn't have legs. That's that's true. That's true. He doesn't have a. He wouldn't fit in the chair. There were a cut. So the Daniel Jones move with Alec Pierce gives me great confidence in Alec Pierce. The Jacoby Brissette being the quarterback dealing with for Trey McBride and even Michael Wilson. Confid. Like those. Sure. Are a little bit stabilizing for situations that were awesome last year. Like Daniel Jones and Alec Pierce like that was a this was part of the equation for the Colts. It was like this is Daniel Jones's dude. Let's get rid of Michael Pittman. Let's spend the money on on the youngster. I think it's good for Pearson Warren. I agree. Yeah. I would feel like for your example of if Millie Gwillis had been the starter for Indianapolis, I'd feel way more in the dark about what kind of potential I'm going to get from those guys. Yeah. It's understandable. All right. 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All the shows are blending together. Yeah. For those that want an extra show every week, we have the footcast available. For supporters of the podcast, go to jointhefoot.com for that. It must have been where we spoke about it earlier, or maybe the dynasty show. Who knows? Romeo Dobbs four year deal with the New England Patriots worth $68 million. Romeo Dobbs is going to, by all accounts, step into the vacated role and opportunity of Stefan Diggs. They moved to Romeo Dobbs. They've already started producing the oversized helmets in New England. They got the... They got the invoice for the Guardian Cap. For the Guardian Cap. How do you feel about this? Personally, fantastic, because Romeo Dobbs is on my dynasty team. He's not yet 26 years old. In terms of what is the true fantasy value for this, Romeo Dobbs is... It's a tougher evaluation, because he was fourth round pick. Let me double check that. He was a fourth rounder, which the NFL is saying, yeah, you're a pro, it's going to take you some time, which it did. In the year four, he hit 724 yards. That's his career high. So, yeah, career high in yards, yards per route, targets per route run. Targets per route run at 22%. Not too bad. I don't think that Romeo Dobbs going to Drake May with this money. Cata pulls him into being always a top 15 guy. I want to play a game, Mike. I want to play, we both say, because it's March, and this is when we should know for certain. I want you to say out loud what he's going to finish at wide receiver, and I'm going to do the exact same thing. Okay, hold on. So it's like wide receiver and then the number. Hold on. Let me do some really, really good, thorough research here. Okay. Obviously, you can do that in a matter of seconds now. No, I got it. I got it. So, we're both going to say it. Wide receiver. Alright, one, two, three, go. Yeah. Okay. Alright. Wait, I can't count and set it up. Oh, I got it. Okay. I just, I will count. I won't say go. I will just say the number. Got it. You do the counting. One, two, three, twenty. Twenty-six. So, I went 20, you went 26. Not bad. Yeah. This is perfectly acceptable of... Yeah. Relevant? He takes the... Yes, relevant. He matters. Relevant. Probably not a game changer for fantasy football. Stefan Diggs, though a reminder, was the wide receiver 16. And... He finished the 16? Yeah. It was... Wait, let's do it again. Count it down. One, two, three, twenty. Twenty-two. Okay. Alright. Alright. Alright. That's not too bad. Now, I will be curious to see if New England makes another splash in the draft. There's some strong... I mean, last I looked, at least according to our Felix model on the projections, it was like, you know, you get beyond the big names for wide receiver. And, you know, we talk about it a lot in the Dinesse show, maybe not as much yet, on the main show. But Jordan Tyson, MacKay Lemon, Carnel Tate are kind of the top three. You go beyond that. And what we're talking, Denzel Boston, we're talking Casey Concepcion, right? And then you go beyond that, you got like what, Malachi Fields, Yeah. Jeremy Bernard. Am I missing some other names? Omar Cooper Jr. So, all this to say, those are all guys that have potentially first and second round grades. Right. Or, you know, based on the production profile and the stuff that our model are looking at. There's, my point is, this is the strength of the draft, is wide receiver. And there could definitely be some of these names where they arrive. Like Dobbs's signing does not make me throw cold water on any big wide receiver drafted there. So, if Malachi Fields or Concepcion ends up in New England, I'm not going, well, this guy can't perform because Dobbs signed there. Right. So, it will be interesting to see if they add another weapon for Drake Mayer. They still, Mac will still be there. Which, hey, I think Mac is relevant too. PSA. Mac Hollins, if you are not aware, and look, Mac Hollins is not a sponsor of this show. If you don't know about Mac Hollins. You actually really never had one player be a sponsor of the show, but go on. If any player wants to sponsor, I would love to say this show was brought to you today by T Higgins. T Higgins. Cincinnati Bengals. T Higgins. The wide receiver. Yeah, that's amazing. But Mac Hollins, Instagram. I'm talking to you, Austin Eckler. Sponsor of the show. Oh yeah. We'll get down with that, Collins. Mac Hollins Instagram page is incredible. It's just a, it's Mac Hollins. Is he doing the to-do stuff? Yeah, like he shows you how to fix your house. Is it called Mac Hacks? That sounds right. Is that facts? Yeah. Yeah, 60 second tutorials for everyday tasks like flushing your water heater or fixing a garage door. He's not in a relationship. It's, I'm in an online relationship with Mac Hollins. If you got time for that. It's awesome. It's a great follow. And you learn a lot. Yeah. Ah, but so Mac Hollins will be there. Booty will be there and Kyle Williams will still be there. Right? Yeah. No, they got a good crew. It's not that they won't add or they might add. But the point for Dobbs is he will have to elevate, he will have to elevate in terms of a target share. You know, Green Bay is, he did lean Green Bay in target share, but the way that they, they plays, if you're a fantasy wide receivers on the Green Bay Packers, you've never been happy. You're always frustrated because you, you just when you think Romeo Dobbs is happening, you're a piece of the huge pie. He disappears. Just when you think Christian Watson is happening, something else happens. And I think the Patriots will probably be something like that. But if Dobbs can hit a, let's say 22 to 23% target share, he will be relevant. Stefan Diggs was at 21% last year when he finished as the wide receiver 16. Geno Smith was shamefully traded in the New York Jets. Dude. You know, there are, there are a handful of teams this off season suffering. The Cardinals fans are suffering. The Jets fans are suffering. The Falcons fans are suffering. Dude, don't do it. Why? Why? There's no reason. Just play fields. There's no reason to do this to your fans. It's what are you doing? It really is mean. It's mean spirited. I mean, the Raiders got a better pick. They're going to pay most of the money though. They are going to pay most of the money. Oh, well, they were going to pay him regardless because he was going to get cut. They're like, if we're going to pay him, let's go go. Who would fall for this? They're like, who's going to go out there and maybe trade as a pick for, well, it will be the guy NFL. Everyone, we're going to cut Geno Smith and the Jets. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. He cannot hit the free market. We got to lock this up now. Geno, get him on the horn. Oh my gosh. These, there's just teams that are doing stuff like it's on purpose to hurt you. Yeah. It's so stupid. I'm not going to talk about it anymore. Let's talk about the Jacksonville Jaguar is in an interesting signing. And actually interesting signing. They signed. Go ahead. Crod, Crod. Chris Rodriguez Jr. Signs a deal two years worth $10 million, $6.2 guaranteed. It's not, it's not big money, but it's not bad. It's he's 25 years old. He is going to a team where he played under Liam, Liam, going at Kentucky. I'm glad that he's back because of Crod. Yeah, it's he's a fun nickname. It's, I mean, honestly, for Chris Rodriguez, $6.2 million. That's not bad. That's, that's very, very nice for him in terms of NFL money at the running. This is nothing. This is like Najee Harris. This is the depth move for Jacksonville. I still, I think that Bayshall Tuten will still be the guy. They had, they needed another body. You lost Travis. Yeah. You have to sign somebody and it doesn't freak me out, but it's also it, it's a potential depth like rotational guy for Liam Cohn that he's familiar with. And it will, so that'll be a fun. He is good. He was pretty good last year. Yeah. Fourth in rush success rate. Second in yards after contact. He was always held down in Washington. Yes. Corey Kraske, Mary. So I will still be on the, the Tuten side of the, the backfield argument, but that will be a fun one to watch over the off season. We talked about Chica Conco signing with the commanders. The people hate it. Did you just ask the people? I did. I live studio audience. Yeah. They hate it. They, they hate it. Is Chik going to be relevant for fantasy? Do you think? I mean, if he actually plays the earth's role, he will. That was something that Jaden Daniels relied upon. Um, the commanders right now are vacating 59% of their targets from last year. Debo is 23% earth was 17%. That's interesting. If you were going to be excited about Ben Senate. Then you got to be a little excited about Chica Conco. He's always been an athletic freak. And it's weird cause players like this every once in a while, they can just take over three or four games. Like he did it at the end of 2024, right? That's when he had, um, the run for fantasy players. Yes. Which, uh, you know, he's, he's never really been, I mean, he's always been outside the top 20 at tight end in Tennessee, but he had top 10 finishes in three games from week 12 on in 2024. It's interesting. He has athleticism. He has needed a, an actual opportunity. Took a while for Johnny. Maybe, maybe, maybe, uh, this is, this is, this is cool. This trade, this signing is another one. It's kind of like the Crod deal. Mm hmm. Former Ravens running back, Keaton Mitchell is signing with the Chargers. Two year deal. Okay. That's not a giant name added to the backfield. It also feels a lot better going into the draft like Hampton. Mike McDaniels, the new offensive coordinator, they've brought in a fullback. They've brought in offensive line weapons. They brought in a blocking tight end. Are we going to get the Hampton Express? I, I think this signing is great for Hampton of it's not a red zone threat. Exactly. And, you know, it would with a Kamani Vidal Sassoon. It's so silky. Yeah. So silky, so smooth. I mean, I like it. I think it's a, I think it's fun for the Chargers. Good for Hampton to be a workhorse and then having actual good depth behind him. You know, just in case some other player has to take over. Yeah. It makes me, Mitchell has never had a carry inside the five in his career. So that, that is never. Well, I mean, when you score from so far away, you know, thunder and lightning situation. Well, Mike Aaron Jones. The people hate it. The people hate all these moves that negatively impact my dynasty. I think the booing you're hearing is from Mike's dynasty roster. It is Aaron Jones is now back with the Minnesota Vikings. Yeah. We had just talked on the footcast about like Jordan Mason and potential and you know, how bad the offensive line was where they can fix that. And then Aaron Jones, they released him just to bring him back and restructure the deal. Yep. And now the backfield is going to be Jones and Mason again. Yep. And that's all you have to say about that. Yeah. It'll be, it'll be messy. And unless they fix the offensive line, it will be really nothing for anybody. Well, we are recording and releasing this show on Thursday, the same day that Kyler Murray is going to visit and I think signed with the Minnesota Vikings. Kyler was finally formally released. Arizona owes him a cool $36.8 million. It is a very weird thing when you release a player that is probably a better quarterback than the two that you have on the team. That is probably going to instantly be signed by somebody known as a quarterback whisperer on a very competitive football team. It is weird when another team judges that the guy that you're letting go is a must have instantaneously. Yes. I've talked about this, the Cardinals, the clock ran out for like the Arizona experiment with Kyler Murray, but I will not be shocked if he's successful in Minnesota. I will not be shocked if he makes Justin Jefferson successful again in Minnesota. That team has so much structure around it. Defensively with the weapons on offense. I mean, do you expect it to work for fantasy if he lands in Minnesota? Yes. I believe in Kevin O'Connell that much in his offense. I'd, Kyler would be, I think a much safer situation for fantasy football players of, you know, that earlier pick on Jefferson. It should be just fine. We've seen Kyler hyper target, you know, when he first got Hopkins, Hopkins got all the targets. We were frustrated with how the offense wanted to use Hopkins and hit not a route tree, but a route bush. It was all just at the line of scrimmage. That won't happen to Jefferson. So that it is the, it's the clearest, most obvious thing that, that should happen is Kyler go to Minnesota. The, did you see the way the, the, what was put out though? I saw that he wanted to check some other places. It was like, you know, starting opportunities for Kyler right now would be Pittsburgh and Minnesota. I think that's really it. Like those are the two options. Now, if you, you could go to a team like the Rams and just hang out, collect a big fat check from their zone of cardinals, learn the McVeigh system, which people want McVeigh players. So like that, I don't think that's a terrible option. Should Kyler feel like it's not a fit with Minnesota? Yeah, I think the, the stuff getting put out as he wants to start our opportunity. That's not going to happen. That's not going to happen with McVeigh immediately. Right. I think it was reported by your boy, Tom Pellecero, that he's going to have zoom meetings with executives from three to five teams that potentially have a need for quarterback in 2027. So it's like what you said, waiting another year. I don't know if he wants me to say it or not, but I'm saying it anyways. Uh, lead injury analyst, Matthew Betts for the fantasy footballers, also a cohost of the DFS and betting part, also recovering from injury. Yeah, yeah, great guy. I get a message from Betts about two days ago, he's blocked by Pellecero. Matthew Betts is blocked and he's like, cause he, cause he throws in a comment or something. He's like, I have literally no idea. I have never interacted with this man one time. And so the it was just it was hilarious of some of bats catching a stray and online social media beef when I am the I am the Hornet of this conversation. Yeah, you certainly are. And look, Tom, Tom, come on. Let's let's bury the hatchet. Why are you blocking our guy bets? What are you doing? So if you're if you believe in the quarterback whisper, Kevin O'Connell, which you've always said on the show. Yep. It feels like that could go two directions with your JJ McCarthy belief. Because it's like, I would think you'd be like, so out on McCarthy quickly, because it didn't work for McCarthy, and it's worked for everybody else. So that would be like an indictment on McCarthy. The other view I guess you could take is that he'll figure it out with McCarthy. That's where I lean of McCarthy was not good last year. You know, there are you can pull up some advanced analytics and make McCarthy look like essentially the worst quarterback of football last year. Maybe that's maybe that is totally correct. They did win a bunch of games at the end of the year. And he has he's had very little actual starting opportunity. This was his rookie year. His true rookie year was completely lost to injury. And then he lost a whole bunch of this year to injury as well. So that's just I think JJ could figure it out. But the time may already be up. It might just be Kyler. Yeah, the pressure cooker situation in Minnesota with everything else being so good. And the career of Jefferson on the line feels like they can't even if it's not Kyler feels like you got to bring I mean, Kurt Cousins could absolutely end up in Minnesota. Yes. That would be like if Kyler doesn't go there, I think it ends up being Kurt Cousins. And but we'll see. I mean, we would have to see contracts and stuff. But it's all it's not impossible for Kyler Murray to go to Minnesota and not win the job. Yeah, I guess if McCarthy like at least you can short leash. Yes. Let's take it would be hilarious. Oh my gosh. You think that's your dream? Well, it's it's my dream because as a Cardinal fan, I'm a little upset with Kyler Murray. Yeah, he didn't bring us anything there. Maybe it's just his personality, you know, rubbing me the wrong way. But it always all the call of duty stuff, all the in the extension, they literally put in a you you have to study time and then you know behind the scenes. There's some things. Yeah, he got caught. They're giving him $37 million to go away. Yeah, his I mean his leadership. So differential between Kyler. This is undebatable. You can I mean, there are Josh sweat of the Cardinals doesn't want to play without John again and again and got fired like other people took the fall. The leadership difference of Jacobi Brissette and Kyler Murray has been. Yes. Well spoken of. So for Kyler to go to a team us just be like no, I'm the starter. Well, that's one place would be just a little bit. Have you seen this nine guy? That might be the one leadership situation Kyler wins the day on Mr. Mr. Makeup in the locker room. Yeah, we'll take a break. We'll talk some more for agent signings and jumping to some all bad questions. 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He's a pretty good player. Special teams guy. Good special teams guy. And you just don't got to worry about his snaps in Detroit anymore. Nope, you don't. And oh, that's an yeah, go ahead. Oh, the lights came back on. I bet you you were a little worried over there, Al. There was a second. Yeah, I was like, Oh, those are off for good. We've been doing some work on stuff and I wasn't sure if it was hooked up properly. Yeah, Isaac to Sla, no more Khalif Raymond. Jake, Tom just back to the 49ers bucks place an exclusive rights free agent. Tender on. Yeah, which that was news that they were not going to tender him apparently, but they did. So Sean, Sean Tucker will be back. The, the time just one. I think is important for fantasy football as Jake, Jake, Tom just with no George Kittle has been good. Yep. Like good, not just a serviceable Titan good for fantasy football, Brock, party and that whatever it is that's going on in the system, Brock, party can find the tight end and it has a connection. So he will be interesting. Should we get the report? Hey, George Kittle is not maybe pop, maybe this four weeks. And you can in your draft, just take Jake, Tom just late and then figure it out off of the way. We'll find out if they do this multi Achilles thing. Oh, our new plan with Kittle. Well, I don't know the status of Kittle's like grandparents. Right. I don't know if he has any, any Achilles to attach. You have to be living. I was, well, that could, yeah, maybe it's like a kidney. You're just like, I'm done. Wait, what do you mean? They don't take kidneys from dead people. No, no, that's what I'm saying. Like, I can donate a kidney while I'm alive. I see. And maybe you're like, you're George, little Georgie. I think maybe the veracity of all of our speculation here. It's starting to come into question. I'm not sure any of this is really possible. I'm not positive, but I don't think, I think we may be talking out of our butts. But what, you know, let the comments tell us. The Texan sign tight in foster morrow to a two year deal. They had just re signed Dalton Schultz to a one year deal. Morrow Schultz, Panther sign, John Mechie, who continues to find deals in the NFL. Cardinal sign, bam night to just further twist the knife into Mike's, Trey Benson adoration. What else is going on? We got those full backs. Signing Kyle is breaking. This is, this is too good. Kyle, don't trust the internet man. Kyle, did you vet this that Kyle, that George Kittle's grandmother? Here's what George Kittle's grandmother, Lou Jean. Lou Jean, first of all, that's a great name. Also AKA lucky. Well, that's why I would go with lucky instead of Lou Jean. Well known, beloved figure who turned 103 years old. You want an a January 103 year old Achilles, Mike, you want to take this woman's, she's probably not walking though. It's probably available. Lucky. It's probably. George needs you. So literally, so he, he's got a hundred and three grandma. That's wild with a tendon just sitting there. That could be completely fake, but I want to believe it's true. Her tendon's fake. No, that she's 103. Kyle, you can't know any of this information about George Kittle's grandmother. This is true. This is true information. Don't doubt Kyle's research. She resides in Iowa and recently stopped driving around the age 101 or 102. She doesn't know which of those she stopped driving. Grandma Kittle rules, man. Grandma Kittle. Yeah. I feel like it's got to be a little safer in the open roads of the, of the Midwest for the elderly. Yeah. Then like LA is that safer? Like a little old lady for the past. Yeah. What is happening? Some backup quarterback signings. I guess Teddy Bridgewater went back to Detroit. Jake Brown and DeTampa Sam Halde, Dallas. And I don't care. Let's answer a couple of questions. Mailbag. So lucky Kittle. The, the Jake Brownie one to Tampa Bay. I mean, so the, the Bengals, who's the Bengals? Back of quarterback right now. Yeah. Who is it? I'm looking real quick. Sean Clifford. So I just, there was some reports of that Joe Flacco might go back to Cincinnati. We'll find out. Which would, oh man, we need it. You need it. Yeah. No, the world needs it. Your dynasty team needs it. An insurance quarterback. No, I would be good for chasing Kittle. Uh, Kittle Higgins, the sponsor of the show. T Higgins. Welcome to T Higgins studio brought to you by T Higgins. I like that bit. Yeah. That's an example of the kind of attention you'll get on this show. If you sponsor Austin Eckler, you want a piece of this? I'm asking, Kyle, you check. You want fullbacks to get more attention? Kyle, if you sponsor this show, I guarantee you the base salary of fullbacks go up over the next five years because of awareness. Yes. It's a way to only be us. Nothing to do with a constantly rising NFL salary. We will be the push for fullback salaries. You're losing money, not sponsoring these shows. I'm saying juice, you got a great nickname. This could be called juices house. Could be spitball in there. We're going to have to come up with a different name. All right. Some questions for you. Website question from case dynasty trade question neighbors for Ken Bone Walker. No, as in like you don't trade neighbors. You get neighbors. No, as in you trade neighbors to get Ken Bone Walker. I would not do that. No. I mean, do you believe in neighbors long term? I mean, you should be, he should be good. I still, I'm not letting the ACL change how I think about neighbors. Carter wants to know Mike Instagram question. More or less excited for Drake London situation this year. More or less compared to what? To cousins playing quarterback or? I think you just said last year. Same. Yeah. It's same or less. Yes. Cupcake Craig writes in, should I trade tea Higgins, former sponsor of the show for Jaylon waddle for, he's already done. He's already made it through his entire sponsor. I don't got any checks in the mail. That was a sample. That was a bit of a tease. First one's free. First one's free tea tea Higgins, should I trade him for Jaylon waddle and a dynasty? I have Miliek Willis for for the stack. I'd rather have Jaylen Waddell. Really? Yeah, I would. I would rather have T Higgins. Okay. There you go. I mean, the stack is not really factoring into my equation there. I just think with Tyreet gone, I think we're in store for a couple of really good Jaylen Waddell years. I like Jaylen Waddell. I think he's a good acquisition for a fantasy team right now. But I get it. I think it's fair to say that you prefer Higgins. It's both guys love getting hurt. Right. They love it. I would say you're out on T Higgins because he gets hurt all the time. No, I didn't say it. Then don't go get Waddell. I didn't say it. And T Higgins. And I wouldn't say it. He's a sponsor of the show. If both are healthy, T Higgins will be more productive. Instagram question. This is a great one to finish on. Jason writes in Jason 23, not Jason Moore. Current landing spot crush for Jeremiah Love. Here's your top 10 picks. Oh, there's only one. I think it's not right now. Las Vegas. That'll be Mendoza. So the Jets Cardinals, Tennessee, Giants, Cleveland, Washington, New Orleans, Kansas City and Cincinnati. It's really Washington or Bust for me. That's too aggressive. I think Tennessee is. I think Tennessee would be a really good home. I think Tennessee is one it's the perfect situation that you're like, well, do I really like that situation? And I think you will. I think I like keyboard. I like the change in the head coaching position, defensive coordinator, Brian Dable. Tennessee works for me. Okay. So if I was picking a spot there, I would say Tennessee, Washington, the end of the, you know, Tennessee and the Giants. What if he goes to Cincinnati? Because if he drops to 10, Mike, it will be the pressure will actually be on Cincinnati to do it. It definitely would be. And that would be the end for Chase Brown. That would be bad. I don't think he can possibly get to 10. The fact that the Saints at eight and Kansas City at nine, who both would have sprinted to the podium, should Jeremiah Love go there? The reason that they dished out the money is they know 100% that love will not make it to eight. I agree with you. And I actually, you look at the drafted odds right now. It's Tennessee's number one, Washington's number two, the Giants number three with the Cams Cadabre situation. And the Cardinals are number four tied with the Giants. And the Cardinals are absolutely in contention here. Mike, is that not the most? I've, the Cardinals have no money tied up in running back. They really don't. The Conner deals were nothing. If Vincent, nothing, Bammite, nothing, Algiers deals teeny. If I still cared about the Arizona Cardinals, I would be furious. If they have to. Okay. I think that it could happen. Go ahead. Do it Arizona. I mean, it is. You know, you know what's great? A top five wide receiver contract, just waste it. Totally waste him in that and all that, that cheap year, the cheaper years for Marv. Nope. Jeremiah Love. Yeah. Go ahead. Yeah. Waste his career. Yeah. Arizona. Mike's feeling good. All right. That is going to do it for today's episode of the show. We'll be back next week with Jason Moore Tuesday episode coaching changes. We'll jump into all the big moves of the off season, the fantasy implications with these free agent moves. We'll catch you then. Special thanks to T Higgins. Goodbye. Thank you for listening to another episode of the fantasy footballers podcast. 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