In short
The Fantasy Footballers (Andy Holloway, Mike Wright; Jason Moore absent) covers dynasty/rookie prospect prep ahead of the NFL Combine, plus league news and games. They push Ultimate Draft Kit (UDK) preorder until March 1, highlighting Dynasty Pass features: initial rankings, production profiles, team opportunity pages, and combine updates.
Key claims
the 40-yard dash correlates with draft capital (which correlates with fantasy outcomes) but shouldn’t be double-counted; production profiles help identify “path” players like Pacheco. Notable example: Nico Collins—broke out in year 3, has 1,000-yard seasons, but Stroud’s regression and missed games/volume may limit fantasy ceiling; Collins is “underdrafted.” News: Derek Carr serious about unretiring; teams monitoring Brian Thomas Jr. trade market; Kyler Murray wants release; Texans expected to part ways with Joe Mixon, possibly elevating Woody Marks.
Guests
none (no guest hosts; only recurring Al Borland appears as a game participant).
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Chapters
Tap a time to open that second in VOJason's Root Beer Challenge
1:13 to 3:43
Discussion about a humorous incident involving Jason and root beer.
“Welcome into the Fantasy Footballers Podcast.”
Ultimate Draft Kit Pre-Order
3:48 to 8:41
Details about the Ultimate Draft Kit pre-order and its benefits.
“That is your last chance at four different bonuses that we are including, which include a chance to win a listener league spot and you get some discount codes, and it is the lowest possible price.”
Game Time Day Overview
8:52 to 9:23
Introduction to the games segment and the state of NFL news.
“For the fantasy footballers because this particular spot in February.”
Who Am I? Game
9:26 to 12:50
Playing a guess-the-player game with clues about a fantasy football player.
“I'm going to read one clue at a time, and you can play along at home.”
Nico Collins Discussion
12:53 to 13:56
Analyzing Nico Collins' performance and potential in fantasy football.
“That's kind of you to give Andy some credit for that.”
Analyzing Quarterback Performance and Trade Rumors
14:03 to 20:58
Discover insights on quarterback performance trends and trade speculations in the NFL.
“And that is a really big question at this point.”
Playing Liar Liar: A Fantasy Football Game
21:22 to 28:00
Join the hosts as they engage in a fun game testing their fantasy football knowledge.
“That's what normally happens this time of year.”
Debating the Lies of Player Stats
28:00 to 29:26
The hosts play a game guessing which player stats are true or false.
“true mike is i don't know how to play this game you should because we've played it before what How much Theraflu, Mike?”
Exploring Mike's Year of Coming In Hot
29:26 to 31:28
Discussion around Mike's frequent use of the phrase 'coming in hot' and related statistics.
“It would be insane for a human being to make it into the NFL.”
Analyzing Podcast Mentions and Truths
31:28 to 35:05
Hosts analyze various mentions in the podcast and the truths behind them.
“But he's trying to frame it in a year of Mike.”
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Analyzing Podcast Mentions and Truths
36:01 to 37:17
Hosts analyze various mentions in the podcast and the truths behind them.
“All right, Foot Clan, whether you are on the go or at home, T-Mobile, while they're built to keep you connected wherever you're scouting your fantasy team.”
Mailbag Questions: NFL Combine Challenge
38:07 to 39:59
Hosts answer listener questions about which events they'd excel at in the NFL Combine.
“All right, we are going to jump into the mailbag.”
Recollections of Flag Football Days
40:00 to 42:05
The hosts reminisce about their flag football experiences and personal achievements.
“Let's kick it off with a voicemail question somebody sent in this week.”
Fantasy Football Combine Challenges
42:05 to 44:20
The hosts discuss various physical challenges related to the NFL combine, including bench pressing and surprising feats of strength by young athletes.
“He's the one on the Wonderlic right now.”
Breakout Predictions for Year Three
44:20 to 48:48
The conversation shifts to breakout predictions for year three players, including Marvin Harrison Jr. and others, analyzing their potential for the upcoming season.
“Ooh, like someone who's going to jump into the top three?”
Evaluating Caleb Williams' Potential
48:48 to 52:23
Discussion about Caleb Williams' performance and potential as a top-tier quarterback leading into the next season, including considerations of his completion percentage.
“Mario in Mexico, Buenos Dias, Foot Clan leaders.”
Transcript
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0:54Welcome to the Fantasy Footballers Podcast with your hosts, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright.
1:12Mike Wright:Welcome in.
1:22Mike Wright:Thursday, February 26th.
1:29Mike Wright:Welcome into the Fantasy Footballers Podcast. Andy Holloway here. Mike Wright in the building. And a cardboard bear extraordinaire. Jason will be back on the next episode, is what I'm hearing. It's what the rumors are. I feel like we would have been better off just leaning into the, you know, we damaged him with the 20 ounces of root beer. For those that don't know, on the Spitballers episode last week, we made Jason, who cannot burp. He has a scientific condition. We thought maybe the method that we would approach fixing him.
2:12Andy Holloway:Retrograde chrysophageous dysfunction. Yeah, you still happy you decided to read that? Well, I mean, I crushed it, so.
2:18Mike Wright:Yeah. No, so he has that, we think. And I think, you know, it's a true fact, but I think he takes a little bit of pride in it. Like, it's like a cool, unique, like, I can't burp.
2:30Andy Holloway:It's weird. I mean, he's always said it, and it wasn't until we were recording, like, we're actually looking it up. And, yeah, it turns out this is a thing, and people get it. There's like a. yeah you can get like a Botox injection
2:44Mike Wright:somehow Botox fixes it which I think you should do based on our scientific study that we then proceeded to we thought maybe we could force it yeah and our path was like hey a 12 ounce A &W root beer would be the path and then you know the Falcon grabbed a 20 ounce and then Jason downed it in like 4 seconds
3:02Andy Holloway:because I was challenging I was talking about how I was like hey guys have you ever done the thing you know where you drink an entire can of soda and you don't allow yourself to birth until the end and if you've never done it it is extremely painful by the time you're about halfway through that so you're like oh man and then you get to the end and it just it the air has to come out of your body it has to well unless you have uh rcpd yeah it never came out
3:31Mike Wright:for jason no he proceeded to what i would call a pregnant state yes and then he remained in that for 24 hours. But that is not, you know. Yeah, that was a different show. Yeah, so there you go. This is our last opportunity for this.
3:52Mike Wright:The UDK pre-order. You have until March 1st to pick it up. UltimateDraftKid.com. That is your last chance at four different bonuses that we are including, which include a chance to win a listener league spot and you get some discount codes, and it is the lowest possible price. So we want to say that right here, right now. And, Mike, what do they get access to immediately?
4:17Andy Holloway:Well, the UDK officially launches on June 1st. However, should you want the UDK +, that will also come with a DFS pass. So, you know, if you want to play DraftKings, FanDuel, any of that stuff, that will launch in the football season. But right now, we are in Dynasty season. So the UDK +, comes with a Dynasty pass. The first drop of that is live. You know, we get our initial rankings. You can look at the production profiles. The team opportunity pages are gigantic and constantly updated of showing, like, what players are leaving a team. What percentage of carries is a team losing? So, like, you know, is that a good landing spot for someone kind of preparing yourself for the draft?
5:02Andy Holloway:And the combine is going on right now. You know, the things that we really care about, that hasn't started just yet. Tomorrow and Saturday. But very, very soon. And then next week, that's when we will be formulating drop two of the Dynasty Pass where we update those rankings. We get another mock draft in because we get more information. Players start separating themselves. Who will be? Who will be the Matthew Golden of this year? Because we've had it now. We had Worthy, and then we had Golden, two guys where they're really, really, really fast. And their production profile said they should not be drafted in the first.
5:38Mike Wright:and yet they were well we we actually had a conversation about the 40 times again on the footcast yesterday jason and i who where we were just talking about like the greats right like how in the world i know what makes for the best tv consumption of the combine is these very like you can watch a 40 right they don't have the pads on which of course they play in pads we've said that a million times i don't know why they don't run drills in pads that would tell me something right there's a little strength aspect right to the sprint of carrying this extra weight i mean at least a helmet at least a helmet but the other part was just like the micro differential like there's another player this year that might break the record right oh my gosh i mean the greats at the wide receiver position larry fitzgerald first ballot hall of famer 44745 antonio brown 44745 range yeah there's calvin johnson okay that was a little bonus on top of everything else he brought to the table but man i i still find it like strangely rudimentary how we it's we need the we need these like marketable numbers and i'm not saying it's not impressive and awesome that you can run really fast in a straight line it's just so not indicative of everything you can do as a wide receiver and i don't know how many john ross's xavier worthies right the goldens darius hayward bays that we need to figure this out like cool like if you can run in a straight line and catch a long touchdown pass that's cool i don't know if that makes you a first round pick the
7:07Andy Holloway:what's difficult about it is we know historically that 40 yard dash time is not the most when you're talking correlating to future success the 40 is very very low however the 40 does correlate to draft capital which draft capital does correlate to it so it's it's the thing though of like don't double count it yes like the nfl is already going to count it don't let him run it and he's a first round pick you're like well he's a first round pick and he's so fast yeah no it's a good point like this is but all that stuff you know that goes into our our thinking and in the dynasty pass and letting you giving you kind of the information and and benchmarks for production that are more desirable for a player where the path becomes clearer for them to become a true impact player in fantasy football or those late round guys.
8:05Andy Holloway:That's how you find Pacheco's and things. You look at the production profile and you're like, hmm, okay. There is a path here for that player to move up and should that happen look at their production profile look at all these other things. Dynasty Prospect season is so, so much fun.
8:24Mike Wright:Yeah, and I know Jason's in the middle of trying to build a prospect model out right now. You've been building one for years. There's so many different ways to evaluate prospects and we do the film work this time of year. We get those updates in the Dynasty Pass. All of that. If you're going to grab it, grab it before March 1st, ultimatedraftkit.com.
8:45I want to play the game.
8:50Mike Wright:All right. It is a game time day. It's a game time day. We're playing games today.
8:57Andy Holloway:Yeah, I mean, we call it the field day. Yeah. For the fantasy footballers because this particular spot in February. Like. The 26th. Yeah, I mean, there's some news for us to talk about. But, you know, there's not a ton going on as we're waiting for the combine. Once the combine is over, things start moving really, really fast. But right now we're just going to play some games. Have a good time. We are going to play some Who Am I, Mike.
9:26Mike Wright:That is our quick question of the day. I'm going to read one clue at a time, and you can play along at home. First clue, Mike. We're going to try to figure out who this player is. Okay. Clue number one, my fantasy football breakout was not until my third year in the league. Okay. A year three breakout. I don't think I have a guess yet. Year three. Year three. Okay. Year three breakout. Okay. All right. clue number two i have not played a full nfl season yet okay i appreciate the yet uh that's optimistic right like i'm gonna get there so no full seasons yet i i don't i don't have a guess i don't either clue number three i have never caught more than 80 passes in a season see i now I now do have it.
10:20Mike Wright:I think I have a guess.
10:21Andy Holloway:I had a guess, but Pierce has played four years.
10:27Mike Wright:You know what? And I think my guess is wrong too, because I was going to go Quinton Johnson, but last year was second year, right? No. No, last year was year three. No, I think I'm wrong. I feel like Kyle can find that. We're allowed to look at that, right? Yeah, because Quinton Johnson was the one I went to right away, and I don't think that's right. I think last year was his sophomore year. No, that was year three. Oh, that's my guess. Yeah. I'm supposed to write that down quietly. Oh, sorry. Quinton Johnson. Let me write that down real quick. Quietly. Johnston. Okay. I think it's based off of the clues.
10:58Andy Holloway:It's pretty good guess. Okay. Clue four, Mike. My nickname is kind of gross. Huge.
11:06Mike Wright:That's not the clue. I finished as a top 10 fantasy wide receiver two of the past three years.
11:11Andy Holloway:Uh-oh. Oh, I actually didn't look at that part of Quinton, but he's not a top 10. No, he's not. That's not him. what i'm glad i wrote that down quietly so wait i didn't okay so he didn't break out until year
11:23Mike Wright:three but he's been a regular fantasy dominator for multiple seasons oh so that's where i i was thinking it's just a year three yeah no no that was a little they could have played four years or five or six all right i mean the breakout just happened in year three finishes the top 10 fantasy wide receiver two of the past three years okay hmm you don't want to guess
11:46Andy Holloway:uh do you have a thought well i will say i am physically i'm here right okay you're not cognizant your brain is not there i am running purely on theraflu and caffeine at this point okay so so guessing is guessing is not at the at the uh the top of the list survival and making it through the show so i i i need to jump on your back please carry me clue number
12:12Mike Wright:five well my guess was way off so clue number five my quarterback has regressed since his exciting rookie 2023 season um not played a full season oh this i know the answer okay i think the quietly write i think the answers well when do you guess out loud and right right now okay nico collins
12:34Andy Holloway:that's my oh yeah that's a that's my guess that's a good guess because i remember man
12:40Mike Wright:We were waiting for that breakout. It finally happened. Exciting rookie year, CJ Strout. That's a great guess. My name is, here's the answer key, it's Nico Collins. No. It's Nico Collins. We did it. You and I, our powers combined. What a team effort. Nico Collins. That's kind of you to give Andy some credit for that. Yes, thank you. I was steering him. Theraflu and caffeine. Okay. Third straight 1 ,000-yard season, one of six wide receivers to accomplish that. Nico Collins along with A.J. Brown, Jamar Chase, Justin Jefferson, C.D. Lamb, Amonara St. Brown. Still, in my opinion, purely on skill, talent, ability, I still think he's underrated.
13:26Mike Wright:I still think Nico Collins is underrated and underdrafted more often than not. And, look, you just saw some of the reasons why. One, it took you three years to break out. Two, your quarterback looks like dog water right now. And then the other one, the volume hasn't been there, and then he's missed games. I've never played a full season. He always misses some time. But if you put one full season of Nico Collins out there on the field for 17 weeks, there's a chance he's the top three wide receiver.
13:55Andy Holloway:100%. It's just can Stroud get it together. And that is a really big question at this point.
14:06Mike Wright:Yeah, there were trade rumors, and the GM came out and said, It's moronic to trade him. I mean, when you've played, I mean, he kind of reminds me a little bit of Kyler. Because, yeah, just on the kind of career, I mean, it's not the same, but a career trajectory where, like, look, super promising, MVP candidate, a lot of expectations, and then just slowly playing worse at the position. Ever since he told Caleb Williams to hang in there in the middle of the field.
14:38Andy Holloway:So looking at the box score here, so Stroud missed weeks 10 through 12. So that's when the giraffe came in. Davis Mills? Yes.
14:49Mike Wright:So you can still recall who looks like a giraffe. Well, yeah. Your brain is working in that capacity. I mean, come on.
14:56Andy Holloway:Come on. Mike Glennon. Two of his, so in terms of highest scoring finishes on the year for C.J. Stroud, number two and number three came with Davis Mills and not Stroud. Not that he didn't have some good games with Stroud, but like that is.
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15:17Mike Wright:Well, it's not. That's not what you like to hear. It's not a great recipe for fantasy success when, look, Stroud, to win, they don't need him to be amazing. They just need him to be pretty good. Yeah, because the defense is so great. So from a fantasy perspective, that's not great. We've seen this be a challenge for Philadelphia when their defense is really good, not counting on the wide receivers. So Nico might have the skills to be top three, but maybe not the situation. Talk some news. News and notes from around the league. Are you kidding me? Jordan Schultz reports that there is strong belief that former Saints quarterback...
16:01Mike Wright:What?
16:02Andy Holloway:Send in the car. Send in the car.
16:05Mike Wright:What? Derek Carr is very serious about unretiring and returning to the NFL. Hmm. You can only play in the front yard with your kids so many times before you want to come back to the NFL. Hmm. Derek Carr. Okay. I mean, he would be much better than a lot of quarterbacks.
16:27Andy Holloway:Yes, he would be. And yet, not really help anybody.
16:33Mike Wright:Yeah, we'll see. We also have, right after I said definitively I think they won't trade him, Dan Graziano comes out and says teams are monitoring the trade market for Brian Thomas Jr. Yeah, it's just, tis this season. He's still a candidate. he's still a candidate in the sense that his expectations for his role in the offense probably don't meet what the teams are
16:54Andy Holloway:there is a world where it makes sense for Brian Thomas to be traded and yet it would a year three first round wide receiver so you have him you would have control of his contract no for three you get with the fifth year option and it just the price you're paying for what the level of talent for Brian Thomas, you would have, I feel like the trade would have to cost so much. You're probably right. Or one of those things where it comes through and you're like, what? They traded Brian Thomas for a third-round pick? And then you start to say, oh, it must have been bad.
17:36Mike Wright:Yeah. This report, everything about this report made me laugh. Oh, good.
17:41Andy Holloway:I loved it.
17:43Mike Wright:Are you in the same camp? Yeah. I mean, this is just silly. Fox Sports reporting Cardinals Kyler Murray prefers to be released ahead of free agency.
17:50Andy Holloway:Oh, does he? Yeah, cool. Oh, does he? Oh, he does? He would prefer to be able to pick the team he wants to go to for the contract that he wants to go get? It's great.
17:59Mike Wright:It's great. Apparently. Why would he want that? Kyler and general manager Monty Austin Ford have not even spoken since the season ended. It's over, man. It's over.
18:10Andy Holloway:Look, I was on record on Tuesday. most logical is that Kyler is still on the team, but the saga is not close to done.
18:20Mike Wright:No, no. And then we also got a report from Aaron Wilson, great reporter out of Houston. Texans are expected to part ways with Joe Mixon. They think... This quote.
18:30Andy Holloway:Yeah, you want to read it? Speaking about Joe Mixon, they think he had surgery. They think. Like, maybe he did. How do you not know? Joe Mixon, what are you doing? My guy.
18:47Mike Wright:Well, he tried to recover with some techniques that I don't think were team improved last year. It didn't work out. Never got back. And now probably won't be a part of the team moving forward. I think Woody Marks is one of those interesting names because everything about Woody Marks, the numbers behind his production, the fact that he's a later round pick, the fact Joe Mixon is gone, he probably is not going to work. I think he gets replaced. If they don't draft somebody, all of a sudden you'll be like staring. Who was the... What, Damian Pierce? No, that's a good one. But I was thinking Raiders.
19:19Mike Wright:Oh, oh, oh. Running back up. We were like, oh. Zamir White? Zamir White didn't get replaced in the draft. And then we're like, cool, let's go. And people drafted him. And it didn't work. No. So, yeah. I mean, I just think Woody Marks could have... Let me put it this way. There could be a small period of time in which he is a dynasty tradable asset. it i would be trying to trade him because if mix it then when mixing gets cut pre-draft that's your moment go yeah and maybe you want to wait for that yeah go frame woody marks up as the starter for a team that's pretty good playoff team and then uh cash in all right we'll take a break and we're gonna play some liar liar and i'm quite afraid of whatever they've prepared for
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21:22Mike Wright:All right. We lose control of this show. That's what normally happens this time of year. And we're going to play some Liar Liar, which apparently I have a drop for. Oh, boy. Liar Liar. Pants on fire. And we do this on Spitballers. It's two truths and a lie. This is normally Kyle the Borgogan puts together some madness, takes great pride in it. we try to determine which of these things are true which uh one is a lie and according to his records i guess this is the seventh time we've ever played this on the show he claims that one time you were fortunate enough to win mike and the rest we have lost i do remember winning i don't remember that we've played it this many times though i yeah every time you're like hey
22:15Andy Holloway:we're gonna do liar liar mike we do that on the i know that's a spitballers yeah well round one
22:20Mike Wright:We play three rounds, and if we can make it through three rounds determining what the one truth is, then we're champions of the world. And I'm going to be jumping in for Jason. That's right. Oh, yes. I do not know the answers to this either. Al Borland is going to contribute because we can't give Kyle a 2v1 situation. That's right. Round one is titled Our Powers Combined, which is already frightening. All right. Here's your three potential truths. number one in 2025 tight end tucker craft played only eight games true yeah nailed it uh yet he had more receiving touchdowns versus man coverage then cd lamb nico collins michael wilson jamar chase on the season combined so this is okay this is kyle 101 yep we're drilling it down to man coverage tucker craft more touchdowns against man than lamb collins michael wilson and jamar chase combined truth number two i don't know nerd yeah that's what i want to say gracious that's what i want to say number two go outside nerd mighty might wandale robinson had as many 20 plus yard air uh 20 plus air yard receptions okay in 2025 as jameson williams dk metcalf and Roma dunes they combine okay that three guys that are downfield threats williams metcalf adunze wandale okay yeah i think i think it's possible i think that one's very possible what how many did metcalf have exactly that's exactly why he have one 20 air yards not air yards probably yeah he's had long receptions that were a result of him running yeah uh number three jackson dart in just 12 career starts has more passing touchdowns against zone coverage nerds back than Kyler Murray has over the last three years combined.
24:13Mike Wright:We don't know this, Kyle. We do not dig into the nerddom. I mean, I think the Wanda one's true, Mike. I think that one's true. Okay. I think that one's our layup. The question is, is which of the other ones are true? Tucker Craft had a bunch of - Well, only one could be true. Yeah, yeah.
24:35Andy Holloway:Or no, one's a lie. There's two true. That's what I say. All right, all right. I don't know what I'm doing.
24:39Mike Wright:I know you are on drugs. Wondale Robinson, I'm going to count that one myself. You don't have to do that. I think that one's true. I have no idea about this man versus zone decision. Al, do you want to weigh in with your two? You're a Green Bay Packer. My only insight is that I feel like maybe Kyle put that Tucker Craft one in there just to get me to vote with my heart. Oh, yeah. So that could be a trap. Because he'd wanted you to do this. I don't know the answer. but I am going to be taking Tucker craft as the lie for that reason only. I mean, the Kyler Murray one is a bit of a trick because it's like the last three years combined.
25:18Mike Wright:Well, Kyler played what a handful of games this year and then missed the entire season two years ago. So he played like 16 weeks versus, or, you know, whatever, 20 weeks versus Jackson darts, 12. I'm, I think that one's true. I'm going to take Tucker craft as a lie as well. Oh man. Kyle has let us know we're going to know none of these
25:38Andy Holloway:What are we doing Kyle? We're playing a game You guys are both in on the Tucker Craft We're not in, we think that one's a lie Yeah, I'm saying you're locking that in We're so not in on that That's fair So it's just do we put all the eggs In one basket Of the Tucker Craft What's your conviction Mike? You're the only one to win this game against Kyle yeah but as the note said i was fortunate to win i'm gonna go i'll take the dart one
26:09Mike Wright:all right kyle you you eliminate us immediately if wandale is the lie yeah you guys have a lot to learn it is wandale that's the lie
26:22but how close was it he had more than jameson williams which is very different than how it
26:29Andy Holloway:used to be used yes the other one's far out past him oh okay okay well that's a round one loss now we now we play for bride round two geography for dummies perfect number one oh yeah beautiful beautiful
26:56Mike Wright:Garrett Wilson has never caught a touchdown in a city located west of Dallas, Texas through his professional and college career 91 games worth. So he can't catch a touchdown west of Dallas?
27:11Andy Holloway:What are these spreadsheets? What is happening?
27:15Mike Wright:I'm just picturing the Jordan get help that we sent him. Number two, through five years in the NFL and 889 career carries, Chuba Hubbard has never had a single run of 15 yards or more in the mountain or West Coast time zones. All right. The worst part about this is two of these have to be true, which means he knows whether they're true or not, which is the worst. Number three, good night. Counting his 13 games as a rookie, the preseason, college and high school tight high school tight end mason taylor has not forced a missed tackle in 47 of the 50 united states meow i'm going with that one as the lie oh no that was definitely true mike is i don't know how to play this game you should because we've played it before what How much Theraflu, Mike?
28:17Andy Holloway:Was it a big glass? The maximum, maximum dose. This is good.
28:22Mike Wright:You should go home after this.
28:24Andy Holloway:I plan on it. Mason Taylor, that one is definitely true due to no dog. Yeah, he needs it to be true. No dog.
28:31Mike Wright:And you shouldn't know his high school stuff, Kyle. I got to believe Garrett Wilson's caught a touchdown west of Dallas. I'm going to call the Mountain West Chuba Hubbard one a lie, Although, I don't know, man. Go ahead. Al, what do you think? I'm going to go with Garrett Wilson as the lie. Because I do have it on good authority that Mason Taylor, if freshman year of high school, broke a tackle or forced a mistackle. You've got that in your archives? Yeah. I'm pretty sure that's true. He might make the Mason Taylor one a lie if you want to go that direction because he will want to prove that Mason Taylor can't break tackles in 49 of 50 states.
29:12Mike Wright:It would be great if that one worked. Yeah, I was backwards on that, huh? Oh, so is that what you mean? I got to lock that in as the lie. Okay, so you're doing what I'm thinking. Yeah, sorry. So I've got the Chuba Hubbard as a lie. You've got the Mason Taylor as a lie, Al.
29:26Andy Holloway:It would be insane for a human being to make it into the NFL. He was a second-round pick. Am I remembering that correct, Mason Taylor? That's correct. For a guy who got drafted in the second round, going back into high school to not be breaking tackles. Are you going Mason Taylor? That would be weird. Yeah. Okay. Reveal your stupidity, Kyle. Mason Taylor is true. He's only broken tackles in Florida, Mississippi, and Louisiana. Oh, my gosh.
29:58Mike Wright:Florida, Mississippi, and Louisiana are the only states he's broken a tackle in, Kyle? That's correct. Unbelievable. Amazing. All right. So which is the lie? the lie is chuba he broke a tackle in arizona as a rookie yes you mean for 15 yards yes okay wait is that the one that i no that's not the one i picked i picked gary wilson didn't i so i got you picked you picked chuba i got it right dude nobody knows what's going on i think so kyle what did i pick only the audience is gonna know yeah chuba okay okay so you're winning apparently i don't feel like a winner everyone is i'm winning but do not feel like a winner round three the year of mike is the title of this oh it was a good year um okay here's your three potential truths number one sometimes footballers are running late in the morning in which they publicly share in the company slack that were quote coming in hot Yeah.
31:00Mike Wright:That is the phrase we share since the beginning of the fantasy footballers podcast. Mike has coming in hot more than Andy, but fewer than Jason. That's one that we're going to try to figure out if it's true.
31:16Andy Holloway:So according to that, Jason would be. The most more than Andy, but that would make Jason would be the latest.
31:24Mike Wright:That would have been the way a normal person worded it. Yes. OK, like it could have been like Jason has the most. That could have been like the truth. But he's trying to frame it in a year of Mike. Very tricky. Number two, during weeks one through 18 of the NFL season, the word, quote, the word pants was mentioned more times on the podcast than the number of targets George Pickens had, which is 137. So did we say the word pants more than 137 times? Very possible. How do you know?
31:52Andy Holloway:I think he's scraping transcripts or something. Number three, Mike. I need to know if the drop counts as a mention. Never going back. I don't think it does. Kyle? It does. It does.
32:04Mike Wright:Yeah, it's got the word pants in it. That's fair. Number three, Mike gloriously rode CMC and Bijan to a league of record championship this year. Yes, yes. Coincidentally, their combined yards from scrimmage in their careers. Good night. Counting regular season and playoffs is the exact driving distance from Mike's house to the footballer's studio. that. Please. That has to be true. It has to have aligned. So that would be their combined yards from scrimmage in their career. Counting regular season and playoffs, I feel like that one's true. He had to jackknife that thing together. Hard. I think that Mike is the most coming in hot.
32:49Mike Wright:No, I think Jason is. Dang it. It's not me. I don't say coming in hot very much. I think I might be coming in hot, but I don't say it as much as Jason does. So I feel like that's true. I'm going to say that the pants one is wrong. I don't think we said it. I'm on that one too. I don't think we said it. 137 is that's a lot of pants. See, that's what I was going to lock into. Okay. No, you should. You know, for the sake of, I can't, I mean, what are you trying to tie? Got to play the game theory. Yeah. So for that reason, I'm going to say that Mike is the latest man of you three. Okay. and he's the one oh and he posted the chart the coming in hot chart that is the like uh andy's actually coming hot more than mike but jason is also the most oh so i got it i got it right for the wrong reason but i got it right interesting so it looks like mike and i were tied in coming in hot in 2024 but i had a couple but then i had a couple more in 2025 and jason is blowing us away I mean, for the people that can't see that Kyle has a line graph.
33:59Mike Wright:Put this up on the screen. Can you get this on the screen for those watching? Not very easily, no. Yes, you can. Okay. I believe in you. I'm on it. I'm going to send you the, I'll send you the image. All right. And then you post this on the screen. Jason is coming in hot at a ratio of two to one to three to one minimal. And I, that's why I said, I think his phrase, man. wait just so we which one is the uh oh there it is yeah there's the there's the chart so are you telling me we never even used the language coming in hot before about 2021 that is correct so we just started saying that became an excuse and mike or no i i debuted that you were the first in 2022 and then you got and then jason's like i love that phrase I didn't know I could come in hot amazing amazing excellent work Kyle that didn't answer our question though right yeah it did that's the lie
35:02Andy Holloway:yeah because it's fewer oh you're right so the pants one is true 144 pants
35:09Mike Wright:144 mentions of pants on the show 145 baby incredible and then of course
35:19Andy Holloway:the CMCB Jean 1 is true I mean that makes so much sense of course it's true Jupiter had to align with Mars your season was just it was a good time man you should try it
35:33Mike Wright:do you feel like do you feel like you're going to have to pay for it do you know what I mean like everything lined up so much do you think there's going to be a pin
35:45Andy Holloway:Will the creditors...
35:47Mike Wright:Yeah, a pendulum swing if you stub your toe 10 days in a row or something happens.
35:51Andy Holloway:Here's the thing. Yes, absolutely. Also, doesn't matter. Doesn't matter. You don't even care. No, I don't.
36:00Mike Wright:Take my life. Just give me that season. All right, we'll take another break. We'll be back with some questions.
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38:10Mike Wright:All right, we are going to jump into the mailbag. I feel like I'm supposed to thank Kyle for that segment. Kyle, how long did that take? Yeah. Yeah, how much did we pay for? How many hours did we pay for? You guys were out all last week.
38:30Andy Holloway:Right, but you were not. Which doesn't answer the question. Some of those do not take as long as you think. The Bichon CMC maybe took like 20 minutes.
38:40Mike Wright:Okay. I mean, you were doing some. Don't you have some analytics, too, on the attendance record over? He's got everything, man. You want Mighty Ducks analytics? He's got them. He does have all the Mighty Ducks analytics. But you know how many times we've done three-man shows versus two-man shows? how many times the bear's been on screen in 11 years are we going into year 12 jason's stats are slipping recently boys oh are they oh what what trends can you share with us on the air because he's not here so we don't care what you say about him he's he's still coming in hot today
39:15Mike Wright:you have any you have any hot stats you want to share kyle you can break in anytime in mailbag if you have a hot stat on Jason's numbers. Jason's missed the fewest amount of shows out of anybody. All time? All time. That's not what I asked from you. I want stats to make me look good. You said he's been slipping. That's the stuff we wanted to hear. I'll get you one later. Okay. All right. Into the mailbag we go.
39:43Mike Wright:Mailbag. Mailbag. Ooh. If you have a question, you can go to the website, thefantasyfootballers.com. It's also where you can find the UDK. And click that Submit a Question button, send us your question, or dial the voicemail hotline 302464-TFFB. Let's kick it off with a voicemail question somebody sent in this week. Hi, Matt from Los Angeles here, and I was wondering, if you guys were to do the NFL Combine, which event would you be respectably best at? Love the show. Well, I mean, there will not be a respectably part. so what would we perform best in relative to the nfl players or against each other i just you know it's yourself i mean we we did a combine challenge a really long time ago um don't look it up uh yeah i i don't i don't know i don't think we did especially well at any of it no and we're now 10 years older we did not i mean we're not fast no we're not strong compared to nfl players correct uh we're not quick no um maybe the gauntlet i could catch the ball in the gauntlet
41:00Andy Holloway:right as long as you don't get in the face you're right right there's a chance of that
41:06Mike Wright:um i'd like to see al borland do that one remember when i threw him that pass out here in the yeah
41:09Andy Holloway:and then he fell down. I liked the part where he fell down. Yeah, that one's a truth. You remember that, Al? I do. But in our flag football days. He's been wearing botnet ever since. No, flag football, 100 % catch rate.
41:25Mike Wright:How many total catches do you think I threw to you? Or how many passes did I ever throw to you? Three. Three?
41:30Andy Holloway:Yeah, you think he doesn't know? I caught them all. Man, how hard was it? Don't worry about the one where I ran the wrong way after catching.
41:38Mike Wright:Did you? Yes. how did you get spun around our first season oh incredible oh the first season yeah my bearings were all off this week without jason has just focused on bod man over there yes i mean it was like a check down it wasn't like a designed play for me and you just tossed it to me and i just
41:56Andy Holloway:ran the wrong way i have no memory of this but that is fantastic um yeah i guess i'll go gauntlet
42:04Mike Wright:I feel like I can catch it. So we'll see. I don't know. Mike, go do the vertical.
42:11Andy Holloway:No, vert is never. Broad jump, I've always been okay at. Wonderlic? Oh, please. I mean, I don't know what's there. Not on the medicine you're on now. No, no, no, no. He's the one on the Wonderlic right now. Well, I'll probably still beat Stroud, right?
42:24Mike Wright:He was the one who had the massive failure. Yeah, he was the one that had the failure and then dominated as a rookie. Yeah. And we were like, oh, great.
42:32Andy Holloway:Yeah.
42:32Mike Wright:Maybe it matters. I don't know. Jason, you can give him some bench press, I guess. Can he bench 225, though? Probably not.
42:39Andy Holloway:No, none of us can bench 225. I don't think so. No, I don't think so. Rep 225? Maybe. I don't think we can get one. We will die. That bar will crush us. I don't think we could get one. Maybe. You want to try that one out on our list of challenges? I feel like you. Did you see the kid? If you're wrong and you can't get up one rep, you're going to hurt yourself.
43:03Mike Wright:Did you see the kid, the 14-year-old kid who just dropped 450 on his chest? What? This is going around right now. He actually had to come out and talk about it. He's alive? He's alive. The freeze frame of the bar and how far depressed his chest is when it lands. No. He had three useless spotters. Why are we letting 14-year-olds bench that much? We shouldn't be. But, yeah, he had a spotter. the normal set spotter behind and one on each side and all three of them did nothing. He instantaneously dropped the bar. Thank goodness he's alive. Didn't break anything somehow. I guess at 14 you're Gumby.
43:46Mike Wright:Your bones are Gumby. That was insane.
43:49Andy Holloway:Jeremy does want to let people know he's confident he can get at least one. I'd like to know. I just wanted to let you know that. Thank you for letting them know. Is that because of the really ripped abs? That's right. A couple squirts of that. He sprays right before the lift. It's my free workout. Is it like your spinach? Yeah. It's the free workout. You power up like Popeye? It's only, he only sprays them right there.
44:11Mike Wright:Sprays it right onto the abs. Just get so ripped. Teddy writes in, any year three breakout predictions?
44:20Andy Holloway:Ooh, like someone who's going to jump into the top three? Yeah.
44:26Mike Wright:Any year three breakout predictions? that's the Marvin Harrison Jr. Neighbors class so next year will be year three for Neighbors and Marvin man I mean Neighbors is a little too
44:46Andy Holloway:Neighbors needs to be healthy
44:47Mike Wright:I feel like he's already broken out too
44:48Andy Holloway:he has but he needs to be if he's healthy he's going to dominate we got the big year from BTJ and Ladd already, Keon Coleman not predicting that one No, I do not have a prediction for that. Oh, no, I do. Trey Benson. Yeah, I don't know what Arizona's doing. I don't either. That's the end of the sentence. I don't think they know what they're doing. President and owner Michael Bidwell has no idea what he's doing. Yeah, not just owner. President and owner. Oh, Kyle's reminding of Ben Sennett, maybe. but I think that I think James Conner will be gone I think they'll just decide to clear house not that he can't play Conner Conner could go somewhere and still be very productive but I think that they will probably move on there was chatter of the Cardinals being linked to Brees Hall which obviously that can't happen shut that down so quick it could theoretically happen if they transition tag him because then Breesaw can go get offers and the Jets just have the right to match it.
45:58Andy Holloway:I don't know. I still believe in Trey Benson as a player who just really hasn't had his opportunity yet.
46:05Mike Wright:We'll get to see Jonathan Brooks back out on the field hopefully next year. Blake Corum is a player that can come into the conversation as one that's Braylon Allen if If Brees leaves. Yeah, I'm just not sure that he's... Do we get Pearsall for more than a game of consistency? That would be another name with them not having wide receivers. There you go. All right, Warren writes in from X. Is Caleb Williams a top-tier quarterback next year? He had the high-end finishes this year, five games at 24-plus points. He had the big playoff performances that I think impressed a lot of people. He has a slew of weapons that we love.
46:45Mike Wright:Luther Burden. Yes. Mr. Love Land. Mr. Love Land. That would be, you know, in Roma Dinsenia.
46:52Andy Holloway:You see a top tier.
46:55Mike Wright:What does that qualify as?
46:57Andy Holloway:Top six? Yeah, I mean, just a guy you're playing, a difference maker every single week.
47:03Mike Wright:I don't believe that right now.
47:05Andy Holloway:I don't think so either. We got to fix that completion percentage. We have, what, 58 %? Was it really that bad? I always forget how bad it was. 58 % completion percentage. That is – that's not good enough. That's not good enough. No, that number will come to bear over time. So I would say as of right now, no, but he's mobile. I mean, he is unbelievably athletic.
47:33Mike Wright:Yeah, he does some – He's so fast. He does some crazy stuff. He kind of reminds me sometimes of Steve McNair, escapist, being able to escape in the pocket. Mr. Ugly Par writes in on Instagram. Okay.
47:49Andy Holloway:Who in the office throws the football the best? That's Andy. Andy was the quarterback on the flag football team. Yeah, that flag football team. And he was the quarterback because he could throw the ball the best.
48:00Mike Wright:Yeah, that was A plus B there. And I could throw it the very best with my 100 % completion rate. Yeah. How much offense did you ever play, Al? I played O-line quite a bit. Did you? Yeah. I couldn't remember. And those were good old days. Good old days. Lots of surgeries. Lots of surgeries from those days. Most of them by Papa Josh. Papa Josh, two ACL tears? Yep, and a toe surgery. And you repaired how many of the ACLs? Just one. Okay. All right. So you gave up after the first surgery, right? No, I had the first surgery, came back, and then blew it out again. Yeah. Yeah. That's what giving up after the first surgery means.
48:43Mike Wright:Yeah, I left it all on the field. My ACL is still there. You did, and we won our one championship.
48:50Mike Wright:All right. Mario in Mexico, Buenos Dias, Foot Clan leaders. I'd like to submit a formal request for Jason to host the show. Oh. I'm sure it would be a lot of fun.
49:00Andy Holloway:For who? To find fun. And to find who will be? It would be fun. It would be something.
49:10Mike Wright:He would be just fine. Yeah. All right. YouTube question, what do you value more, your internal scouting or how the NFL values a player, a.k.a. their draft capital, especially when they are very, very different? When they're very different, I do tend to let the draft capital change.
49:32Andy Holloway:I mean, it's not changing my opinion, but it's changing what I believe their outcome are or what the outcome could be. The NFL gets a lot of things right. I mean, it obviously not every time because we had we just had Camp Scadaboo, which was the declaration was for me was until the NFL tells me that that Camp Scadaboo is not the guy I believe he is. Then he went in the fourth round. That draft capital says he can't be it. But he was immediately.
50:01Mike Wright:So, I mean, it is the year of Mike. I think some of your stuff in that department worked out pretty well. I mean, Travion as well went much later than people expected. They thought maybe Chicago would take him really early in the draft. He, you know, I don't know what we call Travion right now. I don't think we call him like this.
50:17Andy Holloway:It was, I don't know if he came through for his draft, his ADP in fantasy football.
50:25Mike Wright:What is he moving forward? Like if you just have to throw out a number for Travion next year, it's February. You got to throw out a redraft number for Travion. I don't have a great conviction about this. It was a special year for New England. Their schedule was very easy. They have a shared backfield. I think he improves in year two. What was his fantasy finish this year, Kyle? Do you know that off the top of your head?
50:48Andy Holloway:I'm guessing 20. Travion Henderson finished as the running back 19.
50:54Mike Wright:Okay. But I feel like 16 is maybe where I'd throw him right now.
51:00Andy Holloway:Yeah, right around a top 15 guy.
51:03Mike Wright:Yeah. Yeah. One last reminder here. ultimate draft kit.com this is our last chance before march 1st which i believe is sunday i think it's sunday is that right um that is correct last chance ultimate draft kit.com if you want a chance to play in the listener league and get a spot there um we are going to say goodbye that is the end of the show we're gonna let mike get better back to bed we'll be back to full strength hopefully next week and we appreciate all of you listening here in february goodbye
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