Jacobs Fallout, Preseason Takeaways + Mailbag - Fantasy Football Podcast for 8/31

**Mike Wright** (0:00)
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**SPEAKER_3** (1:51)
Welcome to the Fantasy Footballers Podcast with your hosts, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore and Mike Wright.

**SPEAKER_4** (2:07)
Oh, welcome in.

**Andy Holloway** (2:20)
No more breaking news as we start the show. Nothing else going on? Not yet. Okay.
Welcome in to the Fantasy Footballers Podcast, Monday, August 31st, September, nearly here, kickoff nearly here. And two weekends in a row where we have, one, a ton of fantasy drafts taking place, and two, a ton of fantasy news that can entirely disrupt the drafts. Yeah. But that's what we're here for.

**Mike Wright** (2:49)
You know, what's a shame is that the good news isn't ever the news that, like, really rocks your draft. You don't ever go into, like, oh, my gosh, guys, this guy's good. We found out.

**Andy Holloway** (3:02)
No, I mean, technically speaking, if you were in an IDP league this weekend, did contain that news.

**Mike Wright** (3:07)
Oh, I guess that's true. I guess that's actually true.

**Andy Holloway** (3:10)
Because Aaron Donald decided to say, I'm back.

**Mike Wright** (3:13)
That just doesn't happen.

**Andy Holloway** (3:15)
Dude, doesn't happen on the offensive side.

**Mike Wright** (3:18)
$20 million up to $30 million? How do they do that right before kickoff?

**Andy Holloway** (3:23)
I don't know. I like the comment that you said, which is, like, hopefully this gives you that magical, amazing, best defensive line ever. But they almost, like, never, the Super Team never works out. It never works out.

**Mike Wright** (3:34)
I think I saw something where the last 20 teams that were favored by this wide of a margin, like, they're the clear favorites for the Super Bowl. The last 20 times this has happened, they've gone and 20 Not that that's shocking, because the field will usually have it if you're betting on 31 out of 32 teams, but it doesn't ever, like, I genuinely, I mean, I'm a Cardinals fan, kind of, but they're not a serious organization, so I'm not.
I'm, like, rooting for them to wreck the league. I just want, sorry, everybody else, but I love the idea of those two guys just literally shutting out every team. And it won't happen. They're just, the NFL, there's too much parity.

**Andy Holloway** (4:14)
Well, injuries. I mean, you got to stay healthy. And it's like asking the elder statesman, Matthew Stafford, the elder statesman, Devonte Adams, returning from...

**SPEAKER_6** (4:22)
The elder statesman, Aaron Donald.

**Andy Holloway** (4:24)
And then Miles Garrett. And, you know, one of those guys goes down, it changes it. But does this count as positive news? Zach Erd's reunion with the Eagles is on the table, Jason.

**SPEAKER_6** (4:34)
Oh, man, that is not...

**Andy Holloway** (4:35)
Not quite where you...

**SPEAKER_6** (4:36)
No.

**Andy Holloway** (4:36)
Not Aaron Donald levels?

**Mike Wright** (4:38)
No, that is...
That is nasty. That is... Oh, my gosh, is that nasty. You even like Dallas Goddard. That would be...

**Andy Holloway** (4:46)
Right. Yeah, that would actually be bad.
So much going on. We have a quick question of the day, preseason takeaways. We have news and notes to cover, including our complete breakdown of a situation that we cannot provide every single answer for, but we'll have a lot of analysis for the Josh Jacobs situation. Oh, boy. We'll get into mailbag questions on the show today. It is a huge week. A lot of drafts took place over the weekend. A lot more are happening this upcoming Labor Day weekend.