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Speaker 1: guys can kind of see what's going on in the
Speaker 1: drafts so far. I have it up on the screen
Speaker 1: just so or through the first round right now. I
Speaker 1: just want to let you know who is drafting tonight.
Speaker 1: Some familiar faces in here, some people who have been
Speaker 1: on the show before, some people will probably be on
Speaker 1: the show in the future as well. Drafting from the
Speaker 1: one spot tonight and taking Jamier Gibbs at the one
Speaker 1: oh one is Jeff Osborne and Cody Daggett. That is
Speaker 1: the Get Go two team drafting second tonight and taking
Speaker 1: another running back. No surprises. We've seen Gibbs and Robinson
Speaker 1: go one on one, one o two in most FFPC
Speaker 1: drafts this year. Don Tolby from the Glasting Franchise drafting
Speaker 1: two tonight, he takes Bajon Robinson the first receiver is
Speaker 1: off the board to Rusty's Bar with the team owner
Speaker 1: russ Yarratz. Tonight, he drafts Poka Nakua at the one
Speaker 1: O three and that opens up sort of like a
Speaker 1: Chalky receiver receiver receiver run that we've seen quite a
Speaker 1: bit this year. Frank I Bornoni, who is running the
Speaker 1: Aubrey franchise tonight, hitting clean up. He ends up going
Speaker 1: with Jamar Chase at four and then Justin Jefferson I
Speaker 1: guess not Chalky because that's Jackson Smith and Jigba there,
Speaker 1: but Justin Jefferson off the board to the Fantasy Black
Speaker 1: Mass himself. That is Raj Singh taking Justin Jefferson at
Speaker 1: the one oh five. Him is owned by Demetrius Parker
Speaker 1: and him takes Jonathan Taylor as the third running back
Speaker 1: off the board. At the one O six. We have
Speaker 1: Ashton Genty coming off the player pool to one oh
Speaker 1: seven tonight. That is Remy Lebau running the Remy Lebau franchise.
Speaker 1: He's been on the show before. He's drafting seventh tonight,
Speaker 1: and he starts off with a running back in Ashton genty,
Speaker 1: Jackson Smith and Jigba is the one aweight. That's to
Speaker 1: the Doggie Boys seven franchise owned by Christopher Gollan. Christopher
Speaker 1: Golland takes Jackson Smith and Jigba, followed by another receiver here,
Speaker 1: Igor Gorbenko, who was in this draft last year or
Speaker 1: one of the drafts last year. I shouldn't say, because
Speaker 1: we did several live on HSFF our Big Gorillas. Igor Gurbenko,
Speaker 1: who is running the Dude, Where's Derek Carr franchise tonight.
Speaker 1: He goes with the Monros Saint Brown at the one
Speaker 1: O nine, Todd Aaron, who just was on Extra Reps
Speaker 1: month or two ago on these airwaves, the mad genius
Speaker 1: of Fantasy football. At the one ten, he breaks the
Speaker 1: tight end cherry as it were, brock Bauers off the
Speaker 1: board at one ten, Christian McCaffrey falling to the Fantasy
Speaker 1: Sopranos franchise tonight, a team that many people will be
Speaker 1: watching given that not only Steven Yourgallos is running it,
Speaker 1: but you also have David Hubbard and Nelson Susa. Hubbard
Speaker 1: and Susa if you remember the twenty sixteen FFPC main
Speaker 1: event overall champs along with Steve Rgalos tonight running Franchise
Speaker 1: eleven at pick eleven. Christian McCaffrey is the pick there.
Speaker 1: And then wrapping things up is Leveon's big That is
Speaker 1: Colin Baxter at the one twelve tonight going with C. D. Lamb.
Speaker 1: And that is your first round. We got five running
Speaker 1: backs off the board. We have six receivers off the board,
Speaker 1: and one tight end off the board. That is what
Speaker 1: we're looking at here. And what else are we looking at.
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Speaker 1: the definitive Commissioner of Fantasy Football, Farrell Elliott. Welcome to
Speaker 1: the broadcast. Good evening, sir, Hey Balky, how are you man?
Speaker 4: You are looking good, You're looking trim, You're looking impressive.
Speaker 4: You've got a little bit of sunshine on you. You
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm broad. I'm streaming live from Marco Island, Florida
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Speaker 1: been fun, kind of recharge the batteries a little bit.
Speaker 1: But I excited to talk Fantasy football tonight and Farrell.
Speaker 1: I think the big thing that we see standing out
Speaker 1: in the first round tonight is what Raj Singh did
Speaker 1: at the one oh five, taking Justin Jefferson over Smith
Speaker 1: and Jigbo over Saint Brown over Ceed Lamb. This is
Speaker 1: a player that I think is kind of polarizing. We
Speaker 1: thought that this was a guy that was quarterback proof
Speaker 1: until last year when we saw he was not quarterback proof.
Speaker 1: Still ended up getting a for a thousand yards, but
Speaker 1: definitely did not live up to his ADP this year.
Speaker 1: But Raj Singh man, he is a believer and Justin
Speaker 1: Jefferson maybe we should be buyers into Justin Jefferson. With
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray as well. I know Adam Hahn is about
Speaker 1: to call me out on that Kyler Murray sucks he's awful.
Speaker 1: Don't have Justin Jefferson, but Raj Singh has a different
Speaker 1: viewpoint here. Justin Jefferson at the one oh five phar.
Speaker 4: Oh, Well, that would be foolish for for mister Hearn
Speaker 4: to say that, But I can understand you. You can
Speaker 4: make an argument for any of these first round draft picks.
Speaker 4: Me being captain obvious here I see. I'm my biggest
Speaker 4: surprise at seeing Ceedee Lamb at the twelve spot, especially
Speaker 4: what you see going on with his running buddy a
Speaker 4: receiver position reporting to camp and all is well, I
Speaker 4: like what that does for Lamb's game. That that, to
Speaker 4: me is a steal at the twelve position. Who's coming
Speaker 4: out of the twelve hole?
Speaker 1: Twelve is that is Levon's big and that is owned
Speaker 1: the team owner for that tonight is Colin Baxter.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, mister Baxter's off to a good stack there.
Speaker 4: We'll have to see what he does at running back
Speaker 4: because yeah, four four running backs, five running backs in
Speaker 4: the first round, and when you report on the second round,
Speaker 4: we'll see a lot more of those guys coming off
Speaker 4: the board. You know, Balkey, has there been a draft
Speaker 4: in the Big Gorilla where Bowers has made it to
Speaker 4: the second round.
Speaker 1: You know, that is a great question. I'm looking up
Speaker 1: the mojo right now on this Darren Armani who runs
Speaker 1: Fantasymojo dot com at Fantasy Mojo on x, the godfather
Speaker 1: of the FFPC pros versus Joe's Challenge, which you can
Speaker 1: watch those drafts right here on this channel with myself
Speaker 1: and Paraoh as we cover those coming up next month.
Speaker 1: He any he runs Fantasy Mojo anytime we cite ADP
Speaker 1: or what's happened in drafts prior to this. He has
Speaker 1: all the data on that. If you're playing in the FFPC,
Speaker 1: highly recommend you get a subscription to Fantasy Mojo because
Speaker 1: it's going to be helping you out quite a bit. Pharah,
Speaker 1: I can tell you that over the last five days
Speaker 1: in the FFPC Big Gorilla, the latest Bowers has gone
Speaker 1: has been the one to eleven. Now, it's certainly possible
Speaker 1: that he may have slipped to the second round in
Speaker 1: a Big Gorilla, since we've been doing these for several months.
Speaker 1: Right now, my guess is known, but I'm surprised to
Speaker 1: see him going with the one eleven. I'm surprised to
Speaker 1: see Todd Aaron picking him up at the one tenth tonight,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure Todd Aaron was surprised at Bowers was
Speaker 1: still available there. He normally goes at the one oh seven.
Speaker 1: Over the last five days.
Speaker 4: All we can say about this first round is there's
Speaker 4: a wealth of possibilities and it depends on how you
Speaker 4: put it together as you go through this, as you
Speaker 4: go through these other rounds.
Speaker 1: The second round is completed here tonight, as as we
Speaker 1: go through it here, Trey McBride the second tight end
Speaker 1: off the board to Colin Baxter. Then the Sopranos go
Speaker 1: running back running back cmc in the first and Chase
Speaker 1: Brown in the second. James Cook to Todd Aaron at
Speaker 1: the two oh three, followed by Amari and Hampton at
Speaker 1: the two to oh four to dude, Where's Derek Carr?
Speaker 1: Which I love and I know I should probably give
Speaker 1: some love to the team owner who has that tonight
Speaker 1: that is Igor Gormenko. But the team name is so good, Igor,
Speaker 1: Dude wears Derek Carr for your team the rest of
Speaker 1: the night. Drake London joins the Doggie Boys franchise at
Speaker 1: the two to oh five tonight JSN and then London
Speaker 1: running back running back for Remy Lebau Genty in the
Speaker 1: first round, eight Chan in the second as a chance
Speaker 1: slips a little bit tonight, Saquon Barkley goes to Demetrius
Speaker 1: Parker at the two oh seven, Nico Collins to the
Speaker 1: fantasy black mask. That's Rojer saying a j Brown to Aubrey.
Speaker 1: That's Franken Bornoni squad tonight. And then we see a
Speaker 1: little bit of a rainbow finish here Kenneth Walker to
Speaker 1: Rusty's Bar, Colston Loveland to Glaistig, and then we're looking
Speaker 1: at DeVonta smith sneaking up to the two twelve tonight,
Speaker 1: to the first team off the board, which I believe
Speaker 1: is the only duo we have drafting. We have a
Speaker 1: trio draft spot eleven, but Spot one is Jeff Osborne
Speaker 1: and Cody dag As. They pair Jamier Gibbs with the
Speaker 1: Wanta Smith in the second round here tonight, Caeryl. The
Speaker 1: pairing I think of Genty and a Chan to Remy Leveaux,
Speaker 1: I think is very very interesting here when you consider
Speaker 1: Genty should have a bounce back season, I mean it was.
Speaker 1: I think he's a little bit higher than ADP but
Speaker 1: I don't think he was overdrafted tonight. And then you
Speaker 1: have a Chan, a guy who's been slipping. I think
Speaker 1: people are very nervous about this Dolphins offense, and that's
Speaker 1: why we see a Chan slip here from a spot
Speaker 1: where he was going maybe a month or two ago
Speaker 1: at the end of the first round. Now he falls
Speaker 1: to the two h six tonight.
Speaker 4: I like what he's doing there with a Chan, and
Speaker 4: I would remind everyone that I think it's a very
Speaker 4: good idea not to plant a proverbial flag on non
Speaker 4: performance for certain players. You know, Scott Scott called we
Speaker 4: visited with last week. He made some wonderful commentary for
Speaker 4: reasons that he would be off genty this year, and
Speaker 4: I understand them. At the same time, he talked about
Speaker 4: what he would expect at the quarterback position out of Minnesota.
Speaker 4: I don't think we can just determine that those are
Speaker 4: not professional quarterbacks that can't get the ball to the
Speaker 4: number one receiver, justin Jefferson. I don't like it necessarily
Speaker 4: as a football situation, but I could be in a
Speaker 4: I could be understanding that I like it in a
Speaker 4: fantasy football situation. And then Adam drops in that he
Speaker 4: says like Taylor and Barkley, Moore and I would have
Speaker 4: to agree. But there is explosiveness in a chance game,
Speaker 4: and the Dolphins will have to lean on that to
Speaker 4: experience any kind of success this year. So I'm surprised
Speaker 4: that a Chan is available there, and if he's going
Speaker 4: to be, you want to grab you. Quite honestly, I'm
Speaker 4: surprised that bark was available there, which means that I'm
Speaker 4: surprised any wide receivers are being drafted at all.
Speaker 1: Right, exactly, Yes, we have the Taylor Barkley argument that
Speaker 1: Adam made. I think I would agree with it you
Speaker 1: guys as well. I think I like the Taylor Barkley
Speaker 1: start a little bit more. However, I will say that
Speaker 1: we have. Is it fair to say that Taylor and
Speaker 1: Barkley's best football is behind him? I know that there's
Speaker 1: still I know that they're still going to be very
Speaker 1: good for fantasy, but we haven't seen the yet the
Speaker 1: best of gents. In my opinion, I don't know if
Speaker 1: we've seen the best of a Chance. So there is
Speaker 1: that sort of like mystery box aspect of drafting those
Speaker 1: guys there. Whereas Taylor and Barkley, you know, you're probably
Speaker 1: going to be getting from him, and that's fine because
Speaker 1: it's usually been pretty good what you've got from And
Speaker 1: I was in a Farrell a Kentucky draft baster today
Speaker 1: and I was faced with the decision of Chase Brown
Speaker 1: versus a mari and Hampton versus Saquon Barkley on the
Speaker 1: board in the second round. And and I even asked
Speaker 1: my son, my twelve year old son, and he told
Speaker 1: me Barkley all the way at the two to oh three.
Speaker 1: I ended up going with the Chase Brown just kind
Speaker 1: of had enough of them. But I think that's a
Speaker 1: fascinating decision that people are going to be having to make.
Speaker 1: In the second round of drafts. We see that Brown
Speaker 1: goes to the Sopranos at the two o two, Hampton
Speaker 1: at the two oh four to Gorbenko, and then we
Speaker 1: see Barkley fall the way to the two oh seven
Speaker 1: to Demetrius Price. So I think there's those running backs
Speaker 1: in the back half of the second round. I don't
Speaker 1: necessarily have any strong feelings on me. I mean, I
Speaker 1: do like Cook. I didn't even mention Cook. Cook goes
Speaker 1: off of the two oh three to Todd Aaron there
Speaker 1: tonight but those running backs that are coming off the
Speaker 1: first half of the second round, I think may we
Speaker 1: may look back on it and say, man, we liked
Speaker 1: a lot of those guys at that time, but not
Speaker 1: every single one of these guys is going to hit.
Speaker 1: And getting that pick right at the end or the
Speaker 1: beginning of the second round is going to be so
Speaker 1: paramount to winning a million bucks for these players in
Speaker 1: the FFPC Big Guerrilla this year.
Speaker 4: I'm really thrilled with what Team three doing and if
Speaker 4: I thought I could get that, that's the way I
Speaker 4: would go with him.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So we look at Team three here and you're looking
Speaker 1: at this is Rusty's Bar, who was drafting at the
Speaker 1: one O three tonight. Rusty's Bar is owned by russ
Speaker 1: Yaritz tonight, and he has started off with Nikua, Kenneth Walker, Derrick,
Speaker 1: Henry Pharrell. I think that getting Walker and Henry in
Speaker 1: the first two rounds is going to be good for
Speaker 1: this team, given what he can scoop up at receiver
Speaker 1: these next couple of rounds and perhaps maybe that tight end.
Speaker 1: What do you make of the Nakua pick over Jamar
Speaker 1: Chase at the one O three.
Speaker 4: I think it's going to happen often. I really do.
Speaker 4: I think that you just talked about best football in
Speaker 4: front of you. The competitor in Nikua matched with the
Speaker 4: quarterbacks comfort and relationship with him, the fact that it
Speaker 4: still remains somewhat a mystery at tight end with that team,
Speaker 4: and the fact that we love the Rams defense so much.
Speaker 4: We think that those elements make Nakua I have to
Speaker 4: go to very successful. You're always surprised, I think, and
Speaker 4: I would have to look up and see how many
Speaker 4: games last year he didn't hit it. But you're always
Speaker 4: a little bit surprised if you don't get fifteen points
Speaker 4: out of that player, and you're not surprised to get twenty.
Speaker 4: And I think that's I think, you know, sure you
Speaker 4: could have Chase, but I like what he's doing there.
Speaker 1: You know. The other thing that we could talk about
Speaker 1: with Cincinnati here briefly, Pharrell, what are the chances that
Speaker 1: and we haven't seen Burrow or Higgins get drafted yet,
Speaker 1: but what are the chances that Burrow, Chase Higgins and
Speaker 1: Chase Brown all pay off at their ADP? It can't
Speaker 1: be that good, right or do we think that all
Speaker 1: four of a payoff?
Speaker 4: Yes? I do. I think I've always thought Higgins ADP
Speaker 4: was a little high, and then he proves that he
Speaker 4: outperforms it generally, and so you know I'm wrong. And
Speaker 4: Chase Burrow stays on his feet and the line protects him.
Speaker 4: Burrow will perform. I don't. There's if you're going to
Speaker 4: make an argument that Cincinnati Bengals offensive weapons can't perform
Speaker 4: to ADP, you might want to move back to the
Speaker 4: first round and say, hey, you got two raiders in it.
Speaker 4: But I believe that those guys, you know, Bowers will
Speaker 4: be on a bounce back year. And you've already spoken
Speaker 4: what you believe about Jenny and Genty, and I'm closer
Speaker 4: to being in your camp than the negative gent camp.
Speaker 1: You know, going back to the first round here very briefly,
Speaker 1: since they just made a pick in the fourth. But
Speaker 1: the Fantasy Sopranos, we have our buddy Michael Cansel, the
Speaker 1: Fantasy meatball himself, saying that he loves the McCaffrey value
Speaker 1: at one eleven. And yeah, Steven Gollis chimes, and I'm
Speaker 1: not into CMC but want of left, which I think
Speaker 1: is interesting too, because fairly you look at a guy
Speaker 1: like McCaffrey the volume and the workload last year was
Speaker 1: insanely high, and normally for a player like that comeback
Speaker 1: player of the Year had four hund plus touches, did
Speaker 1: a lot with him, was great all season. Normally you
Speaker 1: think that a player like that would be right in
Speaker 1: the Gibbs and Robinson discussion, but he's not. And I
Speaker 1: think part of the reason he's not is because people
Speaker 1: are very nervous about a guy coming up on age
Speaker 1: thirty getting that huge workload again and whether he can
Speaker 1: be healthy all season. That's a conundrum where I've kind
Speaker 1: of been dabbling with McCaffrey late in the first round,
Speaker 1: but I'm definitely not all into him. But I'm telling you,
Speaker 1: you know, the situation tonight that we see where he
Speaker 1: falls all the way to the one to eleven gods,
Speaker 1: that's probably a choice you have to make there.
Speaker 4: I really would like you to dispel some of those
Speaker 4: old school lean back on fantasy football truism. This player,
Speaker 4: the athletic aspect of the players that are in the
Speaker 4: NFL now is different from five years ago. And you
Speaker 4: know what is the physical difference of McCaffrey one year
Speaker 4: removed from last year where he handled this workload and
Speaker 4: handled it. You know where he would deserve to be
Speaker 4: one of the first two or three picks in the draft.
Speaker 4: So I think that you know, that's that's a real
Speaker 4: gift for the Sopranos. And I'll go back to you
Speaker 4: on my Bowers question. How late has McCaffrey ever gone
Speaker 4: in a draft? I I would I would wager on
Speaker 4: McCaffrey here team number three. I would have been a
Speaker 4: thrilled to get Derrick Henry in the third round. Players
Speaker 4: that have been used in the past will be utilized
Speaker 4: in the future, and that's what we want in fantasy football.
Speaker 1: McCaffrey, this is the latest Farrell and any big gorilla
Speaker 1: that we've had UH this week, over the last five days.
Speaker 1: The latest he's gone is been the one to ten.
Speaker 1: He goes at one eleven tonight. UH to the FS
Speaker 1: franchise here and we get some McCaffrey reaction here with
Speaker 1: Joe King chiming in in the chat. CMC looked awful
Speaker 1: as a runner to finish the season, and yeah, he
Speaker 1: certainly didn't look good. I know the matchups weren't the
Speaker 1: greatest in the world, especially in the playoffs as well,
Speaker 1: and then our Buddy dom Gazetti Chiming and let's hope
Speaker 1: see him see Bucks. The trendy's had these last several years,
Speaker 1: one full season, one year, next season, injury, repeat. And
Speaker 1: certainly if you're investing a first round pick in McCaffrey,
Speaker 1: you don't want to see the you know, the the
Speaker 1: down season after the big season last year so or
Speaker 1: this coming year as well. So that's kind of the
Speaker 1: take on on McCaffrey. We see the sopranos. We we
Speaker 1: already mentioned Chase Brown going to them at the two two,
Speaker 1: and then they get Olbby and Burden, two higher upside
Speaker 1: wide receivers there. I shouldn't say upside. I can't remember
Speaker 1: he was talking about this the other day, but that
Speaker 1: we over use the term upside way too much and
Speaker 1: it can mean so much to so many different people.
Speaker 1: And when you consider that Olabby is coming off one
Speaker 1: hundred catch season, maybe that's gonna be his best season.
Speaker 1: I think Luthor Burden, you know, I shouldn't say. I
Speaker 1: think I'm almost assured that Luthor Burden's best football is
Speaker 1: in front of him. And this is another player that's
Speaker 1: really been pumped up this year. But Pharall i think
Speaker 1: you got to take swings on players like that in
Speaker 1: order to you know, get these home runs, whether it's
Speaker 1: a home run in the second round, fourth round, eighth round,
Speaker 1: tenth round, twelve round, whatever it is. We're not number
Speaker 1: round as well. You have to take swings on these players.
Speaker 1: And certainly Burden is a swing on a player here
Speaker 1: as we see him go off the board at the
Speaker 1: four h two as the second receiver for the Irgallos
Speaker 1: Hubbard Sousa franchise.
Speaker 4: This is true Factsbaukey, and I think maybe there's a
Speaker 4: potential for you to publish a Fantasy Football definition for dummies,
Speaker 4: you know, because it you know, I I think that
Speaker 4: we have amongst these drafters, certainly with Steven g and
Speaker 4: Hubbard and that group you have, you have guys that
Speaker 4: have an idea to win the Big Gorilla Bulky and
Speaker 4: what's the grand prize in the Big Gorilla one million dollars.
Speaker 4: What these cats are after one million dollars, and so
Speaker 4: they're going they're not looking to take safe hits. If
Speaker 4: we look at that fourth round, you can see some
Speaker 4: safe receivers that went after Burden. But you know, Mconkie
Speaker 4: comes to mind. I think Mconkie has a big bounce
Speaker 4: back season. You know, Wilson has some question marks. It's
Speaker 4: hard to get behind the quarterback there. I begin to
Speaker 4: sound a little like Adam, which is a good way
Speaker 4: to saund because Adam knows what he's doing. The z
Speaker 4: A Flowers, I think you keep talking about best football.
Speaker 4: Let's turn that into best production. I think we've seen
Speaker 4: about the best production we will get from Zay Flowers.
Speaker 4: But we don't know. He's got a new coach and
Speaker 4: new situation and a quarterback that seems to be really
Speaker 4: enjoying himself. So I know, I really love what the
Speaker 4: sopranos are doing here. Let's just put it that way.
Speaker 1: We have Joe King piping in. As far as our
Speaker 1: Luther Burden discussion goes, he said he saw Burden go
Speaker 1: twenty sixth this week in the FFPC Big Gorilla over
Speaker 1: the last five days. The earliest we have seen Yeah,
Speaker 1: the earliest we have seen Luther Burden has been the
Speaker 1: three twelve. Obviously, if he's going twenty six that means
Speaker 1: he's at the three to zero two, which is higher
Speaker 1: than that. So Burden obviously is a very polarizing player
Speaker 1: this year. There are plenty of people that are all
Speaker 1: in on him. There are other people that are still
Speaker 1: somewhat skeptical. We have Adam Han also chiming in saying
Speaker 1: that Doggie Boy is PI and yellow, and that's what
Speaker 1: we see here from Doggie Boy in the eighth spot tonight.
Speaker 1: Doggie Boys seven is actually owned by Christopher Galland and
Speaker 1: he has started off with four straight receivers here, Farrell
Speaker 1: going with JSN in the first, London in the second
Speaker 1: gets eg Buka and then Teteroa McMillan Ttero McMillan as
Speaker 1: his number four receiver. You gotta love that be interesting.
Speaker 1: As I always say, when these when these players go
Speaker 1: with these unbalanced starts, it all depends how they sort
Speaker 1: of fill in the cracks. But Parrel, if you want
Speaker 1: to be able to fill in the cracks, maybe on
Speaker 1: the waiver wire running back is the best way to
Speaker 1: do it. And he could go tight end here. We
Speaker 1: only have five tight ends off the board. We're coming
Speaker 1: up in the middle of the fifth round. So certainly,
Speaker 1: if you want to build a juggernaut here, if you
Speaker 1: get lucky or fortunate or overbid people on the waiver
Speaker 1: wire for some running backs, that will be hits this year,
Speaker 1: maybe even in only two or three week windows. But
Speaker 1: if you use them at the right time, this could
Speaker 1: be a very special start for mister Golland here with JSN, London,
Speaker 1: Egbuka and McMillan from the eight hole.
Speaker 4: You know, if I'm playing next to this player, if
Speaker 4: I'm at the nine spot when it comes up, or
Speaker 4: you know, even before him, I'm at the six seven,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna draft a running back again. You know, I
Speaker 4: put the pressure to get him off that and the
Speaker 4: running backs. Look, you talk about the waiver wire, I
Speaker 4: say when and what week and how do they develop
Speaker 4: and where are they coming from? Because so many of
Speaker 4: them are in committees that you're not going to get
Speaker 4: consistent performance from them. So I this in in this
Speaker 4: format with the scarcity of quality running backs, I think
Speaker 4: it's it's sort of fools go to chase these wide
Speaker 4: receivers in the in the first round, second round, third round,
Speaker 4: and fourth round. You know, it's just just just a
Speaker 4: little it's a little bit too much. Notice however, that
Speaker 4: after he took his fourth receiver, only two running backs
Speaker 4: have been chosen, and neither one of those players. You
Speaker 4: get me excited. Although your favorite player was picked there.
Speaker 1: IRV.
Speaker 4: Yeah, my favorite, Yeah he is.
Speaker 1: He is one of my favorites to talk about on
Speaker 1: this show and I've been asking a lot of opinions
Speaker 1: about him this year as well.
Speaker 4: Yuh.
Speaker 1: The point that I want to bring up here and
Speaker 1: I got to go back in the YouTube. I think
Speaker 1: it was Michael Kenzell who posted it, and boy and
Speaker 1: now I can't find it, but it was somebody talking
Speaker 1: about this massive receiver run that we see in the
Speaker 1: in the fourth round. Here, yeah, here it is. It
Speaker 1: was Michael Kenzel What a receiver run there. It was
Speaker 1: in round four and it actually Ferrell had seeped into
Speaker 1: round five too. It started off with McMillan at the
Speaker 1: four oh five and it ended with DJ Moore at
Speaker 1: the five oh one. So you're looking at nine straight
Speaker 1: receivers going off the board and when you when you
Speaker 1: look at when you look at a run like that, Farrell,
Speaker 1: does it Does it change your I mean it's got
Speaker 1: to change your strategy, not change your strategy, but it's
Speaker 1: got to change your mentality of what you're doing with
Speaker 1: your next pick. When you see all those receivers go
Speaker 1: off the board, you know we have Igor Gurbenko, who
Speaker 1: started off with hero wide receiver here tonight with a
Speaker 1: Monross Saint Brown at the one O nine and then
Speaker 1: he went four straight running backs. So even after that
Speaker 1: big run of receivers, and I don't know, maybe there
Speaker 1: was a receiver he thought that was gonna follow him
Speaker 1: at the five all night, but he goes four straight
Speaker 1: running backs. And you can start four running backs in
Speaker 1: the Big Gorilla on any given week. He has Hampton, Javonte, Williams, Jacobs,
Speaker 1: and now Jendarian Prices as well as said the price
Speaker 1: is right. Maybe it will be the prices right this
Speaker 1: year for Jenderian price. But when you look at those
Speaker 1: four receivers, you just got done saying about the importance
Speaker 1: of drafting running backs early this year because of the
Speaker 1: high volume, because it's a top heavy position and seemingly
Speaker 1: a top heavy position, and I've heard a lot of
Speaker 1: people talk about that as well, because of the of
Speaker 1: the rookie class this year being perceived this week, we
Speaker 1: don't get those running backs sleepers anymore in round seven,
Speaker 1: eight and nine. There going in rounds four and five.
Speaker 1: And now you have a situation where with Gurbenko having
Speaker 1: his wide receiver and now he's got to find receivers,
Speaker 1: and running receivers in tight ends fail. But his running
Speaker 1: back situation is kind of taken care of. And we're
Speaker 1: only in round six, and.
Speaker 4: I don't believe he'll have any trouble finding these wide receivers.
Speaker 4: Now you're talking to Guy Balke, who doesn't ever meet
Speaker 4: a wide receiver that he doesn't lie. And you know,
Speaker 4: I'll point out if that Pittman is still available. But
Speaker 4: we're in a situation where excellent quarterbacks with very very
Speaker 4: good passing attacks have a number two receivers available and
Speaker 4: you can go to you You could even take it
Speaker 4: as far as to go to the raiders. Here's a
Speaker 4: situation where the number two wide receiver is undefined. And
Speaker 4: I think that guy could be available seventeen to eighteenth
Speaker 4: round and that would be a good investment. But you're
Speaker 4: not going to find a running back that would reward
Speaker 4: you in those in those double digit rounds, I don't think.
Speaker 1: I mean you talk about reward. Yeah, there could be
Speaker 1: a reward there, but it's gonna take something significant, like
Speaker 1: a significant injury or or we're underestimating, you know, how
Speaker 1: good one of these rookies could, like Emtt Johnson or
Speaker 1: something like that, or Jonah Coleman. I know Adam Han's
Speaker 1: a big fan of as well. But like players like that,
Speaker 1: like if we're severely underestimating them and then things fall right,
Speaker 1: then yeah, we could see it. And again it's not like,
Speaker 1: and I stress this all the time, you don't need
Speaker 1: these guys in the double digit rounds to be massive
Speaker 1: hits that that turn into you know, Jamal Charles or
Speaker 1: Jamonte Williams or anything like that. You need these guys
Speaker 1: to sometimes, especially later the guys later on, just be
Speaker 1: good for two weeks, just be good for three weeks.
Speaker 1: That can help you through a stretch or perhaps help
Speaker 1: you in the in the Fantasy playoffs or you know,
Speaker 1: even the the championship sprint at the end, because if
Speaker 1: you get that running back in that right, win dough
Speaker 1: and you have your receivers lined up like like Doggie
Speaker 1: Boys does now at the at the eighth spot, getting
Speaker 1: too and the DeAndre Swift, now you could be looking
Speaker 1: at something.
Speaker 4: Here, Swift selection especially I like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and and and and I think the the the
Speaker 1: Swift versus Menungui conversation is going to come up here. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know before we're done with this draft, and obviously
Speaker 1: throughout the season as well. But the guy who took
Speaker 1: uh uh DeAndre Swift there, that is his second running back.
Speaker 1: And of course I'm talking about uh Chris Collin, who
Speaker 1: actually said Farrell and I was trying to find this
Speaker 1: in the in the chat, he starts off with four
Speaker 1: straight receivers. He wanted McCaffrey at the one away, but
Speaker 1: he didn't expect Smith and Jigba to be staring him there.
Speaker 1: He wanted to running back to start off the draft,
Speaker 1: and instead he goes four straight receivers. This is what
Speaker 1: happens in f f PC drafts with the double flex's
Speaker 1: with the point and a half point catch a PPR
Speaker 1: for tight ends. There's a lot of different ways you
Speaker 1: can start your draft. You can go in thinking you're
Speaker 1: gonna start running back, running back, and then Chris Callin
Speaker 1: ends up going receiver, receiver, receiver, receiver. So these things happen.
Speaker 4: But you have to embrace prosperity, and I think he
Speaker 4: did right there.
Speaker 1: Embraced prosperity is a good fantasy football team name for sure.
Speaker 1: You go maybe I give you credit every time I
Speaker 1: come up with one. You gotta get me at another
Speaker 1: Kentucky league for sure. The guy who's drafting h next
Speaker 1: to Chris Callin at the one away tonight is Igor Gurbenko. Dude,
Speaker 1: where's Derek Carr? And we'll we'll ask him about that
Speaker 1: right now because we're very fortunate to be joined on
Speaker 1: the high stakes Fantasy Football hour. Mister Igor Gurbenko, drafting
Speaker 1: from the one o nine tonight, Egor, good evening, What
Speaker 1: do you think of your draft so far?
Speaker 4: Hi?
Speaker 6: Guys? How are you?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 6: You guys know that when you said some receivers were
Speaker 6: taken whatever I wanted it, I'll lack neighbors in the
Speaker 6: fourth round, I figure it out, you know, I take
Speaker 6: a risk and him by west Night right before me,
Speaker 6: so do anything I had to do. Just adjustn't adopt
Speaker 6: the strategy, that's all.
Speaker 1: And it's interesting, Igor, because we see all the time.
Speaker 1: In fact, one of my favorite draft strategies, at least
Speaker 1: a few years ago, I've kind of gone away from
Speaker 1: it right now, maybe I should go back to it
Speaker 1: where you start off with this hero running back and
Speaker 1: then you pound receivers after that. You kind of did
Speaker 1: the the the influx of that right the reverse where
Speaker 1: you get this hero receiver, and it's not like you
Speaker 1: wanted to go running back, running back, running back, running back,
Speaker 1: but again you're you're seeing the value. You understand that,
Speaker 1: you know these all four of these running backs could
Speaker 1: start on any given week for you. And and I'm
Speaker 1: sure that this I don't know how difficult the decision
Speaker 1: was to pound these running backs here, because it looks
Speaker 1: like a really strong core of a team, as Parrel
Speaker 1: and I have talked about already.
Speaker 6: Thank you guys. Yeah, so I thought the values there.
Speaker 6: I was thinking very hard between Jendarian Price and Swift.
Speaker 6: It was very hard to decide between the two. But
Speaker 6: at this point I just went for the with the upside,
Speaker 6: you know, because I know what Swift is going to
Speaker 6: give me. But Jendarium Price is either going to be
Speaker 6: much worse on Swift or what he can win.
Speaker 4: You know, Igor, I really like it. If I were
Speaker 4: to roll the team names and draft slots up, not
Speaker 4: have a guide of who was drafting, and I looked
Speaker 4: at this, I would think either I drafted it, or
Speaker 4: Steven g and the boys from Fantasy Sopranos drafted And
Speaker 4: you know, at least in one of those situations, You're
Speaker 4: in good company of drafts, and there's several teams here
Speaker 4: that have taken on an igor light kind of approach
Speaker 4: to this draft, and I'm fascinated. You can't share them
Speaker 4: with us, and I'm not going to talk about them
Speaker 4: because I don't you know, I think you did really
Speaker 4: really well here with your second wide receiver off the board.
Speaker 4: Uh but but there's some excellent wide receivers out there.
Speaker 4: I really love what you're doing. I'm interested to see
Speaker 4: when you're gonna pull the trigger on tight end. And
Speaker 4: I think you've probably got three that you really like
Speaker 4: and and they'll probably populate populate your team, and you'll
Speaker 4: be one of the last guys to pick a quarterback.
Speaker 4: And those are my predictions about you.
Speaker 6: It could be I have a few quarters in mind,
Speaker 6: and I have actually, you know, some guys alike. So
Speaker 6: here goes my big Drake May So you know, so
Speaker 6: the quarterback is out. So I was waiting take him
Speaker 6: to fall because I think seventh round is a perfect spot.
Speaker 6: Even sixth round, I think it's great for him, you know.
Speaker 6: But but yeah, I have no idea who I'm drafting.
Speaker 6: I'd be honest with you because I'm just looking at
Speaker 6: who's available. At this point, I gon to go. You know,
Speaker 6: I don't even know.
Speaker 4: At this point, I wouldn't say, you've got you guys
Speaker 4: to go off and and then you we're gonna see.
Speaker 4: We're gonna stick with you and see what it is.
Speaker 4: And I gotta figure that we're both gonna like it,
Speaker 4: like what you do.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and now we're not the only ones here is
Speaker 1: Michael Canzel the Fantasy meatball. Chiming in says he doesn't
Speaker 1: think you need to time soon, and he also says,
Speaker 1: great builds so far, thank you, and we will see
Speaker 1: what happens here is you're you're in the hole for
Speaker 1: your next pick. Igor, do you do you normally kind
Speaker 1: of not shy away from the elite quarterback, elite tight
Speaker 1: end in the early rounds and usually focus on running
Speaker 1: backs and receivers.
Speaker 6: It all depends. Just give me, guys one second.
Speaker 1: The so Egors so I'll just give her. Get everybody
Speaker 1: up to speed on what Egors team. We're talking with him.
Speaker 1: He's drafting from the nine spot tonight. We've just seen
Speaker 1: two tight ends go off the board right before Egor's picking.
Speaker 1: He's on the clock right now. He has Saint Brown
Speaker 1: and Devonte Adams as a receiver. And we've already mentioned
Speaker 1: the running backs here Hampton, Javonte Williams, Josh Jacobs, and
Speaker 1: now Jendarian Price. He is on the clock now at
Speaker 1: these seven nine with four running backs and two receivers
Speaker 1: in his stable. Igor, take us through the thought process
Speaker 1: here and what you're looking at doing here with your
Speaker 1: pick in the seventh round.
Speaker 6: Well, I'm actually picking a wide receiver, not because they
Speaker 6: need one, because I think it's a good value. And
Speaker 6: he either going to pay off for you know, you
Speaker 6: might miss a few weeks.
Speaker 1: Oh, there we go, And Igor, don't you think that?
Speaker 1: So he packs Alec Pierce there? Don't you think that
Speaker 1: that he is becoming a I mean, I know there's
Speaker 1: questions about when he's actually going to start the season,
Speaker 1: But I wonder, given the money that the Colts have
Speaker 1: sunk into him, the fact that Parrell's favorite person, much
Speaker 1: less football player ever, Michael Pittman, is no longer on
Speaker 1: the team, I wonder if Pierce might becoming a little
Speaker 1: bit of a value now that he continues to slip
Speaker 1: the draft.
Speaker 6: I absolutely agree with you. I don't see any reason
Speaker 6: why he's a number one receiver. Well you know, if
Speaker 6: you can, maybe the title would be number one. It's debatable.
Speaker 6: But think this year he's actually going to run more
Speaker 6: short routs because he's going to take me a bit
Speaker 6: more of a Pittman role and you a little bit.
Speaker 6: You know, he's still going to do what he does,
Speaker 6: you know, the.
Speaker 4: One bow as well.
Speaker 6: But I don't see a bus potential unless he's going
Speaker 6: to be injured.
Speaker 4: I think he's going to lead the league or be
Speaker 4: amongst the league leaders in yards per catch. I think
Speaker 4: we're going to see still right now, wonderful catches. Yeah,
Speaker 4: yards per catch, average, yards per catcher. I don't believe
Speaker 4: he's going to take any change anything much about his
Speaker 4: game going underneath, although they will, they will try to
Speaker 4: get him the ball. But you know, he's got a
Speaker 4: talent we haven't really seen that much of because of
Speaker 4: his deep route running is in college he was hell
Speaker 4: on wheels with yards after the catch and he I
Speaker 4: really like the physicality of his running and I think
Speaker 4: you're going to be really in good shape starting I'm
Speaker 4: on st. Brown and DeVante Adams and waiting for him
Speaker 4: to heal if he needs too. So I love the
Speaker 4: pick I think it's great pick. Thank you.
Speaker 1: We have to get into the Pierce discussion further, Pharaoh,
Speaker 1: because I think it's and there's gonna be another receiver
Speaker 1: that's going to go off the board here, and I
Speaker 1: think that'll prompt the discussion before we get into that. Igor.
Speaker 1: I know you're coming up here on deck right now.
Speaker 1: Fantasy Meatball wants to know if you were targeting either
Speaker 1: Travis Kelcey or George Kittle at that seven h nine
Speaker 1: pick the two tight ends that went off the board
Speaker 1: right before you picked Pierce.
Speaker 6: Yes, I was thinking about George Kittle in Travis Kelcey.
Speaker 6: He's absolutely right it was. It doesn't mean I would
Speaker 6: pick him a big one of them, but I was
Speaker 6: definitely thinking about them.
Speaker 1: So Igor is back on the clock right now. At
Speaker 1: the eight oh four, we are looking at a team
Speaker 1: now with four running backs and three receivers after adding
Speaker 1: Pierce to go along with Saint Brown and DeVante Adams
Speaker 1: on this squad. And I mentioned the strong running back
Speaker 1: stable of hand, the Williams, Jacobs and Price, which sounds
Speaker 1: like a law firm, but it's actually here tonight, which
Speaker 1: is great. You're on the clock. You have just a
Speaker 1: little over thirty seconds. What are we thinking here?
Speaker 6: You gotta be guys very surprised. I'm not. I'm picking
Speaker 6: a position Adam need and never really like this player.
Speaker 1: So here we go, and the pick is going to
Speaker 1: be running back, one guy from the Chicago that's it.
Speaker 1: So so we we just we were just talking about
Speaker 1: the Swift pick going to UH to team eight tonight,
Speaker 1: which is owned by Chris Collin, and Mananguy goes off
Speaker 1: the board at the eight oh four. Tell us a
Speaker 1: little bit, igor, why you like Manungai in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 6: Well, number one, I think the biggest thing is that
Speaker 6: Swift injury history. He's a good running back, but he's
Speaker 6: you know, I loved him, I said, okay, I draft
Speaker 6: him a ton you know, and then I think he
Speaker 6: was he got hurt a lot. So there is an
Speaker 6: injuries and it towards the end of the year, if
Speaker 6: I'm not mistaken, we're almost doing fifty to fifty split
Speaker 6: between suit Monangai. So I do see some upside, so
Speaker 6: a towarst he I can throw him as a flex
Speaker 6: and I looked at the wide receivers just to me
Speaker 6: while he wasn't there, I did not. You know, like
Speaker 6: I looked at the stable of guys and it doesn't
Speaker 6: really matter, you know, between a guy and the eight,
Speaker 6: nine or ten round, at least to me. You know,
Speaker 6: they're all in the same bocket, at least for me.
Speaker 6: So and yeah, I know I have five randbags, which
Speaker 6: is could be ludicrous, you know, but no.
Speaker 1: Or it could be great, could be yeah.
Speaker 6: I mean they always get injured.
Speaker 1: You know, right, I think so, so Igor will listen.
Speaker 1: Thank number one. Thank you for joining us tonight. This
Speaker 1: is always a pleasure watching your draft and then obviously
Speaker 1: having you come on here tonight.
Speaker 6: Thank you.
Speaker 4: Guys.
Speaker 1: I have some good news and bad news for you.
Speaker 1: Bad news is you got some work to do at
Speaker 1: quarterback and tight end. Good news is there's some pretty
Speaker 1: good values that both positions that are still up there
Speaker 1: right now.
Speaker 4: Good news is that since you picked your running back,
Speaker 4: nobody has picked a wide receiver. Now, I have one
Speaker 4: quick question before you go. Johnston, one of my favorites,
Speaker 4: and Pittman, a noted favorite, had been available, would you
Speaker 4: have picked either of the overmano guy? No, okay, well
Speaker 4: we might need to do We might need to I'm
Speaker 4: going to be scratching my head here, mainly because I
Speaker 4: need a haircut, and then mainly because I would have
Speaker 4: liked you with one of those wide receivers. But nevertheless,
Speaker 4: there's nothing wrong with your pick. And the now we're
Speaker 4: up to four picks no receivers since you picked, so
Speaker 4: you know you're running the draft. Brother, I was able.
Speaker 4: You better impress me with your tidy end selections. That's
Speaker 4: all I can say.
Speaker 1: Igor you have. You have impressed us with your with
Speaker 1: your team construction so far. Keep up the great work.
Speaker 1: Good luck the rest of the way. Most importantly, uh,
Speaker 1: enjoy the rest of the drafting season, and thank you
Speaker 1: for coming on the show tonight.
Speaker 6: Man, Thank you, guys have to speak with you.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 4: Fantasy meatball is dropping in here. Do you know where
Speaker 4: the fantasy meatball resides?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 4: I don't.
Speaker 1: I want to say like he's but I could be wrong.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and everybody believes that he's from Chattanooga, Tennessee right now,
Speaker 4: a city where you cannot get a meatball unless you're
Speaker 4: in business with chef boy r D. It's true, that's
Speaker 4: the only one. So but what a guy. He's coming
Speaker 4: to Kentucky this year the last year, right wasn't there
Speaker 4: last year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we have Adam han chiming In, who I know
Speaker 1: is a big time Bears believer. This year good to
Speaker 1: grab pieces of Ben Johnson's offense set to break the
Speaker 1: league in year two, and certainly that is within the
Speaker 1: realm of possibilities this year. I don't know if I'm
Speaker 1: as big of a believer in the Bears offense as
Speaker 1: Adam is, but I'm certainly not a disbeliever or an unbelieved.
Speaker 4: I'm closer to Adam's thought than that. And when all
Speaker 4: these Bears hit, Adam's gonna put up a picture that
Speaker 4: includes a smile.
Speaker 1: The yes exactly. It was funny because when we were
Speaker 1: drafting it at Caesar's in in February for the Super
Speaker 1: Sunday weekend, I was taking Loveland all over the place.
Speaker 1: I think I got burdened in a couple of spots too,
Speaker 1: but I know I grabbed a ton of love Loveland.
Speaker 1: And for players that are looking at you know, if
Speaker 1: they go wide receiver heavy early and need to fill
Speaker 1: in the cracks at running back, certainly going to the
Speaker 1: to the Chicago Bear as well in grabbing Swift and
Speaker 1: Monongai later could pay off, certainly as we go forward,
Speaker 1: and then obviously Caleb Williams, we haven't even mentioned him,
Speaker 1: sort of the cattle.
Speaker 4: That an observation many times when players are new to
Speaker 4: the ff PC, they'll get caught up in this this
Speaker 4: one point five tight end uh per catch. And I
Speaker 4: look at our guys now, and I could be wrong
Speaker 4: about this, but this group drafting here, they're not particularly
Speaker 4: overwhelmed by the tide end position. There's there's not that
Speaker 4: much blue on the board and and there's still some
Speaker 4: very good ones out there. And I I really want
Speaker 4: Bowers to be on some of my teams, But do
Speaker 4: I want to spend that first round pick for him.
Speaker 4: It's a dilemma for me because there's so many good
Speaker 4: tight ends I like, so I just wanted to throw that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, and you know the thing with Bowers
Speaker 1: and like FFPC, I'm fine with Bowers in the first round.
Speaker 1: I'm fine with him.
Speaker 4: Obviously if he.
Speaker 1: Slipped to the second, he's a smash pick. As the
Speaker 1: kids say, I'm fine with the first that you know.
Speaker 1: The issue I run into in Kentucky is like, am
Speaker 1: I Am I going to be able to build up
Speaker 1: my wide receivers enough? Even though I have that sort
Speaker 1: of quasi cheat code in Bowers and I haven't been
Speaker 1: able to pull the trigger yet. And you know, Pherah,
Speaker 1: I've noticed this in Kentucky this year too, And Steve
Speaker 1: your Gillis and I were I think he we were
Speaker 1: texting about this, or I can't remember what, but he
Speaker 1: said something to the effect of, like it's wild seeing
Speaker 1: the Kentucky players kind of like bumping up the tight
Speaker 1: ends a little bit. And he said, it's like it's
Speaker 1: like they're thinking it's FFPC. And while that could be true,
Speaker 1: I also think there's something to be said about getting
Speaker 1: these elite guys early, you know ours McBride, Loveland, even
Speaker 1: Warren this year. These guys could be massive difference makers
Speaker 1: for you at the tight end position where the.
Speaker 4: Top five or six truly separate. And there's some guys,
Speaker 4: you know as our cowboy tidy end been selected yet Yeah,
Speaker 4: you just.
Speaker 1: He went he went at the eighth eight oh five.
Speaker 4: See, there's a terrific player that does not have to
Speaker 4: turn in all those touchdowns that he had last year.
Speaker 4: But you know what a big year that was for him,
Speaker 4: what value that added for him. I I just think
Speaker 4: there's a yeah, there's a lot of separation at the top,
Speaker 4: and there's a lot of potential in the second tier
Speaker 4: of tidi ends.
Speaker 1: So I want to talk about this and get into
Speaker 1: this a little bit more with you, the receiver. I said,
Speaker 1: we're going to talk about this later, the receiver. I wanted.
Speaker 1: I was waiting to go off board to bring this
Speaker 1: up with Josh Downs. He's now off the board. Goes
Speaker 1: off the board at the nine to two tonight to
Speaker 1: don Toalby, who is running the Glaistig franchise. You had
Speaker 1: mentioned that and Alec Pierce is coming off two consecutive
Speaker 1: seasons where he led the league in yards per catch, right,
Speaker 1: And I don't again, I'm trying to remember what you said,
Speaker 1: but it seems like you still think that that's in
Speaker 1: the realm of possibilities for him this year. And I
Speaker 1: feel like with Pierce signing that big contract, I think
Speaker 1: he's gonna be targeted more. It's gonna be so hard
Speaker 1: for him to have that yards per catch title to
Speaker 1: his name again this year. And I think Josh Downs
Speaker 1: is gonna be a big time beneficiary of no Michael
Speaker 1: Pittman on this team and maybe no Alec Pierce on
Speaker 1: this team. To start the season. Downs, I think is
Speaker 1: being undervalued right now. But I really want to extract
Speaker 1: get more thoughts on why you think Pierce is still
Speaker 1: gonna be catching these big passes and making big plays.
Speaker 4: It's just the nature of his game. It's what he does.
Speaker 4: If you have a quarterback with great downfield accuracy, you're
Speaker 4: not going to just all of a sudden start having
Speaker 4: him check down and throw crossing patterns. You're going to
Speaker 4: play into the straits. This player is not good at it.
Speaker 4: He's great at it. He's a difference maker. He makes
Speaker 4: all the difficult catches and he makes them down the
Speaker 4: field on the move. One of the things I saw
Speaker 4: a great receiver make a touchdown catch tonight and he
Speaker 4: didn't even look for the ball until it was there
Speaker 4: in his hands. It was about fifty yards down the field.
Speaker 4: There's a thing of beauty. That's the potential that Piers
Speaker 4: has now. Josh Downs. I don't like to necessarily pick
Speaker 4: on a player. I think Josh Downs has some upside
Speaker 4: as a football player. I think he's a real good
Speaker 4: football player. But he's nine yards of catch, he's four
Speaker 4: or five touchdowns. He does not have He does not
Speaker 4: have the Jets. That what we would love to see
Speaker 4: in a receiver like Zafly and like the the older
Speaker 4: version of the younger version of Tyreek Hill. He does
Speaker 4: He's not that kind of player. But and and that's
Speaker 4: the problem. If he catches ten more passes, I still
Speaker 4: don't know how valuable uh, he is the fantasy players
Speaker 4: because he's he's not he's he's the polar opposite of
Speaker 4: what Pierce is. And uh, and that's very good as
Speaker 4: football player, But I don't I don't the ceiling that
Speaker 4: that he has. It doesn't compute to me to be
Speaker 4: a receiver that I want to start. And if I'm
Speaker 4: in the ninth round, Uh, we're going which direction? We're
Speaker 4: going left or right? In the ninth round? You know,
Speaker 4: Michael Wilson, Pearsall, Uh, some of these other guys, you know,
Speaker 4: even Sutton later on in the ninth round. I think
Speaker 4: those guys have and here's the word you wanted to use,
Speaker 4: upside thing. Their upside is significantly more impressive than Josh Damps.
Speaker 1: So so we have the other aspect we haven't talked about.
Speaker 1: And by the way, I understand your point that you're
Speaker 1: making about Pearson downs. What about Tyler Warren because this
Speaker 1: is the guy he took the he took the Abuca
Speaker 1: route last year, right of a rookie that came out
Speaker 1: like Gangbusters and then finished with a whimper. And I
Speaker 1: think the difference and guys in the chat correct me
Speaker 1: if I'm wrong on this, or Farrell you can correct
Speaker 1: me if I'm wrong. Agbuko had a significant leg injury
Speaker 1: that affected his production on the stretch. I don't remember
Speaker 1: an injury that affected Tyler Warren. So he did have
Speaker 1: the bad end to last season. And I say bad
Speaker 1: as a relative term because it probably was a normal
Speaker 1: end for a rookie tight end to the season.
Speaker 4: And when did he lose his quarterback?
Speaker 1: Well that that's that's another point because that was like November.
Speaker 1: I want to say that the Achilles thing happened with
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones.
Speaker 4: When you lose your quarterback as a rookie receiver. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and who was who was the who's the guy that
Speaker 4: came in there dream.
Speaker 1: That quarterback?
Speaker 4: It was Yeah, very same ages Drew Drew probably moves
Speaker 4: a little bit.
Speaker 1: Drew's a little younger than Philip Rivers. We have to
Speaker 1: get to our next guest here. We just talked to
Speaker 1: Igor Gurbenko, who is drafting at the nine spot tonight.
Speaker 1: But the guy, and we've cited a couple of his
Speaker 1: YouTube comments tonight. Who's drafting at the one aweight from
Speaker 1: the Doggie Boys seven franchise, Chris Gollin is joining us
Speaker 1: live right now as he has ten picks under his belt. Chris, welcome,
Speaker 1: You're halfway home. How do you feel about this squad?
Speaker 7: I feel pretty good for starting off in a way
Speaker 7: I didn't expect.
Speaker 1: Right, Yes, exactly, so, so I'll mention this too before
Speaker 1: Chris gets into it. Chris posted in the YouTube chat
Speaker 1: that he expected to start running back running back and
Speaker 1: he ends up starting with four receivers instead, which I
Speaker 1: think is fascinating. Chris, But this is just this is
Speaker 1: what's so great about FFEC with the dual flex ted
Speaker 1: in premium scoring. There's a lot of different pivots you
Speaker 1: can make, and you made a significant pivot here when
Speaker 1: you saw jsn Off there staring you in the face
Speaker 1: at the one await, you kind of had to like,
Speaker 1: you had to do some jazz. You had to pivot,
Speaker 1: and you did and turn out a pretty good squad
Speaker 1: here so far.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and the Hampton snipe right before it got backing
Speaker 7: round pick because I really and have done this and
Speaker 7: other big gorillas already gone McCaffrey Hampton and I love
Speaker 7: that start with the wide receiver values later. So this
Speaker 7: was just having London drop to me. JSN dropped to me.
Speaker 7: Ed Buka is one of my targets always, so when
Speaker 7: he was there, the tat one was a little harder
Speaker 7: to do, but I just thought he had better value.
Speaker 7: And then I feel pretty lucky with the next two
Speaker 7: running backs.
Speaker 4: And you can't argue with any of your receivers, and
Speaker 4: and and pretty lucky. Yeah, definitely with one. I think
Speaker 4: your running backs are leaving you in the dark a
Speaker 4: little bit, much like your connection here on the show.
Speaker 4: But I would I want to ask you about some
Speaker 4: guys that went after your swift pit, just to get
Speaker 4: a quick feel for him Brooks. Were you considering Brooks? Yeah,
Speaker 4: so Brooks went he went after your swift pit. Yes,
Speaker 4: so I.
Speaker 7: Was considering Brooks, but I was hoping he would get back.
Speaker 4: To me in the sound. He would have been my
Speaker 4: picking up. He's moving way up, He's moving way up
Speaker 4: the boards. The Uh then Dowell, what what were your
Speaker 4: what are your thoughts on Rico Dowell? I, I.
Speaker 7: Don't really want much of what's going on in Pittsburgh
Speaker 7: with the running backs. I probably would lean Warren if
Speaker 7: I had to pick one for the receiving but Doutle
Speaker 7: can receive two, so I don't know if that's just
Speaker 7: going to be a fifty to fifty split and we'll
Speaker 7: see what happens.
Speaker 4: So are you are you? Are you anywhere along the line?
Speaker 4: What's your decision about tight end behind Kittle? Don't give
Speaker 4: away any secrets, but I doubt if anybody else's listening
Speaker 4: to the But you know, I'm curious about Kettle's availability.
Speaker 4: How important tight end? He is my favorite football player,
Speaker 4: he's not necessarily my favorite fantasy football player. Thoughts on Uh,
Speaker 4: Are you going to have to carry three, maybe four
Speaker 4: tight ends?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 7: I mean, i'd consider three, but if Kittle's going to start,
Speaker 7: I really would probably only draft to and then look
Speaker 7: at maybe doing something off you know, the waiver wire.
Speaker 4: After well, your ninth and tenth draft picks are favorites
Speaker 4: of mine, and I think, yeah, so congratulations, so thank you.
Speaker 1: So Chris like it talking about the Kittle aspect of this.
Speaker 1: You wait till the seventh round to grab one. And
Speaker 1: and it is a guy who's you know, on the
Speaker 1: wrong side of thirty coming off of torn Achilles. We
Speaker 1: won't know what his status is before the end of
Speaker 1: this draft. So how do you sort of handle Kittle, Like,
Speaker 1: how do you handle the tight end position knowing you
Speaker 1: already have Kittle? Is it just like, Hey, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: add one more tight end And if kittle is is
Speaker 1: not looking good that first waiver war in September, maybe
Speaker 1: I'll hammer the tight end position a little bit more
Speaker 1: on that waiverwear. But I'm I'm you're not going to go,
Speaker 1: you know, overcompensate now that you know that you have
Speaker 1: an injured tight end as your or a recovering tight
Speaker 1: end as your as your tight end.
Speaker 4: One.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, if things had fallen differently, Warren would
Speaker 7: have been my pick instead of like Buka just because of.
Speaker 4: The build, you know.
Speaker 7: And I happen to be on the wrong side of
Speaker 7: thirty also.
Speaker 8: So.
Speaker 7: I'll hope Kittle gets back, but I will have another
Speaker 7: tight end in the next two rounds, somebody who's healthy
Speaker 7: to start the season at least right now and be
Speaker 7: pretty happy with just rolling with two on the team
Speaker 7: because there's not a lot later on that I'm a
Speaker 7: big fan of. It doesn't mean i might not pick
Speaker 7: a third, but I'm gonna be much more focused on
Speaker 7: running back and wide receiver the rest of the way
Speaker 7: other than one more tight end.
Speaker 1: Chris, you know the other thing I have to ask you,
Speaker 1: how good did it feel when you go that fourth
Speaker 1: wide receiver to start off your draft in McMillan, and
Speaker 1: then you started the big run, the nine wide receiver
Speaker 1: run where you're just seeing everybody draft these receivers, knowing that, man,
Speaker 1: there could be some good running backs or tight ends
Speaker 1: that fall into my lap, and then you actually end
Speaker 1: up getting base All Tooton as your number one running back.
Speaker 1: That had to feel pretty good when you watch the
Speaker 1: rest of that fourth round after your McMillan pick.
Speaker 7: It did because I was hoping for or either Bucky
Speaker 7: Tootin or Price to make it back to.
Speaker 1: Me, and and you end up getting too and then
Speaker 1: Swift in the following round too, and then you have
Speaker 1: the upside with Kittle. Pharrell talked about how much he
Speaker 1: liked your Trevor Lawrence pick. You are on the clock
Speaker 1: right now, Chris, uh and just while you look over,
Speaker 1: I'll just bring everybody up to speed with Chris's team here,
Speaker 1: he's got the four receivers that he started off with,
Speaker 1: Smith and Jigbo London at Buka and McMillan. The running
Speaker 1: back stable has been slowly growing. We mentioned Towton Swift.
Speaker 1: Dobbins is also on this team. Crosskey Merritt also joining
Speaker 1: this backfield. So four total running backs. You already have
Speaker 1: a tight end in Kittle, you already have a quarterback
Speaker 1: and Trevor Lawrence. The great part about this, as you
Speaker 1: start the second half of this draft, you have a
Speaker 1: lot of flexibility of what you want to do here, Chris.
Speaker 7: I do and I'm actually gonna go wide receiver just
Speaker 7: because there's one there that I'm really interested in.
Speaker 1: And the pick of the eleven eight is going to
Speaker 1: be one Jaden Higgins player that I'm actually starting to
Speaker 1: warm up to. In Houston this year, some pretty glowing
Speaker 1: reports Chris coming out of Houston from the head coach
Speaker 1: Nico Ryans talking about how much more bulked up Higgins looks,
Speaker 1: how much better condition he looks in and out of
Speaker 1: his brakes. He just looks like he's ready to make
Speaker 1: that sophomore leap.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 1: The passing volume is offense in Houston is probably what's
Speaker 1: keeping him down to an eleventh round pick right now.
Speaker 1: Because if this were an offense that was playing in
Speaker 1: say like the NFC South rather than the AFC South,
Speaker 1: I'm sure Higgins would be going a lot higher as
Speaker 1: the perceived number two there. I know Farrell likes Dalton
Speaker 1: Schultz quite a bit. When you look at the wide
Speaker 1: receivers in Houston right now, Higgins is a guy that
Speaker 1: I think is going to take a leap forward. I'm
Speaker 1: assuming I'm kind of echoing a lot of the thoughts
Speaker 1: of why you like Higgins here.
Speaker 7: Yeah, And I have a you know, it's a gut
Speaker 7: feeling that Houston's offense is gonna look a little more
Speaker 7: like it did a couple of years ago. Just something's
Speaker 7: telling me that they're gonna get that put together. You know,
Speaker 7: players have pride, and I'm sure stroud after that Patriots game,
Speaker 7: of which I'm from New England and a Patriots fan,
Speaker 7: But something tells me they're gonna go get it back
Speaker 7: together and this offense is gonna hum and with that defense,
Speaker 7: it could be pretty scary.
Speaker 1: You know, you mentioned the defense. And I think that's
Speaker 1: interesting too, because a lot of times we talk about
Speaker 1: regression of that I mean, at least I talk about
Speaker 1: regression of the mean a lot. And I think about
Speaker 1: that defense in Houston. Not a lot of people are
Speaker 1: talking about them regressing a little bit to the mean, right,
Speaker 1: because they were so dominant last year, so good. I
Speaker 1: think they're being on, you know, prior to the Garrett trade.
Speaker 1: For sure, they were being drafted as the number one
Speaker 1: defense this year. And I wonder if there is a
Speaker 1: little bit of regression not only for the defense, but
Speaker 1: some positive regression for the offense there to Chris, where
Speaker 1: we will see maybe a less effective Houston defense, but
Speaker 1: as a result, maybe a more effective passing offense and
Speaker 1: a more exciting passing offense. With Stroud entering another year
Speaker 1: of experience. Here, you have Higgins taking a leap forward.
Speaker 1: You might get Tank Dell back there as well, Jalen
Speaker 1: Knowles there. I think there's a lot to be excited
Speaker 1: about this Houston offense. And we don't talk about like
Speaker 1: the defense is regressing, because I think everybody believes Houston
Speaker 1: has an awesome defense, but there's still the potential that
Speaker 1: they could and as a result, Higgins might be the
Speaker 1: one of the beneficiaries in Texas.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think when your opposite of Nicocollins. Ugh, yes,
Speaker 7: if you're ready, you're going to get the ball. So
Speaker 7: I'm really expecting him to take that. What is a
Speaker 7: year or two for him? Leap Higgins sophomore year?
Speaker 1: Yep, Higgins, Yeah, you are coming up. You are on
Speaker 1: deck right now. Added the fifth wide receiver in the
Speaker 1: eleventh round. You could add a fifth running back here
Speaker 1: in this round. You could back up Kittle here in
Speaker 1: the twelfth you could also look at getting a backup
Speaker 1: quarterback to Trevor Lawrence. I'm trying to look at this
Speaker 1: right now. There's there are god, how many quarterbacks are
Speaker 1: off the board? Help me out on this chat. We
Speaker 1: got five, six, seven, nine, ten, eleven, twelve thirt two,
Speaker 1: but we had fourteen quarterbacks off the board. So you
Speaker 1: could add a quarterback here. You could also add a
Speaker 1: tight end if you wanted. The tight ends are are
Speaker 1: going faster. We get twenty of them off the board.
Speaker 1: You're on the clock right now, Chris, What are you
Speaker 1: thinking here for your twelve oh five deck?
Speaker 7: So this this, uh, it might make your buddy happy
Speaker 7: because I'm gonna go a tight end.
Speaker 4: Yes, we go one that has a pulse. That's all
Speaker 4: we need.
Speaker 1: Just one of Dalton Schultz. You go here, you go,
Speaker 1: Buddy City, and listen. I don't want to tell you
Speaker 1: what to do with your backup quarterback. Later on, there's
Speaker 1: not going to be one out there that might help
Speaker 1: you out. We'll see what happened.
Speaker 7: I mean, I guess I could take a flyer on them,
Speaker 7: but I'm not one for drafting two quarterbacks if I
Speaker 7: believe in the first.
Speaker 4: You know, your strategy that you started with was not
Speaker 4: the strategy that you stayed with, and I think you've
Speaker 4: corrected that and you've made a very very solid argument. However,
Speaker 4: the strategy to impress me is the wrong strategy. So
Speaker 4: let's keep Let's get back to where you are and
Speaker 4: go from there. But I think don't and Hills will
Speaker 4: end up paying some dividends for you. A good job,
Speaker 4: I hope, so thank you.
Speaker 1: You got it. That's Chris Golin, the Doggie Boys seven
Speaker 1: franchise owner, drafting from the eighth spot tonight. Chris, be good,
Speaker 1: keep up the great work, enjoy draft season, and good
Speaker 1: luck the rest of the way. Here most importantly, thanks
Speaker 1: so much for making us a part of your evening
Speaker 1: and coming on for our rod streams and I'm in
Speaker 1: thank you.
Speaker 4: It was great to be on.
Speaker 1: Awesome dressing is.
Speaker 4: A whole lot of fun. I want to say hello
Speaker 4: to our good pal that you've done battle with in
Speaker 4: Kentucky and the auctions for years, Bob Ward. I've always
Speaker 4: been trying to get Bob to branch out from the
Speaker 4: auction leagues he and Trevor, his son, and move into
Speaker 4: our snake drafts, as he would like to call him.
Speaker 4: And so I think that you know, something like this
Speaker 4: just may may do the trick now I have if
Speaker 4: we still had you know what was going on. This is,
Speaker 4: this is what I want to propose because our sopranos
Speaker 4: who have to have us on speed dial, and I'm
Speaker 4: sure they are going to try drop in perhaps coming up.
Speaker 1: He's coming up.
Speaker 4: Yes, well, you know the question that I will ask
Speaker 4: him now before he gets here, and I'm going to
Speaker 4: make a prediction is that they were talking a lot
Speaker 4: about drafting Montgomery in round five, but they took Watson instead,
Speaker 4: which I can agree with, But I don't you know
Speaker 4: these guys that are taking running backs in round five.
Speaker 4: Will you tell me how many running backs win in
Speaker 4: round five that you like Montgomery better than in Montgomery
Speaker 4: going in the twelfth pick? Or am I just higher
Speaker 4: on Montgomery than everybody else is?
Speaker 1: So for the purposes of this, I probably would take
Speaker 1: Henderson over Montgomery. I would take Montgomery over Price. I
Speaker 1: probably would take Montgomery over Tooton as well, and Montgomery
Speaker 1: over Irving. I take Judkins over Montgomery, though. So but
Speaker 1: it's so close. I mean, for anybody watching, like, oh,
Speaker 1: Bulky looks and see.
Speaker 4: I don't think it's close. You know, I don't think
Speaker 4: it's close. Maybe through the receiving game, is what you know,
Speaker 4: is where we're getting the I really on a team
Speaker 4: that on a team that really likes to run the
Speaker 4: ball in the red zone. I really love Montgomery this year.
Speaker 4: So and I'm just curious what the Sopranos if they
Speaker 4: were batting that around amongst themselves, because that was that
Speaker 4: would have been another running back that has fallen to them.
Speaker 4: I think we could say that, you know.
Speaker 1: We definitely can say that.
Speaker 4: For sure.
Speaker 1: We'll get to Steve and in just a minute to
Speaker 1: find out what he thinks about that. In regards to Houston,
Speaker 1: and we'll talk about this. Maybe we'll talk about this.
Speaker 1: We will talk about this throughout the summer. But there
Speaker 1: maybe the most polarizing conversation about the Texans this year
Speaker 1: whether you believe that offensive line has improved, because there
Speaker 1: are people out there that believe it has significantly improved,
Speaker 1: and then the fact that they get Montgomery. This is
Speaker 1: going to be really, really good for Houston. There's other
Speaker 1: people that believe that it's it's been shuffling deck chairs
Speaker 1: around on the Titanic and it's not any better than
Speaker 1: it was before. Uh so so and and I think
Speaker 1: I'm more of the former than the latter. But you know,
Speaker 1: I reserve the right to change my mind. As I
Speaker 1: always say on this job. I'm going to change the
Speaker 1: pace here right now and not have me talk so much.
Speaker 1: I want to bring in our next guest. Ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 1: He's drafting from the ten spot next to the sopranos tonight.
Speaker 1: You noticed that he was on You watched him on
Speaker 1: hsf O our Extra Wraps a couple of months ago.
Speaker 1: He is the definitive mad genius of fantasy football. He's Todd,
Speaker 1: Aaron Todd. Welcome back in man, you are twelve picks
Speaker 1: in this team that you have drafted, and we'll get
Speaker 1: to your first pick in a little bit. But as
Speaker 1: we wide scope it, how do you feel about the
Speaker 1: squad twelve rounds in.
Speaker 5: Here?
Speaker 1: Oh, Todd, you may you may want to turn that
Speaker 1: down because you're on a little bit of a delay here.
Speaker 9: Not too bad. I was a little disappointed. Go ahead,
Speaker 9: there we go. Let's take care of it.
Speaker 4: To shout it out when you know.
Speaker 9: It was a little a little disappointed. Uh when Higgins
Speaker 9: went and then Dart went, I was going to take
Speaker 9: either one of those guys. So I fell back to
Speaker 9: Pachecko just in case.
Speaker 4: Mhm, So I fell back to Checko just in case.
Speaker 4: There we go.
Speaker 9: Technical difficult case Gibbs goes down. I like Pachecko.
Speaker 4: We'll see.
Speaker 9: Might might be nothing, though, I don't.
Speaker 1: Know, Todd, what do you make that the pick? I
Speaker 1: want to ask you?
Speaker 9: And I grabbed Party just because he's kind of right
Speaker 9: at the end of the quarterbacks that I like, there are.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's some decent ones.
Speaker 9: Stafford's not bad, and Murray's a uh a decent what
Speaker 9: the heck play because he's got some good receivers. So
Speaker 9: he might do really well. It's just I'm just not
Speaker 9: sure you knows how to throw the ball to his
Speaker 9: own players. He likes to just take it and run.
Speaker 1: You know, were you expecting Bowers or what? What was
Speaker 1: the likelihood that you expected that Bowers would be there
Speaker 1: for you at the one ten tonight? Oh we lose
Speaker 1: had we may have lost time. Hold on you guys there, Yeah,
Speaker 1: we got you, We got you. I wanted to know
Speaker 1: if you what you thought about. Oh yeah, hold on,
Speaker 1: let me see if I can, let me see if
Speaker 1: I can try something here. Okay, no, nothing, can't hear.
Speaker 4: Us, Bunkie. I think in a way that we never
Speaker 4: use in a position we never use in fantasy football
Speaker 4: is the punter. But I think you know, Todd would
Speaker 4: I can't hear you? We might have to punt on
Speaker 4: listening and invite him to call back later.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, so Todd, I'm gonna I'm gonna bounce you
Speaker 1: out right now. I'm gonna send you a message if
Speaker 1: I can and see if we can get you back
Speaker 1: on uh, because I do want to talk about that Bowers.
Speaker 1: We talked. We talked about a little bit in the
Speaker 1: first round that you know, we talked about McCaffrey slipping,
Speaker 1: but Bower slipped a little bit as well. So very
Speaker 1: very interesting stuff there. And uh And rather than have
Speaker 1: us wax poetic on that, what I'm going to do
Speaker 1: is bring in our next guest here. Uh And and
Speaker 1: we'll hopefully we'll hook up with Todd here shortly. But
Speaker 1: I do want to bring in our next guest because
Speaker 1: I said Pharrell, I said he was the Nick Fury
Speaker 1: of fantasy football, bringing in all these great fantasy football
Speaker 1: players together. And he's co owning a lot of these
Speaker 1: teams with some of the great champions of the FFPC.
Speaker 1: He's formed his own Avengers squad, and he's drafting with
Speaker 1: with Captain America and an iron Man. Tonight, in Hubbard
Speaker 1: and Sousa, he is at Fantasy Sopranos on x A.
Speaker 1: No stranger to this show. Steve Dergillos, Welcome in, my friend.
Speaker 1: How are you tonight? What's up, guys, gender We're we're
Speaker 1: we're loving life, We're we're loving watching you guys draft
Speaker 1: from the eleven spot. Tell us what that conversation was
Speaker 1: like when McCaffrey was on the board at the one
Speaker 1: eleven for you guys, So.
Speaker 5: I'll have that conversation with Hubbard in the morning. Hubbard's
Speaker 5: playing poker and Nelson's playing poker, so I'm drafting completely
Speaker 5: by myself, So that's hilarious. The only the only thing
Speaker 5: I do know is that when Hubbard sees me take McCaffrey,
Speaker 5: he might not talk to me for two days. But
Speaker 5: at the one eleven I figured it was worth something.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, I do I know exactly
Speaker 4: is the only poker player in history that dislikes getting ices.
Speaker 2: I don't know if he's an ace, but I want to.
Speaker 5: I've decided to become a more disciplined drafter, so I
Speaker 5: told myself anytime McCaffrey drops below one ten that I
Speaker 5: would take McCaffrey.
Speaker 2: So I took him.
Speaker 4: Did you hear my question?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 4: Were you listening when I made the observation of Watson
Speaker 4: over Montgomery? Was there any decision for you to pull
Speaker 4: the trigger on Montgomery and take your.
Speaker 2: I thought that lem would come back to me.
Speaker 5: I didn't think this guy's gonna take I think this
Speaker 5: guy those guys gonna take a couple of wide receivers.
Speaker 2: I didn't think you would take Montgomery.
Speaker 4: You're you're you gambled that he would come back.
Speaker 2: It wasn't.
Speaker 5: It wasn't a big thing because I didn't move Brian
Speaker 5: Thomas up. So you know, it was either Montgomery, Tate
Speaker 5: or Thomas. Those are the three guys I had.
Speaker 4: So you had Watson in front of all of them.
Speaker 5: I mean I had Watson to me. You know, I
Speaker 5: said it last time I was on. I think Watson
Speaker 5: is this year's.
Speaker 1: Chris al Oh wow, yeahs well, lot of they caught
Speaker 1: a hundred passes last year. Watson isn't catch.
Speaker 2: I don't know, you know, you don't know.
Speaker 5: I think that if you guys watched the last couple
Speaker 5: of games he played, he was a different receiver. He's
Speaker 5: more complete, he's running routes, he's not just stretching the field. Uh,
Speaker 5: they think out the wide receiving core. I'm assuming that
Speaker 5: they're they're going to concentrate it. Concentrate it, right, I mean,
Speaker 5: you're the you're the Packers, you're the resident Wisconsin you know.
Speaker 2: So yeah, look again, I've drafted so many of these.
Speaker 5: I'm just you know that this is probably my first
Speaker 5: second share in McCaffrey.
Speaker 2: So you got to do that.
Speaker 5: But Watson you know, you know my opinion on him,
Speaker 5: I think that the burden again a lot of upside.
Speaker 2: You know, this team is kind of like a tournament team.
Speaker 5: It's you got you know, as I play more and
Speaker 5: more through the years and you play with guys like
Speaker 5: Hubbard and Nelson, they play for the tournament.
Speaker 2: They did. You know, regular season's great.
Speaker 5: Get me enough bullets in the gun, you know after
Speaker 5: week fourteen, and let's take shots at it.
Speaker 2: So if you look, I've kind of built this team
Speaker 2: that way. I took Quentin.
Speaker 5: Johnson to make Farroll happy.
Speaker 2: I took to make Ferrol happy.
Speaker 5: So that day, Ago and Justin Herbert I think has
Speaker 5: a real possibility of being QB one. I think it's
Speaker 5: between him and Drake may So. And then I didn't
Speaker 5: think Mitchell was going to drop to me, so I said, wow, well.
Speaker 1: You know what you know, Steve, what's interesting about your
Speaker 1: squad is, as I you know, you just mentioned a
Speaker 1: bunch of them. You have Quentin Johnston, Justin Herbert, and
Speaker 1: Keaton Mitchell. We we were talking with Adam Hahn was
Speaker 1: posting in the YouTube chat earlier about getting pieces of
Speaker 1: Ben Jason since Bears offense is probably a smart thing
Speaker 1: to do this year. You're acquiring pieces of Mike McDaniels
Speaker 1: offense in Los Angeles. Has that been something that you've
Speaker 1: been doing, whether it's you know, Hampton or Herbert or
Speaker 1: or McConkie or anybody. I know you're down on McConkie
Speaker 1: if I remember correctly.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know you don't be better than I know myself, right, No,
Speaker 5: I know you guys know you know that I'm high
Speaker 5: in Hampton because in Kentucky I try to take them
Speaker 5: almost every draft. So you know, I think that that
Speaker 5: offense is going to be pretty spectacular if the offensive
Speaker 5: line is a big if. I mean, if the offensive
Speaker 5: line holds up. You saw what Herbert could do. Quentin Johnson.
Speaker 5: Can I like Quentin Johnson because he's cheaper than a
Speaker 5: Coonkie when you know you got it. I drafted so
Speaker 5: much that I could in my sleep right now, I
Speaker 5: can tell you where, guys, I'm gonna take risks on.
Speaker 2: I didn't win on Montgomery.
Speaker 5: But by the time we draft in Vegas, Brian Thomas
Speaker 5: going to be in a fourth round the way they're
Speaker 5: steaming them up. So I mean, at the end of
Speaker 5: the day, Quentin Johnson's the value. Justin Herbert, I feel
Speaker 5: could be the overall uh QB one. I think him
Speaker 5: and Drake may are gonna fight for that. I don't
Speaker 5: I love Josh Allen, I mean he's gonna be there also,
Speaker 5: But these guys, you know, I mean, I like Justin Herbert.
Speaker 5: I think that where I got him a ninth nine
Speaker 5: ten turn. I mean, can't go wrong there, right, fantastic.
Speaker 1: There is talk and I can't remember who it was.
Speaker 1: And YouTube was really really surprised to see Ken Kaid
Speaker 1: go in the seventh and and that's where he took
Speaker 1: him obviously, Quentin or excuse me, h Dalton. Kinkaid for
Speaker 1: you was the seven O seven eleven and I think
Speaker 1: his ADP Steve is like eight oh five, So it's
Speaker 1: not like you overdrafted him.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know who.
Speaker 5: This guy is, but I could, I could, I could
Speaker 5: give I could tell you one thing that me and
Speaker 5: a Bee fight to get him in every draft were in.
Speaker 5: So if that guy's targeting Kinkaid, believe me, he's a
Speaker 5: good pick.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 5: So and not only that, he's also been talked up.
Speaker 5: Who else is on the board. If this guy could
Speaker 5: tell me I missed the tight end. You know that
Speaker 5: I didn't, and I took King kaid I. You know
Speaker 5: that's great, But I think's the best tight end on
Speaker 5: the board with the biggest upside. And you know there's
Speaker 5: no reason why I shouldn't take him there zero.
Speaker 1: I think the thing with Kinkaid here, and I'm with you,
Speaker 1: like I've been drafting a little bit more lately. Uh,
Speaker 1: Ferguson went after him, which, okay, I get maybe maybe
Speaker 1: some people would like Ferguson better. I happen to like
Speaker 1: Kinka better because I think the ceiling is higher. And
Speaker 1: then the other pick that I think you can make
Speaker 1: a case for is Mark Andrews. But then you look
Speaker 1: at what the Ravens did.
Speaker 2: I almost double I almost double tapped. I almost took
Speaker 2: Cave and Andrews.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and uh and so when you consider adding the
Speaker 1: two receivers there, adding the two tight ends, I just
Speaker 1: to me, kinkaid is is is much more exciting. It's
Speaker 1: more of a fun pick than Mark Andrews this year.
Speaker 1: So I don't fault you for that at all. Somebody
Speaker 1: else also said, and this is surprising to me, you
Speaker 1: took Brian Thomas over Parker Washington Steve mm.
Speaker 10: Yeah, and I mean it's I mean, I mean I
Speaker 10: like Parker Washington, but I mean I'm asking you the
Speaker 10: question because I do know you like Washington.
Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden, I see BTJ go
Speaker 1: off the board to you when p pee watch is
Speaker 1: still out there.
Speaker 5: So here, here's here's the way I look at I'm
Speaker 5: looking at this stuff right, And it's not a main
Speaker 5: it's a it's a big gorilla. When we get together live,
Speaker 5: Brian Thomas is going to go in at the four
Speaker 5: or five tournament, okay, because they're gonna steam them up.
Speaker 2: You see the hype that's going on here.
Speaker 5: Me and Hubbard were Me and Hubbard were going back
Speaker 5: and forth, not going back and forth. Actually we were
Speaker 5: drafting A. J. Brown in the third round and DeVonta
Speaker 5: Smith in the four round on every early big gorilla.
Speaker 2: Why because look where A J.
Speaker 5: Brown's going now and look where the Vanta Smith's going now.
Speaker 5: So you have the kind of draft to know how
Speaker 5: you're gonna get a unique build in this tournament. It's
Speaker 5: all about it's all about having an edge. So if
Speaker 5: you're gonna draft one way, yeah you know that's the way.
Speaker 5: That's the way I looked at it. I looked at
Speaker 5: it as that Brian Thomas over Parker Washington. It's it's
Speaker 5: I know it's debatable, but I feel that in the
Speaker 5: build that I had here, I like Brian Tom. I
Speaker 5: actually like Cornall Pate better than all of them. I
Speaker 5: wish Cornalltates after me, but Brian Thomas to me was good.
Speaker 1: The so like And you've done this for a while now, Steve,
Speaker 1: do you believe that that we're gonna see more of
Speaker 1: a of a rise on beats EJ rather than Parker
Speaker 1: wh like? Like, I know you you You just said
Speaker 1: that you're gonna see a Washington and he says, steam
Speaker 1: him up. It's not it's not hard to create steam.
Speaker 1: Four wide receiver going.
Speaker 5: Right and steam is so easy, feral. You have to
Speaker 5: just look at it that way. They're going to steam
Speaker 5: them up. I've been going back and forth with THEO Gremminger,
Speaker 5: and I've been telling him, you keep killing me because
Speaker 5: you keep steaming up Isaiah Likely, who I.
Speaker 2: Was taking the eleventh round. You keep steaming up Rossard White.
Speaker 5: These guys are all all all going up, so you
Speaker 5: have to try to, like, you know, get in front
Speaker 5: of certain picks.
Speaker 4: You drafters, Steve, Drafters that hold grudges because a player
Speaker 4: they really bought into had an off year, are really
Speaker 4: really making mistakes.
Speaker 5: So so let's look at it this way, because because
Speaker 5: I think that I was, I was, Me and Nelson
Speaker 5: were trying to get like he's getting his rankings together
Speaker 5: that he's going to post on FTN, and you know
Speaker 5: he was. He's been working on him literally for like
Speaker 5: twenty hours today. But before that, he you know, we
Speaker 5: were talking like try to find the guy that was
Speaker 5: going le like like Brian Thomas Junior. He was a
Speaker 5: one two turn guy, right, he's look where he's going now,
Speaker 5: I could have he could have maybe went into the
Speaker 5: seventh round.
Speaker 2: So try to find guys that you know, we're going four.
Speaker 5: Or five rounds earlier the year before and take a
Speaker 5: shot at them.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's how I kind of look at this stuff.
Speaker 2: I mean, with Brian Thomas.
Speaker 1: At least, what about Steve? This is not four or
Speaker 1: five rounds or whatever. But Parrell and I have been
Speaker 1: talking about this. Barkley was the one O three last
Speaker 1: year and now you in like the mid second, which
Speaker 1: you know you consider four or five rounds later on
Speaker 1: in the draft. I don't know how comparable that is to,
Speaker 1: you know, somebody slipping a round and a half when
Speaker 1: it's the first round and a half of the draft.
Speaker 1: Barkley is another interesting guy. And and by the way,
Speaker 1: to piggyback on that, and I brought this up at
Speaker 1: the top of the broadcast. You came in the same
Speaker 1: decision as between Chase Brown, Hampton and Barkley. You go
Speaker 1: Chase Brown.
Speaker 2: So I like Barkley. Remember last year I said I
Speaker 2: don't want any she has a Barkley.
Speaker 5: But but so I'm in that slow draft that Karine
Speaker 5: was talking about last night. Yeah, he's He took McCaffrey
Speaker 5: in front of me. I forgot what the pick I am.
Speaker 1: So he had one, so I'm assuming I don't have
Speaker 1: the one O nine.
Speaker 5: So he took McCaffrey and I don't even remember who
Speaker 5: the hell I took.
Speaker 2: I might pick him genty.
Speaker 5: I took genty and on the way back I took
Speaker 5: I was debating between Kenneth Walker and Barkley, and I
Speaker 5: ended up taking Barkley. So he took he took Kenneth Walker.
Speaker 5: But I'm into Barkley. I think that Barkley is a.
Speaker 5: I think Barkley's gonna have a really bounce back here.
Speaker 5: They're talking about getting him involved in the pass game.
Speaker 5: If that does happen, that's pretty good.
Speaker 1: Steve.
Speaker 4: Let me ask you a question. How many drafts are
Speaker 4: you actually drafting right now?
Speaker 2: I'm only drafting this one?
Speaker 4: Well, amazing, very honored.
Speaker 2: No, I'm only drafting this one right now.
Speaker 1: But but no, Steve, you're on the clock right now.
Speaker 1: I want to I want to give you ample time
Speaker 1: to make this pick. You just made a pick. What
Speaker 1: we were talking about the Barkley aspect in Kaylen Black,
Speaker 1: which I'll ask you about in a second, but that
Speaker 1: is your pick at the fifteen eleven. We are now
Speaker 1: at the sixteen. Oh, it's been three straight running backs.
Speaker 1: Black and then you had uh, a boy who is
Speaker 1: going uh was owned by Colin Baxter, Jayden Blue, Braylen Allen,
Speaker 1: and you make it for running backs in a row
Speaker 1: with George ho'lanney. Let's talk about both these NFC West
Speaker 1: backup running backs right now. Kaylan Black, do you believe
Speaker 1: he is the guy to draft right now? Over Jordan James? Fully?
Speaker 2: I mean, look, the draft capital is tremendous.
Speaker 5: I was drafting Jordan James earlier, but I guess cale
Speaker 5: I had Kaylen Black teed up.
Speaker 2: The talk is that a couple of.
Speaker 5: Other teams like them, and since I have CMC, I
Speaker 5: figured like it could be Jeames, it could be Black.
Speaker 5: Let me take one of them and see, uh and
Speaker 5: see how this goes right. It wasn't targeting Jordan James.
Speaker 5: From what I'm hearing. Black is the guy that uh,
Speaker 5: I think he's the backup.
Speaker 1: When when you consider and this is and I'll get
Speaker 1: to the hole Oni thing in a second, but when
Speaker 1: you consider that this big Gorilla tournament, you're trying to
Speaker 1: beat out thousands of other teams for a million dollar
Speaker 1: grand prize, there is there are some who out there, Steve,
Speaker 1: that would say, if McCaffrey goes down, do you have
Speaker 1: no shot of winning anyway? So why would you get
Speaker 1: his handcuffed unless you believe that there is something special
Speaker 1: about Kaylin Black where if McCaffrey were to go down,
Speaker 1: not only would Black flourish, but he wouldn't have to
Speaker 1: fight off guys like Jordan James or you know, Isaach
Speaker 1: or Isaac Grendo or whoever there. Because you often will
Speaker 1: not see people back up or handcuff. There's stud running
Speaker 1: backs here in a tournament setting, but this is exactly
Speaker 1: what you did.
Speaker 5: The only the only running back that I will cuff
Speaker 5: in a tournament setting is Christian McCaffrey.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 5: And the only reason is is because I really there
Speaker 5: wasn't anybody glaring out to me. I wanted to take
Speaker 5: Jaduen Blue. This guy took Jayden Blue. He's got seven
Speaker 5: running backs, you know, I mean, okay, Jayden Blue. And
Speaker 5: then Holdani's a free look, possible possible lead back we're
Speaker 5: hearing remember me talking about in Kentucky Bulky, I took
Speaker 5: Kilani quite a bit.
Speaker 2: I took Holdani quite a bit because they like him,
Speaker 2: so uh, I think.
Speaker 5: Plus, he is a free look, so if he if
Speaker 5: it ends up not being anything, you can just drop
Speaker 5: him and try to pick up something else.
Speaker 2: But he's an upside play.
Speaker 5: So you know, a couple of sharp guys that I
Speaker 5: draft against have been taking him. So I figured, let me,
Speaker 5: you know, I'm trying to build a little upside in
Speaker 5: this late in these late rounds. So you know, to me,
Speaker 5: Holdani was I could I wanted Jayden Blue.
Speaker 2: To be honest, I think Jayden Blue.
Speaker 5: Uh, I think he got maybe got his uh he
Speaker 5: got rid of the Louis Vatan kleats and and you know,
Speaker 5: now maybe he's got his head screwed on. He's exped
Speaker 5: I mean, I thought I was talking with Ferro last
Speaker 5: year and he liked Jayden Blue before all the nonsense.
Speaker 5: So I feel that, Uh, I feel that Jayden Blue
Speaker 5: could have a season. I think he could have a
Speaker 5: decent season. They want to try to go thunder and
Speaker 5: lightning too with Javante.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm not in on Javante's price.
Speaker 5: I was in on him last year a little bit,
Speaker 5: but at this point I'm not taking him in the
Speaker 5: third round the way I think he's going in the
Speaker 5: third round, I wouldn't. I'm just I'm more of a
Speaker 5: at that point of value. And I think that in
Speaker 5: the in the third round, there's guys that I like
Speaker 5: a little better. So that fifth round you were talking
Speaker 5: about that fifth round, that's a great RB round.
Speaker 2: It's a great RB round.
Speaker 5: I mean, I think I think we pushed I think
Speaker 5: I think your Darien price got pushed up a little bit.
Speaker 2: But I don't know is he going in the fifth
Speaker 2: round price?
Speaker 1: If we look at the Mojo and yeah, talking about
Speaker 1: the the last five days in the Big Gorilla running
Speaker 1: back twenty six five oh nine is where he has
Speaker 1: been going anywhere from the four oh nine to the
Speaker 1: six four but five o nine on average for Price,
Speaker 1: so that's about right, uh tonight, But yeah, round dude
Speaker 1: like Judkins, Irving, Twudon Price, Henderson, Montgomery, Ferrell and I
Speaker 1: went over talking about which players I like better than
Speaker 1: Montgomery and it was about half of them and half
Speaker 1: of them I didn't. I think I'm I'm more team
Speaker 1: Montgomery this year, uh than than the rest of I think.
Speaker 2: I think he's gonna be a belt. I think he's
Speaker 2: gonna be the bell out. I mean, why wouldn't he?
Speaker 5: You know what I'm starting, You know what I'm starting
Speaker 5: to really get into again, Bulky Henderson.
Speaker 4: I'm starting.
Speaker 1: Listen, I have to stop this podcast.
Speaker 4: Because I knew that was coming.
Speaker 1: Every single stream we did last year, would time Travian
Speaker 1: Henderson came up, it was the Mike Vrabel thing, like
Speaker 1: Rabel stucks as he's stupid, he doesn't know what he's
Speaker 1: doing or whatever. But now you're in on Henderson, which
Speaker 1: I think like the By the way, I think I'm
Speaker 1: kind of with you on this. He's no longer a rookie, Steve,
Speaker 1: and I know that that doesn't carry a whole lot
Speaker 1: of weight to a whole lot of people, but I
Speaker 1: think it's carrying significant weight to McDaniels and Rabel in
Speaker 1: New England.
Speaker 5: I saw some video from camp and he's catching a
Speaker 5: lot of passes.
Speaker 2: I'm seeing I'm seeing Drake make throat of him.
Speaker 5: So, uh, you know, I'm tempted again to start hammering
Speaker 5: Trevion Henderson.
Speaker 2: Mike Edelman, who you've had on the show. You know,
Speaker 2: he goes, he goes, you know, my son.
Speaker 5: He goes every draft that we did live. He goes,
Speaker 5: you took BTJ and Henderson, So he goes, how's the
Speaker 5: guy doing? The guy takes BTJ and Henderson every draft?
Speaker 5: So uh, you know, I mean I was into Henderson
Speaker 5: and I'm starting to get into him a little again.
Speaker 5: You know, God helped me, but I'm just trying to
Speaker 5: I got a core group of guys, and you got
Speaker 5: to adjust a little bit. And I might adjust a
Speaker 5: little to Henderson because I don't have really any of them,
Speaker 5: but a fifth round price.
Speaker 2: If let's say you go.
Speaker 5: To the infamous federal hated build of zero RB. If
Speaker 5: you go there and you can catch Henderson in the
Speaker 5: fifth and whip around with somebody in the sixth, you
Speaker 5: kind of like you're in a pretty good, pretty good spot.
Speaker 2: I would say something I would.
Speaker 4: Say about adding those fifth round running backs. You can
Speaker 4: only get one because you were thinking about Montgomery coming
Speaker 4: back to you and you didn't get it.
Speaker 2: I almost you want to laugh, I almost took Josh Jacobs.
Speaker 4: Yeah, why would we laugh at that?
Speaker 1: We're not gonna I would have taken.
Speaker 5: If I would have taken Josh Jacobs, Hubbard definitely wouldn't talked.
Speaker 2: Would have talked to me again.
Speaker 4: He's not talking to you right now either.
Speaker 2: McCaffrey.
Speaker 5: McCaffrey, he hates and Josh Jacobs is nicknamed for Josh
Speaker 5: Jacobs's Quicksand he said.
Speaker 2: He got auto picked. He's you know, he does a lot.
Speaker 8: Of best ball, so he got auto So he calls
Speaker 8: me up, son of a bitch. I don't want to
Speaker 8: curse on line. What happens then I go, I think
Speaker 8: so right, he goes ruin my day. He goes, I
Speaker 8: got auto picked Josh Jacobs, and then I got auto
Speaker 8: picked again. He goes James Connor, I might quit fantasy.
Speaker 4: Us. He's gonna quit, that's right, you know.
Speaker 1: And you see him.
Speaker 4: Next go into this phone and verify that he has
Speaker 4: blocked my number because he promised.
Speaker 2: He doesn't pick He doesn't pick up that much because
Speaker 2: I had.
Speaker 4: Him on the phone before. He's a real gentleman. I
Speaker 4: give him a hard time. And every time he plans
Speaker 4: to come to Kentucky, a wind blows through Texas that
Speaker 4: knocks down the power lines. So we're just gonna let
Speaker 4: the sopranos representing there in Kentucky, and God bless him,
Speaker 4: someday we might see him here.
Speaker 5: We I'm gonna drag him there one day. I'm just
Speaker 5: gonna tell him. Listen, man, we got to come to Kentucky.
Speaker 5: Because they all think I'm not super Bowl when he's
Speaker 5: not coming for the super Bowl. But me, I'm the
Speaker 5: I'm the warrior of the super Bowl. But uh, but.
Speaker 2: We're gonna get him to come out there one day.
Speaker 1: You know, I would love to see David Hubbart uh.
Speaker 1: We we've already seen Chad Schroeder uh in Kentucky before
Speaker 1: drafting live out there. That was a lot of fun
Speaker 1: and Chad doesn't even really come and draft live at FFPC.
Speaker 1: So winning a championship absolutely, yes, Yeah, championship winner for sure, Steve.
Speaker 1: This has been so much fun, man, excellent man. We
Speaker 1: could sit and do this another hour or so. I'll
Speaker 1: let you focus on the last few picks of this draft.
Speaker 1: You got to hear the explanation that you give David Hubbart.
Speaker 1: At least you don't have to tell him about a
Speaker 1: McCaffrey and Jacob's team.
Speaker 2: Almost it almost, it almost came to that. It almost
Speaker 2: came to that.
Speaker 1: At Fantasy Sopranos on X three you can find Steve
Speaker 1: or pretty much any f f PC draft as well.
Speaker 1: Be good friend aka guys, that is Steve g Steve
Speaker 1: Yourgallos drafting tonight from the eleven spot. He's coming up again,
Speaker 1: uh to make a pick after Kaylon Black and George
Speaker 1: Klani here the Pharaoh I was. I brought this up
Speaker 1: on last night's FFPC Insider Access show with Pat Karine.
Speaker 1: And I've been reading a lot of Ben Gretch's uh
Speaker 1: stealing signals stuff lately, and he brought this up, and
Speaker 1: and and I know for because I know there's people
Speaker 1: in the chat who are who are there last night,
Speaker 1: and I don't want to like rehash it, but I'll
Speaker 1: just bring this up. He's talking about best ball versus
Speaker 1: season long manage leagues right where you could where you
Speaker 1: have waivers and you can drop players or whatever, and
Speaker 1: and he's he's of the opinion that you know, like
Speaker 1: we we talked about all the time, you got a
Speaker 1: swing for home runs, you got a swing for the
Speaker 1: fences when you get later on in these drafts. And
Speaker 1: Ben was kind of saying, like, you know, even if
Speaker 1: you hit a double with one of those picks, it's
Speaker 1: still kind of an out right because you're you're you're
Speaker 1: looking for these massive swings and you have the luxury
Speaker 1: in season long managed leagues like the KFFFC main event,
Speaker 1: like the FFPC Big Gorilla, like the FFPC Main Event.
Speaker 1: You're not saddled with these guys all season, right, So
Speaker 1: I think, like for me, I need to start taking
Speaker 1: more risks at the not even at the end of drafts,
Speaker 1: but just the second half of drafts, and we'll see
Speaker 1: what these players do for the last you know, three
Speaker 1: rounds or whatever here tonight, to see what they do.
Speaker 1: But I think that the point I'm trying to make
Speaker 1: here is you like Dynasty is fine for having brought
Speaker 1: it's not fine for having roster cloggers. You never want
Speaker 1: roster cloggers. But there I'm willing to be more patient.
Speaker 1: I don't think you can afford to be patient in
Speaker 1: season long stuff anymore. With managed leagues. I don't think
Speaker 1: you can afford to rest on your laurels and think
Speaker 1: you can outdraft people later on, because I don't think
Speaker 1: you can. I don't think anybody can. I think it
Speaker 1: comes to be the people who win these tournaments in
Speaker 1: the million Bucks and that comes with it in the FFPC.
Speaker 1: Those are the people that are constantly, not just like
Speaker 1: every couple of weeks, constantly doing that roster churn with
Speaker 1: four or five players on the roster, knowing that they
Speaker 1: had they do have some strikeouts, they do have some
Speaker 1: outs on this team, and they have to look for
Speaker 1: these home runs off the waiver wire. I always thought
Speaker 1: that was kind of reckless to do, But now I
Speaker 1: feel like that with this breath of information that everybody
Speaker 1: has access to right now, I really think you just
Speaker 1: the edge might be gone in that and now the
Speaker 1: edge is just taking more chances and firing more bullets
Speaker 1: to trying to figure out what do I need to
Speaker 1: do off the waiver wire. Maybe this is the guy
Speaker 1: this week, Maybe this is the you know and just
Speaker 1: and I know I'm being very worthy here, but I
Speaker 1: think that the point I'm trying to make is we
Speaker 1: need to be more reckless at the ends of drafts,
Speaker 1: and we'll see what these players do tonight.
Speaker 4: Okay, I get where you're coming from, and I understand
Speaker 4: that if you fall in love with your drafted team
Speaker 4: and you ignore what you're seeing in the season, we've
Speaker 4: got a much long, younger season. Now. We got bye weeks,
Speaker 4: which gives players opportunity to coach his opportunity to shuffle
Speaker 4: their understanding of players. They look at it and think
Speaker 4: about it sometimes maybe they think about it too much,
Speaker 4: but it's a situation where more players get opportunity. I've
Speaker 4: heard that before, Johnny. That's really good, you know, Balky.
Speaker 4: I'm looking at this draft and you've made a fine
Speaker 4: point there. But I'm looking at this draft and I
Speaker 4: do you see certain steals of the draft that you
Speaker 4: absolutely like, Like I'm going to the first pick of
Speaker 4: the eleventh round. I think Jalen Koker being available there
Speaker 4: is just wild and that's a player that I would
Speaker 4: have drafted, possibly in front of a couple of guys
Speaker 4: that went in around before. You look at Wandel Robinson,
Speaker 4: I think he will go higher as we move along,
Speaker 4: and we're talking about these receivers that that I love
Speaker 4: that are available light and I just it's pretty fascinating
Speaker 4: to see some of the guys that are coming off
Speaker 4: the board. In the seventeenth ground, we got this Trey
Speaker 4: Harris and it's it's nice, it's an understanding of what
Speaker 4: he could possibly do. We just heard our favorite soprano
Speaker 4: will say that that he thanks Herbert's the number one
Speaker 4: quarterback this year. Well, if he is, Trey Harris is
Speaker 4: going to help with that. So yeah, it's just a
Speaker 4: lot of things that you look at this draft board.
Speaker 1: You think, you know what's interesting. And by the way,
Speaker 1: so I'm gonna make a point about the Chargers in
Speaker 1: a second, but before I forget, this will blow your
Speaker 1: mind Farell Jalen Coker. You think he's a steal at
Speaker 1: eleven to one his ADP over the last five days
Speaker 1: in the Big Gorilla twelve oh six.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 1: So technically you can look at it from the aspect
Speaker 1: of like the way that you looked at it, that
Speaker 1: Osborne and Dagget who are drafting one overdrafted or got
Speaker 1: a steal on Cocher and one, and then there are
Speaker 1: other people like where he's going. He overdrafted him. But
Speaker 1: at that point too, if you do like Cocher, he's
Speaker 1: not coming back to you at the probably is not
Speaker 1: coming back to you at the end of the twelve rounds.
Speaker 4: So and sometimes you've got to follow that money. You've
Speaker 4: got to look at what a team's doing and say,
Speaker 4: you know what, this makes This makes sense that they're
Speaker 4: elevating this player. And we've seen some players, you know,
Speaker 4: there's some good players. This Minnesota quarterback thing is is
Speaker 4: is obviously like a infection of the depth chart. You know,
Speaker 4: Juwan Jennings is a pretty good wide receiver, isn't he
Speaker 4: in Minnesota? He's nowhere on this draft board.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, the other thing I mean in regards to
Speaker 1: that is you have Jefferson and Addison there and some
Speaker 1: uncertainty quarterback so and Jennings. I think there's and I
Speaker 1: haven't mane up my mind on this. I have to
Speaker 1: do more research on it, but I think like his
Speaker 1: blocking ability is so good. I wonder if Minnesota signed
Speaker 1: him and like that, they're gonna there's gonna be a
Speaker 1: lot of blocking going on for Jennings this year.
Speaker 4: I don't know if that's I think his contested catch
Speaker 4: is very good and that puts him in a situation
Speaker 4: to bail out those quarterbacks a lot.
Speaker 1: That's I'm gonna make a point of. But I said
Speaker 1: I was gonna make a point about the charges. I
Speaker 1: want to answer this real quick. Tom Smith, our good
Speaker 1: buddy who's just on extra reps last month or whatever
Speaker 1: it was. It's all blurring together at this point of
Speaker 1: the year. Balky, will you be doing live Big Gorilla Tuesday,
Speaker 1: June twenty third. I can answer that no, I will
Speaker 1: not be. However, that does not mean we are not
Speaker 1: broadcasting that live. We are broadcasting that live or streaming
Speaker 1: it live. I should say on the FFPC YouTube channel.
Speaker 1: That will be the three Goombas which will be in
Speaker 1: La Cory, Dave Tripoli and Jake Venudi that will be
Speaker 1: handling that live Big Gorilla draft.
Speaker 4: That's a good crew.
Speaker 1: It is a very good crew, and you can check
Speaker 1: that out. I believe that is an eight thirty start.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna look it up right now, just because I
Speaker 1: know there's spots still available and anybody who like, maybe
Speaker 1: wanted to get in in this draft tonight and couldn't,
Speaker 1: or maybe people drafting tonight want to do another one.
Speaker 1: It is eight thirty pm Eastern time on June twenty third,
Speaker 1: that is live on the FFPC YouTube channel, and that
Speaker 1: will be eleven spots open still on that, so plenty
Speaker 1: of time to register and get that going as well. Okay,
Speaker 1: I wanted to make this point about the Chargers here
Speaker 1: before I forget so a Ronde Gadsden's value really took
Speaker 1: a big hit when they signed in Djoku Pharrell, and
Speaker 1: I'm wondering if the next domino will fall here with
Speaker 1: Trey Harris, maybe to a certain extent Lad McConkie. I
Speaker 1: don't know if it affects Quinton Johnson too much. Who's
Speaker 1: the GM in Los Angeles? Is that to LESCo still
Speaker 1: or no, it's not. I I should know this. The Charger,
Speaker 1: the Chargers GM is Joe.
Speaker 4: Hordis, came from the Ravens.
Speaker 1: Okay, Hordis has had the opportunity multiple times now to
Speaker 1: say we will not be signed. Keenan Allen, Yeah, he
Speaker 1: never says officially, no, he does so, and and so
Speaker 1: that's what I'm worried about. Like now, granted with with
Speaker 1: some of these, I think mcconki is really the only
Speaker 1: one that would really hurt because of what you're paying
Speaker 1: for Quentin Johnson and what you're paying for Trey Harris.
Speaker 1: But Harris is gonna go from like late round sleeper
Speaker 1: to like waiver wire fodder if Keenan Allen finds his
Speaker 1: way back on this Chargers roster.
Speaker 4: I think that Keenan Allen, after an eighty two catch season,
Speaker 4: doesn't play football this year is.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, I just I keep coming back to this,
Speaker 1: And I was who drafted Chiga con Quo tonight? I was, oh, Steve,
Speaker 1: And I was gonna bring this up with Steve and
Speaker 1: and we ran out of time. The Commanders right now,
Speaker 1: And Karina and I were talking about this last night, like,
Speaker 1: how do you handle Antonio Williams, how do you handle
Speaker 1: Chiga con quote? Knowing that Stefan Diggs is still out there,
Speaker 1: knowing that Keenan Allen is still out there, knowing that
Speaker 1: Brandon Ayuk is probably gonna be out there short. I
Speaker 1: wonder how you handle players like that, knowing that, like
Speaker 1: they could look really really good right now, but we
Speaker 1: fast forward to September, they might not be looking at
Speaker 1: all all those great et picks anymore. I gotta believe
Speaker 1: Washington's gonna sign somebody there. I don't. I don't think
Speaker 1: you go to go to battle this season with Antonio
Speaker 1: Williams as your number two wide receiver, do you?
Speaker 4: Uh No? And that's why we have drafters here in
Speaker 4: the sixteenth round, taking Trey Tucker, who will have a
Speaker 4: role and could expand that role with the Raiders. Can
Speaker 4: we go back to Cocher and I love that pick.
Speaker 4: We haven't talked about Jacoby Myers, and everybody wants to
Speaker 4: see the receiver situations in Jacksonville to a tight end
Speaker 4: that I'm not particularly impressed with. He looks good, but
Speaker 4: he and he's a good football player, but I don't
Speaker 4: see him putting those numbers up. Myers as is, you know,
Speaker 4: just a wonderful football player that that quarterback is going
Speaker 4: to rely on when he's on the field. It's yeah.
Speaker 4: I The biggest thing that I can agree with tonight
Speaker 4: is little Shakir going into the thirteenth round. I think
Speaker 4: that's yeah, right, I think That's just.
Speaker 1: What's what's great about Shakir And like he's again, he's
Speaker 1: he's not one of these home run picks. And I
Speaker 1: just got done saying you should be going after home
Speaker 1: run picks at that level. What's great about Shakiir is
Speaker 1: I don't as weird as it sounds, I don't think
Speaker 1: he's necessarily all that adversely affected by DJ Moore because
Speaker 1: Alan and him have this, this connection, this chemistry. Shakira
Speaker 1: is going to be a great guy to plug in
Speaker 1: for bye weeks as you're you know, just having him
Speaker 1: on your team as a number five or number six
Speaker 1: receiver to be able to plug him in when when
Speaker 1: you need somebody or an injury hits. You know, these
Speaker 1: gonna float right around ten points maybe.
Speaker 4: Of your friend Josh. Now, oh I see him now,
Speaker 4: second second pick of the ninth rom Yeah. I think
Speaker 4: Shakir is the same player.
Speaker 1: The the What were we just talking about that I
Speaker 1: wanted to bring this up. You mentioned it, We talked
Speaker 1: about Cocher. Oh, this is going to irritate me.
Speaker 4: Now, Oh, we got a tight end out there that
Speaker 4: somebody should pick.
Speaker 2: How many tight ends.
Speaker 1: Are off the board? We have thirty thirty six off
Speaker 1: the board.
Speaker 4: I want to say, Brian the eighteenth is a steal,
Speaker 4: but no, there's a there's a tight end that someone
Speaker 4: should take.
Speaker 1: The latest. The latest pick, the penultimate pick of round
Speaker 1: nineteen was Amari de Marcado. I just drafted him in
Speaker 1: a KFFS Dynasty rookie draft Pharah. Looks like he's got
Speaker 1: the inside track in Kansas City at least right now
Speaker 1: to be the number two guy, and I think that's compelling.
Speaker 1: That's the type of player I want to be in
Speaker 1: business with right now now. Emma Johnson might usurp him
Speaker 1: as the number two running back later on in the season,
Speaker 1: but we know that Kenneth Walker has had health issues.
Speaker 1: We know that day Marcado is a pass catcher, and
Speaker 1: we've also heard that day Marcado might be involved in
Speaker 1: the the you know, just having like a role right away,
Speaker 1: even with Kenneth Walker healthy. So I like that pick
Speaker 1: by Steve g here in the nineteenth round. That's that's
Speaker 1: that's a really good one. He is, he is on
Speaker 1: a roll. I I still am seeing some pretty good
Speaker 1: value here at quarterback later on for those people who
Speaker 1: are waiting on quarterback. Jared Goff was a thirteenth round
Speaker 1: pick Shug and Mayfield went in the fifteenth round. Tonight,
Speaker 1: Love and Willis, former teammates, go in the seventeenth round,
Speaker 1: and then the aforementioned we're talking about him earlier, C J. Stroud,
Speaker 1: he goes in the eighteenth round. I just I see
Speaker 1: this more and more and I just feel like I'm
Speaker 1: waiting on quarterback is going to be my preferred strategy
Speaker 1: this year, and grabbing one of these guys late to
Speaker 1: in case something happens where I don't have to worry about,
Speaker 1: you know, playing somebody like Sam Darnold or Fernando Mendoza
Speaker 1: or Bryce Young or anybody like that. There's some good value. Yeah,
Speaker 1: quarterback here as we enter the final round.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and your there's your players that always emerge and
Speaker 4: surprise me. And you know, one of the things I
Speaker 4: like to throw in while we still have some guys
Speaker 4: on air, because I know we're spiraling towards the end
Speaker 4: of our broadcast tonight, but man, what a great contribution
Speaker 4: from the chat room tonight and some guys who we
Speaker 4: haven't seen in a while, and some new guys as well.
Speaker 4: And I couldn't break up the I could not break
Speaker 4: up the visits from our players that came in to
Speaker 4: work with the chat room man. They are some of
Speaker 4: the sharpest drafters that you would ever see. They're guys
Speaker 4: that are coming over here to try to improve their game.
Speaker 4: Is very, very impressive to me. And I think, you know,
Speaker 4: if we had extra reps to Night Baulkie, thank goodness,
Speaker 4: we don't because I don't think we can handle the time.
Speaker 4: But if we had extra reps to not these guys
Speaker 4: have given us great content for another show.
Speaker 1: It was fantastic. And you know, I think I think
Speaker 1: anytime we have live draft coverage, the everybody shows up.
Speaker 1: It puts butts in the seats. People love it and
Speaker 1: and we love doing it quite frankly, you know, we
Speaker 1: we we love seeing what strategies that people are employing.
Speaker 1: We love seeing how players are being drafted in reality
Speaker 1: for a million bucks. I mean, there's not a whole
Speaker 1: lot of other places that you can go to watch,
Speaker 1: you know, twelve guys go for a million dollars drafting
Speaker 1: and fantasy football. And I know it's not gonna be
Speaker 1: a million bucks going to one of these twelve guys,
Speaker 1: but maybe it is. Yeah, I mean, you never know
Speaker 1: when we can see you know, one of these players
Speaker 1: coming out of one of these drafts to win the
Speaker 1: million dollars in the Big Gorilla would would certainly be fantastic. Here,
Speaker 1: wouldn't that be something wrapping things up tonight? Farrell Here,
Speaker 1: I'm just looking at a couple of picks and I
Speaker 1: want to bring up right now Team seven. Remy Lebau,
Speaker 1: who we haven't told, talked a whole lot about tonight
Speaker 1: the picks that he made in round fourteen and fifteen.
Speaker 1: Tonight Demon Claiborne, the Minnesota rookie running back, and then
Speaker 1: Tank Dell, the trying to get back being relevant in Houston.
Speaker 1: I think those are two very interesting picks. And we
Speaker 1: talk about home run picks and swinging for the fences.
Speaker 1: We should know fairly quickly what Claiborne's role is going
Speaker 1: to be in this backfield, at least to start off
Speaker 1: the season. We should know fairly quickly how healthy Tank
Speaker 1: Dell is and how the Texans plan to deploy him.
Speaker 1: Are they going to be working him in slowly or
Speaker 1: is he gonna have a role right away? So those
Speaker 1: picks I really like here because they could be really good,
Speaker 1: and if they're not really good, you could probably get
Speaker 1: rid of them and go for that next hot waiver
Speaker 1: wire pick from the Big Gorilla.
Speaker 4: In this saying with the player that I really like
Speaker 4: in the nineteenth round, Tesla was a Detroit receiver with
Speaker 4: all kinds of skills and talk about a breakout player.
Speaker 4: Late we see Juwan Jenny's going And who is our
Speaker 4: drafter in the number four position.
Speaker 1: That I believe that's Frank kem Bornoni if I'm remembering correct,
Speaker 1: I'm looking up right now. Yeah, that's Aubrey Frank ken Bornoni.
Speaker 1: He was drafting four tonight.
Speaker 4: Well, Frank jumped in there. That was the in the
Speaker 4: twentieth round, Tongas And I would like because if if
Speaker 4: this player went undrafted, and will there be free agency
Speaker 4: in this league before the kickoff of the season, Bulky,
Speaker 4: we did this. If Kittle is announced that he will
Speaker 4: be shoved in the opening week, Tongus w has been
Speaker 4: a five hundred dollars bid on in free agency. So
Speaker 4: I think that's one of the best twentieth round picks.
Speaker 4: And I'm so surprised that our guests from earlier in
Speaker 4: the show who drafted Kittle didn't draft this player. Is
Speaker 4: Tongus is a very interesting player because when Kittle is
Speaker 4: not on the field, you lose a lot for that
Speaker 4: forty nine er team. But when you have Tongus, which
Speaker 4: you don't lose the pass catching. He doesn't do all
Speaker 4: the other things that Kittle does, but he certainly can
Speaker 4: catch the ball, certainly can run with it after he
Speaker 4: catches it. I love that player in the twentieth round
Speaker 4: under these circumstances.
Speaker 1: What was frustrating about Tonja just last year was like
Speaker 1: some of his best games came with Kittle healthy, you know,
Speaker 1: and then when Kittle like he was okay, but he
Speaker 1: wasn't definitely a world beater. I'll just bring this up
Speaker 1: to within Bornoni's tight ends. He ended up getting Kyle Pitts.
Speaker 1: And I know you can't see it on the screen.
Speaker 1: I have a iPad here, Kittle, I beg your pardon
Speaker 1: in Bornoni takes Kyle Pitts in the sixth round, and
Speaker 1: then he still look at the guys. He adds later
Speaker 1: on Dulsitch in the thirteenth high upside guy who a
Speaker 1: significant pass catcher in Miami this year, Evan Ingram, who
Speaker 1: I think some of the beat reports that have been
Speaker 1: coming out lately walking up not only Ingram having a
Speaker 1: bounce back year, but being featured is the wrong word,
Speaker 1: but having a more prominent role in the offense this year.
Speaker 1: And then you mentioned toan just in the twentieth round
Speaker 1: here too, So I think that Frank has given him
Speaker 1: some outs here and some potential at maybe hitting on
Speaker 1: one of these tight ends behind Kyle Pitts and maybe
Speaker 1: a guy that would help him through November December and
Speaker 1: maybe to the million bucks.
Speaker 4: And it is your previous soliloquy from earlier in the evening
Speaker 4: put into practice, Well, we.
Speaker 1: Will put that into practice. And if you are looking
Speaker 1: to practice any of the advice and any of the
Speaker 1: things that you've seen tonight on tonight's show, as we
Speaker 1: take this, I'm gonna take this board off. Just get
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Speaker 4: I'll look forward to seeing you, sir.
Speaker 1: That is Ferrell Elliott, the definitive Commissioner of Fantasy Football,
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