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Speaker 4: It is Friday night. What a great week it's been
Speaker 4: for fantasy football and here with the Pros Versus Jos
Speaker 4: and now joining you on Friday night, and our guest
Speaker 4: is coming in from the Pros Versus Jos and yeah,
Speaker 4: it's fantastic. A lot of good news for young players
Speaker 4: coming out of NFL training camps, the early start to
Speaker 4: this season. It's good stuff.
Speaker 1: It is good stuff. I mean, I'm looking at right
Speaker 1: now and we're gonna talk about Rashid shakehedin a little bit,
Speaker 1: but I want to just kind of go over some
Speaker 1: quick hitters with you at the top of the show.
Speaker 1: Number one, Elijah Royle apparently looks like a playmaker after
Speaker 1: two training camp practices. According to John Boyle, who covers
Speaker 1: the Seahawks for the Teamseahawks dot Com, Elijah Royle now
Speaker 1: seems to be the guy there over aj Barner with
Speaker 1: no Noah offense. You're bumping him up your tight end
Speaker 1: premium draft boards at all. Ferrell Arroyo actually, in the
Speaker 1: limited dynasty that I play, I made him a target
Speaker 1: and got him. I figured that if this team scouted
Speaker 1: him and drafted him, they had to see something. Now
Speaker 1: I think even they're a little bit surprised about what
Speaker 1: they see, but they're regularly working out wide receivers, so
Speaker 1: they're trying to change the outlook of the way that
Speaker 1: team handles and lose the balls the air, and so yeah,
Speaker 1: Arroyo is gonna have a spot in it. And with
Speaker 1: his athleticism, there's a great deal of talk about the
Speaker 1: various places he could line.
Speaker 4: Up all ours from last year. He's not going to
Speaker 4: be Bowers, but he might be a little better than
Speaker 4: anything we've seen from the Seattle tight end position in
Speaker 4: a while.
Speaker 1: Next up is Jacksonville Tank Bigsby. Apparently John Shipley covers
Speaker 1: the Jaguars for SI dot Com said if there was
Speaker 1: one running back on this team that stood out throughout
Speaker 1: the practice today, it was Tank Bigsby. And I think
Speaker 1: this is worth bringing up Parrell because Tank Bigsby would
Speaker 1: normally shine when the helmets are on, the pads are on,
Speaker 1: and it's full you know, as close as you can
Speaker 1: get to full tackle practice. It was one of those
Speaker 1: things where it was helmets and shorts that was it
Speaker 1: today and Bigsby stood out. I think that's good news
Speaker 1: if you have Bigsby or if you're looking at drafting
Speaker 1: him over Etn over Michelle Tooton over Laquin Allen. This
Speaker 1: this is a very ambiguous backfield, and Bigsby I think
Speaker 1: took a step forward here.
Speaker 4: We've had a hard time being right about the Jacksonville
Speaker 4: backfield and the Jacksonville team over the years and there.
Speaker 4: So this is not something that I am looking to do.
Speaker 4: And I don't think he's gonna drop much in the
Speaker 4: draft because of this conversation. So this is a player
Speaker 4: that I will be personally avoiding and will somewhat underscore
Speaker 4: my lack of meaningful commentary about it.
Speaker 1: The news was not all good today. Darnell Mooney was
Speaker 1: the bad. We'll get into the bad here. Zach Kline,
Speaker 1: who covers the Falcons for WSB, reports that Mooney has
Speaker 1: a shoulder injury. Suffered a shoulder injury today and quote
Speaker 1: will miss most of training camp. Now. We don't know
Speaker 1: if this is the same shoulder that he hurt last season.
Speaker 1: It's not like the Falcons have another guy ready to
Speaker 1: step up into that number two role. They have Caderill Hodge,
Speaker 1: they have Ray Ray McCloud, and then they inked DJ
Speaker 1: Chark to a contract later today. Hopefully Mooney recovers. I
Speaker 1: feel like I have to move him down my boards
Speaker 1: a little bit, even though I like this player Ferrell.
Speaker 1: When you look at that Atlanta passing game, are you
Speaker 1: bumping up pits at all? Is there somebody that you
Speaker 1: look at late? How are you drafting Darnel Mooney now
Speaker 1: that we know he's probably gonna be missing most of
Speaker 1: training camp over the next four or five, even six weeks.
Speaker 4: I was trying to warm up to him during the
Speaker 4: pros Versus shows. The more I looked at him, the
Speaker 4: more I was beginning to do that. But it's he's
Speaker 4: the type of player, body, physique, and skill set that
Speaker 4: doesn't respond well to the shoulder or joint injuries. They're
Speaker 4: just basing things that he has to do. You know,
Speaker 4: I like, I don't like any player to be injured.
Speaker 4: But if you're in fantasy ball, if you want a
Speaker 4: guy that struggles with injuries, you want a bigger player
Speaker 4: that can physical still physical his way to make certain catches,
Speaker 4: to make the proverbial fifty to fifty catch, Mooney's not
Speaker 4: going to make any of them, and if he's hurting,
Speaker 4: he's going to make less than them. So I don't
Speaker 4: know is a big He's a run after catch guy
Speaker 4: for me too. He should be elusive. He runs sometimes
Speaker 4: like a running back. All those things come to play
Speaker 4: and make you somewhat skittish about him to repeat some
Speaker 4: of the success he's had. Put that in the fact
Speaker 4: that he is still a falcon, and you continue to
Speaker 4: be further discouraged about his opportunities.
Speaker 1: You know, I think I am leaning towards everything you said.
Speaker 1: I respect, obviously, but I think I'm leaning towards buying
Speaker 1: the dip on Mooney. This is a player that I
Speaker 1: was already in on. He was wide receiver fifty one
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Speaker 1: And so I would imagine with this shoulder news, he's
Speaker 1: probably going to be dropping in the twelfth or three.
Speaker 1: I must be able to get him as wide receiver six.
Speaker 1: And if that's the case, whether it's in Best Ball,
Speaker 1: whether it's in manage leagues or whatever, I'm still on
Speaker 1: board for that. It's a long season. He is not
Speaker 1: a rookie, he is not a second year guy that
Speaker 1: he needs all these reps. I don't think that there's
Speaker 1: an obvious guy ready to step in for him. I
Speaker 1: am not a DJ believer. So I think when Mooney
Speaker 1: slips to that twelfth round, which he inevitably will do,
Speaker 1: maybe even later than that, I'll be scooping him up.
Speaker 4: It's fair enough as long as it's after Pittman. Wow,
Speaker 4: it only took us twelve minutes to get Pittman into
Speaker 4: the conversation. Yeah, and I'm just and I agree with
Speaker 4: everything you're saying. However, if his injury is a nagging
Speaker 4: one throughout the year. The kind of athlete he is,
Speaker 4: what he does to be successful could be put in peril.
Speaker 1: The other thing I want to bring up here we
Speaker 1: have Rob Thomasino coming up the FFP. It's a ghos
Speaker 1: drafter Dallas Morning News is Calvin Watkins was asked or
Speaker 1: excuse me, asked Brian Schottenheimer, the head coach of Dallas,
Speaker 1: about the running back situation, and Shottenheimer hinted that a
Speaker 1: rotation could be the way that Dallas goes once the
Speaker 1: season starts. Watkins listed Javonte Williams and Miles Sanders as
Speaker 1: the two guys who are competing for the starting running
Speaker 1: back job in Dallas. Did not mention Jayden Blue. And
Speaker 1: obviously we saw the report last week from a Cowboys
Speaker 1: former Cowboys coach saying that he's been lazy and they've
Speaker 1: had to force him and kind of kick him in
Speaker 1: the gear, kick him in the rear to get him.
Speaker 4: Ye.
Speaker 1: That's yeah, basically that's what it was. So here's the thing.
Speaker 1: Javonte Williams has not been good in several years. Miles
Speaker 1: Sanders has not been good in several years. I am
Speaker 1: still like we got the KFFSE Dynasty rookie drafts going
Speaker 1: on right now. I've gotten Jaden Blue and at least
Speaker 1: two of them already. I'm still on board with that.
Speaker 1: As far as redraft goes again, this is a player
Speaker 1: I'm buying the dip on. I feel like if you
Speaker 1: can get him as running back five, that could really
Speaker 1: pay off. And with the news coming out of Dallas
Speaker 1: not being glowing, I feel like this is the opportunity
Speaker 1: to buy Jayden Blue now before he starts turning heads
Speaker 1: in the preseason. I agree with that.
Speaker 4: Players that come in and get labeled publicly lazy usually
Speaker 4: have a chip on their shoulder, maybe as coaches that
Speaker 4: are trying to light light the proverbial fuse in this player.
Speaker 4: I I've seen coaches talk to players about being lazy,
Speaker 4: line thinking lazy, having a hard time focus, line up wrong.
Speaker 4: You know, there's nothing more entertaining for me than you
Speaker 4: go to a practice and you got the guys lined
Speaker 4: up and some coach runs screaming onto the field at
Speaker 4: one player that he's lined up in the wrong place.
Speaker 4: The poor players trying to figure out all these aspects
Speaker 4: of the play call, and it can be a difficult
Speaker 4: process for it. But yeah, let's let's just give the
Speaker 4: Let's give the young player a break and see what
Speaker 4: you see how he shakes off the lazy label.
Speaker 1: I want to get into New Orleans here. Rashid Shakid,
Speaker 1: according to Aaron Summers and covers the team, says that
Speaker 1: he put on weight this offseason to hold up better
Speaker 1: against contact. Rashid Shahed weighs in at one hundred and
Speaker 1: ninety pounds at the start of this season. At this
Speaker 1: time last year, he weighed one hundred and eighty. This
Speaker 1: is his fourth year in the league. He's coming back
Speaker 1: from a torn meniscus that he suffered last season. Apparently
Speaker 1: looked completely recovered from this meniscus, not now, but all
Speaker 1: the way back in May. Per Matthew Paris, who covers
Speaker 1: the Saints, he averaged sixteen point six yards per reception
Speaker 1: in his career before he got hurt. Last year, he
Speaker 1: was on pace for just under one thousand yards and
Speaker 1: nine touchdowns. John Dagel from established around another process as
Speaker 1: Joe's drafter that we saw this past week. Pharrell posted
Speaker 1: that in the games win a Lave and Shahied were
Speaker 1: healthy last year. I think it was like five four
Speaker 1: or five games, Shih had actually out targeted Chris o'lave
Speaker 1: by like eight or nine targets. Now, I know target,
Speaker 1: it's like the T word on this show. We don't
Speaker 1: like to talk about it. We like to talk about receptions.
Speaker 1: But when you talk about where these players are going,
Speaker 1: the FFPC big gorilla over the last three days. Knowing
Speaker 1: what I just told you, what John Daegel said about
Speaker 1: a lobby being out targeted by Rashid Shaheed, you have
Speaker 1: to pay seventh round draft capital, sometimes sixth round draft
Speaker 1: capital for Chris o'labby Rashid Shahed is only going to
Speaker 1: set you back twelfth round draft capital. I'm becoming a
Speaker 1: fan of Shaheed, my friend.
Speaker 4: I think you've been a fan for a while. Bulkie,
Speaker 4: you know we were back in the day. We were
Speaker 4: talking about this player before really anyone else was that
Speaker 4: I can recall, and we've always liked him. I think
Speaker 4: that he is tied to the quarterback Tyler Shuck. As
Speaker 4: I recall, Shuck has great downfield accuracy and that's where,
Speaker 4: especially in best Ball, you'll get your spikes from Shaheed. Now,
Speaker 4: why is he targeted a lot? He's targeting a lot
Speaker 4: because he gets open, and then you know he is
Speaker 4: open and he's had quarterback. You know, say what you
Speaker 4: will about mister Carr, There's there's a quarterback they could
Speaker 4: run through the progressions. Now he gets at the other
Speaker 4: end of the spectrum with a rookie quarterback. A rookie
Speaker 4: quarterback can lean on a player that gets open and
Speaker 4: has speed. And also Shaheed could look a lot different
Speaker 4: in what they ask him to.
Speaker 2: Do with this quarterback.
Speaker 4: So I'm with you, Bulky. This is a player that
Speaker 4: I will be targeting in the drafts and that I'm
Speaker 4: thrilled to have on my dynasty teams that I barely
Speaker 4: paid for I think got him off the waivers in
Speaker 4: most cases. And I'm beginning to notice that a lot
Speaker 4: of people is a lot of people are going to
Speaker 4: catch up to this player because I'm getting a lot
Speaker 4: of trade offers. And Scott points says, who is going
Speaker 4: to get him the ball? Well, it'll be a rookie quarterback,
Speaker 4: or it'll be Jay Hayner. It'll be one of those guys.
Speaker 4: And they won't win many many games for New Orleans,
Speaker 4: but they will successfully present this player with enough opportunities
Speaker 4: to cast seventy seventy five balls. If he continues to
Speaker 4: separate and get the yard, as you're talking about a
Speaker 4: few touchdowns, that'll be quite an acquisition for the twelfth round.
Speaker 1: The level of expectation you have for a player in
Speaker 1: the twelfth round goes increasingly down. While Scott Hoyt brings
Speaker 1: up a good point, I think that's a question I
Speaker 1: would ask for somebody like Olave who's going in the
Speaker 1: sixth round, who's going to get them the ball?
Speaker 4: That's a good point. And Scott, you know, it's not
Speaker 4: a bit of a mess. It's not. You've got good
Speaker 4: young players who are competing for the position. It was
Speaker 4: a bit of a mess last year you had an
Speaker 4: injured veteran that can't shake it off. Now. The only
Speaker 4: time that the New Orleans quarterback room it begins to
Speaker 4: look like a mess to be is when they ask
Speaker 4: the tight end to start playing quarterback.
Speaker 1: They have young players competing for the job there. How
Speaker 1: good they are, I don't know, we'll find out, but
Speaker 1: I think they're good enough to get the ball to
Speaker 1: a lobby in Shaheed, and obviously Shahed if you miss
Speaker 1: on him in the twelfth round doesn't really hurt your draft.
Speaker 1: At all. Let's go to Washington Farrell Chris Russell, who
Speaker 1: covers the commanders that he is not going to be
Speaker 1: surprised if Jacory Krossky Merritt earns running back one snaps
Speaker 1: at some point this season. There's been a lot of
Speaker 1: praise for Jacory Krossky Merrit in training camp so far.
Speaker 1: He had a four point four five forty yard dash
Speaker 1: at the scouting combine eight point nine excuse me, eight
Speaker 1: point two to nine RAD score, which is an elite
Speaker 1: but whatever, the next step down from elite, that's what
Speaker 1: he's at. Should have been an early day pick according
Speaker 1: to a lot of scouts, he ends up being a
Speaker 1: late day three pick. An early day three pick according
Speaker 1: to a lot of scouts. He ends up going late
Speaker 1: day three. And quite frankly, you have Austin Eckler and
Speaker 1: Brian Robinson. There not a high bar to jump over.
Speaker 1: And when you consider that Jacory Krossky Merrit, I do
Speaker 1: believe that this guy is going to continue to rise
Speaker 1: up the big guerrilla draft boards sixteen o eight running
Speaker 1: Back sixty six. I'm definitely in on that. I wish
Speaker 1: I had more shares of Merriage just to see what
Speaker 1: happens here because I think this Washington running game is
Speaker 1: more ambiguous than a lot of people think. I do too.
Speaker 4: And why didn't he get drafted. He's twenty four years old.
Speaker 4: Why didn't he get drafted better? Well, he only played
Speaker 4: one game his senior season, but he went down to
Speaker 4: the East West Rine game in Texas and impressed everyone,
Speaker 4: and that's where he began. He was the most valuable
Speaker 4: player in that game, and people were pleased with him
Speaker 4: in practice, and then he showed it in the All
Speaker 4: Star Game. And he was a good teammate and a
Speaker 4: great kid to be around. Three schools during his college time.
Speaker 4: What did he not show in college? He rarely caught
Speaker 4: the ball, which makes me think that Eckler will handle
Speaker 4: third down and maybe some more. And you know, you
Speaker 4: take a guy like Eckler and you start saying he's
Speaker 4: going to handle a lot of the third down, Well,
Speaker 4: then Eckler becomes something that you can consider there, becomes
Speaker 4: a five to six catch player per game.
Speaker 2: You look at.
Speaker 4: What's going on with with Robinson. He's in the last
Speaker 4: year of his contract, and I think they will continue
Speaker 4: to work out running backs. They will look at guys
Speaker 4: on the street they'll look at guys that'll be waived
Speaker 4: and try to piece it together. But I think they
Speaker 4: were very pleased to get this player. They like what
Speaker 4: they've seen him, and he goes by Bill. His nickname
Speaker 4: is Bill, so you can drop all the other hyphenated
Speaker 4: names and just call him Bill.
Speaker 2: But I like him.
Speaker 4: And you know, if I'm a young quote running back
Speaker 4: trying to get a start in this league and trying
Speaker 4: to figure it out, you can't be in a locker
Speaker 4: room with anybody better than Austin Ekwer.
Speaker 1: Given that he plays in our nation's capital, the nickname
Speaker 1: of Bill is very fitting for ja Cory Krossky merit.
Speaker 1: And let me tell you, as a fantasy player, I
Speaker 1: am putting my John Hancock on that Bill and getting
Speaker 1: him on my team. One last thing I want to
Speaker 1: bring up before he gets where Our guests tonight, Rob Thomasino,
Speaker 1: the three time FFPC made have been champion process. As
Speaker 1: Joe's drafter, I feel like we just should touch on
Speaker 1: this Bears thing. We're going to touch on it with
Speaker 1: Rob as well. Ben Johnson said that Luthor Burden is
Speaker 1: day to day after he had this hamstring issue in
Speaker 1: May and he's still day to day Pharah. This is
Speaker 1: like two months later that he's still dealing with court
Speaker 1: and Cronin's reporting this from ESPN. Devin Dubernet, Olemedi Zakaias
Speaker 1: have been taking first team reps in Burd instead. I'm
Speaker 1: excited for Burden number one because of the talent, number
Speaker 1: two because of the offense, number three because his perceived
Speaker 1: role in the offense. And yet if this rookie can't
Speaker 1: get on the field and he's already getting off to
Speaker 1: a slow start, farreh, I do have a little bit
Speaker 1: of pause before I'm drafting him in the big Gorilla
Speaker 1: right now. People have to make this decision when it
Speaker 1: rolls up to him in the eleventh round. Are you
Speaker 1: taking a player like Luther Burden as the wide receiver
Speaker 1: fifty five off the board? Or would you take a
Speaker 1: guy like Shaheed Would you take a guy like Christian
Speaker 1: Kirk or Hollywood Brown, all three receivers going after Luthor
Speaker 1: Burden right now? How do you feel about Burden knowing
Speaker 1: that this guy is not healthy right now trying to
Speaker 1: get back on the field.
Speaker 4: Let's see if he ever does, and by the time
Speaker 4: we get to Paris, if he hadn't been on the field.
Speaker 4: Let's skip it. Let's lett someone else take that risk.
Speaker 4: Of course, he'll drop beyond that fifty five probably, and
Speaker 4: we can then reconsider what we want to do with him.
Speaker 4: But you know, we we've talked about a We talked
Speaker 4: about a lot of promising receivers last year. At this
Speaker 4: time I was high on Malakai Corley. Malachai Corley was
Speaker 4: at least healthy, but he did he didn't play that way,
Speaker 4: particularly on the field, when given the opportunity to play.
Speaker 4: So it's a problem to me. And no matter how
Speaker 4: no matter what your scouting profile is, if you're showing
Speaker 4: up hurt and staying hurt, I think we we only
Speaker 4: get twenty draft picks. Let's let's use them on guys
Speaker 4: that are healthy.
Speaker 1: I would agree with you one hundred percent on that.
Speaker 1: I am at least eighty to ninety percent of the
Speaker 1: time taking Shaheed right now over Burden. Will that pay
Speaker 1: off for me? I hope so. But I also understand
Speaker 1: that Burden is not exactly the type of player I
Speaker 1: want to one ignore either. But yeah, the sooner he
Speaker 1: gets on field, the better. The sooner we get to
Speaker 1: tonight's interview, the better. Quite frankly, we have let this
Speaker 1: guy nash On Crew De Tay shrimp cocktail way too long,
Speaker 1: so let's get him on right now.
Speaker 2: He is.
Speaker 1: He was hanging out with us on Monday night during
Speaker 1: our Pros Versus Joe's Draft coverage. He had the eleven
Speaker 1: spot in Monday Night's draft in Pros Versus Joe's two.
Speaker 1: We're here to night to talk to him about that
Speaker 1: draft as well as other as his other thoughts on
Speaker 1: drafting season this year and Pharaoh. We will not let
Speaker 1: him get away tonight without giving us his worst fantasy
Speaker 1: bad beat story, which we're gonna get to where we
Speaker 1: say good night to him. Please welcome in back to
Speaker 1: the show, the guy who has won three FFPC Main
Speaker 1: Event League titles already in his career, looking for a
Speaker 1: million dollar grand prize this year, mister Rob Thomasino, Rob,
Speaker 1: good evening man, how are you.
Speaker 2: Eric Farrell? Thanks for having me, appreciate it. You guys
Speaker 2: ice me out a little bit, but I'm good to
Speaker 2: go now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just once we get going, man, it's it's tough
Speaker 1: to stop. It's tough to stop. I don't think we
Speaker 1: got a chance to talk to you about this on Monday.
Speaker 1: But when you're not playing all these FFPC leagues and
Speaker 1: winning all these leagues, what are you doing for a living?
Speaker 2: So I'm born and raised in Long Island, Smithtown, about
Speaker 2: halfway between Manhattan and the Hamptons. Went to college Gettysburg
Speaker 2: College shout out Bullets, Pennsylvania. I worked for a distributor
Speaker 2: of electronic components and displays Edge Electronics out in Bohemia.
Speaker 2: It's a woman owned business. She's a terrific woman. I
Speaker 2: would like to give a shout out to her. And
Speaker 2: I also last year, my son finished up his high
Speaker 2: school football career and I realized out in Long Island
Speaker 2: that they needed officials. So I put my name on
Speaker 2: a list to officiate some football games and I started
Speaker 2: that last year and I've been doing middle school games,
Speaker 2: which I've really enjoyed, and uh, it's a fun thing
Speaker 2: to do.
Speaker 1: So I football officiating. So can you tell us like,
Speaker 1: are you on the field, are you a referee or
Speaker 1: you align judge? What are you doing for that? Rob?
Speaker 2: Yeah, So when they train you to do pretty much everything,
Speaker 2: and when you're on the varsity level, you get assigned
Speaker 2: a specific position like line judge, field judge, referee. In
Speaker 2: the middle school typically they have three officials and you
Speaker 2: end up being either the referee or one of the
Speaker 2: line judges aside judges, so there's there's one guy on
Speaker 2: each side of the field on the line of scrimmage,
Speaker 2: and then the ref rooms behind the play. So I've
Speaker 2: had I've had an opportunity to do all three and
Speaker 2: it's fun, it's interesting, and it's a good age because
Speaker 2: the kids are still respectful and nice, and the coaches
Speaker 2: aren't ridiculously abusive or mean. And I'm not the type
Speaker 2: of person that's going to take a lot of abuse,
Speaker 2: so I kind of want to stay out of the
Speaker 2: varsity level.
Speaker 4: There you go, Yeah, I got it. I have a
Speaker 4: rather rotund friend who officiates youth football, and I got
Speaker 4: a kick out of him because he told the kids
Speaker 4: he just do not start your celebration before I can
Speaker 4: get down the field to sew. And I saw that
Speaker 4: actually play out.
Speaker 2: That's good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's all I have. I have a buddy, actually,
Speaker 1: one of my bosses at the radio station. He is
Speaker 1: a high school referee, and I don't think he's I
Speaker 1: don't think he did it the last couple of years,
Speaker 1: but for probably like ten or fifteen years, every Friday
Speaker 1: night he was out there refereeing high school football at
Speaker 1: the varsity level, and I'm like, dude, you're a glutton
Speaker 1: for punishment because that to me, you don't get paid
Speaker 1: enough to be that stressed out. And then you got
Speaker 1: to deal with fans and everything. So God bless you, Rob.
Speaker 1: And you said the coaches and the players, they're at
Speaker 1: the right level for you right now. And I'm sure
Speaker 1: it's enjoyable, but I think about that. I used to
Speaker 1: be a little league and then I moved up to
Speaker 1: babe ruth umpire no base calling balls and strikes and
Speaker 1: on basis never again, no thanks, I'm out of that game. Man,
Speaker 1: I'm on me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, baseball is too boring, and being an umpire is
Speaker 2: too boring.
Speaker 4: You know what, it's not boring and drafting in the
Speaker 4: pros versus Joseph ninety six hours removed. How do you
Speaker 4: think he did?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: Boy? So it's funny because I told you, guys, this
Speaker 2: is my first draft. I knew it would be a
Speaker 2: learning experience. The good thing, best ball, Yeah, first best
Speaker 2: ball draft, No way, the good thing. It was a
Speaker 2: free learning experience. But uh, you know, I asked my
Speaker 2: nephew who does a bunch of best ball drafts. I
Speaker 2: asked Joe to Bagel guy who I see every morning
Speaker 2: on my way to work, he does a lot of
Speaker 2: best ball drafts, and they all kind of told me
Speaker 2: the same things, And unfortunately I didn't execute a lot
Speaker 2: of what they were telling me. When I look at
Speaker 2: my I really if this was an f FPC main
Speaker 2: event team, I would love it, but it's not. And
Speaker 2: you know, we talked about things like stacking, making sure
Speaker 2: you don't get stuck on any bye weeks, and taking
Speaker 2: some risks. And then the other thing I struggled with,
Speaker 2: believe it or not, was some of the logistics. I
Speaker 2: didn't anticipate how quickly picks would come off the board.
Speaker 2: Like a main event draft, do you typically have a
Speaker 2: good minute or minute and a half or two between picks,
Speaker 2: and all of a sudden, after like round eight, the
Speaker 2: picks just started coming off the board ten to fifteen
Speaker 2: seconds at a time. So what I probably should have
Speaker 2: done is kind of focus more on my own picks
Speaker 2: and less on who was coming off the board and
Speaker 2: during more coffee. Yeah, so I struggled a little bit
Speaker 2: with that. But that being said, you know, I'm the
Speaker 2: eternal optimist. You know, when I look at my team,
Speaker 2: I have some players that are gonna put up a
Speaker 2: lot of points. When you have a guys like Nicole
Speaker 2: and a Chain, those two guys could put up sixty
Speaker 2: five seventy points on a given a week combined just
Speaker 2: for those two players. So you know the stacking is
Speaker 2: going to be a problem. I know that that I
Speaker 2: don't have much of a stack. I do have Stafford Nkoua,
Speaker 2: Russell Wilson, Wandel Robinson, which I'm not even sure if
Speaker 2: that's st of the stack, but it was a good
Speaker 2: learning experience and listen, we're going to fight to the
Speaker 2: end and see what happens. I think where I went
Speaker 2: kind of in the wrong direction was in round eight.
Speaker 2: If you look in round eight, after I made what
Speaker 2: I thought was seven solid picks, I was kind of
Speaker 2: staring at my homes and saying, I feel like he's
Speaker 2: not the right pick. But I just couldn't wrap my
Speaker 2: arms at the time around Matthew Golden or at book
Speaker 2: would But I think I should have because if I
Speaker 2: would have gotten one of those two guys there, I
Speaker 2: could have gotten bo Nicks on the turn and that
Speaker 2: would have probably been a better fit for my team
Speaker 2: having Courtland Sutton.
Speaker 1: So we have Rob's draft up here. You can see it.
Speaker 1: He is from the eleven spot there. It's the one
Speaker 1: that starts off with Nikua Chan and Cook here. And
Speaker 1: you say that that you weren't like you would love
Speaker 1: this if this is a main event. I don't know, man,
Speaker 1: Like I guess I feel like you don't have maybe
Speaker 1: some of the multi multipliers, the bonuses, you know, the
Speaker 1: stacks and everything. But I feel like from a and
Speaker 1: I can't remember what we said about this team on Monday,
Speaker 1: but I think like from a team construction standpoint, I mean,
Speaker 1: I think you're good at quarterback. You're definitely good at
Speaker 1: at tight end. Like what you don't have in the
Speaker 1: elite tight ends you have in numbers. You drafted four
Speaker 1: of them. I think the running back corps is deep.
Speaker 1: I thought you got some solid receivers here. I mean,
Speaker 1: I do think that, Yeah, this isn't the most spectacular
Speaker 1: team in the world, but I definitely think it's competitive.
Speaker 1: I feel like you're selling yourself a little bit short
Speaker 1: on this one.
Speaker 2: I like this squad, Rob, Thank you. I appreciate that.
Speaker 2: That being said, you gotta be one out of twelve.
Speaker 2: So right, yes, that's that's where it becomes a strug.
Speaker 2: And I'm not interested in the socks, by the way,
Speaker 2: So so listen, anything could happen. You know, if my
Speaker 2: team stays completely healthy and I get through weeks twelve
Speaker 2: and fourteen, which are going to be tricky for me
Speaker 2: on the buys, you never know, maybe I can get
Speaker 2: out to a lead or something.
Speaker 1: You you mentioned the Agbuka pick and he went to
Speaker 1: Davis Maddock here at the nine to twelve as it were.
Speaker 1: And obviously with the Chris Godwin news that we found
Speaker 1: out that this guy had a second ankle procedure and
Speaker 1: it's allegedly just to clean up. But you know, we
Speaker 1: don't know how that's gonna go. And it certainly looks
Speaker 1: like Chris Godwin is not off to the start of
Speaker 1: the training camp and the preseason that he wanted and
Speaker 1: that the Buccaneers wanted. So we've seen Abuka go up.
Speaker 1: We saw Steven Irgalos who drafted and pross to Joe's
Speaker 1: Sunday Night. He just got done with the main events
Speaker 1: and I he said, Abuka went in the seventh round.
Speaker 1: There is there a sweet spot, rob right, now for
Speaker 1: you with like Buka, where where should he be going
Speaker 1: in FFPC drafts? Knowing what we know about Godwin, you know.
Speaker 2: That's a that's a tough one only because Book is
Speaker 2: a baller. I mean, he's an Ohio State guy. He's
Speaker 2: got the tools. If you look at Godwin last year,
Speaker 2: he was really going off until he got hurt. Like
Speaker 2: Ferrell mentioned, I'm not big on drafting guys that are
Speaker 2: injured ever, like guys got a hamstring, I put a
Speaker 2: line through him because hamstrings don't go away mentally or
Speaker 2: physically during the season.
Speaker 4: A lot of times.
Speaker 2: But you know, here's the thing. You know, you still
Speaker 2: have Evans, right, you still have Bucky, you still have
Speaker 2: at and you still have Godwin when he comes comes back.
Speaker 2: McMillan was good for them last year. So I think
Speaker 2: the key news here is that he's gonna get opportunity, right,
Speaker 2: So he has an opportunity to ball. Mayfield came out
Speaker 2: today and said maze about him, said he already knows
Speaker 2: most of the he could be plugged into any of
Speaker 2: the positions and listen to Buccaneers are going to be
Speaker 2: a real powerhouse on offense this year. They got a
Speaker 2: lot of talent, they're gonna put up points. That being said,
Speaker 2: you got to move them up, you know, maybe slightly
Speaker 2: ahead of you, Christian Kirks, and maybe even your.
Speaker 1: The guy on.
Speaker 2: Golden you know, in that range, like slightly above that range.
Speaker 2: So maybe seventh round, eighth round in that range, but
Speaker 2: definitely an upside guy now, especially if Godwin misses three
Speaker 2: four weeks.
Speaker 1: Speaking of rookies and Pharaoh, I'm gonna handle this next question.
Speaker 1: I'll let you talk about the favorite and least favorite
Speaker 1: picks for rob here. But noticing your team here from
Speaker 1: the eleven spot, no rookies drafted on the squad, and
Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe that had something to do with
Speaker 1: Davis Maddock at the twelve spot taking whatever it was,
Speaker 1: six of them or what have you, but no rookies.
Speaker 1: I'm just kind of curious. Do you think rookies tend
Speaker 1: to be overrated, that at this point of year, that
Speaker 1: that that we should be looking more towards the veterans
Speaker 1: or was this just Hey, I happened to just like
Speaker 1: a veteran better than every rookie on this board when
Speaker 1: it came time for me to pick.
Speaker 2: So I'm going to chalk this up to like mental
Speaker 2: stubbornness on my part. Like for me, you know, when
Speaker 2: I see like the Mahomes is the typical example, you
Speaker 2: know I've seen. I saw Golden play at Texas. He
Speaker 2: was really good. A lot of these other guys I've
Speaker 2: seen sporadically in college. But and I feel like it's
Speaker 2: a mistake. But I tend to lean towards what I
Speaker 2: know over what I don't know. And if you look
Speaker 2: at my team, I didn't draft any rookies and that
Speaker 2: wasn't on purpose. My goal was to try to take
Speaker 2: some risks. But I do have a bunch of younger
Speaker 2: guys on my team. There's a few second year guys.
Speaker 2: You know, I took some risks at the end, and
Speaker 2: we'll see what happens. I mean, when I looked at
Speaker 2: the draft, I could have my choice is when when
Speaker 2: it came to rookies in kind of that sweet spot,
Speaker 2: I don't like to go off of the board, so
Speaker 2: to speak. So when I have that you know, draft
Speaker 2: dominator up there and there's twenty to thirty guys on
Speaker 2: that list, I'm not going off that list because they
Speaker 2: know a lot more and they've done all the analytics
Speaker 2: and I like to pick who I want, but I
Speaker 2: also don't like to reach right. So if you look
Speaker 2: when I took when I took James Cook, I could
Speaker 2: have took Hampton, right, but I preferred James Cook over Hampton,
Speaker 2: the Golden over Mahomes that could have that. That's something
Speaker 2: I probably should have done. I should have taken the
Speaker 2: risk there, and then Loveland. He was available when I
Speaker 2: took John HU Smith. But two things about John OU Smith.
Speaker 2: One is I'm a Steeler fan, so I'm excited about him,
Speaker 2: and I don't typically draft like that.
Speaker 4: But John U.
Speaker 2: Smith carried my team in the second half of last
Speaker 2: year on the Dolphins when he was getting all, you know,
Speaker 2: a bunch of you know, eight catches a game. So
Speaker 2: I remember that and I took him. So I feel
Speaker 2: comfortable with with those decisions. I just wish, probably I
Speaker 2: wish I would have taken Golden though, and Nixt.
Speaker 1: Just to follow up on that on this, Rob, why
Speaker 1: do you like James Cook better than Omari and Hampton
Speaker 1: this season?
Speaker 2: So I don't think the contract situation is an issue
Speaker 2: at all. James Cook I thought was great last year.
Speaker 2: Omari and Hampton Listen, he's gonna get a lot of carries.
Speaker 2: He's gonna especially with nause with the eye injury from
Speaker 2: the fireworks.
Speaker 1: But I don't know.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure he's gonna catch passes Hampton. I'm not sure,
Speaker 2: you know, you know. I think he's gonna be kind
Speaker 2: of like a uh, mostly a running and a touchdown guy.
Speaker 2: And I think Cook has higher upside potential. Team.
Speaker 4: I see some upside. I tell you what I realized
Speaker 4: about your team. Okay, when I looked at it and
Speaker 4: realized there were no rookies over there is you're not
Speaker 4: a dynasty player? Am I correct about this? No, that's
Speaker 4: exactly what I said. Well, this guy doesn't play dynasty
Speaker 4: because that's what feeds all the draft movement of the
Speaker 4: rookies is our dynasty players. So you came to this
Speaker 4: format and looking at it, tell me somebody this. This
Speaker 4: is a fore runner to a question we all asked
Speaker 4: at the end of the show. But who don't you
Speaker 4: who wish you didn't have because you don't have any
Speaker 4: free agency, so you're stuck with you don't like them,
Speaker 4: You've got to learn to love. So But as it
Speaker 4: raced today, who do you not like? And who are
Speaker 4: you very excited about having, especially maybe some of the
Speaker 4: guys towards the end of the draft, so.
Speaker 2: You know, friar Mouth was kind of like a that
Speaker 2: was like a last second thing when I was struggling
Speaker 2: against the clock, honestly, So I don't love that pick,
Speaker 2: and especially that I have Smith too, but hopefully one
Speaker 2: of them will emerge. And I don't like the Mahomes pick.
Speaker 2: I've gone through that. The guys I do like is
Speaker 2: I love Marvin Harrison in the fourth round. I think
Speaker 2: he's a huge value. You can never call you first
Speaker 2: and second picks your your favorite picks, because everybody's first
Speaker 2: and second picks your favorite pick. But I do love
Speaker 2: a Chan and Nakoa and then Caughtland Sutton in the
Speaker 2: sixth round I think is a great value. And then
Speaker 2: late when I chose Dowdell and Quorum, especially Dawdell, I
Speaker 2: think he has a chance to emerge. Dawdle, he was
Speaker 2: good with the Cowboys last year. You know, Caroline is
Speaker 2: a wild card to be a better team this year.
Speaker 2: So if I get an injury there, you never know.
Speaker 4: So you're in love with a lot of guys over here.
Speaker 4: You're loving this team. Four nights later, we're still in line.
Speaker 1: It was mahomes Rob the least the least favorite one.
Speaker 2: For you, without a question, without question, you just could resist,
Speaker 2: though I wanted to wait another round, And then when
Speaker 2: I took him, I immediately popped in my head that
Speaker 2: I wasn't gonna be able to get any of the
Speaker 2: receivers that I wanted with him.
Speaker 4: And the fifteen seconds fifteen seconds was working on you too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not There's no excuses, though, Listen, I should
Speaker 2: have been better prepared. I should have understood that the
Speaker 2: picks go off the board like that, So I hold
Speaker 2: myself accountable.
Speaker 4: I don't think there's any excuses for the for the
Speaker 4: players that were listening in question six, Bunky, can you
Speaker 4: think of any you want to you want to go
Speaker 4: ahead and pop this one out there.
Speaker 1: Well, I'll just say this, like, I don't there there
Speaker 1: is a couple of kid Kentucky leagues I'm in right
Speaker 1: now where Quinn Shawn Judkins is still on the board
Speaker 1: and I haven't really phund like the sweet spot of
Speaker 1: when when's the right time to take him? So I'm
Speaker 1: battling with that right But even if I make up
Speaker 1: my mind, Rob that I'm not taking quin Shawn Judkins.
Speaker 1: I feel like, Okay, if I'm out on Judkins, I
Speaker 1: should be in on Ford. I should be in on
Speaker 1: Samson one or the other, maybe both, I don't know,
Speaker 1: But how are you? And I should say, how should
Speaker 1: f FPC players attack this Browns backfield knowing that Judkins
Speaker 1: was supposed to be the guy and now it looks
Speaker 1: like he may not be the guy for sure, He's
Speaker 1: not the guy right now, and then when the season starts,
Speaker 1: I mean, who knows.
Speaker 2: My big thing with running backs is I hate to
Speaker 2: take running backs on teams that I know are going
Speaker 2: to be bad unless they catch passes. So I would
Speaker 2: avoid the whole trio, you know. And the other thing
Speaker 2: about Sampson is Jerome Ford, when given opportunity, has been good, right.
Speaker 2: I mean it's it's strange you watch the guy and
Speaker 2: he doesn't look like much and then he's running fifty
Speaker 2: odds down the field, so I think he definitely gets
Speaker 2: the first shot. Judkins, I don't think we're going to
Speaker 2: see him at all. I think you know they're talking
Speaker 2: his story is Kareem Hunt like, and you know he
Speaker 2: the Browns aren't even signing them to a contract yet
Speaker 2: until this whole thing plays out. So you know, from
Speaker 2: an opportunity standpoint, Sampson might might get an opportunity, But
Speaker 2: I just don't think it's going to pan out to
Speaker 2: a lot of scores or a lot of fantasy points
Speaker 2: in my opinion.
Speaker 4: Interesting. Interesting, Let me ask you something, Yeah, Falk, he
Speaker 4: teased it earlier tonight. Dallas backfield seems awfully confusing. This
Speaker 4: is the fourth or fifth life of Miles Sanders down there.
Speaker 4: There has been a time when I thought Miles Sanders
Speaker 4: had number one running back play potential in the league.
Speaker 4: I'm curious about you know, when we talk about Dallas,
Speaker 4: we talk about Dak having his wonderful odd year correction
Speaker 4: Ceedee Lamb is a first round draft pick. People like
Speaker 4: to tie it end even though he was banged up
Speaker 4: and didn't find the end zone last year, and now
Speaker 4: the arrival of Pickens. But well, how how's all that
Speaker 4: going to come together in a passing game without a
Speaker 4: without a what I consider an NFL quality running game,
Speaker 4: And is Miles Sanders going to help that?
Speaker 2: So I feel like Miles Sanders is a one year wonder.
Speaker 2: He had that one year in Philly where he was solid.
Speaker 2: He didn't really catch any passes either. That year. He
Speaker 2: scored a lot of touchdowns. You know, he ran the
Speaker 2: ball well, but you guys touched on it earlier when
Speaker 2: you talked about Jaden Blue when you watched Texas last year.
Speaker 2: Jaden Blue was when he touched the ball, which wasn't often.
Speaker 2: He was a game breaker. And I would rather take
Speaker 2: a chance on a guy like Jayden Blue, even if
Speaker 2: you have to wait a little bit, because I think
Speaker 2: he ultimately gets on the field where Miles Sanders might
Speaker 2: get some opportunity early. But you know, it's kind of
Speaker 2: like that three odds in a cloud of dust. And
Speaker 2: I don't think Dallas is gonna give him. You know,
Speaker 2: seventeen eighteen carries a game. You know, Gavonte Williams is
Speaker 2: gonna get touches. So I don't I don't like Miles
Speaker 2: Sanders in any way. I would stay completely away from him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I you know, it's funny as I I just
Speaker 1: had to make a draft pick in one of the
Speaker 1: Kentucky rookie drafts, and while we were talking right now
Speaker 1: because I don't want to hold up the draft, and
Speaker 1: I considered Miles Sanders. This was a rookie free agent
Speaker 1: draft fifth round. You know, I'm like, okay, yeah, I
Speaker 1: can see his path where it could be successful. This year,
Speaker 1: I ended up taking Keaton Mitchell instead, just because if
Speaker 1: Henry were to go down, I think Mitchell's gonna play
Speaker 1: a big role in that backfield. So even with all
Speaker 1: those things considered, I still couldn't pull the trigger on
Speaker 1: Sanders understanding that maybe his pathway to the starting gig
Speaker 1: is quite a bit shorter than Keith Mitchell's is in Baltimore.
Speaker 1: I'm with you. I probably even in a twenty round draft,
Speaker 1: like it's it's difficult for me to say, hey, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is a good investment, you know, a fourteenth or fifteen,
Speaker 1: sixteenth round whatever pick, it would be.
Speaker 2: Some I'm sorry, some guys just even though they're not old,
Speaker 2: they feel old.
Speaker 1: He feels old and dust field old.
Speaker 2: He's lost, he's lost a stamp. He didn't last year,
Speaker 2: Like I don't even know if there were three or
Speaker 2: four good highlights of him last year on Carolina.
Speaker 1: So he he you know, injuries of sap some of
Speaker 1: his athleticism, and he just did turn twenty eight too,
Speaker 1: So it's not like I mean, in real life, he
Speaker 1: is not all that young anymore. He's getting up there,
Speaker 1: and I think they're you know, it's funny because I
Speaker 1: don't think anybody's drafting Miles Sanders because of who he is.
Speaker 1: They're drafting him because of this ambiguous backfield in Dallas
Speaker 1: and just trying to get a share of that.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: Whether that is off or not, I don't know, but
Speaker 1: I'm with you. I'm probably more often than not not
Speaker 1: drafting Sanders than drafting him. Colston Lovelin, he has this
Speaker 1: shoulder injury. Apparently he's recovered. The Bears are saying all
Speaker 1: the right things. Colston Lovelin's saying all the right things
Speaker 1: right now in the FFPC Big Gorilla Rob. If I
Speaker 1: look up here is Loveland? That is, if I look
Speaker 1: up Loveland's ADP tight end fourteen at the end of
Speaker 1: the ninth round, does that seem right to you? Is that?
Speaker 1: Is that a spot where you would look at him
Speaker 1: drafting him or would you let him go even further
Speaker 1: or maybe let somebody else take him?
Speaker 2: So, I this is a tough one because he's coming
Speaker 2: off surgery for an ac joint, I believe, which that's
Speaker 2: a painful injury. They drafted him tenth overall, so they
Speaker 2: might have kid gloves on him a little bit, But
Speaker 2: I think he has tremendous upside if he gets on
Speaker 2: the field right away. That's a big if, but uh,
Speaker 2: you know that's that could be. That could end up
Speaker 2: being a pretty dynamic offense too, if if things click,
Speaker 2: and obviously you have Ben Johnson. You know, you have
Speaker 2: to look at how the Lions used their tight end,
Speaker 2: which was very effectively. Also, but again, I'm not a
Speaker 2: guy that overdrafts guys that are injured, So to me,
Speaker 2: it would depend on what other tight ends was sitting
Speaker 2: there in the same range that he was sitting there,
Speaker 2: And if there's one that I like that's not injured,
Speaker 2: I'd probably lean in that direction. Maybe in a best
Speaker 2: Ball draft he might be worth it because maybe four
Speaker 2: or five weeks into the season he has higher upside
Speaker 2: than the other guys that you would draft ahead of him.
Speaker 1: It's interesting to think about that, Farrell. Have we talked
Speaker 1: about Loveland at all? Where do you fall in on us?
Speaker 4: I like him better earlier since he's shown up, I
Speaker 4: like him a little less. Perhaps I've got in to
Speaker 4: the hype the physicality side of it. I'm looking for
Speaker 4: a tight end. I'm looking for a young tight end
Speaker 4: that can break through of the fifty to sixty five
Speaker 4: catch log jam of tight ends that are currently in
Speaker 4: the league. Like we're just talking about Friarmuth, like I
Speaker 4: believe Goddard is, and I think Goddard is on the
Speaker 4: low end of that. So I really like some of
Speaker 4: the younger players coming in, like our out of Seattle
Speaker 4: that we talked about through the week, and and I'm
Speaker 4: willing to give this guy the benefit of the doubt
Speaker 4: and look at him in preseason and see if he's healed. Uh,
Speaker 4: because because I'm I'm gonna I'm gonna search for that
Speaker 4: second tight end on a roster. It's gonna be a
Speaker 4: young guy that can outperform some of the the standard
Speaker 4: middle of the road production tight ends in the NFL.
Speaker 4: I thought it was Ferguson last year, Walky. That was
Speaker 4: because of injury situation. I ended up being wrong, and
Speaker 4: I don't think it was typical. It was just the
Speaker 4: injuries I think about it.
Speaker 1: I I want to, uh, Rob get to a couple
Speaker 1: of emails that we had from some viewer. Number one
Speaker 1: is from rich In McGregor, North Dakota, and he wrote
Speaker 1: in should Deebo Samuel be a priority target for his
Speaker 1: longest Terry McLaurin is holding out. Thank you so much
Speaker 1: for the email, Rich, We appreciate it. I'm you. This
Speaker 1: is a guy that you drafted uh In in your
Speaker 1: pros versus Joe's, and I don't know mean, was he
Speaker 1: more attractive to you because McLaurin had not Actually I didn't.
Speaker 1: I don't think we knew if he had reported yet
Speaker 1: at that point on Monday night. But does he become
Speaker 1: more attractive for your drafts now that we know mclaurin's
Speaker 1: not there and Samuel's building up this extra chemistry ostensibly
Speaker 1: as the number one receiver there with Jaden Daniels.
Speaker 2: Well, definitely that he didn't report, and it felt like
Speaker 2: he wasn't going to report, right. Certain guys, when you
Speaker 2: hear the news, you feel like they're gonna they're gonna
Speaker 2: show up. He feels like he's not going to show
Speaker 2: up and listen. Deebo. Fantasy wise, he's always been inconsistent,
Speaker 2: but he's so he's really talented. Washington had some trouble
Speaker 2: with fumbles last year in the playoffs with Eckler and
Speaker 2: things like that, so maybe they use him out of
Speaker 2: the backfield a little bit. But he listen, if McLaurin
Speaker 2: doesn't show up, clearly, his upside is a lot higher
Speaker 2: than if he if if he does show up, and
Speaker 2: he's a great player, So I like Samuel, I think
Speaker 2: he'll put up points this year too.
Speaker 1: The other thing I want to bring up here from
Speaker 1: a second email or he robbed tonight. This is from
Speaker 1: George and brook Park, Ohio. He writes any thoughts on
Speaker 1: Elijah Mitchell running as the second running back for Kansas
Speaker 1: City good luck this season? That is George in brook Park, Ohio.
Speaker 1: Thank you for the email. George. Yeah, Elijah Mitchell behind
Speaker 1: Isaiah Pacheco. Right now, do we glean anything? I mean,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of people that were on Brichard Smith
Speaker 1: this year too, and obviously Kareem Hunt's still hanging around
Speaker 1: Chiefs running back situation. I feel like if you get
Speaker 1: it right rightly or wrongly, that's gonna set you up
Speaker 1: for fantasy success. Here, how are you handling it or
Speaker 1: going to be handling it in your drafts this year, Rob.
Speaker 2: That's a crowded backfield. For me, it's an avoid But
Speaker 2: if I had to pick one. You know Pacheco two
Speaker 2: years ago it was phenomenal. Then last year he looked
Speaker 2: like he was coming back from an injury the whole year,
Speaker 2: and every time he ran it just didn't look like
Speaker 2: the same player. If you see him and he looks
Speaker 2: effective in the preseason and he looks like he's got
Speaker 2: his his quickness back, then I would absolutely lean in
Speaker 2: his direction. Elijah Mitchell to me, is more of like
Speaker 2: a game breaker. I don't think he's the type of
Speaker 2: guy that's gonna get more than five or six carries
Speaker 2: in any game unless somebody, unless they really have major
Speaker 2: industry injuries, and I would think Hunt would be the
Speaker 2: next guy up if Pacheco has the number one spot.
Speaker 2: So I don't think I would go to Elijah Mitchell
Speaker 2: in almost any scenario. To me, he's a wave of
Speaker 2: wire pickup if somebody gets injured.
Speaker 4: You know, if somebody gets injured. Here we are camps
Speaker 4: or just start. Guys aren't really even in pads yet
Speaker 4: and we're talking about injuries. Injuries are such a big,
Speaker 4: big part of this. One of the guys in the
Speaker 4: chat room made a commentary is like he was a
Speaker 4: forty nine or forty nine ers are always hurt. We
Speaker 4: talked about on this show often that some of the
Speaker 4: the real stars behind the scenes of the NFL, there's
Speaker 4: certain training rooms you can get players ready to get
Speaker 4: back out and play. You know, this is this leveling kid, uh,
Speaker 4: you know with his ac joint. Uh, that's a very
Speaker 4: very tough injury for uh for players, they got it.
Speaker 4: They got to test it with contact. So we really
Speaker 4: don't know. And then you know, as you said, the
Speaker 4: mentality aspect of certain types of injuries can really change
Speaker 4: away of player plays. And this that's this guy's introduction
Speaker 4: to the NFL as he's coming off shoulder surgery. So
Speaker 4: you know, it's it's it's a lot to think about,
Speaker 4: and I think we're getting. The gift that we're getting
Speaker 4: is we can quit talking about it and start looking
Speaker 4: at it. You can start watching the players and uh,
Speaker 4: you can go to your trusted sources that comment what
Speaker 4: they're doing. But that would be if I was sending
Speaker 4: an email, be what I want to talk about, Bully,
Speaker 4: you got any more emails? It's all you, my friend,
Speaker 4: No way. Then that means you have to tell us,
Speaker 4: because look, you don't play dynasty. You stumbled along into
Speaker 4: this best ball, which would give me a thrill that
Speaker 4: you would win it. It would even give me a
Speaker 4: thrill if you want to socks. So what we've got
Speaker 4: a situation for you is you obviously shine in redrafts.
Speaker 4: So tell us who do you love and redraft and
Speaker 4: who can you not stand? Who can you not have
Speaker 4: on your team? And you've teased a couple of those
Speaker 4: so far, so you might have to dig deep to
Speaker 4: find a new name for us.
Speaker 2: Go ahead, Rob, all right. So the guy that I
Speaker 2: think a lot of people like that I'm staying completely
Speaker 2: away from is for She Rice Like for she Rice
Speaker 2: to me, he's coming off a major injury. He's looking
Speaker 2: at a major suspension, and he's still getting drafted in
Speaker 2: the sixth round. You know things like that. That's crazy.
Speaker 2: I mean he might not see the field for the
Speaker 2: first six to eight weeks, and then when he comes back,
Speaker 2: he's an injured coming off an injury, and he's got
Speaker 2: you know Mahomes who throws the ball to a bunch
Speaker 2: of different people and they have good other receivers. So
Speaker 2: he's a no go for me. And then Christian McCaffrey,
Speaker 2: I just you know, he's he's you know, the end
Speaker 2: of the first round, beginning of the second round, and
Speaker 2: I recognize that there's always upside with him, but he's
Speaker 2: always injured and he's always questionable, and you never know
Speaker 2: whether he's going to play. And you know, I do
Speaker 2: this because I like to have my three or four
Speaker 2: main event teams not too many, so that I know
Speaker 2: I have a you know, a bunch of guys that
Speaker 2: I want to root for. I want to get excited
Speaker 2: on Sunday, and I hate when I have to go
Speaker 2: through my teams and the same guys are always questionable
Speaker 2: and it just just leads to stress and aggravation. So
Speaker 2: I'm bypassing McCaffrey all together, unless for some reason he
Speaker 2: fell into like the end of a second or the
Speaker 2: beginning of third round that you want.
Speaker 4: And I love that answer because you said something there
Speaker 4: that is illustrative to me and my conversations that I've
Speaker 4: had today. You're going to play your three and four
Speaker 4: main event teams and really enjoy them. Steve g who
Speaker 4: is in the chat room tonight, we say hello, and
Speaker 4: I had a wonderful conversation with him this afternoon. He
Speaker 4: probably signed up for three or four main event of
Speaker 4: teams tonight and that's the way he enjoys it. And
Speaker 4: we can both and you can't get that out of
Speaker 4: you know, the guy that only plays golf two or
Speaker 4: three times a year, he didn't really like them, you know.
Speaker 4: And the guy that plays thirty six holes a day,
Speaker 4: he's hiding from his wife or somebody more, something more serious,
Speaker 4: you know. So in what we do here, however you
Speaker 4: choose to participate, you're going to get something out of it.
Speaker 4: And that's fantasic. You love the football that comes into
Speaker 4: your home the way that you can consume it. And
Speaker 4: that's what I can't wait for is getting together with
Speaker 4: everyone at Paris Hotel and Casino on our viewing party
Speaker 4: Thursday night. But Balky, we got a Friday night viewing
Speaker 4: party or no, what's going on here?
Speaker 1: That is up in the air, Up in the air
Speaker 1: my personal opinion, and I don't want to hold the
Speaker 1: FFPC to anything. I believe it's going to happen, but
Speaker 1: nothing officially announced that we do have a Thursday night
Speaker 1: party for Cowboys Eagles Friday night. We'll see. Stay tuned.
Speaker 4: Well, that's about as good a matchup as it gets.
Speaker 1: You know, Rob, you had me thinking about McCaffrey here,
Speaker 1: and I just want to point this out. And I've
Speaker 1: flip flopped and gone back and forth to McCaffrey. I've
Speaker 1: been on a couple of teams. I've avoided him on
Speaker 1: some other teams. Adam Hanolds also said if he had
Speaker 1: the one on one he would take McCaffrey at the
Speaker 1: one on one this year, regarding him being twenty nine
Speaker 1: years old, regarding him being beat up the last couple year,
Speaker 1: especially in twenty twenty four. There are seventeen San Francisco
Speaker 1: forty nine Ers games this year. Five of them are
Speaker 1: slated right now to kick off at one pm, which
Speaker 1: means the other twelve are slated for either primetime or
Speaker 1: late games Sunday night games, Monday night games. That can
Speaker 1: be problematic with a running back like McCaffrey, who you know, again,
Speaker 1: if you do believe he's going to be beat up, well,
Speaker 1: then you have to take that into account that you
Speaker 1: have to sort of dedicate an extra roster spot on
Speaker 1: your team each and every week to make sure that
Speaker 1: if McCaffrey can't go, you could put in Girndo, or
Speaker 1: if you don't have GIRNDO, that you have so many
Speaker 1: that you can play, and that could kind of throw
Speaker 1: your whole lineup out of whack. So that's something to
Speaker 1: consider too. If you want to be bullish on McCaffrey,
Speaker 1: make sure you're prepped for that. This year, did you
Speaker 1: announce did you give us a player that you really
Speaker 1: like this year? I know you gave us a couple
Speaker 1: that you don't like in Rice and McCaffrey.
Speaker 2: I love Marvin Harrison. But the other guy who I
Speaker 2: think is just going to ball out and I think
Speaker 2: he's probably gonna come close to leading the league in
Speaker 2: receptions as JSN, I think Jackson Smith and Jigba is
Speaker 2: just going to be a target monster. So I see
Speaker 2: him going I see him blowing up this year.
Speaker 1: Rob, you are a long time high stakes fantasy football player,
Speaker 1: dating back more than two decades. I want to give
Speaker 1: you the opportunity if we go back to the old
Speaker 1: w Coff days to talk about your worst fantasy football
Speaker 1: beat before you let you get out of here and
Speaker 1: enjoy your weekend.
Speaker 2: Thank you. I appreciate that. So I probably told everybody
Speaker 2: who listened to this story of this story, so now
Speaker 2: you guys are going to hear it. Two thousand and
Speaker 2: four w cooff. The old rules where when you played
Speaker 2: within the league, you had to still win the playoff
Speaker 2: to get into the championship racket. There was no automatic
Speaker 2: bid for the one in the two seats, so you
Speaker 2: had to have a good season, get into the final four,
Speaker 2: and then win different now which the rules now are
Speaker 2: much better, and everybody out there was a main event player.
Speaker 2: If you're true to yourself, you know when you legitimately
Speaker 2: have a chance to do well in the championship racket.
Speaker 2: Sometimes you have a team and you're just saying, get
Speaker 2: me through. I want to win the championship. I want
Speaker 2: to get my four or five grand and I'll just
Speaker 2: throw my team in there, and I know I'm not
Speaker 2: going to win, but there's a couple of times where
Speaker 2: you feel like, you know what, I got a shot.
Speaker 2: So two thousand and four I drafted a great team.
Speaker 2: I think my team was like nine and three. I
Speaker 2: go into the playoffs and probably around week nine I
Speaker 2: just randomly pick up Larry Johnson. I think at the
Speaker 2: time he was the third back. I think they had
Speaker 2: Charles and Priest Holmes and Charles had gotten hurt or
Speaker 2: whoever the number one back was, and then Priest Holmes
Speaker 2: got hurt and my great team turned into a team
Speaker 2: that I knew. I had a great chance to go
Speaker 2: very deep into the championship racket. I cruise in the
Speaker 2: first round. I get to the final Thanksgiving Days. I
Speaker 2: have Peyton Manning branded Stokeley in my lineup. Manning throws
Speaker 2: six touchdowns. He throws three to Stoke League. I'm off
Speaker 2: to a great start. We get to Sunday. The other
Speaker 2: guy's team heats up a little bit, but I'm still
Speaker 2: in great shape. Going to the four o'clock games, I
Speaker 2: had emmittt Smith third played the game. Emitt Smith hurts
Speaker 2: his toe and he's out for the game. So now
Speaker 2: I'm back in a gym. The game goes to Monday night.
Speaker 2: I'll never forget this. It's the Rams and the Packers
Speaker 2: in Green Bay. I have Tory Holt, who for the
Speaker 2: season had ninety four catches thirteen and seventy two yards
Speaker 2: and ten touchdowns. Wow, and the Packers are waxing the Rams.
Speaker 2: Going into the fourth quarter, I think they're up fourteen
Speaker 2: or seventeen points. Like the perfect scenario, I need one
Speaker 2: catch for eight yards from Tory Holt to win the game. Well,
Speaker 2: needless to say, there was no one catch eight yards
Speaker 2: from Tory Hult. He caught one ball, his foot was
Speaker 2: out of bounds. Another one hit him off the chest
Speaker 2: and he I never I lost the game. Now, back then,
Speaker 2: instead of going into the championship bracket, you went into
Speaker 2: the consolation bracket. I finished second in the consolation bracket
Speaker 2: out of the one hundred people that advanced. I would
Speaker 2: have finished third in the championship bracket. It cost me
Speaker 2: twenty seven thousand, five hundred dollars.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and you were not consoled because Tory Holt,
Speaker 1: Tory Holt and.
Speaker 2: And Mark Ball just threw for four hundred and forty
Speaker 2: eight yards in that game, and Tory Holt had fifty
Speaker 2: one yards with five cans.
Speaker 1: It's crazy, I had, you know, it's wild. So I
Speaker 1: brought up the box score, Rob that you're telling me
Speaker 1: about this game, and I'm looking at it right now,
Speaker 1: and obviously you're right. You know Holte five for fifty one,
Speaker 1: Isaac Bruce, no, no problem there, nine for one hundred
Speaker 1: and seventy. You would expect him to ball out. But
Speaker 1: Hope five for fifty one. Kevin Curtis had for sixty
Speaker 1: seven and McDonald's something called the Sean McDonald had six
Speaker 1: for seventy nine in that game. I mean, player, I
Speaker 1: just it's unbelievable, unbelievable.
Speaker 4: As you mentioned to Hold, we have a player here
Speaker 4: in Kentucky, Trevor Holt. I think Trevor's taking this year
Speaker 4: off of fantasy football. It's it's sort of.
Speaker 1: A uh.
Speaker 4: Stress situation that is now just reacting over the fact
Speaker 4: that he lost the championship here in Kentucky bout two
Speaker 4: point three eight points and he had four receivers each
Speaker 4: that that and he had two he had four passes
Speaker 4: that two receivers if he had if they had caught them,
Speaker 4: would have won. He had two eagle receivers and four
Speaker 4: drops in the second half of that's terrible Jesus.
Speaker 2: By the way, in that game, Tory Holt did not
Speaker 2: have a catch from the six to forty five mark
Speaker 2: and the third quarter until the end of the game.
Speaker 1: And again and they were and they were getting wax.
Speaker 2: They're downe by like third perfect perfect scenario, you know, and.
Speaker 1: And stuff like when stuff like that happens to me,
Speaker 1: Rob where it's just like it's it's just an unbelievable situation.
Speaker 1: That plays out. I just say, like it was never
Speaker 1: meant to be, wash my hands of it, because that
Speaker 1: should never happen. But I'll tell you what should happen
Speaker 1: more often. Rob Thomasino on the High Stakes Fantasy Football Hour, Guys,
Speaker 1: thank you so much, Thanks so much. Listen, good luck
Speaker 1: at pro Versus Joe's in the main event this year.
Speaker 1: Hopefully if you win the million bucks, that lets you
Speaker 1: forget about that nasty Tory Holt game from two thousand
Speaker 1: and four. Uh, and joy your weekend. Man, this was
Speaker 1: a treatment really coming on.
Speaker 2: Thank you guys, really appreciate it. Have a great night.
Speaker 1: You do to say that is Rob Timas you know,
Speaker 1: three time FFPC Main Event League winner and pros Versus
Speaker 1: Joe's drafter. Will he win the pros Versus Joe's Challenge
Speaker 1: this year? Will he win his league? Will he win overall?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 4: He'll be rookie free if he does.
Speaker 1: He will be rookie free if he does, and then
Speaker 1: Rob will set the standard next year. You want to
Speaker 1: win pros Versus Joe's.
Speaker 4: Don't draft for a rookies, you know, and I mean
Speaker 4: you talk about you just mentioned things that should not happened.
Speaker 4: You know, I there really shouldn't be baseball talk in
Speaker 4: the chat room.
Speaker 1: You know, I I listen. I know that Adam brought
Speaker 1: it up. Nick Kurtz just crushing it tonight, the rookie
Speaker 1: from from the A's. I couldn't help myself because now
Speaker 1: I got to tune in to it to find out
Speaker 1: what's going.
Speaker 4: On with Well, you just have a terrestrial radio show.
Speaker 1: I do, yes, yeah, exactly. I want to remind everybody
Speaker 1: if you are looking for some action, go to the
Speaker 1: Kentucky Fantasy Football State championshipsc dot com. We got main
Speaker 1: events going off both online and live in Louisville. There's
Speaker 1: still a couple of spots left in Cincinnati as well,
Speaker 1: but it's coming up fast. We're less than a month
Speaker 1: away from from cincinnatictually not Cincinnati, Northern Kentucky, and we're
Speaker 1: less than a month away from Louisville when we're drafting
Speaker 1: down in Kentucky. I'm very excited for that. Main events,
Speaker 1: the Sweet sixteen Best Ball Championship filling up as well.
Speaker 1: A couple of spots left in the Big Paybacks in
Speaker 1: Louisville too. A lot of stuff going on right now.
Speaker 1: Farrell Weckay, we're.
Speaker 4: Getting closed to sell out and some of our old
Speaker 4: friends that we haven't heard from typically and wait, you know,
Speaker 4: people go on vacations and I've just become aware that
Speaker 4: they have relatives that get married and things like this
Speaker 4: during the summer, and I just really, I just want
Speaker 4: everybody who to sort of tighten it up and not
Speaker 4: miss out because we are running out of some time slots.
Speaker 4: But we have a big online schedule and people from
Speaker 4: around the country and people that cannot get here for
Speaker 4: our amazing weekend August twenty second through twenty fourth. We'll
Speaker 4: make sure you don't miss this year completely because you're
Speaker 4: I'm sure everyone is making plans for the FFPC. They're
Speaker 4: at the Paris Hotel and Casino. But we'd love to
Speaker 4: see you first here and second in Las Vegas, Bucky.
Speaker 4: The excitement of joining you next week live for show
Speaker 4: is also unprecedent.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're gonna be doing the show live next week
Speaker 1: to where I don't know yet. I'm gonna let you
Speaker 1: know as soon as I know. I'm still trying to
Speaker 1: hammer stuff out because I know a couple of the
Speaker 1: acts that you represent. I looked at the schedules, and
Speaker 1: one of them, I think, ah God, it's either Kristen
Speaker 1: or Katie. I can't remember which one. But they're gonna
Speaker 1: be downtown at mcfleshman's Brewing Company literally ten minutes after
Speaker 1: we go off the air. So I want to find
Speaker 1: a place close by to there so we can. You know,
Speaker 1: it's very talful right over and check them out. Well,
Speaker 1: whether I'm in the crowd or not, those girls will
Speaker 1: sound right. Will so the other thing I want to
Speaker 1: bring up to and you would text me about this,
Speaker 1: I apologize I didn't get back to you. The big
Speaker 1: playback playing Bestball Draft with the KFFSC, I drew the
Speaker 1: four spot. You said, why don't you make your pick
Speaker 1: live on the air tonight, And I will, and I
Speaker 1: might surprise some people with this pick.
Speaker 3: Here.
Speaker 1: One on one was Jamar Chase, the one on two
Speaker 1: is b Jon Robinson, the one O three is Justin Jefferson.
Speaker 1: This is non end premium. So I'm gonna go with
Speaker 1: another receiver here, Farrell. I'm not gonna take Gibbs. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna take Barkley. I am taking Ceedee Lamb. Just
Speaker 1: made the pick right now and we'll see what happens
Speaker 1: there is. I build my squad at the Kentucky Fantasy
Speaker 1: Football State Championship at kf f sc dot com. Pharrell,
Speaker 1: thank you so much man. We will talk with you
Speaker 1: on Sunday for pros Versus Joe's Number four.
Speaker 4: I'll be looking forward to a balky What time we're
Speaker 4: gonna get started on that.
Speaker 1: Starts at seven pm Eastern time?
Speaker 4: Early?
Speaker 1: All right, you're the man talking with you then see later.
Speaker 1: That is Farrell Elliott, the definitive commissioner of Fantasy Football,
Speaker 1: hanging out with us tonight. Yeah. Pros Versus Joe's rolls
Speaker 1: on on Sunday. That's when we will be live again.
Speaker 1: And I apologize, Parrel. I'm gonna big your back right now.
Speaker 1: I screw this up. It's seven pm, seven pm my time.
Speaker 1: It is eight pm Eastern eight pm. Yeah, it is early,
Speaker 1: but it's not as early as seven.
Speaker 2: So there you go.
Speaker 1: I'll see you then. Barrel Elliott will be joining me
Speaker 1: at eight o'clock for live pick by pick coverage this
Speaker 1: Sunday night of the Iron Maiden division of Pros Versus Joe's.
Speaker 1: The Joes include Brian Lindo and Jeff Cazmano. Albert and
Speaker 1: Kyle Leach, Petri and Larson, Brad Petro and Darren Larson
Speaker 1: will be drafting in there, Dennis and Stephen Jones, Billy
Speaker 1: Van Rmer, our good buddy is going to be drafting
Speaker 1: from the nine spot there, and then another good buddy
Speaker 1: of ours, Vince staff Alino, drafting from the eleven hole.
Speaker 1: The pros include Sigmund Bloom from Football Guys, Mauricio Gutierrez
Speaker 1: from Estavio Fantasy, Josh Hayes from Rotoballer, Dan Williamson, and
Speaker 1: Bradley Stalder from Player Profiler, the co host of the
Speaker 1: Stack Hunners program. They will be drafting as pros. Mike Leone,
Speaker 1: Mike Leoni excuse me from Established the Run, and of
Speaker 1: course Justin Boone from Yahoo. Those will be the twelve
Speaker 1: drafters this Sunday. Don't miss it at eight pm Eastern
Speaker 1: Time right here on the FFPC YouTube channel, the FFP Socials.
Speaker 1: I want to thank Rob thomasin O, Farrell Elliott, the FFPC,
Speaker 1: Rob Brice, and of course each and every one of
Speaker 1: you in case you missed last night's Insider Access show
Speaker 1: this past Thursday on Better Sports Network and on the
Speaker 1: FFPC and BSN Socials. Ryan Kramer from the Sports Gambling
Speaker 1: Podcast and the Vegas Sports and Information Network joined us.
Speaker 1: He's also drafting in the pros Versus Joe's coming up
Speaker 1: this week. He and his co host Sean Green from
Speaker 1: Sports Gambling Podcast will be handling live FFPC draft coverage
Speaker 1: with Aidan McCory and Dave Tripoli this Wednesday as well,
Speaker 1: so you get it live draft coverage from them, and
Speaker 1: then of course this Thursday night we go live again
Speaker 1: on the Better Sports Network with live FFPC Bestball Tournament coverage.
Speaker 1: Farrell and I will be live next Friday covering a
Speaker 1: Big Gorilla draft, which you can register and sign up for. Now,
Speaker 1: if you're keeping track of this in your head and
Speaker 1: you're counting, you're like, wait a minute, that means there's
Speaker 1: pros Versus Joe Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Aiden Turp and the
Speaker 1: Sports Gambling guys on Wednesday for a live draft. He's
Speaker 1: doing a Best Ball Tournament draft on Thursday, and then
Speaker 1: Big Gorilla live draft coverage on Friday. Yeah, that's right,
Speaker 1: it's live draft coverage week. We're doing six days of
Speaker 1: live draft coverage every night except for Saturday. We will
Speaker 1: be covering a live draft, whether it be the Big Gorilla,
Speaker 1: whether it be Bestball Tournament, whether it be Main Event,
Speaker 1: whether it be Processes Joe's. We're covering a different FFPC
Speaker 1: format every single night next week except for Saturday, so
Speaker 1: check that out. It all begins Sunday, the FFPC Live
Speaker 1: Draft coverage week on the FFPC YouTube channel. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be awesome. The Big Gorilla Tournament the main event, the
Speaker 1: FFPC Best Ball and super Flex Bestball Tournament are ripe
Speaker 1: with entries available for you. Check that out. Remember Main
Speaker 1: Event early draft slots that you got to get the
Speaker 1: in by midnight Pacific time on Sunday night, so make
Speaker 1: sure your main event teams are squared away and then
Speaker 1: you will get your early draft slot or you'll get
Speaker 1: your draft slot for the main event early on August third,
Speaker 1: well ahead of many of your competitors. This year, Big
Speaker 1: Gorilla is crushing it right now. We got drafts going on.
Speaker 1: We a midnight draft coming up in forty five minutes
Speaker 1: with spots fill still available on that, so make sure
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Speaker 1: really appreciate each and every one of you. Your weekend
Speaker 1: officially starts now.
Speaker 3: This has been another episode of The Hot Stakes Fantasy
Speaker 3: Football Hour, presented by my ffpc dot com. It was
Speaker 3: broadcast live and was watched around the world. Balky and
Speaker 3: Farrell will be back next week with more analysis, more interviews,
Speaker 3: add more advice from guests much smarter than they are.
Speaker 3: Thanks for watching, and we'll talk with you again next week.
Speaker 1: You, sir, I want to piggyback on that, just to
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