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Speaker 2: telling you, Adam Hans already started the show out. Great, Balky,
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Speaker 1: It's a weird feeling the night before the NFL Draft
Speaker 1: because we went is prepping for this for three or
Speaker 1: four months, and I feel like the more we've talked
Speaker 1: about it, the more we've broken down these prospects, the
Speaker 1: more we've delved into it, I feel like the less
Speaker 1: we know, and as weird as that sounds, and I
Speaker 1: feel like we're gonna find out how we know, how
Speaker 1: we value these guys, and how good we think of
Speaker 1: pros are gonna be. We're gonna find out how the
Speaker 1: NFL feels about him tomorrow. And the NFL Draft every
Speaker 1: year is a weird kind of situation. You just never
Speaker 1: know exactly how it's going to go. I think it
Speaker 1: could be even weirder this year, Pharah. I don't know
Speaker 1: if if I have read and heard that a lot
Speaker 1: of teams have the same handle on this draft as
Speaker 1: they had in years past. So we could be we
Speaker 1: could be the winners in this, the spectators, the fans,
Speaker 1: We could be the ones that benefit from seeing maybe
Speaker 1: not only a crazy night of Thursday drafting, but Friday
Speaker 1: and Saturday as well. Well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this Saturday is always the most interesting day of
Speaker 2: the drafting and what comes after, Uh, in the world
Speaker 2: of street free agency. But I yeah, there are players
Speaker 2: in this draft that, especially for the dynasty players, you
Speaker 2: really got to watch Friday, late Saturday all day. The
Speaker 2: guys that are being drafted there as far as the
Speaker 2: NFL grades, they're not a whole lot different in the
Speaker 2: guys that be going in the second and third round.
Speaker 2: Matter of fact, there's a number of teams that will
Speaker 2: tell you that there's only really about fifteen players in
Speaker 2: the draft with a first round great and that's why
Speaker 2: there's all the speculation that some of these teams might
Speaker 2: be trying to trade back. I think that when I
Speaker 2: went to the All Star Games, the Senior Bowl, the
Speaker 2: American Bowl down in Orlando, Florida, I saw a lot
Speaker 2: of talent and I would love a chance to draft
Speaker 2: these guys. And they're still working, you know, they're the
Speaker 2: way that they do it is they break down at
Speaker 2: this point in time, positions and you know, I'm still
Speaker 2: getting calls right now, and you know, I don't have
Speaker 2: anyone that's projected to go in the first two days.
Speaker 2: So these guys are working hard to try to the
Speaker 2: proverbial look under every rock to find the player, double
Speaker 2: check and triple check, make sure everybody's healthy. It's an
Speaker 2: exciting time and I was so glad when it's sober.
Speaker 2: I understand the feeling, maybe not to the degree that
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Speaker 2: you know, and I think everyone in drafting. I think
Speaker 2: all our Dynasty players are ready to get to the draft. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: Those gorilla has just got me, that's all.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: We're actually the special announcement.
Speaker 1: We're going to make a special announcement about our Friday show,
Speaker 1: right and then are we making a KFFSC announcement tonight
Speaker 1: or were saving that for tomorrow?
Speaker 2: I think we're saving that for tomorrow. Night's gaest.
Speaker 1: All right, so we have on Friday, al right it, Yeah,
Speaker 1: so so I will we will tease, well, should we
Speaker 1: even announce.
Speaker 2: Who the guest is tonight? Yeah, I think that'd be
Speaker 2: a great idea. They would remind him deny it to
Speaker 2: be present.
Speaker 1: Right, yes, exactly, So I will.
Speaker 2: We will announce that at the end of the show.
Speaker 1: And then for Friday night, you want to be tuning
Speaker 1: in for a special KFFSC announcement as well, which is
Speaker 1: going to be a lot of fun. We mentioned rookies
Speaker 1: Farrell and one guy that I don't think will hear
Speaker 1: his name on Thursday night, but I bet he hears
Speaker 1: it on Friday in Pittsburgh. Is Chris Bell right in
Speaker 1: your own backyard? And Ian Rapaport has reported that he
Speaker 1: is ahead of schedule in rehab. He's coming off the
Speaker 1: torn acl This according to his Chris Bell's agent, a
Speaker 1: day before the NFL Draft has started. So you can
Speaker 1: kind of connect the dots a little bit there. But
Speaker 1: this was a late twenty twenty five tear in his knee.
Speaker 1: Seventy two catches just over nine hundred yards and eleven
Speaker 1: to excuse me, six touchdowns in eleven games last year.
Speaker 1: And if he never tore his acl Farrell, certainly we'd
Speaker 1: be looking at him being a first round pick this year.
Speaker 1: We'll see what happens, you know what, you know what
Speaker 1: goes on in the second or third round. But as
Speaker 1: dynasty owners go knowing that you could get a first
Speaker 1: round talent at a bargain price in your rookie drafts,
Speaker 1: no matter where he goes, what's the right approach for
Speaker 1: Chris Bell? Do we just believe like he is going
Speaker 1: to get back to that to that level that he
Speaker 1: was playing at at Louisville, And quite frankly, how good
Speaker 1: was he from what you saw at Louisville last year?
Speaker 2: He quietly grows on you think aj Brown body type,
Speaker 2: he's He's kind of receiver that moves across the hashes
Speaker 2: in the college games and makes the good catches and
Speaker 2: then the magic happens once he gets the ball in
Speaker 2: his hands. He has great long speed, he doesn't necessarily
Speaker 2: move in and out of the cuts. He's not an
Speaker 2: artistic receiver, kind of like your JSN or some of
Speaker 2: the other players we might talk about later on. But
Speaker 2: he's the kind of big bodied receiver that uses that
Speaker 2: body to his advantage. And I think he's going to
Speaker 2: be a better NFL player even than what he was
Speaker 2: in college. He's the kind of a receiver I think
Speaker 2: that a quarterback begins to love because the quarterback knows
Speaker 2: he can count on him. He's six and twenty pounds.
Speaker 2: He's got a big, big catch radius. If he had
Speaker 2: gone to the Combine, he would have tested well. I
Speaker 2: think you can be all into this player. He's a
Speaker 2: speed builder when he gets the ball in his hands,
Speaker 2: and you know, he's got the size that the NFL
Speaker 2: is looking for because he's to present day linebackers. He's
Speaker 2: the same size of most of them. So I really
Speaker 2: like him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think that that, you know, I swing
Speaker 1: big in rookie drafts. I want to swing for the
Speaker 1: home runs. If Chris Bell gets back to ninety five
Speaker 1: percent or one hundred percent of what he his knee
Speaker 1: was like prior to this, then he should be a
Speaker 1: home run so to speak. I mean, he's still got
Speaker 1: to be, you know, good enough to play at the
Speaker 1: NFL level, but I believe in it, and I'll be
Speaker 1: drafting him as such. Maybe I'll be drafting a little
Speaker 1: bit higher than some other people, maybe not, and landing
Speaker 1: spot will be key too. Plus we don't know exactly
Speaker 1: how much action he's going to get in his rookie season.
Speaker 1: But I'm definitely more pro Crispell than anti cris Bell at.
Speaker 2: This You can't you can't draft him. I don't think
Speaker 2: a team could draft him and not eventually get him
Speaker 2: on the field. He's not going to disappear. He's not
Speaker 2: going to disappear on depth chart, So I think you're redraft.
Speaker 2: But definitely in dynasty, especially if you're a patient dynasty player,
Speaker 2: you're gonna have what you want to look about it.
Speaker 2: But yeah, in landing spot, all of that, all of
Speaker 2: that comes into play. But he's a I think he's
Speaker 2: going to be a fantastic NFL contributor. Yeah, I look
Speaker 2: forward to it.
Speaker 1: I always like seeing guys bounce back from injury, and
Speaker 1: this would be a story and a guy I'm definitely
Speaker 1: rooting for.
Speaker 2: For sure.
Speaker 1: George Pickens in the news and maybe not for the
Speaker 1: right reasons, and maybe this is more of a Jerry
Speaker 1: Jones thing than anything else. Farrell, but we had Stephen Jones.
Speaker 1: According to the reporting from John Machoto, who covers the
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys, Stephen Jones the executive VP for Dallas said, quote,
Speaker 1: there won't be negotiations on a long term deal for
Speaker 1: George Pickens this year, so we're probably not going to
Speaker 1: at least at this point. And I'll set this up
Speaker 1: at this point where we don't plan on seeing extension done.
Speaker 1: Stephen Jones said that Pickens is going to play in
Speaker 1: the franchise tag this season. Now, this comes just a
Speaker 1: few weeks after Jerry Jones told reporters that he has
Speaker 1: long term plans for George Pickens on the Cowboys. And
Speaker 1: we have seen the Cowboys kind of play hardball with
Speaker 1: players like this before, Ezekiel Elliott, Micah Parsons, Dak Prescott.
Speaker 1: The list kind of goes on fourteen hundred plus yards
Speaker 1: nine touchdowns last year. He will be a free agent
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty seven. I as much as this just
Speaker 1: came out of the blue, I wonder, Pharrell, if this
Speaker 1: could just disappear just as fast and we find out
Speaker 1: that they've agreed on a long term contract well before
Speaker 1: training camp. I don't know if this Picking situation strikes
Speaker 1: you as more of the same from what we've seen
Speaker 1: in the past, with Dallas playing hardball with some of
Speaker 1: these you know, building block type players, or you think
Speaker 1: this one is a little bit different. How are you
Speaker 1: viewing the picking situation right now?
Speaker 2: Well, I'm gonna draft this player, and I'm going to
Speaker 2: draft him as often as I can. I believe that,
Speaker 2: you know, I would get into players ear and I
Speaker 2: would say, you know what, brother buck Up made four
Speaker 2: million dollars last year the system. Now as you tagged,
Speaker 2: and you're looking at twenty seven point three million, walk
Speaker 2: up and take your twenty seven point three million like
Speaker 2: a real man, and go out there and enjoy the
Speaker 2: benefits of being a Dallas cowboy. He was on his
Speaker 2: best behavior. He's perfect. We talk about landing spots for
Speaker 2: players coming into the league. We also talk about what
Speaker 2: a change of scenery can do for a player, and
Speaker 2: you and I talked about it Bucky very early on
Speaker 2: the show. Get him out of where he was and
Speaker 2: get him to a place with a veteran quarterback that
Speaker 2: could really throw the ball. Boom, you got it. And
Speaker 2: the other receiver, Ceedee Lamb is there too, and that's
Speaker 2: part of his problem. How do you pay both these guys?
Speaker 2: Plus you have Dack Prescott, one of the best paid
Speaker 2: quarterbacks in the business. Dallas may want to extend this contract,
Speaker 2: but they might not be able to do it without
Speaker 2: getting other players involved to taking pay cuts, and it
Speaker 2: could be too convoluted. I think that we're in a
Speaker 2: situation here where this player needs to continue. But he
Speaker 2: was at peace on the field this year because he
Speaker 2: was at peace off the field. He needs to continue
Speaker 2: with that.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: He's going to be a very very wealthy NFL player
Speaker 2: throughout the years. And hey, get the Dallas Cowboys into
Speaker 2: uh into super Bowl contention, and you'll want to be
Speaker 2: a Cowboy for life. There's no better place in the
Speaker 2: world to play football when you're winning in Dallas.
Speaker 1: Yeah, except for Green Bay, Wisconsin. I totally now Balke.
Speaker 1: You know that that's that's this. You know that that's good,
Speaker 1: but it's not doabas. You've got to understand.
Speaker 2: No, I agree, uh, and I do understand.
Speaker 1: The last thing I want to bring up here before
Speaker 1: we get into tonight's guest interview with Tom Weaver, tell
Speaker 1: me how much you're buying into this Adam Schefter, who
Speaker 1: I think measures his words carefully and doesn't always report
Speaker 1: on everything unless he thinks it's Somehow Newsworthy said he
Speaker 1: would be watching to see if Atlanta is going to
Speaker 1: find a trade partner for Kyle Pitts, who there trading
Speaker 1: away now. Ian Cunningham, who's the new GM for the Falcons,
Speaker 1: said it's his job to listen when it talked when
Speaker 1: he was asked about the potential for moving Kyle Pitts,
Speaker 1: even after tagging him with the franchise tag, and certainly Atlanta.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you want to connect the dots here,
Speaker 1: they don't have a first round pick this year. I'm
Speaker 1: sure they'd love to have a first round pick, getting
Speaker 1: Kyle Pitt's salary, this huge chunk of change that they
Speaker 1: are committed to this year off the books for a
Speaker 1: player that I think they like but perhaps don't love.
Speaker 1: Is there how much smoke do you think there is
Speaker 1: right now to Kyle Pitts not being an Atlanta Falcon
Speaker 1: this year and perhaps maybe not being an Atlanta Falcon
Speaker 1: as soon as tomorrow.
Speaker 2: If you could tell me that the new coaching staff
Speaker 2: doesn't reward a tied end and doesn't want to feature
Speaker 2: a tight end of their offense, I might be able
Speaker 2: to buy into this, But I don't believe it. I
Speaker 2: don't understand why after coming off his best year that
Speaker 2: he's possibly had. And I don't understand why with the
Speaker 2: fact that you've hamstrung him somewhat with poor play at
Speaker 2: the quarterback position. To me, this is the perfect player.
Speaker 2: He's a young player, He's a player that we just
Speaker 2: saw a better season from. Why would you want to
Speaker 2: trade this is another draft pick? Hey, and I'm a
Speaker 2: first year general manager. Sure, let's trade Pits and let's
Speaker 2: let everybody say, hey, what'd you get for Pitts? No,
Speaker 2: thank you. I'll just keep Pits and I'll go on
Speaker 2: with it. You know, that'll be fine with me. I'll
Speaker 2: keep Pits and I'll trust this new coach to help
Speaker 2: him become a better ballplayer.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's I mean, I'm excited for that too. The
Speaker 1: other the other thing, when it comes to Pits, if
Speaker 1: he is traded, it's going to be a team that
Speaker 1: wants to utilize him. So if you have Pits, you
Speaker 1: shouldn't feel like this need to move him now, because
Speaker 1: I think if he does go to a new spot,
Speaker 1: he's still going to utilize heavily.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's so you're just looking for a business You're
Speaker 2: trying to match business situation with who you move. So yeah, Okay,
Speaker 2: so there's because of the business situation, you might want
Speaker 2: to move him. No, I'm the new general manager. I'm
Speaker 2: not moving this player.
Speaker 1: I and Adam Houn chiming into if he is the
Speaker 1: Kelsey successor and heard him this season, and it would
Speaker 1: because obviously you have Travis Kelcey still there. I do
Speaker 1: think that. I mean, I know it was a three
Speaker 1: year deal that he signed, but I think it's more
Speaker 1: like a one year deal and then after that, you know,
Speaker 1: they Kelsey's on a year to year deal right now.
Speaker 2: Kelsey will still be playing when retires, He'll still be.
Speaker 1: Yeah, business, there are gonna be guys that are gonna
Speaker 1: be drafted in the first round, Pharaoh that will retire
Speaker 1: before Travis.
Speaker 2: It could happen. What do you say, non zero chance?
Speaker 1: A non zero chance of that happening, my friend, there
Speaker 1: is a there is a one hundred chance that we're
Speaker 1: gonna have a great guest on tonight, and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: bring him on right now. He won three FFPC Dynasty
Speaker 1: leagues last year alone. He's here tonight to share his
Speaker 1: advice for success in the FFPC Dynasty streets, as well
Speaker 1: as some of his insight into dynasty fantasy football and
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty six NFL Draft itself. Please welcome on
Speaker 1: to the program, Tom Weaver. Tom, Happy NFL Draft EVE
Speaker 1: to you. Thanks so much for joining us tonight.
Speaker 2: Likewise, gentlemen, look at old Tom.
Speaker 4: I'm great.
Speaker 2: We are excited to have you on tonight.
Speaker 1: And the first thing I asked, I ask everybody this,
Speaker 1: when you're not winning all these FFPC leagues, what are
Speaker 1: you doing for a living?
Speaker 4: Serve well for a living.
Speaker 5: I do like long term rentals, investments and housing flips
Speaker 5: as my main course of action. I dabble in ticket
Speaker 5: broker work on concerts and so kind of grinding a
Speaker 5: couple of different places and being diversified.
Speaker 4: I used to work provisor and HR.
Speaker 5: And the benefit side of things, working on pension plans
Speaker 5: and four one K plans. But when that came to
Speaker 5: an end, just tried to do some other things and
Speaker 5: it became, you know, pretty successful in that. And just
Speaker 5: being able to be your own boss is a wonderful thing.
Speaker 1: That's quite the switch from from careers that that that
Speaker 1: is wild, Tom, But there had to be a certain
Speaker 1: amount of like terrors too strong a word, but definitely
Speaker 1: nervousness switching from one one area like that to something.
Speaker 4: Completely different, right, I mean, when.
Speaker 5: Not to go too deep into the history, but when
Speaker 5: Fiser lost it's exclusivity on like Viagara and Lipator, two
Speaker 5: of their major drugs, they let go a ton of
Speaker 5: the salesforce at the time, and being in HR, we
Speaker 5: were kind of more like overhead versus someone trying to
Speaker 5: like find new medicines in the pipeline. So eventually they
Speaker 5: were just letting a lot of people go and I
Speaker 5: ended up being my time. And during that time, I
Speaker 5: was you know, I had season tickets to, like I
Speaker 5: live in the New Jersey area, the New Jersey Devils
Speaker 5: and the New York Giants, and you know, I was
Speaker 5: selling games I couldn't go to and they were profiting.
Speaker 5: So while I was searching for another job, I kept
Speaker 5: increasing that more and eventually I.
Speaker 4: Was making more than I was making in my career before.
Speaker 5: So I just kind of kept rolling with that and
Speaker 5: with new connections, just kind of diversifying, you know, investments
Speaker 5: in money, you know.
Speaker 4: Just to try to stay in my toes.
Speaker 5: And one of the things reasons I did it is
Speaker 5: just because like sometimes in like corporate America, you it
Speaker 5: might not be your fault on while you might get cut,
Speaker 5: and if I did get another job, and you know,
Speaker 5: now I'm approaching fifty, I might not be an attractive
Speaker 5: higher if something like that happened again.
Speaker 4: So I just wanted to kind of control my own destiny.
Speaker 2: If you will, that's brilliant. And you became a professional
Speaker 2: fantasy football player. And let me ask you something does
Speaker 2: does Does the overuse of I ever lead to unfettered
Speaker 2: beard growth? I'm passing around in the chat room and
Speaker 2: I just want.
Speaker 4: To put you know that might be a side effect
Speaker 4: for something.
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, see there's things back we just.
Speaker 4: Don't know exactly.
Speaker 2: Turn your hair white. So there's a lot of things
Speaker 2: going on about that. Hey, we're playing Dynasty together.
Speaker 5: I have.
Speaker 2: Uh oh, Marion Hampton m hm, And I desire the
Speaker 2: one point one draft spot. I really want. Jeremiah Love,
Speaker 2: you've got You've got the one one? Will you take
Speaker 2: Hampton from before that one one? Is that a good decision?
Speaker 4: I'm sticking. I'm leaning much more to Love in this
Speaker 4: particular cave.
Speaker 2: I am too. Here's another one that Drew Mascelli just
Speaker 2: checked in with this. He wants to know if you
Speaker 2: have the one one. Would you accept the one four,
Speaker 2: the one seven, and the one ten in exchange for
Speaker 2: it three first round picks.
Speaker 4: Over Jeremiah, Absolutely not.
Speaker 2: You won't do it. Won't if you wouldn't trade Kyle
Speaker 2: Pitts either. And that's what's going on here.
Speaker 5: I've even made trades for love offering, though like one
Speaker 5: O two and the one oh three. Sometimes that didn't
Speaker 5: even get it done. I think the people and the
Speaker 5: value just have him at just this. He's the clear
Speaker 5: one oh one. He's dynamic and redrafts, he potentially could
Speaker 5: be the first overall pick in a redraft for many
Speaker 5: years coming down the you.
Speaker 2: Know, and brother Weaver, I had to work hard to
Speaker 2: be the best of the also rams to get that
Speaker 2: one one spot and I you know, I'm proud of it.
Speaker 2: Jeremilo's in my trophy. I'm not trading the other Dad.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 5: I was just gonna say, I remember going back, you know,
Speaker 5: watching those weeks for the teams that didn't make the
Speaker 5: playoffs and getting to those finals, and like how important
Speaker 5: that championship in the consolation bracket was because looking forward
Speaker 5: and paying attention to, you know, how the class was
Speaker 5: looking and who was going to be there you knew
Speaker 5: who the one O one was going to be, and
Speaker 5: how valuable that you know that truly was in terms
Speaker 5: of a difference of you know what you could do
Speaker 5: with the one O two in particular.
Speaker 1: And you're leading kind of and I think I know
Speaker 1: what you're gonna say now, Tom, but you consider not
Speaker 1: only Love but the rest of this class and people's
Speaker 1: perception of it. Maybe this year more so in other
Speaker 1: previous years, that one oh one is worth exponentially more
Speaker 1: than a combination of first rounders. This year, you're trading
Speaker 1: the one oh one. Last year, the one O two
Speaker 1: and the one O three for sure would get it
Speaker 1: done right, not as they courso would say, not so fast,
Speaker 1: my friend, this year because of the at least the
Speaker 1: perceived disparity between Love and the rest of this class.
Speaker 5: I mean, I think the market in general has kind
Speaker 5: of come around to eventually started hearing people like, hey,
Speaker 5: I don't want to pick after in a super flex
Speaker 5: league after one oh five. You can make the argument
Speaker 5: that maybe like a Casey Concepsio and as a solid
Speaker 5: option at one O six, and maybe you could kind
Speaker 5: of broaden that. In fact, depending on landing spots tomorrow,
Speaker 5: he might jump one of the other receivers that are
Speaker 5: the you know, quote unquote, you know Big three. But
Speaker 5: leading into the beginning of the off season and super Flex,
Speaker 5: you're talking you know, Mendoza and then you know those
Speaker 5: three receivers, and then after that, you know, people were
Speaker 5: highly questionable you know, around the value. It was just
Speaker 5: a huge tear break in people's eyes. Eventually, at least
Speaker 5: it was, you know, in my eyes. So I kind
Speaker 5: of just started pivoting accordingly before other people kind of
Speaker 5: caught on. I think some people that aren't like full
Speaker 5: time or following the content or following you know, the
Speaker 5: prospects that are you know, playing in college at the
Speaker 5: time coming in this class was supposed to be quarterback heavy.
Speaker 4: Cheers class, and.
Speaker 5: All of them fell apart, you know, Lagni and Drew Aller,
Speaker 5: Leonora Sellers was a name that you heard that could
Speaker 5: be a potential you know quarterback coming into the class.
Speaker 5: And I'm talking about last fall, and you saw the
Speaker 5: play in college going down and you're like, okay, so
Speaker 5: where does that leave this class, you know, in value
Speaker 5: And at the time, no one was talking Mendozo.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and the other.
Speaker 1: Thing too, Chambliss Manning and more all three other guys
Speaker 1: that people were expecting to be in this class or
Speaker 1: at least knew that there was a shot of them
Speaker 1: being in this class. Maybe Chamberless should have been in
Speaker 1: this class, but they're not, and so it's really watered
Speaker 1: down the quarterback position in this Let me just ask
Speaker 1: you just real quick as far as like trading draft
Speaker 1: picks and how you feel about what what you should
Speaker 1: be doing when you should be doing it. Basically, I
Speaker 1: think it's interesting, Tom, because we know as it gets
Speaker 1: closer and closer to the draft, these rookie picks get
Speaker 1: more and more valuable. We also know, and I've heard
Speaker 1: from a lot of people they're having a difficult time
Speaker 1: moving their twenty twenty six picks in exchange for twenty
Speaker 1: twenty seven picks. Is seemingly nobody wants it. I've also
Speaker 1: heard people are having problems trying to move down in
Speaker 1: the draft. Not a lot of people want to come up.
Speaker 1: I think this is what's happening with the Cardinals that
Speaker 1: pick three in the real life draft coming up to us.
Speaker 1: What's your philosophy? I mean, we could talk about specifically
Speaker 1: this year, but what's your philosophy sort of how we
Speaker 1: should be as diningstowners, how we should be treating these
Speaker 1: rookie picks once we know what slots they're going to
Speaker 1: be at after the regular season ends.
Speaker 2: What's the best.
Speaker 1: Plan of action for handling these picks going forward, right
Speaker 1: up until the start of rookie drafts come next week?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 5: I think, you know, you should be following the market
Speaker 5: and getting ahead of the market before your other, you know,
Speaker 5: league mates catch on. So, for example, I thought this
Speaker 5: class was going to be relatively weak, or at least
Speaker 5: there was going to be the market and the idea
Speaker 5: that this class was going to be weak. So I
Speaker 5: made a lot of moves where I was, you know,
Speaker 5: dealing the one oh six through the one people were
Speaker 5: at the time in January when these picks were released
Speaker 5: on FFPC, I was moving to one ten and the
Speaker 5: one to eleven for a random twenty seven first R
Speaker 5: And it wasn't and it wasn't a problem. And that
Speaker 5: was an easy thing to do for me because I
Speaker 5: felt that this is kind of where we were going,
Speaker 5: and you know, there might be hits in this tript
Speaker 5: Now you have.
Speaker 4: To decide who they're going to be.
Speaker 5: You could be wrong, but at the same time there
Speaker 5: is the hype of twenty seven coming up, and now
Speaker 5: that we're into April, people have caught on in orphans
Speaker 5: that I've bought, you know, trying to then move these
Speaker 5: you know later. Twenty six picks has become a little
Speaker 5: bit more challenging, you know, to do it. You're adding
Speaker 5: you know, the second and the third or some other
Speaker 5: kind of package or throwing in you know, a veteran
Speaker 5: with it to try to get it done, and you know,
Speaker 5: most people are.
Speaker 4: Saying no to that.
Speaker 5: You know, I spam offers to everybody and across the leagues,
Speaker 5: in over one hundred of these FFPC leagues. So me
Speaker 5: chatting in the league and having conversations is a difficult
Speaker 5: thing to do time wise, but if you stay on it,
Speaker 5: you could get something done or open up conversation and
Speaker 5: really it just takes one person out of the twelve,
Speaker 5: you know, to agree. But now that we're here, I
Speaker 5: think if people are so against these twenty six picks,
Speaker 5: it actually offers the other opportunity that maybe you could
Speaker 5: coind of get someone the cheap.
Speaker 4: So it's kind of a little bit of an ebb
Speaker 4: and flow.
Speaker 5: If everyone hates you know that you know, draft capital
Speaker 5: is going to mean something tomorrow, and I mean something
Speaker 5: will probably touch on too.
Speaker 4: It's like, who's the RB two in this class? Well,
Speaker 4: if you.
Speaker 2: Look at if you look at oh I interrupted, you
Speaker 2: don't go ahead, No.
Speaker 5: No, I was just saying, like landing, if someone ends
Speaker 5: up going to Seattle pretty early, that's going to look attractive.
Speaker 5: If someone gets like early round two draft capital, that's
Speaker 5: going to look attractive, and it's going to make that
Speaker 5: say that one oh seven one oh eight look better
Speaker 5: than it kind of currently does. And the same thing
Speaker 5: with like the tight end, like at Eli Stowers, does
Speaker 5: he find the right landing spot given his like skill
Speaker 5: set and what the potential usage could be. He might
Speaker 5: move up or he could go the other way. But
Speaker 5: there's some of these picks that I think are going
Speaker 5: to be, you know, more valuable than people are considering
Speaker 5: in that like one oh six to like one oh
Speaker 5: eight to nine range, and maybe it offers an opportunity
Speaker 5: to go back the whole other way and you know,
Speaker 5: find a way to acquire.
Speaker 4: One of those on the cheap.
Speaker 2: I have a question, Tom, how much redraft.
Speaker 4: Do you play? I That's what I used to do
Speaker 4: all the time.
Speaker 5: I am in only one now I kind of quit
Speaker 5: all the redraft to you know, get into Dynasty. And
Speaker 5: just the only reason is it's a home league and
Speaker 5: it's with some like older friends and businesses, so see it.
Speaker 5: And I would basically like lose a lot of contact
Speaker 5: if I dropped from that league. So it's not even
Speaker 5: about yea.
Speaker 2: That has been thrown down. Uh, I can see that
Speaker 2: we're gonna have a tough sell getting Tom and and
Speaker 2: his baby blue hoodie down here in Kentucky to work
Speaker 2: on it. He's got the right color of sweater on
Speaker 2: to come to Kentucky. So we're gonna, we're gonna starting,
Speaker 2: We're gonna start getting it because you've got a lot
Speaker 2: of skills, a lot of talent. That's what. That's what
Speaker 2: Billy Hollywood just popped up and says, I don't play Dynasty.
Speaker 2: So I'm wanna. I'm also gonna thwart him. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say we've got a Dynasty orphan in the
Speaker 2: k F s A. I'm just gonna give it to
Speaker 2: Billy Hollywood and make you play it that you you've
Speaker 2: got You've got a real good head for this, and
Speaker 2: I think knowing, uh the rookie class as well as
Speaker 2: you do make you an excellent redraft player.
Speaker 4: That's all I want to say.
Speaker 2: Uh, I'm drafting every moment I get a chance.
Speaker 5: And I mean I've done something like fastball on the
Speaker 5: side too, just so I don't have to like.
Speaker 2: Now true con you see, Boggy, we stayed there. We
Speaker 2: got a little confession a little bit.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I almost consider it like when you say redraft,
Speaker 5: I just think.
Speaker 4: More like lineup.
Speaker 5: But uh, yeah, I mean that's what I did for
Speaker 5: so long, and just you know, sometimes you're you know
Speaker 5: in the leagues, you catch some injuries or some bad luck,
Speaker 5: and then you know your redraft is just kind of done. Also,
Speaker 5: from a trade perspective, everyone's going for the same thing
Speaker 5: winning that year.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 5: In Dynasty, as you guys will know, is just that
Speaker 5: there's always an opportunity and every single team someone's looking
Speaker 5: for something different. If you're active, and I love the trade.
Speaker 5: I put all my kids to bed at night, And
Speaker 5: what kind of calms me down is going through all
Speaker 5: my leagues and like just looking at trades, looking at options,
Speaker 5: trying to think a couple of steps ahead, trying to
Speaker 5: be better listening to content, and you don't need to
Speaker 5: believe all the content you hear, but just to try
Speaker 5: to take in other opinions.
Speaker 4: And just makes you think, you know, what, am I
Speaker 4: going to think about that?
Speaker 5: Maybe I disagree, maybe I need to reconsider something, you know,
Speaker 5: along those lines.
Speaker 4: And uh, you know that's I kind of it's I
Speaker 4: want to do it.
Speaker 2: Well Malkey, and I want Monkey, and I want you
Speaker 2: to help us figure out Tampa Bay.
Speaker 1: You're going to go first, both, Yeah, I'll go first
Speaker 1: on this. And just real quick to just to peggyback
Speaker 1: on that content comment. I love listening and reading to stuff,
Speaker 1: not necessarily to find things that I agree with, but
Speaker 1: things that kind of reinforced my previous beliefs as well
Speaker 1: as what are other people saying, you know what, what
Speaker 1: like these other people that I'm playing against in Dynasty,
Speaker 1: what are some of the what are some of their viewpoints?
Speaker 1: So I kind of know how to attack trades and
Speaker 1: stuff like that. So that's another another great aspect. You
Speaker 1: don't want to live in your own echo chamber at Dynasty.
Speaker 1: You always want to be, you know, being having osmosis
Speaker 1: with all the information coming in Tampa.
Speaker 2: Let's get to it Jalen McMillan. I know Steve G's
Speaker 2: in the chat.
Speaker 4: I know he's a.
Speaker 1: Jalen McMillan fan. He's got a dodge with draft this year. Obviously,
Speaker 1: you don't want to see Tampa soaking some early draft
Speaker 1: round capital, day one or Day two draft capital into
Speaker 1: a receiver to potentially take the place of Mike Evans.
Speaker 1: And certainly I know they're in the market for a
Speaker 1: tight end as well. But let's say that Tampa focuses
Speaker 1: on defense and focuses online offensive line or stuff like that,
Speaker 1: and they don't really take a receiver, knowing that Evans
Speaker 1: is San Francisco and knowing that it's Chris Godwin, it's
Speaker 1: a mecha Buka. How fantasy worthy do you think Jalen
Speaker 1: McMillan could be in an offense functioning as the de
Speaker 1: facto number three wide receiver this year? Is he simply
Speaker 1: bench tapped or would you see him as something more?
Speaker 5: I think he has a potential to be more. I'm
Speaker 5: a big fan. I was a fan. I was accruing
Speaker 5: a lot of gentlem McMillan over the offseason, and much
Speaker 5: to my chagrin, they drafted at BUKA.
Speaker 4: So that kind of kind of new some of his value.
Speaker 4: I held on to him.
Speaker 5: I didn't even cut him because I really actually believe
Speaker 5: in the player. I saw in twenty twenty four what
Speaker 5: he did with the opportunities that he was given as
Speaker 5: a rookie. He was making plays downfield, making big plays
Speaker 5: in big games. And that's with you know, Mike Evans
Speaker 5: and Godwin there at the time. Part of my concern overall,
Speaker 5: if you know, if I have one is just okay.
Speaker 5: The Tampa Bay offense in twenty twenty four was phenomenal
Speaker 5: and last year it wasn't. And it got worse as
Speaker 5: the year goes on. So which offense we're going to see?
Speaker 5: Was that dude to something? You know, Baker had a
Speaker 5: lot of like it was banged up a lot. Maybe
Speaker 5: there was frustration, Bucky was hurt. The old line might
Speaker 5: have not been great. So what are we looking at,
Speaker 5: you know, this year? But with Mike Evans gone, I
Speaker 5: think he's a great, you know, replacement, and Godwin is
Speaker 5: aging and it might not really be the same. After
Speaker 5: that ankle related injury that he had the year before,
Speaker 5: I think the upside he could be re injured. Of course,
Speaker 5: I think the upside is he very well could be
Speaker 5: second guy there. So I'm I'm I'm all for it,
Speaker 5: and you know, maybe he might be depth, you know
Speaker 5: in the beginning, certain leagues like the Rodo Vis leagues
Speaker 5: which are a little deeper. I think he could be
Speaker 5: a flex potentially early some bye week replacement, and then
Speaker 5: given the right opportunity, if Tampa Bay looks better, he
Speaker 5: could grow.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 5: Further, I just took over a team before the call
Speaker 5: and looking through the transaction history, saw that someone dropped
Speaker 5: Jail and McMillan on the March thirty first cuts, which
Speaker 5: is as hard to believe. And you know, you could
Speaker 5: get somebody that has fantasy value for.
Speaker 4: Very cheap cost, in this case, almost nothing.
Speaker 5: I don't know what the I mean, you probably could
Speaker 5: have got him to someone probably would have just been
Speaker 5: happy enough instead of cutting him to get a you know,
Speaker 5: a fifth round pick.
Speaker 4: I mean, I'll take that bet all day.
Speaker 5: You know, it might not work out, but it's a
Speaker 5: game of bets, and you know, for the cost, you know,
Speaker 5: I I see a tremendous amount of upside.
Speaker 2: Well that's good because I see a tremendous amount of
Speaker 2: upside in this backfield with this acquisition of Game Well.
Speaker 2: You know, I think I have to often go look
Speaker 2: at the stats of how many passes he called last year?
Speaker 2: Seventy three passes? Does he make that in this backfield?
Speaker 2: You know, Bucky Irving is his one of Balkey's all
Speaker 2: time favorite players. He called him early, he called him often,
Speaker 2: and he loves it. And yet last year, yeah, he
Speaker 2: played hurt and the three point four yards per carry
Speaker 2: and one touchdown? And what does game Well bring to
Speaker 2: this team that with a healthy Bucky Irving? How are
Speaker 2: dynasty players handling this? I know how I would like
Speaker 2: to handle it and redraft, but from the dynasty perspective,
Speaker 2: what are you seeing?
Speaker 4: Said he's a very polarizing player.
Speaker 5: You have the Bucky lovers and you have the other
Speaker 5: ones that immediately want to talk go back to his profile.
Speaker 4: He's just a guy. He was drafted on Day three.
Speaker 5: You know what was going on last year with the
Speaker 5: injury lingering, you know, he kind of heard some of
Speaker 5: the little things. You know, there could have been some
Speaker 5: mental health type of things that he was struggling with
Speaker 5: recovering from the injury. Did that impact him in the
Speaker 5: last couple of weeks when he did return because he
Speaker 5: really wasn't you know? Effective? Tampa Bay. You know they
Speaker 5: did sign Gainwell. They gave him a two year deal
Speaker 5: fourteen million. They let Rashada Way walk. You know he's
Speaker 5: going to have that role. They didn't sign him for
Speaker 5: no reason. You know, he's going to catch a lot
Speaker 5: of balls on the Gainwell side. I don't think it's
Speaker 5: going to be like last year when you have Aaron
Speaker 5: Rodgers just jumping it off all the time and him
Speaker 5: being on the field.
Speaker 4: He's goods pro.
Speaker 2: He was necessary, wasn't it.
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I mean so from a Gamewell perspectives. As efficient as
Speaker 5: he is, it's hard to say that he's going to
Speaker 5: match what he did last year. And if he somehow
Speaker 5: did it, would you know it would come at buck.
Speaker 4: He's just.
Speaker 2: Last year a thousand total yards receiving and rushing in
Speaker 2: eight touchdowns, receiving and rushing this year, sharing with Bucky Irving,
Speaker 2: what does he do?
Speaker 5: I think on the Gainwell side, I'm guessing more I'm
Speaker 5: in I'm in the more of the range of the
Speaker 5: seven hundred perhaps and maybe like fifty to sixty ball
Speaker 5: something more reasonable, given you know, it's a different offense.
Speaker 4: I think he's going to be effective. I think he's
Speaker 4: going to be efficient.
Speaker 5: I think it's going to hurt because he has you know,
Speaker 5: Fantasy point friendly, you know, with the PPR on him,
Speaker 5: and that might hurt Bucky. But at the same time,
Speaker 5: there just passes to Bucky that aren't going to always
Speaker 5: be on third down. He could receive, he could catch.
Speaker 5: I don't think it's the other consideration too with Bucky
Speaker 5: is you know they re signed you know, Sean Tucker,
Speaker 5: he was actually getting goal line work at the end
Speaker 5: of the year and Bucky wasn't. I'm not saying I'm
Speaker 5: projecting that to happen this year, but its what if.
Speaker 4: Sean Tucker at.
Speaker 5: A lot of very is Bucky closer to the twenty
Speaker 5: twenty four form and he's healthy, and the Tampa Bay
Speaker 5: offense as a whole, you know, improves because Rashaun White
Speaker 5: still had a role, then it's not like it was,
Speaker 5: you know, all Bucky. He's totally not nuked because Gainwell's there.
Speaker 5: Does it limit his ceiling a little bit? Yeah, I
Speaker 5: would say that, you know, it probably does. But I
Speaker 5: still think he's the main guy. I still think he
Speaker 5: could be effective. I'm just hoping that the Sean Tucker
Speaker 5: goal line type of thing, you know, doesn't come into
Speaker 5: play because too and you start to be more between
Speaker 5: the twenties type of guy, and you kind of have
Speaker 5: that like low calorie, you know, touch thing going on,
Speaker 5: and it's just kind of kind of cap his ceiling.
Speaker 5: I I think he's appropriately placed within the market just
Speaker 5: because you have that uncertainty. And I don't want to
Speaker 5: give like a cop out answer, but I.
Speaker 2: Think Tom just to solve, just from my own curiosity,
Speaker 2: where are you from?
Speaker 4: Originally from New Jersey. I live in Michigan. Now since
Speaker 4: my that's good.
Speaker 2: That's good, Bunkie, there's a there's a Tom. We were
Speaker 2: lingo that, you know, the words like a crew and
Speaker 2: polarizing and you know, lots of people call it joining
Speaker 2: the show. He called it the call, which means he
Speaker 2: does this all.
Speaker 4: The time, you know.
Speaker 2: I kind of I kind of liked that, and he
Speaker 2: just referred he just referred to the low calorie. I
Speaker 2: put that in there too. Yeah, I like little little buzzwords.
Speaker 5: Is he could tell I kind of listened to some
Speaker 5: of the content that these other creators make and these
Speaker 5: are some of the like buds like stick.
Speaker 2: This stuff is all original. Sometimes your original stuff.
Speaker 1: He had one on on Insider Access on Monday Night
Speaker 1: Matt Price and Dynasty League Football where I can't remember
Speaker 1: what we were talking about, but he we're talking about
Speaker 1: ceiling and floor versus a player, and he had this
Speaker 1: this guy's floor is so low, the floor is lava
Speaker 1: for him.
Speaker 2: Really, I hadn't heard that before.
Speaker 1: I know James Hicks was chiving in on the YouTube
Speaker 1: comments on that one, that one. Let's stick in the
Speaker 1: state of Florida. Tom, and I know there's a lot
Speaker 1: of Parker Washington hype that has been going on this offseason.
Speaker 1: I want to ask you just just straight out, from
Speaker 1: from a redraft standpoint, from a Dynasty standpoint, doesn't really matter.
Speaker 2: I'm wondering what.
Speaker 1: You think the likelihood is that he actually ends the
Speaker 1: season as the Jaguars top receiver.
Speaker 5: I mean, nothing's one hundred percent certain, but I'm pretty
Speaker 5: close to one hundred.
Speaker 2: Love.
Speaker 5: I love what he did last year. I love you know,
Speaker 5: Trevor Lawrence is effective. I mean, they brought your Kobe
Speaker 5: Myers into they gave him an extension pretty much almost
Speaker 5: right away, because you know, and that wasn't having anything
Speaker 5: to do with Parker Washington. That had everything to do
Speaker 5: with you know, BTJ not being effective. They tried to
Speaker 5: do some things with them the fit in the offense
Speaker 5: that he just wasn't really good at. So they kind
Speaker 5: of you know, made a change there. So I think,
Speaker 5: you know, Myers is a little bit older, and Parker
Speaker 5: Washington would just look the part. I mean, he's just
Speaker 5: more than you know, the punter, kind of kick returner
Speaker 5: type of guy that people thought. I think if anything,
Speaker 5: people might be just kind of stuck in that you
Speaker 5: know mode where you know they're using like a pass
Speaker 5: bias on him in his size, that he's not really
Speaker 5: the guy, but given the way they run their offense,
Speaker 5: he's a perfect fit. You'd also talk about, you know,
Speaker 5: Travis Hunter. They said he's going to play more cornerback
Speaker 5: this year. That tells you all you need to know
Speaker 5: about how strong they feel about how you know, the
Speaker 5: receiving group of how it's currently is. You know, they're
Speaker 5: very comfortable with them, and so am I. You know,
Speaker 5: I got am on Weavers a lot last year and
Speaker 5: he was in my starting lineup and pretty much all
Speaker 5: of them, you know, as the year progressed, he's a
Speaker 5: beautiful find, and you know, Myers is getting up there
Speaker 5: in age.
Speaker 4: I think Washington's effective, And like I said.
Speaker 5: I think, you know BTJ supposedly there's rumors out there
Speaker 5: that they were looking for a first round pick and
Speaker 5: trade him if the right cost, you know, if the
Speaker 5: right opportunity presented it.
Speaker 4: So it didn't.
Speaker 5: He's still gonna have a role in the offense. But
Speaker 5: you know, I think Washington's going to just be a
Speaker 5: PPR machine.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: And this player, you look at him, he's five to ten,
Speaker 2: but he's over two under pounds. He's certainly a solid
Speaker 2: body to play the position. You've talked about Jacoby Myers.
Speaker 2: You hear this expression coach in the locker room, coach
Speaker 2: on the field, which which usually is is overblown. But
Speaker 2: in Jacoby Myers. I've never talked to any NFL receivers
Speaker 2: who've been in the room at Jacoby Myers that did
Speaker 2: not say that that experience made them a better player.
Speaker 2: And I think that's one of the things Myers brings
Speaker 2: to the team. And Steve g makes a comment down here,
Speaker 2: bad route runner, and maybe so, but there's not an
Speaker 2: easier thing that you can correct h through coaching. And
Speaker 2: and and through repetition than than running bad routes. You
Speaker 2: can't necessarily speed through them. You can't necessarily increase your speed,
Speaker 2: but you can understand the kind of routes that the
Speaker 2: quarterback wants you to run, and that veteran quarterback there's
Speaker 2: there's a little bit of forgiveness in UH in the
Speaker 2: route running there too. So I I really I love
Speaker 2: this player in UH. You know, I started with in Dynasty.
Speaker 2: Of course it's in Dynasty because it's a damn trade.
Speaker 2: But I traded the two O nine for Parker Washington
Speaker 2: this year. Oh that's that's a good Ye.
Speaker 5: A lot of the trades I saw was like more
Speaker 5: like an early second. But I mean, look at the product.
Speaker 5: You know, he's still young. Maybe he is a you know,
Speaker 5: a poor route runner, but that wasn't his game. You know,
Speaker 5: he could learn from that, and to your point with Myers,
Speaker 5: you know, he he could get better. And he also was,
Speaker 5: regardless of that, highly productive. So I don't necessarily you
Speaker 5: know see that. I mean, look at you know, that
Speaker 5: offense hit another gear, you know during the year, and
Speaker 5: you know when they acquired Myers and started utilizing Washington
Speaker 5: and and like I said, when you kind of put
Speaker 5: Hunter back to cornerback. There's a reason for it that
Speaker 5: you have that luxury because you're very comfortable with what
Speaker 5: you got.
Speaker 2: Well, we as w Steven g Is corrected that his
Speaker 2: comment on his comment on Washing BTJ. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 2: and the yeah BTJ might be an undisciplined route runner
Speaker 2: there with a lot of space, but you know what,
Speaker 2: h the if you stick around a little bit, you
Speaker 2: can catch any receiver being a bad route runner. You know.
Speaker 2: It's it's it's nice.
Speaker 1: Before we move off, Washington, I just want to say this.
Speaker 1: I did not realize this. I just looked this up.
Speaker 1: This will be Parker Washington's fourth year in the NFL.
Speaker 2: And the dude last month turned twenty four years old.
Speaker 1: You think about some of the nil stuff that's going
Speaker 1: on some of these receivers coming into the NFL twenty
Speaker 1: four years old.
Speaker 2: Parker Washington this is age twenty four season and this
Speaker 2: will be his fourth year in the league.
Speaker 1: You love to see it.
Speaker 2: The youth, The youth can be served and appreciated in football.
Speaker 5: You know one, I mean dynasty value wise, because he
Speaker 5: is going into his fourth year and obviously he wasn't
Speaker 5: a first round pick. Hopefully they extend him because obviously
Speaker 5: that's a tremendous offense, you know, to be a part of.
Speaker 5: And Trevor Lawrence took you know, a step forward. There's
Speaker 5: a lot of Lawrence kind of haters, but he did
Speaker 5: turn a corner and you know, made major improvements. And
Speaker 5: you know, Liam Cohen was, you know, a genius.
Speaker 2: So let's talk about it. Let's talk about another young player.
Speaker 2: My first foray into drafting twenty twenty six was the
Speaker 2: baby Gorilla and I did, did you do any baby gorillas? I?
Speaker 4: I didn't. I'm gonna need to get involved.
Speaker 2: Leader who you got to have some of the baby gorillas?
Speaker 2: But anyway, uh I reviewed my first few rounds with Balkey,
Speaker 2: and uh I believe on the three four turn.
Speaker 4: I'm drafting the eleventh.
Speaker 2: Perhaps in the fourth round I took Carol Fannon, which
Speaker 2: all the things we said about Parker I think we
Speaker 2: could say about Fannon in regards to productivity and age.
Speaker 2: You know, here here's a player, a very young player.
Speaker 2: I think he's going to do nothing to get better,
Speaker 2: and I think he's going to continue to be great
Speaker 2: this year. My now, I find myself a little more
Speaker 2: polished in drafting now in a big gorilla. But I'm
Speaker 2: still drafting fan and in the same place. And I
Speaker 2: think anyone that got fanned Balkey helped me. Remember, and
Speaker 2: brother Weaver, you may know right, you may be right
Speaker 2: on top of it, but Fantom was not a high
Speaker 2: draft pick in Dynasty coming out of Bowling Green. Am
Speaker 2: I right about this? Well? I mean it depends on
Speaker 2: like your.
Speaker 1: Definition, I sound like Bill Clinton now it depends of
Speaker 1: high right.
Speaker 2: Oh, I think anything like three, four, four, You know,
Speaker 2: top three is top two is high, three and four
Speaker 2: is in the middle, and five through seven is late. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I'm looking this up right now to fresh my own memory.
Speaker 1: I'm looking back on Fantasy Mojo right now. And by
Speaker 1: the way, you can look back on this kind of
Speaker 1: stuff at fantasymojo dot com.
Speaker 2: When it comes to previous year's adp. He has it.
Speaker 1: If you're playing in the f f PC, get a
Speaker 1: membership to Fantasymojo dot com. He was as far as
Speaker 1: the rookies go, last year, Farrell was on average the
Speaker 1: three oh seven in PC rookie drafts, which was basically
Speaker 1: I mean, dude was being This is crazy to me
Speaker 1: when you think about it. A Royal fan and Ferguson.
Speaker 1: Those guys were all going in a clump together behind
Speaker 1: Mason Taylor and then of course behind Lovelin and Warren
Speaker 1: who had massive NFL draft capital. But Fannin was like
Speaker 1: a mid third round rookie pick last year in tight
Speaker 1: end premium leagues, which is crazy to think about.
Speaker 2: I'm just curious about that. You are you a big fan.
Speaker 4: And fan I am.
Speaker 5: I didn't get enough shares last year through the draft,
Speaker 5: which was unfortunate. I didn't see it coming. You know,
Speaker 5: you talked about the competition and the Mac. You know
Speaker 5: at the time when his profile was their house is
Speaker 5: gonna you know work. You know, his athleticism, some people
Speaker 5: kind of questioned, and you know then on the Browns
Speaker 5: when the djoku there at the time, you could see
Speaker 5: why possibly you know, he it slide and people just
Speaker 5: wouldn't believe given you know, you know that he was
Speaker 5: from the MAC detractors. Even now if there are I
Speaker 5: rank them fifth behind the big four. I have him
Speaker 5: ahead of Laporta. You know, the back end. He kind
Speaker 5: of concerns me long term, the way Lions given out deals.
Speaker 5: He might not be resigned, just you know from a
Speaker 5: financial standpoint, where might you go.
Speaker 4: I'm talking like down the road here, Craft is coming
Speaker 4: off in a c L. I have no.
Speaker 5: Problem with Tucker Craft. I like Tucker Craft, but I
Speaker 5: do have Hannan fan and ahead of them, detractors are gonna,
Speaker 5: you know, talk about, you know, he can't replicate what
Speaker 5: he did last year, you know, calling it potentially you know,
Speaker 5: like you fraudulent productivity because given uh yeah, I mean
Speaker 5: this is what you'll hear on you know, in some
Speaker 5: of the streets, just given like they were just throwing
Speaker 5: the ball and they didn't have any kind of weapons.
Speaker 5: But what's that different than this year? Necessarily? I mean,
Speaker 5: we'll see after the draft. But how is that, you know,
Speaker 5: necessarily changing? You know, the coach, Thefanski does love to
Speaker 5: use the tight end a lot. He's no longer you
Speaker 5: know there, so you know, maybe there could be a
Speaker 5: kind of a concern there. But give me a guy
Speaker 5: that was like twenty twenty one, super young, that balled
Speaker 5: out last year. Why am I really going to expect,
Speaker 5: you know, anything different. He's a weapon, he's an asset.
Speaker 5: You know, I'm not I'm not sure who's the starting
Speaker 5: quarterback is going to be there. You know, maybe that factors.
Speaker 5: Maybe the you know, the scheme with a different uh
Speaker 5: you know, coach and offense changes things. But I mean
Speaker 5: they do not have a lot of weapons. We'll see
Speaker 5: what they do with the six pick, you know, tomorrow.
Speaker 5: Hopefully it's more like an offensive line that could only
Speaker 5: help the situation versus you know, adding you know, one
Speaker 5: of the stud receivers. So I'm all, I'm all about him.
Speaker 5: I was acquiring him this offseason. I Neil on startups.
Speaker 5: He's kind of steamed up to you know, tight end
Speaker 5: five in near the range that you were referring to.
Speaker 4: H And you know, I think it's a good place.
Speaker 5: And he was a little bit cheaper than that, you know, preseason,
Speaker 5: and you know, I think it's well warranted.
Speaker 2: Well Walkey, Tom said that I made a good call
Speaker 2: at that last year's situation was a bit polarizing. And
Speaker 2: I'm going to crewe points with my selection of Fannin
Speaker 2: And and you were you you were You're definitely suffering
Speaker 2: from low calorie intag when you said I fit too
Speaker 2: much drafting.
Speaker 1: Right work right away, Farrell. You gotta love it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I of all the of all the complaints that I've
Speaker 1: heard with Fannin, I never viewed punching above his weight
Speaker 1: last year as is one it took too. Seriously, I
Speaker 1: don't see much reason. I mean, obviously there's always something
Speaker 1: that could happen, but seventy two catches and thirty yards
Speaker 1: six touchdowns. Know when Joku this year, I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't see any reason why he can't duplication or even
Speaker 1: be better than that in twenty twenty six and both.
Speaker 2: You don't ever underestimate those bowling Green Falcons. You got
Speaker 2: one playing defensive line for your Green Bay Packers.
Speaker 1: And that is Carl Brooks, right, yes, sir, Yeah, Carl Brooks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, And he is from Detroit, the state of Michigan.
Speaker 1: Where Billy Bill Hollywood's there, Phil, you and obviously Tom
Speaker 1: Tom We we mentioned Fannin was was a big time
Speaker 1: rookie sleeper last season. Do you have any as it
Speaker 1: stands right now before these guys get draft capital, do
Speaker 1: you have any favorite rookie sleepers you'd be willing to
Speaker 1: share with us?
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you took.
Speaker 5: I have a couple. Chris Bell was on my list.
Speaker 5: We already talked about him. Kind of took my thunder
Speaker 5: a little bit. No need to kind of reiterate, but
Speaker 5: you know, just just real quickly, given the injury, you
Speaker 5: might be getting a discount. Some of the news was
Speaker 5: positive today, so maybe not as much of a discount
Speaker 5: as I, you know, I was hoping for. But you know,
Speaker 5: his potential on this upside, given where you know you're
Speaker 5: going to be spending in the draft compared to other
Speaker 5: you know players, I like that, and I'm also in
Speaker 5: you know, the in tight end premium. I think there's
Speaker 5: a lot of potential, you know, tight end depth. You know,
Speaker 5: you got delp justin Joel Lee to name two of them, Raush,
Speaker 5: and the list kind of goes on and kind of
Speaker 5: like fan and you could end up having seeing some
Speaker 5: of these in the late second into the third round
Speaker 5: or your rookie draft, and they don't need to show
Speaker 5: too much, accept a little bit of promise to retain
Speaker 5: their fantasy value and then if they actually you know,
Speaker 5: pop off a little bit, you have an extremely you know,
Speaker 5: attractive asset that you know you could either keep or
Speaker 5: you know, have the flexibility to you know, utilize that
Speaker 5: in some kind of trade and just kind of cash
Speaker 5: out if you will for a different you know asset.
Speaker 5: But in these tight end premium I think there's a
Speaker 5: lot of shots you could take in this tight end
Speaker 5: class you know later on and benefit from.
Speaker 2: Talk to me about landing spots real quick. We had
Speaker 2: a guess last week. I don't remember what he said
Speaker 2: about landing spots, but it drew some of the ire
Speaker 2: from our from our group and commentary. The like the
Speaker 2: young tidy end goes to Kansas City, it's poor landing spot.
Speaker 2: The I think anyone that goes to Tampa might not
Speaker 2: be the greatest landing spot. I never have love of
Speaker 2: the quarterback assets. Uh, what are some of the what
Speaker 2: are some of the red flags and what are some
Speaker 2: of the green flags for landing spots? And how you
Speaker 2: see it working for certain individual players And are there
Speaker 2: any players that are just wherever they go, they're gonna
Speaker 2: they're going.
Speaker 4: To be excellent. Yeah.
Speaker 5: I mean in the case of Love and some of
Speaker 5: the other wide receivers, they're going to be fine. You
Speaker 5: might have preferred landing spots, but some of these studs
Speaker 5: they're using high draft capital, they're going to have a
Speaker 5: plan for them. There's some that are agree aren't you
Speaker 5: know attractive? I mean, like, for example, like New York Jets,
Speaker 5: there's always been a problem. There's always a quarterback problem.
Speaker 5: Their offensive struggled, you know, for years. Just organizationally, they're
Speaker 5: not strong, and it's one of those things, like the
Speaker 5: top down approach. You always see the same organization struggling
Speaker 5: quite often. You know, the Cleveland Browns they talk of,
Speaker 5: you know that worked, you know for Fanning. Judkins looked
Speaker 5: fairly good, you know as well last year before the injury.
Speaker 5: You know, I think it might matter, Like with specifics
Speaker 5: I had talked about Stours, you know, Eli Stowers, he
Speaker 5: probably is a little bit more specific to what would
Speaker 5: be effective.
Speaker 4: In the in his offense.
Speaker 5: And not only that, as if you go to bad
Speaker 5: team and the coaches on the ropes and gets canned
Speaker 5: and you get someone new coming in, they might have
Speaker 5: a different whole scheme and how you want to use somebody,
Speaker 5: and and also you know that wasn't your draft pick,
Speaker 5: you know, either. So sometimes I think there could be
Speaker 5: something along the lines where going to a poor team
Speaker 5: that might have coaching changes could impact your future potential
Speaker 5: value as well. But at the same time, like at
Speaker 5: Jeremiah Love, I'm more interested, not necessarily in Atlantic spot
Speaker 5: for Jeremiah Love, but whose value at running back is
Speaker 5: going to get nuked tomorrow?
Speaker 4: Scatter?
Speaker 5: Is it Tyler Algier that some people bought into when
Speaker 5: you got that deal over there?
Speaker 4: Is it? You know? Is it poll or not that
Speaker 4: he had the like most tremendous value you know in
Speaker 4: the world. But you know, I'm just.
Speaker 5: Thinking about you know, if the Giants did all the
Speaker 5: Skataboo fans, uh, you know, his value would just simply
Speaker 5: be nuked. So you know, the landing spot also is
Speaker 5: more it could be very impactful on the other assets
Speaker 5: that we have across our dynasty leagues.
Speaker 2: Hey ball, here's a wild guard question for you, tom Uh.
Speaker 2: Guys from last year that were victims of this landing
Speaker 2: spot fiasco. I can think of a couple. I'm curious
Speaker 2: if you can think of a couple that in the
Speaker 2: Dynasty are going to be in that free agent pool
Speaker 2: if you could return to and possibly reclaim. Is not
Speaker 2: a rookie draft pick, but as a free agent draft pick.
Speaker 4: Well, we actually touched on Genleen McMillan.
Speaker 5: He was one that he wasn't even in the rookie class,
Speaker 5: but he kind of got impacted by the drafting of it,
Speaker 5: you know at BOOKA, he's throwing back some other ones.
Speaker 4: I'm trying to think off the top of my head.
Speaker 2: You're thinking, I'm gonna throw you one if you with
Speaker 2: And this is a player from a Kentucky Now you're
Speaker 2: a Western Kentucky University of Malakat Corley who went to
Speaker 2: the Jets. It just didn't work out. But he's in Cleveland.
Speaker 2: There's a hard working, good looking ballplayer that that I
Speaker 2: was high on when he came out.
Speaker 1: So many people were high on that guy, you know,
Speaker 1: big time. So there is there is a you know,
Speaker 1: a bounce back possibility there.
Speaker 2: Tom.
Speaker 1: Let's do a couple of emails here for you. That
Speaker 1: came in Jim in Camden, New Jersey. Uh, maybe your
Speaker 1: old stomping grounds. I don't know New Jersey all that well,
Speaker 1: but he says, and you touched on this earlier, Tom.
Speaker 1: He writes, Hi, Tom, who is your number two rookie
Speaker 1: running back this season?
Speaker 4: Thanks?
Speaker 2: That is Jim and Camden, New Jersey.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Jim. I'm not going to answer this question
Speaker 1: for you, but it seems to me that you right now.
Speaker 1: It's kind of a fool's erring to answer this because
Speaker 1: draft capital is going to influence who the number two guy.
Speaker 5: Is one hundred percent. I mean, like from a prospect level,
Speaker 5: who I think draft capital aside, who might have like
Speaker 5: a three down sort of pople play might be like
Speaker 5: Joanna Coleman, whereas Jadarian Price I think will be like
Speaker 5: a complimentary back.
Speaker 4: And maybe he doesn't catch. You know, he doesn't have
Speaker 4: a lot of receptions.
Speaker 5: And you know in college playing after Love, he's a
Speaker 5: kind of a tough one to kind of gauge because
Speaker 5: he was behind Love and the Arkansas running back Mike
Speaker 5: was it Anderson and Washington, and I think and Anderson
Speaker 5: getting like my old man here forgetting names. But uh yeah,
Speaker 5: I mean, you know he had a tremendous combine obviously,
Speaker 5: you know he got that speed and strength. But you
Speaker 5: know his profile, you know, isn't you know, truly effective.
Speaker 5: So how do you kind of weigh that And to
Speaker 5: your point where we're getting we touched on before, who's
Speaker 5: going to Seattle, who's going early?
Speaker 4: Second?
Speaker 5: The draft capital and the landing spot especially you know
Speaker 5: in the running back situation, you know is everything, and
Speaker 5: you know, you look back to last year, you kind
Speaker 5: of had your own, like, you know, favorite list of
Speaker 5: running backs and a heavy running back class, and how
Speaker 5: much did that kind of move as he went down
Speaker 5: the scale, Like oh, I like DJ Giddens, he got drafted.
Speaker 4: By the calls behind Taylor. That's done.
Speaker 5: You know, people are on the you know, like a
Speaker 5: Taj Brooks for example, he never really you know, saw
Speaker 5: the field. Caleb Johnson, you know, didn't really pan out,
Speaker 5: you know with the third round, you know capital, you know,
Speaker 5: so where you go and the opportunities that could present themselves,
Speaker 5: is is really going to impact who's going to end
Speaker 5: up being number two From the dynaste redre you know,
Speaker 5: rookie drift perspective. We hope that the landing spot in
Speaker 5: round two, you know, whether like I mentioned Seattle, maybe
Speaker 5: Minnesota does something they have some questionable running back to
Speaker 5: an age and an offense that usually he's running back friendly.
Speaker 5: That would boost the value to that player and you know,
Speaker 5: jump some other people.
Speaker 1: Washington is a team to watch out for for Jeremiah Love,
Speaker 1: but maybe somebody in the second round as well. And
Speaker 1: that leads me in to our final email for you
Speaker 1: tonight from John and Poughkeepsie, New York. He writes for you, Tom,
Speaker 1: what's up? Man, How reliant is Jaden Daniels going to
Speaker 1: be on rookie difference makers in twenty twenty six? N
Speaker 1: we appreciate that the cupboard is semi bear. I mean
Speaker 1: when you're talking about Treylon Burks right now as your
Speaker 1: number two wide receiver in Washington, zach Ertz, I mean
Speaker 1: we're still talking about him because Ben Sinnett has not
Speaker 1: become what we have hoped he would be. Daniels probably
Speaker 1: needs some more playmakers on that offense. Love would certainly
Speaker 1: be a good one. Carnel Tate, Jordan Tyson would be
Speaker 1: excellent ones. But what the fact of the matter is this,
Speaker 1: the majority of the big time difference makers as far
Speaker 1: as free agents go, are signed.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 1: There's still guys like Keenan Allen and Steph Diggs and
Speaker 1: somebody like that out there, players like that out there.
Speaker 1: But if the Commanders are going to make a run,
Speaker 1: they're probably going to have to need some guys who
Speaker 1: can you know, chew up yardage and score the ball?
Speaker 1: Uh this this season? Who are rookies? Tom in your eyes?
Speaker 1: How how much of Jade Daniel's success is going to
Speaker 1: rely on what they do this weekend in the draft?
Speaker 5: I think a good amount just tossing another name out
Speaker 5: there in the future, you know, whenever the Brandon Ayuk
Speaker 5: situation might unwind. He's been someone that the commanders might target,
Speaker 5: you know as well, you know, to add to the team.
Speaker 5: You know, that would be another weapon. But I do
Speaker 5: think they're going to go offense if they keep this pick,
Speaker 5: you know, at seven, and I think it's you know,
Speaker 5: if Love is there, I think there. I think they're
Speaker 5: definitely gonna grab him. I don't think he's gonna make
Speaker 5: it there, but hey, we'll see, you never know. It's
Speaker 5: interesting with this draft, is like it's kind of uncertain
Speaker 5: who's gonna do what and how the dominoes might fall.
Speaker 4: But then you've also heard you know, Coronel Kate you
Speaker 4: know as well, in that spot.
Speaker 5: But I think he's going to get a weapon, you know,
Speaker 5: that's that's going to help him in one.
Speaker 4: Way or the other.
Speaker 5: I think he has with his rushing ability. You saw
Speaker 5: his first rookie year. That team was an older aging team.
Speaker 5: They kind of just played a kind of above their heads.
Speaker 5: If he will, you know, and they kind of like
Speaker 5: came back to Earth and he was injured, and.
Speaker 4: I just see a rebound.
Speaker 5: I see an opportunity, you know, for him, you know,
Speaker 5: in all our leagues. I think you know, he's a bye.
Speaker 5: I mean last year I was making the call and
Speaker 5: it was the wrong call. In startups, I took him
Speaker 5: first overall, I took him over Allen Do I regret it? Short,
Speaker 5: but you know, given his agent, what he did and
Speaker 5: the mobility, you know, for that amount of time, it's
Speaker 5: really hard to pass that up. And you know you
Speaker 5: can pay you know, the other guy, you know, like
Speaker 5: Lamar Jackson's getting up there.
Speaker 4: He kind of got a little banged up as well.
Speaker 5: There's kind of some talk that maybe he won't run
Speaker 5: as much all that that would be very impactful that
Speaker 5: you know.
Speaker 4: To his value.
Speaker 2: So it was last year, yea last year.
Speaker 1: And the other thing to you, you know you mentioned
Speaker 1: you mentioned Tate, Tom and I you look at mclaurin's age.
Speaker 1: You want a guy that can grow up with Daniels
Speaker 1: in this league, and certainly getting Tate or Tyson or
Speaker 1: somebody like that that could be the heir apparent to McLaurin.
Speaker 1: Probably something that Washington should be looking long and hard
Speaker 1: at going forward as well. All right, final question for
Speaker 1: Tom tonight, Ferrel, you take it.
Speaker 2: I've got a final question, how sweet it is. It's
Speaker 2: the same question I get every week. And I imagine
Speaker 2: you can find value in just about any player. But
Speaker 2: I'm curious to know if there's a player in the
Speaker 2: Dynasty world that you won't touch based on talent, not
Speaker 2: age or not situation, but just based on talent, just
Speaker 2: a guy you don't like, and then somebody that you
Speaker 2: really got to get without without spoiling the game and
Speaker 2: playing your hand. I think you've already sold us on
Speaker 2: the fact that if you have that one one, hang
Speaker 2: on to it. But just just give us some insight.
Speaker 2: There of some things that are just you know, sort
Speaker 2: of the Bible according to Tom one of your Tom commandments.
Speaker 4: Well, some people that I do like.
Speaker 5: This year, I've acquired a lot of you know, Za Flowers.
Speaker 5: I think his message is extremely high. Now I felt
Speaker 5: stronger about that when they had the you know, Max
Speaker 5: Crosby trade and they gave up those first round draft picks.
Speaker 5: Now that that unfold, that it opens the door where
Speaker 5: maybe they potentially could have added a wide receiver.
Speaker 4: And I feel a little bit, you know, differently about that.
Speaker 5: Mother type of guys like if you need like a
Speaker 5: cheaper tight end, I like Brenton Strange, you know, in
Speaker 5: that offense, another one that I would acquire. If I'm
Speaker 5: kind of more in a rebuild type of situation, I
Speaker 5: would just take advantage of the Travis Hunter kind of
Speaker 5: situation right now and start you know, buying low. I've
Speaker 5: seen him go for you know, second round picks and
Speaker 5: even late second round picks, you know, in in some leagues,
Speaker 5: and I just think if you could just kind of
Speaker 5: wait out the year because you're kind of rebuilding anyway,
Speaker 5: he's going to come back into the hold as a
Speaker 5: wide receiver.
Speaker 4: I do think.
Speaker 5: I think he wants to be a wide receiver, and
Speaker 5: as he gets closer to his next contract, that's who's
Speaker 5: making the money. And it's going to come down to
Speaker 5: I can make a whole lot more money at the
Speaker 5: wide receiver position versus you know, being you know a
Speaker 5: solid or very good cornerback.
Speaker 2: So I think he gets almost no snaps at wide
Speaker 2: receiver this year.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And like I said, that's kind of why I mentioned,
Speaker 5: like rebuild is just because you might not care, it
Speaker 5: gives you an opportunity to do that. And in other
Speaker 5: leagues that you're in unless you're a total monster team
Speaker 5: and you don't need that, you know, bench spot as
Speaker 5: much you can, you know, get him on the cheap
Speaker 5: and just kind of like wait it out.
Speaker 4: But you know, I agree with that.
Speaker 1: I'm I will just say this about Hunter, and I
Speaker 1: feel like I've I've said this before, but I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say it again, and I'm gonna put it in practical
Speaker 1: Dynasty sense here. I don't think now is the right
Speaker 1: time because I like Hunter, and I do I'm a
Speaker 1: little bit more bullish on his receiving than Farrell is
Speaker 1: also understanding the reality. But I think the time to
Speaker 1: trade for him in Dynasty is once we get to
Speaker 1: training camp and he's working with the ones and he's
Speaker 1: defense and he's hardly doing anything on offense. Because I
Speaker 1: think now there's a lot of people who invested the
Speaker 1: one oh two in their rookie drafts last year at
Speaker 1: Hunter that aren't willing to give him away because they
Speaker 1: don't want to believe it that he is just.
Speaker 2: Going to be a defender.
Speaker 1: But if he gets August and he's just he's doing
Speaker 1: nothing with the offense, that would probably be the time
Speaker 1: to pounce on a Hunter and keep him on your roster. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know he's a bit of a roster clogger, but
Speaker 1: with a talent as rare as he has, I'm willing
Speaker 1: to clog my roster with somebody like that, and maybe
Speaker 1: I'll go down with the ship. But that's part of
Speaker 1: dynasty too, is having your convictions and standing by them
Speaker 1: right or wrong.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what our guest tonight, he's been.
Speaker 1: Right more than he's been wrong.
Speaker 2: He is a believer.
Speaker 1: Joining us tonight the Dynasty DJ himself, Tom. This was
Speaker 1: a pleasure. Farrell and I really enjoyed it. I know
Speaker 1: our viewers, the listeners will be listening to this tomorrow
Speaker 1: are going to enjoy this as well. I wish you
Speaker 1: nothing but the best of luck in all your Dynasty
Speaker 1: leagues this year. Enjoy the NFL Draft, not only tomorrow,
Speaker 1: with the rest of this weekend, and enjoy your rookie
Speaker 1: drafts coming up in early May. Thanks so much for
Speaker 1: making us a part of your Wednesday evening, my.
Speaker 4: Friend, Thanks for having me. Guys, Absolutely you got it.
Speaker 2: That is Tom Weaver Uh from Michigan by way of
Speaker 2: New Jersey.
Speaker 1: I hang out with us tonight. Great stuff from him.
Speaker 2: I learned a lot.
Speaker 1: Always good to have these players on Farrell and certainly
Speaker 1: Tom Weaver. No disappointment tonight.
Speaker 2: I agree, he h. He's very well organized. He he
Speaker 2: just needs to keep playing. He just needs to come player.
Speaker 2: He's come in redrafts, expand his draft. He needs to
Speaker 2: bring that. And you know, great players like him should
Speaker 2: play all the time. It feels like we're gonna be
Speaker 2: on the air all the time this week.
Speaker 1: We love so so we're gonna unveil our our first
Speaker 1: announcement tonight. Basically what we are doing for the first
Speaker 1: time ever, when the NFL Draft Round one reaches us
Speaker 1: its close tomorrow, you and I will record an extra
Speaker 1: reps podcast that we will air Friday night at that
Speaker 1: same time the draft at ten pm Eastern on Friday night,
Speaker 1: that same time Round three should.
Speaker 2: Be winding down.
Speaker 1: But you'll get our analysis on all the rookie picks
Speaker 1: from the skill position picks, excuse me, from NFL Draft one.
Speaker 1: You'll get that on Friday night. And since we can't
Speaker 1: do all this heavy lifting ourselves, we're bringing on a guest.
Speaker 1: Would you like to let us know who that guest
Speaker 1: is going to be Tomorrow night?
Speaker 2: Yes, sir, as he makes a return of the appearance
Speaker 2: and his first time ever on Extra Reps with mister
Speaker 2: Jason Camp from Ashland, Kentucky, an FFPC player before he
Speaker 2: made his bones in the k AFFFC, and as you
Speaker 2: remember Jason from his previous appearances, he is a very
Speaker 2: aggressive player, a very knowledgeable player, a great businessman, and
Speaker 2: we're going to talk a little bit about what fantasy
Speaker 2: football means to him and some of the decisions that
Speaker 2: he's made to get further involved with it on our
Speaker 2: Friday show.
Speaker 1: He's not only a Dynasty champion, he won one of
Speaker 1: the five thousand dollars Big Payback leagues that we had
Speaker 1: last year with the FFPC. He won another thousand dollars
Speaker 1: entry one. So he's playing the high end stuff and
Speaker 1: beating a lot of really talented players. He is going
Speaker 1: to join us for that record again. We're recording it
Speaker 1: tomorrow and then we will air it Friday night at
Speaker 1: ten pm Eastern, not only on the FFPC Socials, but
Speaker 1: the HSFF Socials as well.
Speaker 2: Ferrel, I can't wait to talk with you.
Speaker 1: By the time I talk with you again, we'll have
Speaker 1: landing spots for all these guys. Very excited to do it.
Speaker 1: Thanks so much for hanging out with me tonight and
Speaker 1: enjoy the first round tomorrow. I'll talk with you in
Speaker 1: out about twenty three hours or so, maybe twenty five hours.
Speaker 2: We'll see how fans, but whatever it is, Balk, we'll
Speaker 2: be ready. Well, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1: That is Farrel Elliott, a commissioner of Fantasy Football, and
Speaker 1: that's going to complete our show tonight. I want to
Speaker 1: thank Tom Weaver, Farrell Elliott, the FFPC, Rob Brice, and
Speaker 1: of course each and every one of you this week
Speaker 1: in case you missed it inside our Access normally airs
Speaker 1: at seven o'clock Thursday nights. I did it on Monday
Speaker 1: night this week because I figure a lot of you
Speaker 1: are probably watching the NFL Draft, so we did a
Speaker 1: special Monday episode with Matt Price and Dynasty League Football.
Speaker 1: Alluded to it earlier in the podcast or earlier in
Speaker 1: the show. You can watch that stream that downloaded anywhere
Speaker 1: you get your video or audio podcasts, along with the
Speaker 1: FFPC socials in case you want to watch that back.
Speaker 1: As I mentioned, Jason Camp joins US ten pm Friday night,
Speaker 1: the thirteen time FFPC champion. We'll also have a special
Speaker 1: Kentucky announcement that night, which is going to be very exciting,
Speaker 1: and he will join us for Round one, Round one
Speaker 1: recap of the NFL Draft. This show will not air
Speaker 1: on Wednesday of next week. For next week we are temporary.
Speaker 1: It's a one week only thing, switching back to Friday
Speaker 1: night and we will be on at nine pm Eastern,
Speaker 1: so nine pm Eastern, one hour early. We will have
Speaker 1: full coverage once again of the FFPC Genesis and Revelations drafts.
Speaker 1: You can register for those. I think both of them
Speaker 1: have spots open myffpc dot com under the Satellite Redraft section.
Speaker 1: You'll be able to sign up for those, and maybe
Speaker 1: we'll have you on the show and make a couple
Speaker 1: of picks on air.
Speaker 2: That's always fun as well. So that's next Friday at
Speaker 2: the nine pm Eastern time.
Speaker 1: FFPC Dynasty and Empire Dynasty orphans available at myffpc dot com.
Speaker 1: Many are reduced. We're down to about one hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty one hundred and ten right around there, so check
Speaker 1: that out. Tom was just talking about one of them
Speaker 1: that he bought tonight. Really good prices on these, especially
Speaker 1: from the five hundred to twelve fifty entry. A lot
Speaker 1: of those are one dollars or lower, so check that
Speaker 1: out at my ffpc dot com. The FFPC Bestball Tournament
Speaker 1: has been launched as of I don't know ten hours
Speaker 1: or so go four hundred thousand dollars grand prize. That's
Speaker 1: one hundred k more than last year, and it's still
Speaker 1: only one hundred and twenty five dollars entry the super
Speaker 1: Flex Bestball Tournament. You can win one hundred k there
Speaker 1: thirty five dollars to join that same thing as the
Speaker 1: Baby Gorilla one hundred k grand prize, just one hundred
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Speaker 1: format as the Big Gorilla, which once again features a
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Speaker 1: enter that Early Rampage and seven bananas promos going on
Speaker 1: there right now, as well as the twenty five k
Speaker 1: grand prize up for grabs in the Early Rampage tournament.
Speaker 1: Want to remind you if you have not signed up
Speaker 1: for the FFPC Insider List, do so at my ffpc
Speaker 1: dot com because in your email tomorrow morning will be
Speaker 1: a special announcement on a new format that we are
Speaker 1: bringing you and hopefully you're excited about playing in it.
Speaker 1: In fact, if you peruse the FFPC website, you may
Speaker 1: or may not see it on there already, but we'll
Speaker 1: officially announce that tomorrow morning and see that in your emails.
Speaker 1: Remember to like this video, subscribe to the channel, comment
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Speaker 1: go live, which will be the next time this channel
Speaker 1: will be active, will be ten pm Eastern Friday night
Speaker 1: with extra wraps. Myself, Farall Elliott and Jason Camp speaking
Speaker 1: of Pharaoh Elliott for him, for Tom Weaver, I am
Speaker 1: Eric Balkman. This has been the High Stakes Fantasy Football Hour,
Speaker 1: and as our friend Vince Stahelino reminds us, you are
Speaker 1: officially over the hump now.
Speaker 3: This has been another episode of the Hot Steaks fatas
Speaker 3: Ley Football Hour, presented by my FFPC dot com. It
Speaker 3: was broadcast live and was watched around the world. Balky
Speaker 3: and Farrell will be back next week with more analysis,
Speaker 3: more interviews, add more advice from guests much smarter than
Speaker 3: they are. Thanks for watching, and we'll talk with you
Speaker 3: again next week.
Speaker 1: I want to wish everybody have to have a happy
Speaker 1: NFL draft. We could see what five six receivers go
Speaker 1: tomorrow night. We could see one or two running backs,
Speaker 1: one or two quarterbacks, one or two tight ends. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be a fun first round. And I'm also excited
Speaker 1: too because I think this year we could see more
Speaker 1: defensive players and offensive lineman pick. I don't do as
Speaker 1: much research on that as much as I used to
Speaker 1: because I'm focused on the skill position. So it'll kind
Speaker 1: of be like watching the NFL Draft from a non
Speaker 1: fantasy point again, and you know, just watching to see
Speaker 1: how these franchises inject some life into them. Some of
Speaker 1: them more a more morbum than others. But it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a lot of fun tomorrow night, and we'll talk
Speaker 1: all about it on Friday with Ferrell, Me and Jason Camp.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a lot of fun. Enjoy it. Everybody,
Speaker 1: have a great draft. We'll talk with you Friday.