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Speaker 1: Good evening, brother, how are you?
Speaker 5: I am honored and humbled by the early comments in
Speaker 5: the in the chat room. It's good to see everybody
Speaker 5: in some names that we haven't seen in a couple
Speaker 5: of weeks. This is great stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's unbelievable. Help pros versus Joe's just brings everybody
Speaker 1: out of the woodwork with the With the f FBC,
Speaker 1: there is several unofficial kickoffs to the fantasy season, like
Speaker 1: the NFL Draft. I wouldn't even say that. I would
Speaker 1: say when we offer our first draft back in January.
Speaker 1: The NFL Draft. After the NFL Draft, uh, and then
Speaker 1: you know obviously mini camps. We got training camp going on,
Speaker 1: and then pro versus Joe's the next official kickoff. On
Speaker 1: official kickoff as we bring you live coverage tonight, I
Speaker 1: want to bring on the draft board right now, ladies
Speaker 1: and gentlemen, as we are off and running. If I
Speaker 1: can bring this up right here. Oh yeah, these guys,
Speaker 1: these guys are on point tonight, Farrell. They are on
Speaker 1: point with with how they've been drafting. We're already through
Speaker 1: round one and let me get this set up for
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Speaker 1: you guys can't see it all that well, but I
Speaker 1: think we should be good to go here. I'm going
Speaker 1: to bring it down. Just you're squitzing already, hold on,
Speaker 1: I'll make it.
Speaker 5: I'll be okay. I just learned and I have the
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Speaker 1: Tonight's drafters once again. These are six FFPC joes randomly
Speaker 1: selected and the early whoever had their team in at
Speaker 1: the early Bird deadline at the end of May, got
Speaker 1: entered into a random drawing and we've picked forty two
Speaker 1: of them out of you for these seven drafts, and
Speaker 1: six of them are in the draft tonight, going and
Speaker 1: got six pros that were selected in part by a
Speaker 1: crack team at the FFPC including me and then Fantasy
Speaker 1: Mojo of course helps pick these out every single year.
Speaker 1: And this is the lineup we have tonight. JJ Zacharison
Speaker 1: from Late Round dot Com. He had the first pick tonight.
Speaker 1: The FFPC Joe team of Rick Raymaker and Andy Rule
Speaker 1: were picking second. Peter rovers That from Fantasy Life is
Speaker 1: picking third. Scott Fritz, who we just talked on Friday
Speaker 1: night on my High Stakes Fantasy Football Farrell he is
Speaker 1: drafting fourth. Todd Burrows from the Run to Daylight podcast
Speaker 1: is drafting fifth. Green Myers is drafting sixth. Tonight, FFPC
Speaker 1: Joe jeff Man from Serious XM Fantasy Sports Radio and
Speaker 1: Fantasy Guru is drafting seventh. Tonight. Our buddy the Fantasy
Speaker 1: Soprano himself, Steven Irgalos and Michael Ready drafting at the
Speaker 1: eighth spot. Bob Long, who was on the Insider Access
Speaker 1: FFPC show with me, on the Better Sports Network last week.
Speaker 1: He is drafting ninth, Chris Carlson, longtime FFPC player, drafting tenth,
Speaker 1: Tyler Buker from Fantasy Guru is eleventh, and then Roy
Speaker 1: Parnzuela and Corey Hanstein rounding things up here at the
Speaker 1: twelve spot tonight. And I don't want to say a
Speaker 1: little bit of a surprise here farrel, but we don't
Speaker 1: get our first running back off the board until pick four.
Speaker 1: That was Scott Fritz taking Bjon Robinson after Chase went
Speaker 1: to Zacharies and Jefferson goes to Raymaker and Rule and
Speaker 1: then brock Bauers off the board to Overzet there. And
Speaker 1: we saw some scuttle butt on X earlier that Overzet
Speaker 1: would not be taking a running back here. Pharaoh. What
Speaker 1: do you make of Bjon Robinson falling all the way
Speaker 1: to four tonight?
Speaker 5: Yes, it's I see nothing wrong with that. I like it.
Speaker 5: Justin Jefferson is going to be the go to wide
Speaker 5: receiver in Minnesota no matter what. There's my captain obvious
Speaker 5: statement for tonight. Overs that's not gonna let borers get
Speaker 5: away from him. If you're in a draft with over said,
Speaker 5: he's going to be drafting Bowers and there's no way
Speaker 5: Bayers gets back to him, so boom, Bauers goes in
Speaker 5: the third spot and then Bjon and you have to
Speaker 5: feel very very good about Bijon that. You think back
Speaker 5: to the start of the last season and they were
Speaker 5: still giving Algeier all the touches in the inside the
Speaker 5: five yard line that waned as the season went on.
Speaker 5: So let's have a full season of Robinson. Algi will
Speaker 5: be this the a complimentary second back, but less around
Speaker 5: the goal line. I think Robinson is definitely in for
Speaker 5: a good year. And congratulate eation for Fritz who gets
Speaker 5: him at the four spot. And he didn't think that
Speaker 5: that would be available to him there.
Speaker 1: He had to be pleasantly surprised. Trey McBride goes to
Speaker 1: Todd Burrows a little bit earlier than maybe I expected
Speaker 1: tonight at the one oh five. Uh, but Todd did
Speaker 1: say in the YouTube chat earlier on the show that
Speaker 1: he was feeling disruptive tonight.
Speaker 5: So disruptive this is general, it's a general state of
Speaker 5: affairs for Todd.
Speaker 1: That's true. Yeah, the disruptor Todd Burrows at Best Ball
Speaker 1: NFL on x A pair of Lions go next. Jamier
Speaker 1: gives Himon Ross Saint Brown Ceedee Lamb falls all the
Speaker 1: way to the one o eight. Tonight, Bob Lung grabs
Speaker 1: up Saquon Barkley at the one oh nine. Neighbors, Nikua
Speaker 1: and h Chan complete the first round. I think, and
Speaker 1: I know Steven Hergalos drafts a ton He's drafting from
Speaker 1: the eighth spot tonight. He had to be pretty happy
Speaker 1: that Ceedee Lamb falls to him. I think it's a
Speaker 1: big year. I know the addition of Pickens has people
Speaker 1: concerned about the target volume for Lamb. I think this
Speaker 1: is only going to help him and maybe the volume
Speaker 1: goes down, but the efficiency should go way up. Well,
Speaker 1: here's your lazy analysis tonight. Prescott is great every other year.
Speaker 1: This is a great year for him this year, and
Speaker 1: I think Lamb's a big beneficiary. I love the lampick
Speaker 1: that want to wait tonight.
Speaker 5: I do too. And that's you know, that's where the
Speaker 5: fantasy sopranos want to be. And you already see a
Speaker 5: little Kentucky in their blood their drafting wide receivers.
Speaker 6: Early.
Speaker 5: I want to say a little Bob Lung, I missed
Speaker 5: your show with him this week, and Bob gets it in.
Speaker 5: Barkley gets a huge performer there. You know, people are
Speaker 5: talking about Barkley, they say, well, you know he's going
Speaker 5: to be less what he does last year. He's going
Speaker 5: to regress. Was he going to regress ten percent? Twenty
Speaker 5: five percent? I don't care. Even at twenty five percent,
Speaker 5: he's still about eighteen hundred yards from scrimmage. I can
Speaker 5: live with that. I think you could too, Balky. The
Speaker 5: thing about it is that Bob Lung works hard bringing
Speaker 5: fantasy players together with his convention, gets a lot of respect,
Speaker 5: and I appreciate him being here. Deserves a lot of
Speaker 5: receiver he does. Yeah, and he gets it too, but
Speaker 5: he deserves it.
Speaker 1: Yes, one hundred percent. No surprise that he goes with
Speaker 1: Barkley and Henry to the more consistent players. Although last
Speaker 1: year Barkley had a lot of those spike weeks, which
Speaker 1: with those you know whatever, it was seven or eight
Speaker 1: runs of touchdown runs of longer than thirty yards. I
Speaker 1: don't know how replicable that is, but certainly we're gonna
Speaker 1: find out this year. And you and I talked about this.
Speaker 1: I'm hemming and hauling about Saquon Barkley at the one
Speaker 1: o three and he falls to the one o nine
Speaker 1: tonight too, So like, certainly that's that's as much of
Speaker 1: a slam dunk as as you get. Here. In the
Speaker 1: second round, we saw Collins McCaffrey and Brian Thomas with
Speaker 1: the first three picks already mentioned. Henry going to Bob
Speaker 1: Long Ready and your gallos start with three straight receivers here.
Speaker 1: London was their pick. In the second round, gent Jacobs,
Speaker 1: McConkie George Kittle goes tonight at the two to oho
Speaker 1: nine to Scott Fritz. So he starts off his team
Speaker 1: with running back tight end. We'll see how he sort
Speaker 1: of makes up the difference at receiver Bucky Irving Jonathan Taylor,
Speaker 1: and then JJ Zacharieson grabs A J. Brown at the
Speaker 1: two twelve tonight to start out Jamar Chase and AJ Brown.
Speaker 1: I don't know if Jake was talking about that pick
Speaker 1: or if he was talking about the tyreek Hill pick
Speaker 1: at the three to zero one, but he said, what
Speaker 1: a gift for JJ. Either AJ Brown or Tyreek Hill,
Speaker 1: they both happened at the same time. Basically, our buddy
Speaker 1: Christian Barney Newkirk hopping a board watching us on Facebook tonight,
Speaker 1: he said, Lamb and Barkley dropping that far is insane.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's insane, Ferrell, but it did
Speaker 1: raise my eyebrow. I think one of the things that
Speaker 1: we have to keep in mind with something like this
Speaker 1: is with these analysts coming on who all produced great content.
Speaker 1: If they didn't produce great content, they wouldn't be in
Speaker 1: this competition. You have to understand that first place gets
Speaker 1: a free main event in the FFPC next year, which
Speaker 1: is a two thousand plus dollars value. Second place gets nothing,
Speaker 1: not even a pair of socks. So this is all
Speaker 1: about getting your guys, it's all about winning the thing,
Speaker 1: and it's all about taking huge swings. So in this
Speaker 1: format tonight, the pros can't hide they're going to draft
Speaker 1: their guys because they know that just being a good
Speaker 1: team in this is not going to be good enough.
Speaker 1: You have to be great, you have to be elite,
Speaker 1: and everybody is going to be getting their guys, which
Speaker 1: is one of the great things about the processes.
Speaker 5: Joe Formatt, I think it's really wonderful Bunky and I
Speaker 5: when you know in the chat room we had a
Speaker 5: couple of guys is spring that says I am never wrong.
Speaker 5: I am the real characters. You know, some of them
Speaker 5: haven't shown up in a while, but you know, the
Speaker 5: this is a time where those of us who are
Speaker 5: watching this draft and listening and looking can very much
Speaker 5: learn the whole key of fantasy football, I think is
Speaker 5: not what you know. The real mystery and how you
Speaker 5: can build and be successful is realize what you don't know.
Speaker 5: And you can learn a lot here. And you know,
Speaker 5: if we're getting an indication that Lamb is going to fall,
Speaker 5: that you can actually put together a team with Barkley
Speaker 5: and Henry, I'm signing up for that right now, you know.
Speaker 5: And I think we're learning that if you're not in
Speaker 5: the first half of the draft your chances of getting
Speaker 5: brought by ours are very slim. And I don't you
Speaker 5: know now the numbers that we get from Darren at
Speaker 5: Fantasy Mojo might disprove that, but when you get these
Speaker 5: kind of guys in the room, this is a real
Speaker 5: indicator of where thought from others may be forthcoming. Does
Speaker 5: that sounding kind of word salid? But what I'm saying
Speaker 5: is we're looking into the future with some of the
Speaker 5: picks for a here.
Speaker 1: So the other thing I'll point out, speaking of Mojo
Speaker 1: at Fantasy Mojo on X, that's Darren ARMANI. He is
Speaker 1: the godfather of the process of Joe's competition that helping
Speaker 1: us run this thing. Basically, he runs the whole thing
Speaker 1: for a decade plus now. And if you have or
Speaker 1: are playing in the FFPC, I highly recommend you get
Speaker 1: a subscription to Fantasymojo dot com. Well worth the price.
Speaker 1: As far as the ADP data, the stacking data, I
Speaker 1: will pump up the end season stuff. I know Darren
Speaker 1: doesn't pump that too much, but it's great to find
Speaker 1: out where these players are going for, how much they're
Speaker 1: going for, and the waiver wire. It's great stuff. If
Speaker 1: I look at the FFPC Best Ball Tournament ADP, which features,
Speaker 1: by the way, a three hundred thousand dollars grand prize
Speaker 1: and for the first time ever this year, a one
Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars runner up grand prize or one hundred
Speaker 1: thousand dollars runner up second place prize, you're looking at
Speaker 1: just one hundred and twenty five dollars to enter this.
Speaker 1: It filled up last year, it's going to fill up
Speaker 1: again this year. Make sure you're getting in and playing
Speaker 1: in that. If I look at that ADP data, Pharaoh
Speaker 1: saquon Barkley over the last what am I looking at?
Speaker 1: Three days here? Barkley running back three at the one
Speaker 1: oh five, CD Lamb wide receiver three at the one
Speaker 1: oh six. So good value there, as we mentioned with
Speaker 1: your gallos and ready taking Lamb and then of course
Speaker 1: Bob Long taking Barkley. They're already through the third round.
Speaker 1: We saw a pair of Bengals go this round, as
Speaker 1: well as a pair of Jets. Pharrem JJ zacharieson one
Speaker 1: of two teams to start off receiver receiver receiver, he
Speaker 1: pairs he he has Tyreek Hill join the trio now
Speaker 1: of Chase, Brown and Hill. There. I think it's interesting
Speaker 1: and we can talk about this. Do you make anything
Speaker 1: of him knowing that he had Chase, knowing that he
Speaker 1: could get Burrow here at the four or five turn.
Speaker 1: Do you make anything of him taking Tyreek Hill over
Speaker 1: t Higgins? Is that something that you would have gone
Speaker 1: because would have done Because I look at it where
Speaker 1: you have to win the whole thing. Man, You get
Speaker 1: Chase in the first, Higgins in the third, and then
Speaker 1: Burrow in the fifth. I think you're making something there.
Speaker 1: He went with Tyrek Hill instead.
Speaker 5: Very very impressive, volatile, sincere and dedicated offense in Cincinnati,
Speaker 5: and man, they need to be because on the defensive
Speaker 5: side of the ball, they're going to give up a
Speaker 5: lot of points. And from fantasy, I don't care how
Speaker 5: many sacks Burrow is going to experience this year. He
Speaker 5: always hits a big number and he always gets up
Speaker 5: in plays ball. I like it. I do not like it.
Speaker 5: I do not like Brown here. I think Brown is
Speaker 5: you have hard time getting value over that. And I'm
Speaker 5: not so thrilled that I like Heill. So I would
Speaker 5: have mixed in a running back there. Uh and and
Speaker 5: probably gone for one of these. He's probably gone for
Speaker 5: t Agains.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the other pick I wanted to talk about here.
Speaker 1: We said with Scott Fritz starting off with running back
Speaker 1: tight end, it was going to be interesting to see
Speaker 1: what he'd do at receiver and listen, I don't want
Speaker 1: to say I'm loaded with Marvin Harrison this year, but
Speaker 1: I have enough. I have a decent amount of Marvin Harrison.
Speaker 5: Last year too.
Speaker 1: They did, they did, and now you're you know, this
Speaker 1: is a guy that was going at the one two
Speaker 1: turn last year and now you can get him here
Speaker 1: at the three or four. Why I like this pick
Speaker 1: for Fritz's a granted the build is still early, but
Speaker 1: you need to kind of fill in that receiver position
Speaker 1: some way, whether it's volume or whether it's a lead upside.
Speaker 1: First place is the only harp on this the whole broadcast.
Speaker 1: First place is the only place getting paid out. Why
Speaker 1: not take a high upside guy, A pedigree guy in Harrison,
Speaker 1: A guy who's been making headline for you know, bulking
Speaker 1: up this year. A guy who's playing on a team
Speaker 1: whose offense is going to have a much easier schedule
Speaker 1: than they did in twenty twenty four. Yeah, maybe Harrison
Speaker 1: doesn't hit, but if he does all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: that looks like a great pick. And oh, by the way,
Speaker 1: you already have George Kittle, who could be the number
Speaker 1: one tight end this year, and b John Robinson who
Speaker 1: could be the number one running back this year. So
Speaker 1: that's why I like that Harrison pick, specifically here for
Speaker 1: Scott Fritz at the three or four tonight.
Speaker 5: Scott knows what he's doing, and he'll a little bit
Speaker 5: determine on his build. I think if all those things
Speaker 5: come to pass. He's still in the he's still in
Speaker 5: the production of the four receivers that went immediately after him.
Speaker 5: So I'm willing to just go ahead and say I
Speaker 5: would have taken one of those four receivers because I
Speaker 5: like their name, Brands and Bulkie. I just got a
Speaker 5: note from the board of Directors at the KFFSC, and
Speaker 5: we'll have to clear it with Darren and the powers
Speaker 5: that be at the FFPC, But the KFFSC has stepped
Speaker 5: up and will provide the second place finisher with a
Speaker 5: conflimentory pair of socks this year. So I want you
Speaker 5: to know that we've got the socks covered. I'll go
Speaker 5: how many divisions are they?
Speaker 1: We had seven this year.
Speaker 5: We have we have seven total. We're all gonna get
Speaker 5: a pair of stands, the great socks. I'll make sure
Speaker 5: everybody gets.
Speaker 1: You know, k f f s C live on the
Speaker 1: air becoming a sponsor of the f f PC protest.
Speaker 5: As long as long as everybody's down with it, we're
Speaker 5: gonna have these socks.
Speaker 1: I can I can almost unequivocally say that we will
Speaker 1: make that happen like it is allowed.
Speaker 5: A very very impressive new merchandise guy that's gonna make
Speaker 5: sure that that we have we have all kinds of
Speaker 5: materials that we can distribute to that. But this year
Speaker 5: it sucks.
Speaker 1: John Ross, excuse me, John Ross. John Terry wants to
Speaker 1: know what color socks, and Richard Ross says that he
Speaker 1: wants the socks too as well.
Speaker 5: Ross will get socks no matter where he finishes, and
Speaker 5: uh uh, Terry socks will have his name sewn in
Speaker 5: on where people there won't be danger losing.
Speaker 1: Okay, moving on Terry McLaurin. Here, Ferrell tonight to Jeff
Speaker 1: Mans from Fantasy Guru and of course serious XM Fantasy
Speaker 1: Sports Radio. He grabs Terry McLaurin at the three oh seven.
Speaker 1: Any concerns here with him not reporting, I mean, you're
Speaker 1: the agent. You know more about this than I do.
Speaker 1: It's July twenty if I'm not panicking, and certainly Man's
Speaker 1: isn't either. By dialing in with maybe a value on
Speaker 1: McLaurin coming off a big year and what could be
Speaker 1: a bigger year with year two of Jaden Daniels in Washington.
Speaker 5: I think everything he's drafted here is a bargain. You
Speaker 5: talk about, you talk about potential. This team this team
Speaker 5: impresses me at every turn A question directly about McLaurin,
Speaker 5: that deal will get done. I'm surprised just dragging on.
Speaker 5: I don't particularly I've been too busy to dig into it.
Speaker 5: But I'm gonna make some calls and ask some questions
Speaker 5: this week. I'll have a better answer for you later.
Speaker 5: The wag bulky, but it's it's a little bit senseless.
Speaker 5: And you know I would pay this player now because
Speaker 5: I'll tell you what in the future you're gonna have
Speaker 5: to pay more.
Speaker 1: So there's where there's a scuttle butt going on as
Speaker 1: long as we're talking about Jeff Man's team from the
Speaker 1: seventh hole. Tonight, Perrell, we got Richard Ross saying that
Speaker 1: Man's is his favorite team so far. However, Adam Hahn
Speaker 1: jumps in and says Ashton Genty is gonna bust this year.
Speaker 1: And I think I feel like Adam, who's so many
Speaker 1: of our shows, I think that that is a drum
Speaker 1: beat that he has had is he does not like
Speaker 1: Genty this year for redraft purposes. But when you look
Speaker 1: at Man's team, we're looking at the seven hole viewers
Speaker 1: Saint Brown and Genty. To kick things off, and he's gone. McLaurin, Daniels,
Speaker 1: Kelsey A balanced team so far. You have the the
Speaker 1: youth with Genty and Daniels, you also have the experience
Speaker 1: with McLaurin and Kelsey, and I guess Saint Brown as well.
Speaker 1: What do you make of Kelsey here at the five
Speaker 1: oh seven, knowing that he was the fifth tight end
Speaker 1: off the board. There certainly were other tight ends he
Speaker 1: could have got gone after. But he gets this guy
Speaker 1: in Kelsey this year, and I don't know if I
Speaker 1: would have been that aggressive, but Kelsey sees a bunch
Speaker 1: of targets and he just catches him and falls down.
Speaker 1: That could work this year for fantasy too. He doesn't
Speaker 1: necessarily have to be all that athletic to gamers.
Speaker 5: It could, but he won't. I saw stat the other day.
Speaker 5: Pitts was on the field for sixty one percent of
Speaker 5: the Falcon snaps this past season. Now, when Kelsey comes
Speaker 5: off the field for one snap, especially if he's in
Speaker 5: a red zone, he gets in the head coach's face.
Speaker 5: This is a player that I think has a better year.
Speaker 5: I think, you know, I think he was a little
Speaker 5: beat up physically this past year, and he doesn't complain
Speaker 5: about it. He doesn't make excuses. He's one of my
Speaker 5: favorite players in the league today and one of my
Speaker 5: favorite ever to play football. And that's you know, he's
Speaker 5: going to get his one hundred and thirty catches. He's
Speaker 5: going one hundred and thirty targets. He's going to get
Speaker 5: his ninety to one hundred catches. They're going to be
Speaker 5: graded at one point five points to catch. And that's
Speaker 5: why I love this team so much. Now, now, mister han,
Speaker 5: Adam's coming in here, and I will listen. I said
Speaker 5: that the best thing to do tonight is listen. So
Speaker 5: he's gonna bust. I want some real numbers from Adam Hant.
Speaker 5: I want to know what those numbers are because the
Speaker 5: Raiders rookie camp just started. The veterans report either tomorrow
Speaker 5: or the next day. I want to know how a
Speaker 5: Pete Carroll team, with all the assets that this team
Speaker 5: has to put into gent, they're going the opportunity for
Speaker 5: him to bust is going to be limited because he's
Speaker 5: going to have so many carries and so many touches.
Speaker 5: As long as he remains upright, he's going to have
Speaker 5: every opportunity and he may average just three point five
Speaker 5: yards a carry, but you know he's going to have
Speaker 5: two hundred plus carries, and he's going to catch the ball,
Speaker 5: and he's got a lot of wiggle, and this team
Speaker 5: is going to be centered around him. So I would
Speaker 5: I would like mister Han to come back and just
Speaker 5: tell us what these numbers are going to equal bust.
Speaker 1: And certainly with genty, the lower you pick him, the
Speaker 1: threshold or what he has to return on the value
Speaker 1: gets lower too. I am not of the opinion that
Speaker 1: he's going to bust, but like, listen, anybody wants to
Speaker 1: tell me about it, I will certainly listen. I want
Speaker 1: to talk about Team eight here because this is the
Speaker 1: other one we started talking about. Jeff Manstein. John Terry
Speaker 1: chimes in and he said he take Team eight over
Speaker 1: Team seven one hundred percent of the time. Jake Blike
Speaker 1: also says that the eight hole is crushing it, and
Speaker 1: Derek Greer says Fantasy Sopranos is the team to be
Speaker 1: at this point. Sean Green, a guy who drafted in
Speaker 1: this competition last year, says he likes Steve's team as well,
Speaker 1: So why don't we talk about Steve's team that is
Speaker 1: getting rave reviews here from the eight hole Lamb obviously
Speaker 1: we talked about earlier, where you get the value on him,
Speaker 1: London Smith and Jigua. That is a boatload of targets.
Speaker 1: I believe that's about thirty one thousand targets this year,
Speaker 1: so the top and then he gets Hampton in the
Speaker 1: fourth round, follows it up with Pickens, and now Hockinson
Speaker 1: he gets as the sixth tight end off the board.
Speaker 1: Is that accurate? Yeah? Six tight end off the board here, Farrell.
Speaker 1: One of the things I mean, like, I'm not saying
Speaker 1: that this has always been the case for my squads,
Speaker 1: but man, there's been times after I look at a
Speaker 1: team that I just drafted and I look at like
Speaker 1: the first nine to ten picks and I see all
Speaker 1: just these target bongers on that team that aren't really
Speaker 1: maybe the greatest end zone red zone type guys. I
Speaker 1: still love it. And I look at all these targets Lamb,
Speaker 1: London Smith and Jigbas. Say what you will about Hackinson
Speaker 1: being the you know, potentially the third or maybe even
Speaker 1: fourth option on that team with a quasi rookie quarterback.
Speaker 1: I still love that value there. Pickens, we already talked
Speaker 1: about the fact that Prescott's going to be good this year,
Speaker 1: and Steve obviously and Michael have a chance to get
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott here at some point to get a cowboy stack.
Speaker 1: And then Hampton too, you know, with this Nanji Harris,
Speaker 1: I thing, Yeah, maybe it's superficial, but you know who's
Speaker 1: running with the ones right now with Los Angeles. It's
Speaker 1: Hampton and it's not Harris, and that's only going to
Speaker 1: help the rookie. I see a ton of upside here.
Speaker 1: I think if I'm picking at Knits, I would say
Speaker 1: to like, well, maybe the Seahawks aren't going to be
Speaker 1: as pass happy as they were last year under Grub
Speaker 1: now that Kubiak is taking over, I think we could
Speaker 1: see more of the focus on the ground game. But dude,
Speaker 1: like I said, I'm picking at Knits, I think this
Speaker 1: is a really really strong team littered with a ton
Speaker 1: of targets on it.
Speaker 5: You're exactly where Bulky. There's not a whole lot I
Speaker 5: can add except that Pickens did need a change of scenery.
Speaker 5: He's got it, I think he'll respond. You know, Steve
Speaker 5: and mister Ready are proving that they are exactly that
Speaker 5: more than ready for this competition. I love it, and
Speaker 5: you know we might hang with them. We got a
Speaker 5: pick coming up and see what they see what they do.
Speaker 5: But very impressive start. And these guys have been drafting.
Speaker 5: That's why I always say after early you will not
Speaker 5: have to get ready, you won't have to be prepared,
Speaker 5: because you're always prepared. These guys are prepared to compete
Speaker 5: and draft. There it is there at oh my goodness,
Speaker 5: there even better.
Speaker 1: So you're looking at Pachecko there as the pick for
Speaker 1: your gallos and ready here at the seven. I got
Speaker 1: to increase, I get parrel. I got to either get
Speaker 1: glasses or I got to increase my my size on
Speaker 1: my screen right now.
Speaker 5: So I get a big screen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I got it up now seven o eight for
Speaker 1: Pacheco here tonight, which again is sort of an ambiguous backfield. Right.
Speaker 1: You have Rishard Smith there, you have Eli Mitchell, you
Speaker 1: have Kareem Hunt still there. I don't know if Christian
Speaker 1: McCoy and it is still there as well as Larry
Speaker 1: Johnson to muddy the waters even more. But Pacheco there
Speaker 1: at the seven o eight running back twenty seven again
Speaker 1: you're looking at it what we think is going to
Speaker 1: be a high powered offense. You don't you're not really
Speaker 1: sure about the backfield, but Pacheco certainly does seem like
Speaker 1: the lead guy. And I'll say this too. When Pacheco
Speaker 1: came back last year, I don't think he was ready.
Speaker 1: He came back to help his team make a Super
Speaker 1: Bowl run, coming off that leg injury. He was not right.
Speaker 1: He's had all off season to get right, and now
Speaker 1: he's going outside the top twenty four running backs. This
Speaker 1: is another win for the fantasy sopranos here just whacking
Speaker 1: everybody else in this draft.
Speaker 5: I don't see any ambiguity Bulk who's the hard runner.
Speaker 5: He is the guy.
Speaker 1: I think he and you're right, I mean he very
Speaker 1: well could be. And once training camp gets a little
Speaker 1: bit more heated and we see who's running with who,
Speaker 1: I think Pacheco will be the guy. But I'm leaving.
Speaker 1: I never I hate speaking in absolutes, so I never
Speaker 1: speak in absolutes. And I think that if I had
Speaker 1: to put money on somebody, it's Pacheco, But I reserved
Speaker 1: the right to change my mind on that. At this point, we're.
Speaker 5: Coming to Kentucky August twenty secondlute.
Speaker 1: I am yeah, I'm very excited for that. Fourteen drafts
Speaker 1: in three days, gonna be gonna be a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: Can't wait for it. In fact, Dom Gazzetti, Uh and
Speaker 1: I were texting before the show. Dom, who is a
Speaker 1: FFPC and KFFFC player. He's going to be on the
Speaker 1: show live when we're in Louisville for the Kentucky Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: and that will anybody who's looking at draft in that
Speaker 1: kf FFC dot com spots still available. I've been going
Speaker 1: for like probably twenty years now. It is the highlight
Speaker 1: of my summer. Love absolutely love it. KFFC dot com
Speaker 1: check it out. So we've been getting a lot of
Speaker 1: positive feedback on JJ zecher Recent's team at Late Round,
Speaker 1: QB on X of course lateround dot com is where
Speaker 1: to find all of JJ's work, his podcast, his newsletter,
Speaker 1: so on and so forth, his draft guide. And there's
Speaker 1: been a lot of people that said, yeah, he missed
Speaker 1: out on the the Bengals stack there with with Chase
Speaker 1: Higgins and Burrow. He still has Chase and he's collected
Speaker 1: a lot of again, a lot of high volume, high
Speaker 1: ceiling type guys. Here. We talked about Chase Brown and Hill.
Speaker 1: He got Kamara, who say what you will abou Kamara,
Speaker 1: but his usage rate was out of control last season
Speaker 1: for the New Orleans Saints, a team that you know. Frankly,
Speaker 1: I don't know if that offense is going to be
Speaker 1: any better, but I'm not really all that worried about
Speaker 1: it because I saw what Kameric could do with not
Speaker 1: a whole lot last year, and I'm excited what he
Speaker 1: can do this year, even though he's a year older.
Speaker 1: You got Metcalf and Pittsburgh. I'm kind of whatever on that,
Speaker 1: but it is his fourth receiver and he's a good
Speaker 1: best ball play as long as you know Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: doesn't shun him when he's not in the exact right
Speaker 1: spot on a fade or something like that.
Speaker 7: R J.
Speaker 1: Harvey, you have the upside with him in Denver. Certainly
Speaker 1: you know the Dobbins thing through a little bit of
Speaker 1: a monkey wrench into that. But Harvey I still think
Speaker 1: is you know, the ceiling is undeniable there. And then
Speaker 1: a lot of people perrel and I'll ask you about this,
Speaker 1: A lot of people love the Calvin Ridley pick here
Speaker 1: at seven oh one is the thirty seventh receiver off
Speaker 1: the board. It's weird because it's the Titans, it's a
Speaker 1: rookie quarterback, and it's Calvin Ridley, But a lot of
Speaker 1: people liked it on YouTube. Are you also a fan
Speaker 1: of the Ridley pick by zachar Reeson here?
Speaker 5: Yes? I like Ridley. I don't know, well, he's got
Speaker 5: back to back pick. Let's see what he does here.
Speaker 5: But rookie quarterback lean heavily on that number one receiver.
Speaker 5: That's their one read, and they got to make it work.
Speaker 5: And then if they don't go through the progressions early
Speaker 5: in the season, they'll stay with They'll lock on that
Speaker 5: number one guy. It's not the best football move, but
Speaker 5: it is a it is a very good move for
Speaker 5: fantasy football. So I you know, he's this player's fourth receiver,
Speaker 5: and uh, it'll be interesting to see when he begins
Speaker 5: to get a little youth and a little upside on
Speaker 5: this team.
Speaker 1: He's coming up on his pick right now, and we'll
Speaker 1: we'll tell you JJ picks here in a second. But
Speaker 1: I want to bring it back to the fantasy sopranos.
Speaker 1: They end up getting that that cowboy stack we had.
Speaker 1: Richard Ross chiming in on YouTube made is looking better
Speaker 1: and better Lamb in the first pickings in the fifth,
Speaker 1: and now Prescott in the eighth. Pharaoh, what do you
Speaker 1: make of Prescott in the eighth A guy that I
Speaker 1: think you had probably about an eighty eighty five percent
Speaker 1: chance of getting in the in the ninth round coming back,
Speaker 1: but he went make sure make sure he got that
Speaker 1: stack right away. We often hear from some of these
Speaker 1: analysts in this draft, and I don't go out of
Speaker 1: your way to create a stack if they happen. Do
Speaker 1: you feel like in a format like this where first
Speaker 1: first place is the only place that maybe you would
Speaker 1: be willing to take Prescott almost two full rounds ahead
Speaker 1: of where he normally goes.
Speaker 5: Take a look at the two guys drafted behind him
Speaker 5: and tell me who you would want.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm I'm saying this, I'm saying that you could have.
Speaker 1: Are you saying like the the two players that went
Speaker 1: after Prescott and ETM Mainland?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean Mayfield because if they if the those
Speaker 5: guys could chime those guys could chime in and say, hey,
Speaker 5: if Dak's available, we take you. So you know, I
Speaker 5: think this is where you had to take the quarterback
Speaker 5: looking at the board and get the quarterback you want.
Speaker 5: You've already teased it, Bulky that this is Prescott's year.
Speaker 5: He is the odd year quarterback apparently.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 5: And he has he has added tools, added weapons, his
Speaker 5: tidy end may be healthy this year or too. Why
Speaker 5: not this this? These guys have gone all in on
Speaker 5: what's going on in Dallas. It's very interesting for a
Speaker 5: couple of guys from straight out of New York and
Speaker 5: New Jersey. But nevertheless they are They are in hats
Speaker 5: and boots tonight.
Speaker 1: So and I'll say this too, regarding your Gallos as team,
Speaker 1: the question is not should he have gone with Fields
Speaker 1: or Mayfield? And I apologize if I did not lead
Speaker 1: you the right way on this one, Pararell, that that's
Speaker 1: on me. The question is do you take Travis etn
Speaker 1: Do you take Mason? Do you take Khalil Shakir Golden,
Speaker 1: who I think is a good best ball picker?
Speaker 5: Good?
Speaker 1: Buters, you could have taken that and then still gotten
Speaker 1: Prescott in the ninth round. Now we're living the matrix.
Speaker 1: We'll never know whether Prescott would have made it back.
Speaker 1: But rather than you and I talking about this, Pharah,
Speaker 1: why don't we just talk to the guy who actually
Speaker 1: made the decision himself. Ladies and gentlemen, the co manager
Speaker 1: for the Fantasy Soprano Tonight, along with Michael Ready, he's
Speaker 1: drafting out of the eighth spot, drawing Rave reviews for
Speaker 1: Rave through eight rounds. Please welcome in Steven your gallo, Stephen,
Speaker 1: Welcome aboard man.
Speaker 5: There is what's going on?
Speaker 3: Boys?
Speaker 5: How are you?
Speaker 2: I'm good? So I'm just gonna justify. I'm just gonna
Speaker 2: justify that Doc pick if he doesn't come around. Anything
Speaker 2: I've done is I don't know. I had to take that.
Speaker 2: There no choice.
Speaker 1: So it wasn't even it wasn't even like a like
Speaker 1: a matter of okay, Now I would feel bad. What
Speaker 1: if I didn't mention Prescott on the air, would you
Speaker 1: have still taken the eighth round?
Speaker 2: The minute I hear the name on the m I'm like,
Speaker 2: someone might get him.
Speaker 1: So it's okay.
Speaker 2: You didn't bother me.
Speaker 5: Oh you almost got Pittman.
Speaker 1: You can you go?
Speaker 2: You know I was torn.
Speaker 7: I was torn a little bit, but I said, you
Speaker 7: know what, let me take doctor just to be sure, and.
Speaker 1: You got him. Speaking of the cowboys, how surprised are
Speaker 1: you to see see thee lamfall in your lap at
Speaker 1: the one away tonight.
Speaker 7: You know, honestly, I wanted to take Trey McBride at
Speaker 7: Devin h hn okay, And I said, I don't know
Speaker 7: if I was torn, but I thought they'd both be there.
Speaker 2: Then when I got take a pick, when let me
Speaker 2: take this pick on that?
Speaker 1: Yeah, go ahead, and you think about this. I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna bring everybody up to speed on Steve's draft so far. Uh,
Speaker 1: the quarterback is Prescott in the backfield, he has Hampton
Speaker 1: and Pacheco. Receivers are Lamb London, Smith and Jigma and Pickens.
Speaker 1: He has Hockinson at tight end and ten seconds to
Speaker 1: make this pick here at the nine o eight, Who's
Speaker 1: it gonna be? Steve charbon a baby Zach sharbon A
Speaker 1: and JJ's I don't.
Speaker 7: Think Walker is gonna stay healthy, so I figured I
Speaker 7: grabbed on another running back.
Speaker 1: Here. As JJ Zacher reeson who is drafting in the
Speaker 1: first spot, I think it's JJ always says this, you
Speaker 1: have to eat your charbs, and you're eating your charbs
Speaker 1: here at nine o eight at running back thirty three.
Speaker 1: And that's the thing too. It's like you just need
Speaker 1: a pocket for sharbon Ay. This season two three games,
Speaker 1: and hey, if it's more significant than that, he's your
Speaker 1: number three running back. And because and I should have
Speaker 1: mentioned this at the top of the show for anybody
Speaker 1: who's tuning in and not familiar with the starting lineup
Speaker 1: in this Bestball tournament or this beast Ball pro Ursus
Speaker 1: Joe's tournament, you're looking at one quarterback. You only have
Speaker 1: to start two running backs. You only have to start
Speaker 1: two receivers, a tight end, two flexes on this as well.
Speaker 1: So like you know, Charbonne could be a regular startup
Speaker 1: for it, or you never have to count on him too.
Speaker 1: And if you are distrustful of Kenneth Walker, Steve, that
Speaker 1: leads me to believe you have not been drafting a
Speaker 1: whole lot of Kenneth Walker this season. No, not really.
Speaker 7: I've drafted a few shats, but every share that I
Speaker 7: took a Walker, I took Charbonne in the ninth round
Speaker 7: or tenth rounds.
Speaker 2: I couldn't just leave him naked.
Speaker 5: I just that your natural handcuff and Steve, it's got
Speaker 5: to be very encouraging to you and Mike. You know,
Speaker 5: you're a favorite of the show and a beloved player,
Speaker 5: but uh, Bulky and I were not campaigning for anyone
Speaker 5: to comment about your team. That was all done in
Speaker 5: the chat room. That was all a wave of support
Speaker 5: and you're getting it from all around the country. So
Speaker 5: congratulations and stay on points, sir. You've got around.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean I was torn between Adams and JSN.
Speaker 2: But let's see how the Let's see how the rest
Speaker 2: of this goes.
Speaker 1: Steve, do you do you feel like, I mean, besides Prescott,
Speaker 1: and you obviously explained that pretty well why you did
Speaker 1: what you did, do you feel like you've reached on
Speaker 1: anybody tonight? I feel like you've gotten really good value
Speaker 1: here throughout.
Speaker 7: I think, Listen, based on the stack, I reached on
Speaker 7: Pickens a little bit. I mean I usually he goes
Speaker 7: maybe around later, so I might have reached on Pickens,
Speaker 7: but I felt that O'murray and Hampton, there's a lot
Speaker 7: of you know, there's a lot of opportunity with him.
Speaker 7: I needed a running back. I'm trying to build this
Speaker 7: way and I don't think I reached. But I don't
Speaker 7: know who's gonna drop to me from here on in.
Speaker 7: This is a tough draft.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what do you I mean? Was it a tough
Speaker 1: I don't want to bring it back to your first
Speaker 1: round pick here, was it a tough call between Lamb
Speaker 1: and Barkley at all? Because both those guys, I have
Speaker 1: no interest in Barkley, no interest in Barkley none. And
Speaker 1: can you elaborate on that, because there's plenty of people
Speaker 1: that still like Barkley this year, parallel included because.
Speaker 7: Well, look he dropped to the eighth pick tonight, but
Speaker 7: for this particular build that I.
Speaker 2: Had in my mind, I didn't want to take Saquon
Speaker 2: Barkley New Yorker.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 7: You know, I'm assuming he's gonna have a good year,
Speaker 7: but I'm not. I don't have a lot of shares
Speaker 7: of Barkley. I'm not gonna take him three or four.
Speaker 7: I just don't feel that's the case. And I'd like
Speaker 7: to try in this area eight nine, ten to try
Speaker 7: to get mc bride chairs because I actually think he's
Speaker 7: gonna be the tight end one.
Speaker 2: I don't think Bowers is.
Speaker 7: Going to be the tight end one because they've picked
Speaker 7: up at Ashton gent Y, they got Jack Best talking
Speaker 7: about the Thornton kid, Jacobe Myers is there. I mean
Speaker 7: there has to be some target regression, I mean negative
Speaker 7: target regression.
Speaker 2: They're not gonna throw.
Speaker 7: I mean they might, but I mean probability says you
Speaker 7: have Ashton genty going somewhere in the first fourteen picks
Speaker 7: on average, and you have Bower's going in the top
Speaker 7: five to six consistently. I mean, how much offense is
Speaker 7: that Raiders team can actually have.
Speaker 5: That's where you should stop. I think, yeah, I love.
Speaker 2: Depending on who fools where I mean.
Speaker 7: I like Jakobe mayas a guy just steady, steady, steady,
Speaker 7: He's very steady.
Speaker 2: Let's see what we're gonna.
Speaker 1: Take here, your gallless of ready on the clock. Here
Speaker 1: we are now at the ten oh five in the draft,
Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen. Steve just made a pick on the
Speaker 1: air with Charbonnay. That is his number three running back
Speaker 1: to go with Hampton and check it. We'll talk about
Speaker 1: Hampton here shortly. He's already got Hockinson and Prescott at
Speaker 1: the onesie positions, and the receivers are loaded Lamb London,
Speaker 1: Smith and Jigma and Pickens, and you have gone back
Speaker 1: to the quarterback. Well here Steve Prescott on the eighth
Speaker 1: and it is one Drake May in the tenth.
Speaker 2: Drake Mays Drake May is gonna be really good this year.
Speaker 5: And he'll be better later in the year than he
Speaker 5: is early. And that's a good insurance for your prescott.
Speaker 7: I did three startup dynasty league this year, and every
Speaker 7: single one of those dynasty leagues I.
Speaker 2: Took Drake May.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And the other thing too, Oh try flex that's interesting.
Speaker 1: The other thing too, Steve, that I think is I
Speaker 1: like about this Drake maypick in this format. He is
Speaker 1: an easy like guy to stack up late in the
Speaker 1: draft at right with some of his receivers and tight
Speaker 1: ends there. I think that that's interesting. That's something that
Speaker 1: you could look towards in the second half of the draft.
Speaker 1: I'm not telling you anything you already don't know, but
Speaker 1: it is what it is. I'm letting the viewers know
Speaker 1: behind the mind of Stephen your gallos here o Marion
Speaker 1: Hampton goes tonight at the four h five. To you,
Speaker 1: he's running back sixteen off the board. I'm looking. I'm
Speaker 1: not seeing his backfield counterpart drafted yet. Steve, you draft
Speaker 1: like it's a bodily function. You have to draft. You're
Speaker 1: always drafting. It's crazy. What have you been seeing and
Speaker 1: do you think FFPC players are handling the Hampton versus
Speaker 1: Harris discussion, right, we don't really know.
Speaker 7: How hurdy what happened to the eye. I mean he's
Speaker 7: dropping to like the eleventh or twelfth round. I mean,
Speaker 7: with the ambiguity, I think that's that's where it really is. So,
Speaker 7: you know, we gotta wait and see. He didn't go
Speaker 7: to the team doctors. He went to another doctor who
Speaker 7: knows what's wrong with this guy. Yeah, you know, it's
Speaker 7: It's not unlike NFL teams to lie to us. I mean,
Speaker 7: so we don't know who went and where. But I
Speaker 7: want to clarify something just so you don't think I'm crazy.
Speaker 7: There are seven of us, Okay, Okay, So myself, Michael Ready,
Speaker 7: and Louis Koutrose are the main drafters, okay, and starting now,
Speaker 7: some of the other guys are gonna start drafting.
Speaker 2: So there are seven of us. It's not just me
Speaker 2: drafting tonight.
Speaker 7: I happened to be there on my on the cell
Speaker 7: phone with me back and forth texting picks. But there
Speaker 7: are seven of us, so I'm not the only person
Speaker 7: drafting or else. How'm I going to handle all these teams?
Speaker 7: But Michael, Michael actually is really good louis He really
Speaker 7: does a lot of research. He kind of like keeps
Speaker 7: us abreast with anything that pops up. He follows a
Speaker 7: cunn of beat writers. Guys, I don't even know what
Speaker 7: the names are, so you have to do that when
Speaker 7: you're drafting.
Speaker 2: It's kind of volumele.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna let you get back to it, Steve, this
Speaker 1: is so much fun chatting with you again. Are we
Speaker 1: gonna have another conversation in person in Louisville and Las
Speaker 1: Vegas this year?
Speaker 2: No, not Louisville, but Las Vegas out Davas. Your stret
Speaker 2: will be there, hopefully in a day or so. So
Speaker 2: let's well then we'll start, you know, we'll get him
Speaker 2: ready for Kentucky and Vegas.
Speaker 1: That's awesome, Steve, Thank you so much tonight, great draft
Speaker 1: through the first half of the way. Best of luck
Speaker 1: completing this juggernaut as you go for a free twenty
Speaker 1: twenty six FFPC main event team. Dude. Yeah, absolutely, Steve.
Speaker 1: That is Steven Irglos. He is drafting this team tonight
Speaker 1: with Michael Ready. I'm kind of relieved to hear that
Speaker 1: he has a consortium handling all these drafts because Wednesday
Speaker 1: Night waivers could be a little bit challenging for him.
Speaker 5: Could be an easy but you know he's He's a
Speaker 5: straw that stirs the drink for Fantasy sopranos. And these guys,
Speaker 5: you know, they're they're tight, they're connected, they enjoy their play.
Speaker 5: He we have two, if not three, of the sopranos
Speaker 5: coming to Kentucky. Steve, the missus is actually expecting while
Speaker 5: while he is, while the Kentucky draft is going on.
Speaker 5: And you know, drafters, you know he should print out
Speaker 5: the comments from what it is and never get any
Speaker 5: better than this. And drafters who are less experienced with success,
Speaker 5: you know Steve might be might be attempted to get
Speaker 5: the big head.
Speaker 8: That's Steve.
Speaker 5: He just lines up and goes to work every day.
Speaker 5: So good joy.
Speaker 1: I want to remind everybody too when I talk about
Speaker 1: these drafts, that I see Steve and he's in a
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Speaker 5: Totally, this is the here is the only place you
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Speaker 1: That's that's a great point. Yeah, we we will have
Speaker 1: to look at that and see if we can start.
Speaker 5: Players that be giving the thumbs up sucks?
Speaker 1: Is that insulting? If we give away a trophy and
Speaker 1: a million bucks the first place and then set I
Speaker 1: could place gets a six figure grand prize, but we
Speaker 1: were thrown a pair of socks for that as well.
Speaker 5: If that's the guys that finished second in the individual tournament, Okay, no,
Speaker 5: I'm gonna package him nicely delivered. They're gonna be delivered
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Speaker 1: We should talk about I'm gonna talk about this player here,
Speaker 1: JJ McCarthy Farrell quarterback seventeen tonight. Is that accurate? Yeah,
Speaker 1: quarterback seventeen tonight. Tyler Buker for Fantasy Guru, who we
Speaker 1: haven't talked about yet, his team yet tonight, and he's
Speaker 1: actually gonna be co hosting the f FPC Insider Access
Speaker 1: show with me in an episode next month, so I'm
Speaker 1: very excited to talk to him. But he grabs McCarthy here.
Speaker 1: If there's one quarterback that's shooting up draft boards over
Speaker 1: the last few weeks, it's it's McCarthy. People and f
Speaker 1: FPC players seem to have gone from like we don't
Speaker 1: believe in this guy at all, where he is being
Speaker 1: drafted as a quarterback three. Dan Williamson talked about this
Speaker 1: a lot from stat Hunters and Player Profiler Overhyped Sleeper
Speaker 1: on X. He's like, I'm just getting this guy for
Speaker 1: free as my quarterback three and now he's like a
Speaker 1: quarterback too, And I think he just went and I
Speaker 1: could be wrong on this. In one of my Kentucky drafts,
Speaker 1: I was actually looking at him, he was he like
Speaker 1: quarterback fourteen or quarterback fifteen. He's almost a quarterback one.
Speaker 1: At this point, Pharrell has the love gone too far?
Speaker 1: And McCarthy right now because it's harder and harder to
Speaker 1: draft them.
Speaker 5: Nothing wrong with McCarthy. I think this drafter should have
Speaker 5: taken golf. He's got a quarterback in Josh Allen that
Speaker 5: can deliver with the legs, and so as we get
Speaker 5: later into the year, we have Detroit playing inside, we
Speaker 5: have an offense that you know. I think Jared Goff
Speaker 5: throws for forty five touchdowns and four thousand and five
Speaker 5: hundred yards. Now, he will never be the quarterback. He's
Speaker 5: never going to be a top fantasy producer because he
Speaker 5: doesn't he doesn't do it with his legs. But there's
Speaker 5: a lot of guys that do it with their legs
Speaker 5: that are not going to throw for the yards in
Speaker 5: the touchdowns. I think he would have been a better
Speaker 5: play against Allen then McCarthy, the young quarterback that I
Speaker 5: don't think will reg if not ever score more points
Speaker 5: to Now.
Speaker 1: Let's uh, let's bring in good right. I want to
Speaker 1: bring in another guest tonight. He is drafted in this
Speaker 1: competition for years. I've been on his show. He's been
Speaker 1: on several of my shows. You follow him on the
Speaker 1: X at Best Ball NFL. Please welcome in Todd from
Speaker 1: p a a k A. Best Ball NFL. Todd Burrows
Speaker 1: joining the program tonight live from the five slot. Todd,
Speaker 1: we are Oh, I'm bringing you on the worst possible
Speaker 1: time because right now, oh, you already made it okay, perfect.
Speaker 5: This man is a multitasking disruptor.
Speaker 8: Yes, yand and if you've ever uh mine, I had
Speaker 8: a joke but it wasn't gonna work.
Speaker 1: That's the only jokes I ever tell, the ones that
Speaker 1: never man, Tod. So, So you said in the YouTube
Speaker 1: chat before the show started tonight you were feeling disruptive.
Speaker 1: Was the Trey McBride pick indicative of that?
Speaker 8: Were you already the only thing I was talking?
Speaker 1: Okay? All right, So you're planning on this, doing this
Speaker 1: before the draft started? Yeah? You know.
Speaker 8: So here's the thing. There's two major differences and one
Speaker 8: thing about the FFPC. So the thing about the FFPC is,
Speaker 8: I mean, you've got pros versus Joe's where you have
Speaker 8: people drafting in the format who don't do it every day.
Speaker 8: So you tend to get and we have like that
Speaker 8: guy who was just on here, he's taken a couple
Speaker 8: of the guys that I like real early, you know.
Speaker 8: So I just didn't want to be in a position.
Speaker 8: And the other thing about the FFPC and the point
Speaker 8: and a half per PPR for the tight end premium
Speaker 8: is that people tend to push all the tight ends
Speaker 8: up when really there's only one or two tight ends
Speaker 8: who are likely to get a hundred catches, and that
Speaker 8: one hundred catches is equal one hundred and fifty catches.
Speaker 8: So I decided I was going to take McBride, and
Speaker 8: I thought I could come back and get either AJ
Speaker 8: Brown or Lad McConkey and get a really good wide
Speaker 8: receiver there. Not as good as CD Lamb or as
Speaker 8: Malik Neighbors, who I would have taken, but it took
Speaker 8: the worry away. And then I added Evan Ingram, who
Speaker 8: could really be peppered with targets in that offense in Denver.
Speaker 8: And if I get eighty catches out.
Speaker 9: Of Ingram to one hundred plus over one hundred with McBride,
Speaker 9: and McBride finds a way to actually get into the
Speaker 9: end zone, well then I'm really really ahead of the
Speaker 9: game in this format, and I trust myself to figure
Speaker 9: out us.
Speaker 1: So you were on the clock down Todd. We got
Speaker 1: another question coming up from well, actually a couple of
Speaker 1: questions in the chat room. We'll get to here in
Speaker 1: a little bit. Al Jier is the pick here running
Speaker 1: back fifty one. What do you make of al Jear's
Speaker 1: usage with Bijon Robinson there with Arthur Smith now in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 8: Well, I mean he he has some floor on a
Speaker 8: weekly basis, you know, but he's in every three series
Speaker 8: type of guy, right, and you know, really the play
Speaker 8: with him is I'm in the five spot. Bijeon's went fourth,
Speaker 8: So basically, if Bijeon gets hurt, now I've got I
Speaker 8: get double the benefit because the guy right next to
Speaker 8: me's first round pick is out and I've got the backup.
Speaker 1: Got a few questions here on YouTube, but we'll continue
Speaker 1: the conversation with the McBride pick. We had John Terry
Speaker 1: wanting to know that if Bowers would have been available
Speaker 1: to you along with McBride at five, would you have
Speaker 1: still taken McBride over Bowers.
Speaker 8: No, No, I would I would have taken Bowers. Okay,
Speaker 8: I'm not convinced Bowers is gonna outscore him this year,
Speaker 8: but I think that I would of held to ap D.
Speaker 8: I didn't think he would. I know Pete Overzette was
Speaker 8: gonna take him. I just wanted the you know, a
Speaker 8: really premier tight end. And at the end of the day,
Speaker 8: in this format, if he gets one hundred and ten
Speaker 8: catches and he gets eight touchdowns instead of two, or
Speaker 8: six instead of two, he could be the number one
Speaker 8: guy scoring in this format overall.
Speaker 1: Dominica Zetti Todd also had.
Speaker 8: This for you, Hey, don how you doing.
Speaker 1: He saw you take Brisee all at the three ZHO
Speaker 1: five tonight and he wants to know why was Haul
Speaker 1: to pick over Walker and Cook. He also brings in
Speaker 1: to Couch that he brings up Isaiah Davis and Braylan
Speaker 1: Allen in New York as well. It seems like you
Speaker 1: were a believer in Breece holland that belief is becoming
Speaker 1: something more prevalent in FFPC drafts lately as well.
Speaker 8: I love Walker. I think I I you know that
Speaker 8: guy Sopranos took sharp A who I was gonna take.
Speaker 8: I just again, I was kind of joking about being disruptive,
Speaker 8: but you know, there's nothing wrong with taking it. I
Speaker 8: did want. My plan was to come out of the
Speaker 8: first round with McBride, first three rounds with a wide receiver,
Speaker 8: a tight end and a running back. Again, in a
Speaker 8: draft where it's not gonna go the way you think
Speaker 8: it is. I don't like to get out in front
Speaker 8: of my skis positionally, especially if I can get guys
Speaker 8: that I really like in each round. And you know,
Speaker 8: I could see the negative case for Breese Hall, but
Speaker 8: I mean, you know, we're talking about a guy who
Speaker 8: was the first round pick last year. It's gonna be
Speaker 8: a run offense. And if he he didn't seem to
Speaker 8: have the explosion that he had had in previous years,
Speaker 8: that I'm gonna I'm willing to bet that that was
Speaker 8: just injuries and a bad year and coming off of
Speaker 8: an injury, second year off an injury, and justin fields
Speaker 8: running the ball is really going to open the lanes
Speaker 8: for Breese Hall. So do I love him?
Speaker 3: Know?
Speaker 8: Do I like him and think he was a good pick?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 5: Malkey? Are we Is it verboten to discuss players that
Speaker 5: have not been drafted?
Speaker 1: I listen as long as I would say yes, it
Speaker 1: is okay, So Todd is our guest, so it is verbal.
Speaker 5: See that's a disruptor, which I appreciate that because if
Speaker 5: you if you're going to come in as a disruptor,
Speaker 5: we want you to commit to that. You can't say
Speaker 5: you're going to be one thing and then not be it.
Speaker 5: Not be it. So I'll go ahead, but I'm waiting.
Speaker 5: I'm waiting for a certain tight end to be drafted.
Speaker 5: But let me talk about Pitts. Uh, Pitts after Goddard.
Speaker 5: What do you think.
Speaker 8: I mean? Goddard is to me one of the better
Speaker 8: picks on the board. Why because uh, every year one
Speaker 8: of the other two guys seems to get injured for
Speaker 8: a few games and he goes nuclear. But he's also
Speaker 8: very stable. So one of the things you're gonna see
Speaker 8: me do in a second here and let I'm up next.
Speaker 8: So let's wait, let's just wait.
Speaker 1: On Todd Burrows is now on the clock here at
Speaker 1: the fourteen.
Speaker 8: Wait, all right, So I just took will Shipley and
Speaker 8: so again you know, to me, I've been doing a
Speaker 8: lot of will Shipley with Jalen hurt Stacks. And I'm
Speaker 8: sure Peter rovers that's not too happy that I took
Speaker 8: will Shipley, but I think will you know, Will Shipley
Speaker 8: has the ability to turn fantasy on its head again
Speaker 8: when you have a first round back who gets hurt
Speaker 8: and you've got an offensive line like the Eagles have.
Speaker 8: You know, he's more of a tournament pick than one here.
Speaker 8: But I just couldn't not take him, especially since some
Speaker 8: of the wide receivers I wanted were gone. But well,
Speaker 8: back to your question, well is it Ferrell?
Speaker 5: I just wanted to comment about Goddard and.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, what's your thoughts on it?
Speaker 5: Well, you said that he was dependable. I say he isn't.
Speaker 5: He's missed twenty two games over the last four seasons.
Speaker 8: I think, oh, I meant he's dependable when he plays.
Speaker 5: I mean, well, availability is one of the greatest abilities
Speaker 5: in this thing. But he's dependable to catch the same
Speaker 5: amount of passes as every other grouping of tight end.
Speaker 5: When you started talking about how few tight ends are
Speaker 5: going to really get those glory numbers, and Goddard falls
Speaker 5: in the middle of very average tight end performance. But
Speaker 5: I think he is drafted and overdrafted every year. And
Speaker 5: you know, if you like so, he's our number one
Speaker 5: team here he's got a J. Brown and he's got Goddard,
Speaker 5: which only means to me that he likes Philadelphia because
Speaker 5: I you know, Barkley and Herds are still going to
Speaker 5: deliver the ground game this case that came up primarily
Speaker 5: a running team, and you know, I think in this
Speaker 5: contest you're going to need a little more at the
Speaker 5: second tight end. And there he is who drafted Hunter Henry.
Speaker 5: That's our boy, Scott. You know Hunter Henry with all
Speaker 5: the talk about the young quarterback in New England and
Speaker 5: Hunter Henry coming off the best season he ever had
Speaker 5: as far as number of catches or has had in
Speaker 5: a lot of years. His number of catches last year,
Speaker 5: I think that's your tight end Steel right there and
Speaker 5: got her going in the tenth and Henry going in
Speaker 5: fourteenth is a very very strange set of number.
Speaker 8: You know. Again, you you also do a lot of
Speaker 8: season long stuff, and for season long I might agree.
Speaker 5: With you, not how long this contest is run.
Speaker 8: But the older, the older, the older state you know,
Speaker 8: the often use statement better in best Ball. Goddard gives
Speaker 8: you spike weeks, and spike weeks are very did I
Speaker 8: insult you?
Speaker 1: Wait?
Speaker 5: What huh?
Speaker 8: No, no insult. I just think that Goddard gives you
Speaker 8: spike weeks that well.
Speaker 5: If you're if you're going to insult here, you got
Speaker 5: to go over to the chat room and do it,
Speaker 5: because that's where No.
Speaker 8: I didn't mean to I just I you didn't insult.
Speaker 1: You're good Todd.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so as you're wrong does not mean that it's
Speaker 5: an insult.
Speaker 8: And that and and you know, uh, you're always everyone's
Speaker 8: right until they're not. So I I have a way
Speaker 8: of you know, I think Goddard can give you those
Speaker 8: twenty point weeks that are real separators in that Hunter Henry,
Speaker 8: I think for season long, and I like Henry this year.
Speaker 8: I like Drake May a tremendous amount and a lot
Speaker 8: of times I will stack him with Henry because it's
Speaker 8: it's just an easy thing. You can get him at
Speaker 8: any point afterwards. All the wide receivers, even Diggs, there's
Speaker 8: a lot of question marks. The one guy who you
Speaker 8: know is going to be there and put up numbers
Speaker 8: is Hunter Henry.
Speaker 1: Let me just weigh in on Goddard here real quick.
Speaker 1: This is turning into the Goddard cast. But I'm gonna
Speaker 1: tell you this right now.
Speaker 5: Why make an important conversation Philadelphia for Totter.
Speaker 1: But to Dallas Totter from PA, you have a team
Speaker 1: last year in Philadelphia that was had a historic run
Speaker 1: running the football. I mean, it was insane how much
Speaker 1: they ran last year. Even if they're successful running ball
Speaker 1: this year, I don't think they run as much as
Speaker 1: they did in twenty twenty four. And then I'll say
Speaker 1: this about Goddard. We heard earlier in the offseason that
Speaker 1: they were trying to move him, that they were trying
Speaker 1: to find a trade partner. Nothing really developed, right, and
Speaker 1: he's still on the team. And then you look at
Speaker 1: what they could have done in the offseason, be it trades,
Speaker 1: be a signings via the draft. The the tight end
Speaker 1: depth chart behind Goddard is Grant Calcatara, Kylin Granson Harris
Speaker 1: and Bryant Nick Muse, Cameron Lattu and E. J. Jenkins.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is Goddard's position. Like, I know there's
Speaker 1: some Calcatara fans out there or whatever, but I just
Speaker 1: feel like Goddard, Yeah, I know he's probably gonna miss
Speaker 1: some time, Farrell, but you're talking with him as tight
Speaker 1: end sixteen in a premium format, as the final pick
Speaker 1: of the tenth round. I am one good with that.
Speaker 5: I'm not because I like all these other guys.
Speaker 1: Behind you, I know, and that's fine, and that's that's
Speaker 1: you know, the fact that it's two to one, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm good with that.
Speaker 5: I'm surprised that Steve. You know, the guy's first name
Speaker 5: is Dallas. I'm surprised Steve didn't draft him, just to
Speaker 5: you know, keep that stack going for good.
Speaker 1: That's true. That is true all over Dallas. That God Todd.
Speaker 1: I'll let you go and let you finish this, Dre.
Speaker 8: I'm just surprised you didn't comment on my quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: Okay, well we can talk about that. Let's do that
Speaker 1: because somebody and I beg your pardon, I might have been.
Speaker 1: Joe King in the YouTube chat said that he liked
Speaker 1: the pairing of Hall and Fields. You get Fields here
Speaker 1: in the eighth and then you get Herbert in the ninth.
Speaker 1: Two guys. That yeah, I mean, like, Field's obviously a
Speaker 1: fish out of water because now he's in New York.
Speaker 1: But Herbert gets this, this Greg Roman, this Jim Harbaugh offense. Here.
Speaker 1: I'll let you weigh in on this with Fields and
Speaker 1: Herbert waiting until the eighth round to take a quarterback
Speaker 1: and then going bang bang with the position.
Speaker 8: Toime Fields gives you. Herbert gives you that steady points
Speaker 8: that you need. Fields is one of the few guys
Speaker 8: who can give you a forty point week with his legs.
Speaker 8: I saw in the chat Dominic Gazetti ask about statcuffin.
Speaker 8: I wanted to add spears to Poward, but he went
Speaker 8: one one pick ahead of me. I'm a big fan
Speaker 8: of taking two running backs in a backfield if they're
Speaker 8: the only two running backs and the price on both
Speaker 8: of them doesn't start till about where Power did in
Speaker 8: the seventh. That way, every week, one of those guys
Speaker 8: is probably gonna hit my lineup, and if the other
Speaker 8: one goes down, the one that's left is gonna be
Speaker 8: a stud. So if that was your question about Statcuff
Speaker 8: and Dominic, that's what I meant.
Speaker 1: Fields is gonna be a fun draft this year, a
Speaker 1: fun pain draft pick. I should say I've taken him
Speaker 1: in a couple of spots. I like grabbing him towards
Speaker 1: the end of that QB one that the top ten,
Speaker 1: top twelve guys, just to see what he does. I
Speaker 1: understand he's not the most prolific passer in the world,
Speaker 1: but it may not make a difference, and he could
Speaker 1: put up big numbers rushing the football this year. Not
Speaker 1: saying I'm right either way on this, but I'm with you, Todd.
Speaker 1: In a draft like this getting Fields as quarterback nine
Speaker 1: again where first place gets paid out the main event.
Speaker 1: I suppose you could win a pair of socks by
Speaker 1: finishing in second now, as we found out earlier.
Speaker 8: I would look forward to that as only though a
Speaker 8: Ferrell signed him.
Speaker 1: Autograph socks, they turned into autograph socks.
Speaker 5: They will be back now.
Speaker 8: I mean now, if you do that, then you're cooking
Speaker 8: with fire.
Speaker 1: We're always cooking with fire. Anytime we hear fantasy football
Speaker 1: analysis from Todd Burrows, catch him on the X at
Speaker 1: Best Ball NFL. Of course the Run to Daylight stream
Speaker 1: on YouTube as well as you've been streaming a lot
Speaker 1: of drafts on there. Todd, Thank you so much, good
Speaker 1: luck the rest of the way, and enjoy drafting season.
Speaker 8: Man.
Speaker 1: Always good good time chatting with you.
Speaker 8: You guys are the best. Have a good one.
Speaker 1: Thank care Burrows, Thank you, Todd, appreciate him. Todd Burrows
Speaker 1: chiming in tonight we have entered round seventeen and I
Speaker 1: feel like Farrell. It has been let's see what are
Speaker 1: we looking at Sunday night. I have gone three days,
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Speaker 1: Let's bring him on right now, ladies and gentlemen. At
Speaker 1: Bob Underscore Long on the X, he co hosted the
Speaker 1: Insider Access Show with me on Thursday night. He's back
Speaker 1: here drafting from the Nine Spots to night.
Speaker 3: Good evening, Bob, good, see you, yeah and Feral, thank
Speaker 3: you for the kind words at the beginning. I was
Speaker 3: very touched, so always good to see you.
Speaker 5: My friend, appropriately appropriately delivered to a man that deserves
Speaker 5: nothing but the best.
Speaker 1: Now, Bob, Bob let me ask you this, in your
Speaker 1: wildest dreams, when you are prepping for this, knowing you
Speaker 1: are picking ninth, did you ever think Saquon Barkley was
Speaker 1: going to be part of the equation.
Speaker 3: I did not.
Speaker 6: I was just like, I have to take him run no,
Speaker 6: kidden like I can't just go well, oh wait, so
Speaker 6: yeah I did.
Speaker 3: I really was hoping for McCaffrey to get back, but
Speaker 3: I got Henry, so I was okay.
Speaker 1: And that's a lot of carries there too. And the
Speaker 1: great thing about Barkley and Henry there, and I think
Speaker 1: you kind of the rest of your draft alluded to this.
Speaker 1: You can focus in on other positions. You drafted one
Speaker 1: other running back before round ten, and that was Aaron Jones,
Speaker 1: so your backfield is pretty much set. The Rashie Rice
Speaker 1: that that was an autopick? Did you have that in
Speaker 1: your cue or how did that happen?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 3: No, no, I'm not gonna lie. I uh, the two picks
Speaker 3: in front of.
Speaker 1: Me Daniels and Hampton. Yeah no, no, I'm sorry. It
Speaker 1: was it was Josh Allen and Kyrin Williams and it
Speaker 1: came to you at the four h four.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I had both of those guys sitting and
Speaker 3: then it was just like and so I was like, okay,
Speaker 3: Evans now. And then by the time I just like
Speaker 3: my brain exploded and right, and I'm okay with it. Yeah,
Speaker 3: because you know, if he only gets two to four games,
Speaker 3: it's okay. And to be honest with you, I picked
Speaker 3: Hollywood Brown later in round thirteen. I feel like I
Speaker 3: can plug him in until Rice gets back. Maybe not
Speaker 3: as productive, but at least it should be you know,
Speaker 3: close enough.
Speaker 5: This is the comeback here for the chief receivers.
Speaker 3: That's what I'm hoping for.
Speaker 1: So so Bob, let me ask you this too, and
Speaker 1: I know you're well, I'll tell you what you're coming
Speaker 1: up and being on the clock right now. Bob's team,
Speaker 1: we're talking about team nine right here. He's got Burrow
Speaker 1: and Darnald as his quarterbacks. The running back backfield is Barkley, Henry,
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones, Najee Harris, Bigsby, and Chubbed. The receivers are Adams, Rice, o'doons,
Speaker 1: Samuel Cup, Hollywood Brown, and Elijah Moore. And then tight
Speaker 1: ends are Dalton Kikid and Terrence Ferguson. Again, this is
Speaker 1: no kickers, no defenses, in this format, Bobby, have three
Speaker 1: picks to go. You're fairly well balanced. I don't know
Speaker 1: what you're leaning here. Maybe it's just best player available.
Speaker 1: But as you are on deck here for the eighteen
Speaker 1: oh four, pick any names that are running through your mind.
Speaker 1: Anybody you got teed up ready to go here? Dependent
Speaker 1: upon what Chris Kylson does at ten.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I am looking at Rahem moster. You know,
Speaker 3: if genty does, I mean, I'm not saying Jenzy's not
Speaker 3: going to be worth it, but if Genty goes down,
Speaker 3: he's next up, and there isn't much else there. So
Speaker 3: it's a shot in the dark, but you know it
Speaker 3: has a good potential there. I was looking at some
Speaker 3: other backup running back, Zach Moss. That's kind of folks, right,
Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean it's it's slim pickings at this point.
Speaker 3: You know, this is always the most difficult draft, because
Speaker 3: one it's twelve brilliant minds, well eleven in mind, and
Speaker 3: then it goes so fast. Yeah, and it's like, and
Speaker 3: that's what happens is I'm thinking ahead, I'm thinking ahead,
Speaker 3: but then it's so fast, and all of a sudden
Speaker 3: I look up and my queues empty and I'm up,
Speaker 3: and I'm like, you know what, that's that's how this plays.
Speaker 3: And if it is not for the Week of Heart,
Speaker 3: that's for sure.
Speaker 1: So so bob, let me, let me let you wax
Speaker 1: Poetica Dalton Kincaid here. We talked about him on Thursday Nights,
Speaker 1: the Thursday night FFPC Insider Access show on the Better
Speaker 1: Sports Network. If you want to go back and watch
Speaker 1: that viewers, it's on the Better Sports Network Socials as
Speaker 1: well as the FFPC Socials and Better Sportsnetwork dot Com. Kinkaid,
Speaker 1: you wait until what is this round ten and you
Speaker 1: grab Kinkaid as the fourteenth tight end off your board,
Speaker 1: off the board as your starter. You get Ferguson here
Speaker 1: at tight end twenty seven. But I think these are
Speaker 1: two upside guys here where you understand, like, look, if
Speaker 1: I'm gonna win this, I need one of these guys
Speaker 1: or maybe both of them to come through. And if
Speaker 1: they're okay, I'm probably not winning it anyway. But these
Speaker 1: were both in my opinion, if we're looking at your team,
Speaker 1: these were picked to win type picks with Kinkaid and
Speaker 1: Ferguson here. But I'll let you weigh in on why
Speaker 1: you like Kinkaid?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean to be honest with you again, the
Speaker 3: strategy was, as it was coming back to the fifth round,
Speaker 3: I had Kelsey qued up to be that pick, and
Speaker 3: then he got picked by Jeff Man's two picks before,
Speaker 3: which doesn't surprise me because Jeff hates me.
Speaker 1: I'm kid.
Speaker 3: So so then I'm like, okay, I might as well
Speaker 3: take Burrow. I wanted him too, and I'll just have
Speaker 3: to wait, and then you know, Ingram goes, Hockinson goes,
Speaker 3: and then I'm like, all right, I need some wide receivers.
Speaker 3: So I kind of just let him go. And then
Speaker 3: I was thinking I would get you know, I was
Speaker 3: either going to get Jake Ferguson or Dalton kin Ka,
Speaker 3: which we both talked about on Thursday, and you know
Speaker 3: fergus and then Kinka was there, so I took Kaid
Speaker 3: and then Terrence Ferguson. Honestly, I'm not gonna lie. It
Speaker 3: was because you talked so much about him. I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean, why would you not pick a guy in
Speaker 3: that Rams offense? I wanted Stafford, of course, but he
Speaker 3: got sniped from me a few rounds before. I was
Speaker 3: going to get him, but that's okay. Like I said,
Speaker 3: a tough league, and he's just gotta go with whatever
Speaker 3: the flow gives you.
Speaker 1: It's funny because I have been drafting one of the
Speaker 1: RAMS tight ends, not always the same one, but I've
Speaker 1: been drafting one of the RAMS tight ends is like
Speaker 1: my tight end three and a lot of best balls,
Speaker 1: and sometimes it's Terrence Ferguson and sometimes it's Tyler Higby.
Speaker 1: But I just want one of those guys on my team,
Speaker 1: and I think for this format, you took the right guy.
Speaker 1: I think I'd rather have Ferguson over Higbee because of
Speaker 1: the upside, because of the mystery box aspect, because we
Speaker 1: don't know what this guy is capable of. So I
Speaker 1: was a fan of that. You know, we talked with
Speaker 1: Fantasy sopranos Steven Ergalos earlier about his pick ab Mari
Speaker 1: and Hampton at the foural five. I feel like you
Speaker 1: and I touched on Naji Harris on Thursday night as well.
Speaker 1: Naja Harris is where you grabbed him tonight was at
Speaker 1: the eleven or nine running back forty two as your
Speaker 1: number four running back. I think you can make a
Speaker 1: convincing argument for Naji Harris here at this value. Easy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean he's seven rounds after Hampton, and I
Speaker 3: know why we talked about it Thursday, the whole eye thing,
Speaker 3: and you know, and he was already not not looked
Speaker 3: at highly. As I discussed the other night. I think
Speaker 3: Naja gets the first nod because Jim Harball went out
Speaker 3: to get him and uh oh, you know, so if
Speaker 3: if the eye is not a problem by the time
Speaker 3: season starts, I think Naji gets the majority of the carries.
Speaker 3: Hampton gets a few, and then it's Naj's job to lose.
Speaker 3: And I think Harball, as a veteran kind of guy,
Speaker 3: is gonna let that situation happen. And if you know,
Speaker 3: if Naj fails, then Naj fails. But it's up to Nase.
Speaker 3: But he's playing for his first big contract after he
Speaker 3: got you know, his scenario taken away from him, you know,
Speaker 3: when he you know, the fifth round or his fifth
Speaker 3: year option wasn't picked up by the Steelers. So I
Speaker 3: think he has a chip on his shoulder and he's
Speaker 3: going to go out there and prove that he's not done.
Speaker 3: He still has some juice in there, and if he does,
Speaker 3: then that pick works out. Very well for me. But
Speaker 3: you know, but like I said, as a fourth running back,
Speaker 3: I can take that risk.
Speaker 1: So so let me ask you this, Bob. You just
Speaker 1: picked Flacco here. You get him to go with Donald
Speaker 1: and Burrow, which is fine. I think that, you know,
Speaker 1: grabbing three quarterbacks is fine in the scenario. I want
Speaker 1: to let you way in on you know, when we
Speaker 1: were talking about your favorite Sleepers, one of the guys
Speaker 1: you mentioned was Elijah Moore. The Flockers perked up when
Speaker 1: I heard that because I hadn't heard a lot of
Speaker 1: people talk about him, either positively or negatively. This year,
Speaker 1: you grab Elijah Moore here in the seventeenth round. Can
Speaker 1: you talk a little bit about why you think or
Speaker 1: people should be paying attention to this player in the
Speaker 1: basketball drafts? Yeah?
Speaker 3: I think he's just that kind of player that just
Speaker 3: hasn't had that opportunity.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 3: He gets drafted by the Jets, but behind Garrett Wilson,
Speaker 3: and then he have bad quarterbacking. It just never worked
Speaker 3: out well for him, and so then he goes to
Speaker 3: the Browns and broom he's behind Judy, he's behind Yeah
Speaker 3: and Cedric Tillman and Marii Cooper. So he just never
Speaker 3: got that opportunity. But when he came to the brown
Speaker 3: or the Browns, the Bill's camp and OTAs, there was
Speaker 3: nothing but rave reviews for this kid by Josh Allen,
Speaker 3: by the team, by the writers, and I just feel like,
Speaker 3: I mean, I think Shakour and Coleman are solid receivers,
Speaker 3: but More has that opportunity to maybe earn a few
Speaker 3: more targets and if he can prove that he is
Speaker 3: as good as he was when he came out of college,
Speaker 3: that he could be one of those surprise players that
Speaker 3: may be the difference between you know, being in fifth
Speaker 3: place or being in second place, you know, first place.
Speaker 3: So I'm you know, especially in a basketball format where
Speaker 3: you know, every good game he has could make could
Speaker 3: be important. So just like the stab and again seventeenth round,
Speaker 3: I'm okay with.
Speaker 1: That, Bob. Last last thing I want to bring up.
Speaker 1: You did something fun here, and fantasy football is supposed
Speaker 1: to be fun. I have not seen the Ferguson Higbee stack.
Speaker 1: You did it tonight, my friend. You get both rams
Speaker 1: tight ends here to go along with King Kaid. And
Speaker 1: I'm telling everybody this right now. You look at Bob,
Speaker 1: start at the running back position, Barkley and Henry. You
Speaker 1: look at all those receivers. He drafted five receivers in
Speaker 1: the first nine rounds. If King Caid works out, I
Speaker 1: believe that there's something there with that Ferguson Higbee stack,
Speaker 1: we'll see what happens. And obviously you got Joe Burrow,
Speaker 1: who's gonna throw for a billion yards and touchdowns. Again,
Speaker 1: I would think, so, Bob, your draft is complete, and
Speaker 1: I like the little cherry on top with Higby. How
Speaker 1: do you think you did?
Speaker 3: This is a tough one. You know, this is one
Speaker 3: of those when I walk out, I go, I guess
Speaker 3: it's okay.
Speaker 5: It's more than okay.
Speaker 3: I mean, when you're drafting against first off, all of
Speaker 3: these Joe's are far from Joe's that these guys are
Speaker 3: all top notch, high stakes guys. So just because we
Speaker 3: don't recognize our name because they're not quote in the industry,
Speaker 3: you guys know how good they are. And then you
Speaker 3: throw in JJ Zacheriz and Jeff Man's Todd Burrows. I mean,
Speaker 3: it's just mind blowing. You cannot think, you can't think
Speaker 3: too far ahead you I mean, you have to think
Speaker 3: like you have to literally put if you're ten picks away,
Speaker 3: you better have eleven picks in the queue because they
Speaker 3: could all go. And it's not like you know, a
Speaker 3: home draft or local whatever. This is the best of
Speaker 3: the best. I mean, we do our Kings Classic, but
Speaker 3: it would be interesting someday. I mean to do a
Speaker 3: pros versus Joe's kind of think in you know, in
Speaker 3: can as a life, But this to me is some
Speaker 3: of the best versus the.
Speaker 5: Best, because you know, winning.
Speaker 3: Money, we're just best at writing about it.
Speaker 5: What are you looking forward? And I know if you
Speaker 5: had come clean with Balky, you would have said, hey,
Speaker 5: when I got auto picked, I was doing something that
Speaker 5: has to relate to your forthcoming convention. I know that's
Speaker 5: exactly what you were doing when that happened.
Speaker 8: But of all the.
Speaker 5: Things that are going to happen, uh with your with
Speaker 5: your annual meeting, what, what's the one thing that you're
Speaker 5: most looking forward to?
Speaker 3: It's just the It's the it's the camaraderie in the friendship.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of knowledge and if you're a fan,
Speaker 3: you come for that knowledge. You are listening to all
Speaker 3: of the mean, a lot of these guys who are
Speaker 3: drafting are going to be there obviously a lot of
Speaker 3: guys in all the pros versus Joe's, So as fans,
Speaker 3: you're coming to learn from the best of the best,
Speaker 3: to rub elbows with the best of the best. But
Speaker 3: on the other side of content creators and just now
Speaker 3: all friends, it's that getting together. How you've been, how's
Speaker 3: a family, wife, kids, whatever? Uh, just hanging out having
Speaker 3: a good time.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: I always say it's seven hundred and fifty my closest
Speaker 3: friends talking fantasy football for an entire weekend.
Speaker 5: I mean, you.
Speaker 3: Guys have your draft and you have your events. You know,
Speaker 3: I'm sure that everybody knows everybody. A lot of those
Speaker 3: guys are very familiar with theirselves, but they're also real competitive.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of money on the line. But you know,
Speaker 3: this is just a great weekend, you know, and hopefully
Speaker 3: we'll get some of the guys that have attended this
Speaker 3: or you know they're part of the Joe's to come
Speaker 3: and hang out with us, because we'd love to have them,
Speaker 3: for sure.
Speaker 1: The Fantasy footballexpo dot com is where to get your tickets.
Speaker 1: Once again, This goes from August eight through the tenth.
Speaker 1: Bob has already pointed out to me on Thursday. Get
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Speaker 1: be cut off. You have to get them within the
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Speaker 1: on this a lot of new stuff this year. There's
Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of fun stuff, like the Fantasy
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Speaker 1: Congratulations on that, and congratulations on anybody who is picking
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Speaker 1: is not the end all be all, but this is
Speaker 1: a great supplement and something that everybody should be looking
Speaker 1: at as they do their drafts this year.
Speaker 3: Exactly. It's I would say, it's the fries of the
Speaker 3: happy meal, right, It's you know, get your site, whether
Speaker 3: it's Fantasy Alarm or ESPN or you know whatever, and
Speaker 3: then just get the guide, have it there with you,
Speaker 3: and then as you're starting looking at your rankings and
Speaker 3: you're kind of trying to weigh between two players or
Speaker 3: three players. Then open up the guy. See the consistency numbers,
Speaker 3: and then that will help you go, Oh, this guy
Speaker 3: is eighty percent. This guy was fifteen, he's forty. Now
Speaker 3: I know the difference. Now I can make better choices
Speaker 3: in my pick. So again, guys, appreciate the time. Love,
Speaker 3: I appreciate all that. Pharaoh, thank you again, Eric, thank
Speaker 3: you again, and everybody else will see you in about
Speaker 3: three weeks in camp.
Speaker 1: You got it, Bob, Thank you so much. Man. We
Speaker 1: will continue to follow you on the X Bob Underscore.
Speaker 1: Long be good man. Talk soon. Thanks.
Speaker 5: Guys, take that he's going to have them avaluable at
Speaker 5: the convention. People can buy them up there.
Speaker 1: You never know, there's a non zero chance of that.
Speaker 1: I would say too, just about the consistency, gouty and
Speaker 1: put a bow on this. This is something that at
Speaker 1: least to my knowledge, nobody else in the industry is doing.
Speaker 1: When you talk about consistency week to week, year to year,
Speaker 1: what have you, This is something that I think everybody
Speaker 1: should look at as a tiebreakers, as something that you
Speaker 1: can utilize to bump players up players down your draft boards.
Speaker 1: Based on this. They don't just nominate anything and this guy,
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know if there's any publication that's
Speaker 1: been nominated eight straight years. Maybe there is, maybe there isn't,
Speaker 1: but I know Bob Lungs consistent. A Fantasy football consistency
Speaker 1: guide has been Amazon dot com is where to go
Speaker 1: for that. Farrell. In the time we're talking Abob, the
Speaker 1: draft ended. This is a super quick draft tonight, insanely fast.
Speaker 1: But that's okay because we got a lot. We got
Speaker 1: a lot accomplished. And the great thing is the players
Speaker 1: that we wanted to talk about the draft strategy we
Speaker 1: didn't get a chance to talk about. We have five
Speaker 1: more times to do this, including tomorrow night, and one
Speaker 1: of the best things about tomorrow night is it'll be you,
Speaker 1: it'll be me and of course the eleven time, probably
Speaker 1: more than eleven time now f FPC League champion Dave
Speaker 1: Tripoli joining us on the show tomorrow, so that's gonna
Speaker 1: be fun as well. I'll let you rest up for
Speaker 1: that until then, I will tell everybody to go a
Speaker 1: KFFFC dot com. Check out the main events, check out
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Speaker 1: dot com.
Speaker 5: Pharrell, We've got a lot happening in Balkie and we'll
Speaker 5: invite everyone from the chat room and that will be a big,
Speaker 5: big turnout in the chat room tonight. It's just fantastic.
Speaker 5: We didn't because we were talking with the guys dropping in.
Speaker 5: We didn't get enough time to respond with those guys,
Speaker 5: but I hope they'll come back tomorrow night. And you know,
Speaker 5: there there's nothing better. There's nothing better than hanging out
Speaker 5: with me in ter It's fun and Balkee too officiate.
Speaker 5: You know it's and you know it's just gonna.
Speaker 1: Be really it's a fun dynamic and you'll be able
Speaker 1: to watch it live at nine o'clock Eastern time tomorrow parallelca.
Speaker 5: Then man, take care, brothers, ce you at nine.
Speaker 1: That is Farrell Elliott, the definitive Commissioner of Fantasy Football,
Speaker 1: Ladies and Gentlemen, and that will wrap up Pros versus
Speaker 1: Joe's Night one. I want to thank Darren Armani, the FFPC,
Speaker 1: our producer of Mutual Friend, rob audio engineer, my best
Speaker 1: friend Bryce most of all our viewers and listeners, as
Speaker 1: well as Steven Irgalos, Todd Burrows, and Bob Long for
Speaker 1: popping aboard the draft tonight. Now tomorrow we will be
Speaker 1: one hour later, nine pm Eastern for the Guns n'
Speaker 1: Roses Pros versus Joe's Division. The Joe's will include Zachary
Speaker 1: and Gerrard Rentz, Joe Van Goh, who's been a guest
Speaker 1: on several FFPC podcasts before, Super Talented Guy. You got
Speaker 1: Greg Link coming up, Kyle Hoff and Ryan Heller, Bob One,
Speaker 1: Opawne and Rob Tomasino. Rob I think is coming on
Speaker 1: the High Sticks Fantasy Football Hour? Is it this Friday?
Speaker 1: I think he might be coming on this Friday. I
Speaker 1: have to double check that, but he is a Joe
Speaker 1: that's been drafting as well. The pros tomorrow Blair Andrews.
Speaker 1: A lot of these guys have been on podcasts with
Speaker 1: me in the in the past FFPC podcast. You got
Speaker 1: Blair Andrews w from Rodoviz and then Andrew Cooper, the
Speaker 1: tight End Whisperer from Fantasy Alarm. Connor Allen is gonna
Speaker 1: hop a board from four for four, Brian Drake and
Speaker 1: Matt Donnelly Dynasty Viper and Brian Drake from Fantasy Points.
Speaker 1: That's gonna be a fun pairing. Drafting tomorrow the King
Speaker 1: from Rodoballer dot Com, Scott Engel, and of course Davis
Speaker 1: Maddock will be drafting twelve. Wow, God knows what he's
Speaker 1: capable of. Very excited to see his draft. I know
Speaker 1: it's gonna be competitive. I know it's gonna be good.
Speaker 1: Most of all, I know it's gonna be fun. That
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Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, thanks so much for hopping aboard. Really
Speaker 1: appreciate each and every one of you. Ton of live
Speaker 1: draft coverage. It continues on tomorrow at nine o'clock your
Speaker 1: week officially starts now.
Speaker 10: This has been another episode of the Hot Stakes Fantasy
Speaker 10: Football Hour, presented by my FFPC dot com. It was
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Speaker 1: So you guys know me, I never like to end
Speaker 1: the show on a bad note or a sour note,
Speaker 1: but I feel like we have to not give a
Speaker 1: short shrift to this story. Many of you who have
Speaker 1: been coming to the FFPC live events for years know
Speaker 1: of this guy. He was one half of the Day
Speaker 1: Drinkers franchise, Josh Held and Jason Goldman, who if you
Speaker 1: go way back when we were doing some early video
Speaker 1: advertising for the FFPC ten plus years ago, these guys were.
Speaker 1: They appeared in one of the first videos we ever
Speaker 1: did video advertising, video coverage of the FFPC main event
Speaker 1: live in Las Vegas, and you can actually probably go
Speaker 1: on our YouTube channel right now and see these guys.
Speaker 1: Josh Held was a guy who one of my favorite
Speaker 1: guys to hang out with in Las Vegas. Super friendly,
Speaker 1: super fun, lived life to the ultimate and was a
Speaker 1: really talented player too. He's one of the first guests
Speaker 1: he and Jason Goldman, the first guest I ever had
Speaker 1: on the High Stakes Fantasy Football Hours. We're in year
Speaker 1: fourteen of that podcast, and just an awesome guy, awesome individual.
Speaker 1: And today, I think it was earlier this morning, he
Speaker 1: ended up passing away of cancer and he was only
Speaker 1: forty five years old, and it just stinks, but I
Speaker 1: do want to shout him out, you know, reading what
Speaker 1: I have and knowing what I know about him. He
Speaker 1: was a super fun, friendly guy who loved life, loved
Speaker 1: his family, loved his kids, loved everything about life, and
Speaker 1: he lived it to his fullest. And hopefully that's what
Speaker 1: we can do and take it. Take from Josh is
Speaker 1: you know, tomorrow has never promised, and you want to
Speaker 1: do what you can while you're here, and fantasy football
Speaker 1: is certainly a way to do that. It's thay thankful
Speaker 1: that all of you guys and women are tuning in
Speaker 1: tonight and watching this, But I just wanted to make
Speaker 1: sure we didn't give short trip to Josh Held, one
Speaker 1: of my favorite FFPC players just gone way too soon
Speaker 1: at age forty five. So rest in peace. Josh. We
Speaker 1: already miss you, and for the rest of you, we'll
Speaker 1: see you tomorrow. Thanks so much. Everybody, have a great
Speaker 1: night and we'll see it for night to tomorrow evening