Speaker 1: What uber athletic past catching tight end is about to
Speaker 1: climb up f FPC draft boards, which free agent needs
Speaker 1: to start going higher in the Big Gorilla asap? And
Speaker 1: which Bear's running back are you planting your flag on?
Speaker 1: In twenty twenty six plus the nineteen time FFPC League
Speaker 1: champ Ryan Erickson joins us to talk about George Kittle,
Speaker 1: Cleveland pass catchers and so much more. We've got a
Speaker 1: great show for you. Farrell Elliott is here. I'm Eric Balkman.
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Speaker 1: tonight as he always does as the co host of
Speaker 1: the show. Hey, coming up on tonight show, We're gonna
Speaker 1: go hard on an NFC North quarterback that f FPC
Speaker 1: players I think are sleeping on, a running back coming
Speaker 1: off an injury that is shooting up FFPC big Gorilla boards.
Speaker 1: And then the FFPC League champ, Ryan Ericson, who has
Speaker 1: won nineteen league titles so far in his career, hangs
Speaker 1: out to break down his draft so far this season,
Speaker 1: the commander's backfield situation, and so much more if you
Speaker 1: want to connect with us. By the way, Adam Hahn
Speaker 1: is just he's He's on it tonight. I'm gonna throw
Speaker 1: up his comment here right on the board I said,
Speaker 1: we're gonna be talking about an NFC North quarterback that
Speaker 1: FFPC players are sleeping on. He says, it's GoF I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna say right now, Adam Han might be right.
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Speaker 1: check out the Kentucky Fantasy Football State Championship. I just
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, I just feel like the last
Speaker 1: five years, maybe more, I have gone up and up
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Speaker 1: lot of the people you hear from the show at
Speaker 1: KFFS dot com. The man responsible is Farrel Elliott and
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Speaker 1: Happy Wednesday to you, Bulky. What nice words.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and right back at you, because everyone that's involved,
Speaker 3: they want to say, can I play against Balky? I
Speaker 3: mean Balke comings Balky gonna be there then, And you know,
Speaker 3: your first appearance at Super Sunday this year absolutely stole
Speaker 3: the show. You know, people were just I mean, when
Speaker 3: Balky's there, it's great. And that's just the way it
Speaker 3: is now. Adam Adam Han's making a question there, and Adam,
Speaker 3: it's because we want you to come to Kentucky and
Speaker 3: make some friends. We want you to get out and
Speaker 3: make some friends and come be with us.
Speaker 1: That's why you can't do that in Colorado. Well, he's asking, like,
Speaker 1: just so a two point thing here to clarify. So
Speaker 1: he's asking why why he can't participate in FFBC Player
Speaker 1: one in Colorado. There are certain states that have tougher
Speaker 1: research ins. When there's nothing we can do about that.
Speaker 3: Nothing you can do about it. You can't fight city hall.
Speaker 1: Do you can't fight city hall. No. But I will
Speaker 1: say this, if you want to compete at them and
Speaker 1: have a good time and have a great weekend, you
Speaker 1: have three options to do so. With the Kentucky Fantasy
Speaker 1: Football State cham really four options, right because Pharrell, we
Speaker 1: got Ashland, Kentucky, yep. Or for Week one of the
Speaker 1: kff s C, we do we have Northern Kentucky. Yes,
Speaker 1: we two live drafting for the kff f C. We
Speaker 1: have Southern Indiana for Week three for drafting for the
Speaker 1: kf f f C, and then you know what we
Speaker 1: have after that? We have planned Hollywood Live in Las Vegas, Adam,
Speaker 1: your first drink is on me if you can make
Speaker 1: it out to any of those. Yeah, i'd love to
Speaker 1: pick your brand. I'd love to have you on the
Speaker 1: show as well. But that's basically the skinny that we
Speaker 1: have for player one parall. How's your week been going
Speaker 1: so far? Man?
Speaker 3: It's Wednesday, Man, I went, I woke up Monday morning
Speaker 3: and I haven't been asleep yet.
Speaker 1: It's been that km of week.
Speaker 3: It's been a it's been a wild one, I am.
Speaker 1: You know, we're staring down.
Speaker 3: The fact that bulky we're we're just, you know, less
Speaker 3: than sixty days away from Kentucky's liven, less than seventy
Speaker 3: five away from planet Hollywood. There's a lot of work
Speaker 3: still to be done. And you know the best thing
Speaker 3: about my week is to come here and talk fancy
Speaker 3: football with you and all the guests in the comments.
Speaker 3: And you know, we've got one of the ericson family
Speaker 3: coming on tonight that's part of your generational family tree.
Speaker 3: So this will be good, which is this is good stuff.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's related to Don Erickson, as
Speaker 1: we bring in the nineteen time champ Ryan Rickson coming
Speaker 1: up in a few minutes, here he might be, but
Speaker 1: I'm excited to talk to him about how his fantasy
Speaker 1: football season has been going with the Big Gorilla so
Speaker 1: far and so on and so forth. Now fair, before
Speaker 1: we get to that, I have to bring up some
Speaker 1: other stuff here with you tonight. What what better way
Speaker 1: to kick things off tonight in regards to everything that's
Speaker 1: going on in in fantasy football, both with the with
Speaker 1: the f f PC, with the k f F S
Speaker 1: c UH, there's a lot going on with the NFL,
Speaker 1: and I think we we lead off with Cameron Wolf's
Speaker 1: support from the NFL network. From ESPN dot com, He's
Speaker 1: reported that Brian Thomas Junior is going to be used
Speaker 1: on vertical routes this upcoming season. Cameron Wolf posted in
Speaker 1: his story at ESPN dot com that's where Jaguars coaches
Speaker 1: believe he can take the next step. He's so he
Speaker 1: has shown better chemistry in OTA's in mini camp with
Speaker 1: Tarbert Lawrence this offseason. After twenty twenty four season where
Speaker 1: Brian Thomas's stats were heavily inflated by Mac Jones, and
Speaker 1: then twenty twenty five where there were no inflated stats
Speaker 1: or Brian Thomas because his stats were awful in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five. So yeah, but when we consider what Thomas
Speaker 1: can do downfield, I think it's interesting because he averaged
Speaker 1: fourteen point three air yards per target. He led the
Speaker 1: Jaguars an air yards share when he was healthy in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, now in twenty twenty six, and this
Speaker 1: is my concern here, Farrell. I'll bring this up in
Speaker 1: a second, talk about the variance week to week. If
Speaker 1: he is simply a downfield threat, if he's running win sprints,
Speaker 1: if he is going to become the new Deveri Henderson,
Speaker 1: if he's going to become the new marcuz Velde Scantling,
Speaker 1: this is scary here. Parker Washington, Jacoby Myers are much
Speaker 1: more consistent players, but they do not have the upside
Speaker 1: of Brian Thomas Junior. Last year, Trevor Lawrence ranked nineteenth
Speaker 1: out of thirty three qualifying quarterbacks in downfield accuracy. That
Speaker 1: was right in line with cam Ward Parrell. I bring
Speaker 1: this up because I think we've spent the last couple
Speaker 1: of months talking about how we didn't like Brian Thomas
Speaker 1: and how we were down on Brian Thomas, and now
Speaker 1: I feel like and I'm included in this, I'm warming
Speaker 1: up to Brian Thomas Junior, and I'm warming up to
Speaker 1: him in Bestball manage leagues. That's a little bit different
Speaker 1: because because of the weekly variance and you just don't
Speaker 1: know when he is going to go off or when
Speaker 1: it's going to be like a three for twelve week
Speaker 1: or something like that. But Brian Thomas, if we look
Speaker 1: at the FFPC Big Gorilla ADP over the last five weeks,
Speaker 1: where do we get this from Fantasy Mojo? Fantasymojo dot
Speaker 1: com at Fantasy Mojo on X. Darren Armani runs this website.
Speaker 1: Anytime we cite ADP data on this show, it's due
Speaker 1: to Fantasymojo dot Com. If you're playing in the ff PC,
Speaker 1: highly recommend you get a subscription to Fantasy Bunch dot
Speaker 1: com to make you better FFPC player. Perrell. Right now,
Speaker 1: Brian Thomas is, in fact the number one wide receiver
Speaker 1: drafted from the Jaguars wide receiver thirty one at the
Speaker 1: six to oh six. He has surpassed Parker Washington. He
Speaker 1: long surpassed Jacobe Myers. And I'm wondering if we are
Speaker 1: borderline where in managed leagues like the Big Gorilla, where
Speaker 1: we're saying like, Okay, maybe mid six, I can do
Speaker 1: Brian Thomas, but if he gets much higher than that,
Speaker 1: I think Parker Washington Jacoby Myers become the better bets.
Speaker 1: Your thoughts on Brian Thomas in managed leagues where you
Speaker 1: have to decide whether or not to start a week
Speaker 1: in and week out based off this Cameron Wolf report
Speaker 1: that he's going to be a downfield threat this year.
Speaker 3: You know, we took a poll of our listeners and
Speaker 3: our guest bulkey that have come on the show and
Speaker 3: then the comment room.
Speaker 1: We're in a situation.
Speaker 3: Where I would lose that bet. Who's being drafted sooner
Speaker 3: Brin TOWMS Junior or Parker Washington. Our people were trying
Speaker 3: to push Parker Washington into that position as the number
Speaker 3: one drafted a Jacksonville wide receiver. Now what is missing
Speaker 3: from this is I don't hear mister Cameron using the
Speaker 3: word exclusively, you know, and so I don't I think.
Speaker 1: Has much to do about nothing. I believe.
Speaker 3: I believe this player will run a complete route tree
Speaker 3: and he would be excessively successful if he can free
Speaker 3: himself up deep these he will be also successful.
Speaker 1: For the other two receivers.
Speaker 3: I really think the three receivers on the Jacksonville Jaguars
Speaker 3: are all bargains to draft.
Speaker 1: I like the idea of a team name for me
Speaker 1: this year. What is excessively successful? Excess excessively successful? Everybody
Speaker 1: knows about you book, No, it's that's it's it's kind
Speaker 1: of an ironic thing. That's that's why I do it.
Speaker 3: But I love at least like your dynasty team that
Speaker 3: has the wow factor. By the way, the Big Valentine's
Speaker 3: Dynasty has started. You are on the clock with the
Speaker 3: number one pick and the you know, everybody probably won't
Speaker 3: know who you're gonna take, but nevertheless that team has
Speaker 3: a well.
Speaker 1: Allow factory in its name as well. I I will
Speaker 1: bring up this right now, Farrell. As long as we
Speaker 1: got the Jacksonville you know we there. There are several
Speaker 1: repetitive tropes on this show, uh this season. One of
Speaker 1: them has been the Jacksonville Jaguars backfield, another has been
Speaker 1: the Jacksonville Jaguars pass catchers, and another one has been
Speaker 1: Kyle Pitts. Trying to avoid bringing up Kyle Pitts again
Speaker 1: on this show, but the NFL said, Halkey, you are
Speaker 1: bringing up Kyle Pitts. On the h Self Hour this week.
Speaker 1: Why because Adam Schefter reported that Kyle Pitts and the
Speaker 1: Falcons have agreed to a three year, fifty four million
Speaker 1: dollar extension thirty six million dollars in guaranteed. Matt Ryan,
Speaker 1: the former NFL MVP and the former All World quarterback
Speaker 1: for Atlanta, is now the current president of football with Atlanta,
Speaker 1: and apparently after he took over, it was not I
Speaker 1: don't want I'm I'm speaking specutively here, but it didn't
Speaker 1: seem like it was a priority to get Kyle Pitts
Speaker 1: inked to this extension rather than let him play on
Speaker 1: the franchise tag this year. But apparently they like it.
Speaker 1: They like what they saw and they inked him to
Speaker 1: this fifty four million dollar extension. Pits should be the
Speaker 1: number two pass catcher in Atlanta, dare I say? Over
Speaker 1: Bejon Robinson and behind Drake London. This year, I had
Speaker 1: the opportunity to draft him in the KFFFC Kenny Yeah,
Speaker 1: Kenny Stabler Division of the KFFFC Bestball Tournament. Passed on
Speaker 1: him and I can't remember who I took instead, but
Speaker 1: he did not come back to me. He's off the board.
Speaker 1: Shout out to whoever took Kyle Pitts on me in this.
Speaker 1: But you look at Pitts, he is right below nineteen
Speaker 1: point one million a year, which is what George Kittle's making.
Speaker 1: But he's he's making I shouldn't say this. He's also
Speaker 1: making just below what Trey McBride is making in Arizona,
Speaker 1: which is nineteen million a year. He is one of
Speaker 1: the highest paid tight ends in the NFL. Now and Farrell,
Speaker 1: if we look at the FFPC Big Goldrilla for the
Speaker 1: last five days, I can tell you that Kyle Pitts,
Speaker 1: according to FFPC Drafters, is being selected as tight end
Speaker 1: six at the six to ZHO two, behind Harold Fan
Speaker 1: and just in front of Tucker Kraft. Does this contract
Speaker 1: that he has signed with Atlanta shift the the the
Speaker 1: value on Kyle Pitts and Big Gorilla drafts this year
Speaker 1: for you? Or was this kind of something we should
Speaker 1: have been expecting all along? And how FFP see players
Speaker 1: have been handling Kyle Pitts. Is this something that they
Speaker 1: expected all along? I don't think we should.
Speaker 3: There's a number of players that are in line for
Speaker 3: extensions that we're coming up on, some of which are
Speaker 3: making progress. Some of which aren't Baker Mayfield as one
Speaker 3: as not. But actually, I think in honor of in
Speaker 3: our twenty twenty seven show, we should in coexistence with
Speaker 3: tight End University in Nashville, which is where they all
Speaker 3: are this week. Anyway, I think we should have a
Speaker 3: show during tight End University Week next year. We're all
Speaker 3: we talk about is tight ends. It's just tight ends.
Speaker 3: It's an entire tight end show. And because it's an
Speaker 3: important thing. And do I believe he's topped out in receptions?
Speaker 3: He's getting close? Do I believe he's topped out in
Speaker 3: in touchdowns?
Speaker 1: No, the.
Speaker 3: Adam continues to fill in that he's he's His tight
Speaker 3: end total has increased every year, and I think it
Speaker 3: will no matter who is a quarterback in Atlanta.
Speaker 1: And I talked with.
Speaker 3: Someone today that said third string quarterback Simeon will start
Speaker 3: half the games. And that's the only thing that would
Speaker 3: give me hesitancy at this point in time about Kyle Pis.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm at this point, Pharrell, I'm looking for
Speaker 1: reasons not to draft Kyle Pitts, and they're hard to find. Ballky, Well,
Speaker 1: that's the thing is, once you start looking for reasons
Speaker 1: not to draft the player. I think you have to
Speaker 1: flip it and say, Okay, why do I not want
Speaker 1: to draft this player? This is not the same thing
Speaker 1: as what Ben Gretch said about Christian McCaffrey last year.
Speaker 1: I think it was, but it's similar. Pitts does not
Speaker 1: have the injury concerns that McCaffrey did. But Gretch made
Speaker 1: the point, and I know people are getting sick of
Speaker 1: me saying this. We need to stop thinking about in
Speaker 1: fantasy football what happens at the player gets hurt. We
Speaker 1: need to start thinking about what happens if this player
Speaker 1: doesn't get hurt, and to and to quantify it for
Speaker 1: Kyle Pitts, we have to say, well, what happens if
Speaker 1: Pitts is a bus this year and he's going as
Speaker 1: the tight end six at the six oh two in
Speaker 1: the Big Gorilla? We have to start thinking about if
Speaker 1: we draft him, Well, what happens if he's not a
Speaker 1: bust at the six oh two? What happens if he
Speaker 1: delivers at that tight end six? What happens if he
Speaker 1: outperforms Harold Fannitt, Tyler Warren. I don't know if he
Speaker 1: outperforms Colson love him, but I can see the range
Speaker 1: of outcomes where that would happen, but certainly he could
Speaker 1: end up as the tight end four, which, by the way,
Speaker 1: f FPC players are soaking a three to zero eight
Speaker 1: pick into the tight end four this year, and it's.
Speaker 3: It's no reason to That's why in the ff PC
Speaker 3: the rules allow you to draft more than one tight end,
Speaker 3: so there's no reason to be concerned.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a zillion different ways to build your teams
Speaker 1: in the f f PC. Is a zillion different ways
Speaker 1: to build your teams in the Big Gorilla we saw
Speaker 1: at Friday when Pharaoh when we were recovering the FFPC
Speaker 1: Big Gorilla Draft live at ten pm this past Friday night,
Speaker 1: which was a lot of fun. And a guy who
Speaker 1: has done a ton of big gorillas is going to
Speaker 1: join us right now, Ladies and gentlemen, our guest tonight
Speaker 1: has nineteen count of nineteen league titles to his name
Speaker 1: in his FFPC career. However, he is not resting in
Speaker 1: the laurels of those nineteen league championships. He is looking
Speaker 1: forward to another league title in the FFPC, probably several
Speaker 1: FFPC league titles, but the one thing he's solely focused
Speaker 1: on winning a million dollars in the FFPC Big Gorilla,
Speaker 1: something that he has been spending a lot of time
Speaker 1: doing so far this season. Please welcome onto the show
Speaker 1: our guest tonight, the nineteen time FFPC League champion, mister
Speaker 1: Ryan Ericson. Ryan, Welcome in Man, Thanks so much for
Speaker 1: joining us tonight.
Speaker 4: Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1: We are excited, We are excited to have you. It
Speaker 1: is June TWI twenty fourth. You've been drafting for quite
Speaker 1: a while. The first thing I have to ask you
Speaker 1: here tonight, and I and Ryan, I think I alluded
Speaker 1: to this on last week's show. I feel like when
Speaker 1: you draft in February, when you're draft in April, when
Speaker 1: you're draft in June, it always seems like you're draft
Speaker 1: It's it's totally different. Right, you've been drafting for a while,
Speaker 1: does it feel like your big Gorilla drafts have taken
Speaker 1: on sort of sort of like a different type of
Speaker 1: animal of their own, right, Like when you were you
Speaker 1: think about where you were drafting earlier and earlier to
Speaker 1: where they're at now. I mean, ADPs change and the
Speaker 1: whole complexity of the drafts change. It's kind of a
Speaker 1: new animal. Every time you you sit back and start drafting, right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it really is. And I think back to when
Speaker 4: I started drafting this year back in February, I think
Speaker 4: it was late February, and back you know, at that point,
Speaker 4: you don't even know where the rookies are going to be,
Speaker 4: and you're just you're just taking shots based upon the
Speaker 4: talent and how good you think gonna transition into the NFL.
Speaker 4: And now we we obviously we know where they are,
Speaker 4: and we also now know bye weeks and we know schedule,
Speaker 4: so we can figure out, Okay, who's who's got that
Speaker 4: juicy schedule when the playoffs and the Nationals roll around
Speaker 4: when you're trying to win that million dollars.
Speaker 3: That's why I love drafting in February so much. Guys,
Speaker 3: I don't have to do all that work. I just
Speaker 3: I just wow, no, wonder, that's a great thing. You know, Ryan,
Speaker 3: when we get together and Super Sunday and draft, we
Speaker 3: you know, that's our live draft on Super Sunday and
Speaker 3: we get all those commentaries. I don't know anything.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't. I don't know it.
Speaker 3: You know, yeah, you know something.
Speaker 1: I think it's I think it's a.
Speaker 3: Lot of fun to draft in I really really do.
Speaker 1: It's cool stuff. Well, and and and Farrell's right, And
Speaker 1: and Ryan you know this because you draft early. Obviously,
Speaker 1: before we get into the majority of the Fantasy Football
Speaker 1: court in the interview tonight, I want you to let
Speaker 1: everybody know, as much as you want to let everybody know,
Speaker 1: what are you doing for a living when you are
Speaker 1: not winning all these f f PC leagues and drafting
Speaker 1: and all these big GIRLA drafts.
Speaker 4: I'm actually the director of A V and Production Services
Speaker 4: at the University of Miami Law School, so uh yeah,
Speaker 4: I handle all the all the tech in the classrooms
Speaker 4: and and things of that nature for the law school there.
Speaker 1: So you were doing tech for the law school in
Speaker 1: in in Coral Gables, right am. I'm making that up.
Speaker 1: This is an interesting combination that I believe we've we've
Speaker 1: had We've had people that are are doing part of
Speaker 1: what you do, but you're doing everything there. Man, This
Speaker 1: is this This has got to keep you busy. And
Speaker 1: more importantly, it's got to be fun going to work
Speaker 1: every day.
Speaker 4: It can be.
Speaker 3: Not if you have a professor and the tech is
Speaker 3: not working, well Jack is not working. Uh yeah, you don't.
Speaker 3: You're you're gonna encounter John Housman, Uh coming type professor
Speaker 3: coming to see you. Oh Ryan Man, you're in Miami.
Speaker 3: That you know, we got it.
Speaker 1: There's so much about.
Speaker 3: Going on with Miami that we could that we could
Speaker 3: talk about. I I'm gonna I'm gonna start though in
Speaker 3: Kansas City.
Speaker 1: You know, last year.
Speaker 3: I was shocked when we were playing in Hollywood with
Speaker 3: a lack of love for Travis Kelsey just you know,
Speaker 3: it's it's some guys that I really really admire. His
Speaker 3: fantasy football players were trying to tell me that Kelsey
Speaker 3: was what's that word funky? That that word that I hate,
Speaker 3: wash wash washed.
Speaker 1: Up on this show. But go ahead, Feral.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, last year, if you take all the
Speaker 3: re anyone who caught him pass, he was twenty fourth
Speaker 3: amongst them, and he was in the top echelon of
Speaker 3: the tight ends. And that's an off year for him,
Speaker 3: seventy six catches, five touchdowns. There was a lot of
Speaker 3: things I didn't like about him.
Speaker 1: The way he ran.
Speaker 3: Routes in the red zone and then the offensive s team.
Speaker 3: There's just a lot of things I didn't necessarily like it.
Speaker 3: He's not calling place, he's just running the routes that
Speaker 3: are designed for him. I think Kelsey has a bounced
Speaker 3: back here. I think you know, we're dealing with a
Speaker 3: team here that I have to remind people. Sometimes the
Speaker 3: Chiefs were a losing record. You have to remind people
Speaker 3: of the Bengals, the losing record, Cowboys, Ravens, all losing
Speaker 3: records last year, all with players that we desire to
Speaker 3: draft and love drafting. So Chiefs bounce back, Kelsey bounced back.
Speaker 1: That's my thought. What are your thoughts? And Bryan just
Speaker 1: real quick and Ferrold did an excellent job setting up
Speaker 1: that question. But I will just say this for anybody
Speaker 1: who is not familiar, and I know you are, if
Speaker 1: you look at what Travis Kelcey did last year, seventy
Speaker 1: six catches, eight hundred and fifty one yards and five touchdowns, right,
Speaker 1: so it's not like he was terrible last year from
Speaker 1: an FFPC standpoint. But I don't know, maybe Ryan, you
Speaker 1: could speak to this. We think of Travis Kelcey over
Speaker 1: the course of his career and it's like tight end one.
Speaker 1: You know, you think about the one hundred and ten
Speaker 1: catch season he had in two thousand and two, the
Speaker 1: fourteen hundred yard season he had in twenty twenty the
Speaker 1: twelve twelve touchdown season he had in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1: So there's a baseline of stats that we have associated
Speaker 1: with Travis Kelcey. And by the way, I'm leading the
Speaker 1: witness here, Pharrell, I'm just going to say this, seventy
Speaker 1: six for eight fifty one and five touchdowns last year.
Speaker 1: That's not a bad season. And when we think if
Speaker 1: like he has, as pharaoll is saying Ryan a bounce
Speaker 1: back season, if he bounces back to like ninety catches
Speaker 1: and he flirts with a thousand yards and maybe seven
Speaker 1: or eight touchdowns, ooh baby, that could be really big
Speaker 1: this year. Your thoughts on Kelsey in twenty twenty six
Speaker 1: and what FFPC owners and the three of us should
Speaker 1: be expecting from him on this Chiefs offense this year.
Speaker 4: I'm a big fan of Kelsey this year. He's normally
Speaker 4: been taken, you know, back in his heyday, he was
Speaker 4: taken well before I was ready to take a tight end,
Speaker 4: which is fair. But I think we need to separate,
Speaker 4: you know, the Kelsey from before from the Kelsey now
Speaker 4: and have our expectations be limited to what he's going
Speaker 4: to be now. And if we look at what he
Speaker 4: did last year, that's pretty much the low end Kelsey, right.
Speaker 4: I believe that with Eric the Enemy coming back as
Speaker 4: the offensive coordinator, they're going to get him the ball
Speaker 4: more in the red zone like they used to that.
Speaker 4: You know, Pharaoh was alluding to some of the play
Speaker 4: calling not being the best last year, and you could
Speaker 4: really notice it in the red zone. They used to
Speaker 4: go out of their way to get Kelsey the ball
Speaker 4: in the red zone and it worked. And once the
Speaker 4: Enemy left his touchdowns the last three years or five,
Speaker 4: three and five before that, he was double digit touchdown
Speaker 4: guy almost every year. So if he gets a bounce
Speaker 4: back just in the touchdowns eight to ten, you know,
Speaker 4: and you maintain the seventy five catches, you're well over
Speaker 4: two hundred points. Again out of a tight end you
Speaker 4: drafted in what the eighth round. I'll take it every.
Speaker 3: Day, Bulky, you got you got Darren's.
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you this right now, he has. We
Speaker 1: had started out the year with Kelsey going well after
Speaker 1: like a starting tight end, right, but since then, uh
Speaker 1: and after Ryan Erickson has issued his uh uh flag
Speaker 1: planting here in Travis Kelcey tonight, maybe it goes up
Speaker 1: even higher. But Kelsey has moved ahead of Goddard, he
Speaker 1: has moved ahead of Mark Andrews. He has moved ahead
Speaker 1: of high stakes starling Dalton Kincaid being drafted as tight
Speaker 1: end eleven at the seven eleven over the last five
Speaker 1: days Fantasy Mojo in the FFPC Big Gorilla, you're looking
Speaker 1: at him approaching. He's about a half round behind George Kittle.
Speaker 1: He's about a half round behind Isaiah Likely right now,
Speaker 1: I think those are the next two guys if you
Speaker 1: were to surpass him. But and Ryan, you canna speak
Speaker 1: to this players of Travis Kelsey's ilk and his his
Speaker 1: his resume and his age and everything. This is a
Speaker 1: player that usually doesn't ascend as we get closer to
Speaker 1: the live drafts at Planet Hollywood in September. This is
Speaker 1: a player that normally stays the same or falls. And
Speaker 1: he's already moved ahead, like I said of kin Kaid,
Speaker 1: ahead of Andrews, ahead of Goddard right now. This is
Speaker 1: a player that I think that the sharps out there
Speaker 1: are going to be, like, you know what, everybody's down
Speaker 1: on Kelsey because he's old, He's he's ready for the
Speaker 1: next step of his life. There's other players out there
Speaker 1: that I'd rather have as a potential league winner with
Speaker 1: with Kelsey. But then you look at him at the
Speaker 1: seven eleven or maybe the early eighth round, and it's like,
Speaker 1: you know what, I'll load up on running backs and
Speaker 1: receivers and get Kelsey here in the eighth and I'll
Speaker 1: be good at tight end. Ryan. That's probably not the
Speaker 1: worst strategy to adhere to this season.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, And also, you know, one of the
Speaker 4: things with when he was getting drafted later early on,
Speaker 4: you know, there were also some concerns about is he
Speaker 4: coming back yo, And there were some concerns, you know,
Speaker 4: is is Kansas City going to bring in another tight end?
Speaker 4: You know, and and and none of that happened.
Speaker 3: So there are some people that were living in Pitts
Speaker 3: comes to Kansas City fantasy land. I remember reading that
Speaker 3: that was that was really good. I think, you know, guys,
Speaker 3: I think he's settled. And once again, you are the
Speaker 3: poster child, mister Erickson for drafting early so you can
Speaker 3: get Kelsey. You can get a real, real barin in Kelsey.
Speaker 3: But I think he's kind of settled where he is.
Speaker 3: And then Balk when we get to planning Hollywood. To
Speaker 3: get a value on Kelsey, you've got to get eleven
Speaker 3: guys that don't like him as much as we do,
Speaker 3: and I don't they that's real easy.
Speaker 1: So I don't know, but Pherol, I'm telling you this,
Speaker 1: it might be the easiest year to try.
Speaker 3: It's quite some time this well, I think you just
Speaker 3: walk up and just disinformation. You just walk up to
Speaker 3: people and say, you know, by the way Kelsey's through here,
Speaker 3: you didn't want to play.
Speaker 4: You know, I don't understand why Isaiah Likely is going
Speaker 4: ahead him, though I will.
Speaker 1: Okay, we can't get that one, all right, So let
Speaker 1: me weigh in on this, Ryan, because because I've been
Speaker 1: drafting a lot of Likely this year, and I'll just say,
Speaker 1: as far as the whole conversation period, well, I'll weigh
Speaker 1: in on the Likely versus Kelsey conversation. There are so
Speaker 1: many people, myself included, that are looking for the next
Speaker 1: biggest thing, and I think a lot of people have
Speaker 1: become intoxicated with Likely following his head coach from Baltimore
Speaker 1: to New York. A situation where we don't know what
Speaker 1: Molik Neighbors is gonna do. At least in the early
Speaker 1: part of the season or maybe the whole season. And
Speaker 1: that's the part of the reason that I've found it
Speaker 1: so fun to draft Isaiah Likely. He's going in at
Speaker 1: the seven o three in the ff PC. I've been
Speaker 1: drafting him in Kentucky Steve g or Steve Irgalos from
Speaker 1: the Fantasy Sopranos. He and I have been doing like
Speaker 1: this one upmanship of like, Okay, we're you're gonna take
Speaker 1: Likely here. I'm gonna take Likely here, and then he's
Speaker 1: Likely here. And so it's one of those things where
Speaker 1: I think that and and and by the way, and
Speaker 1: I'll just use this as an example too. I had
Speaker 1: the opportunity in a KFFSC draft today to draft Courtland
Speaker 1: Sutton as my number four receiver. This is best ball, okay,
Speaker 1: And I chose not to. I chose to draft Chris Godwin.
Speaker 1: And maybe that was I like I overdrafted Godwin or whatever,
Speaker 1: But I feel like god Win in the situation he's
Speaker 1: in in Tampa this year, he's on the up, he's
Speaker 1: going on the he's on the come up right, And Sutton,
Speaker 1: I don't think he's like like on the downslope is
Speaker 1: probably a bad way to say it, but with Wattle
Speaker 1: there and I know the Broncos through a lot last year,
Speaker 1: I was just kind of like, you know what, I
Speaker 1: feel like I'm drafting Sutton more in his ceiling, and
Speaker 1: I think I'm drafting Chris Godwin closer to his floor.
Speaker 1: So that's why I took Godwin there over Sutton. And
Speaker 1: I think to apply it back to the Likely versus Kelsey,
Speaker 1: I think Likely is a much more fun click, Ryan.
Speaker 1: I think he is. He's he's much more on to
Speaker 1: draft here in the seventh round, as opposed to Travis Kelcey,
Speaker 1: who is going at the end of the seventh round,
Speaker 1: and he's been ascending where we have seen you know,
Speaker 1: Pete Travis Kelcey, and we know we're not getting that again.
Speaker 1: So Ryan, I think that the whole thing I come
Speaker 1: back to on this is maybe this is the wrong
Speaker 1: decision for fantasy owners, but for people who want to
Speaker 1: draft for fun, it's more fun to draft Likely than
Speaker 1: Kelsey this year. Whether that's more lucrative or financially beneficial,
Speaker 1: we'll see, right, But I think that is what you
Speaker 1: ask me, why Likely is going above Kelsey. I think
Speaker 1: that's why, And it's just a fun aspect. I don't
Speaker 1: know you can weigh in on that.
Speaker 4: Ryan, I would just say beware THEO Johnson.
Speaker 1: That's a great point simply.
Speaker 4: Because I know Jackson dark really did like him in
Speaker 4: the red zone last year, and so it's not slam
Speaker 4: dunk to me that likely is going to be like
Speaker 4: a go to number one tight end. I have a
Speaker 4: feeling he's still gonna he's gonna split time, you.
Speaker 3: Know, to verify miss Lawtner. Bulky Drafters just want to
Speaker 3: have fun, which is true.
Speaker 1: That's why I like, it's just I'm gonna get to
Speaker 1: Brandon Ayuk with you in a second, Ryde, But I
Speaker 1: just want to just kind of put a bow on
Speaker 1: this here in regards to to tight end likely versus Kelsey.
Speaker 1: Is this a situation or is this a decision you've
Speaker 1: been faced with or have you been drafting tight ends
Speaker 1: in the Big Gorilla earlier or focusing on tight ends
Speaker 1: after this decision.
Speaker 4: I'm usually in that range to get my tight end,
Speaker 4: I'm in the the kittle Kelsey craft that all the
Speaker 4: k's kincaid, all the k tight ends, they're right in there.
Speaker 4: I end up with one of those.
Speaker 1: We we won't give the triple K Moniker, there's four okay,
Speaker 1: perfect akkk tonight. Just so everybody's clear, we're not doing
Speaker 1: anything like that, Okay, Ryan, Brandon Ayuk, God bless him
Speaker 1: if Farrell Isn't that what they say in the South
Speaker 1: God God bless his heart or bless his heart. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's usually not a compliment. It's not a compliment, which
Speaker 1: I found out. Yeah, blessed Brandon Ayuk's heart. But he's
Speaker 1: been posting on Instagram trying, you know, saying everything to
Speaker 1: try to get to the commanders this year, Ryan, if
Speaker 1: you could look into the ericson Crystal Ball, as I
Speaker 1: always say on this show, what's gonna happen with Brandon
Speaker 1: Ayuk this year? How do you handle a player like
Speaker 1: him who has been a pro bowler, who has had
Speaker 1: some pretty good seasons in San Francisco, And yet we
Speaker 1: know he's probably actively playing for the Niners this year
Speaker 1: and FFPC players in the Big Go rillin are drafting
Speaker 1: him as wide receiver sixty six the sixteen O two.
Speaker 1: What do we do with him in drafts?
Speaker 4: So my position, and this has actually changed since February.
Speaker 4: Back in February, I was confident he was going to
Speaker 4: get let go or traded, and he was going end
Speaker 4: up in Washington and he was going to be Jane
Speaker 4: daniels number one guy. He loves him whatever. The longer
Speaker 4: it's taking, the more I'm starting to question it, and
Speaker 4: the more I'm just I'm out on him at this
Speaker 4: point because I won't take him when he's being drafted.
Speaker 4: I feel like there's other people at that point that
Speaker 4: at least I know what their situation is and I
Speaker 4: don't have to worry about it. At this point. I
Speaker 4: feel like a Youuk's going to have to show up
Speaker 4: to camp and force San Francisco to do something with him.
Speaker 4: Otherwise they're just gonna sit there with him and he's
Speaker 4: no goodee.
Speaker 1: Ma, that's true.
Speaker 2: Pair.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm gonna bring this up to you just real
Speaker 1: quick in regards to Ayuk. I just said wide receiver
Speaker 1: sixty six at the sixteen h two. Some of the
Speaker 1: other players that are going around him and players that
Speaker 1: would draft over iyukut this point, Tank Dell. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: know the injury, but the upside with Dell and he's
Speaker 1: not having a fight with his current organization about you know,
Speaker 1: whether he's going to be playing or not. Dejan Stribling,
Speaker 1: who was selected as the thirty third overall player in
Speaker 1: the NFL draft this year, Trey Tucker Pharaoh, who could
Speaker 1: be the number one wide receiver for the Raiders this year,
Speaker 1: and then Omar Cooper, a first round draft pick, a
Speaker 1: player anybody who's drafting against me in the KFFF knows,
Speaker 1: I've been drafting a lot of Jalen Naylor with the
Speaker 1: Vegas Raiders this year. They're all going around that same
Speaker 1: area with Hayuk Farrell. For a guy who has not
Speaker 1: played since twenty twenty four, it's really difficult for me
Speaker 1: to wrap my head around picking Ayuk, even in the
Speaker 1: sixteenth round, a player that has not played in more
Speaker 1: than a calendar year in the NFL, as opposed to
Speaker 1: some of these other guys where I can tell myself
Speaker 1: a story where these guys could actually help me up
Speaker 1: both in bestball and manage leagues.
Speaker 3: I don't think you have to sell Ryan or myself
Speaker 3: on this one. Balky availabils greatest ability, and I'm a
Speaker 3: big culture guy in the NFL, and I think if
Speaker 3: you're going to wreck a locker room in one place
Speaker 3: likely to record somewhere else, it's not a good move
Speaker 3: So I don't see success for this player like we're
Speaker 3: used to, and I would rather move on. And you know,
Speaker 3: some of the players there that you mentioned, some of
Speaker 3: the players that you mentioned have significant ways that they
Speaker 3: could contribute.
Speaker 1: Adam Hand bringing up too. We don't even know if
Speaker 1: you can still good, We don't. I mean, he might be.
Speaker 1: George Kittle was talking about this in an interview the
Speaker 1: other day about like, you know, how he'd show up
Speaker 1: to practice and how you could already be out there
Speaker 1: and he'd be running twenty two miles an hour and
Speaker 1: still cut on a dime. And Kittle's like, yeah, so
Speaker 1: if he can still do that, he's awesome.
Speaker 3: But he was not a bad teammate every day.
Speaker 1: You know, you can't be.
Speaker 3: He was not a It's just something's not right, and
Speaker 3: you know, you know, just like and this is.
Speaker 1: Me coming from the standpoint. I've never been a professional athlete, Pharrell,
Speaker 1: but I've been in a professional.
Speaker 3: You are a professional, Brogras.
Speaker 1: No, I'm just talking about being a professional where I
Speaker 1: work with other people. I'm not at my best every
Speaker 1: single day. Like so I don't know, really, no, absolutely not.
Speaker 1: And and I know that you know that that's perfect,
Speaker 1: and like, I hate to compare our jobs with the
Speaker 1: jobs of being professional athletes, but I always wonder how
Speaker 1: that is like where I'm not. You know what happens
Speaker 1: when I don't sleep well and I wake up late
Speaker 1: and I'm not I'm not giving it one hundred and
Speaker 1: ten percent. You know, at my job, who cares right,
Speaker 1: But at a job where you are trying to compete
Speaker 1: for a world championship, how does that play to your teammates?
Speaker 1: I don't know. That's another thing that I always like
Speaker 1: to bring up as well. Anyway, that that aside the point,
Speaker 1: we're running out of time here and there's so much
Speaker 1: more good.
Speaker 3: Lord is on speed. Hey, I want to talk about
Speaker 3: the commander's backfield? Yes, thank you. My buddy Fenton is
Speaker 3: drafting in one of the kf FSC leagues with Bawky,
Speaker 3: and he he asked me today what I thought of
Speaker 3: cross Key Merritt, and I said, well, it's a fantastic
Speaker 3: draft pick.
Speaker 1: You mean he's still available.
Speaker 3: I think this guy is a terrific uh value, which
Speaker 3: I would rather hear if you agree with me than
Speaker 3: tell you why, mister Erickson. But do you have a
Speaker 3: favorite commander in that backfield. I don't think is a contest.
Speaker 3: I don't think all the other guys I don't think
Speaker 3: can see any carries from this player. And I will
Speaker 3: say that four point six yards per carry last year.
Speaker 1: I like it.
Speaker 4: I'm actually not a fan.
Speaker 1: Why.
Speaker 4: I think the Commanders are actually trying to tell us
Speaker 4: that they're not a fan either.
Speaker 1: M hm.
Speaker 4: They brought in White, they brought in Ford, mm hmmm,
Speaker 4: and they drafted k Tron Allen. A lot of people
Speaker 4: thought was one of the top five running backs in
Speaker 4: the draft. So you don't bring in that many running
Speaker 4: backs if you feel secure about your number one.
Speaker 3: Well, you want to have five guys on the roster
Speaker 3: through the year. They didn't have. They Yeah, you know,
Speaker 3: there's a very few holdovers there. It's a whole new room.
Speaker 3: I understand what you're saying, and it is.
Speaker 4: But let's also remember Rashad White. Where did he go
Speaker 4: to school?
Speaker 1: State?
Speaker 4: That's right, Yeah, yeah, it's a it's it's once again
Speaker 4: a connection. I think at this point, if you asked
Speaker 4: me a month ago, I would have been I told
Speaker 4: you k Tron Allen, because you know, there's always a
Speaker 4: couple of rookies that flash and he seems to have
Speaker 4: the best combination of opportunity and talent and out of
Speaker 4: all the late round guys. And but now as we're
Speaker 4: moving along, I'm starting to lean towards Rashad White.
Speaker 1: Okay, Ryan, don't say anything else because I want to.
Speaker 1: I want to. I don't want to poison your brain
Speaker 1: with anything. But there are people, high stakes players out
Speaker 1: there on on Twitter and Reddit and what have you,
Speaker 1: that have been you know, we're trying to answer the question,
Speaker 1: and we do this every year and it's it's a
Speaker 1: silly exercise, but I guess once in a while it
Speaker 1: does pay off. So this year, the question, Ryan, who
Speaker 1: is this year's Javonte Williams? Right? And by and large
Speaker 1: the answer I have been seeing to that question more
Speaker 1: so than any other running back, even if there is
Speaker 1: this year is Davonte Williams has been Rashad White. Can
Speaker 1: you get on board with Rashad White being the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty six version of Javonte Williams in our nation's capital?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: No, Yeah, I love it. I love it.
Speaker 3: So I love what you're dealing here, Ryan, because that
Speaker 3: means bulky, that means I've got another running back that
Speaker 3: I think I could get later than he deserves. Well,
Speaker 3: I gotta start drafting earlier. This won't be that way planning.
Speaker 1: So the other thing Ryan too, And I'll bring this
Speaker 1: up and you can. I mean, I think you're gonna
Speaker 1: agree with me on this. So we talked about all
Speaker 1: the action that the commanders have had in the backfield.
Speaker 1: And by the way, I think that and I might
Speaker 1: be making this up in my head that they still
Speaker 1: might be connected with guys like Naja Harris or whatever,
Speaker 1: even though they have to Cory Krofsky, Merrit Rushad White,
Speaker 1: Rome Ford, right.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: And then somebody named Robert Henry Jr. Who good men
Speaker 1: Allen the draft pick, but Robert Henry Jr. Who's a rookie.
Speaker 1: They like, they keep on bringing up all these different
Speaker 1: running backs and the coaching staff is talking them up.
Speaker 1: And listen, I get the whole like you want to
Speaker 1: have exposure to this backfield. And I'm fine with like,
Speaker 1: you know, sussing it out and I'll take Kate tron
Speaker 1: Allen here, or I'll take JCM here or whatever. But
Speaker 1: I guess I can't get on board with like going
Speaker 1: heavy on any of these. But I still kind of
Speaker 1: want a piece of this in my drafts. Is that
Speaker 1: how you've been handling it so far?
Speaker 4: Ryan, Yeah, And that's why I've been ending up with
Speaker 4: k Tron Allen when I have gotten a piece of it.
Speaker 4: It's it's because I don't want any part of this
Speaker 4: backfield in my starting lineup when the year starts, h
Speaker 4: I want to let things play out. We'll see who
Speaker 4: who's gonna you know, who who's gonna get the ball.
Speaker 4: I think I think Rashad White, like Adam was saying
Speaker 4: in the chat, I think he's a receiver and so
Speaker 4: in in PPR leagues, he's gonna have some value no
Speaker 4: matter what. So that's why at this point I'm kind
Speaker 4: of leaning towards If you're forcing me to draft one,
Speaker 4: I'll take White because I feel confident I'm gonna he's
Speaker 4: gonna have that role. The other guys are not receivers
Speaker 4: to his caliber, so I feel like he's entrenched into
Speaker 4: a specific role, whereas everyone else, they're gonna be buying
Speaker 4: for those carries, those those red zone touches. And you
Speaker 4: know what, I don't I don't want to. I don't
Speaker 4: want to touch it right now. I've got I've got
Speaker 4: things I feel better about in other places.
Speaker 1: The the other thing that just to kind of put
Speaker 1: a bow on this too, Jane Daniels is a quarterback
Speaker 1: with legs, and that doesn't always mean great things for
Speaker 1: receiving running backs too. So when Jane Daniels is forced
Speaker 1: out of the pocket and David blau has though new
Speaker 1: Oc has already said he wants to get him on
Speaker 1: bootleg and what have you, and getting him out of
Speaker 1: the pocket might be easier for Daniels just to rush
Speaker 1: for seven yards rather than potentially throw to a running
Speaker 1: back for eight yards. So I'll put that out there
Speaker 1: right now.
Speaker 4: And that's why that experience with him at Arizona State
Speaker 4: I think actually helps because he has a little bit
Speaker 4: of confidence in Rashad White already and what he can
Speaker 4: bring to the table, and they have that chemistry.
Speaker 1: So it's so weird to think about. But like Adam
Speaker 1: Levitan from Established Round talks about this all the time,
Speaker 1: the whole shower theorem. Right, if you showered with.
Speaker 3: A guy, you oh no, that's not good.
Speaker 1: Like you haven like listen, like you you have this
Speaker 1: connection with this guy. Like you, you've you You've done
Speaker 1: this in college. Now you're doing this in the pros.
Speaker 1: There's something he said for the shower.
Speaker 3: I don't think they lived in a bunk house though, Bulkie.
Speaker 3: I don't think they were showering.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know what they did at Arizona.
Speaker 3: State in the locker room.
Speaker 1: They got private showers up here. Now, I will say
Speaker 1: this one of my buddies who was and I won't
Speaker 1: say his name because maybe he would care me. He
Speaker 1: probably wouldn't, but i'll just because I don't know. He
Speaker 1: was a heavily recruited Division one basketball player twenty years ago.
Speaker 1: And he said he was recruited by the University of
Speaker 1: Arizona and that this is basketball. So lude Olsen was
Speaker 1: the head coach there. And he said he got off
Speaker 1: the plane and I know this is not Arizona State,
Speaker 1: it's Arizona, although Arizona State is known more as the
Speaker 1: party school in Arizona than but he said he got
Speaker 1: off the plane on a recruiting visit from Arizona and
Speaker 1: there was a guy with a hose spraying women with
Speaker 1: T shirts, you know, like white T shirts, just spraying
Speaker 1: right when he got off the plane. That was Arizona.
Speaker 1: Arizona State's the party school. I don't know what was
Speaker 1: going on there, but certainly Rashad White, Jadan Daniels, they
Speaker 1: could tell us more stories about that. Moving on, I'm
Speaker 1: sorry I brought this up. Team Swift, team manang Guy,
Speaker 1: Ryan Bears backfield. A lot of people are on the
Speaker 1: Bears offense this year. Do you feel like you are
Speaker 1: planning your flag on Swift versus Manungui this year or are
Speaker 1: you still kind of divving it up in your big
Speaker 1: errilla drafts.
Speaker 4: I'm team Swift all the way. I watched the two play.
Speaker 4: I see it with my eyes. Swift is the better
Speaker 4: running back now manung Guy. I don't know how many
Speaker 4: times last year I was watching a Bears game and
Speaker 4: Manunguy would get the ball and he would have the
Speaker 4: largest hole I've ever seen in my life, and no
Speaker 4: one would touch him for ten yards, And I go,
Speaker 4: why can't you do that for Swift? But I mean,
Speaker 4: at the end of the day, Swift was getting it
Speaker 4: was about a sixty forty split. And I think it's
Speaker 4: gonna be the same thing again this year, and I'll
Speaker 4: just I'll stick with Swift. He's in a contract year,
Speaker 4: he's still twenty seven. He should be fine. He should
Speaker 4: be motivated to get another deal or impress somebody another
Speaker 4: another team. If Chicago wants to move on, that's fine,
Speaker 4: but he should be motivated, and I expect similar numbers
Speaker 4: to last year.
Speaker 3: I think I'm gonna go with you there, Bulky, I
Speaker 3: think I'm gonna go with brother Ryan.
Speaker 1: There your thumbs. Well, here here's the thing. The mojo
Speaker 1: is saying, Swift running back twenty five at the five
Speaker 1: oh eight, Manunguy running back thirty five at the eight
Speaker 1: oh eight. This is one of those rare occurrences where
Speaker 1: I feel like, even though Swift is falling and manong
Speaker 1: Guy's rising, I think I'm with you, guys. I think
Speaker 1: I'd rather have Swift. And if you go zero RB
Speaker 1: this year, or if you go you know, wide receiver,
Speaker 1: a tight end, heavier, what have you, and you're looking
Speaker 1: for an RB two in the fifth round or an
Speaker 1: RB one, I'd rather have Swift than Manongau at that point. Now,
Speaker 1: based on my team build, I could see me drafting
Speaker 1: Banangay in the in the mid eighth. You know, if
Speaker 1: I already have a running back or two running backs
Speaker 1: or or you know, it kind of all depends team construction.
Speaker 1: But in a vacuum. I am with you. I think
Speaker 1: Swift is going to have the better season. Denmanongui and
Speaker 1: the FFPC drafters are backing that.
Speaker 3: We are all in agreement. Let's stay on some running
Speaker 3: backs while we still got time. Ryan, And where did
Speaker 3: you go to medical school?
Speaker 1: I did not? Were you?
Speaker 3: Were you trained, you know, in physical therapy, recovery technique,
Speaker 3: some of that type of thing?
Speaker 1: Did you have that kind of training?
Speaker 4: I've been around people while they've had.
Speaker 3: Physical we need professional training. Have you visited a Walgreens
Speaker 3: or a CVS.
Speaker 1: In the last six months?
Speaker 4: Oh? Yes?
Speaker 3: Okay, well, then you're qualified to answer this question for us.
Speaker 3: When is Charbonnay returning? With your medical background, you should
Speaker 3: be able to give us a very quick answer so.
Speaker 1: We know how to handle that running back situation.
Speaker 4: What I can tell you is my expectation for his return?
Speaker 3: Well, yes, and it's professional in nature because of your
Speaker 3: your involvement in the industry.
Speaker 4: So please, I would not expect him before week eight. Wow,
Speaker 4: I wouldn't. I wouldn't. I think he'll be back before
Speaker 4: week twelve is the end point for me? Okay, they're
Speaker 4: bye week's week eleven, so I could see them holding
Speaker 4: off until after the bye week and bring him back
Speaker 4: in week twelve.
Speaker 5: So Ryan, my co counselor here Farrell Elliott is leading
Speaker 5: you on this, and I'm gonna ask you point, Blake
Speaker 5: Zach Charmony over the last five weeks, five days, beg
Speaker 5: your pardon in the FFPC Big Gorilla running back forty
Speaker 5: three at the eleven eight?
Speaker 1: Is that a smart draft choice now? And he has
Speaker 1: creeped up nearly to the mid eleventh round for a
Speaker 1: player who tore his ACL late in the NFL playoffs
Speaker 1: last year.
Speaker 4: So he was one of my favorite picks to get
Speaker 4: in the twelfth thirteenth round. Now that he's getting, he's
Speaker 4: getting close to pricing himself out of my range. I
Speaker 4: am comfortable taking him as my RB four and sitting
Speaker 4: on him, you know, half the season. When when it
Speaker 4: comes time and I'm sitting there in the tenth eleventh
Speaker 4: round and I only have two running backs, I'm going
Speaker 4: to shy away because I don't I can't count on
Speaker 4: him to be my bye week replacement for those two
Speaker 4: running backs.
Speaker 1: How annoying is that though, to have him as a
Speaker 1: roster clogger until he comes back, though, with in regards
Speaker 1: to Charbona Ryan when you talk, but he's going to
Speaker 1: be gone, right, Like there's I.
Speaker 4: Could draft somebody and tomorrow they're they're out for two months.
Speaker 4: Like that's that's just part of the part of the
Speaker 4: nature of the game, right, Like, Okay, you have to
Speaker 4: you have to plan for injuries and and and generally,
Speaker 4: especially in like the Big Grill, when you have a
Speaker 4: twenty man roster, Let's be honest, those last two spots
Speaker 4: you could you can hold some much injured people for
Speaker 4: a few weeks. Yes, that's why I like having twenty
Speaker 4: roster slots.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think that makes sense. Like especially you
Speaker 1: know what are people doing with their waiver claims during
Speaker 1: the season, right They're trying to hit home runs And
Speaker 1: you might already be sitting on a home run with
Speaker 1: Chermany depending upon where you draft him at these in
Speaker 1: the eleventh or twelve theyor thirteenth round. Speaking of home runs,
Speaker 1: Ryan George Kittle is another player, and this is I
Speaker 1: selfishly bring him up a lot on my shows because
Speaker 1: I don't know where to put my finger on him.
Speaker 1: As far as drafting position goes, he has moved up
Speaker 1: to tight end ten in the Big gorilla. Over the
Speaker 1: last five days, George Kittle is being drafted at the
Speaker 1: seven to five, just behind Isaiah likely right ahead of
Speaker 1: the aforementioned Travis Kelcey. How bullish are you? This is
Speaker 1: two part question, how bullish are you on Kittle being
Speaker 1: ready for week one? But then the second part of
Speaker 1: that is, let's say he's ready for week one coming
Speaker 1: off the torn achilles. What version of George Kittle are
Speaker 1: we going to see this year? For the people that
Speaker 1: are soaking currently a mid seventh round pick in the
Speaker 1: big gorilla end of this player.
Speaker 4: So when I've been like I said, I generally take
Speaker 4: my tight end in that KKKK range, right, so I
Speaker 4: have my fair amount of shares of Kittle. But when
Speaker 4: I do take Kittle, I make sure that my pretty
Speaker 4: much double tap tight end at that point, just to
Speaker 4: make sure I have another guy for the beginning of
Speaker 4: the season, because I I've heard the stories. Oh it's
Speaker 4: a it was a perfectly clean achilles tear. So it's
Speaker 4: like the best case you could ever have of an achilles. Okay,
Speaker 4: it's still an achilles tear. Right. I don't know how
Speaker 4: short we can we can make this this time. Framing
Speaker 4: is gonna be out, so I plan. I think of
Speaker 4: it as four weeks, right. I'm hopeful that by October
Speaker 4: he'll be ninety percent of himself. And if you give
Speaker 4: me ninety percent of George Kittle in the seventh round,
Speaker 4: I'll take that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's one of the best best football players pound
Speaker 3: you ever find.
Speaker 1: Just real quick Ryan on this. So let's say you're
Speaker 1: you're in a big Gerilla draft. You utilize your mid
Speaker 1: seventh round pick on George Kittle. How do you handle
Speaker 1: the tight end position the rest of your draft? Would
Speaker 1: you go tight end right away like in the I
Speaker 1: beg your pardon, in the eighth round or the ninth round.
Speaker 1: Would you wait on it till like the sixteenth or
Speaker 1: the seventeenth. If you decide to take the plunge on
Speaker 1: George Kittle in the seventh, what's the proper way to
Speaker 1: handle that position for the remainder of your draft? As
Speaker 1: it stands, you're in god late June already.
Speaker 4: Well, I know I was able to do in a
Speaker 4: big Gorilla maybe a month ago. I was able to
Speaker 4: double tap Kittle Kelsey oh ches, yes, exactly, Like that
Speaker 4: was my seventh and eighth round. It was Kittle Kelsey,
Speaker 4: So I was like, yes, please, thank you, but yeah,
Speaker 4: I try to get a tight end in the next
Speaker 4: couple of rounds. If there's a good, a decent value
Speaker 4: tight end, I look at as as just a basically
Speaker 4: a cherry on top because I can put him in
Speaker 4: as my tight end until Kittle's ready. When Kittle's ready,
Speaker 4: i can just move them into a flex slot and
Speaker 4: I'm good to go. If it's a tight end, I
Speaker 4: feel like it's going to be around that two hundred
Speaker 4: point mark. That's always what I'm looking at for rounds
Speaker 4: eight through twelve. If there's anyone that I feel can
Speaker 4: get to the two hundred point mark, that's the kind
Speaker 4: of guy I want to go for. That's kind of
Speaker 4: my baseline.
Speaker 3: The kind of guy that I want to go for
Speaker 3: at quarterback has always been Jared Goff. I believe that
Speaker 3: if you play Jared golf when he's playing on the
Speaker 3: carpet in his home stadium, you're in good shape.
Speaker 1: And if you look at the first round of.
Speaker 3: Our f f PC and kf FSC drafts, you'll see
Speaker 3: some fellows that he's playing with that are going to
Speaker 3: put up some.
Speaker 1: Pretty good numbers.
Speaker 3: And then you know if you have any doubts you
Speaker 3: want to do some further scouting, I just go and
Speaker 3: realize that, realize who.
Speaker 1: He's married to.
Speaker 3: You know, have you ever looked up that bulky the
Speaker 3: actress Kristin Harper. I mean, you know, I mean this guy,
Speaker 3: this guy's obviously dealing. That's all I'm saying. I mean,
Speaker 3: he can, he can get it done for you know,
Speaker 3: I'm I'm proud of mister Jared Golf. It's got a
Speaker 3: new offensive coordinator. Most importantly Ryan, What does that mean
Speaker 3: for Detroit? Wait, Golf and other players this year?
Speaker 4: So you know, their coordinator came from Arizona, and I'm
Speaker 4: not sure how much of a difference it's going to
Speaker 4: make statistically for Golf. I don't think it's I think
Speaker 4: it's gonna be a net zero basically. And part of
Speaker 4: the reason of that is that offensive line is my
Speaker 4: worry for Detroit. It's not not the not the coordinator,
Speaker 4: not the play calling, any anything else. It's the offensive line.
Speaker 4: If they continue to struggle like they did near the
Speaker 4: end of last year with the offensive line, then I
Speaker 4: worry most for Gibbs, honestly, even more than Golf. And
Speaker 4: that's why I'm actually lower on Gibbs than most people.
Speaker 4: I probably won't have any shares of Gibbs this year.
Speaker 1: Okay, it's just let me just put this to the
Speaker 1: test right now. For you, Ryan, you have the one
Speaker 1: o one, You're taking John Robinson over Jamior Gibbs, I'm
Speaker 1: assuming right correct. Okay, Let's say you have the one
Speaker 1: O two, Robinson goes one oh one, Gibbs, Chase, the
Speaker 1: Kulah Smith Chase. Okay, let's say you have the one
Speaker 1: o three and Chase and John Robinson are off the board.
Speaker 1: Are you taking Nakula or Smith a Jigma? Okay, Farah,
Speaker 1: We're gonna continue this. This is great. You have the
Speaker 1: one oh four, Ryan Erickson, Robinson is gone, Chase is gone.
Speaker 1: Whould you say you're taking one o three Nicola? Yeah,
Speaker 1: Nikua is gone. You have the one oh four, Gibbs
Speaker 1: is out there, Smith and Jigma, McCaffrey, Bowers. Who are
Speaker 1: you taking out one oh four?
Speaker 4: And in that instance, I will take Gibbs.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, how there you go?
Speaker 4: How often is that gonna happen?
Speaker 1: Not very not very with it. But this is what's
Speaker 1: so great about it too, Like you know, like there's
Speaker 1: a million different ways to start off your team in
Speaker 1: the FFPC, and Ryan, you've drafted a ton of teams,
Speaker 1: so you definitely know that as well. I want to
Speaker 1: get to a couple of emails here before we sign off.
Speaker 1: The first one is for you, Ryan in It's Tony
Speaker 1: in Centennial, Colorado. Hey, Ryan, how much do you think?
Speaker 1: This is an interesting one? And I be very curious
Speaker 1: how you answer it. How much do you think Jerry
Speaker 1: Judy is being slept on since the best receivers Cleveland
Speaker 1: has besides him are both rookies? Good luck this year?
Speaker 1: That is Tony in Centennial, Colorado. Tony, We thank you
Speaker 1: for the email. Ryan. This is interesting because when you
Speaker 1: consider I mean, obviously Fannins there, Judkins is there, although
Speaker 1: historically Todd Munkin running backs have not caught a ton
Speaker 1: of passes. So when you consider the pass catchers in Cleveland,
Speaker 1: whether they're catching balls from Sugar Sanders, Deshaun Watson and
Speaker 1: what have you, this is interesting because the top two
Speaker 1: pass catchers ostensibly should be Casey Concepcion and Denzel Boston.
Speaker 1: Yet Jerry Judy is what two years removed from just
Speaker 1: this massive fantasy season that helped a lot of people
Speaker 1: win a lot of money. Interesting to think about Jerry
Speaker 1: Judy in twenty twenty six, Ryan, Well.
Speaker 4: I've heard some rumors that he might be on the
Speaker 4: trade block as well. I would say, first off, you
Speaker 4: need to tell me who's the quarterback. If you tell
Speaker 4: me it's Deshan Watson, then I have a little interest
Speaker 4: in Jerry Judy. If you tell me it's one of
Speaker 4: the kids, then I would just assume go with the
Speaker 4: younger wide receivers and you know, wait for Judy. See
Speaker 4: if you go somewhere else, fine, But like last year,
Speaker 4: he just did not have any I don't know if
Speaker 4: I should say he didn't have any chemistry. He almost
Speaker 4: didn't have the will to play, it looked like at times,
Speaker 4: and he was not focused. And so if I'm getting
Speaker 4: that Jerry Judy coming work playing with those those quarterbacks again,
Speaker 4: no thanks, but getting Toshan Watson back, that might reinvigorate Judy.
Speaker 4: And you know, if you're giving me him in the
Speaker 4: sixteen seventeenth round, yeah, I'll take a shot.
Speaker 1: The other thing that and I'll just bring out this
Speaker 1: from Adam Hahn on YouTube. We got that email from
Speaker 1: Tony and Centennial, Colorado. He says Tony is sleeping on
Speaker 1: Isaiah Bond. And there was a report Ryan, I can't
Speaker 1: remember as Mary kay Cabot, somebody who is covering the
Speaker 1: Browns said that the most targeted wide receiver and no
Speaker 1: tas in mini camp was Isaiah Bond this year? Does
Speaker 1: the factor intoto your late round big gorilla picks at
Speaker 1: all this year? Isaiah Bond?
Speaker 4: He doesn't because I heard the same thing last year.
Speaker 3: Right, Yes you did, Yeah, you most certainly did. You've
Speaker 3: been a wonderful guess. There's a lot of questions I
Speaker 3: would like to ask you. There's there's one that I
Speaker 3: ask everybody, and I like you to use players we
Speaker 3: have not discussed tonight.
Speaker 1: Sometimes people break that rule.
Speaker 3: The the you know, I who do you love? Who
Speaker 3: do you have to have? Who's somebody that you want
Speaker 3: on every team? Who is somebody.
Speaker 1: That you won't touch? Uh?
Speaker 3: And I thought it was mister Gibbs there for a minute,
Speaker 3: Balky was working up a question that said which kicker.
Speaker 1: Will you take?
Speaker 3: But the way you answered that question, the way you
Speaker 3: answered that question proved to me that you know that
Speaker 3: that you are not set in your ways or stubborn
Speaker 3: that you you know that you can make a stance
Speaker 3: and uh you know, and yes, legitimately a case could
Speaker 3: be made for all.
Speaker 1: Those players to go in the front of Gibbs.
Speaker 3: But I yeah, who who you got to have? And
Speaker 3: who are used dying to stay away from? And I've
Speaker 3: got too quick follow up questions bulky after these questions, So.
Speaker 4: I'll start with a stay away from. I want to
Speaker 4: stay away from the Denver backfield.
Speaker 1: Oh, there's just too.
Speaker 4: Many heads there and I don't feeling it's gonna be
Speaker 4: a different head every week. I don't want the headache
Speaker 4: from all the heads.
Speaker 1: Very good.
Speaker 4: People that I am high on, But honestly, I have
Speaker 4: not been able to get in the big gorilla yet.
Speaker 4: The Porta, Oh, I really like Laporta with with the
Speaker 4: offensive coordinator coming from Arizona, definitely.
Speaker 3: Like like, uh you know, right en, mm hmm okay.
Speaker 4: And and the other one that I just got my
Speaker 4: first share of in the last draft is Mike Evans.
Speaker 4: I think Mike Evans is going too late right now
Speaker 4: for a guy that he's he's got to be the
Speaker 4: number one guy in San Francisco.
Speaker 3: And the Laborde is gonna do well because you know,
Speaker 3: everybody wants to impress Golf's wife. Now the situation you're
Speaker 3: in Miami, Uh, you have two receivers there too too,
Speaker 3: at Well and Malik Washington. Are you drafting either one
Speaker 3: of them? And who is your offensive rookie of the
Speaker 3: year uh.
Speaker 1: In the NFL this year?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's good. Gotta come strong, It's gotta be love,
Speaker 1: right Ryan, I think it will be love. Who's the
Speaker 1: best rookie receiver?
Speaker 3: Who's the best rookie receiver in the NFL this year?
Speaker 4: So I will take your lead a little bit there.
Speaker 4: I think you're leading me.
Speaker 1: I'm leading probably. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I think that someone that a lot of people are
Speaker 4: sleeping on right now that's going to have a lot
Speaker 4: of playing time in Miami is Chris Bell.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right now I have to stop this conversation here.
Speaker 1: Well now, I don't want to stop it, but I
Speaker 1: want to because because Ryan, here's my thing with Chris Bell,
Speaker 1: and you're a Miami guy, so you would know better
Speaker 1: than me. But I I just I love the player.
Speaker 1: If Farrell, I know, is a big fan out of Louisville,
Speaker 1: he loves Chris Bell. But my whole thing is this
Speaker 1: guy tore his ACL last year, and and I'm great
Speaker 1: with him in dynasty like a late round first late
Speaker 1: first round pick, early second round pick. I'm all, I'm
Speaker 1: all aboard Chris Bell, but I think about him in
Speaker 1: a redraft standpoint, and I'm wondering how much he's going
Speaker 1: to contribute to a Melik Willis, Jeff Halfley, Bobby Slowick
Speaker 1: offense in twenty twenty six. And that's my hang up.
Speaker 1: But Ryan, maybe maybe you can sell me on Chris
Speaker 1: Bell and redraft leagues this year.
Speaker 4: Well, I would sell you by literally saying to to
Speaker 4: at Well and Malik Washington.
Speaker 3: Okay, and tell me, tell me Bulkie, and let's see
Speaker 3: if we can sell some more subscriptions for Belovedren HARMANI
Speaker 3: to the fantasy Mojoe, tell tell us Bell Washington and
Speaker 3: at Will big adp all right.
Speaker 1: So currently again this is over the last five days
Speaker 1: in the FFPC, Big Grill as far as wide receiver
Speaker 1: is going for Miami, so you're looking at the top
Speaker 1: one being drafted is Malik Washington, but not until wide
Speaker 1: receiver seventy four. At the eighteen o two you have
Speaker 1: Chris Bell going basically right after him wide receiver seventy
Speaker 1: nine at the eighteen o six, and then that's it.
Speaker 1: Nobody else, not tover, not to to at well not
Speaker 1: you know, Caleb Joseph. None of those guys.
Speaker 3: Are going to a big grill sitting on top of
Speaker 3: just tremendous upside there in Miami, mister Erickson, and you
Speaker 3: got tremendous upside as a player. We'd love to see
Speaker 3: you in Kentucky. Come on and get out of the
Speaker 3: heats hot. Yeah it's hot in August. Come on up
Speaker 3: and see if it's real cool and tempered here.
Speaker 4: Well, remember I'm I'm I'm the University of Miami.
Speaker 1: Guys.
Speaker 4: I watched Chris Bell light up our defense last year
Speaker 4: and he is a legitimate beast like physically, he will
Speaker 4: have no problem translating to the NFL.
Speaker 1: There are gonna be a lot of tinnasty rookie drafts
Speaker 1: that I have not had yet that I will be
Speaker 1: getting Chris Bell. And I'm very excited about that walk
Speaker 1: off question for you tonight, Ryan, And maybe maybe I
Speaker 1: buried the lead on this. There are a lot of
Speaker 1: people that are skittish about drafting players like Trey McBride,
Speaker 1: Marvin Harrison, and Michael Wilson based on Carson Beck could
Speaker 1: be taking over with the Cardinals at some point later
Speaker 1: on this year when when they realize they're out of
Speaker 1: it or whatever. Where do you stand on that, not
Speaker 1: necessarily drafting Carson back, but drafting those other three players
Speaker 1: that I mentioned, McBride, Harrison, and Wilson knowing that Beck
Speaker 1: could be throwing to him. You saw Beck up close
Speaker 1: this past year with him leading the Hurricanes to the
Speaker 1: College Football Playoff Championship game here and coming quite frankly
Speaker 1: within you know, a couple of inches of maybe beating
Speaker 1: Indiana this year. I want to let you weigh in
Speaker 1: on this.
Speaker 4: Well, I would I would come back with what is
Speaker 4: Beck's biggest knock.
Speaker 1: His I would say his arm strength is the biggest
Speaker 1: thing that I know about throwing to the other team.
Speaker 4: And guess what, that's not going to be an issue
Speaker 4: if I have Trey McBride or those guys. I'm not
Speaker 4: getting docked for him throwing the ball. You know, Oh,
Speaker 4: we drove the ball sixty yards down the field, we
Speaker 4: got to the twenty yard line, then he threw it
Speaker 4: an interception in the end zone. Well, I still get
Speaker 4: the sixty yards that he drove down the field, so
Speaker 4: I think production wise, it's not going to be a
Speaker 4: problem if Beck gets in there.
Speaker 1: Interesting, So you are not shying away from Wilson, Harrison McBride.
Speaker 1: I mean maybe you're shying away from it for different reasons.
Speaker 1: Differently the Beck thing that does not play into.
Speaker 4: Your No, no, it really doesn't. But honestly, out of
Speaker 4: those guys, McBride goes too early for me, I'm with you,
Speaker 4: Harrison's the only one I'm really interested in. I don't
Speaker 4: trust Michael Wilson that flash at the end of last year.
Speaker 4: Show it to me again, then don't worry about it.
Speaker 1: Wilson's flash was when Harrison was hurt, his biggest flash.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I have sent some concerns there. I have
Speaker 1: no concern with what Ryan Erickson is going to be
Speaker 1: doing in the Big Gorilla this year and all his leagues. Ryan.
Speaker 1: This was a treat having you on tonight. This was
Speaker 1: so much fun. Thank you so much for hopping on
Speaker 1: board tonight. We appreciate the insight. Be good, enjoy drafting
Speaker 1: season from here on out, and most importantly, good luck
Speaker 1: winning that million bucks in the FFPC Big Gorilla, which
Speaker 1: you seem to be well on your way to establish.
Speaker 3: Some pretty good teams in doing and Don Ericson will
Speaker 3: be in Kentucky. You guys can your long lost brother
Speaker 3: Don eric I'll be in Kentucky. Yes, Ryan, thank you
Speaker 3: so much.
Speaker 1: Man. We'll talk with you soon, all right.
Speaker 4: Thanks guys.
Speaker 1: That is Brian Ericson, Ladies and Gentlemen, the nineteen time
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Speaker 4: It was.
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Speaker 1: that as well, FFPC Big Gorilla. Right now we have
Speaker 1: I'm gonna look this up right now, just so I'm
Speaker 1: not giving you any false information, which I hate to
Speaker 1: do on this show. Midweek Mayhem is going on right now.
Speaker 1: So if you draft the team tonight or tomorrow, you
Speaker 1: will be entered into the drawing for three free FFPC
Speaker 1: Big Gorilla. Teams will announce that in the Friday night
Speaker 1: or the Friday morning email. We have eleven teams available
Speaker 1: in the midnight Draft. Everything else has been filled up
Speaker 1: tonight in the Big Gorilla, but we do have eleven
Speaker 1: teams in the Midnight Draft that is going to be
Speaker 1: drafting in a half hour, So register for that right
Speaker 1: now my f FPC dot com. You're also eligible for
Speaker 1: the seven Bananas promo in there, which we're giving way
Speaker 1: more free FFPC teams. There FFPC Main Event, million dollar
Speaker 1: grand prize six hundred dollars off your first a bigger
Speaker 1: part in each additional team after your first team. There
Speaker 1: FFPC Bestball Tournament four hundred k for the grand prize
Speaker 1: as opposed to three hundred k, which is what it
Speaker 1: was last year. FFP. We see super Flex Fastball Tournament
Speaker 1: thirty five bucks to enter one hundred thousand dollars grand prize.
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Speaker 1: One FFPC player. One brand new thing that this industry
Speaker 1: has not had before. We're very excited to be the
Speaker 1: first to offer it. It is basically drafting. You drafting
Speaker 1: immediately after you sign up against eleven smart CPU teams.
Speaker 1: We have different profiles in that as well. There is
Speaker 1: a Brice I don't know if there's a Price profile,
Speaker 1: but there's a day of profile and Alex profile and
Speaker 1: Eric profile, bull Key profile, Jake profile. So you're basically
Speaker 1: drafting against all these FFPC profiles and if you can
Speaker 1: beat all of us. You're gonna win serious cash or
Speaker 1: free FFPC main event entries, free FFPC Big Urrilla entries.
Speaker 1: A lot of fun there. Draft against the computer to
Speaker 1: win big this year. FFPC chap leagues also available. Don't
Speaker 1: finish in last place in any given week this year
Speaker 1: and you will win that league and turn that into
Speaker 1: cash or big tournament entries. My FFPC dot com is
Speaker 1: where to call m y f FPC dot com. Remember
Speaker 1: to like, subscribe, comment on this video, share it with
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Speaker 1: and every time. We go live, which will be Friday
Speaker 1: night at ten pm Eastern Time Thursday night at seven
Speaker 1: pm Eastern Time with myself and Scott Pianowski as our friend,
Speaker 1: Vince Dafelena reminds us you are officially over the hump
Speaker 1: right now. Thank you so much for watching, everybody. We'll
Speaker 1: talk with you again tomorrow night, seven pm. FFPC Insider Access.
Speaker 2: This has been another episode of the Hot Stakes Fatastley
Speaker 2: Football Hour, presented by my f FPC dot Com. It
Speaker 2: was broadcast live and was watched around the world, and
Speaker 2: Farrell will be back next week with more analysis, more interviews,
Speaker 2: add more advice from guests much smarter than they are.
Speaker 2: Thanks for watching, and we'll talk with you again next week.
Speaker 1: I know most of the time I always say too
Speaker 1: with the Big Gorilla draft and when we have one
Speaker 1: starting in a half hour or whatever, But there are
Speaker 1: other teams that we have going on, the Baby Gorilla,
Speaker 1: the FFPC Bestball Tournament, and the FFPC Super Flex Bestball Tournament.
Speaker 1: We have a draft starting in thirty two minutes right
Speaker 1: now with just five teams left. So if you want
Speaker 1: to enter for thirty five bucks and take your shot
Speaker 1: at one hundred thousand dollars grand prize, this would be
Speaker 1: the perfect time to do it. My FFPC dot com,
Speaker 1: my f FPC dot com. I'll talk with you tomorrow
Speaker 1: night at seven pm Eastern with Scott Pianowski from Yahoo Fantasy,
Speaker 1: and then I'll talk with you again with Farrell Elliott
Speaker 1: and of course Don Tolby, the thirteen time f FPC
Speaker 1: League winner, live on hsff our Extra Reps ten Eastern
Speaker 1: time this Friday. Thanks for watching, everybody. We'll talk with
Speaker 1: you again very very soon.