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Speaker 1: to the program, mister Farrell Elliott Ferrel, Good Wednesday evening
Speaker 1: to you, Falky.
Speaker 3: Good evening to you, sir.
Speaker 1: How are you. I'm doing well. It's a busy week,
Speaker 1: but busy is always good. Excited to chop it up
Speaker 1: with you tonight. Hope to fall out from the NFL
Speaker 1: Draft for you. This is a you know, I know,
Speaker 1: everybody's kind of down on the class from a dynasty standpoint,
Speaker 1: but once again and an exciting pre, during, and post
Speaker 1: draft sort of like results happening not only with the
Speaker 1: NFL but for fantasy purposes as well. Yeah, you know
Speaker 1: it is what it is.
Speaker 3: These players are going to show up and get a chance,
Speaker 3: and they're perhaps more diamonds in the rough. I'm beginning
Speaker 3: to understand what some of the teams did from an
Speaker 3: overall perspective, could really give us some clues in how
Speaker 3: to draft available players in the Dynasty and what to
Speaker 3: expect as we move closer into the preseason.
Speaker 1: And I've had some rises is. I've been drafting my
Speaker 1: Dynasty teams and.
Speaker 3: Uh, you know, a couple of them I wish I
Speaker 3: could start overs, Bulkie.
Speaker 1: I can tell you I've one.
Speaker 3: Of some of the things. I thought, well, we'll stand
Speaker 3: strong and I'll stand by them. But there's other players
Speaker 3: that I don't quite that. I don't quite think I
Speaker 3: gave the proper consideration too.
Speaker 1: I want to get into that. We'll get into that
Speaker 1: not only tonight, but we will also got into uh
Speaker 1: the Extra Extra Reps show on Friday. We'll get into
Speaker 1: that as well, with some rookies and so on and
Speaker 1: so forth. I want to kick things off tonight, Pharah
Speaker 1: with you to talk about something you brought to my attention.
Speaker 1: I have a few teams I want to discuss here,
Speaker 1: but I think we'll lead off with Washington just because
Speaker 1: the free agency portion of the season is done, and
Speaker 1: and I want to say like the first like three
Speaker 1: or four waves. There's there's several ways that are going
Speaker 1: to go on as we get closer and closer to
Speaker 1: the start of the NFL season, But the first few
Speaker 1: waves of free agency has done. The NFL Draft is
Speaker 1: obviously done, the race to sign all these undrafted free
Speaker 1: agents is done, and yet some of these teams still
Speaker 1: have holes on them as far as what we care
Speaker 1: about for fantasy football. You brought up Washington. I think
Speaker 1: that's an excellent team because Farrell. I think that is
Speaker 1: the only team out of the thirty two teams in
Speaker 1: the league that have holes not only at wide receiver,
Speaker 1: but running back as well. We'll talk with JL both
Speaker 1: Jayden Daniels this week on the Family of Podcasts. But
Speaker 1: I have to ask you here too. Washington cannot be
Speaker 1: done right. I mean, they're going to add another receiver, right,
Speaker 1: are they going to add another running back? I don't
Speaker 1: know what's your vision of what's going on with Washington
Speaker 1: and how do we handle players like Terry McLaurin. Antonio Williams,
Speaker 1: Rashad White, K Tron Allen. Right now, all guys on
Speaker 1: the Commanders, but still all guys that can have their
Speaker 1: roles change fairly quickly in this offseason.
Speaker 3: If you're a guy who loves to draft the guy,
Speaker 3: then Terry McLaurin is your guy this year, you know.
Speaker 3: And when you look at that wide receiver room, it's
Speaker 3: loaded with a lot of names that fantasy players have
Speaker 3: drafted over the years and got very very little back from.
Speaker 3: And you know, it's hard to get a fantasy player
Speaker 3: excited about some of these guys. They're good football players,
Speaker 3: but as a group that they're lacking somewhat. And that
Speaker 3: lets me think. And this is one of those rookies
Speaker 3: that I was talking about in one of my dynasty drafts.
Speaker 3: Antonio Williams from Clemson goes in. He was the ninth
Speaker 3: wide receiver off the board. He went behind both Cleveland
Speaker 3: Brown wide receivers in one of the dicety drafts. And
Speaker 3: I assume that he's doing that through most of the drafts.
Speaker 3: And I could have picked him in the second round
Speaker 3: and I didn't. And when I look at it closer, man,
Speaker 3: I wish I did. Here's a guy that's touchdowns in
Speaker 3: the last two at twenty one touchdown in his career,
Speaker 3: fifteen of them in the last two years. He ran
Speaker 3: a fantastic speed at the combine. He's not necessarily a
Speaker 3: little receiver. He's got some size to it. I see
Speaker 3: him as an excellent slot receiver there in Washington now.
Speaker 3: And then when you go to the backfield, Bulkie our
Speaker 3: guests last week, Jake the Lake, Jake was wonderful in
Speaker 3: his breakdown of Crossky Merritt. And I'm a big believer.
Speaker 1: In cross Key Merrit. Bill Merritt is my guy.
Speaker 3: But you take a look at this and it's a
Speaker 3: three headed committee in that situation right now, and I
Speaker 3: don't know where a running back would come that would
Speaker 3: you know, is going to make any difference in that mix?
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Sure, this is the forty nine ers front office. There's
Speaker 3: two x forty nine er receivers floating around and you
Speaker 3: would think maybe one of them would be a landing
Speaker 3: spot there. And if that's the case, I would feel
Speaker 3: very very well. I feel very very positive about this
Speaker 3: receiver corps. But it still doesn't change the fact that
Speaker 3: I think Williams could be one of.
Speaker 1: The big rookie performers at wide receiver, I mean on
Speaker 1: Williams this year. My question for a lot of these receivers,
Speaker 1: and we'll get into this as it goes on, not
Speaker 1: only this week, Girl, but several weeks going forward. How
Speaker 1: we treat this year's rookery class a wide receiver when
Speaker 1: we know next year's rookie class is really really good.
Speaker 1: Extrapolate that, I guess to talk about running backs for sure.
Speaker 1: Tight ends. I don't know the tight end class next year.
Speaker 1: I know it's good. I don't know if it's that
Speaker 1: much better than this year, but certainly, like we're very
Speaker 1: excited about these players now, how excited will we be
Speaker 1: next year? Maybe perhaps none more personifies that than the
Speaker 1: rookie receiver who could be the number two wide out
Speaker 1: in Atlanta this year, Riah Branch State in the State
Speaker 1: of Georgia. He goes to from being a bulldog to
Speaker 1: a falcon and quite frankly opposite Drake London. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of opportunity there. I have been, and I think
Speaker 1: I've been pretty explicit about it on this show that
Speaker 1: I'm not a believer in Zachariah Branch. I'm still open
Speaker 1: to the idea of drafting him in dynasty rookie drafts
Speaker 1: because Fomo aspect, like, you know, if this guy does hit,
Speaker 1: I still want to have him on you know, one
Speaker 1: or two of my teams. But I look at Atlanta Ferrell,
Speaker 1: are they done? I mean, are they comfortable having the
Speaker 1: John Robinson in that backfield as their leading pass catcher,
Speaker 1: Drake London on the perimeter as their top wide receiver,
Speaker 1: Kyle Pitts as their number one tight end. Is there
Speaker 1: room for them to add another wide out, another pass
Speaker 1: catcher that perhaps takes the pressure of off of Zachariab
Speaker 1: Branch and Branch becomes more of a gadget guy at
Speaker 1: least in twenty twenty six, and that there is another
Speaker 1: guy who could step in and play the moonie role
Speaker 1: that was decent on this team until he got hurt.
Speaker 1: What do you make of Atlanta's wide receiver specific situation
Speaker 1: right now?
Speaker 3: Well, I don't think you're wrong about Branch, but I
Speaker 3: think we're going to see a new Falcon look in
Speaker 3: a new scheme, and I think Branch fits it. So
Speaker 3: I think that as we imagine the Falcons in previous years,
Speaker 3: Branch wouldn't be There's something about him you don't like
Speaker 3: and it's kind of led me. I've kind of followed
Speaker 3: you down that road. What are some of the things
Speaker 3: that you just don't really like about You think he's
Speaker 3: too small?
Speaker 1: I mean well, I mean the size is an issue
Speaker 1: for me, but a bigger issue for me as you
Speaker 1: look at what he did or what he didn't do
Speaker 1: in college, he could not This is a guy that
Speaker 1: when he was back in at USC was playing behind
Speaker 1: these guys and he had a transfer to become meaningful
Speaker 1: on the college. On the collegiate level, and what in Georgia, well,
Speaker 1: a majority as passes were caught behind the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 1: He had a serious a dot where he wasn't earning targets.
Speaker 1: They were just scheming him up. And yeah, I know,
Speaker 1: the speed and the route running to me is a
Speaker 1: problem too. I think he's got a ways to go
Speaker 1: on that. This is all to say, I don't disbelieve.
Speaker 1: I'm not an unbeliever in Zechariah Branch as far as
Speaker 1: what he's going to be at the next level, but
Speaker 1: I am severely concerned that this dude is going to
Speaker 1: hit the ground running, that he is going to be
Speaker 1: impactful in twenty twenty six. So if you are investing
Speaker 1: in a rookie draft in Zechariah Branch, maybe it turns out.
Speaker 1: But I don't think it turns out in twenty twenty
Speaker 1: eighty six, and maybe not in twenty twenty seven as well.
Speaker 1: I just foresee a long learning curve and the profile
Speaker 1: that we have of this type of player. It's not
Speaker 1: exactly been ripe with hits in the NFL. Now. I
Speaker 1: think FFPC players are pretty shrewd and they understand this,
Speaker 1: and they have been letting him slip down rookie drafts.
Speaker 1: I'll bring up the mojo on him shortly, Farrell. So
Speaker 1: I'm not all way out on Branch. I'm just finding
Speaker 1: better ways to spend second round and third round draft
Speaker 1: capital h than than than a player like this and
Speaker 1: rookie drafts. But I mean, I mean, what's your thoughts
Speaker 1: on Branch. I'm down on him, maybe wrongfully down on it.
Speaker 3: Well, you know they're gonna let him handle the return game.
Speaker 3: So that's a sign right there. You know that that
Speaker 3: that's a sign right there that team may not be
Speaker 3: he may not play that many downs, but you know
Speaker 3: that perhaps is their new scheme to get this player
Speaker 3: the ball not far from or behind the go line,
Speaker 3: and see what he can the line of scrimmage and
Speaker 3: see what he can get done with it. You know,
Speaker 3: we're talking about a team now. I think Ola Mede
Speaker 3: is a Kia says he's still on this roster. I
Speaker 3: believe that would spell that would spell the situation. But
Speaker 3: I think I'm anxious for you to give Darren's mojo
Speaker 3: on this player because I think at some point he
Speaker 3: begins to become a value. I agree with you, he
Speaker 3: doesn't belong in this group of top receivers, even with
Speaker 3: his sec heritage. But I think once you give into
Speaker 3: that third and fourth round, you're in good shape to
Speaker 3: take a shot at this player, especially when we consider
Speaker 3: that if you look at their depth chart, Johan Dotson
Speaker 3: is on the other side of London right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And and by the way, I totally forgot about
Speaker 1: this is this is me a culpa here. I totally
Speaker 1: forgot about Johan Dotson on that team. So there is
Speaker 1: something that we said to that, Zechariah Branch. I'll bring
Speaker 1: this up right now, Farrell. And if you are having
Speaker 1: an f f PC account, you probably should have an
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Speaker 1: Fantasymojo dot com at Fantasy Mojo on the X, Aaron
Speaker 1: Armani is the godfather of the pro there's a Joe's
Speaker 1: contest at the time. We cite ADP on this on
Speaker 1: these broadcasts on the streams with the FFPC, it's all
Speaker 1: due to Darren Armani. So if we look at rookie
Speaker 1: drafts right now, according to Fantasy mojo Zechariah Branch currently
Speaker 1: sits as a mid to late third round pick. He's
Speaker 1: sitting at three to oh eight. He has gone as
Speaker 1: high as the one to oh seven. Got no, no, no, Branch,
Speaker 1: I don't believe in that at that point. But you're
Speaker 1: looking at him at the three eight on average, he's
Speaker 1: gone as late as the six ozho three uh. For
Speaker 1: context sake, Ferrell, he is going behind Chris Brazl and
Speaker 1: Ted Hurst. He's going right ahead of Malachi Fields and
Speaker 1: Elijah Surat. I do not have a problem with that
Speaker 1: with with Branch at that price in the mid third round.
Speaker 3: But we know we can talk about Melanchotte Fields another day,
Speaker 3: you know. As far as production, just taking a production
Speaker 3: note for a moment, Booky, we're over here. We have
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Speaker 3: we could put another box, well, Joe King's in that
Speaker 3: box too, but it says tis the scene if we
Speaker 3: could just have Darren come in live on the show,
Speaker 3: because I've been watching a little UFL football and when
Speaker 3: there's you know, when there's a controversial flag, you know,
Speaker 3: they'll bring in the eye and the sky, so to speak.
Speaker 3: It'll be and we could have Darren just down there
Speaker 3: in a box, you know, when we want to have
Speaker 3: the report of what the mojo is. And because he's
Speaker 3: got it all memorized anyway, he wouldn't have to look
Speaker 3: it up, and he just shouts it out to us
Speaker 3: and we say thank you, Darren, And then you know
Speaker 3: he's always there in that little box.
Speaker 1: He is uh and and we will have to get
Speaker 1: him back. Darren has not been on this show. He
Speaker 1: usually moonlights during the processes Joe's challenge, Like he'll come
Speaker 1: on and we'll do like a quick ten minute interview
Speaker 1: with him, but he's he's we got to get him
Speaker 1: back on here. Come. He's a pro apologist, is what
Speaker 1: he is. He's a proapologist. He absolutely is. That'll probably
Speaker 1: be on X tomorrow when when he sees this. Uh, Parrell,
Speaker 1: We're going to get to our guest uh here tonight,
Speaker 1: don O'Connell, in just less than a minute. I want
Speaker 1: to bring up Miami. Uh right now. We'll talk about
Speaker 1: Malik Willis throughout this. If we don't get to tonight,
Speaker 1: we'll get to it on Friday. Miami added Caleb Joseph,
Speaker 1: They added Kevin Coleman, They added Chris Bell. We talked
Speaker 1: about Chris Bell on the show last week. Actually, I
Speaker 1: want to get your thoughts. Is Miami right for adding
Speaker 1: one of these veteran wide receivers that are still floating
Speaker 1: around out there in free agency or do you think
Speaker 1: they're going to go to battle with this this trio
Speaker 1: of rookies as well as Jalen Tolbert and Malik Washington.
Speaker 3: Yes, don't don't be surprised if they add a wide receiver.
Speaker 3: It's going to have be a wide receiver that's going
Speaker 3: to have to to be comfortable with his role of
Speaker 3: realizing he is on a on a run first team
Speaker 3: and run second team. This is we're going back old
Speaker 3: school dolphin fans are going back to the Shula days.
Speaker 3: I mean, this is this is, this is kicking Zanka
Speaker 3: and and they found a reincarnation if you're old enough
Speaker 3: to remember this one and be very few listening to
Speaker 3: the show tonight, but they found a reincarnation in the
Speaker 3: draft when they took this kid out of Ohio State
Speaker 3: at tight end. They caught fifteen balls last year at
Speaker 3: cos Maaric And and you know, this player is the
Speaker 3: reincarnation of Marf Leming from from the super And so
Speaker 3: you know this, this whole thing, and this is amazing me,
Speaker 3: amazing to me that last year Ali Gordon, you know,
Speaker 3: so this is a lot of Oli Gordon talk. Where
Speaker 3: do you remember you were coming in on Oli Gordon
Speaker 3: last year?
Speaker 1: My whole thing with Alli Gordon was I was a
Speaker 1: big I was a big jail and right fan of
Speaker 1: Mike McDaniel, where he prioritized speed over everything else. And
Speaker 1: now this year Pharrell have kind of switched the flip,
Speaker 1: aka flipped the switch because I feel like the new
Speaker 1: regime coming in with John Eric Sullivan as the GM,
Speaker 1: with Jeff Haffley as as the I feel like I
Speaker 1: would much rather own Ollie Gordon, who is the between
Speaker 1: the tackles banger, the guy that will accentuate your defense,
Speaker 1: heighten your running game. That is the player I would
Speaker 1: want as the backup to a Chan as opposed to
Speaker 1: Jalen Right. So and Jalen Right for me twenty twenty
Speaker 1: six Gordon?
Speaker 3: And would that would that Ollie Gordon look at one
Speaker 3: hundred and fifty carries on the season or maybe more,
Speaker 3: and I think he will in this offense. And and
Speaker 3: Ollie Gordon is you know, he's available in.
Speaker 1: A number of these donasty drafts.
Speaker 3: And I apologize to everyone's drafting best ball and it
Speaker 3: naturally focused on the dynasty drafts here in the last
Speaker 3: few days. But uh, let's take a look at this
Speaker 3: wide receiver cor now Chris Bell. Everybody says it's Chris Bell. Well, yeah,
Speaker 3: Chris Bell is the guy who's gonna line up with
Speaker 3: Terrence Marshall. And this time last year, you know, I
Speaker 3: talked about how I never really bought into too two
Speaker 3: at well at the University of Louisville, and then he
Speaker 3: made the rams and I was happy for it. And
Speaker 3: then he caught forty two balls with not a lot
Speaker 3: of yardage. Maybe something like we would see if Zach
Speaker 3: Branch come a speedy guy that didn't get a lot
Speaker 3: of yardage and then he goes the Rams give him
Speaker 3: a contract, reward him with a contract of eleven million
Speaker 3: dollars and he caught six balls last year, Balky, that's
Speaker 3: one point eight three million dollars a catch, and the
Speaker 3: yard is were like, you know, like fifty seven thousand.
Speaker 1: Dollars a yard. I mean, it's just just it's crazy.
Speaker 3: So now you know he's in He's in Miami playing
Speaker 3: for two million dollars or a little less this year
Speaker 3: back you know, kind of the league minimum. But my
Speaker 3: point is that this is the These are the receivers
Speaker 3: that they're going and that they're they're currently going to
Speaker 3: play with. And if this doesn't mean that you shouldn't
Speaker 3: be drafting the entire backfield of the Dolphins as well
Speaker 3: as you know, I don't know what you're going to
Speaker 3: do with that quarterback because you know, he makes the quarterback.
Speaker 1: Ferrell I love that quarterback.
Speaker 3: Well, he makes defenses guests, and that creates some interesting things,
Speaker 3: you know, because with two we knew it too.
Speaker 1: It was gonna do you know, and.
Speaker 3: Uh, this team you take Hill and waddle out of
Speaker 3: this team. Guess what, it's a new day in Miami.
Speaker 3: And when this team goes on the road and you know,
Speaker 3: the AFC East and goes it goes in place some
Speaker 3: of these co weather teams, it's not gonna be the
Speaker 3: same uh may it may not be the same.
Speaker 1: Result as what we're having.
Speaker 3: It's going for those Dolphins fans like Tom Smith who's
Speaker 3: probably too hard at work today and might not get
Speaker 3: to watch the show until later. It's going to be
Speaker 3: a very satisfying year.
Speaker 1: If you like, if you like hard and knows offensive football,
Speaker 1: and that's what this team is built for. Yeah they are,
Speaker 1: and at least they're trying to get built for that.
Speaker 1: And I will say that's the last thing I want
Speaker 1: to say about Zechara Branch. You bring up tongue by lawa.
Speaker 1: That is another feather and Branch's cap with him wanting
Speaker 1: uh tongue by la trying to get the ball out
Speaker 1: as soon as possible in Miami. I think that continues
Speaker 1: in Atlanta, and I think that helped Zechariah Branch as well.
Speaker 1: So that's going for you well.
Speaker 3: And then in a tip of the hand to the diesel,
Speaker 3: you know what was Dizzel's favorite thing to talk about.
Speaker 3: It wasn't forty yard dash and it wasn't strength. Relative
Speaker 3: athletic scrasps, you know, and they do have they do have.
Speaker 3: You might have to pronounce it. Help me with the pronunciation.
Speaker 3: Uh se do to to Rory TI tied end out
Speaker 3: of Mississippi State, relative athletics score off the charts.
Speaker 1: From down there in in Miami. Uh, okay, this is
Speaker 1: this is wild? So this was an undrafted free agent? Yes, no,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know, all right.
Speaker 3: I thought he was a laid round draft pick, but
Speaker 3: he could have been a beauty f a.
Speaker 1: Okay, so this was this, but but he was for
Speaker 1: the Dolphins, right, that's who I have. No, he was
Speaker 1: a fifth round pick. Fall I'm seeing it right there
Speaker 1: you go. That's what I was thinking. I'm gonna say,
Speaker 1: say do tr That's how I'm gonna all right.
Speaker 3: I think you may think that he's from London, so
Speaker 3: you might take that ori.
Speaker 1: Out or I do.
Speaker 3: There you go, I did besides with a British accent.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've got a ten point roads have athletics goal.
Speaker 1: There you go. There, I am more athletic than me
Speaker 1: National football league. That's terrible, but no, that was very good.
Speaker 1: People are gonna wal night for for posterity sake and
Speaker 1: for not losing the viewers. Let's bring on a real genius.
Speaker 1: Yeah right now, ladies and gentlemen. His name is Don O'Connell.
Speaker 1: He is a nineteen time FFPC League champion. He's done
Speaker 1: it at all the levels the satellite league's check. He's
Speaker 1: won lead championships in the Big Gorilla. He's won multiple leagues,
Speaker 1: multiple league titles at the main event level right now,
Speaker 1: and he's glad enough or we're happy enough that he
Speaker 1: has set aside some time tonight for us to speak
Speaker 1: with him, to pick his brain on not only his
Speaker 1: success in the FFPC but the upcoming twenty twenty sixth season.
Speaker 1: Please welcome onto the program, mister Don O'Connell. Done good,
Speaker 1: even done?
Speaker 4: Hello, Hello, thanks for having me. Hey, I love this game.
Speaker 4: Thanks for inviting me to talk about this. You know
Speaker 4: this should be a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: And are you living in on that space ship chair?
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 4: It's so great you guys, we're just now trying to
Speaker 4: talk of British I live there for uh almost a year.
Speaker 4: Here's how you do it. Pint of ruttles. That's how
Speaker 4: you order a beer is.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: We had a gentleman over from West London.
Speaker 1: I don't know which one, which one it is that
Speaker 1: that's that's wild.
Speaker 3: We we had a gentleman from across the pond from
Speaker 3: that that said he would go. We asked him what
Speaker 3: he would order at the bar and he told us
Speaker 3: a cider. Yeah, earlier in the year and that one
Speaker 3: that was that was a lot of fun. Well what
Speaker 3: what what? What put you in London? Were you over
Speaker 3: there waiting for the NFL to come to you or
Speaker 3: you get some good tickets work? Yeah, my dad had
Speaker 3: an all expense paid trip there back in World War Two.
Speaker 3: It was it was a good thing for him.
Speaker 4: That was even harder work.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was really hard work. My my, uh uh.
Speaker 1: Both my grandfathers had the same thing. There you go
Speaker 1: as well. Yeah, Paul Bretton is who you're referring to,
Speaker 1: Pharaoh a guy that loves his side or love his fantasy.
Speaker 1: And I don't know he may or may not know,
Speaker 1: you don but I saw that he liked and reposted
Speaker 1: on x that you were going to be on the
Speaker 1: show tonight. So that was very cool of Paul. Okay,
Speaker 1: we're going to get into a lot here. A couple
Speaker 1: of questions to kick things off the time before we
Speaker 1: get into fantasy football. Number one, how did you hit
Speaker 1: him today on the golf course? Did you hit him straight?
Speaker 1: How was How was the golfing today?
Speaker 4: I was fine. I missed four easy birdie putts, so
Speaker 4: it could have been way better. So I had about
Speaker 4: my average.
Speaker 1: I went disc golfing Frisbee disc golfing for the first
Speaker 1: time in thirty years. This a couple of days ago
Speaker 1: because my son's starting to get into it. He's twelve
Speaker 1: years old, and he really wanted to go with me,
Speaker 1: first time in thirty years. And I got to tell you, like,
Speaker 1: I'm not a golfer like a traditional golfer, and I'm
Speaker 1: not really a disc golfer. But let me tell you
Speaker 1: the frustration of missing putts whether you're traditional golfing or
Speaker 1: disc golfing, it is still the same in both.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And how's your arm? Your arm must be?
Speaker 1: It was not good. It was like so this would
Speaker 1: have been on Monday. I went with him, and then
Speaker 1: Tuesday it was kind of sore. But my shoulder today
Speaker 1: uber sore, like I've been hitting it up with the
Speaker 1: Ben Gay and getting all that because it was not
Speaker 1: in a good way. But listen, nobody's tuning in to
Speaker 1: hear me talk about my sore shoulder. They want to
Speaker 1: know what you're doing, Don, when you were not winning
Speaker 1: all these FFPC leagues. Are you just golfing? Are you
Speaker 1: spending your time doing something else? What are you doing
Speaker 1: when you're not winning FFPC leagues?
Speaker 4: Both my wife and I are retired for quite a while.
Speaker 4: For ten years right now, I was an engineer and
Speaker 4: a rocket scientist and that kind of thing, you know,
Speaker 4: working on all kinds of spaceships and airplanes and all
Speaker 4: kinds of things for my whole career. So now all
Speaker 4: I do is golf and bowl and play fantasy football
Speaker 4: and remodel houses. Also. I spend my time doing it,
Speaker 4: and every once in a while I fool with new inventions.
Speaker 4: I'm kind of an inventor. I have a few inventions,
Speaker 4: so I fool with those things, although they don't really
Speaker 4: amount to much except for keeping me entertained, which is
Speaker 4: good enough.
Speaker 1: You know, what was What's what's your proudest invention that
Speaker 1: you've had over the years, Don, Oh, that's so too
Speaker 1: many to count.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I can't really tell you about my proudest,
Speaker 4: but the latest one is a way to go clean
Speaker 4: out my gutters while standing on the ground because she
Speaker 4: won't let me climb ladders anymore. So I clean out
Speaker 4: the gutters while standing on the ground. It works pretty good.
Speaker 4: Forty five minutes I do the whole house.
Speaker 1: So good for you. That's fantastic, good stuff. Well, congratulations
Speaker 1: on the retirement. Although it's not new. You've been retired
Speaker 1: for a while, but it sounds like you are busier
Speaker 1: in retirement than I have ever been in my working life.
Speaker 1: That's really important.
Speaker 4: Yeah, gotta you gotta get to every day and plan thing,
Speaker 4: which is one thing Fatty. Football is so fun for
Speaker 4: me because I turn it all into a giant math problem.
Speaker 4: So I'm doing the math all through the season, doing
Speaker 4: the math, trying to figure out how to maximize my teams.
Speaker 1: Good for you, Good for you, Ferrell.
Speaker 3: Let's get into it with Don Well and so I
Speaker 3: feel very very impressed with myself that I identified your lounger
Speaker 3: as a spaceship.
Speaker 1: I rocket scientists that you are.
Speaker 3: And you know, my goal, in my entirety of my
Speaker 3: life is to hang out with people as smarter than me,
Speaker 3: it's not very difficult to fulfill.
Speaker 1: But tonight with you and Balke, I'm certainly there.
Speaker 3: So my question, you know, and when we talked about
Speaker 3: I live in Louisville, Kentucky. Before the shows over, we're
Speaker 3: going to point out to you that all Californias come
Speaker 3: to Kentucky to play fantasy football, and you're going to
Speaker 3: get an invite, don and I hope you'll come here.
Speaker 3: A player that played in the University of Louisville is
Speaker 3: Tyler Shuck and I am just thrilled with the assets
Speaker 3: that are being put behind him and in front of
Speaker 3: him there through the draft in New Orleans. I love
Speaker 3: the makeup of the team last year. I love what's
Speaker 3: going on with the team this year. You got a
Speaker 3: veteran running back that wants to stay there, that appears
Speaker 3: like everybody has given up on your thoughts about this
Speaker 3: player and can't where can you see? Do you see
Speaker 3: him as a as a real bargain player right now?
Speaker 3: And do you think that he might be an everyday
Speaker 3: starter and every week starter in fantasy football this year?
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a that's a good question. I I don't
Speaker 4: see it myself. I think that he's he's doing better
Speaker 4: than expected last year and he's going to improve a
Speaker 4: little bit this year. I still don't see him crack
Speaker 4: in the top fifteen, so he doesn't make him a starter.
Speaker 4: He may be a super flex guy that you would
Speaker 4: be good with. He could crawl into like the not
Speaker 4: thirteen or something like that, given that they're given more
Speaker 4: of a supporting cast and they don't have such a
Speaker 4: strong defense, so they got to pass it a lot,
Speaker 4: right they gotta They land a lean on him a lot,
Speaker 4: so he could get to there. But I don't see him.
Speaker 4: I don't see myself drafting him because I don't take
Speaker 4: guys in that range. That's kind where I see that.
Speaker 1: And don that makes by the way, like I I
Speaker 1: totally understand your viewpoint on that, But my follow up
Speaker 1: to that would be is, if you're down on shuck,
Speaker 1: does that mean you're also down on guys like Chris o'lave,
Speaker 1: Juwan Johnson, Jordan Tyson? Does that If you're down on shuck,
Speaker 1: are you also kind of out on the Saints offense
Speaker 1: in general?
Speaker 4: No? No, not really, because a Lave is such a
Speaker 4: target hog. If I get him at the right price.
Speaker 4: I would always take him. Juwan Johnson is he's hot
Speaker 4: and cold, but when he was hot, he was he
Speaker 4: was spectacular.
Speaker 3: He's a he's a fantastic to get in the red zone.
Speaker 3: What about the rookie receiver from out your.
Speaker 4: Way, Yeah, I don't know. I don't know about him.
Speaker 4: I usually don't go with rookies so much because a
Speaker 4: lot of people like to really price them up because
Speaker 4: they think they're going to get the next Puka, and
Speaker 4: so they cost too much. So I typically don't end
Speaker 4: up with with rookies with any sort of hype about
Speaker 4: them because people hype them up way higher than they
Speaker 4: should be. So I usually don't take those risks. But
Speaker 4: o'lave I take a love at the right price. He
Speaker 4: kind of went off last year. I think he might
Speaker 4: be too pricey this year too.
Speaker 3: But you always on this show, you know, Bonky throw
Speaker 3: it up there. Derrek Geers checking in another Californian, and
Speaker 3: he says, keep the scientists don out of Kentucky. So
Speaker 3: you're already gonna have to make a commitment during the
Speaker 3: other Californians are trying to attempt to bar you from
Speaker 3: I mean to Kentucky and we just we just.
Speaker 4: You know what, We're going there next spring on the
Speaker 4: Giant Motor Home trip. So I guess I'll change the
Speaker 4: license plate and there you go.
Speaker 3: There you go, the Giant Motorome trip.
Speaker 1: You're always well, don don let me ask you this.
Speaker 1: We talked about shock. What about Jackson Dart. I mean,
Speaker 1: we saw a little bit of him last year. You
Speaker 1: saw a little bit of him last year. This year,
Speaker 1: he has a new head coach in John Harbaugh. Matt
Speaker 1: Nagy is the new offensive coordinator. I you know, just
Speaker 1: as a normal reaction, I'm usually skeptical on players like
Speaker 1: this who have so much change going for him. And
Speaker 1: the other thing too is, you know, we don't know
Speaker 1: the health exactly of Malik Neighbors. Isaiah Likely is coming
Speaker 1: to town No Wandale Robinson. So there is a lot
Speaker 1: of change going on with the Giants. Jackson Dart is
Speaker 1: being drafted on average as the eighth quarterback in Big
Speaker 1: Gorilla drafts so far this season. Do you feel with
Speaker 1: all this change in New York that he's still worth
Speaker 1: a price tag in drafts?
Speaker 4: I do? I do. I like the running style that
Speaker 4: he has now, of course it's risk because he runs
Speaker 4: so much he gets hurt. Right if you ever saw
Speaker 4: the interview with him and Gruden, Gruden kept telling him
Speaker 4: to stop doing this, you know, because you're just going
Speaker 4: to get hurt. You're not good to me if you're
Speaker 4: in the medical tent, which is true. But I still
Speaker 4: think that I believe Malik Neighbors will be back, and
Speaker 4: Jackson Dart's kind of a ball hog kind of a
Speaker 4: guy where we're he'll just taking himself a lot, which
Speaker 4: is good for fantasy, but not so much good for
Speaker 4: his health. And the good thing is with fantasy is
Speaker 4: that you can start him when he's healthy, and when
Speaker 4: he's out, he starts your other guy. So that makes
Speaker 4: him really valuable when he's there, and then when he's not,
Speaker 4: you're going to start your other guy instead. So I
Speaker 4: will probably have some of him this year if he
Speaker 4: falls to the right spot. I'm going to have some
Speaker 4: of him, just because I really like the running aspect
Speaker 4: of it and the way it adds to the the
Speaker 4: bottom line for the player. Now, sure there's a downside
Speaker 4: with Harbaugh moving there they didn't live at him some
Speaker 4: but that could go the other way too.
Speaker 1: It certainly could. And to your point on I will
Speaker 1: say this, for if you want to draft Jackson Dart,
Speaker 1: you're nervous about the injury, you're nervous about what could happen.
Speaker 1: Because of the depth of quarterback this year, it is
Speaker 1: fairly easy for you to draft Dart and then grab Prescott,
Speaker 1: Grab brock Perty who was the best fantasy quarterback down
Speaker 1: the stretch last season. Grab Patrick Mahomes, who is one
Speaker 1: I believe, eighteen MVPs so far in his career, so
Speaker 1: you could get him, Stafford, Kyler Murray who's on the upswing.
Speaker 1: We already talked about Tyler Shock. I know you're down
Speaker 1: on him, but you could still get Jared Goff, Baker Mayfield,
Speaker 1: Jordan Love who should be passing it more this year.
Speaker 1: I listed like seven quarterbacks there, so even if Dart
Speaker 1: doesn't work out, you could still miss on that ceiling,
Speaker 1: but still get a floor with some of these other
Speaker 1: guys here.
Speaker 4: Absolutely everything you just said. That's my That's always how
Speaker 4: I do this game. As I draft a guy somewhere
Speaker 4: between eight and twelve, I get two of them. Yeah, right,
Speaker 4: and then I can flip flop between them. It's been
Speaker 4: depending on what they're facing, you know, because sometimes when
Speaker 4: they're facing a really tough team. You don't want to
Speaker 4: start them. So yeah, and those guys you just mentioned,
Speaker 4: I'll have all.
Speaker 1: I'll have a lot of them.
Speaker 3: Don We're making a five dollars wager right now. We've
Speaker 3: got five on it. Bulky can't find the music, but
Speaker 3: we're gonna have five on it. I'm gonna take Shuck
Speaker 3: and you're going to take the Giants corbat and we
Speaker 3: are going to an FFPC scoring the player that gets
Speaker 3: the most Fantasy points for the season.
Speaker 1: We got five on.
Speaker 3: It because if I lose five, I've lost five dollars.
Speaker 3: And if I win, I can say, you know, I
Speaker 3: beat the Rocket Scientists.
Speaker 4: And yeah, So there is there any way I can
Speaker 4: enter in on this thing?
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, you're you're in it. I've already you're in.
Speaker 1: I'm already hoped.
Speaker 4: That sounds good to me.
Speaker 1: Yes, Shock versus Dart the first one of its kind
Speaker 1: all season long. Certainly a fun quarterback conversation. We can
Speaker 1: talk about tight ends here now too, Farrell.
Speaker 3: I love tight ends and I love Tyler Warren. Last year,
Speaker 3: last year, it was better to start than it was
Speaker 3: to finish. Seventy six catches only four touchdowns put him
Speaker 3: in the range of Dalton Schultz, you know, and then
Speaker 3: and Dalton Schultz has had a good year last year,
Speaker 3: but he's largely left behind in drafts. Ten targets once,
Speaker 3: that was the overtime game against Atlanta, and that was
Speaker 3: the last game that Colts won. Last year, he had
Speaker 3: nine targets about four or five times, one hundred and
Speaker 3: twelve targets for the season, seventy six catches. I think
Speaker 3: a better year is forthcoming. I think down the stretch
Speaker 3: he faded a bit, but the whole team faded. They
Speaker 3: they lost everything down the stretch. Loss Rivers was the
Speaker 3: quarterback down the stretch. Yeah, and you know, God bless you, Philip,
Speaker 3: So you know we gave it his fighting chance. So
Speaker 3: I expect a big year for Tyler Warren.
Speaker 4: Your thoughts, Oh absolutely, I expect him to keep the
Speaker 4: magic of the front of the year going. They were
Speaker 4: hurt at the end, and Daniel Jones was hurt. Daniel
Speaker 4: Jones loves to throw to his tight ends and he
Speaker 4: showed that. I really like tight ends that are in
Speaker 4: a place where the quarterback likes to dump it to
Speaker 4: them a lot.
Speaker 3: You think we can get over ninety catches for Tyler
Speaker 3: Warren this year and push double.
Speaker 4: Digit touchdowns wouldn't surprise me at all, and that'd be great. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it wouldn't surprise me at all. He could easily need
Speaker 4: the number three guy for tight ends and I don't
Speaker 4: expect him to be lower than number six, So he's
Speaker 4: somewhere in there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's going off in the FFPC big gorilla right now.
Speaker 1: Donnie's going off as quarter begging pardon tight end four.
Speaker 1: So are still believing in him? And and like I
Speaker 1: mentioned Rivers as well, he got off to such a
Speaker 1: great start and then obviously in the money weeks when
Speaker 1: a lot of people were hoping he'd come through, he
Speaker 1: really didn't. So we forget about how good he was
Speaker 1: last year. If we look back again his rookie season
Speaker 1: in the NFL, seventy six catches, over eight hundred yards
Speaker 1: and just four touchdowns. I think those touchdowns positively regress
Speaker 1: this year, where he gets in the six seven range
Speaker 1: and then he probably flirts with nine hundred yards. He
Speaker 1: probably I don't know if he hits ninety catches Farrell,
Speaker 1: but but to Don's point, it would not surprise me
Speaker 1: if he hit ninety catches this year, No Michael Pittman
Speaker 1: in that offense, and Michael Pittman Michael Pittman, So certainly
Speaker 1: this could be a big time Pierce Warrant thing. And
Speaker 1: as much as you know, we compared Loveland and Warren
Speaker 1: last year so much because they were both rookies who
Speaker 1: got that top you know, first half of the first
Speaker 1: round draft capital and then Warren looked like he was
Speaker 1: gonna be the guy, and then Loveland came out at
Speaker 1: the end. And because we are prisoners of the moment,
Speaker 1: we understand recency bias. Loveland is in the forefront of
Speaker 1: our minds. And I say our minds because I'm including
Speaker 1: myself and that I've drafted Colts and Loveland a lot
Speaker 1: this year. But we cannot forget about one Tyler Warren,
Speaker 1: who in his rookie year flirted with eighty catches, got
Speaker 1: over eight hundred yards and four touchdowns as well. Pretty
Speaker 1: impressive stuff from Tyler Warren. Okay, let's move on and
Speaker 1: talk about another tight end. This guy is near and
Speaker 1: dear to my heart. Don I'm the northeast Wisconsin, I'm
Speaker 1: a Packers fan, I'm a season ticket holder. I love
Speaker 1: my Green Bay Packers. I love Tucker Craft. He is
Speaker 1: coming off the ACL, so we don't know exactly how
Speaker 1: he's gonna fare if we look back, and I think
Speaker 1: this is you know, as much is people seem to
Speaker 1: be positive about Tucker Craft as much as people seem
Speaker 1: to be on board with Christian Watson this year. Both
Speaker 1: of those guys did their damage last year for the
Speaker 1: Packers when the other one was hurt. Craft was crushing
Speaker 1: it when Watson was still recovering from the ACL. Watson
Speaker 1: came on at the end of the season when Craft
Speaker 1: was suffered the ACL and he wasn't out there. These
Speaker 1: guys are going to have to coexist this year. However,
Speaker 1: they do have the added benefit fantasy wise of not
Speaker 1: competing for targets with Romeo Dobbs and Dantavian Wicks, who
Speaker 1: are both on the East Coast now in Philadelphia and
Speaker 1: New England. This is a more concentrated pass offense. But
Speaker 1: specifically speaking to you about Tucker Craft, how do you
Speaker 1: think he's gonna fare this year in a different Packers
Speaker 1: passing offense than what was existing in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he makes me nervous. I know that he's super
Speaker 4: talented and I watched him do spectacular things that for
Speaker 4: a tight end, Yeah, right, then a super deep tar
Speaker 4: gets and super athletic for those, So the athleticism typically
Speaker 4: goes down after an acl you know, and a bigger
Speaker 4: guy is even harder for him to heal from such
Speaker 4: a thing. And then with the changing of offense, so
Speaker 4: he might be a superstar, he might be a disappointment.
Speaker 4: I think he's kind of risky. I would always wait
Speaker 4: a long time before I would pick him. Somebody else
Speaker 4: had probably taken him before me, and they've got risk
Speaker 4: in that where he's way more risky than Tyler Warren,
Speaker 4: although Tyler Warren is much earlier draft pick where Craft
Speaker 4: is like eight or something like that. There's guys around
Speaker 4: around eight that I would rather take versus Craft.
Speaker 1: Let me do this, Let me do this, don I
Speaker 1: want to do a would you rather? You tell me
Speaker 1: which of these tight ends you'd rather draft this year
Speaker 1: at this moment, Tucker Craft or Sam Laporta.
Speaker 4: Oh oh, I probably, yeah, good question. I probably I
Speaker 4: probably go Craft. I'm kind of down on the Porta
Speaker 4: because he doesn't seem to get the ball and.
Speaker 1: He's got the back thing to the back thing concerns me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Tucker Craft or Kyle Pitts oh Pits, Tucker Craft or
Speaker 1: Ronde Gadsden.
Speaker 4: I probably go to Ronde.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm. That's the upside there. This is a fun one.
Speaker 1: Tucker Craft or George Kittle, who was recovering from that
Speaker 1: torn Achilles.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's that's a good, good question. I probably would
Speaker 4: Craft because I just think the Achilles is so hard.
Speaker 4: There are people that have came back from it, but
Speaker 4: they are rare. And and and he's old thirty five
Speaker 4: or something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's not young anymore.
Speaker 3: Tucker Craft, Kittle and Tonga Spalky. Okay, I have them both.
Speaker 1: And well you're talking about soaking two draft picks now
Speaker 1: now versus yea. Let me ask you this, that Tucker
Speaker 1: Craft or the healthy Isaiah Likely now a New York Giant,
Speaker 1: which one would you rather have?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I would probably go with Craft. See, I don't know
Speaker 4: how well Jackson Dart's gonna throw it to a tight end. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I don't know if he loves doing that or not.
Speaker 4: If I knew he loved doing it, then Isaiah likely
Speaker 4: is a spectacular pick. But I don't know. See, Jackson
Speaker 4: Dart just hogs the ball. He just wants to run
Speaker 4: it half the time whenever there's nothing to throw to.
Speaker 4: So he doesn't support wide receivers or even tight ends
Speaker 4: so well by throwing it.
Speaker 3: John imagine, imagine likely as a slot receiver. Does that
Speaker 3: change your.
Speaker 4: That doesn't change my thought. But yeah, that's what he is.
Speaker 1: I love this.
Speaker 4: Maybe he goes and does like what Wandale did, but
Speaker 4: he's just bigger now that if he does that, then
Speaker 4: likely he'll be the top three guy. Yeah, but I
Speaker 4: don't think he'll do what Wandale.
Speaker 3: You know, I got a question coming up for you,
Speaker 3: and I think only you can answer it. I think
Speaker 3: we I think some of our guests, including the co
Speaker 3: host would It would leave us baffled, you know, but
Speaker 3: I think you can handle it.
Speaker 1: You have a you have a way about you.
Speaker 3: You know, you have a going back to my Gilligan
Speaker 3: Island days of my youth. You have a skipper like
Speaker 3: appearance and good nature with the professorial intellect and you know,
Speaker 3: and do you know what that would have resulted in
Speaker 3: for that show?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: So both, But like Ginger probably would have came back
Speaker 4: home with me.
Speaker 3: I'm thinking that you would have captured the affection of
Speaker 3: both Ginger and Marianne, and you would not have to
Speaker 3: play this either or game with Balkey. I think you
Speaker 3: would have captured both of them. But here's the kind
Speaker 3: of either or going around the block. AJ Brown moves
Speaker 3: on from Philadelphia. We're assuming. You know what happens when
Speaker 3: you assume, but we're gonna do it anyway. So how
Speaker 3: close will Devonte Smith come become to be the receiver
Speaker 3: that we all have hoped he can be?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 3: And if he, if he does become that receiver, are
Speaker 3: we looking at a Jackson Smith and Jigma kind of
Speaker 3: repeat of twenty twenty five? There's the ceiling that high
Speaker 3: for the Philadelphia receiver Smith.
Speaker 4: And my opinion they.
Speaker 1: Sorry to interrupt on The reason we bring that up
Speaker 1: is because we saw reports a month or two ago
Speaker 1: that the Eagles, apparently the Eagles coaching staff believed that
Speaker 1: the JSN twenty twenty five season, that is in the
Speaker 1: cards for Devonte Smith this year if they moved on
Speaker 1: from AJ Brown, which it seems like they're going to.
Speaker 3: You think those coaches are smoking something over in Philly.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I lived in Philly for four years and they have
Speaker 4: their own opinions.
Speaker 1: Do you ever meet chirp up there. He has his
Speaker 1: own opinions to.
Speaker 4: You in any way that the Eagles. The Eagles are
Speaker 4: they might get back to be more of a running
Speaker 4: team and then may be more of a Saquon team,
Speaker 4: you know, and and so they can't center around like
Speaker 4: what they did with JSN. With Seattle, he's like the
Speaker 4: guy they threw it to him like sixty percent of
Speaker 4: the time or some ridiculous amount of times. Davante Smith
Speaker 4: will never have that kind of target share, I don't
Speaker 4: think right. And the Eagles don't throw it that much.
Speaker 4: They don't need to. When they were playing good, they
Speaker 4: didn't need to, so they can't They can't approach that.
Speaker 4: Davante Smith is probably a guy I won't get because
Speaker 4: the other people will hype him way up to weigh
Speaker 4: up like a number fifteen or ten or something like that,
Speaker 4: and I'll never pay that much for him, So I
Speaker 4: don't think he's gonna he's going a good receiver, but
Speaker 4: he'll be number fifteen or twenty and people will be
Speaker 4: paying like a ten for him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and people like Steve g just posted from the
Speaker 3: Fantasy Sopranos. He's a big believer and Steve J's a
Speaker 3: hell of a fantasy player, So you know that's what
Speaker 3: would you call him? Balk With this, Davante Smith be
Speaker 3: a polarize.
Speaker 1: I don't think he's polarizing yet because his ADP is
Speaker 1: still down. But I will say this, if aj Brown
Speaker 1: gets moved and all of a sudden, DeVonta Smith's ADP
Speaker 1: moves up a round and a half, we will find
Speaker 1: out who the DeVonta Smith truthers are out there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he will be picking him much higher than some of
Speaker 1: the people who who are not necessarily DeVonta Smith doubters.
Speaker 1: But bringing up some of the stuff that Don brought up,
Speaker 1: you know, the fact that they could be getting back
Speaker 1: to more of a stronger running game, a stronger running
Speaker 1: team this season. I brought this up on the road
Speaker 1: of his high Stakes lowdown last night with Wilson moy
Speaker 1: You know, they did pay Hollywood Brown, They they did
Speaker 1: trade for and extend on Tavian Wicks. Well, I do
Speaker 1: think those are more reflections of the wide receiver market
Speaker 1: as a whole in the NFL. I do think we
Speaker 1: have to recognize that they went out and they drafted
Speaker 1: the Bolitnikoff winner in the first round of the nf
Speaker 1: Draft this year, and they followed that up in the
Speaker 1: second round by drafting the John Mackia winner John McKie
Speaker 1: Award winner with Eli Stowers. So there are going that
Speaker 1: this could be more of a diverse not necessarily a
Speaker 1: concentrated past. And I think that's what it comes back
Speaker 1: to with DeVante Smith and why I don't believe he
Speaker 1: will ever hit that JSN level. There's just too many
Speaker 1: pass catchers on this team, which is what Don alluded to.
Speaker 1: There's just you're never going to get enough concentration even
Speaker 1: on a team that if they somehow open up the
Speaker 1: wide receiver, if they somehow open up the passing game,
Speaker 1: I don't see that happening. I don't think the JSN
Speaker 1: season is in the cards for Demonta Smith. Let's move on, guys.
Speaker 1: I want to talk about a free agent right now,
Speaker 1: a guy who is hashtag not guilty, Stefan Dicks. He
Speaker 1: is out there right now and the strangulation thing is
Speaker 1: now behind him, at least legally speaking. Don what do
Speaker 1: you do with a guy like Diggs if you were
Speaker 1: drafting now knowing that this guy I didn't have the
Speaker 1: worst season in the world for the AFC champion New
Speaker 1: England Patriots last year. But we can, I think pretty
Speaker 1: confidently say his best football is behind him. But we
Speaker 1: said that about Keenan Allen for years, and how many
Speaker 1: post prime great seasons did Keenan Allen have. What do
Speaker 1: you do with Diggs? He's not on a team right now,
Speaker 1: how do we handle him in drafts?
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a tough question. I love Diggs. I drafted
Speaker 4: him in just about every league I had. Last year,
Speaker 4: I got him in the seventh round and it was
Speaker 4: a great value. Everybody hated him for some reason, and
Speaker 4: I just scooped him up again and again and again
Speaker 4: and played him a bunch as my worst guy on
Speaker 4: my team.
Speaker 1: So he was great.
Speaker 4: Now he's healthier, but I'm afraid that he's going to
Speaker 4: get suspended for a bunch of games by the league,
Speaker 4: because so I would stay away from him myself. And
Speaker 4: he's not on a team. I think there's going to
Speaker 4: be suspended some of the time, So I would stay
Speaker 4: away from unless he and then if he lands in
Speaker 4: a good spot, I would consider him. But right now
Speaker 4: he hasn't led it anywhere, and I think people are
Speaker 4: going to kind of heat their hands off of him.
Speaker 4: So I would only get him right now if I would.
Speaker 4: I don't draft right now, it's too early, but I
Speaker 4: would only pick him up in the nineteenth round or
Speaker 4: something like that right now because he's just he doesn't
Speaker 4: play football right now.
Speaker 1: He is going at wide receiver fifty nine in the
Speaker 1: Big Gorilla at the moment. That is right after Brandon Au,
Speaker 1: Jalen McMillan, Omar Cooper. It is right before Juwan Jennings,
Speaker 1: Denzel Boston, and Rashid Shaheed. So I think you can
Speaker 1: make the case that among those six guys that I
Speaker 1: just named there, he has the most accomplished resume.
Speaker 4: I would agree with that because he looked good last
Speaker 4: year and then there was sometimes See, Drake May doesn't
Speaker 4: spread the ball or out. He spreads it her out
Speaker 4: a lot. He doesn't focus on a guy. So it's
Speaker 4: tough to pick Diggs on a week that he was
Speaker 4: gonna have a good week. Well, he would have random
Speaker 4: good weeks because Drake May spreads it out a lot
Speaker 4: and runs it a lot, you know. But Digson still,
Speaker 4: he looked good when they gave him the ball.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, when he got the ball.
Speaker 3: For sure.
Speaker 1: The new England Patriots. Farrell ended up as we watched
Speaker 1: this game together in Kentucky, they ended up falling to
Speaker 1: the Seattle Seahawks. And a big part of that was
Speaker 1: one Kenneth Walker who has moved on to Kansas City.
Speaker 1: And you want to talk about polarizing players, I don't know, Farrell,
Speaker 1: that this could be a polarizing player right now.
Speaker 3: How sweet it is that Kenneth Walker is getting his
Speaker 3: due Super Bowl MVP, Fellaws, Kenneth Walker. We may not
Speaker 3: know where Diggs is going, but can you think of
Speaker 3: a sweeter landing spot for the Super Bowl MVP than
Speaker 3: the Kansas City Chiefs. I like what it does for
Speaker 3: the players around him. I like what it does for Mahomes.
Speaker 3: Home hasn't had a goal to running back for quite
Speaker 3: a while. You know, they keep unearthing the back up
Speaker 3: the retired veterans backs to come in and Kareem Hunt
Speaker 3: did work. I like the check o who has moved on.
Speaker 3: But I really like what this player can do for
Speaker 3: the team. We always saw this team in this past
Speaker 3: season not a good year for the Chiefs. We saw
Speaker 3: him in down in distance situations. Mahomes is a big
Speaker 3: value in the drafts Balky was Darren got to say
Speaker 3: about where he's being.
Speaker 1: Drafted in the Big Gorilla.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's double digits for one of the greatest
Speaker 3: quarterbacks in the league right now, and you take, you know,
Speaker 3: general manager Brett beachs that gives a little bit of
Speaker 3: a tip of the hat and he says, this guy's
Speaker 3: underrated receiver skills. And by damn it, Dawn, I was
Speaker 3: the first one on this show and everybody gave me
Speaker 3: that raised eyebarrow. You know, I said that this Walker
Speaker 3: has the same talent of the New York Jets running
Speaker 3: back when they were drafted Breese Hall, and people just
Speaker 3: just laughed at me. Now they're close, But which one's
Speaker 3: getting drafted before?
Speaker 1: All? Is still going.
Speaker 3: Before Walker or we're getting close were they were.
Speaker 1: Bridging that gap? Right? Walker is ahead of Breess Hall.
Speaker 3: What do you think about that? Don Walker is ahead
Speaker 3: of Breshall.
Speaker 1: Walker is running back twelve, Briess Hall running back fifteen.
Speaker 1: Walker going on average at the two to nine, and
Speaker 1: then Breese Hall at the three oh seven. So about
Speaker 1: a round of difference between those two running backs.
Speaker 3: Don see I go down, I go down memory lane
Speaker 3: when I get something right. So you know, I just
Speaker 3: just want to relive that a little bit. What do
Speaker 3: you think is it is? Is all of this stuff?
Speaker 3: Is two o nine not warranted for this player? Or
Speaker 3: do you believe like me that you can't draft this
Speaker 3: player high enough?
Speaker 4: I think two nine is about right for him. He's
Speaker 4: I'm a huge Seahawks fan, so I watched him, and
Speaker 4: I watched him every single time he played. He's good.
Speaker 4: He always seemed to be kind of hurt, you know,
Speaker 4: and and it just kept happening again and again. Last
Speaker 4: year he had this big run because Charbonnay was out
Speaker 4: and they fed him the ball and he didn't get hurt.
Speaker 4: He's a spectacular athlete. I saw him break a tackle
Speaker 4: using his head and jump up onto his feet using
Speaker 4: only his head. He's spectacular. But when they go take
Speaker 4: and pound the ball with him, he'll just get dinged
Speaker 4: up again. So he's worth it because when he's playing,
Speaker 4: he's going to be great, and then he's gonna be
Speaker 4: on the bench and then you got to have somebody
Speaker 4: else to replace him for a few weeks. Breece Hall
Speaker 4: doesn't seem to have that kind of injury stuff going on,
Speaker 4: so I would probably tend towards Breece a little more
Speaker 4: than Canine, But I still think Canine is a good pick.
Speaker 4: I just wouldn't count on him for sixteen games. Now.
Speaker 3: You know, you'd be surprised to know here in Kentucky
Speaker 3: we actually draft for the upcoming year on Super Bowl weekend.
Speaker 3: And while here Steve G of the Fantasy Sopranos says
Speaker 3: he got Walker in the fourth round, meaning that you
Speaker 3: can go pan him for gold here in Kentucky on
Speaker 3: Super Bowl weekend and get guys like Walker in the
Speaker 3: fourth round, just saying, just saying.
Speaker 1: Don listen, don if you come to Kentucky in January
Speaker 1: or February, I guess it would be rule next year,
Speaker 1: you and I will have a long conversation about drafting
Speaker 1: fantasy football leagues and drafting fantasy football teams at early
Speaker 1: and how much fun it is, and watch the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl together. It'll be a blast. Before we get to that,
Speaker 1: we have to have you answer some of these viewer
Speaker 1: emails that we've gotten in specifically for you tonight, and
Speaker 1: I want to kick things off here with Ron and Plantation,
Speaker 1: Florida's email and he rights, do you believe this is
Speaker 1: a Kien Williams year or a Blake Quorum this year,
Speaker 1: Blake Korum year this campaign in twenty twenty six. That
Speaker 1: is Ron in Plantation, Florida. Don How do you feel
Speaker 1: about Kien Williams and Blake Korum right now in how
Speaker 1: we have to handle them in fantasy leagues?
Speaker 4: Yeah? I think Kiren still has the sixty and the
Speaker 4: sixty forty split. It was a little more than that
Speaker 4: last year, but they'll give Korum the ball a little more.
Speaker 4: McVeigh tends to stick with this guy, right, so he's
Speaker 4: gonna keep sticking with him, So I would go still
Speaker 4: with I wouldn't go with Korum. A lot of people
Speaker 4: last year thought Korum was gonna take over the job.
Speaker 4: I still don't think he's gonna take over the job.
Speaker 1: As Pharaoh would say, the gorilla adp on these guys
Speaker 1: right now in that Los Angeles Rams backfield. If I
Speaker 1: bring it up right now, I can tell you that
Speaker 1: Kyron Williams obviously still going ahead of Blake Korum, but
Speaker 1: it is tighter. Still not that tight, but it's tighter.
Speaker 1: Kyron Williams running back sixteen at the three ten on average,
Speaker 1: Blake Korum running back thirty seven at the nine oh
Speaker 1: two on average, So you're looking at about five rounds
Speaker 1: just over maybe five and a half rounds of difference
Speaker 1: between those two. Don knowing that does does.
Speaker 4: That makes Korum a really good handcuff? Yeah, That's what
Speaker 4: I was just gonna because he could jump to being
Speaker 4: just as productive if the guy goes down. So there's that.
Speaker 1: I think that you know a lot of times people
Speaker 1: are just going to be like, well, I'll take the
Speaker 1: cheaper guy. And it's not really a case of that
Speaker 1: with Los Angeles yet. I mean, Kyron Williams is still
Speaker 1: the man, but that obviously that could change as we
Speaker 1: get closer to draft season. We might get some some little,
Speaker 1: you know, nuggets on that. And you know, I can't
Speaker 1: remember who I think it was. It might have been
Speaker 1: Pat Krand from Legendary Upside, I can't remember, but you
Speaker 1: know he brought up like these the Shanahan, these McVeigh,
Speaker 1: you know, those those those guys they talk about getting
Speaker 1: you know, wanting to balance and not putting too much
Speaker 1: on one player in this backfield, and it seemingly every
Speaker 1: single year they just all they do is just pile
Speaker 1: on with that right that's up running back. So that
Speaker 1: could happen again with Kien Williams this year as well.
Speaker 1: One more email here for you, Don, and it is
Speaker 1: from Larry and Naperville, Illinois. Love Naperville. Yes, Yes, fantastic,
Speaker 1: Larry writes, Don. Are you a believer or are you
Speaker 1: out on Marvin Harrison Junior? Marvin Harrison Junior in Big
Speaker 1: Gorilla Drafts? Right now at the moment, he has plummeted
Speaker 1: all the way down to wide receiver thirty one at
Speaker 1: the six eleven. It was not that long ago that
Speaker 1: this dude was the one oh one, the one o
Speaker 1: two in FFPC rookie drafts, and now two years later
Speaker 1: you can get him outside the top thirty receivers in
Speaker 1: the Big Gorilla Draft. Is that something that you want
Speaker 1: to be in business with this year? Don? Or? Are
Speaker 1: you passing on Marvin Harrison?
Speaker 4: No, I'm I'm passing on even at thirty one, I'm
Speaker 4: passing on him. The quarterback wasn't throwing it to him
Speaker 4: last year even Yeah, so that it just I'm out
Speaker 4: on him. I think he'd be better off on another team.
Speaker 4: I think he's super talented, but it just Brissett doesn't
Speaker 4: throw it to himse throws to the other two guys, Wilson.
Speaker 4: I'm in on Wilson because I can get him cheaper
Speaker 4: than that and he did better. And then I'm big
Speaker 4: on McBride. You know, of course, everybody is McBride's the
Speaker 4: first round guy, so if you get him, you can
Speaker 4: get him. Take him, but not Marvin Harrison.
Speaker 1: I will say this, and I brought this up in
Speaker 1: my high Stake slowdown last night, and don I want
Speaker 1: to get your thoughts on this. Brissette was unbelievable last year,
Speaker 1: uh with with the the amount of Fantasy points that
Speaker 1: he was able to pile up with guys like McBride,
Speaker 1: Michael Wilson, Marvin Harrison to an extent, I guess, but
Speaker 1: the first two McBride and Wilson were the big cogs.
Speaker 1: Let me throw this at you. This could be a
Speaker 1: season where the Cardinals are punting on the year right
Speaker 1: where they. I know they drafted Carson back in the
Speaker 1: third round. They probably want to see what they have
Speaker 1: on him in him. But next year the quarterback first
Speaker 1: round should be fairly rich. And I know we've said
Speaker 1: this the last couple of years and it hasn't really
Speaker 1: panned out, But next year could be the year. I'm
Speaker 1: getting away from the point the problem I have with
Speaker 1: the Cardinals Harrison included here. I worry about what would
Speaker 1: happen to this team if they're two and four heading
Speaker 1: into Alloween and they know that they're out of it,
Speaker 1: given how tough the division they're in, with the Rams
Speaker 1: and the Seahawks, with the two teams in the NFC
Speaker 1: Championship last year, the San Francisco forty nine ers who
Speaker 1: had double digit and then I mean, what's what's the
Speaker 1: reason why they would not give Carson Beck the opportunity
Speaker 1: to see what he can do? Uh? And that could
Speaker 1: be disastrous for McBride, for Wilson, for Harrison and and
Speaker 1: all these other Jeremi love what have you that. That's
Speaker 1: my hang up with the Cardinals right now in drafting them.
Speaker 1: I want to get your input on how you look
Speaker 1: at it as it stands right now, knowing that, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's awesome with Brissette starting, but that might not be
Speaker 1: a thing that we see all season long. You mentioned
Speaker 1: you're out on Harrison, are you and and and you're
Speaker 1: you're you're very positive about Wilson and McBride when you
Speaker 1: consider that aspect as well. Are you still, are those
Speaker 1: still players that you want to be drafting this year?
Speaker 4: No, you just now, you just now shook my world.
Speaker 4: I've never really considered that, but your you may well
Speaker 4: be right because they're in their division. Is is is
Speaker 4: a is a minefield, so they will be two and four,
Speaker 4: two and seven, right, they will be that. And yeah,
Speaker 4: if they go put in Beck to see what he does,
Speaker 4: it ruins all of them. It could, it could, It
Speaker 4: could ruin all of them.
Speaker 1: That's that's that's I think quarterback proof, guys. I think
Speaker 1: quarterbacks could be the The issue with that, Pharah though,
Speaker 1: is when you think about mcbrideby and quarterback proof, think
Speaker 1: about how And I know touchdowns are not sticky, so
Speaker 1: maybe this isn't a very strong argument, but I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say it anyway. This dude did not catch touchdowns at
Speaker 1: all through college, through the pros, and then last year
Speaker 1: when Brissette was throwing and until his shoulder felt like
Speaker 1: my shoulder after disc golfing like parall That's that's how
Speaker 1: his shoulder felt at the at the end of every
Speaker 1: Cardinals game because he was thrown at fifty sixty times
Speaker 1: a game. I wonder if we get to more of
Speaker 1: a normal offense in Arizona this year. If we see
Speaker 1: McBride's touchdown total come down, he was unbelievable. F f
Speaker 1: PC players still believe in him. Obviously at the slam
Speaker 1: dunk first round pick. You know my thoughts on McBride,
Speaker 1: and certainly he could have a big season this year.
Speaker 1: But I'm telling you, I don't know if I'm right
Speaker 1: about this or not. But I will say, as far
Speaker 1: as the Mount rushmore of offenses to watch in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty six go, the Cardinals are right up there. Because
Speaker 1: I don't know how it's gonna go fair enough. I'll
Speaker 1: take that, Farrell, you will take that, and you will
Speaker 1: give the final question to one donald'connell tonight right.
Speaker 3: Now, we don I'll tell you what. They're gonna love
Speaker 3: you in Kentucky when you're gonna get here, we're gonna
Speaker 3: expect you to take a stand. And you haven't drafted
Speaker 3: much there. You haven't drafted any this year, which makes
Speaker 3: it fantastic. We wanted to have somebody that came on
Speaker 3: that that wasn't biased about all the drafts he's been doing.
Speaker 1: And I think you've done.
Speaker 3: A great job tonight, So tell us tell everyone that's
Speaker 3: drafted this player, the player they shouldn't have drafted, tell
Speaker 3: the mood is and then tell the player is you're
Speaker 3: going to target In every single.
Speaker 4: I'm I added I I did extra credit on this one.
Speaker 4: I'll give you a few. So I'm drafting Allan quarterback
Speaker 4: Alan or Lamar. I'm not drafting Love or Henry. I'm
Speaker 4: not drafting Jefferson.
Speaker 3: That's the Henry of the Baltimore.
Speaker 4: Ravens for the Cardinals, Jeremiah Love for the Cardinals. I'm
Speaker 4: not drafting Travon he doesn't even have the job. I'm
Speaker 4: not drafting Kelsey or Andrews. Those are the guys I'm
Speaker 4: not drafting. And it's not because they're not any good.
Speaker 4: It's just that they're too expensive and I don't think
Speaker 4: they're going to be worth where they go. And then
Speaker 4: with quarterbacks, it's different though with me, Allan is worth it.
Speaker 4: But I don't like single quarterback teams because then I
Speaker 4: have to start that guy. I can never not start him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so you can never make a decision. You can
Speaker 3: never play either or with Bonkie you want to play
Speaker 3: that either?
Speaker 1: Well no, but I mean there is something to be
Speaker 1: said for that because not only if you are drafting
Speaker 1: Josh Allen that high, you really don't have the opportunity
Speaker 1: to manipulate that position every week, but you're also soaking
Speaker 1: some serious draft capital. And whereas don like I think
Speaker 1: you and I are of one mind on how we
Speaker 1: treat quarterbacks and single quarterback leagues, I'm much more likely
Speaker 1: after the top eleven or twelve guys are off the board,
Speaker 1: I'll go bang bang yeh quarterback and then try to
Speaker 1: play matchups. Yeah, sometimes I'll get it wrong, but I
Speaker 1: feel like most of the time I'll get it right.
Speaker 1: And I think that is a better spenditure on draft
Speaker 1: capital at that position than drafting Allen early on.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're right, we think about that the same. And
Speaker 4: then there's a time about six or seven years ago
Speaker 4: where I had Josh Allen and it was like the
Speaker 4: first week of the playoffs or the last week of
Speaker 4: the season, and they're playing like New England and it
Speaker 4: was a blizzard, and all he had had to do
Speaker 4: is get seven Fantasy points and he couldn't do it
Speaker 4: because the weather was so bad. They couldn't do it
Speaker 4: seven points. So I just said, you know, I put
Speaker 4: myself in that position the best quarterback in the league,
Speaker 4: and he couldn't do seven because of weather, So don't
Speaker 4: put yourself in that position. Well, yeah, so then the
Speaker 4: guys I will draft, yeah, all over the place.
Speaker 1: We already.
Speaker 4: You named them already. That's funny, Eric, you did that.
Speaker 4: Dak and Purdy and Kyler. I'll have them everywhere, and
Speaker 4: and Dart and an occasion, right, and I'll be flipped
Speaker 4: off between those guys everywhere. I'll have the I'll have
Speaker 4: two of them, Chase Brown, Breese Hall, I'm gonna have
Speaker 4: both those guys and a Dunsa and Abuca. Oh, those
Speaker 4: are guys I'm gonna have everywhere.
Speaker 1: Do you just real quick on the on the O Dunes?
Speaker 1: I think because it seemed like it seems like a
Speaker 1: lot of people are Luther Burden and Colson Lovelins here,
Speaker 1: myself included. But oh, June's a I think a lot
Speaker 1: of people are down on him based on how he
Speaker 1: ended last season, but we forget he had the foot injury.
Speaker 1: Do you think that was a big contribution into why
Speaker 1: he did not live up to expectations last year?
Speaker 4: I do, because I think foot injuries are super hard
Speaker 4: to heal from, and you just can't cut, you can't run.
Speaker 4: I've had foot injuries before, but now I'm old and
Speaker 4: I can't run anyway. But but.
Speaker 3: What keeps you off the ladder? The misses keeping you back?
Speaker 3: And you have something for you to work on on
Speaker 3: your way to Kentucky. This is Ounker Senior. We have
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Speaker 1: The FFPC, and I would like you to.
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Speaker 5: can just look at him and say squeal, he'll squeal.
Speaker 1: And are no longer squeezing.
Speaker 3: And that that that will sell. That invention will sell
Speaker 3: here in Kentucky, and you'll pay for the trip the.
Speaker 1: The the inventions that you have had over the years
Speaker 1: are impressive, even though we don't know exactly what they are.
Speaker 1: But I will say don perhaps your most exquisite inventions
Speaker 1: have been all these league championships in the f C
Speaker 1: that you've conjured up to cash not only the excuse me,
Speaker 1: not only in the Big Gorilla, but the Main Event
Speaker 1: and the other f f PC leagues you've participated in
Speaker 1: so thankful that you got a chance to hang out
Speaker 1: with us tonight. This was a lot of fun, and uh,
Speaker 1: I wish you good good luck. Excuse I'm getting Oliver
Speaker 1: Clempton emotional talking about us.
Speaker 3: Bourbon right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah I could, I couldn't, but I'll say this. I'll
Speaker 1: say this, Don, good luck in all your leagues this year.
Speaker 1: Hopefully we have you come back on in January when
Speaker 1: you're cashing that million dollar big Gorilla or main event check.
Speaker 1: That'd be that'd be a lot of fun. Don't be
Speaker 1: a stranger. Be good. Enjoyed drafting season and thank you
Speaker 1: so much for being a part of the hs fowered
Speaker 1: the season.
Speaker 4: Thank you for having me. It was a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: Gets started.
Speaker 3: Don jump in those drafts.
Speaker 1: That's right exactly. Thank you, Don. Be good. We'll talk
Speaker 1: to you again soon.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Donald'connell, nineteen time f FPC League winner. A great conversation
Speaker 1: with him tonight, so we could have gone another hour
Speaker 1: for sure with the rocket scientists. Not the first rocket
Speaker 1: scientists we've had on this show, but but great stuff
Speaker 1: from him. Farrel. I will tell everybody this a cautionary tale.
Speaker 1: I was. I'm in the kf f SC Jack Tatum
Speaker 1: one hundred dollars Sweet sixteen? Is that what it is?
Speaker 3: Sweet sixteen sixteen Basketball Championship Book.
Speaker 1: And you know I forgot Pharrell. I forgot it was
Speaker 1: best ball. Oh so I am scrambling right now. We're
Speaker 1: in round twenty two, I think, and I'm collecting kickers,
Speaker 1: I'm collecting defenses. I'm doing I love the team and
Speaker 1: I think I can still make this work even though
Speaker 1: I forgot about it. But but it let me tell
Speaker 1: you what a rush it is trying to figure this
Speaker 1: out at because I'm an idiot and I didn't check
Speaker 1: it out harder. But you know what's smart is I
Speaker 1: joined the Vonte Mac Division in this championship. And Todd Aaron,
Speaker 1: who is going to be our guest on Extra Reps
Speaker 1: on Friday, is in that league with me as well.
Speaker 1: That's wonderful, so I'll be able to pick his brain
Speaker 1: on it. And there's still room in that Vonte Mac League.
Speaker 1: You can sign up for that. The kff s C
Speaker 1: main events, the kff SC Draftmasters. There's some auctions on
Speaker 1: there as well. Kffs dot com is where to go.
Speaker 1: This was a lot of fun, Pharaoh, Let's do this again.
Speaker 1: On Friday. We will talk then be good and enjoy
Speaker 1: your Wednesday. You got it. That is Farrell Elliott, the
Speaker 1: definitive Commissioner of Fantasy Football. I want to thank him, donald'connell,
Speaker 1: the FFPC, Rob Brice and of course each and every
Speaker 1: one of you. We will be back next Wednesday at
Speaker 1: nine pm, no ten pm Eastern time. Why do I
Speaker 1: say nine? We will be back at ten pm Eastern
Speaker 1: next Wednesday night with the thirty four time FFPC League
Speaker 1: Champion Stuart Keane. Stuart will make his return to the HSFF.
Speaker 1: I were very excited about that. That's coming up next Wednesday.
Speaker 1: In case you missed the Road of his high Stakes
Speaker 1: lowdown last night twenty twenty three, never too early, Bestball
Speaker 1: Tournament twenty five thousand dollars, Champ Wilson moy joined me.
Speaker 1: That was a lot of fun. New Wilson is such
Speaker 1: a good guy and really sharp fantasy player, so I
Speaker 1: got to pick his brain and a bunch of stuff
Speaker 1: last night. You can watch that on any of the
Speaker 1: FFPC socials or anywhere you get podcasts. I believe if
Speaker 1: it's not up yet, it will be on the road
Speaker 1: of his podcast feed shortly. Insider acts coming up tomorrow
Speaker 1: night on the FFPC Socials as well as the FFPC YouTube.
Speaker 1: This is gonna be fun. Fantasy Points senior film Analyst
Speaker 1: Steve o' rourke And if you know, maybe you don't
Speaker 1: know Steve, but Steve is the guy that Brett Whitefield
Speaker 1: and you probably know Brett Whitefield from Fantasy Points. Brett
Speaker 1: calls Steve his protege. So we are getting like next
Speaker 1: level film analysis which is gonna be a lot of
Speaker 1: fun from Steve o' rourke. That is coming up tomorrow
Speaker 1: night seven till nine pm Eastern Time on f FPC
Speaker 1: Instartter Access and then of course I just alluded to it.
Speaker 1: Friday night ten pm will be joined by Todd Aaron,
Speaker 1: the forty time f FPC League Champion, and we'll talk
Speaker 1: rookies with him, Emma Johnson, Malachi Fields, we'll get into
Speaker 1: we'll also talk Tampa running game and Jayden Higgins in Houston,
Speaker 1: what does he make of him? That is coming up
Speaker 1: Friday at ten pm Eastern time. Big Gorilla, Baby Gorilla
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Speaker 1: three and a half weeks to cash in on that
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Speaker 1: PROCESSUS Joe's Drawn, where you can compete against the best
Speaker 1: industry players out there, and we'll broadcast those shows or
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Speaker 1: with myself and Fantasy Points Steve O'Rourke, as our friend
Speaker 1: Vince Dafelino reminds us you are officially over the hump now.
Speaker 2: This has been another episode of the Hot Stakes Fatasley
Speaker 2: Football Hour, presented by my f FPC dot com.
Speaker 1: It was broadcast live and was watched around the world.
Speaker 2: Bulky and Farrell will be back next week with more analysis,
Speaker 2: more interviews, add more advice from guests much smarter than
Speaker 2: they are. Thanks for watching, and we'll talk with you
Speaker 2: again next week.
Speaker 1: I just want to let you know to real quick
Speaker 1: that the drafts, especially the slow drafts, but some of
Speaker 1: the live ones as well. I don't you know. I
Speaker 1: think like it's May six and then a lot of
Speaker 1: stuff is filling and that's true for the most part.
Speaker 1: But I will say the uptick in player support and
Speaker 1: thank you FFPC players. We have seen more live drafts
Speaker 1: and more slow drafts filling faster this year. The Big
Speaker 1: Gorilla has seen a huge search. I don't know if
Speaker 1: that's the early rampage, a rampage, excuse me, or whatever,
Speaker 1: but trust me, if you want to get in some
Speaker 1: early live drafts for high stakes Fantasy Football, my FFPC
Speaker 1: dot com is where to go, because I think you'll
Speaker 1: be pleasantly surprised that you won't be waiting long. We
Speaker 1: have a lot of fun drafting with the FFPC this year.
Speaker 1: Be good, everybody. We'll talk with you again on this
Speaker 1: channel tomorrow night at seven pm on Thursday with Steve A.
Speaker 1: Rourke and this show will be live again extra reps
Speaker 1: ten pm Friday, and then we'll have the live show
Speaker 1: ten pm next Wednesday. Thank you so much for watching, everybody.
Speaker 1: Talk with you soon,