Speaker 1: Who is the FFPC rookie you need to hit hard
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Speaker 1: Thank you, Rob, Greetings and salutations to all of you
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Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, let me bring on my COO with
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Speaker 1: Football State Championship, a good friend of mine and the
Speaker 1: guy who is gonna make this next fifty two minutes
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Speaker 1: Kentucky Derby week to you. How's this last week been
Speaker 1: treating you? Man? The NFL Draft is behind us, but
Speaker 1: my god, everything's just starting right now? Hold on? Do
Speaker 1: we have you on? Hold on? I'm sorry, Farrell, I
Speaker 1: got you on mute right now. It looks like you're
Speaker 1: on mute. It looks like you're on mute. Can you
Speaker 1: unmute yourself?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: You cannot. Okay, I'm gonna remove you right now. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna try to unmute you. I don't I don't know
Speaker 1: why you were unmuted, why you were muting yourself. Hold on,
Speaker 1: there we go. I'm gonna add you to the stage, farrel.
Speaker 1: Do we have you now?
Speaker 4: Yes? And I think the error was done here because
Speaker 4: you know, we don't have a lot of production values,
Speaker 4: including the fact that in the chandelier I have a
Speaker 4: light bulb mount, which I just discovered. But you know,
Speaker 4: this week, in addition to all those things, we had
Speaker 4: the UFL game with the Saint Louis BattleHawks traveling in
Speaker 4: to play the Louisville Kings, and I was I was
Speaker 4: just so thrilled to realize that in my town of Louisville, Kentucky,
Speaker 4: where I've lived for thirty five years, this is the
Speaker 4: first professional football game. I never imagined that we would
Speaker 4: have for you know, the professional football of this this meaningful.
Speaker 4: So anyway, that was an all day Wednesday activity. And
Speaker 4: last night, I yesterday, I went to the hotel at
Speaker 4: three am and our three pm. I got home at
Speaker 4: one forty two am. Football is a full time day's work, baby.
Speaker 4: But you know, I'm really to uh, I'm really thrilled
Speaker 4: to be here with the Balky and you are just
Speaker 4: getting so smooth in your introduction and your you know,
Speaker 4: I have a little tear going back to the Dizzel
Speaker 4: fifteen years ago running the podcast, and that was there
Speaker 4: was no other podcast that you were get you know,
Speaker 4: you guys sit the whole thing, Dan, what are you
Speaker 4: talking about?
Speaker 1: You know, for the for the better part of a
Speaker 1: decade and a half, Farrell, you were the unofficial third
Speaker 1: co host yes this program. And now you have become
Speaker 1: the official second co host of this program. It's it's
Speaker 1: really wild to think back. And you know, I kind
Speaker 1: of sat at the top of the show, like how
Speaker 1: the Dizzel's like, we're doing a show, you have forty
Speaker 1: eight hours And I formulated an x account back then
Speaker 1: it was a Twitter account. I formulated a Facebook account
Speaker 1: and then started booking guests and it has been quite
Speaker 1: the wild ride since then. I God, I was first.
Speaker 4: Platform that we were on, the one that we just
Speaker 4: held hands and prayed that you can get through.
Speaker 1: What was that called. It's called blog talk radio. And
Speaker 1: I don't want to throw it under the bus now
Speaker 1: because we're still with Speaker, who is the parent company
Speaker 1: of BTR and so I I don't want to, you know,
Speaker 1: create any uh well, they're trying to forget they were
Speaker 1: blog talk to maybe maybe that's then you can try.
Speaker 1: But but I will say to like you know, back
Speaker 1: in the day, like and there there's been podcasts that
Speaker 1: have been around longer than this one. But I think
Speaker 1: for high stakes fantasy football, what I'm most proud of
Speaker 1: with this is we've been doing it for a decade
Speaker 1: and a half. Farrell. We have a lot of partners
Speaker 1: out there, the f f PC, the k f f
Speaker 1: s C that that that they do great work creating content,
Speaker 1: sometimes in the form of podcasts, sometimes in the form
Speaker 1: of just you know, website or what have you. But
Speaker 1: one of the things I'm most proud of with this
Speaker 1: how many high stakes players over the years have had
Speaker 1: their voices shut out and not heard from, and then
Speaker 1: we give them a voice on this show. And I'll
Speaker 1: just name a few, like I think of a b
Speaker 1: bag Ag Betoba who has been on this show and
Speaker 1: now he has his first and fifteen podcasts back to
Speaker 1: back winner in the The Football Guys aka Fantasy Pros
Speaker 1: aka Big Gorilla competition where he wins the whole thing
Speaker 1: back to back years and now he has his own podcast.
Speaker 1: Dwayne McFarlane who was on this show way back in
Speaker 1: the day and now he is crushing it at Fantasy Life,
Speaker 1: you know, like it's just and it goes on and on.
Speaker 1: I'm missing names here. Monty Fan with Rodoviz, That's another one, obviously,
Speaker 1: but a lot of these people that have had you know,
Speaker 1: they didn't have a voice, and then they came out
Speaker 1: on the show and we kind of, not that I
Speaker 1: want to take credit for it, but we helped launch
Speaker 1: their careers into into this space and now all of
Speaker 1: a sudden they're just crushing it and not only winning money,
Speaker 1: but I think the biggest thing helping people who are
Speaker 1: watching them and listening to them win money. That's big.
Speaker 1: And I'm proud to have at least a small a
Speaker 1: small sort of like call a small brick in the
Speaker 1: wall of making that happen.
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, and it's it's like our lead in says,
Speaker 4: and we'll be joined by people way smarter than us,
Speaker 4: you know, And that's exactly That's exactly the way we've
Speaker 4: always put it out there. And you know, if you
Speaker 4: don't come in way smarter than us, you might leave
Speaker 4: that way because we'll challenge you to get that way.
Speaker 4: But you know, and I think personally my little cousin,
Speaker 4: Miss Stacy Perez, who I said a years ago, you
Speaker 4: should play fantasy football, Stacy, And the next thing you know,
Speaker 4: she's she's playing in this and now very active in
Speaker 4: the podcast world and she's doing a great job with it.
Speaker 4: So it's yeah, and it's some of the guests that
Speaker 4: we have. As much as you and I love chopping
Speaker 4: it up, Balky, some of the guests we have makes
Speaker 4: for some of the most memorable things we have. And
Speaker 4: it's been great for the KFFFC because they come on
Speaker 4: here and we give them an invite to come to Kentucky.
Speaker 1: It's been fantastic. And the more we can grow kf
Speaker 1: F f C and the more we can grow ff
Speaker 1: PC is fantastic. And I'll just allow me to do this.
Speaker 1: I'll just give you a few more people that have
Speaker 1: been on this show and have you know, springboarded into
Speaker 1: bigger things or maybe we're already bigger things. You think
Speaker 1: about David Taylor, a guy who played in the Midstakes
Speaker 1: contest that we had for years, and then he became
Speaker 1: an Olympic champion, eight world champion freestyle wrestler, which was
Speaker 1: absolutely fantastic, right. Adrian Blinko, the long distance runner for
Speaker 1: New Zealand, who is been on this show before, who
Speaker 1: also went to the Olympics, which which was great. Evan Silva,
Speaker 1: who at the time was with Rotal World, right, and
Speaker 1: now he's crushing it with established the run. I mean,
Speaker 1: one of the first public appearances he ever had was
Speaker 1: on this program, you know, crushing it there. So I
Speaker 1: think that that the the you know, the you no,
Speaker 1: not that I want to take credit for everything, but
Speaker 1: there is a certain amount of people who have been
Speaker 1: on this show that have expounded into greater things and
Speaker 1: I think that's the thing we take pride in here tonights.
Speaker 4: Most recently are Brad Taylor.
Speaker 1: Who Brad Taylor is another good one.
Speaker 4: Now you know, Brad Taylor did the KFFSC podcast with
Speaker 4: me where we certainly had a double digit numbers of listeners.
Speaker 4: I don't think we ever, but you knows. As the
Speaker 4: fantasy soprano would say, he made his bones in the studio.
Speaker 4: We would actually go to a podcast studio and do
Speaker 4: the and he made his bones with the KFFSC podcast.
Speaker 4: And look what he's doing now. It's great stuff.
Speaker 1: I'll just give a shout out to these following people.
Speaker 1: Some of these people had made their careers before they
Speaker 1: came on this show. Some of them did not, but
Speaker 1: Shark Kandrick West, the former Kansas City Chiefs running back
Speaker 1: who came on this show before. David Dodds from Football Guys,
Speaker 1: Corey Parson, the fantasy executive, Matt Kelly, the founder of
Speaker 1: Rodo Underground player profiler, the podfather himself, Jared Smola, Matt
Speaker 1: Schauf from Draft Sharks, who obviously are one of the best.
Speaker 1: Two of the best in the industry right now. Matt
Speaker 1: Friedman from Fantasy Life who is like the most accurate
Speaker 1: NFL mock drafter that there's been over the last ten years.
Speaker 1: Rick Schwartz from Yahoo Fantasy, Nelson Sousa, the twenty sixteen
Speaker 1: FFPC co champion who's now crushing it over at for
Speaker 1: the Numbers FTN, Jake Rick Road, Mike Beers, Joe Payno
Speaker 1: from Rodo Viz you think about zl Kaffas from Dynasty
Speaker 1: Trade Calculator.
Speaker 4: R C.
Speaker 1: Fisher, the college football metrics guy, has been on the show.
Speaker 1: Draft Shark, Shane Hallam, doctor David Geyer has been on
Speaker 1: this show. The Fantasy Football Intelligence Book author Dominic Michael
Speaker 1: Nazarek from Fantasy Football Mastermind. We have so many people
Speaker 1: to thank and so many people that have had such
Speaker 1: an impact on not even the show, but fantasy football
Speaker 1: in general.
Speaker 4: It's been all those guys as pros in the business
Speaker 4: come in with Darren Armani, who is building a monster thing,
Speaker 4: and they come in with Darren Armani and our Joe's
Speaker 4: from the FFPC and the kf FSC just beat the
Speaker 4: hell out of them every summer and love that.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 4: That's just I mean, that's just makes me. That's like
Speaker 4: cherry blossom's in the spring, you know. It's it's the
Speaker 4: sweetest thing to see the Joe's come in and it
Speaker 4: just bulldozed those guys into oblivion.
Speaker 1: It's fentet. So one of the things I want to
Speaker 1: bring up tonight, speaking of these joes that bulldoze the pros,
Speaker 1: is a guy that we're going to bring on right now, ladies.
Speaker 1: A guy that has been a champion in the Kentucky
Speaker 1: Fantasy Football State Champion Championship. Excuse me, A guy who
Speaker 1: has been a champion twenty four times over in the
Speaker 1: Fantasy Football Players Championship, Ladies and Gentlemen. He is an
Speaker 1: OG twenty six er, and he is going to be
Speaker 1: making another appearance, I believe, and he could correct me
Speaker 1: if I'm wrong, but I believe he's been on the
Speaker 1: show before, Ladies and Gentlemen. A guy that we know,
Speaker 1: we love, and we're happy to welcome him in tonight.
Speaker 1: The twenty four time FFPC League champion, mister Jake like Jake.
Speaker 1: Good evening and welcome starts. So glad to have.
Speaker 2: You back on the show, Eric Farrell, glad to be here.
Speaker 2: You make me sound pretty impressive.
Speaker 1: Thanks, well, you are impressive now correct me if I'm wrong.
Speaker 1: You've been on the show before, right, not.
Speaker 5: Not the full hour, but uh, I've been on for
Speaker 5: the uh for live drafting.
Speaker 4: What's that background noise you got going? It sounds a
Speaker 4: little bit like some alien creature.
Speaker 2: There is that background noise. I plugged in a uh
Speaker 2: like a one of those jobber disks.
Speaker 1: So, yeah, that's what's going on with the job er
Speaker 1: desk walk.
Speaker 4: What's going on with that?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I don't know what.
Speaker 1: It's like one of these It's like, get someone like
Speaker 1: that throw that way.
Speaker 4: But meanwhile, the uh, you know, I can live with
Speaker 4: it just to spend time with you, Jack, you don't
Speaker 4: want to And I bring it up about every third
Speaker 4: or fourth show. Is your breakdown of the tight Ends?
Speaker 4: Last year? You told us exactly what the tight Ends
Speaker 4: would do, the rookie tight Ends and the draft. Now
Speaker 4: only did you tell us what they would do, uh,
Speaker 4: you told us when they would do it and how
Speaker 4: you were drafting them, and you were one hundred percent
Speaker 4: on it, and it was just fantastic.
Speaker 2: Are you talking about Loveland and Warrant?
Speaker 1: Yes, sir, Yeah, you know I was thinking.
Speaker 6: About that, and you know that you know that's like
Speaker 6: one of those things like it's right right now right,
Speaker 6: And I mean, but you never know, like you know,
Speaker 6: fantasy football is so funny and like a few months
Speaker 6: or you know, in a few years, it might be
Speaker 6: the other way.
Speaker 2: Around, maybe love.
Speaker 4: Disclaimers are not welcome more allowed from you, Jake. You
Speaker 4: just go ahead and sell you what yours on your mind.
Speaker 4: Disclaimers are not.
Speaker 5: We're we're drafting a big gorilla and my friend and
Speaker 5: I right now we're in between Jonathan Taylor, Justin Jefferson
Speaker 5: and Ceedee Lamb.
Speaker 2: Who would you take?
Speaker 1: Oh oh dude, this is a great way to kick
Speaker 1: it off. This is the eighth spot.
Speaker 2: Nine, But Jonathan Taylor is still there.
Speaker 4: Well, you take Jonathan Taylor. I will tell you exactly
Speaker 4: to take those you're running back to going run out
Speaker 4: real fast. Now, you go ahead and get your running.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you this right now, Jake. I think
Speaker 1: I take the opposite view. I think the receivers run
Speaker 1: out quicker. I think I'd rather have Jefferson or Lamb
Speaker 1: rather than Taylor.
Speaker 5: I'm surprised they're both going so late. I mean, I
Speaker 5: haven't drafted a lot yet this year, but I would think,
Speaker 5: you know, hopefully they're.
Speaker 2: Not listening, but like I would think Jefferson with Kyler, and.
Speaker 5: I mean, I know Kyler is kind of dent int,
Speaker 5: but you know, Kevin Kevin O'Connell as a way of
Speaker 5: you know, being a quarterback whisper.
Speaker 2: So I'm just surprised how late Jefferson goes.
Speaker 1: To be honest hate. It's the hate, Jake, like the
Speaker 1: hate of what happened in Minnesota last year. That's why
Speaker 1: is going like I I and I'll say this too,
Speaker 1: and like maybe by the way, I haven't done this
Speaker 1: yet and and I'm sorry for interrupting the show. Poinker
Speaker 1: says hi tonight, and I have to get that out
Speaker 1: of the way to Scott Christian and James Hicks. But
Speaker 1: you know the other thing too with in regards to this,
Speaker 1: JJ Zecheresen said this, And I've been drafting my teams
Speaker 1: based on this, and maybe I'm wrong, but I just
Speaker 1: feel like the secondary wide receiver or even the tertiary
Speaker 1: wide receiver, especially in leagues that you have to start
Speaker 1: through wide receivers in which not in the FFPC but
Speaker 1: in KFFFC you do. I think it's going away, and
Speaker 1: I think I am more likely to bet on my
Speaker 1: ability to find a secondary running back or a you know,
Speaker 1: a top thirty running back later on, rather than trying
Speaker 1: to figure out how I'm going to figure out my
Speaker 1: second wide receiver or my third wide receiver right away.
Speaker 1: So if I can hammer out Jefferson in the first round,
Speaker 1: if I can hammer out Seedeye Lamb in the first
Speaker 1: round and then figure out running back later, I think
Speaker 1: that's the way I want to approach it. So, with
Speaker 1: all due respect to JT, who I love and I
Speaker 1: have on a bunch of teams this year, I think
Speaker 1: I'm going wide receiver there over him and Jake.
Speaker 4: What's gonna happen with Balky there, especially in the KFFSC
Speaker 4: if he adopts that when he gets to town, he's
Speaker 4: gonna be sitting there with a borough brow with a
Speaker 4: hand pull of beard, pulling it in this sort of direction,
Speaker 4: ordering more bourbon, because he's going to be looking the
Speaker 4: odd second and third running backs that you're talking about
Speaker 4: after the fifth round. You'll have to make them up
Speaker 4: because they just they just if it's what I'm experiencing.
Speaker 4: But Jake, you know in my drafts that I've had
Speaker 4: in the big Gorilla. I'm I'm living at the end
Speaker 4: of that first round and I've had that situation before
Speaker 4: and when I've gone wide receiver, Oh, the alien just
Speaker 4: left because Jake just Jake just went. I fixed it,
Speaker 4: fixed it, and that wide receiver, those wide when we're
Speaker 4: gonna talk about wide receivers tonight that you can get
Speaker 4: in the double digits that I think by Halloween will
Speaker 4: it'll be all treats and no tricks. That's all I
Speaker 4: can say.
Speaker 1: Well, there could that could be Farrell and and and
Speaker 1: it's it's a thing that you know, now that we're
Speaker 1: off and running with the NFL Draft behind us, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of things that we can kind of pick
Speaker 1: and choose of what we're gonna do, what we're not
Speaker 1: gonna do, Uh to try to build our million dollar
Speaker 1: Juggernauts or our six figure Juggernauts or what have you. Jake,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna throw this right away, man, as we get
Speaker 1: into the show tonight. Jeremiah Taylor goes number three overall
Speaker 1: to the Arizona Cardinals in the draft this past weekend,
Speaker 1: and what we found out from Adam Schefter after this
Speaker 1: was Tyler Algier believed that he was going to be
Speaker 1: the number one running back in Arizona for twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1: This is a guy paid his dues find but John
Speaker 1: Robinson in Atlanta. Algier gets a two year deal with
Speaker 1: just over twelve million from the Cardinals this offseason, and
Speaker 1: then we have Jeremiah Love going to the Cardinals with
Speaker 1: the third overall pick in the draft. I would say
Speaker 1: that James Connor is kind of a non factor when
Speaker 1: we consider what we're doing with him in dynasty drafts
Speaker 1: as well as redrafts. Trade Benson the same thing, Jake.
Speaker 1: The question I'll post to you is what should we
Speaker 1: expect from Jeremiah Love contending with a twelve million dollar
Speaker 1: running back in Arizona this first year? How you're handling
Speaker 1: him not only with your twenty six er dynasty drafts
Speaker 1: in the FFBC, but redraft leagues as well. For both
Speaker 1: Love and Algier, Well.
Speaker 2: You gotta you gotta.
Speaker 5: Love love Jeremiah in the in the long term, but
Speaker 5: this year, you know, I mean that's tough.
Speaker 2: I mean that that's a lot of a lot they've
Speaker 2: gotten invested in the running back.
Speaker 5: I mean Connor, you know, they love him there, So him.
Speaker 2: Being there, you know, with.
Speaker 5: With Algier, and Algier is a quality running back. He's
Speaker 5: I mean, he's a very good running back. They paid him,
Speaker 5: like upwards at twelve million dollars I think for to
Speaker 5: be you know, like six million a year, I think.
Speaker 5: And you know, obviously you draft love, You're gonna you know,
Speaker 5: you got him in the plans, but they're not exactly
Speaker 5: a win now mode.
Speaker 2: So they may let him marinate and you know, work
Speaker 2: in a.
Speaker 5: Work his way in, but you know, he might be
Speaker 5: one of those guys at the end of the season
Speaker 5: Connor gets hurt again, you know, yeah, he just takes
Speaker 5: over and like you know, wins championships. So he's he's
Speaker 5: definitely worth a shot because you know, he's he's definitely talented.
Speaker 4: So and I know, we go back to Tyler's rookie
Speaker 4: year when he rushed for a thousand yards and and
Speaker 4: and average almost five yards of carry, and you thought
Speaker 4: was such a rosy picture. From a fantasy perspective, the
Speaker 4: fantasy player thinks this is a wicked game to play
Speaker 4: on Algier. From the agent perspective, I would look at
Speaker 4: it and say, you know what, if you want to
Speaker 4: pay my running back this much money to be a
Speaker 4: backup and to carry the ball one hundred and fifty times,
Speaker 4: and I can keep his career moving forward with less
Speaker 4: wear and taring his body. That's just fine with me,
Speaker 4: so you know I But yeah, the fantasy out the
Speaker 4: situation has been gutted here and even in Atlanta when
Speaker 4: he's getting one hundred and thirty hundred and fifty carries,
Speaker 4: we're still dealing with a touchdown dependent running back. And
Speaker 4: that's the biggest question is will they turn? Will we
Speaker 4: see Love running between the twenties and when we get
Speaker 4: to the red zone, we're going to see Mora Tyler
Speaker 4: and no one's going to like that, including the people
Speaker 4: that put that draft value and love. So it is
Speaker 4: a fascinating thing. It won't be settled, I don't think
Speaker 4: until September.
Speaker 1: Jake, Jake, let me ask you this, and I think
Speaker 1: you've kind of answered partially this question, but I'll throw
Speaker 1: this to you. How much did your That's not a
Speaker 1: bad way of asking it. When the Cardinals took Jeremiah
Speaker 1: Love at one o three, how much did that change
Speaker 1: how you're treating Tyler Algier and Jeremiah Love specifically in
Speaker 1: redraft leagues this year? When you knew the Cardinals were
Speaker 1: taking Love. How much did that effect what you're doing
Speaker 1: with Algier? And you could throw in Dynasty, I guess
Speaker 1: with this, but specifically with Redraft, how much of that
Speaker 1: effect how you're basing when you're taking Algier and what
Speaker 1: you're taking Love.
Speaker 2: I mean, it kind of nukes Olgier. I mean, it
Speaker 2: really does.
Speaker 5: I mean, if they you know, saw Algier and you know,
Speaker 5: in the long term plans, they're not you know, wasting
Speaker 5: that draft capital on Love obviously, but yeah, I mean,
Speaker 5: just it just makes everything pretty messy.
Speaker 2: But you know, yeah, it's I don't know what they're doing.
Speaker 2: It it's a little it's a little nuts.
Speaker 1: But uh so you said in nukes al Jeer, which
Speaker 1: I kind of agree with. But like when you consider
Speaker 1: that Love could have been a commander, he could have
Speaker 1: been a giant, he could have been a Titan, as
Speaker 1: Marlon Brandon would say, he could have been a contender.
Speaker 1: What do we do with Love? I mean, it doesn't
Speaker 1: sound like it's changing a whole lot from a dynasty
Speaker 1: aspect for you, does it not? Not?
Speaker 5: No, no, no, not In Dynasty and Dynasty he's still
Speaker 5: like I think he's still red hot. And you know
Speaker 5: it's it probably helps on this sit back a year.
Speaker 5: You know, you lose that immediacy of you know, having
Speaker 5: him as a league winner this year, but.
Speaker 2: You know, in the long term, you.
Speaker 5: Know, sitting behind Connor and al Jiers not not the
Speaker 5: worst thing in the world, you know, and not you know,
Speaker 5: I mean, he's they're gonna be to be a.
Speaker 2: Bad team again this year, you know this year probably.
Speaker 4: So Jake, I don't know if that's gonna happen. I've
Speaker 4: said it on every show. Then I'll keep saying that
Speaker 4: this guy is the next Christian McCaffery. Oh, he's gonna
Speaker 4: turn He's gonna turn up and be the I mean
Speaker 4: parare Like.
Speaker 2: I don't disagree.
Speaker 5: He's like really talented, but it's just you know, you
Speaker 5: got to match the talent with the opportunity.
Speaker 4: And their opportunity will be there the rest of these guys,
Speaker 4: the rest of these guys will enjoy watching.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you could be right, Barl, He's gonna have a
Speaker 1: full load farrel What are you just just curiously before
Speaker 1: I ask you about Colonel Tate, are you ignoring Tyler
Speaker 1: Algier in your drafts this year? Like it sounds to
Speaker 1: me the way that you believe in Jeremiah Love, Algier
Speaker 1: is just kind of like an an also ran or
Speaker 1: it never was his handcuff. It's a okay, even worse.
Speaker 1: So that's that's where we stand on Algier. And by
Speaker 1: the way, I don't necessarily disagree with you. It just
Speaker 1: thinks for a guy who was drafting Algier late in
Speaker 1: drafts in January and February and the kffs that knowing
Speaker 1: that that's what we're dealing with right now, which I
Speaker 1: mean could still be very valuable, We'll see what happens.
Speaker 1: Carnel Tait Farrell was the pick for the Titans when
Speaker 1: they knew they couldn't get Love went off to board
Speaker 1: a pick before tight because the pick at number four
Speaker 1: overall in the draft six foot two, one hundred and
Speaker 1: ninety pounds. I'm going to slip into my you know whatever.
Speaker 1: The announcer is at the Nathan's Famous Hot Dog eating
Speaker 1: contest when he introduces Joey Chestnut right six foot two,
Speaker 1: one hundred ninety pounds of the guy for revolutionized Fantasy Football.
Speaker 1: I think the thing that's interesting to me here, and
Speaker 1: this is more more of a wide scoping conversation here,
Speaker 1: everybody says the twenty twenty six draft is so bad
Speaker 1: for fantasy. And if that is the case, and I'm
Speaker 1: not disagreeing with it, how does Carnal take go fourth
Speaker 1: overall in the NFL draft, ahead of all those offensive tackles,
Speaker 1: ahead of all those corners, ahead of all those defensive
Speaker 1: bets and edge rushers premium positions? How does Taco fourth
Speaker 1: overall to the Titans? Unless Farrell there's something to be
Speaker 1: believing in here for fantasy, and there's something to be
Speaker 1: believing in not only in dynasty but redraft as well.
Speaker 1: Carnal Tate is a Tennessee Titan. Farrell, how do you
Speaker 1: react to that?
Speaker 4: I think he may save the quarterback. You remember a
Speaker 4: couple of years ago when a Lave was my favorite
Speaker 4: rookie player coming in the draft. It's really really high
Speaker 4: on a Lave. Why because he's Ohio State, He's ready
Speaker 4: for the National Football League. Tait is the same situation.
Speaker 4: He's the same player coming from the same culture. It's
Speaker 4: a wonderful situation for fantasy players. I don't buy any
Speaker 4: of that. I don't buy any of that about this
Speaker 4: draft not be not being great for fantasy. I see
Speaker 4: so much in this draft of all through from one
Speaker 4: through seven rounds. And you know, if we if we
Speaker 4: had a three hour show, I could get free agency
Speaker 4: and give you season.
Speaker 1: But there's but this is.
Speaker 4: This is a situation with the There's a lot of
Speaker 4: new talent on this team, and he is there as
Speaker 4: sort of the number one target for it.
Speaker 1: Uh. It's gonna be a.
Speaker 4: Fascinating team to watch. And wow, I don't know how
Speaker 4: many games they're gonna win. I think they're gonna move
Speaker 4: the ball. I think they're gonna put points up. And
Speaker 4: if this quarterback can't deliver, they'll scramble and find one
Speaker 4: that can. But I like this player. I think this
Speaker 4: is Afterlove. If you have the number two pick in
Speaker 4: our Dynasty draft starting this weekend, this is the player
Speaker 4: you take.
Speaker 1: Let me throw this at you, Jake. I'm gonna throw
Speaker 1: it up on the screen right now. When you consider
Speaker 1: what Brent Sudebaker, who Jake, I think you compete against Love,
Speaker 1: Brad the FFPC. This Dynastic's great Bulkey. Don't they always
Speaker 1: say the rookies coming in is a bad draft. Guys,
Speaker 1: you don't really hear. It's a great class. After the
Speaker 1: NFL Draft and there is something to be said about that, Jake.
Speaker 1: I'll let you weigh in on this. And by the way,
Speaker 1: if you want to expound upon how difficult it's been
Speaker 1: to move twenty twenty six rookie draft picks U this
Speaker 1: year in favor of the loaded you know, for the
Speaker 1: people listening and not watching the quause I loaded as
Speaker 1: I throw out my twenty twenty seven draft class. This
Speaker 1: is an interesting way, especially as we lead into f
Speaker 1: FPC Rookie Draft weekend. This is an interesting thing to
Speaker 1: think about right now, considering how people as of right
Speaker 1: now Jake feel about this class and how they feel
Speaker 1: about next year's class at the moment.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, I had I had somebody offer me
Speaker 5: in a triflex league my next year. It was an
Speaker 5: orphan I bought, so it's pretty bad and my next
Speaker 5: year first round pick for their first round pick.
Speaker 2: Plus they were gonna give me.
Speaker 1: One ten this year.
Speaker 5: So that kind of tells you what they feel about
Speaker 5: the class. So, I mean, they they're they have a
Speaker 5: very good team. They'll you know, probably be a late
Speaker 5: pick next year. But you know, nobody is trading twenty
Speaker 5: seven first like it's just you know, and nobody.
Speaker 2: Nobody wants anybody.
Speaker 5: Past you know, one O five, one oh six in
Speaker 5: in in this draft, which I think is a mistake
Speaker 5: to be honest. I mean, I like a lot of guys,
Speaker 5: you know, I like you know, you know, obviously up
Speaker 5: the price. And then Sadiq, you know, I like him.
Speaker 5: I like the guy from Washington, Williams. I love, actually
Speaker 5: like the guy from the forty nine ers too.
Speaker 1: Jalen Black tribbling, Oh j John Stribling.
Speaker 5: Yes, Yeah, they just have a they just have a
Speaker 5: way of using like those blocking weird wide receivers in
Speaker 5: interesting ways, you know, like like they have an idea
Speaker 5: what they're going to do with this guy. And thenwy
Speaker 5: says they brought him there to block. But I don't
Speaker 5: buy that, you know, you know, Jennings du they all
Speaker 5: became good blockers, and you know, they flourished because of
Speaker 5: that they were on the field. So I think he's
Speaker 5: a nice pick. I know, he's you know, probably like
Speaker 5: a mid second, early second kind of pick. But I'll
Speaker 5: probably be going after.
Speaker 2: Him a lot.
Speaker 4: So and we just had something in the comments Jake
Speaker 4: and Balke uh And we'd probably get to this later
Speaker 4: in the show. Brian Ice three B. He throws up.
Speaker 4: He says he's going to take Jendarium Price the second
Speaker 4: and that's why not. Here's the super Bowl team that
Speaker 4: actually got a player that improves them a true team
Speaker 4: need with the last pick in the first round. And
Speaker 4: I think that's I think that's a fascinating thing to
Speaker 4: throw back at everyone that says this is bad for
Speaker 4: fantasy when you can take the Super Bowl champs adding
Speaker 4: player like that.
Speaker 1: Okay, so, so to piggyback before you comment on that, Jake,
Speaker 1: to piggyback on what Ferrell just said. The Seattle Seahawks
Speaker 1: entered the twenty twenty six NFL Draft with four picks right,
Speaker 1: and they were widely rumored by pundits out there that
Speaker 1: they were going to trade back to get more draft capital.
Speaker 1: They chose not to. Not only did they chose not
Speaker 1: to trade back in the draft, they chose to draft
Speaker 1: Jake a non premium position in the first round. And
Speaker 1: as much as maybe we don't like that for fantasy,
Speaker 1: when we consider what we thought about Jenarian Price, or
Speaker 1: maybe you like Gendari Price, I don't know you weighed
Speaker 1: on this, but but I think it's very very interesting
Speaker 1: what the Seahawks did or or perhaps didn't do in
Speaker 1: the draft that ended up with Price ending the action
Speaker 1: on Thursday night.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean it's like the landing spot, right he
Speaker 5: won the lottery for fantasy, you know, like, uh, you
Speaker 5: know that's that's probably the best spot in the draft.
Speaker 5: I would think, you know, a couple of wide receivers,
Speaker 5: you know, hit the jackpot, like you know, like Tyson
Speaker 5: really hit a nice spot in uh, New Orleans and
Speaker 5: uh and and you know a lot of people don't
Speaker 5: think so, but I think Tate hit a nice spot
Speaker 5: in Tennessee.
Speaker 4: Yea.
Speaker 5: You know, I don't think kim words and nothing. You know,
Speaker 5: I think, you know, he just had he was in
Speaker 5: a bad spot last year.
Speaker 2: So we'll you'll be able to tell very early with
Speaker 2: wan Dale and.
Speaker 5: Tate if he's you know, if he's got anything. Like
Speaker 5: I watched him a couple of times last year. He
Speaker 5: didn't look terrible, you know, he was just you know,
Speaker 5: it's like any other quarterback when you have any time
Speaker 5: to throw, it's very difficult to show out. I mean,
Speaker 5: you know, you know, look at every quarterback that leaves the.
Speaker 1: Jets, you know, they.
Speaker 4: It's like.
Speaker 5: It's very you know, so we'll see what happens. But
Speaker 5: I think they hit they hit nice spots as well,
Speaker 5: and you know there's unfortunate concepts you on went to.
Speaker 2: The Browns, but you know, right that was kind of
Speaker 2: the yeah, kind of the reverse.
Speaker 1: Jake, let me throw this at you. As long as
Speaker 1: you're talking about Colonel Tate here, I want to get
Speaker 1: your thoughts in Jordan Tyson. Tyson, for me, prior to
Speaker 1: the draft was my favorite wide receiver, you know, ahead
Speaker 1: of conception, ahead of element, ahead of Tate. And then
Speaker 1: obviously the Tennessee Titans made Tate and the draft capital
Speaker 1: in this draft. But I still think there's a lot
Speaker 1: to like about Tyson, even though he will not get
Speaker 1: as it stands right now, he won't get the number
Speaker 1: one targets that Karnel Tate should get in Tennessee because
Speaker 1: Chris o'lobby is still getting him in New Orleans. From
Speaker 1: a dynasty standpoint, you of the illustrious twenty six ers,
Speaker 1: how do you treat Jordan Tyson in the rookie draft
Speaker 1: with the FFPC going off tomorrow? Would you take him
Speaker 1: ahead of Tate? Is he a guy at non super
Speaker 1: flex leagues? That is the slam dunk one oh three?
Speaker 1: Is he the one o two? I don't know, man,
Speaker 1: Like give me your insight right now. Tyson versus Tate.
Speaker 2: Well, you know it's funny because I know you were
Speaker 2: kind of.
Speaker 5: You're kind of talking about Dave earlier and Dave once
Speaker 5: said on the podcast or you were paying on wage
Speaker 5: heaven on the podcast.
Speaker 2: He said, you know, I draft the wide receiver.
Speaker 5: You know, the fantasy players, how the NFL drafts them,
Speaker 5: so like you know, they took them number four. So
Speaker 5: you know, I don't believe I'm a better talent evaluator
Speaker 5: than you know, any NFL team, So I you know,
Speaker 5: that's always you know, it's not been one hundred percent true,
Speaker 5: but like it's more right than not.
Speaker 2: So I definitely take Tate Tate over Tyson.
Speaker 4: It's a good good point with quarterback in New Orleans,
Speaker 4: it's hardly drafted at all that has these fantastic uh
Speaker 4: uh weapons that have been added, including one at tight end.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 4: You know, it's there's ways to benefit from these rookie
Speaker 4: wide receivers coming in the league beyond taking them. You know, somebody,
Speaker 4: somebody in those drafts are going to get them. How
Speaker 4: far do you guys seek ice and moving back in
Speaker 4: the first round, does he go four or five, six?
Speaker 1: Where does he go in our in our dynasty drafts? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna tell you this right now, and Jake,
Speaker 1: I'll let you weigh in on this how you personally
Speaker 1: feel about this. But one of the great things about
Speaker 1: the FFPC is we have had UH dynasty startups launch
Speaker 1: prior to the rookie drafts this weekend, which we'll get
Speaker 1: underway here, you know, a little bit less than twelve hours.
Speaker 1: But if we look at it from the standpoint of
Speaker 1: how people are treating the dynasty, I beg your pardon
Speaker 1: how people are treating the rookies in UH in dynasty drafts.
Speaker 1: Right now, I can tell you this that as it
Speaker 1: stands in in dynasty startups, which granted are not the
Speaker 1: same as as rookie drafts whatever. But we look at
Speaker 1: rookie drafts, Love obviously the first rookie taken in those
Speaker 1: Carnal Tait is the second rookie taken, and then you're
Speaker 1: looking at Jordan Tyson right after that, So Jeremiah Love
Speaker 1: Tate and then Tyson ahead of Jadarian Price, head of
Speaker 1: mackayle Lemon, and Farrell. That's where I want to add
Speaker 1: ask you about Lemon here, because this was a player
Speaker 1: that was this close to being a Pittsburgh Steeler before
Speaker 1: Howie Roseman traded up to draft him as a guy
Speaker 1: that I don't want to say is going to be
Speaker 1: the replacement for a J. Brown, but certainly a guy
Speaker 1: that will help replace the targets that AJ Brown will
Speaker 1: essentially leave when he goes to New England, as we
Speaker 1: all think he's going to within the next month or so. Farrell,
Speaker 1: McKay Lemon, with DeVonta Smith, with Dantavian Wicks, with Hollywood Brown,
Speaker 1: with Dallas Goddard, with Eli Stowers, all these guys in Philly.
Speaker 1: What is his outlook for you, specifically for redraft leagues?
Speaker 1: Mkayle Lemon as a member of the.
Speaker 4: Eagles, sometimes I characteristically love the big ten and the
Speaker 4: sec receivers better. I'm trying not to hold the geographical
Speaker 4: college choice of Lemon against him. Many of the things
Speaker 4: that we're talking about in these quarterbacks are in these
Speaker 4: wide receivers. We somehow question what the quarterback can do well.
Speaker 4: How do you like that quarterback with the Eagles Baulky
Speaker 4: jak How you like a quarterback over there? Can he
Speaker 4: get this guy the ball? You know we talk about
Speaker 4: we talk about down at the Saints. We think, well,
Speaker 4: Tyson's not going to be the number one. Well, you
Speaker 4: know up in Cincinnati and Chase and Higgins, those guys
Speaker 4: seem to get along pretty well. You know that. So
Speaker 4: I don't think you have to be the clear cut
Speaker 4: number one. I don't think he has to be a j.
Speaker 4: Brown's replacement. But he surely surely will be very impressive
Speaker 4: in what he brings to this team, especially after he
Speaker 4: settles in, especially after we get into the days of
Speaker 4: mid October going forward, and when you get to the
Speaker 4: bye weeks, that's when some of these rookies are going
Speaker 4: to begin to to show their things. So you might
Speaker 4: not redraft him as a player that you're going to start,
Speaker 4: but by the time of the season is over, it's
Speaker 4: just like Jake talkbet tight ends last year. You're going
Speaker 4: to not only start them, but you're going to be
Speaker 4: enjoying the return on your your draft capital that you
Speaker 4: spent to get them. So I love the player there,
Speaker 4: and uh, I love the mix, and you know that
Speaker 4: the tight end coming in is intriguing Dallas. Goddard played
Speaker 4: well last year, much better than I thought he would
Speaker 4: when he was available. But you know, it's the elast
Speaker 4: hour show in Philadelphia as far as.
Speaker 1: I'm consider, you know what the Eagles have done here.
Speaker 1: I'll tap into Eli stours here if we have time
Speaker 1: later on. But I think, uh Lemon is one of
Speaker 1: the more polarizing players, not only in Dynasty and Redraft Jake.
Speaker 1: When you have the the twenty six ers rookie draft
Speaker 1: pop off tomorrow and your other rookie drafts, how do
Speaker 1: you handle a guy like mckaya Lemon. Is this a
Speaker 1: player that you're on? Is this a player you're off?
Speaker 1: Is this a player that you're only addressing at the
Speaker 1: right spot in your rookie draft. When you found out
Speaker 1: that the Eagles traded up to get Lemon, what was
Speaker 1: your reaction?
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, you know, I guess I take him at value,
Speaker 5: but I'm not going to go out of my way
Speaker 5: to grab him.
Speaker 2: You know, I wonder I wonder what he would rank
Speaker 2: if AJ Brown was gone already?
Speaker 1: Yeah, what he pop up or what he be?
Speaker 5: Where he is?
Speaker 2: I think everybody is kind of it's kind of resigned.
Speaker 5: To the fact that AJ Brown is going to be
Speaker 5: traded right or so, and what if he doesn't get
Speaker 5: traded though, Like you know what if you know, they
Speaker 5: have a change of heart and they bring him back
Speaker 5: for another run, you know, like then Lemon goes to
Speaker 5: like you know, he'd probably be like one ten, you know,
Speaker 5: I would guess, you know, but uh, I mean I
Speaker 5: know that's like pretty doubtful that he sticks around, but
Speaker 5: you know it is possible.
Speaker 1: You know, It's like it's not a it's not a
Speaker 1: it's not.
Speaker 2: A zero that he that that a J. Brown stays.
Speaker 1: And you know what with a J.
Speaker 5: Brown like just kind of you know, I'm jumping all over,
Speaker 5: but like with a J. Brown tonight he went like
Speaker 5: three h six in the uh in the Big Gorilla.
Speaker 5: I think it was three three oh seven. And you know,
Speaker 5: if he lands in like a spot you know, like
Speaker 5: I can't like think of one right off the cup,
Speaker 5: but like you know, if he lands in a spot
Speaker 5: like DJ Moore landed in a buffalo or something like that,
Speaker 5: I mean I would think he like creeps up to
Speaker 5: like the two three turn.
Speaker 2: At least it's not higher. I mean, God help you.
Speaker 2: If he went to like Kansas City or something like that.
Speaker 7: I mean, you probably because whoever trafts traces they are,
Speaker 7: you know, they're gonna use him, you know, like they're
Speaker 7: serious about having them there.
Speaker 2: I mean maybe a place like and he wouldn't go
Speaker 2: to Washington, but that would be a great spot.
Speaker 5: But yeah, well they might because the Washington trade them
Speaker 5: docs in a couple of years ago or that other Dotson.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Trash Doson. I met his uh little brother, Jeremiah
Speaker 1: Dockson at the NFL draft in Chicago many years ago,
Speaker 1: and I was at the party with two Packer and
Speaker 1: Dave did the diztalkers that it was the Ohio state
Speaker 1: party that the docsents happened to show up at. So
Speaker 1: Darren Lee was there. Uh, the Ezekiel Elliott family was there.
Speaker 1: It was a lot of fun. But I have to
Speaker 1: and I don't know how I pivot off of this, Jake,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna ask you about the Cleveland wide receivers
Speaker 1: from this draft of year I was celebrating. I was
Speaker 1: the Irish jig. I was clicking my heels up in
Speaker 1: the air for about twenty three hours. And and then
Speaker 1: Denzel Boston joins the fray here. But maybe I should be.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'm overrating Denzel Boston here with with Harold Fannon,
Speaker 1: I know, the Browns and Andrew Berry. The GM there
Speaker 1: said that the draft picks of Concepcion and Boston do
Speaker 1: not necessary It's like the it's it's like the disclaimer
Speaker 1: here on radio or television. The opinions expressed by the
Speaker 1: Cleveland Brown's draft do not necessarily reflect the opinion of
Speaker 1: what's going to happen with the Browns in actual NFL
Speaker 1: games going forward. Here, Insteps and Boston are the top
Speaker 1: wide receivers here now in Cleveland, maybe over Jerry Judy,
Speaker 1: I don't want to say over Harrold fanned Maybe they're
Speaker 1: a complimentary to Fannin. But I think the big thing
Speaker 1: I want to ask you here, Jake, is what do
Speaker 1: you do with Casey conceptsiom in Cleveland? Knowing that he
Speaker 1: has the draft capital and he has a lot of
Speaker 1: stuff that that you would expect over Cedric Tillman, over
Speaker 1: Jerry Judy, over Isaiah Bond, but he's still has to
Speaker 1: contend now, not only with Harold Fannin, but Denzel Boston
Speaker 1: as well. What are you doing in your rookie drafts
Speaker 1: with Conceptsio.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, Cassette's awesome, but you know, it's it's
Speaker 2: a really tough spot.
Speaker 5: I mean, you know, I was kind of laughing to
Speaker 5: myself when I saw the report about you know, Deshaun
Speaker 5: Watson looks great and keep and I'm like thinking, you know,
Speaker 5: like compared to who you know, like I know, shud
Speaker 5: Or Sanders made the Pro Bowl last year, but like,
Speaker 5: come on, I mean, like it's you know, Cleveland is
Speaker 5: just such a I mean, they're like them in the Jets.
Speaker 5: It's just like, you know, you feel so bad for
Speaker 5: their fan base. They're just the organizations with such a mess.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: It's just it's hard to see Conception or Boston doing
Speaker 2: much this year.
Speaker 5: But you know, I think like from a Dynasty standpoint,
Speaker 5: they're both decent picks, but you know, you can't really
Speaker 5: expect anything significant out of them this year, although you know,
Speaker 5: it's like it's like anything you know, like you never know.
Speaker 2: I mean even even like.
Speaker 5: On some of these dumpster fire teams sometimes a guy
Speaker 5: shot shows out, but I would tend to think that
Speaker 5: would be Fannin you know, between like you said, Judy,
Speaker 5: they still have Tillman that right, or ye yeah, and
Speaker 5: he's a decent player, and so it's going to be
Speaker 5: very difficult.
Speaker 4: It's going to be a new age in Cleveland. My
Speaker 4: prediction is that if they don't figure it out, they
Speaker 4: will be They'll lead the league and flags thrown for
Speaker 4: twelve and sometimes thirteen players on the field. Players receiver's
Speaker 4: going to.
Speaker 1: The receiver will.
Speaker 4: Say, hell, I was drafted early, I'm in the game.
Speaker 4: What what's going on? You know, it's gonna be great.
Speaker 1: Fern, get away with it. You know, as long as
Speaker 1: we're talking about pass catchers, we have not and I
Speaker 1: feel like this is sacrilege. We haven't talked about tight
Speaker 1: ends yet. Tonight, let's do it in Farrell. The Jets
Speaker 1: take up at number sixteen overall as the middle pick.
Speaker 1: As it turned out for their first round picks this year,
Speaker 1: there are a lot of FFPC players excited about Seek
Speaker 1: prior to the NFL draft, and I feel like there's
Speaker 1: a lot of FFPC players not excited about his landing spot.
Speaker 1: What do you expect from a fantasy output? From a
Speaker 1: fantasy standpoint, Parrell with Sidik catching passes from Geno Smith
Speaker 1: this year and maybe another quarterback in twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 4: Do you guys think that the Jets believe that Gino
Speaker 4: is gonna play into the future. It looks like they're
Speaker 4: arranging a roster for him to go into the future.
Speaker 1: I it's I don't know.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: I've always respected Gino the guy and Geno the quarterback.
Speaker 4: He's loved in the locker rooms. It was a rough,
Speaker 4: rough year last year. He's got a you know, everybody
Speaker 4: talks about how bad the Jets are, but offensively, with
Speaker 4: the players around him, he's probably in a better place
Speaker 4: than he was last year. You would expect him to
Speaker 4: do better than he did last year. And I, I H,
Speaker 4: I really just think that.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 4: I mean, we're not gonna draft Geno, but but we
Speaker 4: don't need to throw out all the Jets with the
Speaker 4: idea that they're not going to be fantasy relevant. And
Speaker 4: especially when you've got a tight end. Uh, with this
Speaker 4: kind of speed and this there's there's tight ends I
Speaker 4: like in this draft. But you know, Jake pointed out
Speaker 4: how Brown was was dropping in the drafts Uh, bulky,
Speaker 4: do you have some Darren numbers after the draft to
Speaker 4: show us exact actually where Sadiq is going? Did I.
Speaker 1: Let him drop?
Speaker 4: Because I'll be. I'll be very very glad to spin
Speaker 4: some draft capital on him as I just finally got him. Uh,
Speaker 4: I just finally got him in one of the big
Speaker 4: gorillas at a at a bargain or discount right after
Speaker 4: draft as opposed to pre draft.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna tell you this right now, as
Speaker 1: far as the Big Gorilla goes over the last ten days,
Speaker 1: Kenyan Sadik is tight end thirteen at the eight to twelve.
Speaker 1: If we look at FFPC Dynasty startups, he's tight end
Speaker 1: ten at the six ten. So that that's where we
Speaker 1: stand on on Sadik. Jake, let me throw this at
Speaker 1: you as long as we're talking about tight ends here, dude,
Speaker 1: Sadiq is on the same team as Mason Taylor. He's
Speaker 1: on the same team as Omar Cooper. He's on the
Speaker 1: same team as Garrett Wilson, He's on the same team
Speaker 1: as Breese Hall, and as Farrell so eloquently pointed out,
Speaker 1: the quarterback is Gino Smith. As of right now, we
Speaker 1: could see some kid Klubnick coming up later on in
Speaker 1: the season. There is a lot of people excited about
Speaker 1: Sadik from a Dynasty standpoint. Tell me how you're treating
Speaker 1: him now knowing that he's going to be in New
Speaker 1: York Jet this year.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I like Sidiq. I mean, like I
Speaker 5: would definitely draft him and redraft or A or dynasty.
Speaker 5: I think he's going to play right away. I don't,
Speaker 5: you know, I don't think I never thought Mason Taylor
Speaker 5: was a great prospect. I mean, he's a nice player,
Speaker 5: but right, I don't think they're gonna, you know, it
Speaker 5: is the Jets, like, but I don't think they're going
Speaker 5: to take a tight end in the first round and
Speaker 5: you know, not play him. And you know, and Gino's
Speaker 5: a good you know, he's not the greatest quarterback in
Speaker 5: the world, but he's a he's a professional, real quarterback, right,
Speaker 5: I mean, like he can deliver the ball if you
Speaker 5: give him time, and you know, have a decent system
Speaker 5: around him.
Speaker 2: And they have weapons. I mean, they get that offensive
Speaker 2: line fixed.
Speaker 5: I mean with Bresee, you know, Garrett Wilson and and
Speaker 5: you know, like maybe some of those rookies step in
Speaker 5: and Sadique. I mean they could really like I mean
Speaker 5: they could they could put up some points this year.
Speaker 5: You know, it's a Jets, so they have a way
Speaker 5: of screwing things up. But like, you know, if they
Speaker 5: get their act together, you know they I could definitely
Speaker 5: see those guys.
Speaker 2: Being fantasy viable. I mean, you know, I might be
Speaker 2: in the minority, but you know, I think they're a
Speaker 2: decent team to a decent team to to grab some bargains.
Speaker 5: I think Garrett Wilson went like three twelve tonight in
Speaker 5: the in our Big Gorilla, and I think that's a
Speaker 5: pretty good value. I mean, you know, I mean, I'm
Speaker 5: taking before t Higgins. We wow, all the flowers, those guys.
Speaker 2: I'd even take them before Lave.
Speaker 4: I think, uh.
Speaker 2: And maybe Tet too, even though we took Tet first.
Speaker 1: But I'll sit Jake. I'll say this about Wilson, and
Speaker 1: I've said this on a lot of shows over the
Speaker 1: last week, week and a half, two weeks or whatever.
Speaker 1: Granted it was a small sample size in twenty twenty five,
Speaker 1: he was kind of a pace for what he was
Speaker 1: doing the previous three seasons. He was in the league
Speaker 1: with Garrett Wilson, and he's awesome. He is. And regardless
Speaker 1: of Taylor and Sadique and Hall and all these other guys,
Speaker 1: Cooper whatever, I still think he puts up numbers, and
Speaker 1: I think he does something similar to what he's been
Speaker 1: doing the previous couple of years now before we move
Speaker 1: off of wide receiver here.
Speaker 2: You know, he reminds me of He reminds me of
Speaker 2: He kind of reminds you know, he's been in the
Speaker 2: league long.
Speaker 5: He kind of reminds me of what happened at JSM
Speaker 5: you know where, Oh, you know like and I think
Speaker 5: he's got, you know, that type of talent that he could,
Speaker 5: like really you know, shock some people here. But you know,
Speaker 5: I've always had a soft spot for m so it
Speaker 5: could be talking on my heart instead of my head.
Speaker 1: So I have Gary Wilson in a couple of Redraft leagues,
Speaker 1: and I have them in several Dynasty leagues. So to
Speaker 1: hear you Jake talk about JSN and Garrett Wilson in
Speaker 1: the same sentence that the sound you hear is my
Speaker 1: heart beating out of my chest. I'm very excited to
Speaker 1: hear that we're talking about Sadek. Let me talk about
Speaker 1: Stours here, and you know you're a guy who's going
Speaker 1: to be participating in FFPC Rookie Draft Weekend. Stowurs goes
Speaker 1: at number fifty four to the Philadelphia Eagles. There are
Speaker 1: a lot of people out there that are saying they
Speaker 1: would much rather have Stours in their rookie draft over Sadiq.
Speaker 1: How do Sadique versus Stours in your rookie drafts that
Speaker 1: are going to be going on here in less than
Speaker 1: twelve hours.
Speaker 2: They're just saying that because the situation, like, there's no way. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, I don't.
Speaker 7: I don't.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm pretty I mean, I'm usually not like very
Speaker 5: I'm usually have like a lot of I usually don't.
Speaker 2: Have a lot of conviction. But with that one, I'm like,
Speaker 2: you know, I would definitely take Sadik over Sours.
Speaker 5: I think it's just because you know, Sours is on
Speaker 5: a on the Eagles and right now they're you know,
Speaker 5: a dynamic team, and uh, you know, but he's still
Speaker 5: got it. He's still got a year behind god Her, right,
Speaker 5: I mean, you know, yeah, he's got a marinate behind
Speaker 5: god Her, and you know, typically tight ends take a
Speaker 5: little longer. So and he's a good prospect too, But
Speaker 5: I would I would definitely roll the dice with Sadik.
Speaker 2: He's just got like, you know, he's just got more
Speaker 2: of a more of a pedigree in my in my opinion.
Speaker 1: But Harrel, we we we talked tight ends with sadekas Tours.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you this. Jana Coleman goes to the
Speaker 1: Denver Broncos here and and Peyton is saying his head
Speaker 1: coach is saying that he can play on third downs
Speaker 1: right away. The fact that we're hearing this right now
Speaker 1: and knowing that KFFC drafts are going off right now,
Speaker 1: knowing that FFPC drafts are going off right now, are
Speaker 1: we best to just avoid Dobbins and Coleman and Harvey
Speaker 1: in drafts right now and let somebody else take him?
Speaker 1: Or do you feel like you can glean some sort
Speaker 1: of fantasy value between these three running backs as it
Speaker 1: seems like it's going to be coming to a head
Speaker 1: between these three guys in the backfield for Denver this year.
Speaker 1: How do you handle these guys? What's the best way
Speaker 1: to do it for FFPC and KFFS drafts.
Speaker 4: Harvey and Dobbins buy him on the dip and leave
Speaker 4: the rookie alone right now?
Speaker 1: Ooh, okay, all right, leaving the rookie alone with Jonah Coleman,
Speaker 1: which is very very interesting. Jake from one rookie running
Speaker 1: back to another. Nicholas Singleton is going to be a
Speaker 1: running back in the Titans backfield this year, behind ty J. Spears,
Speaker 1: behind Tony Poller. Quite frankly, they don't have I have
Speaker 1: a whole lot of long term security in that Titans backfield.
Speaker 1: How do you handle Singleton? What do you view him
Speaker 1: as personally? I'll before you answer. I just feel like,
Speaker 1: if they let Spears and Pollard go after this season,
Speaker 1: Singleton's just gonna be a cog any committee there where.
Speaker 1: Do you see him as something bigger than I'm missing?
Speaker 2: I don't really, I gotta be honest, I really don't
Speaker 2: know much about him.
Speaker 5: You know, like that that backfield's probably fairly wide helping it,
Speaker 5: although you know, Poward and still.
Speaker 2: Has some juice. I guess so the Spears, But uh yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't really have a great opinion on that, you know, I.
Speaker 4: Want I'll jump in there for you, Jake, and I
Speaker 4: will tell you that frequent contributor to the show, and
Speaker 4: often in the position of co host with Balky one,
Speaker 4: Dave Turp. This is Dave Turp and Pollard revenge here.
Speaker 4: This is really it actually happens when no one's expecting it.
Speaker 4: I don't think even Turp is expecting it. This is
Speaker 4: the year we're gonna get it, and it's gonna be
Speaker 4: a wonderful thing for all those who have remained patient
Speaker 4: with Pollard and Balky. Is he even Is he a
Speaker 4: double digit draft pick this year? Or is it he
Speaker 4: is going sooner?
Speaker 1: When you're we're talking about Pollard Pollard right now, if
Speaker 1: I if I look up, I'll look up the because
Speaker 1: this is this is the revenge here. Yeah, as you
Speaker 1: always say, I'll look up the Gorilla getting We gotta
Speaker 1: know what's happening in the Gorilla book. Tony Pollard is
Speaker 1: running back thirty three. He is behind uh Stevenson, ro
Speaker 1: Madre Stevenson. He is behind Kyle Mnungai. He is ahead
Speaker 1: of Kenneth Gainwell and JK. Dobbins, and he is going
Speaker 1: off as uh the eight oh two.
Speaker 4: We can't get him to double digits. So you know,
Speaker 4: it's a great place for him to It's.
Speaker 1: A great Farrell Farrell, speaking of great places. Louisville is
Speaker 1: a great place. Oh yes, that is where Chris Bell
Speaker 1: spent his previous four years in college football. He goes
Speaker 1: as number ninety four overall to Miami Dolphins in the
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six draft. I was talking with Johnny Tuma
Speaker 1: from Player Profiler and the Dynasty Deep Dive podcast last
Speaker 1: night on FFPC inside Our Access, and he said, if
Speaker 1: you are drafting Chris Bell, you can't expect anything in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six from him. But Farrell, even if that's true,
Speaker 1: what should we expect from this dude in South Beach
Speaker 1: going forward? Knowing that that draft or extremity, knowing that
Speaker 1: that depth chart in Miami not all the greatest receivers
Speaker 1: in the world that we're seeing there. I'm kind of
Speaker 1: bullish on Chris Bell. I feel like I'm preaching to
Speaker 1: the converted here. But you tell me what your feelings
Speaker 1: are on Chris Bell to Miami Dolphins. I have one question.
Speaker 4: Did he happen to tell us why he made such
Speaker 4: an outlander statement which which shouldn't expect anything from Chris Bell.
Speaker 1: I think it was the torn late in the season.
Speaker 1: That's why he said, Well.
Speaker 4: You know, the medical miracles of the NFL and the
Speaker 4: training staff, and this player has been prodded, poked and
Speaker 4: flown in and visited with what you know, they're not
Speaker 4: just they're just not having you know, afternoon tea when
Speaker 4: you come in player to the visit and there's some
Speaker 4: medical records coming along. There's a lot of research and
Speaker 4: a lot of work.
Speaker 1: And if the Dolphins didn't drafting, someone else would have.
Speaker 4: And they're not going to draft a player that early
Speaker 4: if they're not some expectation of what he's going to
Speaker 4: do in twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: Six, and he's going to do a lot of the
Speaker 1: things that he did.
Speaker 4: That that those people that like aj Brown as a player,
Speaker 4: this is kind of what you're going to get is
Speaker 4: a player that really accelerates and has has great hands,
Speaker 4: is contact balance. When he gets the ball, he starts
Speaker 4: looking like a running back with it. Any offense that
Speaker 4: is designed to try to separate the u the receivers
Speaker 4: and get the ball out quickly between the linebackers and
Speaker 4: the defensive backs, this is the kind of place that
Speaker 4: you want to be. And Chris Bell, you know, a
Speaker 4: wonderful player, So I don't think you can go wrong.
Speaker 4: And I'll be very anxious to see in the existing
Speaker 4: dynasties where he is going in the draft. I will
Speaker 4: probably overpay for him when I have late round picks.
Speaker 4: But as Jake who competes with me in a couple
Speaker 4: of dynasties. Well knows, Balky, I've never won enough to
Speaker 4: have late round picks in the first round. So but
Speaker 4: but Bell is quite a player. And there's other receivers.
Speaker 4: We could talk about receivers all night, Bulky, but Bell. Yeah, sure,
Speaker 4: there's other guys I like in this draft. And you
Speaker 4: know what, I might want to try to win some
Speaker 4: dynasty sooner, so I might look at them before I
Speaker 4: look at Bell. But whoever gets Bell is going to
Speaker 4: get utility out of indus years.
Speaker 1: You know, Jake, much as I love to thrill you, well,
Speaker 1: Chris Bell, is there one part you know, because you're
Speaker 1: to be drafting your rookie draft tomorrow with the rest
Speaker 1: of the FFPC nation, is there one rookie that you
Speaker 1: are really dead set, like, yeah, I really want to
Speaker 1: find a way to get this guy. And then another
Speaker 1: guy that you're going to let anybody else take him.
Speaker 1: As we look forward to rookie draft weekend here in
Speaker 1: the span of the next twelve hours ten hours or so.
Speaker 2: I think the guy I'm going to let everybody else
Speaker 2: draft is Chris Bell. No, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 1: No, I like Chris Bell.
Speaker 2: He's good. You know, probably conception conception. I do like him,
Speaker 2: but you know, in Boston, I'll probably let them slide.
Speaker 8: The guy I do like and you know, you know,
Speaker 8: at this point he's kind of a long shot, but
Speaker 8: I did like him last year, like, and I watched
Speaker 8: him a lot was Emmitt Johnson from Nebraska.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I know, he's like he's the metrics aren't there and
Speaker 5: everything else, but man, this guy can just play. I mean,
Speaker 5: he's just a player. And you know, Riola was like,
Speaker 5: you know, he's he was a big disappointment there and
Speaker 5: you know, he didn't play the second half of the year,
Speaker 5: and Emmett carried you know, put that whole team on
Speaker 5: his back, you know, without you know, without much else.
Speaker 5: So I think he's I think he's one of these
Speaker 5: guys like you know, you get these guys every.
Speaker 2: Once in a while while, like Tyron Williams.
Speaker 5: And you know, they don't have the metrics or anything else,
Speaker 5: but just something about him, you know, I feel like
Speaker 5: he's one of those guys.
Speaker 2: So I'll definitely have a lot of him, you know,
Speaker 2: And I guess that's you know, that's it. But the
Speaker 2: guys I'm avoiding, I guess probably the I hate, you know,
Speaker 2: probably probably the Browns guys.
Speaker 4: Oh okay, yeah, you know probables if we go if
Speaker 4: we go to the comments Brett Studebaker is uh, you know,
Speaker 4: just digging up ghosts to bake anyone from Dynasty Football. Yeah,
Speaker 4: there's an OJH. I like the one about Kellen Winslow
Speaker 4: Junior even better. You know, it's this will make Dynasty
Speaker 4: drafters not sleep tonight.
Speaker 1: I'll see what I'll see what BRIT's doing.
Speaker 4: He's just throwing these guys out there, and he's gonna
Speaker 4: go get a good night's sleep, be prepared, and everybody
Speaker 4: else is gonna pace all night.
Speaker 1: You know that's you want to be.
Speaker 4: You want me to give you some guys that'll keep
Speaker 4: you happy in Dynasty for this year.
Speaker 1: J As much as I'd love to put everybody to
Speaker 1: bed tonight with uh uh a nightmares dancing in their
Speaker 1: heads of Kellen Winslow Junior and everybody like that, Farrell,
Speaker 1: go go ahead and give us some positives that we
Speaker 1: want to focus on, and.
Speaker 4: You know, and all some of the negative commimentary belongs
Speaker 4: you know in the show, because where there's a lot
Speaker 4: of things we like about these players, just like the
Speaker 4: teams that drafted them did, but not all of them
Speaker 4: are gonna work. And I think Studebagger drops in there.
Speaker 4: Now here's a couple I think are gonna work. Let's
Speaker 4: go to the Panthers, Panthers drafting and offensive lineman and
Speaker 4: it's it's gonna make a huge difference for him. That
Speaker 4: was their best player on the board, Monroe Freeling. I
Speaker 4: think what I like best here. If we go back
Speaker 4: to previous drafts, Let's take a look at Jonathan Brooks
Speaker 4: and see if he comes in and and challenges Hubbard
Speaker 4: a little bit. We hadn't seen much from him, but
Speaker 4: we we all talked about how much we liked him.
Speaker 4: If I do recall when we were talking about Brooks
Speaker 4: and then the player there is it is it Brazzle
Speaker 4: from ut Yep, this is you know, I almost love
Speaker 4: this guy as much as pittmanth he's you know, he's
Speaker 4: six foot five and gets down the field.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I like an SEC player, Bulk, I like an SEC player,
Speaker 4: And this is this, this is what you know. This
Speaker 4: is what the player is. So I like his spot
Speaker 4: in in Carolina. Truth be told, I liked Leggett as
Speaker 4: well when he was in Carolina and we ever got
Speaker 4: the numbers out of him we want.
Speaker 1: But I really like this, and let's go down to Tampa.
Speaker 4: We talked about him on the show before they get
Speaker 4: a draft to a receiver that I think is just
Speaker 4: as good as anybody that we've been talking about tonight.
Speaker 4: But he's the highest drafted player ever out of Georgia State,
Speaker 4: and that's six foot four inch Ted Hurst. We recall
Speaker 4: Tampa Bay Bucks and the quarterback there have a bit
Speaker 4: of an affinity for an oversized wide receiver and this
Speaker 4: guy can get down the field and do a lot
Speaker 4: of the things that not the old pro Evans did,
Speaker 4: but certainly what the young Evans did if you go
Speaker 4: back to how much we liked him right out of
Speaker 4: the gates. So there's players that you know, there were
Speaker 4: only thirteen running backs drafted, So that's why I have
Speaker 4: to go back to Jonathan Brooks. But you know, maybe
Speaker 4: Hubbard actually solidifies and holds a position based on the
Speaker 4: fact that they have drafted a prolific and long time
Speaker 4: all pro test there with the Panthers.
Speaker 1: Jake, let me ask you this go ahead, all right?
Speaker 2: Can I ask you guys a question?
Speaker 5: Sure, who do you think is the running back in Washington,
Speaker 5: Is it Rashad Waite to Corey Krossky Merritt, I mean
Speaker 5: like like I don't know what they're going to do.
Speaker 1: There, Like Jake, I have your answer for that. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: because the end hold on, hold on, hold on before
Speaker 1: Pharaoh Good expounds on that. I have an answer for you, Jake.
Speaker 1: The answer is no. I think it might be uh.
Speaker 4: I think it really really might be Crosskey Merritt. You know,
Speaker 4: we've had a very very lib contributor tonight in the
Speaker 4: in the comments section, this mister Brian who says Sadika
Speaker 4: is like Vernon Davis. And that's really interesting because is
Speaker 4: Vernon Davis spent one year with he caught almost eighty
Speaker 4: and then he spent another year where he caught almost
Speaker 4: seventy something with sour with that got sat with his coach.
Speaker 4: He played a long long time in the NFL, but
Speaker 4: he never was particularly Fantasy relevant despite all of that.
Speaker 4: You know, he was a forty five to fifty catch
Speaker 4: a game year he played a long time, called over
Speaker 4: five hundred balls. But you know that's the kind of
Speaker 4: thing that can happen. Those guys are very good. Bernie
Speaker 4: Day is a very good contributing NFL player, but he
Speaker 4: left us a little chilled in fantasy football.
Speaker 1: Jake, I'm gonna tell you this right now, regarding the
Speaker 1: Washington Commanders running back situation, I don't have a good
Speaker 1: answer on it, and to me, that means that the
Speaker 1: way I'll be treating it in my dynasty and re
Speaker 1: draft letues this year, I'll probably have some JCM, but
Speaker 1: I'm probably gonna be going a little bit heavier. And
Speaker 1: heavier is kind of a it's a bad modifier because
Speaker 1: that strikes. It strikes when I say that, people are like, oh,
Speaker 1: Balky's totally in on k Tron Allen, He's totally in
Speaker 1: on Rashad White, And that's not the case. But I
Speaker 1: will probably have more White and more Allen than I
Speaker 1: do j CM or Jerome Ford or anything like that.
Speaker 1: But I'm definitely not targeting any of these guys. These
Speaker 1: are the types of players, especially when you talk about
Speaker 1: k Tron Allen and when you talk about Rashad White,
Speaker 1: these are the types of players that I will just
Speaker 1: end up with as my fourth running back in KFFSC league.
Speaker 4: Especially when you passed over Jonathan Taylor in the first round.
Speaker 1: No good, Jake, no good. So that's my point here
Speaker 1: in regards to that. I'm not targeting any of these guys,
Speaker 1: but when it comes down to it, which ones will
Speaker 1: I have the most shares of, It's probably going to
Speaker 1: be Allen, and it's probably going to be White and
Speaker 1: then it's sort of everybody else after that unless you
Speaker 1: feel differently, How do you feel about it?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's interesting, you know, I didn't really think about
Speaker 2: k Tron.
Speaker 1: But and on top of that, Eckler is h yeah today, yep, absolutely,
Speaker 1: you know it.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be interesting.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 5: I think I think i'd go with Crosskey Merrit to
Speaker 5: be honest, because he did that like you have flashes
Speaker 5: last year.
Speaker 2: And you know, you kind of hit a rookie wall.
Speaker 5: But uh, you know, you know what, you know what
Speaker 5: the other guys are, and you know, Eckler's awesome too,
Speaker 5: but he's you know, past his prime, and uh, you
Speaker 5: know what those other guys are. I think I think
Speaker 5: I would take a stab on either. I don't know
Speaker 5: a lot about k Tron, to be honest, so you know,
Speaker 5: I helped to dig it to him, but I think
Speaker 5: I would go with either him or j C. M.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I'm gonna tell you this right now, Jake,
Speaker 1: you don't have to know a lot about k Tron.
Speaker 1: If the Commander signed Eckler again, then to me, it's
Speaker 1: kind of like I'm avoiding it completely because I don't
Speaker 1: know what to believe. Then if they have Eckler and
Speaker 1: j CM and k Tron, Allen and your own Ford
Speaker 1: and Rashad White like to me, like Pharaoh would always
Speaker 1: say about college football programs, if you have two quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: you have zero quarterbacks if you have fifteen thousand running backs.
Speaker 1: So that's that's the way I would handle that going forward.
Speaker 1: But again, there's some time to suss that out and
Speaker 1: figure out what's going on there.
Speaker 4: Christy Merrit Monkey, I always point out what everyone while
Speaker 4: we love talking, you know, and we love the Dynasty drafts,
Speaker 4: some guys love it more than I do.
Speaker 1: But you know, now we talk Dynasty offspring.
Speaker 4: Now we're now it's Christmas Eve, and there's a situation
Speaker 4: that exists with realizing that I have cross sky Merit
Speaker 4: on a lot of teams.
Speaker 1: So I'm encouraged to hear what Jake has to say.
Speaker 4: But I got Crossky married in the seventh round of
Speaker 4: my Dynasty drafts last year, Jake.
Speaker 1: Final question for you tonight, and thank you so much
Speaker 1: for being so gracious with your time. The highest draft
Speaker 1: pick that you have in any of your f f
Speaker 1: PC Dynasty leagues?
Speaker 4: What is it?
Speaker 1: And then who do you value most and who will
Speaker 1: you probably be taking with that pick? Is it Love?
Speaker 1: Is it Tyson? Is it Tate? Is it?
Speaker 8: Uh?
Speaker 1: Which Johnny Tuma with player profile last night? Is it
Speaker 1: Van Jefferson from the Commanders, Like, I don't know like
Speaker 1: what you think about this year's rookie class, but what's
Speaker 1: your highest pick and what do you plan on utilizing
Speaker 1: with it?
Speaker 2: I mean I have a few one one on ones.
Speaker 9: Which was nice, so you know, obviously I just grab
Speaker 9: Love there and I'm the same note in in super
Speaker 9: flexor like.
Speaker 2: The triflex leads.
Speaker 4: I like them. They're fun.
Speaker 5: I think I think I would I would take oh god,
Speaker 5: I'm living on the quarterbacks name. I think I'd take
Speaker 5: Mendoza there most times, but you know, I might, you know,
Speaker 5: I think it's I think I would slip sadik In
Speaker 5: in a lot of leagues, you.
Speaker 2: Know, over the wide receivers. I do like the wide
Speaker 2: receivers a lot, but I just think.
Speaker 1: I just think.
Speaker 2: Sadik's it's gonna be pretty special.
Speaker 4: But uh, you know.
Speaker 2: It could depend on the and on the team too,
Speaker 2: you know, I mean what the need is.
Speaker 5: I know they say never draft for that, but I
Speaker 5: do so sometimes it comes down to need, Like, yeah,
Speaker 5: sometimes you just need to know, Jake.
Speaker 1: You know this with this year's draft class, like need
Speaker 1: might be more integral and figure out who you're gonna
Speaker 1: be drafting in these rookie drafts more so than previous years.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and you always look back in these drafts right
Speaker 5: in like, you know, two three years from now, and
Speaker 5: you know, the guy you took one eleven, you know,
Speaker 5: it turns out to be a superstar, and the guy
Speaker 5: you took.
Speaker 1: One of to one on one, you know, turns out
Speaker 1: to be uh Trent Richardson.
Speaker 2: Trent richards.
Speaker 4: Uh lor N that STUDI vibe is edgy, dude, Baker
Speaker 4: is the twenty six years all upset.
Speaker 2: Jake memories.
Speaker 1: Yeah exactly. This was a pleasure. Uh, what a treat
Speaker 1: tonight to hang out with you. Thank you so much
Speaker 1: for showing up and spending your Friday night with us.
Speaker 1: May your rookie draft picks never ever equate to the
Speaker 1: equivalent of Trent Richardson. I will see you, assume, whether
Speaker 1: that be in Louisville, whether that be in Las Vegas.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a lot of fun when I see
Speaker 1: you next. And maybe I'll see you on this show next,
Speaker 1: you never know. I congratulate you on the twenty four
Speaker 1: league titles you have in the FFPC, your numerous titles
Speaker 1: in the KFFST, and I'll let you get a good
Speaker 1: night's sleep because you get along long weekend ahead of
Speaker 1: you with trading and draft picking in ff PC rookie
Speaker 1: draft weekends starting off tomorrow morning. Thank you so much
Speaker 1: for making us a part of your Friday evening.
Speaker 2: Yeah, appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Guys.
Speaker 5: I always have trouble in Kentucky, those guys like I
Speaker 5: don't know what it is. There's some good drafters down there,
Speaker 5: but ask I always have a lot of trouble in
Speaker 5: those leagues.
Speaker 1: But Jake, they fear the Jake, but you know they're there.
Speaker 1: They know you're getting even with them this year, Jake, Jake,
Speaker 1: to echo what Farrell saying, A lot of people say
Speaker 1: they have trouble with you in Kentucky too, Not so much.
Speaker 2: Thanks guys, be good.
Speaker 1: We'll see you soon.
Speaker 4: You got it.
Speaker 1: That is Jake. But like the twenty four time f
Speaker 1: f PC League champion and Dynasty savant joining us tonight
Speaker 1: to talk a lot about the rookie class. Farrell. Wow,
Speaker 1: what a show. I mean like this, this is so
Speaker 1: much fun to do this show tonight when we have
Speaker 1: the rookie landing spots for everybody. We know where Chris
Speaker 1: Bell is, we know where Judaian Price is, we know
Speaker 1: where Eli Stowers is. Is there a particular rookie from
Speaker 1: a fantasy standpoint that you're super excited about this year?
Speaker 4: I just think I threw some out there. I'm also
Speaker 4: you know there were thirteen running backs taken in this draft. Back, yes, thirteen.
Speaker 4: Don't be discouraged by the guys that were drafted fifth, sixth,
Speaker 4: seventh round, don't beacons. You know Star Wars came from
Speaker 4: New Mexico State. So did the running back from Kentucky
Speaker 4: who was drafted to Indianapolis this year. Oh yeah, helped
Speaker 4: me out with his name, Balky seventh round draft pick.
Speaker 4: He's just he's from Dallas, Texas. He's got a tattoo
Speaker 4: in his neck. He's been previously arrested. But has changed
Speaker 4: his ways.
Speaker 1: What's his name, book, Seth McGowan, Yeah, Seth.
Speaker 4: And you know, there's just talent throughout that draft. And
Speaker 4: just because the NFL does not necessarily appreciate the running
Speaker 4: back doesn't mean that they're not going to use them.
Speaker 4: And we as fantasy players couldn't benefit long term from
Speaker 4: those players.
Speaker 1: And it just, you know, I refuse to believe that
Speaker 1: the talent isn't there.
Speaker 4: If you take the thirteen top running backs, I don't
Speaker 4: care what draft they were around they were in. If
Speaker 4: they're in the top thirteen, that's good enough to consider
Speaker 4: me putting them in our fantasy draft.
Speaker 1: I will tell you this too, for anybody who is
Speaker 1: looking to play in the KFFSC. Todd Aaron, the mad
Speaker 1: genius of fantasy football, breach out to me. He said, Balky,
Speaker 1: what league are you in the for the KFFSD one
Speaker 1: hundred dollars Sweet sixty Championship? And I said, listen, I
Speaker 1: am in the Vonte mac Division. And he said, Oky,
Speaker 1: why don't you just say all of them? Because you
Speaker 1: are in all? Oh pretty much. But this is going
Speaker 1: to be funny when I bring this up. And apologies
Speaker 1: to Steven Dergalos I don't think you care, but he said, here,
Speaker 1: are you fantasy sopranos in that league? And I said, no,
Speaker 1: that's Steven yourgallos. He's in that league. I am in
Speaker 1: that league. Team named Smoke Chetta the as Getta. That
Speaker 1: is my team name of the Vonte Mac Division. So
Speaker 1: if you want to compete with me with Stephen yourgalos
Speaker 1: with Todd Aaron, go to the Vonte Macdivision at KFFFC
Speaker 1: dot com in the twenty twenty six hundred dollars Sweet
Speaker 1: sixteen Championship. It's going to be a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: I'm in the big payback play in in the kff C.
Speaker 1: I'm in the kff C Main Event Mini Camp Division.
Speaker 1: You can play against me there. There's plenty of opportunities
Speaker 1: to take out the ball key, as Pharaoh would say,
Speaker 1: at KFFFC dot com k f f SC dot Com.
Speaker 1: Plenty of leagues going off there. Pharaoh, what a treat
Speaker 1: this has been tonight. We will reconvene, not next Friday,
Speaker 1: but we will reconvene this coming Wednesday at ten pm
Speaker 1: East time. Gonna be a lot of fun, dude. Enjoy
Speaker 1: your post NFL Draft weekend. Be good, and we will
Speaker 1: talk with you again soon. That is Farell Elliott, the
Speaker 1: definitive Commissioner of Fantasy Football. I want to thank him.
Speaker 1: I want to thank of course Jake for like our
Speaker 1: guest tonight, the FFPC, Rob Brice, and of course each
Speaker 1: and every one of you. As I stated, next Wednesday,
Speaker 1: we will be back live at ten pm Eastern Time.
Speaker 1: In case you missed inside our access this past weekend,
Speaker 1: Johnny Tuma from Player Profiler, the host of the Dynasty
Speaker 1: Deep Dive, the Deep End Fantasy Football podcast with Player Profiler,
Speaker 1: join me for two full hours of nothing but rookie
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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for watching everybody tonight, For Jake Thelike,
Speaker 1: for Parrell Elliott. I'm Eric Balkman. This has been the
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Speaker 3: This has been another episode of The Hot Stakes Fantasy
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Speaker 3: was broadcast live and was watched around the world. Bulky
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