SUPER Mock Draft Episode! - Fantasy Football Podcast for 7/28

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Back in Arizona. Where it was raining today. Yeah. Well, I mean, for like 30 seconds. It's like a light drizzle. That'll fill all our lakes. It's a light drizzle. I was like, oh, is it nice outside? No. The answer was no. It's all evaporated. It's all gone now. Mike Wright is here. We are all back in Arizona. Just got back from the FF Expo in Canton, Ohio. Sure did.

Had you guys been to Ohio for any reason? Well, not to Canton. I've been, I think I was at Ohio as a youth to visit some family. I don't even know how this is going to cross, but like sometimes maybe it's association with the Browns. But I feel like, you know, people don't talk great about Ohio. No, in the, like the, you know, we complain about our weather. I believe Ohio.

frequently complains about the weather. Well, the time we were there was... They were justified in doing so. It was quite pleasant. We had a great time. We were very lucky. Nice weather to walk outside in. And Canton was nice. It was a nice small town. Got to see the pro football Hall of Fame. The nice thing about Canton, the size of Canton, they're big enough to where it's... We're not talking to a village here. It's a city. But they're small enough where...

everything is the Hall of Fame. Like the identity. You're walking through the city and just random buildings have like football players painted on the side of it. Brett Grange. I don't know. It's cool to be in such a football town. See the Pro Football Hall of Fame. That was, uh, that was pretty neat. It took everything in me not to rip out the like Bidwell related. Oh, that bust. Yeah. And stuff inside of the Hall of Fame. You did, uh, you did take a picture and put it in our slack and, and you were not happy about it. No.

No, I, you know, you just wonder what life would have been like if somebody else owned the Cardinals. That's all I'm saying. All right. Welcome into the show. It's a super show today, a super flex mock draft episode, live the three of us. And an assortment of our producers and writing staff and contributors to the show will be participating as well. So we're going to get right into that mock draft very soon.

It does seem like we have some news to catch up on. We just got back into town. Let's do it. News and notes from around the league. Still world foosball champions, by the way, at any fantasy football conference event. I'm talking to you, Matt Walsh. We shouldn't be beat. We just, we hadn't played in years. We hadn't played in years. And we got down to nothing. And it was 10-3 before you knew it. Absolutely dominated that.

dominated the golf sim yeah jason i wrecked that ceiling you did one yard in front of me that ceiling had a spot that was crying so they had a competition there and i know we're supposed to be talking news but i do want to share this this is news they had a competition there where it was like closest to pin but it was like 173 yard uh shot and so i think my closest to pin might have been 174 yards did you ever see that i put you on the board

I did, and it was 174 yards. So there's a board where you put in how close you got, and I snuck over there and put Jason's range to the pin. I was hoping you saw it. How close did you get? 18 yards. Andy was very bad. I think I was 40. Yeah. I mean, we got beat. I mean, there were other people that were people that were within feet of it. Yeah. All right. NFL news. Jacoby Brissette. The drama is over NFL. The National Nightmare.

New Deal includes $15.5 million in base salary, worth up to $21 in incentives that he won't hit. I think the base was essentially like a $10 million raise. So good. Get that shmoney, Jacoby. Mary Kay Cabot reporting, Quinchan Judkins will be full go for Brown's camp. We've seen quite a bit of video of Judkins. He looks healthy. It feels like most people that had some kind of, you know, season-ending injury last year are...

going to be fine to start this you know camp scataboo judkins we we got news about daniel jones mahomes yeah it's everyone but malick who who isn't on i mean the the news most recently was he's starting camp non on pup that does not mean that he will be there week one i still will be surprised if he is but it's great news to see that it's you know progressing in a manner that he is participating

If I had them on my team and I got that news, I'd be very encouraged. I mean, Alec Pierce is on Pup. Yeah. So, you know, they'll put a lot of players on there. The fact that they did not put Malik on there thus far, I think that's great news. But, yeah, Daniel Jones says he's going to be a full go to start training camp. Alec Pierce starts on the Pup list. He's a week or two away from returning, though, according to GM Chris Ballard. Tucker Kraft is starting on the Pups. So there's one that is not.

happening quite as fast, but we want to hear camp news about Kraft at some point. Mahomes fully cleared to practice. That's big news. He had comments about the fact that he ran the ball too much last year. That was how his fantasy value was really propped up. And he says he plans to hand the ball off to Kenneth Walker and let him go to work. I was reading more positive Walker news just about him spending a lot of time. Because you subs to my blog.

Walker only Walker.com Walker and Senate.com no the Walker news is just how much he's working on is receiving chops oh man and they do they do have some other people there that can catch the ball if they want to run them out there on third down but the Ken Walker situation when you look at what this team did in the draft the heavy heavy investments on a defense that was already a pretty well yeah not just draft I mean they traded their first

Right for McDuffie? Yeah, and there's just a decent chance that this team's recipe is... Or I'm sorry, they traded him away. Yes, but they... And then they were replacing him, yes, yes, yes, yes. They spent the first on another defensive player. But I don't know, I just feel like the identity of this team, we want to be like, oh, Mahomes is going to go deep again and find a bunch of... Like, that's not Rashi Rice's game. And who else? You got to wait for Cyrus Allen news to... I mean, the other receiving options...

Travis Kelsey close to line of scrimmage. Rashi Rice is going to be close to line of scrimmage. Thornton, baby. Yeah, exactly. So we're going to have. Thornton's going to play. He'll be their deep field stretcher. But I do agree that the majority of the work is going to be, you know, play defense, run the ball, pick up first downs in a slow methodical way. And, you know, you're not going to, I don't think you're going to be able to stop.

The offensive line is very good. You're not going to be able to stop Walker and Rice very easily. That combo of just like I can get, you know, I can get six yards all the time. Yeah, I think that if you want to protect Mahomes from himself, you get the ball out of his hands quickly. You run the football. You play defense. There you go. Rashi Rice is doing great, cleared to go, according to Andy Reed. Okay. Out of jail. Well, you get.

He was coming off an injury that we have to also remember. He's going to be really good if he's there and playing, which it seems like he will be. So if you want to buy low on rice, it might be the time. Kyle Shanahan suffered non-life-threatening injuries in a car accident last week. Crazy. It came out. He almost lost his eye. It's a very, very serious injury. This isn't like, oh, no, he got a fender bender. He's not going to be.

There's an interim head coach right now kind of taking over duties. I saw one report that there's no timeline on how long that is, including even the entire season. So this is something to really monitor. I would imagine Shanahan will, you know. I think he already made an appearance. Yeah, I mean, he's going to be there leading. But it's something to pay attention to. Yeah, for sure. George Kittle placed on Pupp to start training camp with the Achilles.

There's a report that Jordan James appears to be the team's RB2. So that's next man up behind Christian McCaffrey. He's playing ahead of Kalin Black. Gorando is infinitely on the IR. And yeah, we got news that Christian Kirk is dealing with a calf injury. I also saw news about, Christian Kirk is a 49er, by the way. Right this moment he is. And there's a lot of talk that I was seeing that he won't be on the roster. Really? Yes.

that they don't think I'll be there on day one. Interesting. DeJohn Stribling has been, I mean, very, very early into camp, but he's been doing good things. Brock Purdy's spoken very highly of him. So if you've got the young guns, and obviously they brought in Mike Evans as their veteran, maybe you don't need Kirk. And Brandon Ayuk remains on the left squad list. That would be he left the squad. But he did buy a home in Washington. And I thought I'd saw something about a tattoo. Was that real?

Oh, a tattoo by him about being on the commanders or something? Yeah. What is happening? He definitely has been on social media basically talking about how he is a commander. I don't know how real it was. I mean, who knows? He is currently a 49er, and the 49ers have all the cards. He can't just, he's not allowed to just be like, I'm not one anymore.

No, it's super weird. He's just going to show up. It's me, Washington commander, Brandon Ayuk. I think for another show, Harmon was tweeting out. He's like, there's a non-zero chance he shows up at camp. Oh, for sure. For the commanders. Yeah, right now while he's under contract for the 49ers. Yeah. All right. We want to jump right into the mock draft. It is a good time to remind you about the ultimate draft kit, which now has our new mock draft tool amongst all of our player rankings, our stat projections.

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It is a super mock draft, 12-team half-PPR super flex mock on the show today. So, yeah, we get a play around with two quarterbacks, two running backs, two wide receivers, a tight-in and a flex, four bench spots. Mike, you drew the first spot in the draft. I did. Jason drew the four spot. I'm at eight. And away we go. I have the first pick.

I know I'm pretty vocal about how I handle my strategy when it comes to quarterbacks. But if I have the first pick, I'm taking Josh Allen. Yeah, Superflex. You know, Mike, you've talked a lot about where you wait for your second one oftentimes. Or even my first one. It just comes down to the tiers of like, I'm not going to take a tier three quarterback over a tier one superstar at a different position just because I have to have two quarterbacks. I believe in...

figuring it out as the draft goes. After Alan Lamar Jackson goes to Kurt, the Borgogan. So there you go. Kyle's going Gibbs. Yeah, he took Jimmy or Gibbs at 103. Yeah, I don't blame him. I think that, you know, Gibbs being there, and I'm going to take Bijon here at four. I thought I was going to end up with Lamar Jackson. In a super flex, you do not have to have two quarterbacks. It's not a two quarterback league. It's a super flex. Obviously.

quarterback score more, you want to have two good quarterbacks. But when you can get an elite at any position, you take it. So I'm going to take Bijon here above my third ranked quarterback because Bijon is obviously in that elite of the elite tier at a very scarce position as well. Yeah, I mean, it makes sense. And we're on a run of non-quarterbacks here because of the value. Gibbs, Bijon to Jason. Then Puka and Chase go next. Cash money taking Drake May there.