Live Mock Draft! + Beard Powers, Getting the Tilt Out! - Fantasy Football Podcast for 5/20

I mean, if he had to grow facial hair. Just it doesn't happen. But if you can, I feel like this is a Spider-Man with great power comes great responsibility. Sure. If you can grow a beard, how do you not at least once in your life see what your face can do? Maybe see what you're made of. Maybe he has. And maybe that wasn't a good journey. Well, maybe that journey was scary. Or maybe he can't. Yeah. And then I'm moving him down to my rankings. Yeah, for sure. I'm, you know, I'm going to add that to this. I'm going to sell.

the Stafford beard because we haven't seen it. Clearly we have, I mean, Al Borland's sending me pictures of Stafford beard and clearly I've just blocked this out of my mind. He had a beard? Oh, he had a full-owned beard. He had a beard? Oh, he's got a big beard. It's not, but it doesn't look as good as fits. There's no way. No, all right. Yeah, you got to sell that beard. He had a beard? That's by herself from pristine auction. Oh, that's because that's, he's rocking a Lincoln.

Yeah, it was too wide. Not my choice. No, no, no. The, uh, the, uh, the, oh, no, no, no, the, you got to, the, you got to have the full, the full mustache for the beard to look good. All beard mustache. Um, or maybe he's just got a blonde mustache. It's really difficult to tell in that picture. Um, anyways, that was, he should die it. Jason, you can tell him about that. Yeah. Oh, yeah. You got to, you got to, you got to stay young, Stafford. Um,

That was by yourself from pristine auction. Pristineauction.com. Use the registration code ballers when you sign up to make an account on pristine auction. You'll get a $10 credit. News and notes from around the league. Presented my sleeper. Breaking news, Matthew Stafford had a beard. And none of us remember it. I don't feel like that was the... Matthew Stafford did have a beard. That was the friendliest Matthew Stafford segment we've ever had. Stafford has received plenty of love on this show. Can you go backwards cap with a beard?

You can do that. Yeah. I've been on this show many times with a backwards cap. He literally, just so you know, literally in the picture you just looked at with him. Get a backwards cab. He's got a backwards cab on. So yes. Here's some news for you. Why can't we remember anything about Matthew Stafford? Who? This is big news, guys. Oh. Adam Schefter reporting Joe Burrow. All systems go for week one. Yeah.

No, that's great. That's really important good news. I looked deeper into this report to see where it's coming from and what they're doing with the knee. And they are really, really, I know it's always like we joke on this show about everyone is always ahead of the timeline. Is he ahead of schedule? He's always ahead of the timeline ahead of the schedule because the schedule is bad because if everyone is ahead of schedule, that's not the real schedule. But they're using, you know, this is.

This is the number one pick in the NFL. They are pulling out all the strings, all the stops. They're talking about his recovery, his dedication to it. And I believe he'll be ready to go week one. Now, that being said, when you are ready to go week one for complete full go, that is like preseason is not that. So.

You're not really fully mentally and reps-wise ready to go week one. Even if physically your knee could take it, you're going to be the starter out on the field. He's not going to get normal pre-season in, a normal training camp. So I do expect a slower start, but I think he starts 17 games or at least starts week one. Jason tweeted that one team he could see Julio Jones being traded to is the Colts.

and the fact that T.Y. Hilton a little over the hill, maybe. He hasn't stayed healthy. Pittman is yet to establish himself beyond the single route. We watched him run all year long. And this guy, Paris Campbell, who now says he is 100%, has been hurt for two consecutive years. Now, he was heavily involved last year at the beginning of the season. For that game? For that game. And the thing is, it's really not.

We all have high hopes and had high hopes for Paris Campbell. But when you do this, Burchard Perryman, when you do this multiple times, you don't get the same opportunity because the team isn't going to rely on you in their game planning. So I am worried about Paris Campbell's opportunity as much as I am as health. Yeah, when you're on Team Paris Campbell on this podcast and then someone is not, specifically me, Jason Moore.

And then you're, and then Jason is right just de facto because we haven't seen Paris Campbell. It's very frustrating. I can't even imagine how frustrating it is for Paris, the man. Probably at least as much as you. Maybe a little more. I'll give him a little, a little dash more. But I believe in the player. I believe in the skill set of Paris Campbell and if he could just stay healthy.

that he would be incredibly involved. Well, Jason and I have been meaning to tell you this, and I'm going to speak for us both, Jay. Okay. We were dead right about the Blake Jarwin bus season. Oh, yeah, you did. You got me. You did. That's right. That one felt pretty good. Yeah. Nailed it. Home run. Antonio Brown. What's great about Blake Jarwin is that you also dunk on us because of Dalton Schultz's a success. Yeah.

As though. No one can be wrong. It's great. Antonio Brown had some knee surgery. Is that true? Yes. And so he's got to pass his physical before he can officially sign, but he is, you know. So Tom Brady also had knee surgery. These are not big, you know, ACL tear. Sounds like the key to a Super Bowl. You get some stems plugged in there? Probably. Can I get some leaves? If it's Brady, there's definitely some greenery going into those knees. Do they water him at night?

Yes, he wakes up. He sleeps in the soil. He might sleep in the soil. The plant man. A big pot. Where's my plant man, Al? Oh, man. All right. That was today's news and notes. Presented, as always, by our good friends at Sleeper, who also are bringing you the mock draft today. Indeed, we will be drafting today on the Sleeper platform. And before mock and the lock a ding-dong time, fellas. Mock. Yeah. I didn't know where you were going, man.

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because he declared a 2020 mockalock a ding-dong champion, and he said Mike won last year's mock draft. Oh, that's nonsense. But here's what the problem is. That you lost? Well, certainly. But, yeah, I would have a different view point. But the problem is, is that we don't mock draft to win the mock draft. We actually, one of the reasons these shows exist and why we discuss these picks live and do a live mock draft is because we often experiment with.

the way you form your team. We are taking different chances on different picks. We are seeing what a team looks like when you go this direction, RB heavy, or you go this direction, wide receiver heavier, or a tight end early. So I just want to say that's the goal. The goal is to experiment and to see a lay of the land to give you guys out there who are listening a bit of insight about what's taking place right now with average draft position and to help. Yeah, if you have not.

put mock drafting into your personal arsenal it's just it's fun to do you could do it as sleeper and it is really advantageous it allows you to be prepared for oh what if this tier of quarterback doesn't go to where i where i want to draft what is my pivot going to be if this if if this player falls to me and i really you know i wouldn't usually take them but they came so low what does my team look like so mock drafts and it's just fun to do you get the tilt out

Yeah, you get the tilt out. Exactly. You tilt less if you mock draft more. Trademark. We're at a spot in this draft where I feel like you need a lot of experience. I'm already tilted. Why don't you give a lay of the land what we're doing in terms of the format? So we are drafting a team. It's two running backs, two wet receivers, one flex, a tight end and a quarterback. It's half PPR, our preferred format. We are at the eighth spot.

And the eighth spot to me, right around that like 8, 9, 10 range is really, really difficult to me this year. You see the beginning of the first round are all the running backs you would expect. In fact, in this mock draft, here's the beginning of the first round. Christian McCaffrey, no surprise. It went Camara, Barkley, Derek Henry, Dalvin, Cook, Ezekiel Elliott, and Nick Chubb. So those running backs are off the board. First seven picks, all running backs. And now we're at pick eight. Do we pick the eighth best running back?

or the best wide receiver or the best tight end. There's a lot of different ways you can go. This is why we're mock drafting. See what happens here. 12-team snake draft. We're at number eight. Jason just laid it out. Now it might not be who we think is the eighth best running back. Jonathan Taylor is still on the board. Devante Adams at wide receiver, Tyreek Hill, who I know are top two in some order. And then you brought up the fact that, you know, that dream scenario the other day of Travis Kelsey being somehow.

your second round pick now that normally happens when you're around the turn. But it could happen here. And to me, I mean, we're all in this very bizarre world of is Aaron Rogers a Green Bay Packer? Because there are two picks that completely makes sense here if he is. Devante Adams, that's a great pick. He's the number one wide receiver. Aaron Jones has been incredible the past couple years. But.