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Jason Moore and Mike Wright. I am so afraid right now. Trust me, we're going to put some sauce on it. It's going to be incredible. Are you guys on some of those Richie Incognito mushrooms or something? They're watching me. The excitement is real. It's tangible. You can touch it. You can feel it. You can taste it. It's liberating, if I can be honest. It's just so freeing.

The amount of work that's poured in, it's a celebration day. You know, and look at this. Look at this. I know. You got one of the cheeses from the ultimate draft kit right out in front of you because today on the fantasy footballers podcast, we have. First time ever. We have a half point per reception, live mock draft, and we're going head to head to head.

Oh, I get my own team. It's going to be the best. Yes, and we'll put the teams on Twitter and Facebook and wherever, and we'll get some votes. You guys can choose the winner. And look, if that intro tells you anything, we are humble individuals when it comes to explaining the value of something. So yes, the ultimate draft kit is out tomorrow, though. If you haven't heard. My goodness. So if you don't have it now,

And you are happening to listen to this before it comes out. You can buy it at pre-sale pricing. Otherwise, it's still really cheap. The best bargain you got in the industry. It'll get you ready for your draft. Fantasy Football Calculator last year did an independent survey of league winners. And those that had purchased the ultimate draft kit were the majority of was the highest percentage of the winners is what I'm getting at there. Eloquently. Yeah, not very eloquently.

Again, very humbly, of course. But no, we're super excited about it. A lot of work goes into it. It will be updating all offseason. We're excited. Today, like I said, half point per reception mock. This is a first for two reasons. One, we have traditionally done these mock drafts because we felt like they were better, more easily consumable, as one team. We've shared a team. We've made those decisions together. Today we're going to head to head.

for the first time. We're also doing a half-point mock for the first time using Sleeperbot. The draft board we use for our first mock draft, it's great. You can jump in there. You can pause the draft. You can go, you know, you can invite people to watch. You can invite tons of people to participate. It's super easy. I literally had someone on Twitter a few days ago. They said, hey, now that you guys are using the Sleeperbot platform and you can each have your own team in a mock, are you going to do that? Yes. I gave him a little tip. I said, you might want to listen on Thursday.

Yeah, yeah, that's inside. I actually read about that, that tip on a burner account from Brian, Brian Colangelo, though. Oh, he let it leak a little while ago. Oh, given that insider info. I didn't even know this was a thing you could do. I want to create a bunch of accounts now. I want some to every time I make a, like last year when I was talking up Todd Gurley, you remember him? Yeah. And everyone was down and mocking me. I could have made burner accounts that were like,

No, give this guy a shot. He's pretty smart. Yeah, no, you got to prop yourself up. Wow, he dresses so nice for the show. I'll say to the camera, I have never ever heard of nor used a burner account. While you, you on Twitter, there's no validity to any of your accounts. I just want it known. I mean, you wouldn't. I'm on record. Do not look into Mike's burner accounts. They are not there. You wouldn't know which one of mics are burners or not. That's true. Not of them are verified. Dang it.

That's a problem. That's also, yeah, it's a sensitive topic around these parts. All right, quick question of the day before we get into our half-point mock draft. By the way, you can find us on Twitter at the FF Ballers. If you want to come vote on these teams, lots of players moving around the average job position will be fun. The fancy footballers.com is the website. Here's the quick question of the day. The Seattle Seahawks have made a blockbuster signing. Here's something I would have said.

if this had happened four years ago. Do we have the mediocre signing of the week drop? Oh, my goodness. It's been a really long time. You know what? If you stall for just enough time, I can try. All right. So the Seattle Seahawks. They signed somebody, right? They signed. Would you say that it was a regular signing or like a mediocre sign? No, probably a mediocre signing of the wig. You know.

People have said, don't forget your roots. If we didn't get that drop in there, we'll have lost ourselves. So Brandon Marshall announced on his own social media without much fanfare, we kind of forgotten Brandon Marshall was around, and now he's a Seattle Seahawk. He looked like a guy who had just walked out of the Seattle Seahawks team shop with a New Jersey.

It wasn't at a facility or anything. He's just holding up. He just got his hands out with a jersey. Have we heard from the Seahawks that this was actually a valid move? You know, it's ironic because there was a confirmation later that the physical actually had been passed and that this is a real thing. Yeah, well. Yes, he is a member of the Seattle Seahawks. So what does it mean? Yeah, that's the question of the day. Does it have any fantasy impact people want to know? Doug Baldwin? Yeah. Russell Wilson? I mean, the narrative that's hit in the streets.

is that, oh, we've got our Jimmy Graham replacement, right? We've got our goal line threat. Brandon Marshall, here we come. He's very tall. He is. He scored a lot of touchdowns. Scott Barrett out there, shout out, good friend of the show, tweeted out that, you know, historically speaking, efficiency in the red zone is not Brandon Marshall's bag. I will say this on Brandon Marshall. I think that he is.

I think he's washed. I really do. I mean, in the five games that he played last year, you know, this is a guy that's always been, you know, a really good yards per reception down the field guy. He was, you know, 8.6 yards a reception. He was, you know, 54% completion percentage. This is a guy where it literally crossed my mind as I restatted the Seahawks out, redistributed, you know, the stats to what I believe is going to happen. I thought, is it possible?

possible that this hurts Russell Wilson because I think that Brandon Marshall is going to get 60 plus targets and if those targets are you know if they're not separating if they're caught at a bad percentage you know that's that's not helpful now I didn't I didn't move Russell I did take a little bit extra away from Baldwin just from a target market share because he had I had him significantly higher than last year due to the I took a touchdown away from him yeah and and the thing is is that argument could be true

But you're not comparing Brandon Marshall to a bunch of other stalwart past catchers. You're comparing him to Geron Brown, who, by the way, was terrible last year from a catch percentage standpoint. And then unproven. Football standpoint. Yeah, and unproven players like Darbo and others. But is he better or worse at this point than Paul Richardson? I don't know. Look, Brandon Marshall is, I'm three days younger than Brandon Marshall.

Oh, so. Congratulations. I'm just saying that's where he's at. I will say number one, let's see Brandon Marshall make the team. First of all, I don't think that's a guarantee at this point. I'm not taking anything away from Doug Baldwin. For me, this is, this just could put a hindrance on the sleeper potential of Tyler Lockett and Amarro Darbo, but more so for Lockett, who seemed like he was.

pardon my pun, locked in as the wide receiver two. I will not pardoned. I will accept that pun. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, he was the player I moved the most. Lockett. Yeah, because I know when we talked about Tyler Lockett on the show, I just didn't see him as somebody that can really be much above the 45, 50, 55 catch range. So I had put him a little higher. You guys, you know. He was the only guy left. And that's how you do it. That's why in the offseason, that's why the, this is not just a blatant,

prop up of the ultimate draft kit, but whatever draft research you do, it doesn't matter whether it's the UDK or anything else. Stuff changes day by day. When Des Bryant signs somewhere and if he signed somewhere and you have to readjust your depth chart someplace, you have to make adjustments. Right now you project players a certain way and you take chances on, hey, I hope that team stays the way they are because it means a ton of targets for Michael Crabtree. But if Baltimore signed Des Bryant tomorrow, I'm not going to feel the same way about Michael Crabtree and that neither should you.

Correct. So, all right, reminder, fantasy for the people tour. Yeah! We're hitting the road. It's brought to you by draft, and you can find ticket information at ballerslive.com. If you're going to be in or around, and I define around as anywhere within about 1,000 miles, of Minneapolis, Dallas, Philadelphia, New York, or Phoenix this summer. Be there, Foot Clan. It's going to be fantastic.

For Clan Asimble. There's some special guest plan for these things. There will be water thrown on people. There will be giveaways. Oh, man. And they are hot. Some of these giveaways, I'm not going to spoil it just yet, but they are incredibly hot. And we're talking if you were to look at them, you would be pulling a Galileo staring at the sun and your retinas may burn out. Holy grail type stuff. Yes. I hope you choose wisely and I hope you choose to be.

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Ever! New smook boots! I love this podcast. All three hosts synced together like a perfect trio of condiments on a delicious fantasy football burger without any of the side effects of eating a real burger, i.e. feeling sleepy. Number one. So we don't make you sleepy. That's good. We are delicious like three condiments. What are three complimentary condiments? You better, no one better say relish.

I'm fine leaving it up. Yeah, I'm fine leaving it out. Don't besmirch it. Look, ketchup mustard are on there. I guess I can be the diced onions. That's fine. All right. Sounds all right. A Noots McBootz. I mean, one, that is a spectacular name. That is such a good username. Neut's McBootz. Try the lettuce wrap. Try the lettuce wrap. Try the lettuce burger. You won't be asleep. Oh, to just, yeah. Keto Mike says try the lettuce wrap. I guarantee it. Let's be honest. Andy's the lettuce. Right?

I'm the mustard. Who's the youngest condiment? That's the real question. What's the youngest? What's the hippest? What's the hippest? It's the lettuce. I was going to go complexion-wise. He's probably the mayonnaise. You know he's the pastiest. We need to move on quickly. The fantasy footballers mock draft. Look, when I grew up, my mom told me Steve Martin was really tan, and so I always aspired to be the exact same level.

One day. One day I could get there. All right. Sleeperbot mock draft time. Like I said, we do these over at sleeperbot.com. Check out their draft boards. Check out their news. It's all great stuff. We've used them for years. These are good guys. And my favorite thing is, you know, the draft board and the mock drafts and all the things you do over there, they just get better every single week. You always see one of those, my favorite thing as a former tech guy is seeing those.