Fantasy Football - Mock Draft Episode + Leader of the Pack - Podcast for 8/6

and then you have Reed, and then you have Watson, and then you have Kraft. Like you look at that, that's five names, not Matthew Golden. Is there a chance that the Matthew Golden storyline is just not that much opportunity? I know we say targets are earned, but as a rookie, those are five names that are pretty big names. And they ran the ball. It was a Josh Jacobs' offense. Sure. I think Jacobs and like the question of what is this offense going to be? Does Jacobs still have enough?

You know, things kind of petered out at the end of last year. Yes, there were injuries, of course, but Jacobs is an older running back and wasn't super efficient. I mean, he was scoring tons of fantasy points. It's just can, you know, is there a step loss? That's, that's a, it is a fair question, I think, to ask. I've got Christian Watson by far as the leader. And my second choice, assuming you're not counting.

Tucker Kraft, because we're just talking to the wide receiver. Yeah, it's, I would. I'd take the shot on Golden. Yeah, it's surprising. Jane Reid's in year four. Matthew Golden only played 53% of the snaps last year. It felt like, oh, he was out there not doing anything because he played most of the games, but he was not a full-time player. No. So he has a huge opportunity to improve. That was. Oh, you got hit. Matthew Golden got. I feel like I just got smash in the face.

I was trying to transition there, Al. Yeah, the timing wasn't ideal. I just feel like when Packers are being brought up on this show, you kind of lose your head a little.

bit. Is that fair? My figure was hovering over that button for a long time. I felt like I was patient, but then I was too patient. Then you're like he's closing the segment. It's now or never, boys. You were hovering over the button and found the worst possible time. Yeah? How did you do that? Let's try it again. That was leader of the pack presented by PetSmart. Visit your local PetSmart store. Go to pet smart.com today. PetSmart anything for pets. News and notes from around the league.

Gosh, he hits the drops like Josh shoots a basketball. You know what I mean? Oh, all right, dude. All right. Dude. Can we get it on the back wall? Oh, my gosh. No, no. This is. I hate you guys so much. The problem is the video is so much worse than the photo, which is terrible. I mean, it's not great. This is a pod. I mean, most people listen. Josh, I'm on your, I wouldn't.

Oh, I don't, you know, you can show it. I got no shit. Listen, the, we need to shame him. I just surveyed our audience. The majority still listens, Josh. So you're in good, you're, we can't really convey. Oh, we can, we can convey it. It's bad. I can convey it. You know how bad Jeremy's timing was with that button? Josh's shot is worse. Way worse. We were filming something for the Phoenix Suns yesterday and we had to do a little.

A little, uh... We did a little basketball competition in the office with one of those behind the door basketball hoops. And we all took took some shots. And then everyone did pretty well, got to go close. Mike is like, for Mike to maybe say he doesn't want to show it. It's that bad as much. It's telling you that Mike's sense of, Mike doesn't have a sense of protecting somebody's shame. It was like the first time anyone has ever thrown a ball.

He tried to shoot it like he throws an axe. If you ask yourself, the ball hit the wall on the right. If you ask yourself, hey, what happens if I shoot with the opposite hand? It's twice as bad as that. So if we get it, we'll throw it up on the screen. Oh, gosh. I'm sorry for the audio. Oh, yes. I mean, the hoop is right in front of it. The hoop is straight. Can we run that back please? Oh, yeah. Let's see this one more time. Oh, you.

I don't even know if they understand where the hoop is. YouTube.com slash the fantasy footballers to experience and share in the shame of Papa Josh, who we love. First bit of news. The commander signs Stefan Diggs to a one-year deal worth up to $12 million. He's 32, almost 33 years old. That puts him in the nearly Devante Adams, Mike Evans category age-wise. Diggs is not the player he once was.

But he did have 102 targets, 85 catches, 1,000 yards, four touchdowns in New England. It's wild to think that he, you know, it's like, I already knew it, so it's not surprising now. But when I was going through the stats early in the off season, it was like, wow, Diggs had a thousand yard season. He did. Just felt like, where was that? It started slow. It started slow. And the, if you drafted Diggs, like, I did. I drafted him late. And we got to like week three. And it was the wide receiver 16 in fantasy football last year. Is it going to catch on?

Then it did. Are you drafting digs? I'm not drafting digs. Well, I'm not opposed to it. Here's what I love about it. I love it for Jaden Daniels. I've been so worried about, I mean, the departure of, you know, you bring in a Conquo, we don't know what that rapport is like. He had a rapport with Zach Kurtz. McLaren, he's also, I mean, they have, they've got some age.

Sure. At the wide receiver room. Antonio Williams being there, this feels like the necessary kind of like stabilizing piece of a wide receiver room that gives me more confidence that Jaden Daniels can perform week in week out in the past. 100%. This is year two off of the ACL. I was statistically high on Jaden Daniels, but like emotionally scared out of my mind. So I mean, Jaden's really high in our ranking. So this is good. And I don't mind you taking a shot on Diggs later in the draft.

I think that he could have some PPR value. It's probably not going to be, you know, 1,013 yards and 17 games. That is not a high number, but it's not irrelevant either. I think it really hurts the, if you were. It's about 59 yards a game. If you were in Oconquo, bro, I think that this is a massive down.

arrow for that situation. Or an Antonio Williams truth. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, you're right, Mike, the short area targets, the stuff that they're going to fight over it now. Washington had the highest, second highest vacated target sharing the NFL, so there's room for digs. Jonathan Taylor and the Colts have reached an agreement on a two-year extension includes $39 million guaranteed. He had... Good for you, man. He had been paid, and then he wanted to get paid some more, and they said, all right, we're not going to fight this time. Get dash money. Yeah. I mean, two-year extension, a bunch of guaranteed money. That means Bijon.

Jonathan Taylor. And then the latest report on Jemir Gibbs is that he is both going through the walkthrough and when someone asked him if the contract extension was close, he threw him a thumbs up. So I think today, tomorrow, this week, Gibbs should get paid as well. Josh Jacobs. Oh!

That was wild. Wow. He's not practicing because of a groin injury. A severe one according to Jason. Yeah. Well, I hadn't seen this news yet. And the fact that he's on my League of Record team, it hurts me in my groin. It's unsurprising. So that was just guttural. Yeah. So so far, just to be clear, let me just count down the League of Record running back room for you. Lost Jonathan Taylor. Lost Jonathan Taylor. Who got that money? Yeah, you lost him in the Keeper lottery. Just got paid. Correct.

You have Travis A. Chan Jr. Correct. Who we just found out Camara's going to take third down. Yeah, I'm not a big fan of. And then we have Josh Jacobs, who he's had an offseason that's led to a. Yeah. Okay. You're doing great. Mm-hmm. 2027. Here we come. Yeah. Todd Bowles says he's unsure when Jaylen McGillan will return to practice. Banged his knee a couple days ago. Tess Johnson.

This is just a reason for Mike to... Okay, what is that? Oh, we got a drop? Yeah! Okay. Oh, we got multiples. Oh, so we got Ted Hurst all up in this place. Ted Fred, Durst, Hurst, there I am. So Ted Hurst. The only reason I don't like the drop books is I enjoy saying more than... Yeah, I don't know if I'll go over to... Ted Hurst is, I mean, he's a talented...

big bodied outside wide receiver. He's going to compete with Jamie McMillan. Come on. If McMillan is hurt. It's just an interesting name to keep your eye on. I don't even know if you should be necessarily drafting him with your last pick. But if he, you know what happens if you draft him? You get to do that. Yeah. It is fun. Matthews, and I really liked the tape. I was a Ted Hurst believer before the draft and I thought he landed. Even before the bit. I thought he landed in a great spot.

in trying to replace, you know, not replicate, but come into the place where Mike Evans just vacated. So it's interesting because McMillan was having a good camp and Tess Johnson was having a good camp. But there have been positive reports from Todd Bowles, from others about Ted Hurst. So just pay attention to that. Do we call him, Ted? Not what you said. Do we go Ted Fred Dursthurst? Yes. So I wrote it this morning both ways. And I was like,

I don't like Ted Fred. I don't like Ted Hurst, Fred Durst. Oh, come on. Ted Durst? I don't know, man. Fred Durst. There it is. I think we keep workshop. You know what time it is. Keep on rolling, baby. We're going to take a break, and then we're going to mock draft.

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I don't know if I've had a mock at the top like that. Kyle and Betz right after me, Mike and Jason back at 8 and 9 in the draft, and we've got the writers and the editorial staff and team here on board. Papa Josh, Al Borland, also in the draft. All live picks here on the show. It is time to get this thing going. And I'm going to take the guy that has not gotten the check just yet, but he's going to be my 101 this year.