Special Mock Draft: Zero RB vs Heavy RB - Fantasy Football Podcast

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Welcome to the podcast, the fantasy footballers podcast, if you're nasty. Oh, yeah. I am your host for today. Mike, the fantasy hitman, right? I'm joined by my best friend, Jason Moore. What's that best friend? How's your morning going? Oh, just two besties, you know, besting around. Yeah, I mean, what do best friends do? Mock draft. That's what you get your best friends together. You're like, let's talk some football.

Andy Holloway, our fearless leader, is off celebrating his wedding anniversary. So we said, okay, that's a pretty good reason to not be on the show. So we are currently joined by the Cardboard Bear extraordinaire, Jay Gris. Yes, thank you for being here. Jay Gris. He's just going to hang out for a little bit. But as Jason said, today is a mock draft show, and it is a special mock draft show.

Because usually you hear our thought process on picks, breaking down our draft strategy. But this one, we are going with a predetermined draft strategy heading into it. Jason is going to take a running back heavy approach. Which is, I think, good for this year. Like I've had, you know, we always say stay water and, you know, talk about.

letting the draft come to you. But as I have let the draft come to me so far this year, there's been a lot of times where I go RB heavy early. And I will be taking a zero RB, perhaps a modified zero RB type of approach. And we'll see how the teams shake out. I mean, we'll put it up for the Foot Clan. They can vote on who they like or whose team they like more.

You can follow us on Twitter at the FF Ballers. If you want to follow Jason for all of his incredible insights at Jason FFL. I'm at FF Hitman. Hey, are you on the Instagram? You're doing the old pictures? Check us out. We are on there as well. Fantasy footballers. If you want to watch the show, which is the mock draft, we will have the board up showing, you know, who's available in those things. If you want to follow along, YouTube.com slash.

the fantasy footballers. Jason, the quick question of the day comes from Instagram. Trevor wants to know, what is something simple you can do to take your fantasy football performance to the next level? It's a great question because everyone gets every single fantasy football player at some point asks this question to themselves. If they're new and they're good, what's something simple I could do to take it to the next level? I think it's pretty simple.

to listen to this podcast year round. I mean, that's a very simple. It's, it's enjoyable. It's entertaining. We're going to take it to the next level. But look, they're already listening. So first congratulations. I would say that there are two different things depending on who you are. Those two quick tips. If you are someone that is newer and you're just getting started.

Ironically, my tip would be to do mock drafts. Mock drafts help you be prepared for your draft. And you don't win the championship of the draft, but you build a foundation for it. And if you mock a couple times before your live draft, I find that I'm always better prepared and less tilty because I'm prepped for what happens when I lose player X that I wanted in round Y. You know, it's like I'm not when I lose that player. Very algebraic. Oh, yeah, man. I'm all about that math life.

You know, I'm just not worried when things that I don't want to have happen happen. But if you're the player that you're good, but you need to take it to the next level, you just don't get over the championship hump. You're a playoff contender year and year out, but middling, I know that was my problem. My biggest recommendation to you is off season. So it's hard to implement now. But when...

or if your team fails towards the end of the season, don't stop, you know, taking in a little bit of news. Don't stop watching the games and ignoring everything because what happens is so many of these players break out at the end of every season and coming into the next year. You just aren't up on it enough and your foundation isn't strong for that following season. Yeah, in my tip, it's really just echoing what Jason had said. It's paying attention.

not being on autopilot, all of a sudden it's Tuesday night, and you go, oh, crap, I got to put my waivers in. Who am I looking at? Like, pay attention to that stuff, you know. Roto World is incredible. Like, they're an incredible news platform. Have them on your muscle memory of, of a site you just visit every day. And you, and you were staying plugged in, not checking out during the week. That's, that's honestly the biggest thing you can do. And it's very simple. Just staying.

plugged in you got any other tips i think that's we should have a whole show on tips oh we will so stay tuned we'll have a whole we yeah we tend to do those types of tips and tricks show but yes plenty of them do not forget the ultimate draft kit our our baby it is available it is alive and you can enjoy it all off season where it will be updated uh as news breaks and things change

It is available right now. UltimateDraftKit.com. A dollar from every UDK goes to St. Jude Children's Hospital. Fantastic organization that we love to be able to support. Let's get into the news. News and notes from around the league. All right. It's a little bit light on the news. You know, just a couple fluff pieces. But I think the biggest piece of news, AJ Green signed his franchise tag.

He's going to report on time. I mean, there weren't there weren't really doubts, but it was still a possibility. But AJ Green, he's signed. He says he's going to report to training camp on time. He also has said, Jason, he wants to play four more years. Sure. Yeah. No, I would too. If I was AJ Green and I love football, I'd want to, I'd want to play 14 more years.

But it's not always up to the player who wants to continue their career. Sometimes it just doesn't work out. Hopefully it does. I've always been an AJ Green fan in general, not necessarily for fantasy the last year and a half. But I'm doubting he has four more years. Yeah, it's a tough call, if he will or not. A.J. Green is, he's a wild player this year, man. The range of outcomes of if AJ Green is back and healthy,

And Burrow is the quarterback that they hope they took at the number one overall pick. We will all be kicking ourselves for his ADP. Speaking of a player who's a bit lower in ADP, who may have, may be rising in Jason's rankings. Yes. Oh, man, we will. So we got, Owl Borland is running the soundboard. So everyone who just tried to dodge a train, send all tweets to app producer Borland.

But anyways, the point I'm talking about, Ronald Jones, the hype train piece came through that. He has added six to eight pounds of muscle. Apparently, he weighs 225. Now, allegedly, we have, we had the pleasure of meeting Ronald Jones. I'm not sure how that's fitting on his frame. Like, he's, he's not, he's just not built as a big dude. But anyway, so he's added muscle. He's ready for the workload.

But Jason, the reason I want to talk about Ronald Jones is because you are having a bit of a change of heart. I am genuinely having a bit of a change of heart. You know, like we said at the top of the show, we want to stay water. When we like a guy or we dislike a guy, early career, DeVantza Freeman, you know.

wasn't necessarily someone we were high on. Obviously, we changed when, you know, when, when he changed and no longer sucked. When I look at Ronald Jones is changing right now. Ronald Jones is changing. And this report saying put on six to eight pounds of muscle, you know, it's, it's not always, you know, that do you want your running backs to add weight to lose weight, your water receivers to add weight to lose weight? I think it's.

That was not important to me. I do like the fact that he's not, you know, this 205 pound back that came in out of college trying to be a workhorse. But the actual report, if you read the entirety of it, showing his training, he has basically moved to Arizona to live with his trainer. He's training all day every day. He's taking, you know, the uphill sprints, 100-yard uphill sprints, multiple reps. He is...

I mean, look, when I look at the life of the world right now in COVID season, I often think to myself, to my, I've got multiple selves. Oh, man. I think to all of me. It's quite the admission. Yeah. This is going to kind of show who's.

lazy and who you know the teams are teams are large uh you know a ton of players in the NFL not everyone is the hardest working guy out there but those who are willing to put in the work on their own when the the they can't be at the camp they can't be with the team um

are going to thrive and looking at the amount of work he's been doing this off season, catching the $300 machine, Jason. We got Jugs machine hype. I know, but he needs it. He needs to catch 300 balls a day because that was one of my issues with him. And that's why I was excited about Kishon Vaughn coming in is because Tom Brady is going to throw the ball to the running back. I know that for sure. So who is the past catching running back? It has not been Ronald Jones so far in his career.

But that's not to say he can't improve on that. He's been working hard. And I, you know, I mentioned this a couple weeks ago. I went back. I watched about half of Ronald Jones season. I was a little bit more impressed than, you know, my initial opinion on him. So I am rising a little bit. I changed his stats. I gave him a little bit more of the workload.

Over Kishon Vaughn, who I had ranked higher than Ronald Jones, and those flipped recently for me. So if you've been logging into the ultimate draft kit and you saw a change is based upon this report and just looking deeper into it. Ronald Jones is definitely a higher priority target for teams that start off wide receiver and tight and heavy because of what Ronald Jones could be in a system that is led by Tom Brady. He could.

He could easily end up being a top 20 running back. It's nice to have Jason on board with that theory. It hurts my brand, man. You know, because when Ronald Jones was coming out as rookie and I had that eye procedure and the infamous sunglasses episode where I could say what I really believe. And I just flat out called him a bust. That was really good for my brand because he sucked his whole rookie year. But I can't just stay.

to that because I was right once. I think that Ronald Jones will have fantasy value this year. I think that that really kind of wraps up the news. There's not really a ton of other solid stuff to talk about. The NFLPA and the NFL, they're still trying to figure some stuff out. Hopefully they do, and we can get the players into training camp as safe as humanly possible. Before we get into the mock draft, want to thank today's sponsor. Look, are you trying to take your own personal game to the next level?