Fantasy Football - Draft Day Predictions + Storytime - Podcast for 4/24

Welcome to the fantasy footballers podcast with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Oh, welcome in. Oh, Jason. What is that face? Oh, man. What is that? My face is the face of disappointment. For the, what, it's draft time? It's draft day. It's draft day. It's literally the draft day. He would have to say, it's draft day time. No, just it's draft day. That works. It's draft day. No, I would have to, I would have had to extend it out and that would have sound like giraffe. You have said far worse things. Oh, I know. I know. It's giraffe time. But then I reigned it in. Wow, I think there's a disappointment in the air. Well, yeah, the YouTube comments shall rain fire down upon you. That's fine. Oh, man. That's fine. It is the NFL draft today. I get it. I get, look, when there is something that is so special.

that you need to have a gatekeeper. And apparently I have to be the one. Protect the sensitivity of his football time. It's what Disney couldn't do with Star Wars. They didn't. Right. They released too many. Yeah. I went old school Disney. It's football times in the vault. Yeah. Until Thursday. When you have some. I'm on team Mike. No. No. I don't need 75 different Star Wars shows. Okay. Hold up. How many times a year is the NFL draft? Once. That's not what it's rare enough. It's not what it's known for. Oh, man. It's known for football time. Not walk on a stage and take a jersey time. Well, it's the NFL draft and the time is now. No matter what. We're excited. Thursday, April 24th, it's draft day. We are going to make all of our predictions on today's show. It's a special very early release of this episode so that everybody can get into the.

draft day spirit with us. And so I'm very excited. We have a giveaway. We just announced it on Tuesday. You can still get in on it. We're giving away a listener league spot. We want you to come and play with us in the listener league, which is, you know, we only give a couple of these away and it's very special. Yeah, most of the listener league spots that we have will announce at some point later towards the season where and when you can send your submissions to like apply for the listener league. And a lot of times people are like, I don't have, I can't make a cool, funny video to, you know, win my submission. So we give away a couple spots as well. And so this is one of the big ones, the draft day giveaway. We have a listener league entry, a signed Jamar Chase mini helmet, a signed. Give me there. Baker, Mayfield, Jersey. And to enter, you just need to have ordered the UDK or become an ultimate foot clan member.

before Sunday, April 27th. So the Ultimate Draft Kit, it is the premier tool to dominate draft day, every tool and resource and projection and, you know, player profile videos and everything will be a part of it. And that is Ultimate DraftKit.com. Anybody that's ordered so far, you're already entered to win, so don't worry about that. If you have the Dynasty Pass, look, the big update will be. coming very soon, but we know that people want to get into rookie drafts as soon as possible because that's where we are. We like to start those things Sunday or Monday at the latest. So rookie ranks of the update, those will be up as soon as we can possibly get them up. And we have a live stream. We will be answering your questions and reflecting on the first round that happens tonight. We'll be doing that tomorrow, Friday.

Ballerslive.com 6 p.m. Eastern, 3 p.m. Pacific, an hour before round two, taking your questions, probably do some more giveaway stuff on there, and kind of reflecting our quick reactions to round one and everything that transpired and how we got all of the predictions right. When you say we, you mean mine. Because they're different than yours, so we can't both get them correct. That's probably true. That's probably true. All of our draft predictions on today's show for all the major players that are in a position, which is a lot of fun. We got the news, but we got to get into our quick question. It's an important one. Wait a minute. We're going at the top of the show. Look, we promised you a story two episodes ago. We said, hey, production team, put it in our show doc, remind us that we need to tell the story of what happened here with...

The Falcon who's sitting over there in kind of a muddled shame. Shadowing his face. And guess what? We forgot to tell you about this story. No, no, no, no. Because the guilty party. No. Stole. Did you not hear this part? What? He took it out of the showdown. Are you kidding me? And he's done it three times. Why is he sitting here? He's done it three times. Why has he not been fired? We are the most. gracious, just grace-filled employers of all time. This man should not. We're so humble. This man should not be working here. The real team, the real crack team. He really? They were putting it in. He deleted it out of the. We thought the deucers were messing up. But no, the, the Falcon was stealing it out of the show, Doc. Oh, hoping that if you did it, speaking of stealing. Speaking of the Falcon, stealing.

From this company, that's the story. So the great story is Jason and Mike were out of town. They were in Chicago, keynoting the podcast Evolutions conference, just trying to move our company forward so we can provide for all of our employees. We're away from the families. We're like we're putting working hard for the podcast industry for to employ people like the Falcon. And we get a message from Andy. Here's the truth. I try to be a really fiscally responsible. you know, leader of the company. Again, just so I can provide for our employees so we can be efficient and effective. And I just happen to, uh, now one of the things that we do here every day. It's how we build the team is we, we buy lunch for everybody every day. And most of the time that's through DoorDash. So we, we, we, every day everybody puts an order in. We got, you know, the, the, the Falcon and Papa Josh and Al and the three of us and our dev team and, and Jake. And.

You know, we're ordering every day, DoorDash, DoorDash, DoorDash. And I, you know, I go and I look at our credit card statement. I'm like, these are just, you know, DoorDash, DoorD, and then I go, wait a minute, something's wrong. Yeah, there's some, there's some weird. charges. And I start asking poor Al over there, I go, are you accidentally using the company card for your personal home door to? Were you doing that? No, sir. Yeah, we were in Chicago. We get the message. Hey, my, Andy, did you guys order whatever it was? Shake shack. Yeah, do you order shake? Some places that I don't. I don't remember getting them for lunch. There's no shake shack next to me. I wish. Did we ever get shake shack here at the office? No, never got shake. Huh, there's a bunch of shake shack. But shake check was certainly ordered on our car. Yeah.

And a bunch of places. Well, and so then Andy just goes to work. I was like, I got to find. Well, who's it? Who is this? Yeah, these two orders. Someone ordered on our company card two times, couple of times. Shake shack and some places like the pokey bar. And like that has that it definitely happens to us. Oh, yeah. And we're like, you cut you do when it's the three of us, we have a walk of shame. We're like, I owe the company $60. And we go put it on the whiteboard. You're like. And we pay the company back. I mean, we're up stand up guys. Stand up guys. And then suddenly it begins to unravel. You know who knows all of these places? BJ's restaurant and pokey bar and shake shack. There's one individual in the office that does know. He's like, oh, I like all those places. He's like, I'm very familiar. Turns out. Foot Clan.

The string. Andy just kept pulling the string on the sweater. The string of fraud. And I keep pulling it. And lo and behold, for this is as of like two weeks ago, all the way back to last August. The Falcon has somehow left our company card in his personal door dash. Somehow. For six months. 48 orders. 40. It's not like you. How did you not be like, man, this is free. I've never getting charged. $2,082.36. You used our card 48 times and didn't notice. It would have been 48 more guys. Oh, 1,000 to more. I mean, he clearly does not pay attention. I found this much to his benefit.

Because he, you know, he cut us a check. Yeah. The next. Oh, yeah. He was loaded. He's like, man, I've had free food for months. That's an easy check to write. But imagine if this had happened. And it would have been hard. It would have been hard to see because we order DoorDash for the company every day. Yeah. And that, you know, and lo and behold, so we, we definitely gave him a hard time. We found out which places he orders that. He most often ordered 34% of his orders were Monday. Oh, yeah. We charted this up. Sunday was 20% of his orders. What was the most popular restaurant there? It was shake, Shaq. Was it shake, shake, shake? I have to drive 20 minutes to it now, so. I get that. There's a lot of interesting things on here, which I'm going to call out the most shameful.

Uh-oh. 4.5% is McDonald's. Yeah. And I'm not clowning on McDonald's. But there's got it's got to be pretty close to you. Yeah, it's not far. 5.6% Taco Bell. I mean, I promise you're two minutes away from both of those places. You could just go get it right now. And I mean, yeah, but then he would have to use his real card. Right. That's true. He doesn't have our company card on him. So that's a no question. Because it's been two weeks since you were outed. Have you put our company card back on your account yet? Not yet. Okay. He has also stopped ordering. I think it was more of an intervention that happened because I think he deleted the app. Oh, good for you. Good for you. It wasn't even his company card. It was mine. That's right. They'll never catch me. They'll think it's Jeremy. They want he wanted to bury you. I guess. Andy was asking if it was my wife. He's like, is any chance? I was like, who's? Is this? Does your wife order 48 times in the last?

oh my goodness falcon again how is he here how is he how is he working here uh we we you know we looked into it and he's just an idiot yeah that that is what yeah nothing investigation not the results that guilty that's being a moron that wasn't nothing nefarious right it's just dumb he's just dumb any final words i mean you have anything you want to weigh in on for the Hundreds of thousands of people that are watching you get bodied right now? Nah, I'm an idiot. So there's your story and here's some news. News and notes from around the league. He was deleting it out of the show, Doc. He did not want his shame brought to the Zer. I didn't even know that. I was like, how did we keep forgetting? He deleted it out. Goodness gracious. Crafty, crafty guy. All right. A schemer.

Um, yeah, hopped up on McDonald's. All right. We have some news. Christian McCaffrey participating in the offseason program with no restrictions. Okay. George Kittle not reporting for voluntary OTAs once. He might want some schmoney. Once the shmoney wants some contract adjustments. And Purdy is not yet under a new contract either. Purdy is in camp. But he did show up to the volunteers. Which is a good sign that that negotiations are getting close. James Cook did not report once that's schmoney. Yeah. It's that time of year. Hold on it, guys. These are. Oh, wait. Hold on. What? What are we have? Breaking news. We have an additional little tidbit coming in from another employee. This is coming in from one of our dev team. Apparently the Falcon tried to bribe Schneider to remove the slack reminder.

So we wouldn't mention it on the show today. Oh, my God. What was the bribe? A free round of golf. Oh, my goodness. Oh, it's a real bribe. Unfortunately, due to us taking his ability to buy free food, he has no money to bribe with. The rest of us being honorable men. All right. The Saints picking up the fifth year option on Crystal Lave. Jalen Warren, who we expected to, signed a one year $5.3 million contract. He had been a restricted free agent with a second round tender. Second round tender, yeah. And then we have Diana Rossini reporting the Brown Steelers and Vikings are the most likely suitors for Kirk Cousins. I can't believe the Vikings are even being mentioned there. Yeah, it is, it is surprising. In that in that mention, it was said that that's the least likely of the destinations. He wants to go. I mean, it's been reported that, you know, he has to basically approve the destination. Right. He doesn't want to go to a place with a young.

uh promising quarterback and so obviously he doesn't want to be benched for a second year quarterback yeah he doesn't want uh what happened this last year to happen again so maybe that's why i know and do you think that this is pretty much a done deal to the browns you've been saying this for a long time just setting up my own moment on the show to be wrong but yeah or or to be right but when i read this report i was thinking you know it makes a lot of sense if you're kirk cousins and you have to approve the destination to say

Let's wait until after the draft. I don't want to go get traded to the Browns and then they pull the trigger, you know, Shador slips to the second round and they pull the trigger. You know, it's like. Well, and time only benefits the teams that are trying to add Kirk Cousins as their starter because it wears down the demands of the Falcons and how much salary compensation. Because the last thing, I mean, the Falcons can play hardball, but the last thing on earth they want. is backup Kirk Cousins, legitimately, because that is a huge problem, distraction, turmoil in the locker room, what happens if Pinnock struggles to start the season, all of that stuff. That is, Kirk Cousins will not play for the Falcons this year. So depending, that I am fairly sure of. So whether it's the Browns or Steelers, see what happens in the draft. The Browns probably not going to draft a quarterback. Steelers very well could move forward with a rookie. They might be.

Zach Moss back to the Bengals restructured deal. It was a season ending neck injury. It was scary. The chance of him playing at full capacity, I wouldn't say it's guaranteed yet. It's not a guarantee, but this one is, I think it is interesting that they went back and I'm assuming that Moss is taking less money, something like that to stay on the team, where the Bengals had been doing multiple visits with high profile running backs. I wonder if they were under the assumption like, well, like Moss won't be okay. We don't like the money anyways, but maybe they've kind of patched that up and Bengals will not be on running back watch. Who knows? We shall see. We're going to take a very quick break. Oh, by the way, Patrick Mahomes did say he wants to get back to explosive passing plays. Yeah, we all want you to get back there. Does he have Tyreekill?

He doesn't have Tyree Kill, but last year he didn't have Hollywood Brown and Rushie Rice for, you know, the majority of it. So he's got a competent wide receiver group this upcoming season. I mean, if you've got Rushie Rice and Xavier Worthy looked good towards the second half of last year and Hollywood Brown. Worthy would be the key to the deep passing game. Yes. So it'll be interesting. I think every fantasy player is kind of like. Yeah. Show us. Let's do that. Show us. All right, we'll take a break. And then it's right into the draft predictions for all the major offensive players that we expect to see drafted over the next couple of days. Well, that's new. That one's not for you guys. That's new. Plenty of people are very excited right now. All right. I mean, I think it's for us. We liked it. It was fine. It was a little different. Yeah. I think the inspiration is unknown for us. No, of course it is. Yeah.

We're uncultured swine. Yeah, it was probably some video game that was released only in one country in 1988, something like that. Nope. Well, look, last year we competed on the NFL draft 2024 predictions. I'm going to be honest, I asked you guys today who won. Like, I thought I won last year. You didn't. I didn't. You guys tied with six correct predictions. For this game? That's a lot. That's a lot. And I had five, which I think on a normal year, I feel like that would have won. Yeah. But you guys, you guys outpaced me. So away we go. The quarterback position will start there. Cam Ward. We all have them going number one of the Titans. Sometimes you get a layup. One, you know, one of all of our answers last year was, you know, Caleb at the 101. So we'll move on to. The sports book line is.

minus 20,000 to go, which if you're not sure what that means. Yeah. That means if you want to make $100 on your bet, you would have to, and get it correct, you would have to pay $20,000 and risk that to get your hundred bucks. Yeah. Yeah. Um, Sador Sanders. Let's, let's move forward. We got, we'll talk about Sanders, Dart and Milro in our predictions. This, Shador is a really tough one. Uh, his DK Sportsbook line is, uh, 10 and a half is the over under on where he's going to go. That's down a little bit more from where it was a few weeks ago. Should do it. Like back at the combine was the odds on favorite for the number one pick. Like in terms of the markets. There was a lot of like Cam Ward versus Sanders who would get the knot. Yeah. And then it was, okay, it feels like Cam Ward is the one, but will Shador go to two or three? You know, we.

And I know every Patriot fan out there was really, really, really, really hoping that Shador was a second or third pick, you know, to one of those two teams ahead of them because you've got Abdul Carter and you've got Travis Hunter. They want one of those guys. They're not going to get them. I'm going to go with the Saints. You guys went with the same team. I'm going with the Saints, whether it's at 9 or whether they are. persuaded to move back a couple of spots by Dallas moving up, Chicago moving up, even the Colts maybe for a tight end. I think the Saints are in too desperate a situation to not pull the trigger in the first round and fix a situation that looks very broken. Derek Carr, the shoulder. You know, some people don't think that they like Sanders very much. I think that when push comes to shove, they'll take him.

Yeah, I mean, I've got them going to a team that, did you change yours, Mike? No. Oh, okay. So we both had these. Mike and I both have them going to the Steelers. This is a team who has about as bad a depth chart at quarterback as humanly possible. They have good wide receivers now, you know, as of today, no draft trades happening, D.K. Metcalf and George Pickens on the roster. And it's funny because I watched an interview recently, Wichador Sanders. He was talking about the great tandems. And the way he was talking about those two. And he's like, Pickens and Meccaf, he's like, whoever that quarterback is, it's going to be really happy. It's kind of like when Cam Ward said that Taj Spears and Tony Pollard are the best two running backs in football. Exactly. Andy, did you say his, the line? It has moved. Yeah, I said it was 10 and a half. It's now 14 and a half. So it is. Oh, just checking in. It looks like 15. It's moving down. But yeah, I've got him to the Steelers.

with their first-run pick at 21. Well, we'll flippity floppity, Mike. Jackson Dart, you have going to the Saints, and I have Jackson Dart to the Steelers. So I definitely believe the Steelers will take a quarterback. We just have different ones. Jason, I like yours as well. You have the Giants. Yeah, I think that I'm not as high on Jackson Dart as a lot of people, so I have him slipping a little further behind Sanders. And if that's the case, you could either get to the New York Giants pick at 34 or they're at the very top of the second. So I think it would be likely and probably smart to get that fifth year option to trade up into the back of the first and grab your quarterback there. So I've got them as a giant. So three different picks there, Steelers for myself, Giants for Jason, the Saints for Mike. And then Jalen Milrow, this one's much more of a prayer. Yeah, a dart throw for all of us because it's not going to be a first round pick most likely.

I'm going to go with the Dolphins. I think maybe a player that they can bring in and have ready, knowing that Tua can go down on a moment's notice. That would be great. I really do hope that they address their backup quarterback position. I have him being a backup quarterback as well going to the Jets, someone that can run the same system as Justin Fields being that mobile runner if Fields were to go down and also, you know, plan for the future because Fields might not be it. Yeah, I originally did have the Jets as well. And, like, you know, the Milrose play style of him being a rider in Milrose Place. Oh, baby. Oh, I was like, did I say it wrong? No, but Milrose Place. That's going to stick. Yeah. Both, and I were like, did we? Did we? That's so funny. We are predicting Millrose Place right now. We, oh, man, this is so good. Yeah. We talked about a good amount on this week's Dynasty podcast of.

I'm getting a little more excited about the potential for Jalen Milrow long term, not an immediate start because I don't think he's going to go in the first round, but I'm sending him in the second round to the Cleveland Browns. Man, I want to change mine now to the Rams. The Rams is also another interesting spot. The So if he's, you know? I'm like Jason, this is very astute with Matthew Stafford. They got to start playing and for the future. No, it's not about that. No, well, what's funny is I was genuinely between the Jets and the Rams. Those were the two teams that I was deciding on. Are you formally changing it? I'm going to formally change. I'm going to the Rams. I'm going to Milrose place. Let's go. I hope you have Rams later. It just totally screwed everything up for you. No. All right. We've got.

running backs. Yeah, this is where we get juicing. It's exciting because it's rare when a player is expected to go in the top 10 and we have three different destinations, but that's the way it is right now. Ashton Genty, I believe it. Oh, man, you're buying it. I think he's going to Jacksonville at pick five. Which I was terrified to put in here. Then I saw Mr. Pat Schrager come out with his block this morning, which also had him to Jacksonville. So I will. I'm going to stick with it. Almost everyone has the Jaguars focused on offense. And I think because of Liam Cohen coming in, they want a skill position addition. So whether they take the tight end, the wide receiver, the running back, it makes sense. I just, I don't believe that they'll, I don't, I don't think they'll do it with Travis E.T.N. And take Biggsby on the roster. I'm going to take the next team.

on the clock. So this will be like the domino for us. Right. Because it affects what other teams have availability. I'm going to take them going to the Raiders. And I am saying both the Jags and the Raiders are doing smoke coverage. They're trying to get other teams to move up for Ashton Genty, who is like the bell of the ball for the running back position. But I have him making it to 10. And the Chicago Bears taking Ashton Janty and the people with the 101 on your rookie drafts are. They are so excited. Yes, Josh, I'm talking about you. Of those three. You're not going to chime in, Josh? Of those three destinations, Jaguars Raiders and Bears. Are you listening to the show, Josh? I'm just trying to just save it. Okay. Of those, Jaguars, Raiders, Bears. Order those for fantasy. I mean, bears would be one. Bears, Raiders, Jags probably. I think so. That's how I would put it to. But, uh, excellent, excellent.

Excellent. Yeah. He's going to be fine. You're going to hope it doesn't work out your way. You're going to hope you will see it here later how I have it working out. You'd be very excited. All right. We're moving to who's next? Omerian Hampton. Omerian Hampton, I went with Dallas. Oh, are you going 12? I think so. Oh, man, you Hampton people. I love Hampton. I'm taking the, I'm taking the Gibbs surprise angle here. His over under is 19 and a half. Yeah, so that'd be very under. I think Genty's going to be gone. And I think, look, no one saw Gibbs going at 12 or what was it. Was it 12? 11. I think that sounds right. To the lions. I think when push comes to shove for the Cowboys, they don't have a running game. And I think this is going to be too tantalizing. And I think it's the right pick. They are going to take a running back and they are going to take a wide receiver and they're going to try to find one that is good.

You know, a real difference maker. If it wasn't for the depth of running back in this draft class and the dearth, I mean, what's the opposite of depth here? Oh, opposite of depth, shallow? Yeah, but I wanted something that starts with D. So if you could find a word that starts with D that means shallow, that'd be great. Of the wide receiver position, I think they're going to take a wide receiver with their first round. Grab one later. I've got them dropping to the Broncos. Deerth. An inadequate supply or scarcity. Okay, that works. That works exactly right. I think you got it. So the dearth of wide receivers in this draft class, I think we'll take the Cowboys drafting one in the first. I'm going to take the Broncos at 20. His over under is 19 and a half because that's right where like, will he go? And I have him going still in the first round. I got him going to the manders. But contractually, I cannot.