Fantasy Football Podcast 2017 - The Rookie Show, Fantasy Outlook, Draft Day Foods

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to the fantasy footballers podcast coming to you from the fantasy jocks.com studios with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Whoa, two days away from the NFL draft. Me and Jay are doing the draft dance right now. Two days, my friends. You know what that is? Two days. That's Jason's 40 time.

Two days. Two days. Two days away from the NFL draft. As we call it in my household, two sleeps. When you're talking to the kids like, when is this happening? Two sleeps. They don't get the concept yet of the days. There's something entertaining.

about the, you don't go with the sleep measurements? The childlike anticipation for the NFL draft that comes with two sleeps away from the draft. We're two sleeps away. We're two sleeps away. All right. Not if I skip one. I guess that's a fair point. I'd be trying to just sleep the full two days. It's time travel. One sleep away then. Tuesday, April 25th, we're back again, the fantasy footballers podcast. Look, the draft is almost here. The final.

shoe to drop, so to speak, of the off-season. That's when things really get fired up, ready to go for 2017, when your draft plans as a fantasy football owner can begin to take shape. No more question marks. I mean, you're going to have some second-tier free agent signings. You're going to have the Jamal Charles and Adrian Peterson and those type of players. You do have camp battles to still shape things out. You do. And we'll keep you up to date with everything that's going on all off-season.

That's what we do here. We're a year-round fantasy football podcast, but I'm excited for the draft. I think we all are excited. And today's show is jam-packed with draft info. We're going to be breaking down the rookies. It's going to be a great episode. We're going to go through all the positions. This is about name recognition. This is about knowing what to watch for on draft day, get hyped up. And then Thursday before the draft, we're going to give you some team overviews so you can be...

anticipating, looking forward to some of the better fits. I believe on Thursday we are going to be making our predictions for the major guys and where they'll go. It's round one, correct? We'll figure that out between now and Thursday. But don't box us in, Mike. After the draft, we're going to calculate up who got the most right. And whoever got the most right picks the lunch of whoever got the most wrong. Yeah. Okay.

All right. Is that what it? So the middle person is safe. All right. Just got to be better than the last place. Yeah. Well, then someone's going to be a loser. Someone's eating eggplant. And what? Well, we'll talk about that on the show the following week. Our draft recap shows. Of course. So all right. I've got a very essential quick question of the day. You know, these quick questions, they hit hard. They're very serious. What's the most essential draft food?

What food do you need for – we get a disproportionate amount of questions about what do you need for the NFL draft food-wise? Because this is crucial. You've got to have your friends over. You have that draft a party. What do you give them to eat? Now, Mike, you have a – you should probably bring it up again. You have to. It's the legendary dip. It is – I mean, this thing has become just –

historically famous now across the nation because people are understanding that this is not only an easy to create food item that you can bring, but necessary. It is necessary. It is delicious. So you've got a dip. It is incredible. It's a sausage dip. And for all the culinary impaired out there, let me help you out. This is all you need. Need one block of Philly cream cheese. You need one can of Rotel.

mild and a half or to a full pound. I mean, it depends on how meaty you like the dip. But I go with a half pound of the sweet Italian sausage. You brown the sausage and you throw it all in a crock pot and you're done. Chop it up and throw it in a crock pot. That is as easy as rolling David Johnson into your lineup every week. And if you've never seen it, I will admit that perhaps at first glance you go, well, that's a little strange looking.

But just get those dip chips ready and your draft will be changed forever. For me, I'm going to go pizza. Look, if you're having a draft party. Over wings? Yes, I thought about that. I was thinking, dude, what's more important? But you kind of have the pizza because you need to be able to go run, grab a slice, come back, you know, in between the picks at commercials. I don't want my hands. One slice per pick. Yeah, exactly. Right. A lot of pizza.

A lot of pizza song. That's the correct answer, Jason. Oh, Brooks weighing in. He's the pizza lover. I'll probably have a pint of halotop in my new halotop holsters. I've got an actual leather holster where I can... Spoons in the belt. I'm just imagining you with spoons. It's a spoon on the right and then the actual pints on the left, but it's refrigerated. Like, it's a big holster. It's a cooler host. I'm also then imagining you with the...

The typical hat that holds the two beverages. Oh, yeah. Except you. Just rubier. No, it's ice cream. No, it's Halo top that he is like blended into a shake. Yeah. Well, I do like my ice cream. All right. We're going to talk some news that just broke yesterday. News and notes from around the league. Last Thursday. Last Thursday, not yesterday. Oh, is that why Jason was looking around like a...

So we're pre-recording this show because Mike has a family vacation. Got to get ready for the dress. So we're recording this Friday. So if, you know, if Marshawn Lynch, for instance, were to sign... That's an excellent point. If you were to sign, I would obviously have spent most of this show mocking Mike. Correct. So don't, you know, come in here with expectations that...

I've let you down because it's coming. There's always Thursday. All right, the NFL schedule was released. We had, I hopped on to join thefoot.com last night was chatting with members of the Foot Clan, and they were asking, do we have some thoughts or feedback on the NFL schedule? We know that the season starts with New England and Alex Smith. Of course. Kansas City. I believe Alex Smith has the most primetime games of anybody. And that is not a joke. So my guess is that the NFL is monitoring.

Twitter for Buzz. And Alex Smith has been, they're like, the world loves Alex Smith. These must watch TV. So in a world where people are thrown for 400 yards a game, Alex Smith is burning it up with 180. Sorry, I was just going to say when you talk strength of schedule, because that's the first thing that comes out, like the Colts. They have the easiest strength of schedule in the league. You have some good schedules for the Jacksonville. Cardinals have a pretty good one, 23rd, I think.

You have to keep in mind, like that is to us many times a tie-breaking type of fantasy decision is the strength of schedule. Strengths of schedule is based on last year. I mean, you can not, you don't know what this year's stinctual schedule will be. You'll hear us. Yeah, you'll hear us talk about a lot in the draft that we don't factor too much, you know, the strength of schedule early in the season. Once we've got enough data of 2017, so, you know, when we get halfway through the year.

those matchups really start to matter because when you compare year over year defenses and where they rank, I mean, just look at the New York Giants last year, right? I mean, one of the best passing defenses in the league the year before. They were one of the worst. So if you went into that year and you said, hey, I've got, you know, these, I've got a home game against the Giants. Oh, that's going to be juicy. Well, you were probably wrong. And I think you actually make a point within your point.

Yes. A pointception, if you will. I did it. But here's what you said there is that you differentiated between strength of schedule and passing and running defenses. Those are the things that actually maybe even greatly or greatly. Oh, yes. Yes. Come to me. You'll turn to the dark side, man. Yeah.

Oh, gosh. So, you know, let's talk about that. Now I know what it feels like to be Jason and be making a wonderful point and have it completely destroyed by one word that slips out of your mouth. I will take it over then. Good. You know, shout out, it's still early and, you know, a lot of, a lot of places need to run their data and see. But if you do want to look back at the 2016 and project that forward, at Sharp Football, shout out, great Twitter follow. It's very sharp.

Very sharp. Has, you know, some really good work on this. And he's broken it down past D, run D, their efficiency. And he's got like this blend of certain stats that is really smart, is really sharp, one might say. And if you look at that for this upcoming season and you look at their blended past D schedule, you've got the league ranked kind of like who's got the best, who's got the worst on this chart. And a mile away in first place. Like totally.

off the chart for easier for easiest schedule is the Carolina Panthers against past D so maybe Calvin Newton Kelvin Benjamin might be able to succeed a little bit more more than two games yeah yeah the guy throwing him the ball has to succeed too all right let's jump right into the rookie preview we got a lot of names to get you aware of out there and so let's go ahead and start at the running back position running bags all right this is the hot

the hotness right now. This is what people want to know about. This rookie class has been much hyped for years. I'm not sure that's now that we're here that everyone's as hyped, but there are still some really heavy hitters here who, and with the success of Ezekiel Elliott kind of transforming things, then, I mean, there could be more than more than just one guy taken in the first round. There's no way that.

the success of Ezekia Elliott didn't affect the way dynasty rookie draft owners are looking at this draft and trading for those top picks. I think that that had an impact that pushed people towards running backs, that pushed people towards, wow, I could get a guy that not only is great long term, but could be a top five type of player immediately. And so generally, you don't get an Ezekieliot every year. No, no, you certainly do not.

Is that in the cards this year for anybody? And who's your favorite running back right now? What's the name that you think is going to end up on top? If you're comparing it to Elliot's, in my opinion, abandoned hope on that because Ezekiel Elliott was a dominant college running back. He was great in all facets of the game, extremely well-rounded, despite them not really using him in pass-catching.