Fantasy Draft Redo + League Winners, Mailbag! - Fantasy Football Podcast for 10/14

and Joe Brady taking over the offense. Again, it's a lot like Declan Doyle in Baltimore. There's a level of kind of, I know Joe Brady was offensive coordinator. Yeah, it's different, though, when you get to be the head honcho. Yeah, philosophically, they're leaning into their strengths more. I watched this highlight. Did you see, if you watch the final drive of the Bills game where they did drive down and kick the field goal, Josh Allen just straight up changed plays.

to where no one else knew on their own team like he made a decision on a run james cook was supposed to go off right right tackle you can see allan at the line of scrimmage realize when he motions the guy over the left side is completely open he pulls the ball in nobody else on the team knows this is happening and chooses to run up the left sideline by himself he called his own number like four times on that drive ran for like 60 yards on the drive won the game and it's just i mean he had 10 carries for 121 in that game

Josh Allen keeps popping up on this show. Yeah. Like I still firmly believe in the strategy of you don't want to use your draft capital on quarterbacks because when you do that, you're betting on magic. You're betting on absolute magical season. And Josh Allen is just the pixie dust never wears off apparently. It's crazy. Because we keep showing up in our fantasy, in our, in our draft redoes. I feel like Josh Allen.

would be the consistent name who keeps jumping into the top two. Well, we talked about this preseason during the draft season. Josh Allen, the last like five years, has been over 50% of, and he's been drafted in different spots. He's been a second rounder. He's been a six-rounder. He has basically gotten the majority of people who have him into the playoffs on all formats. So he's never been a bad pick. He has...

outside of, you know, his rookie and sophomore year, he's never been a bad pick. And here we are, first round done. Four of these players are on Andy's super team. Disgusting. And yes, I know you could say it when it happens. Mike, you're on the clock. Jemir Gibbs, Kenneth Walker, Pook and Akua, Bijan Robinson, J.S.N. Jonathan Taylor, James Cook, Jamar Chase. Alman Ross St. Brown, Derek Henry, Brock Bowers, Josh Allen. Second round begins now, Mike. Who you got?

So if you're looking at the wide receivers in terms of just who are left in points per game. Oh, who's that the guy at the top there? Christian Watson. Oh. Would you really take Christian Watson over? No, I'm not. I'm not going to, I just wanted to point it out that like he is definitely in the discussion in this round. But I was very close between Henry and Kyron. So with Kyron still being there, points per game is very similar. And.

I don't see it stopping for Kairn, so I'm going to take him here. I feel very confident in Kairn is my running back one. I love that. I thought you were going to take a different player, but I do love the, I mean, Kairn deserves the respect. He is really, really good. They paid him a lot of money. He's always been a running back one in fantasy, and he's never, ever gotten the respect. It's always like, I don't believe it. It's going to be a timeshare. I will do it now, Andy. I will take your fifth player.

Oh, CD-LAM. I have five of the top 14 on my team. Yeah. That's crazy. It is. No, I think the word you're looking for is disgusting. Hmm. CD-Lam at 14. CD-Lam at 14. I do. I think that this is a player who is still every bit in his prime. We saw that with the crazy game of, you know, 20 targets a couple games ago. The Dallas defense is as bad as it was last year. Their offense has looked. I mean, they're still a great offense.

You know, even in the nuclear year, several years ago, when C.D. Lamb was the number one wide receiver. You always are going to have some down games. C.D. Lamb can have games like, you know, JSN, like Puka, like C.D. Lamb. He can have games like himself. Yeah. No, I'm taking Christian McCaffrey at this pit. That's who I thought Mike would take over. At the 15, like, it hasn't been. It's wild. They're undefeated. He scored in every game.

Except for one. He's playing the vast majority of snaps, except when he had cramps. But you also are not, you know, this is what we saw a little bit of last year. He's not giving you big plays. You don't get the breakaway runs. You don't get the monstrous plays. But, I mean, let's just look for a moment here. It's the reception. He's on pace. So here's problem one. He's on pace for 972 rushing guards. In a 17 game season, that's very low.

Well, because the rushing attempts were at 200. Oh, last year he did get to 1,200. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. That's a pretty big deal. Like, 207 attempts, that's lower than you'd expect. 972 rushing yards, that's lower than you'd expect. Touchdowns are fine up at 17. Catches, 64. A little lower. Yeah, he's been at the 80-90 range. And what's the receiving yard pace?

Just 465. That's lower. They're all lower, but when you put them all together, they're very good. His longest play of the year is 16 yards in five weeks. So that's not necessarily, look, that is a declining but still hyper-valuble player. I love the fact that you get a running back on a winning team. And maybe there's some management here going on in terms of like the playoff run. So I'll take, I mean, McCaffrey at 15 feels like a value. It definitely does. And it's.

It's just the receptions with five weeks and wide receivers just plummeting off of their depth chart. I was pretty surprised to see what he's three receptions the last two weeks. Yeah. Three, three, four. That's its past three weeks. It's just a little, it's a little off. They have no receivers. So it's a little weird that that's not even more. That's what I'm saying. But to take him here is good. Brock Purdy is the number two quarterback right now.

So, like, they're 5-0, and Brock Pretty's the number two quarterback. And Christian McCaffrey is currently the running back 11. Mike Evans getting them touchdowns away from McCaffrey. Yeah, he is. All right. 17's not enough for you. Receiving touchdown. Mike. I'm taking Zay Flowers. Yeah, that's who I, that's probably who I would have taken. I'm taking Zay flowers. So that's Zay just, I don't disagree at all, but that's Zay over Watson. That's Zay over Nico.

over Justin Jefferson. Over Chris Olave. Olave is, man, he's going to be picked very soon. Yeah, he might be picked right here. You're talking about Olavee? Yeah, I mean, Justin Jefferson is an interesting conversation because, you know, when he was drafted in the first round, it was like we're forgiving the bad quarterback play. He comes out to start the year and he's like, dude, he should have been higher. He should have been higher in the first round. He is him.

And now Kyler's back. And it's like, oh, man. Like, if Carson Wentz was his quarterback. We got 79 with a touchdown. It's not bad. Jefferson will be picked before the end of this round. Yes. Yes. So it is an adjustment for sure. To say, like, should I take Nico or Chris Olave or Justin Jefferson is not what you were saying before the season. I, you know, I think that that's, and it's a worthy conversation. And I'm going to take.

I'm going to take Chris Oliva. I really believe he is a dominant wide receiver on a fast-paced team that gets extra plays because of Kellanmore's system. Shuck looks like the real deal, obviously down week this last week, but we all saw kind of, this wasn't like, oh, no, he just, this was the Minnesota. He's like, no one played Shuck.

You had to play OLAV. You had to be really desperate to do it. Right, because that Minnesota defense, I don't think that's the norm. I think that the previous four games were the norm. So, yeah, I'll pull the trigger on Olave. Give me Trey McBride. Give me Tray McBride here. You get him, I mean, him and Bowers took discussion before the season. They were very close together. They were both, you know, more second round range.

But give me McBride at 18 overall. Where was his ADP relative to where he was just down picked? Lower. He was, I want to say he was third. I feel like you could get Bowers in the second and McBride in the third. So both great values. Yeah, it's funny looking at the landscape here. Obviously, Jefferson is in consideration. You've got running backs like Swift and Gentie. Chase Brown was off the board a lot in a lot of leagues by here. I thought about it, but it's been slower for him. But I think McBride, you just look at.

It's funny because you shift five weeks into the season and I look at more, less aspirational, more guaranteed. What is the guaranteed production of these players? And almost everybody taken here, I don't see an aspirational situation. There's nobody that's like, what if he breaks out at this point? It's all, what have you done for me lately? What will you do for me in the future? How do I guarantee production? So Tray McBride stands out in that capacity, whereas, you know, Chase Brown, you know.

It could ramp up the way you were talking about Chase and the offense, but it's been slower than I expected. I am, I'm moderately concerned about what's going on with Chase Brown. They've been involving P. Ryan more and doing well with it. And then the comments coming out about, we're going to take a look and at the running game. There has been, I will say this. I'm, I'm not worried. I'm not very worried. And I will probably be taking him if he gets to my next pick.

But from a dynasty perspective, he is in the last year of his contract. And we expected kind of an extension to come. If this year doesn't go well, this now worries me for his value. Like if he's not a by himself bangle the way he's been the last two years, his fantasy value is nothing. I mean, by comparison to what it's been the last two. All right. Pick 19, Mike. All right. Here's where we're going to take Christian Watson, everybody. Okay. This is, I mean, look.

That's a huge jump. Three top 10 weeks already under his belt. It's hard to argue with him when you look at the other names you could select. I mean, what I... Over to Justin Jefferson. Yeah, I'd rather have him than Jefferson. Nico is one I think you could have... I was between Nico and Christian Watson. Nico far more proven. Both are injury risks. It feels like it. I don't know what the Texas schedule is, but I just know that Dallas, Detroit, Carolina...

and the Patriots are the next four weeks for Christian Watson. So I think that in a month from now, it might be like, well, shoot, we should have moved Christian Watson into the first round. Yeah, no, I think you found the right spot for him here in the redrafts, and I don't blame you at all. Jason, you're back on the clock here, pick 20. Five picks left in the draft. I wish I was three picks later. Why, you don't want to make decisions? No, because the guy that I want to take here,

feels a little hot. And Nico, not taking Nico, not taking Justin Jefferson feels like, okay, that's crazy. But I'm like, who would I really, really want on my team? And it's really, it's not even Jefferson. It's between Nico and this guy. But I believe the Parker Washington break out. I know we had the down game. I think Parker Washington's basically a top 10 wide receiver.

So I'm going to pull the trigger early on Parker. Yeah, I mean, I can see that. It's an interesting situation there. I have no problem with it. I'll go Nico Collins. Yeah, I'll take Nico Collins next. Feels like a value. I'm very impressed with Stroud. I think that it's just going to get better when you have your sacrificial acts arriving. But no, I mean, I'll take, I'll take Nico here at 21. I love that.

Now, names, just so I'm going to just flag some names. He's got one pick left. One pick left. Names that haven't come off the board. Ashton Gently yet to be drafted. I think that's the him and Chase Brown are the standout names running back. And Giovante Williams deserves to be in that mix. Then Justin Jefferson at wide receiver, obviously, but then you've got like Devontey Adams has been dominant. Tetaroa McMillan, Garrett Wilson, Mike Evans. Like those are some names to mention. And then, you know, I'll just be honest before I'm on the clock.

I truly believe I'm looking at who's leading the way at quarterback. And pick 24 seems like a spot where I would take Lamar Jackson. Yeah. I think, I think Mike is right. We have not seen the full megazord, the full, you know, the glove of Thanos has not been filled with every jewel. Right. But I think you look at who's there. Do I think Brock Purdy is going to be two at the end of the year? Do I think Jared Golf, Bryce Young? No. I think Caleb could come back and be involved in the discussion.

But, you know, Jaden Daniels, Mahomes, Burroughs. Look, Lamar, I think, has the best potential of all the remaining quarterback names to be a standout difference among the other guys. Now, he needs to be healthy. So I don't like him coming back from an injury that's like an ankle that may limit his work. Yeah. But those are some of the names I'll throw out there, and there could be more. All right. Before I take my pick, I do need to. I do need to apologize to all the Marvel people out there.

I'm proud of the fact I mispronounced it, if I'm honest. You know how I feel about these movies. That's a weird thing to be proud of. It's doubled down or be wrong. You know, it's like one of the movies that just made, I don't know. Is it the highest gross? Are we back? Are we back at the highest grossing film of all time? I don't know. I will say this. Being anti-marvel is fine because there are there are plenty of of.