Fantasy Football Podcast 2017 - Early MOCK DRAFT Episode!

I can see it. Well, that's cheating. That is the definition of cheating. I'm going to guess one. That is a great guess. He had one. So it's kind of kind of a crazy year. Certainly one of those guys where if you just watch the game, you go, oh, man, I don't want him on my fantasy team. And what's interesting about him, Bortles compared to, I mean, there's other guys. I was talking about Mariotta a lot in the office yesterday. Bortles really only had looked like one performance there where he absolutely.

devastated you. He had a couple of performances where you would want more out of your quarterback, but you have, compare him to Mario, who people, people want, I think that the public wants Mario to far more than Blake Bortles. Meanwhile, Marioita had a, at least a handful of games where he destroyed your team. Some interesting picks here in the sixth round before, you know, we had a long wait before our next pick. I'm interested in this, you know, Jarvis Landry. Wow, that's a great thing. It's a standard league pick.

Yeah, standard league. But he went, you know, eighth pick in the sixth round. I like it. Eric Decker, ninth pick in the sixth round. I like that too. I mean, Eric Decker quietly, just sitting in New York, still on a roster, no brand of Marshall, kind of a monster on that team. You know, if it's him and a Noon, and Josh McCown slinging the rock with no regard for human life or interceptions, because that might be the best way to describe Josh McCown. Those three games are going to be great. There's no regard for his own human life.

I love. I love Eric Decker as a sneaky play. He's not going to be flashy, and the value you're going to get on him is great. Jarvis Landra, to go back to him, he only had four touchdowns last year. So where do you think he finished in standard wide receiver? I'm going to guess 13, 14? I would go like 17. You guys are right around at 16, which we're well past 16 receivers. How can you argue with that? Yeah, that's a great pick.

All right. We're on the clock, guys. Seventh pick of the sixth round. Some wide receivers to talk about. Golden Tate's on the board. Golden Tate, Jameson Crowder, Deshawn Jackson. Those are three guys that I love. Like, I really like coming in this year. In a standardly? Yes. I am fully in on that. The other name I would toss in is I would consider Brandon Marshall here. You would consider, yeah, I could see that. What about, what about Zach Ertz? He ended the second half of the year as the number one tied in. You already have.

One, two, three, four, five, six tight-ins off the board ahead of him. Any confidence that Zach Ertz can get it done this year? I don't know. Not worth the pick. Better to find a value later. I would prefer to find a value later. Zach Ertz, he is, I mean, like you said, I don't remember what week it started, but he went on just a full tear in the last half or so at was averaging the most points.

at the tight-end position. However, there was no alpha wide receiver in Philadelphia at that time, and they've got one now. I want to toss the pick to Jason, let him make the call for us here. I do want to remind listeners right now, we're sitting here with David Johnson-Maric, Ingram, Doug Baldwin, Michael Crabtree, and Latavis Murray. If you do not draft a quarterback or tight-end here, which it seems unlikely that we're going to do either of those, you are drafting depth at this time. You're not drafting necessarily a starter. You're drafting depth.

I think that scares people off of doing it because they say, hey, let's fill that. You got to, you know, I get that question a lot. Fill your starters. Do you fill your starting lineup out before you look to depth? No. Well, then make the pick for me. I guess we're not going to tie it into quarterback. Yeah, I definitely recommend not doing that. Get your running backs and wide receivers deeper. For me, because it's standard, I'm actually going to go Jameson Crowder.

because I think in a standard league, he was a red zone target last year that was almost surprising how many red zone targets he got. You've got Deshaun Jackson gone. You've got Pierre Garsohn out of there. I think Jameson Crowder is a really important piece. He's young. I like him here as a depth piece. I will allow you.

to select that wide receiver there. Jameson Crutter. I would tell you this. I thought your entire sentence was going to end with Brandon Marshall's name at the end of it. When you said, okay, because it's the Standard League, I thought I'd get the Brandon Marshall or Deshawn Jackson talk because both of those guys...

touchdown opportunities at least fit their size better. You know, Jameson Crowder coming out of the slot. I think it's a little bit anomalous. Like, I wouldn't have taken James and Crowder there because I think his touchdown numbers are anomalous. With Jordan Reed being a little bit banged up last year, you know, the wide receivers Crowder was throwing to was not Trerell Pryor and Josh Doxon. It was smaller guys. You know, Peregarsan is a possession type of guy. Jason Jackson was on and off the field. I would have gone a different direction, but Jameson Crowder has been drafted. And I like that. One of the things I just want to.

throw out there. I win. I win. I won. Is that I feel like guys that get a lot of receptions, right? You know, the Julian Edelman, Wes Welker types, the Jarvis Landry, the slot guys. In a PPR, it is almost counted against them.

Like it's like they're like, oh, that's just a PPR guy. You realize receptions are still like the only way they score. They count that in standard? It's like you have to catch the ball to get any fantasy points. So it's not a bad thing to have a lot of receptions. All right. Well, Brandon Marshall made it around to us. But you know who else did? It jumps off the page to me right here, at least sitting in the third pick in the seventh round. Frank Gore is still there.

Frank Gore is still sitting there. There is a handful of very interesting running backs to me at this point in the draft. Paul Perkins? Matt Forte, as I said. Frank Gore to me. So Frank Gore, Montgomery. Forte maybe. But also, I mean, it's we're at the point here where we're mock drafting in March. So it's extremely that we have no idea what they're doing. But he's still.

allegedly a starting running back despite the fact that he will be suspended for three games. I was wondering if you were going there because I was going to point him out. Doug Martin is still on the board. The upside of Doug Martin is your fourth running back in this situation based on not knowing what happens in the draft. To me, it's between Paul Perkins actually and Doug Martin because they're in similar situations in the fact that they have upside. If New York doesn't do anything else in their backfield, Paul Perkins has a lot of upside. That offense was Shepard, Marshall, and Odell Beckham Jr. on the outside.

To me, there's an opportunity there for Paul Perkins to make some pay. Yes, there's an opportunity there. I went back the last three years and kind of took a look, though, at how much did running backs weigh? You know, because it factors in the success of running back how much their mass. And guys who are under 210 pounds.

are, it's far more infrequent for them to actually have success, to have top bill fantasy success. And Paul Perkins is a smaller guy, right around that 200 mark, unless he's managed to put on some muscle this off season. So I would go, even with my disdain for Doug Martin, at this point in the draft, I would still be okay taking it. And I would as well. What about Tyreekill? Tyree Kill still on the board here.

This is where I shift to upside. Good. I'm glad he's there. This is where I shift to upside in a draft where I go, I've got kind of starters I'm confident in. Who can break into the starters? Doug Martin absolutely could, right? He comes back from his suspension. If he's still the Tampa Bay Buccaneers lead back, he's a top running back. So that's great. Tyreek Hill fits that bill. Yeah, Terry Hill finished the year at 13 last year. Exactly. Tyreek Hill could.

I don't necessarily think he will, but he could. So I like Tyree Kill. I like Doug Martin. I'm between those two guys. Someone make the pick. We'll let Andy make the pick. I'll take Doug Martin. Oh. I'll take Doug Martin. Oh, you know, I didn't feel very confident in the Mark Ingram selection where we did. I'll take Doug Martin for the potential upside. We're going to roll. We're going to roll way down into the back of the eighth round now. Some names off the board. You have.

Derek Carr and Dak Prescott both going. Interesting that Dak Prescott went ahead of Derek Carr. I would have taken Derek Carr ahead. I have Dak ahead of Derek. I have Dak. Scary high. Matt Forte off the board. Frank Gore is gone. And Forte went actually, where did Forte go? A couple spots after Frank Gore. Amir Abdul off the board, Kenny Britt, and his new home in Cleveland is gone. And then Cameron Bray, who had a very good year last year.

off the board as well. We're sitting here now, back of the eighth round, Kyle Rudolph is sitting there and he should be the pick. Look what I wrote down on my sheet of paper. Kyle Rudolph is what it says. Yeah. I know grammar. That's what it says. That being said, I would also consider, because I really like Jack Doyle, for instance. Oh, yeah. I like Kyle Rudolph more, certainly, but Tyree Kill is still here.

And we just looked at, should we take Tyree Kill or should we take Doug? I guess I didn't, I didn't see Tyreek. It's still on the board. I think we'll take, I think we'll take Tyreek. I'm going to go ahead and get the freak off the board. Plenty of quarterbacks. All the quarterbacks gone. There's still Kirk Cousin, Stafford, James Winston. Let me pose this question to Mike. We're sitting here now. We took Tyreek Hill, Zinner, Deshawn Jackson, Richard Matthews off the board. Third pick of the ninth round.

Is this the time you jump on Kirk Cousins here, Mike, because you're in the ninth round. Is there a tier change from Kirk Cousins to Stafford Rivers, Winston? I'm pulling up my quarterback rankings right now. By the way, Kyle Rudolph's still there, Gio Bernard, Paul Perkins, still on the board. The depth on our roster right now is looking mighty fine. I love it. And I have Kirk Cousins right now as my number seven, and I have James at 10.

Matthew Stafford at 11. So you would not really say that. I still have three quarterback ones available to me as well. And despite my affection for Kurt Cousins and would want him on my team, I would probably still roll the dice here. Rudolph seems like a big tier advantage over guys that are still on the board like Martell has been at Lederius Green.

Zach Miller, CJ Fedorowitz, Jared Cook, Eric Ebron. I agree. When I looked at Greg Olson's horrendous second half of last year and started looking at the bust rate weekly of tight ends. And I was disgusted over the season that Greg Olson actually did have a very good year because I wanted to prove him wrong because he destroyed my fantasy team. The other guy that was tied for him as best with...

not having bad games. It was Kyle Rudolph at the top of the list. So I love getting him here. I agree. He's a big tier drop from him to anyone else. Mike, are you okay with Kyle Rudolph here? Oh, absolutely. All right. I already talked about how I think the Vikings can be very sneaky. Sam Bradford's accurate, loves throwing to the tight end. So our team now would be starting running backs of David Johnson and Mark Ingraham.

We got tried and true Doug Baldwin Crab Tree at the wide receiver, flexing in either Latavius Murray, Jameson Crowder, Doug Martin, or Tyreek Hill, plenty of depth for injuries, for biweeks, for all of that, for matchups in the flex. And then we've also got Kyle Rudolph in that flex. I really like how this team is turning around. And at the quarterback position... That's already turning around, huh? The quarterback position still has three quarterback ones, according to both...

Mike and my rankings in Kirk Cousins, Matthew Stafford, and Jameson, Jameson Winston. Interesting name there. Danny Woodhead goes off the board in the ninth round. That might interest people. Paul Perkins finally went off the board in the ninth round. A name that I was hoping might drop through was Willie Sneed. He actually went the fourth pick of the 10th round. A little disappointed in that. I know my pick here. You know, at this point, some names on the board, upside of Josh Doxon sitting there.

You have Tyler Lockett, running back-wise. It's quite thin at this point. I'm glad we have four of them. Kirk Cousins, Matthew Stafford, James Winston, all still on the board. Jason says he knows the pick. I hope it's not another Viking. It's not. I do love Adam Thielen, but because we have Kyle Rudolph and they don't have a high-powered offense, I'm not taking a stab at both of them. Because I wouldn't want to be forced to play both. No, Brooks. It's not Tyler Higby.

No. I know it is not. I know you want that second, third, fourth tight in to fill out your flex. No, no, Brooks. No. Calm down. There are some good upside guys like Kevin White and Josh Doxon, but for me, and maybe this is a little too early to grab him because I think we can get him later, but I don't want to lose him. Is it John Brown? It is John Brown. Yeah. John Brown is a guy who has been a top fantasy wide receiver already in his career who is on a great offense.