Fantasy Football - FINAL MOCK DRAFT! - Podcast for 8/29

The Fantasy Footballer Studio is sponsored by Walmart. To the Fantasy Footballers podcast with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Hi! Welcome in. Happy Friday, everybody. Mike Wright, Jason Moore, Andy Holloway, the fantasy footballers. August 29th, back in the building, big time draft weekend, just ahead of us.

And now if you'll excuse us, a quick ad break. Okay. So perfect, Jason. Welcome in one and all. And an extra special welcome to the YouTube community who watches our show every day. Somehow. I, we have to get something off our chests right here at the top real quick. I'm laying down on the couch last night. It's about. I don't know, almost 10 o'clock, 930, 10 o'clock. Whoa, burning the candle. Wow. Good disgrace. Yeah, I was kind of letting it hang out. And I'm looking at the episode yesterday. And I'm seeing these comments. And I'm going to be honest with you, YouTube, you're wonderful people. But you can be a lot in the comment sometimes. So we don't always read them. We do try to browse them and see. I want to know if something's going wrong with the show, basically. So we check.

check the comments and i'm looking and i see a couple comments and they're like man there's a lot of ads in this show like every three minutes there's an ad i'm like what i literally reply i'm like what are you talking that's impossible we've had two ad breaks for 10 years yeah so yeah our show is it's very standard format you might get an ad at the very beginning before the show begins you get a we have two dedicated defined ad breaks there's even music leading into them and then we have a post roll sometimes that's it that's all we've ever had i'm seeing these comments i'm going

What is going on? Like people are saying are they just complaining about the normal ads? Like that seems like a thing people could do. Oh, people love complaining. And, and then I, so I start watching the show. It's really my favorite. And one stood out to me and they said that sometimes they cut off what people are saying. And I'm like watching Mike and I'm watching him do his MVP Ken Walker thing. and right in the middle of a word and ad pumps in. Yeah, even YouTube is like, shut up about Ken Walker. Enough already. That'll do. So long story short, we discover that YouTube in their effort to, I guess, secure more YouTube red memberships or something to that extent, they made some adjustments to their ad placement. And they started, like if you don't define the ads, which we always have done, something was glitching out over the last month.

I would say at least half the episodes, Al, you were the one doing the legwork last night fixing everything. Probably more than half the episodes in August, right? Yes. And we're automatically placing ad breaks and overriding what we did. Like every three minutes. Every three minutes. And I am, like Jason made the comments and he goes, I can't believe we still have subscribers. So we posted a note in the community chat on YouTube and on Twitter this morning, but. We have discovered the insanity that was going on on YouTube in the last month, and we are so freaking sorry that you have been enduring these random ad breaks that, you know, if you have YouTube read, you don't even see it. Or YouTube Premium, whatever they call it now. You don't even see it. So we had not discovered this until last night. It has been fixed. It will be fixed going forward. I'm going to do something here.

We're going to pick five random YouTube comments today. I'm going to buy you your favorite jersey. We'll buy you your favorite jersey from whatever team and player that you want. As long as it's the Arizona Cardinals. So we can get it on a discount. No, no. We'll pick five comments today. Thank you for sticking with us through the insanity of that. It made me want to throw up last night. So there you go. We're not that desperate for cash. Yeah, we're not that desperate for cash. We're trying to give you an ad every three minutes. In fact, you'd have an amazing experience watching the show. And thank you for enduring the insanity the last month that's been fixed. It will be fixed going forward. Yeah? Yeah. Okay. All right. That out of the way, we have news. We have our final mock draft today, a final lay of the land heading into the weekend. If you're drafted on Saturday, Sunday, Monday, or before kickoff, this will be a perfect chance to see.

uh exactly where we have players going how we build teams this one feels different because i know i know all three of us are in like right now we are towards the very end of at least three legit live leagues so we are past real drafts now and and our league of record draft is monday so this is like this is a i'm taking this one series this isn't like i'm going to test this theory this is I'm going to go time. This is the real test. This is the real test. Yeah. And, you know, news changes all the time. We do have drafts also starting tomorrow in the Megalibol. So Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, and then one Wednesday draft. Wednesday morning. So it looks, I don't know if it matters, but it looks like the Saturday early draft is the most popular draft so far. But we have two a days.

through Tuesday and then a Wednesday morning draft for the Meglabel. If you want to get in and play in that league, I think we're up about 16, 17,000 people so far at megalobole.com. Let's talk some NFL news. News and notes from around the league. Presented by progressive insurance. Yeah. It happened. Michael Parsons has been traded. Yes. Yes. Peak. Michael Parsons has been traded from the Cowboys. In exchange, okay, that's Al Borland, very excited Packer fan. Been traded to the Packers. Here, Jeremy, I got you. You're darn right. I saw somebody yesterday said they thought that that song had always said the Pet Store. I'm never going back to the Pet Store. And they were in. I don't know why, but they were in on that. Cowboys, no more Michael Parsons. They get two first round picks and a defensive tackle, Kenny Clark. The Packers then signed.

Michael Parsons to a record-breaking $188 million contract extension, the most money ever for a non-quarterback. Okay, reactions. This is not normally fantasy football talk, but I mean. Well, this is fantasy. This is legit fantasy football talk because if you look at what the Cowboys defense has been with Michael Parsons on the field and without, it is, it's basically one of the top three or one of the bottom three defenses. If you're telling me that the Dallas Cowboys have no run game and no defense, but they've got Dak and Citi and George Pickens and I'll even throw Fergalicious in there right now. It excites me more for what they're going to have to. If they want to win games, they're going to have to score 30 points. If they're defense sticks, it's very similar to like why we love the Bengals. Yeah, NFC Bengals. Yeah, they've got the weapons in the receiving game and they're going to have to score 30 points to win. I love that from a fantasy football standpoint.

Obviously, on the flip side of that, to me, Josh Jacobs becomes more relevant. This is a team that could be winning on defense and running the clock out slightly more. You know, obviously, that's just what happens. People talk about, you know, when you run the ball over 25 times a game, you win. No, it's when you win the game. You get to run the ball a lot at the end. So those things matter. I kind of have slight tweaks in my mind of just excitement about the Cowboys. receiving game and the Packers run game. Yeah, I think two of us, maybe Mike and I had the Packers winning the division already. Dude, that was so long ago. I don't know. You both did. I mean, because I saw this coming. I changed. Well, look, the catch here, I mean, the Packers, you got to do this. This is amazing. I will say, like, this is the most all-in move you can make. I mean, you not only have to pay Michael Parsons, which destroys your cap situation.

because him and Jordan Love I mean those are like the only two hundred plus million dollar players on the same team but you also have no picks for the next couple of rounds I mean this is very much oh they can't afford them this is my this is my team last year like I am going all in I'm trading everything I can for for stars so you think they lose in the Super Bowl then okay it's look it's just very all in very nice I mean speaking of Super Bowl like we see players change teams And then you're like, oh, did this do anything to the odds? You know, the wise guys. Did it actually make a difference? A big running back signing. Yeah. And you're like, they've gone from eight and a half wins to eight and a half wins. It literally does nothing. But the Micah Parsons trade, the Packers, Super Bowl odds went from plus 1,800.

to plus 1,400 and the Cowboys dropped from plus 5,500 to plus 6,500. I don't know about that. Jerry says this makes them a better team. I've heard. He was asked one question and he spoke for 11 minutes and five seconds. Man. Nobody likes a press conference more than Jerry Jones. And nobody's gone through enough like I've watched that whole documentary. I just got, I mean, it's perfect timing. I just got done with eight part of Jerry Jones documentary and Netflix. And you go all the way back to Herschel Walker and all these other trades, and he just wants, he wants credit for doing something crazy. That's what he wants. That works, right? And he fought over Jimmy Johnson and the Herschel Walker trade. Who gets credit? Yeah. You're 82. Who cares? You ain't got time for picks. You own a team. Why do you care who gets credit? It's delusional. Cowboys fans have got to be so frustrated. They're plus 1,200 now? Correct. Goodness gracious. The Packers?

Yeah, like this is... Well, they're getting bet on. This is a... It's a huge move. I talked about it when this was going on. It's like, yeah, I want to finally see a superstar. Go to Jerry Jones, you know, whatever, however metaphorically or actually, like, no, you messed around, dude. And now you're going to find out, I don't want to be on this team anymore. Did you see Micah? Did you see... I saw him celebrate. When he was doing a live podcast, he was interviewed. And it was... Jordan Love was on there on the podcast. It was live, a studio audience and everything. This was not that long ago. And he kind of makes a joke like, why don't you come play for us? And Micah's just like, he's like, no, I'm a lifer. He's like, Jerry Jones is my guy. He's like, I will never leave the Cowboys. Yeah, but you get to a point where you're just, you're insulted. It sounded like the news yesterday, the reporting was even when the trade was ready to go, the agent and Michael Parsons went back to the Cowboys and said, no, let's talk.

Like he wanted to be there. Yes. And then Jerry didn't want to work with the agent. Yeah. And I, it's all pride, man. Can I remember who, uh, Jane Slater? I'm trying to remember who tweeted it, but like confirming that this was said of that the, that conversation happened. And then the cowboy said, no, play on the fifth year option or get out of here. Yeah, it became pride. Okay, I'll see you later. Yeah, it's ego. I'll go take all of that generational money. Yeah, it's outrageous. So there you go. Big time trade. We got news from Buccaneers general manager, Jason Like. How do you pronounce his last name? Is it? Like. Okay, thank you. Said Chris Godwin is likely to return in week five or later. So that is a long time. Yeah. So what are they doing over there?

I do not know because you have a roster spot of your 53 that'll be dedicated to Chris Godwin. I know he gets to practice, but this is... And what was the GM's name again? Jason Lacht. Yeah. Okay, thank you. A.J. Brown is practicing. This is good news for the game that is less than a week away. Marvin Mims returning to practice after the groin strain. Well, they're saying he will return on Monday. Oh, okay. So that's TBD. Yes. And then we did get a report, Mike, before talking about the plan is to split, carries up a little bit more with Kyran and Blake Korn. I think we talked about it on the footcast. Jason, you said, interestingly enough, being the Kyran truther. Yeah, I do believe that this is true. I am not scared off of it at all. I don't look at Kyron Williams as a player that when I'm drafting at the two, three turn.

that I'm drafting him because he gets 90% of the snaps and an extreme workload. I still believe he will be the lion of the timeshare, you know. I see, I don't, I do look at him that way. I look at him as extremely touchdown dependent and workload dependent because of the efficiency struggles the last two years. Yeah, that makes sense. I'm not saying that this is moving him. I didn't move him off of this information. Yeah, I didn't move him either. but i do look at him as somebody that i don't think would be good on limited touches it is funny though the jarquez hunter truthers right it's like he is clearly not the backup here yeah that's at least what they're saying well and doing i mean you look at how the utilization and like we don't we don't have game film yet but it sounds like it yeah it'll be quorum as the backup

That was news and note, sponsored by Progressive Insurance, quote today at Progressive.com, Progressive Casualty Insurance Company, affiliates, and third-party insurers. Not available in all states or situations coverage subject to policy terms, limits, and conditions. It's time to mock. The fantasy footballers mock draft. There you go. The final mock. The final mock. Here we go. We have a... 12 team, half PPR, one quarterback, two running back, two wide receiver, one tight in, one flex, four bench mock draft. We randomly assigned draft spots today. Mike got the sixth spot. I'm at eight. Jason at the turn at 12. Maybe just so used to it from some of our other drafts. The early, the early off season, I was constantly at the back of the draft. I've been a little higher recently, but I will say I.

I enjoy being late. So long as it's not a superflex, if it's a non-superflex, I really like being late in most drafts. But I think with this group of all very like-minded individuals, I doubt that the players I cease dropping to the 12 get there in this one. Well, away we go. Jamar Chase goes number one, Bijan Sequin, CMC. Off the board, 234. Mike shaking his head. CD Lamb goes off the board at 105, putting Mike on the clock here in round one. This one's easy. It's Jamir Gibbs. All right. That's a shame. I don't need to do a whole thing. If McCaffrey, if I'm at six, and there is another McCaffrey truther in your league, and he's gone, and Jamir Gibbs falls, okay. Yep, that puts me on the clock at 108. I was somehow hoping maybe Jamir and Gibbs slipped by. I was in a similar position in another draft.

A little bit different format. I actually went Puka Nakua right here in another draft. I was on the fence between Puka and Derek Henry. So I'm going to take Derek Henry in this mock as for some reason we just aren't giving him his due still. So one of the Super Bowl contending best teams in the league, Henry will be the pick. For me in the first round, Mike with Gibbs, and we have Chase Lamb and Jefferson, the wide receivers off the board. Al Borland on the clock. Well, I guess after Henry went Ashton Genti, then Amunra, then Malik neighbors. And Jason, you're on the clock at the turn. Yeah, this is really interesting. So given that it's a mock, what I really want to do here is take Puka and Nico. I think each one of those guys could finish as the wide receiver one. I believe both of those guys will be a top seven wide receiver to start. That way is great. When you're on the turn, it gets really dicey.

whether or not you give yourself the flexibility of going one running back, one wide receiver. If I was to look at the running back position here, it might surprise you. It's certainly not ADP, but according to my rankings and what I would go, I would go Jonathan Taylor. No Josh Jacobs after the previous discussion. I love Josh Jacobs as well, but I've got Johnny Taylor even higher. Could Josh Jacobs finish number one overall? I think Josh Jacobs could, but it would be tough sledding. You know, I look at Jonathan Taylor and Josh Jacobs. I think they're outstanding. I don't really think either one could finish as the number one running back fantasy option because they're not high volume receivers like a Bijon, like a Gibbs, like a Christian McCaffrey. So because I think there's a tier difference, I'm going to do it. I'm going to take the guys that I think are absolute difference makers set apart at their position. I'm going to take Puka and Nico. All right. Any like.

purpose behind the order you took them in none i i don't even know which order i took them in because you disrespected nico's what i'm saying yeah you i respected puka how dare you i'm a glass half full guy um half full for puka it's half empty for nico but i look at the positive side puka i'm looking at the water you're looking at the air puka nico uh nico the first pick of the second round uh a second round pick is you call it. No, first pick. Drake London goes next. Josh Jacobs, Brian Thomas. I had a group of six players on the board, on my board, because I know how to use the queue. And there's only one left. And so it actually is interesting. I went, I went Henry in the first round. I'm going to come back and take a player that is slipping way too far. Devon A. Chan is going to be the pick at the 205. The injury has knocked him down ADP.

I like him much more than Jonathan Taylor, who goes next, putting Mike on the clock with Jemir Gibbs on his roster. I will say, if you want to talk about, could X player be the number one? I think Devon A-chan has a higher odds to be number one than Taylor because he could catch, you know, 90 passes this year. Okay. Well, Mike, you're on the clock. What are you thinking about? So I'm looking at the wide receivers, 80 p-wise. It's A.J. Brown, Lad. Tyreek T so the way that I have it projected out it would be a you know it's AJ Brown would be the the clear pick there at the wide receiver or I'm sorry at the running back position Kyron Bucky Chase Brown man I love Chase Brown there but I'm the fact that AJ Brown dropped to me I'm just going to take him make it easy so you split Jason went too wide I went to running back that'll be fun to play out in a mock draft and Mike with the

One in one situation. Chase Brown, any temptations there, Mike? Yes. Yeah, there's definitely temptations to have him, but I want the, you know, I want a top 10 wide receiver right there. T. Higgins goes next at the ninth pick of the second round, Kyron at 210. So Brooksie stacks the running back, Saquan and Kyron. Ladd McConkey going at 2.11. I have found myself. having a harder time drafting Ladd lately, JSN rounding out the second round. Any thoughts before we take a break? Is the Ladd-McConkie just Keenan-Allen-Allen-based or is it shifting philosophies? Yeah, it's mostly Keenan-Based and just the fact that I think the running game will be successful. And so you saw the second half of the year where they had no choice and no players and Lad benefited. Like I have him slightly under his reception and target totals of last year, believe it or not. So I love Lad, but I do think that

Keenan will have a role. They really didn't have a lot of options at the end of last year. Ladd was really, really good. And then it was like, well, we could throw to Kuge on the outside and we can't run the ball. So let's just keep throwing to Ladd. Yeah. And I would say this too in best ball leagues and things you're drafting this weekend. Don't forget that Kuge exists. He ends up really, really low in ADP. And if you're in a basketball league, he can score for that team. And he is not like, it's not like he's out for the year or anything like that. He's just recovering from a concussion.

We'll take a break after the second round here and come back and continue the mock. Brock Bowers, the Brock of the mock. Third round, first pick. They both made it to the third. Bucky Irving, Tyreek Hill, Omari and Hampton, Trey McBride. I noticed as Brooks's first wide out, Tyreek Hill. How do you think he feels about Tyreek as your first? Hopeful. If Tyreek is your first, there's only one way you can feel. It's hopeful. He says he regrets not taking JSN with the second pick after being left with Tyreek. But Mike, you're on the clock, Gibbs, A.J. Brown. So looking at the wide receivers real quick, you know, ADP, we've got Marv Evans, Garrett Wilson. So a different tier. Well, the running backs are about to deplete. So you have James Cook, Ken Bone Walker is there.

As much as I love Ken Walker, I do have James Cook ranked ahead of him. So I think the running back is going to be an issue on the way back and like those mid-round wide receivers. So I'm going to take James Cook. I have been much more comfortable with James Cook lately. He's been much more comfortable in his 3,000 thread count sheets. Oh, okay. Yeah, no, that's a good way to sleep. He can sleep at night for many years. Do they even make those? I don't know. What's the highest thread count? Does anyone know this? Jason would know. Yeah, Jay, what's the highest thread count? How high does it go? It goes to 3,000. I don't know. All right. Mike Evans goes off the board next. Interesting. Evans over Garrett Wilson over Marvin Harrison. I would have. I'm going to pull the trigger here on Marvin Harrison as my wide receiver won after drafting Henry and A champ. So Marvin.

at 308, Ken Walker off the board at 309. Al Borland has Josh Jacobs already on the roster. He just drafted Micah Parsons. Wow. In the third round, I asked the AI overlords was the highest thread count sheets available. Some brands advertise thread counts up to 1,500 or even claim 3,000. Oh, baby. The random number apparently is the highest it gets. Oh, boy. are those uh can you even the highest it claims yeah like can you even laner or did you just like slip just over overnight you just slowly slide off the bed yeah that's i you nailed it 3 000 uh ken walker alvin cameron henderson at 311 too rich for your blood mike or are you okay with that i'm okay with him in the fourth and the falcons right there on the turn i don't think jason would have taken him i would 100% have taken oh you would have yep

Well, then he made the correct decision because 311 or 402, that doesn't really matter. Both of you had two wide outs already. So it makes sense that running backs are on the docket. Yeah, so here's the issue of, you know, double tapping the wide receivers at the beginning. It leaves you at a totally different tier of running backs allowed, you know, left on the board. Breece Hall, okay, he's next up in ADP. Chuba's a good running back. James Connor's a good running back, but these are. not exciting picks that, you know, if you compare those to some of the other difference makers that are on the board, there are guys that are just way more important for fantasy. So I know I came in, so this is something where you have to stay water, you have to be willing to pivot. I'm always going to try my best to take difference makers over average guys I need on my roster. I'm not a big zero RB drafter. I don't like drafting that way. But if that's what the value is when you're on,

then that then that's what i'm going to have to do and i'm going to do a long way of saying george kittle it's actually a something i literally never do i recommend are you the first you're going off the board you're going dub onesies i'm going dub onesies because i'm on the 12 spot and what's allowed left i'm going to take lamar jackson and george kittle i feel like george kittle disrespect because dropping him into the fourth unbelievable no i wanted him first in that round i didn't want him to be the last pick of a round yeah there's a dumb argument so anyways

I took Lamar Jackson and George Kittle because my running backs are going to be weaker. If I were to draft running backs there, I'm weaker than every other team in the league. Like already. Now I've got a strength over them at a different position. I want to hear you talk about your running backs later. Oh yeah. I mean, it's going to suck. This is at the end of this draft, this is going to be more of a zero RB draft where my running backs will look very, very poor. But in a real fantasy league that is a managed league. I'm going to be crazy on the waiver wires. I'm going to be going hard after the injuries. And, you know, at the end of the draft, I'll be drafting a bunch of the backups. I'm upset because after Kittal Connor went and then Garrett Wilson and D.K. McHalf, I wanted both of those players. I wanted one of them to be my wide receiver too. So I'm going to pull the trigger here on Terry McLaurin in the fourth round, who was dominant last year, just got paid, loved the offense. And, you know,