Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Live 10 Team Mock Draft, Fantasy Questions

In a standard league, standard favors Bryant over Johnson. But I like Johnson. Consistency. Yeah, the consistency of Johnson. And there's a chance. Johnson won't come back around. Bryant will come back around. I will say this. If one player could possibly come back, it would definitely be Martavis Bryant. Do you want to take a chance? We can see and test that theory. And do you like Andre Johnson more than Brandon Marshall? Because he's the other name that jumps out to you. This is what I feel like. I feel like you guys are putting me on the hoverboard over the water.

right now for Marty McBride. I have no power. I am isolated in the lake. I'm pointing at you. Yeah. I'm saying do you want to, his ADP is, pretend that you can paddle on that water. Give us, give us this metal. I've seen what happens with Marty McClath. Let's give him this pick. All right. Mike's got the pick. Oh, is it, is it, is it Andre Johnson? Is it Brandon Marshall? Is it Martavis Bryant. You like Bryant better? You think he'll make it back? I do. But they are, here, here.

They are very close in my rankings, very close. Andre Johnson and Marty McBride. So I will gamble this. Okay. This time. To see what happened? Hey, this is a mock draft. Is this Andre? So we'll go with Andre Johnson. One real quick thing, a guy that I really like who reminds me of Andre Johnson, who could also come back around, would be Vincent Jackson. So if you go Martavis Bryant, then you can give Vince and Jackson. Now, why aren't you guys dropped to Jeremy Mackling here?

Is that joke? It's not a joke. Jeremy Macklin will not be on any of my teams. Yeah, that's why. I know that's true. All right, Andre Johnson off the board. Let's hold our breath because we are walking through the sixth round and the seventh round. And Martavis Bryant is... Is he gone? Let's see. Do, do, do. He is still on the board, fellas. Yes. He who dares wins, my friends. But, but... So is Brandon Marshall. It doesn't matter. Yeah, that's not.

So Martavis, Brian, we're locking them down. Very nice. All right, before I make that pick, let me tell the listeners a little bit about the 6th and 7th round. We also saw Big Ben went off the board in the 6th round, as did Cam Newton, and Matt Ryan and Tony Romo went in the 7th, which is just a surprising inverse of all of our rankings here. We all would have taken Matt Ryan over Big Ben without a question. After our pick with Avondre Johnson, any other ones stand out, Travis Kelsey ends up going in the 6th round. Does that give you any...

Second guessing of our Gronkowski page. Very much. Yeah, me too. Yeah. Me too, because I think I'd much rather end up with... But we took Gronk to see what would happen. Yeah, yeah. That being said, this is sixth round in a 10 team. So it's, you know... I mean, that's still good value, and it's better than necessarily getting Gronk. But I would... I actually like, given the wide receivers that just got fallen to us, Martavis Bryant, as our third, I actually would prefer Gron. Yeah. Tevin Coleman.

Kevin Coleman went off the board before Travis Kelsey. Greg Olson went off the board before Travis Kelsey. I have a scenario. Which I can see. Scenario I want you guys to play out because we haven't really talked trade bait very much. I was talking with a Foot Clan member wanting me to look at the draft, and this was a real draft. They got Gronk in the second, so not a bad value on Gronk. I believe it was a 12 team. Might be 10. He had his actual draft? Yeah. Actual draft already happened.

all the way to the eighth round, Kelsey was available. So he drafted him. Right. If Kelsey, if you have Gronk on your team in the second, and Kelsey's available in the eighth round, I take Kelsey. Would you take him? I would do it. It's hard to do. I saw that here, and I was like, ah. And I think it makes a difference to me whether or not you can actually play him. If your flex allows for running back wide receiver tight end,

Oh, yeah, because he's going to put up better points than a lot of wide receivers or running backs you could play in that flex, and then you're able to utilize him. That's crazy value. Eighth round and a 12 team. Yeah, I said when my first comment was, wow, you drafted both of those guys? I hope you didn't overpay. And then it was, oh, yeah, everyone kept balking on him and went to the eighth round. I said, I would have done it too.

Yeah. Yeah, well, it's interesting, too, because Kelsey goes off the board here in the middle of the sixth. Zacharts goes in the middle of the seventh. We roll back around to our pick, Martavis Bryant's on the board. I've already clicked the draft button on FantasyDraftWizard.com, and he is on our roster. To give you an idea of who we have right now, we have LaShaul McCoy, Frank Gore, and LaGarrett Blunt at the running backs.

Mike Evans, Andre Johnson, and Martavis Bryant at the wide receiver position, and Rob Grankowski. I feel really good about this team. Yeah, I do, too. I'm staring it down going. It's really hard to feel bad about your team on 10-team leagues, though. That's true. It does. It changes you. But a lot of people playing them. That's why we wanted to roll out a 10-team mock today, because not everybody's rolling a 12-team. Who are the best available running backs right now? The best available, C.J. Spiller's still on the board.

Standard league makes sense. That's interesting. In a standard league, he is still on the board. Joseph Randall. Joseph Randall is still on the board, which just seems unbeatable. And Isaiah Crowell in a standard who is. I would wait on Crowell. I agree. So if you wanted to draft a quarterback, which we don't, the best available is Ryan Tanahill, Eli Manning, Matt Stafford. Is there any thought to grabbing Tano here in the end of the seventh though? Not a 10 team league? Not a 10 team league. We have a five bench. We're five deep on the bench.

Like I said, in 12, I feel very confident. Streaming, 10, even more so. My vote is Joseph Randall all the way to the bank. Yeah. We are in the perfect position with these guys to, I think, take Randall and see what happens. Well, yeah, if you want to compare C.J. Spiller to Joseph Randall, you know. It's a, yeah, the standard league. Yeah, in a standard league, you would go, okay, what do I need now on my team? Now that I've locked in my positions, and we've got three running backs who are all solid.

but not necessarily going to have any chance of finishing the league number one. I mean, you got LaShawn McCoy, Frank Gore, and Legerett Blunt. I like all three of those guys as solid producers. Joseph Randall is a real boom potential guy if he ends up getting the workload. So I like going with that over someone like a CJ Spiller. I have no problem with that pick. To me, it's the best available argument right here. But I'm curious what your thought is, Mike. I would lean Joseph Randall because I think he...

of anybody in Dallas will be the goal line guy. But it does, and my rankings show that greatly. One more name I want to point out is Brandon Marshall is still on the board. Okay, I'll get to Brandon Marshall. I'll get to Brandon Marshall. But so Joseph Randall, I think he'd be the goal line guy where I'm really liking Dunbar more as the passing guy. C.J. Spiller is interesting because we talk about his PPR skills. But you're...

Remember that team with Darren Sproles. We remember Darren Sproles. Oh, he was great in PPR. He was. But he was still great in standard because that guy was scoring touchdowns by the boatload. Yeah. So we're talking about an upside. I'm really okay with either pick. I'm okay with Spiller or Randall because they both represent upside to me. And I will take the risk on Randall right here of maybe he becomes a three-down guy.

All right, Randall is off the board to us. So we have a lot of depth at the running back position. McCoy, Gore, Blunt, and Randall. And we're rolling back through the eighth and ninth round. Crowell does go off the board. Macklin finally leaves in the end of the eighth round. Vincent Jackson, a steal, in my opinion. Yeah, that is. Six-pick. I would have mentioned him earlier. I didn't know if we wanted to pair him with Evans. We had talked a little bit about Jackson, but I agree. I don't know if I want.

I wouldn't be at that value. It's tough. If it's sitting here and we could draft them again, I'd be fine with it. But this is that same thing we're talking about. You just mentioned Gore and Andre Johnson. They're on a prolific offense. Right. Give me Lacey and Cobb. Give me Cobb and Nelson. Yep. But don't give me necessarily two guys that...

depend upon a rookie. A wookie. Yeah. A wookie. A wookie. If you're depending on a wookie or a rookie, you're in trouble. You're in big trouble. Wookies are known for their bad accuracy. Volatile. And they're terrible temper. You give me a wookie as a linebacker, though. Oh, yeah. I've drafted one. Talk about fumbles. I've taken a couple of wookies in IDP. Hashtag wookie of the year. Wookie of the year. Very nice. All right. Hey, we're sitting here in the... Now, something to bring up real quick. Doug Martin's gone.

Oh, no. He was drafted by an owner, Doug M. Doug M took him. Wow, Doug took himself. That makes sense. I'm just kidding. So we've had many rounds of bypassing quarterbacks, and we're looking here. We've got so much depth at running back and wide receiver. And a lot of times people would go, why would you take another running back or another wide receiver at this position? You've got them on lockdown. Nope.

Yeah, no is the answer. We don't have them unlocked down. I was hoping you were going to say. That's what everybody thinks every draft, right? Yeah, I'm loaded at running back. I've got four. It's a great point, and I was going to say, I'm not taking a quarterback here. No way. And let me tell you why. I'm going to give you some names of why. Ryan Tannenhill, Eli Manning, Matthew Stafford, Tom Brady, Philip Rivers, Colin Kaepernick, Sam Bradford. What's the difference between almost any of those guys? Teddy Bridgewater. The difference between some of those guys is a point.

a game. And you don't know which one it is that's going to be the better point. You want the better matchup at this point. Yeah. So just take them at the end. Yeah. Laugh your way to the bank in your 10 team drafts. Because if people don't buy into the streaming philosophy in your league, people will start mocking you. It's going to happen. Just have some thick skin. Still not taking a quarterback, nice quarterback. Chew on your Oreos and just ignore them. Yeah. Don't forget those Oreos. Chomp on the Oreos.

I want pictures of drafts with Oreos there. I want them. Mike's, our next pick's already done. Oh, no. Yeah, clearly. We're sitting at the 10th round. Well, the last pick of the ninth. The 9-10 turns. Do you hear that? What is that? All about! Can we finally get him on a team? I think we can. Devante Freeman is up. No.

I'm just kidding. Amir Abdullah is sitting on the board with massive upside. I'm going to click the draft button before Mike reaches over and steals it from me. I've got no problem with Amir Abdullah at that value. That's great. And let's stockpile some talent in guys that can break out. So at the wide receiver position, I see Larry Fitzgerald sitting there in the 10th round. I see Roddy White. Alan Robinson is there in the 10th round. I don't like Robinson in a standard. I don't like him as much, but I...

I really think Alan Robinson breaks out this year. He breaks out and he scores four touchdowns. Let's look at the makeup of our team. I love it. That's true. And you're probably right. All right. So let's take a look at the makeup of our team and see do we have boom guys or solid guys and see whether or not.

What we're in need of is a guy that is, you know, a starter that we absolutely need, you know, reliability from, or whether it's like, we've got the reliability down, who's the highest potential? Because that's kind of, when I get later in the draft, that's what I look in, and I, because those are the tiebreakers for me when I'm looking at a bunch of guys I like, Fitzgerald versus a high ceiling guy. Not that he's done. So, do you want me to go through the roster? Is what you're saying? Yeah, yeah. So we're starting McCoy and Gore. We have Garrett Blunt and Joseph Randall.

on the squad as well as Amir Abdullah, Gore, Blunt, and Randall. And Abdullah. And then we've got Evans, Andre Johnson, Rob Grankowski. You know, you're giving the high five that everybody in a 10-teen league gives high-fives. Well, when you draft your running back two in the 10th round. Oh, Amir. Oh, Amir. What did you say last episode? I better not be wrong. You better not suck. You better not suck. Which you won't. Oh, my goodness. Footland, just know everybody. I don't know what I want to happen.

I don't know if I wanted to be great because you've given so many people in our audience advice to draft him and then we're right or I want you to be wrong so I can just mercilessly assault flames. Oh, yeah. I mean, I'll point that out for a year. I really hope he's good because I think that there are a lot of listeners who are drafting Amir Abdullah. So I hope that you go. There you go. There you go. So what's the pick here? We got to move on in this draft. We got to take another guy here and that's our roster.

Grancowski is locked down the tight-in position. I like that. I'm not thinking about tight-in right now. I'll be honest with you. We don't need another tight-in at all. So to me, when I look at our wide receivers, so let's talk about that, like Jason just brought up. Mike Evans, Andre Johnson, Martavis Bryant. We are short on wide receiver, and we are short on consistency to me. Yeah. Because we don't, let me give you some perspective here. Mike Evans, rookie quarterback. Andre Johnson, changing teams. Martavis Bryant, second-year guy.

That tells me we need to put somebody on the squad that we can roll out in case one of these guys falls. Looks like your guy. Someone with really, really sure hands. Yeah, I mean, just performed Hall of Fame level. Someone that if we could turn the YouTube camera around would be a giant fat head on the wall. He is stuck on the wall over there. Nice hands, Larry. So is it Larry Fitzgerald? Yeah, that's the perfect compliment to this team. And Larry and Andre can live out their glories together on our roster. We're the geriatrics.