FINAL MOCK DRAFT + Sneaky Picks - Fantasy Football Podcast for 8/29

to the fantasy footballers podcast with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Oh, welcome in. Huh? I'll let it go. Mike, after 2,000 episodes, you of all people know that your mailbags, they have, you know, they got different flourishes and sure? Sure they do. Prospector. You know, the volume of laughter from Deucer's Alley this morning is tremendous. That's a second show in a row where it begins. And there's just a faint whistle coming from an unknown location. Oh, Stinky Pete. That was the name. I could not remember it. That's a bad nickname, man. Stinky Pete. Is he a stinky Pete? Stinky Pete, Sticky Prospector? Stinky Pete was the Toy Story 2 prospector.

Which I feel like people are confused with what's happening. Yes. No, they're not. They know. They know that. Look, if you were at the live show, you got, you heard full details because we did a Q&A and people wanted to know about, they wanted to know about my tooth and getting my tooth knocked out. And so I explained the whole situation. And I told them occasionally the fake tooth that I now have in my mouth as a temp. It's known to whistle. Right. Just unexpectedly from every once in a while like an old timey prospector. Yeah. Stinky Pete hosting the show. Which, I mean, I don't, maybe it's something I thought about a long time ago, but I'd forgotten about. I'm now putting it together of Woody's gang in Toy Story 2. And you got this guy named Stinky Pete. You wonder why this guy's a little bit salty? Call him Stinky Pete.

Get in the box. Yeah, no, you get, uh, you grow up with stinky Pete nickname. You're, you're probably upset. Uh, we have a mock draft on today's episode. In fact, we have nearly the entire team, uh, in the mock draft. So we've got the Falcon and, uh, Al Borland. We've got, uh, Brooksie in the mock draft. We've got our Borg and Betts boys. Yeah, Borg and bets are in there. The Rampscallions in there. And, um, the elder bald man, which we call Papa Josh. Yeah, he's at the turn. And so we've got everybody in the mock draft, so it should be a good one today, a two flex mock, our final mock draft before the season begins. So I had sent out a little, we had sent out an email yesterday. Yeah, one week. Today's Thursday. Yeah, one week. It's a week from today. Yep. You've.

It's like your heart. It's like your heart rate went up. It did. It did. I, you know, every year we get to a point. Are you working out? We get to a point, which is usually week 18, which is like, okay, football. And then we get to a point, which is about two weeks ago, which is like, okay, come on. Football. I need it. I need it in my veins. Very excited for week one football. One week. One week and a lot of drafts happening this weekend, a lot of drafts. So make sure you're ready. Ultimate draft kit.com. And then we want to invite you to be part of the Megalabol.com. That's our tournament style super league. And we are up over almost just above 15,000 now. It's your chance to win a listener league spot and an ultimate tier membership for life. Drafts are going to be the 31st of August through the 4th of September. Megalabol.com. How's the voice? Are you able to? Okay.

Oh. Be careful. Okay. All done. All right. You don't want to, look, sometimes the hamstring feels okay and then you get out there at full speed and you're back on the IR. What's the re-injury? I think I'm all right. Take it easy. Reinjury rate on. Vocal cords? I don't know. We'll get bets on that. All right. Let's jump into some news. News and notes from around the league. Presented by USAA Insurance. Well, well, well, Mike is shaking his head because he knows that somebody put their foot in their mouth. And that man, it's Zach Taylor. After returning to practice this past weekend, Jamar Chase did not practice on Wednesday. And Zach Taylor is now calling it day to day because Zach Taylor came out and said, oh, yeah, he's going to be practicing, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I've never seen day to referred to without an injury. This is just like...

It's a situation that's day to day. And I guess it's true because he has every day, he has no idea if Jamar Chase will be there. We certainly, I think we all move Jamar Chase's risk rating up. You know, it's. What's the panic level? One through 10. I would say it's at a seven for where he's being drafted. Okay. I'm not worried about Jamar Chase on the course of the season. I don't think he's going to be a bad draft pick. But I do, it feels like there is a legitimate chance he's not playing football next Sunday. Yep. I'm super. It's really soon. Super excited for my dynasty squad, guys week one to not have Jamar or Brandon. Brandon Ayuk. Also, you can see the frustration with John Lynch. Oh, man. Who's like, what a dummy. He's like, I'm not going to talk about it, but at some point you got to play. Like you can tell this guy is. Brandon Ayuk. So frustrated. He sent a message and then immediately said, John, sometimes you got to pay. Ooh. Look at, look at Dallas.

Just take a look. Take a look at the Cowboys. They played their game of chicken where the report came out that Citi in his camp, they were at 34. That's what they wanted. A whole entire time. They just said, and the Cowboys are like, how about 31? How about 34? Hmm, hmm. Okay, okay. How about this? How about 31 and a half? How about 34? And then they get to the season, they're like, hey, Citi, we got a great idea. How about 34? And they're like, You know what? Deal. We got you got yourself a gosh darn deal over here. It's so. Give the man his money. It's so funny because we're going to do it. We talked about this a month ago where it's like you're going to give you're going to give CD every single penny he wants. Every single one we all know. The whole world knows he's going to get every dollar he wants. Yeah. So do it where he can be participating in.

you know with with the team and practicing and and like you're hurting your franchise and now we have football so soon lynch the GM of the Niners he was so frustrated on i want to say on the stand that's what it's that's what it felt like his press coverage he was so frustrated being like he's got it he's at some point he's got to play it's like this is up to you this is your if we're all trying to find the guy right responsible for this like he wants to He wants to play. And there are other teams, but there are other teams that are willing to pay him now to play now. I don't agree with you. Oh, I don't agree with you. Jamar Chase has two years left on his deal. Brandon Ayuk has one year left on his deal. So, yes, it is, it's still a two-way street. It's still a decision that Brandon and Yuk makes that he believes is in his best interest. And the teams are making in their what they believe is their best interest. And.

you know, when you're under contract, it's still a debate. I mean, it's not just like, you know, how many years under contract can you be where it's the team's fault? I mean, Jamar Chase has two more years under contract. Yeah, with the Jamar Chase situation, I understand it a little bit more. Now that second year would be the fifth year option, but the, you know, this is one of those situations where this is how the NFL works. You know, a decade ago, 15 years ago when people were holding down, it's like, well, you sign this contract. It's like, no, this is.

This is how contracts with the NFL work. If you're underpaid and undervalued and you're near the end of your contract, you get an extension. That is normal, you know, operation. But see, I don't expect these to end the same way. And so that's where I would disagree. I don't, I think that Jamar Chase will play football without a contract. And I think Brandon Ayuk will play football without a contract. Hold out, Brandon. That's what I think is going to happen at this point. And I think that, you know, yeah, I remember this with Arizona. Anquan Bolden did it twice. held out the whole offseason didn't get a deal and played. I mean, they should pay these guys. I'm not saying they shouldn't. They're worth the money. And guess what? It's always worth doing it now. Like the now is cheaper than the later. Like it always is. DJ Moore just got a deal because the team saw that. And it is like Jamar Chase isn't getting paid more after this season. I mean, that's silly. It's going to happen. And what do you want Jamar Chase to do on the field? Do you want him to go out?

and have the best season of his career? I think you do. Right. Let's pull him. Let's pull him before the touchdown. So we don't pay them more. I mean, it's counterproductive, but we did see this. This happened last year. We just did it. Jefferson just did this. Jefferson wanted money, held out for a little while, didn't get his money, played the season, got paid his money. And I do think with Chase, that seems. like the path with iuk this is this is silly because he has had offers from other teams that are just waiting for the niners to you know to do something to trade or not trade and at this point with iuk mike how are you treating the draft pick because he went we had a listener league draft yesterday and he kind of lingered a little bit longer in the draft and then he went and you know is he a stealer is he a 49er is he

behind the eight ball in preparation. This is one of the reasons why the 49ers have the personnel to repeat in the division and go back to the Super Bowl. But there's also just the NFL is so wide open and competitive and the emotions of them losing in the Super Bowl. That is hard. It is rare to be able to do that again. And now you have this drama with IUC and one injury or one problem. It's hard to do it over and over again. And this is just adding to the pressure. The Ayuk situation at this point feels more dire because he is not even showing up. Like Jamar did the, Jamar heard his coach say, yeah, we expect him to play week one. And he said, oh, you do? Because I'll show up to practice, but I'm not going to practice. I'm just going to be in these clothes so you can't find me. Where Brandon Ayuk is missing, he is the fine.

For the first one is 6.4K. That goes up to 11.2. Should he skip the next one? So on and so on with then a maximum fine of up to 45,000, almost 46. I have the solution. I know what to do. What do you got? Ayup goes to Bengals practice. Chase goes to 49ers practice. Oh, I would not like that. I would very much not like Chase to be part of the 49ers. They can't just swap. No. Pay the other guy. All right. We did, we reported that this was likely to happen, but some actual reports came out. Rashi Rice, not expected to be put on the commissioner's exempt list. Which means they're going to let the entire legal procedure play out before they make a decision on NFL punishment. You would expect that they'll be able to push that beyond the season. It does add a little bit of, now I don't know. Maybe you know more information, Jason, but.

if it were to play out during the season, I doubt the NFL is going to delay a punishment. So if it did come to a conclusion, you could just all of a sudden be without Rashi Rice. Yeah, I think we had this with like Zeke, right? Wasn't the, where we were going into an offseason and we thought he was going to miss time early in the year? Is he on a boat? I remember him on a boat. He was doing very inappropriate things, yes. On a boat? Maybe. Where was the boat? Was it international waters? I think it will. I don't remember.

I don't remember. I don't want to speak at a turn. I think there was a boat involved. All right. So Jason, you, like you said. Amy's very convinced about this boat. Now, you did mention. Are you thinking about the Giants boat picture? No. I still think Zeke was on a boat, man. The whole Giants team on the boat. Totally impossible to figure out whether this is a fact. Just speculation. I'm Googling boat and I'm not finding anything. Just look for boats from the past. Love boat. But to Jason's point, Rice. We think it could get delayed further, but it is a variable in play. It is. Which also factors into how you might view worthy and Hollywood and those guys. But if it happens, it would be much later in the season, I believe. So I'm drafting him like he's going to play the whole season because if I get the first half or whatever with Rishi Rice and then I have to figure it out at the end, that's fine. 22nd, 2017.

Is it a boat? The NFL has announced the suspension of Ezekiel Elliott from a boat who partied on boat. Oh, there is. On Cowboys off day amid suspension appeal. So the boat wasn't involved in the incident. This guy is where he spent his appeal. His boat memory over here. Incredible work. I know boats. I know everything that's ever happened on a boat. Now, was this like a yacht, I would imagine. It was a party boat. I'm sure it was a yacht. All right. They would have called it a yacht. It's a boat. Jacoby Brissette and Russell Wilson have been named the week one starters for their respective teams. If you want to choose a new sacrificial baby, I believe Jacoby Brissette is willing to accept that role. Yeah, the offensive line there for the Patriots is bad. And so Jacoby Brissette will not be the long-term starter. This is a...

You know, the schedule is not easy for the Patriots to start the year, and you've got to set your incoming rookie up for success. I think this is the right car. This is probably the right move. I agree. Yeah, this team is not ready to compete today. So I'm with you. Like at least Denver, I think they have some personnel. They had a run last year. Putting Bo Nixon their best chance to win. So, yeah, I agree with you. Yeah, and then the Russell Wilson starter. That was, I think, everyone's expectation from the get-go. Tomlin was pretty clear that he was in pole position from the beginning. Nothing changed, so he will be the starter. And, you know, they've got that byweek in the middle of the year. Maybe they could make a change later. But it's just one of those things where I expect the Steelers to be above 500 because they always are. And if that's the case, you're not going to have Tomlin want to have the turmoil in the locker room of,

quarterback questions. I think he'll squash things early and often. I'm disappointed that it's not Fields because I would like to see Mike Tomlin's sideline reactions to Justin Fields on a regular base. I want to see those eyes roll into the back of his head. I think you'll get some with Ross. And random toss into the stands. We got Deont de Foreman back on the Browns. Yeah. All right. As expected, he resigned. We've got. The chief signing Somaget P. Rhine. Yeah, so running back who caught 50 passes last year. On the Broncos. He is now on the Chiefs. If you had not seen it, there's been some stuff scattering out here about Clyde Edwards, Allaire, having massive, massive difficulty with mental health and some PTSD things going on. I don't have all the information on it. He had been in and out of like.

facility. Yeah, like to help him. And that is he's really struggling right now. So Somaget Pryne is he's he's a late round dart throw that I think is is okay to throw. You should view him like McKinnon. Yeah, I hope he is less than McKinnon for for Pacheco's sake. And I do think he had less juice than McKinnon. He did you know, Pryne. He was okay last year, you know, 50 receptions, but not explosive. And then it does appear digging deeper that this was a yacht party. It was not just about, it was a yacht back into 2007. Oh, we're going back to that? Yeah, I just wanted to confirm what matters. All right. Speaking of what matters, Jason, Jaron Hall was cut by the Minnesota Vikings. He was one of their backup cornerbacks. And they brought in. Speaking of Stinky Pete, they brought in Brett.

Rippin Farts. Yes. Yes. I hope he, I hope Sam Donald is ripping him on the field. Oh man. Rip them farts. I think I tweeted something this morning. Like I don't know what it says about my career and the choices I've made. My life accomplishments that a bit part player like Brett Rippin leads to us being tagged a million times on X about the player. But here we are. Brett Rippin back in the league just for the show. I'm sure he is ready and able to rip some farts. Oh, yeah. So we are going to take a break here, by the way. That was today's news and notes presented by USAA Insurance. Learn more at USAA.com slash insurance. We'll take a break and then we're going to jump right into our final mock draft of the year. Now, I did mention before we jump in here that all of our staff is participating in this mock draft.

The majority of them. And I have it on good authority that there is already a good deal of behind the scenes panic and tilting taking place here. And the important thing to remember, guys, is that it's only half a million, maybe a million people that are going to see what you did in this draft. The fantasy footballers mock draft. Again, no pressure. First pick in the draft goes to the Falcon who can kick things off now. I am at three. Mike is at seven. Jason at the 10 spot. It is a 12-team mock draft. It's full PPR. Full PPR. Thank you, Jason. Didn't know that till just now. Well, you are on the clock, so you're welcome. Two running back, two wide receiver, and two flex. So we are full PPR with two flex spots. So a little bit different than we have done recently.

The first pick was C.D. Lamb, the second pick off the board, Christian McCaffrey to producer Borland. That is going to make my selection rather easy. The full PBR and the two flex. You know, I've been known to dabble in a little breeze hall at the three or four spot. You'd be dabbling. I've been dabbling, but not today. Today it's going to be a very easy pick for me with CMC off the board. Tyreek Hill is going to be. My first selection. Amon Ra St. Brown goes at 104. I have also kind of been curious guys about whether you're willing to promote Aman Ra in your minds to be with that top tier group. Like I've thought a little bit more about it this off season. Like Amon Ra in a full PBR might belong. Yes. With C.D. and Tyreek definitely in the same.

tier is chase yeah in a in a in a full ppr i mean he's so consistent he is the he is the passing offense for that team uh and and and full ppr i think does push him up half ppr he's still not the explosive downfield threat that that tyranti and cd and even chase are so i that to me is the tiebreaker is is scoring format All right, Brooksie went with Bijon at 105 and then Breeze Hall off the board to Betsy at 106. So I have Tyreek. Mike is on the clock with the 107. And this is somehow brutal. We had gotten to the point where it felt very comfortable taking Jamar Chase with bypassing Justin Jefferson. If you're somehow here and Chase is there, that's an easy pick. The situation that is brewing.

Like we said, we've all raised his risk rating in the ultimate draft kit. What about Garrett Wilson? I can see that type of a movement, but it also, that's, I mean, that is playing super scared of, can Garrett Wilson get to the elite echelon that has Jamar Chasing. I'm still going to take him. I'm going to take Jamar. And. really hope that he puts some pads on. Well, he still has a 87.5 receiving line for week one on the sleeper picks against New England. So hopefully we get to see him out on the field in week one. And if not week one, very soon after that, we have Mike with Chase. And then Jason made a weird face in my periphery. He's on the clock at 110. It went Chase.

A.J. Brown and Gibbs. Now, I think Jason might not want to be staring down Jefferson here. I don't. But I feel like in a full PPR, this is a, this is a good. This is a great pick. Be ripping. Well, now that ripping farts is on the team, uh, he's in the locker room and that's where they're really dangerous. Yeah. Open air. You're okay. That's a hot box. It's, um, this is a spot that I don't personally want to be. I, I still worry about Justin Jefferson's cap. upside. Now, I do think, obviously, he's the best wide receiver in the league or one of the three best wide receivers in the league. And between the 20s, in a full PPR, he's going to get massive volume. So I will take Justin Jefferson. But I guess in my world, there's a break of the specific nine people that went ahead that I would much prefer. Like, like I would much. Emotionally, you're not feeling as good as the pick could turn out. Correct. Yes.

Obviously, it's weird too. What a world. I love that at 110. I am. Yeah, what a world. I'm kind of, Jefferson and Garrett Wilson in particular, I'm kind of rising on on them and feeling very content taking them now. Imagine being at 110. And the best wide receiver of football drops to you. I don't know. In full PPR. Yeah. In full PPR. Yeah, I mean, it's a great pick. I get it. I get it. Look, I did take Justin Jefferson. I didn't. Yeah, but I saw your face. That's true. The face was on. The face was unhappy. Garrett Wilson went next to Kyle. Makes sense. And then we got a back-to-back wide receivers from Papa Josh at the end of the round and beginning the second round. Harrison and Pooka very well could be 200 plus receptions between those guys, full PPR. That hair line.

Shouts, low T. That's why he took those two wide receivers. Nice, Mike. Yeah. Kyle went with you bald idiot. It took me a second. I was trying to make sure. Sorry. There wasn't like Pooka's hairline. Oh, no. No, no. Those guys are luscious locks. This is a Papa Josh attack. Well, we know that a rookie can come out and. And not? Yeah. Shout out. Yeah. Mr. Perryman. Yeah, yeah. Jonathan Taylor goes at 202 to Kyle. So he's got the Wilson Taylor combination. Jason back on the clock. I haven't seen a bitter beer face from you yet. Are you okay? This one is pretty easy. In fact, when I was on the clock in the first round, this player was in consideration. I have risen recently. You've got to make decisions. It's draft time. And you've got to, you know, there's certain guys like Sequan Barkley who you're not sure. Like, is it going to work out? Is he going to be vultured on the goal line? I believe.

Sequin Barclay is a great running back and he is on a great. This is a significant change. This is a significant change. He's a great running back behind a great offensive line for what I think is a great offense. No, we're dealing with this right now. Okay. We're dealing with this because first of all, if you want to watch this draft, I suggest you do it on YouTube because you can see the draft board. YouTube.com slash the fantasy footballers if you want to follow along. But this is a problem for me. Because we came in here yesterday with the punter news, the punt return news about Kairn. And Jason was here to calm the fears. He was here to say we're really, he's always viewed Kairn the exact same way. And, you know, I talked about a duck costume, right? You put another item on. Eventually you look like a duck shoes. Jason just put the freaking duck hat on. He gave me a duck hat. Like you gave, you, you, you.

factor into the narrative now. Your decision of Barclay over Kyran right here right now is one more thing for me to doubt. Now, I don't know if this is just 4D chess your plan and you want me to feel bad about the guy I got on my team. But you going Barkley over Karin, I asked you that question verbatim yesterday and you said Kyron William. You in our League of Record, which is a keeper league, you had Saquan Barkley and traded him for Kyron and a move up of a few spots and have been regretting it. So how do you feel in this moment that I took Barkley? Does it make you feel bad? I feel like you did this to hurt me, to make me feel bad. I don't know, man. We'll never know. But I do, I will say this. How will we find out even? We'll never know. For the listeners, like, to me, the difference between Kyron Williams, Sequin Barkley, I'll throw Jonathan Taylor in there as well. They're, they're.

These are all good picks, good players. I think that Kyran might have the strongest ceiling. And we saw his ceiling last year when he was the running back two in a points per game basis. But he also has some flags that you brought them up yesterday. They're concerning for you. I'm not concerned to the degree. Like I would have been just as happy if I took Kyron there. The truth is I take Kyran in a lot of these drafts. And Barclay... I wanted to talk about, I wanted to say that I believe he's going to be really good this year. You got that chance. You took him. And then the Rapscallion had Gibbs in the first round, went A-chan in the second. Ooh, yeah. So I don't know if that, that's not high T though. Gibbs and A-chan don't fit into the high T category. No, they don't. They're not big body 350 carry. That's lower-case T. Yeah, that's baby boy T. Kyron goes at 205. And Mike, you're back on the clock. Jamar Chase on the roster already.