Fantasy Football Podcast 2017 - NFL Draft Show + Team Needs, Marshawn and AP News

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And Mike Wright. Today's the day. The fantasy footballer's back again. Another episode of the podcast, and it is NFL Draft Day Thursday, April 27th. Woo! I sent in a question. Didn't you do a dance on draft day one time, Jason? Every time? Jason's a big dancer, as we all know. I send a question. I have some good friends.

You may have heard of them, the Beastie Boys. Yes. Yeah, you're close with them. I said, guys, how many sleeps? How many sleeps until the draft? They told me very loudly. No, sleep still. Oh, well done. Well done. I thought maybe the Beastie Boys were, I thought that was maybe tied into, like, Beast Mode. We'll get there, I'm sure. I'm sure. Where's the confetti cannons in this office? You know, what happened was, is I feel like I,

I prematurely celebrated so many times that it would be inappropriate to spend all the show doing it today. So you're not going to get. I mean, people have been saying wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. I mean, I'm buying this for a moment. I know something's going to happen. No, I don't have any plans, man. It's all about the NFL draft today. Andy Mike and Jason bringing it to you. And look, this show. If I say, like, if I say his name, is that when the.

The ooze drops on me. That would be, you're going. We really did miss the boat with like, Mike was even late this morning. We could have set up all sorts of surprises. Yeah, I had an hour. I could have put a thumbtack right on your seat and you got to sat on it. Look, today's show is an NFL draft show and it is not an NFL draft show. And what I mean about that is this is not.

We're a fantasy football podcast. So this is about the fantasy football perspective on this draft. We're not sitting here talking about defensive players. We're going to be giving you perspective on the first round and team needs and players that may be impacted by draft picks. So, you know, if the Giants, for instance, were to pick a running back, you know, Paul Perkins is going to take a hit. Or if Denver were to grab one.

We would be talking about the implications for C.J. Anderson and so forth. And I think there are a lot of those situations present in this first round. So we're going to get into that. We will also drop some bold predictions, which has become a tradition. Some hot. Hot tips. And we're upping the ante this year. Well, yeah. We have like the real crazy bold predictions to start the show on the quick question. But then we have our, we're going to pick the destination for the big nine offensive players.

later in the show and the loser is going to have their lunch next week chosen by the winner and we will uh i can promise you from doing this in the past oh it's not pleasant we don't treat kindly to our friends are decimated by uh by our lunch and it's 50 50 chance that it will always be a beats related meal like you will be eating beats so i don't want to lose this we have all our predictions coming up later uh you know

The real story here, too, is Tuesday. Next week, you've got to tune in on Tuesday because we will have all of the post-draft analysis, which just will spill forth the fallout. Oh, the fallout. That's a good way to put it. Like every NFL draft show that you're going to listen to that's recorded around the draft, we will sound really dumb tomorrow. You know, every drive is just. Well, that's true. I plan on being 100% accurate. Last year, you sounded dumb.

Before the show, when you were like, I think Dallas is going to take Zeke. It's true. Because, you know, that would have been ridiculous. But then you sound smart. But usually you sound dumb afterwards. So Tuesday, that is the real, I mean, that's the real crux. Make sure you listen Tuesday. Absolutely. Because fantasy is impacted. Quick question, guys. I want those monstrous, bold predictions. One bold prediction from each of us right now, right here. And this is the kind of prediction that is so bold.

that if you get it right, you'll save the audio forever and just constantly tell people about it. So for me, I've got mine, but all right. You go ahead. I will go because even though mine might not be so bold, it'll melt your face, I actually believe it. It's a bold prediction that I think has a 50-50 shot of happening, and that is Leonard Fournett to the San Francisco 49ers.

Look, their team is not wrought with talent. You say, oh, well, there's great defenders on the board there. They have holes there. There's a lot of good players on the board at two. They have holes everywhere. And if you are going to compete with, you know, the Arizona Cardinals and with the Seattle Seahawks, I mean, you look, the Rams aren't a good team, but they give the Seahawks fits because they're a running team. They slow that clock down. And I think that in this division, Kyle Shanahan coming in,

preparing for next year's Kirk Cousins, go and get Leonard Fournett, give yourself an identity. And so I think it's a legitimate option. That would be Fournet at two. Yes. So I'm going to say my bold prediction is that Christian McCaffrey will go in the top eight picks. Okay. Okay. Before the Panthers or including the Panthers? Okay. All right. So Christian McCaffrey in the top eight. Stock has been rising.

The film is mesmerizing. I'm growing. My love of Christian McCaffrey has grown. That's my bold prediction. Christian McCaffrey in the top eight. I actually don't hate that because... A lot of mocks have them going there. Yeah, that would not surprise me at all. I'll go with my bold prediction. Even in this vomitous class of quarterbacks where they are not receiving much hype as far as... Being good. The normal quarterback hype where...

Last year, I mean, even your teams drafted it or trade everything. They traded everything to move up to 1 and 2 so they could draft them. Despite that, five quarterbacks will be drafted in the first round. So Davis Webb. Davis Webb will go at the back end of the first round. Yes. Everyone's going in the first round, despite all the smoke screens and everything that's being thrown on these quarterbacks. Yeah, that's the hilarious part of today. I've already heard Trubisky 1. I've already heard Watson 4 to Jacksonville. Look.

You are trying to trade players right now. You are throwing up smokescreens. You are throwing up misdirection. You are testing the waters to see what kind of phone calls you receive. And I, look, that's a bold prediction. Everybody wants a quarterback. And I've made this joke before. We're Arizona Cardinal fans. And I said, if we end up taking a quarterback at 13, which is possible, very possible, I'm going to find a way to talk myself into the fact that that guy is the best of the class and a future franchise quarterback.

And that's clearly what, you know, these GMs will believe about their player too. I feel like being on an NFL scale, like being a GM or a head coach at this time would be so incredibly fun. The deception, I mean, right now you're paid to lie. You are paid to trick people like a professional con artist. I think that would just be so much fun to screw with people. I mean, the 49ers and the Browns.

I think are doing a spectacular job of that. We still don't know. And then you get reports. Oh, we've known for four weeks. So we're taking it number one. Oh, it might be a Chibisky now. It's fantastic. And that would be just a spectacular job. Yeah. Yeah, I would. All right. It would also not be spectacular if you missed on that one franchise. Oh, no. Fear. Fear drives so much of that, too, where you're like, oh, gosh, what if I don't take the...

Superstar. When you guys saw that list, I believe it was someone from NFL.com. They tweeted it out. It was the first 12 picks from just a handful of years ago. It was literally just a list of busts for the top 12. It was unbelievable. So fantasy players out there when you miss in your first round pick, don't fret because NFL GMs screw up all the time. I laughed really hard this morning when I saw somebody say that.

Davis Webb had DAC-like intangibles. And that it's breaking news that someone said something about a guy. One of the scouts somewhere. Speaking of news, let's talk some breaking fantasy news, recent fantasy news. News and notes from around the league. Quick reminder, you can follow us on Twitter at the FF Ballers. Hey, did you hear about this, Mike? The Raiders have acquired running back Marshon Lynch. I'm still deceased. Oh, my goodness.

Wow, I did some work on Twitter yesterday. I'm sure you saw it. I did. I enjoyed it. I was on vacation with the fam. You could say the news was verified yesterday. And I woke up and it was a bad day. It was a bad day. Did you see this contract he's got?

Oh, man, they are paying. What are they doing? I'll tell you what they're doing because, you know, it's just what I said they would do. If you watched, you know, some of the news on if you were watching an NFL network and you saw the video where Marshaun Lynch comes in, he gets that helmet, he's talking with Jack Del Rio and the other coaches there, the look on the coaching staff's face and on Marshawn's face said the whole story, which was.

They believe that this is a Super Bowl move. They are unbelievably excited to bring him in and they think it changes everything. I don't necessarily agree with that, but that is what's happening. They're paying him like he is a Hall of Fame running back in his prime almost. And who's to say that when he comes in, even if he's not as great as he was three years ago, what does he open up for Derek Carr?

What do linebackers do when you now are doing play action with Marshawn Lynch in third and one? I mean, you're selling out and you got Amari Cooper over the top. His relationship with Oakland always made me confident he wouldn't troll them. And he came out yesterday and he said a bunch of things that were hilarious. But he said, I had fun in Seattle. But I'm really from Oakland though. Like really, really, really from Oakland, though.

Yeah. So for him, this is as close to playing for family as it gets. He wants to represent them. Whether his body allows him to do that or not, TBD. I think we all agree Latavius Murray is not the best player in the league. But he played behind one of the best lines in the league. So there is an opportunity. He also played. Yeah. That's a key phrase. He also played. Yeah. So. Except for last year. Am I right? Yeah. Well done. But it's the contract. I mean, this is.

It has a maximum value of $16.5 million. It's so ridiculous. Incentive-laden. It is so ridiculous. But this is, to me, this is Oakland. This is the team ownership. This is the coaches. This is buying goodwill from the city of Oakland because they know that people are pissed. Yeah. And if nobody shows up. And gets and.

Not anymore. Yeah. Whatever. Who cares? You can leave in two years. We get two years of our man, Marshawn Lynch. What a great story that would be if they won. If they won it all there. Yeah, I mean, honestly, I love Lynch. I'm rooting for him. And we're talking about the contract. I want people to know, I'm rooting for Marshaun Lynch. I love him. And how are you going to rank him now? Where is he is your fantasy running back? He is your fantasy RB? He'll probably be a two.