Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Final Mock Draft, John Paulsen Interview, Fantasy News

Correct. Okay. So what's the thought process? The thought process going through my mind is guys that I really like. I love Alan Robinson. Brandon Marshall is very close for me as well. So those are two of the guys who I'm looking at. And Golden Tape. Marshall's my pick right now. Okay. Because we start three wide receivers. I will concede the pick. Yeah.

Yeah, we know I would take Alan Robinson over Brandon Marshall, but it's close, and I like Marshall too. So let's grab Marshall and see what happens if one of our tight ends can come back. Well, I'm going to read back our roster now that we enter the sixth round, and Travis Kelsey. And Travis Kelsey... Greg Olson went two picks ahead. That's okay. But one of our two. That's where tiers matter. You know, it doesn't matter between Greg Olson and Travis Kelsey. Right now we're starting Justin Fawcett and Frank Gore, and our three wide receiver positions are filled with Julio Jones.

Devante Adams and Brandon Marshall. So shaping up to be a very, very good roster. Is Travis Kelsey still on the board? Greg Olson just went. Is he the pick in the sixth round? Home run. Anytime in the sixth. Just making sure. Now, Alan Robinson's still there. You don't want to flex start Alan Robinson over Travis Kelsey? I'll tell you what. There is nothing better than when multiple guys you love have dropped. What a great problem to have. But since there's a positional advantage to be had.

And we've already got our starters filled at wide receiver. We've got to go, Kelsey. All right. Let me pick a name out for you. We just talked about Martavis Bryant. Now, Bryant, if you are drafting this weekend, is probably not going to plummet down those boards necessarily. If adjustments have happened, I guess he will. But he went in this draft with the 11th pick of the fifth round. Yeah, I think that that will happen this weekend and won't happen next weekend. Just a lot of people, you know, look.

Foot Clan, you guys listen every day, and you're going to listen every day through the season, and that's why we're going to win championships together. But a lot of people, they don't, and they don't stay up to date on the news. All right, so Travis Kelsey, we took them in the sixth. We're entering the seventh round now. Let me read back the seventh round to you. Alan Robinson, Tori Smith, Martellus Bennett, Steve Smith, and Alfred Blue. And I can tell you, I'm very happy with Travis Kelsey over what's left at tight-in. We probably would have waited to the end of the draft for a tight-in if we didn't get Kelsey. Correct. So,

What position are you looking at here? Right now, we have a flex position open. We got a quarterback open and the bench open. Did Alan Robinson go? Yes. Alan Robinson went. I couldn't find. So right now, if you look at the core positions, we're looking to start a flex guy. We're looking at quarterback. What are you thinking? I'm looking for running back depth at this point. We've held out as long as we can. What about Arian Foster right now?

He is sitting there on the board. That is interesting. As your third running back, hmm. The seventh round, the news on Foster fluctuates pretty much every single day, but lately it has been extremely positive of him missing four weeks of the season. And if you can take a running back in the seventh round, yeah, he's going to miss four games. But when he comes back, is a running back one. I mean, that...

that's how you can win a league. That's how people do it is you steal value late, and Arian Fosser is a known commodity. We're not throwing a lotto ticket into the air, scratching it off and hoping that something pans out. Aaron Fosser is known. So let me give you names, because there are other running backs available, obviously. Doug Martin, Shane Boreen, Devante Freeman, Tevin Coleman.

Who else? Woodhead and a PPR? Reggie Bush, Sanky. There's not a lot of big time names here. Do I bring up what happened last time we mock drafted Arian Foster? Oh. Does that do it? Does that do it? Yeah, the Fantasy Reaper. Yeah, so maybe we don't draft Arian just so that he might get back onto the field this year.

I'm pretty sure there'll be a drive-by shooting if we draft Aryan Foster. Isn't that like, you know, when you multiply by zero, if you do it twice, you can reset the whole equation? Yeah. You know, honestly, it's a negative. Come on, man. Yeah, it equals a positive. Aryan Foster is a roster-based decision, right? It's not a draft round decision. It's can your roster take him? And I look at our roster with, I look at our roster with a stud tight end right now.

solid wide receivers and solid starting running backs. We've got a solid team here. We're looking at a flex, but we can play with lots of different options for a week or two for a flex. So I think because of our roster, you've got to go Aryan here because we want to win a championship. So you're telling me that we're going... Yes. All right. I love it. We're not going to fear the Reaper. Oh, please don't...

No news, season-ending news break today. So we drafted it? Yeah, we drafted Aaron Foster. Breaking news. Oh, be quiet. This thing is never going to die because NFL players get injured every day. Here's the best, the real honest part about this week to have a good time. It was one guy. Like one guy, one guy. It was Aryan. Well, I guess Martavis Bryant kind of counts. And LaShawn McCoy.

Well, McCoy was my number, McCorm was my number five at the time. Okay. Maybe you are the Reaper. Maybe I really am. Maybe it's not a joke. How do we use this power in, for our advantage? No, for good, come on. I guess we are the foot clam. We don't, we don't do stuff for good. All right, after Arian Foster, we took him, and I like the logic, okay? The logic is what you needed to pay attention to do there.

If you already had a situation where you're not strong in your starting roster and especially at the beginning of the season, you can't take the chance on Foster because you're not starting him. You're not playing him for a little while. But this gives you what you need, which is mid-season power to go through to the playoffs. These are game winner. That's a game league winner type of situation. Yeah. So now maybe this is the first time you've listened to the fantasy footballers podcast and you're going, well, your quarterback. Your quarterback stinks. You haven't even been talking about quarterback.

That's when I tell you, Ryan Mallet's still on the board. He's still sleeping. So we haven't even paid attention to it the last round because, you know, our theory here is Aaron Rogers and Andrew Luck. They're a step above. They're a positional advantage. Outside of those two guys, which you have to give up a hefty price to get, the middle...

of the pack guys are just all so close that it doesn't really make a difference to get that great name versus getting somebody late in the draft and you can even stream them. So I would say that, I would say you don't need to worry at all about quarterback in those middle rounds. Don't do it because this is how we- Tanahill, Manning, Stafford, Rivers, Bradford, Capernick, Bridgewater, Palmer.

Yep, that sounds pretty good to me. Fine with any of them. No quarterback right now. So I've been really happy. We have an ultimate draft report product on our website right now that you can go, you can basically submit your roster to us. We'll grade your team. We'll give you an in-season action, plan, strengths, weaknesses. I've seen a lot of these come through, and we're a little backed up on them, by the way. So if you submit an order for that, it might take two or three days to get yours. But we're going, because we're going through the teams ourselves. But I've seen a lot of people execute the streaming quarterback strategy to a T. And I'm really like,

Just personally excited to see that when a guy has Bradford and Palmer on their team. And I know they're going to get performance out of those positions. And you can tell when you look at their roster, their depth is incredible. Oh, yeah. Studs. So right now, we need to move a little quicker through this draft. So let's make some quick picks. We're sitting here in the eighth round. Brady and Newton went off in this round. Charles Johnson right before us. Then give me the pick. Go for it. All right. With the eighth pick, I'm going. Eighth pick.

Is it in the eighth round? Eighth round? Eighth round. With our eighth round pick, at this point, I would go Danny Woodhead. No, I'm going to go Danny Woodhead because I think, I think that... That's not a reach, huh? You know, ADP-wise, it is a reach, but for performance, I don't think it's a reach. Because we've got Arian Foster. PPR League? Yeah, and two, I want, yeah, the PPR. He's going to get plenty of receptions, and his baseline will be high, so... Yeah. So we're going to talk a little bit with John Paulson about him.

later today. So we'll give you some Danny Woodhead perspective as well. Let's go into the ninth round. Devin Funchis could be a value. Just went off the board right ahead of us. Ryan Matthews, Isaiah Crowell, also went off the board in front of us. So let's go ahead and see who's on the board now at both wide receiver and running back. So Devonte Freeman's still there, Tevin Coleman, so the backfield for Atlanta. In the wide receiver position, we have some value guys, some Eddie Royal, Michael Floyd.

Wheaton is still on the board. We talked about Wheaton. You know, if you, Mike, have Wheaton and Bryant at the same position in your board. Bryant went off the board in the fifth. Wheaton's sitting here in the ninth in a PPR. Reggie Bush is a possible PPR running back that could perform for you. And then you have a lot of home run guys, David Cobb, David Johnson. Cobb, who's injured, so I'm not taking Cobb right here. Okay, especially with Foster on our roster. Foster on our roster.

All right, so Mike, your pick. All right, right here, because the running backs are quickly going, I'm going to take a gamble here. We're in the ninth round. We are. Okay, so I want a piece of that Atlanta offense, personally. Another piece? Another piece, because we have Julio. I want some of that running game. And reports are that Freeman is going to start the year.

as the... He's going to start as the starter. I guess that makes sense. He's going to start. But I think that Tevin Coleman has tremendous value and upside here. I don't think Freeman has the upside of Coleman. I would go with Coleman. I'll do this. I'm going to go Coleman, but you guys can pick either Freeman or Coleman. Let's narrow it down to those two. Okay, so I'm looking at a roster. Fawcette, Gore, Foster. I take Devante Freeman.

because I might need a running back earlier in this league, and I know he's starting. But I'm okay drafting Coleman, because I gave you the pick. Oh, man. I very much like Coleman more than Devante Freeman, but I think the logic of when we need a running back, just to get us through until Arian Foster comes back, and then we probably wouldn't see Kevin Coleman in there. I would go Devante Freeman. He's the starter. Solid. So, Devante Freeman off the board, we have Fawcette, Gore.

Julio Jones, Devante Adams, Brandon Marshall, Travis Kelsey, Arian Foster, Danny Woodhead, and Devante Freeman. We're coming around to the 10th round. The highest ADP guy on the board right now is Eli Manning at the quarterback position. I still think we can wait there. We've got three bench spots, and that's something to keep in mind. This is where at your draft, you've got to start paying attention to how many spots do you have left because you might be going, oh, I need to get my handcuff or, you know. I'm looking for a wide receiver here. Absolutely.

PPR league. We have three wide receivers. We have a number of running backs. We have six, I believe. So at wide receiver, I'm going to go ahead and make the pick for us this time. I'm going to take the tried and true Marcus Colston. I think Marcus Colson is a value here in the 10th round. I think Marcus Colson is a lot of targets that disappeared off of that offense and he took less money to go back there. So I think Colston is the pick for me and we're going to take him here in the 10th round. We're going to roll around to the 11th with a few spots left on this roster. I'm going to hand this pick off to Jason.

Okay, so scroll down, let me see. I'll name some running backs and wide receivers. I'm fine taking either. I think we're probably more in need of a wide receiver. I agree. But I'm not going to do it. Okay. And the reason is because I really want David Johnson. He's a great value. I think he's going to be a good PPR guy. Upside play. Upside play. And so I'm not going to pass the value. David Johnson off the board. David Johnson. We're going to go ahead and make two more picks before we wrap up this mock draft. What are your thoughts on the mock so far?

I'm loving our team. What is the quarterback situation now? I think we've got to draft a couple of them. So right now it's thinned out quite a bit. Kaepernick, Palmer, Cutler, Flacco, Dalton, Alex Smith, Marriota, down at the bottom. With that many people on the bench right now, I think we only need... 17 quarterbacks are off the board. And there's still a lot of guys there like there. I think we only need to draft one and we stream from the waiver.

That would be my opinion because I could use another direction. I think you draft two here. It's a 12-team league. And because of how farward, it was 17 off the board, I draft two. I agree with Jason. Because it's a five-bench spot, I'm going to hold, I'm going to do one. Who's your quarterback? But because he's a quarterback one for me, I'm taking Carson Palmer right here. I just want to, I want to lock that up. Wow. And Andy and I would have taken Colin Kaepernick probably. Yeah. And so if Kaepernick's still on the board, when it comes back around, I'm going to take him out of my disagreement. He's gone.

He's gone. Yes. All right, so we're back around, and we've got one bench spot to fill. So if you did draft a quarterback, that would be somebody like Marcus Marriota, which I think would be worth taking a shot at, especially going with Palmer. But I will... I think we could use another wide receiver. It's a three wide receiver flex. Is Ruben Randall available? Ruben Randall is available. Some names to think about as well, Ty Montgomery. Parker.