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

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Oh, my goodness. Welcome to the show. Oh. I am so glad that yesterday was calm and relaxing and nothing happened. I am still in shock over the events. Over the souls you have taken, Annie? Over the events that have transpired yesterday.

This is the fantasy footballers podcast where anything can happen. Welcome to the show. I'm Andy Holloway. I'm not... The fantasy reaper. I've been known by a new name. I had 50 tweets within five minutes of the news yesterday. If you don't know what we're talking about, that means you probably didn't listen to yesterday's show, which means you probably didn't know we had Martavis Bryant on the show yesterday before the news broke. And mere moments, like an hour.

after we released the episode, the Thursday episode with Martavis Bryant introing the show. And as a guest, which we very much appreciated him coming on. It's also known as the last Martavis Bryant interview that probably anyone will hear for a few months. Oh, my goodness. Yes. Well, there's, what can I say? What can I say? Martavis Bryant has been suspended. Oh, we're going right into it. We'll talk about it.

We got a good show today. We have our final mock draft of the pre-draft season, so we're excited about that. We're also talking to John Paulson from 4-4-4, one of the more accurate guys that exist in the community. So that'll be a lot of fun. We'll be asking him some questions, and it's going to be a really good show. But right now, I'm just still, I'm still reeling from the Twitter blitz that happened after the news yesterday. Where the Fantasy Reaper is going, you don't need roads.

I can't escape it. I mean, there's just no, I have to embrace this. It was, it was crazy. I mean, we, you've been loving guys and then they've been dying. We bring a guy on the show. I love somebody was like, so has Nick Mangold canceled yet? I hope not. He's coming on him. We're going to treat you well. What's funny is I've, I've had multiple people ask, like, did you guys know? Like, I left off the question where I was, where I wanted to know, hey, are you suspended for four games? Yeah. You didn't get into that. No, you didn't. But.

To be honest, it speaks a lot to why Pittsburgh, obviously they knew and Martavis knew. And so Pittsburgh has spent a lot of time this offseason talking about Marcus Wheaton. And so I've had this question a lot. Let's just tackle this as the quick question of the day. Where does Bryant go in drafts and where does Wheaton go in drafts now? Because that's what everyone wants to know. And if we can, let's give them rounds. Because...

Bryant, much like Foster and some of these other guys, probably represents, to me, a late round value now because he's just going to tumble down boards. He's gone for four games. I don't see the suspension changing. There's an appeal, but all indications, all reports. We're going to move forward like the suspension holds. So what's the implications? I mean, where do they go? They have... Oh, go ahead, Jay. I like Martavis Bryant right now for me no earlier than the seventh. The seventh is where I... That's pretty early.

Well, yeah, I look at the guys that are going in the seventh, and I think normally when I draft those guys, say, you know, a John Brown who I really like, you know, I like them, but when I put them on my roster, they're generally speaking, you know, my third wide receiver. And so...

That's where if I've got other wide receivers that I can withstand the first four weeks, I'm fine drafting Martavis Brandt because I don't think he takes any hit on a per game basis, right? He didn't play the first six games last year. Well, that is the question that I, and you're kind of answering it with your seventh round, which is to say, this is something Pittsburgh knew about. He is a great talent, and barring another incident, you believe he just...

comes back into the office. Exactly. Some people are like, oh, is he going to get punished more by then? Well, no, they knew. They know what's going on. Levy and Bell was, I mean, why are we, you know, Levy and Bell's gone for essentially the exact same reason. Great point. They're going to come back in and be plugged in right away. I agree. When I adjusted my rankings and just doing stats, Wheaton and Bryant ended up back to back. Oh, really? Just doing stats? Yeah. And so because Bryant is the more explosive guy, maybe Wheaton,

can catch on this year. It was... Is that like a literal catch on? Yeah, catch the ball. All right. He actually had a great week one, and then things just kind of fell apart. What, he had? About 600 yards, two touchdowns last year. Right. Which you can't really count on for fantasy. But with Bryant coming back, he's a guy I would look for... I'd start looking in... So back to back, who do you draft? Like you're in the draft now? Is it just depend on your team? Can you stash a guy?

Right. That's a very good point. Can I hold a guy for four weeks who I know that will do absolutely nothing? And it's, man, his boom potential is so hard. He only caught like 25 passes last year. Yeah, I know. But you also, because of that, much like ODB, you really can't project eight touchdowns every 25 passes where he's the greatest wide receiver that the world has ever seen. So, disappointing.

to find out for those that are fans of Martavis in this game and what we've seen, which we obviously are, but just incredible. The entire Steelers' offense, we were talking about this, there's a noticeable difference, about a 10 point per game difference in real life for the Steelers once Brian entered the lineup. And we talked about this yesterday after the show when we found out the news, like Mike asked me, like, what do you do with Lev Bell? Because the difference with Lev Bell was so...

measurable. Yes. And for me, I think Lev kind of ascended into his own during the season, regardless of Bryant, but it has an impact. Because anytime you take a big guy out of an offense, I mean, look at Green Bay. I think we all agree, and impact will happen. You can't take a great player off the field. It's not the same story here, but you can't take a great player off the field, not have a change or an impact to somebody. So Wheaton gets a bump. Bryant goes down, and let's talk some more news. News and notes from around the league.

All right, just to put a bow on it, Martavis Bryant, four-game suspension, substance abuse violation. The report right now in Rotter World is multiple failed marijuana tests. And so, you know, he's gone. He's gone. Yeah, and we've, man, you really, really have to hope this is not another Josh Gordon. It comes to mind because we've just been through it. And this is something that is difficult for people sometimes to overcome the first time around. Yeah, he's been in the league.

What, like 18 months? Yeah. And he's already been busted twice. That this, you don't get at least, yeah, because in the new rules to get a four-game suspension, you know, the first one, he didn't get any punishment. Nobody knew about it. But so that, that is a scary proposition. If you want to avoid him because you're, you're afraid of that.

I don't actually have any problem with that. Yeah, that's just something that's not fun to mess around with. All right, out of Titans camp, we've had some hype about David Cobb, and he suffered a calf injury and now did not travel with the team. We'll not play in the third preseason game. This all but solidifies the fact that Sankey will start the year at the starter, and we'll have probably a longer leash. Yes. If Cobb is to take the bulk of the work, like some of the reporters out of Tennessee are saying,

It's not going to be until later in the season. If you can steal Sankey late in a draft, if you're a Lev Bell owner, roll them out there for the first two weeks. It's not the best thing in the world, but at the same time, he's a starter in the league. So I saw and did a lot of draft reviews, draft reports over the last few days where guys had Lev Bell and Arian Foster on their team. So week one and two. Dangerous. Week one or two, you're not rolling running backs out almost. Out of Colts camp, I hadn't seen this report yet.

They are reporting Dorset has the inside track on the number three receiver job, which is news. And honestly, we talked about Dorset in The Sleeper Show two days ago because he's looked to me, you know, preseason eyeballs watching the field. Dorset looks like the number three guy to me. And he's going to have to move up because I have him down. I was still a Moncrief believer. I still.

like Moncrief's game. But if all reports are that Dorset's going to take that three job, you have to take a look at him for fantasy. Especially because I think they're going to take Kobe Fleener out of their rotation a little bit more than they did last year. And if you look at those numbers and help spread those to that third wide receiver, I think you could have three viable fantasy options at the receiver position, of course, with Andrew Luck throwing the ball. So yeah.

Yeah, absolutely. And then the last bit of news, ESPN Jets reporter, so take it with a grain of observational salt. Okay, I guess that's the word. It's not a... Where do I find that? Maybe that's better than a coach. So never mind. Where is observational salt? It's down the ways from poppy seed muffins. Jets reporter, Rich, I don't even know how to pronounce his last name. We'll go with chimney. Let's give him credit, though. Let's give... Chimony? Chimney.

Chim-chimmini. Yeah, we're going to get a tweet on that. All right, Chris Ivy Prime for a career year. Love it. I mean. We've been talking them up. Let's get that fluff out there for Chris Ivy. He's ready. My original question for today was Chris Ivory or Doug Martin. So let me just want to answer. Chris Ivory or Doug Martin, Jason. Chris Ivory. Ivory. Okay. I'm with you. All right, let's get to the main event here. The Fantasy Footballers Mock Draft. Okay.

All right, this is it, guys. This is our last mock draft draft. We figured it would be good to kind of, this weekend is a big draft weekend. This is the weekend where we have one of our bigger mock, or mock, one of our bigger drafts, our Keeper League draft on Sunday. A lot of people are drafting on the 30th and then the week following. Apparently national draft, fantasy football draft day is approaching. It's tomorrow. There's a national day for that? I think it's tomorrow. Well, I feel like there's, there's about 20.

national draft days. There's a season where every day is national draft day. Preseason week three or four. But like NFL, the NFL and Xbox for sponsoring one, I've heard. So I think it's tomorrow. All right. So let's set the table for our mock draft. We're going to be drafting from the sixth position. And here's the format for the league. We've got a 12 team PPR mock draft, one quarterback, two running back, three wide receiver, one tight end, one flex, and five.

bench spots along with a D and a kicker. So the differences here are just that from most leagues, we're going PPR and we've got one extra wide receiver spot. Correct. Yes. Yeah. Which kind of fits with a lot of PPR leagues. And who are we mocking against today?

Today we are going to mock against the pre-draft rankings, a combination of Yahoo NFL.com and ESPN. And we're doing that on FantasyDraftWizard.com. Makes it really easy. We can go through here. This is a great group to draft against because a lot of people are going to be drafting through these websites this weekend. And we always say take advantage of the names that people will be staring at. Absolutely. And so that's kind of the situation here. So we are going to get it kicked off right now.