FINAL Mock Draft Episode! - Fantasy Football Podcast for 9/3

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Hi, this is Troy Polomalu, and you're listening to the Fantasy Footballers Podcast. To the Fantasy Footballers Podcast with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Welcome in. That was pretty good, Andy. Thank you. Some people say I sound like... Sounded like a banshee. It seemed like maybe an extinct species of bird. No, the...

Were they like, we modeled a mummified body from whatever, and they were like... Oh, and they try to replicate the voice of something from the past. Here's what they would have sound like, and it goes, ugh. Do you believe any of that stuff? After we messed up how dinosaurs look? Well, we still don't know. Did we? Well, we do know. Well, no, we don't. Because of the bones. Shout out to because of the bones.

apologies in advance for my weakening voice it's been a long week of every person in this entire office being sick in some capacity hasn't got me yet ho ho ho yeah i don't i don't i like mike mike was a couple weeks ago al borland had to fight through it for the entirety of the live show he timed it up perfectly

He probably got it from Papa Josh a few days before that. I'm pretty, you know what? Over the weekend. No, Papa Josh never gets sick. Papa Josh has allergies. I had allergies for a day. And that was it. Everybody else caught his allergies. Everybody caught his allergies. There's a lot of dust in the air right now. Totally. But we're fighting through. It's too important of a week. We got our final mock draft episode today. Aw. Does that make you sad? A little bit. That should make you happy. Football is here. I'm really excited for football to happen. But mock drafts are so.

fun and obviously that will be gone for a long time yeah but i mean now it's the capstone mock draft it's the best one of the year okay we have well then whoever's got the first pick better do great yeah what a tough decision you have at number one jason i like that i got the same spot as the last draft that was fun um oh man

We have the... You just sent Brooks into a cold sweat. Oh, I mean, I know. He is panicking right now. I think I am in the exact same spot. But that's what random things happen sometimes, how random things happen. The UDK is available now. Tons of you drafting this week in Ultimate DraftKit.com, all of our tier-based projections. And you'll have the app available to you for all the research you need. It's always being updated. Prepare yourself to dominate your drafts at the foundation for your league.

We also have, we are outpacing last year with our Megalobole entries. Oh. What is the total at? It's even more. Right now it was, it was over 17,000 people playing with us in the Megalibol. I don't know the exact number, but we need to get it basically over 21,000 to beat last year. So go to Megalobole.com. If you are unaware what that is, it is a, it's just another fantasy league to play in. But you're going to be. It's not Justin. Jason. I was just starting.

I didn't like your start. I did not care for your tone at all. Listen to this. It's not just another fantasy football league. Thank you. This is a fantasy football league where you're going to play with other folkland members, meaning, you know, they're like-minded, they've got a good sense of humor, they know what they're doing, they're fun, but also it's challenging. Like you don't have, you know, any slub in that league. And so you got to work the way. So what TLC was talking about.

Right. No, no, we don't want no schlubs. Yes. It wasn't even schlub. Mike was scrub. Oh, that's the, don't, that's too far. What is happening this morning? That's too far. Let's support it. You're with Mike on this? Yeah. All right. Have you heard a joke on this show before? It's a rhyme. And rarely are we accurate with the, I mean, we don't try to be on the nose. If you want another fancy football league, go to megalobole.com. That's it. Quick question of the day from Brayton. Can you guys incorporate more updates from your League of Record?

We can. It's funny, we get asked this all the time. And so I guess we should. I feel like we have done that more. But it is one of those things. No one really wants to talk about the League of Record this year. Wait a minute. I don't really want to talk about it, Jay. I mean, unless you want to talk about me being the champ from last year. Let's just focus on 2027. Let's play a game where we go in a circle and name all the players already have on my team. Ready? Mike, you start. No, no, no. Let me start because it's easy. Malik neighbors.

I'm done. No, no, not on your team. We're talking about my team and the players I have on my team. So you start? I refuse. Yeah, okay. Nobody wants to play this game. No, we just think of the six best players in the league and then just put them on my team. No, we, I mean, we love, we've talked about it a lot. We had Al and I face off in a championship game a couple years ago. Mike had his year of Mike. The year before that, we had the betrayal by.

two-thirds of the deucer's alley that would be Papa Josh and then the quiet one that was totally guilty that puts his hands up like he's under arrest right now falsely accused but luckily I won that title and it was no big deal so there you go we give you guys updates we just don't want to overwhelm the show with like our personal league but I know that you guys get excited about our competitiveness and the times we get a mock one another and Jason eventually will have a player on his team actually play

Josh Jacob neighbors combo right now? Yeah, I lost Jonathan Taylor to the lottery, traded away the artist formerly known as Travis E.TN. I have Malik Neighbors who might not play, and I have Josh Jacobs as my other keeper. So it's 2027, boys. I'm so excited to be able to host this mock draft today. Yeah, it's going to go well for you. News and notes from Around the League. The Raiders have named Kirk Cousins as the team's week one starter.

Well, that's better than the Falcons. The Falcons have... What are we even doing here? I mean, we're days away from, like, they are currently practicing for week one. We're at the point where training camps are over, the, you know, interteam scrimmages are over. They are preparing for week one. But they don't know who their quarterback is. Because they won't have a quarterback through the entire of the year.

Like, I know we've started our week one rankings a little bit, like, behind the scenes, but we haven't, I haven't really been diving into the matchups. I don't know who the Falcons play week one, but I'm taking the other team. So are they. It's rare to have. They're at Pittsburgh. Yep, sure. Great. They could have been anywhere. It's very rare to name a starting quarterback after September 1st. This year we have cousins. The last two years, nobody did that.

Before that, it was the Cardinals. Yeah, not a serious organization. Makes sense. It was Trubisky and the Steelers on September 6th of 2022. To Rod Taylor, 2021. Yeah, I'm not seeing like a string of all pros getting named starters. Yeah, I think there is. Nathan Peterman? There's a direct correlation with naming your starter this late and having a horrifically bad year.

Clint Kubiak says he's optimistic Asheny will play week one against the dolphins. There's so much whispers in the bushes about Mike Washington and junior having a big role. Where are you guys with that? I think there's been enough smoke. Certain things said by Kubiak where I'm not back to where I started. Where I started when Kubiak came here was I was like full out on Genti. I thought it would be a time share. What they did in Seattle. Exactly. What you saw coming off a Super Bowl where you took.

Ken Bone Walker and you put him behind Charbonnet. I'm not back to that place, but I do think that Mike Washington, what he's done in preseason, what he's done in camp, and with the ability, like if they have a player in Mike Washington, which I was very skeptical of, then they will rest gentie more with us. So I have moved the needle a little bit. I think I've got...

I think I've got Mike Washington up to like 140 carries somewhere around there, which is not a ton, but it's certainly not the situation where I view Ash and Genty as what Christian McCaffrey was last year. Mike Evans back at practice on Wednesday. Okay. Hold on. Hold on. We're getting breaking news. Mike Evans has left practice. I'm just assumed. Yeah, no, you're right. I haven't heard anything. Mike Evans will be back of the news tomorrow. Yeah.

But he's practicing. That is good. That is good. Working off to the side, projected to be ready for week one, the world would like us to clarify that it was a toe sprain, not turf toe. He seems, I mean, I've watched a lot of, I don't think we know, we don't really know what's going on. They have been, they have not said turf toe. That's all I'm reporting. The team has not said, the team has said sprain toe, not turf toe. There is a difference.

He is still trying to basically be able to cut on that foot, on that toe. He's been going through all the motions this week, trying to strengthen that, see if he's ready for week one. You know, it's... Yeah, our medical guy, Matthew Betts, certified PT, is reminding us. Turf toe is a sprain of the big toe. Yeah, you can't turf toe the small ones. Right. That's why I know that. If they're just saying it's a sprained toe, it could...

It could still be turf toe. Yeah, it's which toe is it. And because of the recovery and the struggles with it, it definitely feels like turf. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. I think we hope to see him out there in week one, and maybe he ends up dropping an ADP. Panthers coach, Dave Canal says he's optimistic Jonathan Brooks will play in week one. Ooh, General Soreness reporting for duty. He's trying to keep him out. How do you guys project? Get to the sideline, soldier.

How do you guys project the Jonathan Brooks' Chuba week one split? And who gets the first carry? Chuba. Yeah, I think Chuba, I bet this just, we're probably hot hand the entire season. Well, Brooks should have a hotter hand. I think Chuba's had very few hot hands in his career. I mean, you, that's what. He's a warm-handed running back. The fantasy football drafters, you're making your choice of who you think it will be.

I think it will be a very frustrating back and forth of. They've been a good running team. Yes, they can have a very good running scheme. They have a solid offensive line. But like last year, it was, I mean, it started as Chuba, then Rico takes over, and then it was hot hand. So I just think week to week, this could be pretty tough. If one of them is seemingly going to take over eventually,

It probably should be Jonathan Brooks, but I think it is a, I think it's a sketchy move, week to week. I don't know that you're going to be able to really count on either of them. Any other news? Not at this time. Okay. By the way, we wanted to make the Falcon do the welcome in today, knowing my voice is a little weak. But we love you, Footland. Yeah. I mean, the gag just would have fallen flatter somehow.

Blah. All right, we're going to take a quick break, an early break, and then we'll jump into our final mock draft of the season. What's up, Foot Clan? You are confident and disciplined and focused on details, just like everyone here at the fancy footballers, right? Those are words you used to describe us. In other words, you were made to drive the 2026 Sierra 1500 Denali, a full-size pickup combining capability with elevated design and advanced technology. You can seek out the exceptional.

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