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Jason Moore and Mike Wright. Welcome in. Tuesday, May 15th, 2018. What a great show today is going to be. Have you already heard it? I have... What kind of word order is that. I'm back from the future. And let me just tell you, I mean, the amount of things that are going on on today's show are perfect. They're perfect. Before you...

Turn it off because I know most of the time you just wait for my intro and then you turn it off. Before you do that, click. You just want to see if the voice cracks or not. Big announcement on the show momentarily. I'm going to put it right there. Big, big announcement coming up. Today's show is great. We've got regress or impress with an absolute doozy of a sound drop to introduce that segment. Prepare yourself for that. It's the worst. And so we'll talk through some players.

that had out of the ordinary years, maybe, breakout years you could define them as and discuss whether we think they're going to regress back to maybe the career average or continue to impress you with otherworldly numbers, which, you know, a lot of the times people assume regression for a lot of players, so maybe they're a steal in your fantasy draft. Big announcement, number one, this isn't the big announcement. This is a big announcement. This is just one of. Medium. This show. Medium announcement coming up.

Ordinarily, this is a big announcement, and it is a bit of a medium announcement today. The rankings, our initial 2018 rankings are up on the website. I'm so excited to have those up because of what it means. We don't just rank these guys, you know, oh, this guy's five. I feel like I was on an episode of Planet Earth right there. An exotic bird. A bird. Flew down.

The rankings being done means that the work that we've been pouring into the ultimate draft kit already, every single team being statted out top to bottom, the foundation has been laid. And I'm just so happy because over the last month, I feel like my brain has just been all numbers. And now we've got results. Now we can fight and yell at each other about how stupid you are for your rankings when clearly mine are the best. Well, accurate.

Yeah. We'll see about that. Yeah. Or we'll forget about it and not see about it later. No, it's exciting. You wrapped up yours yesterday, so our consensus are done. They're on the website, the fantasy footballers.com, click rankings, check them out. Undoubtedly tweet us your surprise at various rankings. We're going to have a show coming up pretty soon that is called the Explain Yourself. Oh. So we're going to pick apart each other's individual rankings.

and force one another to justify why they have players there. And this is kind of the, all the different information comes in to build these rankings. It's all, all the statistical projections are based on things like coaching changes, like offensive changes, personnel changes, what happened in the division, what happened on the defensive side of the ball, all those factors going to the full projections. You get the rankings on the website, you get the full projections in the UDK at Ultimate draft kit.com. Okay.

That was medium announcement number one. Oh, there's more. Well, baby announcement, which is a reminder. Don't you usually go small, medium, large? Just come along for the ride. We're falling down. Footclang giveaway.com. It's a reminder. It's a roller coaster. Lev Bell, signed jersey, Alvin Kamara, or as I'm saying now, Camara. This is what I've been. We're going to go Camara. That's how Alvin Camara says that.

He wants his name pronounced. Technically, he says you can say it however you want. That's what he says. He calls it Camara. But then you guys decided to go all super Camario. So are we going, Alvin Camario? Yes. There you. No. No. He said we could say it however we want. All right. We have assigned football by that player at footclane giveaway.com and assigned left bell jersey. And you can find us on Twitter at the FF Ballers on Apple Podcasts on Instagram. All right, here's a quick question of the day. Then?

The big announcement. Oh, you're stringing this along. I know. I know. Well, you're here. I'm going to just take my time. Well, I already know the announcements. It's the people. A question off of Twitter from Max. Can you explain your process for statting out players? So how do you go about from ground zero all the way to 32 teams statted? That's what we've done. Right. Preparing for the season. Obviously, we had to wait.

a little while. We normally do not complete that process until the NFL draft because you have so many players that impact the depth charts on the various teams. But explain your process a little bit. Explain what's important to you and what the listener is getting from those rankings. Sure. So, you know, with my process, you alluded to a lot of the different things that we look at, right? We look at the coaching changes, the division, strength of schedule. Magic eight ball. History. But, you know,

There are two main things. We're going to take a look at each and every single player on a team individually and look at their history, their age, the trends of the NFL. And, you know, we'll stat these players out at each position. And we go deeper than what you see on the website, right? Like, you know, I've got Blake Darwin and Dalton Schultz numbers.

Behind the scenes. You got some Dalton Schultz numbers? You darn right. I do. He's an NFL player. But we only put forward the stuff that you really need. And then...

you know, we'll look at the market shares of, you know, target market shares per position, and then try to make sure that the teams make sense, right? I'm not having, you know, a team add up to 45 touchdowns, but the quarterback is supposed to throw 28. Yeah, a great example of that impact would be Cleveland. If you look at Cleveland this year, you have Josh Gordon, you have Jarvis Landrie who just arrived, you have different players that you'd love to project for huge seasons, but you have to face the realities that Tyrod Taylor coming in.

to run the offense, a career guy that throws for under 3,000 yards, how do you distribute those points versus somebody that, you know, you're talking about maybe 2,000 yards difference from another team that's past heavy. Yeah, and taking those situations like Cleveland and putting in, just from our expertise, projecting that team forward, as in Will Baker-Mayfield get in? Because Hugh Jackson is...

I was going to try and say the word vehemently. Did I get it? Vemently? Yeah. Close enough. Saying that Tyrod Taylor will be the starter. I don't buy that at all. Just because of my experience with the NFL, quarterback's taken in the first round. I think that Baker Mayfield will get in. How soon does he get in? Just weighing all those types of things. And for me, for my process, coaching changes are...

by far the most important thing with the offensive philosophy of a team. Has it drastically changed? Like Tennessee, the Tennessee Titans were running some, the exotic smash mouth, a little John Foxian, little Jeff Fishery type of football. And I think that LaFleur coming in from that Sean McVeigh coaching tree, I think he's going to shake things up pretty drastically.

for the Tennessee Titans. Sean McVeigh and Kyle Shanahan in coaching training. You got a good pedigree there for some cool offense in Tennessee. That's right. A guaranteed 1,000 yards from Corey Davis. You hear that? You hear that from one of the three of us. Guaranteed. All right. Yeah, strength of schedule. If you didn't already mention that, that factors into some of the outlay of statistics as well. Anything else you guys want to discuss on that front before the big announcement? Nope. Jason, will you grab that horn over there?

You already have it? I've got it ready. Oh, footclan, assemble your ears. Okay. We are proud and excited to announce officially. Now, had I teased this at times and been scolded for giving it away a little bit? You may have already heard this announcement, but now this is the official. This is the day where it matters. Yeah. This is the official announcement of the fantasy footballers fantasy for the people tour.

presented by draft. We're going out to the people. And this is coming up soon. Now, you mentioned some of it, but you didn't even mention one of the biggest cities. New York City is going to be in this tour. Minneapolis on June 21st at Cedar Hall, Philadelphia, July 26th at the Trocadero Theater. Trocadero. Trocadero Theater. New York City.

July 27th at the Music Hall of Williamsburg, Dallas, Texas, July 13th at Canton Hall, which, by the way, will be kicking off the National Fantasy Football Convention. And then back home in Phoenix, August 24th at the Crescent Ballroom, a tour for you, for the Foot Clan. We're going to do some live podcast tapings all around the country. We invite you to come out, to hang out with us. We did two events last year.

Very fun. Great to spend time with the listeners. And a cool opportunity to come out and see us live and be a part of it. You are actually a part of the podcast. Yes. You will be on the podcast. It's an amazing time. It's a lot of fun. But the important thing right now is that now is the time. You can actually draft is allowing a...

basically before the tickets go on sale, a lottery to be able to get tickets. Exclusive ticket pre-sale lottery, Jason. That's so well-worded, Mike. Thank you. So the general on sale is going to be Friday. So you can act now beforehand to enter the exclusive ticket presale lottery. All you have to do is sign up for draft at draft.com slash ballers. That will give you every bit of information you need to get involved, get tickets. Come out and see us before everybody else gets a chance to get them.

Check it out, draft.com slash ballers to enter the exclusive pre-sale lottery before the general on sale on Friday, which will be at ballerslive.com. Does that sound fair? Is that that a full? Yeah, it's perfect. Going to be freaking awesome. Get your tickets while you can because we want you there. Yeah. All right. Well, without further ado, let's get into it. Shania Twain will not be at any of the events. Wait, what? I'm sorry. I'm sorry. She could be.

I'm a DMer. You're going to DMer? Yeah. Have you ever... I'm guessing you wrote her a few letters in your teenage years. That's what I'm guessing, Mike. I may or may not have... You know what she said to him? That doesn't impress me. At least she's saying it to me. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Getting back into the show. Let's start out at the quarterback position. Regressor impressed Philip Rivers. Oh, Philip. Very impressive season.

ended up number eight overall. You saw things start to work between him and Keenan Allen as the season went on. That connection. You have Mike Williams there. Year number two for Mike Williams. It's more like year number one almost for Mike Williams. Yeah, but another year in the system. More opportunity. And then you have a good defense on that roster. So what do you expect from him last year? 4,500 yards, 28 touchdowns.