Best Offenses Mock Draft + Draft Day Regrets - Fantasy Football Podcast for 9/1

Josh Allen and go, oh, he's going to score a lot less because it's tough. All right. Chargers go to Jason, Buffalo Chargers combo. He's got Cincinnati Buffalo in L.A. Mike with Dallas and Chicago so far, you're picking at number eight right now. This is kind of, it's like Buffalo. You're just betting on the quarterback to take you there. I will take Baltimore. That would have been my next one. Take the Baltimore Ravens. I kept moving them down in it. I,

Look, you brought up the offensive line and some things. It won't be nearly as strong. It's still Lamar, though. I will still bet on him. Yeah, his health is always... And Derek Henry. His health is always the swing factor. Like, Derek Henry is just... I'll bet until I'm wrong. You know what I mean? Like, I'm willing to just keep going in and have the one year where it finally blows up in my face. I'm like...

Well, shoot. Well, my son, that was a fun run. He picked Henry last night. He's like, should I pick Chase Brown? And I said, yeah. That was where, that's where I was. Well, look, I think I'm, I'm betting on Henry, but yes, I'll take Chase Brown. I think I'm scared of the coaching change. Whenever, I feel like in recent history, when you've gone from an all-time coach for a franchise, you have like a down year or two until you figure it out. But I don't know. Hopefully, hopefully the combination of Declan Doyle and Jesse Minter.

are awesome, and they're the next ones. Doyle rules. Nice. He certainly does. All right, I got my final two picks. Yes, you do. I didn't misappropriate my spot in the draft and accidentally take somebody that I shouldn't. I'm going to go in, I think people might find this one interesting. I'm going to start by telling you who I'm not taking. I'm not going to take the 49ers, even though they're projected seventh and points per game. I'm worried about the age. It's not just CMC's age, right? It's Evans and it's Kittle and it's...

You know, they have had a tough offseason, you know, so I'm not going there. Cleveland. Cleveland is obviously in contention. No, I'm going to take one team that maybe you're not surprised with and one that I think you will be. Maybe both. Seattle is going to be my pick. I'm going to take Seattle. It makes sense based off of last year. Yeah. They're the one where it's like the, I'm curious what's going to happen with the offensive coordinator.

They're the largest drop for me in projected off. When I did this exercise, and honestly. And lack of elite running back. Yeah. No, see, that's part of it. I'm a huge fan of Jedarian price. Yeah. So I think he'll be able to hold them up. Yeah. And that's going to be a huge component of it. I think that the loss of. He's getting halanied for sure. The loss of their, you know, of the Charbonnet.

Ken Walker combo that got them to the Super Bowl mixed with the loss of Kubiak and the offensive system that just designed guys open so well last year, I worry about that kind of regression. Well, they are a regression candidate according to Vegas. They were number three in the league last year projected down to eight this year, four point per game loss in their Vegas projections. But the team that I think is going to surprise that I'm going to take above New England, that I'm going to take above Jacksonville. I'm going to write it down.

You want to try to guess it? Yeah. Okay. You didn't write enough letters. I'm taking the Green Bay Packers. Ooh, I did not write that. I'm taking... He could have had two letters and... Well, no, I mean, I could tell from what he wrote. It was one word. I could tell it wasn't two words. I could hear it. I could tell it wasn't two words. Who did you write down? I wrote the Broncos because I know that you... Okay, yeah. Believer and Knicks. I don't think we've said enough about Green Bay and Matt LaFleur. We've said a lot of negative about...

The Jacob situation. I love it because it means Jordan Love and Krisha Watson are going Hamburgler, if you believe in that. Well, this was a team. They were number 16 last year. So this was not where they wanted to be. Their Vegas projection for points per game this year is up at nine. They were extremely efficient. I love Matt LaFleur in the play calling. I love the consolidation of targets for fantasy predictive benefit with Kraft.

with, you know, Golden having an opportunity on the outside consistently. And obviously we like Watson while he's upright. Jaden Reed. Jaden Reed's the kind of guy that you might not be able to start him in fantasy, but will always, always help this roster get into the end zone. So I'm taking Green Bay. I will say this. I think that there is a world where the Green Bay Packers offense is better without Josh Jacobs.

They can and have relied on Josh Jacobs to just keep handing them the ball and defense and running game and just chunk. You know, you get enough to keep drives alive, which is obviously great. And it's good for scoring, but the pace of play, the speed, the explosive plays, they're not there with Jacobs. And I think if you put the ball, if you're forced to put the ball into the yeat cannon, Jason, as we have found out, who's the nickname? Marshaun Lloyd is the yeat cannon.

And you, this is something that brings us. It does. That is real nickname. That is hilarious. But genuinely, like, the explosive opportunities will go up. That doesn't guarantee that they will connect, you know, that Jordan Love will find Matthew Golden down the sideline more often because he's throwing the ball more often. But it is an opportunity that probably wouldn't be there if you are constantly giving Josh Jacobs the ball right up the middle for, you know, another four yards.

which is a good enough play. But as far as you're looking for high-end explosiveness, I do think it's better without Jacobs. All right. I'll take Jacksonville. Jason, you're up. All right. All right. So you're taking Jacksonville. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm, uh, Jason's bold prediction is dumb. To be fair, I wasn't out on Jacksonville's offense being good. I'm out on thinking that there will be a consolidation. There's going to be so many points. It won't matter.

They are projected to be the largest regression candidates along with New England. Number six last year in scoring number 15 this year in Vegas projection. That's fine. For Jacksonville, obviously going to play a harder schedule. Obviously they, too, like Seattle, have to deal with a complete change at the running back position, which is always interesting when like a high-scoring elite team has a massive change at that position. If it goes to Tutin,

They have a better running back. You're saying then... Yes, is what I'm saying. I'm not a... I've never been a H.N. Junior fan. You weren't even an E.T.N. fan. That is also correct. So, yeah, I will just bet on Tootin being better. I've seen multiple years of Cohen with different personels and Cohen's offense just works. Now, if Jason does not take this team with his final pick, there will be a... I feel

Huge shock to me. I feel backed into this team. To be honest, I thought the team I was going to take last year was the Packers, because I agree with you, Andy. I think that they're going to be a higher scoring offense than most, and it's not the Seahawks. To me, I feel backed into taking, look, even when I disagree, I moved them down from where they were in Vegas, but they are super high, and Vegas isn't wrong too often, and they scored a lot last year.

The Shanahan, Brock Purdy, CMC combo is enough to score a lot. At this point, I got to pull the trigger on the Niners. I thought you were going to be back to the New England Patriots. That's what I thought you were going to say. Oh, shoot. They're still available. I'm definitely taking Patriots. I was between the charges and Patriots. You guys left the Patriots out there? Yeah, we did. You know what, Mike? Let's give them the Patriots. For sure. The Patriots are seven on my list. On our next draft, you're stuck with the 49ers.

Dude, the Patriots are going to score a cagillion D points. I know that they are a regression candidate because of the schedule. But like I was saying earlier, I believe that Drake May will overcome, especially now that he's got A.J. Brown. I am all in on that combination of May and Brown succeeding. That's one where it's like, that's one where I move. Ooh, yeah, I got both. This is supposed to be a line through. It does the other strike through doesn't really show up. Yeah, that's an A for effort. There's no way Matt did that. I get a little bit nervous.

when I see a huge, like, I don't care about the Vegas projection differentials very much if it's small. I do get nervous when I, you know, we get into the week and we see projections for certain players. And when something really doesn't align, I'm like, they're pretty smart. And when I look at New England, I'm like, it wasn't just the schedule. It was also probably, like, Jake May's seasons are not going to always be so efficient. The touchdowns, it's weird that they're like,

I brought this up when we were talking about the wide receiver room. Like you lose digs and you lose booty. You add AJ Brown and Dobbs. And Dobbs. But, you know, turning over a number two scoring offense and the main pass catchers, to me, that is not an easy thing to do from a rapport standpoint. Whether, you know, if you want to do it, I'd like to try to do it with AJ Brown. It's just not the easiest thing to do to have people switch teams, go and do it more difficult start to the season. So we'll see. I mean, I, um,

I would have been shocked if they weren't in the top 12, which they almost accidentally weren't. But I see that our strike through has gotten thicker up there. Oh, that's good work. To make it more clear. It doesn't really. Do you have a bottom team that you're like, I'll call it. They'll sneak into the top 10. Oh, like you're not talking about like somebody that's horrible. You're talking about somebody sneaky? Yeah, someone who maybe people might have to plug their nose when you say it. You may not have one.

No, I think that's a great question. Because you don't have to force it. I mean, I think the one, Jason brought up Denver. Now, Denver is projected 20th in Vegas points per game, which would qualify them as sneaky in terms of getting in there. Yeah. Their schedule is brutal. I do have my, I have the perfect hold your nose that I think is going to work out. All right. The Houston Texans. Oh, man, that is some stanky. Good. The Houston Texans are going to be much better. I need the whole nose plugs so I can be hands free. Well, now the strike through is red. What are we doing?

What are we doing here? He's just working on this. We're done with production. We're just on to this back wall graphic. I think this is the final product. We got there. Oh, we got a different strike through graphic. Oh, that looks great. A team that I find myself really kind of like a wild card because I could see it imploding and I could see them being like a top five offense is the Colts.

You know, we saw that last year. You know, the beginning of the season, they were outrageously good, maybe lucky. Jonathan Taylor was so dominant. No one could stop him with Daniel Jones there. You know, now you've got the team is back. Daniel Jones appears healthy. Keenan Allen added to the mix. Alec Pierce, the breakout, Tyler Warren, year two. There's a lot of ways it could go right. They're scheduled to open the season is pretty tough.

I could see wheels falling off there if it doesn't go well, but they're like my wild card team. Do you have one? I mean, other than the Saints? What do you mean other than? Well, just everybody knows that you think the Saints are going to be the number one scoring team in the league. Yeah, I like the Saints a lot. I mean, if anyone, the most realistic jump, I'm looking at the bottom 16 points per game last year. Like, it's Minnesota.

Yeah. They're funny. They were the only team. I was going to tell you this. The only team that went from a top five defense or a top five offense to a bottom, or sorry, a top 10 offense to a bottom 10 offense. There was only one team that did that last year from 2024 to 2025 and it was the Minnesota Vikings. I wonder why. We're all trying to find the guy. How many teams do you think went from bottom 10 to top 10 last year? What if they were, oh, just last year? Yep.

I'm just saying from 2024 to 20 because that's what we're looking at it. Right, right. How many teams make that move? There were. The Colts. Bottom 10? The Colts were not one of them. Their cults weren't bottom 10? No. I mean, again, it's two. It's going from the bottom 10 to the top 10. Bears, Patriots, Jaguars come to mind. I don't know. Who'd you say? Oh, yeah. Patriots. Those are the three. Oh, all right. Yeah, Bears. So in 2024, New England was 30th. Jacksonville is 26. Chicago is 28.

They went to two, six, and nine. It's wild to think about, like, the Patriots two years ago, they were down bad. It was like, oh, you losers, enjoy your time at the... Oh, okay. Well, welcome back to the top. Yeah. New England. All right. Well, we'll see what happens this year. I think it might be a little tough for New England. It's going to be harder sledding, and the Super Bowl hangover is real. And the head coach is...

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