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

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Welcome to September. It is the first. Do you remember of September? Mike, IJ. Some more Andy Holloway, the fantasy footballers. It's the month of football. Yeah. Counting down the days. It is. Football. It's spooky season is here. It's a great day. Eight days. Eight days. A week from tomorrow. Real NFL football. Yeah, the fantasy stats will start accumulating.

And we'll decide how right or wrong we are by the first week. You know, brother. A couple snaps. No, it is, it's always amazing to us how impactful week one is on the psychology of every human being in the fantasy football world. Because I don't know, it's like it just bears a lot more weight, right? I mean, you see, ah, busts. That picks a home run.

A lot of things change between week one and week two. Yes, they do. So just breathe a little bit. Hopefully everything works out, but I'm guessing not all of it will. But, you know, trust the process is what I'm saying. Speaking of trusting the process, a lot of people drafting this weekend, Labor Day weekend, our League of Record is on Monday on Labor Day. And if you need help, getting prepared, getting ready to go.

Both of my boys just had a big, they're in an 18 team league. Whoa, serious. It's a church league and they jumped in the UDK. There's going to be a lot of prayer in that league. Yeah. 18? 18. They're going to need it. Yeah. Yeah. Here's my second round pick, aka a third rounder. My middle boy, who he drafted 16 of 18 and ended up with.

Jeremiah Love or Derek Henry and then Jeremiah Love with those two picks at the turn. So and then he waits, uh, I think three years to draft the wider season. It is. We're obviously in an 18 team league ourselves around the office for that chopped league. Yeah. I'm just looking at like my fifth round pick I just took Jordan Mason after Blake Corum. It's like right. It's it's disgusting already. I was on the clock this morning and I'm like, nope.

I think that was what if I feel like my answer is like no good I think that's partly why some people go crazy and you don't know how to predict the free agency in a chop league is because we all look at our teams when it's over with with 18 teams and we're like oh gosh we're doomed we just don't remember everybody else is doomed yeah but if you need help pick up the ultimate draft kit ultimate draft kit.com the time is now grab that you also have the draft analyzer inside the udk which will you know if you've already drafted

Make sure you plug your teams in there. It'll break down your strengths, weaknesses, what to watch out for, and which of us most aligns with your roster. Oh, darn it, bets. What did he take? He took Josh Downs. It sounds like it's for sure coming back to me. Well, we're in the middle of drafts right now, apparently. We've got news to catch you up on. We've got the Megalobole draft spots from the 4th through the 8th, still available at megalobole.com, a free entry for every single foot clan member.

You can check that out. Lots going on. But we got a fun quick question today. What is the worst? I should have known better draft day decision that still haunts you. So drafts gone by some kind of this player over that player that you can still remember that is kind of cemented into your brain. We asked the deucers this as well. Matt, what was, Matt, what was your biggest draft day regret? Clyde Edwards.

Clyde Edward Blair. Right off the bed. That's not a tough one, Matt. Let me just say this. I was either going to say there's fourth him or I was going to go to the deucers.

That was well done. The problem is you started at the wrong side of Deucer's Al. You should have started over with Al. I think we did the right thing. Oh, yeah. Not only could he not speak, but he was half as loud as he needed to be. That's true. Hey, you know what? Watch this. Hey. Deucer of the day. Deucer of the day. Always. Josh, do you have a, I don't know if anybody even heard you. You took CEH and Miles Sanders over Tyreek Hill. Brooks had said he took Cordarral Patterson in the second round after the rookie year hype.

and regretted it. Josh, what do you do? What did you do? 2018 had Lev Bell on our team. Last pick of the draft. Pick somebody else besides James Connor. That was when Bell held out James Connor popped off that year. I actually remember that one. I remember you had Lev Bell and I remember Connor having that great start to the year and look on your face every week. I mean, that one, that one was tough because that was like every single week. Every week was all Lev Bell's coming back.

He's coming back this week. Don't even worry about it. And then he did not. Is Kyle on with us? Kyle, do you have a draft day regret? I drafted Monte Ball in 2014. No, you can end it there. And he was out of the league by the next year. Hey, the Denver Broncos drafted him too. My worst draft day decision, I remember this one. We were drafting remotely for whatever reason in our league of record, or I was. And I took Lawrence Moroni in the second round over the little known.

Calvin Johnson. I've heard of him. Who went with the next pick? Megatron. Yeah. You know, it's funny. It's I could think of a billion trades that I have massive, unbelievable regret like the Austin Echler, Jake-on-Barkley trade. The one that came to mind for me back when I was, I think Jalen Hertz was a my guy popped off, was great that year, and I loved him. And then I took Russell Wilson.

over him. Oh, wait. No, that was Papa Josh. And then I won a championship with Jail Hertz. Thank you, Papa Josh. We were waiting. And we're like, oh, we're going to end up with Russ because he's clearly going to take Hertz. And then he took the wrong guy. It made me so happy. So your, your mistake was a second, Josh mistake. Correct. Yes. I don't.

think you know what a mistake is. I couldn't remember. That's why I said I remember. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I'm not saying. Oh, well, I've never gotten to pick wrong in life. I have tons of them. I just, my brain. I'm in the Hall of Fame. This is why I started by saying I can remember all sorts of bad trades I did and didn't do. For some reason on the draft picks side, I don't have that one that sticks out to me of like, I'm sure I've made a billion bad picks, but I, that one is the one that I genuinely always remember because we were sweating how bad we want.

wanted him and we couldn't. There's no way we could get him because Josh clearly was taking quarterback and then he just took the wrong guy. I'm gonna find this for you. Oh, you're gonna find my regret? Yeah, I'll find. Oh, dude, I've got my regret. I remember it. The, I took the 49. I regret being too good looking. No, no, no.

I took, I can't even remember his name now, the running back for the 49ers in the, in the first, the back of the first, Trey Sermon. Trey Sermon. That was a rookie draft, yes. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Speaking of rookie draft, mine is Clyde. The first round running back drafted by Kansas City. Over a little known Jonathan Taylor. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Whoops. What was his name, Matt? C.H. Oh, C. H. It was his name. Oh.

Deucer of the day. This guy is getting married in February and has to go up in front of people and do his vows. You better have a proxy. She's not showing up. There will be booze involved. Shouldn't be a problem.

There will be booze involved in your B-O-O-O-S. Or B-O-O-Z-E. No, B-O-O-S. My headphones were off. He's out of here. Al, do you have a regret? Yeah, I took Josh Jacobs a few days ago. Oh, yes, you did. Outside of that, my biggest one's probably just more strategy-based. My first dynasty startup, I took a bunch of guys that were, like, hot at the moment, but they all retired. It was like Jamal Charles and...

Jordan Nelson. I actually remember that. Yeah, I remember thinking you might grab a few titles real quick. I didn't. And then I had a team that all retired at the same time within a year. Yeah, I mean, the lesson here is that, you know, not everything's going to go according to plan and go perfectly. You're going to have regrets. Don't freak out. Stay vigilant. Stay water. Pay attention all year long. We say it every year. You don't win your league at the draft, right? You set the foundation for the season. But, you're not the other one who's going to mess up.

24% of the top 24 running backs completed a season last year. You're going to have to make moves and make adjustments. It's all going to be okay. Let's talk some news. News and notes from around the league. You know, the only time that the Falcon doesn't have any problem speaking is when he is insulting Papa Josh around the office. Oh, he's so eloquent. He's eloquent and loud and clear with his words and degradation of the bald man. He just makes fart sounds.

Yeah. Zayflower is expected to return to a full practice next week. Hold you, man. Next week. That's awfully close to the season. Next week is when we're playing football. You found one more. Jason mistake? Yeah. Oh. You just didn't remember that. No, I didn't, I didn't remember that. I remember it very closely now. I took Isaiah Pacheco over Derek Henry. And that was when this was a couple years ago before the broken leg.

It looked great for a week, and then he got injured for the season. Malik Neighbors, if you saw the interview, he remains pretty noncommittal about his week one status. What's that all about? Well, he said a lot in that interview, but one of the things he said was he'll be ready whenever he can be ready. The other thing was that people can watch video and think he looks good, but that, you know, maybe he can't do this route the right way or that route the right way without hesitation. Maybe he's not ready to be hit.

He wants to go out there and be free. I would say that based on that conversation and where we've been with him mostly working to the side in a lot of practice, I would doubt we'd see him week one. Yeah, I mean, this is a player who is too important to the franchise, and this is not a team that I doubt they are going into the season, really truly believing they have Super Bowl aspirations. And so you've got to keep him healthy.

Make sure he's completely ready before he gets on the field. And I think it's a good reminder that when you watch the film, and this is why I've kind of been, I know people break the mold, right? Adrian Peterson coming off of the ACL right off the bat week one was amazing. But usually buying the injury dip is not a valuable thing. This is why I've been a little lower on George Kittle and Tucker Kraft. Guys I love. But when you come back from a serious injury,