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

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The time for courage and world domination is now at Ultimate DraftKit.com. To the Fantasy Footballers podcast with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Welcome in. Welcome to September. It is the first of September. Mike Wright, Jason Moore, Andy Holloway, the fantasy footballers.

It's the month of football. Yay. 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. A week. Brother. A couple snaps.

No, it is 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 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 Lowe, or Derek Henry and then Jeremiah Love with those two picks at the turn. So, and then he waits, 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 a little if I feel like my past. 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 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. Go darn it, bets.

Wait, 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 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, we asked the deucers this as well. Matt, what was, Matt, what was your biggest draft a regret? Clyde Edward. Clyde Edward Blair. Right off the bat. 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 deucers, Al. You should have started over with Al. I think we did the right thing. Oh, yeah. Oh. 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. Um,

Brooks had said he took Corderole Patterson in the second round after the rookie year hype and regretted it. There were people that love Patterson. 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 was tough because that was.

Like every single week, every week was. Oh, Lev Bell's coming back. He's coming back this week. Don't even worry about it. And then you 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 it. 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 Juan Barclay 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 Jaila 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. I'm not saying I'm not saying I don't have. I've never gotten to pick wrong in life. I have tons of them. I just my brain. I'm into 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. Um, 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. Oh, yeah. That was a rookie draft, yes. 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... That was B-O-O-O-S. Or B-O-O-Z-E. 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...

Jordy 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. Oh, you, man. That's fine. 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. 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 in 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,

It isn't always easy. And even though it looks like, oh, I see him running this route, it looks good. Or he's at practice. And look how fast he is. They're not truly 100%. We've got the timelines for these things. I'm going to do it anyways. You can. Tank Dell. Oh, look how good he looks. And then he's on pop. Jeremiah, I love progressing really well towards playing in week one. The Cardinals did, you know, it'll be Alger and maybe Jeremiah, I love in week one. Do you?

Man. Is Alger like almost a must draft now at this point if you take love? I think he's, oh, you mean if you take the love side? Yeah. I just worry that maybe some people will snag him higher. They might. I mean, I think he's definitely a must draft if you can wait until the 11th or beyond. For sure. That's the smartest thing you can do because there's re-injury risk with a high ankle spring. I thought after everything that they've done,

that love would be fine, but you don't like hearing 50-50. No. Ashton Janty, not practicing with the team on Tuesday doing individual work. He will be a wait and see for week one as well. We got great news. The Colts are coming back to practice. Josh Downs, Alec Pierce, Tyler Warren Trio. Nice. That would be the calf ankle groin trio. All back at practice on Tuesday and all expected to be playing in week one. Yeah, you told me that this morning that Alec Pierce is expected to play week one.