Fantasy Football 2017 - Mock Draft Madness + Good Situations

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and Mike Wright. Hey! Oh, what's happening, bookland? The fantasy footballers are bad. Hey, listen, my voice, I'm going to apologize in advance. My voice is a lot like Odell Beckham's ankle. It's a little swollen, it's a little banged up, but it'll be okay. We'll make it through. So I'm going to talk as much as I can to protect my good friend, our fearless leader. Sometimes he needs a break.

I am Mike the fantasy hitman right. This is the fantasy footballers podcast. I'm joined by Jason Moore. I got my coffee and I'm ready to do this. I'm joined as well by Andy under the weather. Yeah, yeah. I'm here for the mock. I'm just here for the mock. Today we are doing a mock draft. But before we get to that, I want to remind everyone, hey, my guys was yesterday.

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That's where you get all kinds of extra goodies. It's an extra show every week. It's the way, it's the best way to connect with the show, really. And so we do an extra show like Jason said. And you may notice, aside from Andy not hosting the show today, things are a little discombobulated over here in the footballers headquarters because we are leaving out of town. So we're trying to get these shows in because we know you need it.

We know that you need to hear the mock draft. So we are actually recording this on Tuesday. And this show will be live on Wednesday. So we will give you the news that we have on O'Dell Beckham. But remember, it's Tuesday. So if something breaks, you're going, why are you guys so stupid? It's because we didn't know. We can't go to the future. We're still stupid, but not for that reason. Right. And why are we going out of town? Because we are going to the fantasy sports show up in Toronto. You want to come say bonjour to the ballers?

Go to Toronto. Yeah, this weekend. Go to Toronto. We'll be there. We're going to do a live show there. We're going to be shaking hands, kissing babies, all of that good stuff. We are going to jump into the quick question. Andy's, Andy just had a shocking response. Change your answer. Andy had a shocking response because Jason just called a full Ottawa on the quick question. I'm being serious. You have to change that. So here for the list of those. Here's what happened.

Here's what happened. The quick question that is about to come up that's in our show doc here is who is the most, the least talented player in the best situation. Now, I have my answer, but as a joke, I threw in the dock Todd Gurley just to get under Andy's skin. It worked. And it totally worked. First time in the last 10 years, somebody said the Rams was a great situation. I was freaking out when you wrote that in there. There's two things Andy cannot handle. You don't.

You don't speak ill about his children. Right. And you don't insult Todd Gurley. Certainly not after the My Guys episode. It's funny because I was deciding on that line, that joke, whether I would write in Todd Gurley or Cam Newton. Both his guys. Yeah, well done. Well done. All right. I'll answer the question. Okay. So here's the question. Who is the least talented player in the best situation? Andy. I think it's Terrence West.

I think it's Terrence West. Look, a report broke yesterday that Buck Allen might be the best. A tip of the cap. Andy is the only person on this show who has even mentioned or supported Buck Allen as the Ravens. The team, the Ravens left him for dead just rotting away on the very bottom of the depth start. Meanwhile, when Kenneth Dixon went out, I said they're not going to bring anybody in. Buck Allen's still there.

And now there's good stuff about Buckham. You both laughed at me. What is happening in Baltimore? So I think Terrence West, ultimately, because of his size and the opportunity he has to be the starting two down back on an offense that does want to run the ball, it gives him a baseline, right? Being a starter gives him a baseline. I had a little bit of an honorary mention did you quiz Rogers because he'll have a starting job for the first three weeks. I think Rogers is actually a good running back. I know you do. But so are you buying into this recent Buck Allen hype train?

No, no, and I don't know if it's gotten to that point, but I think he's just, they have enough depth. They're not going to bring, I don't think they'll bring anybody in. If you see some cuts and things like that, I think they're probably content with Woodhead, West, Allen, hodgepodge of mediocrity. I'll jump in here before Jason gets to his. I'm throwing out Robert Kelly starting running back for Washington. It's a great pick. Amazing offense. Allegedly good line, haven't really seen it this preseason, but I think they'll get it together.

be who they are, a strong offensive line. And Robert Kelly, undrafted free agent, has the job because he's adequate. That's why he doesn't fumble the ball. He rarely loses yards, but he's got basically no upside. Who's a better player? Robert Kelly or Terrence West? Ooh. I think, oh, man, that's a great question. They're like, they're the same dude. Yeah. But one of them was drafted really high and the other one was undrafted. Yeah. I think.

I'm going to go Robert Kelly. So that means that's a great answer, Andy and Terrence West. When I look at where situations and not the talent are the reason I want a guy, two guys that are higher in the draft that I kind of think about.

would be Frank Gore, but I love Frank Gore. And he's obviously a very talented guy. But at his age, his current workload, it's more a situation where he's the lead back on an Andrew Luck led team. So that, you know, and I also do think about Calvin Benjamin in the sense that he's the number one, you know, target. But he's talented in the sense that he's huge. And so that's, you know, it's a scale. Call it a talent. Call it, you know, just size. Are you talented? Oh, oh. Oh. Oh.

Man alive. This show's hot fire. I'm obviously very talented. I'm like 230 talented. No, the guy that I'm going to actually go with is Robbie Anderson, because Robbie Anderson is not just old like Frank Gore, but talented. It's not large like Kelvin Benjamin. He is untalented through and through. Well, I mean, look, it's stupid because every single player in the NFL.

is unbelievably talented. That's the truth. The guys we bag on, we as fans, we mock, they're unbelievably talented. That's why they're in the NFL. But Robbie Anderson is not the caliber of a wide receiver that is elsewhere. His situation, you could say, well, it's really not a good situation in the sense that, you know, you've got a horrific offense. But he is the only guy there with the fact that...

Eric Decker left, Brandon Marshall left, Quincy Anunwa is gone due to injury. Robbie Anderson is the de facto one and he will have fantasy relevance and he will not be drafted in 99% of league. So that's a guy I see as, you know, if I'm in a best ball, I target him and I'm sure I can stream him multiple times through the year in a pinch. All right. I wanted to mention this because Mike forgot. This is a mock draft show.

Oh, yeah. I thought I threw it out there. Did you? Yeah, casually. I didn't catch that. It's a PPR mock draft. If you are sitting there thinking, oh, man, I really wanted a standard. Just go back a few episodes. We've done, you know, several different mocks. You can always go back. All right. We're going to talk a little news and get right into the mock draft. Maybe. Maybe. News and notes from around the league. Odell Beckham suffered a frightful event on Monday night. If you're wondering, hey,

Why didn't I hear you guys talk about this on Tuesday? Like I said, things are disheveled here. We're trying to get episodes going. Make sure that the content gets out. So we're talking about it right now. And if you didn't see the play, Odo Beckham, this is basically a wide receiver's worst nightmare, is coming down with the catch. The defender is lunging forward, hits him right in the knee as his foot is planting. Now, luckily it sounds like the only thing that...

is that we're dealing with is a sprained ankle. The x-ray was negative. And he will, I guess he's having an MRI today. So we'll see, or yesterday, Paul, even I'm messed up. But so we will, you won't know until you know. But it sounds like we're in the clear. Now, Brooks, you had an interesting thought on O'Dell Beckham, something that impressed you from this situation. Yeah, his post.

game interview just how cool and collected he was about the situation. He was laughing and he wasn't angry about the hit or anything like that. I was just kind of surprised from what we've seen from him in the past. Yeah, it's a good point. Maybe a little maturation for O'Dowell Beckham. And look, this hit, this hit doesn't happen 10 years ago. This hit happened because you don't have a choice now as a D.B. I mean, you want to break up the past. Odell went way up. You can't hit a guy above the...

the numbers so it's unfortunate because this is like a career you know jeopardizing type of it also did look it looked like to me that the defender kind of lost his footing yeah and so it was he said his football odal beckham junior said it's it's unfortunate that these things happen but fortunately we believe that he is okay in the same game on the other side of the field

Brandon Marshall, I'm sorry, I'm laughing just because it's like, what is going on? Preseason football, man. It's the best. Brandon Marshall being evaluated for a shoulder injury. Haven't heard the severity of that. Tight end, David and Joku suffered an ankle injury. Severity is unknown. He's already been banged up too. Yeah. That's a bummer. Speaking on Monday, coach Todd Bowles was noncommittal on running back Matt Forte's availability for week one.

That's big news. Blah, Blau. That's big news. Yeah, it really is. I mean, we talked about on the last preseason overview that Blau Powell looked to be the only trustable asset from the New York Jets. If Forte is not there, we saw last year what Blau Powell does when Matt Forte is not there because he is actually talented. And that gives me a lot more confidence in drafting Blal Powell where he's going right now. I adjusted them.