Mock Draft Episode! + Meat Your Maker - Fantasy Football Podcast for 8/27

I mean, that will be really surprising if week one, to me, if week one comes and he is the unquestioned starter, that would be really surprising given that their official depth right now lists Warren ahead and both preseason games they had Warren be ahead. So the unquestioned part about that? It's a trick, Jason. You fell right for it. It could be. You think I'm not picking Rico Dowdle? I know. I know who you're picking.

All right, that was the leader of the pack presented by Petsmart. Visit your local Petsmart store or go to Petsmart.com today. Petsmart, anything for pets. News and notes from around the league. We actually got breaking news during this last segment. I mean, if we call it that, it wasn't the kind that you break in for. But the Packers are signing former Pro Bowl tight-in Johnny Smith to a one-year deal. He is going to join the Packers this year. Be another weapon for Jordan Love.

Tucker Craft, I think yesterday said something like I'm done with the snap count or the snap restrictions or whatever that was. But Musgrave has been hurt, right? Like I haven't seen anything about him. Yeah, four days ago, Luke Musgrave dealing with significant abdomen injury. So this is more of a Musgrave than a Tucker craft. Yeah, I am not as in on Tucker Craft as you guys for the draft cost right now for the beginning of the year.

I don't think this has any effect on Tuckercraft. I wouldn't move him down at all from them signing John Lewis Smith. Could I get applause here? Alec Pierce is coming off the PUP today. Oh, the people. The people love it. The people are thrilled. Just, I mean, it is kind of. Dozens of them. It's so perfect for it to happen the day after my guys. I mean, it's too late for me. The literal day after. You've been waiting for him to come off the pub so you could have him be a my guy. A lot has changed since. They saved you from that. Yes. Well, I wouldn't have done it if he had just come off the pup yesterday.

I promise. What are you doing with drafting? How slow a start do you think he's going to get off to? He hasn't been running. There's just a lot of factors in this equation right now. Like the Keenan Allen addition combined with the delayed return from injury is too much for me to be like maybe it's great. Maybe it's great for fantasy because Alec Pierce will be completely ignored in your draft. This is a $100 million receiver who was super productive last year.

And I think we'll be the go-to target in this offense who has led the league in yards per reception for two years in a row as a touchdown monster. And maybe he's just free now. Maybe he's just not even thought about. Keenan Allen has taken the narrative and the injuries have taken the narrative. Maybe that means that Alex Pierce can be a steal for you in the seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth round. I mean, I don't even know.

I think his variability on where he goes in drafts will be massive. Yeah, I agree. Just completely ignored or somebody's going to try to grab him. I think I'm going to pass on Alec Pearson the draft and hope he hits waivers. He won't go undrafted, nor should he. But the opening schedule for the Colts, they play the Ravens, Chiefs, and Texans for the first three weeks. And those are going to be the weeks where he's working back into shape against really tough defenses. But if you're drafting him in the...

8th round, then he's not starting for you. My point is I don't want to hang on to a player who's not doing well the first three weeks, hoping that somewhere later down the line I get, like that's a month into the season. I don't want to have, I'm not willing to draft Alec Pierce for and have him someone I'm not going to play for a month. Last year against Houston, seven for 132 and two. Yeah, I'm on the road. I'm more on Andy side. I'd be willing to draft and hold. Mike Evans plans to play week one.

Good luck. I mean, he has, he's had plans. Your, your, uh, your legs don't. I plan to miss week one. I mean, you said your legs don't, but it's his groin. Yeah. Well, it's not just his groin. It's his quad, his groin, his hands. Okay. It's his meat. I was going to, I'm sorry, but we've got rules here. And it's his meat. His meat is bad. Sorry. Bad meat. I didn't, you don't make the rules. I don't make the rules.

If T. Higgins' meat is bad, Mike Evans' meat is... It's like sourd. It's like the manager's deal? Yeah. You show up and it's got the big yellow sticker on it. 100% of manager special. And you're like, holy crap, look at the deal on this meat. It expires tomorrow, but look what round you can get them in. I was in a draft yesterday that FFT open. And there's, you know, they have their default ADP on CBS and I'm playing on there.

I mean, Mike Evans just sat there and sat there and sat there and sat there and nobody wanted to be the person to draft Mike Evans. And yet the upside is tremendous when he is playing when the meat is healthy. I am so confident. Well, this is a, I mean, this is a filet mignon on manager special. So they're like the expiration date is coming. But if you cook this thing up in the right time, I say discount baloney. I really, exactly right, Andy. Exactly right. Yeah, we nailed this. I genuinely believe Mike Evans.

will dominate in like four fantasy when he is four games for fantasy yeah when he is playing like i don't know maybe it's a dFS play um but i i i would say that uh i i have no i i came in early in the off season thinking mike evans was going to be my guy the only worry was manager special age and injury history and this off season has proved yeah

The substation? The electrical substation got me again. Just a little too loud for me not to be scared. I don't know where to draft him. I still want him on my teams, but I think he plays half of a season. I mean, this is. And it's going to be sporadic. Oh, there's the manager special. That's, is that, is that quality? Hey, Mike. Hey, Mike. Yeah. Um.

Not the most complimentary graphic. Zayflower is still being held out of practice for, quote, precautionary reasons and should be ready for week one. Yeah, he's fine. Don't worry. As week one inches closer, the be ready for week one, but not seeing you ready, gets more nerve wracking. He'll be okay. This time of year, everyone is just, though it's so commonly said he should be ready for week one that you can't take it serious anymore. As when we're.

A week and a half from week one, it's like, is he healthy now or not? When does it change? He'll be ready for next week. It's got to be practice. If he's ready for week one, that means his full participation in the practice for week one. Too early to tell if James Connor will play in week one, do we care? Probably not. Algier could be a full-time starter in week one. I saw a video of Jeremiah Love doing some work, trying to get back from the injury. Let's hope he can.

genuinely, week one, you could end up with Tyler Algier, Mike Washington, and Marshawn Lloyd. Oh, yeah. Oh, yes. It's possible that all three are like... That is nasty. Although I don't know that Mike Washington would be a must start. Let's be clear. Not all of them will finish week one healthy, probably. The Browns are releasing Sutter Tillman. This one's weird. Sutter Tillman went from sort of relevant for a minute. They've got a very deep...

core now with when i feel like there was a time though that you really oh i you like that's what i that's why i think it's weird i think cedric tilman belongs on an NFL team and he can help an NFL team and he was he had to have been very cheap for the roster really severely injured

Yeah. Didn't he have, was it the concussions or a couple of things going on for Tillman? I can't remember. I think he had different. There was something where he got a concussion and they kept holding him out over and over and over. That was the end of, that was the end of 2024. And then last year he had a four game stretch that he missed. I mean, he really, he didn't do anything of note last year. This isn't like, hey, Cedric Tillman's a really special player, but it's, why are you?

Why are you cutting? With Isaiah Bond. With Isaiah Bond, Jerry Judy, Fanon, and the two first and second round rookies, and you're just not going to keep them on the list. It could be a move of the like, hey, you're not going to play. We'll let you go find a job. All right. We'll take a break and we'll jump into our mock draft ahead of a big draft weekend. What's up, Foot Clan? You are confident and disciplined and focused on details, just like everyone here at the fancy footballers, right? Those are words you used to describe us. In other words,

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Prep up for the weekend, 12 team half PPR mock, one quarterback, two rounding backs, two wide receivers, one tight end, one flex, four bench. I didn't listen to you. You should have. It's just the normal one, right? Yeah. Okay, I got it. I'm good. What were you doing per chance? He was talking to the audience. You were taking a sip of water? Yeah. And that clogs your ears up.

He can't do two things at the same time, man. I really can't. I mean, that's not a lie. He does what he's doing, he does well. But if he needs to do multiple things. Yeah, he's locked in. Like we have, let's just put it this way. We have like very active Slack conversations mid-show. The producers, Mike and I, everybody on the team.

I mean I most of the time read them after the show like very necessary communication do that but yes one quarterback two running back two wide receiver one tight in one flex four bench Jason and Mike is in the third spot random selection Jason and I get to go back to back in a spot of the draft I don't love 10 and 11 that should suck well we'll see and then we have our writing staff production staff and team grabbing the other spots in the draft it starts with Jumeer Gibbs

As the offseason has progressed, it started with who's going to be the number one, and it's progressed to a, if you have the one-on-one, you're just, the decision is sort of made at this point. Jamir Gibbs, I mean, I can't get enough of the way Dan Campbell talks about Jamir Gibbs. And it is proportionally insulting to Isaiah Pacheco because it is just like, we're going to push this guy. You've seen these clips from Dan Cohn? We're going to push this guy. We think he can be the best ever. He need, you know, we're going to.

He hasn't even scratched the surface because that, it seemed like the surface had been scratched by Jemir Gibbs. I think a pretty deep scratch. A deep scratch. That's like a cut. And they're just like, we're going to stretch him. We're going to make him better. Yeah, he literally says, yeah, we got Pacheco. But anyways, it's, it's the plan. They did also. And there's no Pua. Right. You don't have to deal with the Pua quarterback situation. That would be Pinnix and Tua. We, you know, not huge news, but Kareem Hunt did visit the.