Fantasy Football 2018 - NFL Draft Breakdown: NFC Winners & Losers

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Coming to you from Draft.com Studios with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Happy birthday, Jason. Woo! Happy birthday to the ground. Happy birthday, good friend. I never thought I'd C-36, but here I am. Alive. Take that, everyone. That bit of lore from your life is gone.

Yeah. If you don't know out there, Jason Moore, who's sitting to the right of me this fine morning, as he always does, has turned 36. And this is a day that we did not expect. No one did.

So what else? What else can we expect? What unexpected things are coming to happen? Do you even know how to live life at this point? I'm pretty sure I can. I can't live. I can fly now. I can do things that I can. You got superpowers? You're darn right. Turn 36. Turn 36, something that was not supposed to happen. Are you supposed to fly, Mike? So you thought your whole life, you thought your whole life you were not going to live to be 36. For whatever reason, you just thought 35 was going to be the end.

And the only superpower I've seen you be able to implement at your new age has been the inability to draft this player in Dynasty. So what happened? We're going right into that. Happy birthday. Happy birthday. Here's a punch to your groin. It's important that players understand. Welcome to the fantasy footballer's pocket. We are, we are you, okay?

One of the reasons I think this show has been successful or people enjoy it or whatever lies they say in our reviews is that... It's all true. Is that we are you. We are in these leagues. We are personally invested in these players. We're not just, you know, 10,000 foot view looking down at the rest of the players and being pretend experts. We're in these leagues. We live and breathe and...

die fantasy um i sit in an ivory tower we know that mike but the majority of the hosts and uh jason we we had a a rookie draft right away right when the nfl draft ended and jason got it in his head that carry on johnson was going to be on his roster here's the deal

My team is a really, really good team, championship contending team, but I am short one running back in my view. I think I need a running back. And it got late into the first round where all the capable starters that could be drafted this year and plug in were gone, except for one guy, a guy who I really believed in going. Carry on Johnson. Yes. Carry on Johnson is a player I really liked when it came.

time to scout and him and john kelly were the two guys going into the draft where i was like if anyone in the NFL believes in them and they you know draft them in the second i'm all in and so the Detroit lions not only did they upgrade their offensive line get a new head coach and you know they're they're changing kind of the mold but they traded up in the second to get carry on johnson who i really believe in

And because he was dropping, I had the 206. I started when at the 107, I think Mike, you were there. Yeah, started trying to trade for him. And I watched film and I was between him and Royce Freeman. And I was like, okay, I'm deciding. It's over. Carry on Johnson will be on my team. I'm going to do whatever it takes. I tried at the 107.

I failed. You traded back. I tried it to 109. I failed. Tried at the 110. The guy didn't take my offer. T.1.11. And I'm telling you, I gave everything I could. Good, strong offers, right? I gave you the opportunity, Mike. These were not Andy Holloway offers. These were legit offers of you trying to move up and get your guy. I offered T.Y. Hilton to you for Des Bryant in return for that pick swap. And in the end, it was, I offered, I offered Matt Ryan, Theo Riddick.

Amara Darbo and a pick swap. You did your best. I did my best. And you fail. But that wouldn't, that would have been fine if the player that I was trying to trade with said, you know what? I want this pick and I'm going to pick. Then I go, dang it. But instead, they traded that pick away for garbage. And I was, I've, in my adult life, I've never been so angry. Like I, I was seeing red. And all I wanted to do was get in a cage.

with another human and fight, I wanted it so bad and I could have done the McGruber throat rip. I'm a McGruber reference. I would have throat ripped. If it was Daniel Sahar, if you were across the ring, I would have ripped your throat out. Oh, my goodness. But I've moved on. Well, you matured in your, now that you're 36, you matured. Well, you moved on and carry on. Johnson moved to a different team. We're going to talk about all the NFC rookies.

Today on the show, this is the rookie review. We're getting through the NFC names, the winners and losers on each and every team, just like we did on Tuesday with the AFC teams. So we'll talk about Kerryon Johnson. We'll also talk about a player that NFL GMs decided not to believe in, which was John Kelly going in the 6th round. We'll talk about him and the Rams. And it's going to be a great show. And we have a ton going on. First of all,

You can follow us on Twitter at the FF Ballers. That way you can stay up to date with everything going on with this podcast. We're on YouTube. You can watch the show. You can see Jason's visceral emotions when he talks about. Also, Firkland. You knew that was going to happen. Yeah. You knew that drop was coming. We have an obligation at this point. Your name is Carry on. I mean. Yeah.

And when we're in our 30s in your name is carry on. That's going to happen. The fantasy footballers.com is our website. The community of listeners, which, by the way, if you join up at join the foot.com, you get access to tons of perks in season. You get an extra episode every week of the show that nobody else gets. Get that official foot clan member moniker. Moniker is not a word I use a lot.

But you also get access to footclanleagues.com a private forum to find league mates to play with. So good players that at some point you may want to get into a cage match with. You know what else you get? You get discounts on fantasy footballer stuff. Like the ultimate draft kit, which is available for pre-sale. That's very nice, Mike. The lowest price of the season. And you know what? Footclan members get it even cheaper. Just saying. Just saying. Just letting you know. Just letting you know. We also have a brand new.

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Yeah, and that football is hot. You can see pictures at footclane giveaway.com. This is eligible for everybody. You just go over to footclane giveaway.com and enter for free, and we will give that away in a few short weeks. So we love that. We love giving things away. We love having fun with the community. And look, let's get into a quick question. We don't have a lot of news, so I'll give you one piece of news, and then we'll get into the NFC rookie review. But the quick question of the day is related to something very interesting that happened in the fantasy football community.

And bravo to Yahoo! Yes. Yay! Great friend of the show, Brad Evans, took to Twitter to announce that Yahoo League's moving forward will be default, half point PPR, and one flex, aka Ballers Preferred. The best way to play fantasy football. We have been preaching for years now that...

Our preference... That's right, we did it. Our preference is... Who do you think you are? I am. But this is a very forward-thinking move by Yahoo. And that's not to say that we were, you know, right or wrong. Say what you will, but we like half-point. And right now, if you go try to sign up on ESPN, you have to choose standard or PPR. That is your option. Their default is PPR. Their default is now PPR, which happened last year. However, there haven't been a... There's not a half-point default option.

Now it's the default. It's not just an option. It's the default on Yahoo, which is awesome. Yeah, it's cool. There's no wrong way to play fantasy football. Although we make it sound like it is. We sure do. There's no wrong, but there is a right way to do it. Exactly. That's a nice way to put it. That's perfect, Mike. What's another rule that you'd like to see become the default in fantasy football league? I got this. For what it's worth, Yahoo, ESPN, Flea Flickr, MFL, all the other, all the platforms. Sleeper bot.

they all set the, you know, they kind of set the trend there because if you go, you sign up, you're a new player, you get invited to a league. Unless that commissioner is modifying the rules, you're going to play by the rules that are set. And so they're set in the trend. So what's another rule that could be that you'd like to see as the defaults? I got this one. I'm never, I am never going to give this up until it happens. I know. I hate it. I hate it so much. But I believe that quarterbacks rushing yardage.

should be counted the exact same as their passing yardage. However many yards that quarterback gets, you know, it's 25 or 20 yards per point, whatever your scoring system is. I hate the fact that someone like Deshaun Kaiser, who's a bad NFL quarterback doing bad things on the field. Bad things. Finishes as a top 12. Mugging people, stealing purses. Finishes as a top 12 so often because he ran the ball for...

eight yards instead of throwing the ball for 30 and didn't get the first down, but it scores more. I just can't stand it. That's why Blake Bortles as a perennial top 10 fantasy quarterback. He's not in real life. So that's my gripe. I want that change. I understand the gripe. I do. I understand the gripe. People are just used to it and they don't want. There's an advantage. There's imbalance everywhere. So I think you can pick apart imbalances across the board. But that's, I mean, we do.

adjust for things like that. There are a lot of leagues that have four-point quarterback touchdowns versus, you know, six-point rushing touchdowns. So we do mess around with balances like that. I understand it doesn't make sense that Tim Tebow can be, you know, one of the best fantasy quarterbacks. Playoff game winning Tim Tebow? Yeah, yeah. Oh, you're defending Tim Tebow to me? They don't have to do that. All right. We're a couple years late on the need for this. I will say that I believe that the