Final MOCK DRAFT of 2020 + New Nicknames Emerge - Fantasy Football Podcast for 8/28

I can't remember who it was. I'm going to take a shot. I think it was our friend on Twitter, Fantasy ADHD. I think maybe you're getting credited for a good joke, but someone threw out there that Kaelin Boulogh owes Adam Gase money, and this is the only way he's going to be able to recoup. There have been many a joke. Adam Ranc also came out. Yeah, the biggest joke of all was when the Jets traded a seventh round pick for Kaelin Boulash. What are you?

Adam Rank said that Adam Gays pays for free samples at Costco. Yes. I mean, I don't have it in front of me, but I'm going to get it in front of me just for the fun of it. Kalen Belage last year, he had a 1.8 yards per carry. Was that on like 20 carries, Andy? No, it was on 74 carries. Oh, man. He's good. That seems impossible. Okay. All right. So.

We're moving on. Anything else we should be talking about in news, Brooks, anything breaking? Any big shimmy breaking news? Let's mock. Let's mock. The fantasy footballers mock draft. All right, 12 team half PPR. Jason is in the first spot. Mike at the four spot. I'm at the nine spot. One quarterback, two running back, two wide receiver. One tight-in, one flex, one defense, five bench. Pretty standard situation.

Jason, you're on the clock, and I know that you're just name after name after name you're considering. I usually am risk adverse, but I'm going to go nuts this time. New head coach, new quarterback. That is risky. I'm risky business. I'm going to take Christian McCaffrey. Christian McCaffrey. Saquan Barkley goes next. Dezekio Elliott at 103. And the fantasy hitman is on the clock. All right. This is a tough.

Tough little. It definitely is because I have, the pick for me is, it's Clyde Edwards Aller or Dalvin Cook. It's one of those two guys. What are the emotions going through your head between those picks? Because I can feel them. The excitement of Clyde Edwards-Dillard, the vague, like, you know what Delvin did, but the last two games and the injuries in the contract? I am a dandelion in the wind. I am just.

Just back and forth between these two players of, look, I don't even know what I'm going to do. Even right now. Yeah, I don't know right now. I don't know in a real draft which direction I'm going to go. I will say I have drafted Dalvin Cook a lot in my real drafts. So I'm just going to take this particular chance to actually draft Clyde Edwards Aller. Blam, it is done. Is there any?

change in the way you approach your draft philosophy from this point forward because of that decision? When you look at those two players. I don't have to prioritize Alexander Madison. Okay. That's true. And so after Mike took Clyde Edwards-Alair at 104, Alvin Camara at 105, Michael Thomas at 106, Derek Henry at 107 and Dalvin Cook at 108. To give some context to that, so we're doing our family draft with our kids.

We took, Team Wright took Dalvin Cook in the first round. And we were in, I think it was the ninth. And it was, this is Alexander Madison time. And you, the people in home know my undying love for Antonio Gibson. And it was, oh, crap, I have to pick one. I know one of these players is not going to make it back. I ended up taking Gibson. And then, of course, lo and behold, Jason took Alexander Madison. So it was, I got big shimmied in the draft.

Oh man, it's so bad. But it was, so it was this decision where all of a sudden my back was against the wall and I knew I had to sacrifice getting one of these players because I didn't prioritize them earlier. So it's saying when I go Edward DeLayer, I'm avoiding that.

Is I a psychopath that I don't prioritize Madison the way you guys do with the Cook situation? No. I'm like I don't consider that a necessity the way that you guys have talked about it all off season. Not one time if I thought I have to have Alexander Madison if I get Dalvin Cook because I feel like my season is submarine if Dalvin Cook's hurt.

regardless of that investment, that investment's costing me more and more these days. And last year we didn't get to see Madison all alone. It was Mike Boone and Madison was banged up. If you were in a best ball league, I would agree with you in the sense that you don't get to make all the weekly transactions and you're not just doing a one-on-one matchup on a weekly basis. Alexander Madison could get you win after win after win in a one-on-one matchup. So I do personally prioritize it. I worry about that. Cook goes out.

Split time backfield. You know it's not going to be as good as Cook. That's my concern. I guess I really believe in the player, Madison. I don't think he's Dalvin Cook, but I think you're getting 85 to 90% of Dalvin Cook's production. I wish we would have got to see it last year. Yes, that would have been nice. I took Josh Jacobs at 109. Shocker, you're my guy. Yeah, I mean, there were other choices. Joe makes and Miles Sanders, Aaron Jones in that category. But I'm taking Josh Jacobs.

Patrick Mahomes actually went in the first round next, which, you know, you might roll your eyes out there listening. Don't roll your eyes. This will happen everywhere. Yes. This will happen all over the place. Our family league, two quarterbacks in the first round. It just happens. Somebody has watched the Super Bowl. And so Mahomes mixing Miles Sanders to round out the first round. Aaron Jones, Julio Jones, Devante Adams.

Jason's shaking his head. I just, I know how, you know, early in the offseason, the previous mocks we've done, running backs fall even more than they do here. But now, now that real drafts are happening, I mean, these running backs are going to be gone, the ones that I actually want for my running back to by the time I'm back on the clock at the 212. Well, I'm back on the clock at 204 right here after two wide receivers went off the board, Julio Jones, Devonte Adams. And I can take.

Running back. I can go Nick Chubb. I can go Kenyon Drake. Jason's my guy. Big fan of Nick Chubb. I traditionally go to running backs. I'd like to do something a little bit different today. Okay. And I have a very good wide receiver on the board waiting for me at 204. His name is Tyree Kill. So I'm going to take Tyree Kill in the second round and see what it's like splitting running back wide receiver today. Yeah, it's interesting.

Tyreek is there because the running backs are starting to go hot and heavy, earlier and earlier. I think that will be a very tough decision. Do you go, you know, Nick Chubb, who I have him, you know, right around that RB1 fringe, but meanwhile, Tyree kills a top five wide receiver. That's a tougher decision. The multiverse situation we brought up earlier in the week, like more of the multiverse.

multiverses have me taking Nick Chubb than Tyreek. Right. Ordinarily. But I'll go Tyreek Hill. Austin Eccler went next. Nick Chubb. So Echler ahead of Chub. And then DeAndre Hopkins and Travis Kelsey. I don't mind it. I have Echler ranked higher than Nick Chubb. So right now I am the available wide receivers, Chris Godwin, Kenny Gulladay, really like those guys. But look, when you have a chance and you're in your draft,

And you're looking at your good friend who has been throwing big shimmies into my face. Yeah, you're much closer to those shimmies? Yes. It feels like, I mean. And look, my top two running backs on my board are Kenyon Drake and Chris Carson. Oh, Chris Carson is so good. Chris Carson is excellent. He absolutely is excellent. But trying to make a grown man cry is also part of fantasy football. I love both of these players.

equivalent, so I'm taking Kenyon Drake. It wasn't enough. It wasn't enough to be the big shimmy. You had to take my guy. This episode is just squashing you like a bug. My whole goal. Mike starts with Clyde Edwards O'Leary and Kenyon Drake drafting in the four spot. That's pretty nice. Chris Godwin goes next. George Kittle after that. We'll let Jason sit in his tilt as we pause.

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All right, Jason, you've got to, you had a couple moments there to calm down. You have Christian McCaffrey. That's a comfort. That is a comfort, which is necessary. I'm standing at the volcano right now. He is a nice blanket. This is an absolute worst case scenario for me. I did several mock drafts recently, and I would not take the 101 anymore. Wow. The way the drafts are happening now, I can't stand this. Here's the players I dreamed to drop to me. Anyone of the running backs of the tier, Aaron Jones, Austin Eckler, Nick Chubb.

I never thought Drake would make it. But I've had those players drop there. They're not dropping there anymore. So Chris Carson is not in that tier for you? Not in that tier to me. That's fine. I'll take a Travis Kelsey if he drops or George Kittle. Both did not drop. Well, all right. Then I will take Chris Godwin. And wait a minute. He did drop either. This is worst case. But I do know who I'm going to take.

Kenny Goliday, he's got smooth routes. He's a, you know, it's the wide receiver seven on my board. And now I'm stuck with a real hard question and I know my answer. And before he answer that, Footcline, this is why we talk about mock drafting because the tilt is real. Like this is an actual emotion that is happening with the big shimmy right now. Yeah. You don't want to do that in your real draft. You need to know, like.

You know the players that you wanted to drop to you. You need to have your backup plan for these early rounds ready because a tilt pick in the first round is setting your draft up for devastating implications. You're chasing it. From then on, you realize you make a bad pick and everything else beyond that point is making up for the bad pick, which means you're making the wrong pick. Right. And I have prepared for this situation. It is worst case.