Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Welcome to the NFL Fantasy Football Podcast, where
Speaker 1: we don't need those stinking ADPs. It's me and your man,
Speaker 1: MG Marcus Grand joined by Michael f Florio and LaQuan Jones.
Speaker 2: And the special edition of the podcast.
Speaker 1: We are happy and thrilled to be rejoined by man TiO.
Speaker 2: He was with us last week.
Speaker 3: We had a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: We were excited to have him back and so Manti,
Speaker 1: welcome back to the show.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 4: Thanks guys. It's going to be in studio, you know,
Speaker 4: it's always going to be in person with the fam
Speaker 4: tuckson fantasy football. Obviously, I had a draft on Sunday.
Speaker 4: A lot of funny moments that happened in that draft,
Speaker 4: but here I'm here to talk about it.
Speaker 3: That is really what this whole episode of the show
Speaker 3: is going to be.
Speaker 1: We're gonna go through man Tis draft, look at some
Speaker 1: of the early rounds, some of the late round picks,
Speaker 1: get the things he loved about it, the things he
Speaker 1: didn't love about it, maybe talk some some weirdness that
Speaker 1: happened in the course of the draft as well. Want
Speaker 1: to start though with nothing fantasy related, but it's kind
Speaker 1: of get your We also like to lean on you
Speaker 1: just for your your playing experience, your time in the NFL.
Speaker 1: This is the next couple of days are cut down
Speaker 1: days across the league, which you know, it's a big day,
Speaker 1: it's sort of a you know, it's a sad day,
Speaker 1: I think for a lot of guys, a kind of
Speaker 1: a nervous time. But kind of walk us through what
Speaker 1: that experience is like, because I can't imagine it's a
Speaker 1: fun day for anybody.
Speaker 4: No, it's not a fun day for anybody. And I
Speaker 4: mentioned it in Good Morning Football today. It's probably the
Speaker 4: only day in the year where an NFL player does
Speaker 4: not want his phone to ring. Like, no, everybody just
Speaker 4: avoids their phone because everybody understands that until I think
Speaker 4: it's one pm Pacific time, that's the cutoff. If your
Speaker 4: phone rings, there's a chance there's somebody on the other
Speaker 4: line that you don't want to talk to, and they're
Speaker 4: gonna call you and you're gonna get cut. And the
Speaker 4: reality is is there's there's hundreds of young men that
Speaker 4: are going to get that call today and they've been
Speaker 4: dreaming about this moment their whole lives, and on the
Speaker 4: unfortunate reality is the game will all end for us
Speaker 4: one day and you know, hopefully you'll have a long career.
Speaker 4: But for for many young men today it's it's it's
Speaker 4: the last time that they'll ever put on a pair
Speaker 4: of football cleats and football pads and then play in
Speaker 4: the NFL. But they're well equipped for life. If you've
Speaker 4: gotten this foreign life, you you have the qualities and
Speaker 4: the habits to do a lot of good things in
Speaker 4: this world. And the challenge now is finding what you're
Speaker 4: passionate about, what else you're passionate about, and attacking with
Speaker 4: the same type of aggression and passion and and and
Speaker 4: work ethic that you did football. So for all of
Speaker 4: those young men that that get that car or that
Speaker 4: tap on the shoulder from the grim reaper and they
Speaker 4: have to go and turn in their playbook and grab
Speaker 4: that big trash bag and put all of their stuff
Speaker 4: in there and go home, it is the end of
Speaker 4: a new chapter. But at the end of every chapter
Speaker 4: there's there's there's a start of a new one. And
Speaker 4: I wish them nothing but the best, And let me
Speaker 4: and the countless of other people that are doing things
Speaker 4: outside of football now be an example that you can
Speaker 4: start something great and grow something great. Just just have
Speaker 4: the same same work ethic, same discipline, and same passion
Speaker 4: for your new craft as you did your old woman
Speaker 4: and everything should be okay.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you had a very like lengthy successful NFL career,
Speaker 5: so kudos to you. And there were years where you
Speaker 5: knew you made the roster, I'm sure before Whale, before this,
Speaker 5: But like, do you ever get nervous, like one of
Speaker 5: my friends might get cut or is it just like
Speaker 5: I made the team that's all I care about.
Speaker 4: No, you definitely, you know, have these relationships with teammates
Speaker 4: and they become real good friends. And I remember my
Speaker 4: it was my rookie year. Actually I had a friend
Speaker 4: who was was a free agent, and I knew based
Speaker 4: on where I was drafted. I was drafted in the
Speaker 4: second round earlier, the second round where I wasn't going
Speaker 4: to be one that was going to get that call,
Speaker 4: and I was grateful to be in that situation. But
Speaker 4: this friend of mine, him being a free agent, the
Speaker 4: likelihood of him being cut was very, very real, and
Speaker 4: he was at my apartment at that time, and it
Speaker 4: got around like twelve forty five, and this kind of
Speaker 4: goes bro. I think I made it. I think I'm
Speaker 4: a lass where He's like, I think I'm good to go.
Speaker 4: I got to head to the to the facility. And
Speaker 4: I'm like, bro, why would you go to the facility? Bro?
Speaker 4: Why would you even pop up over the stay away?
Speaker 4: He's like, so we waited until twelve fifty he left
Speaker 4: my apartment to go to facility. I got to call
Speaker 4: it like twelve fifty seven. He's like, Bro, they got me.
Speaker 4: So it's it's it's it's a reality, right, guys, like
Speaker 4: you know, and it's just not in football, it's in life.
Speaker 4: Like you know, things happen, there's transition in everybody's lives.
Speaker 4: But the thing is we take our experiences that we learned,
Speaker 4: the people that we've become and trying to be the
Speaker 4: best version of ourselves doing what we do, and we
Speaker 4: take that and carry that over into our next life
Speaker 4: and the next chapter. So again, I wish them nothing
Speaker 4: but the best. If I could ever be a resource
Speaker 4: to any of my brothers in this NFL fraternity, I'm
Speaker 4: always open to them. And you know, same thing with
Speaker 4: people that are going through any transition. So yeah, it's
Speaker 4: definitely one of those bittersweet days for sure.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no doubt about it.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I certainly wish all the best congratulations to
Speaker 1: the guys who did so by the cut and made
Speaker 1: an NFL roster. Certainly best wishes to those who did not,
Speaker 1: and uh, hopefully something great comes up when whenever the
Speaker 1: football journey is over for you. Now your post football
Speaker 1: journey has led you to fantasy football, and we're glad
Speaker 1: to have you on board. You mentioned you had a
Speaker 1: draft on Saturday, so we just kind of want to
Speaker 1: talk through this, right, I know, I know, like I
Speaker 1: know you and la Quad have been sort of going
Speaker 1: back and forth talking about things if like this was
Speaker 1: his idea, Like hey said, we should get manton On
Speaker 1: to talk about his draft.
Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, that's why I heard. A couple of
Speaker 2: days I was like, oh no, this is so.
Speaker 3: Let's get into it. First of all, I'd be like,
Speaker 3: I just want to like, who did you start the draft?
Speaker 4: Is?
Speaker 3: Like, what was your strategy going into this thing?
Speaker 4: So my strategy was I like the later picks in
Speaker 4: rounds in the first round because I like it being
Speaker 4: a snake draft. I like to go back to back
Speaker 4: whenever I'm earlier in the round. I really got to
Speaker 4: be right on this pick because I'm not going to
Speaker 4: be able to pick guys, you know, until I'm past
Speaker 4: the twentieth pick. So I always like to be in
Speaker 4: this in those situations. Since say that again, this so
Speaker 4: this was a ten. Okay, so everybody's got good teams, right,
Speaker 4: but this is like we'll get more into this. The
Speaker 4: guys that I'm with in the league is that they're
Speaker 4: head scratchers, you know. So that's a good way, but
Speaker 4: you know, so that the hardest part is when you're
Speaker 4: you're with guys who really follow fantasy football, you can
Speaker 4: kind of predict where they're gonna go. When you're with
Speaker 4: guys that you're not sure how much football they watch,
Speaker 4: they draft the defense in the seventh round and that's okay, bro, Like,
Speaker 4: should I grab my QB now, because I don't know
Speaker 4: if qbs were going off the board at at at
Speaker 4: round four like they started going, and so I'm like
Speaker 4: targeting my guy. I was like, man, I know I
Speaker 4: wasn't planning and picking him till later, but I might
Speaker 4: have to grab them. So I had a couple of
Speaker 4: plans going. I really really like Garrett Wilson in this
Speaker 4: in this year, you know, more so than last year,
Speaker 4: and I was high on him last year. You know,
Speaker 4: obviously with Aaron Rodgers, you know, going down last year
Speaker 4: in the first game, there was that, there was that word. However,
Speaker 4: they do have Tyrod Taylor, which for me is like
Speaker 4: a great insurance plan for Garrett Wilson. So Garrett Wilson
Speaker 4: was really really a high on my radar. So right
Speaker 4: when I came up, and I was the ninth pick,
Speaker 4: right when I came up, I already moved up to
Speaker 4: I think he was at position twelve or thirteen. I
Speaker 4: moved and I grabbed him. I didn't really care. Now
Speaker 4: after that, my my next one was if Karen Williams
Speaker 4: and I text. I texted Rich holl mk Kwan. That's
Speaker 4: his name, Rich Holmi Kwan.
Speaker 3: We're using that now.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I text to Kwan. I said, Kwan, if you
Speaker 4: could choose between Kien and Jamier, who would it be?
Speaker 4: And he gave me his He gave me his feedback,
Speaker 4: and I really appreciate ab of it. Did you say ky?
Speaker 4: He said he liked both of them, like both liked
Speaker 4: both of them. But then my follow up question was, Okay,
Speaker 4: if I don't go with Jamiir, would you go with
Speaker 4: who is it Miaman Dolphins a chen would you go
Speaker 4: with him as a pass catching running back later in
Speaker 4: the draft. And he gave me and I'm not going
Speaker 4: to reveal it because I'm not gonna do rich Homi
Speaker 4: Kwan like he didn't.
Speaker 1: My dad.
Speaker 4: I have to reveal my hand before I had my draft.
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna do that to Mohammed. But he gave
Speaker 4: me his things. So I was like, you know what,
Speaker 4: I got to choose between Jamiir or Karen and obviously
Speaker 4: with my jersey, you know who I went with. I grabbed,
Speaker 4: So I am I'm in a good position early for me.
Speaker 4: I'm in a really good position. Now. What I was
Speaker 4: anticipating was if anybody grab both of those two for
Speaker 4: some reason, again because they're unpredictable drafters, I was going
Speaker 4: to roll the dice and grab Marvin Harrison Junior and
Speaker 4: have a Garrett Wilson and Marvin Harrison Junior pairing. That's
Speaker 4: what I was going to do. And so that was
Speaker 4: my approach early in the first two rounds of my pigs.
Speaker 6: So I got to ask you, with your league makes
Speaker 6: being unpredictable, was there anybody in the first round where
Speaker 6: you just kind of scratched your head that when your
Speaker 6: lead makes took where it was like, why did you
Speaker 6: do that?
Speaker 4: Ummm no, I well you know what was what was
Speaker 4: what was what was a little unpredictable was how far
Speaker 4: Justin Jefferson dropped in the draft. That was a little
Speaker 4: un I was trying to do the thing where I
Speaker 4: was like, Okay, he dropped to the second, he went
Speaker 4: to the second, he went to the second, he dropped
Speaker 4: to the second, and I was like, if this guy
Speaker 4: drops to the third, remember I'm I'm ninth that I'm
Speaker 4: a album. So he he dropped to the third and
Speaker 4: he got picked. I was like, oh crap, okay, because.
Speaker 7: These foods would have dropped freaking Justin Jefferson to me,
Speaker 7: dog that goes, I don't care who the quarterback is, bro,
Speaker 7: Justin Jefferson coming on my team, you know. So there again,
Speaker 7: that was the challenge about, you know, being with the
Speaker 7: guys that I was with. I was like, oh, these
Speaker 7: dudes are just dropping further and further and further. And
Speaker 7: then they started picking up guys earlier.
Speaker 4: I was like, why are we picking qbs in rowing three?
Speaker 4: I'm like Lamar Jackson went off at round three I'm
Speaker 4: hold up, dudes, and so yeah, it was. It was.
Speaker 4: It was one of those drafts where it was a
Speaker 4: little unpredictable. But yeah, early on, I think my game
Speaker 4: plan I got what I wanted.
Speaker 1: I love by the way, one the fact you went
Speaker 1: Kyrien went. There was no way you weren't going to
Speaker 1: take Kyra Way because one, Notre Dame guys are going
Speaker 1: to stick together. But two you're asking a guy who's
Speaker 1: a RAMS fan, what do you think? So there was
Speaker 1: no way you weren't going to be taking kyra Way.
Speaker 4: You see, I see, I didn't know that. I didn't
Speaker 4: know that my boy rich Holman Kwan was a RAMS fans.
Speaker 4: I did put my relationship with rich Hollman Quan above
Speaker 4: anytime that my boy an let me down. But then
Speaker 4: I should have known where rich Homan Kwan is coming from,
Speaker 4: because it's like, oh, this is for your boys league, right,
Speaker 4: I say, yes. I had to clarify and a lot
Speaker 4: of beating against you, bro. I need some background information.
Speaker 4: You're my research guy, you're mom bro, like I need
Speaker 4: some background information, and he gave me the information I needed.
Speaker 5: I think this is a good reminder, though we live
Speaker 5: in a bubble like, like you said, when you play
Speaker 5: with people who do fantasy all the time, you kind
Speaker 5: of can predict where they're gonna go. But when you
Speaker 5: play like I do a show on the weekends and
Speaker 5: someone called me. They were like, alsin Eckley went in
Speaker 5: the first round of my home league this week, and
Speaker 5: it's like, yeah, weird stuff happened. You aren't living this
Speaker 5: day and d right.
Speaker 1: It is why I tell you folks who do this
Speaker 1: for a living, like draft with folks who don't pay
Speaker 1: attention as my because like quarterbacks start going early. When
Speaker 1: you look around, it's the it's the third round, and
Speaker 1: like eight quarterbacks are off the board, Like you can
Speaker 1: whiplash a little bit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh, you know what do I do?
Speaker 5: As her first ever fantasy draft tonight, A lot of
Speaker 5: pressures on me. Yeah, first ever, my wife's first ever.
Speaker 5: It's a family league.
Speaker 4: First of all, congratulations.
Speaker 5: She was like, what pick do I not want? I
Speaker 5: was like, I think there's clear cut top nine players
Speaker 5: you don't want pick ten. She has pick ten. She's
Speaker 5: freaking out and I keep telling her though, I'm like,
Speaker 5: something weird is going to happen, right, like someone It's
Speaker 5: not gonna be the first nine that we're used to seeing.
Speaker 4: So I'm really hoping that it goes like you're jot
Speaker 4: in that league with her.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 5: I told it's a family league, and I told them
Speaker 5: that I will not compete because I have to help.
Speaker 1: I'm crazy, you say that. Now you're basically in the league.
Speaker 1: She's in the league. You're in the league.
Speaker 5: I was like, Yo, you're gonna take players you like? Right,
Speaker 5: She's like, no, I want you to tell me the
Speaker 5: best players so I win.
Speaker 2: So pressures good. Look that sounds like she's gonna yell
Speaker 2: at you on.
Speaker 5: Some you know what.
Speaker 2: It sounds like.
Speaker 5: It sounds like man'sa hitting you up, Like, Yo, who
Speaker 5: do I say?
Speaker 1: If I would say, because my wife plays, I hear
Speaker 1: about it that she's never won her league? How am
Speaker 1: I married to the NFL fantasy guy? Never won my league?
Speaker 1: And basically it goes like this. On Tuesday nights before
Speaker 1: waiver wires hit, she will hand me the phone and
Speaker 1: say fix it. And then on Saturday night or Sunday
Speaker 1: morning before kickoff, she will hand me the phone again
Speaker 1: and say fix it.
Speaker 3: That's how That's how.
Speaker 2: I'm a leg already for that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, So I said that was the early round.
Speaker 1: We'll take a quick break, we'll come back. We'll talk
Speaker 1: about some of the later rounds. Also, we got to
Speaker 1: hear because there was a shocking pick that that sort
Speaker 1: of in the mid round. More with man Tiito on
Speaker 1: his fantasy draft. Next on the NFL Fantasy Football Podcast.
Speaker 1: Special edition of the NFL Fantasy Podcast, man ty Teo
Speaker 1: sitting in with us talking about the draft he had
Speaker 1: for his home league on Sunday.
Speaker 3: And so you were saying this before the show.
Speaker 1: I mean you're saying this early too, Like a lot
Speaker 1: of weird things, a lot of teams are picks going
Speaker 1: earlier than expected.
Speaker 3: Someone took the forty nine ers defenses seven seventh.
Speaker 4: Round seven seventh, and I was it was one of
Speaker 4: those things where one of my homies, his name is Gaalen,
Speaker 4: he took he took the forty nine ers defense. And
Speaker 4: you know, you have the chat right and I'm sitting
Speaker 4: there and I'm just itching to say something. It'ching to
Speaker 4: be like you idiot, But when in my homies texting
Speaker 4: the chat like wow, taking the defense in round seven
Speaker 4: is bold off the hook because I didn't want to
Speaker 4: jump into the chat. And then all of a sudden
Speaker 4: it requires me to keep talking and I I just
Speaker 4: didn't want to review anything. But my other homie, who
Speaker 4: was like following who I was picking, he was like, man,
Speaker 4: great pick, and I was like, yeah, I know. I
Speaker 4: got inside then and then I and then I grabbed
Speaker 4: you know, going a little bit further, I grabbed Josh
Speaker 4: Jacobs and he's like, man, I was going to get
Speaker 4: Josh Jacobs, was I. You know, So we have these
Speaker 4: type of interactions with with me and my friends. But yeah,
Speaker 4: the defense, the forty niners defense, not even the Cleveland Browns,
Speaker 4: the forty nine ers defense picked in the seventh round.
Speaker 2: That's aggressive.
Speaker 6: That no, that's anything above the tenth round to me
Speaker 6: is aggressive.
Speaker 4: It's like, yeah, that was that was one of those
Speaker 4: like what are you doing? Are you gonna drap the
Speaker 4: kicker in the eighth Like what's going on?
Speaker 6: That's what I'm surprised. I didn't hear any kickers in
Speaker 6: that round as well. Like you start seeing trends like, oh,
Speaker 6: guys are locking up the position that we should lock
Speaker 6: up later in the round. I want the best kicker,
Speaker 6: I want the best defense, and that's usually what happens.
Speaker 4: With these I thought Aubrey was going to go next.
Speaker 4: I was like, no, I didn't get Aubrey. I really
Speaker 4: liked the kicker for the Chargers, and so mean trying
Speaker 4: to think about what what team would get in and
Speaker 4: it's not a shot at the Chargers, but what team
Speaker 4: would get into the red zone and probably.
Speaker 2: Needs a lot of touchdowns.
Speaker 4: I was like, it'd probably be the Chargers, you know,
Speaker 4: And so they have a really good kicker, he's dependable,
Speaker 4: let me go with him. Last year he had a
Speaker 4: really good year. I know Aubrey can boot the ball
Speaker 4: from the opposite thirty. He's a Notre Dame guy. But
Speaker 4: you know, I was like, you know, I'm going to
Speaker 4: go that route.
Speaker 5: And so, yeah, did you get like Cole khmed all
Speaker 5: your estimate anything you see?
Speaker 4: I don't. I don't discriminate, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: It's like, you're gonna help me win. Bro. You could
Speaker 4: go you could go to a JC. I don't care.
Speaker 5: Is there any players that you'll write off because of
Speaker 5: where they went to college?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 2: Okay, ultimately yeah, I went to I.
Speaker 4: Just want to win. Bro, Like, if you're on my team,
Speaker 4: I don't care what skill you went to. Bro, your
Speaker 4: mine now.
Speaker 6: In the fantasy world, though, Like when did you find
Speaker 6: yourself falling in love with fantasy football?
Speaker 4: When I first got into it? You know, I know
Speaker 4: what was funny is I'll say this, I don't know
Speaker 4: who ranks who or who ranks drafts. I played fantasy
Speaker 4: this my third year. Right, I've won my league's two
Speaker 4: years in a row, and I've been.
Speaker 2: Second early beginnings, early first the first league.
Speaker 4: First year, I was only in one league, I won
Speaker 4: that one. The second year, which was last year, I
Speaker 4: was in three leagues. I won one, came in third
Speaker 4: in another one, and came in fourth another one. So
Speaker 4: I've always been in the tops.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 4: Right, But every draft I get graded an F that those.
Speaker 2: Are the best.
Speaker 3: That means that means you're gonna win.
Speaker 4: That I get great at F And my boys Just
Speaker 4: the funny thing about my boys, they would text just like, oh,
Speaker 4: looks like Matts I knows nothing about. And my boys
Speaker 4: was like, don't you work for NFL? Don't you have
Speaker 4: inserted Scoops is like, Bro, you're good.
Speaker 3: Bro.
Speaker 4: You drafted Nick Chubb in like round eight whatever?
Speaker 1: Right, you know, I mean you get an A grade,
Speaker 1: that's when you're not winning.
Speaker 4: That you're auto drafting, bro, get the grade. You just
Speaker 4: get the next guy, you know. So, yeah, I've gotten
Speaker 4: F grades on all of all of my stuff. Me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that means you're winning. That That means, say the
Speaker 3: encourage man.
Speaker 1: When you got to like the later rounds, right, like everybody,
Speaker 1: everybody kind of has a plan for the first few
Speaker 1: rounds of the draft, even if it's taking the Niners
Speaker 1: in the seventh round. When you got to like the
Speaker 1: later part of the draft, did you have a particular
Speaker 1: strategy you were looking you.
Speaker 4: Know, with the benefit where I was sitting, because there's
Speaker 4: only ten guys, I felt like across the board, there
Speaker 4: are a lot of tight ends. Now, Kyle Pitts was
Speaker 4: my guy that I was really targeting, but again it
Speaker 4: was you. Yeah, he was the guy that I was
Speaker 4: really really targeting, but he went early, and so when
Speaker 4: he went, now I'm sitting in a situation I was like, Okay,
Speaker 4: who else could possibly get? I kind of like Evan
Speaker 4: ingram I, you know, especially after the last preseason game.
Speaker 4: I see that he was targeted a lot in the
Speaker 4: red zone. I think he had two touchdowns in the
Speaker 4: last preseason game. Him and Trevor Lawrence seem to have
Speaker 4: a good, good relationship going on. So I started targeting
Speaker 4: Evan then he went and so I knew that, man,
Speaker 4: if worse comes to worse, I'm okay with sitting with Ferguson,
Speaker 4: Like I can sit with Ferguson. I like his I
Speaker 4: like his activity in the low red zone and you
Speaker 4: know his fit in that puzzle with the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 4: It's it's it's only CD Lamb and then it's him,
Speaker 4: you know, And so I like, I like that. And
Speaker 4: so what I kept doing was I kept going back
Speaker 4: to my team, my my buddies teams and see if
Speaker 4: they all had tight ends. And so they all had
Speaker 4: tight ends all picked out. I was like, okay, cool,
Speaker 4: Like I could just pick my tight end last, like
Speaker 4: they're not gonna pick. But then another buddy started. He
Speaker 4: grabbed tayso heill set. I was like, you, he's a
Speaker 4: quarterback tight end. But I was just like, bro, you
Speaker 4: guys are so unpredictable. It yeah, so I grabbed. I
Speaker 4: ended up grabbing Ferguson towards the late later rounds, and
Speaker 4: that kind of solidified my team in the tight end.
Speaker 4: I actually got the whole bunch of bench players, and
Speaker 4: I was able to grab on ferguson late but on
Speaker 4: my bench, I literally have all receivers and Jelu McLaughlan
Speaker 4: on my bench receivers.
Speaker 2: Who was the one that you know I'm getting hyped?
Speaker 2: Is he on your team?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 2: I don't, Yeah, we got as.
Speaker 4: Are you going to let me tell you dart slam is.
Speaker 2: Going?
Speaker 4: I was so scared. I was so scared that somebody's
Speaker 4: gonna grab him. Yeah, because one of my homies text
Speaker 4: was like, hey, bro, so I saw the thing on Instagram.
Speaker 4: You boasted about stop peeping up.
Speaker 6: It's part of the strategy with the league mates. Man,
Speaker 6: we play a little dirty trying to get dirt.
Speaker 4: So so I grabbed Dors obviously, Guys, you know, if
Speaker 4: you're going to grab the San Francisco for nine ers
Speaker 4: defense in seven, you don't really know what you're doing.
Speaker 3: You're not You're probably not.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you don't. Yeah, entire shell. Yeah, I hope your
Speaker 4: friend listening. Yeah, that that one, but didn't know exactly
Speaker 4: who he is.
Speaker 2: It's it was.
Speaker 4: It was good. I got Dors, I got a I
Speaker 4: got a good bench man. There's okay. So maybe you
Speaker 4: guys could help me on this I grabbed Khalil sure
Speaker 4: from love them Good Homer.
Speaker 5: However, However, however, I genuinely do like However, he's.
Speaker 4: The only only question mark on my bench because I
Speaker 4: also like Pop Douglas.
Speaker 2: He's got all my guys.
Speaker 4: So like Pop Douglas is on the waiver ye right now,
Speaker 4: you know how waiver wires work after a draft, you
Speaker 4: can't just grab them, and so like, he's the only
Speaker 4: guy other than that guys. I mean I could whip
Speaker 4: up my stuff and read it too, because I was
Speaker 4: reading you to earlier, but I am stabbed.
Speaker 1: So I would say, I would say I would lean
Speaker 1: Shakir over Douglas just because I like his quarterback, Thank you.
Speaker 1: I would I would rather have somebody with a Josh
Speaker 1: Allen offense versus a you Drake made Jakobe Brissette.
Speaker 4: And the reason why I liked I liket your career too,
Speaker 4: is because Joe Brady is their OC and Joe Brady
Speaker 4: was with me in New Orleans, and I know how
Speaker 4: Joe Brady likes to highlight some guys. And there was
Speaker 4: a lot of talk about his relationship. Talking about Khalil's
Speaker 4: relationship with Josh Allen kind of blossoming a little bit
Speaker 4: and him being his go to guy. And it's always
Speaker 4: like when when you have a situation like the Bills
Speaker 4: where you lose like your top targeted guy in Steffon
Speaker 4: Diggs and you lose Gabe Davis, is like, okay, who's next. Well,
Speaker 4: they have their tied end there and he's gonna be
Speaker 4: a big focal point of that of that offense. But
Speaker 4: you know that Josh likes to go to his receivers
Speaker 4: and so I'm trying to figure out what that is.
Speaker 4: You know, Curtis Samuel's there and like, okay, like he's
Speaker 4: most likely gonna be used as a gadget guy and
Speaker 4: like a like a Deebo Samuel type of thing. Right,
Speaker 4: there's there's there's there's talks of him playing running back.
Speaker 4: Is like that really don't do nothing for me in PPR.
Speaker 4: But Khalil is very, very intriguing to me, So I
Speaker 4: grabbed him.
Speaker 5: Only receiver on the Bills roster who has ever called
Speaker 5: a pass from Josh Allen Right.
Speaker 4: In the second half of the season, he really did.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he was out I believe the target, the status
Speaker 5: something like he outproduced digs in the second half on
Speaker 5: like forty less targets.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like it is. See, thank you guys. You know what,
Speaker 4: but they gave me the F grade. Bro, I saw
Speaker 4: to check it a little bit. I said, these guys
Speaker 4: granted me a F so maybe I should revise my
Speaker 4: whole thing.
Speaker 5: But you know, so you're ferguson pick that the only
Speaker 5: Cede Lamb has had more targets in three straight years
Speaker 5: than the Cowboys tight and like the Cowboys tight end
Speaker 5: is number two target Dak.
Speaker 1: You know, but I love, I'm with you, I love Wow,
Speaker 1: I love all right, No, so we're not done you
Speaker 1: we can take a quick break to come back.
Speaker 2: I want to go through.
Speaker 1: Like you know, I just want you to give us
Speaker 1: the overall grade, not the F grade that you got through,
Speaker 1: but your thoughts, like where you love it or you
Speaker 1: think you're strong, where you think you're weak, will come back.
Speaker 1: You kind of wrap things up talking about Matt Tal's
Speaker 1: draft here on the NFL Fantasy Football Podcast. All right,
Speaker 1: I tell you when Manta about the draft from his
Speaker 1: home league he had over the weekend, and so we've
Speaker 1: kind of gone through his early round strategy, later round strategy,
Speaker 1: some of the picks that he really loves. But we
Speaker 1: had to get the whole look at this thing and
Speaker 1: think about it and talk about where you feel like
Speaker 1: like your favorite picks maybe the pick that you yeah maybe,
Speaker 1: which she sort of had back. Let's start with the
Speaker 1: ones that you loved, like your absolute favorite picks.
Speaker 3: From this draft.
Speaker 4: My favorite picks is obviously Garrett Wilson pick, the Kien
Speaker 4: Williams pick I really love. I got Kenneth walk which
Speaker 4: I loved that pick, the the Josh Jacobs pick I liked,
Speaker 4: I wasn't too hot. So that was one of those
Speaker 4: things where it was like a toss up in that
Speaker 4: in that space with Josh because Cooper Cup was still available.
Speaker 4: And I was like, you know what, like it's always
Speaker 4: a gamble with Cooper Cup because now that you know
Speaker 4: Pookah's there. I was like, he takes touches away from him,
Speaker 4: but he's still Cooper Cup, you know, And so I
Speaker 4: was like, you know what, I look at Josh Jacobs
Speaker 4: as this like a being a redemption year for him.
Speaker 4: You know, it seems like Jordan Love is you know,
Speaker 4: he said many times in the preseason that he's going
Speaker 4: to get past this to him and that he's looking
Speaker 4: really really good and that Josh really likes likes it
Speaker 4: over there, and and so I was like, you know,
Speaker 4: based on what I've been reading, Josh is somebody that
Speaker 4: that I really want to go with. So I picked Josh. There.
Speaker 4: Another pick that I was always iffy on, just because
Speaker 4: they're they're qbsit situation was George Pickens. I got George Pickens. Uh.
Speaker 4: I'm just scarred because I had George Pickens last year
Speaker 4: and obviously you know Pickett and him. It was just
Speaker 4: one of those things, you know, I'm hoping, you know
Speaker 4: that that's my that's my hope. I don't want to
Speaker 4: get I don't want to get to ahead of it.
Speaker 4: That was another one of those picks. But let me
Speaker 4: tell you this is who I got on my bench. Guys,
Speaker 4: you ain't gonna believe this. Gotta love it. Terry McClaren
Speaker 4: on your bench.
Speaker 8: That's why I said his team is Johnson, These are
Speaker 8: starting waters, Jamison, Williams, McLaughlin, George Land and believe.
Speaker 4: It or not, I picked up Jayden Daniels.
Speaker 3: Wow, were the other guys picking?
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's telling you guys, like Bro, you guys don't
Speaker 4: know what you're doing.
Speaker 5: You're starting quarterback, my starting as Kyler.
Speaker 2: The championship.
Speaker 4: So that's why when when when they came back and
Speaker 4: gave me an F grade, I'm like, yo.
Speaker 2: Bro, he went on a shopping spree. Let me tell you, bro, Like, I.
Speaker 4: Don't know what you're looking at, teacher, but I got
Speaker 4: a plus plus plus.
Speaker 5: Ther whole benches players that should have been drafted.
Speaker 4: Tell you, I'm going to tell you. So. So the
Speaker 4: only thing that I was I was hoping was that
Speaker 4: Nick because he is hurt that people wouldn't grab him,
Speaker 4: and I was hoping to grab him later. And I
Speaker 4: think it was around that time where it was. It
Speaker 4: was it was like the Khalil space where I was like, ah,
Speaker 4: I can keep pushing it a little bit, you know
Speaker 4: what I mean, I can hold off, I can hold up.
Speaker 4: And somebody took my boy, Goaddess took Nick Chubb and
Speaker 4: I knew, I knew. I knew he was going to
Speaker 4: take I should have known because of his name had
Speaker 4: chubbed in it. Yeah, I was. I shouldn't known he
Speaker 4: was going to take him, you know what I mean?
Speaker 4: But I know he got put on the pup list,
Speaker 4: so he's out for at least four weeks, so obviously
Speaker 4: I have a lot of bargaining chips on my bench.
Speaker 2: That's what I was getting to. I mean, you seem
Speaker 2: like an active trader. I mean, I'm acting, are you.
Speaker 3: Right now?
Speaker 4: If Fantasy Football, if if I was able to to
Speaker 4: switch out guys already out of switch them before week
Speaker 4: one gets I would I would have already tried to
Speaker 4: start trading for Nick Chubb if I could.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, wow, see looking he believes there's the.
Speaker 1: Thing like, whoever in your league, if they're if they're struggling,
Speaker 1: they may get desperate. They may be willing to trade
Speaker 1: them for sort of pennies on the dollars.
Speaker 4: No see. But the thing about my boys and knowing
Speaker 4: our history, like they're going to try to get the
Speaker 4: dollar for their pennies you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I didn't know your league.
Speaker 1: What's going to happen is they're gonna look when you
Speaker 1: ask about a player, they're like, yep, oh man, I
Speaker 1: must know something about it.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, that's what it's been, you know what I mean, Like,
Speaker 4: all my boys been sending me screenshots of our first
Speaker 4: our first show together, and they're like, Bro, you're cheating. Bro,
Speaker 4: I'm working though, does.
Speaker 5: Your league have a manti tax, because in my league
Speaker 5: it's exactly what Marcus said, Like, if I want to player,
Speaker 5: people are like, you got overpay because you must.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, oh it's the tax for what I do. Exactly.
Speaker 4: It's like a jewel they didn't appreciate. But then when
Speaker 4: you want you're like, wait, is this actually something that Yeah,
Speaker 4: that's that's how my boys be.
Speaker 3: Bro Man, Well, that's a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: We look forward to, like we'll keep up with you
Speaker 1: all throughout the season, kind of keep keep track on
Speaker 1: how the league is doing and everything. Speaking of jewels,
Speaker 1: that the people didn't know what they were, Uh, Susie,
Speaker 1: we've got We've got.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 3: So, I don't know if you know this.
Speaker 1: We found out yesterday on Oh Man the kwand oh yeah,
Speaker 1: Kuan has never eaten a strawberry before.
Speaker 2: This is going to be interesting, like we were wind
Speaker 2: blow flabbergas.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we've been talking about this since this morning.
Speaker 5: What was your reaction when he told you he he
Speaker 5: is you're thirty three, right, thirty two? Thirty two? Sorry,
Speaker 5: and he had never eaten a strawberry in his life.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Bro, I didn't know about that. I told him
Speaker 4: I was like a strawberry. Bro, he's like bro beating watermelons.
Speaker 4: I ain like a bunch of food, but I ain't
Speaker 4: never have a strawberry. Strawberry like one of the number one. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it comes on so much like wet strawberry everything, strawberry
Speaker 4: ice cream, strawberry like you can do. But I and
Speaker 4: have a strawberry before. I told to make sure it's organic,
Speaker 4: make sure you want.
Speaker 1: So we've got we got some strawberries here for him,
Speaker 1: and now we're going to watch as La Kwan has
Speaker 1: his first ever strawberry at age thirty two.
Speaker 4: So it's really good. Bro, Chris is crazy. Hey, don't
Speaker 4: eat the green part. Don't eat. I didn't want to
Speaker 4: assume you know what you know? I didn't know because I.
Speaker 2: Got you good. You don't eat. Don't eat the leaves. Okay,
Speaker 2: did you ever.
Speaker 5: Think that you would be eating a strawberry while will
Speaker 5: three adults just fit and watching?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 2: Is it kind of hotcorn?
Speaker 4: It's like, hurry, I'm put it in your mouth balls.
Speaker 4: Got you hold up? You can hear this? Good?
Speaker 3: It's good? Bro.
Speaker 5: Oh wow, it's good.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 3: It doesn't taste like strawberry flakes, like it doesn't taste
Speaker 3: like a strawberry strawburse strawberry soda, like it's a different flavor.
Speaker 3: But it's very good.
Speaker 4: It's very good.
Speaker 9: I'm eating a strawberry. My wife would be so broh
Speaker 9: because you looked at me crazy yesterday too. But your
Speaker 9: wife didn't know you've never had a sound. She was like,
Speaker 9: you're actually right, I've never seen you in the house
Speaker 9: eat a straw I love if we're opening new doors
Speaker 9: in your marriage, right.
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 2: It was such a twenty minute conversation. She's really like picking, like,
Speaker 2: how didn't you do this?
Speaker 3: Like that?
Speaker 2: You you make the kids lunch?
Speaker 4: Like, how did it's good for a marriage?
Speaker 5: Bro serve your kids strawberries for lunch?
Speaker 3: Yes, and you just you never just thought like I'm
Speaker 3: just gonna you could them up to and you never thought.
Speaker 5: Let me take a little.
Speaker 4: That's a little strange there. Strange.
Speaker 5: Hey, have you ever ordered like pancakes where they come
Speaker 5: on it?
Speaker 2: No, you should do my buttermilk, just straight buttermilkht.
Speaker 3: The buttermilk pancakes with some straw some sliced strawberries.
Speaker 5: That's why I actually happened.
Speaker 2: Can I stop eating it now?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: You made your point. Bro Okay, I think there's more
Speaker 2: if you want to eat the other one's to do that.
Speaker 2: But no, he's go.
Speaker 5: This one looks a little weird.
Speaker 4: Put that one back.
Speaker 5: Straw are one of those fruit that if you get
Speaker 5: a bad one.
Speaker 3: It's like you know we're talking about I know you
Speaker 3: were talking to Patrick Claybond earlier and he was like, look,
Speaker 3: either they're gonna be phenomenal, they're gonna be like I
Speaker 3: could do with that, but like there's very little in between.
Speaker 3: But more often than not, strawberries are very good, very good,
Speaker 3: the good.
Speaker 2: Choice, all right, the twist, the hold off, jowing it
Speaker 2: for the first time. It's like watching the Office for
Speaker 2: the first.
Speaker 5: We are next week the new fruit for you to try.
Speaker 1: Right, I mean, I think we should make the blueberries, right,
Speaker 1: we try blueberry blueberries. No, he's kind of anti berry.
Speaker 2: That's what it seems like. But I haven't bought raspberries.
Speaker 6: I haven't bought berries for Myselfberries are good too, Grape
Speaker 6: shirt grapes.
Speaker 2: Are top tier.
Speaker 3: Have you had like a dragon fruit?
Speaker 4: No, I've never had it.
Speaker 1: I mean I didn't think so, but I just figure
Speaker 1: you hadn't had like common fruits. Maybe you'd have something
Speaker 1: that Candalo wild ex I love is good. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not completely alter.
Speaker 4: Fantasy Fruits.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 5: Was, you know our listeners to be healthy and full
Speaker 5: service operation.
Speaker 2: Yeah, to be healthy.
Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly, a couple of strawberries on drafting.
Speaker 1: Man, it's been fun, haven't you. When When are we
Speaker 1: gonna see you back on the Good Morning Football again?
Speaker 4: So I'm on against tomorrow. Okay, we rolled against tomorrow
Speaker 4: and then I head out after I got Notre Dame
Speaker 4: the following week, and then I'll come back after that.
Speaker 4: So welcome back, run.
Speaker 3: We look forward to seeing you. Look for to watching
Speaker 3: Notre Dame football. For to seeing you on Good Morning
Speaker 3: Football here, and like I said, we will we'll keep
Speaker 3: tabs on your team and see how you're doing.
Speaker 4: Thanks guys.
Speaker 3: I am very optimistic about your chick.
Speaker 4: Thank you guys.
Speaker 6: To keep like maybe not weekly, but the case I'll
Speaker 6: let you know have some notable notable moments.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah for sure the meantime that I'll do
Speaker 1: it for this edition of the NFL Fantasy Football Podcast.
Speaker 1: They happy, safe and healthy, do good and live well.
Speaker 1: Try new fruits, everybody. We will talk to you again
Speaker 1: real so,