Fantasy Football - Best Offenses Mock Draft + Draft Day Regrets - Podcast for 9/1

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1:00The time for courage and world domination is now an ultimate draft kit.com. Welcome to the Fantasy Footballers podcast with your host, Andy Holloway. Jason Moore and Mike Ride. Oh, welcome in. Welcome to September. It is the first of September, Mike Ride. Jason Moore and Andy Holloway, the fantasy footballers. It's the month of football. Countdown the days. It is football. It's a spooky season is here.

2:00It's a great day. Eight days, eight days, a week from tomorrow, real NFL football. Yeah, the fantasy stats will start accumulating, and we'll decide how right or wrong we are by the first week. We'll brother. Couple of snaps. No, it is, it's always amazing to us how impactful week one is on the psychology of every human being in the fantasy football world because I don't know. It's like it just bears a lot more weight, right? I mean, you see busts that picks a home run. A lot of things change between week one and week two. Yes, they do. So just breathe a little bit. Hopefully everything works out, but I'm guessing not all of it will. But, you know, trust the process is what I'm saying. Speaking of trusting the process, a lot of people drafting this weekend, Labor Day Weekend, our League of Records is on Monday, on Labor Day, and if you need help,

3:00getting prepared, getting ready to go. Both of my boys just had a big up there in the 18 team league. Whoa, serious. The church league and they jumped in the UDK. There's going to be a lot of prayer in that league. Yeah, ultimately 18. They're going to need it. Yeah, yeah. Here's my second round pick, aka my third rounder. My middle boy, who he drafted 16 of 18 and ended up with Jeremiah or Derek Henry and then Jeremiah love with those two picks of the turn. So, and then he waits, not too bad. Three years to draft the wider team. It is. We're obviously in an 18 team league ourselves around the office for that chopped league. Yeah. I'm just looking at like my fifth round pick, I just took Jordan Mason after Blake Korum. It's like, right. Yeah, it's disgusting already. I was on the clock this morning and I'm like, nope. No, that's not what that was all of my feelings.

4:02Pass. Like, no, good. I think that's partly why some people go crazy and you don't know how to predict the free agency and a chop league is because we all look at our teams when it's over with with 18 teams and we're like, oh gosh, we're doomed. We just don't remember everybody else's doomed. Yeah, but if you need help, pick up the ultimate draft, get ultimate draft, get.com. The time is now grab that. You also have the draft analyzer inside the UDK, which will, you know, if you've already drafted, make sure you plug your teams in there. It'll break down your strengths, weaknesses, what to watch out for. And which of us most aligns with your roster? Go darn it, bets. Wait, what did he take? He took Josh Downs. This is like, it's for sure coming back to me. Well, we're in the middle of drafts right now, apparently. We've got news to catch you up on. We got the Megalobull draft spots from the fourth through the eighth still available at Megalobull.com. A free entry for every single foot, clan member. You can check that out. A lot's going on, but we got a, we got a fun, quick question today.

5:05What is the worst I should have known better draft day decision that still haunts you? So drafts gone by some kind of this player over that player that you can still remember that is kind of cemented into your brain. We asked, we asked the docers this as well. Matt, what was, uh, Matt, what was your biggest draft day regret? Clyde Edward Clyde Edward, Edward, Clyde Edward Zillair. Right off the bat. Just that's not a tough one, Matt. Let me just say this. I was either going to say there's forth him or I was going to go to the doosers. That was the wrong. The problem is you started at the wrong side of doosters out. You should have started over with that. I think we did the right thing. Oh, yeah. Not only do you not speak, but he was half as loud as he needed to be. That's true. Hey, you know what? Watch this. Dooser of the day. Dooser of the day. Always. Josh, do you have a, I don't know if anybody even heard you. You took, uh, C, C E H and my old Sanders over Tyree kill.

6:06Um, Brooks had said he took court Darrell Patterson in the second round after the rookie year hype and regretted it. Josh, what do you do Patterson? 2018 had Lev Bell on our team. Last pick of the draft, pick somebody else besides James Conner. That was when Bell held out James Conner popped off that year. I actually remember that one. I remember you had Lev Bell. And I remember Conner having that great start to the year and, uh, look on your face every week. I mean, that one, that one was tough because that was like every single week, every week was all Lev Bell's coming back. Lee's coming back this week. Don't even worry about it. And then you did not. Kyle on with us. Kyle, do you have a draft day regret? I drafted Montaille Ball. Oh, no, you can end it there. And he was out of the league by the next year. Yeah, the Denver Broncos drafted him too. My, uh, my worst draft day decision. I remember this one. We were drafting remotely for whatever reason in our league of record or I was. And I took Lawrence Moroni in the second round over the little known Calvin Johnson.

7:11Who went with the next pick? Megatron. Yeah. You know, it's funny. So I could think of a billion trades that I have massive unbelievable regret like the, uh, the Austin Eccler, uh, not one barglade trade. The, the one that came to mind for me, uh, back when I was, uh, I think Jalen Hertz was a my guy popped off was great that year. And I loved him. And then I took, uh, Russell Wilson over him. Oh, wait. No, that was Papa Josh. And I want to champion. Chip with Jalen Hertz. Thank you, Papa Josh. We were waiting and we're like, oh, we're going to end up with Ross because he's clearly going to take Hertz. And then he took the wrong guy. Made me so happy. So your, your mistake was a second Josh mistake. Correct. Yes. I don't think you know what a mistake is. I couldn't remember. I, that's why I said I remember. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I'm saying I'm not saying it. I've never gotten a pick wrong. I have my face of them. I just, my brain. I'm in the whole frame. This is why I started by saying I can remember all sorts of bad trades I did and didn't do.

8:15For some reason on the draft picks, I don't have that one that sticks out to me of like, I'm sure I've made a billion bad picks. But I, that one is the one that I genuinely always remember because we were sweating how bad we wanted him and we couldn't, there's no way we could get him because Josh clearly was taking quarterback and then he just took the wrong guy. I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm going to find this for you. Oh, you're going to find my regret. Yeah, I'll find it. Oh, dude, I've got my regret. I remember. Yes. I remember. The, I took the 49. I remember. 49. 49. Two good looking. No, no, no. I took, I can't even remember his name now. The running back for the 49ers in the, in the, in the four. Yeah, there's the back of the first. Trace sermon. Trace sermon. Oh, yeah. That was a rookie draft. Yes. Oh, yeah. Who? Yeah, I mean, speaking of rookie drafts, mine is Clyde. The first round running back drafted by Kansas City. Over a little known Jonathan Taylor. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Whoops. Um, what was his name, Matt? CH. CH was his name. Oh,

9:16get to the end of the day. This guy is getting married in February and has to go up in front of people and do his vow. You better have a frosty. She's not showing up. There will be booze involved. It shouldn't be a problem. There will be booze involved in your, like, that was B-O-O-S or B-O-O-C-E-E-O-O-S. How? If those were off, he's adding here. How do you have a, uh, a regret? Yeah, I took Josh Jacobs a few days ago. Oh, oh, oh, oh, yes, you did. Outside of that, my biggest one's probably just more strategy-based. My, first dynasty start up, I took a bunch of guys that were like hot at the moment, but they all retired. It was like Jamal Charles and Jordy Nelson. I actually remember that. Yeah, I remember thinking you might grab a few titles real quick and I didn't and then I had a, and you received that all retired at the same time within a year. Yeah, I mean, the lesson here is that, um, you know, not everything's going to go according to plan and go perfectly. You're going to have regrets. Don't freak out. Stay vigilant. Stay water. Pay attention all year long. We say it every year. You don't win your league at the draft, right?

10:17You set the foundation for the season. But, um, Yeah, you're not the one who's going to mess up. 24% of the top 24 running backs completed a season last year. You're going to have to make moves and make adjustments. It's all going to be okay. Let's talk some news. News and notes from around the league. You know, the only time that, um, the Falcon doesn't have any problem speaking is when he is insulting Papa Josh around the office. Oh, he's so eloquent. He's eloquent and loud and clear with his words and degradation of the bald man. He just makes part sounds. Yeah. Uh, Zayflower is expected to return to a full practice next week. What would you mean next week? That's awfully close to the season. And next week is when we're playing. Fumbling. Um, uh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You found one more Jason mistake. Yeah. Oh, you just didn't remember. No, I didn't, I didn't remember that. I remember it very, yes, closely now.

11:17I took Isaiah Pateco over Derek Henry. And that was when this was a couple years ago before the, before the, uh, the broken leg. It looked great for a week. And then he got injured for the season. Malik neighbors. If you saw the interview here, May's pretty non-committal about his week one status. He said all about well, he said he's not a lot in that interview. But, um, one of the things he said was he'll be ready whenever he can be ready. The other thing was that people can watch video and think he looks good. But that, you know, maybe he can't do this route the right way or that route the right way without hesitation. Maybe he's not ready to be hit. You know, he wants to go out there and be free. I, I would say that based on that conversation and where we've been with him mostly working to the side in a lot of practice. I, I would doubt we'd see him with one. Yeah, I, I mean, this is a player who is too important to the franchise. And this is not a team that I doubt they are going into the season. Really, truly believing they have super bowl aspirations.

12:18And so you got to keep him healthy. Make sure he's completely ready before he gets on the field. And I think it's a good reminder that when you watch the film and this is why I've kind of been. I know people break them old, right? Adrian Peterson coming off of the ACL right off the bat week one was amazing. But usually buying the injury dip is not a valuable thing. This is why I've been a little lower on George Kiddell and Tucker Kraft. Guys, I love. But when you come back from a serious injury, it isn't always easy. And even though it looks like, oh, I see him running this route. It looks good or he's at practice and look how fast he is. They're not truly 100%. We've got the timelines for these things. And I'm going to do it anyways. You can. Well, I tank, tank, Dell. Oh, look how good he looks. And then he's on pop. Jeremiah love progressing really well towards playing in week one. The cardinals did, you know, it'll be Al Jere and maybe Jeremiah 11 week one. Do you, man, is Al Jere like almost a must draft now at this point if you take love?

13:24I think he's. Oh, you mean if you take the love sign? Yeah. I just worry that maybe some people will snag him higher. I mean, I think he's definitely a must draft if you can wait until the eleventh or beyond. For sure. Just a smart. No, because there's re-injury risks with a high ankle sprint. Yep. If I, I thought after everything that they've done, that love would be fine. But you don't like hearing 50, 50. No. Ash and Jenny not practicing with the team on Tuesday doing individual work. He will be a wait and see for week one as well. We got great news. The Colts are coming back to practice that Josh Downs, Alex Pierce, Tyler Warren, Trio. That would be the calf ankle growing trio. All back at practice on Tuesday and all expected to be playing in week one. Yeah, you, you told me that this morning that Alex Pierce is expected to play week one. And that's like, whoa, that, that came out of nowhere. Did he come out, Kevin Michael Pittman, expected to be ready for week one?

14:24JCM, Dr. Corey Kroski Merritt. Hey, Dressford today's practice. All right. Like, he looked so fancy. Yeah, he was just really. He was really fast. What are we going on? Where is practice suit? Keaton Mitchell did not practice on Monday and the, there's a bit of red alert there, I think. We have not got the disclosure of how severe the Keaton Mitchell injury is. But I am not sure he's ready for the first week. So we'll see. And keep in mind, this is a guy like because he's always been a backup or even really a backup to the backup, just kind of a gadget player grade on a per touch basis. He's never been healthy. Like all three seasons, he's missed significant time. So this is not a player that is easy to rely on. Yeah, they're, you know, he was, he was always hurt. And Jayden Blue to the practice squad of the Eagles. I'm already do my codder to the practice squad for the Cowboys. Well, he was, he was claimed. Yeah, he was claimed to the roster. He'll be, I bet he's just the RB three because they only had,

15:24that's right. They like to clean house. And then they had to in order to make that transaction, they had to cut Joe Milton. Sad. That one was, well, they kept them how the cannon. Yeah, it's, that's where it's weird. You're like, oh, Sam howl over Milton really? Okay. I was a bit surprised. I don't know if Milton even got claimed. Well, he was cut or was he? I think he was a later cut. We'll take a break and we're doing some special today. We got a different kind of mock draft for you coming up. The fantasy footballers mock draft. Well, the, the Cowboys do plan to add Milton to the practice squad if he cleared waivers. That was a tweet 20 hours ago. So we will find out later today. All right, we are drafting the top 12 offences for fantasy football in 2026.

16:29You know, you want to be a part of these specific teams, pieces on these teams. We thought we'd have a little bit of fun and do a quick four round mock draft of where our heads are at with these offices. You know, you're not necessarily a perfect repeat from last year. Who are you targeting? Who are you not? I don't know if Jason's going to take Jacksonville in this draft. They are, they are in my top 12. I've got my list together. They should be here. And obviously we're going to draft 12 here. We'll put a poll up. You could put a vote between our three teams of who you think had the best offices. But this is, this is really a valuable exercise in really determining your own thought process of which offices do you think are going to score the most? Not just like what's the best team. This is for fantasy, not like which, which kickers, but the environment, right? We like certain teams because their defenses are bad. And they're going to have to score 35 points a game to win. I'm also curious where some of the new hotness teams end up on your guys' list.

17:32Yeah, we randomize that Jason's going to pick first. Then I guess it's Mike. That's all. And then it's me. Perfect. So we'll have a really good time counterclockwiseing here. All right. So I'm first. She's tilting the 101. A little bit because there's two teams I really, really, really want. But I think that the number one team for environment for 2026, I do want the bangles. I think Joe Peru. It is. I don't know if you heard. Yes. What's about to happen? Your bowl prediction. I think the bangles are in a perfect situation where you look at the, all the skill positions are good. Chase Brown is better than Sage of Ante Williams. I think as far as explosiveness, the defense is. As in you're comparing with Dallas right now. Yes. If I was to compare those two, the defense is better with Dexter Lawrence, but I still expect them to be bad right now.

18:33Vegas has them on average projected for 25.6 points per game. And I think when I look at the environments of teams that I want pieces of, they are the number one. It's really close because there's. There's ads between. Well, I mean, for what it's worth, that's fourth on your list. No, no, that's fourth on the Vegas list of points. Yes, correct. That's not going to be the only thing determining our picks, obviously. Yeah. But I am going to share with you a couple of things as we go through this. One of them is the. What they did last year and what Vegas projection for this year, because I think that some teams Vegas has a built-in regression. And some teams you have the inverse. Like since it had, he was the 12th highest scoring team last year. Right. Because for I was injured for a lot of the season, I also think when you look at scoring from Vegas, they're including really like the kicking game, right? You know, yeah, I want to focus on teams that are going to get down there and punch in for touchdowns. Mike, I'll take the Cincinnati Bangles light.

19:34I will take the Dallas Cowboy. Interesting. They were third on my list. Man, I feel like I get number one and two. I think you might get number one. I mean, this is great. So you're taking Dallas. Obviously, Dallas last year, seventh in points per game. This year projected sixth in terms of points per game. The like in Vegas since 2019, if Dak Prescott is healthy, he's throwing for at least 4,500 yards and 30 something touchdowns. I like it. I like that. You have, uh, man. I was thinking of like T Higgins and Jamar versus CdLAM and George. I think, I think I would rank George and Cd as the higher overall duo because I think that they're both true, true alpha number one wide receivers Ferguson built in. If one of those guys amiss this time, he just shoots right up to being like a top five type of a tight end on a weekly basis. So they're, they're protected from injuries a little bit. So I'll take the Cowboys. Okay. I will say that I'm thrilled.

20:35Yeah, I don't blame it. I think you were in the best spot because there are to me for real, real, uh, actually, I would say five, five super great offenses. Well, I'm going to take the Detroit Lions with my first pick here in the first round and swing around and grab the Rams with the second pick. Okay. Last year Rams were number one in points per game. Detroit was four. They are one and two in the Vegas projections. Detroit for fantasy, golf, Amon Rale, LaPorta, Jameson Williams, potentially a number one in Gibbs. Uh, to me, they are both teams represent exactly what I want from a fantasy offense, which is predictability in terms of the structure, the quarterback, you know, there's a world where I, and I know maybe this doesn't seem realistic, but I, I think it is. There's a world where the Rams, tandem, it wide receiver outperforms every other tandem in football. I think Pukka has the highest potential to be the number one before all of this legal stuff. That's where I had him ranked.

21:35But I think when you look at Dallas, pickens and CD, you look at Cincinnati with Higgins and Chase, I think Pukka and Adams will be right there. We don't consider them that way because of Adams's age, but I obviously, he had the inconsistencies of, of Stafford. He, yeah, he threw, he threw 40,000 touchdowns last year. He had not done that. And I, adding Devonte Adams certainly helps, but I mean, that's just an absolute monster season. They are projected for the most points. They scored the most points last year. The Rams did and they are projected for the most this year, right? Which is still a four point regression in that projection for what it's worth. They were at 30.5 and projected at 26.6 from the numbers I got. I still, I still worry about just if their defense is too good, that they won't be needing to, you know, that they'll, they'll basically spend a quarter and a half just trying to wind the clock. Like, yeah, those Eagles teams. Yes, exactly. The first half here, we go again.

22:36Third quarter will pull them out. Yeah, that's, that's my only fear of the Rams. They, they were fifth on my list. Mike, you are back on the clock. I am. Yeah, the Rams were fifth on my list as well. I'll take the team that at least says they want to score the most points. So I will take me Chicago Bears. Oh, that's, I feel like that is a, that's a huge surprise. Pickwise. Yeah, but for fantasy, you've got burden, Lovelin, Adunzay, Caleb, Swift, we've talked about it. I obviously love their offense this year, just giving you the numbers. Last year, ninth and points for game. This year projected 10th. So that's probably the biggest upside, I think, of any team on the list. When you talk, 10th year, two, bin, Johnson, plus all those guys. Yeah, they're projected 10th, 24.6 points for game. Some teams ahead of them. Green Bay, Seattle, San Francisco, obviously Dallas. So all right, something to pay attention. Well, look, the reason they're projected for a few or points per game is clearly obvious.

23:38And I'm going to take the team that got the, the massive loss of their offense, DJ Moore. Clearly, without DJ Moore, the Bears can't possibly score as much. He's going to the bills. And I'll take the bills. The bills were my number four. So I said that there's five absolutely like A tier teams. I think there would have been my three. Yeah, I mean, like that would have been the next after Detroit LA. Yeah, so I think that the Bengals Lions, Cowboys, Bills and Rams, those are the teams that I am absolutely, you know, I'm targeting in all drafts. They are, you know, like if the Bears have the upside, the bills are the safest in my opinion elite offensive floor with Josh out. Like you get it year after year, the offensive line is unbelievable, James Cook, unbelievable. To me, like you can't really have, like barring injury, the bills are not an outside to top 10. It really is crazy because you look at the last couple of years and they haven't even needed skill position players to be one of the top off.

24:40It's a football. They were the fifth highest scoring team last year. Crazy. Yeah, DJ Moore and maybe a healthy, healthy don't decay to you. Like, so now I get to the point where after those top five teams, plus the Bears, that's this is where it becomes like there's a handful of teams that I'm very excited about. I am targeting them in fantasy football drafts because I believe that they can have, like the Bears, they have the potential to go nuclear and score a cajillion points. That's a lot. I'm going to go, man, between these two, I'm going to go with the chargers. I think that the new system there, they might, oh, they're lower on your list. I'm not in my top 12. They're not in your top 12. It just, it takes a lot of projecting, but Mike McDaniel could. That's all it is to me. It's Mike McDaniel coming in here. The offensive line being better and using like a modern rose can't stop themselves.

25:46No, no, we can. I think they probably been projected to be a top five offense for all of his years. I agree. However, this is the year. Right. Yeah, I'm calling it. I do. I think that the chart, I mean, obviously, I would like to know where they're at in the Vegas project. I mean, I'm gonna, my guy, no. Yeah, never told me they're at 12. Okay. All right. Well, I will take them at what is this? Yeah, but seven. They're at 12. But that doesn't, I mean, that means very little. I mean, teams fluctuate all the time to give you context. I mean, Mike, you're back on the clock. But like New England, just for people, so they understand. New England is the team with the highest projected regression in Vegas. They were the number two highest scoring team last year. And they are down at, let me see you. This list here has a 13. I would credit the schedule for that last year. They had, we've talked about how easy a schedule was last year for New England. What a difficult schedule. It's going to be this year. The question is just does his Drake made that dude that just

26:49overcomes you don't look at a schedule with Josh Allen and go, oh, he's going to score a lot less because it's tough. All right. Chargers go to Jason Buffalo Chargers combo. He's got Cincinnati Buffalo and LA. Mike with Dallas and Chicago so far, you're picking at number eight right now. This is kind of, it's, it's like Buffalo. You're just betting on the quarterback to take you there. I will take Baltimore. That would have been my next. I will take the ball to our Ravens. I kept moving them down in it. Look, I get you brought up the offensive line and some things. It won't be nearly as strong. That's still Lamar though. I will still bet on it. Yeah, he's still betting here and Derek Henry. He's always the swing factor. Derek Henry is just, I'll bet and tell him wrong. I don't mean like I'm willing to just keep going in and have the one year where it finally blows up in my face. I'm like, well, shoot.

27:49Well, my son's a fun run. He picked Henry last night. He's like, should I pick Chase Brown? And I said, yeah, yeah. That was where that's where I was. Well, look, I think I'm betting on Henry, but yes, I'll take Chase Brown. I think I'm scared of the coaching change. Whenever I feel like in recent history, when you've gone from an all-time coach for a franchise, you have like a down year or two until you figured out. But I don't know, hopefully, hopefully the combination of Declan Doyle and Jesse Menter are awesome. And they're the next ones. Nice. Doyle rules. Nice. He certainly does. All right. I got my final two picks. Yes you do. I didn't misappropriate my smile. You're not. You're not. I certainly take somebody that I should. I'm going to go in. I think I think people might find this one interesting. I'm going to start by telling you who I'm not taking. I'm not going to take the 49ers. Even though they're projected seventh and points for a game, I'm worried about the age. It's not just CMC's age. It's Evans and it's Kittle. And they have had a tough off season.

28:51So I'm not going there. Cleveland. Cleveland is obviously in contention. No, I'm going to take one team that maybe you're not surprised with and one that I think you will be. Maybe both. Seattle is going to be my pick. No, I'm going to take Seattle. It makes sense based off of last year. Yeah. They're the one where it's like the, I'm curious what's going to happen with the offensive coordinator. I think they're the largest drop for me in projected off when I when I did this exercise. And honestly, you're not going to have a leap running back. No, see, I might that's part of it. I'm a huge fan of Jadairium price. Yeah. So I think he'll be able to hold them up. Yeah. And that's going to be a huge component of it. I think that the loss of a lot need for sure. The loss of their, you know, of the Charbonne Ken Walker combo that got them to the Super Bowl mixed with the loss of Kubiak. And the offensive system that just designed guys opened so well last year,

29:51I worry about that kind of regression. And so they are regression candidate according to Vegas. They were number three in the league last year projected down to eight this year, four point per game loss in their Vegas projections. But the team that I think is going to surprise that I'm going to take above New England that I'm going to take above Jacksonville. I'm going to write it down. You want to try to guess it? Yeah. Okay. You didn't write enough letters. I'm taking the Green Bay Packers. Ooh, I did not write that. He could have had two letters. Well, I mean, I could tell from what he wrote. It was one word. I could tell it wasn't two words. I could tell it wasn't two words. Who did you write down? I wrote the Broncos because I know that you uh, yeah, believer in nicks. I don't think we've said enough about Green Bay and Matla Flore. We've said a lot of negative about the Jacob situation. I love it because it means Jordan love. Patricia Watson or going hamburger. If you believe in that. Well, this was a team. They were number 16 last year. So this was not where they wanted to be. Their Vegas projection for points per game this year is up with nine.

30:55They were extremely efficient. I love Matla Flore in the play calling. I love the consolidation of targets for fantasy predict predictive, you know, benefit with craft with, you know, golden having an opportunity on the outside consistently. And obviously we like Watson while he's upright. Um, Jaden Reed. Jaden reads the kind of guy that you might not be able to start him in fantasy, but we'll always always help this roster get into the end zone. So I will take in Green Bay. I will say this. I think that there is a world where the Green Bay Packers offense is better without Josh Jacobs. They, they can and have relied on Josh Jacobs to just keep handing him the ball and defense and running game and just chunk, you know, you, you get enough to keep drives alive, which is obviously great. And it's good for scoring, but the pace of play, the speed, the explosive plays, they're not there with Jacobs. And I think if you put the ball, if you're forced to put the ball to the heat cannon Jason,

31:57just we have found out. Yes, who's the next? Marshawn Lloyd is the yeet cannon. And you, uh, this is a something that brings to the real that name is hilarious. But, but genuinely like yeet, the explosive opportunities will go up. That doesn't guarantee that that they will connect, you know, that Jordan Love will find Matthew Golden down the sideline more often because he's throwing the ball more often. But it is an opportunity that probably wouldn't be there if you are constantly giving Josh Jacobs the ball right up the middle for, you know, another four yards, which is a good enough play. But as far as you're looking for high end explosiveness, I do think it's better with, uh, without Jacobs. All right, perfect. I'll take Jacksonville. Jason, you're up. All right. All right. So you're taking Jackson? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Jason's bowl of prediction is dumb. Uh, to be fair, I wasn't out on Jacksonville's offense being good. I, I'm out on thinking that there will be a consolidation.

33:00It's going to be certainly points. It won't matter. They are projected to be the largest regression candidate. It's a lot of the way. Number six, last year in scoring number 15, this year in Vegas projection. That's fine for Jacksonville. Obviously going to play a harder schedule. Obviously they too, like Seattle have to deal with a complete change. At the running back position, um, which is always interesting when like a high scoring elite team has a massive change at that position. But, uh, if it's, if it goes to Tutan, they have a better running back. You're saying then? Yes, I is what I'm saying. I'm not a, I've never been a H&J and your fan. I know, I'm, you weren't even an ETN fan. I, I, I, that is also correct. So yeah, I will just bet on Tutan being better. I've seen multiple years of Cohen with different personels and Cohen's offense just works. Now, if Jason does not take this team with his final pick,

34:01where I'll be a, I feel huge shutton. I feel backed into this team. To be honest, I thought the team I was going to take last year was the Packers because I agree with you, Andy. I think that they're going to be a higher scoring offense than most. Um, and it's not the Seahawks. To me, I feel backed into taking, look, even when I disagree, I moved them down from where they were in Vegas, but they are super high. And Vegas isn't wrong too often. And they scored a lot last year. The Shanahan Brock Pertie, CMC combo is enough to score a lot. At this point, I got to pull the trigger on the Niners. I thought you were going to be backed into the New England Patriots. That's what I thought you were going to say. Oh, shoot, they're still available. I'm definitely taking Patriots. I was between the charges of Patriots. You guys left the Patriots out there. Yeah, we did. Oh, Mike, let's give them the Patriots. For sure, the Patriots are seven on my neck. On our next draft. You're stuck in the 49ers. The Patriots are going to score a Cajillion D points. I know that they are regress, regression candidate because of the schedule.

35:04But like I was saying earlier, I believe the Drake May will overcome, especially now that he's got AJ Brown. I am all in on that combination of May and Brown at succeeding. That's one where it's like, that's the one where I got. Yeah, I got this one. It's supposed to be a line. It does. I've got to strike through. Doesn't really show up. But yeah, that's an A for effort. There's no way, Matt. I get a little bit nervous when I see a huge, like I don't care about the Vegas projection differential is very much if it's small. I do get nervous when I, you know, we get into the week and we see projections for certain players. And when something really doesn't align, I'm like, they're pretty smart. Yeah. And when I look at New England, I'm like, it wasn't just the schedule. It was also probably like Drake May seasons are not going to always be so efficient. The touchdowns, it's weird that they're like, I brought this up when we were talking about the White or Seymour Room. You lose digs and you lose booty. You add AJ Brown and dobs and dobs. But you know, turning over a number two scoring offense and the main pass catchers, to me,

36:09that is not an easy thing to do from a rapport standpoint. Whether, you know, if you want to do it, I'd like to try to do it with AJ Brown. It's just not the easiest thing to do to have people switch teams, go into it more difficult, start to the season. So we'll see. I mean, I, I would have been shocked if they weren't in the top 12, which they almost accidentally weren't. But I see that our strike through his gun thicker up there. That's good work to make it more clear. It doesn't really do have a bottom team that you're like, I'll call it. They'll sneak into the top 10. Oh, like you're not talking about like somebody that's horrible. You're talking about somebody sneaky. Yeah, someone who maybe people might have to plug their nose when you say it. You may not have one. No, I think that's a great question. Because you don't have to force it. I mean, I think I think the one Jason brought up Denver. Now Denver is projected 20th in Vegas points per game, which would qualify them as sneaky in terms of getting in there. Yeah. Their schedule is brutal. I do have my, I have the perfect hold your nose that I think is going to work out.

37:10All right. The Houston Texans. Oh, man, that is so stanky. The Houston Texans are going to be much better. I need the whole nose. No, it's much. I can see hands free. Well, now the strike through his right. What are we doing? Wait, he's just working on this. We're done with production. We're just just onto this back wall graphic. I think this is the final product. We got there. Oh, we got a different strike geographic. Oh, that looks great. A team that I find myself really kind of like a wild card because I could see it imploding and I could see them being like a top five offense is the Colts. You know, what we saw that last year, you know, the beginning of the season, they were outrageously good. Maybe lucky. Jonathan Taylor was so dominant. No one could stop him with Daniel Jones there. You know, now you've got the team is back. Daniel Jones appears healthy. Keenan Allen added to the mix. Alec Pierce, the breakout Tyler one year, too. There's a lot of ways it could go right. Their schedule to open the season is pretty tough.

38:10And I could see wheels falling off there. If it doesn't go well, but they're like my wild card team. Do you have one? I mean, other than the Saints. What do you mean? Other than. Well, just everybody knows that you think the Saints are going to be the number one scoring team in the league. Yeah, I like the Saints a lot. I mean, if anyone. The most realistic jump. I'm just I'm looking at the bottom 16 points per game last year. Like it's Minnesota. Yeah, they were the only team. I was going to tell you this. The only team that went from a top five defense or a top five offense to a bottom. Or sorry, a top 10 offense to a bottom 10 offense. There was only one team that did that last year from 2024 to 2025. And it was the Minnesota Vikings. I wonder we're all trying to find the guy. How many teams do you think went from bottom 10 to top 10 last year? Where that what if they were just last year? Yep. I'm just saying from 2024 to 20 because that's what we're looking at. Right. Right.

39:11How many teams make that move? There were the Colts. The Colts. The Colts were not one of them. The Colts weren't bottom 10. No, the players, the pace. Again, it's two. It's going from the bottom 10 to the top 10. The players Patriots Jaguars come to mind. I don't know. Who'd you say? Oh, yeah. Patriots. Those are the three. So in 2024, New England was 30th. Jacksonville is 26th. Chicago is 28th. They went to 26th and nine. It's wild to think about like the Patriots two years ago. They were down bad. It was like, oh, you losers. Enjoy your time at the, no, okay. Well, welcome back to the top. Yeah. New England. All right. Well, we'll see what happens this year. I think it might be, it might be a little tough for me. It's going to be harder slutting. And the Super Bowl hangover is real. And the head coach has probably got some hangovers from the offseason as well. Hey, we'll take a break. We'll do some mail back.

40:18All right, jumping into the mail back. H Pierce writing in on Instagram. No, what? You got to hit the button. I did hit it. No, that was mail bag. mail bag. Presented by Paramount Plus. Trying to stop me and Drew. Yeah, I was the back to back break. I'll say this. Andy's, he's pushing through. He's sick right now. He's still here. H Pierce writing in. What again? What again? What again? What again? As soon as you're annoyed by fantasy football, if it's annoying, Mike brings us up a lot of times. If waiver day comes around and it's a burden, something that's just like, oh, I've got to do waivers, then you're probably in too many leagues. We've all been there before. Doing this full time, we get invited to a lot of leagues, a lot of whatever celebrity or industry leagues. And it's tempting to say yes.

41:21And then you do and then you regret it. I like having three or four leagues that you care about the most. Couple of dynasty, your main league. And then maybe a couple that I don't care about that much. But how many leagues is to, if you can play in 10 leagues and you are enjoying all of them, then do it. Do 20. Who cares? Instagram question from MCJ. Ameca Bukka or T Higgins. I'm going to Higgins right now. I took a mecca of Bukka and our chopped league and I regretted it. We don't know for sure that it's turf toe correct? Correct. We just know there is a toe. We just know for sure that it's turf toe. Yes. Also correct. Well, I'm saying officially it has never been. Turf toe is just your big toe. Correct. So there's an eight out of 10 chance that it's not. No, by way. Well, yeah, your big toe probably weighs the whole. So if you're just talking by volume, there's a larger percentage chance.

42:21It's probably more like a 33% chance. It's that it's turf toe. Do they even let you, I mean, can you even strain or sprain your other toes? Of course. You just made it publicly though, right? No. Feel like those just break because turf toe is already bad enough to, man, they got to rebrand that thing. Based? Yeah, I know. It's so minor. It's about like a toesplosion. Okay. That's about a power toe. It's a per toe break. But it's not a break toe tear, just a toe tear. Yeah. Okay. I mean, you think tears enough? Oh, it's terrible. That's which. Yeah. Okay. He did say so. Yeah. Otherwise, I would be blind. I mean, the toe tear is definitely better than saying turf toe. It's turf toe. I'm going to go. I'm going to go long view here. I will take a bouquet. I'm not going to panic about the beginning of the season. I'm going to look for League winner. I'll still still go with T Higgins. It's funny because T Higgins is also always hurt. So it's cool combo. Fair.

43:21Yeah, but not as toe. Currently. Yeah. How far would you reach for Joe burrow to compete to complete the slack? I can't talk. Hold on. Let's have the Falcon. You're a dooster of the day. So why don't you read this question? Yeah. Let's go ahead. I'm going to paste it in there for you. You don't have to look for it. I'm going to take care of it from Ari Cotter. Ari Cotter. How far would you reach? Oh, how far would you reach for Joe burrow to complete the stack with Chase? That's so proud of you. There you go. There you go. I had to do. Oh, man. The people. They're so proud. Still half as loud as he needs to be. But that's okay. The audience was way louder. What's the answer? I mean, I'm going to say that I'm going to be a little bit more about what's the answer. I mean, Joe burrows what usually going in the fifth round. Yeah. Look, I'm going to let him fall to me. I'm not going to take him in the fourth. I don't think. Fourth, if you're going to reach fourth is where I would do it.

44:22Okay. Tony in New York. Would you trade March on Lloyd for Christian Watson or Allen Pierce in a PPR? For Watson for sure. Pierce. Man. I don't know. I think I'd let the dice. I'm just going to keep rolling them. I think I would just because of the contract. Alex Pierce is going to be an important part of this team for several years. And we know that he's a wide receiver. He's got a massive bag of money. And you know, I haven't been as bullish. Andy has been very bullish. He'll be the wide receiver one for this team hands down. If that happens, I mean, this would be a home run. March on Lloyd is a very exciting prospect right now. But if you're telling me that a month into the season, we go, oh, yeah. Why did we ever think we could rely on March on Lloyd? Who has never been able to stay healthy? You know, we're going into, is this your three or just your four?

45:22This is your three. So your three of March on Lloyd. He hasn't been able to. He can and Jason. I mean, I'll tell you what, man, if if if Kendra Miller and March on Lloyd hawk dude, do something this year, I mean, that'll be great because we waited so long that we were like, it can't be done. Instra and question from G DJ hook them. How are we handling Kenyans to the season? Have we? We've had no words about Kenyans. It's an important. It feels like what how I mean, I can give you a perfect comp. Harold Fanon Jr. Complete. I mean, the case for Harold Fanon Jr. is worse than the case for Kenyans to dig because you had David and the joke who there, no offense you had trust in and a team you actually absolutely despised. Yeah. So I agree there. Talent wins and comes out on top. And the difference, I think, is just what did you think of the prospects? Obviously, being a top 15 draft pick, you have to pay attention to Cedeek.

46:22Just like Fanon last year, when Fanon went off in week one, everyone went to the waiver wire and scooped him up and he was a great pick if you did. So that's how I'm approaching Cedeek. There's no team where I am taking him like my last round pick. I've got other guys I prefer to take shots on then, Cedeek. There was no argument for Fanon at this time last year regardless of how much you liked him and called it. The problem with Cedeek though is the how long he has been hurt in this off season. I mean, you know, we have, he missed a bunch of time. Then he had a setback at the beginning of August. Yeah, let's see, I'm seeing a report from August 24th. Ish, like the Jets, we're still targeting week one, but they're going to work Cedeek and slowly like a tight end with how much they have to learn. I combined with the, with the team situation like the Harold Fanon, it, it makes sense. Except the Jets, to me, the difference would be the Jets have Garrett Wilson.

47:22The Cleveland Browns didn't have, you're going into last year, the number one would have been Jerry Judy and Garrett Wilson is much better than Jerry Judy. So I just, I know that that target share will go there. I'm out on Cedeek until something actually happens. Yeah, but if he does get, you know, let's say how many targets would it take week one for you to go and put in a at least $10 waiver bid on Cedeek? If he gets eight targets in week one, it looks great. If I get eight targets, but I just don't think that's going to happen. Yeah, I think that's how you, you, you play your hand with Cedeek, because you, you wait until he shows something and then you go hard on the waiver wire if he does. But when I'm at the back of a draft, I'm looking at where he's going. I'd rather take Terrence Ferguson. I'd rather take Jewansson. Yeah. And I, I, I, I, I'm saying even as like a number two for a true breakout. Or even a different position, Tyler Schuck is right next to Cedeek and drafts. And then Cedeek is a, as a waiver.

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