Davis Mattek - Grinding the Variance: A $500 Fantasy Football Draft
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1 hr 5 min
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Aug 6, 2026
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Thu, August 6, 2026
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George KittleAaron RodgersBo NixBrian Thomas Jr.Brock BowersEmeka EgbukaGarrett WilsonGunnar HelmJalen McMillanJaylen WaddleJonathan TaylorKeaton MitchellLuther BurdenMalik Willis
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Player insights
Aaron Rodgers
NegativeInjury54:41
Aaron Rodgers is viewed as a high injury risk due to his age, with the source noting he has not aged like Tom Brady and is likely to miss time.
Insight pageBo Nix
NegativeInjury32:26
The source discusses Bo Nix's hernia surgery, noting that setbacks are relatively common due to mesh netting issues, which puts the rookie behind the eight ball.
Insight pageBrian Thomas Jr.
PositiveBreakout37:48
Brian Thomas Jr. is identified as a potential touchdown outlier who could emerge as a second-round pick in next year's drafts, despite currently playing in a deep-threat role.
Insight pageBrock Bowers
PositiveValue8:10
Davis Mattek expresses high confidence in drafting Brock Bowers, stating he has never complained about acquiring him in a fantasy draft, despite the Raiders' struggles last season.
Insight pageEmeka Egbuka
PositiveBreakout13:22
The source highlights Emeka Egbuka as a strong pick, noting he 'aged in reverse' last year and provided multiple high-scoring performances.
Insight pageGarrett Wilson
PositiveProjection32:37
Garrett Wilson is projected to be a top-five player in Weighted Opportunity Rating (Whopper) and is a primary target for the source's draft strategy.
Insight pageGeorge Kittle
NegativeInjury45:48
George Kittle is viewed as a risky asset due to his age and injury history, with the source expressing concern about his health and the timing of his availability for the fantasy playoffs.
Insight pagePositiveProjection64:41
Despite the team's struggles at the tight end position during the draft, the source remains confident that George Kittle will be a top-five tight end.
Insight pageGunnar Helm
PositiveBreakout58:36
Despite being a late-round target, the source maintains that Gunner Helm will finish as a top-10 tight end this season.
Insight pageJalen McMillan
PositiveRole47:51
Jalen McMillan has been the starter every day at camp with no suggestion he will lose that role, making him a strong value pick despite concerns about Rashad White.
Insight pageJaylen Waddle
PositiveProjection15:31
Davis Mattek is very high on Jalen Waddle, noting a discrepancy between the source sentiment and regular drafters. He highlights Waddle's 100-catch rookie season and his NFL-leading yards-per-catch in his second year as evidence of his elite skill set.
Insight pageJonathan Taylor
PositiveProjection5:40
Davis Mattek is higher on Jonathan Taylor this year than Ashton Jente, citing potential touchdown regression for the Colts and an increase in passing game volume for Taylor that he hasn't seen in a long time.
Insight pageKeaton Mitchell
PositiveValue39:55
Davis Mattek expresses a strong desire to have Keaton Mitchell on his team, prioritizing him over other options like Stefon Diggs.
Insight pageLuther Burden
PositiveValue14:48
Both Davis Mattek and the source express strong support for Luther Burden, noting that he is a popular target in the current fantasy discourse.
Insight pageMalik Willis
NegativeProjection53:58
Malik Willis is projected to provide good early-season fantasy numbers, but there is a 10-15% chance he gets benched for Quinn Ewers or another quarterback as the season progresses.
Insight pageMarvin Harrison Jr.
PositiveValue22:04
Davis Mattek confirms he is very on board with drafting Marvin Harrison Jr. at the current point in the draft.
Insight pageParker Washington
NegativeUsage39:08
Parker Washington is projected to see approximately 1.5 more targets per game than Brian Thomas Jr. in a half-PPR format, with a projected season line of 78 receptions for 908 yards.
Insight pageQuinshon Judkins
NegativeBust24:05
Nate criticizes the Quinshon Judkins pick, labeling him a 'dead zone' running back on a team expected to win few games, making him a poor fantasy asset.
Insight pageRJ Harvey
PositiveBreakout27:02
Nate and the source are high on R.J. Harvey, believing his passing game work will be significant and that he has substantial upside compared to his current draft position, especially given his competition's injury history.
Insight pageSam LaPorta
NegativeValue42:56
The source argues against drafting Sam LaPorta at his current ADP, comparing the move to drafting a low-leverage relief pitcher in fantasy baseball just to fill a category.
Insight pageSaquon Barkley
PositiveProjection30:07
Saquon Barkley is considered a safe pick with high volume expectations, likely finishing top three in the NFL in total carries per game. The source notes his 14.5 points per game average last year despite playing through poor offensive conditions.
Insight pageStefon Diggs
PositiveValue23:56
The source advises against drafting Stefon Diggs, noting that there are too many questions surrounding him and he is not currently offering enough of a discount in drafts.
Insight pageTravis Hunter
NegativeRole49:32
Recent reporting on Travis Hunter is not bullish; he is expected to be used in specific packages rather than as a full-time receiver, limiting his upside to fewer than 60 catches.
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Episode Transcript
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0:53Rated PG-13. All right, waiting for Nate to text us back right now.
0:58Theoretically, we are going to be doing a $500 Big Dog Draft.
1:02We were supposed to do a $350 over on the NFC.
1:06That's got moved to Friday afternoon. So Friday at 4 p.m.
1:09Eastern, we are going to do a $350 over on the NFC.
1:14We hopped into BBM with Sammy while we wait for Nate to text us back and we're going to hop into a Big Dog Sammy.
1:22It's been a minute, my guy. How are you doing, man?
1:26I mean, how are you feeling? Aaron Rodgers is back in your life.
1:31Oh, yeah. Rico Dowdle. Rico Dowdle is in your life.
1:34Michael Pittman Jr. is in your life as a Steelers fan.
1:38Most importantly, Mike McCarthy is in my life. Mike McCarthy is in your life instead of Mike Tomlin.
1:44I've seen the Packers and Cowboys fans be so happy about this and overjoyed over the years that I'm just so excited
1:52to bring Boomer Ball back to Pittsburgh. Yeah, Boomer Ball is going to be back in a big, big way.
1:59We are going to be doing the Gilcast this year on Sunday nights again.
2:04Although I did just get word. The guys at Rotogrinder, Sammy, they don't want us back.
2:09So it's just it's just us. They said they said they said they said, yeah, they said we're good.
2:16They said we're good. And I said, OK, all right.
2:19Fair enough. Yeah. All right, man. Well, we're going to be picking.
2:23We're going to be picking at the 1.8 while we will we wait for for Nate.
2:29How many how many best ball drafts have you done?
2:32Zero. Zero. Yeah, dude, I am not. I have not become a best ball bro.
2:37I I feel like I want to be a best ball bro, but just got too much shit going on to really
2:45like dive into this and actually not be a fish about it.
2:49So I'm excited to do this on your dime.
2:52Fuck this draft up. But but I am excited that finally you're you're zero RB.
2:58You know, you've taken the coward's way out and now you'll do anchor RB with me.
3:03I love that. Yeah, I will do anchor RB with you, although for managed leagues for like the 350 that we do,
3:11I still I still think that zero RB is pretty good.
3:15I think I think it's I think it's pretty good.
3:18Yeah, I think it's better now than it was because now people aren't doing it like that's that's the whole thing.
3:25So I tweeted this the other day, but if you're you were a zero or zero RB, bro, and now you're not anymore like you're a coward.
3:35Yeah. Yeah, that's that's more or less. That's more or less how it goes.
3:40All right, man. We're on the clock. Jonathan Taylor.
3:43You good with Jonathan Taylor? I like Ashton Jente better, but sure.
3:47All right. Well, you know what? Hey, that's cool with me.
3:51I also like I also like Ashton Jente better.
3:54So that's valid. Let's go. I mean, there is no there is no player this offseason that has increased his situation better than Ashton Jente.
4:02Right. Got a good offensive mind in the house.
4:06Doesn't have doesn't have a dumb Nepo baby offensive coordinator anymore.
4:09Yeah, that's pretty big. Yeah, it's pretty big. Actual actual quarterback who can run an offense.
4:15Maybe I mean, I know Kirk Cousins is going to get some run there, but like and then and then who's the center?
4:23They got Linderbaum like these are. Yeah, they signed him for a billion.
4:27They signed him for a billion bucks. Yeah, massive upgrades to Ashton Jente.
4:32And I think Ashton Jente is a dog. So let's go.
4:36Although, to be fair, last year, I mean, we did basically feel the exact same way.
4:41So, yeah, what can you do? Why are you bringing up old shit, dude?
4:46Things are different. All right. Chase Brown, A-Chan, AJ Brown, Brock Bowers.
4:50I mean, I'm I'm tempted to say Bowers since we didn't get Jente.
4:55I'm I I'm happy to take I'm happy to take Brock Bowers.
4:59Never, never. I have never I've never in my life complained about getting Brock Bowers in a in a fantasy football draft.
5:07I do think, you know, it's kind of funny.
5:10We were all pretty excited about the Raiders last year because we we like Jente.
5:15We like Bowers. We're like, oh, you know, Chip Kelly.
5:18He ran those offenses. They were really fast and really cool.
5:22Like maybe things will work out again this year.
5:25They very much did not work out last year in any way, shape or form.
5:31For the for the Raiders. But like. Just because we were wrong last year doesn't mean we're going to be wrong this year, bro.
5:39Yeah, that's right. You just you just got a Martin Gale, the motherfucker.
5:43Like, let's let's do this. But but, you know, we didn't take Jente in the first.
5:49I don't like the Raiders so much that I'm trying to take Jente and Bowers on the same squad.
5:56I don't I don't know that there's enough juice there for that.
6:00So that's valid. What are what are some of your other big, big takes right now?
6:05Do you have any? I mean, have you have you done?
6:09Have you done a redraft yet? No. No. No, you're seeing you're seeing this all for the first time.
6:16This is all this is all Greek to you.
6:19I've been doing a lot of studying. Yeah, I've been I've been I've been studying the board.
6:25You read your you read your fantasy football magazine.
6:28That's right. You got your you got your you got your your your rotowire.
6:33You got your your your fantasy life news at the at the newsstand.
6:37Yeah. Yeah. Pete actually sends it to me before before it gets it gets published.
6:42So I was going to say people people forget you are 100 years old.
6:47So find it like that's how that's how you learned about fantasy football.
6:52You used to get your box scores from from the USA Today newsletter.
6:56We we we actually before the stream started, we were talking about Hawaii and the first trip I ever took to Hawaii.
7:04I did bring a fantasy football magazine and I remember reading it by the pool in Hawaii.
7:10So confirm Boomer. I was gonna say I I am actually so old that that I actually do remember fantasy football magazines
7:17being like a key part of my product. I read I read fantasy football magazines.
7:23I in fact, Sammy, I've been in the game so long that I used to actually print out.
7:29The fantasy football. Forums on football guys dot com.
7:32Print them out on printed paper and read those.
7:35Your your transformation into your transformation into a boomer is really something to behold, man.
7:40Used to be the young guy. It's it's nice to see you growing up like this.
7:46Now you're drafting running back in the first round.
7:49You got a kid, you know, I mean, big, big moves for Davis Matic.
7:54All right. We're on the clock. We have JT.
7:57We have Bowers, Kyron, Ibuka, T, Ladd, Tedderoye McMillan, Josh Allen, Javante Williams.
8:02Oh, that's a book in it. I think I think a book is probably a pretty good a pretty good pick there.
8:09I mean, he aged. He aged in reverse last year.
8:13Like he started out the season. I mean, he actually gave us the blade multiple times, multiple times last year.
8:20Yeah, we got a Martin Gale like Bucco also.
8:23That's all right. So the NFFC draft didn't fill.
8:26So it's moved to Friday at 4 p.m. Eastern time, 3 p.m.
8:30Central. So if you want to draft against us, the sign up link, you can go find it on the NFC site.
8:38It's also on my my X the everything app.
8:41And we we actually did. We actually did all right last year.
8:45No, no real. No real big money in the end.
8:48And what Luther burden at 37 someone someone is actually that's our that's our boy.
8:54That's our boy, Rob Coakley, who I think I don't hate it.
8:58I love Luther burden. I am a Luther. I've seen the discourse.
9:02You've seen the discourse. OK, I was going to ask.
9:05I was going to ask you'd seen the discourse.
9:08I have seen it and I am pro very pro Luther burden.
9:13All right. All right. I'm I'm also obviously very pro Luther burden.
9:17Yeah. So. So all good there. All right. We are we are up.
9:21ETN, Waddle, Jacob, Scadaboo, McLaurin, Loveland, Evans. I would be I would I'm out of these guys.
9:27I'm kind of like Waddle, McLaurin, Scadaboo. Probably like definitely.
9:31I'm definitely Jalen Waddle. I like definitely a lot, a lot, a lot.
9:35Yeah, I mean, I've been I've been saying this.
9:38There is no there's no player who has a greater discrepancy between how much fantasy analysts like them and how much regular
9:46fantasy football players like them than Jalen Waddle. Like regular people who are just like, I'm going to go do my fantasy football draft with my buddies.
9:55You're like, bro, I'm never, ever taken Jalen Waddle.
9:58Never, never in a million years. Am I taking Jalen Waddle and fantasy analysts are like, yeah, dude, but look at the yards per route run.
10:07And he was so good as a sophomore in college.
10:11And remember 2019 before Tyreek was there, he was he was the best ever.
10:16Like it's it's classic. Yeah, I mean, I've always liked Jalen Waddle because like he's just shown you can talk about the
10:23yards per route run, what he did without Tyreek, you know, all this stuff.
10:28And that's all metric wise. It's great. But like if you just zoom out, Jalen Waddle is a rookie, caught 100 passes.
10:36And then in his second year led the NFL in yards per catch.
10:40And that shows two different like remarkable skill sets.
10:44He's still pretty young. You know, he's going to a to a really good spot in terms of like how he's going to be able to produce.
10:53You know, Sean Payton and Nix is really capable.
10:56I just I'm very, very big on Waddle. I think he's going to have a great season.
11:02I I predict rather strongly that Jalen Waddle is going to be a large center of discourse for us on the Gilcast.
11:10Yeah. I know. I think I think Nate is going to like him, but I think he's going to get priced up pretty quick.
11:18And I think you and I are going to be like, nah, man, can't can't do it.
11:24And I bet I bet Nate is also going to like Nix.
11:28I bet I bet Nix is going to show up pretty good in whatever bullshit Nate is running out there.
11:35And Nate's in Nate's proprietary model. And Nate's proprietary modeling.
11:38Yeah. All right. We are about to be up.
11:41Trevion Henderson, Judkins, Bucky, Christian Watson, Carnell Tate, Roma Dunze, BTJ, Price, Tyson, Tyler Warren.
11:47Parker Washington. Let's say you. I need your help here.
11:50I don't nothing standing out to me is I really want to do this positionally.
11:55I would probably just do Judkins because running back is about to running back is really about to dry up.
12:02I mean, if you really like Trevion Henderson, you really like your Darian Price.
12:07But we are we are about to enter a stage of the draft where every running back is is bad.
12:14Yeah, this is like any of them. Yeah, I let me get a Darian Price take because, you know, one of the
12:22things about best ball is like, you know, where the real EV comes is at the end of the season.
12:29And by the end of the season, you know, Darian Bryce could do the Benjamin Button thing where he's more valuable earlier than later.
12:37What's your opinion on on him in best ball?
12:40I actually really like your Darian Price. I'm maybe not as worried as the average fantasy football player about Zach Charbonnet.
12:47And I think if you Darian Price, who is a first round pick at the running back position, can't have ACL Zach
12:55Charbonnet, who didn't have his ACL procedure until February.
12:58If he can't keep him as just like a regular third down back, then he wasn't going to be any good anyway.
13:06So you wasted your pick anyway, because it's not a it's not a one to one with Ken Walker because he was he was a first round pick.
13:15All right. Do you have any do you have any ideas of like just going Bowers and Warren and logging out or that in best ball?
13:24We're going to take Marvin Harrison, Jr. because I need to add Nate.
13:29I need to add Nate to the stream. And I was was not paying attention.
13:34Hold on. I got to duplicate this box. So I'm very on board with with Marvin Harrison, Jr., by the way.
13:41OK, all right. Well, there we go at this point in the draft.
13:46I'm very on board with it. What's up, Nate?
13:49Well, I just signed in to see the worst wide receiver drafted.
13:53Marvin Harrison, Jr., are you what are you doing?
13:56Parker Washington got taken, man. What's he supposed to do?
14:00I don't want I don't want Parker and then Rome, obviously, right beforehand, too.
14:05I mean, Rome, Rome, he's got to be the worst pick on the board, right?
14:10Dude, I don't know what's his didn't didn't burden like limp off today.
14:14He's he's fine. He's fine. He came he came right back in.
14:19All right. I think we need to rewind to to judge one second.
14:23One second, Sammy. I am registered fast. Big dog.
14:26My very first big dog of the year. Five hundred dollars.
14:30We need five more to fill this. So whenever whenever we fill this, we're in.
14:35So put your put your messages in the discord.
14:38Do whatever you need to do. We need six more for a big dog and we're off to the races.
14:45Yeah, I don't like the Quinjohn Judkins pick. I get the teardrop, but I think Judkins is like a classic dead zone
14:53guy who's just like, oh, we got a two down back on a team that's going to win three games like that's great.
15:01It's fucking terrible. Not in on that. I love it.
15:04I mean, I don't even I do not even I do not even disagree with you.
15:10I really don't. It's just a matter. It's a first off half PPR website.
15:15So the fact that Dylan Samson is passing that back like I mean, remember that week that Sammy that you and I
15:22play Judkins and cash and Nate didn't. And he had three rushing touchdowns.
15:27I mean, first off, Nate, ultimately in the end, in terms of Sklansky box, Nate won because he scored three touchdowns and he got 26 points.
15:36So, yes, we were we were correct. In reality, Nate was correct in terms of Sklansky box.
15:42I'll bet Nate still outscored us because, you know, in terms of Sklansky box, I always outscore you guys.
15:48The people are so glad to have you back, Nate.
15:52I'll tell you. Yeah, it's been it's been a year.
15:55All right. One second. I got to I got to alert everyone and let them know that the EV is coming.
16:03Well, I can't be on too long. I that's why.
16:06Hey, but I'm putting them I'm putting them out.
16:09Nate, who are you taking here? All right. So we got.
16:13Josh Downs is in the queue, so he's going if you don't say anything.
16:18There you go. Josh Downs. Well, I was going to say hard.
16:22I was going to say Harvey, but. So, Nate, I tell me about Harvey because I like Harvey also.
16:29I mean, I think that Harvey's like past game work is going to be insane this year.
16:35I think at the end of the day, obviously, I I love J.K.
16:39Dobbins as a player, as a person, but like his injury risk is obviously as high as anybody's on the on the board.
16:47And I think that R.J. Harvey only has upside to go.
16:51And he's just falling. I mean, people are acting like like last year was a bad year for him.
16:57And I think I don't know. I think Harvey's Harvey has a ton of upside, especially at this point on the board.
17:05Yes. Yes. I quite like R.J. Harvey. I think that with the overall running back thirst, it seems very funny to me
17:13that a guy whose competition is a fourth round pick and a guy who is quite literally never stayed healthy.
17:20There you go. And we're about to get Harvey to come back to us.
17:25Yes. Yes. Now we just need to take Knicks later and we just have Knicks, Harvey, Waddle ballgame.
17:31Who do they play in week 17? Is that Arizona?
17:34Denver plays. I don't know. I don't know. I don't remember.
17:38Well, we need. Man, you're a professional. No, I let the I let the computer tell me who plays who we need.
17:46We need five more. Five more for the five more for the big dog.
17:51New England. Yes, it is. It is an AFC conference championship rematch.
17:55Let's go. Kayshawn Booty. Kayshawn Booty. Last round pick.
17:58He should be reestablished by that point. He is.
18:01He's expensive now. No, he like legitimately. He is rising.
18:04He is rising every every single day. All right.
18:08Hunter Hunter Henry at the end. Oh, Hunter Henry also is like a 13th round pick.
18:13Not right. Yeah. Try try. Eli Reardon, brother. There's your there's your there's your best ball, bro.
18:19Strong. Nate. Brooks is a very good pick. Also, what's your what's your what's your best ball volume like?
18:26Not as high yet this year as I as last year.
18:29So it's either going to be a I haven't decided if I'm just going to smash the next couple weeks or or
18:37just end with a little bit of lighter volume.
18:40I had I had some earlier in the year, but last couple months have been kind of crazy.
18:46So I've been behind. I was I'm the only one who's in the trenches of the Gilcast.
18:52I'm the only one who's showing up to week one living and dying being like, dude, Terrence Ferguson scored a touchdown in the opening game.
19:01Like, I'm rich. Tell me your opinion. You know, it is kind of painful to be here in the eighth round and
19:09seeing like Kraft and Laporta and Fannin all go when we've taken Bowers in the second.
19:14How have you generally been managing that, Davis? Oh, Xavier Worthy.
19:18Hate to see it. Sorry, Davis. I prefer I prefer in general, either Bowers and waiting, waiting, waiting or I mean, my
19:26most drafted players almost overall are Terrence Ferguson, Gunner Helm, Pat Fryermuth.
19:30That's like it's like it's like picking a nickel up off the street.
19:34Where's Sadiq been going? He's the tight end 21 in like the 160s and I was taking him, but he is seduced.
19:42We're going to take Bow Nicks. But now that he is.
19:46Yes. Now that his hernia apparently. So I was doing I was doing a little bit of research on this.
19:53Apparently it's like relatively kind of common for hernia surgeries to not go that well.
19:58And the mesh netting that they put in just messes up.
20:02So it's it is a it is a setback, but it's not like the most shocking thing of all time for for him to have a setback.
20:11I don't know. It's not great, though, because for a rookie tight end, you are you are behind the eight ball anyway.
20:19Right. And if you're on terms of if you're on the Jets who are going to score 26 touchdowns on the season.
20:26Not no, dude. Dude, it didn't work for the Raiders, but Gino Smith is going to work for the Jets, man.
20:34It's going to work for the Jets. It might work for us.
20:38It might it might work for us. You never.
20:41Why couldn't it? Why couldn't it work for us?
20:44Are you guys in on are you guys in on on Matthew Golden?
20:49Oh, I need to move. I need to move our boxes.
20:52Yeah, move. But I can't see. All right. Well, this is going to take me a second.
20:58All right. There you go. You can look at the queue.
21:02It's going to be Matthew Golden. If no one has a better idea.
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21:36Definitely not. Oh, actually, you know what? It's Baker.
21:39It's Baker. Because we got Ibuka. Yeah. Yeah. All right.
21:42That's fine. Ooh. Jalen McMillions in a little bit.
21:45We could do. We can do Jalen McMillions. It is, it is, we got three more for the big dog.
21:52So three more of you guys pony up 500 bucks and we will, we will rip, we will rip.
21:59Oh, what about Hearst? Hearst is good. I mean, and we can wait to get him in the end.
22:06Now our quarterbacks have the same bi-week, so we are going to have to take a third.
22:11And we, I mean, we probably would have, we probably would have taken, we probably would have taken a third anyway.
22:19Nate, Nate, I, uh, I stand for Ashton Gentey over JT, uh, with our first round pick.
22:25You got to take on that? No way. No, we, we took JT, but I, there's no way Nate's going to be cool with that.
22:33I'm better JT than Gentey. Yeah. I think JT is, I think JT is the play there.
22:39Aren't you, aren't you worried about Daniel Jones's Achilles?
22:42And aren't you, aren't you worried, aren't you worried in general that the Colts experience that we saw last year, like cannot possibly continue?
22:51Daniel Jones cannot be, I mean, famously, YouTube fish did not play Daniel Jones in cash week one, even though one member
22:58of our panel did say it was a good idea to take Daniel Jones at whatever he was, 5,200.
23:05Even with, I mean, I do think Taylor and the overall Colts will just have touchdown regression for sure.
23:11But like Taylor is starting to get past passing like volume that he hasn't gotten in a long time.
23:18And I think, I don't know. I I'm, I'm higher on JT this year than I would be with Gentey for sure.
23:26You know who had a 13.2% target share last year?
23:29Ashton Gentey. You know, who's just better than Jonathan Taylor, Ashton Gentey.
23:33It's just a matter of it's, it's a matter of can the Raiders not suck and, and the Raiders might end up
23:41and the Raiders might end up sucking. I think the answer is, I think the answer is yes.
23:47All right. Give me, give me a, I mean, I would say, I would say digs here, but can you move the
23:55digs or Keaton or Shakir is okay. You're going to go Keaton for sure.
24:00I want, I want Keaton on my team, dude.
24:03Yeah. I want Keaton on my team. No player.
24:06For sure. We're not taking digs. Nate, you, Nate, you should be the digsiest digs digger of all time.
24:13That is the most name brand play. Come on, dude.
24:16The whopper's out of control. Like when he's on the field, the whopper continues to be large.
24:22We have, there's just so much questions. I know.
24:25What, what is the question? He's going to sign.
24:28He's going to sign with the, he is going to sign with the commanders in.
24:33And it could happen today. Could happen, could happen while we're, while we're live.
24:38A hundred percent. A hundred percent. I can't, Nate, I can't, I thought, Nate, I really, I really thought I knew you, Nate.
24:46No. Remember, remember last year on the go past?
24:49And on, and like, there's just so many questions at this point with him.
24:54I, I, I don't think you're getting enough of a discount when there's like still guys that I would want.
25:01I don't know. I'm not taking digs here. All right.
25:05We got, we got one more, one more for a big dog boys.
25:09One more. And you're, we're, you're in Davis. Don't you remember last year on the go cast?
25:15Nate started giving all these like boots on the ground, like takes.
25:19And you know, just like ball and over takes like Nate is honestly, I remember like my primary memory of the Gil
25:27cast from last year was Nate making a completely insane one V one decision every week.
25:32And it, um, digs is still there, Nate. No.
25:35All right. Tell me digs digs or Malik Willis or cam ward.
25:40No, uh, digs. Timed out. Timed out. You're gonna have to, you're gonna have to be.
25:45Oh, all right. Hey, here we go. Big dog.
25:48It's lit. I'll finish the other team on the other tab.
25:52We did it. We filled, we filled a big dog, a $500 fantasy football draft with my friends.
25:58I mean, what better, what better way to bring back.
26:02And we got the 12th pick. Fuck yes. No, 12th, 12th pick is good.
26:07And, uh, it'll be all right. All right, man.
26:10We're doing it. We're doing, this is my, this is my first big dog, uh, of the year.
26:16If actually Jentee falls, we're, we're fucking taking them.
26:19I know he won't, but. Uh, there, there's a, there is a decent chance of Jentee getting to us.
26:26Yeah. I would say, I would say, uh, a decent chance, but yes, I mean, Nate, my, my primary decision, my primary
26:33memory of you is being like, I'm not fucking playing chase Brown.
26:38Why would I play chase Brown? And then him getting 32 and being like, dude, smudge P Ryan is taking so much of the work.
26:46You guys do not understand how much smudge P Ryan is getting.
26:50And Nate would still outscore us though. He'd like totally like get off the guy that was absolutely the guy you had to have.
26:59You know, Nate stacking the Raiders. No, no, it was stacking the Raiders.
27:03It was stacking the Raiders. And then Jacoby Myers got traded.
27:07Gotta have this guy in cash. Yeah. Oh dude.
27:10My Gino Smith, Jacoby Myers, Trey Tucker team didn't get there.
27:14Although I, again, I think Nate played Trey Tucker the week that he had like 47 or whatever.
27:20Maybe he didn't. I did. Yeah. All right. We are up in four picks in the first.
27:26Please Ashton, Jenty, please. I know. I know you're going to make us take like Justin Jefferson or some shit.
27:33Like, well, Jefferson would be a smash if we get him.
27:37Fuck no. All right. Jenty is still there. Jenty is still there.
27:41We're fading one. Lord, Lord. I don't ask for much.
27:44My, my only request is that we get Kenneth Walker with one of these picks.
27:50Uh, Oh, this is the worst. This is honestly the worst.
27:54I want to go Barkley Walker. I want to go Barkley Walker too.
27:58Barkley is a good pick and Walker is a very good pick.
28:02I'm sure Nate has a Wopper related reason that we should not take Kenneth Walker, but no, I'm fine with Walker Barkley, Barkley Walker, both though.
28:11Ugh. I can't believe this, this fucking guy took Jenty from me.
28:15Nate, are you worried about our wide receivers? Yes.
28:18We're going to be, we're going to be fine.
28:22We're going to be fine. We're going to be able to Nate.
28:26We're going to be able to get work. Dude, the Wopper of our next pick, Nate, we're going to be able to
28:33get Ted Arroyd, McMillan, and Garrett Wilson. They are going to lead fantasy football and Wopper and also lead fantasy football and fantasy points under expectation.
28:42That is correct. It's going to be in all the time.
28:46Yeah. Every single week. Yeah. Ted, Ted is definitely scoring four touchdowns next season.
28:51I, I actually bet Wilson will be closer to fantasy points.
28:55Like he's, he'll be like negative 0.8 fantasy points under expectation per game.
28:59Ted might legit be two points under fantasy points.
29:03Over expectation. I love Ted, but I think, I think Bryce young is like that bad to where like tech just can't get there.
29:11That's what I'm saying. I'm saying like he, he might get nine and a half targets per week and literally score like
29:1911 and a half fantasy points per game. Yeah.
29:22Back to the other team. I took, I took, I took Daniel Jones.
29:26Cause we needed a quarterback. Um, probably a wide receiver at this, next pick Denzel Boston already went for no way.
29:33You like, you like for annoying. We can take for annoying.
29:37Yeah. Can you go over to wide receivers and just see who's left?
29:42Uh, I like, Oh, for an eye went Trey Harris, Adnan Mitchell, Antonio Williams, Judy branch tank.
29:48Del I'd be fine with Trey or. At night.
29:51Yeah. And I'm Mitchell, baby. All right. Hey, hopefully, hopefully a preview, hopefully a preview of the big dog.
29:57Hey, this is great. I, I, this, I honestly, Barkley Walker to me is one of the best starts you can get in half point PPR in full.
30:07Like if this was full point PPR, I would be legit.
30:11I would be like, okay, like we are in a hole half point PPR.
30:16We're, we're okay. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, Jenty, Jenty Walker.
30:19Or Taylor. Jenty. Uh, Barkley is so safe in terms of the amount of carries he is going to get per week.
30:27He he's going to get, he's going to average, like he will probably be top three in the NFL and carries per game.
30:35They just like total carries. No, AJ Brown. This is like totally like last chance saloon for him.
30:41Way, way better offensive coordinator, way better offensive coordinator.
30:44Apparently the, like all the offensive linemen said that they were injured last year.
30:49Like my lot of, and Lane Johnson both said like they played all last year through injury.
30:55Theoretically they're healthy now. I mean, it really will be an interesting test case of how much it was Kevin Petulo's fault.
31:03Cause Barkley was bad. The stone idiot, bro. Yeah.
31:06I mean, Barkley was like legitimately bad last year in terms of, he was so bad.
31:11And look at his numbers. Look at his numbers.
31:14They weren't even like his overall, numbers weren't even that bad, you know?
31:19Like, yeah, no, I mean, his, his, I mean, he could, three is rolling.
31:24He could theoretically get worse, but he scored 14 and a half points per game last year.
31:30And I mean, but he was playing 90% of the snaps.
31:33Like it's, it's pretty, it's pretty unassailable. Yeah. Yeah.
31:37I like Barkley. I'm worried about team. I'm worried about team threes receivers.
31:41I'm, I'm worried. I'm worried about his, or I'm worried about his running backs.
31:46I am. Um, all right. We are, we can't, we can't let him get Keaton Mitchell.
31:51If he, if he gets Keaton Mitchell, we are not going to advance.
31:56I mean, that much, that much is, uh, is very, very obvious.
32:00All right. Um, give me a, give me a late running back that you like for the other team.
32:07Jaden blue. Yeah. I love Jaden blue. Fine with that.
32:10All right. Jaden blue. All right. We are up in one pick for the big dog.
32:16Barkley Walker. I mean, Nate, your boy, how are you going to pass on your boy?
32:21You love T Higgins. Yeah. I mean, I do.
32:24Um, I guess that would be like the double condom play.
32:28I like, I, I like dude. Higgins waddle. Higgins waddle is what I would say.
32:33Yeah. Nate, you're good with waddle. Um, I mean, or Garrett Wilson.
32:38I want, I like, I want Wilson. All right.
32:41Well, Hey, my, my prediction, my prediction. I mean, did I, did I know Nate was going to want Garrett Wilson or what?
32:49I mean, come on, dude. Okay. Here's the thing about like, I think Garrett Wilson is going to be top five in, in Whopper.
32:57And if, and if the efficiency at all moves his direction, like he said the line, he said the line, he said, I mean, come on.
33:06Who, Nate, outside of chase Puka, JSN, St. Brown, lamb, Jefferson, and London predict, predict to the national football league leader in, in weighted opportunity ranking.
33:15Uh, it'll be Wilson. It'll be Tett. It'll be.
33:18A lot of it'd probably be up there. Um, Jordan Tyson, dude, I, Nate, Jordan Tyson is going to, is going to mess with your Whopper brother.
33:28Didn't you see the side-by-side camp clips? Olave and, and, and Jordan Tyson running routes.
33:33Like Tyson was so much smoother. Like, remember, remember, uh, the last, the last time.
33:38That I can't clip caused me to change my strategy based on wide receivers.
33:43Do you guys remember Calvin Ridley on the Jaguars running routes next to Zay Jones?
33:48Zay Jones, Zay Jones literally looked like a guy who had never played football before.
33:53And Calvin Ridley looked like, like mega man or something.
33:57It was one of the most insane side-by-side comparisons I've ever seen in my life.
34:02It was, it was, I, to this, I mean, first off, I had memory wiped that Calvin Ridley was even on the Jaguars.
34:10Like, I, like someone reminded me of that the other day and it was like, holy shit, you're right.
34:17And then they also reminded me that I spent a month of my summer being like, watch this clip.
34:23Calvin Ridley looks amazing. And it turns out Zay Jones just stinks.
34:27It turns out the issue is, is that Zay Jones is just so bad.
34:32I took Kate Otten as our second tight end on the other team.
34:37Yeah, sure. By the way. Sure. Cause we have the, we have the stack.
34:41So Barkley Walker T Wilson. I mean, we're, we're free here.
34:45We are freed up positionally. Like we, we, I mean, we can certainly wait on, on tight end.
34:52We've got Gino as a late backstop quarterback. I definitely think you can do my homes and Walker together.
34:58I expect actually a good amount of Walker passing game.
35:02This three team is going to win. Yeah, that's my, that's, that's my boy.
35:06That's my boy Harbs. And I, I mean, look, we're in it.
35:11It's a $500. Harbs is team three. Yeah. Harbs is mega sharp, bro.
35:15Look, I, it's a, it's the name, it's the name of the game out here, boys.
35:21It's a $500 fantasy football draft. This isn't the $25 sit and go on Yahoo.
35:26You know, this is the big leagues. Harbs is just going to rip our hearts out, bro.
35:32He's actually doing zero RB. He's going to fucking crush.
35:35All right. The running backs are gone now. Judkins just went.
35:39Judkins. Judkins just went. So they're, they're all gone.
35:42That's why we got two of them. Price is still there.
35:46I was going to say, I think price, price, price would be an absolute jam.
35:51I'm assuming the room is going to be smart enough to not give him to us, but it's possible.
35:58I took Ted Hearst on the other team. And then I'm going to put Tyquan Thornton, Keenan Allen.
36:04Who the fuck is Ted? Dude, Jadarian. Pat told us.
36:08Okay. Bang price. And then I would be Tyson, but I'm open to Tate or BTJ.
36:13Uh, honestly, I would do Parker Washington. I really would.
36:17I'll do Parker Washington. Oh my God. No, we're not.
36:20Eight seconds. Nate, you got eight seconds. BTJ. Tyler Warren.
36:23I'm definitely not doing Tyler Warren. What? We're not doing Parker Washington over BTJ.
36:28Come on. I, I Parker Washington is starting to talk to me like, uh, like the, the, the green goblin mask.
36:36I like, I'm, I'm a, I'm a big Parker Washington guy.
36:39Do you guys, do you guys remember the week?
36:43Do you guys remember the week that I played Parker Washington and cash and he scored a punt return touchdown?
36:49Yeah, you're right. I do. It haunts me every day.
36:53I wake up. I've woken up three times at night thinking about that shit since.
36:58Um, all right. Hey, final wide receiver over on this other team.
37:02It's Troy Franklin. I hear a better idea. No, we haven't heard.
37:06What did Christian Kirk? I guess. He's already hurt, bro.
37:10He's, he's already, he's already, he's already substationed, man.
37:13Oh, well, I can't believe we got Jadarian price.
37:16I really would have liked Jadarian and Christian Watson there.
37:20That would have been super solid. Uh, Christian. I mean, frankly, the DJ more Watson, BTJ, Washington, Tate, a dunes, a Tyson tier.
37:28I have my favorites there, but they're kind of all the same.
37:32I mean, not really. Watson's one of those guys who really just is going to need the deep ball touchdown stuff to work out in his favor.
37:41I think BTJ has like, of all of those guys, BTJ is the one guy that next year could be going in the top two rounds.
37:50Like, I mean, we, we have already taken Brian Thomas Jr.
37:54at the one, two turn. We, we, I, I was there.
37:58I watched it happen. I was like every good run.
38:01Oh yeah. Uh, I, I, I did. I did.
38:04I saw it happen. Man, dude, Harbs is absolutely cooking.
38:08He got, he got Ramondre's is running back too.
38:11I mean, yeah. Cooking real hard. Sometimes, sometimes that's the way she goes.
38:16I, BTJ at 61 is fine. BTJ is your wide receiver.
38:19Three is totally fine. In, in fairness, out of all these guys who have been like top five receivers, like BTJ has been one.
38:28BTJ. I mean, surprise anybody. If he turns around this year, like, and, and just becomes the guy that we're all taking in the second round next year.
38:37Like, no, he, he is just playing. The issue is, is that he is just playing the worst role for fantasy in that offense.
38:46He, he is the deep threat X downfield receiver.
38:49Obviously that role can turn into a 12 touchdown season.
38:52It's just Parker Washington is going to get, um, yeah, we're on, we're on a half PPR, bro.
38:59We are. We are on a half PPR. I mean, Parker Washington is going to see one and a half more targets per game than Brian Thomas, Jr.
39:08Probably. Yeah. But what's, what's Parker Washington's final line.
39:11It's like 78, nine Oh eight. All right. For the first time in the stream, we were going to pull up my
39:19quantitative projections, Parker Washington, 108 targets, Jacoby Myers, 108 targets, Brian Thomas, Jr.
39:24102. They all have five touchdowns. Obviously there's no way they all score.
39:28There's a zero chance. In reality. Like, yeah, it will, it will not follow.
39:33It will not follow a normal distribution. One of them will be a big loser.
39:38One of them will be a big winner. And if you were going to bet on the touchdown outlier, it would be, it would be Brian Thomas, Jr.
39:48For sure. I think it's, I think it's time for us to draft a tight end fellows.
39:54Well, I got horrible news for you. We are definitely not drafting a tight end here.
39:59We would have to. Motherfucker. We would have to reach like 15 spots on the porta.
40:05I got a jet of this turn. Let me just break my heart and leave.
40:10Who the fuck do you want to draft, bro?
40:13Probably Lawrence and quorum. Or, or downs. I would actually say Lawrence and downs.
40:18We are not doing quorum. Downs or doubt. All right.
40:21We'll do Josh downs. And then we should just take, we should just take Trevor Lawrence.
40:27Yeah. Take Lawrence. I hate you guys. Come on, man.
40:30You're always, you guys always overrule me. And then at the end of the year, it's like, Oh yeah, Sammy was right.
40:38You know, it's just like, is it? Is, is that what's happening?
40:42Yeah. What do you want to do? The last couple of years.
40:46Let's be running back here. You guys are like, no, no, you want it.
40:51You want it. You want it. La Porta. Yeah.
40:54You want to take La Porta. La Porta might be there for us at our next pick.
41:00Yes. I want La Porta. You're goddamn right. No, no.
41:04Incorrect. Bad, bad thinking, bad thoughts. Fuck you guys.
41:07Hate you guys. You're fine, dude. They're fine. There you go.
41:11Jonathan Brooks at 89, two spots after Chuba Hubbard.
41:14Sammy, do you realize that we have Downs as our fourth wide receiver?
41:18And we started with Barkley Walker. This team is legit.
41:22Like, I don't have an answer for that. Is there something else?
41:26She doesn't. I don't have an answer. Sammy does not have an answer.
41:30I don't have an answer. That's my assistant. Come on, dude.
41:34Sammy, this team, why do we need? This team is actually legit.
41:38I need to jet, but I want to see how this team finishes out.
41:43Yeah, we'll screenshot you, Nate. Thanks for contributing. You can be, you can, well, I'll update you after we take Sam La
41:51Porta at our next pick when he's available at 108, 109.
41:55Sorry for the weirdness with the show earlier. I was hoping to jump in three, but.
42:00All right. We'll get it. We'll get it figured out.
42:04We're doing, if you're available on Friday, we're drafting at 4 p.m.
42:08Eastern. And then next Tuesday, we're doing the same three o'clock.
42:12If we, if we can fill, if we can, if we, we have to fill this one on Friday, if we, if
42:19we don't fill this one on Friday, they're going to tell me too small.
42:24They're going to say, you're too small, bro. You're, you're small potatoes.
42:28We're not doing this with you anymore. Yeah. What are you guys doing?
42:33All right. Later, All right. Later. There you go.
42:36Sammy, Sam Laporta goes at Sam Laporta goes at 96.
42:40I thought Harbs was going to take him. Yeah.
42:43Just to dunk on me. Because Harbs, Harbs knows ball and he knows that Sam Laporta doesn't fit the build.
42:50Mother. You don't, you don't want to be, you definitely, the worst.
42:54I mean, you know this dude, the worst, but you know what?
42:58Let me, let me make an analogy that will fit to you on this.
43:03Is it, is it like taking out Alberto Mondesi after you've already taken Trey Turner?
43:08No, no, that's good strategy. The good, the taking Sam Laporta there would be like taking the 11th best skill closer in
43:16fantasy baseball in like the sixth round just to get the save category.
43:20So like, like Jeff Hoffman, which I did do in the main event.
43:25I, I'm, I'm far enough removed from the streets right now to not know if that's a good analogy or not.
43:32You got, you got out just at the wrong time, man, by the way, like, like NFBC is now like blown up.
43:40Like you could be an NFBC star just streaming those main event drafts.
43:44Uh, Hey, people would love it. I'm always open to it.
43:48Just the, the fantasy baseball audience is so small compared to the fantasy football audience.
43:53I bet I probably do more numbers on a February fantasy football, best ball stream than an NFBC main event stream does.
44:01Honestly, for sure. For sure. And you know, the NFBC guys are a bunch of assholes.
44:06Like they are. Every interaction I've ever had with an NFBC baseball guy.
44:11I've been them being the worst person. Imagine. They just scum.
44:15Yeah, that is correct. Yeah. All right. So fanon is still available.
44:19Oh Lord. We could, we could take him. No.
44:22All right. There you go. He goes. All right.
44:25We're, we're, we're locked in like Brenton strange. Aren't we?
44:28There, Sammy, there are so many tight ends left for us to take.
44:33We are, we are, we are absolutely dude. We are chilling.
44:37We are chilling. Let's, let's bring up the board.
44:40We are up in two picks. Jacoby Myers is there.
44:43Matthew golden is there. George Kittle is there. If you really want a tight end, I don't think we should.
44:50I would actually probably be Jacoby Myers and Jacory Krosky merit here.
44:54That is disgusting. Okay. Well, what do you want to do?
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45:28Various 18 plus. All right. George Kittle. And then I, JCM is the last running back.
45:33He really is. Take JC. Yeah. Let's go JCM and fucking, we don't, we, we don't want Jacoby Myers.
45:40No, I guess we kind of do. Fuck. Well, it's too late.
45:44It's too late. We did. We did our stack.
45:47We took fucking a 32 year old tight end coming off.
45:51Achilles injury over. You're the, you are the one who said George Kittle.
45:56I did not want to take George Kittle there.
45:59I am. I am not a George Kittle drafter for, for old, for if I'm, if I'm choosing old tight ends, I
46:06greatly prefer, uh, uh, the old tight end who is married to the world's biggest pop star.
46:12He, he may be available for us moving forward.
46:15He's probably, he's probably going to be gone by, by one 32.
46:19All right. Barkley Walker, T Garrett Wilson, Jadarian price, Brian Thomas, Jr.
46:24Josh downs, Trevor Lawrence, George Kittle, JCM. It's true.
46:27True. That is week 17 correlation with Barkley. The Eagles and the 49ers do play Kittle very likely to be healthy by week 17.
46:35Well, the issue is, is he might be, he might be healthy and then unhealthy.
46:40He might've, he might've played his way. We mistimed it.
46:44We mistimed it. We really want the fantasy playoffs to be about week seven or eight for George Kittle.
46:50Yeah. Now the issue that we are going to run into because of how we, we passed on quarterback there.
46:57I mean, we didn't really have a stack, but when we get back, we are only going to have the dregs left
47:05at the, um, at the quarterback position, which is, which is fine.
47:09We have Trevor Lawrence. I mean, I, I actually, I, I don't, I don't love the, I don't love the 12 spot
47:17in general because you don't really have an opportunity to take Caleb Williams or Luther burden.
47:22Like if you do, you'd have to be massive reaches on, on both of them, which I don't love, but you know, it's okay.
47:31We move. Yeah. So Harbs took Jacoby Myers, just reaching into our chests and tearing it out.
47:36Keaton Mitchell goes hate to see it. Yeah. Well, I don't think we were, we were never going to get Keaton Mitchell in this lobby.
47:45That's why it's why I knew it's why I knew we needed to, to take Ja'Cory Krosky merit.
47:51I mean, JCM has just been the starter every day at, at camp.
47:56Like there's, there's not been any, there's not been any suggestion that he is not going to be the starter.
48:03So I, I'm me personally not afraid of, of what's his name?
48:07Rashad white zero, 0% fear. Also, you're just shy white.
48:10Also, you'll be able to dunk on a, what's that?
48:14What's that? NFC boomers name when JCM wins us a fucking seven figure.
48:18It's true. It's true. Uh, Schroeder, Chad, Chad, Chad, Chad Schrader.
48:22Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But he's, he's a big loser and, uh, wouldn't, wouldn't admit that he's wrong.
48:28I mean, you do hate to see it. You hate to see people who, who are unable to admit when they are, when they are wrong.
48:37It's sad. It's sad. Really? Yeah. All right. Aren't you glad we took George Kittle now?
48:43Look at all the tight ends going off the board.
48:46No. Cause these tight ends all stink. This is, this is actually, honestly, this is kind of a brutal range of the draft.
48:54Uh, I mean, Jaden Higgins would actually be okay here.
48:58I'm in a Higgins. I'm into Willis. Um, I, I like, I actually, actually, honestly, Goddard, if you're worried about tight end, Goddard is quite good.
49:07Oh, well, he just went. Um, let's take Willis.
49:10I would say, I would say it's Higgins, Chigakonkwo, or Woody Marks and Dunn at running back.
49:16I'd say Higgins, man. Okay. I'm a little, little small ADP dipper Reno there gives us the option for a third quarterback.
49:23So that is, that is fine, which I think in this format, you definitely want a third quarterback or, oh, and a third tight end.
49:32Honestly, to me, I, I have so many Travis Hunter, and the most recent reporting, I wouldn't say is particularly bullish on him.
49:40It's like, he is definitely going to play. He's going to be packaged instead of know the whole offense.
49:47That one. Yeah. So I don't, I don't love that because that speaks to a role where like, honestly, both sides end up being wrong.
49:55If that's true, where the, the, the haters definitely get it wrong in the sense of, he still will have some usable
50:03fantasy games, but the, the bowls, like the, the, the Travis Hunter bowls, of which I have certainly been one are also
50:11wrong because it also kind of means he basically has no serious upside.
50:15It, it like, he can't be, if he's only learning the, the boundary wide receiver positions, he can't be a 60 catch guy.
50:23It just like will not happen. Yeah. So I, I actually have this, I'm, I'm all over this.
50:29Cause I have them in a keeper league that uses IDPs.
50:33And so I traded the fucking farm for him last year because he's going to get receiver stats at DB.
50:40It's just like a massive cheat code. And immediately when I traded for him, he got hurt and then got his job taken because they traded for receivers.
50:50And I'm like, and then, and then Parker, and then Parker Washington came out of nowhere.
50:55Correct. So it's a, it's kind of a tough scene over there.
50:59And I'm just watching all the camp reports, just hoping that, you know, Jacoby Myers tears a fucking ACL and practice or something like that.
51:08Not. Uh, I mean, I do think the, I absolutely do think they will put him out there in high leverage situations.
51:16Cause he's a better pass catcher than Nate Borkucher.
51:19Like, like to, to have, to have him out there in a high leverage situation makes sense, but that's just not super useful for fantasy.
51:28So like, I'm not going to feed. It's just not going to feed.
51:32Yeah. Yeah. Like I, well, he also like, they, they just, I mean, the truth is right now, they just have a bigger need at corner.
51:41I mean, that's like that it's, it's kind of one of the funny things about Travis Hunter that like his career is
51:49going to be put in this direction that, that was not that predictable when they traded up to take him at two,
51:56where they trade for Jacoby Myers for like nothing.
51:59Parker Washington breaks out at the same time that their best defensive back left the team that they, that, that is his contract expired.
52:08What Newsom or something was his name? I don't even remember, but like, hold on, hold on.
52:14I got to take a phone call. So you may have to do this swing on your own.
52:20Okay. That's fine. All right, boys, we are locked in here with Trevor Lawrence, Malik Willis, Saquon Barkley, Ken Walker, Jadarian Price,
52:28Corey Krosky, Merritt, T Higgins, Garrett Wilson, Brian Thomas, Jr.
52:31Josh Downs, Jaden Higgins, George Kittle. We definitely need another tight end.
52:35We definitely need another quarterback. I think I'm going to do something unpopular here.
52:40I, I might given, given the context of this, I I'm actually, I almost certainly going to do something pretty unpopular.
52:47I'm going to do a, I'm going to do a big jump at quarterback that, that no one is going to be
52:55ready for, but I, I got backed into the Shadur.
52:58I got backed into the Shadur Sanders corner, like in three consecutive drafts earlier today.
53:04And I am not going to get backed into the Shadur Sanders corner on this one.
53:09So we are, we are actually, um, I'm back.
53:12We are, we're going to take, I want to take Trey Tucker.
53:16Okay. And then I want to take your team's quarterback over, over Bryce young.
53:21I want to take Aaron Rogers. I think anybody over Bryce young.
53:25Yes. Um, well, and you know what? Bryce went anyway, so it was definitely the right decision.
53:31Perfect. But yeah, I, Aaron Rogers. Fuck. I mean, we're also probably going to take Mendoza if he is there for us at the, at the next turn.
53:41We're going to take a fourth quarterback. Oh no, sorry.
53:45No, we're not. No, we're not. Very good. We, we, so we're, we are going to be playing.
53:51We should have taken Mendoza over Rogers, honestly. So I think Willis gives us really good early season fantasy numbers.
53:58The issue is, is that those early season fantasy numbers are going to come in with some like 27 point losses.
54:05And I, I think there's a relatively decent chance.
54:08I don't know. Call it, call it a 10, 15% chance.
54:12The Malik Willis just gets benched for Quinn Ewers or whoever.
54:16Absolutely. Just because that's the way it goes. And I, you're, you're probably right.
54:21Cause Mendoza probably ends up starting by then. We just, what would, what would obviously be bad would be if there was
54:28any overlap between the period of them both not being available.
54:32But isn't there like a 5% chance that by week 16, Aaron Rogers has been named the new head of the CDC and stops playing football.
54:41Well, I mean, he's 43 years old and I would not surprise me if he is just, he just gets injured.
54:48I mean, that, that I think is the, like the, the most likely thing with him.
54:54I remember being really concerned about that with Brady when that, of course, like I, I was underweight on Brady, that crazy final Buccaneer season.
55:03Cause I was just like, come on, this guy's 45 years old or whatever he is.
55:08Like, I can't, I can't do it. And I ended up being wrong then, but man, Aaron Rogers has not aged like Tom Brady.
55:16He is, he has not, no, no, he has not aged like, like Tom Brady in any way, shape or form.
55:24Yeah. That much, that much is certainly true. So I don't know.
55:28We, we needed, we needed a, we needed a quarterback.
55:31Could have, could have been, could have been Mendoza.
55:35Yeah. I think, I think Mendoza fits this better because he's going to come on maybe when Willis comes off.
55:41But he also obviously gives us the stack. I just, I just knew that by the time we got back, all the
55:49guys that we would have wanted would have been gone.
55:53We, we, I mean, I, I streamed, I streamed earlier today and I got left in the sugar Sanders corner a couple of times.
56:01And one time I didn't even get him because he got sniped for me.
56:06So I didn't even get sugar Sanders. So I was, I was, I was left.
56:11I was left with zero available quarterbacks. Yeah. You, you have a way better feel.
56:16Like I have plenty of like player takes, I think, but in terms of like the feel and flow of the drafts
56:24and where people go and who's left in this and that, I'm pretty, I'm kind of just like chasing my own tail here.
56:32Like I don't have a good feel for that.
56:35Ferguson. Come on, man, dude. That Harbs. Dan is not being on Rogers.
56:39Well, that, that is Harbs. That right there, man.
56:43That's not cool. What you just did. I want you to know is not cool.
56:48That's really, really not cool, man. Aren't you glad we took George Kittle now?
56:53No, no, no, I'm not. I'm not at all.
56:56Again, Friermuth goes to, that's also, that's also brutal.
56:59Yeah. Hate to see it. This is okay. This is going, this is going South.
57:04Should have taken Trey Tucker. This is going. Yeah.
57:07Honestly, Trey Tucker is the issue now. Trey Tucker is a big problem.
57:12Yeah. All right. How do we rebound? We need a double tap tight end because all the draftable ones are going to be gone by the time.
57:21Are you fucking kidding me, dude? Are you fucking kidding me?
57:25Gunner? Who does when bro? Gunner? All right. We got to take, we just got to do a Barner Otten.
57:32Terrible. Or we can wait and take Evan Ingram at the end and take, I mean, dude, what are we doing here?
57:39Let's take Tank Dell. Tank Dell is fun. Okay.
57:43Good. Tank Dell. Tank Dell is a riser. We'll figure out tight end at the end.
57:48That right there. The, the, the, the hat fry and Harbs taking T Ferg and helm.
57:54I'm not doing another one of these on stream.
57:57I'm not doing another. I'm not, I'm not doing it, dude.
58:01I'm not, I'm not letting, I'm not letting Terrence Ferguson and Gunner helm be drafted right in front of me.
58:08I'm not that, that right there. That is enough to make me not want to do it.
58:13That sucked. That right there. That right there is so lame.
58:17You guys suck, dude. I absolutely love that. We're sitting here at the beginning of August in the year, 2026 and Gunner
58:25helm being sniped, you know, from you is, is the thing that just like tilts you because it's not going to matter.
58:32That it is going to matter. No, it's not.
58:36Helm, Helm is going to finish as a top 10 tight end, dude.
58:40That is incorrect. No, that is, that is absolutely correct.
58:44That is, that couldn't be more correct. Yeah. It's a tough beat.
58:48I would have, I would have liked to get, get her home there.
58:52Getting AJ Barner does not feel good. I mean, Friermuth, Friermuth going is actually the more tilting thing.
58:59Like for, okay. Those are my three most drafted tight ends.
59:02We could have had the Rogers to Friermuth. Like when they connect for their three.
59:08Those are, those are the three guys that I draft the most often.
59:12And that's just, that's just you guys. That's just you guys.
59:16Like, honestly, not respecting that we're doing this, that, that we're choosing to stream this big dog.
59:22Like we could have done this. We could have done this as a prerecord.
59:27We can, I mean, come on, dude, that right there.
59:30No, it doesn't even, the 30 second delay doesn't even matter.
59:34It's just, it's just that they, they, it's just that they know they were just sitting there.
59:40They were sitting there waiting for it. Are we not on a delay?
59:44We might be on like a slight delay, like a, like a seven second delay.
59:50Jesus Christ. You're just asking for the blade. Please come give us the blade.
59:54And they did. They did. They, I mean, tank Dell, tank Dell is a, is a good pick.
60:01Yeah. Tank like that. That's a good one. But I mean, we need one more running back and running back.
60:08Couldn't be any thinner at this spot. Like all the good ones also just went.
60:13Yeah. Ray, Ray Davis and Tucker going is not Marshawn, Marshawn Lloyd.
60:17Jayden blue. Didn't even get a chance to take Jayden blue.
60:21I mean, this is always, this is always what happens in.
60:25This is always what happens in August is all the, all the value just gets sucked out.
60:30You there, there's no 18th round pick that is good anymore.
60:34Yeah. Everybody. I, I actually, I actually do have a, a round 18 tight end pick that, that kind of fits that
60:42we have correlation week 15, 16 and 17. Good.
60:45Don't, don't say, don't say it out loud since we're not.
60:49You know what? If anyone, if anyone takes Charlie Clara ahead of us, I'm just going to take my hat off and
60:56I'm going to, I'm going to just going to say, good, good work.
61:01I've got news for you. Holy shit. I'm never doing a, here's the deal, man.
61:06I'm never doing a draft with shady ever again.
61:09That right there, that right there is unconscionable. Do you, do you think there's a chance that Kobe Parkinson, uh, is, is,
61:17is the Rams tight end that you want again?
61:20I think we should take Evan Ingram. Okay. Evan Ingram or, or Darnell Washington.
61:25You're the Steelers guy. Yeah. We'll take, I mean, I'm, I'm, I'm honestly team mayor, but like, uh, and then we're going
61:33to take, we're going to take K Tron out.
61:36No, fuck, fuck. Who went? We're going to take, we're going to take type one Thornton.
61:41Yeah, there you go. There you go. You're happy with that.
61:45That was not that honest to God. That was not a, that was not a pleasant experience.
61:51That's just, that was not even, that was not even fun, dude.
61:55I mean, yeah, we did kind of get into it.
61:59Do not, do not recommend. Don't, don't. I'm, this is it.
62:02I'm not doing, I'm not doing another big dog.
62:06If I do another big dog, I'm doing it with Mason and I'm doing it with Mason's audience.
62:12I I'm not, I'm not doing it with you guys.
62:15You guys are, I didn't, there was not one pick that I felt good about that whole draft.
62:21That's every, every pick sucked. It's, it's also tough in a sharp room to be on the ends because you have so little control, right?
62:30It's just like, you kind of, you kind of have to, you kind of have to let the room.
62:37I mean, Downs and Lawrence, that was the last time I felt good about the team.
62:42Then every, every pick after that was, was basically, I mean, having to take AJ Barner in a, in a $500 draft
62:50is just like, I mean, just put the white flag up, dude.
62:54Like, yeah, but just think the first time he gets a tush push touchdown is just going to feel so, so, so good.
63:02Yeah. That his, his, him getting a tush push touchdown in a week nine is, is going to jump this team from eighth to seventh.
63:11Really, really good dopamine levels just through the fucking roof.
63:14No, that was, that was zero of 10. Yeah.
63:17Zero, zero of 10. You really do. All right, guys.
63:21Well, I don't know, man, do, do whatever you got to do to, to recoup the time spent.
63:27Cause that absolutely sucked. Barkley Walker T Garrett Wilson, engineering price, Brian Thomas, Jr.
63:32Josh downs, Trevor Lawrence, George Kittle, JCM Malik, Willis, Jaden Higgins, Trey Tucker, Aaron Rogers, AJ Barner, tank Dell, Darnell Washington, and Taequann Thornton.
63:40We, we continue to stay poor. I don't, I don't think that's going to be the team that we are shipping it with in the end.
63:49It'll be, it'll be, it'll be getting the Friermuth snipe.
63:53I just, I cannot dude that round 15, any, any sequence that leads to me taking AJ Barner is, is the worst possible sequence.
64:01Didn't even get a chance to take great. Where did Dulcich go in this trap?
64:06Yeah. One 67. Good luck, dude. Oh yeah. I mean, I would have been happy.
64:11I would have been happy with Gadsden. Like the issue is Trey Tucker.
64:16We should not have taken Trey Tucker. We should, or, or Jaden Higgins.
64:20We should have taken Mark Andrews over Higgins or any tight end over Trey Tucker.
64:26Well, you were very anti tight end this whole draft.
64:29Cause you just assumed, you know, we'd get Ferguson or Friermuth at the end and it would all be okay.
64:36And it was not, but it doesn't matter. Cause we got George Kittle.
64:41He's going to be a top five tight end.
64:44You know, George Kittle is the most, George Kittle is the most important man in the world.
64:50That's right. On this team. All right, man, we're getting out of here.
64:54Everyone like the video, subscribe to the channel. I'll be back with you guys tomorrow.
64:59Thank you.
