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

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Welcome to September, it is the first of September, Mike Ride, Jason Moore, Andy Holloway the fantasy footballers, the month of football, yeah, count down the days. It is football, it's spooky season is here, it'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, brother, a couple of snaps. Now 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. We 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 Record is on Monday on Labor Day and if you need help, get in prepared, get ready to go. Both of my boys just had a big got there in the 18 team league. Whoa, serious. It's a church league and they they jumped in the UDK who's going to be a lot of prayer in that league. Yeah, ultimately 18, they're going to need it. Yeah. Yeah. Here's 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 three years to draft the wider, 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, no, no, that's that was one of my passes, like, no, good, I think that's partly why some people go crazy and you don't know how to predict the free agency in 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 calm. 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. What do you 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. Lots going on. We got a, we got a fun, quick question today. What is the worst? I should have known better draft a 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, Matt, what was your biggest draft a regret? At when you're Clyde, Clyde Edwards, right off the bat. That's not a tough one, Matt. Let me just say this. I was either going to say, there's for him, or I was going to go to the doosers. That was well done. 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. I mean, not only could he not speak, but he was half as loud as he needed to be. That's true. Hey, you know what? Watch this. I always, Josh, do you have a, I don't know if anybody even heard you. You took C, C E H and Miles Sanders over Tyree kill. Brooks had said he took court Darryl Patterson in the second round after the rookie year hype and regretted it. Josh, what do you do? What 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 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 a regret? I drafted Montaille Ball in 24. No, you can end it there. And he was out of the league by the next year. Hey, 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. Hmm. I've heard of it. Who went with the next pick? Megatron. Yeah. Uh, 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 bargaining trade, uh, 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 who, oh, wait, no, that was Papa Josh. And I want to championship 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 to tell you 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 was saying, I'm not saying it. Oh, I've never gotten a pick wrong. I have a place of them. I just, my brain, this is why I started by saying I can remember all sorts of bad trades I did and didn't do for 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, we, 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. Yes. I remember. Um, the, I took the four of you and two good looking. No, no, no, um, I took, I can't even remember his name now. The running back for the 49ers in the, in the first, the back of the first race. Trace sermon. Trace sermon. Oh, yeah. That was a rookie draft. Yes. Oh, yeah. Who? Yeah, 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. What was his name? Oh, dude, there's a guy he's getting married in February and has to go up in front of people and do his vows. You better have a positive. 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 C E O O S. And once we're off, he's adding here. How do you have a, a regret? Yeah, I took Josh Jacobs a few days ago. Oh, oh, oh, yes, you did outside of that. My biggest one's probably just more strategy based my, my first dynasty startup. 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 to. I need to. that all retired at the same time within a year. - Yeah, I mean, the lesson here is that, you know, not everything's gonna go according to plan, go perfectly, you're gonna have regrets, don't freak out, stay vigilant, stay water, pay attention all year long, we say it every year. You don't win, you're gonna get the draft, right? You set the foundation for the season, but you're not the one who's gonna 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 gonna be okay, let's talk some news. - News and notes from around the league. - You know, the only time that 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 fart sounds. - Yeah. - Zay flowers expected to return to a full practice next week. - What would you mean? - Next week that's awfully close to the season. - Next week when we're playing fine. - You found one more Jason mistake? - Yeah. - Oh, you just didn't remember that. - No, I didn't, I didn't remember that. I remember it very closely now. I took Isaiah Pacheco over Derek Henry and that was when this was a couple years ago before 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 means pretty non-committal about his week one status, he's said all about. - Well, he's not a lot in that interview, but 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. He wants to go out there and be free. 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 would doubt we'd see him week one. - Yeah, 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. And so you gotta 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 the mold, 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 Kittle 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 gonna do it anyways, you can. - Well, I tanked, Del, 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 Algear and maybe Jeremiah 11 week one. Do you, man, is Algear like almost a must draft now at this point if you take love? - I think he's, oh, you mean if you take the love sign? - Yeah. - I just worry that maybe some people will snag him higher. - They might, I mean I think he's definitely a must draft if you can wait until the 11th or beyond. - For sure, just a smartest thing you can do because there's re-injury risks with a high ankle sprain. 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 Downes, Alec Pierce, Tyler Warren, Trio, that would be the calf ankle groin, Trio, all back at practice on Tuesday and all expected to be playing in week one. - Yeah, you told me that this morning that Alec Pierce is expected to play week one and I was like, whoa, that came out of nowhere. - Did he come out to have a Michael Pittman expected to be ready for week one? JCM, recording crosskey merit. - Hey. - Dress for today's practice. - All right. - Like. - That he looked so fancy. - Yeah, he was just really dressed up. - What are we going on? - Where is practice suit? Keaton Mitchell did not practice on Monday and 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 always hurt. - Jaden Blu to the practice squad of the Eagles. Married to you, Mark Cotter to the practice squad for the Cowboys. - Well, he was claimed. - Yeah, he was claimed to the roster. - Yeah, he'll be, I bet he's just the RB3, 'cause they only had. - That's right, they cleaned house. - They cleaned 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. Like, oh, Sam Howell 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 cut? - Yeah, I think he was a leader cut. - Well, take a break and we're doing something special today. We got a different kind of mock draft for you coming up. (upbeat rock music) The fantasy footballers mock draft. (upbeat rock music) - Well, 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 offenses for fantasy football in 2026. You know, you wanna 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 offenses, 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 gonna take Jacksonville on this draft. - They are in my top 12. I've got my list together and obviously, we're gonna draft 12 here. We'll put a poll up. You could put vote between our three teams of who you think had the best offenses. But this is really a valuable exercise in really determining your own thought process of which offenses do you think you're gonna score the most? Not just like what's the best team. This is for fantasy, not like which kickers, but the environment, right? We like certain teams 'cause their defenses are bad and they're gonna 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. - Yeah, we randomize that Jason's gonna pick first, then I guess it's Mike, and then it's me, perfect. So we'll have a really good time counter-clockwiseing here. - All right. So I'm first. - She tilts in the 101. (laughing) - 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 Burrow-- - It is, I don't know if you heard. - What's about to happen? - Your bowl prediction. I think the bangles are in a perfect situation where you look at all the skill positions are good. Chase Brown is better than Sage of Aunte 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 Vegas 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 'cause there's-- - Yeah, it's 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 gonna be the only thing determining our picks, obviously. - Yeah. - But I am gonna share with you a couple of things as we go through this. One of them is what they did last year and what Vegas projects in for this year, because I think that some teams, Vegas has a built-in regression. And some teams, you have the inverse. Since then, he was the 12th highest scoring team last year. - Right, 'cause 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, I want to focus on teams that are gonna get down there and punch in for touchdowns. - Mike. - I'll take the Cincinnati Bangle's light. I will take the Dallas Cowboy. - Interesting, look, they were third on my list. - Oh really? - 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. - Like from Vegas. - Since 2019, if Dak Prescott is healthy, He's throwing for at least 4,500. 100 yards and 30 something touchdowns is like, I like that you have, uh, man, I was thinking of like T Higgins and Jamar versus CD Lam 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 missed this time, he just shoots right up to being a, 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'll say that I'm thrilled. Yeah. I, I don't blame it. I think you were in the best spot because there are to me for real, real, real, uh, actually, I would say five, five super great offenses. Well, I'm going to take the Detroit Lions, uh, with my first pick here in the first round and swing around and grab the Rams with the second pick. Okay. Uh, last year Rams were number one and points per game. Detroit was four. They are one and two in the biggest projections Detroit for fantasy, golf, almond, raw, 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 at wide receiver outperforms every other tandem and football. I think Puka has the highest potential to be the number one before all of this legal stuff. That's where I had him ranked. But I think when you look at Dallas, Pickens and CD, you look at Cincinnati with Higgins and Chase, I think Puka and Adams will be right there. We don't consider them that way because of Adams's age, but I obviously would have the inconsistencies of, of Stafford. He, yeah, he threw a, 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 where they are projected for the most points. They scored the most points last year. The Rams did. And they are projected for the most of 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. Yeah. Those Eagles teams. Yes. Exactly. Here we go again. Third quarter. We'll pull them out. Yeah. That's my only fear of the Rams. They, they were fifth on my list. Mike, you are back on the clock. 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 these Chicago bears. Oh, that's I feel like that is a, that's a huge surprise, pick wise. 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 talked to 10th year to Ben Johnson, plus all those guys, yeah, they're projected 10th, 24.6 points per 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. And 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 chart. 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 the 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. It's as a football. I mean, 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 made it on my list. Yeah, with Mike. 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 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. No, no, we can't. I think they probably been projected to be a top five offense for all of his years. I agree. However, this is the year. 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, it's in a my guy. No. Yeah, never told me they're at 12. Okay. All right. I will take them at what is this? Yeah. Seven. They're at 12. Yeah. But that doesn't 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 him a 13. I would credit the schedule for that last year. 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 overcomes. 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 it number eight right now. And 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 Arabia next. And kept moving them down in it. I, I 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 always the swing factor. Like, Derek Henry is just, I'll bet until I'm 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. Well, 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 was. 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, they're the next one. Nice. Doyle rules. Nice. He certainly does. All right. I got my final two picks. Yes, you do. I didn't misappropriate my smile. He doesn't accidentally 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 per game. I'm worried about the age. It's not just CMC's age, right? It's, it's Evans and it's Kittle and it's, you know, they have had a tough off season. You know, so I'm not, I'm not going there. Cleveland Cleveland is obviously in contention. No, I'm, 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 mean, 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. They're the largest drop for me in projected off when I, when I did this exercise and honestly running back. Yeah. No, see, I might, that's part of it. I'm a huge fan of your generic price. Yeah. So I think he'll be able to hold them up. Yeah. And, and that's going to be a huge component of it. I think that the loss of the Lonnied for sure, the, 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 open so well last year, I worry about that kind of regression. And so they, well, 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. I'm taking. He could have had two letters and. Well, no, I mean, I could tell from what he wrote. It was one word. I could tell it wasn't two words. Who did you write down? I wrote the Broncos because I know that you. Okay. Yeah. believer and nicks. I don't think we've said enough about Green Bay and Matt LaFleur. We've said a lot of negative about the Jacob situation. I love it because it means Jordan Love, Patricia Watson, who are 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 at nine. They were extremely efficient. I love Matt LaFleur in the play calling. I love the consolidation of targets for fantasy 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. Jaden Reed. Jaden Reed's 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. Perfect. 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, 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. I think if you put the ball, if you're forced to put the ball to the heat cannon, Jason, as we have found out, who's the next Marshawn Lloyd is the heat cannon and you, uh, this is a something that brings us real that name is hilarious, um, but, but genuinely like you eat 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, I'm, uh, Jason's bowl of predictions 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. It is. There's going to be so many points. It won't matter. They are projected to be the largest regression candidate. Oh, that's right. No. Number six. Last year in scoring number 15 this year in Vegas projection, that's fine for Jacksonville. So obviously going to play a harder schedule. Obviously they too like Seattle have to deal with a complete change at the running back position, which is always interesting when like a high scoring elite team has a massive change at that position. All right. 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 and junior fan. I know you weren't even an ETN fan. I could that is also correct. So yeah, I will just bet on Tutan being better. It, I've seen multiple years of Cohen with different personnel and Cohen's offense just works. Now if Jason does not take this team with his final pick, where I will be a, I feel huge shocked. 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, 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 Perty, 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 Chargers and Patriots and you guys left the Patriots out there. Yeah, we did. You know what? Mike, let's give them the Patriots. For sure, the Patriots are seven on my neck on our next draft. Your stuff. 49ers. Dude, the Patriots are going to score a Cajillion D points. I know that they are regress, a regression candidate because of the schedule, but 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 go. Yeah, I got this one. It's supposed to be a line. It does strike, dude. 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 differentials 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 that touchdowns. It's weird that they're like, I brought this up when we were talking about the wide receiver room. Like 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, that 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 and do 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 got 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 a, 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. I don't have to force 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. All right. The Houston Texans. Oh, man. That is so nice. Thank you. The Houston Texans are going to be much better. I need the whole. No, it's much. I can't see hands free. Well, now the strike through is red. What are we doing? What are we doing? 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 through graphic. 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, that what we saw that last year, you know, the beginning of the season. They were outrageously good. Maybe lucky. The 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, there's a lot of ways it could go right. They're scheduled to open the season is pretty tough and 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. 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? What if they were? Oh, just last year? Yep. I'm just saying from 2024 to 20 because that's what we're looking at. How many teams make that move? There were. The bottom 10 that the clothes were not one of the Colts weren't bottom 10. No, the better. I mean, again, it's two, it's going from the bottom 10 to the top 10, uh, Patriots Jaguars come to mind. I don't know. Uh, who'd you say? Oh, yeah. Patriots. Those are the three. Oh, all right. Yeah. Bears. So in 2024, New England was 30th. Jacksonville is 26. Chicago is 28. They went to two, six 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, might be a little tough. It's going to be harder. sledding and the Super Bowl hangover is, is real and the head coach is probably got some hangovers from the offseason as well. Um, he will take a break. We'll do some male back. All right, jumping into the male back. H Pierce riding in on Instagram. You got to hit the button. I did hit it. No, that was male bag presented by Paramount Plus trying to stop me and Drew. Yeah, I was the back to back break. I'll say this. And he's, uh, he's pushing through. He's sick right now and he's still here. H Pierce riding and how many leagues is too many leagues? As soon as you're annoyed by fantasy football, if, if it's annoying, you know, Mike brings us up a lot of times, like, 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, you know, doing this full time, we get invited to a lot of, uh, leagues, a lot of whatever celebrity or industry leagues and it's like, um, tempting to say yes. And then you do and then you regret it. I like having three or four leagues that you care about the most, a couple of dynasty, your main league. And then, uh, 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, a mecca, a book or a T Higgins? I'm going to Higgins right now. I, I, I took a mecca, a book on our chop league and I've 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. I'm 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 by way. Well, yeah, your big toe probably weighs the whole. Yeah. So the, so if you're just talking by volume, there's a larger percentage chance. It's probably more like a 33% chance. It's, 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 toe explosion. Okay. That's, that's our power toe break. But it's not a break toe tear. Just a toe tear. Yeah. Okay. That doesn't, I mean, you think tears enough. Oh, it's terrible. That switch. Yeah. Okay. He did say, so 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. I'm going to go with T Higgins. It's funny because T Higgins is also always hurt. So it's cool combo. Fair. Yeah. But not as toe. Currently. Yeah. How far would you reach for Joe burrow to compete to complete the slap? I can't talk. Hold on. Let's have. 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. I'll paste it in there for you. You don't have to look for it. So I'm going to get this one 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. That's okay. The audience was way louder. What's the answer? I mean, Joe burrows what usually going in the fifth round. Look, I'm going to let him fall to me. I'm not going to take him in the fourth. I don't think. If you're going to reach fourth is where I would do it. Okay. Tony in New York, would you trade Marsh on Lloyd for Christian Watson or Alec Pierce in a PPR for Watson for sure Pierce man. I don't know. I think I think I'd let the dice like I'm just going to keep rolling them. I think I think I would just because of the contract Alec 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. Marsh 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 Marsh on Lloyd, who might have never been able to stay healthy. You know, we're going into, is this year three or just year four. So year three of Marsh on Lloyd. He hasn't been able to canon Jason. I mean, I'll tell you what, man, if if if Kendra Miller and Marsh 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. Instagram question from G DJ hook them. How are we handling Kenyans addicted 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 joker there. No offense. You had trust in and a team you actually absolutely despise. 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 you have to pay attention to Sadeek. Just 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 Sadeek. 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 than Sadeek. There was no argument for Fanon at this time last year, regardless of how much you liked him in college. The problem with Sadeek, though, is the how long he has been hurt in this off season. And 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 Sadeek in 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 makes sense. Accepted Jets to me, the difference would be the Jets have Garrett Wilson. Like the 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 I'm out on Sadeek until something. Yeah, but if he 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 Sadeek? 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 play your hand with Sadeek, 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. Yeah, I'd rather take Johansson. Yeah. And I I want to sing even as like a number two for a true breakout or even a different position. Tyler Schuck is right next to Sadeek and drafts. And then Sadeek is a was a waiver guy that you run to get. That was the mail bag presented by Paramount Plus Paramount Plus is the streaming home to the NFL on CBS all season long. See you on Sunday. That is going to do it for today's show. We've got players. We're afraid to be wrong about tomorrow. A final mock draft on Thursday and our fantasy MVP episode with many a special guests coming on Friday. Jump in the megalibull at megalibull.com. And if you still have a draft, head to the UDK UltimateDraftkit.com. We'll catch you tomorrow. Goodbye. Thank you for listening to another episode of the Fantasy Footballers podcast. Join our fantasy football community on JoinTheFoot.com. 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