2025 FFPC Main Event Week 2 Leader Ryan Bush

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
What are we to do with the Seahawks running backs?
What are we to do with the Cleveland backfield? Quite frankly,
and what do you make of the latest Tucker Craft
injury in Green Bay. We've got a great show for
you tonight. The twoenty twenty five FFPC Main Event Week
two leader is here. Tonight, ladies and gentlemen, Ryan Bush

(00:24):
will pop on to tell us how he has managed
his team to the top as he chases a one
million dollar grand prize. Farrel Elliott from the KFFS is here.
Oinker from the KFFSC is here. I'm Eric Balkman. Stick around.
Your high Stakes Fantasy Football Hour starts now.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
World.

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With your hosts Eric.

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Speaker 1 (01:09):
Shot. Thank you so much, Rob, Welcome, greetings and salutations
to all of you ballcollics, and for lax tuning in
from around the world tonight on the high Stakes Fantasy
Football Hour. So glad to have you aboard here as

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we are on the cusp of Week three of the
f f PC and the NFL. I want to let
you know that my name can be found on X
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You know my co host Farrel Elliott from the k
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Com at k f f f C Official on the
X as well. Coming up on tonight show, we got
a baller show for you as we head into Week three.
Kyle Pitts like, I feel like we have done this
numerous times over, but we're gonna do it again this year.
Kyle Pitts, is he worth a top ten tight end? Start?

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What do you do if you're trying to replace Tucker
Craft as he is expected to miss this week? And
then of course Jackson Smith and j Javonte Williams, and
then of course Jacory krossky Merritt coming up on the
show tonight, It's going to be a baller show, and
then we'll get into some starter sits coming up in
about forty five minutes or so. On the show tonight,

(02:37):
we'll be getting into JK. Dobbins, Wandale Robinson, Jatavian Sanders,
Daniel Jones, and much more. That is what is coming
up on the show tonight. If you want to connect
with us on X you can do so at HSFF hour.
You can always connect with me at Eric Balkman and
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(03:00):
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have any questions for us, for Farrell, for Ryan, whoever,
and now is the time to send them. We'll try
to get to all the chat room questions, X posts
and emails in the fantasy feedback segment coming up later
on in the show. Thanks to our audio engineer and
my best friend Bryce and of course our producer and

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mutual friend Rob Let's bring in the co host with
the most ladies and gentlemen. He celebrated his birthday last weekend.
I'm so glad he survived it to come on a
board tonight to help host the high Stakes Fantasy Football Hour.
He can be followed on x at Jfarrell Elliott. KFFFC
dot com is where to check out his contest. He

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is the incomparable, the definitive Commissioner of Fantasy Football One
Farrell Elliott Farrell Welcome on board tonight. The sun in
my area right now is low, but apparently the sun
is very high where you are at little of Kentucky
right now.

Speaker 4 (04:01):
Well, this is sort of a tip of hat to
James Hicks and our beloved Scott Christian who bequeathed to me,
Balky a most fabulous birthday present. Now I don't have
to run solo with the show. I have my own
show helper.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
He is.

Speaker 4 (04:20):
Kentucky based oinker with matching.

Speaker 1 (04:24):
Look at that. Look at the hair, gentleman, the hair
on the side. This is no hair on this one.

Speaker 4 (04:31):
This guy this this yeah, you it's but yeah, we're
we're proud and we're thankful that Porky's keeps thinking of
and keeps watching the show.

Speaker 1 (04:43):
It's great.

Speaker 4 (04:44):
And you were you know, you were saying that well
you know me from that that that show you do
in the middle of the week, which we see guys
aren't listening to, so, you know, and that's kind of
like Patrick Mahomes saying, you know me from Texas Tech.
You know, it's just you know, Fulky, this is your thing, man,

(05:08):
this is this is and you are such a beloved individual.
I witnessed it prior to coming home last week, and
I just can't quit talking about it enough. I wanted
to spend a little time with.

Speaker 1 (05:20):
You out there.

Speaker 4 (05:21):
You were always working, you were podcasting, you were entering teams,
you were making FFPC Las Vegas go for everyone there,
and I'm still drinking to you, so thank you.

Speaker 1 (05:34):
Some of my favorite memories in Las Vegas where I
go out there for the FFPC And granted I'm out
there for what a week and a half or so,
and for the first week I'm busy working. You know,
I'm doing everything I can and I try to hook
up with this And by the way, in twenty twenty six,
I feel like I'm going to have the opportunity to
hang out with more players, more listeners, more viewers of

(05:56):
the show, which I'm very excited about. But I will
say this, one of the things I miss is hanging
out with you, Farrell on your birthday, which we didn't
get a chance to do this year because your birthday
came after everybody was already on a Las Vegas. But
because the calendar flips this year, we get a few
more days out in Las Vegas. It's gonna be a

(06:18):
baller time. I expect to have a great meal with you,
maybe a couple of bourbons out in the desert with
you on your birthday next year. I'm very excited for that.
And time will tell on and the location will tell
exactly where that's gonna happen. But it's gonna happen in
twenty twenty six, my friend. You know, bulky.

Speaker 4 (06:37):
The years go by very very quickly, and sometimes we
regret that.

Speaker 1 (06:41):
But it can't go by quickly enough for me to
do what to just describe. So thank you very very much.
You're very welcome. I'm glad you had a good one.
Steve G hanging out with us tonight, he says, Farrell
looks like a bag of money, Feryl, have you ever
looked like a bag of money?

Speaker 4 (06:59):
Ah, like a bag before, but not of moneyg is
Steve G is quite complimentary and a.

Speaker 1 (07:07):
Real gentleman RAYC says, how many years are you fell
Have you Fellas been playing fantasy football?

Speaker 2 (07:14):
Beryl?

Speaker 1 (07:15):
I don't know what it is for you, but nineteen
ninety four, when I was still in high school, that
was the first year I played fantasy football. So I'm
coming up on my fourth decade here. What about you?
You beat me to it because I didn't play. I
did not play in basement leagues.

Speaker 4 (07:32):
My only fantasy football experience has been in contest, and
I've been with the FFPC since day one, and prior
to that, I was with those characters that were supplanted
in the industry by the FFPC, and so all of
my play came in Las Vegas. And then I tried
to play in basement leagues, and I realized that people

(07:55):
should keep basements to themselves.

Speaker 1 (07:57):
So you know, that's that's basically.

Speaker 4 (08:00):
But yes, most everyone has a most everyone has a
jump on me in fantasy football, and the results prove it.

Speaker 1 (08:09):
The National Contest for me didn't start to w cooff
in the early two thousands, so like we're looking at
like the better part of twenty plus years or whatever
for me.

Speaker 2 (08:21):
But I can.

Speaker 1 (08:22):
Reassure you rac whatever you're getting tonight, it's it's and
whenever you're getting Every time you tune in to the
ff PC YouTube channel, you are getting a lot of
wealth of experience, not only from Pharaoh, for myself and
whatever guests we have on like tonight when we have
Ryan Bush, come on, who is leading the FFPC main event?

(08:44):
A couple of questions right out off the top. We
have Jeffrey Drake, chiming in Farrell, He's got Travis Etn
He's got Alvin Kamara, he's got Jamar Chase, and he's
got Xavier Worthy. Should he trade and Mecca Agbuka and
Bucky Irving for Drake, London and Omar Hampton? Now I
know this is hell. No, Oh, it's not a lot
to take in. No, there's nothing there. Uhbuca and Bucky

(09:10):
not only are superior players, they're youthful players.

Speaker 4 (09:13):
And they play for a team that has it together.
This Tampa team's gonna win that division. They were the
favorite to win that division.

Speaker 1 (09:20):
And the way they play for each other is what
you look for in football.

Speaker 4 (09:25):
You should not get rid of those players. They are
similar talents to some of the other players that have
offered in the trade, but they're not in similar situations.
Situational football alone makes them.

Speaker 1 (09:37):
The attractives too.

Speaker 4 (09:38):
You're drafted well, Jared, Joe, you you you've got you've
got to learn how to stand prosperity.

Speaker 1 (09:45):
Son.

Speaker 4 (09:45):
You got to just sit back and enjoy it. You know,
just just brak. The Drake is prosperous. You know, the
Drake must be understood as a prosperous cat.

Speaker 1 (09:54):
We love the Drake.

Speaker 4 (09:55):
Love and who doesn't. Those guys behind you did, yeah they.

Speaker 1 (09:58):
Did, and and well say this right now, when you
look at that, when you look at that trade, Jeffrey
eg Buka is only going to go up from here.
Bucky Irving has been crushing it so far. Drake London, Yeah,
you're getting him at a little bit of a discount.
But o Marine Hampton, and we'll get into this throughout
the show tonight. He is being thwarted by Najie Harris,

(10:21):
Jim Harbaugh and Greg Roman right now. So I think
there's lots of dislike about Marie Hampton when you compare
him to eg Buka and Bucky Irving. So com I'm
with my good buddy Farrell on this. It's it's it's
it's it's an open up chuck case. We also have
let's see here what okay, I want to go through.

(10:46):
I'm sorry, this is this is awful. All right, let's
let's move on. Not breaking news, is it bulky? No,
there's no breaking news. We don't have any breaking news.
But I just wanted to make sure I'm getting through
all the good YouTube comments before we move on.

Speaker 4 (11:00):
He's got a good comment, by the way.

Speaker 1 (11:02):
All right, here we go. We'll put Steve G's comment
this way.

Speaker 4 (11:05):
We can get the green Bay stuff out.

Speaker 1 (11:07):
Early. Steve called me this week. He goes, you know
who the you know who the trending tight end is,
you know who the sleeper tight end is.

Speaker 4 (11:14):
You know who everyone is forgiving. I gave him a
couple of answers they were far from correct, and he
goes Muskrave and I confirmed that by saying, you know
Steve Musgrave. When when Musgrave came into the league with
Craft and other tight ends, I thought he was the
primary talent.

Speaker 1 (11:32):
I love the player.

Speaker 2 (11:33):
Now.

Speaker 1 (11:33):
The news this week is.

Speaker 4 (11:36):
Steve went out before the injury news and grabbed this
player everywhere, and so you know he does not have
a crystal ball of folks.

Speaker 1 (11:44):
He just likes the player. So I'm gonna say this
right now. For Steve g he had teased this last
week saying that he had the tight end stash of
the year that he was going to know it's tonight,
and he texted me about I don't know, seven or
eight hours ago to let me know that, hey, my
my tight end stash is not gonna hit the way

(12:06):
I thought it was because Tucker Craft sprained his knee
or hurt his knee in practice on Thursday, but he
still was going to reveal it tonight, and he revealed
it privately to me. We've publicly outed him that, Perrell,
I'm gonna ask you this right now. In regards to
Tucker Craft, Matt Lafleur spoke to the media today and

(12:30):
he said he doesn't think that Tucker Craft is going
to go on IR, which I mean it is good.
But at the same time, we're looking at like whether
we can start Tucker Craft on Sunday against the Cleveland Browns,
and it sounds like we can't because the first thing
Lafleur says, we don't think he's gonna go on IR.
We can't count on him in week three. But what

(12:51):
about Steve g the fantasy soprano zone. Luke Musgrave, the
guy who was picked in round two of the NFL
Draft ahead of Tucker Craft, who was picked in round three.
What do you make of Luke Musgrave this week in
the FFPC main event, the FFPC Big Gorilla? Is this
a guy that you I mean, we can take tight

(13:13):
end out of the equation, but what about flexing him out? Again?
We have no Jayden Reid this week, he's out. We
have Matthew Golden who could take a big step forward,
but again he did not have any targets in last
week's game on Thursday night against the Washington Commanders. What
do you make of Luke Muskrave this week for FFPC players? Okay, well,

(13:37):
I like him as a tight end. I like him
as your emergency tight end. I like him better than
some of the starting tight ends that are in the league,
such as Schultz, such as Aughton.

Speaker 4 (13:48):
Perhaps, But let's don't especially since we're not in waiver
wire land or bye week land yet.

Speaker 1 (13:57):
Let's let's don't go crazy. Let's don't flex him ow,
just just let's just wait and see what happens. There's
in balky, But that's my thought you are.

Speaker 4 (14:05):
More qualified to answer that question than anyone in the
fantasy football world because you you're there right with your
hand on the pulse of what's going.

Speaker 1 (14:14):
On in this situation.

Speaker 4 (14:17):
And I would be somewhat careful with Craft as he
comes back. I would try to learn as much as
I can about the injury, because if you're winning and
you have Craft, it's because you've been leaning on him.
And we all saw the game Monday night. The bright
spot of the Raiders was not as bright it was.
It was dim and it was on low because Bowers

(14:40):
gainfully playing and he is a real gamer, as you say,
Balky several times a night, a baller, but he was
not the same rock Bowers in the brace and trying
to play injury. And I admire players to play hurt, but.

Speaker 1 (14:54):
In fantasy football we must be very cautious in that.
My whole thing on this boker Craft thing. Number one,
I'm rooting for him to be out. I don't want
to mess around with him being active and then potentially
having you know, ten, fifteen, maybe twenty snaps on offense.
I don't want that. So let's let's talk about what
happens if he's out. I think Luke Musgrave becomes a

(15:17):
back end flex in the FFPC. I think he can
be flexed out as your second flex, not as your primary,
not as your tight end. But I think there is
something to like there with Cleveland. At the same time,
I will echo what I've been saying from the last
six seven, eight plus months about the Packers passing game.

(15:38):
I don't know what's going to happen from a week
to week basis. Some weeks it's going to be Dobbs,
some weeks it's going to be Craft. Some weeks it's
going to be you know, Watson or Red or gold Golden, Crafty,
any of these guys. And I think the fact that
Craft and Reader out this week doesn't clear it up
anymore for me. I know that the Cleveland Browns defense

(16:00):
is really really good as far as the rush defense goes,
and it might be all quiet week from Jacobs. But
if you're looking at me and say, Balky Balkey, please
save me, what should I do with these Packers pass
catchers this week? I don't have a good answer for you.
I think Musgrave could be good. I think Golden could
be good. I think Dobbs could be good. But to

(16:20):
ask me right now and say, like, which one is
gonna be good?

Speaker 4 (16:23):
I have no idea, and you've been that You've been
trying to answer that question all week. You can't answer it.

Speaker 1 (16:28):
King all law season fair.

Speaker 4 (16:30):
Yeah, they're all you know, hey man, they're screaming for
Ryan Bush, right.

Speaker 1 (16:35):
Ryan Bush is gonna join us in just a little bit.
He's a New Yorker. He is in New York. You
determined what we got to ask him? Is he upstate?
Is the city? You know? I'm gonna look that up
right now. New Yorker can mean a lot of things.
I don't think he's New York City. But he will
join us in just a couple of minutes to let
us know for sure on this. Speaking of situations where
we can't make heads or tails out of him, no,

(16:56):
let's go to the most Let's go to the Pacific
nor West. The Seattle Seahawks offensive coordinator Clint Kubiak said
the team is quote keeping finding ways to get end
quote quote. Zach Charbonay and Kenneth Walker involved adding quote
and this is the worst thing that he could say.

(17:16):
I see two starters. This, According to the athletic clin
clink Ubiev talking about the Seahawks backfield, I see two starters.
Mike McDonald, the head coach of the Seahawks, said that
the plan is for each back to have a quote
ample opportunity on a weekly basis. Now, the weekly basis
may not happen this week. I did not see if

(17:37):
Zach Charbonay practice today, and I probably should have me
a call play on that, but I know he did
not practice on Wednesday, he did not practice on Thursday.
And it's looking like it's going to be a big
Kenneth Walker week, which you don't need to watch the
show to tell to find out whether you should be
starting Kenneth Walker this week. If Sharbonay is out, you
want to start Walker, But I'm telling you going forward, Farrell,

(17:58):
is this just simply a guessing game whether it's going
to be a charbon A week, whether it's going to
be a Walker week, or can we glean anything from
what we've seen so far to know like, Okay, this
is the week to sit this guy, this is the
week to start this guy. What are you? What are
your feelings? Sort of on again, not this week necessarily
because it looks like Charbonay is going to miss, but

(18:20):
weekly going forward, can you glean anything about whether Walker
or Charbonay is the correct start.

Speaker 4 (18:26):
I think what we saw from Ali Gordon and maybe
Najie Harris is very much what we could see from
the second running back, which is Charbonne. When Walker has
this opportunity to carry the load, and the fellows are
going and in the message and saying he's gonna he's
gonna run wild. When he has an opportunity to do that,
he's going to show the talent that I've always seen
any and that I think the fantasy drafters saw.

Speaker 1 (18:47):
In him this year. So I'm not too concerned.

Speaker 4 (18:51):
From a fantasy football perspective about Charbonnet stealing Walker, but
he is a contributor to that aspect the team though,
and one of the things that helps both situations. The
head coach wants to see two starters because he's going
to need to run the ball four hundred and fifty
times to win in that division. He's not going to
win through the air, so he's going to have to

(19:12):
have plenty of running games. There's enough to go around
to make Walker for Charbonnay to service the running game,
but for Walker to have comparable carries to the number
one backs around the league.

Speaker 1 (19:26):
I think that as we go forward, and I don't
think this is a bold prediction at all, Pharaoh, but
I think as we go forward, the Seahawks running game
throughout not only September but October, November, December, it's going
to be something that we will be looking not forward to,
but it's going to be something that we will be
looking at trying to figure out what's the best way

(19:49):
to handle this situation for our big Gorilla, for our
main event, for our Classic. We know whatever it is
with the FFPC right now, because I don't think we
have a good handle on it right now. Now you
have made your notes and your thoughts clear on this,
and it's hard for me to disagree with that. But
I also know that after this week, if Charbonnay is

(20:12):
healthy for Week four, it's in disarray once again, and
we will see what happens on that Ladies and gentlemen.
The FFPC main Event from the get go was in disarray.
This guy has said bully to that thumbed his nose
in the general direction of every FFPC Main Event player.

(20:33):
Because as we head into week three, this gentleman right
here is in first place overall in the driver's seat
for the million dollars grand prize. One million dollar grand
prize is what this guy is looking at right now.
He is here to join us tonight. You can connect
with him on x right now at League seventy seven.

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He is in first place in the FFPC main event
going into week three. Please welcome into the pro mister
Ryan Bush. Ryan, Welcome into the program. Thanks so much
for hanging out with us tonight. Congratulations on your early
success and good evening. Thanks.

Speaker 2 (21:11):
I'm psyched to be here, and I would definitely put
an emphasis on early with that. You know, it's a lot.
I'm happy to be where I am for sure, but
there's certainly a long long way to go.

Speaker 1 (21:25):
Did you when you because you have the two live
main events right out in Las Vegas and I did
did you ever think, like, you know, like you're in
September nineteenth, you're being being interviewed as you are in
the driver's seat for a million dollar grand prize. Did
you think your team was this potent enough to be

(21:45):
in this situation this early in the season.

Speaker 2 (21:47):
I mean, I really was psyched about the team I drafted.
I definitely felt good about it. But you know that's
like feeling like feeling good about like beating the eleven
guys in my you know, in my league. Like that's
what I'm you know, I'm thinking small, Like I wasn't
expecting to see my name up there, but I'm you know,

(22:09):
psyched about it for sure.

Speaker 1 (22:11):
How many years you've been coming to Las Vegas and.

Speaker 2 (22:13):
Playing right just as my second second year.

Speaker 1 (22:16):
I love that, man, you know, it's a.

Speaker 4 (22:20):
One of one of my one of my favorite feelings
of the year is to walk away from a draft
and monitor what I'm thinking. Sometimes I'm surprised during the season.

Speaker 1 (22:32):
But sometimes I'm not.

Speaker 4 (22:33):
The longer I play in it, the more I know
about the futures of my team, the more I can
trust that feeling. What did you think when you concluded
the draft, took the picture of the draft board, took
a look at it. You know, what do you think?
What was your feelings when the draft in?

Speaker 2 (22:53):
Yeah, I mean I really liked, like, I really like
how how it fell. Like, Uh, you know, you get
a lot of like a lot of drafts where you
are hoping to get a guy and it always seems
like someone nabs them before you get a chance to
get your guy, and you have to take someone who's

(23:14):
maybe your second choice, you know, or third choice. And
with this one, it definitely did feel like when it
came around to me, like the guy I wanted wasn't
taken right before me. And I got a lot of
guys that I I that I had targeted in other drafts,
that I was targeting, you know, just this year that
I really liked.

Speaker 4 (23:34):
So you're you're kind of holding your breath and then
all of a sudden, the sigh of relief when you.

Speaker 5 (23:39):
Always, oh, well, it's a really good feeling. I did
not experience that in Las Vegas in September. Now I'm
glad you did, and I can see by your roster.
I'm going to ask you some follow up questions about
that because my last question now for Bulky Takes Away?
What spot did you draft your most successful team from?

Speaker 2 (24:01):
Oh, you mean what spot was I in? I think
I was four, I was three five.

Speaker 4 (24:10):
Okay, okay, very good, so.

Speaker 2 (24:14):
So and I was bijon and like you know, there
were other options, but like I kind of felt like
this year was a year where you like to have
that belcow back, and I felt like if I took him,
i'd have a chance to get some really good white

(24:36):
outs in the second third round. So when you know,
when Bijeon was there, it was just like I was.
I didn't really have much to think about. I was like,
no ready, I was just nabbed him.

Speaker 1 (24:49):
Yeah, okay, So I want to follow up on that
number one, Ryan, number two. I want to bring this
up right now if I can find the proper YouTube
comment on that, which I mean I may or may
not be able to find here. Derek Bush some relation.

Speaker 2 (25:06):
I'm assuming that's my brother.

Speaker 1 (25:08):
So there you go, and I most on YouTube tonight.

Speaker 2 (25:12):
I'm gonna say, I don't even want to hear there's
a whole lot of you gotta you've got a real
following here, brother, I'll.

Speaker 1 (25:19):
Tell you what. So, Ryan, So your brother Derek posts
on YouTube tonight for all the people who are listening
to this and not seeing this, his comment is, what
about the deadweight Mark Khan you have to partner with?
And I'm assuming Mark Kahan is sitting in first place
with you in the FFPC made event. This was a

(25:39):
guy that you drafted at least with this live in
Las Vegas team that's sitting at first. I'm guessing he
was your partner for both Live and Las Vegas teams.

Speaker 2 (25:48):
Yes, that's very true, so I, yeah, I do have
to include him on this. So we Yeah, we partner
up and nobody talks fantasy more than he and I
just anyway, you know, even before we got into this.
So yeah, he's my guy, and uh, he definitely deserves

(26:10):
just as much credit as me.

Speaker 1 (26:12):
I say, the.

Speaker 4 (26:13):
Reference to mister Kahn and dead Waite, maybe the green
eye of envy there, Balky from some of the other
characters in the I think that's.

Speaker 1 (26:21):
What might be going on talking you and you have a.

Speaker 4 (26:23):
Question about Clam Yes, I do.

Speaker 1 (26:26):
Uh, and and and Ryan you kind of alluded to
this and we can move on past it. But when
it came to you at one oh five, b Jhon
Robinson's out there, ceedee lamb is out there. Was it
just the case of like you thinking that you'd be
able to get some pretty serious wide receivers in round two,
round three, round four and beyond it, like you looked

(26:47):
at this Andre like, Okay, we have to take Robinson
here and we'll figure out the wide receiver thing later.
But Robinson at the one oh five, this is a gift.
How were you know, what was the thought process at
one oh five there when you had Robinson Lamb and
others staring you in the face.

Speaker 2 (27:02):
It's really exactly that. Like I I do love CD,
like you know, I expect him to have a really
good year. I could even see him beating wide receiver one,
you know, with that Dallas offense. But yeah, for it
was really it's a positional thing, you know, like I
wanted that belcou running back, and like you said, I knew,

(27:24):
like I mean, we ended up with you know, Pooka Nakua,
Like I knew that there'd be guys like that that
I could fill in my roster. There were a few
receivers also that I kind of knew that I was
targeting a little later that I thought could have big years.
So yeah, it was even though I liked CD a lot,
it wasn't that hard of decision for me.

Speaker 4 (27:47):
I like that, I like that that's a good and
Balky just satisfied some of the answers you might you
might be able to inform. It's just what the chances are,
what the percentile chances of even getting jon at at
number five. And I will remind all of your envious
cats that were you know, envy Fellaws is one of

(28:09):
the is the only one of the seven Deadly sins
that you get no enjoyment at all from, So you
know you don't we don't want to have that envy.
But I tell you something I'm envious of, and I
can tell that you went and got your guys.

Speaker 1 (28:25):
I did not do enough of that in the draft
this year.

Speaker 4 (28:28):
That's why I see that JSN, who is who has
been a bargain pick for some was your third round pick.
It does not matter you picked him over Adams, which
I probably would not have, you picked him over Harrison,
which I would have. You picked him over another couple
of receivers that that I like, especially Wilson. But my

(28:51):
question to you is did you see this level of
production coming from Seattle, because because honestly, I didn't, And
do you see it continuing because we we alluded to
the power of this running game and that that's how
this team is going to have to win. So there's

(29:11):
a lot of questions there, But best of all, congratulations
on picking that player.

Speaker 2 (29:16):
Yeah, well, just on JSN, Like he's a guy that
I definitely was targeting in a lot of my drafts.
I believe I had him last year on one of
my FFPC teams. I just felt like he is super
talented and he just seemed ready to take on the

(29:41):
wide receiver one mantle that he was being handed in Seattle.
You know now that a who's what's his name from
Pittsburgh is gone? Who is their wide receiver one last year? Metcalf?

Speaker 1 (29:59):
Sorry?

Speaker 2 (30:00):
Yeah, so like with him gone, you know, yeah, I
think he's just as talented as some of those other
guys that I that I you know, passed up on.
And now that he's the one there, I just I
just yeah, I just really like I really like his game.
I you know, I think he's just as good as

(30:23):
any of some of those guys I passed, I mean Adams.
I was a little concerned just because of the share
with Pooka. I mean, Puka goes out and has fourteen
catch d's like all the time.

Speaker 4 (30:37):
It's like crazy and problems So far, what's that It
hasn't been a problem so no, And and.

Speaker 2 (30:45):
Like you know, I could look back in you know,
later weeks and and think, you know, maybe I didn't
pick the right guy. We'll have to see how how
it bears out, but that was that was kind of
the thing with Adams and like why we didn't you know,
like him as much?

Speaker 1 (31:02):
Yeah, and and Rubio comes in with a with a
good comment here fellas, uh you know about the back
and as people are talking about these injuries. Uh, you
know you the way that that communication was going around
the room in Las Vegas, it was like Stafford would
never walk again. You know, That's that's how serious it was.

Speaker 4 (31:23):
And you know, I I give a tip of the
hat to U drafters that I'm not sure who did here,
but who took McCaffrey after all the words were out
that he was not going to play or maybe not
be available or what. And you know those guys, those
guys know how to to take the best of a

(31:45):
gamble and get the upside out of it.

Speaker 1 (31:47):
So it's congratulations to you.

Speaker 4 (31:49):
And and there's people like that that win, you know,
it's people that know how to do that.

Speaker 2 (31:53):
Yeah, McCaffrey's like a I mean, you know, he's he's
a huge damble with a huge upside every year and
a very big downside.

Speaker 1 (32:03):
So like.

Speaker 2 (32:06):
If I'm there, if I'm drafting in the nine spot
or the ten spot, and he and he's there at
that point like sometimes I'm like, I gotta roll the
dice to do it, but I don't. He's not a
top five guy anymore just because of the risk to me.

Speaker 1 (32:23):
Yeah, I'll bring this up right now, just to make
it known, Dave Klugi from football Guys, there is nobody
higher in the industry on Jackson Smith and Jigma than
this guy heading into uh FFPC drafts this year, the
final weekend of FFPC drafts, and my whole thing was

(32:43):
as far as Smith and Jigba goes, which obviously has
been awesome for you so far. Ryan, I was nervous
about a offensive coordinator coming into Seattle who had a
reputation for running the football replacing an offensive coordinator that
had a reputation for throwing the football a lot. Right,
That's why Ryan Grubb was fired because they didn't run

(33:05):
the football enough. And that's what Mike McDonald parted ways.
So then they bring in Clint Kubiak, who again has
this reputation for running the ball, running the ball successfully.
What I failed to realize, and Ryan, maybe you realize this,
and I did not. The track record for Clint Kubiak,
number one wide receivers is really really good, and that's

(33:30):
what I missed on Smith and Jig. But I have
him in a few spots this year, obviously not enough,
but I think what he's done in the first two
weeks is going to continue throughout not only the FFPC
regular season, but the FFPC League playoffs and the FFPC
Championship Round. So you are set up very very well
in my opinion in that, Ryan, for sure, I want

(33:51):
to float it back to Juvante Williams. I have a
board here up on YouTube for anybody who's watching this.
Ryan was drafting from the number five spot here tonight.
H This was a draft that took place on Friday. Ryan,
am I correct in saying this?

Speaker 2 (34:08):
Yep?

Speaker 1 (34:08):
Okay? So this was after the Cowboys Eagles game on
Thursday night. You went ahead and took Javonte Williams at
the seven zero five in this draft. Some would say
what was aggressive, some would say it was wrong, but
through two weeks it looks like an absolute bargain. When
you were looking at this draft knowing that you had

(34:29):
the free look, knowing that whatever Javonte Williams did in
Week one, you could easily supplant him in your starting
lineup with whatever running back, receiver, tight end that that
you had drafted, knowing that you could put him in.
How big of a target was Javonte Williams? And quite frankly,
Ryan to piggyback on that, what do you think is
going to happen for Williams the rest of the year

(34:50):
after he kind of duplicated what he did in Week
one in week two as well.

Speaker 2 (34:54):
Yeah, that was exciting for sure. Yeah, we definitely uh
probably took him earlier based off of that performance the
night before, and it certainly worked out the previous year
for if you remember, Saquon uh exploded the night the

(35:18):
night before the drafts a lot of the drafts, and
he ended up, you know, going way higher than I
think like he would have if he hadn't had that day.
I mean obviously different levels of backs and different levels
of player, but like we did put some stock into
the fact of, like, let's get a win out of

(35:42):
the gate, Like, you know, he's in your lineup, eak one,
let's let's you know, let's start strong and and then
going forward, I mean someone's someone's got to eat in
that backfield, and you know, a lot of these rookies
get hyped up that are to me, and it's like,

(36:03):
you know, they don't. They don't always pan out right away.

Speaker 4 (36:07):
It's it's all it's all blue. All they wanted to
talk about all summer was blue. Williams was balky. You
might have you got have been a potster on that.
But when I look at this draft, right and once
again I give you big kudles for what you're doing
here because it's it's like the people you were drafting

(36:28):
with believed everything they heard and didn't believe anything they saw.
And and yes, Williams is is uh Williams. The thing
I see about him that I love. He's on the
field on third down, Uh yeah, and he's running to
the second level better than a lot of running backs

(36:48):
that I've seen in the league. So, with the danger
of repeating myself, I just I don't get it, but
I had in my situation, I was drafting Williams either
around or two ahead of where you did.

Speaker 3 (36:59):
And to have.

Speaker 2 (37:02):
Right, Ryan Lean, it's also a heavy I mean, Dallas
is going to put up points and someone's got to
get those goal line carries, and he's a guy who
can handle handle that.

Speaker 1 (37:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (37:14):
I don't expect him to do what he's doing every week.

Speaker 1 (37:18):
But you don't know, No, don't I hope.

Speaker 2 (37:23):
I hope for sure. But you know, I we we
we're excited to have him.

Speaker 1 (37:28):
I mean, I think I guess so. So Ryan, let
me ask you this. This is coming from Scott Hoyd.
I posted it. Uh he's he's watching us on YouTube
tonight and he has a question about your Seattle Seahawks
wide receivers. You you guys obviously took Jackson Smith and
jig Book here at the three oh five, but later
on in the draft you also took Cooper Cup in

(37:50):
the tenth round. Scott Hoyt wants to know what was
your thoughts on drafting Cooper Cup when you already had
Jackson Smith and jig But did that come into the
forefront of your mind when you decided to take Cooper
Cup in the tenth round? Did it not make a
difference at all? Can you just kind of give us
the lay of the land, knowing that you had Smith
a Jigba, and then in the tenth round you decided

(38:12):
to take Cup as well.

Speaker 2 (38:15):
I'm usually not crazy about doing that. I don't love
having the second guy when I have the first guy.
It was really kind of a situation of like I
really felt he was the best available guy, you know,
just forgetting that I have JS. And it's just like

(38:38):
I kind of felt like he slid pretty far down
where I think we I think we let him go
around ahead and we almost looked at him there and
and by the time he was there and in the
tenth round, I was just like, you know, he's the
best guy on the board to me, and so I'm
gonna take him.

Speaker 4 (38:57):
And I think that's I think that's brilliant decision in
your process, especially when the fact that you look at
the number one receiver there and he is quick, and
he is flexible and he makes good feet moves.

Speaker 1 (39:09):
But how big is jsn Faulkey? What's the size on him?
Oh you want to get his measurements? Yeah, yeah's expecting this.

Speaker 4 (39:18):
Yeah, buddy, I'll tell you curse.

Speaker 2 (39:20):
I think of him as a small guy, but like, yeah.

Speaker 4 (39:23):
Well he's he's he's lengthy, he's got long.

Speaker 1 (39:26):
Arms, but he's he's as as REESA fans character in
The Replacements would say, he's Whitey Jackson's with a jig
about six. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (39:37):
Well then you know there's nothing wrong with that size
for a number one receiver. I okay, I've been bragging
on you. Now I can quit doing that because you
in you went tight end. You took two of my favorites.
You well know you took one of my favorite Titians
and one of my least favorite Titians. I have I
all summer long, especially on something called the pro versus Joe's.

(40:02):
I had to fight the pros on drafting Goddard. It's
not that I don't care for Goddard. There's a number
of reasons why I don't why I like other tit
Ends better. But availability is the greatest ability, and here
he is unavailable again. But congratulations on picking up zach Ertz.
Now you've got injury bug down there with a quarterback,

(40:25):
and you've got a veteran quarterback rolling off the bench
to try to make an effort here for the commanders,
and a lot of other changes in the offense. You're
happy with zach Ertz. You're gonna row with zach Ertz.
I mean, I am your thoughts on Ertz, And if
you want to defend your Goddard selection, I'll let you.

Speaker 1 (40:48):
And Ryan before you answer, I will just say that.
A few hours ago, Dallas Goddard was listed as I
don't think he's listed on the injury report at all.
He is available this weekend against.

Speaker 2 (41:01):
Yeah, go ahead. I think from what I hear too,
I think he think he's gonna play. And to me, it's, yeah,
it's a tough decision, you know. I think I wouldn't
have maybe I don't think we would have drafted god
Her if we didn't have Hurts, but having Jalen Hurts.

(41:25):
And our theory on the tight end is if you're
not going to get one of those top two maybe
three guys, then we wait, you know, and and let
other people take a lot of those you know, mid
tight ends, and there's guys you know that you get

(41:45):
late that that they're just as good. I mean, look,
you know, I I think Tucker Craft is a perfect example,
you know. I mean, like.

Speaker 4 (41:55):
These guys just going with.

Speaker 2 (42:02):
Got Her. But I think I think we had targeted
We were like I we targeted her. H ERT's like,
you know, I felt like going with God or you know,
you got to get somebody else, you know, you know,
you got to back them up with somebody. Yeah, And
I was surprised how Earth's fell in a lot of drafts.

(42:24):
I mean, I think he had something like eighty catches
last year, and like he.

Speaker 1 (42:30):
Was in the sixties.

Speaker 2 (42:31):
But at sixty, okay, I thought it was.

Speaker 1 (42:36):
Real quick.

Speaker 2 (42:36):
I thought it was higher. But like, but he's if
you compare him to a lot of the guys going
in that range, I mean, he's on I think another level.
And I don't I don't know why he kind of
doesn't get the respects you know that that he should, right, Ryan.

Speaker 1 (42:54):
Let me ask you this too, And and this is
something I brought up with a lot of f FBC
Live players that were drafting at the Horseshoe Convention Center. Uh,
you know, uh, Casino, the the rise of Dallas Goddard
did not happen after that Thursday night game. You know,
we we saw the plummet of aj Brown, we saw
the plummet of DeVonta Smith, but Dallas Gotter Crost seven

(43:18):
balls h that then opening weekend or that opening Thursday
night game against Dallas, and he didn't really rise and
drafts it all. Were you surprised at that? And the
fact that he is active this week knowing that the
Eagles have not really been throwing the ball a whole lot.
And when they have, it's not been to A J. Brown,
It's not been to de Vonta Smith. It's been to

(43:39):
Dallas Goddard.

Speaker 2 (43:41):
Yeah, I mean he you know, when he plays, he's
he's consistent. I mean, he put you know, he he
gets his catches. And I'm not too worried about Phillies offense.
They'll they'll figure it out. I mean they'll, they'll, they'll
start throwing the ball and uh yeah, as long as
he's healthy and he's out there, he's gonna get he's
gonna get his catches and he's gonna get in the

(44:04):
end zone. And uh yeah. And and this week, you know,
with it were Earth's it scares me with Jaden out,
I mean it's it's a different situation. And that's why
it's a tough decision. It wouldn't be if Jaden was playing.
I would definitely one hundred percent no, we were gonna

(44:24):
go with Earth. But it's it's now. It makes it,
It makes it interesting, and I'm actually probably leaning God her.

Speaker 4 (44:34):
Make it interesting. That's exactly right. Let's get let's get
you buying the bourbon on it or me buying the
bourbon on it well next year run at h at
the f f PC Live main event in Las Vegas.
I'll take receptions and arts, and you may have receptions
in God good, don't.

Speaker 1 (44:55):
Let me bring this. Let me bring this up right now.
Adam Hahn, a long time viewer listener of this show, says,
longtime smart guy, long time smart guy, Jalen and not
in a bad way, Jalen Hurts and Saquon Barkley are
the only Fantasy relevant Eagles right now. Occasionally he's wrong,
but for Permar ninety nine, also chiming in that Matthew

(45:17):
Stafford is going to push Philly this week. Now, Ryan,
if I was to pose this question to you, and
I'm going to bring it up right now and give
you some context on this game, which stinks that this
is the one o'clock game. I thought this was going
to be in the four o'clock window on Sunday. It's not.
It's a one o'clock game. It is what it is.
This total is at forty four and a half. The
Eagles are at minus three and a half in this game.

(45:40):
Rams and Eagles both coming in this game at two
to zero. Am I on a bounds when I say that,
we could see the Eagles passing game take a step
forward in this game. We could see a potential shootout
with Brown Smith, Nakua, DeVante Adams. We could see these
guys trading blows back and forth. I feel like there

(46:01):
is more than a non zero chance we see that.
But our friends in the desert would say, we're probably not,
as the total on this game is less than forty
five right now.

Speaker 2 (46:11):
Yeah, that is surprising. I mean, I guess they are
two pretty good defenses, but like you know, yeah, game
I mean, game script definitely comes into play. But you know,
I I think it's a bold statement about hertz And
and Saquon. But I do, I do understand like the sentiment,

(46:31):
because like I'm not crazy about the Eagles wide receivers.
Like you know, part of the reason I like jsn
over aj Brown is just like you just never know
who's gonna who's gonna, you know, pop off each week
with them, So I do stay away from their receivers.
So I do get what he's saying. But yeah, I

(46:54):
mean I think that the Rams could you know, push
push the Eagles and and you know kind of you know,
light a fire and maybe start start that offense up.
I can see that happening for sure.

Speaker 1 (47:09):
Yeah. I defer to what you and Adams say there.

Speaker 4 (47:11):
Adam came out a little strong with it because I
think those other players are relevant in an offense like this.
But when you have a quarterback and a running back
that dominates so much red zone activity, you're in a
situation of your wide receivers and fantasy points being a
bit discounted there. That's that's definitely well. Okay, let's let's

(47:34):
keep it on the East coast. Since you, oh, real quick, Pharrell,
I want to bring this up real quickly.

Speaker 1 (47:40):
This is something I found out and and maybe it's
a nothing burger. Maybe it's something as no, it's We
often do not break news on this show at ten
to eleven Eastern time on Friday nights. Sometimes we do.
This is not one of those times. If I look
at touchdown passes on the year, we have Jared Goff

(48:05):
and just touchdowns passes golf with six, Lamar Jackson with six,
Josh Allen has five, Aaron Rodgers has five. On the year.
We scroll down, we see Jaden Daniels with three. We
see Russell Wilson with his big week two with three,
and we got to keep scrolling down and scrolling down.

(48:25):
Daniel Jones with two on this, Patrick Mahomes with two,
We have to keep scrolling down, and we see that
Jalen Hurts Right now, ladies and gentlemen, zero point zero
passing touchdowns, you know, hold on, hold on. To quote
Dean Wermer from Animal House, pat drunk and stupid is

(48:50):
no way to go with life. Stick Hurts with Narry
a touchdown pass I'm gonna leave this up to you
right now, Ryan does Does Hurts finally crack in the
touchdown passing category this weekend? Do we get this passing
game on track with Hurts Brown Smith? I know you
kind of alluded to it with the last question we asked,
but just you're and I'm asking you this from like

(49:13):
a selfish standpoint too, where I have to kind of
figure out what I'm doing with my eels in my
lineups this week? Does Hurts Brown and Smith? Do they
get it going this week against the Rams or do
I have to wait another week?

Speaker 2 (49:25):
Well, first of all, to the point of him having
zero passing touchdowns as a Hurtz owner, fancy owner, I
don't care. Why would I care. I mean, yeah, he's
guaranteed to run one in like practically it's like a

(49:46):
weekly thing. You know, you want at least you know,
you a lot of times too. Like if I'm a
Saquan owner, then you know I don't like Hurts getting
all these touchdowns. But like you know, yeah, as as
an owner, like I drafted him for the touch push,
not because he's throwing you know, zero touchdown brown.

Speaker 4 (50:09):
But he'll catch up.

Speaker 2 (50:11):
Yeah, eventually he's gonna you.

Speaker 4 (50:13):
Know, he's gonna catch up.

Speaker 1 (50:15):
Ye.

Speaker 4 (50:16):
Balky brought up some interesting things in that question, and
in that I love the way you presented that, Balalky, Well,
I would have done more of a shorthand kind of
presentation in that, and I would just say that you
know that Pittman has the same number of touchdown passes.

Speaker 1 (50:34):
And then that's how I would have presented that. And
by the way, it's Ron Jaworski this year as well.
It took to ten fifty two to get Pittman in here.

Speaker 4 (50:44):
You know, last week we did say, we did say,
don't start Pittman, he'll get you maybe twelve, and he
got eight and so we were right about that.

Speaker 1 (50:53):
But all summer long, Balkie.

Speaker 4 (50:55):
We said, Jared Goff playing at home, drafting like and
play him at home, and it worked out.

Speaker 1 (51:03):
It worked out pretty good this last week.

Speaker 4 (51:05):
But now I've got something that all summer long they
talked about and run I need your help with this.
The running back situation down in Washington has been intriguing
all year long, and now the beloved Austin Eckler, he's
through for this year. Jacory Crosskey Merritt was all anyone

(51:26):
could talk about until we got to Las Vegas.

Speaker 2 (51:30):
Another one of those rookies.

Speaker 1 (51:32):
Yeah, well, you know, we got to Las Vegas, everybody
talked and talked about him, and he earned the conversation
because he was fantastic in camp and in preseason.

Speaker 4 (51:40):
He showed a lot of skills. He showed a lot
of skills during the draft and evaluation process. What happened
when we got to Las Vegas is balkey, do you
have any numbers to support it? But he was going
up the boards and then all of a sudden, he
was going down the boards. I took advantage of that
in some places. I think he's a real player. I
think he's a real player, and I think he's going

(52:02):
to be a very, very adequate to get better rookie
fantasy running back for anyone that has him on their roster.
He may not shine from day one, but he's going
to get there. I like him in the past game.
I like him in the rush game. Were you as
high on this player or did you avoid this player
throughout the drugs?

Speaker 2 (52:25):
I avoided him, I and not. It's not specifically him.
I I just avoided the situation. I tried to. I
actually did end up with Eckler, but yeah, I was
certainly not targeting anyone in that backfield. It just scared

(52:45):
me off. I didn't know where the touches were gonna be.
I didn't know, you know, who was gonna who was
gonna get what? So I I didn't. I didn't target him,
even though I did hear a lot of a lot
of good things about him, and and now, like you know,
I this week actually grabbed Chris Rodriguez off of the

(53:08):
waiver wire because I kind of we we kind of
like him now to you know, maybe step up and
especially with goal line touches. I mean, he's he's a bruiser.
You know, they don't they don't have anyone like him
now on that on that roster. So but yeah, I didn't.
I stayed away, And but I think he'll be I

(53:31):
I do think he's talented, and I think, like a
lot of these rookies, he'll as the season goes on,
he'll he'll get better, you know, and he'll he'll he'll
be a good, good back. But I stayed away.

Speaker 1 (53:44):
And it's interesting the teams try to develop rookies to
get them better in the league with with smaller rosters.
It used to be that the rookies would hit the wall,
you know, they run out of gas, poor conditioning, not
necessarily ready for the NFL game. Uh, And there has
been a significant change in that over the last few years. So, okay,
I was just curious.

Speaker 4 (54:04):
I was trying to find you one rookie on this
team that you would have been targeting that you just
didn't grab.

Speaker 1 (54:10):
But yeah, well let me ask you this, Ryan, speaking
of rookie running backs, there's been a lot of people
that are pushing the panic button on Ashton Genty, on
Omarion Hampton, on Trevon Henderson, and I don't know how
you felt about these rookie running backs coming into the season.
For me, it's way too early to say that these

(54:33):
guys are bus It took for like, I think it
was six quarters of NFL action before I saw people
on x comparing Ashton Gent to Trent Richardson six quarters
six quarters, That's all it took. And for me, I like, listen,
you draft these rookie running backs, you have to exercise patients.

(54:54):
This was an historic year for running backs in the
class here, and I think that these guys are going
to pay off. And when I drafted him, I didn't
necessarily think that they'd be paying off in September or October.
I drafted these guys for November. I drafted these guys
for December. Is that the way that you're seeing this
running back class as well?

Speaker 2 (55:17):
Yeah, but I did think that that a couple of
these a couple of these guys Genty and Hampton, I did.
I thought they would get off to a better start.
But uh, I'm not worried. I'm not worried about it yet,
you know, And and I'm biased. I'm I'm an East
Coast guy, but I've been a Raiders fan my whole life.

(55:37):
Bo Jackson was my hero when I was a kid,
and so I started rooting for them when I was young,
and I you know, stuck with him now through you know,
thick and thin, mostly thin, but uh yeah, so I
you know, I I had hoped he would come out
of the gates stronger, but yeah, and to not worried

(56:00):
at all. Really, I mean, it's way too early for
these guys to you know, to pass any judgment or
decide what they're going to be.

Speaker 4 (56:08):
But it's not too late, Baulky to break out the chain.
You know, Ryan said it from an early from an
early time, the same way with me.

Speaker 1 (56:18):
Ryan is fantastic to see that. Uh.

Speaker 4 (56:22):
The one thing that we can say about cross Key
Merritt is he now has you know, we started the
show talking about, uh uh the Seattle running back situation,
and at least in Washington, I think it's his backfield.

Speaker 1 (56:36):
You know.

Speaker 4 (56:37):
We we saw Ali Gordon last night and Olie Gordon
was very hot rookie that everybody wanted to draft, some
some established drafters drafting him as high as eleventh and
twelfth round. And and I really love what he does,
you know, with the ball.

Speaker 1 (56:52):
But that's not going to be his backfield, you know,
that's in Miami. So it's we'll just see what happens.
It's pretty fascinating stuff.

Speaker 4 (57:00):
Look at him, he's got the beret on.

Speaker 1 (57:02):
Two. John Terry has already check commented, made this possibility
for me. I put it on two weeks in a row.

Speaker 6 (57:09):
I knew John was in the chat room tonight, so
I was gonna put my balky beret on in honor
of the f f PC live events being held at
Paris Casino in Las Vegas. So uh Balkey w Griswold
chiming in on the show.

Speaker 1 (57:25):
So glad to be joined by one Ride Farrell. Listen,
we are running out of time here, but we do
have time for one final question for Ryan Bush, who
is leading the f f PC main event heading into
Week three. Ron I don't I don't.

Speaker 4 (57:38):
Think he can answer this question because he's not geared
this way. But maybe you do have one.

Speaker 1 (57:44):
Maybe you do have one player.

Speaker 2 (57:47):
This isn't gonna be about Crosskey Merit again.

Speaker 4 (57:49):
Yeah, yeah, we're still gonna talk about Yeah. I want
to get a history. I want to see why the
Raiders didn't drafting.

Speaker 1 (57:55):
Damn it. But I want to know a player that
you just would not have a part of. I mean
that player for me. We already talked about God it,
I appreciate the player as a football player.

Speaker 4 (58:06):
Didn't want to have a part of the same thing
with Kittle. Is there somebody that you didn't want to draft?
And is there somebody that you had to have that
you were sitting there and you were so surprised he was.

Speaker 1 (58:18):
Available to you. You you could.

Speaker 4 (58:20):
Hardly sit in your chair with screaming out his name. Well,
those players part of your part of your makeup for
this twenty twenty five draft.

Speaker 2 (58:33):
Definitely like the guy I didn't really want a part
of DK Metcalf. Are really like that whole Steeler situation
that to me, it was like I avoided it like
the plague. And you know, I just I don't think

(58:55):
Aaron Rodgers has a lot left I you know, I
don't like the drama that he brings. I just don't know.
I feel like, you don't know what's gonna happen. And
and so yeah, that DK Metcalf really was one that
I was just like, let him, let other guys take him.
I you know, I think he's talented. I like the guy,

(59:17):
but and I just don't like the situation that he's
in as a as a number one receiver. So that
was one I can't I'm not sure about, like, you know,
a guy I I just was jumped. I mean j
s n was really that guy, Like I like, yeah,
he was. He was our guy and we and we
were gonna get him if we could, because I just

(59:38):
really thought he was gonna make a big jump.

Speaker 1 (59:43):
And and and and the other thing to to keep
in mind here and and I mentioned I think I
mentioned this at the top of the show. Smith and
Jigba was a guy that I was drafting early, like
in February and March and April, May, June, whatever. And
I got scared of by the pundits out there telling
me that, look, no Ryan Grubb there anymore, which means

(01:00:05):
it's gonna be the Kenneth Walker and Zach Charbonnay show,
which it kind of has been. At the same time,
Smith and Jigba is like what top five, top six,
top seven in the NFL and Fantasy points right now,
And I'm kind of ticked off that I didn't draft
more of him, you know as the season went on,
Well you didn't play enough Bulky in Kentucky. That's yes,

(01:00:28):
you know what I'm what I am right now. Farrell
I'm a wish I had I wish I had drafted
more Jackson Smith than Jigba, and now here I am
stuck in like my three shares or four shares of
JSN or whatever. You know what it's when I could
be Ryan Bush, who is sitting coming into week three
a Top the FFPC Main Event with Jackson Smith and

(01:00:49):
Jigba in the third round. Ryan, we will continue to
follow you on x at League League seventy seven, and
we will continue to follow your exploits a Top the
f FPC Main Event leader board. This is fun, man,
Like I like we uh Scott Hoite trend in. You know,
It's it's fun to be up there at the top

(01:01:11):
in week three. Hopefully you're there at the end. Still,
this is kind of trippy, right when you think about,
you know, two three four thousand people in this FFPC
Main Event and heading into week three you see your
name a top that list.

Speaker 2 (01:01:24):
That's gotta be awesome, man, it's it is. It's really cool.
It was like, I was really surprised when I saw
it in week one that we were up there, we
were close to the top, and then to move into
the top spot. Yeah, even if it's early. It's it's
really cool and uh, you know, especially too, like only

(01:01:44):
being our second year in the FFPC, but like I
we love it, like I plan on being in it,
you know, as a long time, and it's really cool.
It's a really it's a really cool thing. We love
the live draft part of it. I mean that's you know,
that's part of the fun for us. And uh, but yeah,

(01:02:06):
I appreciate what you guys are doing. It's it's great what.

Speaker 1 (01:02:10):
You're gonna do.

Speaker 4 (01:02:11):
If you're gonna be mister Bush, I'm just I'm gonna
be mister I'm gonna be Yeah, you go, hang.

Speaker 1 (01:02:17):
On, ye silent partner exactly. Well, speaking of the silent Partner,
Derek already saying we should have a weekly segment with
Ryan on this show. Listen, I'm not a post to that.
We'll see how this this show, this show goes. But
I also have to ask Dom Gazetti pointing out here
and he asked Derek about this, and Ryan, I'll ask

(01:02:38):
you this on the air. How did you guys end
up hearing about the f f PC.

Speaker 2 (01:02:43):
That was my partner And I can't say exactly how you.

Speaker 1 (01:02:47):
Heard, but uh, but he told you about it.

Speaker 2 (01:02:50):
Yeah. He asked me if I wanted to do it,
and I said absolutely, and uh, he's ah, he's a
big gambler and he's got his finger on the pulse
of all that everything that's going on. So yeah, he
found it. I jumped at the chance, and we've just
had a great time doing it the last couple of years.

Speaker 4 (01:03:10):
So contraw that stirs the dream.

Speaker 2 (01:03:14):
Yes, yeah, I don't want to at all diminish his
role because we're equal partners and even though I'm on
here tonight, he does a lot. So there you go,
There you go.

Speaker 1 (01:03:29):
This is the gentleman who is the leader of the
lead team in the FFPC main event heading into week three.
His name is Ryan Bush. You can follow him on
x at League seventy seven. Ryan, thanks so much for
hanging out with us tonight. I know we kept you
a little bit longer, but this is good stuff. Ferrell's oinker,
my aincher. Give you kudos to you with everything you

(01:03:53):
accomplished this season, and if all goes according to plan,
we'll have you back on at the back end of
December early January when you're holding that big fat million
dollar check. Thank you so much for coming on tonight
and enjoy week three.

Speaker 2 (01:04:06):
My friend, yep, appreciate it. It was awesome. Thank you,
you got it.

Speaker 1 (01:04:10):
That is Ryan Bush at League seventy seven on X
Lady and Gentlemen, the leader in the FFPC main event
heading into week three. Good stuff from him. Farrell, Ryan
Bush tonight, joining the show tonight. I want to get
into a few start sick questions. Okay, with that quick,
we'll go rapid fire in this James in Philadelphia, JK

(01:04:33):
Dobbins or David Montgomery of course, this week JK Dobbins
is at his old team. This is the JK Dobbins
revenge game. JK Dobbins at the Chargers, or you could
start David Montgomery at the Ravens. This is Monday Night
football this week.

Speaker 4 (01:04:48):
I don't want anything to do with the Ravens defense
trying to play against that. Let's let's let's work the
revenge game and let's see the Chargers Denver work out.

Speaker 1 (01:04:58):
So you're going this seems like open and shut for you.
I had to think about this one. Yeah, okay, well
I came to the same conclusion as you for what
it was. But it wasn't wasn't that easy. But Yeah,
I'm playing Dobbins here, Andy in Bizmarck, North Dakota, one
of the Dakota's here chiming in and he wants to

(01:05:19):
know Ricky Pearsall or Wandale Robinson now to give you
a little bit of background on what's going on here.
Wandale Robinson had an a dot that he hasn't seen
since his collegiate days at the University of Kentucky with
Russell Wilson just absolutely blowing up in week two. And
then you have Ricky Pearsall who is healthy and Juwan

(01:05:42):
Jennings is not. But Juwan Jennings was not healthy coming
into week two and he led the Niners in targets
in week two. Week Ricky Pearsall had like I want
to say, like four for about forty seven fifty something
like that. He didn't blow up last week. So, Farrell,
would you be following and riding this crest of a
wave with Wandale Robinson right now or would you play

(01:06:06):
be playing Ricky Pearsall. I'm gonna be a Ricky Pearsall
guy here, easy, piersoll over Wandale Easy. I don't know
what it is. Maybe you're seeing stuff like way faster
than I am, and you're coming to it again. I
think it's Pearsall, but I lean towards Pearsall. I could
easily see Wandale Robinson having a big game again against

(01:06:28):
the Chiefs on Sunday Night Football. I lean towards Pearsall.
Farrell is heavily in favor of Ricky Pearsall here, So
I guess that's the way that we will roll with
it tonight. Dan in Bohemia and New York, Mark Andrews
the corpse of Mark Andrews or Jatavian Sanders. Farrell an

(01:06:48):
up and comer in the FFPC. In Fantasy football Football
in general, I think that guy Jatavian Sanders has seen
the better part. I don't think he's seen fifteen targets
so far, but it's been very, very close to fifteen
targets for Jatamian Sanders and Mark Andrews with one catch
in week one, one catch in week two. If you

(01:07:08):
are in the FFPC tight end premium scoring, are you
sitting Mark Andrews in favor of Jatavian Sanders right now?

Speaker 4 (01:07:16):
If you have Jatavian Sanders on your roster, you've probably
rostered him before. He's a player that you've invested time
in and he just came out the best game of
his career. You're gonna play Sanders here and you're gonna
wait to see it from Andrews, and I hope we
see it soon.

Speaker 1 (01:07:30):
From Andrews. The chatter we get into the YouTube chat
from Permar y nine, neither pick up Luke Muskrave, and.

Speaker 4 (01:07:39):
We would have to he says, I don't believe Permar
plays in the contest.

Speaker 1 (01:07:43):
We would have to let him.

Speaker 4 (01:07:44):
Know that that that Steven g has already picked up
Muskrave in every draft, so he's not available. Availability is
the greatest famility, but you know, yeah, if you're in
some basement league.

Speaker 1 (01:07:57):
Steve texted me today that he picked up Musgrave in
like five leagues on Wednesday night, so he has dialed
in on Musgrave right now. Permar ninety nine also wants
us to talk about Don Tavian Wicks and Luke Musgrave. Listen.
I'll let Ferrell talk about this in a second. But
my feeling on this is, I don't know if I'm
ready to start Musgrave this week unless I'm in a

(01:08:20):
bad situation at tight end, like if I had George
Kittle on my team and he went to IR week one,
then yeah, I would look at Musgrave, But there are
certainly plenty of other tight ends I would look at
starting ahead of Musgrave this week, including but not limited to,
Harold Tanner, Junior, Kyle Pitts, Jack Hockinson. I like all
those guys better than Musgrave this week, but I think

(01:08:42):
that in the right situation, Musgrave may pay off Farrell.
What do you make of Dantavian Wicks for the Packers
in Cleveland this week with no Jaden Reed, I just
completely defer to you on all packs of questions. I
stayed out of that wide receiver situation because it was
too confusing to me and.

Speaker 4 (01:09:04):
Up Pine for Christian Watson to return. But you know,
we also if you take a look at Thursday nights game,
when you have a quarterback that can go through his
progressions and hit eight, nine, ten different receivers and then
make plays with his.

Speaker 1 (01:09:21):
Feet and the ball what he did with the tight end.

Speaker 4 (01:09:24):
We you know, some of the greatest quarterbacks in this
league aren't necessarily your greatest fantasy quarterbacks because they know
how to move the ball around, and then you know
they're not going to lead their receivers to one hundred
catch games, whereas there's other quarterbacks that are going to.

Speaker 1 (01:09:42):
Gear in on certain type receivers.

Speaker 4 (01:09:44):
We might see a lot of that because we haven't
talked about the quarterbacks that are coming off the bench
to play this weekend, but we might see a lot
of that. So, you know, if you've got a number
one receiver like what you've got with Chase and Higgins
at Cincinnati nationally, you're going to play that. You should
play them without any hesitancy or any expectation of decline.

(01:10:05):
Their game is going to look different. You know, Browning
is going to get the ball out of his hand
much much more quickly than Burrow will, and these guys
are going to have to contribute with their feet after
the catch instead of running the Greg Rouse before the catch.
It will look different that the fantasy numbers may appear
to be the same.

Speaker 1 (01:10:24):
Scott Hoyt wants to know where's Golden And I'm gonna
point this out here, and Parrell, you said you defer
to me on Packers stuff. Always. I believe that Golden
makes a couple of big plays in this game against
Glutland on Sunday and I might be hanging myself here
when I say this, but I believe that Golden comes
away with a stat line of like two for seventy

(01:10:44):
three something like that and doesn't score. And when you're
watching that game at one pm on Sunday, you're like,
all right, Golden, here we go, and you're very excited
for it. But when the game ends and you're like, God,
that the Packers only put up twenty two points. Josh
Jacob's gotten in the end zone, you know, Luke Musgrave
got in the end zone, or Sabian Williams or some

(01:11:05):
random person, and you're like, like, why didn't Golden score.
I think that that is part of the course. I
think that Golden over the next few weeks with Jayden
Reid out and maybe Tucker Craft out over the next
few weeks. We don't know about that for sure, but
it's certainly a non zero chance of it happening. We
could see something right away in week two. I'm not
seeing it. That's just my personal opinion. Could be wrong

(01:11:27):
on this and per Mar ninety nine chiming in coach
loves the Coach loves Doan Tavian Wicks he's the best
blocker on the team. He I don't know if he's
the best blocker on the team, but he's right up there.
He might be the best blocker on the team. He's
certainly one of the best blockers on the Green Bay
Packers right now. So that's something to think about as well.

(01:11:47):
A final question here, Farrell and got Less Daniel Jones.
We have not talked about him a lot on the
show tonight, but I'll throw this out there to you
to try to figure out what we're doing with Daniel Jones.
This question from Ricky in Bakersfield, California. Daniel Jones or
Kyler Murray? Who is going up against the San Francisco
forty nine ers this week in that four o'clock PM

(01:12:10):
Eastern time window. Oh, good news. You're gonna lend.

Speaker 4 (01:12:13):
You're gonna lean into Daniel Jones and ride that way.

Speaker 1 (01:12:17):
You are, Yes, it's easy. Why why is it? Why
is it so easy for Jones over Murray this week?
For you? Have you got to watch the games, book.
I have been watching the games, Mike.

Speaker 4 (01:12:28):
They haven't awakened the punter yet. And you know there's
a certain receiver it's available to Jones that you know
makes everything work.

Speaker 1 (01:12:39):
But my concern with Daniel Jones. And I brought this
up last night when I was on the Better Sports
Network with Nate Polebolt from Optimus Fantasy. I said, listen,
Daniel joneses been crazy good these first two weeks, but
what happens if he throws for one hundred and ten
yards no touchdowns and two picks or whatever I said

(01:13:00):
on the show last night. And then you're like, God,
why would I ever start Daniel Jones over Kyler Murray
over you know any of these guys Jordan Love or
or you know, you know, any of these players that
are that are you know, roughly ranked around the same
level as as as as Daniel Jones. This week, Jared Goff,
Trevor Lawrence, you know, Bo Nicks is another one too.

(01:13:23):
And there I can't remember who brought this up. I
was listening to some show this week that that talked
about all these teams that got off to these fast
two and oh starts that inevitably folded or what what
have you, And I'm like, God, that sounds a lot
like Daniel Jones. I could totally see it happening with
Daniel Jones, but Bah, you do not see it this
way you see Daniel Jones going into Tennessee and putting

(01:13:46):
up a big game this week, a game that's that's
well worthy of being started in single quarterback leagues and
the FFPC main event and the big GERRILA.

Speaker 4 (01:13:56):
Yes, and many for many reasons which we're running out
of time that I can't listen to you, but I.

Speaker 1 (01:14:05):
I can go back to.

Speaker 4 (01:14:06):
I can go back to third year Troy Aigman, who
looked nothing like first and second year Troy Aigman. But boy,
you know what, sometimes that light comes on. It's a
perfect situation, the perfect marriage for this player.

Speaker 1 (01:14:18):
Look, it's if you have Daniel Jones on your team.

Speaker 4 (01:14:21):
You went against you went against the grain anyway, and
there was a reason.

Speaker 1 (01:14:26):
You picked this player. So now you're being rewarded. And
you probably didn't play him week one. No, you may
not have played in week two, but I would definitely
play him in front of her. That will complete our emails.
Thank you for all the emails sent to High Stakes
Fantasy Football at gmail dot com. KFFSC dot com is
where to go to check out the Kentucky Fantasy Football

(01:14:47):
State Championship. Farrell Elliott joining us tonight. You can connect
with him on x as well as Instagram at Jfarrell.
Elliott Farrell, thank you so much for hopping aboard tonight.
We will do this again next Friday when we reconvene.
Enjoy week three and enjoy the Thursday night game in
week four. Talk with you again in a week buddy.

Speaker 4 (01:15:07):
I look forward to that, and I hope someday that
I could look as good as you, and.

Speaker 1 (01:15:13):
Right, thank you, Perrel. I appreciate that. Listen. I have
to look good in a bray because I don't have
the good hair that Pharaoh Elliot has, ladies and gentlemen.
So I have to put the John Terry beret on tonight.
And kudos to John Terry for pumping this up for me.

(01:15:35):
I just wish I would have got a shot at
the Eiffel Tower at Paris Casino in Las Vegas, and
I didn't off to wait till next year. Spoiler alert,
And I'll just put this out there right now. God
bless you for tuning in seventy seven minutes into this program.
I don't know if the FFPC is going to be
at Paris next year, and I'll just put that out
there right now. Do with it what you will ladies

(01:15:56):
and gentlemen that will complete our show this evening. I
want to think Bryan Bush, Farrell Elliott, the FFPC Rob Bryce,
and of course each and ever you, every one of
you for watching. The HSFF Hour will return next Friday
at ten pm Eastern Time. As we head into week
four now, I did a four show evening this past week.

(01:16:19):
We had four shows, with one HSFF Hour which you
just watched, one FFPC Insider Access Show which you'll bring
up in a second, and then two countum two, not one,
but two rote of his High Stakes Lowdowns. On Monday,
I met with Jamie Joseph, twenty time FFPC League Champion
and a guy who brought into week two he was

(01:16:41):
third place overall in the FFPC main Event. And then
on Tuesday Derek Greer, a guy I hung out with
it in Las Vegas at Paris who is ninth place
overall in the FFPC Big Gorilla heading into week two.
Those episodes both available on the FFPC YouTube channels and
the socials. Of course, the rote his High Stakes Lowdown

(01:17:02):
roadavs dot Com, slash podcast or anywhere you get podcasts
as well. On the road of his High Stakes loadown
next week, we have Mike Edelman, who is fourth place
in the FFPC main event heading into Week three. That's
at ten pm Eastern Time on the FFPC YouTube channel.
You can check that out on Tuesday night. And then,
like I said, in case you missed, the roado is

(01:17:24):
actually I beg your pardon the f f PC Insider
Access show on the Better Sports Network. Watch a pack
on the FFPC socials or YouTube dot com, slash FFPC
Fantasy YouTube dot com, slash Better Network or Better Network
dot com. Nate Polvo from Optimus Fantasy joined me for
two full hours as we led into that Bills Dolphins game.

(01:17:46):
Talked a lot about everything trying to get your lineup
straight for Week three. And then this coming Thursday, we
will be back live from seven until nine pm Eastern
Time with established the runs, Jack Miller, who's gonna light
us with everything going on in Week four in Fantasy football,
the FFPC Weekly Challenges Live. There's no draft, there's no

(01:18:06):
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he can't have aj Brown. If you want Kenneth Walker,
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(01:18:27):
My FFPC dot com is where to go for that.
Remember to like this video, subscribe to the channel, comment
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so much for watching. For far O, for Farall Elliott,

(01:18:50):
for Ryan Busch. I'm Eric Balkman. This has been the
High Stakes Fantasy Football Hour on the FFPC YouTube network.
Your weekend officially starts now.

Speaker 3 (01:19:06):
This has been another episode of the Hot Stakes Fantasy
Football Hour, presented by my FFPC dot Com. It was
broadcast live and was watched around the world. Bulky and
Farrell will be back next week with more analysis, more interviews,
add more advice from guests much smarter than they are.
Thanks for watching, and we'll talk with you again next week.

Speaker 1 (01:19:32):
Just to let everybody know, because I feel like I
have to the way the NFL has been treating Monday
Night football this past week, I don't know if you
guys felt the same as me. I love the stacking
of a seven and ten pm Eastern Time kickoff on
Monday Night. It was awesome to see a doubleheader in action,
a true double header where you got to watch six

(01:19:52):
hours of football. We will not see that this Monday night.
Sunday night, it's Chiefs and Giants. Monday Night at eight
fifteen pm Eastern Time. It is the Lions and Ravens's
gonna be a good game. But there's only one Monday
Night game to remember this week. So without further ado,
get those FFPC Weekly Challenged lineups in, get those FFPC
waiver bids in, and I will talk with you again

(01:20:14):
on Tuesday on the road of his high stakes slowdown.
Be good to everybody and enjoy Week three.

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