Three-Time FFPC Main Event League-Winner Rob Tomasino

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
How do you handle the latest bout of injuries around
the NFL training camps? What surprising Saints receiver is somebody
that you need to keep in mind for your fantasy
drafts this weekend and beyond. And how bullish or bearish
are you on a certain NFC North rookie wide receiver. Plus,
we have the three time FFPC Main Event League Champion

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and twenty twenty five FFPC pros versus Joe's drafter, Rob
Thomasino hanging out with us tonight. We've got a great
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Friday night to here, Bulky.

Speaker 4 (05:43):
It is Friday night. What a great week it's been
for fantasy football and here with the Pros Versus Jos
and now joining you on Friday night, and our guest
is coming in from the Pros Versus Jos and yeah,
it's fantastic. A lot of good news for young players
coming out of NFL training camps, the early start to

(06:06):
this season. It's good stuff.

Speaker 1 (06:09):
It is good stuff. I mean, I'm looking at right
now and we're gonna talk about Rashid shakehedin a little bit,
but I want to just kind of go over some
quick hitters with you at the top of the show.
Number one, Elijah Royle apparently looks like a playmaker after
two training camp practices. According to John Boyle, who covers
the Seahawks for the Teamseahawks dot Com, Elijah Royle now

(06:31):
seems to be the guy there over aj Barner with
no Noah offense. You're bumping him up your tight end
premium draft boards at all. Ferrell Arroyo actually, in the
limited dynasty that I play, I made him a target
and got him. I figured that if this team scouted
him and drafted him, they had to see something. Now
I think even they're a little bit surprised about what

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they see, but they're regularly working out wide receivers, so
they're trying to change the outlook of the way that
team handles and lose the balls the air, and so yeah,
Arroyo is gonna have a spot in it. And with
his athleticism, there's a great deal of talk about the
various places he could line.

Speaker 4 (07:07):
Up all ours from last year. He's not going to
be Bowers, but he might be a little better than
anything we've seen from the Seattle tight end position in
a while.

Speaker 1 (07:18):
Next up is Jacksonville Tank Bigsby. Apparently John Shipley covers
the Jaguars for SI dot Com said if there was
one running back on this team that stood out throughout
the practice today, it was Tank Bigsby. And I think
this is worth bringing up Parrell because Tank Bigsby would
normally shine when the helmets are on, the pads are on,
and it's full you know, as close as you can

(07:38):
get to full tackle practice. It was one of those
things where it was helmets and shorts that was it
today and Bigsby stood out. I think that's good news
if you have Bigsby or if you're looking at drafting
him over Etn over Michelle Tooton over Laquin Allen. This
this is a very ambiguous backfield, and Bigsby I think
took a step forward here.

Speaker 4 (07:58):
We've had a hard time being right about the Jacksonville
backfield and the Jacksonville team over the years and there.
So this is not something that I am looking to do.
And I don't think he's gonna drop much in the
draft because of this conversation. So this is a player
that I will be personally avoiding and will somewhat underscore

(08:19):
my lack of meaningful commentary about it.

Speaker 1 (08:22):
The news was not all good today. Darnell Mooney was
the bad. We'll get into the bad here. Zach Kline,
who covers the Falcons for WSB, reports that Mooney has
a shoulder injury. Suffered a shoulder injury today and quote
will miss most of training camp. Now. We don't know
if this is the same shoulder that he hurt last season.

(08:43):
It's not like the Falcons have another guy ready to
step up into that number two role. They have Caderill Hodge,
they have Ray Ray McCloud, and then they inked DJ
Chark to a contract later today. Hopefully Mooney recovers. I
feel like I have to move him down my boards
a little bit, even though I like this player Ferrell.
When you look at that Atlanta passing game, are you

(09:04):
bumping up pits at all? Is there somebody that you
look at late? How are you drafting Darnel Mooney now
that we know he's probably gonna be missing most of
training camp over the next four or five, even six weeks.

Speaker 4 (09:16):
I was trying to warm up to him during the
pros Versus shows. The more I looked at him, the
more I was beginning to do that. But it's he's
the type of player, body, physique, and skill set that
doesn't respond well to the shoulder or joint injuries. They're
just basing things that he has to do. You know,

(09:38):
I like, I don't like any player to be injured.
But if you're in fantasy ball, if you want a
guy that struggles with injuries, you want a bigger player
that can physical still physical his way to make certain catches,
to make the proverbial fifty to fifty catch, Mooney's not
going to make any of them, and if he's hurting,
he's going to make less than them. So I don't

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know is a big He's a run after catch guy
for me too. He should be elusive. He runs sometimes
like a running back. All those things come to play
and make you somewhat skittish about him to repeat some
of the success he's had. Put that in the fact
that he is still a falcon, and you continue to

(10:22):
be further discouraged about his opportunities.

Speaker 1 (10:26):
You know, I think I am leaning towards everything you said.
I respect, obviously, but I think I'm leaning towards buying
the dip on Mooney. This is a player that I
was already in on. He was wide receiver fifty one
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(10:48):
And so I would imagine with this shoulder news, he's
probably going to be dropping in the twelfth or three.
I must be able to get him as wide receiver six.
And if that's the case, whether it's in Best Ball,
whether it's in manage leagues or whatever, I'm still on
board for that. It's a long season. He is not
a rookie, he is not a second year guy that
he needs all these reps. I don't think that there's
an obvious guy ready to step in for him. I

(11:09):
am not a DJ believer. So I think when Mooney
slips to that twelfth round, which he inevitably will do,
maybe even later than that, I'll be scooping him up.

Speaker 4 (11:18):
It's fair enough as long as it's after Pittman. Wow,
it only took us twelve minutes to get Pittman into
the conversation. Yeah, and I'm just and I agree with
everything you're saying. However, if his injury is a nagging
one throughout the year. The kind of athlete he is,
what he does to be successful could be put in peril.

Speaker 1 (11:42):
The other thing I want to bring up here we
have Rob Thomasino coming up the FFP. It's a ghos
drafter Dallas Morning News is Calvin Watkins was asked or
excuse me, asked Brian Schottenheimer, the head coach of Dallas,
about the running back situation, and Shottenheimer hinted that a
rotation could be the way that Dallas goes once the

(12:05):
season starts. Watkins listed Javonte Williams and Miles Sanders as
the two guys who are competing for the starting running
back job in Dallas. Did not mention Jayden Blue. And
obviously we saw the report last week from a Cowboys
former Cowboys coach saying that he's been lazy and they've
had to force him and kind of kick him in
the gear, kick him in the rear to get him.

Speaker 4 (12:26):
Ye.

Speaker 1 (12:27):
That's yeah, basically that's what it was. So here's the thing.
Javonte Williams has not been good in several years. Miles
Sanders has not been good in several years. I am
still like we got the KFFSE Dynasty rookie drafts going
on right now. I've gotten Jaden Blue and at least
two of them already. I'm still on board with that.
As far as redraft goes again, this is a player
I'm buying the dip on. I feel like if you
can get him as running back five, that could really

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pay off. And with the news coming out of Dallas
not being glowing, I feel like this is the opportunity
to buy Jayden Blue now before he starts turning heads
in the preseason. I agree with that.

Speaker 4 (13:01):
Players that come in and get labeled publicly lazy usually
have a chip on their shoulder, maybe as coaches that
are trying to light light the proverbial fuse in this player.
I I've seen coaches talk to players about being lazy,

(13:22):
line thinking lazy, having a hard time focus, line up wrong.
You know, there's nothing more entertaining for me than you
go to a practice and you got the guys lined
up and some coach runs screaming onto the field at
one player that he's lined up in the wrong place.
The poor players trying to figure out all these aspects

(13:42):
of the play call, and it can be a difficult
process for it. But yeah, let's let's just give the
Let's give the young player a break and see what
you see how he shakes off the lazy label.

Speaker 1 (13:54):
I want to get into New Orleans here. Rashid Shakid,
according to Aaron Summers and covers the team, says that
he put on weight this offseason to hold up better
against contact. Rashid Shahed weighs in at one hundred and
ninety pounds at the start of this season. At this
time last year, he weighed one hundred and eighty. This
is his fourth year in the league. He's coming back
from a torn meniscus that he suffered last season. Apparently

(14:17):
looked completely recovered from this meniscus, not now, but all
the way back in May. Per Matthew Paris, who covers
the Saints, he averaged sixteen point six yards per reception
in his career before he got hurt. Last year, he
was on pace for just under one thousand yards and
nine touchdowns. John Dagel from established around another process as

(14:37):
Joe's drafter that we saw this past week. Pharrell posted
that in the games win a Lave and Shahied were
healthy last year. I think it was like five four
or five games, Shih had actually out targeted Chris o'lave
by like eight or nine targets. Now, I know target,
it's like the T word on this show. We don't
like to talk about it. We like to talk about receptions.
But when you talk about where these players are going,

(15:00):
the FFPC big gorilla over the last three days. Knowing
what I just told you, what John Daegel said about
a lobby being out targeted by Rashid Shaheed, you have
to pay seventh round draft capital, sometimes sixth round draft
capital for Chris o'labby Rashid Shahed is only going to
set you back twelfth round draft capital. I'm becoming a

(15:20):
fan of Shaheed, my friend.

Speaker 4 (15:22):
I think you've been a fan for a while. Bulkie,
you know we were back in the day. We were
talking about this player before really anyone else was that
I can recall, and we've always liked him. I think
that he is tied to the quarterback Tyler Shuck. As
I recall, Shuck has great downfield accuracy and that's where,

(15:43):
especially in best Ball, you'll get your spikes from Shaheed. Now,
why is he targeted a lot? He's targeting a lot
because he gets open, and then you know he is
open and he's had quarterback. You know, say what you
will about mister Carr, There's there's a quarterback they could
run through the progressions. Now he gets at the other
end of the spectrum with a rookie quarterback. A rookie

(16:05):
quarterback can lean on a player that gets open and
has speed. And also Shaheed could look a lot different
in what they ask him to.

Speaker 2 (16:17):
Do with this quarterback.

Speaker 4 (16:18):
So I'm with you, Bulky. This is a player that
I will be targeting in the drafts and that I'm
thrilled to have on my dynasty teams that I barely
paid for I think got him off the waivers in
most cases. And I'm beginning to notice that a lot
of people is a lot of people are going to

(16:40):
catch up to this player because I'm getting a lot
of trade offers. And Scott points says, who is going
to get him the ball? Well, it'll be a rookie quarterback,
or it'll be Jay Hayner. It'll be one of those guys.
And they won't win many many games for New Orleans,
but they will successfully present this player with enough opportunities

(17:03):
to cast seventy seventy five balls. If he continues to
separate and get the yard, as you're talking about a
few touchdowns, that'll be quite an acquisition for the twelfth round.

Speaker 1 (17:14):
The level of expectation you have for a player in
the twelfth round goes increasingly down. While Scott Hoyt brings
up a good point, I think that's a question I
would ask for somebody like Olave who's going in the
sixth round, who's going to get them the ball?

Speaker 4 (17:27):
That's a good point. And Scott, you know, it's not
a bit of a mess. It's not. You've got good
young players who are competing for the position. It was
a bit of a mess last year you had an
injured veteran that can't shake it off. Now. The only
time that the New Orleans quarterback room it begins to
look like a mess to be is when they ask

(17:49):
the tight end to start playing quarterback.

Speaker 1 (17:53):
They have young players competing for the job there. How
good they are, I don't know, we'll find out, but
I think they're good enough to get the ball to
a lobby in Shaheed, and obviously Shahed if you miss
on him in the twelfth round doesn't really hurt your draft.
At all. Let's go to Washington Farrell Chris Russell, who
covers the commanders that he is not going to be
surprised if Jacory Krossky Merritt earns running back one snaps

(18:15):
at some point this season. There's been a lot of
praise for Jacory Krossky Merrit in training camp so far.
He had a four point four five forty yard dash
at the scouting combine eight point nine excuse me, eight
point two to nine RAD score, which is an elite
but whatever, the next step down from elite, that's what
he's at. Should have been an early day pick according

(18:37):
to a lot of scouts, he ends up being a
late day three pick. An early day three pick according
to a lot of scouts. He ends up going late
day three. And quite frankly, you have Austin Eckler and
Brian Robinson. There not a high bar to jump over.
And when you consider that Jacory Krossky Merrit, I do
believe that this guy is going to continue to rise
up the big guerrilla draft boards sixteen o eight running

(18:57):
Back sixty six. I'm definitely in on that. I wish
I had more shares of Merriage just to see what
happens here because I think this Washington running game is
more ambiguous than a lot of people think. I do too.

Speaker 4 (19:08):
And why didn't he get drafted. He's twenty four years old.
Why didn't he get drafted better? Well, he only played
one game his senior season, but he went down to
the East West Rine game in Texas and impressed everyone,
and that's where he began. He was the most valuable
player in that game, and people were pleased with him

(19:28):
in practice, and then he showed it in the All
Star Game. And he was a good teammate and a
great kid to be around. Three schools during his college time.
What did he not show in college? He rarely caught
the ball, which makes me think that Eckler will handle

(19:48):
third down and maybe some more. And you know, you
take a guy like Eckler and you start saying he's
going to handle a lot of the third down, Well,
then Eckler becomes something that you can consider there, becomes
a five to six catch player per game.

Speaker 2 (20:03):
You look at.

Speaker 4 (20:05):
What's going on with with Robinson. He's in the last
year of his contract, and I think they will continue
to work out running backs. They will look at guys
on the street they'll look at guys that'll be waived
and try to piece it together. But I think they
were very pleased to get this player. They like what
they've seen him, and he goes by Bill. His nickname

(20:27):
is Bill, so you can drop all the other hyphenated
names and just call him Bill.

Speaker 2 (20:33):
But I like him.

Speaker 4 (20:34):
And you know, if I'm a young quote running back
trying to get a start in this league and trying
to figure it out, you can't be in a locker
room with anybody better than Austin Ekwer.

Speaker 1 (20:45):
Given that he plays in our nation's capital, the nickname
of Bill is very fitting for ja Cory Krossky merit.
And let me tell you, as a fantasy player, I
am putting my John Hancock on that Bill and getting
him on my team. One last thing I want to
bring up before he gets where Our guests tonight, Rob Thomasino,
the three time FFPC made have been champion process. As
Joe's drafter, I feel like we just should touch on

(21:06):
this Bears thing. We're going to touch on it with
Rob as well. Ben Johnson said that Luthor Burden is
day to day after he had this hamstring issue in
May and he's still day to day Pharah. This is
like two months later that he's still dealing with court
and Cronin's reporting this from ESPN. Devin Dubernet, Olemedi Zakaias
have been taking first team reps in Burd instead. I'm

(21:28):
excited for Burden number one because of the talent, number
two because of the offense, number three because his perceived
role in the offense. And yet if this rookie can't
get on the field and he's already getting off to
a slow start, farreh, I do have a little bit
of pause before I'm drafting him in the big Gorilla
right now. People have to make this decision when it
rolls up to him in the eleventh round. Are you
taking a player like Luther Burden as the wide receiver

(21:49):
fifty five off the board? Or would you take a
guy like Shaheed Would you take a guy like Christian
Kirk or Hollywood Brown, all three receivers going after Luthor
Burden right now? How do you feel about Burden knowing
that this guy is not healthy right now trying to
get back on the field.

Speaker 4 (22:05):
Let's see if he ever does, and by the time
we get to Paris, if he hadn't been on the field.
Let's skip it. Let's lett someone else take that risk.
Of course, he'll drop beyond that fifty five probably, and
we can then reconsider what we want to do with him.
But you know, we we've talked about a We talked
about a lot of promising receivers last year. At this

(22:26):
time I was high on Malakai Corley. Malachai Corley was
at least healthy, but he did he didn't play that way,
particularly on the field, when given the opportunity to play.
So it's a problem to me. And no matter how
no matter what your scouting profile is, if you're showing

(22:46):
up hurt and staying hurt, I think we we only
get twenty draft picks. Let's let's use them on guys
that are healthy.

Speaker 1 (22:56):
I would agree with you one hundred percent on that.
I am at least eighty to ninety percent of the
time taking Shaheed right now over Burden. Will that pay
off for me? I hope so. But I also understand
that Burden is not exactly the type of player I
want to one ignore either. But yeah, the sooner he
gets on field, the better. The sooner we get to

(23:17):
tonight's interview, the better. Quite frankly, we have let this
guy nash On Crew De Tay shrimp cocktail way too long,
so let's get him on right now.

Speaker 2 (23:29):
He is.

Speaker 1 (23:30):
He was hanging out with us on Monday night during
our Pros Versus Joe's Draft coverage. He had the eleven
spot in Monday Night's draft in Pros Versus Joe's two.
We're here to night to talk to him about that
draft as well as other as his other thoughts on
drafting season this year and Pharaoh. We will not let
him get away tonight without giving us his worst fantasy

(23:53):
bad beat story, which we're gonna get to where we
say good night to him. Please welcome in back to
the show, the guy who has won three FFPC Main
Event League titles already in his career, looking for a
million dollar grand prize this year, mister Rob Thomasino, Rob,
good evening man, how are you.

Speaker 2 (24:11):
Eric Farrell? Thanks for having me, appreciate it. You guys
ice me out a little bit, but I'm good to
go now.

Speaker 1 (24:15):
Yeah, just once we get going, man, it's it's tough
to stop. It's tough to stop. I don't think we
got a chance to talk to you about this on Monday.
But when you're not playing all these FFPC leagues and
winning all these leagues, what are you doing for a living?

Speaker 2 (24:30):
So I'm born and raised in Long Island, Smithtown, about
halfway between Manhattan and the Hamptons. Went to college Gettysburg
College shout out Bullets, Pennsylvania. I worked for a distributor
of electronic components and displays Edge Electronics out in Bohemia.
It's a woman owned business. She's a terrific woman. I

(24:52):
would like to give a shout out to her. And
I also last year, my son finished up his high
school football career and I realized out in Long Island
that they needed officials. So I put my name on
a list to officiate some football games and I started
that last year and I've been doing middle school games,
which I've really enjoyed, and uh, it's a fun thing

(25:13):
to do.

Speaker 1 (25:13):
So I football officiating. So can you tell us like,
are you on the field, are you a referee or
you align judge? What are you doing for that? Rob?

Speaker 2 (25:23):
Yeah, So when they train you to do pretty much everything,
and when you're on the varsity level, you get assigned
a specific position like line judge, field judge, referee. In
the middle school typically they have three officials and you
end up being either the referee or one of the
line judges aside judges, so there's there's one guy on
each side of the field on the line of scrimmage,

(25:43):
and then the ref rooms behind the play. So I've
had I've had an opportunity to do all three and
it's fun, it's interesting, and it's a good age because
the kids are still respectful and nice, and the coaches
aren't ridiculously abusive or mean. And I'm not the type
of person that's going to take a lot of abuse,

(26:04):
so I kind of want to stay out of the
varsity level.

Speaker 4 (26:07):
There you go, Yeah, I got it. I have a
rather rotund friend who officiates youth football, and I got
a kick out of him because he told the kids
he just do not start your celebration before I can
get down the field to sew. And I saw that
actually play out.

Speaker 2 (26:25):
That's good.

Speaker 1 (26:29):
Yeah, that's all I have. I have a buddy, actually,
one of my bosses at the radio station. He is
a high school referee, and I don't think he's I
don't think he did it the last couple of years,
but for probably like ten or fifteen years, every Friday
night he was out there refereeing high school football at
the varsity level, and I'm like, dude, you're a glutton
for punishment because that to me, you don't get paid
enough to be that stressed out. And then you got

(26:49):
to deal with fans and everything. So God bless you, Rob.
And you said the coaches and the players, they're at
the right level for you right now. And I'm sure
it's enjoyable, but I think about that. I used to
be a little league and then I moved up to
babe ruth umpire no base calling balls and strikes and
on basis never again, no thanks, I'm out of that game. Man,

(27:11):
I'm on me.

Speaker 2 (27:12):
Yeah, baseball is too boring, and being an umpire is
too boring.

Speaker 4 (27:16):
You know what, it's not boring and drafting in the
pros versus Joseph ninety six hours removed. How do you
think he did?

Speaker 1 (27:25):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (27:25):
Boy? So it's funny because I told you, guys, this
is my first draft. I knew it would be a
learning experience. The good thing, best ball, Yeah, first best
ball draft, No way, the good thing. It was a
free learning experience. But uh, you know, I asked my
nephew who does a bunch of best ball drafts. I
asked Joe to Bagel guy who I see every morning

(27:47):
on my way to work, he does a lot of
best ball drafts, and they all kind of told me
the same things, And unfortunately I didn't execute a lot
of what they were telling me. When I look at
my I really if this was an f FPC main
event team, I would love it, but it's not. And
you know, we talked about things like stacking, making sure

(28:10):
you don't get stuck on any bye weeks, and taking
some risks. And then the other thing I struggled with,
believe it or not, was some of the logistics. I
didn't anticipate how quickly picks would come off the board.
Like a main event draft, do you typically have a
good minute or minute and a half or two between picks,

(28:30):
and all of a sudden, after like round eight, the
picks just started coming off the board ten to fifteen
seconds at a time. So what I probably should have
done is kind of focus more on my own picks
and less on who was coming off the board and
during more coffee. Yeah, so I struggled a little bit
with that. But that being said, you know, I'm the

(28:52):
eternal optimist. You know, when I look at my team,
I have some players that are gonna put up a
lot of points. When you have a guys like Nicole
and a Chain, those two guys could put up sixty
five seventy points on a given a week combined just
for those two players. So you know the stacking is
going to be a problem. I know that that I

(29:12):
don't have much of a stack. I do have Stafford Nkoua,
Russell Wilson, Wandel Robinson, which I'm not even sure if
that's st of the stack, but it was a good
learning experience and listen, we're going to fight to the
end and see what happens. I think where I went
kind of in the wrong direction was in round eight.

(29:34):
If you look in round eight, after I made what
I thought was seven solid picks, I was kind of
staring at my homes and saying, I feel like he's
not the right pick. But I just couldn't wrap my
arms at the time around Matthew Golden or at book
would But I think I should have because if I
would have gotten one of those two guys there, I
could have gotten bo Nicks on the turn and that

(29:56):
would have probably been a better fit for my team
having Courtland Sutton.

Speaker 1 (30:00):
So we have Rob's draft up here. You can see it.
He is from the eleven spot there. It's the one
that starts off with Nikua Chan and Cook here. And
you say that that you weren't like you would love
this if this is a main event. I don't know, man,
Like I guess I feel like you don't have maybe
some of the multi multipliers, the bonuses, you know, the

(30:21):
stacks and everything. But I feel like from a and
I can't remember what we said about this team on Monday,
but I think like from a team construction standpoint, I mean,
I think you're good at quarterback. You're definitely good at
at tight end. Like what you don't have in the
elite tight ends you have in numbers. You drafted four
of them. I think the running back corps is deep.
I thought you got some solid receivers here. I mean,

(30:41):
I do think that, Yeah, this isn't the most spectacular
team in the world, but I definitely think it's competitive.
I feel like you're selling yourself a little bit short
on this one.

Speaker 2 (30:50):
I like this squad, Rob, Thank you. I appreciate that.
That being said, you gotta be one out of twelve.
So right, yes, that's that's where it becomes a strug.
And I'm not interested in the socks, by the way,
So so listen, anything could happen. You know, if my
team stays completely healthy and I get through weeks twelve

(31:11):
and fourteen, which are going to be tricky for me
on the buys, you never know, maybe I can get
out to a lead or something.

Speaker 1 (31:17):
You you mentioned the Agbuka pick and he went to
Davis Maddock here at the nine to twelve as it were.
And obviously with the Chris Godwin news that we found
out that this guy had a second ankle procedure and
it's allegedly just to clean up. But you know, we
don't know how that's gonna go. And it certainly looks

(31:39):
like Chris Godwin is not off to the start of
the training camp and the preseason that he wanted and
that the Buccaneers wanted. So we've seen Abuka go up.
We saw Steven Irgalos who drafted and pross to Joe's
Sunday Night. He just got done with the main events
and I he said, Abuka went in the seventh round.
There is there a sweet spot, rob right, now for
you with like Buka, where where should he be going

(32:00):
in FFPC drafts? Knowing what we know about Godwin, you know.

Speaker 2 (32:05):
That's a that's a tough one only because Book is
a baller. I mean, he's an Ohio State guy. He's
got the tools. If you look at Godwin last year,
he was really going off until he got hurt. Like
Ferrell mentioned, I'm not big on drafting guys that are

(32:25):
injured ever, like guys got a hamstring, I put a
line through him because hamstrings don't go away mentally or
physically during the season.

Speaker 4 (32:33):
A lot of times.

Speaker 2 (32:35):
But you know, here's the thing. You know, you still
have Evans, right, you still have Bucky, you still have
at and you still have Godwin when he comes comes back.
McMillan was good for them last year. So I think
the key news here is that he's gonna get opportunity, right,
So he has an opportunity to ball. Mayfield came out

(32:58):
today and said maze about him, said he already knows
most of the he could be plugged into any of
the positions and listen to Buccaneers are going to be
a real powerhouse on offense this year. They got a
lot of talent, they're gonna put up points. That being said,
you got to move them up, you know, maybe slightly
ahead of you, Christian Kirks, and maybe even your.

Speaker 1 (33:23):
The guy on.

Speaker 2 (33:24):
Golden you know, in that range, like slightly above that range.
So maybe seventh round, eighth round in that range, but
definitely an upside guy now, especially if Godwin misses three
four weeks.

Speaker 1 (33:38):
Speaking of rookies and Pharaoh, I'm gonna handle this next question.
I'll let you talk about the favorite and least favorite
picks for rob here. But noticing your team here from
the eleven spot, no rookies drafted on the squad, and
I don't know, maybe that had something to do with
Davis Maddock at the twelve spot taking whatever it was,
six of them or what have you, but no rookies.

(33:59):
I'm just kind of curious. Do you think rookies tend
to be overrated, that at this point of year, that
that that we should be looking more towards the veterans
or was this just Hey, I happened to just like
a veteran better than every rookie on this board when
it came time for me to pick.

Speaker 2 (34:14):
So I'm going to chalk this up to like mental
stubbornness on my part. Like for me, you know, when
I see like the Mahomes is the typical example, you
know I've seen. I saw Golden play at Texas. He
was really good. A lot of these other guys I've
seen sporadically in college. But and I feel like it's

(34:34):
a mistake. But I tend to lean towards what I
know over what I don't know. And if you look
at my team, I didn't draft any rookies and that
wasn't on purpose. My goal was to try to take
some risks. But I do have a bunch of younger
guys on my team. There's a few second year guys.
You know, I took some risks at the end, and

(34:56):
we'll see what happens. I mean, when I looked at
the draft, I could have my choice is when when
it came to rookies in kind of that sweet spot,
I don't like to go off of the board, so
to speak. So when I have that you know, draft
dominator up there and there's twenty to thirty guys on
that list, I'm not going off that list because they

(35:16):
know a lot more and they've done all the analytics
and I like to pick who I want, but I
also don't like to reach right. So if you look
when I took when I took James Cook, I could
have took Hampton, right, but I preferred James Cook over Hampton,
the Golden over Mahomes that could have that. That's something

(35:37):
I probably should have done. I should have taken the
risk there, and then Loveland. He was available when I
took John HU Smith. But two things about John OU Smith.
One is I'm a Steeler fan, so I'm excited about him,
and I don't typically draft like that.

Speaker 4 (35:52):
But John U.

Speaker 2 (35:53):
Smith carried my team in the second half of last
year on the Dolphins when he was getting all, you know,
a bunch of you know, eight catches a game. So
I remember that and I took him. So I feel
comfortable with with those decisions. I just wish, probably I
wish I would have taken Golden though, and Nixt.

Speaker 1 (36:11):
Just to follow up on that on this, Rob, why
do you like James Cook better than Omari and Hampton
this season?

Speaker 2 (36:19):
So I don't think the contract situation is an issue
at all. James Cook I thought was great last year.
Omari and Hampton Listen, he's gonna get a lot of carries.
He's gonna especially with nause with the eye injury from
the fireworks.

Speaker 1 (36:39):
But I don't know.

Speaker 2 (36:40):
I'm not sure he's gonna catch passes Hampton. I'm not sure,
you know, you know. I think he's gonna be kind
of like a uh, mostly a running and a touchdown guy.
And I think Cook has higher upside potential. Team.

Speaker 4 (36:57):
I see some upside. I tell you what I realized
about your team. Okay, when I looked at it and
realized there were no rookies over there is you're not
a dynasty player? Am I correct about this? No, that's
exactly what I said. Well, this guy doesn't play dynasty
because that's what feeds all the draft movement of the

(37:18):
rookies is our dynasty players. So you came to this
format and looking at it, tell me somebody this. This
is a fore runner to a question we all asked
at the end of the show. But who don't you
who wish you didn't have because you don't have any
free agency, so you're stuck with you don't like them,

(37:38):
You've got to learn to love. So But as it
raced today, who do you not like? And who are
you very excited about having, especially maybe some of the
guys towards the end of the draft, so.

Speaker 2 (37:51):
You know, friar Mouth was kind of like a that
was like a last second thing when I was struggling
against the clock, honestly, So I don't love that pick,
and especially that I have Smith too, but hopefully one
of them will emerge. And I don't like the Mahomes pick.
I've gone through that. The guys I do like is

(38:11):
I love Marvin Harrison in the fourth round. I think
he's a huge value. You can never call you first
and second picks your your favorite picks, because everybody's first
and second picks your favorite pick. But I do love
a Chan and Nakoa and then Caughtland Sutton in the
sixth round I think is a great value. And then

(38:32):
late when I chose Dowdell and Quorum, especially Dawdell, I
think he has a chance to emerge. Dawdle, he was
good with the Cowboys last year. You know, Caroline is
a wild card to be a better team this year.
So if I get an injury there, you never know.

Speaker 4 (38:48):
So you're in love with a lot of guys over here.
You're loving this team. Four nights later, we're still in line.

Speaker 1 (38:58):
It was mahomes Rob the least the least favorite one.

Speaker 2 (39:01):
For you, without a question, without question, you just could resist,
though I wanted to wait another round, And then when
I took him, I immediately popped in my head that
I wasn't gonna be able to get any of the
receivers that I wanted with him.

Speaker 4 (39:16):
And the fifteen seconds fifteen seconds was working on you too.

Speaker 2 (39:19):
Yeah, I'm not There's no excuses, though, Listen, I should
have been better prepared. I should have understood that the
picks go off the board like that, So I hold
myself accountable.

Speaker 4 (39:29):
I don't think there's any excuses for the for the
players that were listening in question six, Bunky, can you
think of any you want to you want to go
ahead and pop this one out there.

Speaker 1 (39:38):
Well, I'll just say this, like, I don't there there
is a couple of kid Kentucky leagues I'm in right
now where Quinn Shawn Judkins is still on the board
and I haven't really phund like the sweet spot of
when when's the right time to take him? So I'm
battling with that right But even if I make up
my mind, Rob that I'm not taking quin Shawn Judkins.

(39:59):
I feel like, Okay, if I'm out on Judkins, I
should be in on Ford. I should be in on
Samson one or the other, maybe both, I don't know,
But how are you? And I should say, how should
f FPC players attack this Browns backfield knowing that Judkins
was supposed to be the guy and now it looks
like he may not be the guy for sure, He's
not the guy right now, and then when the season starts,

(40:21):
I mean, who knows.

Speaker 2 (40:22):
My big thing with running backs is I hate to
take running backs on teams that I know are going
to be bad unless they catch passes. So I would
avoid the whole trio, you know. And the other thing
about Sampson is Jerome Ford, when given opportunity, has been good, right.
I mean it's it's strange you watch the guy and

(40:44):
he doesn't look like much and then he's running fifty
odds down the field, so I think he definitely gets
the first shot. Judkins, I don't think we're going to
see him at all. I think you know they're talking
his story is Kareem Hunt like, and you know he
the Browns aren't even signing them to a contract yet
until this whole thing plays out. So you know, from

(41:06):
an opportunity standpoint, Sampson might might get an opportunity, But
I just don't think it's going to pan out to
a lot of scores or a lot of fantasy points
in my opinion.

Speaker 4 (41:15):
Interesting. Interesting, Let me ask you something, Yeah, Falk, he
teased it earlier tonight. Dallas backfield seems awfully confusing. This
is the fourth or fifth life of Miles Sanders down there.
There has been a time when I thought Miles Sanders

(41:38):
had number one running back play potential in the league.
I'm curious about you know, when we talk about Dallas,
we talk about Dak having his wonderful odd year correction
Ceedee Lamb is a first round draft pick. People like
to tie it end even though he was banged up

(41:59):
and didn't find the end zone last year, and now
the arrival of Pickens. But well, how how's all that
going to come together in a passing game without a
without a what I consider an NFL quality running game,
And is Miles Sanders going to help that?

Speaker 2 (42:18):
So I feel like Miles Sanders is a one year wonder.
He had that one year in Philly where he was solid.
He didn't really catch any passes either. That year. He
scored a lot of touchdowns. You know, he ran the
ball well, but you guys touched on it earlier when
you talked about Jaden Blue when you watched Texas last year.
Jaden Blue was when he touched the ball, which wasn't often.

(42:41):
He was a game breaker. And I would rather take
a chance on a guy like Jayden Blue, even if
you have to wait a little bit, because I think
he ultimately gets on the field where Miles Sanders might
get some opportunity early. But you know, it's kind of
like that three odds in a cloud of dust. And
I don't think Dallas is gonna give him. You know,

(43:02):
seventeen eighteen carries a game. You know, Gavonte Williams is
gonna get touches. So I don't I don't like Miles
Sanders in any way. I would stay completely away from him.

Speaker 1 (43:12):
Yeah, I you know, it's funny as I I just
had to make a draft pick in one of the
Kentucky rookie drafts, and while we were talking right now
because I don't want to hold up the draft, and
I considered Miles Sanders. This was a rookie free agent
draft fifth round. You know, I'm like, okay, yeah, I
can see his path where it could be successful. This year,

(43:34):
I ended up taking Keaton Mitchell instead, just because if
Henry were to go down, I think Mitchell's gonna play
a big role in that backfield. So even with all
those things considered, I still couldn't pull the trigger on
Sanders understanding that maybe his pathway to the starting gig
is quite a bit shorter than Keith Mitchell's is in Baltimore.
I'm with you. I probably even in a twenty round draft,

(43:56):
like it's it's difficult for me to say, hey, yeah,
this is a good investment, you know, a fourteenth or fifteen,
sixteenth round whatever pick, it would be.

Speaker 2 (44:05):
Some I'm sorry, some guys just even though they're not old,
they feel old.

Speaker 1 (44:09):
He feels old and dust field old.

Speaker 2 (44:11):
He's lost, he's lost a stamp. He didn't last year,
Like I don't even know if there were three or
four good highlights of him last year on Carolina.

Speaker 1 (44:18):
So he he you know, injuries of sap some of
his athleticism, and he just did turn twenty eight too,
So it's not like I mean, in real life, he
is not all that young anymore. He's getting up there,
and I think they're you know, it's funny because I
don't think anybody's drafting Miles Sanders because of who he is.
They're drafting him because of this ambiguous backfield in Dallas
and just trying to get a share of that.

Speaker 2 (44:39):
Now.

Speaker 1 (44:40):
Whether that is off or not, I don't know, but
I'm with you. I'm probably more often than not not
drafting Sanders than drafting him. Colston Lovelin, he has this
shoulder injury. Apparently he's recovered. The Bears are saying all
the right things. Colston Lovelin's saying all the right things
right now in the FFPC Big Gorilla Rob. If I
look up here is Loveland? That is, if I look

(45:01):
up Loveland's ADP tight end fourteen at the end of
the ninth round, does that seem right to you? Is that?
Is that a spot where you would look at him
drafting him or would you let him go even further
or maybe let somebody else take him?

Speaker 2 (45:15):
So, I this is a tough one because he's coming
off surgery for an ac joint, I believe, which that's
a painful injury. They drafted him tenth overall, so they
might have kid gloves on him a little bit, But
I think he has tremendous upside if he gets on
the field right away. That's a big if, but uh,

(45:38):
you know that's that could be. That could end up
being a pretty dynamic offense too, if if things click,
and obviously you have Ben Johnson. You know, you have
to look at how the Lions used their tight end,
which was very effectively. Also, but again, I'm not a
guy that overdrafts guys that are injured, So to me,
it would depend on what other tight ends was sitting

(45:59):
there in the same range that he was sitting there,
And if there's one that I like that's not injured,
I'd probably lean in that direction. Maybe in a best
Ball draft he might be worth it because maybe four
or five weeks into the season he has higher upside
than the other guys that you would draft ahead of him.

Speaker 1 (46:16):
It's interesting to think about that, Farrell. Have we talked
about Loveland at all? Where do you fall in on us?

Speaker 4 (46:22):
I like him better earlier since he's shown up, I
like him a little less. Perhaps I've got in to
the hype the physicality side of it. I'm looking for
a tight end. I'm looking for a young tight end
that can break through of the fifty to sixty five
catch log jam of tight ends that are currently in

(46:46):
the league. Like we're just talking about Friarmuth, like I
believe Goddard is, and I think Goddard is on the
low end of that. So I really like some of
the younger players coming in, like our out of Seattle
that we talked about through the week, and and I'm
willing to give this guy the benefit of the doubt

(47:09):
and look at him in preseason and see if he's healed. Uh,
because because I'm I'm gonna I'm gonna search for that
second tight end on a roster. It's gonna be a
young guy that can outperform some of the the standard
middle of the road production tight ends in the NFL.

(47:29):
I thought it was Ferguson last year, Walky. That was
because of injury situation. I ended up being wrong, and
I don't think it was typical. It was just the
injuries I think about it.

Speaker 1 (47:41):
I I want to, uh, Rob get to a couple
of emails that we had from some viewer. Number one
is from rich In McGregor, North Dakota, and he wrote
in should Deebo Samuel be a priority target for his
longest Terry McLaurin is holding out. Thank you so much
for the email, Rich, We appreciate it. I'm you. This
is a guy that you drafted uh In in your

(48:02):
pros versus Joe's, and I don't know mean, was he
more attractive to you because McLaurin had not Actually I didn't.
I don't think we knew if he had reported yet
at that point on Monday night. But does he become
more attractive for your drafts now that we know mclaurin's
not there and Samuel's building up this extra chemistry ostensibly
as the number one receiver there with Jaden Daniels.

Speaker 2 (48:24):
Well, definitely that he didn't report, and it felt like
he wasn't going to report, right. Certain guys, when you
hear the news, you feel like they're gonna they're gonna
show up. He feels like he's not going to show
up and listen. Deebo. Fantasy wise, he's always been inconsistent,
but he's so he's really talented. Washington had some trouble

(48:45):
with fumbles last year in the playoffs with Eckler and
things like that, so maybe they use him out of
the backfield a little bit. But he listen, if McLaurin
doesn't show up, clearly, his upside is a lot higher
than if he if if he does show up, and
he's a great player, So I like Samuel, I think
he'll put up points this year too.

Speaker 1 (49:06):
The other thing I want to bring up here from
a second email or he robbed tonight. This is from
George and brook Park, Ohio. He writes any thoughts on
Elijah Mitchell running as the second running back for Kansas
City good luck this season? That is George in brook Park, Ohio.
Thank you for the email. George. Yeah, Elijah Mitchell behind

(49:29):
Isaiah Pacheco. Right now, do we glean anything? I mean,
there's a lot of people that were on Brichard Smith
this year too, and obviously Kareem Hunt's still hanging around
Chiefs running back situation. I feel like if you get
it right rightly or wrongly, that's gonna set you up
for fantasy success. Here, how are you handling it or
going to be handling it in your drafts this year, Rob.

Speaker 2 (49:48):
That's a crowded backfield. For me, it's an avoid But
if I had to pick one. You know Pacheco two
years ago it was phenomenal. Then last year he looked
like he was coming back from an injury the whole year,
and every time he ran it just didn't look like
the same player. If you see him and he looks

(50:09):
effective in the preseason and he looks like he's got
his his quickness back, then I would absolutely lean in
his direction. Elijah Mitchell to me, is more of like
a game breaker. I don't think he's the type of
guy that's gonna get more than five or six carries
in any game unless somebody, unless they really have major
industry injuries, and I would think Hunt would be the

(50:29):
next guy up if Pacheco has the number one spot.
So I don't think I would go to Elijah Mitchell
in almost any scenario. To me, he's a wave of
wire pickup if somebody gets injured.

Speaker 4 (50:40):
You know, if somebody gets injured. Here we are camps
or just start. Guys aren't really even in pads yet
and we're talking about injuries. Injuries are such a big,
big part of this. One of the guys in the
chat room made a commentary is like he was a
forty nine or forty nine ers are always hurt. We
talked about on this show often that some of the
the real stars behind the scenes of the NFL, there's

(51:03):
certain training rooms you can get players ready to get
back out and play. You know, this is this leveling kid, uh,
you know with his ac joint. Uh, that's a very
very tough injury for uh for players, they got it.
They got to test it with contact. So we really
don't know. And then you know, as you said, the

(51:27):
mentality aspect of certain types of injuries can really change
away of player plays. And this that's this guy's introduction
to the NFL as he's coming off shoulder surgery. So
you know, it's it's it's a lot to think about,
and I think we're getting. The gift that we're getting
is we can quit talking about it and start looking

(51:49):
at it. You can start watching the players and uh,
you can go to your trusted sources that comment what
they're doing. But that would be if I was sending
an email, be what I want to talk about, Bully,
you got any more emails? It's all you, my friend,
No way. Then that means you have to tell us,
because look, you don't play dynasty. You stumbled along into

(52:12):
this best ball, which would give me a thrill that
you would win it. It would even give me a
thrill if you want to socks. So what we've got
a situation for you is you obviously shine in redrafts.
So tell us who do you love and redraft and
who can you not stand? Who can you not have

(52:33):
on your team? And you've teased a couple of those
so far, so you might have to dig deep to
find a new name for us.

Speaker 2 (52:40):
Go ahead, Rob, all right. So the guy that I
think a lot of people like that I'm staying completely
away from is for She Rice Like for she Rice
to me, he's coming off a major injury. He's looking
at a major suspension, and he's still getting drafted in
the sixth round. You know things like that. That's crazy.

(53:00):
I mean he might not see the field for the
first six to eight weeks, and then when he comes back,
he's an injured coming off an injury, and he's got
you know Mahomes who throws the ball to a bunch
of different people and they have good other receivers. So
he's a no go for me. And then Christian McCaffrey,
I just you know, he's he's you know, the end

(53:21):
of the first round, beginning of the second round, and
I recognize that there's always upside with him, but he's
always injured and he's always questionable, and you never know
whether he's going to play. And you know, I do
this because I like to have my three or four
main event teams not too many, so that I know
I have a you know, a bunch of guys that

(53:42):
I want to root for. I want to get excited
on Sunday, and I hate when I have to go
through my teams and the same guys are always questionable
and it just just leads to stress and aggravation. So
I'm bypassing McCaffrey all together, unless for some reason he
fell into like the end of a second or the

(54:04):
beginning of third round that you want.

Speaker 4 (54:06):
And I love that answer because you said something there
that is illustrative to me and my conversations that I've
had today. You're going to play your three and four
main event teams and really enjoy them. Steve g who
is in the chat room tonight, we say hello, and
I had a wonderful conversation with him this afternoon. He

(54:27):
probably signed up for three or four main event of
teams tonight and that's the way he enjoys it. And
we can both and you can't get that out of
you know, the guy that only plays golf two or
three times a year, he didn't really like them, you know.
And the guy that plays thirty six holes a day,

(54:47):
he's hiding from his wife or somebody more, something more serious,
you know. So in what we do here, however you
choose to participate, you're going to get something out of it.
And that's fantasic. You love the football that comes into
your home the way that you can consume it. And
that's what I can't wait for is getting together with

(55:10):
everyone at Paris Hotel and Casino on our viewing party
Thursday night. But Balky, we got a Friday night viewing
party or no, what's going on here?

Speaker 1 (55:20):
That is up in the air, Up in the air
my personal opinion, and I don't want to hold the
FFPC to anything. I believe it's going to happen, but
nothing officially announced that we do have a Thursday night
party for Cowboys Eagles Friday night. We'll see. Stay tuned.

Speaker 4 (55:35):
Well, that's about as good a matchup as it gets.

Speaker 1 (55:39):
You know, Rob, you had me thinking about McCaffrey here,
and I just want to point this out. And I've
flip flopped and gone back and forth to McCaffrey. I've
been on a couple of teams. I've avoided him on
some other teams. Adam Hanolds also said if he had
the one on one he would take McCaffrey at the
one on one this year, regarding him being twenty nine
years old, regarding him being beat up the last couple year,

(56:00):
especially in twenty twenty four. There are seventeen San Francisco
forty nine Ers games this year. Five of them are
slated right now to kick off at one pm, which
means the other twelve are slated for either primetime or
late games Sunday night games, Monday night games. That can

(56:21):
be problematic with a running back like McCaffrey, who you know, again,
if you do believe he's going to be beat up, well,
then you have to take that into account that you
have to sort of dedicate an extra roster spot on
your team each and every week to make sure that
if McCaffrey can't go, you could put in Girndo, or
if you don't have GIRNDO, that you have so many
that you can play, and that could kind of throw

(56:42):
your whole lineup out of whack. So that's something to
consider too. If you want to be bullish on McCaffrey,
make sure you're prepped for that. This year, did you
announce did you give us a player that you really
like this year? I know you gave us a couple
that you don't like in Rice and McCaffrey.

Speaker 2 (56:55):
I love Marvin Harrison. But the other guy who I
think is just going to ball out and I think
he's probably gonna come close to leading the league in
receptions as JSN, I think Jackson Smith and Jigba is
just going to be a target monster. So I see
him going I see him blowing up this year.

Speaker 1 (57:13):
Rob, you are a long time high stakes fantasy football player,
dating back more than two decades. I want to give
you the opportunity if we go back to the old
w Coff days to talk about your worst fantasy football
beat before you let you get out of here and
enjoy your weekend.

Speaker 2 (57:29):
Thank you. I appreciate that. So I probably told everybody
who listened to this story of this story, so now
you guys are going to hear it. Two thousand and
four w cooff. The old rules where when you played
within the league, you had to still win the playoff
to get into the championship racket. There was no automatic

(57:51):
bid for the one in the two seats, so you
had to have a good season, get into the final four,
and then win different now which the rules now are
much better, and everybody out there was a main event player.
If you're true to yourself, you know when you legitimately
have a chance to do well in the championship racket.
Sometimes you have a team and you're just saying, get

(58:12):
me through. I want to win the championship. I want
to get my four or five grand and I'll just
throw my team in there, and I know I'm not
going to win, but there's a couple of times where
you feel like, you know what, I got a shot.
So two thousand and four I drafted a great team.
I think my team was like nine and three. I
go into the playoffs and probably around week nine I

(58:34):
just randomly pick up Larry Johnson. I think at the
time he was the third back. I think they had
Charles and Priest Holmes and Charles had gotten hurt or
whoever the number one back was, and then Priest Holmes
got hurt and my great team turned into a team
that I knew. I had a great chance to go

(58:54):
very deep into the championship racket. I cruise in the
first round. I get to the final Thanksgiving Days. I
have Peyton Manning branded Stokeley in my lineup. Manning throws
six touchdowns. He throws three to Stoke League. I'm off
to a great start. We get to Sunday. The other
guy's team heats up a little bit, but I'm still
in great shape. Going to the four o'clock games, I

(59:17):
had emmittt Smith third played the game. Emitt Smith hurts
his toe and he's out for the game. So now
I'm back in a gym. The game goes to Monday night.
I'll never forget this. It's the Rams and the Packers
in Green Bay. I have Tory Holt, who for the
season had ninety four catches thirteen and seventy two yards

(59:37):
and ten touchdowns. Wow, and the Packers are waxing the Rams.
Going into the fourth quarter, I think they're up fourteen
or seventeen points. Like the perfect scenario, I need one
catch for eight yards from Tory Holt to win the game. Well,
needless to say, there was no one catch eight yards

(59:58):
from Tory Hult. He caught one ball, his foot was
out of bounds. Another one hit him off the chest
and he I never I lost the game. Now, back then,
instead of going into the championship bracket, you went into
the consolation bracket. I finished second in the consolation bracket
out of the one hundred people that advanced. I would

(01:00:19):
have finished third in the championship bracket. It cost me
twenty seven thousand, five hundred dollars.

Speaker 1 (01:00:23):
Oh yeah, and you were not consoled because Tory Holt,
Tory Holt and.

Speaker 2 (01:00:31):
And Mark Ball just threw for four hundred and forty
eight yards in that game, and Tory Holt had fifty
one yards with five cans.

Speaker 1 (01:00:40):
It's crazy, I had, you know, it's wild. So I
brought up the box score, Rob that you're telling me
about this game, and I'm looking at it right now,
and obviously you're right. You know Holte five for fifty one,
Isaac Bruce, no, no problem there, nine for one hundred
and seventy. You would expect him to ball out. But
Hope five for fifty one. Kevin Curtis had for sixty

(01:01:01):
seven and McDonald's something called the Sean McDonald had six
for seventy nine in that game. I mean, player, I
just it's unbelievable, unbelievable.

Speaker 4 (01:01:12):
As you mentioned to Hold, we have a player here
in Kentucky, Trevor Holt. I think Trevor's taking this year
off of fantasy football. It's it's sort of.

Speaker 1 (01:01:21):
A uh.

Speaker 4 (01:01:24):
Stress situation that is now just reacting over the fact
that he lost the championship here in Kentucky bout two
point three eight points and he had four receivers each
that that and he had two he had four passes
that two receivers if he had if they had caught them,
would have won. He had two eagle receivers and four

(01:01:45):
drops in the second half of that's terrible Jesus.

Speaker 2 (01:01:49):
By the way, in that game, Tory Holt did not
have a catch from the six to forty five mark
and the third quarter until the end of the game.

Speaker 1 (01:01:55):
And again and they were and they were getting wax.

Speaker 2 (01:01:57):
They're downe by like third perfect perfect scenario, you know, and.

Speaker 1 (01:02:00):
And stuff like when stuff like that happens to me,
Rob where it's just like it's it's just an unbelievable situation.
That plays out. I just say, like it was never
meant to be, wash my hands of it, because that
should never happen. But I'll tell you what should happen
more often. Rob Thomasino on the High Stakes Fantasy Football Hour, Guys,
thank you so much, Thanks so much. Listen, good luck

(01:02:22):
at pro Versus Joe's in the main event this year.
Hopefully if you win the million bucks, that lets you
forget about that nasty Tory Holt game from two thousand
and four. Uh, and joy your weekend. Man, this was
a treatment really coming on.

Speaker 2 (01:02:34):
Thank you guys, really appreciate it. Have a great night.

Speaker 1 (01:02:36):
You do to say that is Rob Timas you know,
three time FFPC Main Event League winner and pros Versus
Joe's drafter. Will he win the pros Versus Joe's Challenge
this year? Will he win his league? Will he win overall?
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:02:47):
He'll be rookie free if he does.

Speaker 1 (01:02:48):
He will be rookie free if he does, and then
Rob will set the standard next year. You want to
win pros Versus Joe's.

Speaker 4 (01:02:54):
Don't draft for a rookies, you know, and I mean
you talk about you just mentioned things that should not happened.
You know, I there really shouldn't be baseball talk in
the chat room.

Speaker 1 (01:03:04):
You know, I I listen. I know that Adam brought
it up. Nick Kurtz just crushing it tonight, the rookie
from from the A's. I couldn't help myself because now
I got to tune in to it to find out
what's going.

Speaker 4 (01:03:15):
On with Well, you just have a terrestrial radio show.

Speaker 1 (01:03:19):
I do, yes, yeah, exactly. I want to remind everybody
if you are looking for some action, go to the
Kentucky Fantasy Football State championshipsc dot com. We got main
events going off both online and live in Louisville. There's
still a couple of spots left in Cincinnati as well,
but it's coming up fast. We're less than a month

(01:03:39):
away from from cincinnatictually not Cincinnati, Northern Kentucky, and we're
less than a month away from Louisville when we're drafting
down in Kentucky. I'm very excited for that. Main events,
the Sweet sixteen Best Ball Championship filling up as well.
A couple of spots left in the Big Paybacks in
Louisville too. A lot of stuff going on right now.
Farrell Weckay, we're.

Speaker 4 (01:03:59):
Getting closed to sell out and some of our old
friends that we haven't heard from typically and wait, you know,
people go on vacations and I've just become aware that
they have relatives that get married and things like this
during the summer, and I just really, I just want
everybody who to sort of tighten it up and not

(01:04:20):
miss out because we are running out of some time slots.
But we have a big online schedule and people from
around the country and people that cannot get here for
our amazing weekend August twenty second through twenty fourth. We'll
make sure you don't miss this year completely because you're

(01:04:40):
I'm sure everyone is making plans for the FFPC. They're
at the Paris Hotel and Casino. But we'd love to
see you first here and second in Las Vegas, Bucky.
The excitement of joining you next week live for show
is also unprecedent.

Speaker 1 (01:05:02):
Yeah, we're gonna be doing the show live next week
to where I don't know yet. I'm gonna let you
know as soon as I know. I'm still trying to
hammer stuff out because I know a couple of the
acts that you represent. I looked at the schedules, and
one of them, I think, ah God, it's either Kristen
or Katie. I can't remember which one. But they're gonna
be downtown at mcfleshman's Brewing Company literally ten minutes after

(01:05:24):
we go off the air. So I want to find
a place close by to there so we can. You know,
it's very talful right over and check them out. Well,
whether I'm in the crowd or not, those girls will
sound right. Will so the other thing I want to
bring up to and you would text me about this,
I apologize I didn't get back to you. The big
playback playing Bestball Draft with the KFFSC, I drew the

(01:05:48):
four spot. You said, why don't you make your pick
live on the air tonight, And I will, and I
might surprise some people with this pick.

Speaker 3 (01:05:54):
Here.

Speaker 1 (01:05:55):
One on one was Jamar Chase, the one on two
is b Jon Robinson, the one O three is Justin Jefferson.
This is non end premium. So I'm gonna go with
another receiver here, Farrell. I'm not gonna take Gibbs. I'm
not gonna take Barkley. I am taking Ceedee Lamb. Just
made the pick right now and we'll see what happens
there is. I build my squad at the Kentucky Fantasy
Football State Championship at kf f sc dot com. Pharrell,

(01:06:16):
thank you so much man. We will talk with you
on Sunday for pros Versus Joe's Number four.

Speaker 4 (01:06:21):
I'll be looking forward to a balky What time we're
gonna get started on that.

Speaker 1 (01:06:24):
Starts at seven pm Eastern time?

Speaker 4 (01:06:27):
Early?

Speaker 1 (01:06:29):
All right, you're the man talking with you then see later.
That is Farrell Elliott, the definitive commissioner of Fantasy Football,
hanging out with us tonight. Yeah. Pros Versus Joe's rolls
on on Sunday. That's when we will be live again.
And I apologize, Parrel. I'm gonna big your back right now.
I screw this up. It's seven pm, seven pm my time.

(01:06:50):
It is eight pm Eastern eight pm. Yeah, it is early,
but it's not as early as seven.

Speaker 2 (01:06:56):
So there you go.

Speaker 1 (01:06:58):
I'll see you then. Barrel Elliott will be joining me
at eight o'clock for live pick by pick coverage this
Sunday night of the Iron Maiden division of Pros Versus Joe's.
The Joes include Brian Lindo and Jeff Cazmano. Albert and
Kyle Leach, Petri and Larson, Brad Petro and Darren Larson

(01:07:20):
will be drafting in there, Dennis and Stephen Jones, Billy
Van Rmer, our good buddy is going to be drafting
from the nine spot there, and then another good buddy
of ours, Vince staff Alino, drafting from the eleven hole.
The pros include Sigmund Bloom from Football Guys, Mauricio Gutierrez
from Estavio Fantasy, Josh Hayes from Rotoballer, Dan Williamson, and
Bradley Stalder from Player Profiler, the co host of the

(01:07:42):
Stack Hunners program. They will be drafting as pros. Mike Leone,
Mike Leoni excuse me from Established the Run, and of
course Justin Boone from Yahoo. Those will be the twelve
drafters this Sunday. Don't miss it at eight pm Eastern
Time right here on the FFPC YouTube channel, the FFP Socials.
I want to thank Rob thomasin O, Farrell Elliott, the FFPC,

(01:08:04):
Rob Brice, and of course each and every one of
you in case you missed last night's Insider Access show
this past Thursday on Better Sports Network and on the
FFPC and BSN Socials. Ryan Kramer from the Sports Gambling
Podcast and the Vegas Sports and Information Network joined us.
He's also drafting in the pros Versus Joe's coming up
this week. He and his co host Sean Green from

(01:08:24):
Sports Gambling Podcast will be handling live FFPC draft coverage
with Aidan McCory and Dave Tripoli this Wednesday as well,
so you get it live draft coverage from them, and
then of course this Thursday night we go live again
on the Better Sports Network with live FFPC Bestball Tournament coverage.
Farrell and I will be live next Friday covering a

(01:08:44):
Big Gorilla draft, which you can register and sign up for. Now,
if you're keeping track of this in your head and
you're counting, you're like, wait a minute, that means there's
pros Versus Joe Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Aiden Turp and the
Sports Gambling guys on Wednesday for a live draft. He's
doing a Best Ball Tournament draft on Thursday, and then
Big Gorilla live draft coverage on Friday. Yeah, that's right,

(01:09:05):
it's live draft coverage week. We're doing six days of
live draft coverage every night except for Saturday. We will
be covering a live draft, whether it be the Big Gorilla,
whether it be Bestball Tournament, whether it be Main Event,
whether it be Processes Joe's. We're covering a different FFPC
format every single night next week except for Saturday, so
check that out. It all begins Sunday, the FFPC Live

(01:09:28):
Draft coverage week on the FFPC YouTube channel. It's gonna
be awesome. The Big Gorilla Tournament the main event, the
FFPC Best Ball and super Flex Bestball Tournament are ripe
with entries available for you. Check that out. Remember Main
Event early draft slots that you got to get the
in by midnight Pacific time on Sunday night, so make
sure your main event teams are squared away and then

(01:09:49):
you will get your early draft slot or you'll get
your draft slot for the main event early on August third,
well ahead of many of your competitors. This year, Big
Gorilla is crushing it right now. We got drafts going on.
We a midnight draft coming up in forty five minutes
with spots fill still available on that, so make sure
you're registering for that and Dynasty startups also available at
my FFPC dot com. Remember to like this video, subscribe

(01:10:10):
to the channel, comment on the video, share with your friends,
share with your enemies, and get notified each and every
time we go live, which will be Sunday night at
eight pm for pros versus joes. Thanks so much for watching. Everybody,
really appreciate each and every one of you. Your weekend
officially starts now.

Speaker 3 (01:10:32):
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. Balky 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 (01:10:54):
You, sir, I want to piggyback on that, just to
let everybody know that the midnight draft is now sold out.
We filled that up tonight, so there are no more
options for you tonight to draft in the Big Gorilla. However,
you won't have to wait long. Get a good night's
sleep tonight, go to bed, because we got Big Gorilla
drafts kicking off at eleven am Eastern time tomorrow morning.

(01:11:16):
You can draft at eleven, one, four, seven, eight thirty ten,
and midnight. That is all tomorrow for the Big Gorilla
Course main events going on tomorrow as well as the
Best Ball Tournament. It is drafting season. This is our
last show of July of twenty twenty five for our
Friday Night edition, and you just don't have any excuses anymore.
Adam Han pointed this out in the chat less than

(01:11:39):
a week until we get real NFL preseason football going on,
as Penny Lane from Almost Famous says, it's all happening,
and it's all happening at the FFPC register now MYFFPC
dot com. Thanks for watching, everybody really appreciate it.

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