Welcome and everybody to Fantasy Pros. This is the Fantasy Football Podcast. It is me Joey P joe P. Zapena, and today we're gonna do our best to go back in time. That's right. We're gonna take all the knowledge that we have from the twenty twenty four season and try to get it right with the perfect draft. That's right.
We're gonna draft the perfect team. And if you don't know what I'm talking about, we have this amazing tool every single year when the season ends that our dev team creates for the perfect draft where you can go back and draft with all the knowledge that you have and try to create the perfect roster and win some free stuff. Now, Andrew Erickson, I know you know you can't go back in time. You can't relive stuff. A lot of things we got right, some things we got wrong.
So this feels like therapy to me, where we can go back and kind of, you know, just for ourselves and for our hearts and minds, try to do maybe just a little better than we did in some of our actual drafts in twenty twenty four.
One hundred percent. We got the ultimate cheat sheet.
And I think what's fun about this is even when you're using what happens right, you know what's gonna happen. Think about the Chiefs right when fifteen and one with their starters, we're probably gonna draft zero Chiefs.
On this team. Zero Chiefs zero zero Chiefs as for one.
Game all season. So sometimes is not always seems like it's going to be. But looking forward to breaking it down and ending in perfection.
Here you go, ending in perfection. And again, if you're new to all this, let me break it down for you, give you a low down. So twenty twenty four, the season is over, but the perfect draft challenge is just beginning. You can go back in time use the knowledge to try to nail the perfect fantasy football draft, which is
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Draft Challenge board. You can select where you want to draft from. We're gonna pick the seventh spot. We're gonna gamble that we can still get Jamar Chase at seven. That's what I want to do. We could go to twelve, try to take two running backs at the turn. I don't know if that's the better way to go or not. We'll find out. Andrew, you want to stick with this strategy that we've been rolling with so.
Far, Jamar Chase wide receiver one. Let's go.
All right, let's start the draft. So here we go. We missed Jamar Chase in this one, my goodness. So do we pivot? You want to go Saquon Barkley here? Or should we take justineff Justin? Jefferson's touchdown total was Underwhelmingquon, Let's go we'll take Gibbs on the way back. All Right, we missed it. I'm pissed off about it. I'm already unhappy. I can tell you this is not gonna be the perfect draft, Jamir, Gibbs still available. I like the value we can get with BTJ later on. Maybe we just
go double RB. What do you say, not any way that I built any of my teams, But maybe it was the perfect way Superhero RB. Let's do it Superhero RB. All right, So no, Jamar Chase were already pissed off about that. So I can't imagine we're gonna score very well. It's already a failure. Already a failure. All right, let's go to the wide receivers here, Yuke Pittman, DK Metcalf. Don't like any of those guys. We League Neighbors is on the board, and we know already there's some talent buried.
You want to go maleak here and start the wide receiver corps.
So actually, let's go T Higgins.
Right when he was healthy, he was wide receiver two points per game, right behind Chase. So because it's best, same time, though, I just want well weekend. Yeah, but we're drafting enough players to combat those weeks that he missed. So I think to you again, we didn't get Chase. We gotta get the next Bengals receiver.
I like Higgins.
Let's get all right, all right, let's see what happens here. We took Higgins. Here, my league neighbors off the board. Mahomes and Jacobs go all right, So the other wide receivers, you got Waddle, you got Pickins. Terry Mclaurin's another way we could go again. BTJ is another guy that we're circling here. We can get later on. Same with Jackson Smith and Jigba tight end. I think we're gonna wait on brock Bauers. So let's just keep pounding wide receiver. Where do you want to go next?
Like Terry scored a ton of touchdown this year, made the Pro Bowl.
I love McLaurin, all right, So McLaurin will lock him in. We got a nice little meme there telling us a good job. I like the salute. All right, Looking Jackson Smith and Jigbo, we can go there. We can go Lad McConkie, Brian Thomas Junior, who finished very well. I think we can take JSN and then also get BTJ. You want to just back to back this bad boy. Yeah, I like that, all right, so let's do that. So let's take Jackson Smith and Jigbo who had a breakout
season this year. We'll draft him very good, and then we will go down to BTJ. See how that helps us here? All right, Tony Soprano likes the pick. That's all that matters, as long as I have Big Tony's approval. Ladd m Bingo bango, Ladd McConkie is still on the board here. Running backs still on the board. Looking around, obviously, it was pretty slim. I think we're gonna wait for Bucky. None of these guys really moving the needle for me
from what I can see here. Quarterback also, we have a plan to wait for Baker Mayfield and see how that works out. Last time we did this, though we didn't take two quarterbacks. I think that might have hurt us because you probably got a zero a QB. So I think we have to take two qbs if we're going to crack this code. Here and again, our dev team doesn't a phenomenal job with all the memes and all the fun stuff here putting this perfect draft together.
Joe Burrow also still on the board. So do you want to go early for a QB or now where do wait?
No, I still went away for Bake. I mean Baker's QB four overall. All right, I feel like we've got away on him.
So we can take Jordan Addison, Spike Weeks, we could take Lad McConkie. Consistent, we can take Jerry Judy. Which way you want to go? Here?
Well's tell me Conkey Conky mconkie.
It is all right, let me pull him up here. We'll draft Ladd McConkie. There we go. Bill Belichick approves of us, and it was one thing that Andrew and I have been seeking our entire life. It's the approval of our esteemed head coach.
Do you think if Belichick had stayed in New England we would have drafted Ladd McConkie instead of pulling Probably?
Probably. I like the hustle in that kid. All right, Jordan Adison still on the board. So it was Courtland Sutton. You want to go there?
Yeah, let's do. Let's do so, let's do soon?
All right, your boy, Courtland Sutton. See, you were just a year early on Sutton.
I mean I was many here, we've.
Got the dodgeball. Chuck Norris thumbs up. Good stuff there going on. Okay, next up here, do you want to dip our toes in the Bucky Irving water? Is it time to do that and just solidify that third running.
Back, either Bucky or even Cuba Hubbard.
Well, here's the problem. Barkley and Gibbs are on bye week five together, so maybe Cuba. Let's go Cuba. Yeah, and then we'll take Bucky Irving on the way back here. Yes, because I'm looking at the bye weeks and I'm seeing the problems there. Tyrone Tracy also out there, but I think we both would prefer Bucky, So we got Bucky in there as well. There you go. Billie Eilish seems
to be very happy about this, which is great. Again if you're wondering what I'm saying, because you're listening to this, this little memes that pop up and tell you if you're doing a good job or a bad job. As if we needed more pressure with everything going on, Darnault Mooney still floating around there at the wide receiver spot. Or we can solidify tight end and take Brock powers and get that done with.
Yeah, let's get powers walk come in all right in Bronc Boers.
There we go, twenty seventh overall pick. Pretty good, return on investment, pretty pretty good. All right, we've got two bench spots yet to go. Again. Remember it's a quarterback, two running backs, three wide receivers, a tight end, and a flex. We have a defense to fill here too, So we've got two wide receivers, We've got two running backs on the bench. Where do you want to go for this next spot here? I can't imagine any of these running backs left here except maybe Tracy, but again
some up and down from him. I want to go Darnel Mooney here.
What do you say is Judy's gone? So yeah, yeah Mooney for me as well.
Yeah. Unfortunately, we went back to back. We had to. We took those running backs. We got screwed out of Jamar Chase. So there you go. Oh look, there you go. One of my favorite characters from Succession there, Brian Cox. Dann It done. All right, So this is where we screwed up last time. We got to take two quarterbacks. So that being said, let's look at the quarterback board. We could take Jadon Daniels and then take Baker Mayfield. I think that's the best path here. They have different
bye weeks from what I'm seeing. Also eleven and fourteen. You want to do it? Yeah, let's see that, all right, Jane Daniels, Boom, there you go. Ted Lasso very happy with us. There you go, thanks Ted Baker Mayfield to cover our buys. And now it's just a matter of taking a defense. That's all we have to do left is take a defense. I'm feeling Eagles defense. You got any fight with that?
No, Philadelphia Eagles.
Let's go all right, so we'll take one zero because we don't have two defenses. I don't know if that's a little gadget.
Now we're taking a good rodua at tight end too, because we only have one tight end.
Uh finding a second tight end kind of rough though.
I say a likely lock in that one week that he was good.
Well, now the problem is we have to take the defense here.
Think I think we're locked in if we don't get perfect.
That's why, all right, predictions on score twenty six hundred, twenty seven hundred, what do you think we are?
I think we're right under twenty seven hundred, but maybe by like ten points. Just like just right under twenty seven hundred.
All right, here we go. This is the moment of truth. Let's select it and see what happens. Here's the big score. Everything's calculating twenty six to seventy seven.
Right, oh, just right onto the twenty seven. It might be the two tight end thing because we took it. We took a zero on in week ten.
Maybe that's it. So look, learn from us, learn from our stupidity, as you always do here on the show. So far, the current leader ked twenty three thirteen twenty eight to fifty four point six to zero. That is
a score, my friends. That's incredible. And as you can see right here, after you run the Perfect Draft, you can go in and share it on Twitter, on Facebook, wherever you want to share it on social media, And of course you have to join our discord at fancypros dot com slash chat, go to the Perfect Draft channel and share your scores in there, and then you might be able to win the premium subscription. But as you can see, it's not easy even for the quote unquote
experts to do well here. I think we did. Okay, this is the highest score I've gotten here. Most of the time I get Chase. We didn't get Chase this time, which I gotta tell you Andrew was severely disappointing to me.
Yes, it was a very sad to not get Jamar Chase, even though we were picking at you know, we flew too close to the sun thinking oh yeah, he'll be there at seven, Like the board's not sharpened off. It's like, nope, they're sharps out here in this perfect draft challenge.
So you gotta be ready for those.
And I will say too, going back to if you're gonna draft two tight ends and you draft Rock Bowers like we're suggesting, week ten is his bye week. Just looked at the high score from week ten. The guy you can get for free Tanner Hudson for free thirteen point three thirteen point three points week ten, and he'll be available.
We need to manage our buys better. But look at this team. I mean, I gotta imagine this team would have won. Saquon Jamiir Gibbs, T Higgins, Terry mclaur and Jacksonsmith and Jigbob BTJ your Boy, the OGBTJ Guy, Lad Mconkie, Courtland, Sutton, Chewba Hubbard, Bucky Irving, Brock Bowers, Darnold Moodey, Jaden Daniels, Baker Mayfield and the Eagles defense. Yes please, I will go to war with that team any day of the week.
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Yeah? I mean, what fun would it be if we already know all the answers?
Right?
It's part of fun.
I mean, be a little fun. It'd be a little fun to go undefeated.
Buck, How is this guy so good?
I guess we have different ideas of fun. What's your idea of fun? I'm sure it's running a million perfect drafts, So go out and do it today. That'll do for us, But the story of the game goes on for Andrew Ericson. I'm Joey P. We'll see you next time. Kids, get that draft perfect. Thanks for listening to the Fantasy Pros Fantasy Football Podcast. If you love the show, the best freeway to support us is by leaving a positive review on Apple Podcasts, at Fantasypros dot com, slash review, or
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