LHUCKS
Footballguy
I missed it.
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ESPN Fantasy Draft Special (1 Viewer)
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Dought Man
Footballguy
I believe he said Driver has the 3rd most receiving yards of any WR over the last two years. I'm paraphrasing though, and may have heard that wrong.
aldelgreco
Footballguy
I wish I could be in a draft with these clowns.
Nick Vermeil
Footballguy
I beg to differ. If I were Ditka, I would have traded up to get them in the 3rd.4th round, too early for Defense
Dought Man
Footballguy
I thought it was a tasty nugget of information. I learned something new and feel richer for the experience.
Leroy's Aces
Footballguy
I love how Bakay gets Lamont Jordan with the 40th overall pick.
His team:
Kurt Warner
Ronnie Brown
Steven Jackson
Lamont Jordan
Larry Fitgerald
Marvin Harrison
I think McGaheee is still out there.
Trent Green goes off the board at pick 19 overall.
His team:
Kurt Warner
Ronnie Brown
Steven Jackson
Lamont Jordan
Larry Fitgerald
Marvin Harrison
I think McGaheee is still out there.
Trent Green goes off the board at pick 19 overall.
Leroy's Aces
Footballguy
McGahee goes at 53 overall
aldelgreco
Footballguy
I'm so glad my fish friends watch this garbage.
this is really unbelievable.
this is really unbelievable.
Dought Man
Footballguy
Well, that's an hour of our lives that we'll never get back.
Now, on to watching Reggie Bush climb into the first round of upcoming ffl drafts.
Now, on to watching Reggie Bush climb into the first round of upcoming ffl drafts.
Pat Patriot
Footballguy
I love to hear about how these broads reporting on football really know what they are talking about. Yes, I make all of my FF picks based on their intangibles and the chemistry that they bring to my team. Classic! 
JZilla
Footballguy
Not sure about all broads, but I lost all respect for her that day and haven't looked at her the same since. I believe she's a blubbering talking head who knows less about football than I do about biochemistry. There are a few broads who haven't shown me that kind of ignorance yet, Tafoya for instance. Though the need for a female sideline reporter does seem forced at this point.
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Wreckincrew
Footballguy
He deserves to be suspended again. Where is his cousin when we need him?
Tillmanisahero
Footballguy
I think that those guys shouldn't get involved in Fantasy drafting in front of people....I think it undermines their "football knowledge credibility"
I would love to draft against any of them, especially the former football players.
I would love to draft against any of them, especially the former football players.
It's not that these guys don't "know football" they just don't understand "fantasy football". I think a lot of you guys are ripping em for not "knowing football" and that isnt really fair. You guys have to admit that fantasy is a different beast and you have to really look at it from a different angle then you would if you were just comprising a super bowl caliber team.
JZilla
Footballguy
Brett Favre? Round 1 of any possible stats-based competition?No understanding of football whatsoever. Sorry. That's just a girl with a crush.
Jeff Pasquino
Footballguy
This was a travishamockery of a draft.
8 teams, 10 rounds.
If anyone could stop laughing, someone should "break it down" and analyze.....
no they shouldn't.
8 teams, 10 rounds.
If anyone could stop laughing, someone should "break it down" and analyze.....
no they shouldn't.
barndog
Father of Two
That's not important. What's important is you come back to reality and come to grips with knowing deep down nobody can predict accurately where to draft players. You seem to disagree and just calling you out on it.What's next? Ripping other people for choosing the wrong numbers for the lotto?who are you?RKMoney said:LHUCKS said:
Mystery Achiever
Footballguy
I don't know. Did you hear her thing about Jeb Putzier apologizing to her since she took him in her draft and he didn't do much? I'm paraphrasing, but she basically said "Don't worry. That was for TV. In my real league I took Gates." Maybe she hope her league mates were watching this too.JZilla said:
in espn the magazines fantasy football preview issue they also had a brutal mock draft with bill simmons and bakay and a few fantasy guys but then people like mike dunleavy jr. (who took stephen davis in round 5 or something-though now if davis signs somewhere that isn't so dumb) and people like oronde gadsen and a few women somehow related to football (maybe one was a GM for an arean league team?). after the first four rounds the whole thing was idiotic as people were taking defenses and whatnot. i'm not really sure what purpose putting the draft in the football guide served since it wasn't educational. a real mock draft with intelligent people would have been interesting. but it was like unintentional comedy.
FF Dude
Footballguy
What she didn't say was that she took Gates with the first overall pick in a non-mandatory TE league.I don't know. Did you hear her thing about Jeb Putzier apologizing to her since she took him in her draft and he didn't do much? I'm paraphrasing, but she basically said "Don't worry. That was for TV. In my real league I took Gates." Maybe she hope her league mates were watching this too.JZilla said:
BigRed
Footballguy
Travishamockery.. couldn't have said it better!
oddball
Smart
I have a hard time watching these shows, even just for the comedy aspect. The ignorance and outright stupidity get me mad. It's like instead of hiring a martial arts master who thought up a great show about a monk in the old west, they go and hire a drunken dance teache.....oops, already happened...
Mystery Achiever
Footballguy
What she didn't say was that she took Gates with the first overall pick in a non-mandatory TE league.I don't know. Did you hear her thing about Jeb Putzier apologizing to her since she took him in her draft and he didn't do much? I'm paraphrasing, but she basically said "Don't worry. That was for TV. In my real league I took Gates." Maybe she hope her league mates were watching this too.JZilla said:
...well then...never mind
By Matthew Berry
Nuts.
That's all I can think of. I am sitting on a set, in a chair, 15 feet from Boomer, Tom Jackson and Mark Schlereth. It's about ten minutes to air and the producer is going through the final machinations of the show. Boomer's looking at his rundown and saying things like "Okay, then I throw it to Matthew, right?"
Nuts, right?
I can tell you a few things about last night, where I was the fantasy analyst on ESPN's SportsCenter Fantasy Show. First, you can play for free at ESPN.com. Just saying.
Second, everyone is super nice. Jaws, Salisbury, Schlereth, Irvin. All of them made a point of saying hi, welcoming me, seriously, if they didn't, look, I would jus not write anything, but honestly, all of them, to a man, could not have been nicer. Mort, Suzy, Ditka and Nick Bakay were not in Bristol, so I didn't meet them and I already knew Jaws from the Fantasy Show, but everyone else? Awesome.
Here was the most interesting part to me at least. What you see on camera is exactly what you see off. Boomer and TJ just laugh and laugh. Seriously, we are all in the green room for the hour before getting make-up and all we did was talk T.O., Reggie Bush and the game that night. What everyone said on air they said privately beforehand. They all give Irvin crap for defending T.O. and Irvin sticks to his guns off air as well.
They are all aware of fantasy, how huge it is and say that 9 out of 10 people that come up to them ask them about their fantasy teams. Schlereth, by the way, is hard core. He plays in a bunch of leagues and told me he's trying to find a league where they count offensive linemen. I mean seriously, he's into it.
On air, in case you missed it, I did well, I thought. I was supposed to have four segments - the second one got cut due to time - so I only did 3. First one I was a bit nervous on - I was supposed to give my analysis of round one, which I did - hated Mort taking Reggie Bush and didn't like Bakay taking Steven Jackson with Ronnie Brown and Cadillac on the board.
So then I am supposed to give my Coca Cola Zero Best Available.
So then I say what my piece, got a guy yelling in my ear to wrap it up wrap it up so I quickly end and get to the Best Available except I forget to say Coca Cola Zero, which the good people at Coca Cola paid good money for me to say Coca Cola Zero. Which I hear is quite tasty. So I go back, I say that, they yell hurry up, I whip through one or two best available. And then they say "One More." So, I, uh, give one more. Then I hear "Throw to Boomer."
Hilarious.
So I throw to Boomer. And then, when it is time for my second hit, Boomer says "Let's go to The Talented Mr. Roto, Roto-Rooter."
Come on, now. Did I just get a nickname from Boomer on SportsCenter?
I can die now. Everything else is gravy.
After the show, I didn't have a ride to the hotel - I don't have a car here in Bristol - so I was gonna call a cab, but Tom Jackson offered to give me a ride. Seriously, it's nuts, right?
I celebrated by treating myself to a night of just answering emails and dealing with site business and not actually writing the TRUM until now, which has since turned into the afternoon. Ah, the beauty of a blog.
I can tell you, for what it is worth, that every single one of these guys talk to the head coaches, players, all the time. Cell phones were ringing off the hook and it was all guys you know. Of interest to us, incidentally, is that Mark Schlereth and Tom Jackson - tow guys who know a thing or two about Denver - both think Mike Bell is the real deal.
Nuts.
That's all I can think of. I am sitting on a set, in a chair, 15 feet from Boomer, Tom Jackson and Mark Schlereth. It's about ten minutes to air and the producer is going through the final machinations of the show. Boomer's looking at his rundown and saying things like "Okay, then I throw it to Matthew, right?"
Nuts, right?
I can tell you a few things about last night, where I was the fantasy analyst on ESPN's SportsCenter Fantasy Show. First, you can play for free at ESPN.com. Just saying.
Second, everyone is super nice. Jaws, Salisbury, Schlereth, Irvin. All of them made a point of saying hi, welcoming me, seriously, if they didn't, look, I would jus not write anything, but honestly, all of them, to a man, could not have been nicer. Mort, Suzy, Ditka and Nick Bakay were not in Bristol, so I didn't meet them and I already knew Jaws from the Fantasy Show, but everyone else? Awesome.
Here was the most interesting part to me at least. What you see on camera is exactly what you see off. Boomer and TJ just laugh and laugh. Seriously, we are all in the green room for the hour before getting make-up and all we did was talk T.O., Reggie Bush and the game that night. What everyone said on air they said privately beforehand. They all give Irvin crap for defending T.O. and Irvin sticks to his guns off air as well.
They are all aware of fantasy, how huge it is and say that 9 out of 10 people that come up to them ask them about their fantasy teams. Schlereth, by the way, is hard core. He plays in a bunch of leagues and told me he's trying to find a league where they count offensive linemen. I mean seriously, he's into it.
On air, in case you missed it, I did well, I thought. I was supposed to have four segments - the second one got cut due to time - so I only did 3. First one I was a bit nervous on - I was supposed to give my analysis of round one, which I did - hated Mort taking Reggie Bush and didn't like Bakay taking Steven Jackson with Ronnie Brown and Cadillac on the board.
So then I am supposed to give my Coca Cola Zero Best Available.
So then I say what my piece, got a guy yelling in my ear to wrap it up wrap it up so I quickly end and get to the Best Available except I forget to say Coca Cola Zero, which the good people at Coca Cola paid good money for me to say Coca Cola Zero. Which I hear is quite tasty. So I go back, I say that, they yell hurry up, I whip through one or two best available. And then they say "One More." So, I, uh, give one more. Then I hear "Throw to Boomer."
Hilarious.
So I throw to Boomer. And then, when it is time for my second hit, Boomer says "Let's go to The Talented Mr. Roto, Roto-Rooter."
Come on, now. Did I just get a nickname from Boomer on SportsCenter?
I can die now. Everything else is gravy.
After the show, I didn't have a ride to the hotel - I don't have a car here in Bristol - so I was gonna call a cab, but Tom Jackson offered to give me a ride. Seriously, it's nuts, right?
I celebrated by treating myself to a night of just answering emails and dealing with site business and not actually writing the TRUM until now, which has since turned into the afternoon. Ah, the beauty of a blog.
I can tell you, for what it is worth, that every single one of these guys talk to the head coaches, players, all the time. Cell phones were ringing off the hook and it was all guys you know. Of interest to us, incidentally, is that Mark Schlereth and Tom Jackson - tow guys who know a thing or two about Denver - both think Mike Bell is the real deal.
