I Cracked The Code

When you have the 101, you have one question, and that question is Bijan Robinson or Jahmyr Gibbs. Now, y'all know Bijan Robinson and I are lifelong friends, cousins, some may say brothers. But this year, the reason I'm going to be going with Jahmyr Gibbs is twofold. We're going to take Gibbs here at one, and then let's go through and talk about exactly why.

So, looking at both of these profiles, it is extremely difficult to find a blemish on either one. Over the past two years, Jahmyr Gibbs has averaged 21 points per game each season, as well as Jahmyr Gibbs has finished playing all 17 games both years as well. If we go through and we compare this with Bijan Robinson, Bijan Robinson is in a very similar boat. Bijan Robinson has played 17 games all three seasons of his NFL career, and he's had back-to-back seasons with at least 20 fantasy points.

Now, projecting both of these running backs into the future, it's difficult to just look at exactly what happened last season because obviously their backfields have changed. In the instance of Jahmyr Gibbs, they lose David Montgomery, and with David Montgomery going over to Houston, that's going to open up more opportunities for the Detroit running back. However, they do add in a lesser replacement in Isiah Pacheco. And with Bijan Robinson, it's a very similar story. Tyler Allgeier is going over to Arizona, and they replace him with a lesser running back named Brian Robinson.

So again, we can go through and we can look at maybe what Montgomery had last season, compare it to Tyler Allgeier. David Montgomery only played 37% of the snaps for the Detroit Lions this past season. I mean, David Montgomery only averaged 9.8 fantasy points per game that he took away from Gibbs. And if we go over and look at what Tyler Allgeier did with Bijan Robinson, Tyler Allgeier averaged 7.2 points per game and 8.4 carries per game as well. So Montgomery had a slightly larger role than Allgeier did this past season, but it wasn't anything crazy.

So going to all of this, I think if you look at the surface level, the projections for both these running backs are very similar if you were just looking back in the past on what's exactly happened. But I did put Vegas projections on FlockFantasy.com. And this is literally the reason why I'm deciding to go with Jahmyr Gibbs over Bijan Robinson. And I'm keeping it this simple. Right now, the Detroit Lions project to score 26.1 points per game this upcoming season. We go over and we look at the Atlanta Falcons. The Atlanta Falcons project to score 21.2 fantasy points per game. So, the Lions are supposed to score almost a full touchdown per game more than the Atlanta Falcons this next year, which is why I'm going to give the edge to Jahmyr Gibbs at one. But realistically, you could go either way with those two backs.

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Now, let's get ready for our next pick. Nico Collins off the board at 22. If you're using my rankings, I have Pickens over Jeremiah Love. The expert average on FlockFantasy.com had Love, but we do see Jeremiah Love off the board. So, in that case, I'm just going to pivot back over to my rankings. I have George Pickens as the guy. And then in terms of Rashid Shaheed versus Trey McBride, I'm stupid. So, ADP has Rashid Shaheed as the pick, but again, I already admitted to you, I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed. I'm going to try really hard. I'm going to care a lot. But because my brain is operating at 50% of the capacity of the next person drafting in this fantasy draft, I will take the elite tight end with Trey McBride at pick 25. But appreciate everybody coming to hang out with us.

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But let's pull this back around. Garrett Wilson off the board at 35. And oh, I do want to give a shout. If y'all want to enter in to get a free FlockFantasy.com season pass, um, we give away every single night in the live stream. Um, all you got to do is type the word season pass into the live chat and that will go ahead and enter you in to win a free FlockFantasy.com season pass. Once you drop a like and type that one word, you should be good.

Now, let's see. Buckets rank says, "Sharpe to the IR. Does that change the De'Von Achane ADP? I have loved taking De'Von Achane in round six and the Zack Charbonnet update does literally nothing for me because the expectations have already been that Zack Charbonnet is going to miss a large section of the season." Mark says, "Are we able to get the season pass to a friend?" I mean, yeah. If you win the season pass at the end of the live stream, I'm just going to ask you what your FlockFantasy.com username is and then I'm going to go ahead and give you the season pass. So, if you want to give me your friend's username, by all means, um, and go for it.

Okay, now we have Lavel Davis going to the Bowers team, which actually is good for me having Trey McBride. I like the Bowers team taking Lavel Davis because I don't want to take Cole Turner when I have McBride and at the same time I would be very excited for Titans to get pushed up through the rest of this draft board. Okay, Bro says, "What about CBS drafts?" Yes, sir. We have draft sheets for CBS drafts as well. And thank God we get Josh Jacobs here. We're gonna go Jacobs and Terry McLaurin. I freaking love this team. Right now, we have Jahmyr Gibbs, RB1, Trey McBride as an elite tight end, or let me actually finish off the running back position. We have Gibbs RB1, Josh Jacobs, RB2, Pickens, wide receiver one, I don't love, but it is what it is. And Terry McLaurin, wide receiver two, and then we have the elite tight end with Trey McBride. Obviously, we have concerns about Jacobs getting suspended, but as long as that doesn't happen and Jacobs plays 17 weeks, this team's a freaking monster and we could very easily win BBM with this. Absolutely love it.

Uh, now Kase says, "Would you ever do a four-man?" I'm going to be honest with you, chief. Not only would I never do a four-man fantasy football league, but at the same time, while I brag that we have so many different draft sheets available to y'all for to help you out with your exact fantasy football leagues on FlockFantasy.com, we don't have four-team draft sheets. We go as low as eight-team draft sheets. We go as high as 14-team, but we're not going to four-team. The options with the draft sheets are 8, 10, 12, 14.

But let's pull this around. Jaxon Smith-Njigba off at 58. Bucky Irving goes 59. Andrew says, "Mason, is the code for Underdog available to be put in after I already created an account but have not deposited anything?" I have no idea, my friend. You'd have to reach out to Underdog support. I'm going to be honest with you.

Henry says, "Would you really rather have Pickens over Shaheed, the wide receiver two in his own offense, over a wide receiver one in KC?" Here's the deal with George Pickens that is crazy to think through and why I would be worried of fading him. George Pickens last season at 24 years old was the wide receiver six in points per game and averaged 17 points per contest. If we look at the closest historical comps according to FlockFantasy.com, they're Michael Thomas, A.J. Green, Odell Beckham Jr., Brandon Marshall, Dez Bryant, Nico Collins, Jaylen Waddle, Randall Cobb. In terms of age, 24 seasons, every single one of those wide receivers had at least 13 points per game the following year. And one, two, three, four, five, six out of eight of them had at least 17 fantasy points per game. So for Pickens to come off a season where he was just an absolute fantasy monster at 24 years old like us taking him at 24 is pricing in um some regression to be honest.

We're going to take Marvin Harrison here for sure. And then also we're going to take Mailman. I actually really like Mailman here in the seventh. And again, I think if our team has weaknesses anywhere, it's going to be the wide receiver position because I'm not going to pretend that I love Pickens as my wide receiver one. But again, I would say that he has fewer red flags than what you're going to get with Rashid Shaheed. Again, if you remember, Rashid Shaheed had the knee operation this offseason. And Rashid Shaheed spent about a month in jail as well.

Okay. Now, Ryan says, "It's because CeeDee was hurt when CeeDee plays George Pickens as a wide receiver 2 or wide receiver 3." So, this is one of the reasons I really like all the work we've done with FlockFantasy.com. I don't mean to pick on you at all, my friend. I really appreciate you hanging out with us in the live stream, but we do get very often like people in the live chat or in the comment section that will just say something that's blatantly false. Like, oh, when Lamb's healthy, George Pickens is a wide receiver 2 or wide receiver 3 when I can go through and I can look in FlockFantasy.com's database. We can pull in George Pickens to the player comparison. We can look at the games that he played with and without CeeDee Lamb. And of course, the games without CeeDee Lamb, George Pickens was better than the games with Lamb, right? But in the games without CeeDee Lamb, George Pickens averaged 26 fantasy points per game. And the games with Lamb, and there were 14 of them, he was still the wide receiver 10 in points per game with 15. So, um, with a healthy CeeDee Lamb, George Pickens was still a wide receiver one in fantasy.

Okay, now let me move this over. Tucker Craft off the board at 84. Jayden Reed goes 85. A team taking both Packers. I'm assuming they're setting themselves up with Jayden Reed later on. The Herbert team went to Ladd. Dak Prescott went to the Lamb team. The team at eight is interesting going with both Lamar and May. I would assume that they're done at two quarterbacks here. I mean, they are a team that has a pretty high experience draft badge. So, I would be shocked if they ripped like another QB, but clearly for our roster, a quarterback is the biggest concern that we would have at this point. And our stacking options are slim to none. Like Dak is already gone for our pick and stack. Daniels has already gone for our Terry stack. Hurts is already gone for Mailman stack. So like we got the Arizona pass catchers, but I don't know how excited we are for that.

Now let me move this over. Ryan says, "This is the tweet I saw. Pickens with a healthy CeeDee Lamb. Weeks one and two, 11.9 points per." My friend, I literally I don't care what you saw on Twitter. I just pulled up FlockFantasy.com and showed you the official statistics. We're not making up stats on FlockFantasy.com for to make George Pickens look better. Promise you that. My highest ranked player is Mahomes. We need a quarterback, so we're going to take him. And then my next highest ranked player is Blake Corum. And yeah, we're fine taking him here. Only drafted him in 4.3% of drafts because I would personally just really view him as a premium handcuff to Kyren Williams. I wouldn't expect Blake Corum to do anything crazy with a healthy Kyren. But if Kyren were to go down, Blake Corum's an extremely talented running back running in what projects to be the best offense in the NFL.

Okay, now let me pull this around. 109 says, "Any concern with Mahomes early season?" So, obviously, I'm not a doctor. Y'all know that I generally really like to listen to sportsbook data because it's my personal opinion. When there's a lot of money at stake, that's when the most efficient markets and predictions come out. And with sportsbooks at the moment, they are pricing in Mahomes as like an eight to one favorite to start week one for the Kansas City Chiefs. So maybe he struggles early in terms of his points per game, but he's going to be out there week one. And I know people want to make an argument, oh, okay, they're going to go through, they're going to run the ball more because they have Kenneth Walker and they need to keep Patrick Mahomes healthy. That seems like a big-time narrative in my mind.

Okay. Oh jeez. Lewis says, "Hey, Mason, I noticed since I have the Flock sign up this year for the best ball tool, I can't get the $34 season pass. Only makes me get month motherfucker." OG's are you referring to, did you get the free best tool for signing up to Underdog Fantasy and that's why it's blocking you to get the season pass? Because that would be very good information to know if that's happening. Pat, your verification code on FlockFantasy.com is most likely either in your spam or you can go ahead and just try logging into your account directly because there's a good chance that um you are maybe already have an account with that email and that's why it's not sending.

Now, Wandale Robinson goes off the board at 110. Kyler Murray goes 111. Bo Nix off at 112. We have a very well-balanced team. There's not too much to discuss in my mind of what we need. Aro says, "How do we get the basketball tools you use?" It's on FlockFantasy.com, my friend.

Pull this down. I'll probably end up going with Travis Kelce here for the Mahomes stack. Like Kelce is going to be our last stacking option, unless you want to take like T.J. Hockenson in round 18. which I personally don't want to. KD off the board 114. Jaden Higgins goes 115. Okay. Ranger Danger says, "Hey, Mason, first time season pass investor and let me tell you, I killed my drafts." Thank you, T Cook. Um, I absolutely love hearing that, my friend. I really do appreciate it. I promise you, we are not going to stop here. I'm going to make sure you get the most value out of that throughout the entire season as well. And side note, absolutely insane that you have already done your drafts. Absolutely insane.

Now, Jordan Mason off the board. I'm going to take Rachaad White here. He's the highest ranked player for me by far. And then we will also end up Casey Conception's my next highest ranked guy. How much does it matter taking Kelce for the Mahomes stack in comparison to Conception? You know what? I'm going to take the receiver. I'm going to ignore the stack in this instance. Maybe it's a horrible call. It very easily could be a horrible call, but it is what it is. I don't love Kelce this year.

Okay, now let me swing this back. Isaiah Likely goes 122. Romeo Doubs 123. Let me know what y'all think of this idea that I randomly had because obviously we only do best drafts in this live stream pretty much, but as we get close to the season, I like the idea of doing some more redraft drafts and getting some more practice um for the Flock League draft, which obviously is what I care most about personally. What do you think of the idea of me doing of hosting a redraft draft every night that would be a real league? And how we would essentially do it is I don't think I would want to like have y'all buy into the league because I wouldn't want to have to manage your league dues, figure out who buys in and who doesn't. What I was spitballing with Sammy Stax, you know, the fan from the Flock League, is would you all be interested if I did one redraft draft a night? Real league. Have Phil, it's every draft's going to be a 12-team draft because I need to go ahead. I need to practice for the Flock League. And it'll be a real league that we play in through the course of the season. I've already talked to Sammy. He said he'll help me submit my starting lineups if I do like 30 of these. So, I'm going to be honest with you. I'm not going to have time on Sunday morning when I'm doing the live stream to run through and submit 30, 40 starting lineups. [cough] But to make sure everybody stays interested through the season, I will give $300 to the winner of every league. So, I'll still be incentivized to win because if I win the league, then I don't have to pay you $300. But if one of y'all ends up winning the league, then I'll pay you $300. But let me know if that sounds interesting. Not so much that if you want to be in the league or not. I'm sure y'all want to. Duh. It's a free roll. But would you like watching that? That's what I'm most interested in. Um, like remove yourself from the idea of like, oh, do I want to be in these drafts? Would you like to watch that in comparison to me doing these Underdog? Okay, looks like feedback is yes generally. Okay, that is good to know because we may take steps towards that.

So, we're cook like quarterback the next best option for us is going to be Bryce Young. And I don't necessarily know if we want to go in that direction because the thing with Young is he shares the same bye-week with Mahomes. Now, I believe the draft assistant's going to tell us we need to take three quarterbacks here anyway. Let me check this. Yeah, the draft assistant's telling us we want three quarterbacks, five running backs, eight receivers, two tight ends. We just took Goddard as our second tight end here at pick 144. So, we need to take one more running back, two more receivers, and two more quarterbacks. But, we do need to see some quarterbacks fall to us. Okay. But [clears throat] yeah, so it looks like we got some man, some no.

Ryan says, "Would almost rather watch that than Underdog." That's essentially what I'm asking. Would y'all prefer watching a baseball draft or would y'all prefer watching me do like a real money redraft league draft? Um, it would have y'all in it. I'm probably not going to have y'all buy into it, but let me know.

Okay. Now, Andrew says, "Bought the season pass. It is great. What do you recommend I use during my drafts, your rankings or the draft sheets?" I would recommend that you use the draft sheets. Here's the reason why. Um, like if you go through and set up the draft sheets, say you download them, blah blah blah, use the real-time draft assistance. Here's how I would recommend you doing it. Hypothetically, say you play in an ESPN league. It's an ESPN. I don't even need to go to superflex. ESPN league where it's a double flex, right? What I would recommend you doing, at least this is what I plan on doing the Flock League. I would add my rankings and then I would go ahead and I would actually sort by the ranking plus ADP and I would download this sheet. And how this is going to help is one, it makes the adjustments to the exact settings that you're playing on, but two, at the same time, it will average out ADP and my rankings for the platform that you're playing on. That way you're not reaching three rounds early. Like a dumb example is Javian Price is like a round 11 pick in Sleeper drafts. I have him ranked in the sixth round. If you were just drafting off my rankings with the season pass, my rankings will probably tell you to draft Javian Price in round six. But if you're using the draft sheets, if it averages out my rankings that have him in round six and the ADP that has him in round 11, it will probably recommend that you draft him in round eight. So you still definitely get him, but you maybe don't overdraft him in comparison to the value you could have gotten later on. So I would use the draft sheets for two different reasons. Again, one would be the because it will be customized your exact scoring, your exact league settings, etc., etc., as long as you filled those out correctly. And then two on top of that as well. We can't take Kenyan Drake. I'm only quarterback, running back, receiver. But two on top of that as well, you'll be set up with a way to balance out platform ADP value at the same time. I'm gonna take Deebo Samuel then a reach on Fernando Mendoza as our second quarterback. So yeah, again I long story short, I recommend the draft sheets. Just make sure you use them properly. Make sure you put in the exact platform and make sure you put in the correct league settings.

MV says, "Bought the season pass last year and won my redraft home league for the first time after finishing second three years in a row. One year we split the pot due to the Hamlin incident." Well, congrats on winning, my friend. Um, I'm happy for you and hopefully we can run it back. But I mean, here's my opinion. I think like once you get to the playoffs, it's such a small sample. Finishing second, obviously it's not as impressive as finishing first. It's a one-week thing. If you get to the championship in your league three years straight, that is incredible.

Okay, now Gman says, "Your site and seemingly a significant portion of your audience is here for season-long. Add in a live draw at the start of the video to be in the draft and you have an audience for the live." Good idea, my friend. So, we'll probably do that. I need to talk with Sammy because here's the great thing about these Underdog drafts. I have no work in like figuring out who's in them, coordinating anything, right? I just show up, I just go ahead and hit I hop into a draft and it fills immediately. No work on my part at all, but if we do the redraft thing, it will be a little bit of work on my end. So, I'll just have to figure it out.

Okay, now let's pull this over. Liam says, "What would you recommend for an auction draft? Would you try to use the draft sheets?" I think it's So, here's the thing that you can do with the draft sheets, right? That may be valuable for an auction. I'm going to be honest, it's not going to be like the most valuable thing in the world. I I can't lie to you. It's not going to have exact auction budgets for you, but these draft sheets will just be a good starting point for you to have like a power rankings of the players that should be the most valuable in your auction. And as they go, you can go ahead and cross them off so you can see how many players are available in what tiers that are left. You know, maybe in the future, like I'm just going to be honest, like we have so many things on the plate how we want to improve the draft sheets and how we want to improve the live draft assistance that I don't think auctions going to be on there in the short term. Maybe it is, but I'm I'm not going to make any promises on that front. But, u maybe in the future, like 2027, we can have explicit auction values in there. But for now, the draft sheets in that instance would mainly just be used as, oh, here's how you should value these players top to bottom. But in terms of breaking it out of like, oh, the top player here with Jahmyr Gibbs is worth 29% of your budget. Then as we get down to James Cook, then he's worth 22% of your budget. It's not going to break down the exact percentages like that.

Okay. Now, Ben says, "Just got the season pass. Been finishing in the top three in my redraft league for years, but never won. Hopefully, it can get me over the top." Hey, I'm hoping they can do the same thing for me in my league this year, my friend. Best of luck, and I really appreciate you.

Okay, now Tank Dell off the board at 186. Let's swing this over. And we get to hear the dog bark. Brother got home. Thank you, doggy, for letting me know. Okay, so draft assistant telling us we need one more quarterback and we need two more running backs. Let me look at the math of this. I guess the advance to the playoffs is highest with six running backs, but the semi-finals and final stuff's highest with five running backs and seven receivers. So, I'm actually going to go one quarterback, one running back, one receiver to end this out. We can take Zachariah Branch here as our last wide receiver. I have him ranked at 177. And then in terms of quarterback and running back, we're going to take Jacobe Brassette. We have Marvin as well as Trey McBride. We're going to go what if Jacobe Brassette is indeed the starting quarterback for the Arizona Cardinals this season, which obviously that's up in the air right now, but he probably will be. And let me go ahead and let's throw some running backs into the queue and we're going to hop in another draft. I'd like Mike Washington on this team. Um Ray Davis, Lloyd are fine. I like Singleton. I like Black. I've mixed in Giddens. Can mix in Jordan James. Mix in Briland Allen. I don't like Alani. I don't like Vidal. We can mix in James Conner. See if he ends up getting dealt. And then we'll throw in some of these other running backs just here at the very end.

Now, I'm going to hop into another Basketball Mania draft. I'm be honest, like I have 91 drafts left and we don't have many days that we can still be drafting these teams. Like we don't have much longer here. Um Troy says, "Wait, so should I use both the draft sheets and the live assistant during my draft?" I wouldn't recommend you do that, my friend. Um because the deal with the draft the live draft assistant is when you're using the redraft live draft assistant, you're going to see a tab here very similar to the Underdog tool where I can pivot through and I can look at a bunch of different things inside the assistant itself. You're going to see a rankings tab that just shows you the raw rankings. And then you'll see a draft sheets tab that's going to show you the adjustments made based on your league settings as well as the platform that you're drafting on. So, you won't need to be bouncing back and forth between the site with the sheets and the live draft assistant. Um, I would recommend you just do the draft like the essentially what the live draft assistant's going to do is it's going to mark the sheets sheets automatically for you as you go.

Okay, now it looks like we got the celebrity NEZ in this draft with us at eight with an absolute crazy diamond badge here. So, it's going to be a tough draft. this Draco team at two. What kind of badge is this? I have no idea. I'm blind. This is gonna be a pretty tough draft. Ohio State says, "What platform would you do the redraft leagues on?" Um, mainly going to come down to what your league mates want.

Now, Manuel says, "Thoughts on the Texans backfield, Mace." So, y'all know I've had Dameon Pierce ranked ahead of ADP for quite some time. I have Dameon Pierce ranked at 135 in my rankings. ADP for Dameon Pierce is 143. So I have Dameon Pierce in about 10% of my drafts. I have invested about $3,800 into Dameon Pierce this offseason. David Montgomery, I only have in 4.7% of my drafts and I've invested about $1,700 bucks. So I am like double the investment into Dameon Pierce than I am David Montgomery. So I would love to victory lap the report that came out today. Just in case you didn't see it, I'll pull it up for y'all. Um, let's go ahead and James Cook off. We're going to get Justin Jefferson. I actually had a draft today that I got Jefferson and Lamb, which I know y'all told me that you've been able to do that in the live stream before. I've never been able to do that, but what was I pulling up for y'all? Um, I completely forgot. Oh yeah, the Dameon Pierce report. Um, so report came out and we're going to take Jalen Wright here to pair with Jefferson. Super easy one-two turn. Report came out said Montgomery, Dameon Pierce expected to split lead back reps per Slater NFL. How much do I believe this? Not at all. Very similar to when we get the report of um oh Jeremiah Love's going to share the backfield with Tyler Allgeier. Tyler Allgeier is the starter. Oh, George Alani is gonna play over Javian Price. What happens 100% of the time when a player goes to a team, the coaching staff, the people that work there, what are they going to decide to do? Oh, they're going to back the guy that's been in the building, right? It's just the respectful thing to do. If the Texans go out there and trade for David Montgomery and then come out and right before camp they go, "Oh, David Montgomery is gonna be our three-down um workhorse. We don't need Dameon Pierce anymore. We have Montgomery here." That's just you just spit in the face of Dameon Pierce. So, I hate reports like that because it feels like it happens every year and people for whatever reason take it at face value. Like again, another great example like the best example is Javian Price and George Alani. George Alani is nothing. But you can't just tell the running back he took in round one of the NFL draft, yeah, it's your job before you even step in the building. You got to make those guys work for it. Yeah. And it's the same thing with like Mendoza and Kirk Cousins. Obviously, number one NFL draft pick quarterbacks, sometimes they just admit if there's nothing else in the quarterback room, yeah, he's starting week one. But the ideal for NFL teams will be to not put the pressure on their rookie quarterback and not to just hand it to him right away and say like, "Oh yeah, he's the veteran starting all season. We don't need the rookie we just took number one overall. Why would we need him? This is what teams do. So, I I'm not going to sit here and act like, "Oh, you need to move Dameon Pierce up your rankings. I told y'all you were too low on him." I think it's a nothing report.

Okay. Now DeVonta Smith goes off at 31. A.J. Brown off at 32. We have a lot of flexibility when we start Jefferson and Wright, right? So we're not stressing about anything here. Kyren Williams goes. My highest ranked players Javonte. I think we can take our second highest ranked name though with Allen and get Javonte on the way back. I mean, we'll see what Vinnie does. Vinnie's on the other side of us. Obviously, my heart's not going to be broken at all if he takes Javonte. But John Deng says, "LeBron just signed with the Spurs. Holy hell, that would be the best thing to ever happen to me." Sadly, of course, it didn't happen. I don't think we get a report of LeBron signing with the San Antonio Spurs at almost midnight Eastern. So, I'm not going to fall for that bait, but oh my lordy, I'd be excited. We'll take Javonte here at 38. Once they restructured Kamara's deal, I'm willing to slide ETN behind Javonte.

Okay. Trophy Steeler says, "Also, wasn't Sharpe put on the PUP? How many weeks does that put him out for guaranteed?" So the expectations with Charbonnet is we don't um see him until call it October, November. So like him going on the PUP's almost a non-story for me because like where is Charbonnet going in drafts right now? Let me actually instead of just looking at the Underdog drafts, let me pull up the FlockFantasy.com consensus ADP. So that'll maybe give us a better sense of where he's actually going. Okay. Consensus ADP for Zack Charbonnet. So I guess in redraft leagues, people don't know what's going on. Like CBS, he's at 116. Like Sleeper, he goes to pick 124. FFPC 128. But in these Underdog drafts, Charbonnet is already at pick 159. In the FlockFantasy.com rankings, Charbonnet is at 187. So yeah, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe the people that were drafting on the redraft platforms, they hadn't baked in Charbonnet missing a decent stretch of time, but he's already going to pick 160 in these Underdog drafts, right? There's no change there. Um, the Spaniard says, "Shoot, I had to step out for a bit. Did I miss the wheel spin?" Um, no, sir. We're going to be giving away the free season pass at the very end of the stream. But I will remind y'all, of course, if you haven't already, if y'all want to enter in to win a free FlockFantasy.com season pass. All you got to do is one, drop a like on this live stream. And then two, type the word season pass into the live chat. You do those two things, you'll be entered in to win a free one at the end of this stream.

Okay, Zach says, "Would you rather get in a tickle fight with McCarthy or Deshaun Watson?" I'm gonna go JJ McCarthy there. If I had to pick between one of the two, this is a very interesting question. I'm I'm going to give you props for it. But if I had to guess which one of these guys would be okay with me going up and tickling them between him and him, I got a hunch it's this dude right here. Quinn Jean Judkins off the board. We're going to take DJ Moore. I actually have Christian Watson as the highest ranked player, but when we have Josh Allen, that's when I take DJ Moore. Okay, Christian Watson, Tyson both go. So, we'll take Romeo Doubs here in the sixth.

Now, let's pull this over. Zach says, "Is the support email in the Flock site strictly for help requests? Is there any other ways to reach you?" If you have a business request, you can reach me mason@flockfantasy.com. But again, if you need help at all with anything on FlockFantasy.com, I would email support@flockfantasy.com. Um, Kevo says, "Who should I stack with?" Trey Lance. Um, if you take Trey Lance, I highly recommend the Nathan Rourke stack. And that's at least the way that I would go about it personally.

Okay, after we take I I really like this team. We have Jefferson, Moore, Rome at wide receiver. We have Wright and Javonte in the elite quarterback with Josh Allen. I'm feeling it. I am feeling it, ladies and gentlemen. Okay. Oh jeez. Louis says, "Mason, what is the backstory of how Flock was created? How did everyone meet?" So, backstory of how Flock Fantasy was created. Like, it's July 22nd, so I'll answer this for anybody interested. So, I obviously am just a regular person uploading fantasy football videos on YouTube. I have a Patreon. I run a Patreon from like 2020 through 2022. All of a sudden, 2022, I started to get a lot of views on YouTube. I started to have a lot more people join my Patreon. What I realized is, hey, if I want this to be a real business, I need to find a way to make a better product for people that sign up, right? Because if I'm just one guy on Patreon making a Google sheet of rankings, what's the experience for sign someone signing up for that, right? What's the customer experience essentially? Because you sign up, you pay $10 a month, so like $120 a year, and you don't get that good of a product because there's only one person working on it. And a lot of creators were in a similar boat, right? That's what everybody did that would make fantasy football YouTube videos. So, I was very fortunate enough at this point I was making decent money so I could invest into developers on FlockFantasy.com. I could pay them to help me make really good tools. And what I wanted is I didn't want just my rankings and my advice to be on the site because again I'm one person. I can only do so much. And I wanted people who bought stuff on FlockFantasy.com to feel like, "Oh, I really got my money's worth." You know, because if they feel that way, then they'll buy it again the next year. They'll be happier with their experience with us overall. So, they'll be more likely to tune into live streams, more likely to support our sponsors, etc., etc., versus if they paid for a worse product at a price that was too high. So then I go through, I hire the developers to start developing FlockFantasy.com to start making tools for us. And I approach the other YouTubers that I think were making very good videos and very well-researched videos as well at the same time that I would want to have on the site. I told them, "Hey, do you want to join with me? You can help me build out these tools with these developers. It will be a much better product than what people sign up for on your Patreon." Instead of them signing up and only getting your stuff, they'll sign up and get stuff from everybody, right? So, I pitched them on the vision of like, "Hey, don't you want the people that you sell stuff to to um get a much better product?" And it's a very easy sell, right? So, the creators went, "Yep, good idea. Let's do it." So then the creators joined with me and that is pretty much that. But um and that was again I started that process late 2022. We launched FlockFantasy.com March 2023 and we've just been working on the site and the tools with everybody ever since.

Okay. Now, Kyle Manung goes 89. Uh says, "Hey, on Sleeper, Titans are picked so highly. When should I draft them?" So, here's the thing with like Underdog drafts as an example. Underdog drafts, everybody's going to take three tight ends or two to three tight ends, right? So, you have to respect the market and you have to look at a position like that and think through like, oh, when should I take them? But in your Sleeper draft, in your regular redraft league, if tight ends are overdrafted, who cares? You don't need to be the guy to take a tight end. You could wait until the very last round or the very last two rounds and take two of them and work the waiver wire. So, if you think tight ends are going way too high in your redraft league or if you think quarterbacks are going way too high in your redraft, you don't need to take either. Most people in your league will only take one to two and there will be two guys sitting there at the very end of your draft for you that you can pick up. So, um it's harder to say that about running back and wide receiver because obviously it's tougher to replace them off the waiver wire, but quarterback and tight end, you have a ton of flexibility where if you don't love the cost of those guys in your draft, you can ignore them.

Theresa says, "I've been with you since we celebrated 5,000 followers." That's incredible. Theresa, I'm going to be honest. I know you've been with me forever and I really do appreciate you, but I had no idea you've I didn't even know it was that long. That's amazing. Thank you. Uh OG's Louise says, "Dope, thanks for sharing and you guys came a long way in just a few years. Flock Fantasy going to the moon." I appreciate you, my friend. And yeah, I actually got an email today from Google Play that they verified my identity. They verified the business. So, we should have the Flock Fantasy app available on Android relatively soon for Apple to verify us. I have to get them like my cert like my certification of like like whenever I created the business. I created it back in like 2019, 2020 officially. So, of course, I don't have that paper on me. So, I'm having to try to figure it out with Texas for them to send it my way. And then once that happens, we'll have the Flock Fantasy app available in the Apple App Store soon as well. But don't you worry, once that happens, I'll be annoying as hell reminding you over and over again about it.

Okay, now let's Fuji says, "Mason, I'll see you in a month. Fuji Apple face reveal August 16th. They bring an apple basket to Austin. Honestly, not a bad idea. I'm be honest with you, my friend. A little nervous. A little nervous. Bitter Hornet, hope you're doing well, my friend. Um, now certifi um certificate of formation. That's what I need from for Apple and I don't have it. So, I'm having to wait for the state of Texas to get back to me with it.

So, let's think through who Stafford goes. Vinnie after us doesn't have any of the Vikings or actually he has Christian Watson and Jayden Reed. So, he's definitely taking Jordan Love. So, we're at the very minimum going to get either Bo Nix or Kyler Murray on the way back. So, I'm going to take Harold Fain at 107 and then we'll take whoever Vinnie doesn't take between these two guys on the way back. I would probably personally prefer Kyler Murray because we have both Jefferson and Addison. So, obviously, we kind of need the Vikings to smash if we want to have any hope with Kyler. I'm sorry, have any hope with this team turning $25 into two million. But we have Fantasy Land Football. If y'all don't know, Fantasy Land Football is a massive, massive fan of the Flock League. And he says, "When is the next Flock League video coming out?" Thank you, my friend. I appreciate you being such an avid and loyal supporter. Thank you for everything. And I talked to Thomas earlier today and I said, "When's the Flock League video coming out?" And he said it will be out on Friday. Clutch takes a Zach is the goat. I don't know if this is Zach Sharpe. I Are there any other Zachs that I'm maybe not thinking of? Are you talking about Zachariah Branch, Zach Wilson, Zach Hurts? I like Sharpe is probably the only Zach I would draft here, but I obviously if y'all don't know. Um I'm joking. Fantasy Land Zach is a member of the Flock League does absolutely great stuff.

Now we'll pull this around. Jakori Cross Merritt off 119. I really like our team so far. So, just in case you don't know, like with these Underdog drafts. Once I take Josh Allen and Kyler Murray, I'm done taking quarterbacks. You can see this with the draft assistant as well. What it's telling us that we need to do is it's telling us that we're done at two quarterbacks. We probably need to either take five or six running backs. Right now, we only have Wright and Javonte. Wide receiver, it looks like we can get away with either seven or eight of them. And then we definitely need to take three tight ends where we only have Harold Fain. Zach says, "It's genuinely hilarious watching you talk trash trash with the jersey on backwards." Here's the deal. This is how they were intended to be worn. Okay, prove me otherwise. Prove me wrong. Maybe y'all are just wearing your jersey backwards and mine's on correctly.

Okay, Groggi says, "What do you think about the Flock cameras and are they smearing the Flock Fantasy name by association?" Yeah, my editor brought this up to me, Thomas, like a couple months ago. He was like, "Hey, this may become a problem." Hope hopefully people are smart enough to know that we're different. Hopefully they know that a fantasy football website has nothing to do with security cameras. But we'll see. I'm sure one out of every thousand people won't be smart enough to figure it out. We are going to take Dalton Kincaid here to pair up with Josh Allen. We need another tight end. We have no problem doing so. Stefon Diggs is my highest ranked player now. Benny says, "Jersey's on the correct way. Head is just on backwards." I like that take. Uh, Steve says, "Hey, Mason, I bought the season pass and I'm having trouble updating the draft sheets and seeing um, ESPN leagues with the extension. Any idea?" Could you please shoot an email to support@flockfantasy.com, my

friend, and um, somebody would be happy to help walk you through it?"

I'm going to take Stefon Diggs here as our sixth wide receiver. Again, I am more interested in Diggs now that Brandon Iayuk has shown that he's gone crazy because while Stefon Diggs is crazy. He's football crazy, right? Like he's the type of crazy that a football team will be willing to work with. So, I have more faith in him getting picked up than I would at this point of um Brandon. And I think the Commanders would be a very realistic destination for Stefon Diggs.

Okay. Now, Wong says, "Hey, Mason, what is the difference between the season pass and the Mother Flocker pass?" So, Mother Flocker essentially gets you hooked up with stuff year round. So, you get like the dynasty stuff. I would essentially say if you are like a diehard fantasy football player where you play dynasty, you play baseball, then that's when you would want the [ __ ]. But if you just play in your regular reddraft league, um like you just play in an ESPN league or you play in an ESPN and a Yahoo league, then I would recommend just getting the $34 season pass because then you really only need the season pass until the end of the season, right? You don't need it all year round.

I I will say one other side note again, if you use code flock with either one, you'll get free questions that you can ask me during the streams, the motherflocker gets you a free team review where the season pass doesn't. So, if you know for a fact that you're going to want a team review, it would be cheaper to just get the mother flocker. But I would say that is fewer people and the better deal would just be to do the 34 buck um season pass.

Now, Emilio says, "New subscriber, man. Question. I've taken over his commission this year. 15th year in the league. Scoring settings are pretty basic, but what do you think about a bonus for 50 yard touchdowns, two-point bonus for all positions?" I don't I am very neutral on big play bonuses. It's definitely a more popular thing in dynasty leagues than it is in your regular redraft formats. The positive with it is you maybe feel more like you are always within striking distance of coming back in a matchup. So I could very easily see that as a selling point on a positive why the big play bonuses may make sense. But it's not inherently something that like I get really excited about like for the flock league. We're not doing big play bonuses.

Rival says, "I said flock it and got the whole package." Yes, Rival went for everything. Uh, the Brian says, "Hey, Mason, kind of new to the channel. Do you do any dynasty content?"

Yeah. So, a little backstory on me. I actually started out exclusively doing Dynasty Fantasy football stuff on YouTube. The channel you are watching now used to be a dynasty fantasy football channel. I'm going to take Jaylen Aaylor. We have to. And then what we have to do afterwards, we have to pivot hard to running backs. But yeah, I started off exclusively Dynasty Fantasy Football, my bread and butter. That's what every single video on this channel was. And then eventually um after doing it for a couple years randomly, I mean, I was just doing it for fun. Nobody on YouTube was making money off any of this. I was in college. I never thought in a million years this could be a job. And then randomly my senior year, I posted a reddraft video and it got like a ton of views. Like I had probably posted a thousand videos at this point and they would always get like a couple hundred views, right? Like I had a really cool small community, but nothing crazy. But then I posted a reddraft video. It got like 20,000 views and then I was like, "Oh shoot, maybe I should try to do more reddraft stuff." Then I started doing reddraft stuff on this channel and that actually took over like throughout the entire rest of the 2020 season. And then this channel kind of turned into a reddraft channel. So then I launched the Dynasty football flock YouTube channel which um is our exclusive like Dynasty only YouTube. Now I don't want to put Dynasty stuff on this channel anymore because um so this is the Dynasty football flock. I don't like putting Dynasty videos on this channel just because people that don't play Dynasty, it doesn't help them, right? It just annoys them if anything. So, I put it on the Dynasty channel.

Okay. To Sarah Main says, "Hey Mason, the only official Flock Fantasy Draft overlay for Chromium/Brave browsers is on the website, correct? Shouldn't trust it from any other source? And who is the dev that's listed on it?"

Yes. The O are there multiple Flock Fantasy draft things right now? Because the only official one is the one that's on flockfantasy.com. Let me see if I can pull up the extensions. This is the official Flock Fantasy draft overlay. If I can see the details of this for you. I don't know the dev listed on it. U I don't know which one it is out of Joe, Austin, and Tom. We have three different devs that possibly put that on Chrome, but it's the Flock Fantasy Draft Overlay 2.3.0. [snorts]

Okay. Gunnar Helmoff 171 again. We actually I may pivot over to a six running back build. Now, let me look at the math. Yeah, wide receivers, it's optimal for us to go eight at this point. We have Jefferson, DJ Moore, Rome, Sutton, Addison, Stefon, Diggs, Naylor. Running back, we don't even have enough data based on what we've done in this draft. It's been a very weird running back draft where we've gone Genty, Javante, and then Jonah Coleman. I actually may prefer going with the sixth running back over the eighth wide receiver here.

Jaden says, "What happens with Montgomery and Marks after the news?" We already talked about that. Um, nothing really. Let me pull this down. Jerry Judy off 175. And all the running backs are gone. Isaac Tla goes 178.

Ryan says, "I get ripped for taking a quarterback in rounds three or four, but a tight end's cool. Still doesn't make sense to me. I'm probably wrong." So, a lot of it comes down to value over replacement on what you can find on the waiverwire and the points per game that you may get from like a Josh Allen in comparison to a regular quarterback on your waiverwire like Baker Mayfield. But for me, um, I'm fine taking either or depending on who it is and depending on the value of it.

The legend says, "Where can I find the expected points per game for the offenses?" Um, if you go to flockfantasy.com and hit I'll pull this up for you. Hit post on the side, then you can see the Vegas projections right there that I posted for you.

Doomsday says, "Wait, this channel is not about security cameras? I'm out. I just I baited you in here to think this was about security cameras." But actually, we got a completely different situation going on here. But let me go ahead and give away that free flockfantasy.com season pass for everybody that's hung out with us. I am not going to make the fiance wait up for me for until midnight again. Um, she's been an absolute trooper, of course, to let me live stream every single night this late. And yeah, I mean, I don't like scheduling the streams this late, but I just have so much work that I've been doing during the day. Like, a lot is happening right now. So, I I promised you I'm going to stream every single day. There'll be some days like this where I don't get all my work done until like 8:30 p.m. It's like, okay, well, let me eat dinner. Um, let me go get dinner, then I'll get home and then I'll live stream right away for y'all. So, I typically I want to stream earlier, but it's just been work's been crazy lately. But, let me go ahead and pull up the giveaway and I will um spin that wheel for y'all. I appreciate you all hanging out with us, of course, and I'll keep youall posted on if we end up hosting any of the reddraft leagues for we may end up doing the That's actually a good idea. I I don't know how we'll do that, but Cramp peris Krampus Risen something like that. Krampus Risen one, if you are in the live chat still, please let me know what your flockfantasy.com username is and I'd be super happy to go ahead and hook you up with a free season pass.

Zedit says, "Yo, that's me." I I appreciate you, Zayedits. Chad says, "I work overnight, so pumped to be able to go on with fantasy with y'all." Yeah, I I appreciate everybody hanging out, of course. And here's the deal. Like if I'm already this busy and it's pushing these live streams to be this late, I will only get busier as the season comes. So, I honestly don't really expect it to change anytime soon.

Okay, Dunav Wix goes 196. Marshon Lloyd 198. I think we're just going to take two more running backs here at the end because the rookie running backs that we have drafted are probably probably no bueno if we're going to be honest.

Okay, DTRX says, "How do we use the draft sheets? Do we have to manually check off the players picked in the draft and follow it that way?" So, it depends if you're I'm going to take Mike Washington here. We're just going to go with all these rookie running backs. Actually, yeah, we'll go Washington. We have Genty, though. But, we're going to go with just straight rookie running backs to the end of this. I'm going to take Kron Allen as our last guy. Actually, Vinnie has a couple running back picks left possibly to make, so I don't know. Um, but if you're using the draft sheets, like on the draft sheet section of flockfantasy.com, then yeah, as players get drafted, you would hit this X and it marks them off for you so you can see who's left, right, and who's the best available for you and what tier. Um, if you have the live draft assistance like this, it should automatically update as players are taken for you. So, it just depends what you're using. Are you using the live draft assistant that is the overlay or are you using the actual draft sheets on the site? Draft sheets, you will just click the little X, mark the player off um the overlay, it will automatically do it.

But says, "Do you have a promo code for flockfantasy.com? Sign up." Yes. Code is flock. If you use code flock, you'll get free questions that you can ask me in the streams. But I really appreciate you all hanging out with me, ladies and gentlemen. I will be live again tomorrow and the next day and the next day and the next day. I really hope that you have a great night and I really hope I get to see you out in the live.