The Mock Draft Thread

CoachTO · 06-08-2012 12:07am

matthew8 wrote: »

I don't think he'll come back but clearly you do.

I clearly nothing and dont think anything about Johnson. I dont take Mock Drafts serious and they generally have no reflection on how I pick. Everytime I pick in a mock I jot it down as a scenario of what to do and what not to do. Its also good to see where people lean when certain guys are taken off the board. Just like a pre-season friendly I give nothing away and use it to scout. Besides Mocks are all about What ifs for me its that simple.

I wouldn't want him starting, I don't think Chuck Pagano will give him enough opportunities.

Colts run game will suck cock and they will have to go to the air to get anything done. Luck will see plenty of action.

But hey thank you for picking my mock out and giving your opinion I look forward to your opinion on everyone else's.

matthew8 · 06-08-2012 12:20am

6(95). Jay Cutler

Love it. If you get that in the real thing it will be the value pick of the draft.

1(2). LeSean McCoy

I can see no reason why he would slow down, I think it should be him or Rice vying for the number one pick.

2(31). Brandon Marshall

You're not the only one to be in love with Cutler-Marshall. It's amazing what Cutler did without a good receiver, and what Marshall did without a QB like Cutler, so it should be a great fantasy combo reunited.

3(34). Jordy Nelson
13(194). Randall Cobb

Can't go wrong with Packers receivers.

5(66). Eric Decker

I really hope I can pick him.

CoachTO wrote: »

But hey thank you for picking my mock out and giving your opinion I look forward to your opinion on everyone else's.

I figured I'm only posting them here to get opinions on my picks and figured I can't expect opinions if I don't give them. It's the best way to discuss fantasy prospects. Your draft was eye-catching though.

CoachTO · 06-08-2012 12:22am

matthew8 wrote: »

11.PICK 172 Alex Smith QB - SF
12.PICK 181 Steve Breaston WR - KC
13.PICK 204 Lamar Miller RB - MIA
14.PICK 213 Josh Scobee K - JAC
15.PICK 236 Cincinnati Bengals DEF

Meh.

Alex Smith was 16th best QB in Fantasy last season. He had a worse WR corp last year than this coming season and the 49ers liked to run the ball. Not a bad QB to have on the books to backup Luck or start ahead of Luck.

Im going to pick out this though. You say meh but you are forgetting if Bowe holds out Breaston is now number 1 and has shown that he can catch footballs with sh1t QBs throwing to him Cassel can and will get footballs to him. Besides he is still not a bad number 2 if Bowe does eventually sign.

Miller is one of those rookies you grab and dump in the first couple of days after drafting this early and replace him with another rookie or backup player.

Scobee is a solid kicker and get in and around the avg 10 points kickers are expected to get every week so you say meh I say there are 20 kickers in Fantasy that will get you the minimum points expected Scobee being one of them.

Bengals defense is not bad for a last pick. Considering all the Top D's are gone I dont feel defenses get enough consistent points every week to warrant anything other than a last pick.

But again I thank you for your breakdown.

matthew8 · 06-08-2012 12:26am

CoachTO wrote: »

Alex Smith was 16th best QB in Fantasy last season. He had a worse WR corp last year than this coming season and the 49ers liked to run the ball. Not a bad QB to have on the books to backup Luck or start ahead of Luck.

Im going to pick out this though. You say meh but you are forgetting if Bowe holds out Breaston is now number 1 and has shown that he can catch footballs with sh1t QBs throwing to him Cassel can and will get footballs to him. Besides he is still not a bad number 2 if Bowe does eventually sign.

Miller is one of those rookies you grab and dump in the first couple of days after drafting this early and replace him with another rookie or backup player.

Scobee is a solid kicker and get in and around the avg 10 points kickers are expected to get every week so you say meh I say there are 20 kickers in Fantasy that will get you the minimum points expected Scobee being one of them.

Bengals defense is not bad for a last pick. Considering all the Top D's are gone I dont feel defenses get enough consistent points every week to warrant anything other than a last pick.
But again I thank you for your breakdown.

It's not that they'd be bad (and infact they're very good value) picks, it's just I'm not very motivated to write about the 11th-15th round.

CoachTO · 06-08-2012 12:28am

matthew8 wrote: »

It's not that they'd be bad (and infact they're very good value) picks, it's just I'm not very motivated to write about the 11th-15th round.

So you would say meh about someones picks just because they are in the 11th-15th round rather than their abilities in fantasy? Ok that makes a lot of sense.

matthew8 · 06-08-2012 12:32am

CoachTO wrote: »

So you would say meh about someones picks just because they are in the 11th-15th round rather than their abilities in fantasy? Ok that makes a lot of sense.

On reflection there was no need to say anything, and when I had a look at JMH's mock I only commented on picks that caught my eye. The draft is unpredictable and by the time you get to the 11th-15th round it's very hard to get an idea of who you're going to pick, as opposed to who you would pick in the first couple of rounds.

Benny Cake · 06-08-2012 6:30pm

Is there a mock planned for tonight?

Spongey1975 · 06-08-2012 6:42pm

Benny Cake wrote: »

Is there a mock planned for tonight?

League ID 979829
password: mockers

For anyone that wants in, every evening at 9pm

Benny Cake · 06-08-2012 7:32pm

Spongey1975 wrote: »

League ID 979829
password: mockers

For anyone that wants in, every evening at 9pm

Cheers Spongey, is there a link to access the league?

CoachTO · 06-08-2012 7:36pm

Benny Cake wrote: »

Cheers Spongey, is there a link to access the league?

http://fantasy.nfl.com/registration/privateleaguejoin

Blured · 06-08-2012 8:38pm

Just tried to log in to it there and it's full. Any space tonight?

Spongey1975 · 06-08-2012 8:44pm

Blured wrote: »

Just tried to log in to it there and it's full. Any space tonight?

Cant do anything with less than half hour to go as that involves resetting the draft time back an hour. Can put you in tomorrow night

Blured · 06-08-2012 8:47pm

Spongey1975 wrote: »

Cant do anything with less than half hour to go as that involves resetting the draft time back an hour. Can put you in tomorrow night

Cheers, tomorrow is grand

JaMarcus Hustle · 06-08-2012 8:57pm

16th overall. Interesting.

I've had a good mix of positions in the 3 mocks I've done so far. 2nd, 8th and 16th

matthew8 · 06-08-2012 9:46pm

My draft tonight, picking second overall. Not a place I want to pick in the real thing I've found out tonight.

Round 1: Ray Rice
Round 2: Brandon Marshall
Round 3: Victor Cruz
Round 4: Jonathan Stewart
Round 5: Antonio Gates
Round 6: Matt Schaub
Round 7: Nate Washington
Round 8: Carson Palmer
Round 9: Rashard Mendenhall
Round 10: Emmanuel Sanders
Round 11: Brandon LaFell
Round 12: Chiefs defense
Round 13: Alex Henery
Round 14: Heath Miller

Weak on the QB/RB front. Strong on the WR/TE front.

JaMarcus Hustle · 06-08-2012 9:48pm

Drafting 16th overall. Happy again, although this time I intentionally didn't draft a backup QB. Just no one I liked enough to waste a pick on.

6(81). Jay Cutler

1(16). Matt Forte
2(17). Trent Richardson
7(112). Michael Bush
8(113). C.J. Spiller

3(48). Brandon Lloyd
4(49). Jeremy Maclin
5(80). Denarius Moore
10(145). Doug Baldwin
11(176). Randall Cobb

9(144). Jared Cook
12(177). Kyle Rudolph

13(208). Robbie Gould

14(209). Minnesota Vikings

adrian522 · 06-08-2012 9:50pm

JaMarcus Hustle wrote: »

16th overall. Interesting.

I've had a good mix of positions in the 3 mocks I've done so far. 2nd, 8th and 16th

I was 8th overall. Elite RB's and top 3 QB's were all gone, so I went with Ryan Matthews.

Happy overall with the draft.

I'm not 100% convinced you need a backup QB but with Vick you certainly do.

This is my team anyway;

Michael Vick (3rd)
Jamaal Charles (2nd)
Ryan Mathews (1st)
Steve Johnson(4th)
Reggie Wayne(5th)
Titus Young (7th)
Brandon Pettigrew(8th)
Alex Smith(11th)
Peyton Hillis (6th)
Alshon Jeffery(12th)
Mario Manningham(9th)
Kendall Wright(10th)
Rian Lindell(14)
Cincinnati Bengals(13)

mikemac1 · 06-08-2012 9:55pm

matthew8 wrote: »

Round 1: Ray Rice nice :cool:
Round 2: Brandon Marshall nice, I think he would have been there in the 3rd
Round 3: Victor Cruz tad high
Round 4: Jonathan Stewart same, tad high
Round 5: Antonio Gates had him last year, flattered to decieve
Round 6: Matt Schaub daycent
Round 7: Nate Washington
Round 8: Carson Palmer tad high, but he was a top 10 QB for last 8 weeks of the year so I like him on the bench. I got in round 12 in a recent boards mock
Round 9: Rashard Mendenhall
Round 10: Emmanuel Sanders value! :cool:
Round 11: Brandon LaFell
Round 12: Chiefs defense
Round 13: Alex Henery good a pick as any
Round 14: Heath Miller no Jermaine Gresham?

Weak on the QB/RB front. Strong on the WR/TE front.

My 2c, you picked 2nd

Spongey1975 · 06-08-2012 9:55pm

Drafted 5th tonight, not sure i want 5th in the real thing

QBs - Tom Brady (1st) Andrew Luck (8th)
RBs - Adrian Peterson (2nd) Stevan Ridley (4th) Ben Tate (6th) Toby Gerhart (7th)
WRs - Dez Bryant (3rd) Robert Meachem (5th) Laurent Robinson (9th) Mike Williams (10th) James Jones (12th)
TEs - Jermaine Gresham (11th)
PK - Billy Cundiff (14th)
DEF - Bills (13th)

mikemac1 · 06-08-2012 9:59pm

Spongey1975 wrote: »

PK - Billy Cundiff (14th)

Very, very likely he will lose his job to a UDFA Justin Tucker from Texas Longhorns

I know it's just a mock and Cundiff has name recognition around the league (well as much as any kicker can) but have a glance in a few weeks, likely to be cut

matthew8 · 06-08-2012 10:01pm

mikemac1 wrote: »

Very, very likely he will lose his job to a UDFA Justin Tucker from Texas Longhorns

I know it's just a mock and Cundiff has name recognition around the league (well as much as any kicker can) but have a glance in a few weeks, likely to be cut

I hope so, tell me a bit about this Tucker guy. What's his range? It surely can't be worse than Cundiff's.

Spongey1975 · 06-08-2012 10:03pm

mikemac1 wrote: »

Very, very likely he will lose his job to a UDFA Justin Tucker from Texas Longhorns

I know it's just a mock and Cundiff has name recognition around the league (well as much as any kicker can) but have a glance in a few weeks, likely to be cut

For the purpose of this mock i took the highest rated defense and highest rated kicker that were left. I usually play the matchups each week with kickers and defenses

GoldFour4 · 07-08-2012 7:39pm

Right who's in for tonight ? Hopefully we can get more then the last couple of nights now that its a weeknight

It's hard to get any good out of a draft when you only have 4 or 5 in the draft

Spongey1975 · 07-08-2012 8:02pm

For anyone wanting to draft tonight i have bad news. i dont know why but it wouldnt allow me to pick the 7th as the date for the draft so i couldnt set it for tonight. Its set for tomorrow night at 9pm now

adrian522 · 07-08-2012 8:06pm

I'll be there id say.

adrian522 · 07-08-2012 8:39pm

Is there a mock tonight, seems to be set for tomorrow night...

JohnnyRyan99 · 07-08-2012 9:10pm

No Mock tonight?

GoldFour4 · 08-08-2012 4:22pm

Not around tonight or tomorrow night, kick me if space is needed !

Blured · 08-08-2012 4:56pm

malachyscott wrote: »

Not around tonight or tomorrow night, kick me if space is needed !

Same here - Im the Blu York Giants

Spongey1975 · 08-08-2012 5:26pm

1 missing team from the mock league. Needs to be filled if a mock is going to take place. I had booted A sober Paddy to make room for Blured and i think kev s88 removed his team so if either wants back in tonight a space is available

ID: 979829
password: mockers

Benny Cake · 08-08-2012 5:40pm

I'm in: Dan Paddy Andy AFC

Benny Cake · 08-08-2012 8:58pm

Is this on tonight?

matthew8 · 08-08-2012 9:00pm

Yeah what's up?

Benny Cake · 08-08-2012 9:01pm

Is the draft lobby open?

matthew8 · 08-08-2012 9:02pm

ugh who was team 2?

JaMarcus Hustle · 08-08-2012 9:02pm

No mock tonight, looks like it's set to offline draft because a team is missing.

CoachTO · 08-08-2012 10:01pm

JaMarcus Hustle wrote: »

No mock tonight, looks like it's set to offline draft because a team is missing.

Lads should just leave their team in their even if they cant make it. Only drop your team out if someone needs the spot.

Spongey1975 · 08-08-2012 10:04pm

Nobody filled Team 2 in time for the draft so it was postponed. Have it reset to 11 tonight for anyone that really wants to draft tonight, i'll have it back to 9pm tomorrow night. Thanks to adrian522 for giving me his second team to fill the spot but was out all evening and couldnt fill it until now

BigBadRob83 · 09-08-2012 8:58am

I'd be up for tonight if there's room

Spongey1975 · 09-08-2012 12:00pm

BigBadRob83 wrote: »

I'd be up for tonight if there's room

There is room now for you

League ID 979829
password mockers

BigBadRob83 · 09-08-2012 12:36pm

Spongey1975 wrote: »

There is room now for you

League ID 979829
password mockers

Cheers Spongey, am in as Summer of Gronk

fisgon · 09-08-2012 5:55pm

Is there a mock set up for tonight? If there is a spot free for tonight I'll take it. Ta. Also maybe let me know what time it's at.

Spongey1975 · 09-08-2012 6:16pm

fisgon wrote: »

Is there a mock set up for tonight? If there is a spot free for tonight I'll take it. Ta. Also maybe let me know what time it's at.

info is above, you can join when you like, cut off is 8pm, draft is at 9pm

fisgon · 09-08-2012 6:37pm

Spongey1975 wrote: »

info is above, you can join when you like, cut off is 8pm, draft is at 9pm

Cheers, joined as Katie Taylors Right Hand.

Onecoolcookie · 09-08-2012 7:48pm

If anyone drops out tonight I'm available to fill in

JaMarcus Hustle · 09-08-2012 7:54pm

Onecoolcookie can take my spot if it's not too late Spongey. My team is Aaron Todgers.

BigBadRob83 · 09-08-2012 9:44pm

R1-5 Tom Brady NE-QB
R2-28 Marshawn Lynch SEA-RB
R3-37 Fred Jackson BUF-RB
R4-60 Steve Johnson BUF-WR
R5-69 DeSean Jackson PHI-WR
R6-92 Donald Brown IND-RB
R7-101 Mario Manningham SF-WR
R8-124 Jared Cook TEN-TE
R9-133 Toby Gerhart MIN-RB
R10-156 Matt Cassel KC-QB
R11-165 Brandon LaFell CAR-WR
R12-188 Rueben Randle NYG-WR
R13-197 Dallas Cowboys DAL-DEF
R14-220 Alex Henery PHI-K

First 16-team mock draft. Was happy enough with how that went.
Set up a spreadsheet to estimate VBD for 2012 (based on projections) and just stuck to it religiously just to see what I'd end up with.

One thing was not being too happy with my starting RB's as they both have good bit of risk, hence the early drafting of Donald Brown

adrian522 · 09-08-2012 9:50pm

In the order they were drafted, i went RB, QB, RB, RB, should have went receiver earlier:

1. Chris Johnson
2. Tony Romo
3. Michael Turner
4. BenJarvus Green-Ellis
5. Reggie Wayne
6. C.J. Spiller
7. Nate Washington
8. Danny Amendola
9. Mike Williams
10. Jermaine Gresham
11. Doug Baldwin
12. Steve Breaston
13. Cincinnati Bengals
14. Josh Scobee

BigBadRob83 · 10-08-2012 11:04am

adrian522 wrote: »

In the order they were drafted, i went RB, QB, RB, RB, should have went receiver earlier:

1. Chris Johnson
2. Tony Romo
3. Michael Turner
4. BenJarvus Green-Ellis
5. Reggie Wayne
6. C.J. Spiller
7. Nate Washington
8. Danny Amendola
9. Mike Williams
10. Jermaine Gresham
11. Doug Baldwin
12. Steve Breaston
13. Cincinnati Bengals
14. Josh Scobee

4 RB's in first 6 picks does look a little odd with no flex spot, though that could just me being annoyed that you snapped up Law Firm right from under me.
No backup for Tony Romo?
Like the Wayne pick. Other receivers have potential but risky

adrian522 · 10-08-2012 11:53am

Yeah, should have went receiver earlier.

I figure if you get enough WR's who are not safe but could breakout you should get enough starters out of it. Same goes for RB, but I think I'd like to go WR's earlier than I did last night.

I'm not convinced you need a backup QB, I plan to pick a QB early and play him every week, maybe pick up something off waivers for the bye week. Possibly pick someone up in the last few rounds but to be honest I'd prefer an exrtra RB or Receiver.

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