The Sleeper and the Bust Episode: 1532 – 2027 Meatball Draft Review Pt. 1
Aug 21, 2026 · 1 hr 20 min · 10 segments
Paul, Justin, and Joe get together to discuss some key takeaways from an early 2027 draft conducted with several top players…
Aug 21, 2026 · 1 hr 20 min · 10 segments
Paul, Justin, and Joe get together to discuss some key takeaways from an early 2027 draft conducted with several top players…
Paul SporerHostJustin MasonHost
Joe OrricoGuest
I don't know if it was on the episode or offline to each other, but we were saying that the Meatball podcast, or the Meatball Draft that is run by the Meatball Podcast, Rob Dipietro and company, that that had to be coming around the corner.
They've been getting that started earlier and earlier into August these last couple years.
This is a real league that they start, basically the way we do in Arizona, where they do 15 rounds now, cut it for a bit, and they're gonna pick it up, I think, in the fall sometime.
But this is a real league, and this kind of really starts to impact, at least in the competitive NFBC.
And I'm not gonna say it sets the ADP across the universe, um, and it's only one draft, but it really does start to put some stakes in the ground of where guys are gonna go, especially as you start to get into more of these DCs once, uh, the NFBC opens them up.
Rob Dipietro, James Anderson, Ryan Venancio, my buddy Greg Martin, Bubba and Bloom both in their separate teams.
Justin, when you first saw it, you don't have to give names or anything, just how, how surprised were you at, at what you were seeing in those first few rounds, just as a brief overview?
Oh, I mean, there are just some interesting names that are in those early rounds that I'm like, "Oh, I don't know about that." Um, and then there are other ones where it's like, "Okay, yeah, yeah, it makes sense." Um-
I don't know if it was on the episode or offline to each other, but we were saying that the Meatball podcast, or the Meatball Draft that is run by the Meatball Podcast, Rob Dipietro and company, that that had to be coming around the corner.
They've been getting that started earlier and earlier into August these last couple years.
This is a real league that they start, basically the way we do in Arizona, where they do 15 rounds now, cut it for a bit, and they're gonna pick it up, I think, in the fall sometime.
But this is a real league, and this kind of really starts to impact, at least in the competitive NFBC.
And I'm not gonna say it sets the ADP across the universe, um, and it's only one draft, but it really does start to put some stakes in the ground of where guys are gonna go, especially as you start to get into more of these DCs once, uh, the NFBC opens them up.
Rob Dipietro, James Anderson, Ryan Venancio, my buddy Greg Martin, Bubba and Bloom both in their separate teams.
Justin, when you first saw it, you don't have to give names or anything, just how, how surprised were you at, at what you were seeing in those first few rounds, just as a brief overview?
Oh, I mean, there are just some interesting names that are in those early rounds that I'm like, "Oh, I don't know about that." Um, and then there are other ones where it's like, "Okay, yeah, yeah, it makes sense." Um-
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