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Welcome to the Fantasy Footballers podcast with your hosts, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright.

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Welcome in.

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You went so short. I I was like, what time is it? I don't know.

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Yeah. I normally keep it short when

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you when you need to

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Freaked me out, man. Not the response I hoped for from its baseball time yesterday.

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Oh, was it,

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over fairly negative.

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Yeah. Well, that makes a lot of sense because we're a football show.

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I was told that the the pitcher's arms need more time to loosen up. That's why the pitchers and catchers show up. Alright. No. That's not

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The other guys show up, like, at the first game.

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Right? Jason wants to talk baseball. 1 second.

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Not that I wanna talk baseball. Okay? Because you know I hate the game Yeah.

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And the players.

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And the players. But correct me if I'm wrong because I don't know anything about that stupid sport. Didn't in the, like, not olden days I mean, I guess, it's olden days now, but, like, you know, like, the nineties or whatever.

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Didn't The nineties on the olden days? I don't know. Like Okay. So you, like you were gonna be like, back when Babe Ruth

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Not long ago. Not long ago.

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It's a different word.

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Yeah. When we were growing up in the nineties, didn't people just, like, just try to pitch the whole game? And, like, now it's like there's 12 pitchers every inning?

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Yes.

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Did you do you want

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me to answer why that happens?

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Now and now they're like, well, they their arms need even more time to warm up. They're a bunch of babies. No more answers. Let's move on. Baseball's babies.

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Andy wants to answer so mad. He's Welcome in. Is like,

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oh, I've got the answer, Jason.

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No. You don't you wouldn't do anything with the answer. You know what I mean? You couldn't comprehend the answer.

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He also, the answer is gonna be, they're babies.

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Yeah. That's true.

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Like, when you hear the answer, doesn't matter what he says. You're like,

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oh, that's what they're babies.

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Yeah. Now you really wanna now you really wanna know.

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I'm curious how they're babies.

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Or less.

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They're babies because they are super athletes now. And so the training Have

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we gotten too strong for the ligaments?

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Yes. Yes. Yes. We have. We are we throw Maybe

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we should slow it down

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then. Too fast,

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and we train too hard. How to upgrade those ligaments. That's the real key. We need to put some platelet rich injections in the ligaments.

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Oh, boy. Oh. Here's health, Jason, showing up. Oh, boy. Welcome into the show.

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It'll be a fun 1 today. Thank you for those of you thanks to those of you that have voted already at footyawards.com for the 2024 Fantasy Football Awards. You can still go and vote before Monday. Footyawards.com, all the nominees on our last episode of the show. And a few other reminders here at the top, we've got an AMA today.

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We got a good quick question. Happy to be with you. Thanks for hanging out with us this offseason this playoff season. The DFS Pass is free throughout the entire playoffs. So if you've never used it and you wanna get in on that, dfspass.com completely free, sign up, see what's in there, enjoy it for the n NFL playoffs.

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We have a bunch of new swag up on shopballers.com that includes championship swag, gear, Foot Clan Title T shirts. We have the new autograph mini helmets Oh, they're hot. That are up there. And soon and soon, Jason, the model, Mike, the model, we have 2 versions of these brand new ballers hats, which, you can you can see there with the logo on them. Very, very different than the hat Jason normally wears.

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Yeah. This is actually our brand. This is this is a fans' footballers' hat.

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I told you that.

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Letters different.

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Al Borland was, very helpful in getting these hats off the ground. But then when I got it, the the little logo thing on under the bill, which is this is new for me. I don't is this what the youths are doing?

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So you don't get it dirty. You put your thumb there when you

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grab it. Oh, that's what it's for? Yes, sir. What about the top?

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Oh, the top's gonna get a little dirty, man.

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It is what it's for, but it I do

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I mean, the top gets dirty.

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It's just We'll have our

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people Maybe round 2. Version 2. Maybe we'll put a button on the top.

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Keep your you can get

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your thumb as dirty as you want.

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Right. Right? Keep your fingers clean when you wear these ads. Thumb. But you can put your you can put your thumb in peanut butter and then take this hat off.

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No problem. Yeah. So the part that people see is dirty. Right. The the part people can't see very clearly.

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You want these hats. They're technologically advanced. You really want these hats.

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They're not up there yet, but shop ballers.com very soon. And if you need championship trophies, belts, rings, gear, that's fancychamps.com.

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It gives you a little bit of a better grip. Maybe you're in the rain. Right.

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You're you're not gonna it's not gonna be super great.

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Off in the rain, man. Don't get it on.

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Oh, okay. Okay. Here's your quick question of the day Matt Wilt wrote in on x. He said he rode Bucky Irving to a championship this year. How high is Bucky Irving's ceiling Oh, man.

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Next year? Thanks, guys, and congrats, Al, on your title. Please stop congratulating Al. Please. Just stop.

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Yeah.

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I don't think that's gonna stop.

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Never stop. 17 games

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Never about

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207 carries, 112 yards, 8 rushing touchdowns, 52 targets, 47 for 3 92 and 0. I here's you stop congratulating Al, but begin giving Micah's flowers because this was 1 in the in the off season that he was spot on. He thought that Bucky Irvine could emerge in Tampa. It's I mean And To be I

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would love to take all this credit. A lot of that was when I thought Rashad White was not good enough.

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And I was on the side that you don't like, Rashad

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White The vet the vet keeps his full time.

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It was just more like they it was more on the basis of they were a playoff team that was great. Baker was awesome. And it was a lot of it had to do with Rashad White in the receiving game. So why mess with what worked? Right.

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Yeah. But Bucky Irving was so much better of a runner. Right? The offensive line was bad in Tampa last year. That's how,

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like good Bucky is. Is he was that good. The job wasn't given him. He stole the job because you're like, we can't keep Bucky off the field. And so the the question

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was Rashad White was a top 15 running back during this down the stretch, and Bucky was still that good.

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The question of what is his ceiling is it's extremely difficult. I didn't know this was gonna be our question today, but I there was a tweet I saw earlier from Jacob Gibbs. So shout out to him, but he Bucky Irving and Alvin Kamara, which was in 2017 when Kamara did it. The only 2 running backs to top 1500 scrimmage yards with a snap right under 50%. And that is for for for every fantasy running back, everything comes down to the the the decisions of well, not everything, because talent matters, but the decisions of the coach.

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Because it's pretty rare that there's 2 running backs out there on the field at the exact same time. And the running back that is out there, that's a coach's decision. You know, like, with my unbelievable frustration with with Rico Dowdle when he's getting these 20 plus carries running great, and then they're like, ah, but in the inside the goal or when we're close to goal line, we gotta get somebody else in there. And it's those are decisions that you just that those are the big decisions for sealing.

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This is this is, this was an amazing rookie season. I feel like there's a huge discussion attached to this. 1500 plus scrimmage yards, 5.96 yards per touch, hyper efficient, and we have also we've been here before with the efficiency.

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Yeah. Last

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year Last. Yes.

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Devon h n, an underdog put this tweet out reminding us of of kind of the like, Devon h n came into the year this year. What did he average last year? 7 point something? 7.9

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a carry at something like that?

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He had a 100 more carries in 2024 than

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he did in his rookie season. Exactly.

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He had a 107 more rushing yards on a 100 extra carries. So, you know, that's part of the discussion with Bucky. We cannot quantify perfectly how much rest times, you know, when a young player gets to come in and they're complimenting like, HN did last year complimenting Mostert, who was amazing, and Buck Yervin coming in and complimenting and kinda taking over from Rashad White, but getting snaps off, there's not a really easy way to quantify that value and what that does to efficiency. What we do know is when you have a committee backfield, you do miss out on the 1 yard, 4th down, right, to mess with your numbers and your the short yardage and your the game's getting put away, but you're getting every snap, so the defense knows what you're doing so your efficiency goes down. Like, yards per carry only takes you so far, really.

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You have to have film. You have to be able to watch what these players are doing on the field. I don't think any of us think Devon h Chan is less talented this year because his efficiency went down.

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No. It's because the volume went up.

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Yeah. Exactly. So the numb but the numbers look like, oh, you had a down year.

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No. And and, obviously, Devon A. Chan, extremely talented, was great for Fantasy Football this year. Getting back to the Bucky Irving question and how high can he be next year? To to give you an example, I you know, I don't know if everybody followed along with Bucky, you know, because in the beginning of the year, he was the clear, very you know, he was the backup.

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He was not in a a committee On the depth chart. Yes. On the depth chart, it was Rashad White's team. He was too talented. He was too efficient.

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They just kept giving him more work, and the the beat reporters would say, hey. When are we getting more Bucky? And it's like, well, this is Rashad's backfield. And he just kept getting more and more and more because he passed the eyeball test. He broke tackles.

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He scored touchdowns. He made this team better. If you look at week 10 on, that's really when a transition was made to where this was a a shared backfield. And it wasn't like Bucky took over. In fact, from week 10 on, check this out.

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Total snaps played from week 10 on for Rashad White was 50% of the snaps. Total snaps played from week 10 on for Bucky Irving was 50% of the snaps. They were 5050. Now Bucky missed most of a week. He got injured in 1 of those.

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So in the rest of the games, maybe he had a few more. He he out touched Rashad White a little bit, but he outclassed Rashad White a lot of bit. You're talking about, check this out, 10 and a half points for Rashad White from week 10 on per game. And Bucky Irving, if you take out the game, he he basically didn't play in, 18.8 fantasy points per game. The running backs have scored more than that for context and half PPR.

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Saquon Barkley, Jahmeer Gibbs, Derrick Henry.

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He only scored 4 touchdowns from that point on on the ground too. So it was like, he had 8 on the year, but they came half before that event. So there's what I love about Buckey's situation moving into the future is that there's going to be a lot of consistency on this team from what we can see. Yeah. Baker had a a wonderful career year.

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He's threw a lot of touchdowns. Right? So if you talk about Yeah.

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That should that can regress.

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That can that can go more into Bucky gets that opportunity. Now can he hold up? That's a question we had about 8 Chan. 8 Chan's been banged up. Bucky's he got hurt twice this year.

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So does the team feel like this balance is the right balance? Well, even if he does, it's the numbers that Jason said. You know, there's gonna be some variation. But to answer the question succinctly, I think he can be a top 7 running back.

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I I agree. I think he should be a top 15 running back, and his ceiling is probably around running back 6. It's like the looking at

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the Jamere Gibbs situation where him and Monty are they're splitting, and they're both being awesome. But it's like Jamere Gibbs, you know, the 1st month of the season, he he was never he wasn't a top 10 running back in any game in the in the 1st 4 weeks. Then you would have these stretches where week 7 and 8, running back 1 and 6, but then it's down to 18 and 17. It wasn't until David Montgomery was gone that he rattled off the 4 consecutive weeks where he was running back 3, 7, 2, and 1. So that the ceiling, I don't know that we it's it's going to be, I think, a a very, like, a a light version of Detroit where you're gonna Bucky's gonna be drafted really high.

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Rashad White will be later. He'll, like, he'll have his own value, and then Bucky Irving will be very good. But you know that drafting Bucky is, I got this top 15 type of a player. But

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If White goes down

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if if White misses time, now all of a sudden I have a guy who is a weekly top 5 upside play.

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Another point was that Rashad White caught 91% of his passes from Baker last year, which was, like, outrageous. Right? Like, that's an amazing number. I looked this year. This year, he's at 89%.

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Rashad White catches everything. Yeah.

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You

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don't know what Buckey's number is? 90. Oh. 90.

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Give him the ball.

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This might be Baker's

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I was gonna say a stop. Throwing a really good ball to his running backs.

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The common denominator here is the quarterback because last year is like, oh, we were worried about, you know, losing offensive coordinator, and Liam Cohen comes in. Baker's playing great, so it's really helpful to have a quality offense around running backs. Just it I I I like the, the Detroit Lions light motif here.

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Yeah. Makes sense. And you got confidence in the quarterback and the offensive system, and, it should be really fun for years to come. And if you, if you've got Bucky Irving shares in Dynasty, congrats, because that's gonna be a good ride. Let's talk news.

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The Raiders have fired Antonio Pierce. That didn't work. No. And he didn't have a lot to work with either, but it didn't work.

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It yeah. I mean, you can't lose like that.

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And just You mean 4 and 13?

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Yeah. But I mean, like well, some coaches can survive that. But going 4 and 13 and with, you know, at least just publicly what we saw, the weirdness of

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Like, liking an Instagram post about Davonte Evans getting traded?

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Yes. You have that weird stuff. And I'm talking about, like, his press conferences where you're just

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like, dude, you're the you're

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the head coach. You can't talk about the team like that. You can't talk about your guys like that.

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Yeah. They sometimes, and we've seen this many times in the NFL, when you are an, you know, an ex player or you come in with a hard nosed attitude, it's an amazing ride at the beginning. It motivates, it gets everybody, playing very hard, and and they finish what? It was 5 and 4 last year after becoming interim head coach. Everybody's loving it.

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But when things start to go bad and that same attitude comes forth, if that's indeed what it was, then it it can wear. It can wear on a team and they they're going a different direction. The Lions, head coach Dan Campbell says he expects the aforementioned David Montgomery to play in the divisional round.

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That's so insane. I mean, it it was his, like, what, 4th doctor? Yeah. When they got to before

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Yeah. I mean, the timeline has helped now. Right? Like I'm You're saying the surgery

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part.

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I'm saying

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that they met with if you remember, when all the Montgomery news was coming out, it was, oh, man, surgery. Montgomery is toast. He's out for the season. And then they're like, well, we don't like that 1. We're gonna go to what do you say, doctor?

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He's like, no. I would have to operate on this thing. You'd be a

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I don't like that either, doctor. Doctor Campbell, what do you say?

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I think it is a it's a weird thing. Like, I put the poll out there for fun about whether people believe that Jamere Gibbs, being the full time starter, makes the Lions better on accident, or is their offense missing something without Montgomery?

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I was surprised by the results of that poll.

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64% of you said they're better with both. And Yes. I do see that.

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The team is better.

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I don't know if I am on that side.

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I voted the other way.

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I I think that they are better with Gibbs full time. I do not think they would survive a season I agree. With Gibbs full time. So I think the team is better to have both for the regular season, but I did think it might be fortuitous for their playoff run to have Gibbs on there in every every down back type of situation, but most people disagree with me.

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Well, the nice thing is they can choose to go to Gibbs as an everyday every down back whenever is necessary. So if they're in this game and they're down 2 scores and they feel like their best offense is to have Gibbs out there, then then they don't have to play Montgomery. But if they're, you know, in a close game or they're up to scores, then might as well have Gibbs continue to rest and have Montgomery who's very good in his own right. He's not as explosive. But he also brings some smash

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bounce tackles.

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Football that wears the defense down that Gibbs doesn't really play that way.

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Yeah. And to me, like, people wanna talk about Gibbs being undersized. Like, maybe when he came into the NFL, to me, he doesn't play that way. He could run inside. I think he's put on weight.

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You know, we talk about Buckey. Right? I mean, Buckey is more undersized than than even Gibbs, I think. And they can get it done. They can get it done between the tackles.

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Jalen Hurts returned to practice like we expected. Zay Flowers not practicing. Long shot to play in the wild card.

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I still think it's a bummer.

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It it's definitely a bummer, but I do think I mean, the line for them is the biggest line this week without Zay being asked.

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The the interesting thing in But they

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do play each other close historically.

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To pull pull the tweet for just for memory. I don't have it in front of me, so I apologize who sent it out, but it was essentially breaking down the Steelers blitzed Lamar a lot. Yep. And then broken the it broke down the percentage of targets when Lamar has been blitzed, the targets that have gone to to Flowers, and it's extremely high. So it's like, okay.

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If you don't have the the blitz release valve of Zay Flowers, somebody will have to step into that role and be efficient at it. And could that turn into a problem?

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To me

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Oh, it was it was FTN. Okay. Thank you, Kyle.

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To me, that is the, you know the big question in this game is can the Steelers defense do something to create a play? Because that would close that gap. Target percentage for Ze Flowers on the year is comical at wide receiver. Comical.

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Does wide receiver target

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His wide his wide receiver target

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percent. It what's it at?

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Do you wanna take a shot? Oh, man. Last year, it was 39%.

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I was gonna guess right around 50.

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It's 49%. So you're way off.

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So he got it.

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Way way off. His regular target share is 25%. But that was including the game where, you know, he just got knocked out. So yeah. He is he's very important to their passing game now, whether they needed it or not.

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Like, do you like Henry over a 100? I do. Yeah. Against that that running defense, they couldn't stop him a few weeks ago. Isaac Garindo, sprained MCL and ankle.

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I think that is

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great news?

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Yes. Like, considering the way the injury looked, him being carted off, ruled out immediately, it was, oh, no. Something's broken or something's torn.

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I did enjoy all the tweets I received on the news that the chargers have signed Ezekiel Elliott to their practice squad soon to be called up to their roster because I had just like, the charger fans have come out and they love me now. All 12 of them? First of all, I didn't know there were any. And second of all, the fact that I picked them to to go far in the playoffs

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Go far? You got them all the way to the Super Bowl.

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Yeah. I minimized that, didn't I?

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Yeah. You did. Go all the way

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To lose

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and just by a nose.

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But Zeke heard the podcast, and, you know, he's trying to win win a ring, and it was he said, hey. I'm gonna go with I wanna get to a Super Bowl.

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Unfortunately, I have to root against the chargers with every fabric of my being now.

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Oh, yeah.

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So I apologize for that.

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Todd Ball said Kate Houghton is trending in the right direction. So may maybe Payton Durham won't be the only tight end active for the Buccaneers.

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Big Culp's. Big Culp's,

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Well, I I actually think he's someone to pay attention

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to. I think so too.

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He didn't get a chance till late this season to even you know, I think his first catch came, like, 3 weeks ago. This is a rookie, and he looks good on the field. So pay attention to him.

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What about what about you don't like Durham?

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I like big Colts.

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Alright. Durham got the,

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what's his name, by the way? Is Devin Culp?

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Yeah. The Payne Durham touchdowns in the last 2 weeks. So, we'll see if K Daughton gets you out there. That was day today's news and notes, presented as always by USAA Insurance. Learn more at usa.com/ insurance.

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Alright, Devin. Culp?

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Are you putting it together? Yeah.

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I am. The first 1 in 2025. Big Culp's.

00:21:33

Alright. We are, gonna take a break and hit the mailbag. Alright, Mike. We have a very special Footballers AMA, and then we have a fantasy face off after that. Let's do it.

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Mailbag. Mailbag.

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Ask me anything.

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Okay. The, the the the Deucers' Alleys, they're in it today.

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Yeah. They are. Well, you're

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breaking up. You wanna know why they are laughing so much, gentlemen? Why is there a

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lack of self control?

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All well, partially. But all 3 of them were in here, like, an hour or 2 ago Yeah. When we recorded a an absolutely fire Spitballers episode. And so this is the time of year. If you are, going to the off season, we're down to you know, we're 2 shows a week for our main podcast.

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You want more. You've you listen to other podcasts. All your all your podcasts are dwindling down. Go check out the Spitballers Comedy podcast. That that episode releases on Monday, but you don't wanna miss it.

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Lot of lot of

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It is very funny.

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Intelligence. Lot of intelligence.

00:22:47

Jeremy, is your trophy not there? What are you doing, man?

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I think Josh must've moved it.

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Well, you're be glad that I'm here, buddy. Put it on the floor.

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Thank you for bringing that up.

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Alright. We will jump into the mailbag. It's a Ask Me Anything episode. You can visit the site if you have other questions for us, and click the submit a question button, or dial our voice mail hotline. We have some voice mails, Al.

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Is that, that is true?

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That is correct. Alright.

00:23:17

What's up, bowlers? I've been wondering this for years. When are we gonna finally see Andy on Survivor? Love the show, and congrats to Jeremy on the championship.

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I can answer that for Andy.

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Uh-huh. The question, when will we see Andy on Survivor?

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You have an answer for me.

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Yeah. It is as soon as Survivor asks.

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As soon. The second they ask. Do they ask, or do you not

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have to do that? I would need to put Sue. Right? Yeah. I mean, myself and and Papa Josh back there, I guess the Falcon too, pretty big Survivor fans.

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And,

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I would do anything to see you on Survivor.

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I've thought about it. I've thought about it. I mean, I think

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I've never watched the show.

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It's not being on it. I like, I would love to be on it. Love to be on it. It's being gone.

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Yeah. Yeah. I that's what what I was saying. I would love

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to be on it.

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Yeah. Do you know how long filming is?

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You gotta be gone at least 30 days. May probably 40.

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And even I mean, then when you get, if you're the first 1 kicked off, you're still sequestered. Right?

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Still hanging out. Yeah.

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So no matter what, you're gone

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for that fun.

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And you've got the in with Apostle. Right?

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I do know Tyson. Yeah.

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And and who was the other guy that we played pickleball with?

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Jeff Probst. No. It wasn't

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it wasn't Something wrong. No. It was Boston wrong. Boston wrong.

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That was true.

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Yeah. So I didn't think about that. You're making pickleball. On there in 30 seconds if I wanted to.

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I'd choose not to. Yeah. Mister Survivor, reach out to

00:24:43

Andy. Kids are now old enough where I think I would just say, yeah. I do.

00:24:46

You would say yes if they if

00:24:48

I mean, the the problem is you actually need to go to them and, like, audition and whatnot.

00:24:53

But if they came to you instead

00:24:54

I mean, Papa Josh, you're the, I mean, you guys know me and you know the show. How far am I getting?

00:25:00

You're making it pretty far.

00:25:01

I'm doing okay?

00:25:02

Yeah. I think so. It's more Falcon?

00:25:04

Yeah. You go.

00:25:05

You don't get voted you

00:25:06

don't get voted out. You have an allergic reaction on

00:25:09

that 1. Okay.

00:25:11

You have a medical reason for leaving. That's my prediction. You do not get voted off.

00:25:16

You wanna race right now? Alright. Amazing. We've good. Here's a question off of x from Baylor, not Baller, Baylor.

00:25:28

What were the other options for the name of the show before you chose the Fantasy Footballers? You didn't say ask us anything.

00:25:34

I It's a question for you too.

00:25:36

Fantasy hit men was the only 1 I remember.

00:25:39

Was that in that was in

00:25:40

It was just it it wasn't considered. It was never seriously considered, but we had a a list. Like, it's weird because Andy and I have the memories of like, I can see he handwrote all these things on, like, notebook paper, and I can see it in my head. I just can't remember any of the other names. But of the list of names, Andy was, like, he's over here with his business savvy tech mind of, like, fantasy footballers.

00:26:04

This this could be a good name, and I'm like, that that name's kinda funny. We should go with that. Yeah. Yeah. I, It's like we we can get the domain.

00:26:13

Right? That would that was part of it.

00:26:15

We did have a small period of time in the beginning where it was confused a little bit with soccer. Yeah. Because that was the way footballer was used.

00:26:24

But yeah. It used to be often. Used to be that footballers were soccer players.

00:26:27

But I

00:26:28

We took that over.

00:26:28

I was looking at that SEO, man. How do we get a name close to the topic? We do. We were gonna do fantasy

00:26:35

football. It's hard to Yes. What's that fancy football show I like? Fancy football.

00:26:45

There you go. Jose Gonzales wants to know, what is the best sandwich, and where did you have it? Oh.

00:26:55

So this isn't this is a very, very specific just

00:26:58

the 1 sandwich. The best sandwich.

00:27:00

That's not, like, what is the best sandwich to make. Right. That is more like, can you remember a sandwich that I can,

00:27:08

because it was, like, 2 months ago.

00:27:10

Wait. Your best sandwich was 2 months ago? Eve

00:27:12

I don't know if it was the it's recency bias, of course, but it was it was this good that it was, like, a a a sandwich bought 1 just for me and the wife to split. And then as soon as both of us start eating, we're like, oh, man. We have made a mistake.

00:27:28

Oh, the splitting was when

00:27:29

we bought another.

00:27:30

Yeah. We well, we were already home. But it was from it's a change, though. It's Ike's sandwiches. Ike I've Ike's loving sandwiches, but it was it was a form of a

00:27:39

Reuben. Dude, that's my answer.

00:27:42

And but it was basically it was more of a it was a New Yorker, not a real Reuben because it was coleslaw instead of Kraut.

00:27:49

My answer was going to be this Reuben New Yorker sandwich at Chompy's, which is a place out here.

00:27:54

Oh, 0, yeah.

00:27:55

I had to. Ever have

00:27:56

the 1 from Miracle Mile? Hold Reuben? Nope. That nope. Put that 1 back at the top.

00:28:00

Reuben town? New Yorker. They New Yorker. I mean you could go Rubintown.

00:28:03

Makes a New Yorker and a Reuben different?

00:28:05

Like, this It's coleslaw. Coleslaw or sauerkraut. But oh my gosh. We had this place called Miracle Mile. You get a New Yorker there.

00:28:11

You put that thing on on a roll.

00:28:15

That was a young man's game.

00:28:16

Oh, I'll do it right now. If that thing were here oh my goodness.

00:28:21

Jason, do you have a sandwich answer?

00:28:22

I would say the best sandwich. You know it? I've ever had.

00:28:25

Get it on the mic, bro.

00:28:27

To be once a week lunch for me.

00:28:28

Dude, that that sandwich was unbelievable. So good.

00:28:31

Is miracle mile gone?

00:28:33

I think there's still There's

00:28:34

still 1 last 1. Alright.

00:28:35

Looks like we're traveling.

00:28:37

Foot class.

00:28:39

My, honestly, it's a sandwich my wife made. It's so good that we she's made it a 100 times since then.

00:28:44

My wife's ham and cheese.

00:28:45

We call no. Come on. This is an everything bagel toasted, buttered, and then it's basically an Italian sandwich inside, but I mean, this is chock full of everything. We call it a BAS. It's a bomb sandwich.

00:29:00

Okay. Alright.

00:29:02

Okay. Okay. I read between the lines.

00:29:05

Justin on Instagram writing in, what is your favorite video game of all time for each of the ballers and the deucers? Oh, No 1 wants the deucers. I feel like the and deucers were getting them from Papa Josh.

00:29:15

Yeah. He wrote that in.

00:29:17

Red Dead Redemption 2.

00:29:19

Okay. Final Fantasy 7. OG or OG. OG. OG.

00:29:23

OG.

00:29:24

A Link to the Past.

00:29:26

Okay. And, Deucers? Halo 3, multiplayer specifically.

00:29:31

Oh, a whole baby. I used to get down. Papa Josh? God of War 2018. Is that the original?

00:29:37

The first 1?

00:29:38

Like Oh,

00:29:38

no. It's the new 1. Yeah. Yeah.

00:29:41

And, Al,

00:29:42

do you

00:29:42

have a video game? Tetris.

00:29:44

Yeah. I don't

00:29:45

play video games. Minesweeper.

00:29:47

I I

00:29:47

that's I like to play Mario Kart with my kid.

00:29:49

That's Okay.

00:29:49

Okay. Favorite of all time.

00:29:50

You don't

00:29:51

let him win, do you? Never. Okay.

00:29:54

Sure. Gotta teach him. You earn victories.

00:29:57

Goodness. I this is great. I have seen none of these questions before I'm asking them either.

00:30:02

So Brook by the way, Brook said BioShock for him.

00:30:06

BioShock? Yeah.

00:30:07

That's a good game.

00:30:08

Okay. That's

00:30:09

a good game. Yeah.

00:30:10

If you make him choose a classic, it'll be Super Mario World.

00:30:12

Kyle, get in here.

00:30:14

Kyle's typing. No. He's not.

00:30:15

Kangaroo Junior on Super Nintendo.

00:30:17

We go. No. There we go. That's a game.

00:30:19

Kangaroo Junior Baseball was the freaking best sports game.

00:30:23

That was a good 1. Super Tech Mobile.

00:30:25

That that that was awesome. Alright. We got another voice mail question.

00:30:29

Yo, ballers. This is, AB from Australia. I'm not sure how much this is gonna cost me, but, just thought I'd ring in. So I just wanted to know, if you were to be stuck in the elevator for 6 hours with 1 footballer, who would it be and why?

00:30:46

I mean So so we choose 1 of the other 2 gas. To be stuck in an elevator with? Not Jason.

00:30:52

Number 1. Yeah. It's just gas related. Gassy man.

00:30:55

It's just gas related. An elevator for 6 hours, I'm thinking about bodily functions. I look doesn't talk.

00:31:02

To be fair. To be fair, I don't my my gas is not usually very stinky. It really is. That's accurate. But I would explode if I don't fart for 6 hours.

00:31:13

That's not how I work. So you will be breathing the insides of me. Oh. Inside this elevator. You choosing now.

00:31:23

Oh, yeah. But, Mike, pick me. Pick first. Pick me. Number 1, bonjour.

00:31:28

Number number 2, does Australia still have long distance? I know. It's like, what what are you paying for this? Is this 4.99 a minute?

00:31:37

I I know. Just wanna collect, man.

00:31:39

Who was who was the other phone company? There was AT and T, like, MCI or something like that? Long distance was right? Josh is nodding with Josh.

00:31:47

Josh is old enough. Throwback

00:31:49

right there. National if I call France right now, it doesn't cost me more? I'd no. No. It doesn't cost me more.

00:31:56

Here. Yes.

00:31:57

Yeah. Here. But I'm just saying, like, but if I called Australia, like, right now, that's fine? Yes. It doesn't cost me nothing?

00:32:02

It doesn't cost you anything.

00:32:03

I I would No. No. No. Just just just

00:32:05

I think it's just roaming. If you went to Australia and tried to call home, then you would pay more.

00:32:09

Unless you just get on Wi Fi, then you're fine.

00:32:12

Sure. Yeah.

00:32:12

Which So I can I can ring this down? 59.99 a minute. I don't it you gotta make it

00:32:18

a minute. International calls from the US incurs extra cost, but it depends on the service provider. Alright.

00:32:23

But, obviously, I cannot be an operator with Jason for 6 hours because I would be breathing his insights.

00:32:28

Yeah. I I'm gonna pick so I will pick Mike.

00:32:32

Okay.

00:32:32

Awesome. I mean

00:32:33

Now Just for that.

00:32:34

Here like, if you were stuck

00:32:36

to make him breathe your insights

00:32:37

Oh, I will

00:32:38

be eating bad before where's where's miracle mile? Is that where I go?

00:32:42

Oh, man. Alright.

00:32:43

So let's get in the elevator after that.

00:32:45

If I get a New Yorker, I accept. I'll I'll be stuck in an elevator

00:32:51

for 6 hours. You'd give him the gas. I would try to make small talk with Mike.

00:32:57

Oh, what I was gonna say is I would like it could turn into a 6 hour therapy session for you Yeah. Where you would just talk for

00:33:03

6 hours.

00:33:04

You wouldn't be talking

00:33:05

about it. I would expect mhmm. Mhmm.

00:33:07

Yeah. Yeah? I'll be like, I think I hope we get out of here soon. You'd be like, mhmm. Yeah.

00:33:10

Yeah. Mhmm. Oh my god.

00:33:13

With his sunglasses on?

00:33:14

Yeah. He would never take them off.

00:33:16

Eyes are closed.

00:33:18

Westbluesrightson on. On Instagram. What is your most regretted draft pick and why?

00:33:24

Oh, so many, brother. Woah. Most regretted?

00:33:29

I will always come back to and this is a classic and maybe losing its relevance by the years. But when Calvin Johnson, the year he broke out, I drafted Lawrence Maroney to pick before him. Oops. And Maroney was a New England Patriot running back who had had a nice previous season.

00:33:47

What about players people have heard of?

00:33:49

Oh my gosh.

00:33:50

They've heard of Calvin Johnson? I

00:33:52

don't make I mean, I've been in 9 title games. Yeah. I don't make very many wrong picks.

00:33:55

Oh, impressive.

00:33:56

How'd the last 1 go?

00:33:58

Oh, man. Swish. The worst 1. I mean, I I think it was last

00:34:04

year I drafted Damien Pierce. Yeah. That was terrible pick.

00:34:07

Yep. Yeah. The He was

00:34:10

getting all that workload in the preseason? The big liars. Man.

00:34:14

Worst 1. I I I'm there might be a worse 1, but the this the 1 that's coming to my head is years ago. Mark Andrews over Trey McBride. That 1 and by the end of the year, worked out.

00:34:24

What about Marvin Harrison over

00:34:26

Over AJ Brown? Yeah. That 1 felt bad.

00:34:28

And it didn't work out for you.

00:34:30

No. It didn't work out for me. It worked out for Marcus.

00:34:32

Ended up okay, but you were already a dead man.

00:34:34

Yes. Yeah. But it was years ago. And this probably now that I'm even working through it, therapeutically, this probably led to the me thinking Adam Thelen is the oldest and most terrible person ever, which he's not. But we I I I took Adam Thelen over Jalen Waddle, And this was, I think, 2 or 3 years ago.

00:34:59

So Whenever his breakout Whenever Waddle had his breakout season, and Adam Thielen was not good. So

00:35:04

I I think last year in the Listener League, I had a pretty good team. It's 14 teams. So, you know, it's it's harder in that league. I had a pretty good team developed, but the quarterbacks had all been coming off the board. And I had a a co manager in that 1, and we decided we're look.

00:35:19

We're just gonna swing for the fence. If you gotta beat 14 people, you gotta you gotta get a little lucky. And we drafted Deshaun Watson thinking maybe he would come back to life. And it was like that was basically saying because there weren't you know, it wasn't easy to stream off the waivers with, all the quarterbacks roster, and it was like, well, my season's over because that dude sucks. And, also, that dude sucks.

00:35:39

I remember the worst. Clyde Edwards Alaire in a rookie draft

00:35:42

before Jonathan Taylor. Oh, yeah.

00:35:44

That's the worst.

00:35:46

Yeah. That's not very good.

00:35:48

Oh, which if we're going rookie picks, Trey Sermon,

00:35:53

who do they take Over Jaylen Wall. Over Jaylen Wall. That's right.

00:35:57

Instagram question, Cope Farm. Mike, tell us about your tattoos.

00:36:02

Well, there's a lot of them. They're Each 1. They're colorful.

00:36:05

Your most like, if you, like, have a database with all the tattoos and the dates, what's the most recent tattoo date wise?

00:36:13

Oh, it's probably been, like It's been a long time. You could you could see it if, like, you go track it down on YouTube. You could watch

00:36:19

sleeved while you were still here.

00:36:21

Yeah. This my right arm was done while we were in the studio, so you could watch it over

00:36:25

shows 7 years?

00:36:26

Get pieced together. It's been a long time. So you're gonna be able to see

00:36:29

my Are you done? Face get tattered over the next 10.

00:36:31

You're not done.

00:36:32

No. I a big break. It's it's the classic, I'll I'm gonna get more ink when I get in shape.

00:36:40

Ah. Oh, is that a that's a big thing then.

00:36:42

And I've been working on that for about 6 years.

00:36:46

Well, what's your favorite tattoo?

00:36:47

My favorite tattoo is my my, space shuttle Show the crew. Rocket ship. I don't know

00:36:51

how to do that. Zoom in, John.

00:36:52

Of course, I have sleeves on, boys. Yeah. The 1 day. Yeah. That that one's nice.

00:36:57

That one's my favorite.

00:36:59

Cat Dad says, tell us 1 thing that has to be on your Super Bowl plate. So you're watching the game. What what do you have to have?

00:37:08

I so it's it's cliche. It's boring, but it's also absolutely necessary, and it's the best. It's pizza. Like, I when I think of football and I want food, it's it's pizza and wings. That is what's happening.

00:37:22

My answer.

00:37:23

The, the the world famous, Fantasy Hitman dip, which is a sausage dip, and it is very delicious. It is Rotel? So it's, yeah. A half 1 serving size is a half a pound of sausage. I use we use a sweet Italian sausage.

00:37:42

1 can of Rotel. We go mild because everyone else in my house is a baby. And then 1 block of Philly cream cheese, and that's

00:37:48

I don't think Mike knows what 1 serving means.

00:37:50

I'm saying, like, I'm well, I'm

00:37:51

saying, like, portion the whole party.

00:37:53

I'm saying portion. Sorry. Serving is the wrong word. Not portion

00:37:56

is the wrong word.

00:37:56

Portion is also wrong. But, like What am what am I saying now? For

00:37:59

1 dish? 1 amount?

00:38:01

Yeah. For everybody. 1 1 yeah. 1 pot.

00:38:04

Okay. Maybe for him, it is a portion. Well, I

00:38:06

mean, it is very good.

00:38:07

It's not a ton. It's it's not a ton. I'm just saying, like, that's the ratio of

00:38:11

Block of cream cheese.

00:38:13

Yeah. Sausage and A pound of sausage. I like putting

00:38:16

it down.

00:38:16

If you go a full pound, it'll be some people will like it. Too meaty?

00:38:19

Too meaty for meat. We'll take a quick break and get into some more questions. YouTube question comes in from, mister l d. When they make the movie Fantasy Footballers, A Podcast to Change the World, who will play you all? And would it be a musical or on the Lifetime network?

00:38:47

Oh, we have to choose between those 2?

00:38:50

I think a musical

00:38:51

Between those 2, you gotta go musical. Do do not put us on Lifetime. I can't I can't with those movies.

00:38:57

I can't believe they made that, like, Taylor Swift, Kelsey movie.

00:39:02

Well, they made that? Other oh, it wasn't Lifetime, but there was the the Hernandez movie where they the the fake Gronk.

00:39:09

That's the 1 I was thinking of too. Or no. Yeah. That that was a separate movie. Yes.

00:39:13

Yeah. What what are they doing? So

00:39:16

Cashing checks is what they're doing.

00:39:17

Had to answer this question in a while.

00:39:19

Yeah. The issue is baby goose. You're Ryan Gosling. Right?

00:39:22

That's who I we normally go with. Yeah. Unless Nate Bart gets, he's acting.

00:39:26

Oh, there you go. I don't care look like him or not. I'm I demand it would be Chris Pratt. I demand it. He can be overweight.

00:39:37

That's great. Yeah. He gets a shape. He's funny. So I like him.

00:39:42

That's that's

00:39:43

You just you're just choosing him.

00:39:44

I'm just choosing him. It's either him or Jack Black, and I would much rather have Chris Pratt.

00:39:49

Jack Lockett is Mike. Do we have a

00:39:51

I'm googling actors with big heads.

00:39:54

Oh, yeah. You're gonna get

00:39:55

a lot of egos in that search result.

00:39:58

Danny DeVito's got a big head.

00:39:59

Oh, DeVito.

00:40:00

We've already Danny 1 of us is Danny DeVito, and it's not me. We've already said that that was Adam.

00:40:06

The champ.

00:40:06

Yeah. This list says Conan O'Brien, Mark Ruffalo

00:40:11

Oh, big heads. Ethan Hawke, John Travolta, Matt LeBlanc. Maybe some people out there I don't know. Know the actor that you look like.

00:40:19

Yeah. Maybe.

00:40:20

Maybe they can share with them.

00:40:22

When I was a a teen, I got comped at least a couple times to JT from the hit series step by step.

00:40:34

Okay. Yeah. I I remember him. Like

00:40:36

how about Nick Offerman? I'm just trying to think beer.

00:40:41

He wouldn't yeah. I mean, he would at least not talk on an elevator too. Yeah. We got some similarities. I decided to ask Chad GBT who Mike Wright of the Fantasy Footballers looks like Chad GBT.

00:40:54

Knows who I am? And here is the answer that I received.

00:40:58

This is great. Yes.

00:40:59

Mike Wright of the Fantasy Footballers has often been compared

00:41:03

Danny DeVito. To Chris Pratt. Oh, come on. Woah. No.

00:41:07

Thank god you tell him you got the wrong name there because that's not true.

00:41:11

Jason changed your answer immediately. That's not true.

00:41:14

I I uploaded a picture of the 3

00:41:16

of you guys, and I got person

00:41:18

on the left being Mike Wright would be played by Chris Hemsworth.

00:41:21

Oh, baby. Person, can I have Chris Pratt

00:41:23

back now? You're fine with that. Right?

00:41:25

Yeah. That's fine.

00:41:25

Person in the middle being would be played by Ryan Gosling.

00:41:29

Oh, Jason McKeown.

00:41:30

Person on the right being Jason would be played by Jonah Hill. Alright.

00:41:35

Hey. I'll take it.

00:41:35

Yes. Yes. That's not bad. Jonah Hill has slimmed down, and he's very funny. But 1 of us got Chris Hemsworth.

00:41:43

I I actually just asked the same question for Jason. They gave me Jason Siegel. I'd take Jason Siegel. Looking for a shared first name.

00:41:49

Oh, yeah. Sure. I'll take Jason Siegel. He's super funny. Better than Steven Seagal.

00:41:56

What? What? Swish.

00:42:01

It's an AMA show.

00:42:02

We can

00:42:03

do anything

00:42:03

here. I'm just trying to

00:42:05

see Barely. Barely putting

00:42:07

it together.

00:42:07

I know it's

00:42:08

the same last name,

00:42:10

but They're basically father son.

00:42:16

They're Oh. Steven Seagal has some amazing stories out there if you haven't looked into them. YouTube question. 0 tolerance.

00:42:24

70 3.

00:42:25

Under Siege? That would be a good name for the Spitballers episode

00:42:29

that comes out on Monday if you Oh my gosh. Make sure

00:42:32

you look that up, people.

00:42:33

Who's y'all's favorite Marvel character? This question from YouTube. For me, it is Wolverine.

00:42:41

For me, it's Iron Man. He started it off. He's the leader.

00:42:44

He's the best. And it's really hard not to be Wolverine, but I it's still Spider Man for me.

00:42:50

When you say started it off, you clearly need

00:42:52

the movies.

00:42:52

The yeah. The the the u the movie universe, you know, that went crazy.

00:42:58

Were you not a Marvel guy before the universe? Not really. Movie universe?

00:43:03

No. I don't I don't think I was. I mean, honestly, before before Iron Man came out, like, when I think about superhero movies, it's like you had the Batmans. You had Well, we had Superman. We had cartoons.

00:43:13

Like, we had the X Men cartoons. X Men

00:43:15

is cartoons.

00:43:15

That's where

00:43:16

I loved Wolverine. That's why I was a Wolverine fan. YouTube question from, the lame raccoon. As native Phoenicians, which 1 of the footballers drives the fastest?

00:43:29

Oh, that's me. For sure. I mean, like This is Jason. Yeah.

00:43:33

I would say that the scale goes Mike, me, Jason.

00:43:38

100%. Mike is a very slow driver. Cautious or is He's just He's just a chill. You're a very chill. Okay.

00:43:44

That's that's a kinder word.

00:43:46

I drive 5 to 7 over.

00:43:49

What a slowpoke. I should be in jail. Yeah.

00:43:53

I mean, I don't Are you still I I haven't had a ticket in Oh.

00:43:58

Many years.

00:43:58

They'll never catch me.

00:43:59

Here we go.

00:44:00

It's been a long time since

00:44:02

I got a ticket. I think the last time I was pulled over was criminal speeding, though.

00:44:08

So but that was that was 15 years ago.

00:44:11

Yeah. Now I just go faster. They don't see me.

00:44:14

Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Yeah. It's Jason.

00:44:17

It's Jason. Alright. This question let's go YouTube question from Peter. What is everyone's favorite hobby outside of Fantasy Football?

00:44:26

Pickleball? That's your favorite hobby?

00:44:29

I I think it's what

00:44:30

I enjoy the most outside of it. Yeah.

00:44:32

I would have answered cooking for you.

00:44:35

That that would be up there too. I mean, I don't have many hobbies. It's like fan

00:44:40

I always hate this question because I feel like I'm a loser Cooking. When they ask me this

00:44:44

question. Why?

00:44:45

Well Because I don't have good answers. My answers are like I just I'm like a dad. Like, a dad's my hobby.

00:44:53

See? Yeah. But you love pickleball too.

00:44:55

I do. But, like, favorite hobby, I guess, just means the thing you

00:44:58

can't abuse. So your favorite hobby is probably video games,

00:45:00

because that's what you

00:45:01

I play video games and pickleball, I guess. Yeah.

00:45:04

Yeah. The the most enjoyment is is pickleball. But you can't always do that. I mean, you have to have time and and people together. But music and so guitar playing and and video games.

00:45:20

Next question here from Funk 0 fan. If you could pick up the studio and your families and move to any other

00:45:27

San Diego. US town.

00:45:30

On someone else's dime, which city would you pick?

00:45:33

San Diego. That would be mine. Perfect weather year round. I love San Diego. Nah.

00:45:40

Where would you go?

00:45:43

Probably Tahoe? Hawaii.

00:45:47

Oh, Hawaii state. Which city are you going to?

00:45:53

I will go to the island of Maui. Okay.

00:45:57

And I don't know any city there.

00:45:59

Coast of Kaanapali.

00:46:01

Oh, that's a good pull. Yeah. It's that's probably where I would take us to. Yeah.

00:46:07

I bet you'd be fine with either place. So Oh,

00:46:09

I'll take San Diego. Yeah. Absolutely.

00:46:11

It's not a bad question.

00:46:13

I don't think I would wanna live in Hawaii. I want to go to Hawaii, but

00:46:17

Why would you wanna live? Like, other than the weather like, the weather in San Diego is great, but the driving is not great.

00:46:24

Driving it's not like LA. It's not at all.

00:46:26

It's not good.

00:46:27

It's it's the same as Phoenix. Phoenix, it's not like driving here is great.

00:46:32

We just Our

00:46:32

driving here has gotten ridiculous.

00:46:35

You you always thought you grew up and you you would go and your summers were Santa Monica.

00:46:40

Yes. Correct.

00:46:40

But you're saying San Diego?

00:46:42

Yes. Santa Monica is great, but the problem is you have to live in LA area, and the driving there is worse than anything that exists. Like, whatever bad things are out there, the worst of the list is driving in Los Angeles. Nothing like that in San Diego.

00:46:56

Okay. Alright. Do we have time for more of these questions, or should we move on here, Al? Do you do you know if we should hit some more?

00:47:03

Let's do 2 more.

00:47:05

Alright. Ryan writes in. Ryan Lovell from Twitter says my wife and I just had twins.

00:47:11

Congratulations. Awesome.

00:47:11

A boy and a girl, our first our first children.

00:47:14

That's how I did it. Boy and girl, twins for our first.

00:47:16

Jason, what tips do you have Okay. For another twin dad?

00:47:20

You came to the right place. Look. If you've got twins, you do everything. So you're changing diapers. You're doing bottle feedings.

00:47:28

You're up at night, and it's going to make you such a better, more capable father and person. So congratulations. You don't know any better. Lose sleep. And then if you have a 3rd, you know, like these 2 guys, like, 3rd is is hard.

00:47:41

You're And you. Yeah.

00:47:43

But but I'm saying you guys We didn't have twins. The 3rd, you never went through 2 at once. Right. So it's like a 3rd was just adding 1 more to parenting. This was like, oh, 1 baby.

00:47:54

There's nothing. So it's a breeze.

00:47:57

Ron writes in, what is your favorite part of the off season, real life included, such as more family time? We all know Jason loves those birthday parties, though.

00:48:05

Oh, gosh. I it's 1 of my favorite things.

00:48:08

You're still going to the same amount of birthday parties as you used to? Probably less.

00:48:12

No. Thankfully, the kids have gotten older, and it's like the birthday. I don't go to the

00:48:16

I go

00:48:16

to the teenager's birthday parties anymore. You know, it's, like, my dad came to the movie. No. You just go and hang out, and it's delightful.

00:48:25

A part of the off season I really, really like is, like, you get 2 days off. Right. Back to back. And it like, love the job. Not it's it's not complaining.

00:48:39

But when you when you're, like, at week 15, and it's, like, it's a 6 day work week essentially with including a bunch of nights, you're like, okay. I'm I'm ready to have 2 days in a row off. That it's it's nice.

00:48:53

We record our shows in the afternoon before the day they come out in the off season. Yeah. So I really enjoy a slightly longer morning. We're not rushing in to record.

00:49:03

Yeah. My That's my favorite part. My enjoyment of the off season is 2 things. 1, I really love scouting and getting to know the the rookies. From a work standpoint, it's that.

00:49:12

From a nonwork standpoint, it's it's get getting out of dodge. Just going on a vacation. Like, I love just whatever it is. A cruise, going somewhere. I like traveling.

00:49:21

Steven Seagal? Really? Swoosh. Alright. Well, the playoffs are coming up, which means we are going to continue our Fantasy Face Off.

00:49:36

Fantasy face off presented by DraftKings.

00:49:44

Well, we've got a bunch of wildcard weekend games coming up.

00:49:49

And Andy was last week's loser of fantasy face off, but he

00:49:55

But this is a different version.

00:49:56

There's a different version. So he thinks he's getting away with it, but he's not. You

00:50:03

you got got

00:50:03

Love shame.

00:50:05

Bring that wheel up, baby. Woah. Oh, Andy, go ahead.

00:50:10

This is

00:50:10

a surprise to even me. Yeah. Spin the wheel, buddy. Oh, please be just slime dropping all

00:50:16

over him. Yeah.

00:50:18

Iceman, MTV cringe, league of record lose. Oh, Banana Rama. Oh.

00:50:25

Banana Rama.

00:50:27

Oh, so first is the banana face. There you go. You put that in. That looks great.

00:50:31

And Will Levis, what was he famous for, mate? Eating mayonnaise?

00:50:34

Oh, that's disgusting. What do you got there, Andy? Oh, you got a jar of mayonnaise and a spoon?

00:50:40

Feeling really Batman in this thing. Yeah. Feeling real Fatman in

00:50:45

here.

00:50:45

Because imagine Mike tried to wear that.

00:50:47

So I don't know, man.

00:50:49

I feel like if you're gonna go the whole way, maybe you,

00:50:53

that's up to you to fry that mayo. I won't make

00:50:57

you, but

00:50:58

How big does the spoonful have to be?

00:51:00

It doesn't have to be big. You just go a little bit ski. Oh, he's going he's going hard. That's a big spoon. Go to YouTube immediately.

00:51:08

Oh, he's taking a big spoon of yeah. Did

00:51:12

you switch it? Yeah. We switched it.

00:51:14

I thought you might have. Well, kinda. Well, kinda?

00:51:17

It's about 40% vanilla pudding, 60% made up.

00:51:24

I was told it was

00:51:25

gonna be switched to vanilla pudding.

00:51:30

I was told that this

00:51:32

was here's what's great about what you just did, Andy.

00:51:35

If you didn't do that, I

00:51:36

was gonna say then I will do it. And I was gonna go take a very confident bite knowing that it was vanilla pudding. Yes. So you're telling me that we're we're working our way through this 1. Okay?

00:51:47

So he hasn't thrown up yet. Okay?

00:51:50

That that was a confusing flavor.

00:51:53

You kinda liked it? Hey. I'm proud of

00:51:55

you, man.

00:51:55

The first taste was this isn't mayonnaise. That was a so it was a vanilla tone. Right. But it then there was the sour.

00:52:03

Then the vanilla then this the the mayonnaise came through?

00:52:06

Yeah. Really?

00:52:07

You guys couldn't figure out how to get up to a hundo? Yeah.

00:52:11

Also Was that your gag on the gag? Was you

00:52:13

Well, we wanted if Jason took it, we wanted him to be surprised as well. Oh.

00:52:17

0. Wait.

00:52:18

I was

00:52:18

the win. I won last week. Oh, good. You're fired.

00:52:22

Also Yeah. Real quick before we move on. And and Mike mentioned it. But, dude, you didn't hes I was like, that I am so

00:52:29

proud of you. You took a heaping spoonful and

00:52:32

put that mayo in your mouth.

00:52:33

Here's the honest truth. I'm a pretty big mayo fan.

00:52:36

He's like, I do this all the time.

00:52:38

I just felt like I'd be okay.

00:52:39

Can't threaten me with

00:52:40

a good time.

00:52:41

Because I like mayo.

00:52:42

I I'm with it too. I love mayonnaise, but where my

00:52:44

This was a surprise.

00:52:45

Where my stomach is at right now, there's no way I could take a bite of this

00:52:49

without Yeah. It's yeah. I'm feeling different things. I'm feeling different things right now.

00:52:52

I just can't believe how much you put on the spoon.

00:52:55

I thought you'd get, like, a little taste

00:52:56

and put it in now.

00:52:57

I wanted you to know I'd be fine on Survivor.

00:52:59

Alright. Oh, hey. Alright.

00:53:01

You know?

00:53:01

Survivor, is there

00:53:02

a lot of mayonnaise drops in Survivor?

00:53:04

Look. Sometimes you gotta eat things you don't wanna eat.

00:53:06

Okay. Alright. So

00:53:07

and I'm feeling it now.

00:53:09

Stunning it. Absolute unit.

00:53:11

Why don't you explain what we're doing for the playoffs here?

00:53:13

Alright. So

00:53:14

wear this banana head.

00:53:15

Yeah. So we are going to, through the playoffs, be, playing DraftKings pick 6. Now pick 6 is is a super fun game. There's all the stats from all the players that you're used to, and you're basically gonna pick more or less on these player projections. You know, someone's got more or less than half an interception or this amount of yardage or whatever.

00:53:35

You you make 2 or more picks from the same group of, the same group of games, the same slate. And, then you get paid out if you hit. So we are all bringing

00:53:47

Antiques are turning on Andy right now.

00:53:49

Anticipate barking.

00:53:52

Oh, man.

00:53:53

Get through the show. Getting got on these episodes lately.

00:53:57

Yeah. I feel really good.

00:53:59

So I'll I'll kick it

00:54:00

off with with my, pick 6 combo, my 2 of our

00:54:05

Of our 6.

00:54:05

Of our 6. So we we each made our own little, entry here, and I am taking Zach Ertz more than 39 and a half Oh. Receiving yards.

00:54:17

That's a good amount.

00:54:18

It's a good amount, but he's hit it a lot. If if especially if you take out the injury game and that first game back from the concussion, he's basically usually over this. And I believe Tampa Bay Buccaneers have given up the 2nd most yardage to tight end. So I I really like that pick, and I'm going with Jordan Love less than 227 and a half passing yards because he hasn't looked good. He hasn't hit this number, but, like, once in the last 2 months or something.

00:54:44

He's beat up. He's beat up. He's injured, and he's got a tough matchup. And no Christian Watson.

00:54:48

Yeah. Now we we put these together independently. We didn't know what the other person was gonna pick. I in all of the the things on did the Sunday slate, that was the 1 that I loved too, which is the Jordan Love Less than 227 and a half. And my I'm gonna combo that with Buckey.

00:55:05

Funny enough, we were talking about him at the top. Buckey more than 86 and a half rushing yards, which he has done in 3 of the the previous 4 games.

00:55:14

Is the Washington matchup there. My combination are 2 sides of the same game. The Super Bowl bound Los Angeles chargers. I'm taking

00:55:25

Oh, I can

00:55:26

can I can I guess real quick? Go ahead. Because I actually made huge? I made another the

00:55:30

huge line.

00:55:31

I made another 1 of these just on my own just to play, and it was fun. And it was in the same game. And it was Herbert Moore, and it was Stroud Les.

00:55:42

You're wrong. Oh, yeah. This is McConkey more than 5 and a half receptions. So he's gotta hit 6 receptions, and it is Joe Mixon less than 70 and a half receiving or rushing rushing

00:55:56

If receiving's an option, you gotta sign me up for that. Yards.

00:55:59

The fade of Mixon, the the inefficiency of the offense, the Houston offense, they're at home. They're not favored.

00:56:07

You felt it firsthand.

00:56:09

I like I'm feeling a lot right

00:56:10

now, actually.

00:56:12

You were relying on Mixon and Niqo.

00:56:14

I don't think mix I don't think that this game flow is going to lend itself to Mixon getting over or more than 7 70a half. So I'm gonna take less than 70a half for Mixon on the rushing side and more than 5a half receptions for McConkie. So we will we're gonna shift to the crowns and clowns for this, playoff Fantasy face off. This is the tightest banana I've ever worn. I can tell you that.

00:56:42

I got

00:56:42

a little bit of circulation left.

00:56:44

Yeah. It's really compressing, while my stomach is singing. That was Fantasy Face Off, presented by DraftKings Sportsbook. DraftKings Sportsbook is crowning a king of the end zone every NFL game day. Download the DraftKings Sportsbook app and use the code ballers, that is the code ballers, to compete for a share of 2,000,000 in bonus bets only on DraftKings.

00:57:03

The crown is yours. Before I shut down, I do have 1 final question for Jason. Uh-oh. When did you decide to do this to me?

00:57:13

When it was asked in Slack whether or not we were gonna do this, and I immediately said no. I said, don't worry about it. I wouldn't have talked to Jeremy at that moment.

00:57:22

Gotcha.

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Goodbye.

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Draft pick regrets, important food takes, and lots more on today's fantasy football podcast! It's an AMA style mailbag, with questions ...