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That's A-L-L-C-L-E-A-R. Welcome to the Fantasy Footballers Podcast with your hosts, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Welcome in. Welcome in, one and all, to the Fantasy Footballers Podcast, Thursday, January 14th.
Andy, Mike and Jason, back with you. We have an exciting episode of the show today, our annual Footballers AMA episode. Ask me. Ask me anything.
Jason, lots of questions about his life. You know, we always find out new things about Jason each and every year, like when we found out that you were part of a mine troop at some point in time. Very important. Was it, like, years worth of mining that you did, too, that we were unaware of, like, touring?
That is incorrect. That is 100% inaccurate, but it's a fantastic story. Mike was right. There was an award.
I did win Best Mime. You won Best Mime. How many other mines did you compete against for that honor? Probably about 15.
Were there? Okay, this is like when you were in jiu-jitsu, and all the weight classes break down to where there's two people competing. You're like, yeah, I won silver. I won silver.
I won one. I lost one. I got silver. That's right.
I did it. All right, thank you for joining us. This will be a fun one. We also are going to be sharing some of your stories on today's show.
Oh, yeah. As we're going to be taking it to 100, we asked you to submit some of your last-second victories, championship stories, things of that nature, and I'm excited to get into those. You can watch the show. Can you believe it?
They have the technology now. YouTube.com slash TheFantasyFootball. And if you subscribe and you click the bell, then you're alerted to new episodes, and when we put some other cool content up there, we do giveaways and things like that. You can check it out.
And Instagram.com slash FantasyFootball if you want to follow us there. Jason, are you ready? Can you handle the truth? Because it is coming.
Oh, brother, I not only can handle the truth, I'm going to give the truth. Yeah, we've got truth episodes coming up next week. I don't know if you two are aware, but Brooks and I have been working on all of those spreadsheets doing the work of the truth series, but there's some interesting information already. You're the Tom Cruise, and I'll be the Nicholson?
That is correct. Now, we actually hooked you up to a lie detector during the whole four-episode series, right? That is right. We do not know how to read it, but it is going.
It's actually just wires hooked up to a car battery and then clamping on the nips. Right. It's like a lie detector. And when you say you worked with Brooks, you do mean Brooks' staff, right?
Like he employed a number of people to work on his staff. Yes, I meant Brooks LLC was when I was working with the corporation. They've been fantastic, top-down, just well-organized. All right.
Well, I'm glad we handled all of these important topics at the top of the show. Let's take it to one another. Taking it up to 100. Presented by Head & Shoulders, available at Walmart.
All right. Last week, I was crowned, I believe, Best Fantasy Player on Earth. Is that the title? It was something like that.
Yeah, it was something like that. You took it up to 100. You were the champion. Yeah.
Sterling Shepard. Yeah, I've got a trophy. I've got a trophy now, and you don't. I do have a trophy, but it's unfortunately in the other room.
Yeah, you can't pull it out. All right. We did say we wanted you to send in some of your fan stories from 2020, the last season. Lots of championships out there, and we wanted to read some of them on the show today.
This is your opportunity to tell us how you took it to 100 this year. I will kick it off. We're going to read a few of these, and then we can react. We can react to these stories.
We got one in from a friend of the show, Sharks Are Cool, on Twitter. Was down 31 points after Sunday in Week 14, which was Week 1 of the Fantasy Playoffs. Had only Lamar Jackson left, and won on the 44-yard touchdown pass. That 44-yard touchdown was a 4th and 5 when Lamar came back into the game, and then went on to win the championship.
Hashtag take it to 100. Yeah, that's good, because you assumed you lost already in that game. And then he comes back. It was a quintessential bomb to win the game.
It was one play. So that's awesome. James from Twitter wants to know if this counts. His 7-year-old's team, a.k.a.
Panda472, coming from behind in a 2-week playoff on the backs of King Henry and Jonathan Taylor's 68 points in Week 17 for her first Super Bowl in her first ever league. I would say that took it to 100. You had the RB 1 and 2 on the week. Yeah, wow.
Coming from behind, too. So after you were facing a deficit, you needed it, and you got it from the best two running backs. That's awesome. Grant says, well, it's hard for me to pick a week when my team took it to 100, because it happens so frequently.
This league has been around for years, and I now have the number 1, 2, 4, and 5th highest weekly scores over those years. Congratulations, Grant. Noice. It's okay to sniff your own farts at this time of year.
I mean, that's not what you're supposed to do. All right, we've got another one here from Stanzy Sports. Faced one of my best friends in Week 13. Winner got the final playoff spot.
Loser was eliminated. And the Walrus said, cuckoo, kachoo, and scored 46 points. And he won by 119. Oh, man.
That should have said former best friend, because there's no way you can repair that at this point. Yeah, that's broken. That's done. But at least you took it to 100.
How about this one from Matt Wells on Twitter? It was Week 12. I need to win. I need another guy to lose.
And I need 54 more points than him to make the playoffs. I have Tyreek Hill, James Robinson, and Drake. He needs David Johnson to score at least 10 points against Baltimore, but he only got 8.4 with the drops. Oh, was that Deontay?
Oh, Deontay Johnson. Oh, that was the game with all the drops. He only got 8.4 fantasy points. And Matt Wells, playoff bound after that.
Spectacular. All right, this one's from Logan Jones, fellas. This is amazing. With Mark Andrews on the COVID list and fearing the Baltimore-Pittsburgh game wasn't going to happen in Week 12, I took a shot in the dark at tight end.
Was about to miss the playoffs by two points until a needless Eagles Hail Mary found its way in the arms of Richard Rodgers. No way. A Richard Rodgers title? On a Hail Mary.
That is by far my personal favorite because it's insane. I mean, you throw Richard Rodgers in your lineup, and that's just basically saying, okay, I'm done. And then a Hail Mary, you win it. Playing Richard Rodgers was a Hail Mary by itself, and then he won with a Hail Mary to Richard Rodgers.
So that is unbelievable. And we want to thank everybody for sharing some of those hashtag Take It to 100 stories with us. You can browse them on Twitter, too, if you put that hashtag in there, at Take It to 100, if you want to see some more of these stories, some great ones. Man, those are always a lot of fun.
It's fun. A reminder to take your hair up to 100 with head and shoulders available at Walmart. You can pick yours up today. I do want to thank you guys for holding it down on Tuesday.
I listened to that episode, and you guys were drafting the top 24 players for 2021, and I know a lot of effort was put into that episode, going through and kind of establishing those early lists. And I thought that the kind of culmination of that entire process when I was listening was the Devontae Adams, when do you take the first wide receiver, and then when do you take Travis Kelsey? And I think they went 8-9 or 9-10 in your guys' back and forth. Yeah, some of the 7 or 8, and your critique was, in fact, against the pick that I made because I took Devontae Adams.
I took him over my tier of Nick Chubb, and right after I took Adams, Jason took Travis Kelsey, and then you said, as you were listening, that I did it wrong. I should have taken Travis Kelsey right there before any wide receivers had been drafted. That was my, I wonder if they'll remember Kelsey, and I wonder what they'll do with Kelsey moment, where I was like, this is about where, because once the Adams bell goes off, we were like, okay, it's time to maybe move beyond running back. The question in my head was like, I think Kelsey should go right here.
And I kind of, you know, we talked about it a little bit on Slack, and look, you're not going to go wrong with Devontae Adams. It's really not a critique on him. It was more a debate about how valuable is Travis Kelsey. Five straight years at number one at the tight end position, and there's a lot of good points on both sides, right?
There's points to replaceability. Like, if you have an injury to Devontae Adams, obviously that sucks, and you've actually had to deal with it quite a bit with Devontae Adams. Well, yeah, I guess I didn't think about that, but it was kind of, I brought up the point to Jason, I was like, man, you know, if you could choose to play Devontae Adams at wide receiver or at tight end, where does he represent the biggest advantage? And they actually have really similar fantasy outputs over the last five years.
They're almost identical total fantasy points, which obviously speaks, I think, more to Adams. He's missed more games, but still has that total. So he's been, you know, the higher point scorer on average, but man, what a decision for fantasy owners to decide where Kelsey belongs, because after five straight years at number one, you know it won't last forever. That's the hard part.
But it's lasted as close to fantasy forever as it gets. Is where, in the game of being out in front, which loss are you willing to take? Are you willing to take the L of, I'm guessing that this is the year that Travis Kelsey is not that dominant number one guy, or take the L of him, you're like betting that he will still be that dominant, because the last couple of years, it has been absurd. I mean, Kelsey will be finishing as a top 10 wide receiver, and he always dominates whoever is in second.
So take the gamble that he will be that. But what's he, 32? Am I remembering that right? Yeah, that sounds about right.
I mean, the hard part is, it's not like it's a guarantee at wide receiver. I mean, Michael Thomas was the first wide receiver off the board this year, and it was all under the basis of Michael Thomas is a guarantee of the position. And so some of that durability with Kelsey, and he will be 32 in October. Yeah, I just, I don't know, I found myself leaning the Kelsey sign, which is an interesting debate.
So that was a lot of fun. You guys did well. You always got the bonus extra, you know, 20 minutes of the show when Mike's hosting it. So I know you're trying to endear yourself to everybody and supplant me.
So that's what we have to do. I know. What do you think of the, before we move on to the next part, what do you think of the rights of Cam Akers? Are you that bullish on Cam Akers with me?
I'm getting convinced. Yeah, I'm becoming convinced for sure. You know, everything about all the rookie class at running back was about where they landed and what kind of opportunity that they were going to get. And I think we saw over the back three, four, five games, what Sean McBabe would like to do with Cam Akers and what his ability is.
And the ceiling is so much higher than the other options he has there. So hopefully he can stay healthy and that's a worthwhile pick. I was so unhappy for solely just Cam Akers reasons of his playoff performance. The fact that he won't, he's going to go to another playoff game and get more national exposure.
Like if they didn't make the playoffs, if somehow they could, oh, Cam Akers would have been one of my favorite draft picks next year. But more people are going to see him in the national spotlight and see what he's doing and dominating and be higher because of it. I did have one other comment on the draft, because I know J.K. Dobbins went in that top 25 as well.
You guys left Joshua off the board. Mr. Josh Jacobs, had you, you know, where was he on your list compared to where he went? Because top 25, I mean, that would be a start drop for a player who actually outperformed on a point-per-game basis in his rookie season.
I am still waiting for, we have him off the field, things that need to clear up. I wonder if that had something to do with it. And if that trouble goes through of his incident, he's going to miss games. And I'm not, like Josh Jacobs to me, as a player, he's fantastic, but he isn't so special that I'm going to absorb two to three games on my bench while I could be taking someone like J.K.
Dobbins. Yeah, he wasn't, you know, Zeke when he was suspended or LaBelle when he was, you know, going to miss a couple games. Well, it puts him behind Antonio Gibson, who I have slightly ahead of him, and Clyde Edwards-Alaire, who I still believe can take a step forward next year. Jacobs, despite the injuries that he both played through in the game he missed, you know where he finished?
I do not. He has the RB8. Not bad, not bad. With a B consistency level last year.
So that was the only other comment I had, but I enjoyed it very much. Let's do some Buy Sell. Buy Your Sell, presented by Christine Auction. Now, the reason why I wasn't on the show is you guys were so kind to let me go spend some time with the family up north and get a little decompression after the long season.
And I was just wandering the dark woods at night. So I really appreciate you letting me do that. Glad you made it out. Just barely.
Yeah, that's a good point. All right, Buy Sell. Here we go. DJ Moore.
Will he have a better fantasy football finish in 2021 than he did in 2020? Where did he finish, you ask? He was the wide receiver 22 in half PPR scoring. Now, in three years, he's dealt with low touchdown totals.
He has not done over four in a season, and he's hit that mark for the last two years. I know when we came into the year, that was something we brought up. We said, hey, this has got to change. And I still think it does have to change.
It's not to say that some players score fewer touchdowns than others, but you look at Robert Woods as a player who historically doesn't score a lot of touchdowns, and then if you're involved in an offense in a major way, eventually touchdowns will come, even if that's not your forte. But the big thing for me is Curtis Samuel. Curtis Samuel is a completely unrestricted free agent. I don't expect him.
I don't think it's a lock that he comes back. He's going to test the waters, see if he can be higher up on the depth chart, not be, you know, fiddling around for is he second or third on the pecking order, and probably get paid more to do that. I don't think the Panthers are in a position to pay him a lot of money if someone else is able to. Now, he's gone, and it's just Robbie Anderson and DJ Moore.
In year two of that system, I'm pretty all about them and their outlook next year with Christian McCaffrey helping move the offense forward. I was going to bring up Christian McCaffrey, because this was a year where we didn't know what the quarterback situation was going to be. Bridgewater really fell off a cliff over the back half of the year in terms of our confidence on his future, and, you know, McCaffrey will get his, no doubt. So, I mean, wide receiver 22, that's not a difficult place to get to.
That's the, you know, or above 22. I guess I would sell it. I guess I'll go sell. I don't think DJ Moore is like, you know, that's not really a huge indictment.
I think I just would like other wide receivers more than the unknowns there. Sure, I'm going to buy. I mean, he is such a difficult player to gauge. He did miss a game, but ninth and receiving.
yards among wide receivers i mean he was on if you give him that you feel the blanks in that game that he missed he's well over 1200 yards on the season and you look and he has over 90 yards in eight or nine of his games it's just the fantasy finish because of touchdowns a lot of it it betrays like how good he is and how how special he is as an nfl player but i will buy that he will finish over uh what was at the line at 22 yeah that's what he set the line at yeah yeah yeah right that's what he said uh he was wide receiver 18 last year and i think dj moore is really one of these special players yeah i do too the real question will be teddy bridgewater is he even the quarterback for 16 games next year uh he's paid to be the quarterback but he was so bad towards the second half that would be the downfall of dj moore to me it's not it's not indeed more's talent well i think we learned uh too what the team thought about robbie anderson and they brought him in there and he was obviously the receptions leader i'm looking at dj moore's pace for receptions last year even if you um give him his injured games and pace that out it's a 70 reception total that is much more a big play ironically a lot like robbie anderson in new york type of player that was delivering big yardage plays but not ppr type of numbers and it is true jay with curtis samuel you know that could be the major um change to the offense that could propel some of those reception totals up if they don't replace him someone will be there they'll be a third wide receiver but will they be as good as curtis curtis samuel pick a great great time to have a career season right before going to get that money it would uh it's funny teddy bridgewater you talk about holding dj moore back i mean last year it was mostly kyle allen can we get my man dj moore someone capable of throwing in the ball please yeah yeah he is um very talented no doubt i wonder whether he is the one i think that is the tough part of figuring him out maybe it doesn't matter but yeah i don't it seems like this is just a you know one a one b scenario in carolina all right that was buy sell from pristine auction um you officially bought right jay i did i bought he'll have a great season extra uh pristine auction.com use the code ballers and we did have an am a question about pristine auction i'll throw in here um they just want to know what our favorite pieces of memorabilia are because we have a lot of fine jerseys helmets my personal favorite just getting out of the way here it's the josh allen cleat that you'll see on our studio set back over my shoulder uh love josh allen love the uniqueness of getting a cleat you know we talked about they have like signed pylons and stuff up there so that's my favorite my personal favorite is not sports it's an ace ventura signed uh picture that uh pristine auction has everything not just a sports memorabilia and my favorite if you just look over my shoulder right here you can you can just kind of make out the numbers but that is in fact a number 11 that is an arizona cardinal signed larry fitz gerald jersey that is the prized piece of my collection and we do want to get into the ama momentarily i want to throw one piece of news out there we don't need the whole segment because there's not a lot but the seahawks did fire offensive coordinator brian quickly brian schottenheimer and this was shocking because it did not seem like that was going to take place now p carol came out and said we need to run the ball more and normally you would say hey that's what who would love to say yes to that more than brian schottenheimer in which case this is concerning because we're not run heavy enough mr schottenheimer that's what he said and i'm like is bill callahan on speed dial at this point oh man yeah what was your reaction to that it was pretty shocking because this is a guy who's always been associated with run first and then p carol in the press conference was talking about how that's the number one thing they need to get back to running the ball more um they want to you know put away the kitchen utensils for russell wilson and just have him be the i mean which is work right i mean they've had a decade of great football uh with russell wilson being more of the game manager less of the superstar offensive mastermind because he's always bailing them out yeah i know but it's it's just it is absurd to have two super bowls yeah it's just absurd to me is there a reason we have to run run and russ has to bail you out on third long like this this keeps going forever this is working do we have to either cook or not cook can we not cook a little can we not have a balanced office do we not have a healthy lifestyle and absolutely i love that there's this polarity of like we got to be the most run heavy team or the most pass heavy team how about we do both let's do both and they will so you're being healthy before we get into all of the questions from ask me anything this 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random questions we've got uh again a disproportionate amount of food questions we have fantasy questions people love food well it's because it's delicious mike it is that's one of the big reasons all right i got my own question for jason first before we jump in uh if you had to give up meat or sugar oh my goodness if i give up meat or sugar yeah they would have to be meat sugars in literally everything i mean if you're talking about like i can't sprinkle sugar on something i would give up sugar but if you're just saying i can't i can no longer eat sugar then i can't eat and i know i would be healthier for it but everything everything all right all right twitter question uh this comes in from at uh falk oh be careful andy uh where did the producers nicknames come from oh all right you have judge giamatti i'll explain this one um one day a question was asked from a listener about what brooks looked like and andy just said he looks no it wasn't looks it was if someone had to play us in a movie okay sure if someone played you in a movie and i believe he said well he looks like paul giamatti and then paul giamatti became the beginning of uh judge giamatti as he was uh put the gavel into his hand and so he has become judge giamatti and uh something that everybody knows behind the producer's desk in our studio is a giant uh way too big awful picture of paul giamatti to remind brooks of of how he looks origin story yeah he surprised him with that the judge giamatti segment like he didn't even know that was gonna happen there should did it that that picture of paul giamatti that's behind him which he's welcome to share i mean be warned it's the worst picture of anybody's ever taken somebody it's the equivalent of the picture with the flash is on and you didn't mean it to be on and you see the inner pores like who needs paul giamatti's pores i don't not a professional picture this is an unprofessional picture that's correct so uh that's that one and then al borland he's kind of known in our office as being the handyman and before he was a producer he just helped us with lots of different things in that realm he helped hang up this you know the the foundation of our lighting and he hung up signs and he always produced things that men do like you know how they built you know men do stuff um i've heard about it yeah and then so he was al borland and then somehow they just sounded like we were saying owl like the bird right so i thought there was the stuff he fixed all the things and then we had uh we were recording spitballers and he was wearing a buffalo plaid red shirt yes that happened that's true that is the borland look and then we were calling him al borland and then that just someone mispronounced someone's like everyone's not sophisticated is because we mispronounced something and then you're like yo i meant to say that i meant to say owl borland that's right me wrong all right uh next question from youtube is a fantasy question just wants to know where obj will rank next year right oh man i assume you didn't bring his name up on the last show so no not um i think he has to rank outside the top 15 wide receivers i can't fathom putting him inside there are too many good options i am all about for next year um but with the volume he will receive assuming that he is uh back in that same role next year it's it would be difficult if he played 16 to finish far outside of you know a wide receiver two territory if you're getting you know 130 plus targets so i think he's gonna be a back-end wide receiver two for me somewhere around that dj more i would take dj more too but beckham will probably be like a fifth or sixth round pick be my guess yeah i agree with you guys instagram question uh i gotta really make sure i read who these are from in a very careful fashion uh here's a question that came in from into the night record suite okay do people ever recognize you out and about while grocery shopping or anything like that yeah it does it does happen it doesn't happen as often while we don't go out and about anymore um that's a good point you know i'm recognized daily in my house from that's true that's true um but yeah that guy it definitely it definitely happens especially as we're traveling uh in the past yeah disneyland i mean that was the place man you run into a lot of foot playing at disneyland that's my favorite story about getting recognized which it's happened a handful of times but my favorite thing is to give my wife crap and like pretend i'm actually a big deal and we one of the times we went to disneyland we're in line to go in and i said look i'm really sorry i have to apologize because i know that there's gonna be countless supporters they're gonna come up they're all gonna want pictures i apologize that for the time that that will take and it's just really embarrassing it's making this huge ordeal joke about it and the second we got through the gates mike it was somebody listened to the show so my wife was just like no no so that was fabulous those are the best moments mine is very similar we were at a zoo and my wife told me i have one hour she said she basically said i have one hour to be recognized or or i'm a loser and i got recognized within an hour which was fantastic oh my goodness all right uh we have a related question on facebook too saying what's the funniest fan realization moment you've ever encountered a time when someone recognized you had a great reaction so there you go the chipotle story is insane you guys remember that one yes so someone someone on their job them and their friends listen to the fantasy footballers he was traveling to arizona um for work for like a weekend and the guys were like oh let me know if you run into hindi mike and jason and then he did and he just from our voices we were we were already sitting down eating and he recognized our voices that's wild yeah uh all right let's move on facebook question from ryan uh this is the food category that we got so many questions about what is your favorite french fry and dipping sauce combination uh i know mine right away well then please share i am a sucker for red robin fries with ranch and that is that's an excellent choice that is my pinnacle fry dipping sauce combination there are many that i have up there oh man yeah because you went that route with the big steak fries which are inferior but so great um red robin fries in ranch are great i'm going with freddie's fries the shoestring fries dipped in their spicy sauce all right that's good and i will throw out the chick-fil-a waffle fry into the chick-fil-a sauce nothing wrong with that that's good stuff nothing wrong with that at all all right uh twitter question from jordan lee who would you rather have next year deshaun watson or justin herbert i would rather have deshaun watson i think i'm thinking watson but is there let's think through it is there a reason or is there a scenario where it actually is herbert uh obviously we're gonna have to see what what coaching changes um are made that would be one of the biggest factors and then you have to determine whether or not uh see how free agency uh goes for will fuller does it let's say fuller does go back is there any if fuller does go back is there any chance you go to herbert over watson i mean not me no there was a stretch by the way that week four through eleven where herbert the seven games played his pace during that stretch was 4700 yards and 45 touchdowns yeah so that that herbert yeah i would take that over uh deshaun watson but from week 12 on aka when the shoe dropped he was a 4,324 passer so the truth is somewhere in the middle there herbert is a great uh has a great future but i am with jason i lean a little bit on the watson side well and the history is you know people ask all the time what was the most predictable stat what stat is a lot of people volume but the actual answer is that the most predictive stat is historical production what have they done that is most likely to repeat it so do you know where deshaun watson finished at quarterback this year i do i'm looking at probably five do you know where he finished at quarterback uh quarterback uh the year before five quarterback five do you know where he finished oh no before you see where i'm going here quarterback five so he's got uh subway foot long um in the bag and i i'm gonna write down right now he'll be my quarterback five next oh there you go that would be a safe bet uh twitter question from andrew f uh he says how do you navigate running a company with such close friends things like salaries time off when someone shows up late or misses how much time do you put into research uh your show has such a good vibe and i'm interested in what is behind the curtain i i can say this there's there's so many ways that you can get into trouble working with friends or family but uh the integrity of the actual people that we have assembled as a team i would say the three of us as well as every single person who works with us so integrous i mean when you have that level of trust and integrity down to every single person um it becomes really easy it's not it's not a built-in crazy strategy we have a lot of grace with everything that we do because we have a lot of trust and everyone works hard so it makes it very easy yeah i would just add that you know we've also had a history of working in different companies and we've seen the pluses and minuses i think of working with close friends and when we started this company we came into it with a level of trust with one another and with a genuine desire to do the best for one another you know we don't have power struggles because you know it probably helps if there's three of us so you can always have a two to one vote on something where we disagree but um we don't want anybody doing something that you know they're not excited and enthusiastic about so um that's made it a lot easier and i've seen you know i've seen a lot of people that have those situations where you know if you have a problem working with friends in the first like month of working together just imagine when your business grows and when you have to make bigger decisions those things don't go away so i guess when your business fails either way i would say at the beginning of the business it's important to set forth a standard for how you will handle all those types of decisions and it makes everything so much easier and people always ask like you know the biggest fight we've been in and stuff like that we've had plenty of disagreements or moments where we're like oh yeah i really believe this i really believe that but those things are you know they're usually fancy football right yeah they're usually when mike beats me in the league of record playoffs um so no i think we are super blessed and what jason speaks to about having you know just the staff that we do um people like brooks and al and kyle and brian and tons of people i don't leave somebody out but that's the thing we look for when we hire as much as we do any of any of the other peripheral skills i i know that they're gonna get their crap done so i need to get my crap done yeah that has always existed for for us we never had that thing where we're like this person's trying to get by for a month or two while the other people work and you know that's helpful for sure and uh all right let's move on twitter question from jeremy have you ever tried a vampire league what are your thoughts on this idea and what uh which one of you is the most likely to secretly be a vampire okay so two questions here slightly different i have never personally played in a vampire league a vampire league is um a league where when a team loses correct me if i'm wrong um is this the one where they're gone right yeah they're they're gone and everybody gets to uh draft from their team no that's the team oh that's the vampires when you beat somebody i i collect someone from your team i yeah i drink your blood yeah i thought it was a league where everyone brings a pint of their own blood and everyone's a league gets all the blood at the end that's different though that's really happy it's not that really excited about um just unless we're a vampire in which case that's the kind of a vampire would play in because at the end that league seems awesome i've never played one that's such a such a fun league but i do imagine that you know one of the problems you have in normal fantasy leagues is that um you know certain managers just quit a little bit earlier things don't go right but in this league i feel like that would be even more exacerbated by the midway point you've got the teams with all the stars and the teams who've been fleeced of their stars that would be so painful to lose a player that way man so painful all right uh youtube question from maurice key trade cut question this one's important guys snickers milky way kit kat it's easy i'm gonna keep the cat i'm gonna trade the snickers highest trade value and who wants a milky way are you who wants a milky way how are you associating the trade value is that based on marketing dollars spent to sell you snickers 100 the snickers marketing budget is the largest they're the most popular and they're not as good as kit kat so i mean i'm just taking advantage of uh trade capital here i'm in lockstep with jason i i agree uh that being said i believe that i have been entirely persuaded by snickers marketing that it is more of a meal and therefore if you told me that like i need to have one of these for breakfast lunch dinner i would be choosing the peanut filled snickers if you told me that snickers actually the the same company owns and makes milky ways and they put them next to snickers just so they can smell or sell more snickers oh i would firmly believe that because jason's like who eats milky ways uh don't get me wrong if there's a milky way here it's delicious but like you don't ever have just a bowl of milky ways or about you know but you have a choice when you're making a selection like mike said these things are next to each other pick one the dark chocolate milky ways underrated you should check them out interesting all right uh unless you hate dark chocolate don't check them out then anthony from facebook if you had to make a solo podcast a solo podcast what would it be about um wow i think i would do one on entrepreneurship i think that's what i would just rant and rave on that maybe you guys make a tesla podcast oh yeah that'd be fun uh i might want to be a pop culture show talk about movies and video games sure yeah i i go to the entertainment side something uh maybe interview style in the entertainment world yeah cool all right dynasty question about juju this from joshua in colorado yeah you already know how bad that question's gonna be would you keep juju in a dynasty or try to trade him for a first round pick you i'm not trading juju for a first round pick he goodness gracious the the dynasty value of juju is it feels like an impossible code to crack because he he's not gonna be he's not gonna be a stealer right so then it's i mean that makes it really tough to begin with if you don't know what team's gonna be on yeah that does make it tough and it's just how good is juju actually because he could be awesome or he could just be a super average wide receiver that was put in the perfect situation with his role in the offense and with big ben i don't know which side i believe people people don't put up the production that juju smith put up normally and he's still extremely young he was doing he's doing things at a historic level of how young he actually is yeah and he'll get paid uh he will he's because he's young because he's a big name he's been a star in the league he's been fantasy relevant uh he'll end up making money that being said do you guys know how good like early uh before this season started everything was made about the running back free agency class of this year but then they all resigned the wide receiver free agency class this year do you know how good it is have you heard these names let me let me read you a list i've just heard them so alan robinson will fuller cory davis juju chris godwin kenny galladay antonio brown uh almost everybody there is going to get paid more than judy smith just used to will now the one name that you mean cory davis might not but almost everybody else you named is gonna get paid more money will fuller's gonna get paid more money than juju alan robinson chris godwin for sure juju is not like i hesitate because i know mike you were so like eye roll about people criticizing him about the tiktok stuff it just depends on what you believe the makeup of a player is to be a one and what kind of maturity they show it wasn't just that stuff like that stuff doesn't mean judy's not a good wide receiver that stuff might mean that judy's not a great leader when he comes out and says the browns are the browns doesn't make a decision puts them on the bulletin board and he says those things i don't know i don't know if he's a bona fide one you ask that same question i don't know if he gets separation on the outside by himself with antonio brown i don't know it yet because big ben this year was throw the ball four feet and judy was great at that he was actually a pretty reliable possession receiver but is that his ceiling now i don't know yeah that being said i would not trade him for a first rounder because in dynasty i'm always going to take a more sure thing over a more enticing bet i think anything top five i i might take like top three i haven't really dug in yet but i mean you know there's there's always an akil harry's the number one overall pick that just they don't become anything and you know juju is something you know for a fact the next five six years he will be relevant for fantasy football not saying he's gonna be a star but he will be in your lineup and score fantasy points let me ask you another question maybe you have a quick answer robbie anderson or juju in a dynasty i do not have a quick answer um i thought that might be a tough one i thought it might be a tough i didn't know if i get the quick juju or something but robbie anderson or juju if you want to know robbie anderson was almost irrelevant in dynasty and now that question is more difficult um so robbie anderson's three years older than juju robbie has one year left with the carolina panthers i think i'd go to too but it's close i don't i don't feel great about it my quick answer for you eileen juju instagram question from evan hill what is each uh guy's go-to for doing something fun not fantasy or football related in arizona how do you guys have fun with the family my go-to outside would be video games it's just few and far between but when a great one comes out i'll hop in spend a couple weeks uh you know playing through it and then uh and then i'm done i was go ahead i am a movie connoisseur i'm a movie man uh the not being able to go to movie theaters for the last year has sucked that's like my favorite thing to do is to go just eat horrifically bad and go watch a movie wow eating horrifically bad continues yeah i think we've all talked about it before sometimes i feel panicky about questions like this as though i should have more hobbies other than the business and like we're all dads so like honestly just doing stuff with the kids whether that's playing sports with them taking them to sporting things going out to dinner with them like that's kind of that's kind of our life i mean i don't you know have anything beyond that not like video games too but uh twitter question some follow-up dad related questions aaron wanted to know what is the best advice for a new father of a four-month-old daughter the advice we usually give is be involved to be active change diapers do you know feedings if possible um don't be afraid and that would be my biggest like if i could only give three words it would be don't be afraid just dive in yeah i think that don't be afraid goes through a lot of things with a first kid you're just kind of i mean no one can prepare you for it really like tons of people probably told me don't be afraid don't worry about it as a first kid you kind of deal with it but like just you're not gonna break the kid you're gonna make mistakes they're gonna forgive you like there is room for a lot of grace in that relationship you're gonna be all right yeah i agree all right youtube question i'm about to have a second kid any advice so any advice on the second man there's no go to sleep don't even listen to this podcast man just go sleep right now hurry you're running out of time my advice is you don't need any you already went through the first i mean to me it's easier now um well let's be fair here let's illuminate for the listenership jason did not have the choice of going from one to two jason's the first two children were twins so you were institute oh yeah i was you know two to three but you don't know one to two yeah i guess what i do know is first time around infants and babies versus i've been there done that and here's a point to illustrate how i mean it when we had our first uh babies i literally installed purell pumps all over my house every room you could walk in and you could purell your hands because i was so worried about open house right and this was 2009 and the second kid comes along and i'll throw him cereal on the carpet he can eat it right off of that i do not care he's gonna live through it he's gonna make it so that's kind of the difference yeah i like it well said um all right let's go instagram uh who's the first to cry during a sad movie that's jason so easily jason although mike is probably jason but i i lately would give him a run for his money i bet there's a category that you cry out quicker you know there's certain types of moments sure like jason is pretty quick on the draw but you you've shown some uh some weakness to some of these pixars and oh man oh oh brother pixar is the death of me has anybody ever done like a time-lapse cry race like play a movie for two people put the video camera on both of them time lapse it and see who's the first one to drop a tear no one's ever done i'll find a really really sad movie i know you both can't survive i can't think of whatever the specific example was but there was something on my house the other day um in the living room i wasn't watching it i was just walking through passing by i caught a couple minutes of whatever this show or movie was and i started to well up and cry i literally walked away going why am i crying was that a drive-by cry that was a drive-by cry that's right jason are you familiar with uh uh bedazzled the with uh elizabeth hurley i don't think so uh where he makes the deal with the devil no no one of his wishes is he wants to be the most yeah brandon fraser thank you al uh he wants to be the most sensitive man in the world and he's on the beach and he's just crying every time he looks at the sunset he's crying yes i love it that's me all right uh best type of pizza question from ben pope 16 is it uh buffalo chicken or hawaiian or meat lovers and follow-up pizza question does pineapple belong on pizza i will i will answer the second question first which there will never be agreement over i am 100% fine with pineapple on pizza the uh best pizza to me is a thin crust meat heavy pizza meat heavy can you go too much meat you can't on a thin crust if it's not a thin crust you cannot that's impossible but on a thin crust you gotta be able to get a little crisp have you ever cried when you saw a piece of pizza that was just so beautiful so beautiful just moved it's the morning pineapple on a pizza is fine but i would never choose it i think we've said that before i don't if i have the options they're sitting next to each other i'm never gonna pick up the pineapple one yeah because it's not good i don't care i'm tired i'm tired of the arguments and the the fun pretend outrage if you want to put pineapple on your pizza it's fine it's it's bad and i just recently had a situation where the wrong pizza was delivered to my house it was a hawaiian and it was well this is the pizza we have here i'm gonna go better than no pizza yeah it's better than no pizza but it's it's not better than just like regular cheese my favorite pizza i'm a chase and i like a good uh meat lover's pizza and but i mean the the best i don't know where do you where are you and are you a deep dish or thin crust i would just say regular like a nice like if i had to choose between thin and deep dish i'd probably go thin but i'm a hand-tossed regular pizza guy i i like like five cheese but i like beef on a pizza too like uh well that's on our that's on the meat lovers pizza yeah along with everything else i think you can have too much meat on a pizza though but that's just me taco uh yeah yeah so i lean there do you have a final selection like uh i guess if i have to get the way if go for me i'll go with a deeper one deep dish all right twitter question from mr gorbelage tear down this wall he's got a conundrum for us how many syllables are there in the word squirrel two one squirrel did you just say one yeah squirrel at least it's at least two i get it's not a girl i get oh it could be one did you ever do that trick as a kid yeah where you how they would tell you when you say the word how many things in your jaw go down i'm not aware yeah however when your jaw opens every time it's a new syllable yeah so they not know that it's squirrel and that's like one then right squirrel so if you were to say this word and really pronounce it it's two it's squirrel squirrel is two but nobody says look at those squirrels in the tree you say a squirrel no way squirrel it did sound normal when you said you're like nobody says look at that squirrel in the tree squirrel says look at that squirrel in the tree they say look at that squirrel you're saying i'm saying it the same way because you're nuts if you take the your over inflection on the l out you're just saying the words exactly the same no i don't say squirrel roll it's pronouncing the difference is pronouncing that second r are you pronouncing the second r like squirrel roll are you just saying squirrel you don't have to sound like you're you're like uh drunk when you're saying squirrel roll squirrel i know the actual answer brooks how many do you think the actual answer has to be two it's two yeah thanks for this question bro really appreciate it get it out of one i normally just say chipmunk which is more syllables uh all right uh youtube question we're wrapping it up here momentarily ike wants to know what kind of advice can you give someone who wants to start a podcast not necessarily about sports but just anything what is good podcasting advice is one of our most frequently asked questions so i've got a couple pieces of advice uh number one your audio quality really does matter and it's it's not rocket science to be able to get good audio you just jump on youtube do it research on uh on how to use an audio interface a digital audio workstation just put in a few hours of research and you're going to be able to to figure it out no problem and then um and then the other piece of advice is just start just get it going when you start you're gonna suck we sucked really bad when we first started this podcast you guys did yeah you guys were awful we yes thank you thank you we sucked when it was the three of us like if we go back now and listen to our first shows we will we will all jason's furiously shaking said no saying no i will not i will not go back and listen it's just hard it's the name of the game man it's reps no one jumps on a microphone and is incredible right away you're not just dan patrick without putting the word and don't don't try to be something don't try to be whatever you think a podcaster should be whoever you are uh otherwise you it's just hard to keep up that you know some fake persona yeah you're not gonna enjoy it and i to say two other bits of information is podcasting and establishing a podcast takes time and consistency. So that's a big key that I tell people to ask me is, you know, coming out with a schedule of when you release shows and having a topic that you're excited enough about to push through, you know, putting out, you know, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 shows where you're excited to talk about it and the growth might not happen right away. Because if you don't, if you're talking about something because you're like, oh man, there's a, there's a space in the market for a podcast about, you know, shoes, but you hate shoes. You're not going to make it.
That's what I would say. You know, make sure you love what you're talking about. All right, Brooks, do we have any other questions that you've been wanting to hear us answer? Like, will we ever actually send a paycheck along to you?
Any of those questions? Unnecessary. Yeah, he doesn't need it. We're getting one more food, one in.
Okay, sneak it in, Brooks. You can ask it. For Instagram, you have to eat one type and flavor of chips for the rest of your life. What is it?
Ooh. Is plain allowed? Yeah. Oh yeah, the rest of my life I'm going, I'm going plain potato chips.
Just like a, what brand? Just salt. Uh. Lay's, Pringles, Ruffles, what kind of?
No, I go Ruffles, plain Ruffles. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Man, the rest of the life really irks it because the, I didn't know it was my favorite until the beginning of COVID and I had the additional midsection to show that this is my new favorite chip. Uh, but Takis and specifically the purple bag, I don't know what flavor it is.
I just know it's the purple bag Takis. And oh my goodness, these things are so good, but they are really hot, really spicy. And you can't just, you can't just gobble these things down forever. Wait, those are Fuego mini snack bites?
Yeah. Are those the ones that have stuff inside of them? The mozzarella filling? No, it's like a rolled up corn chip and then doused in spice of doom.
Okay, it looks like that's the Fuego flavor. Mike, you like the spicy. Jason, what do you do? My favorite standard chip would be a barbecue.
I like barbecue chips. However, if I could only eat one chip the rest of my life, I wouldn't choose that. I'd probably have to go tortilla because now I can get salty. Now I can get guacamole.
Now I can get queso. Uh, I mean, that's, that's the problem. Are you going to take your ruffle and dip it in some guac? Well, I assume that you were just eating the chip as it stands.
You didn't need to supplement your chip with accessories. No, no, no. But my point is more the fact that you can't use a different, like in the situation where you want some guac, you have to use your ruffle. You have to use your top.
Stop breaking the question, Jason. There are no additional things you can put on the chip. Yeah, you get plain tortilla chips now. That's all we're saying.
Was that what you would still pick? No, I would probably pick a salt, uh, like a cow-cooked salt. Oh, those are good. Yeah.
I, I will say this, like, uh, we didn't know what questions were on today's show, but if any of these companies that we've just happened to shout out wants to just sponsor a segment, work down to clown. Mike, into a spicy hot talkies pick of the week. Oh, my hot pick of the week? Your hot talkies of the week.
Oh, okay. All right. We can work on it. Uh, we'll give it, we don't normally, uh, brainstorm these live.
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