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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hello, Dave, I would tell your your fantasy buddies. Reality
is the thing we don't want to forget.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Doctor Ricardo, I'm not comfortable.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
The balls are anything but deflated.

Speaker 4 (00:19):
Picked up my son here.

Speaker 5 (00:20):
The trophy is actually buckled up right next to him.

Speaker 3 (00:24):
I have to apologize to everyone other than Jason.

Speaker 6 (00:26):
Puppet mastering his way to success.

Speaker 4 (00:28):
You smurf and smurf not if you fundle it.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
Health of the league, knee deep into the waiver wire.
These are my confessions.

Speaker 4 (00:38):
I didn't even know what fantasy football was.

Speaker 3 (00:41):
Trying to retie stamps.

Speaker 7 (00:42):
Sixth grade me just laughed so many times I developed
like serious soul tis.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
I could care. The texts are flying, Mike was silent
tum the threat you get Lucky Io Trader in the works.

Speaker 7 (00:56):
I mean, the Vikings are winning the Super Bowl? What's up, everybody,
Dave Bergan dan Meyer a J. Montsour, we call him
aj Bala. It is week six in the Big San
of Fantasy Football League. But you're twenty three, and that
means we don't just talk about fantasoball. What we talk
about all the things that make this league great, all
the things that we have done throughout the years.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
So we'll see. We got a big show tonight.

Speaker 7 (01:20):
And I think, guys, I'll just be honest, I think
the reaction from our last week's episode was pretty positive
across the league. I think guys were like, Wow, it's back.
I'm excited, I'm reconnected again. It spurred all kinds of
text threading.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
Did you get that sense of threading?

Speaker 4 (01:35):
So much threading?

Speaker 3 (01:36):
I think one of the things that warmed my heart
the most, the cockles of my heart, was the the
live tweeting that folks were doing, you know what I mean,
Like you're a little bit separated. It was nice to
hear that, Hey, this was my favorite part. This was
my favorite part. Yeah, we really felt felt good live tweeting.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
Did we adopt that term that Twitter has moved to
x Live tweeting is now what we call the text banter?

Speaker 1 (02:05):
Yes we can.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
We can adopt that on the open market. Yeah, trademarks,
we can own that.

Speaker 3 (02:09):
Now what do you say, Now, what do they say
post live posting, live x sing?

Speaker 7 (02:15):
They don't say live x sing. That's a different that's
a different thing. But uh no, but you know, it
was funny. Was was one of the guys, one of
the guys who responded first.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
Was Jason Yeah.

Speaker 7 (02:27):
Oh, which now that he's been found, thank you Sam,
Sam Sam red Zone Detective Sam red Zone p I.
But he was the first one to be like, this
podcast is great. I'm like, Jason, welcome aboard. So that's amazing.
As I re listened, you know again, you guys know,
I love this sound on my own voice, and I
listened to the podcast multiple times and I'm I'm.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
Half the metrics.

Speaker 7 (02:51):
But when I re listened, I was laughing about this
idea that I paid for the Yahoo upgrade, and I
started thinking about how Yahoo Fantasy Football is the spirit
airlines of fantasy football, right, Like if you want to
go fancy, fancy, you go get the sleeper and you
go get these other fancy platforms. We've stayed on the

(03:12):
spirit airlines of fantasy football. That literally nickels and dimes. You, Oh,
you want to check that bag, sir, right, that'll cost you,
Oh you want to upgrade to your little customization thirty dollars.
Have you guys ever tried to click on like research
assistant on the app or on the platform and it's
like pay two ninety nine for that extra research, Like

(03:33):
it'll it'll nickel and dime.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
You.

Speaker 7 (03:36):
You think it's a free service, and it's not, and
it is.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
Is it not the budget airlines of Fantasy Football?

Speaker 2 (03:43):
It certainly is. But that raises a good question though,
with this extended service that you got that has the
medium scoring, do you get access to the research assistant?
Is that like part of the package deal?

Speaker 1 (03:55):
No, it's not.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
You you literally paid for what was it that you
paid for median score? I know, I know that's what
we got out of it, That's what we wanted. But
there had to be more than just that.

Speaker 7 (04:09):
Honestly, I'm still trying to figure out what exactly was
all bundled into this thing. I think it just literally
opened up some additional ways to do things.

Speaker 3 (04:17):
Yeah, I think I think he received he received some
money some fab budget, so thirty more dollars in fab budget.
I think he just went right over to that. I
think he has automatic priority. Let's see what else here, Oh,

(04:37):
he got a medal. Congrats got a medal.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
Yep?

Speaker 7 (04:42):
You you you cheapsucker.

Speaker 1 (04:46):
Yep.

Speaker 7 (04:48):
Guys, right off the top here, I want to bring
in one of our league newsmakers, and you know that's
what we do in this podcast. We not we break news.
Sometimes we do trades live on air. We but we
we specific bring in the newsmakers of the league. Sometimes
that's on the fantasy football field, sometimes that's off it.
In this pretty ular case, I want to bring in

(05:08):
an owner who took in kind of a wild story
last weekend. I want to hear from him on what
exactly happened.

Speaker 1 (05:16):
Give it up.

Speaker 7 (05:17):
For the twenty twenty three champion, but the current last
place team, Greg Meyer, mister Airballs, what's up guy?

Speaker 4 (05:28):
Hello, hello Airballs here.

Speaker 7 (05:31):
Yeah, Airballs in the house. Air Balls wanted to have
you on, so glad to hear your voice. Appreciate you
for jumping in here. But for those that aren't aware,
will you just back us up into what exactly took
place last weekend because this is one of the worst
beats we've seen in a long time, and it was
sort of talked about a little bit on the thread
light touch.

Speaker 1 (05:50):
You've been through the ringer already.

Speaker 7 (05:51):
We'll get into that, but specifically focused on what happened
at the end of last.

Speaker 1 (05:54):
Weekend to put you in the position that you are in.

Speaker 4 (05:58):
Yeah, well, first of all, thanks for having me on
the pod. Guys.

Speaker 5 (06:02):
Ye love Uh, you know I always listen uh Day
one opening night right when it when it comes out
each week. So but yeah, I believe the situation you're
referring to to here, Dave. His is the the little
Imari de Mercado. And yes, I do have his name
pulled up on my Yahoo app because I I kind

(06:23):
of forgot what his first name was and and and
what his last name sounded like as he was a streamer.

Speaker 4 (06:28):
Right, So.

Speaker 5 (06:31):
I think you're referring to the the the Deshaun Jackson
fumble the ball on the half yard line.

Speaker 4 (06:37):
Is that? Is that correct? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (06:39):
And it somehow affected you, right, it.

Speaker 5 (06:42):
Did so, so I I was streaming him here and
you know I wasn't aware of this when it first happened.

Speaker 4 (06:50):
I was not at all.

Speaker 5 (06:52):
So as the as the day and highlights kind of
rolled throughout the day, I saw that it happened, and
then I kind of saw the points coming from it.
So I I did, uh, you know, lose out on
a on a big rushing touchdown with this fumble that
he you know, threw up at the at the half
yard line.

Speaker 4 (07:12):
And you know.

Speaker 5 (07:14):
I can't say it for sure lost me that game,
but it lost me the Median. I was hoping you
would fly under the radar until I think it was
you Dave that you know, shot a group text out,
or maybe it was maybe it was as Bala who
shot the group text out and really, uh, you know,
kind of twisted the knife in me as I was
reading the group the group text.

Speaker 2 (07:35):
When I pushed the text out. Had did you know
about the play yet? I mean's pretty late in the day.

Speaker 5 (07:40):
Yes, yeah, at the time, I knew about the play
and I had already processed.

Speaker 4 (07:46):
The points at that point.

Speaker 2 (07:47):
Yes, you mentioned you were hoping that it would fly
under the radar, and obviously did that. It was an
eight point swing on that one play because you miss
out on six for the touchdown and you get a
negative too for the fumble. So yeah, that play alone
wouldn't have lost you the match, because I think it
ended up being a ten point a little over a
ten point swing. But who knows what the rest of

(08:09):
the day would have looked like if you would have
had the lead going into that and had those eight
points there. So a pretty devastating thing. Now, could you
look past the scenario with the de Mercado fumble and
appreciate the chaos from start to finish. That really was
the end of that game, the fourth quarter. Did you
follow the rest of that game and how the Cardinals

(08:31):
ended up blowing that game like ten different ways?

Speaker 5 (08:34):
No, No, I I locked myself in the basement closet,
and I just kind of, you know, weeped, weeped for
for the rest of the evening, wept, wept, we.

Speaker 7 (08:47):
I thought you were gonna say, you locked yourself in
in Norman's basement bathroom, but that's different.

Speaker 1 (08:54):
Yeah, we've all done that.

Speaker 3 (08:57):
Yeah, I will just say out of I was. I
was scrolling through Reddit earlier and of the thirteen thousand
fantasy teams that had de Mercado rostered, close to one thousand,
one thousand teams experienced a reversal in their matchup. Yeah,
due to that single play.

Speaker 1 (09:18):
That's crazy.

Speaker 3 (09:19):
So I thought that was a fun little stat that
I would say, Greg, you're in uh, you're in rare
air rare. Yeah, that you know, airballs. I always find
myself in rare error. I guess air balls's air balls.

Speaker 7 (09:34):
That's when when he takes last, that'll be a consideration
rarefied air balls.

Speaker 4 (09:39):
Rare rarefied balls.

Speaker 7 (09:41):
But that's the again, so for those that didn't see
to play, google it, YouTube it right de Marcado And
this happens, I feel like once every couple of years
or once sometimes even once a year. Like guys still
get cocky at the one yard line and drop the ball.
And in this particular case was case scenario not only
for you.

Speaker 3 (10:02):
Was it Westbrook that took the knee in Philly years ago,
a knee.

Speaker 1 (10:09):
You took a knee didn't want to score.

Speaker 3 (10:11):
I want to say that impacted Jason.

Speaker 1 (10:13):
Or that impacted things.

Speaker 7 (10:15):
Yeah, yeah, there's always some queerd quirks that that impact things. Yeah.
So anyway, Greg just wanted to have you on. So
I thinks for backfilling us on that particular story because
I think people don't realize that that was a bad beat.

Speaker 1 (10:28):
I know, we're playing.

Speaker 7 (10:29):
Victory points this year too, which means there's two points
available every week, and so you took an extra bad
beat because yes, you miss your matchup, but you score
one hundred and thirty five points basically and missed the
victory point, missed the top five, which is just a
wild scoring week. So just because we're playing sort of
this this two games per week sort of victory point beat.

(10:52):
The Meatian type of mentality doesn't mean you can't still
have a hard beat and put up a lot of
points and still get sort of sucker punched by fans football.
So now you find yourself in last place. You were
in the championship game last year, right, so you've you've
been on a hot streak the last two years. Now
you're in last place. Ye talk to me about earballs
in last place, which we haven't seen in a while.

Speaker 5 (11:14):
Well, you know, many of the listeners might be thinking
why I was starting Demarcado at the time. Anyway, last
week and so, you know, taking a step back, I
paid sixty seven dollars for Trey Benson.

Speaker 4 (11:29):
When James Connor got hurt.

Speaker 5 (11:31):
Okay, I paid a lot of money, and then he
goes on IR, so I, you know, have to cover
my tracks and pick up Demarcado. So yeah, it's it's uh,
it's all gone downhill. I am worried. I truly am worried.
I didn't come on here to to, you know, to
hopefully not have Jason or you you coming with Jason,

(11:54):
not have a j tell me my season's over. I
hope he actually, I kind of hope he does say it,
I can't hope he done. Yeah, I kind of hope
he does say that tonight. Really, I'm I'm in I'm
in the down in the I think it's only up
from here, to be honest, you know, with with my
QBS coming back hopefully streaming the right guys in the

(12:16):
weeks to come. But that's that's that's kind of where
I'm living right now.

Speaker 1 (12:20):
But a couple a j jump in here in a second.

Speaker 7 (12:23):
But I just wanted to also just pile on emotionally
for you that you had several weeks then where where
Joe Burrow went down, then Jane Daniels went down, and
all of a sudden, these are your bookend quarterbacks and
you're trying to figure out who to start. It was
just there's some dark days right now. I mean, we
another team name could be it's not airballs, it's ir balls.

Speaker 5 (12:43):
That let's let's count our kickens here, but yeah, that
is good, not count chickens, but that is good.

Speaker 1 (12:52):
Your balls are on the injured reserve.

Speaker 4 (12:55):
It's and it's all it's all balls. I get it. Yeah,
there's like the theme.

Speaker 3 (13:02):
I guess what I'm interested to know is, you know,
looking at points four points against points four, you know,
lower lower points against kind of middle of the pack.
You're not you know, outrageous feels like maybe it's like
classic Vikings, you're doing it to yourself. I don't know,
do you have like one or two steps are taking

(13:24):
this week to maybe move it towards that win, maybe
double win, single win, Like what what's your focus this week?

Speaker 4 (13:32):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (13:33):
Yeah, absolutely, you know I had I believe it was
week one where I think I put up like a
under ninety spot and that that hurt my points for
right for the.

Speaker 4 (13:41):
For the year.

Speaker 5 (13:43):
I will say I just slotted in, you know, potentially
a dark horse at the QB spot in Joe Flacco,
who I was also scrolling Reddit and they made a
joke about how they they the Bengals literally door dashed it,
and now he's starting over Browning, So I did slot

(14:07):
him in there. He's projected fourteen point seventy four. That's climbing,
steadily climbing as he gets more reps this week. So
I am forecasted at one twenty one to be encounters
one nineteen and he does have a full lineup slated,
so again not counting chickens, but I think balls is
in for a good.

Speaker 2 (14:25):
Week, So okay, I want to go back one step,
and I apologize for not getting in this earlier. But
the median scoring scenario with de Marcado costing you the
eight points and having that fall below the median scoring.
The median score for last week was one thirty five
point four to three. Your score came in at one

(14:46):
thirty four point nine to five, so you missed it
by about a half point. Do you want to know
the other play that effectively cost you the the the
meet in point that put you below or pushed the
median above where your score was.

Speaker 4 (15:04):
I do toop your.

Speaker 2 (15:06):
Head what it might have been.

Speaker 4 (15:07):
I don't.

Speaker 5 (15:07):
I was just looking at my players here and I don't.
I don't have enough time my head.

Speaker 2 (15:11):
No, So it didn't have anything actually to do with
your matchup. It was actually my matchup against Dan, which
I had already lost. But at that point in time,
you have Trevor Lawrence in that Monday Monday Night football
where he fell down against the Chiefs and ran that
touchdown in did you see that he got his footsteps on? Yeah,
down twice. So rather than whatever that play was to

(15:34):
be called, probably a passing play. A passing touchdown would
have given Trevor Lawrence three points, but a rushing touchdown
gave Trevor Lawrence six points and pushed that median score
above that half point margin above you. So not only
did the Marcado and his fumble at the goal line
on a seventy two yard touchdown run give you negative

(15:56):
points or take some points away at a point swing,
but play that really put the nail on the coffin
and got you the zero points was Trevor Lawrence getting
stepped on by his own teammate and falling down twice,
only to have what it was it Chris Jones. Did
you see that replay where he was just standing there
watching the whole play, didn't even go chasing. Yeah, the
defense was watching and Trevor Lawrence has walked right in there.

(16:17):
The Chiefs lose, air balls loses. That's a really really
bad beat. Not trying to pour salt in the moond here.
But I didn't realize that that was what it was
supposed to do.

Speaker 5 (16:26):
Yeah, no, I appreciate that, aj I do, thank you.
You know, yeah, I could we could go through the
whole list of all my guys and you know, you know,
a half half yard loss here, a yard loss here.
Let's just uh, let's just uh say that Airballs is
ready to uh to battle back. And and then there's
a fire that's being lit. I I kind of want

(16:50):
I kind of want you aj to to tell me
my season's over?

Speaker 4 (16:52):
Are we you're not gonna do that tonight? And okay?

Speaker 2 (16:55):
All right, yeah, like I'm in a position to do that.

Speaker 3 (17:00):
Win your one win ahead. It's it's so fun to
hear what are those specific plays?

Speaker 4 (17:10):
You know?

Speaker 3 (17:10):
Rarely do I hear that there's one or two plays
that your entire game comes down to. So again, expert analysis.
Aj we we we love that. Actually, just got a
text from Mike and he's really interested in adding a
rule in our scoring system if someone steps on your quarterback.

Speaker 4 (17:29):
So I don't know how we work out it. Maybe
sleeper does that, or I don't know who else does that.

Speaker 1 (17:33):
I'll pay the thirty dollars.

Speaker 4 (17:35):
That is that a cost you got to unlock it?

Speaker 1 (17:37):
It's the spirit airline.

Speaker 4 (17:38):
Oh all right, well.

Speaker 7 (17:41):
Greg Meyer, Airballs, you're the best for coming on and
just opening a vein with us here today. We appreciate you,
We love you. Good luck the rest of the way,
get out of last place, or I put AJD in there.

Speaker 1 (17:50):
That's what we need.

Speaker 4 (17:50):
We need aj in there, that is the goal. Thanks guys,
Thanks guys, appreciate anybody.

Speaker 1 (17:56):
Dan. Of course, we know it takes a lot to
put on this podcast. We know that.

Speaker 7 (18:01):
We need sponsors, we need we need funding sources. So Dan,
thank you for always selling the show and we appreciate that.
I do.

Speaker 3 (18:08):
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(18:34):
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(18:57):
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Speaker 4 (19:06):
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Speaker 1 (19:29):
Yes, that is amazing.

Speaker 7 (19:33):
That is and you can also include pound now pound
picks makes sense, actually, now it really does. That is
that is fantastic. Well, I can't wait for that trip.
That is going to be uh, you know, and to
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Speaker 3 (19:51):
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Speaker 1 (19:54):
Soon, yep, yep.

Speaker 7 (19:56):
And of course we invite anybody at the bt the
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the podcast live. Speaking of the broader League, I do
want to bring in another special guest who has you know,
we gotta we gotta chat chat him up a little
bit too, because he's and again he's one of the OG's.
He's on the Mount Rushmore of the Big Ten Fantas

(20:16):
Football League, and and he's he's off to a decent
little start here. He's hanging in the middle of the
pack right sort of that six seven area.

Speaker 1 (20:30):
Uh, it's the chicken wing. It's Mike's bowl. We love you, buddy, Mike.

Speaker 6 (20:33):
How you doing, Hey, guys, I'm doing well, doing well
all things considered, Mike.

Speaker 7 (20:40):
For those that are just listening, they can't see your
face right now, it looks like you're a retisserie chicken.

Speaker 3 (20:46):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (20:47):
That's how I always show up in some sort of
fitting garb or fitting scenario. And right now this is
how I feel. I feel like I'm getting like.

Speaker 3 (20:57):
That's that's on branding four for.

Speaker 6 (21:02):
About thirty minutes. You guys can have me for dinner.

Speaker 2 (21:06):
Mike.

Speaker 3 (21:06):
If you take last place. I think we're gonna call
you five buck cluck. I think that's what we're changing
your team names. It seems like cluck cluck special.

Speaker 6 (21:16):
Well, it used to be like what like three buck
chuck three chuck, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (21:21):
Five buck cluck at the old Lonson Bier lies.

Speaker 4 (21:25):
Yeah, there you go.

Speaker 7 (21:26):
Oh, Mike, it's great to have you four and six
before we get into sort of just your team and
your makeup of the team. But what do you think
about this victory points sort of two points up for
grabs every week sort of play.

Speaker 6 (21:39):
Okay, so my take is this the only reason why
I am in sixth place is because of the victory
points I have. I have won one week, oh, but
I have had point totals that have gotten me pass

(22:00):
the mean.

Speaker 1 (22:02):
Two weeks, So you should love this rule.

Speaker 6 (22:04):
So I have four points based on the mean, which,
all things considered, I think is great for me. I
think it sucks for anybody that doesn't have it. But
I will say this, I don't I don't recall in
certainly not in recent history, but potentially even in the

(22:25):
the uh.

Speaker 1 (22:27):
Room where everybody else are you doing? Are you doing
a throwback right now?

Speaker 2 (22:31):
No?

Speaker 6 (22:32):
I was just I mean, sure it's a throwback too.
I don't remember a time in the history of this
league in which there have been this many, like high
caliber players that are either injured or underperforming at the
sure quantity and weekly level that they are. I mean,

(22:53):
it's this is unbelievable. Like I wake up after draft
day thinking like, hey, I got a shot to win
this whole thing. Like, I got a pretty dang good team,
and then after week one, I'm like, Okay, well maybe,
and then after week two, I'm like maybe not. And
then after week three, once everybody starts getting injured, I'm like,

(23:14):
this is getting weird, and it just keeps on getting
weirder week by week.

Speaker 7 (23:17):
Yeah, and you've got big names down down, Lamar Jackson down,
Ceedee Lamb down.

Speaker 1 (23:22):
So I feel for you.

Speaker 2 (23:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (23:25):
I mean when when your premiere wide receivers are a
guy named Roma Duns and uh Amika Agbuca, you know
that's that's interesting.

Speaker 3 (23:37):
You start to opine for the days of Jerome Beata.

Speaker 7 (23:42):
You know that was a classic Jerome beatas you want
to go, we haven't done that as a throwback yet
as a memory.

Speaker 4 (23:49):
Take that out and post.

Speaker 7 (23:50):
All right, yep, we'll save that for another time.

Speaker 3 (23:53):
We have to at least call out the matchup this
week between Chicken Wing and Royal Rowdy. Yeah, I mean this, this,
you know, on paper, looks like it's fairly well skewed
towards Chicken Wing. Could this be your turning point? Could
this be your inflection point? Is Dave your you're jumping

(24:15):
off point for throwing up a couple ws.

Speaker 6 (24:18):
Well, I guess I'm kind of curious because David, like, Okay,
So going into this week, you had an empty slot
and it looked like I was gonna win, and then
you did some adjusting and then you were ahead of me.
And then now there's been a further adjustment. Yeah, and
it looks like I'm gonna win again. What was your
original adjustment?

Speaker 2 (24:38):
Hang on a second, I'm gonna jump in here because
I'm going to tell you exactly what's happening. We're looking
at the lineups here, and at one point in time, Mike,
you say that Dave was ahead of you, right, so
the projector's score was seven points different than it is
now at least. Yeah, this is my prediction. And Dave,
I need you to be honest, and I need you
to tell me if you're right. Right now, he has

(25:00):
Kendrick Bourne, a San Francisco wide receiver, projected for five
point two points. Yeah, he also has let me see,
that's the one. He has them in there, and he
has on his bench Ricky Piarsow at thirteen is Kelvin
Ridley at ten points. What that tells me is that

(25:22):
Kendrick Bourne is involved in a trade proposal that Dave
has on the table. Wants it to seem as if
trading he was starting wide receiver because he's in my
starting lineup right now, so he puts him in there.
He sends the trade proposal. We've all done it. We've
all done it. There's no shame in it, Dave, there's
no shame. We've all done it. But he wants it

(25:42):
to seem like he's trading you a starting lineup wide
receiver as part of a package deal. Am I right, Dave?

Speaker 7 (25:49):
I also plan on starting cam Ward and I might
actually start some guys on I.

Speaker 4 (25:56):
Well, this is starting to get on my word.

Speaker 6 (25:58):
It's quite expanse of the general and that are included
in the trade proposal.

Speaker 2 (26:02):
I think I figured it out, did I? Did I
crack the code?

Speaker 7 (26:05):
Look, you accuse me of this every single year. This
is an old, tired out bit. Go back to season one,
two three of this podcast. You've you've accused me of
this every single year. There's no proof of that at all.
I mix and match my line up until kickoff. You
can't prove anything. You can't pin me down and prove anything.

Speaker 4 (26:24):
Can One man's trash right, one man's trash.

Speaker 2 (26:28):
We're we are we are times trashgue and I cannot
prove that right now, but somebody who is listening to
this podcast at some point in the future after what
time is it after ten ten pm on Wednesday night,
can tell me whether or not there's a trade proposal
in their inbox with Kendrick Bourne included in it. So

(26:48):
I expect to see in the in the chat.

Speaker 1 (26:52):
All right, now, how did you know?

Speaker 3 (26:56):
I'm guessing it's something out to football. You know, you
pick the usual suspective. It's something out the football. There's
something out to Nate. There's maybe one, you know, Jason.

Speaker 6 (27:10):
You know, there's certainly like some sort of clown maneuver
out to to John Foss and the.

Speaker 3 (27:19):
Yeah you do something to John. Maybe they fat finger
it and accellently accept it.

Speaker 7 (27:28):
That's their team name when they take last again, Fat
fingers Toll so appreciate you and you of course always
goes studs and duds, and you go out hard, you
go you go heavy hard early, and it's it.

Speaker 1 (27:45):
And we always sort of call man Mike.

Speaker 7 (27:46):
Mike comes out hot firing in the draft and then
he sits back, and he goes and gets white dipped
for two hours and then he rejoins it. And I
always kind of go, gosh, don't you want some depth?
And you seem to figure out between midweek management and
and you play, You hang on to your studs, and
you somehow find a way to always be competitive. And
you've used that draft strategy for years and it sounds

(28:08):
like you're gonna be okay, But you got to get
some of these big names healthy.

Speaker 6 (28:12):
Yeah, I don't know. I think this might be an
inflection point week where if I lose and don't have
the points and then I'm four and eight, it's going
to be a tough road to uh A victory March.
So I see this week as actually less in my
favor and a harder victory than it currently appears, not

(28:37):
only because of the reason that Aja already highlighted, but
also just because the last like three weeks, I've not
even put up what I was projected to put up,
and the mean keeps on getting harder to beat, and
so if I lose and don't get the mean, then
I don't even get the victory. You know, the one
single point that helps me kind of stay middle of

(28:59):
the back stay afloat.

Speaker 7 (29:00):
Yeah, you love that rule obviously, No, but it'll be
a good one. I'm I'm weak. I'm you know, I'm
still reeling from the Molik neighbors. You know, ir right,
We're all dealing with ir issues.

Speaker 1 (29:10):
I had.

Speaker 7 (29:10):
That was sort of my strength, right was I'm like, oh,
I got some decent receivers here, and now I'm scrambling.
I started Trey Tucker last week. He got one target,
zero catches, So you know, we're all I'm certainly reeling
and trying to fill gaps. And I feel like I've
just got fingers in a in a leaky bucket, right,
and I'm just I put a finger over here, and

(29:32):
I stopped that leak, and then another leak over here,
and then I put a finger over there, and then
now I've.

Speaker 4 (29:36):
Got a toe.

Speaker 7 (29:36):
I got a toe up out of the bucket, and
now I've got my nose sticking in it, right, And
I just can't I can't stop the bleeding right now,
with injuries and buys and.

Speaker 1 (29:46):
Just players, I'm just trying to literally pick up and start.

Speaker 3 (29:49):
So, you know, Dave, one of the things you may
think about doing is spending a little more of your
fab dollars. You know, as I'm looking down the list here,
I mean, Mike, you're making moves. You're making moves now.
Truffles maybe out ahead a little bit, but you know
he's always playing forty chests. So i'd say, you know

(30:11):
you're making moves. You're down to sixteen bucks. What seasons
not even half over, is it? No? So I mean
you're making moves, you're spending, You're getting your guys, You're
spending for it. What do you say to those guys
that are hanging onto their five dollars.

Speaker 6 (30:28):
It's a great question, Dan, I'm glad you asked. Before
I give my official answer, I will at least say
this much. I've already heard through the grapevine some folks
giving me some grief for spending what I did on
a quarterback earlier this season. I do want to highlight

(30:52):
the fact that that quarterback now resides on somebody else's team,
and so even though it was maybe a little expensive,
the talent seems to be good enough to be on
one of our our own, our own hosts teams into

(31:15):
the season. So I'll just say that much. But I
thought that maybe what I could do.

Speaker 2 (31:19):
Hang on, hang on, hang on. We're talking about Jake
Browning here, who scored twenty five points last week after
after you spent I forget what it was, let's say,
fifty plus dollars in FAB and then dropped him the
next week. We're I'm in a situation where we all
need quarterbacks, right, so I picked them up. So I

(31:39):
understand what you're saying now at third string quarterback, not
playing anymore, But how many points did you get out
of those fab dollars that you spent?

Speaker 1 (31:49):
Zero?

Speaker 2 (31:49):
Zero I spent. I don't think I spent any fab
dollars on him.

Speaker 4 (31:53):
All.

Speaker 2 (31:53):
Look whatever, I got twenty five points out of him,
and it pushed me above that mean point scoring and
I got one point in the state of the said
player that I don't think is going to give anybody
else any points the rest of the season.

Speaker 6 (32:04):
I'm not debating whether or not it's worth having him
on somebody's team, and in fact, actually you're you're the
You're the biggest beneficiary of him being on your team.
I'm just highlighting the fact that I think that there
was some grief that was dished my way by the
same gentleman that now has him on his team. I
would like, I would like I would like some some
video giffing giffing of Dave's response. So somebody please send

(32:30):
that to me. Uh, that'll be priceless for later on
in the season. That being said, what I would really
like to do is if somebody could give me a
drum roll in. I would like to give a top
ten reasons why blowing your fab early is actually genius.

Speaker 1 (32:49):
Let's go to you the music all.

Speaker 6 (32:52):
Right, so here we go, guys. Number ten, you're not
saving fab, you're just stockpiling regret. Number nine the waverer
wire is like Vegas. Winners go all in. Losers talk
about value.

Speaker 1 (33:14):
Oh who that stings.

Speaker 6 (33:17):
Number eight. The fab balance won't comfort you when your
lineup looks like an injury report.

Speaker 2 (33:26):
I mean it's true.

Speaker 1 (33:29):
Number seven.

Speaker 6 (33:30):
Nobody's ever said, Wow, what a discipline manager. Look at
all that unspent fake money.

Speaker 7 (33:37):
I know day it's the Dave Ramsey approach. I put
my fab in an envelope. Number six.

Speaker 6 (33:47):
Financial responsibility is for real life. This is not this
is fantasy football. It's not fiscal football.

Speaker 1 (33:54):
Ooh, I love that.

Speaker 6 (33:56):
Wow that hurts because fortune, the broke and legends are
made not budgeted.

Speaker 1 (34:04):
Oh this is this is the number.

Speaker 7 (34:10):
Number four.

Speaker 6 (34:11):
Nobody remembers who saved their fab. They only remember the
lunatic who dropped eighty bucks on some guy named after
a breakfast cereal.

Speaker 1 (34:23):
Number three.

Speaker 6 (34:24):
You can't mismanage your budget if it's already gone. Number
two my personal favorite, because getting these guys to mock
you on a podcast is enough of a dopamine hit
for any middle of the road manager to drop sixty
large on some washed up QB who steps into too
big to phill. And that still makes more sense than

(34:46):
just about anything that John Foss says. And finally, number one,
the number one reason why blowing your fab early is
actually genius. Hoarding fab is basically fana see football's version
of I'll start working out next week.

Speaker 1 (35:03):
Ooh yeah, it deserves it.

Speaker 4 (35:06):
That's well done.

Speaker 7 (35:07):
Ooh that stings the hoarding that it's like a TLC
reality show. Forty percent of the league is one hundred dollars.
It's knocked over. Forty percent of the league as a
hundred hasn't touched the fab. You included Dan and aj

(35:29):
other end of the spectrum. What is is he's finally
on zero No he's still at six. He's at six, Okay,
I got plenty.

Speaker 6 (35:35):
The only other thing that I want to throw in
there about FAB is I was inspired last year by
people doing trades that included FAB. Yes, and so I
look at FAB as fungible. In so far as you know,
Dave likes to say one man's trash is another man's treasure.
I think of one man's unused FAB is another man's
traded genius.

Speaker 7 (35:57):
Right, Yeah, and I and I've said this on other
podcasts in years before, which is, if you're going to
drop a player with some value, Mike, Like, if you're
going to drop Jake Browning, but he might be picked
up quit pretty quickly. Maybe you go, hey, heads up
league on the thread, I'm gonna drop Jake Browning. Does
anybody send me want him? I'll trade you for five bucks,

(36:19):
anybody wanted for ten bucks? Otherwise he's going out to
the masses and you got a bid on your own. Yeah,
if you draft, if you drop anybody with some value,
might as well throw it out there and see if
you can get some FAB before you press, you know,
the official release.

Speaker 4 (36:31):
One point like Mike to hit drop did it auto?
Do it at night?

Speaker 3 (36:37):
Or did you actually physically go in and.

Speaker 6 (36:39):
Now it dropped live It sucked. I mean, honestly, you
know it. I was reeling at first because my QB
situation was abysmal coming out of the draft, right, I
had Lamar and I don't even know, I don't I
don't even know if I drafted another QB. I think
I went into waiver wire immediately after the draft to

(37:01):
pick people up, and then AJ was giving me grief
because I had like done like two or three pickups
immediately afterwards, including I don't know if it was Gino
and Daniel Jones, but I mean candidly, it's a little
bit ironic because now Daniel Jones is kind of holding
my team together. Yeah, Gino looks like he needs to

(37:23):
have retired at the beginning of the season. Yeah, question
mark on Lamar. So it's one of those deals where
getting rid of Browning felt like I needed to take
a shower, But at the same time, it's like, you.

Speaker 1 (37:36):
Do what you gotta do.

Speaker 6 (37:36):
And I mean I saw somebody else dump eighty bucks
on somebody earlier last week or whatever it was seventy
or something.

Speaker 2 (37:46):
I don't know what it is. Those high priced fab
free agent pickups have definitely not worked out. Greg had
one that tanks. Woody Marks completely tanked after that, such
a weird situation. The coach comes out and says, hey,
I think he's proven that he's going to get more
of the load. He's going to get more of the carries.
And he goes out and has like four carries and

(38:08):
he's targeted once. The whole next week, they just totally
not used. I don't know what the situation was there.
So I fell for the subterfuge, if you will, that
the coach is spewing out to the media, using the
media to trick fantasy football players. I'm duped. I fell
for it. I'm gonna hold on to him for another
week though, because I don't want to get cold, and
I don't want to, you know, have somebody else pick

(38:28):
him up and have a you know, Woody Marks go
off for a big week next week.

Speaker 6 (38:31):
Well. I think it's a little bit of a mind
game on the part of the coaches where I think
they're trying to give these guys a little jolt to
say like, hey, we're super confident in you. We you know,
we believe in you. And I think for a lot
of these guys, they maybe choke a little bit. But
for us, who are the lowly waiver wire nerds that
are you know, hanging on every word that's spilled about

(38:54):
these guys, it's it's it's very very uh hard to
watch the pendulum the swing so drastically in the opposite direction.

Speaker 2 (39:01):
Yeah, they didn't even give have a chance to prove
it though. That was the tough part.

Speaker 7 (39:05):
Yeah, Mike, you are the best for coming in Chicken
Wing forever.

Speaker 1 (39:09):
We love you.

Speaker 7 (39:11):
Good luck this week. You and I would be very
very fun. I don't like my chances. I didn't like
my chances last week. I could be going on a
four sort of a four point skid here if I
lose two to you. But we'll just have to see
how that all shakes out. We'll talk about that here
in a moment. But Chicken Wing, everybody Mike told give
it up for him. Thanks for being a guest. We
appreciate you.

Speaker 1 (39:31):
We love you.

Speaker 7 (39:31):
The retisserie Chicken is heating up, and we love you.
Appreciate your time tonight. And he is one of our
favorite guests. And you know what I will say, Dan,
I want to get your take on this hearing AJ
and Mike sort of banter back and forth, not only
just in this conversation, but in over the thread over
the last couple of years. There's a brewing rivalry, yeaheen

(39:53):
between truffle and chicken that's just right under the surface,
and it's ready to explode. These two guys have just
sort of they nip at each other and they know
what buttons to push, and there's something going on.

Speaker 1 (40:03):
Do you sense that.

Speaker 3 (40:04):
If you would have told me that AJ didn't join
the league until like, you know, more recently, what ten
years ago, I would have thought he was you know,
he and Mike went way back to like the days
at the Lexington, you know what I mean, Like like
there is this brewing rivalry now now I will caveat
with Mike is the contrary and has a brewing rivalry

(40:26):
under the surface with probably anyone he meets. But I
do think that it's really fun to hear them chip
at each other and when they bring some fantasy football knowledge.
I I, for one, am in awe of the three
of you, because, as I'm looking at Yahoo here, you
both are gold level teams, your gold level general managers.

(40:48):
I'm a lowly silver. I hope to I hope to
get to gold one day. But uh, yeah, this is
this has been a fun, a fun little one. We'll
have to have Mike back soon, very.

Speaker 7 (40:59):
Very Yeah, for sure, it is. It is great and
I'm so glad that Mike's been active on the thread too.
And yeah, after last week's episode, we were remember last
week we were talking about old technology from the early
two thousands, and I had posted that photo of that
headset phone that Mike Helen purchase. And then he's got
this other backstory. He's got another backstory of how that
all came together as well, and so again he's he's

(41:22):
got so much history and so much, so many fun
memories from this league. Dan, I know again we again
it costs money to pay for this podcast.

Speaker 1 (41:31):
Yeah, yeah, talk about it.

Speaker 4 (41:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (41:34):
The next one we have is PSA from someone I
think we all we all know, news maker PSA. Go
ahead and roll it. I BTP. It's his Health and
Human Service as Secretary, Robert F.

Speaker 4 (41:51):
Kennedy.

Speaker 3 (41:53):
I'm here to remind you to say healthy. I've heard
what was served at your draft party. Paypall good, God many.
If you have gotten so fat, you may think that
fourth corner of pizza's okay, but do you know how
long it takes a digest in your upper bottles? Do

(42:13):
you know how many synthetic pharmacrete chemicals are contained in
one clop of white cheese stamp? Proper nutrition is so
vital these days. I recommend a balanced diet that includes
plenty of lean owl jerky and fermented elk. You're in
to replenish your electrolytes. See more chips on my website.

(42:36):
Maybe you can reverse some of the damage done by
your mom when she took Thailand all.

Speaker 4 (42:48):
I can't dave.

Speaker 1 (42:51):
Thank you, RFK. We appreciate you. Thank you for your
contribution and your support.

Speaker 7 (42:54):
Of the BTP O man oh you.

Speaker 1 (43:02):
Guys starts so fat, oh man, Thank you RFK.

Speaker 7 (43:06):
You know RFK, he says it like it is, he
really does, and we appreciate that support.

Speaker 3 (43:12):
Jenlemen, I'd love to kick it over to the next segment.
We've done things a little bit differently this year, where
we're not overtly tracking our pod picks pod pics every
single year, every single week. But what I do really like,
uh is hearing behind the scenes, hearing the who's on first?

(43:35):
Who are you watching? The gold members that you are.
What are you watching and how are you? How are
you evaluating these different these different matchups? So I thought,
maybe maybe we could we could take a stroll down
this week's matchups in a little segment called this week's Matchups.

(43:57):
Let's take a look at the first matchup. It's against
prime incompetence in Past the Football. This is a classic
David and Goliath setup. Aged I'd love to pass it
to you first. What's on your mind? What's top of mind?
Where does your eye go in this matchup?

Speaker 2 (44:12):
Well, immediately, you know the topic of a lot of
these matchups all season long has been injuries, and now
that we're into bye weeks, we're also mixing in some
bye weeks. So Past the Football, devastated by some injuries,
devastated by bye weeks, has a good mix of both.
I'm counting one, two, three, four, five players that count
into one of those two categories, leaving a lineup that

(44:36):
is leaving a little to be desired. The choices here
are not necessarily the top scoring players, but maybe the
most dangerous players. So what I see here is an
underdog approach, a swing for the fence's approach from past
the football understanding, Hey, we're playing the top team in
the league. Maybe I don't need the safe ten points
from Terry McLaurin, but instead I need the dynamic nine

(44:59):
point six to projection from Michael Pittman. But he could
go off and score fifteen, sixteen, twenty points in one
week with Daniel Jones in that connection he has there,
So I do see a little strategy there going to
the boom versus the bust. And then you look over
on the other side and you see Prime and Competence,
who somehow stumbled into a lineup that has double digit

(45:21):
players basically up and down the entirety of that thing.
Consistently high scoring right now projected to score a lot
of points, but it's fantasy football and weird thing. Weird
things do happen. I think both these teams right now
are projected to be under the media though, which is
an interesting little nugget through it.

Speaker 7 (45:39):
Yeah, Prime and Competent scored one hundred and forty five
last week. We talked about in the podcast last week
that if Jamar Chase gets going somehow, by hell or
high water, this team gets dangerous quick. And it looked
like another slow day for Jamar Chase in that second half,
all of a sudden, Browns or the Bengals start heating up. Now,
of course, we don't know who that quarterback's going to

(45:59):
be now. It could be Flacco now, right, So we'll
see what the Bengals offense looks like in the coming
weeks here. But if if Jamar Chase gets on a roll,
this is a dangerous lineup. I will say this as
I look around fantasy football, the teams that have Javonte
Williams are usually doing pretty well. Because nobody saw Javonte
Williams do what he's doing. They thought he was I

(46:21):
don't think he probably went undrafted in most leagues. He
might even gone undrafted in our league. Maybe somebody grabbed
him for a buck or two at the end I got.
I'll have to go back and look, he might have
been a midwek pickup. I'm not sure, but Javonte Williams
is at such a good year on a good offense
that teams with that player are probably doing pretty well.
And if you can find players like that that you
get for cheap or that you find on the waiver wire,
that just boom, good things happen it's gonna be hard

(46:44):
road to hoe for football, but he's hanging in there.
He'll hang in there, but he'll he'll lose to this week.

Speaker 2 (46:50):
Javonte Williams a one dollar pickup, the forty seventh overall player.
That's three from the end, the fourth I should say,
fourth to last player in our draft. With Javonte Williams there.

Speaker 1 (47:03):
It is good research. Thank you, Next level Stats a gentleman.

Speaker 3 (47:08):
The next matchup I want to discuss similar David and
Goliath talking airballs being counters. What is interesting though, is
just how tight this margin is. Understand that, you know
we had Greg on earlier. I know he is potentially
still in the process of making some moves rejected my
trade offers which I thought were really well thought of.

(47:30):
But whatever, you know, Dave, I'll maybe kick it over
to you. You know, is Drake Meig going to carry
the day? Tell me about Matthew Stafford. I think he
was an ad today. I don't think he was in
earlier when I was checking. I think he was a swap.

Speaker 7 (47:45):
But again, that sort of speaks to what we just
talked about, where if you can find the Drake Mays
and the Matthew staffords of the world that you didn't
have to spend a lot of money on and they're
killing it. That is huge, right, So we should almost
put together a list of players that may now that
we've now that we're a month and a half in
players that are clearly weren't overspend you know, I'm thinking

(48:06):
of the you know, the aj Browns at thirty five
dollars or whatever, and then the one dollar Javonte Williams,
Like who has who has exceeded expectations in a huge
way and who is completely underperformed and just kind of
see who's got players on what list? But this will
be kind of the match This is sort of a
matchup of the week.

Speaker 2 (48:24):
Yea, Nay, it certainly could be. I think that this
one has the potential to hurt a lot for Airballs,
because if there ever was an airballs player to ever
be an Airballs player, it was Christian McCaffrey, who is
not on the Airballs roster. Year. He is on bean
Counter's roster. He's been having a pretty good season. He
was I think one of the top scorers last week

(48:45):
with a big week for the San Francisco forty nine ers.
He's coming off of what the ten day rest from
Thursday to Sunday. Yeah, so he has an opportunity against
a Tampa Bay team who has had some high scoring
matchups to really really stick it to airballs. On the
other side, you see that opposite side of that spectrum
with Jamiir Gibbs, another player who should be scoring tons

(49:05):
of points and has not yet this season. It definitely
could come down to those two players and how they
do or do not perform this week.

Speaker 7 (49:13):
Oh, airballs, the spots start with Joe Flacco. Just it
doesn't look good there. It is a David and Goliath.
I I sort of see it as a as a
matchup of the week because it's health.

Speaker 1 (49:24):
Of the league, right.

Speaker 7 (49:26):
This will be an awesome game for Greg to come
back and for everybody come to the middle.

Speaker 3 (49:35):
Yeah, you know, Dave, you mentioned matchup of the week.
Yahoo has declared my matchup against Norman as the official
BTP matchup of the week past No. Obviously, Norman and
I have a very storied history. It's been well documented.

(49:57):
What I do think is interesting is is the momentum
that I am building and the momentum that seems to
be stalling for Norman.

Speaker 2 (50:10):
A J. Yeah, this is I look across the lineups
here and I see the number three overall wide receiver.
Do we know who that is?

Speaker 1 (50:27):
I'm on ra I'm gonna guess.

Speaker 4 (50:28):
It's Debo, isn't it?

Speaker 2 (50:29):
Deebo Samuel is the number three overall?

Speaker 6 (50:31):
Wow?

Speaker 2 (50:32):
Yeah? Wow? Do that. On one side, I see Jalen
Wattle coming off of what a twenty point week last week.
I see Garrett Wilson, who is a top five to
six wide receiver this year.

Speaker 3 (50:44):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (50:44):
And then I see A. J. Brown and Jalen Hurts.
A stack that Storman probably thought that when he came
out of the draft with AJ Brown and Jalen Hurts
that he was going to have one of those stacks
that was going to carry them for this now and A. J.
Brown has not been able to do anything. Jalen Hurts
has been solid, but the Eagles themselves have been a
little bit suspect this year. Their offense just is not clicking.

(51:05):
A lot of people blaming the offensive line, the inability
to give Hurts time to throw. They're not putting up
a ton of points. And I see three Eagles in
the starting lineup right now for Storm and Norman. A
lot of that might be the detriment in this this
matchup here. So I like, I like what you got
going on with DK. I like what you got going

(51:26):
on with Breece Hall, Alvin Kamaraw is a weird situation,
but I liking your lineup this week. Dan better than
the Normans. Sorry, Storman.

Speaker 3 (51:34):
You know, if you were to make a move on
like let's say, I don't know, let's pick one at random,
like on the Hooligans bench maybe to replace four Kamara?
Would would you potentially? You know you don't love Ramandre.
You know Carter is a little bit of a flyer.
I don't think he's gonna repeat what he did last
week a good week.

Speaker 4 (51:56):
You know, you swap.

Speaker 3 (51:57):
Pollard and like a Godwin maybe in that superflex again.
You know, we're just spitballing here.

Speaker 2 (52:02):
Well, I mean, you you have two players in those
running backs you named the Stevenson and Michael Carter, who
I think each scored two touchdowns last week. So we're
talking hot hands or we're talking the historical numbers. I'm
gonna leave that one up to you.

Speaker 7 (52:15):
Well, they're both teams are hot right now. That you
talked about Bill and momentum, this is the Toyota Game
of the Week. This is the Toyota CRV Riley Game
of the Week. Scott the c R Scott Riley. What
do we call that car again, Dan.

Speaker 3 (52:26):
The CRS Scott.

Speaker 1 (52:29):
It's anyway, well it was in season three of that.

Speaker 4 (52:31):
Podcast The Kia.

Speaker 7 (52:34):
Yeah right, this is because you Toyota last week with
one fifty five.

Speaker 1 (52:40):
Norman put up one forty five. Now, typically what you
see sometimes is.

Speaker 7 (52:43):
Like when all your guys boom, there's got to be
someone like returned to the average a little bit, every
sort of returns back to the earth. But we'll just
see who keeps that hot hand going. I'm really excited
to see this one.

Speaker 3 (52:55):
Leapers versus Truffle is the next one. I'd love to
get into a little bit. Looks like a a little
bit more of a spread, at least as it presently
sits with the projections one twenty eight for Leapers, one
nineteen called one twenty for Truffle. You know, Truffle, you're
not You're not who I thought you were. No, I'm kidding, uh,

(53:17):
you know, I'm wondering what's going on? What's happening? Are
you in shambles? You don't seem like you're blowing up
the place. I haven't yet received a trade offer for
two up. I think that would be coming, you know,
just thinking. You know, we're talking two three and sevent teams.
We don't spend a ton of time, obviously, but you know,
what's the what's going through your mind?

Speaker 4 (53:37):
How are you? How are you going to turn it
around this week?

Speaker 2 (53:39):
Well, I don't have a whole lot of choice with
my my roster. I guess that's what's going through my
mind this week. I did put up and projected one nineteen,
and that's nothing to slough at. I think the Leapers
have the top projection for the week at one twenty eight.
I think that is correct. So projections are what projections are.
But at the end of the day, I don't have
a whole lot of improved to be done or be had.

(54:01):
I got to figure out what I'm gonna do with
this whole Jake Browning situation. You know, Toll put me
on and we're done with him. He's done for the season.
Looks like Flacco is going to be named the starter.
But I've got a lot of i'll call it a
lot of wasted roster spots, right now, and I don't
love that. My My ir is jam packed full of

(54:22):
San Francisco forty nine ers that I need to get healthy.
I've got an extra quarterback that I don't want to have,
and I don't know what to do with Woody Marks
right now. So while there's not a ton of free
agents to be had out there, I don't have a
whole lot of moves that I'm able to make either.
So I guess this is what it's going to be.

Speaker 3 (54:39):
Have you thought about calling up Greg for some San
Francisco whiteouts?

Speaker 2 (54:43):
I might may or may not of trade proposal, and
he rejected it. But here's one thing we won't go there.
We'll say that for next week. Yes, he rejected my trade.
We're trying to do some things, but we're not there yet. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (54:59):
I've been trying to throw some trades as well.

Speaker 7 (55:02):
If I were, if I was like holding a sign
behind college game day, behind this matchup, I would my
sign would say don't sleep on the leaps.

Speaker 1 (55:13):
Three and seven is not real.

Speaker 7 (55:18):
That is not a reflection of how deep and how
well rounded this squad is. The Leapers are gonna They're
a solid team. You look up and down this roster.
You've got a really strong wide receiver Corps Mcconkney, Adams
Pickens having.

Speaker 1 (55:35):
A great year.

Speaker 7 (55:35):
A Chan Jacobs are such a great it might be
one of the best one to two punches at running
back in the league. And then that's not even counting
Dereck Henry sitting over there in your you know your
flex spot and he's sort of been. He hasn't even
been Dereck Henry like we're used to. Dak Prescott's playing
like an MVP. My point is that this is a
really solid roster, and don't sleep on the leaps. And
I think they get a big win this week and

(55:57):
they start getting on a run.

Speaker 2 (55:58):
I think one of my troubles this week, when I
go seek out trades, I often will start with the
player and figure out what team they're on before I
do it the other way. So sometimes you look at
the bottom of the rankings and you see, okay, there's
the bottom. It might need to shake things up. Lately,
I've more so been okay, what players do I want
to target for this reason or that reason. There were

(56:20):
probably three players that I was interested in targeting that
ended up being on the Leaper's roster that I couldn't
pose a trade for this week because you're not going
to do an in week trade against your opponent because
it could blow up either way. So I do that
line up and there are some players there that I
do like, and then I will try and go after
in the future here, but I couldn't do it this week.

Speaker 7 (56:39):
That's interesting that you start with the player and then
kind of work back. I usually go to someone's roster,
like I'll go to the Chicken wing roster and go, okay,
are where's their gaps? Where do they need help? If
I was if I was a manager there of the wings,
I here's what I would be like. I would love
to have a receiver, and I try to kind of
build from there. But that's interesting that you maybe start
out a player that you're targeting and then just trying

(57:00):
to figure out the mechanics.

Speaker 2 (57:02):
You know, David, if you paid for premium research package,
it would tell you which team's weaknesses and.

Speaker 1 (57:08):
The hat.

Speaker 3 (57:10):
You do have to pay for it up front. That's
the only caveat I'll give you.

Speaker 2 (57:15):
You can't.

Speaker 4 (57:19):
Gentlemen.

Speaker 3 (57:20):
You know, if we count the earlier analysis with Dave
and Mike when he was on I think we're good. Dave,
any any highlights you want to call out A J
I noticed you were noticeably silent during our brief discussion
on Rowdy's the rotisserie Chicken Wing. What what's going through
your head? Are you? Are you a chicken wing guy?

(57:43):
Are you?

Speaker 4 (57:44):
Are you a rowdy Well?

Speaker 2 (57:46):
I like my chicken wings extra crispy. So the fact
that he has remained under the red light well staying
silent off camera. I do appreciate that there's some players
that I I appreciate on both these rosters. I was
curious and Mike is still sitting in the wings. Mike,
if you want to unmute, I do want to hear

(58:09):
your thoughts on the tight end position in general, the
high priced tight ends that have not paid off. You
have one of them on your roster, Trey McBride, I
know you paid up for him, hasn't really paid off
this season. But brock Bauers same situation. You know, there's
a bunch of those top end tight ends that have

(58:29):
been that went for a lot of money in the
draft the auction but aren't paying off. How are you
feeling about Trey McBride.

Speaker 6 (58:36):
Yeah, I mean I guess my take is that in
years past I was really hot on tight end, and
the last couple of years, just with the Chiefs kind
of being all over the place, both the way that
I've approached QB and tight end has sort of changed.

(58:59):
I did want to, like, you know, you guys mentioned
my strategy, like I try to fill my roster with
at least one kind of premiere player at each position,
and I thought, based on who was still available, that
McBride was kind of a slam dunk. I've been very
underwhelmed with his performance. But at the same time, it's

(59:19):
like there there aren't a ton of tight ends this
season that are just blowing it out of the water,
but certainly the ones that were expected to have not,
So I'm just I'm bummed. But at the same time,
like I sort of feel like there's there's very few
teams who are reaping the rewards of anybody that we

(59:40):
thought was going to perform, So it's like, I don't know.
In some ways, it's like I'm not actually bored with
the season or the league or the output because everybody
is struggling. It's actually makes it a little bit more
interesting because even though the waiver wire is still as
about as you slim pickings as usual in terms of

(01:00:02):
talent that you can depend on. It's like, well, at
least everybody's having to deal with it. But suffice to say, yeah,
McBride has kind of been I wouldn't say bane of
my existence, but he's certainly been across to bear this season.

Speaker 7 (01:00:16):
I haven't, Mike, that's a really good point about the
tight ends this year. I haven't actually done. I haven't
pulled up the list or anything about how preseason rankings
of tight ends. But I bet the top five, I
bet the bottom five of the top ten tight ends
that were drafted. I bet the bottom five have outscored
the top five this year. But I'm thinking, I mean,
if you just just off the top of my head,

(01:00:37):
I'm thinking of the top five tight ends.

Speaker 1 (01:00:38):
That were drafted this year.

Speaker 2 (01:00:39):
Well, here are your your rankings right now. The number
one tight end of the season is Jake Ferguson. He
was the preseason forty ninth.

Speaker 1 (01:00:47):
Well, what was he tight end? What was he ranked
tight end?

Speaker 2 (01:00:50):
Yeah, that's not the I don't have positional rankings.

Speaker 1 (01:00:53):
Why is that?

Speaker 7 (01:00:55):
Well, while you're doing that, I'm just thinking off the
top of my head, yeah, Bowers, McBride.

Speaker 6 (01:01:00):
Aid.

Speaker 4 (01:01:01):
Kittle, Warren Craft, Henry.

Speaker 7 (01:01:04):
Yeah, all right, okay, So if those are your top
three McBride, Kittle, and Bowers, well they haven't done much.
Ye Hockinson, who was probably four or five, right, he
hasn't done hardly anything. Those are your sort of top four,
top five tight ends. And it's been real bleak, yeah,
real bleak.

Speaker 1 (01:01:23):
So fascinating.

Speaker 7 (01:01:24):
Mike, before we let you go, you know I love
Rico Dowdell, have a soft spot for Rico Dowdell, played
him a lot last year, ended up trading him at
the end of the year. You're gonna try to ride
a hot hand. But you know how fantasy football is.
He put up two hundred yards, he put up thirty
points last week. He'll probably have about two carries for
four yards.

Speaker 6 (01:01:42):
I am fully expecting ricoach the non and this this
uh this week, somebody.

Speaker 1 (01:01:50):
You know how that goes back, you know how that goes.

Speaker 6 (01:01:52):
Let's put it this way. The lighting situation just got
very appropriate for what I think.

Speaker 3 (01:01:57):
Thank you, Thank you, Mike, and again recording live from
hell Apiate.

Speaker 7 (01:02:08):
Great episode, guys, great episode. Great hearing from you. Guys again,
with special thanks to Greg Meyer. Special thanks to Chicken Wing,
Mike Toll for Dan for AJ.

Speaker 1 (01:02:20):
I'm Dave. Guys.

Speaker 7 (01:02:21):
The BTP is back episode too, season four. Thanks for listening,
Have a great week, good luck this weekend.

Speaker 5 (01:02:32):
On the Gathering Storm comes a Toll, handsome man, a
dusty black colt with a red rat hand.

Speaker 7 (01:02:44):
Welcome everybody, Btpod Podcast. It is Dave Berger, Dan Meyer, Jason,
who is aj AJ Monsieur Jon. I can't start over,
this is this isn't ass live.

Speaker 1 (01:03:01):
Okay, we'll start over. Box, you'll reach deep the hole
heal your drinking.

Speaker 6 (01:03:09):
So