Fantasy Football - Footballers AMA + Wheel of Shame - Podcast for 1/8

10:22Mike Wright:So that would be your opponent if they get through. It's just going to be fun. I can't wait. I'm nervous for all of these legacies, is I guess what I'm saying. We have a lot going on today, though. The Footballers AMA, we've got a quick question today. We've got the prize picks. Shame. We all tied this week. Jason lost the tiebreaker, and therefore he shall be shamed today. That's true. To be fair, the tiebreaker was throwing a pistachio near a wall, which we do around the studio from time to time.

10:49Andy Holloway:Multiple pistachios. That's true. That's true. It's three rounds of pistachio throwing. Well, it was supposed to be more than three rounds. My pistachio throwing was not on point.

10:58Mike Wright:I wasn't even going to mention the pistachios. Of course we end up mentioning the pistachios. We normally have tiebreakers when there's a Sunday night game or a Monday night game. There wasn't that. Yeah. So we had to throw a pistachio. What else could you do? You couldn't do anything else. You had to throw a pistachio closest to the wall without hitting. Yeah, if you hit the wall, you're eliminated. If you go out of bounds, you're eliminated. Only because we're civilized gentlemen.

11:20Andy Holloway:And we didn't do just one round. No. First to three losses. And it only went three rounds. I went out of bounds twice. That's on you. It was a little bit on the pistachio. I think the one I picked was a bad shape.

11:35Mike Wright:You picked it. It's on you. You got to know your pistachio shapes. Yeah. All right. My bad. But that's how Jace is getting shamed today There you go

11:44Andy Holloway:Does he have to eat like 1500 pistachios? Oh no! What a punishment! Don't do that Pistachios are awesome If you're unhappy No, you gotta shell 1500 pistachios and eat none

11:59Mike Wright:No, he shells them for us We eat them That's too far, man Alright, listen, if you don't like just two shows a week and you need more pistachio content coming your way, jointhefoot.com. That's our community. You get a bonus weekly episode all year round. And in the offseason, it's a great chance to get your questions answered because there's not a lot of start-sit decisions, right? So you can get other questions in there. And there you go. Championship swag, you can find it, shopballers.com for the T-shirts. I saw them in the office yesterday. They look pretty good. I wasn't wearing one, though.

12:34Quick question of the day from City Stars on X.

12:38Mike Wright:Are you taking Bijan or CMC number one next year in the draft?

12:41Andy Holloway:Bijan. Bijan. It's Bijan and it's not close. He is so far and away to me the best running back. New head coach. People will make their arguments. Gibbs, these other guys. But Bijan is the guy who can do everything. He's still young enough and still has – like versus Christian McCaffrey. like Bijan can rip off a 90-yard touchdown. Christian McCaffrey can't do that. Not anymore. He can, you know, catch 100-plus passes like that. Christian McCaffrey can PPR and do things that Bijan may not get that opportunity, but Bijan is my number one as of right now. And Bijan is 23 years old right now. That makes a difference, not just for like, hey, when is the drop-off, because I don't think you're calling for a drop-off for Christian McCaffrey.

13:32That will happen at some year in life, but it's also the injury risk. Like, Bijan is younger, has been healthier, and you just look at Christian McCaffrey, and you go, okay. I mean, I guess if we're following trends, though, let me just one last argument on pro Christian McCaffrey. Okay. Okay, he's the running back three, then the running back one, two great seasons in a row, then injured. When he comes back, he's the running back two, the running back one. Two great seasons in a row. Then injured. Running back one.

14:05Andy Holloway:Oh, I see what you're saying. Shouldn't this be another good one? Yeah, another top two performance. I think the interesting question is, are you taking CMC number two? I don't know yet. Great. I don't know yet. I don't.

14:20Mike Wright:I would probably. I would guess not. I would probably not do that. But, I mean, I get it.

14:26Andy Holloway:Let's see. He's going to be older. He will be over 30.

14:31Mike Wright:And that scares me a little bit.

14:33Andy Holloway:Yeah. I mean, I feel like you saw so far the falloff. And it's just like, I mean, he's not the same. He's not the same Christian McCaffrey was in 2019. But, I mean, that was forever ago.

14:47Mike Wright:Part of what made this season so majestic, and he's always been able to do it with or without wide receivers, but they didn't have any this year. Right. They missed Kittle for a long period of time. Brandon Ayuk never came back. Ricky Pierce saw the second he came back, he turned right around like the Simpsons meme. And it was like Juwan Jennings sometimes who also got hurt. So, I mean, Kendrick Bourne was a talking point for part of the year. Yes, he was. So it did work out well, and he held up. I mean, that's what the math, that's what it comes down to. Can you hold up? We do have news. It's all coaches, but it's big news.

15:23News and notes from around the league.

15:28Mike Wright:The Ravens fired John Harbaugh after 18 seasons as a head coach. Playoffs in 12 of 18 years. I believe six division titles, Super Bowl championship season, and a 6-14 winning percentage. And that is why there are six head coach openings and rumored to be nine teams that are interested in John Harbaugh right now. Miami's one of them. Yep. And we can only speculate. The Jets are one of them. We know that. that's confirmed. I believe it was Baker's wife that liked the post. Oh, the Bucs are one of them.

16:04Andy Holloway:I'm a little surprised that they are holding on right now.

16:09Mike Wright:Here's what I think is interesting. I think that there is a very decent chance Tomlin's fired too. If they go one and done again and they don't look good, I think you could lose two stalwarts of this division. We could, yeah. And then you lost Stefanski. So there's three head coaches. I mean, Zach Taylor's the only one that got the pass.

16:27Andy Holloway:And he barely.

16:28Mike Wright:Yeah, they had to come out. He is by far the worst coach in that division. If you have to come out with a statement that's like why we're keeping somebody, that's how close you were to getting fired. On the good news there, though, they did keep Zach Taylor. Zach Taylor came out and said, we are keeping our defensive coordinator.

16:42Andy Holloway:Oh, good work. Which is great news. Unfortunately, bad news. The Cowboys have released Eberflus as their defensive coordinator. So these two terrible defenses we love playing against, one of them might shift.

16:55Mike Wright:Well, there are rumors right now about Cliff Kingsbury having his pick of the litter for a lot of these teams, and Baltimore is the one that's coming up this morning. The plan, the reason they said that they did this was to reinvigorate or invigorate Lamar Jackson, to give him something fresh. Makes sense. Cliff Kingsbury coming to Baltimore would be very interesting. I think he's changed as a coach. I do, too. I think he would come in with a little bit more presence and culture. He did not do that when he was in Arizona. I believe his second round will be decent as a head coach. And if you look at his resume with the two quarterbacks he's dealt with in the NFL so far, Kyler Murray, mobile rushing quarterback that he had early success with, Jaden Daniels, obviously rookie sensation, had success with.

17:42Hey, put him with Lamar Jackson. and he's proven he can utilize that type of quarterback.

17:47Mike Wright:What's wild is Todd Monken will be gone then. If you bring in Cliff Kingsbury, there won't be a Todd Monken. Well, I think Todd Monken is gone no matter what. There were rumors that part of the reason – like Harbaugh was not immediately fired. They talked to players. They talked to staff. They talked to the general manager. This was a long, fought-through decision, and there were many aspects to it, the locker room, the players. But one of the rumored or, I guess, reported issues was that he was not willing, Harbaugh was not willing to release Monken. And they basically didn't want Monken there.

18:24I believe that was more maybe Lamar and Monken. So Monken is gone. Yeah. He's not going to be there no matter what.

18:30Mike Wright:He's getting some coaching, head coaching opportunity as well.

18:33Andy Holloway:Also, a note on Cliff Kingsbury's departure from Washington. because this wasn't a I'm leaving because I have a job like the offers there sorry guys I'm gonna go be a head coach it sounded like he was leaving regardless of if he gets another opportunity and

18:52Mike Wright:massive disagreements between yeah and that's what I wanted to get your guys's take on because

18:57Andy Holloway:I personally find it a bit troubling because the the report that came out was that Dan Quinn and Cliff Kingsbury, they had a very strong disagreement on a lot of things on the offense. They said, in particular, pass-to-rush ratio. So as in, I'm assuming that Dan Quinn wants to run the ball more. We got to establish it because that's who he is. And then on top of that, Kingsbury had a collegiate-esque offense, which some of that stuff, it's working in the NFL. and Dan Quinn's like, no, I want to be more of a pro, a traditional professional NFL type of an offense. With Jaden, I think that is concerning because that will be a massive change.

19:45Andy Holloway:You're saying for the future of the commanders, next year's fantasy value. I'm saying for Jaden Daniels. And this is not a red alert. This is just a, hey, this is happening. They're talking about this. And if someone comes in and is like, we're going to make Jaden Daniels run this pro-style offense that maybe he is not comfortable in. It's a really tough one. And things could go bad.

20:05Mike Wright:I go both ways with it. Because I look at it from the perspective of this is also an offense that you kind of ran out of luck. And he was hurt multiple times this year. So predicating a lot on him running the football as much as he did. Look, from a fantasy perspective, we'd love him in the Cliff Kingsbury system. but we also want him on the field and we've already had one washington quarterback that got knocked out after pressing his luck being a sure he's not josh allen right he's not built that way and now you lost the season with jayden daniels so i think balance to protect jayden for his long-term viability i could see an argument in that direction but for fantasy i'd

20:47Andy Holloway:be more concerned i'm not even just talking about the running because jayden daniel he'll run like he will scramble you know the uh the last we saw of jackson dart was he still ran a ton but his the actual designed runs were very minimal that was jackson dart saying no i'm gonna run and i think jayden will still do that it's about does there were there were question marks pre-draft about jayden daniels in offenses reading defensive coverage and if you're going to switch from what he has had tremendous success in you know going back to the LSU his rookie year and you're like no you're going to run a pro offense just the that type of changes is a little bit scary I think

21:31Mike Wright:yeah I I mean we're going to have a lot of big time fantasy quarterbacks with big changes on the offensive side Lamar and Jaden are two of them but there's going to be more coming your way I I mean, Cam Ward, when he gets back, it's going to be a new system there. Kyler, where is he playing? No matter where, it's a new system. Yeah, yeah. So, unsurprisingly, the Cowboys fired Matt Eberflus after being the worst defense maybe ever. That's so sad.

21:59Andy Holloway:So that is – That sucks. It's – for us. For fantasy football. He was crucial.

22:05Mike Wright:Fantasy MVP, Matt Eberflus.

22:07Andy Holloway:So that's now – I mean, he was the coach of the Bears last year. Yeah. So – Two firings in a row.

22:13Mike Wright:They say he has USFL written all over him.

22:17Andy Holloway:I mean, the NFL, I hate the cowardice of, like, we don't want to take the risk on a new guy. Coaches fail. The vast majority of coaches in the NFL are failures. I mean, that's just how it is. Guys last, like, four years, and then they're gone, or they last a really, really long time. so why not I don't understand not taking the shot on a fresh face gets a new blood in there new ideas as opposed to the you know that goes both ways though I mean look at look at what happened with the Eagles they got to the Super Bowl against Kansas City Chiefs a couple years ago they they lost they then because they had such a great season their offensive coordinator and defensive coordinator both go get head coaching jobs and what do they do they get new faces they bring next man up from the system the young guns and the team stinks And then they fire both of them, and then the next year.

23:13Mike Wright:I'm looking at the most recent 10 fired coaches. I wanted to see how many were retreads versus that. I mean, Gerard Mayo, one year, done, new face, New England. Brian Dable, hadn't been a head coach, now fired. Brian Callahan, offensive coordinator in Cincinnati, now fired. Jonathan Gannon, he was one as well. Eber Flus, that was his first head coaching job too. So it's Antonio Pierce, Las Vegas. I mean, that was another new face opportunity.

23:40Andy Holloway:You know, it's – oh, his name is escaping me now. The Packers and then the Cowboys coach. McCarthy. McCarthy. Mike McCarthy. Like, his name is out there. Yeah. He's been fired from two teams. Why would you – He also had great success. To me, like, the dude has gone multiple places and failed multiple times. Let someone else come and try and fail.

24:05Mike Wright:So you want Harbaugh?

24:08Andy Holloway:You want Stefanski? For Arizona? The Cardinals fans. I think Stefanski is still a good coach. Harbaugh a better coach? I don't think so. Okay. What Stefanski had managed to do.

24:18Mike Wright:Vrabel went to New England after getting fired. I think that was a good decision.

24:21Andy Holloway:Yes. But when Vrabel was fired, we were like, what? There is a different situation. That seemed more like him and management did. It was done. Their relationship was over. Ran out of gas. It wasn't that he was bad at his job. Yeah. There's a different situation between guys who get fired because they suck long enough like jim harbaugh he just you know in san francisco the time ran out heads butted and they got rid of him but no one thought he was a bad head coach you know same thing um has happened several times you know the the situation around sean payton you know where he left he wasn't like a failure and then left he kind of walked away that's where i think you know john gruden's been rumored out there and that's one of those like did he was he a failure or was it just like, well, right, he got forcibly removed.

25:11Yes.

25:11Mike Wright:That lawsuit's still going, by the way. What? Against the NFL? Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

25:16Andy Holloway:Goodness. That was forever ago.

25:18Mike Wright:I'm going to tell you right now, Gruden's going to end up with some money in that situation.

25:22Andy Holloway:Just don't give him a head coach. And he'll probably be a head coach again. Oh, don't do it.

25:26Mike Wright:John Morton out for the Lions. I love this. I mean, that made sense. He was really not doing much of the offense for a while. After they lost Ben Johnson, they let Morton have a try. Then it was their head coach, Dan Campbell. You know who I heard, I read, was rumored to be in the running there? Blah, blah, blah. David Blau? David Blau, yeah. Is it going to be a token position where Dan Campbell runs the offense? I don't know. I hope not. I mean, Ben Johnson was not a token position. Sure, sure. All right, we'll take a break. We'll jump into the AMA.

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27:05Mike Wright:All right. This should be fun. If you have any questions for the show, you can go to the website, the fantasy footballers.com. Click that submit a question button or dial the voicemail hotline. Three zero two four six four TFFB. I have no clue what's in today's questions. It could be. Have you guys looked at anything? No, I'm reading the first one. It could be anything. You could ask us any anything at all. Oh, and they did. Lloyd Christmas. Do you guys do the Lloyd Christmas? Lloyd Christmas himself. do you guys like to do escape rooms and who is the best at them i that is a real ask me anything

27:39Andy Holloway:question love escape rooms i they are among my favorite things in the entire world really i love escape i am they're fine they're awesome it because my my video game genre of choice when i was growing up not probably not so much anymore but the the graphic adventures the the monkey Island games, Space Quest, King's Quest, all the LucasArts games, Full Throttle, Grim Fandango, all those are my favorite games. And Escape Room is kind of the closest we can get to that being a real life situation. Oh my gosh, I love Escape Room. I adore Escape Rooms. I don't know who's the best. We haven't done enough.

28:25I know in my family, my son is the best. We haven't really done them together, but my oldest son, he's very good at them. And my oldest daughter. Who's your youngest daughter? Well, they're twins, so they're both my oldest children.

28:41Andy Holloway:I just said my oldest daughter. You have one daughter. Hold on now. Hold on now. Here's the next question. How many daughters do you have? One. And is she the oldest or the youngest? That I know of. That's what I'm saying. That's what it sounded like, Jason. You got another hiding? Goodness gracious. But she doesn't help much in those escape rooms. What about your youngest daughter? Also does not help much.

29:05Mike Wright:Yeah, I think they're fine. I normally enjoy them when I go, but I don't set out to do them on purpose. I get invited to something, and they can be pretty fun. The nice thing is if you're kind of indifferent, everyone else will do the work for you, and you can just sit back. That's what my daughter says. Yeah, it's not that bad. Hot daughter, the best. I am having the hardest time here because, of course, Papa Josh is back in the office now today. and the first thing he has to do is brag about his escape room capabilities. Ah, that sounds like Papa Josh. I mean, I've been in escape rooms with Josh.

29:35Mike Wright:Maybe that's why I don't like him that much. Right. And he's got, I mean, we've gotten clues before together.

29:41Andy Holloway:I have never failed in escape rooms. Yes, we have, Josh. It's a team game. Also, if you get clues and you get out, are you proud? Are you like, we did it. Josh, you can talk. You don't have to be like. I just, you know, look, look. Number one, I don't remember getting any clues at all, and I certainly didn't ask for them. So just saying, all I said was that I have never. You should ask for a clue. Hey, guys, ask for a clue. I've got to.

30:12Mike Wright:We're really stuck. Anyways, here's a question. Christian Bjorn writing in, what is the long-lost drop? What is one long-lost drop you'd like to bring back? Nice. I have one. There's a long lost drop? Like a show drop. One of my favorites for sure was Booty Scoot and Cam Newton. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm just super. Do you have that over there somewhere, Al? Maybe you can find it. That's just one of the ones that I loved. And then we had a good animation with it. Oh, I've got mine for sure. And he is not. Oh, David S. Scrumptious? Devin. That's a good drop. All right, now my turn. Scrumptious.

30:56Do we have Devin? I'm sure we have.

31:02Mike Wright:No, that's great. I don't have anything. Mike, if you think of one, let us know. Mike has a bad memory.

31:07Andy Holloway:Yeah, that's true. If you like long-lost drops, check out our Dynasty podcast. Kyle the Borgogan is frequently surprising me with a segment drop. I'm like, I must have made that at some point because that is a fantasy footballer's drop that I don't recall making.

31:27Mike Wright:Yeah, we've done this a while. We've done this a while. Okay, Maddie wants to know what pets you guys have at home, including names, please. Rocky and Sugar, some Golden Doodles. They're about 10, 11 years old. And Pepper? A boy and a girl. Oh, no, Pooper is... I got rid of Pooper. Punning him off a bridge like Baxter right into Jeremy Grantham's house. We have one puppy named Copper. I guess he's not a puppy anymore. No. He's like five.

31:57Andy Holloway:He's a dog. Yeah, go doodle. I have two Bernadoodles. I have Daisy and then Rufus, who is, we just weighed him. He was supposed to be the runt, and we bought a Bernadoodle that was going to be 50, 60 pounds. He weighs 110 pounds, guys. What are you feeding him, huh? Dog food and whatever he finds. And whatever else. Yeah, he does like cloth. Oh. Socks. A lot of nutrients.

32:28Mike Wright:Did you have to get this one, like, removed from their stomach?

32:31Andy Holloway:Yeah, he was the one we had to go put him under the knife. We've all been there. I haven't. Really? No. You must not leave things out enough. We do leave things out. I've seen how thin your dog is. You've trained him.

32:42Mike Wright:We have trained him. That's it. You don't eat. He's taken stuff off the kitchen table before. You got to watch out. I guess technically we didn't have to remove. I'm a complete liar. he didn't he didn't he didn't need he didn't need socks but he did get a hold of some like gum with xylitol and he had to go we had to go to take him to the vet and spend that sweet sweet vet money what emergency vet money you could charge anything you want yeah oh it'll be two million dollars but we can give you a loan thousand pounds of diamonds and we'll save your

33:11Andy Holloway:dog in issue we got to figure out with vets because i'm not taking i i get it very expensive tons of time to like to become an actual veteran veteran why can't i say that word veterinarian i want you to do it yeah and i i get that however you're in the business of saving animals and you're like hmm i'd really like to save your dog it's gonna cost you two thousand dollars you're like i don't have that like oh then i can't save your dog i mean i've We got a bad story, good story. We took our dog Rocky and he ate a skewer. Oh, like a actual wood? Yeah, a BBQ skewer. And it came out from the inside, like through the side.

34:03Oh, okay. Like brought out. Oh, no. He had a sharp tip. And so we bring him into the vet. The vet cleans him up, says he's going to need this surgery. it's going to be, it was outrageous. Like, I wish it was 2 ,000. It was closer to 10 ,000. Oh! And I was like, he seems like he's doing okay.

34:23Andy Holloway:Let me just yank that thing out. We took him home. He never went back. And he's totally fine. Oh, man, you were - Totally fine. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Did the skewer stay in? No, the skewer came out even before we took him in. Out the side or out the - Out the side. Okay. So he had like a perforation. So he had a hole in his intestine.

34:41Mike Wright:And they said he was going to die? Basically, they're like, yeah, he needs this surgery, and it's going to be very complicated because of X, Y, and Z. Just to be clear, you said. I said, I don't believe you. You said, I'll take those odds? I said, I call your bluff. He said, I'll bet you$10 ,000. I'll bet you$10 ,000. He's going to live. And you know what? I'm$10 ,000 richer. Oh, my goodness. That's why I said it was a bad story, good story. It was a bad story, good story. That one's outrageous. How do you make that decision to be like, nah, I'm good?

35:10Andy Holloway:Did you go back to the vet? If he dies, he dies. And be like, in your face. Rocky, jump up on this table. Show him what you got.

35:18Mike Wright:Wow. Yeah. I figured after the perforation, you would have just given him to Al. I would have if he started going downhill, but he looked good. Oh, my gosh. Okay. This is a fantasy football question from SDP Dub. Last place is not following through on the punishment. Uh-oh. How do we proceed? That's a boot from league. Yeah. I'll say this. Obviously, all last place punishments, there's a way to do this, which is everyone agrees before the season. Yes, they do. If that happened and everybody signed up for it. You do it or you're out. Now, I agree with you. Like sometimes I've seen leagues where it's like the majority voted that we get a tattoo, but the guy who voted no is last place.

36:07You can't do something like that. That is a bridge too far. You can't force someone against their will. But you're right, Andy. If this was agreed upon, known about, they signed up for the league, this is them saying, oh, you know what? I don't want to be in this league. Yep.

36:22Andy Holloway:Which is, it's lame, man. Like, that's part, it's part of it. It's part of what makes your league awesome. Yeah. Go put the clown makeup on. Go stand on the corner. Whatever you got to do. Eat the pancakes. Just, yeah. You can't, you can't bow out now.

36:38Mike Wright:Be hunted by 11 other men with paintball guns on a paintball course.

36:42Andy Holloway:Right.

36:43Mike Wright:Without a gun.

36:44Andy Holloway:You're like, I lost. Jump in the lion's den. I'm not paying my dues this year. This is, come on, people.

36:52Mike Wright:All right. Let me see where we want to go. A question from Uncle Weg on X. Keep trade cut. Salty, spicy, sweet. Cutting spicy because I'm a baby. I'm with you on that. Compared to the other two, which are white. I like spice enough, but get out of my life. Then it's salty and sweet. That's tough. Oh, my gosh. I think you know where I'll go. You're going to keep the sweet, really? Yeah. Solely because of ice cream. Because of ice cream, which is sweet. I feel like I'm going to keep the salty, even though I do not hear what I'm not saying. I'm going to keep salty and sweet. I'm basically keeping steaks here.

37:33Andy Holloway:I am keeping the spicy. Oh. Yeah, that makes sense. This is why we're a good trifecta. Oh, wait. We got sweet, salty, and spicy. You're the sweet. You're the spicy. That's pretty good. Spicy's really a young man's game. I was going to say, but I still would prefer it.

37:50Mike Wright:You're going to end up in a human vet for your digestive tract. They charge just as much, guys. Yeah, they do.

37:57Andy Holloway:But they have to save you because you're a person.

38:00Mike Wright:You know what I mean? I guess you don't love your dog. I wouldn't have thought he could be just fine with a skewer. Well, he didn't have the skewer anymore. Did you, like, flex seal it? No. Just slap the... The only way to administer it is certainly to have it in your hand. And slap it. And just... It's just oozing, leaking. Pushes him out on the lake. Not anymore. Yeah. He pushes him out. I could stand on him. He floats.

38:34What's funny is I think the Flex Seal guys listen to this show because we've heard from them before. Oh, my gosh. Look, new idea for your next commercial, okay? Flex Seal bandages? I like the idea of this. Flex Seal bandages. Just a huge wound, a gunshot wound. Ricky Pearsall. Oh, my gosh. Brian Robinson. Just Flex Seal it. Oh, my gosh. Human Flex Seal. Yeah. Okay. Because, hey, Flexio guys, you can charge way more for that product. Yes, you can. Same product, just put it in a different packaging for vets and for human vets. And 10 grand a roll. Human vets are doctors. Yes. But we call them human vets.

39:18Isaac wants to know your favorite Batman. Christian Bale. I mean, obviously it's Christian Bale. Michael Keaton. Yeah. I love Michael Keaton. I love Michael Keaton. And I love Michael Keaton Batman. Swear to me.

39:29Andy Holloway:Michael Keaton was the best one. Until Christian Bale showed up.

39:35Mike Wright:You guys know my thoughts on Christian Bale. The Christian Bale Batman. You just don't like the voice. I don't like the voice. I don't like the first movie where he can push a button on his boot and bats get summoned to him. Ludicrous movie. Do you remember what the Michael Keaton Batmans were?

39:55Andy Holloway:Outstanding movies. Hyper great. I mean, Vicky Vale just wakes up and he's just hanging upside down. That's true. What is he doing? Stretching.

40:06Mike Wright:But the billionaire can't come up with a device. Didn't Christian Bale hang upside down too? To move?

40:12Andy Holloway:I don't know. He wasn't just hanging out there while people sleep. Also. Recency bias. Also, he's like, the man's a billionaire. He doesn't got no WD-40? He's like, eep, eep. Like when he's hanging upside down? This is a stupid memory, man. For stuff like this where you can win an argument. No one even listening is like, I don't remember. I can assume I know what you're talking about from the movie. I don't remember it.

40:36Mike Wright:Tactical Gator writes in, what player was your biggest regret last season? So this past season. Oh, that's a good question. Give me a while on this one, guys. I think, I mean, the. I'm going to go Caleb Johnson. Now he did finish with a very nice 69 rushing yards. but I don't feel like he was a good fantasy MVP. You were counting on more than that? I was. People were asking me yesterday on the card stream whether or not, because we had some Caleb Johnson cards to get rid of. Give me that. And they were wondering what the future holds, and I was like, well, Gainwell's a free agent. Yeah. Rodgers might be gone.

41:17Mike Wright:Gainwell leaving his path forward. It'll be interesting.

41:22Andy Holloway:Never wrong, just early. I was very much on the Tank Bigsby side of the Bigsby versus ETN.

41:30Mike Wright:Yeah, I was on your side too.

41:31Andy Holloway:And then they traded him, and he didn't get to play because he was behind Saquon Barkley, and then ETN was quite good.

41:40Mike Wright:I'm just looking down at the bottom of our fantasy scoring list to see what potential big regrets that I had in this situation. I was definitely with you on that one. Joe Mixon never played that's a shame but I don't think we really no towards the end of the year we were pretty out did we believe in Brian Thomas Jr.

42:01Andy Holloway:I did for sure yeah

42:05Mike Wright:I'm sure that one is still don't take my lack of a definitive answer to not mean there's a bunch of answers for me but I don't have one that's like jumping out as

42:14Andy Holloway:Brian Thomas Jr. one is insane yeah insane It's like Jefferson, not his fault. Brian Thomas Jr., seemingly 100 % his fault.

42:27Mike Wright:Yeah, yeah. He started the year getting exactly what you want, hyper targets. I mean, Brian Thomas Jr. was, let me pull up his game log, seven targets week one, 12 targets week two, six, seven. Don't make me get the spray bottle out, Jason. I mean he was on pace for yeah take care of it Mike you literally have a spray bottle yeah we got a spray bottle just to guess again you're in big trouble I was just reading his box score of targets very animated reading for the first six games played he was on pace for 136 targets if you said before the season I mean Trevor Lawrence is going to play well he's going to have 136 targets you'd be like yeah this is a top 10 wide receiver like for sure but he stunk and couldn't catch the ball i kind of like mason taylor i mean that one that one

43:25Andy Holloway:didn't work out too well oh dude you is do you did you guys do your votes for footy awards i did do you think i think he's got a shot do you think mason taylor's gonna win that award he's got a shot uh it's too early too early to tell um but i will remind there's a good opportunity to remind the Foot Clan if you did not listen to last episode the Footy Awards are being voted on right now at footy awards dot com go there cast your vote on all of the in season awards

43:54Mike Wright:and next what's the domain footy awards there you go and then yeah well our next episode we will have the big footies episode did you guys know Papa Josh has never failed an escape room

44:07Andy Holloway:and never taken a single clue

44:08Mike Wright:let me tell you something Josh I didn't bring it up I've never failed an escape room Mike have you yes I have never failed an escape room I've probably done 8 of them we've added clues

44:21Andy Holloway:the one I failed with my friends was we got all the way and we're at the end I take no pride in it by the way with probably 15 minutes of the hour left and then it turns out we had just one of the safes had opened and there was another thing inside of a... Oh, that you didn't. Yeah, that was just out of visibility.

44:45Mike Wright:Papa Josh is actually good at them. I will say that.

44:47Andy Holloway:Yeah, he's a puzzle guy.

44:49Mike Wright:He's a puzzle guy. He's made to get hyped up. That's why

44:53Andy Holloway:he built such an incredible dynasty team. The puzzle. He put all the pieces together. He put the pieces together. Oh my God.

45:02Mike Wright:Too far, Mike. Kyle Edgar.

45:04Andy Holloway:The champ can say what the champ wants to say.

45:07Mike Wright:Kyle Edgar writes in, how do people you meet react when it comes to small talk about what you do for a living when it comes up in small talk about what you do for a living oh how do people react when we tell them what we oh man

45:18Andy Holloway:we do fantasy football podcasting like we're poor i do not small talk yeah i don't small talk about my job and they're just like what do you i'm like oh you don't tell them i i start with instruction i start no no no i start with uh like sports media oh see that's smart and then if they want to pull the layers back then we'll get into it but yeah people are like i do most people actually don't care if you say i do a fantasy football podcast i'd be like oh cool what do

45:46Mike Wright:you do for work yeah what do you yeah the problem the problem you guys know i'm a talker yeah you guys know a small talk for me is the life story i get somebody's life story so every conversation for me ends up with like i end up with the same cliche like yeah i never thought i could make a living doing that that's pretty much yeah what comes up but uh best wing flavor thomas wants to know best wing flavor and do you like flats or drumsticks flats because i grew up drumsticks are for children and that's fine children love drumsticks i second that both are delicious both are great i want to know what the deucers flat just make a binary choice i am on the side of

46:22Andy Holloway:flats i i was on drumsticks specifically for i can eat a drumstick and like be like face clean you know like i give you 12 of wings and have very minimal cleanup where like flats the flats

46:37Mike Wright:are messier it's a bit of a messier yeah uh what's the votes back there inducers alley it's all flats

46:42Andy Holloway:for me papa josh oh he's a drumstick man oh boy the chicken nuggies and they're delicious matt flats okay oh we're we're then flavors i mean i'm boneless i'm still more of a i prefer like a buffalo a medium or hot but i like a good dry rub dude lemon pepper yeah on the dry rub lemon pepper is moving up the charts guys i am definitely better be a dry rub it is yeah i know i know i'm just saying if you dip that thing in lemon i don't think i'm in i am i am a medium buffalo but i want it to be a sweeter buffalo like the best place here in arizona honey like a honey sweet golden at Zips. The best wings in the world.

47:27Mike Wright:Alright. Instagram question from G. Stroh. Favorite new TV show? I'll say Pluribus because I just started watching it. I was just seeing how you were going to say the name of the show. Yeah. Pluribus. Let's see. I was having trouble with it yesterday. If you need to reference it. Pluribus Unum. We watched that. I'm only three episodes in but I've loved all three. Yeah, it's good.

47:53Andy Holloway:I watched Mr. Deeds. Is that a TV show?

47:58Mike Wright:No. That's the movie? That's what you watch? I don't watch. I don't watch. I was like, Mr. Deeds. Oh, the 2002 hit. Mike always has one of these.

48:08Andy Holloway:Mr. Deeds. Incredibly underrated and not talked about enough. That movie is very funny.

48:14Mike Wright:Sweet mercy. All right, we're going to take another break.

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49:23Mike Wright:all right a couple more questions and we'll jump into the fantasy face-off jansen wants to know have we ever been to canada and what was your favorite part if you have we uh we have i've

49:33Andy Holloway:been there shout out mikey singer i've only been there one have you guys been there i've been there one additional time okay you have a bonus we went once uh one of our very first ever live recordings was for it we got hit up and said hey i'm gonna put on this huge fantasy football expo it's up in canada i want you guys to come be the featured speakers do a show you know we'll cover your travel and give you a little bit extra money to come do it we're like that sounds pretty freaking awesome outskirts of toronto um which the beginning of that story starts with us googling hey do you need a passport to go to Canada and ladies and gentlemen whatever the top result is on Google that just comes back look into it a little deeper that is not always a fact especially when it comes to international travel and now with AI AI just tells you oh for sure this is the answer it's like so we were on very much under the impression that it was just cool.

50:38Andy Holloway:You could, like, the U.S. That sounds so dumb. The U.S. and Canada was like, hey, we got an arrangement. Yeah, we good. We can travel back. You're like us. We're like you. Let's just cross. And about one week before, I think we just double-checked it. Uh-huh. And it was like, oh, no, that doesn't happen anymore. Now you for sure have to have a passport. Which is easy to get in a week, right? If you travel to one of the four destinations in the United States that does, like, next-day passports. Yeah, which one of them happens to be. Did you need one too? Oh, yeah.

51:10Mike Wright:Oh, okay. We all need another one.

51:11Andy Holloway:In Tucson, Arizona, there is a place where you can get an expedited passport for situations like that. So we got it. We went up there. Beautiful venue. I mean, just a huge warehouse full of vendors, foods, a bunch of just massive stuff. Massive footprint. Just so cool. And about 40 to 50 people. Yeah, you're being generous.

51:37Mike Wright:the the show yeah i mean this is like what like it was gonna be spectacular thousand square foot place decked out with all these vendors and ain't nobody showed up unfortunately the um what fight was that that was the conor mcgregor the mcgregor first box mayweather yeah the mcgregor mayweather fight was on the same weekend and yeah not a lot of people showed up we still had a really great time and we're happy to be there but we saw that was our trip to toronto yeah we saw really nothing of yeah we were kind of on the outskirts yeah we didn't get to see we went to the thing

52:11Andy Holloway:and then we went home i've been to victoria oh uh canada on a alaskan cruise so that okay that's and my favorite thing there was the i had some great shrimp oh all right yeah there you go we'll

52:24Mike Wright:jump right into the face-off.

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52:38Mike Wright:All righty, I talked about it at the top. What a loser. Very bad at tossing pistachios. He's the loser. Okay, give me that wheel. Wheel of shame.

52:59Andy Holloway:Spin that wheel. I have no idea what's coming up. All right. You smell that. Here's Johnny. Oh, the seventh inning stretch. Seventh inning stretch. Oh, baseball. Yeah, it's my favorite sport. Speaking of baseball. Oh, baby.

53:16Mike Wright:We got a nice baseball jersey because, you know, you probably don't have one. Yeah, I love baseball, man. Here you go. That should be able to go on. Is that going to go on? We got you. Mike, if you can take care of this for us. What? You want me to eye black him? You need some eye black. We got you some Cracker Jacks, Jason. Are they real? Yeah. Heck yeah, man. There's a prize inside. My punishment is I get to eat Cracker Jacks? Yeah, you have Cracker Jacks and you got a baseball hat. You look like Rob Lowe in the NFL hat. I look like the kid from the Sandlot. Yes. Smalls? Yeah. We got you a glove, too, so you can play catch with your paw.

53:58Mike Wright:There you go. Look at this baseball player. You look like a New York Yankee. I think I got to get into baseball, fellas. There you go, if you want to eat those. Cracker Jack. Thank you, man. Let's go out to a ball game. There you go. Look at that. He even put his finger through the... I will say this. I love playing catch. I love it. I don't know what it is in people and probably mostly men, but just throwing. First guy to wear glasses with eye black. I want to be able to see. Throwing a ball in general. Jeremy Grantham came over all the time. We'd throw a football in the backyard and play stupid games like how many can we do in a row without dropping.

54:43We're not allowed to move. Make up stupid rules. Yeah. I never played enough baseball ever in my life because I had self-respect. and I wanted to be entertained. Yeah. But, so because of that, I never really threw around a baseball enough. But when I had the few opportunities where you've got a glove and a baseball, you could throw the thing so hard and not worry. It's awesome. That's the one. I mean, you've got to worry a little bit. Not if you're good at catching, bro. I've got to worry. I'm like, Josh, I'm the best. I've never heard somebody describe catch.

55:13Andy Holloway:You know, professional baseball players still get hit in the face. Yeah. And not when they're playing catch. Not really, yeah.

55:20Mike Wright:All right, we've got our lineups for this week, the playoffs. Playoffs? Starting at the quarterback position, I went with Trevor Lawrence. How old is Cracker Jack? Cracker Jack is really old. Let me see this. This box looks like it came straight from the 20s. There is. It's probably brand new. There's a prize inside. I'm going to find it. Yeah. Trevor Lawrence, 233.5 passing yards. I'm taking the more. I think that game's going to be.

55:46Andy Holloway:You're going with Lawrence? It's going to be pretty active. I'm going with upcoming future MVP, Drake Maymay. One and a half passing touchdowns. Easy peasy. You're taking them more? For the New England quarterback. Interesting. I will take them more.

56:01Mike Wright:I almost took his less on passing attempts. Mmm. But. I really loved Bryce Young. How is the Cracker Jacks? They're delicious. Okay. Turns out it's just like caramel corn. It's like. What? Yeah. baseball is the cracker jacks is essentially baseball right because on the outside it looks stupid old and dated and unfun and then you open it and you eat it right so when you go to a baseball

56:27Andy Holloway:game you get to eat it it's caramel corn it's delicious and peanuts yeah and a price they're very good and a price um not a sponsor all right your quarterback my quarterback i was gonna take Wait a minute, it's Cracker Jack? Yeah, I know. Yeah, but if you have some, you have Cracker Jacks. That makes sense. It's Cracker Jack. Yeah, but if it's Pringle, then I got Pringles when you got more than one. That's fine. It could be Cracker Jacks. That's actually called Pringles. Yeah, that's Pringles. Anyways, so this is a problem. Cracker Jack? I originally had Bryce Young, 191 passing yards, taking less than that.

57:07I think that's a layup. But then I saw this one as a Green Goblin, and I was like, heck yeah. Matthew Stafford, his projection as a Green Goblin is negative half a rushing yard. I'm going more than that. I saw that, and you are dancing with the devil. I get it. No, but I get it because obviously if he doesn't rush and at the end of the game he does kneel downs, then I could go under this. Did you check how often? Yes, I did. He hasn't had less than zero rushing yards in the last five games. So I'm feeling pretty good. Okay. In the last five? That's your Green Goblin, though. You used your Green Goblin up.

57:46Andy Holloway:I got bad news for you, Jason. Yeah? Week 17, he had zero. That's fine. That's more than – that's what I'm saying. Oh, because the projection is negative.5. The projection is negative.5. Okay, okay, okay. He doesn't even need to run. He just needs to not kneel down negatively. He does have negative rushing yards in more games than you would believe. Yeah, but not this one. Impressive.

58:09Mike Wright:All right. Running back, I'm taking Rico Dowdle, 46.5 rushing yards. Don't you dare. Less. Oh, don't you dare. In your face, Mike. Don't you dare. Less. The calendar turned over. Are you kidding me? They're not going to be able to keep up with Rico Dowdle in that game. I'm going to take Mike's guy that he just said he got wrong. I'm going to go with Tank Bigsby. nine and a half rushing yards. I'm going more. You went with a Tank Bigsby. I went with a Tank Bigsby. Obviously, last week, he was awesome in relief of Saquon while they benched guys. He's a good player. But prior to that, they were getting him more and more involved.

58:46He's been over the – he's had – Playoffs? Playoffs. He's had more than 10 rushing yards in most of his recent games. And I do think in the playoffs, they might want to use their best running back. I'm on the opposite side. I think they'll not use him at all.

59:00Andy Holloway:Interesting. thing uh i'm going on a projection with the guy i got wrong of travis etn i will take that buffalo run funnel defense 65 and a half yards is all travis etn or i guess rushing only yeah he needs 66 but no ball the run funnel yeah no ball that's because that's dangerous yeah well i live uh but yeah more than 65 and a half rushing yards for travis etn my green goblin jaden reed of the packers two and a half receptions i'm taking the more uh this is wide receiver i'm going nico Collins more than 71 and a half. We are receiving yards. I thought we might have some crossover because of the limited player pool.

59:38Andy Holloway:My Green Goblin is Puka Nakua. Five and a half receptions. That feels pretty awesome. I'll go more there.

59:48Mike Wright:Colston Loveland is my tight end.

59:50Andy Holloway:I got Mr. Loveland as well. I went

59:52Mike Wright:receiving targets. Oh!

59:55Andy Holloway:And I took five. More. Receptions. Three and a half. I went Cole Komet. What are you doing? Yeah. Take Bigsby and Cole Komet. Take Bigsby and Cole Komet. Stafford rushing yards. 13 and a half. That's it. 13 and a half receiving yards. That's it. What was that? Isn't that your famous Tommy Trimble line? Yeah, but Tommy Trimble was a bridge too far. Cole Komet's been involved. He's been good. So you're taking the more? What was the 13 and a half? 13, okay. He's been over that the past six weeks. Yeah, exactly. The past three weeks, barely. It barely works.

1:00:32Mike Wright:You know what they say. These are guarantees. All right. That was Fantasy Face-Off presented by PrizePix. Join millions of users and sign up for America's number one fantasy sports app. Use the code FOOTBALLERS and get$50 in lineups when you play$5. That'll be it for today's show. FootyAwards.com, the footy award winners, will be announced on our next episode on Tuesday. Jason's going to enjoy some more Cracker Jacks. The prize inside is an appreciation of the game of baseball.

1:00:58Andy Holloway:You saw him buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jacks? Yeah. But there's peanuts in the Cracker Jacks.

1:01:03Mike Wright:That's fair.

1:01:05Andy Holloway:Baseball. Thank you for listening to another episode of the Fantasy Footballers Podcast. Join our fantasy football community on jointhefoot.com. And follow us on Twitter at the FFBallers.

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