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Speaker 1: NFL in partnership with iHeartRadio. What's Up, Everybody, This is

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Speaker 1: Peter Schrager. This is the Season with Peter Schrager, and

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Speaker 1: there is a special episode We're clear in the decks.

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Speaker 1: This is for you fantasy football heads. I really labored

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Speaker 1: on doing a fantasy football podcast episode because I don't

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Speaker 1: of you who listen to this podcast who are walking

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Speaker 1: That's what it's all about. With no further ado, the

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Speaker 1: gentlemen from the Ringer Fantasy Football Podcast, Danny Heifetz, Danny Kelly,

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Speaker 1: and my former producer, Craig Hurlbeck. So our guests this week.

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Speaker 1: I have to be honest, I am huge fans of

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Speaker 1: They do it over on The Ringer and I really

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 1: Craig Hrlbeck, Danny Kelly, Danny Hifetz. Theyre the gentleman from

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Speaker 1: the Ringer Fantasy Football Show. Gentlemen, Welcome to the season

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Speaker 1: with Peter Schrager.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for having us, Shregs. It's great to be back, Shregs.

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Speaker 3: I've missed you.

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Speaker 1: Let's explain. Let's explain our history. Craig, So, I really

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Speaker 1: love you. I think you're awesome at what you do.

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Speaker 1: And now I listen to you not only on this podcast,

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Speaker 1: but on you know, the Town podcast where you're always

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Speaker 1: giving your your thoughts to Matt Maloney and you're giving

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Speaker 1: a bit. You got married, you're a fully grown man.

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Speaker 1: But you and I we met two years ago at

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Speaker 3: Sure. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: During the pandemic, we did a show called Flying Coach

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Speaker 4: on the Ringer podcast Network. Ten episodes with Sean shreg

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Speaker 3: You can go listen to it right now.

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Speaker 4: I highly recommend it, specifically the Shanahan episode. Great episode

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Speaker 1: So good dude. All fly Delta and they have like

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Speaker 1: plane and I'm so proud of them. Yeah, it's crazy.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, both will be going at it in the NFC West.

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Speaker 5: The best compliment we get is people ask us, oh,

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Speaker 1: Let's get it all right.

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Speaker 7: Anthony Richardson, quarterback for the Colts.

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Speaker 6: He brings legitimate, like top five potential at quarterback and

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Speaker 1: He lost ten games.

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Speaker 7: I think he's going to score a lot of touchdowns.

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Speaker 7: I think he's gonna run a lot, and.

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Speaker 1: Love it, Craig, take us sleeper, who you got Johan Dotson,

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Speaker 3: Guy, first to first.

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Speaker 4: Most people, they would not expect Johan Dotson to be

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Speaker 1: call this the Keenan Allen Award where he's still around,

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Speaker 1: whenever year, finishing that high. Why don't we go around

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Speaker 1: the horn and you each give one of those names,

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Speaker 5: You, bud, Travis Kelcey doesn't count because he's still a

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Speaker 1: Would you take Travis kelce in the first round? Is

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Speaker 5: Because here's the thing. Yeah, literally, the only argument against

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Speaker 5: Travis kelce literally is that he's thirty four years old

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Speaker 3: Age is just a number.

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Speaker 4: Guys, look at you, Trager, You were better than conversations.

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Speaker 5: Is that when Craig and I were in our mid twenties,

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Speaker 4: But it's like it's like George Clooney turned fifteen and

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Speaker 1: Interest now is time?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, He's like, you know what.

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Speaker 5: It's So it's like in my younger days, I was

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Speaker 5: pretty terrified to take Derek Kenry or Travis Kelsek because

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Speaker 5: I'm like, thirty, My god, he must have like a

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Speaker 5: he had you know, they get benched in week seventeen

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Speaker 3: Stop saying it.

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Speaker 5: I know, sorry, I'm not gonna win. I gotta Yeah,

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Speaker 5: but the Kelsey hasn't missed the game to injury, they're

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Speaker 5: Cooper Cup missed games last year. Like all these all

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Speaker 5: injured at some point. Kelsey hasn't, So I'm probably giving

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Speaker 5: him the kind of her as they would say, but yeah,

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Speaker 5: nice to me, Kelsey. It's like buying applestock. It's like,

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Speaker 1: I'm here for the Yiddish Danny Kelly. What about you?

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Speaker 1: Who's the guy that you know? You see and you're like,

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Speaker 1: come on.

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Speaker 7: My guy this year is Dedre Hopkins.

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Speaker 6: Dedre Hopkins. I think there's a lot of question marks,

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Speaker 7: Obviously, Trailing Burks.

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Speaker 6: Is there, and he's an up and coming guy, but

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Speaker 1: Really good.

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Speaker 6: The only the only player, the only receivers who had

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Speaker 6: Jefferson like the first like the first four picks, first

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Speaker 3: So I don't know.

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Speaker 7: To me, he's just so good.

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Speaker 4: Craig, tell me why Derek Henry is going in the

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Speaker 4: second round.

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Speaker 3: What's changed?

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Speaker 1: Talk about it.

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Speaker 3: He had three hundred and.

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Speaker 4: Fifty carries last year, played the entire season, was the

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Speaker 3: And everyone's just like, I'm good. He's twenty eight.

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Speaker 4: No thanks, Like Leodocaprio when a girl turns twenty six,

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Speaker 3: He's still Dereck Henry.

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Speaker 4: We're all obsessed with this idea now that as running

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Speaker 3: Essentially, we're betting on science, you know, we're.

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Speaker 4: Betting on these phenomenal athletes preparing their bodies and actually

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Speaker 1: Round starts rolling around, and it is now you can

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Speaker 1: gonna go around the horn. Craig will start with you

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Speaker 1: give me a rookie that might still be around then

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Speaker 4: Interesting a rookie, can I go with? I think I

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Speaker 4: When when you're getting a rookie tight end, they don't

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Speaker 1: Okay, who you got rookie?

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Speaker 3: He got your eyes.

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Speaker 6: Oh man, there's so many of them. I could just

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Speaker 1: I think they don't have Dalvin Cook, which is a

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Speaker 1: It sounds so good coming out of your mouth, Danny,

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Speaker 5: There's a rookie. I really love Jordan Addison, the rookie

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Speaker 5: really underrated because I think as a pure regular NFL

434
00:18:00,146 --> 00:18:03,346
Speaker 5: prospect he's undersized. I get all that he's he's not

435
00:18:03,466 --> 00:18:06,906
Speaker 5: a prototypical number one receiver. I think think he's being

436
00:18:06,986 --> 00:18:10,866
Speaker 5: unfairly dinged for that in fantasy because Jordan Adison is

437
00:18:10,906 --> 00:18:14,586
Speaker 5: the perfect compliment to Justin Jefferson. It reminds me a

438
00:18:14,626 --> 00:18:19,106
Speaker 5: little bit of when Juju Smith Schuster had an incredible

439
00:18:19,146 --> 00:18:23,026
Speaker 5: rookie season behind Antonio Brown Calvin Ridley. I remember Julio

440
00:18:23,106 --> 00:18:25,386
Speaker 5: Jones was incredible for the Falcons, but he couldn't score touchdowns.

441
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Speaker 5: Calvin really comes in as a Rooie as like five

442
00:18:27,146 --> 00:18:30,466
Speaker 5: touchdowns in like five games by Julio Jones. I feel

443
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Speaker 5: that Jordan Addison will have that type of impact disproportionate

444
00:18:34,706 --> 00:18:37,386
Speaker 5: to his skill level because he's refined, he's a precise

445
00:18:37,466 --> 00:18:40,266
Speaker 5: route runner, He's polished in a way that makes up

446
00:18:40,266 --> 00:18:42,706
Speaker 5: for his lack of physical gifts. That will basically pay

447
00:18:42,706 --> 00:18:46,746
Speaker 5: dividends immediately, and I think he's gonna soak. I mean,

448
00:18:46,786 --> 00:18:48,786
Speaker 5: Adam Thielen, no offense to the guy was a little

449
00:18:48,866 --> 00:18:51,306
Speaker 5: dusty last year, and I think Addison's going to come

450
00:18:51,306 --> 00:18:54,186
Speaker 5: in and just vacuum up behind Justin Jefferson. It's kind

451
00:18:54,226 --> 00:18:58,946
Speaker 5: of no, it's it's just an incredibly massive opportunity to

452
00:18:59,026 --> 00:19:00,906
Speaker 5: be around this guy. He's always doubled and I think

453
00:19:00,946 --> 00:19:01,826
Speaker 5: he's gonna just eat.

454
00:19:02,346 --> 00:19:03,426
Speaker 3: It's built for him.

455
00:19:03,866 --> 00:19:06,426
Speaker 7: Did you see his catch the other day?

456
00:19:06,426 --> 00:19:11,346
Speaker 6: He had like a touch catch. They didn't even review it.

457
00:19:11,586 --> 00:19:13,186
Speaker 6: They called him out, they didn't even review it, but

458
00:19:13,226 --> 00:19:16,666
Speaker 6: he made the most incredible catch that just it's the preseason.

459
00:19:16,666 --> 00:19:18,426
Speaker 6: That doesn't counts, it doesn't matter, but whatever it was,

460
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Speaker 6: it was an amazing catch.

461
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Speaker 5: Speaking of preseason, you ask how being a fantasy expert works.

462
00:19:22,226 --> 00:19:27,426
Speaker 5: Here's how it works, college statistics, preseason plays. If they

463
00:19:27,586 --> 00:19:30,946
Speaker 5: confirm what you already believe, they're very important and representative.

464
00:19:31,226 --> 00:19:33,386
Speaker 5: And if they don't, if they go against what you

465
00:19:33,426 --> 00:19:36,426
Speaker 5: already think, then they're meaningless. And Jordan Adison had sixteen

466
00:19:36,506 --> 00:19:39,226
Speaker 5: hundred yards in college two years ago and won the

467
00:19:39,226 --> 00:19:41,626
Speaker 5: Best Receiver in College Football award and then had that catch.

468
00:19:42,226 --> 00:19:43,786
Speaker 5: So there, I must already be right.

469
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna give all the Zay Flowers might be the

470
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Speaker 1: best wide receiver out of this bunch. It might do it.

471
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Speaker 1: I don't know if he gonna put up the best numbers,

472
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Speaker 1: and I don't know how this helps for fantasy. What

473
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Speaker 1: I'm learning from Zay Flowers is that he's unguardable because

474
00:19:55,266 --> 00:19:57,626
Speaker 1: of his footwork and speed, and he might just be

475
00:19:57,706 --> 00:20:00,026
Speaker 1: drawing a lot of pass interference calls. Honestly, that's what

476
00:20:00,026 --> 00:20:02,226
Speaker 1: I'm telling. So, like, if you're expecting one hundred catches,

477
00:20:02,266 --> 00:20:04,066
Speaker 1: that might not be it, but he will be a

478
00:20:04,106 --> 00:20:06,466
Speaker 1: huge function of the Ravens offense. And I think I

479
00:20:06,506 --> 00:20:08,946
Speaker 1: see a lot of people drafting him really high. I

480
00:20:08,986 --> 00:20:10,546
Speaker 1: don't know if his numbers are going to be high.

481
00:20:10,546 --> 00:20:11,666
Speaker 1: I just know he's going to be a pain in

482
00:20:11,666 --> 00:20:13,626
Speaker 1: the ass to cover. And that's like one of those

483
00:20:13,666 --> 00:20:16,786
Speaker 1: things in fantasy where here's the arbitrage where yes, he

484
00:20:16,866 --> 00:20:18,706
Speaker 1: might be our offensive rookie of the year, but no,

485
00:20:18,906 --> 00:20:21,546
Speaker 1: his numbers might not be as crazy as Justin Jeffersons

486
00:20:21,626 --> 00:20:22,466
Speaker 1: or Jamar Chase's.

487
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Speaker 7: I like that one too. He's so good.

488
00:20:25,066 --> 00:20:27,226
Speaker 6: There's a reason a lot of people were comparing him

489
00:20:27,226 --> 00:20:29,986
Speaker 6: to like Antonio Brown when you're when you're watching the tape,

490
00:20:29,986 --> 00:20:32,866
Speaker 6: like his feet are so fast, his route running so

491
00:20:33,466 --> 00:20:36,346
Speaker 6: sudden and twitchy. I agree with you, though, like I

492
00:20:36,346 --> 00:20:37,866
Speaker 6: don't know exactly what his role is going to be

493
00:20:37,866 --> 00:20:40,466
Speaker 6: like in that Ravens offense. We don't even know what

494
00:20:40,466 --> 00:20:42,026
Speaker 6: this Raven's offense is really don't know what it looks

495
00:20:42,066 --> 00:20:44,586
Speaker 6: like at all. So there's there's a lot of variants

496
00:20:44,586 --> 00:20:46,666
Speaker 6: put potential there. But yeah, he's a really good player,

497
00:20:47,346 --> 00:20:47,706
Speaker 6: all right.

498
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Speaker 1: Strategy wise, say I'm doing my fantasy draft. I know

499
00:20:51,666 --> 00:20:54,106
Speaker 1: which players are good, but every year it's different. Some

500
00:20:54,226 --> 00:20:55,786
Speaker 1: year it's like you have to get those two running

501
00:20:55,826 --> 00:20:58,386
Speaker 1: backs early because there's a big drop off. Some years

502
00:20:58,426 --> 00:21:01,026
Speaker 1: it's you need the wide receiver one because after the

503
00:21:01,026 --> 00:21:03,866
Speaker 1: first few of them it's a drop off. Craig, I

504
00:21:03,906 --> 00:21:06,386
Speaker 1: know you've been studying the grids and the cheat sheets.

505
00:21:07,426 --> 00:21:09,666
Speaker 1: What's the strategy this year is in the first round,

506
00:21:09,746 --> 00:21:12,466
Speaker 1: is it important to get what? And when you do

507
00:21:12,506 --> 00:21:14,266
Speaker 1: that snake draft? What are you trying to come out

508
00:21:14,266 --> 00:21:15,666
Speaker 1: of here? Because I know there's a drop off at

509
00:21:15,666 --> 00:21:16,986
Speaker 1: each position at some point.

510
00:21:17,226 --> 00:21:18,946
Speaker 4: So if you're playing in a league with one quarterback,

511
00:21:19,226 --> 00:21:22,186
Speaker 4: what we kind of like to do this year is

512
00:21:22,186 --> 00:21:25,506
Speaker 4: basically get an elite player from every single position group.

513
00:21:25,586 --> 00:21:27,866
Speaker 4: This year is a really unique year because running backs

514
00:21:27,866 --> 00:21:30,026
Speaker 4: are kind of going late, quarterbacks are hotter than ever,

515
00:21:30,426 --> 00:21:33,106
Speaker 4: and then you have Travis Kelcey, who's just miles away

516
00:21:33,106 --> 00:21:35,546
Speaker 4: from every other tight end. So we kind of suggest

517
00:21:35,586 --> 00:21:37,586
Speaker 4: is get one from each position. Start your draft with

518
00:21:37,626 --> 00:21:40,506
Speaker 4: the Travis kelce then move on get an elite running

519
00:21:40,506 --> 00:21:42,546
Speaker 4: back like a Dereck Henry. Third round, you can get

520
00:21:42,546 --> 00:21:45,506
Speaker 4: yourself an elite quarterback like Jalen Hurts or Patrick Mahomes,

521
00:21:45,586 --> 00:21:47,106
Speaker 4: and then you can still get a great receiver. If

522
00:21:47,106 --> 00:21:49,586
Speaker 4: you can start your draft with four players four different positions,

523
00:21:49,626 --> 00:21:52,386
Speaker 4: like a DeAndre Hopkins DKs guy. You could start your

524
00:21:52,426 --> 00:21:57,026
Speaker 4: draft with Travis Kelcey, Dereck Henry Patrick, Mahomes, and DeAndre Hopkins.

525
00:21:57,106 --> 00:21:59,426
Speaker 4: You get four Hall of Famers in four rounds, as

526
00:21:59,426 --> 00:22:01,106
Speaker 4: long as you're not an age bias guy like all

527
00:22:01,146 --> 00:22:03,466
Speaker 4: those out there. But I kind of like mixing it

528
00:22:03,546 --> 00:22:07,186
Speaker 4: up spreading the wealth this year specifically, can't you agree?

529
00:22:07,226 --> 00:22:07,386
Speaker 3: Oh?

530
00:22:07,426 --> 00:22:10,986
Speaker 7: Yeah, totally. I really like this year's second round running backs.

531
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Speaker 6: So I personally believe grabbing a guy like Kelsey or

532
00:22:14,626 --> 00:22:16,426
Speaker 6: one of the elite receivers in round one and then

533
00:22:16,426 --> 00:22:18,986
Speaker 6: getting a Pollard or Josh Jacobs in round two. I

534
00:22:18,986 --> 00:22:21,946
Speaker 6: think Jacobs has fallen because there's some uncertainty about whether

535
00:22:21,986 --> 00:22:22,906
Speaker 6: he's going to play.

536
00:22:23,066 --> 00:22:24,226
Speaker 7: I think at the end of the day he's probably

537
00:22:24,266 --> 00:22:24,706
Speaker 7: gonna play.

538
00:22:24,746 --> 00:22:26,226
Speaker 3: It'll be that so I think.

539
00:22:26,266 --> 00:22:27,866
Speaker 7: But Tony Pollard to me, is.

540
00:22:27,866 --> 00:22:29,986
Speaker 6: Like my favorite second round pick right now. I just

541
00:22:29,986 --> 00:22:32,506
Speaker 6: think he has through the roof potential. He's such a

542
00:22:32,506 --> 00:22:35,106
Speaker 6: good player, so explosive, and they're gonna use him in

543
00:22:35,106 --> 00:22:38,226
Speaker 6: the right way. He was already, you know, such an

544
00:22:38,426 --> 00:22:41,066
Speaker 6: elite producer last year when they had Zeken tout, and

545
00:22:41,066 --> 00:22:43,666
Speaker 6: now it's his his offense and his his backfield. So

546
00:22:44,106 --> 00:22:46,306
Speaker 6: to me, Tony Pollard is sort of a lynchpin guy

547
00:22:46,346 --> 00:22:47,706
Speaker 6: that I just really like in that second round.

548
00:22:47,746 --> 00:22:49,746
Speaker 1: So in the second round, Danny, what about you?

549
00:22:49,826 --> 00:22:52,266
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I agree with Danny Kelly where it's

550
00:22:52,346 --> 00:22:53,746
Speaker 5: kind of flipped. I feel like you used to take

551
00:22:53,746 --> 00:22:55,626
Speaker 5: your top running back in the first round and then

552
00:22:55,666 --> 00:22:57,746
Speaker 5: you get a great receiver in the second. Now it's

553
00:22:57,786 --> 00:22:59,866
Speaker 5: basically you can pretty much get an elite receiver in

554
00:22:59,866 --> 00:23:02,106
Speaker 5: the first round. You come back around Tony Pollard, Josh Jacobs,

555
00:23:02,146 --> 00:23:04,706
Speaker 5: Derrick Henry, Nick Chubb, baby Sake one those guys used

556
00:23:04,706 --> 00:23:06,106
Speaker 5: to go in the first It's kind of like the

557
00:23:06,626 --> 00:23:09,466
Speaker 5: top twenty top twenty four, but now just the receivers

558
00:23:09,466 --> 00:23:11,986
Speaker 5: and running backs have flipped spots. That's like the simplest

559
00:23:11,986 --> 00:23:12,666
Speaker 5: way to explain it.

560
00:23:12,626 --> 00:23:15,586
Speaker 4: Because everybody realized that wide receivers exactly. You know, running

561
00:23:15,586 --> 00:23:17,106
Speaker 4: backs get hurt all the time, and you can you know,

562
00:23:17,186 --> 00:23:20,506
Speaker 4: you can depend right time. Justin Jefferson, your Tyree Kills,

563
00:23:20,506 --> 00:23:22,866
Speaker 4: your Jamar Chase is like, if you if you don't

564
00:23:22,866 --> 00:23:24,466
Speaker 4: want to lose your draft in the first round, you

565
00:23:24,466 --> 00:23:25,786
Speaker 4: take a wide receiver because you know, by the end

566
00:23:25,786 --> 00:23:27,306
Speaker 4: of the year, odds are one of the guys you

567
00:23:27,386 --> 00:23:28,986
Speaker 4: draft in the top five is probably gonna finish in

568
00:23:28,986 --> 00:23:29,506
Speaker 4: the top five.

569
00:23:29,826 --> 00:23:31,746
Speaker 1: Yeah. And what about quarterbacks. I know you said that

570
00:23:31,786 --> 00:23:34,146
Speaker 1: you want elite, Like, is it crazy to take Josh

571
00:23:34,146 --> 00:23:36,186
Speaker 1: Allen or Jalen Hurts in the first round this year?

572
00:23:37,066 --> 00:23:41,586
Speaker 5: First? Yeah, second, first round. We start our rank you

573
00:23:41,586 --> 00:23:43,866
Speaker 5: have Fantasy Football doc threear dot com. We have our rankings.

574
00:23:43,906 --> 00:23:45,786
Speaker 5: We have a top two hundred of upsides downsts for

575
00:23:45,786 --> 00:23:46,306
Speaker 5: every player.

576
00:23:46,866 --> 00:23:46,946
Speaker 7: Uh.

577
00:23:47,066 --> 00:23:48,986
Speaker 5: And the bottom line and all these guys basically is

578
00:23:49,306 --> 00:23:51,346
Speaker 5: we have our quarterbacks right around the third round. Basically

579
00:23:51,386 --> 00:23:55,386
Speaker 5: we've got basically a couple dozen truly special players. It's

580
00:23:55,586 --> 00:23:57,586
Speaker 5: Travis Kelcey and a bunch of running backs, receivers, and

581
00:23:57,626 --> 00:24:01,426
Speaker 5: then at that point, as Craig said, locking those quarterbacks

582
00:24:01,466 --> 00:24:05,906
Speaker 5: where you're basically getting an elite floor. Jalen Hurts eighteen

583
00:24:05,986 --> 00:24:08,786
Speaker 5: rushing touchdowns in eighteen games last year, included the playoffs.

584
00:24:08,866 --> 00:24:11,666
Speaker 5: The floor, not just the ceiling, is crazy. Josh Allen

585
00:24:11,706 --> 00:24:13,066
Speaker 5: the running you know, he could lead the league in

586
00:24:13,146 --> 00:24:16,146
Speaker 5: rushing touchdowns or receiving or passing touchdowns. And Mahomes is

587
00:24:16,146 --> 00:24:18,986
Speaker 5: Mahomes And I think that at that point, elite floors

588
00:24:19,066 --> 00:24:21,706
Speaker 5: in the first few rounds, and then after that you're

589
00:24:21,786 --> 00:24:25,746
Speaker 5: chasing elite ceilings. So if you miss out on Mahomes, Hurts, Allen,

590
00:24:26,506 --> 00:24:29,066
Speaker 5: Justin Fields, Lamar Jackson in this new offense is an

591
00:24:29,106 --> 00:24:32,306
Speaker 5: elite ceiling. Trevor Lawrence, Justin Herbert. Those guys have truly

592
00:24:32,306 --> 00:24:34,706
Speaker 5: elite potential. And I think that if you're stacking that

593
00:24:34,986 --> 00:24:37,826
Speaker 5: at quarterback, Darren Waller has an elite ceiling at tight end,

594
00:24:38,026 --> 00:24:40,146
Speaker 5: and I think that's you know, Scott Barrett has done

595
00:24:40,146 --> 00:24:42,626
Speaker 5: great stuff at a great website called Fantasy Points, where

596
00:24:42,866 --> 00:24:45,666
Speaker 5: elite ceilings win you your league, they win weeks, they win leagues.

597
00:24:45,706 --> 00:24:48,666
Speaker 5: And I think elite floors in the first three rounds

598
00:24:48,746 --> 00:24:50,826
Speaker 5: and then next making up where you didn't get it

599
00:24:51,106 --> 00:24:52,146
Speaker 5: with elite ceilings.

600
00:24:52,546 --> 00:24:55,146
Speaker 1: Where are you guys at d Kale started? Where are

601
00:24:55,146 --> 00:24:56,866
Speaker 1: you guys at with Kyle Pitts? I think everyone took

602
00:24:56,946 --> 00:24:58,866
Speaker 1: him in the first round or second round last year

603
00:24:58,946 --> 00:25:00,866
Speaker 1: and now like it's almost like, yeah, you wouldn't be

604
00:25:00,866 --> 00:25:02,826
Speaker 1: able to touch them, you know, it's like how could you?

605
00:25:03,346 --> 00:25:05,986
Speaker 6: I think at least for Craig and I think we

606
00:25:06,066 --> 00:25:08,026
Speaker 6: kind of hate him at this point, like nothing that

607
00:25:08,066 --> 00:25:10,626
Speaker 6: he's actually done personally that is his fault.

608
00:25:11,026 --> 00:25:11,626
Speaker 3: It's just is.

609
00:25:11,626 --> 00:25:13,586
Speaker 1: Someone else's problem. You have them.

610
00:25:13,586 --> 00:25:16,626
Speaker 7: I don't exactly. I'm just like washing my hands of

611
00:25:16,746 --> 00:25:17,786
Speaker 7: that toxic.

612
00:25:17,506 --> 00:25:18,986
Speaker 3: Relationship that I don't want to be a part of it.

613
00:25:19,026 --> 00:25:20,386
Speaker 6: I just don't want to have to deal. I don't

614
00:25:20,386 --> 00:25:22,226
Speaker 6: want to have to think about him anymore. He might

615
00:25:22,266 --> 00:25:23,666
Speaker 6: be the best tight end in the NFL.

616
00:25:24,466 --> 00:25:26,626
Speaker 1: Gotch Like I hope it for him, I don't.

617
00:25:27,386 --> 00:25:30,226
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it's one of the best, one of

618
00:25:30,226 --> 00:25:30,986
Speaker 5: the best parts.

619
00:25:31,226 --> 00:25:33,986
Speaker 6: I'm unfriend I'm like unfriending him on Facebook so I

620
00:25:34,026 --> 00:25:35,186
Speaker 6: don't have to look at his feet.

621
00:25:35,226 --> 00:25:37,386
Speaker 5: You know this is like, yeah, you mentioned Facebook, I

622
00:25:37,426 --> 00:25:39,066
Speaker 5: got it. You know well, I think one of the

623
00:25:39,066 --> 00:25:41,706
Speaker 5: best most charming aspects of our, of the three of

624
00:25:41,786 --> 00:25:44,666
Speaker 5: us dynamic, is that DK, in his older wisdom, now

625
00:25:44,706 --> 00:25:47,106
Speaker 5: that he's in his forties, doesn't have the energy, doesn't

626
00:25:47,306 --> 00:25:50,466
Speaker 5: allow toxic people in his life, and doesn't Michael Thomas.

627
00:25:51,066 --> 00:25:54,266
Speaker 5: You know, Kyle fits people who just are kind of

628
00:25:54,306 --> 00:25:56,306
Speaker 5: a drain on your energy. DK, just like I don't,

629
00:25:56,386 --> 00:25:57,906
Speaker 5: I can't. I don't time for you anymore.

630
00:25:58,066 --> 00:26:04,706
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, quickly, I'm gonna go around you guys,

631
00:26:04,706 --> 00:26:06,346
Speaker 1: tell me yay or na. I'm gonna mention some things

632
00:26:06,426 --> 00:26:08,666
Speaker 1: about fantasy football. I'm gonna put you on the spot

633
00:26:09,066 --> 00:26:14,986
Speaker 1: Craig will start with you auction draft yay or nay? Yay,

634
00:26:15,146 --> 00:26:17,666
Speaker 1: you gotta do it, explain, make the case for why

635
00:26:17,706 --> 00:26:20,346
Speaker 1: someone should just scrap the old snake draft. That takes

636
00:26:20,426 --> 00:26:22,346
Speaker 1: one minute and is you know, easy enough to do

637
00:26:22,506 --> 00:26:24,866
Speaker 1: to go to the auction thing which seems unbearable.

638
00:26:25,866 --> 00:26:28,506
Speaker 4: Let's say Justin Jefferson's your favorite player in fantasy football,

639
00:26:28,626 --> 00:26:30,546
Speaker 4: and then you're eagerly awaiting what draft pick you're going

640
00:26:30,586 --> 00:26:32,306
Speaker 4: to get. You're praying you get the first or second pick,

641
00:26:32,346 --> 00:26:34,586
Speaker 4: and then the hat, the name gets drawn out of

642
00:26:34,626 --> 00:26:36,546
Speaker 4: the hat and you have the tenth that terrible feeling

643
00:26:36,626 --> 00:26:38,186
Speaker 4: of well, I guess I want to have Justin Jefferson

644
00:26:38,186 --> 00:26:40,226
Speaker 4: this year. That doesn't happen. In an auction draft. You

645
00:26:40,226 --> 00:26:41,786
Speaker 4: can spend your money on any player you want. You

646
00:26:41,826 --> 00:26:44,306
Speaker 4: can get Justin Jefferson and Christian mcaffor you want. It's

647
00:26:44,306 --> 00:26:47,506
Speaker 4: a lot more flexibility every single every single pick you

648
00:26:47,546 --> 00:26:48,266
Speaker 4: are involved in.

649
00:26:48,386 --> 00:26:50,026
Speaker 3: I love it, okay, DK.

650
00:26:50,906 --> 00:26:53,866
Speaker 1: Individual defensive players are we yay or nay?

651
00:26:55,706 --> 00:26:57,146
Speaker 7: I've been a nay on that one.

652
00:26:57,306 --> 00:27:00,186
Speaker 6: I just it's hard enough, like keeping track of all

653
00:27:00,306 --> 00:27:01,146
Speaker 6: offensive players.

654
00:27:01,386 --> 00:27:02,706
Speaker 7: I don't know, like adding all that.

655
00:27:02,666 --> 00:27:04,506
Speaker 6: To to the to the plate is a bit much

656
00:27:04,506 --> 00:27:06,106
Speaker 6: for me. I just I don't track it enough and

657
00:27:06,146 --> 00:27:08,066
Speaker 6: I've ever really done it. I'm an old I'm an

658
00:27:08,106 --> 00:27:09,706
Speaker 6: old guy. Can't teach me new tricks.

659
00:27:09,706 --> 00:27:10,226
Speaker 7: I don't really know.

660
00:27:10,266 --> 00:27:11,106
Speaker 3: I'm not into Danny.

661
00:27:11,146 --> 00:27:15,026
Speaker 1: Two quarterback leagues where there's two quarterbacks starting in yay.

662
00:27:14,946 --> 00:27:17,626
Speaker 5: Or nay, I'm totally in. At the end of the day,

663
00:27:17,706 --> 00:27:20,146
Speaker 5: It's very, very silly to me that in real life

664
00:27:20,266 --> 00:27:23,066
Speaker 5: running backs can't get paid, and like, you know, Jonathan

665
00:27:23,106 --> 00:27:25,346
Speaker 5: Taylor isn't getting a contract, Will Jim er Say's trying

666
00:27:25,346 --> 00:27:27,626
Speaker 5: to fly in Orca to see world for twenty million dollars.

667
00:27:27,746 --> 00:27:30,026
Speaker 5: But in fantasy we have running back like ten twelve

668
00:27:30,066 --> 00:27:32,426
Speaker 5: running backs come off the board for Patrick Mahomes And

669
00:27:32,426 --> 00:27:35,106
Speaker 5: at two quarterback league, you know the first Pixar Patrick Mahomes,

670
00:27:35,146 --> 00:27:37,106
Speaker 5: Josh Allen, Jalen Hurts. That's real life. So I like

671
00:27:37,146 --> 00:27:38,026
Speaker 5: two quarterback leagues.

672
00:27:38,706 --> 00:27:43,866
Speaker 1: I love that. Craig ten team leagues, Yeah or nay.

673
00:27:43,906 --> 00:27:44,706
Speaker 1: It seems very light.

674
00:27:45,626 --> 00:27:48,146
Speaker 4: That's as light as well go. Eight is ridiculous. Ten

675
00:27:48,826 --> 00:27:50,786
Speaker 4: is where I draw the line. Ten is okay, twelve

676
00:27:50,826 --> 00:27:52,746
Speaker 4: is ideal, fourteen is fine, sixteen is too.

677
00:27:52,666 --> 00:27:58,746
Speaker 1: Big, okay, DK non PPR leagues where we don't keep

678
00:27:58,866 --> 00:28:00,146
Speaker 1: track of receptions.

679
00:28:00,146 --> 00:28:01,586
Speaker 3: We just do yards.

680
00:28:02,666 --> 00:28:06,746
Speaker 6: Strongly against Yeah, archaics totally here.

681
00:28:08,586 --> 00:28:10,586
Speaker 3: All right, if you're into that, I hate.

682
00:28:10,346 --> 00:28:10,706
Speaker 5: You, Danny.

683
00:28:10,746 --> 00:28:13,146
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you one that my league that is

684
00:28:13,186 --> 00:28:14,986
Speaker 1: a bit of part of for twenty three years. We

685
00:28:15,066 --> 00:28:17,546
Speaker 1: don't do flex. We don't believe in it. We think

686
00:28:17,586 --> 00:28:21,506
Speaker 1: it's silly. There's no such thing flex, Danny hiex flex position,

687
00:28:21,546 --> 00:28:23,586
Speaker 1: which seems like such a bailout. Yeah, r nay.

688
00:28:24,026 --> 00:28:25,146
Speaker 5: I love no flex.

689
00:28:25,186 --> 00:28:26,866
Speaker 3: We leading the witness.

690
00:28:27,946 --> 00:28:28,866
Speaker 1: What is flex?

691
00:28:29,066 --> 00:28:29,506
Speaker 6: I love it.

692
00:28:29,706 --> 00:28:33,426
Speaker 5: It's the dumbest This is a great take. It's like,

693
00:28:33,466 --> 00:28:34,666
Speaker 5: be decisive. Who are you?

694
00:28:34,706 --> 00:28:36,106
Speaker 3: Never know what flex would be good for?

695
00:28:36,186 --> 00:28:38,066
Speaker 5: Flex should be like the four players who are like

696
00:28:38,106 --> 00:28:40,706
Speaker 5: quarter old Patterson can plain in the flex. That's it.

697
00:28:40,786 --> 00:28:42,906
Speaker 3: Sure, the actual.

698
00:28:44,066 --> 00:28:47,866
Speaker 1: Patterson, Taysom Hill, and Jamier Gibbs can be flex. I

699
00:28:47,906 --> 00:28:50,386
Speaker 1: hate the flex. I never heard of the flex until

700
00:28:50,426 --> 00:28:51,946
Speaker 1: like I came on a Good Morning Football and I

701
00:28:51,986 --> 00:28:53,346
Speaker 1: come on hearing the word flex. But what the heck

702
00:28:53,386 --> 00:28:55,186
Speaker 1: is flex? They're like, well, it could be any position.

703
00:28:55,186 --> 00:28:58,066
Speaker 1: It's take a wildcard, Like, well, that's not real. It's

704
00:28:58,146 --> 00:28:58,906
Speaker 1: the dumbest thing.

705
00:28:59,026 --> 00:29:00,746
Speaker 7: I love this flex, all right.

706
00:29:00,866 --> 00:29:05,786
Speaker 1: Team defenses counting, Craig, Yeah, your nay, I go back

707
00:29:05,826 --> 00:29:06,306
Speaker 1: and forth.

708
00:29:06,506 --> 00:29:07,226
Speaker 3: I'm fine with it.

709
00:29:07,266 --> 00:29:09,906
Speaker 4: I prefer a team defense over a kicker, So if

710
00:29:09,946 --> 00:29:11,186
Speaker 4: I had to choose, I'd take the defense.

711
00:29:11,306 --> 00:29:14,146
Speaker 1: Fun the route for a defense, Okay, DK, I'll ask

712
00:29:14,186 --> 00:29:17,546
Speaker 1: you counting every little thing, like a two point conversion

713
00:29:17,586 --> 00:29:21,706
Speaker 1: has a metric, or a batted down pass has a metric.

714
00:29:21,826 --> 00:29:24,506
Speaker 1: Like at some point there's got to be a limited the.

715
00:29:24,466 --> 00:29:26,826
Speaker 3: Forty yard completion bones, Yes, I hate that.

716
00:29:27,146 --> 00:29:27,986
Speaker 1: Yes, sorry, I'm judging.

717
00:29:28,466 --> 00:29:29,386
Speaker 7: I was going to bring that up.

718
00:29:29,426 --> 00:29:31,946
Speaker 6: No, I was gonna say the like you get a

719
00:29:31,946 --> 00:29:34,226
Speaker 6: bonus for having one hundred yards. This is I've played

720
00:29:34,226 --> 00:29:35,786
Speaker 6: in a few leagues where like a running back, if you.

721
00:29:35,746 --> 00:29:37,906
Speaker 7: Gets one hundred yards gets a bonus. I think there's a.

722
00:29:38,186 --> 00:29:40,066
Speaker 6: Time and a place for it for my home league,

723
00:29:40,106 --> 00:29:42,306
Speaker 6: for like most of my leagues, I don't really want that.

724
00:29:42,466 --> 00:29:44,546
Speaker 6: I do think it's fun to like sprinkle that in

725
00:29:44,626 --> 00:29:45,866
Speaker 6: every once in a while if you're like in a

726
00:29:45,906 --> 00:29:49,306
Speaker 6: tournament or something like that. But generally speaking, I like

727
00:29:49,426 --> 00:29:51,546
Speaker 6: pretty standard scoring setting that DK.

728
00:29:52,186 --> 00:29:54,706
Speaker 4: How many of your twenty three leagues are do you

729
00:29:54,786 --> 00:29:56,066
Speaker 4: use the one hundred yard.

730
00:29:55,946 --> 00:30:00,426
Speaker 6: Bonus probably none, right now, Okay, I would say I'm

731
00:30:00,466 --> 00:30:02,546
Speaker 6: open to it in like one or two leagues, just

732
00:30:02,586 --> 00:30:03,386
Speaker 6: because to.

733
00:30:03,346 --> 00:30:04,346
Speaker 7: Mix it up and make it fun.

734
00:30:04,426 --> 00:30:07,546
Speaker 1: All right, DK, I'm gonna go back on that one

735
00:30:07,546 --> 00:30:09,466
Speaker 1: with you. I just heard twenty three leagues. I know

736
00:30:09,506 --> 00:30:10,306
Speaker 1: it's being sarcastic.

737
00:30:11,666 --> 00:30:12,986
Speaker 5: He actually is in twenty three weeks.

738
00:30:13,066 --> 00:30:14,426
Speaker 3: Actually he's in twenty two.

739
00:30:14,746 --> 00:30:19,866
Speaker 5: Pandemics like Sanity Project was just drafting Dynasty Fantasy not fun.

740
00:30:19,906 --> 00:30:20,466
Speaker 1: It's not fun.

741
00:30:21,266 --> 00:30:22,906
Speaker 5: It's fully talking about it.

742
00:30:23,866 --> 00:30:25,866
Speaker 1: Fun about that, And the whole point of it is

743
00:30:25,866 --> 00:30:28,306
Speaker 1: you have a player in the league I found, and

744
00:30:28,346 --> 00:30:30,146
Speaker 1: you're rooting against every player in the league.

745
00:30:30,586 --> 00:30:32,586
Speaker 6: But yeah, I mean I have so many I have

746
00:30:32,626 --> 00:30:34,586
Speaker 6: so many players on my teams that I'm like.

747
00:30:34,666 --> 00:30:36,946
Speaker 1: But in your head, which team is which? I feel

748
00:30:36,986 --> 00:30:38,506
Speaker 1: like I wouldn't know who to root for.

749
00:30:39,626 --> 00:30:42,946
Speaker 6: No, So you just I will say, here's the qualifier.

750
00:30:42,986 --> 00:30:45,746
Speaker 6: Here's the qualifier. Ninety five for cent of my teams

751
00:30:45,746 --> 00:30:49,266
Speaker 6: are dynasty leagues. So it's not day to day stuff

752
00:30:49,266 --> 00:30:50,746
Speaker 6: that you're doing. There's not a bunch of guys in

753
00:30:50,786 --> 00:30:53,546
Speaker 6: the waiver wire. Typically it's like you draft a team

754
00:30:53,626 --> 00:30:55,986
Speaker 6: and you develop it over years, but you're not It's

755
00:30:55,986 --> 00:30:58,426
Speaker 6: not like I'm spending a lot of time on this roster.

756
00:30:58,546 --> 00:30:59,666
Speaker 7: Can I day out you know what I mean?

757
00:30:59,666 --> 00:31:01,546
Speaker 4: Can I unveil a hot take on you guys right now?

758
00:31:01,666 --> 00:31:01,946
Speaker 1: Yes?

759
00:31:03,146 --> 00:31:06,386
Speaker 3: I'm out on dynasty leagues? Me too, Boom.

760
00:31:07,826 --> 00:31:09,706
Speaker 4: You know what the best part about fantasy football is

761
00:31:09,746 --> 00:31:10,386
Speaker 4: the draft.

762
00:31:10,466 --> 00:31:13,106
Speaker 6: Craig, You're in my dynasty league and time on it.

763
00:31:13,226 --> 00:31:14,106
Speaker 3: He's playing it.

764
00:31:14,146 --> 00:31:14,906
Speaker 1: He doesn't like it.

765
00:31:15,626 --> 00:31:16,066
Speaker 3: Oh cool?

766
00:31:16,626 --> 00:31:18,946
Speaker 4: I get to draft a fourth round run with you.

767
00:31:20,026 --> 00:31:21,786
Speaker 1: I get this question all the time. Should I keep

768
00:31:21,826 --> 00:31:23,706
Speaker 1: two out of these seven players? I don't know? Draft

769
00:31:23,706 --> 00:31:24,906
Speaker 1: a new team. I don't like it.

770
00:31:25,626 --> 00:31:26,426
Speaker 3: Draft a new team.

771
00:31:26,426 --> 00:31:28,546
Speaker 4: I don't want to be parsing through six round rookies

772
00:31:28,586 --> 00:31:29,746
Speaker 4: to figure out who has value.

773
00:31:29,746 --> 00:31:32,226
Speaker 3: That sounds terrible. You know. I want to draft Patrick Mahomes.

774
00:31:32,226 --> 00:31:33,786
Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you.

775
00:31:33,866 --> 00:31:36,066
Speaker 3: That's fun, Danny, Danny high Fetz.

776
00:31:37,386 --> 00:31:41,946
Speaker 1: People who draft in person versus people who draft online,

777
00:31:42,066 --> 00:31:44,146
Speaker 1: and the rift there of the arrogance and I'm an

778
00:31:44,146 --> 00:31:46,386
Speaker 1: on person guy, of those who roll their eyes at

779
00:31:46,386 --> 00:31:48,586
Speaker 1: those who are in a Yahoo Yahoo draft room and

780
00:31:48,626 --> 00:31:50,026
Speaker 1: consider that a fantasy league go on?

781
00:31:50,986 --> 00:31:51,426
Speaker 7: All right?

782
00:31:51,586 --> 00:31:53,746
Speaker 5: So this is this gets to what we were saying

783
00:31:53,746 --> 00:31:56,946
Speaker 5: earlier about like fantasy football is about keeping in touch

784
00:31:56,946 --> 00:31:59,386
Speaker 5: with your friends people different places. Obviously can't control that.

785
00:31:59,506 --> 00:32:01,666
Speaker 5: You always want to draft in person if you can.

786
00:32:01,906 --> 00:32:03,866
Speaker 5: If it's your friend group, you want to be in person.

787
00:32:04,026 --> 00:32:05,786
Speaker 5: It's incredible. At the very least, though, you have to

788
00:32:05,826 --> 00:32:08,266
Speaker 5: show up for the dre You can't auto draft. Got

789
00:32:08,346 --> 00:32:11,706
Speaker 5: auto draft? Is it? Look? If you have children, you

790
00:32:11,746 --> 00:32:14,266
Speaker 5: too understand. It's better than me. We can talk wedding.

791
00:32:14,426 --> 00:32:17,026
Speaker 5: Otherwise it's weddings and funerals. Or you better be there,

792
00:32:17,106 --> 00:32:18,306
Speaker 5: even even.

793
00:32:18,106 --> 00:32:21,186
Speaker 1: If it's on zoom. That's okay. You just can't auto draft.

794
00:32:21,226 --> 00:32:23,146
Speaker 1: That's unaccepted. It's un America, I think.

795
00:32:23,306 --> 00:32:23,666
Speaker 3: Correct.

796
00:32:23,746 --> 00:32:26,906
Speaker 1: No, the hardest part of any league, and you know

797
00:32:27,026 --> 00:32:29,226
Speaker 1: now we're just going off because I got so many thoughts.

798
00:32:29,426 --> 00:32:31,906
Speaker 1: The hardest part of any any league is finding a

799
00:32:32,026 --> 00:32:35,146
Speaker 1: draft time that works for everyone. If you get one

800
00:32:35,146 --> 00:32:37,946
Speaker 1: of those Google doodles going and everyone you come up

801
00:32:37,986 --> 00:32:39,946
Speaker 1: with one time, I don't care if it's five o'clock

802
00:32:39,986 --> 00:32:42,706
Speaker 1: on a Wednesday, you better not the day of say

803
00:32:42,746 --> 00:32:44,306
Speaker 1: I just can't make it. That's unacceptable.

804
00:32:44,346 --> 00:32:44,626
Speaker 5: You're out.

805
00:32:44,666 --> 00:32:46,106
Speaker 1: You're out. We will find a replacement.

806
00:32:46,426 --> 00:32:49,586
Speaker 4: The two people can also pay your league dues before

807
00:32:49,586 --> 00:32:51,746
Speaker 4: the draft. If you're a commissioner of a league, require

808
00:32:51,786 --> 00:32:53,946
Speaker 4: everyone to pay their league dues or they can not trist.

809
00:32:53,746 --> 00:32:55,386
Speaker 1: Is that a thing people pay the league? Do you

810
00:32:55,386 --> 00:32:58,386
Speaker 1: get to chase them down for the for the vendors.

811
00:32:57,826 --> 00:33:00,266
Speaker 4: Yeah, I gotta go hire like a fixer. I gotta

812
00:33:00,266 --> 00:33:01,986
Speaker 4: go hire Ray Donovan to go get the money from

813
00:33:01,986 --> 00:33:02,346
Speaker 4: this guy.

814
00:33:03,986 --> 00:33:05,066
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's always one of them.

815
00:33:05,346 --> 00:33:08,146
Speaker 5: There are two people I hate in a fantasy league.

816
00:33:08,346 --> 00:33:10,026
Speaker 5: I feel like Austin Powers and I'm like, there's two

817
00:33:10,106 --> 00:33:11,626
Speaker 5: kinds of people I hate in this world. Yeah, but

818
00:33:12,226 --> 00:33:15,186
Speaker 5: what the people who don't fill out that doodle, as

819
00:33:15,186 --> 00:33:17,586
Speaker 5: you were saying, and then at the end, once like

820
00:33:17,706 --> 00:33:19,746
Speaker 5: nine people can make it, you're like, oh, that day

821
00:33:19,746 --> 00:33:22,226
Speaker 5: doesn't work for me. My mother's visiting, And I'm like, dude,

822
00:33:22,266 --> 00:33:24,586
Speaker 5: that's what we made the doodle for. The Other one

823
00:33:24,626 --> 00:33:27,546
Speaker 5: is the people who think that they get to veto

824
00:33:27,666 --> 00:33:31,866
Speaker 5: other people's trades just grinds my gears. Like in real life,

825
00:33:31,946 --> 00:33:33,426
Speaker 5: where I don't know if you've noticed, there's a lot

826
00:33:33,466 --> 00:33:36,346
Speaker 5: more stakes to the real life sports leagues. There's been

827
00:33:36,386 --> 00:33:39,586
Speaker 5: one vetoed trade in our lifetime, and it was the

828
00:33:39,666 --> 00:33:42,626
Speaker 5: Chris Paul trade because the NBA owned the league. Office

829
00:33:42,706 --> 00:33:44,546
Speaker 5: owned the team and they were like, all right, this

830
00:33:44,626 --> 00:33:47,946
Speaker 5: is weird. Literally, like thousands of real life trades have

831
00:33:47,986 --> 00:33:50,266
Speaker 5: been made. They all go through this is America. You

832
00:33:50,306 --> 00:33:52,386
Speaker 5: have the right to be stupid and make dumb decisions.

833
00:33:52,426 --> 00:33:54,666
Speaker 5: It's not your job to run other people's stuff it.

834
00:33:54,786 --> 00:33:58,386
Speaker 1: I love it real quick. There's a whole craze in

835
00:33:58,386 --> 00:34:01,786
Speaker 1: the last ten years of like punishments and making it

836
00:34:01,826 --> 00:34:04,706
Speaker 1: go viral. And this guy ate a waffle every day,

837
00:34:04,786 --> 00:34:06,786
Speaker 1: every hour for twenty four hours. This guy I had

838
00:34:06,786 --> 00:34:08,906
Speaker 1: to poop in a sandwich and eat it and we

839
00:34:08,946 --> 00:34:12,586
Speaker 1: all laughed and we put it on YouTube too. Sophomore

840
00:34:12,866 --> 00:34:15,586
Speaker 1: silly or you guys all for this craig, We'll start with.

841
00:34:15,546 --> 00:34:17,306
Speaker 4: You if you're coming to me.

842
00:34:17,346 --> 00:34:21,586
Speaker 3: It's definitely not too sophomore. I don't know how other

843
00:34:21,626 --> 00:34:23,666
Speaker 3: people feel, but I'm all for it.

844
00:34:23,706 --> 00:34:25,786
Speaker 4: In our league right now, are the current rule is

845
00:34:25,826 --> 00:34:28,906
Speaker 4: we have the loser on the trip next year. He's

846
00:34:28,906 --> 00:34:32,546
Speaker 4: our butler and he has to wear a outfit hell

847
00:34:32,746 --> 00:34:35,146
Speaker 4: the whole weekend. He like serves us food and he

848
00:34:35,186 --> 00:34:38,106
Speaker 4: gets the worst bed. And I'm all for it, you know.

849
00:34:38,186 --> 00:34:40,466
Speaker 4: And we've actually employed a last place tournament at the

850
00:34:40,506 --> 00:34:42,106
Speaker 4: end of the year for all the guys whose teams

851
00:34:42,146 --> 00:34:44,746
Speaker 4: suck in like weeks twelve through seventeen, we have a

852
00:34:44,826 --> 00:34:47,226
Speaker 4: last place tournament to determine who gets last. So I

853
00:34:47,266 --> 00:34:49,666
Speaker 4: think last place is just as fun and as first

854
00:34:49,706 --> 00:34:52,306
Speaker 4: place in terms of end of year suspense.

855
00:34:52,706 --> 00:34:54,986
Speaker 1: DK, what's the craziest thing you've heard in that regard?

856
00:34:55,026 --> 00:34:57,866
Speaker 1: I mean they come up every year, they're more and more.

857
00:34:58,986 --> 00:35:02,426
Speaker 6: Man there's I had a couple of friends who under

858
00:35:02,426 --> 00:35:06,186
Speaker 6: their leagues, they're like punishment for last place was yet

859
00:35:06,226 --> 00:35:08,666
Speaker 6: the to go like be a busker on like a

860
00:35:08,746 --> 00:35:11,706
Speaker 6: sidewalk and like play music and and try and get

861
00:35:12,066 --> 00:35:15,986
Speaker 6: tips and things like like what's a busker is like

862
00:35:16,026 --> 00:35:18,426
Speaker 6: when you're like you're on the corner, like playing like

863
00:35:18,546 --> 00:35:19,826
Speaker 6: music and like try to make.

864
00:35:19,746 --> 00:35:27,666
Speaker 3: Money that way. The open guitar, I want to.

865
00:35:27,626 --> 00:35:29,066
Speaker 6: I want to tell you one great I want to

866
00:35:29,106 --> 00:35:30,826
Speaker 6: tell you one great rule that we have in in

867
00:35:30,826 --> 00:35:33,186
Speaker 6: one of my leagues is if you get a zero

868
00:35:33,826 --> 00:35:36,906
Speaker 6: in any of your spots in any given week, you

869
00:35:37,586 --> 00:35:38,426
Speaker 6: like a player.

870
00:35:38,546 --> 00:35:41,306
Speaker 1: Like a guy got to help change your lineup?

871
00:35:41,506 --> 00:35:44,786
Speaker 6: Yeah, goose egg. Yeah you have to shot. You have

872
00:35:44,826 --> 00:35:47,066
Speaker 6: to record yourself shotgunning a beer and send it to

873
00:35:47,106 --> 00:35:49,306
Speaker 6: the rest of the league, and that I think is

874
00:35:49,346 --> 00:35:50,986
Speaker 6: one of the more fun rules.

875
00:35:50,666 --> 00:35:51,906
Speaker 7: That I have in any of my links.

876
00:35:52,346 --> 00:35:55,346
Speaker 1: Like it, Danny yourself, the craziest thing you've.

877
00:35:55,186 --> 00:35:57,586
Speaker 5: Heard, there's some I mean the craziest stuff is there

878
00:35:57,626 --> 00:35:59,426
Speaker 5: are people who there are leagues that you have to

879
00:35:59,426 --> 00:36:01,826
Speaker 5: get it to too. I mean, that's crazy that. That

880
00:36:01,906 --> 00:36:03,746
Speaker 5: to me is the wildest, the wildest one we do.

881
00:36:03,866 --> 00:36:05,986
Speaker 5: The one that I think works the best, and even

882
00:36:06,066 --> 00:36:07,866
Speaker 5: as you get is our league gets a beer mile

883
00:36:08,106 --> 00:36:11,346
Speaker 5: because we Thanksgiving, there's always a We do a flag

884
00:36:11,346 --> 00:36:14,026
Speaker 5: football game on Black Friday. And it's funny because as

885
00:36:14,026 --> 00:36:16,546
Speaker 5: everyone gets older, the game gets earlier and people show

886
00:36:16,586 --> 00:36:18,506
Speaker 5: up with more knee braces and everyone's stretching more and

887
00:36:18,506 --> 00:36:21,506
Speaker 5: more of a year. But then at the end, thy brother, yes, wait,

888
00:36:21,746 --> 00:36:23,266
Speaker 5: at the end of the game, though, we do the

889
00:36:23,306 --> 00:36:25,866
Speaker 5: beer mile, which is great because there's like me who's

890
00:36:25,906 --> 00:36:27,346
Speaker 5: not the most fleet to foot, but I can drink

891
00:36:27,386 --> 00:36:29,226
Speaker 5: a beer versus like this guy who ran a four

892
00:36:29,226 --> 00:36:31,346
Speaker 5: and a half minute mile in college but like can't

893
00:36:31,466 --> 00:36:33,986
Speaker 5: chug and like, all right, this is actually even now.

894
00:36:34,306 --> 00:36:34,786
Speaker 1: That's good.

895
00:36:35,226 --> 00:36:35,666
Speaker 3: I like that.

896
00:36:36,106 --> 00:36:38,586
Speaker 1: Craig correct me if I'm wrong. Bill Simmons is league

897
00:36:38,626 --> 00:36:43,346
Speaker 1: and they always talk about the Shakey's League. Yeah, the

898
00:36:43,386 --> 00:36:46,546
Speaker 1: winner gets to vote off any person in the league

899
00:36:46,586 --> 00:36:47,986
Speaker 1: and they have to miss a year. Right, I think

900
00:36:47,986 --> 00:36:48,946
Speaker 1: that's pretty drastic.

901
00:36:49,026 --> 00:36:50,066
Speaker 5: This is the funniest one.

902
00:36:50,146 --> 00:36:52,706
Speaker 4: Yes, so it's a twelve it's a twelve team league,

903
00:36:52,706 --> 00:36:56,306
Speaker 4: but there's but there's thirteen members and every year, thirteen

904
00:36:56,386 --> 00:36:58,906
Speaker 4: people have to show up to the draft and the

905
00:36:58,906 --> 00:37:01,746
Speaker 4: previous year's winner then sits down like a dictator and

906
00:37:01,786 --> 00:37:04,146
Speaker 4: goes you you're out, and they have to get up

907
00:37:04,186 --> 00:37:05,466
Speaker 4: and leave the draft.

908
00:37:05,506 --> 00:37:07,706
Speaker 1: I'm not kidding. I guess it was during the pandemic

909
00:37:07,706 --> 00:37:09,786
Speaker 1: and I was listening to Simmons a lot, like twenty

910
00:37:09,826 --> 00:37:12,026
Speaker 1: twenty maybe twenty twenty one, and I think there was

911
00:37:12,066 --> 00:37:14,786
Speaker 1: real friction between him and Sal over it. It felt like,

912
00:37:14,866 --> 00:37:18,386
Speaker 1: oh there was salout and Sal was very angry.

913
00:37:19,466 --> 00:37:19,946
Speaker 3: Bill.

914
00:37:19,946 --> 00:37:21,986
Speaker 4: Well, when Bill got voted out one year, he started

915
00:37:21,986 --> 00:37:22,626
Speaker 4: a new league.

916
00:37:22,746 --> 00:37:26,506
Speaker 3: Bill was.

917
00:37:27,586 --> 00:37:29,506
Speaker 5: I'm not just saying this because you know, we worked

918
00:37:29,546 --> 00:37:32,106
Speaker 5: for Bill Simmons. I think I actually think Sal must

919
00:37:32,106 --> 00:37:33,866
Speaker 5: have come up with that. I think that is the

920
00:37:34,066 --> 00:37:36,306
Speaker 5: that is the rule that I actually think it is

921
00:37:36,346 --> 00:37:39,146
Speaker 5: the best. It is incredible, it's.

922
00:37:38,986 --> 00:37:41,946
Speaker 1: So good, and they, yeah, that's great. All right, guys,

923
00:37:41,946 --> 00:37:46,026
Speaker 1: we're wrapping. Uh, fantasy football is on the way. Where

924
00:37:46,026 --> 00:37:49,386
Speaker 1: can we find the podcast? And what is it called?

925
00:37:49,426 --> 00:37:51,106
Speaker 1: Craig for everyone who listens to this one and wants

926
00:37:51,146 --> 00:37:53,986
Speaker 1: their hardcore football news but had a draft this weekend

927
00:37:53,986 --> 00:37:55,626
Speaker 1: and is like, wait a second, my pants are not

928
00:37:55,706 --> 00:37:57,986
Speaker 1: ready for this. I need to get ready. Where would

929
00:37:58,026 --> 00:37:58,546
Speaker 1: you go for it?

930
00:37:59,026 --> 00:37:59,266
Speaker 3: Yeah?

931
00:37:59,306 --> 00:38:01,466
Speaker 4: Sure, the show is called The Ringer Fantasy Football Show.

932
00:38:01,466 --> 00:38:04,626
Speaker 4: It's anywhere you can find podcast. We prefer Spotify. There's

933
00:38:04,666 --> 00:38:07,266
Speaker 4: a lot of fun features on there. You can look

934
00:38:07,266 --> 00:38:09,586
Speaker 4: at our guide while you listen. But yeah, The Ringer

935
00:38:09,626 --> 00:38:11,706
Speaker 4: Fantasy Football Show with us three three days a week

936
00:38:11,746 --> 00:38:13,186
Speaker 4: and four days a week during the season.

937
00:38:13,386 --> 00:38:16,266
Speaker 1: I wish you guys well for Danny Hifetz, Danny Kelly,

938
00:38:16,306 --> 00:38:18,466
Speaker 1: Craig horlback, guys, this is awesome. We really appreciate you

939
00:38:18,546 --> 00:38:19,346
Speaker 1: coming on. This is great.

940
00:38:19,386 --> 00:38:20,586
Speaker 7: Thanks Pete, love you, Shregs.

941
00:38:20,626 --> 00:38:21,386
Speaker 3: Thanks for having us.

942
00:38:21,626 --> 00:38:23,986
Speaker 1: I love those guys. I think they're cool, they're funny,

943
00:38:24,066 --> 00:38:26,306
Speaker 1: and they've got a great friendship that you can tell.

944
00:38:26,666 --> 00:38:29,266
Speaker 1: And that's the key to any show or podcast, And

945
00:38:29,706 --> 00:38:32,386
Speaker 1: obviously fantasy football is the thread that keeps them all

946
00:38:32,426 --> 00:38:34,746
Speaker 1: together and going with the pod. But Their podcast talks

947
00:38:34,786 --> 00:38:38,426
Speaker 1: about all different sorts of topics, including movies. Aaron, I'm

948
00:38:38,466 --> 00:38:43,026
Speaker 1: going to tell you in nineteen ninety nine, I was

949
00:38:44,066 --> 00:38:47,186
Speaker 1: in a fantasy football league with my friends from high

950
00:38:47,266 --> 00:38:50,866
Speaker 1: school at the time, and I signed after week one

951
00:38:51,826 --> 00:38:56,066
Speaker 1: a gentleman named Kurt Warner, and I went on to

952
00:38:56,186 --> 00:38:59,506
Speaker 1: have a team that had Kurt Warner. Isaac Bruce, I

953
00:38:59,586 --> 00:39:02,386
Speaker 1: think I had Terrell Owens on that team. And I

954
00:39:02,506 --> 00:39:06,066
Speaker 1: tore up my fantasy league and ran away with a victory.

955
00:39:06,506 --> 00:39:09,186
Speaker 1: And I will tell you that is still one of

956
00:39:09,266 --> 00:39:12,146
Speaker 1: my greatest achievements, the amount of points that my team

957
00:39:12,186 --> 00:39:15,266
Speaker 1: won by in the East Coast Stream Team league back

958
00:39:15,306 --> 00:39:17,226
Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety nine with all my buddies from Freehill

959
00:39:17,226 --> 00:39:21,746
Speaker 1: Township High School. That is the importance of fantasy football.

960
00:39:22,146 --> 00:39:24,786
Speaker 1: It brings you back to nineteen ninety nine and we're

961
00:39:24,786 --> 00:39:27,986
Speaker 1: here in twenty twenty three. That's me. Do you have

962
00:39:28,026 --> 00:39:30,986
Speaker 1: a fantasy league, Aaron. Wan Kaufman, my producer who I know,

963
00:39:31,666 --> 00:39:33,706
Speaker 1: has a lot of interest and it's very eclectic. Does

964
00:39:33,706 --> 00:39:37,026
Speaker 1: fantasy football fill in the ven diagram shaded area of

965
00:39:37,066 --> 00:39:37,426
Speaker 1: you and me?

966
00:39:38,146 --> 00:39:42,586
Speaker 2: Yeah, very much so. I actually got into fantasy same

967
00:39:42,626 --> 00:39:45,386
Speaker 2: thing with a bunch of friends from high school, middle school.

968
00:39:45,906 --> 00:39:48,826
Speaker 2: Then also like the same year when I was starting,

969
00:39:48,866 --> 00:39:50,906
Speaker 2: that one also started two others.

970
00:39:50,946 --> 00:39:52,866
Speaker 1: So I had like three leagues.

971
00:39:52,546 --> 00:39:56,906
Speaker 2: In my very first year of playing Fantasy. And my

972
00:39:57,026 --> 00:39:59,786
Speaker 2: favorite part, like the guys were saying like you were saying,

973
00:39:59,866 --> 00:40:02,746
Speaker 2: is just keeping in touch with friends and like sending emails.

974
00:40:02,906 --> 00:40:05,986
Speaker 2: And we have won my league with like the high

975
00:40:05,986 --> 00:40:09,506
Speaker 2: school school friends, the four of us that are like

976
00:40:09,546 --> 00:40:12,626
Speaker 2: the tightest one of the guys has still not won,

977
00:40:12,746 --> 00:40:14,146
Speaker 2: even though he's the one who's.

978
00:40:14,026 --> 00:40:15,666
Speaker 1: This is like fifteen years you guys have been in

979
00:40:15,706 --> 00:40:16,146
Speaker 1: this right.

980
00:40:16,106 --> 00:40:19,346
Speaker 2: It is yes, yep, and it is just a I

981
00:40:19,426 --> 00:40:21,906
Speaker 2: just I never let him forget it. It's always just

982
00:40:21,946 --> 00:40:23,906
Speaker 2: like in the chat, I'm like, oh wait, isn't there

983
00:40:23,946 --> 00:40:26,626
Speaker 2: someone here who's never won our league. I forget which

984
00:40:26,626 --> 00:40:27,466
Speaker 2: one of us it is.

985
00:40:28,186 --> 00:40:30,546
Speaker 1: I do have strong takes, as you could hear, like

986
00:40:30,626 --> 00:40:34,426
Speaker 1: I really resent the auto draft thing. I think that's real,

987
00:40:34,586 --> 00:40:36,506
Speaker 1: Like if you can't give me two seconds of your time,

988
00:40:36,626 --> 00:40:39,866
Speaker 1: then you don't belong in our league. I actually look

989
00:40:39,946 --> 00:40:42,106
Speaker 1: in my whole life, I was in one league. I

990
00:40:42,186 --> 00:40:44,306
Speaker 1: hate the idea that people don't get together, and I

991
00:40:44,346 --> 00:40:46,146
Speaker 1: know that's selfish. And now that I've got a family,

992
00:40:46,146 --> 00:40:48,506
Speaker 1: it's nearly impossible, like on the weekend. But like, I

993
00:40:48,546 --> 00:40:51,146
Speaker 1: hate these leagues that it's just random people that you

994
00:40:51,186 --> 00:40:53,506
Speaker 1: don't know, and Danny said he has. When Danny said

995
00:40:53,546 --> 00:40:55,226
Speaker 1: he's in twenty three leagues, I almost wanted to like

996
00:40:55,306 --> 00:40:57,226
Speaker 1: chop my hand off. That was the crazy, like that

997
00:40:57,346 --> 00:40:58,666
Speaker 1: is not fun. That sounds like hell.

998
00:40:59,426 --> 00:41:02,626
Speaker 2: I have decreased the number that I've been in and

999
00:41:02,706 --> 00:41:07,066
Speaker 2: especially like the more that I've worked with NFL all stuff,

1000
00:41:07,506 --> 00:41:09,706
Speaker 2: the less I want to be in those leagues because

1001
00:41:09,746 --> 00:41:11,866
Speaker 2: it's just it, it is too much to keep track

1002
00:41:11,906 --> 00:41:13,986
Speaker 2: of and like you were saying, at some point, you

1003
00:41:14,306 --> 00:41:17,426
Speaker 2: are rooting for every player and against every player, and

1004
00:41:17,466 --> 00:41:20,706
Speaker 2: it's like I need I need Jonathan Taylor Discord, but

1005
00:41:20,786 --> 00:41:24,266
Speaker 2: not more than sixteen, but he can't do more than seventeen. Yeah,

1006
00:41:24,306 --> 00:41:28,546
Speaker 2: it's it's wild. But yeah, the I've been really lucky

1007
00:41:28,586 --> 00:41:30,106
Speaker 2: that you know, we've had a couple of drafts that

1008
00:41:30,146 --> 00:41:32,306
Speaker 2: have been in person. But I have I have one

1009
00:41:32,346 --> 00:41:35,546
Speaker 2: friend who's a doctor and he one time he did

1010
00:41:35,586 --> 00:41:40,866
Speaker 2: a draft, like hope, so during that run in and out, yeah,

1011
00:41:40,946 --> 00:41:43,466
Speaker 2: not during surgery, but he was like on call and

1012
00:41:43,466 --> 00:41:46,226
Speaker 2: would like run in and out of the like doctor

1013
00:41:47,466 --> 00:41:48,946
Speaker 2: rest area that they have. I don't even know what

1014
00:41:48,986 --> 00:41:51,226
Speaker 2: it's called, but he was like in the hospital doing

1015
00:41:51,226 --> 00:41:51,706
Speaker 2: the draft.

1016
00:41:51,986 --> 00:41:55,346
Speaker 1: I also it's a I think it's like it's like

1017
00:41:55,506 --> 00:41:58,706
Speaker 1: I don't give a about anyone else's fantasy league either.

1018
00:41:58,746 --> 00:42:00,346
Speaker 1: Like when someone comes up to me and starts talking

1019
00:42:00,346 --> 00:42:02,946
Speaker 1: to me about their team, I you, there is nothing

1020
00:42:02,946 --> 00:42:07,186
Speaker 1: I'd rather talk about mathematics or like the future of algebra.

1021
00:42:07,706 --> 00:42:10,386
Speaker 1: I don't care. I know it sounds rude. I do

1022
00:42:10,426 --> 00:42:12,986
Speaker 1: not care, and it's the question I get the most.

1023
00:42:13,106 --> 00:42:16,306
Speaker 1: If I'm ever recognized on the street or in an airport,

1024
00:42:16,346 --> 00:42:18,466
Speaker 1: someone will shove their phone in my face and they'll

1025
00:42:18,466 --> 00:42:20,826
Speaker 1: be like, who would you start this week? And I'm like,

1026
00:42:20,866 --> 00:42:23,546
Speaker 1: I don't care, don't care, and I'm really rude. Sometimes

1027
00:42:23,626 --> 00:42:26,786
Speaker 1: on Twitter or someone will be like Shrag's PPR league

1028
00:42:26,786 --> 00:42:29,106
Speaker 1: twelve teams flex and I just right back, don't care,

1029
00:42:29,666 --> 00:42:32,866
Speaker 1: don't care. I don't I don't care, And that's my

1030
00:42:32,946 --> 00:42:33,426
Speaker 1: take on that.

1031
00:42:33,906 --> 00:42:35,426
Speaker 2: I'll be sure to text you during one of my

1032
00:42:35,506 --> 00:42:37,906
Speaker 2: drafts and ask you, I mean, tregger, I got I

1033
00:42:37,946 --> 00:42:41,066
Speaker 2: got a twelve front's sleeper for me here. I do

1034
00:42:41,386 --> 00:42:44,986
Speaker 2: care about my friend's leagues or my friend's team. If

1035
00:42:44,986 --> 00:42:47,786
Speaker 2: it's I'm in the league too, then I care because

1036
00:42:47,786 --> 00:42:48,466
Speaker 2: I wanted to do poor.

1037
00:42:48,586 --> 00:42:50,066
Speaker 1: The best is when you know you're in a live

1038
00:42:50,146 --> 00:42:52,586
Speaker 1: draft with your friends and there's one guy, and again

1039
00:42:52,946 --> 00:42:55,106
Speaker 1: not an advocate of bullying, but there's one guy that

1040
00:42:55,146 --> 00:42:58,186
Speaker 1: no matter who he takes, everyone will go eh, and

1041
00:42:58,226 --> 00:43:01,666
Speaker 1: it's like no, no, no, no, no, like it just constantly. Yeah,

1042
00:43:01,786 --> 00:43:05,506
Speaker 1: that's it, Aaron, Good luck in your fantasy drafts. I

1043
00:43:05,506 --> 00:43:07,386
Speaker 1: think we time this. I think they're going to be

1044
00:43:07,386 --> 00:43:09,306
Speaker 1: this weekend, next weekend, and then of course up until

1045
00:43:09,346 --> 00:43:12,066
Speaker 1: Labor Day weekend. But with preseason and full swing, now

1046
00:43:12,146 --> 00:43:16,546
Speaker 1: is the time the rare fantasy football podcast. We went there,

1047
00:43:16,586 --> 00:43:18,866
Speaker 1: I chartered those waters, and I'll tell you what I

1048
00:43:18,906 --> 00:43:22,106
Speaker 1: think we survived. Thanks for joining, buddy, Have a good weekend.

1049
00:43:22,306 --> 00:43:25,066
Speaker 1: Let's go all right on behalf of Aaron and all

1050
00:43:25,066 --> 00:43:28,746
Speaker 1: the crew here in New York and La enjoy your weekend.

1051
00:43:28,826 --> 00:43:29,266
Speaker 3: Everybody.

1052
00:43:29,266 --> 00:43:40,506
Speaker 8: Football regular season is almost here.

1053
00:43:48,786 --> 00:43:51,506
Speaker 1: The Season with Peter Schrager is a production of the

1054
00:43:51,666 --> 00:43:55,626
Speaker 1: NFL and partnership with iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio,

1055
00:43:55,706 --> 00:44:00,946
Speaker 1: visit the iHeartRadio app Apple Podcasts wherever you get your podcasts,