Speaker 1: Welcome to the solid verbal coll that for me, I'm a.
Speaker 2: Man, I'm forty.
Speaker 1: I've heard so many players say, well, I want to
Speaker 1: be happy.
Speaker 2: You want to be happy for Dake Edith State is
Speaker 2: that whoo whoom? And Dan and Tye welcome back to
Speaker 2: the solid verb of boys and girls. My name is
Speaker 2: ty hilden Brandt, joining me as always over there in
Speaker 2: beautiful New York City. My man, the one and only
Speaker 2: Dan Rubinstein, Sir, how are you.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty good, Ty, I am pretty good. I am
Speaker 1: pretty pumped as well to bookend the regular season, even
Speaker 1: though we're into February. Now, we've done this and it's
Speaker 1: been among our more contentious shows in the past. It has, actually,
Speaker 1: and for that reason, we have sort of assigned the
Speaker 1: grating and the evaluation to I think the soliverbal subreddit.
Speaker 1: But I am quite excited to not just review fantasy things,
Speaker 1: and I guess in a way review the season in
Speaker 1: our own way. This is our the most personal microscope
Speaker 1: we could peer into.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 1: But I'm also excited to in retrospect, almost like you
Speaker 1: see the Let's redraft, the two thousand and eight NFL Draft.
Speaker 1: I'm almost in retrospect. We're not going to redraft fantasy things,
Speaker 1: but look at the items that in retrospect should have
Speaker 1: been considered as multi million dollar plays. So the excitement
Speaker 1: level in me is up to the brim right now.
Speaker 2: Me as well. I went through these earlier today in
Speaker 2: preparation for the show, and I'm excited to walk back
Speaker 2: through them as well. Hello, how are you? I'm tie
Speaker 2: He's Dan again. This is the Solid Verbal College Football Podcast.
Speaker 2: You can find all of our work out on solidverbal
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Speaker 2: Just hit the subscribe button. We will be coming your
Speaker 2: way once a week, at least once a week, I
Speaker 2: should say, for the full duration of the college ball
Speaker 2: off season. As we get closer to the season, we'll
Speaker 2: start previewing teams, we'll start ramping up, but lord knows,
Speaker 2: we've got a long ways to go before we get there.
Speaker 2: In the meantime, we do fun stuff like this which
Speaker 2: we're going to talk through today, which is our Fantasy
Speaker 2: Things recap or our Fantasy Things retrospective, whatever you would
Speaker 2: like to call it. Yeah, here is the genesis of this.
Speaker 2: Now I realize we may have some new listeners who
Speaker 2: didn't have the benefit of going back and listening to
Speaker 2: our Fantasy Things shows. But for those people who might
Speaker 2: be new to the show, even within the last year,
Speaker 2: maybe they heard the Fantasy Things.
Speaker 1: First of all, how dare you cover us sooner?
Speaker 2: Yes? Continue, But if you are in that category, let's
Speaker 2: give the folks kind of a look back at how
Speaker 2: we got to this idea to begin with, because we
Speaker 2: used to do something else, right, Yeah, we used.
Speaker 1: To do the verbies after the season. That was fun
Speaker 1: for a good chunk of time, and then we've just
Speaker 1: sort of adjusted and taken on a new adventure of
Speaker 1: how to how we look back back and ahead of
Speaker 1: the season. And it's the Fantasy Things draft, And we
Speaker 1: just draft narratives or storylines or things that cliches, very
Speaker 1: repeatable items that we foresee happening for the whatever fifteen
Speaker 1: or so weeks of the regular season and after the season.
Speaker 1: In the past, we've said, okay, we'll grade at one
Speaker 1: through five or one through three for each item and
Speaker 1: add everything up and see who did a better job
Speaker 1: of drafting these items. And I got accused of bullying you, Yep,
Speaker 1: I got it.
Speaker 2: I got accused of being an aggressive beta male and
Speaker 2: that's not standing my ground against you.
Speaker 1: Look, a lot of smart people listen to this show.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say, I'm not going to name, but
Speaker 1: we we know the demographics. We have a lot of
Speaker 1: people who do quite well with UH in the field
Speaker 1: of intelligence. Field of intelligence. Yeah. Yeah, So we left
Speaker 1: it up to our Palpeter who runs the excellent soliverble
Speaker 1: dot reddit dot com, and the people on the subreddit
Speaker 1: to do their own grading. As the season went on. Okay,
Speaker 1: this thing happened, this thing happened, this thing didn't happen,
Speaker 1: and they tally it up at the end of the
Speaker 1: season and lo and behold, you did win. Now, I
Speaker 1: think there were some hanging chats.
Speaker 2: Okay, we're going to talk about this because I did
Speaker 2: make I did make a few notes, and of course,
Speaker 2: being so we host the show, perhaps we have the
Speaker 2: ability to overrule sure some of the results. I'm not
Speaker 2: saying I'm leaning that way, but I come into this
Speaker 2: with an open mind. So we're going to go through
Speaker 2: all of our picks. As Dan said, we used to
Speaker 2: do the verbies. We decided to move into this fantasy
Speaker 2: things realm. And the cool thing about the fantasy things
Speaker 2: is it actually lends itself very well to live audience.
Speaker 2: It's one of those things that we could take the road.
Speaker 1: This year.
Speaker 2: We did it twice on the road in the same weekend,
Speaker 2: and it just it plays very well for a live
Speaker 2: crowd because it's fun and it's it's forward looking and
Speaker 2: gets people kind of in the mindset of college football. Also,
Speaker 2: it's not too inside baseball. So like if we do
Speaker 2: it again this year, which we most likely will, with
Speaker 2: fantasy things and some other select city, you can bring
Speaker 2: a friend or a loved one or a significant other whoever,
Speaker 2: even if they're not super duper into college football, and
Speaker 2: our point of view is that they'll still have a
Speaker 2: pretty good time. That's at least been the general feedback.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and we do a Q and A and a
Speaker 1: lot of times. There are chicken tenders available that you
Speaker 1: can eat with tie. You guys can dunk it and
Speaker 1: sort of a lady in the tramp style can offers that,
Speaker 1: and the most loyal over ballers. Yes, and we should
Speaker 1: if this is fully opening up the cone of honesty.
Speaker 1: Sometimes we put items in there that we think are
Speaker 1: just going to be very fun to talk about in
Speaker 1: one of a live audience. That we don't actually think
Speaker 1: are going to hit every week what we did this year.
Speaker 1: So it's the equivalent of doing it for the gram
Speaker 1: for doing it doing it for the fan.
Speaker 2: Oh absolutely no. I mean, if you really want to
Speaker 2: peer into the cone of honesty. It was a heavy
Speaker 2: lift for us this year because we decided to do
Speaker 2: two live shows in one weekend, which is never something
Speaker 2: we had really even thought about doing. It just worked
Speaker 2: out that way. We knew we wanted to get to Texas,
Speaker 2: we knew we wanted to get to d C, and
Speaker 2: that was just sort of the way it worked out.
Speaker 2: I was panic stricken, to be honest, I was panic stricken.
Speaker 2: I was panic stricken because we made the decision that
Speaker 2: we were going to do two separate shows. It wasn't
Speaker 2: going to be like a comedy act where you do
Speaker 2: the same thing on two consecutive nights. We made the
Speaker 2: collective decision we were going to do two separate shows
Speaker 2: with two different sets of content. And I guess I
Speaker 2: wasn't panic stricken because I didn't think we could come
Speaker 2: up with the content. I knew we could do that,
Speaker 2: but it was just a lot. It was a lot
Speaker 2: to try and stuff into a forty eight hour stretch,
Speaker 2: and it took me a while to kind of take
Speaker 2: a deep breath. And I guess that nap before we
Speaker 2: went on in DC because we were both pretty cooked.
Speaker 2: But I think the DC Show and the Dallas Show
Speaker 2: both came out magnificently well. Our items here, which we're
Speaker 2: going to talk through momentarily, were awesome. And I guess
Speaker 2: the most important thing is we'll start this conversation from
Speaker 2: the point of Tie fifty three. Dan forty nine is
Speaker 2: your final score.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and by the way, if you had, if you
Speaker 1: drafted Tie and down talk about themselves for the first
Speaker 1: seven minutes of the show. Congratulations, your fantasy theme Fantasy
Speaker 1: Things team is thriving. And next year our Fantasy Things
Speaker 1: will just be other people drafting things they expect us
Speaker 1: to say during the season. It's very nigh. Tye is
Speaker 1: bullish on Kyle Hamilton and hates that he loves TCU.
Speaker 1: Huh yeah, points again, So let's start.
Speaker 2: Let's start with that. Let's start with our Dallas show. Yeah,
Speaker 2: great time, great time. Almo draft House a little bit
Speaker 2: outside Dallas but close enough.
Speaker 1: Heavy A and M contingent loved it.
Speaker 2: Heavy A and M contingent for sure. Here was my
Speaker 2: list of six selections in Dallas. Yeah, Urban Meyer coaching
Speaker 2: rumors teaching Mac Brown the Old Dog new Tricks, and
Speaker 2: I had that in quotes that you need to say
Speaker 2: both old Dog and new tricks. We needed to hear
Speaker 2: that on the broadcast in order for.
Speaker 1: I love that pick.
Speaker 2: The network cutting to storm Radar during a lightning delay.
Speaker 1: That was great. That was great rogue.
Speaker 2: Coaching hair which is always a favorite.
Speaker 1: Yeah, not as robust this season, but still good.
Speaker 2: Broadcaster promo excitement. And the example that I cited was
Speaker 2: Doug Flutie and his seeming infatuation for the Manifest Show
Speaker 2: on NBC still on the air, allegedly I haven't seen it, okay.
Speaker 2: And then finally the Marching Band comes out to plays
Speaker 2: to Old Town Road.
Speaker 1: Just killer, just a killer. That was not only your pick,
Speaker 1: but that was your contribution, one of your contributions to
Speaker 1: the selection bank.
Speaker 2: And I believe you tried to talk me out of
Speaker 2: that one.
Speaker 1: It was really good. I was flat out wrong.
Speaker 2: You tried to talk me out of that one, Dan
Speaker 2: so or.
Speaker 1: Maybe it was it was game gamesmanship tie that I.
Speaker 2: Could have been could have been a little reverse psychology shirt.
Speaker 1: Yeah, something like.
Speaker 2: That in Dallas for you, you had a player who's
Speaker 2: got a little bit of Baker Mayfield in him.
Speaker 1: I think this should have tripled every week. I think
Speaker 1: it's such a good submission. It's such it was such
Speaker 1: good on our part, sort of reading the landscape of
Speaker 1: how people talk about the twenty I guess nineteen season
Speaker 1: that even if it happened once a week, it should
Speaker 1: have counted. Quintupple, it was so good and so spot on.
Speaker 1: Let me shooting my own horn.
Speaker 2: Let me read through the other five. We'll start with
Speaker 2: the Baker Mayfield once. I have some stuff to say
Speaker 2: on that. But you also had sudden broadcast CATASTROPHEES, which
Speaker 2: is something goes wrong with the broadcast. Yeah, LSU has
Speaker 2: sleep pods. Marty Smith commits to a bit one pick before.
Speaker 2: You have broadcast talent promoting a non household brand, which
Speaker 2: also features Marty Smith in many respects.
Speaker 1: Marty Smith actually pops up in a number of these
Speaker 1: and it's I couldn't be more.
Speaker 2: Marty Smith tweeted about the LSU sleeppods too.
Speaker 1: The crossover, but it's Marty Smith is the crossover event.
Speaker 1: Unlike anything you've ever seen.
Speaker 2: And finally you had small school disrespected, and we'll talk
Speaker 2: about that one, but let's let's let's go back to
Speaker 2: the Baker Mayfield thing. So this was a real fun
Speaker 2: one for us because you know, you hear it all
Speaker 2: the time. There's always we did it on the show
Speaker 2: we did a week ago where we're trying to compare
Speaker 2: some of the incoming recruits to maybe their pro equivalents.
Speaker 2: And every now and again you have a guy who's
Speaker 2: got a very select skill set like Baker Mayfield. Let's say,
Speaker 2: you know, not just his ability to scramble around in
Speaker 2: the pocket and make throws, but plays with a little
Speaker 2: bit of an edge and a little bit of Baker Mayfield,
Speaker 2: and he's an underdog.
Speaker 1: There's an underdog mentality to him.
Speaker 2: Underdog mentallity. You always hear variations of this. Someone on
Speaker 2: the subreddit posted that Sean Clifford had a little bit
Speaker 2: of trace mcsorlely in him. That was a quote, like,
Speaker 2: you hear this kind of thing all the time, but
Speaker 2: specifically with regard to Baker Mayfield, this was something that
Speaker 2: happened a fair amount. You pulled some awesome examples in
Speaker 2: the show in Dallas. Other sport, cross sport, softball, players, politicians,
Speaker 2: you name it, people who had a little bit of
Speaker 2: Baker Mayfield in them. I have Brett Gabbert here as
Speaker 2: just a random mac example from Miami, Ohio, who was
Speaker 2: listed to have had a little bit of Maker, a
Speaker 2: little bit of I can't even say it, a little
Speaker 2: bit of Baker Mayfield in him. And this was not
Speaker 2: the most popular selection. It didn't get you the most points,
Speaker 2: but I think of all the ones we did, this
Speaker 2: was my favorite because it was something that it was
Speaker 2: easy for us to repeat week in and week out
Speaker 2: and just have fun with.
Speaker 1: Yeah. It was also the idea of saying, comparing a
Speaker 1: player you're not familiar with to a player you know
Speaker 1: very well at that point because he had been a
Speaker 1: star for however many years, three years. There was something
Speaker 1: like almost Hollywood pitchy about it, where you're saying, Okay,
Speaker 1: this movie I'm pitching is Can't Hardly Wait meets Fast
Speaker 1: and the Furious, Like you're not sure exactly what that means,
Speaker 1: but you're familiar with sort of the body of work.
Speaker 1: So that really played well for us.
Speaker 2: Of the other ones here that are that are on
Speaker 2: your list, Yeah, the sudden broadcasting catastrophe actually happened a
Speaker 2: lot more than I expected.
Speaker 1: Of course it did.
Speaker 2: And the way the way that our good friend Peter
Speaker 2: chose to keep track of these over on the subreddit
Speaker 2: is he started a post every week and within the
Speaker 2: span of that week, if any of these items hit,
Speaker 2: and we'll go through the DC selections in a little bit, right,
Speaker 2: you would go out to the subreddit and you would
Speaker 2: make a post, you would create a citation, and then
Speaker 2: he added them up at the end. That's how he
Speaker 2: came to fifty three forty nine in favor of me.
Speaker 2: The most amazing thing is that every year we've done this,
Speaker 2: it's been ridiculously close. It's never like a blowout where
Speaker 2: you're killing me or it's always within a few points
Speaker 2: here and there. Right, sudden broadcast catastrophes happened a lot
Speaker 2: more than I thought. I did enjoy the thoughtful conversation
Speaker 2: out on the subreddit where folks were trying to figure
Speaker 2: out whether or not remember when the Sooner schooner crashed.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was great.
Speaker 2: They were trying to figure out Yeah, nobody's heard it, thankfully.
Speaker 2: They were trying to figure out if the Sooner Schooner
Speaker 2: crash should have counted here as a sudden broadcast catastrophe.
Speaker 1: And I don't think it should. No, I can't think
Speaker 1: it do with the broadcast itself. Elsewhere we had small
Speaker 1: school disrespected. So what this meant was a player maybe
Speaker 1: only got an offer from Boise State, right, and they
Speaker 1: call that out as a bad thing on a broadcast.
Speaker 2: It happened here and there. It wasn't nearly as popular
Speaker 2: as some of the other ones. Lsd' sleeppods are not
Speaker 2: do you any favors.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it really didn't seem because LSU decided to go
Speaker 1: ahead and do something a lot more newsworthy than have
Speaker 1: sleep pods. In my excellent at college football, the two.
Speaker 2: Though that I had probably more fun with than everything else,
Speaker 2: other than a little bit of Baker Mayfield in him
Speaker 2: and some of my own picks. Marty Smith committing to
Speaker 2: the bit Wow is less of a fantasy thing and
Speaker 2: more of a guiding precept for humanity at.
Speaker 1: This point, explain yourself.
Speaker 2: He's just always committing to the bit.
Speaker 1: I could not agree more. He is unironically, this is genuine.
Speaker 1: He was probably one of my I don't know three
Speaker 1: or four favorite college football personalities.
Speaker 2: Just really seers into it, and by what I mean
Speaker 2: everything just goes for it and kind of on the
Speaker 2: heels of that. Then you also had the selection of
Speaker 2: talent broadcast talent promoting an on household brand, and Marty
Speaker 2: Smith is also featured in an Eckage sausage commercials. Obviously
Speaker 2: that Academy Sports and Outdoor commercial. There were a couple
Speaker 2: other brands I think that were nipping on the heels
Speaker 2: of Marty Smith. He was only part of that. I
Speaker 2: saw someone else on the subreddit posted that quote. Just
Speaker 2: saw Jesse Palmer in a commercial selling mattresses for rooms
Speaker 2: to go, So broadcasters trying to get theirs.
Speaker 1: Would you like to hear my impression of Jesse Palmer's
Speaker 1: agent responding to requests to appear as a spokesperson? Go ahead, sure, yeah,
Speaker 1: uh huh yeah yeah. When did we shoot? Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: uh huh, let's do it. That thus concludes my impression.
Speaker 2: In general, I'd say your Dallas selections were way stronger
Speaker 2: than your DC selections in terms of points. I think
Speaker 2: the heart and soul was there in DC, but the
Speaker 2: points didn't follow. On my side, though, Irbi Meyer coaching
Speaker 2: rumors were a thing all year mm hmm. It was
Speaker 2: a safe pick.
Speaker 1: I didn't love the pick. I mean it was very safe.
Speaker 1: It just there was no zaz to that pick.
Speaker 2: I think that's fair. I think I said that actually
Speaker 2: in Dallas when I made the pick. Yeah, I knew
Speaker 2: it went with the safe pick.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's your penny with vodka sauce pick.
Speaker 2: I did not once hear anyone refer to mac Brown
Speaker 2: as the old dog trying to learn new tricks. But
Speaker 2: that was one of those that fell into the category
Speaker 2: of being very funny to do, yeah, in front of
Speaker 2: a live audience, totally separate from the fact that it
Speaker 2: might not garner me any points.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, A lot of attention went to Sam Howell
Speaker 1: went to the fact that mac Brown hired what looks
Speaker 1: to be a pretty good staff and has recruited pretty well.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it didn't quite fit with the season.
Speaker 2: Roague coaching here didn't go much of anywhere either.
Speaker 1: No, I mean, the Gundy mullet has been around now
Speaker 1: for a few years, so that's not crazy anymore. And
Speaker 1: Dana Holgerson his hair tends to like do the weird
Speaker 1: thorny crown situation and high winds. But Houston was off
Speaker 1: the radar enough that you know, people weren't too focused
Speaker 1: on it.
Speaker 2: But here's where I made my hay okay broadcaster promotional excitement.
Speaker 2: So this, I think falls into the same category as
Speaker 2: your selection of sudden broadcast catastrophes actually happened to Fairmount.
Speaker 2: And again, the genesis of this was Doug Flutie two
Speaker 2: years ago on the Notre Dame NBC broadcasts, just getting
Speaker 2: really into these promo spots that they'd have to do
Speaker 2: for this show called Manifest. I've never seen Manifest. Apparently
Speaker 2: Manifest is a fun show. I don't know it got
Speaker 2: season two. I don't know if it's been renewed for
Speaker 2: season three, don't really care. Flutie really got into it.
Speaker 2: What we saw happening this year from a broadcasting standpoint is,
Speaker 2: first off, other announcers getting excited about various network shows,
Speaker 2: be it NFL Primetime or something similar, or in the
Speaker 2: Fox case, announcers getting a little too into that WWE
Speaker 2: contract that they signed. That was not something that I
Speaker 2: really had on my when I made the selection, but
Speaker 2: given their new affiliation with WWE, there was a lot
Speaker 2: of excitement, a lot of excitement about that partnership and
Speaker 2: I think that was the reason that I got most
Speaker 2: of these points.
Speaker 1: One of the things I did notice because we were
Speaker 1: talking about, was an AMSHL manifest manifest Yeah, when I
Speaker 1: largely just watch football, some NBA and random shows that
Speaker 1: I hear are good and be it on HBO or Netflix,
Speaker 1: Prestige Television tie.
Speaker 2: Sure, so I lost track.
Speaker 1: I don't know what people watch, what people don't watch,
Speaker 1: what new shows are on, what shows are no longer on.
Speaker 1: Do you know what the number one non sports network
Speaker 1: TV show was of the twenty eighteen twenty nineteen season.
Speaker 2: Was nonsports network show?
Speaker 1: Yeah? So CBSABC, Fox, NBC, CW. That's what it's called. Now,
Speaker 1: is it a CSI, It's not a CSI.
Speaker 2: Is it on CBS?
Speaker 1: It is not on CBS. There are two shows that
Speaker 1: are tied. One is on NBC, one is on Fox.
Speaker 2: The Voice. No, okay, then I'm out. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Okay, you're out. So the Fox show is the Masked Singer.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's what they were promoting during the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: The number one TV show Okay and This is Us
Speaker 1: on NBC.
Speaker 2: Okay, good show, both of which.
Speaker 1: Had a three point eight rating. I don't know if
Speaker 1: that's yeah, it's eighteen to forty nine. So yeah, Doug
Speaker 1: Flutie is more Keton than we are, is what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Okay, well that's fair.
Speaker 1: Manifest in the top ten. Really, no, Manifest. Well, no,
Speaker 1: it's actually higher than that because if you remove Sunday
Speaker 1: Night Football, Thursday Night football, Monday Night football, it's number
Speaker 1: My mass is seven. Oh my good lord, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I'm glad you told me this because I was inclined
Speaker 2: to put Manifest in the bones category.
Speaker 1: Flute bump, total flute bump.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know where I stand on bones.
Speaker 1: Yeah, nobody watches it, but then it turns out everybody
Speaker 1: watches it, all right.
Speaker 2: Well, anyway, a lot of excitement over WB So that
Speaker 2: was one The network cutting the storm radar during a
Speaker 2: delay was actually not my submission into our larger pool
Speaker 2: of possible fantasy things. I think that was yours.
Speaker 1: And I was really bummed because we had a picture
Speaker 1: of Chris Cotter, who does a good job for ESPN,
Speaker 1: and it turns out he was he calling ACCT network. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it was was it a Matt Berry studio radar
Speaker 1: And I'm talking, not talking Matthew, Matt Matt b E
Speaker 1: R R I E.
Speaker 2: He was doing studio stuff, so assuming at some point
Speaker 2: he had to do a couple of radar hits.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I think he was the one hosting
Speaker 1: the like halftime shows on a random seven thirty ESPN game,
Speaker 1: right right, I think so? So Yeah, I think it
Speaker 1: was Matt Berry doing that. Was a bummer because I
Speaker 1: think Chris Cotter did just bang up job talking about
Speaker 1: about forty five minutes an hour. We'll see.
Speaker 2: I'm telling you. The best thing ever is Mike Turico
Speaker 2: reading the radar because.
Speaker 1: He put in the legwork.
Speaker 2: He puts in the leg work and seemingly has some
Speaker 2: meteorological knowledge. I love that he's talking about cells and
Speaker 2: updrafts and all sorts of weird weather stuff. But I
Speaker 2: didn't catch enough of that from Tarico this year. But
Speaker 2: this radar thing, especially in the early part of the season,
Speaker 2: happened a lot, happened a lot. I was able to
Speaker 2: snag that pick, which I was excited about, and then
Speaker 2: the other one in Dallas that frankly got me most
Speaker 2: of my points was Bands playing old Town Road. It's
Speaker 2: Killer Killer. I threw this one in there just as
Speaker 2: kind of like a cultural thing to prove that I'm
Speaker 2: among the people out there with the people.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's see you.
Speaker 2: This did unbelievably well. We were getting tweets each and
Speaker 2: every week about Old Town Road being played at some
Speaker 2: stadium by a band at halftime or after the third
Speaker 2: quarter or what have you. And yeah, so this one
Speaker 2: has sort of made it all worthwhile, just as kind
Speaker 2: of a throwaway pick. At the end of our first
Speaker 2: show in Dallas.
Speaker 1: It was great, It was great, And then what do
Speaker 1: I have? So that's okay, So you have old Town Road?
Speaker 1: That was me?
Speaker 2: Or you that was me? I had Old Town Road.
Speaker 1: You had Old Town Road in Dallas. Damn, that's a
Speaker 1: good pick. Okay.
Speaker 2: Next, So after that, we hopped on the bird early
Speaker 2: early the next day, early on a Sunday morning, and
Speaker 2: flew over to DC.
Speaker 1: Marylaz X is going to have another hit? Not on
Speaker 1: that level? Do you think it was too big? Like?
Speaker 1: Is it almost like a Macha arena who let the
Speaker 1: dogs out? Where It's just too much of a hook
Speaker 1: and it captured America in too aggressive a way to
Speaker 1: follow it up with anything.
Speaker 2: Well, see, so here's the thing. I was always inclined
Speaker 2: to say yes and then I watched the Grammys and
Speaker 2: I believe his album was nominated for Album of the Year.
Speaker 1: The full album. Yeah, oh okay, but did he have
Speaker 1: any other hits that got I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know. Yeah, I need to really like dig
Speaker 2: deep on this one. Yeah, but old Town Road is
Speaker 2: obviously the headliner played a lot in stadiums. Made me
Speaker 2: a lot of hay here in terms of points. So
Speaker 2: we hopped on the jet, flew over to DC. Did
Speaker 2: our show at Union Stage. Great show, fun show, awesome crowd,
Speaker 2: cool venue.
Speaker 1: We took those B twelve shots beforehand, ye, make sure
Speaker 1: we had the energy to go.
Speaker 2: I got deathly sick the day after. So here are
Speaker 2: our selections in DC. I'll start with you. Let's go
Speaker 2: through these one by one. Okay, Manny Diaz bringing the
Speaker 2: Swag back to Miami was your first pick in DC.
Speaker 1: It's a good preseason pick. I stand by it as
Speaker 1: a preseason pick, but it gambled a lot on Miami
Speaker 1: being good and him actually bringing that swag back and
Speaker 1: TBD ed Reid is now eployee of the Miami Hurricanes.
Speaker 1: I saw that chief of staff or something, head of
Speaker 1: player personnel, something along those lines. I we'll see it again, probably,
Speaker 1: but it's going to be more like it doesn't have
Speaker 1: that much time to bring the swag back.
Speaker 2: My favorite understated part of both of our live shows
Speaker 2: when we did these fantasy things was the graphics that
Speaker 2: we had for this one, because we went through and
Speaker 2: it was it Bruce's Twitter feed that we found like
Speaker 2: old Bruce tweets of oh.
Speaker 1: It's across the board.
Speaker 2: There was a lot of different people but Okay, I
Speaker 2: know Bruce has done it and he's not alone, but
Speaker 2: people who had written articles posted tweets about I've had
Speaker 2: a lot of somebody bringing swag back to Miami.
Speaker 1: It was like Bleacher Report this, SI that, ESPN this,
Speaker 1: and it was just like Al Golden bringing the swag back,
Speaker 1: Mark Richt bringing the swag back, Randy Shannon bringing the
Speaker 1: swag back. And this is just the latest latest episode.
Speaker 2: We also have crotchety transfer portal takes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so this one, I mean justin Fuente just said
Speaker 1: that they're not going to bring back players like. This
Speaker 1: is obviously after the regular season, so there have been
Speaker 1: some takes postseason. During the transfer portal time. I misevaluated
Speaker 1: the timing thinking that there was going to be more action.
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess there was in the first four
Speaker 1: weeks or so, but yeah, I did not do I
Speaker 1: didn't think it through. So there have been takes after
Speaker 1: the fact. But this actually hit probably hit better with coaches,
Speaker 1: and this may have been a previous year's selection coaches
Speaker 1: not being able to talk about technology or social media
Speaker 1: in sort of a clowny way, like Pat Fitzgerald saying
Speaker 1: my email address is like I don't care at Twitter
Speaker 1: dot com or whatever. He said it was great. I'm
Speaker 1: sure we got forty tweets. Yeah, all right.
Speaker 2: You also had team has lost on loop all off
Speaker 2: season in the weight room. This one did not get
Speaker 2: points as far as I could tell, not a lot
Speaker 2: of points anyway, right, another one of my favorites here.
Speaker 2: Usually it's something you hear an awful lot of and
Speaker 2: it was a hell of a lot of fun to
Speaker 2: do live, so at least from that aspect, it was successful,
Speaker 2: just not so much in terms of points.
Speaker 1: It happened. I think, I'm sure the team did play
Speaker 1: it a loss from the previous.
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm sure, we just need the announcers to talk
Speaker 2: about it.
Speaker 1: That's the problem. The next one I thought was going
Speaker 1: to do well too, and I don't think it did
Speaker 1: all that.
Speaker 2: Well an unusual major. So the backstory on this one
Speaker 2: is that it actually hit the cutting room floor from
Speaker 2: the live show we had done the previous year in Chicago.
Speaker 2: We had unusual Major on that list. It didn't make
Speaker 2: it into the final cut, and we immediately threw it
Speaker 2: up on our list for twenty nineteen. It was one
Speaker 2: of the first ones we picked. I feel like we
Speaker 2: signed it right away. We both liked that it's a
Speaker 2: ton of fun. We talked about the at School of
Speaker 2: Puppeteering puppetree whatever it's called. Now, got to talk about
Speaker 2: some fun stuff in that regard. But again, no points.
Speaker 1: But who's to say. Maybe every broadcast there was a
Speaker 1: key Yukon linebacker who was a four point zero puppetry student.
Speaker 1: But who's watching Yukon games. Who's verifying that for us?
Speaker 1: We do cast a wide net here, Dan, that's true. Okay.
Speaker 2: We have also a certain coach bringing an SEC mentality
Speaker 2: to a non SEC school. So this is a pretty
Speaker 2: close cousin of the defensive coordinator bringing the attacking, more
Speaker 2: aggressive mentality to his new defense. Yeah, this was just
Speaker 2: SEC mentality, which no one really knows what that means
Speaker 2: to a non sec school.
Speaker 1: Large dudes, perhaps over aggression on the recruiting trail. I
Speaker 1: sensed it a lot with Oregon, but I paid a
Speaker 1: lot of close attention to Oregon. I know this was
Speaker 1: also a melt Tucker type pick at Colorado. Him coming
Speaker 1: over from Georgia, I thought would play a role. I
Speaker 1: think it probably did well. It probably did better than
Speaker 1: I was given credit for.
Speaker 2: You think, yes, okay, so this would be one of
Speaker 2: your points of contention here.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 2: And then the last one that you got is actually
Speaker 2: the one that I think did the best from a
Speaker 2: points standpoint, And it was another one of these throwaway
Speaker 2: picks that we included at the end. I think I
Speaker 2: might have thrown this one in our player pool. Less
Speaker 2: Miles has a ring, yeah, or less Miles has a ring,
Speaker 2: you know. And the origin here, of course was less
Speaker 2: Miles hired by Kansas. Made a bit of a production
Speaker 2: out of this to get less Miles again. He's got
Speaker 2: the ring, He's coming to Kansas. No one really was
Speaker 2: sure how to feel about that, but we were confident
Speaker 2: that on many a broadcast we'd be hearing about Less
Speaker 2: Miles ring Kansas might stink, but less Miles still has
Speaker 2: the ring. It gives announcer something to talk about, and
Speaker 2: they talked about it an awful lot. It was the
Speaker 2: subject of an Athleck trivia question at one point.
Speaker 1: Nice.
Speaker 2: This was definitely a popular topic to discuss with regard
Speaker 2: to Kansas in Less Miles.
Speaker 1: Oh, terrific. I'm glad to hear it. I was very
Speaker 1: proud of that selection.
Speaker 2: Now on my side, here we go. I also feel
Speaker 2: like I had a bit of a down spell in DC. Okay,
Speaker 2: my biggest one was tiny field demonstrations. So this is
Speaker 2: how on every broadcast, at least the pregame the major
Speaker 2: pregame broadcasts, they decide to construct a field that somebody
Speaker 2: can go out there and show you how to run
Speaker 2: the plays like the Boys do. Yeah, but it's always
Speaker 2: way too small and guys are you know? Rob Stone
Speaker 2: is supposed to be the nose tackle and it's just
Speaker 2: like it doesn't really work the way it's supposed to.
Speaker 2: It's for demonstration purposes, only tiny field demos we threw
Speaker 2: out there. It was fitting for me because I also
Speaker 2: had the Urban Meyer coaching rumors from Dallas, and because
Speaker 2: of urban Meyer's participation on the Fox Show. He took
Speaker 2: part in many a tiny field demo. He did, so
Speaker 2: if you went heavy on Marty Smith, inadvertently I went
Speaker 2: heavy on Urban Meyer.
Speaker 1: But yeah, my way is a lot more fun.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah. Tiny field demos was probably my best selection
Speaker 2: in that DC show.
Speaker 1: Now, I don't know if it was counted. I have
Speaker 1: not gone granular and looked. But they went on the
Speaker 1: road some and I think at least one week they
Speaker 1: did a demo on the full field at Ohio Stadium.
Speaker 2: Oh really.
Speaker 1: They were like talking about Ohio State twists or something
Speaker 1: that the defensive line does, and they were showing it
Speaker 1: on the actual field. They used the regulation field as
Speaker 1: a tiny field. I don't know if that was counted.
Speaker 1: I'm okay with it.
Speaker 2: If it was, I don't feel that should No, no, no,
Speaker 2: I don't think it should.
Speaker 1: Really. I mean, they are they are not lining up
Speaker 1: with the appropriate.
Speaker 2: Splits, but it wasn't a tiny field.
Speaker 1: I guess it was not.
Speaker 2: That's a big field, Dan.
Speaker 1: It was not a diagram specific.
Speaker 2: Field, So we'll have to check the tapes on that one.
Speaker 1: By the way, something I also did like about the
Speaker 1: tiny field thing. Everybody at the desk it was largely Fox.
Speaker 1: Maybe there was some ESPN tiny fieldedge, but this is
Speaker 1: what Fox really leaned into. They would sit at the desk,
Speaker 1: Reggie Bush, Matt Lioner, Robstone. Who am I forgetting Urban Meyer?
Speaker 2: Urban Meyer?
Speaker 1: Was it just the four of them? Oh, Brady Quinn,
Speaker 1: Brady Quinn. So they'd sit at the desk. They're wearing
Speaker 1: their suits, they're put together really nicely. They go out
Speaker 1: to the tiny field. It's like, all right, jackets off.
Speaker 1: Fellas couldn't keep the jackets on, to just take a
Speaker 1: step in one direction. I was like, all right, we're
Speaker 1: rolling up our sleeves for this tiny field. Okay. Continue.
Speaker 2: I also had Trevor Lawrence draft stock. I didn't hear
Speaker 2: this mentioned once.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it was a rough start to the season
Speaker 1: for him, at least perception wise.
Speaker 2: Perception wise, Trevor Lawrence is going to have a very
Speaker 2: high draft stock. I'm still very confident of that. I
Speaker 2: don't care that they didn't win the National championship, but
Speaker 2: I I was all in on this one.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: My strategy was to go safe with my selections because,
Speaker 2: believe it or not, we've been doing this for three
Speaker 2: or four years now. I had yet to actually win
Speaker 2: a Fantasy Things cycle. So I was trying to go
Speaker 2: with what I what I thought was going to be safe.
Speaker 2: Trevor Lawrence's draft stock, especially on the heels of what
Speaker 2: he did as a freshman. You're thinking, Wow, people are
Speaker 2: gonna be talking. Should he sit out? Could he be
Speaker 2: the first overall pick? Now didn't hear it mentioned once
Speaker 2: and didn't see it mentioned at all in the subreddit,
Speaker 2: So that was a whiff on on my part.
Speaker 1: You essentially you walked into the Fantasy Things creamery and
Speaker 1: announced to everybody, sorbebe please.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 1: You went real, real simple.
Speaker 2: Okay, speaking of creamery, let's go to the Penn State
Speaker 2: item here. Okay, Now, late game James Franklin is a thing.
Speaker 2: It is very much a thing. I don't know if
Speaker 2: it was as much a thing this year. I don't
Speaker 2: think I got as many points from this as I expected.
Speaker 1: Where where does late game James apply this season? So
Speaker 1: it was the Minnesota game was a disaster in the
Speaker 1: first half and they crawled their way back and throw
Speaker 1: a late pick to lose. I don't think that.
Speaker 2: Was the Michigan game. The Michigan game was a good example. Threatened, Yeah,
Speaker 2: it was a good example of management.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then the what the Ohio State game? They
Speaker 1: make sort of close thanks to turnovers, but nobody's looking
Speaker 1: at that game and like, why couldn't was it will Levis?
Speaker 2: Will Levis?
Speaker 1: Yeah, nobody was thinking like, oh man, James Franklin, totally
Speaker 1: let will Levis down here. I think will Levis threw
Speaker 1: and oh yeas didn't throw more passes, but it was
Speaker 1: that was a nightmare of a game offensively for Penn State.
Speaker 2: Late game James Franklin not as not as successful as
Speaker 2: I thought.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 2: Postgame handshake tension a fun one to talk about. Actually
Speaker 2: did happen very early between Michigan State and Arizona State.
Speaker 2: Mark dan Antonio and herm kind of had an icy
Speaker 2: reception at midfield, but beyond that, not not a not
Speaker 2: a big earner for me.
Speaker 1: No, not an every weeker.
Speaker 2: Midfield logo desecration another exciting one to discuss, but not
Speaker 2: something that really happened. We've seen very notable examples of
Speaker 2: this happen in the past, but this year not so much.
Speaker 2: This was kind of a non issue.
Speaker 1: I think with picks like this, there should be certain
Speaker 1: picks that we mark as if this happens once, that
Speaker 1: counts as like six points because we know it's not
Speaker 1: gonna happen every week, so if it does, it's just
Speaker 1: like a hot spot, an NBA jam, one of those
Speaker 1: types of situations where we have to note a hotspot
Speaker 1: pick because if we did get who was a Devin
Speaker 1: Bush for Michigan before the Michigan State game right right,
Speaker 1: sort of running his cleats through the field in East Lansing,
Speaker 1: if we have a situation like that, or planting the
Speaker 1: flag like Baker Mayfield, that's got to count for you know,
Speaker 1: the sonic rings have to fly out of the sky
Speaker 1: for that pick. That's what I'm saying right now. Because
Speaker 1: we're going to go to the owner's meetings, the solibribal
Speaker 1: owners meetings, and we're gonna go to the rules committe.
Speaker 1: We're going to make some adjustments in the spring.
Speaker 2: I'm fine, so fine.
Speaker 1: That's That's something I am submitting that there is a
Speaker 1: wild card pick that we know won't hit every week
Speaker 1: or even three times during the season. But if we
Speaker 1: predict something that's kind of out there and it happens,
Speaker 1: the sonic rings happen.
Speaker 2: Maybe at the live show, we give everyone a couple
Speaker 2: of cards to hold up and they could tell us,
Speaker 2: they could tell us odds on some of these.
Speaker 1: Sure, I don't know, Okay.
Speaker 2: The one that actually got a fair amount of traction
Speaker 2: here outside of tiny field demos was Mike Locksley knowing
Speaker 2: the DMV.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that did pretty well for me.
Speaker 2: Multiple bride was mine. Dog.
Speaker 1: No, Sorry, I did that. I think I came up
Speaker 1: with that right right, right right, but that did Sorry,
Speaker 1: that did pretty well for the draft, correct.
Speaker 2: Mike Locksley knowing the DMV being in that area quoted
Speaker 2: as multiple times, almost verbatim, knowing the area, knowing the DMV,
Speaker 2: obviously he was able to pull in a pretty big
Speaker 2: recruit from the area recruiting otherwise, Eh, we'll get back
Speaker 2: Jim Jerry.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what this was actually, and it's probably
Speaker 1: unintentional on your part now that I think about it,
Speaker 1: because we made this pick in the DMV, we made
Speaker 1: it in DC. You made the pick, and it's a
Speaker 1: strong pick because that is, you know, one of the
Speaker 1: first things, not the first thing. Maybe you have Mike
Speaker 1: Loxley's history, but it was. It's a really smart pick
Speaker 1: because strategically, there are teams that play games in which
Speaker 1: announcers have to stretch, they have to find things to
Speaker 1: talk about and Maryland and I don't have every score
Speaker 1: in front of me about, you know, every twenty nineteen
Speaker 1: score in front of me, but I imagine there were
Speaker 1: a lot of fourth quarters where people were talking about
Speaker 1: fun unusual majors or backgrounds, or his dad played at
Speaker 1: this school. There was a lot of fun fact games
Speaker 1: for Maryland this season.
Speaker 2: Well, no further than the first two games of the year, right, Well,
Speaker 2: that was to talk about something all that downtime.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, that was scary if you were banking on
Speaker 1: that element of Maryland season. But it's a smart pick
Speaker 1: if we're going to look next year. I mean Arizona
Speaker 1: would be if you can find some fantasy thing about
Speaker 1: Kevin someone, I think it's a good year to do that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: look at some of those teams. That's a sneaky like
Speaker 1: a month like fantasy things moneyball for you.
Speaker 2: So that's actually a perfect segue into our quasi redraft here,
Speaker 2: items that maybe became apparent to us after kickoff, things
Speaker 2: that we weren't able to sneak in under the radar
Speaker 2: of our two shows or supplemental draft. Sure fifty three
Speaker 2: to forty nine was the final. We can go back
Speaker 2: and check tape if you want. We are planning on
Speaker 2: doing more fantasy things at some point this fall late summer.
Speaker 2: We'll get back to you on timing and topics and
Speaker 2: any rules changes that the verbollerhood might find notable. That
Speaker 2: being said, if you had to do it over again,
Speaker 2: knowing what you know now, what are some items that
Speaker 2: you might consider drafting?
Speaker 1: Well, first of all, I did look it up while
Speaker 1: you were talking about something. There have been no actual
Speaker 1: college football games since the year two thousand that ended
Speaker 1: fifty three to forty nine. Okay, but there have been
Speaker 1: seven that have been fifty two to forty nine. Both
Speaker 1: of our alma maters have lost a game fifty two
Speaker 1: to forty nine, and one school has won two games
Speaker 1: fifty two to forty nine since two thousand. You're not
Speaker 1: going to guess which school it is. The California Golden
Speaker 1: Bears have won two separate games fifty two to forty nine,
Speaker 1: once against Virginia Tech in two thousand and three, once
Speaker 1: against Oregon Justin Herbert's freshman year fifty to forty nine
Speaker 1: at Cal and USC beat Penn State fifty two to
Speaker 1: forty nine in the Rose Bowl turn hack out. Okay,
Speaker 1: two thousand and seventeen if my math is correct, So
Speaker 1: there's that. Okay, supplemental draft.
Speaker 2: Supplemental draft, give me a couple, Okay. Joe Brady's age
Speaker 2: pretty good. Joe Brady is thirty.
Speaker 1: I guess he was. He twenty nine to start the season.
Speaker 1: I think it was a September birthday. Joe Brady is thirty.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that would have been really good. You know,
Speaker 2: this coming year we're going to have some issues trying
Speaker 2: to figure out which coaches are the next Joe Brady. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's the twenty twenty fantasy things I do, right, That.
Speaker 1: Joe Brady like effect on the Blavity Blaso.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh yeah, We're gonna have to workshop that one
Speaker 2: a little bit. But that feels like it's almost too
Speaker 2: easy to not include Florida state clock issues. Would have
Speaker 2: been a good pick. Would have been a good pick.
Speaker 1: Dylan Gabriel broke to U's Hawaii high school record. Wow,
Speaker 1: every week pretty much from the UCF games that I saw,
Speaker 1: even just small portions they worked it in there. Chase
Speaker 1: Young pre snap arrow or spotlight, Oh wow. I think
Speaker 1: he would have done well with that. Yeah, any sort
Speaker 1: of illusion or shot of Bud Foster's lunch pail. What
Speaker 1: are they gonna do with this?
Speaker 3: Is?
Speaker 1: You know, I don't know if you're gonna see this
Speaker 1: on the sideline of Virginia Tech much longer. That's gonna
Speaker 1: make it in there. Houston expects Dearic King to return.
Speaker 1: It's part of a Dana Holgerson master plan. About that,
Speaker 1: About that, I have another year, another heisman for a
Speaker 1: Lincoln Riley quarterback that did really well. Maybe not all
Speaker 1: season long, but early on as Jalen Hurts was putting
Speaker 1: up number.
Speaker 2: Early on, it felt that way, didn't it. Yeah, early
Speaker 2: on he was the front runner.
Speaker 1: I have down here, don't forget less Miles won a
Speaker 1: national championship, not remembering that. What's an actual effect? They
Speaker 1: did well? This one did really well for us because
Speaker 1: of how big two was and Trevor Lawrence, Justin Fields, JK. Dobbins,
Speaker 1: A lot of these guys put up huge numbers this year.
Speaker 1: And here's the fantasy thing quote and they didn't even
Speaker 1: play most fourth quarters that would have really hit well
Speaker 1: for you, That would have hit well again, because you're
Speaker 1: we're killing time and blowouts we're killing time. This one
Speaker 1: I think probably would have done well some A quarterback
Speaker 1: who is eight and I know this is going to
Speaker 1: mean a lot to you. A quarterback who is a
Speaker 1: clear game manager, is quote more than just a game
Speaker 1: a game manager, more than just a game manager. We
Speaker 1: might just have to bring wherever we go in.
Speaker 2: August, the old Jack Cone effect.
Speaker 1: Sure, yeah, the Cone Zone I have. Bo Nicks was
Speaker 1: at the twenty ten Auburn National Championship game and is
Speaker 1: an Auburn legacy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that would have done really well.
Speaker 1: Killer killer pick. Should have done my research there. Texas
Speaker 1: A and M loses really close. It loses impressively. Two
Speaker 1: years ago it was Clemson. It's not paying off every week.
Speaker 1: This is one of those sonic rings pick. This year
Speaker 1: it was who Georgia thirteen? Okay, so that's the sonic
Speaker 1: rings pick. Mike Leech says or tweets something that initially
Speaker 1: seems quirky and then it's just kind of a bummer.
Speaker 1: That's just kind of a bummer that I think five
Speaker 1: seven times, yeah, over the course of the season. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I have. What else I did I have? Is that
Speaker 1: everything I have when.
Speaker 2: I have overly emphatic Jake From interviews.
Speaker 1: Oh this is good. This is really subjective though, because
Speaker 1: this is almost like the Ryan Tannehill effect.
Speaker 2: I know, I know, too polished. No, it's not even
Speaker 2: too polished. Yeah, it's just too emphatic, too excited, right,
Speaker 2: very excited to do all those postgame interviews.
Speaker 1: And again, like Jake from is running for president of
Speaker 1: the Georgia offense.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean like a little bit of that, but
Speaker 2: more like it had more of like a frack guy
Speaker 2: feel too. He's just very, very excited to have won
Speaker 2: the game. And I don't I don't begrudge him for
Speaker 2: being excited. Georgia had a hell of a season, but
Speaker 2: it's just after the first five times, it's a little much.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a little much.
Speaker 2: So the postgame interviews for Jake from.
Speaker 1: You could say that about Georgia third downs too, you
Speaker 1: could the first five Yeah, a little much.
Speaker 2: Kind of along the same lines as Old Town Road
Speaker 2: could have done. Bands playing Star Wars music. I feel
Speaker 2: like I missed that one, given that Star Wars came
Speaker 2: out around Christmas time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's always there's there's going to be an
Speaker 1: element of we need to play something that everybody knows, right, right,
Speaker 1: and doing an Imperial march doing Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think the reason And I actually thought about doing
Speaker 2: this one before the year, and I didn't, And I
Speaker 2: think the reason why is because they've always played the
Speaker 2: Star Wars music, right.
Speaker 1: It was nothing terribly unique to the twenty nineteen season.
Speaker 2: What about Dabo Sweeney inventing a motivational device? Did we
Speaker 2: talk about that one at all?
Speaker 1: So there's the the rest of y'all bus right, and
Speaker 1: he did bring your own guts, so it's almost dabbo
Speaker 1: acronym dabenim.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like his own vernacular in a sense, right,
Speaker 2: And every coach does this. Sure, it just so happens
Speaker 2: that Clemson is crazy successful and like this year somehow
Speaker 2: kind of pigeonholed his way into spinning them as like
Speaker 2: an underdog ish right, at least internally, I don't know
Speaker 2: if we really believe that, but Dabbo using a motivational
Speaker 2: device seems like it's the kind of thing that is
Speaker 2: now repeatable from year to year and maybe something we
Speaker 2: should have our radars up for next year.
Speaker 1: Do you have any historical ones that you wish we
Speaker 1: could just use every year? I have, Well, so the
Speaker 1: two I have are very similar. They're kissing cousins if
Speaker 1: you're allowed to say that. Still, it's the defensive coordinator
Speaker 1: attacking aggressive mentality. Now that's a January one. That's a
Speaker 1: spring football one that's not going to hit a lot ever,
Speaker 1: if not ever, But that that to me feels quintessential
Speaker 1: fantasy things and similar. The strength coach comes in and
Speaker 1: it's like, I don't even know what they're doing around here.
Speaker 1: I don't even know. I don't know what the last
Speaker 1: guy was doing. But we're we're taking this up to
Speaker 1: the modern era. You know, guys are puken here. It's
Speaker 1: like they've never worked out that one. I just I
Speaker 1: love it so much.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to think back to some of our old
Speaker 2: legacy ones that have been have been among my favorites.
Speaker 2: We had some in Chicago. Mm hmm that kind of
Speaker 2: on second thought just slayed me. The Dean one, Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: is he the XFL stuff?
Speaker 1: I think he is the head of officiating for the XFL.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's one that it is one of my favorites.
Speaker 2: Also backup being better than the starter is like bronze
Speaker 2: in the Hall of Fame here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Dean Blandino. It's such a funny name to even
Speaker 1: say out loud.
Speaker 2: Oh, the overly emphatic tongue of II looa.
Speaker 1: So really, in fact, we've got the strength coach with
Speaker 1: the screwwers. There's been a lot of really good ones.
Speaker 1: All I'm going to say is if you have more
Speaker 1: to add in terms of supplemental now looking back though
Speaker 1: Fantasy Things items along the lines of Dabo acronyms or
Speaker 1: Joe Brady's age, which I think is the clear winner. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Soliverble do reddit dot com. Drop it in there, soliverble
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Speaker 1: out there on social media. We're on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram,
Speaker 1: all the usual hotspots. You can also email soliverable at
Speaker 1: gmail dot com. As I said, we're going to be
Speaker 1: doing and believe it or not, we are actually in
Speaker 1: the infancy of planning out when we're going to be
Speaker 1: doing our live Fantasy Things show or shows this coming year. So,
Speaker 1: as Dan said, I don't know if we've actually set
Speaker 1: a side time for when the rules committee will meet
Speaker 1: to discuss.
Speaker 2: Yeah, these rules for the twenty twenty version. But if
Speaker 2: you have any suggestions out there, please do give us
Speaker 2: a holler again out on the sub give us an email,
Speaker 2: drop us a tweet, whatever works for you, Solid verbal
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Speaker 2: know what we can do, maybe to I don't know,
Speaker 2: keep things fresh.
Speaker 1: I like the idea of there being a solidverbal hot stove.
Speaker 1: I like like Peter Gammons is outside your mom's house
Speaker 1: looking for a scoop. It's great. Does Peter Gammon still report?
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's much okay in any case, Ty,
Speaker 1: the solid Verbals Fantasy Things draft is to us and
Speaker 1: to this show the preseason, So thank you very much
Speaker 1: for everybody for humoring us. And it really doesn't feel
Speaker 1: like the proper bo is on the season until we
Speaker 1: go back and reevaluate everything. And I put together a
Speaker 1: little it's almost like our version of what the NC
Speaker 1: DOUBLEA Tournament, what CBS does at the NC DOUBLEA Tournament.
Speaker 1: What's the song one shining moments, one shining moment? And
Speaker 1: so I don't I'm not singing, but I put I
Speaker 1: put together a little edit of some moments we love
Speaker 1: during the regular season with some reactions. Ty.
Speaker 2: Just when I think you couldn't possibly do it, vicious back,
Speaker 2: cruse it down field, you go and do something like this.
Speaker 1: I am totally revein yourself.
Speaker 2: But first, what the girls do is thirty long a
Speaker 2: few moments last.
Speaker 3: Hound you this is twenty nineteen, LSU.
Speaker 2: This is Joe Burrow. Well let's see one second Eggers today.
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no, no, Virginia rushing afield.
Speaker 2: Bro Jonathan Taylor roll it touched down Wisconsin seventy two yards,
Speaker 2: sleep some ruins down, bag on the road and they
Speaker 2: come all the way back. What the wrong with your people?
Speaker 2: Sixty seven to sixty three? And it was everything that
Speaker 2: I thought it could be. How springing out gets hit?
Speaker 2: He does again mischief.
Speaker 1: The Tigers remained in front with a minute seventeen ago.
Speaker 1: Carolina's out of timeouts, rolling sens and purposes.
Speaker 2: This baby's over, just some fight and Michael p. Ryan
Speaker 2: tight ropes to sideline. He's gonna take it. Predicator touchdown
Speaker 2: eighty eight yards. Hey, hey, there you are.
Speaker 1: I've been looking for you.
Speaker 2: He called it unbelievable south Town.
Speaker 3: That, just so you will know, is the night the
Speaker 3: lights went out in Georgia.
Speaker 2: They're holding their record champagne. Oh my god, that is
Speaker 2: the first time Wisconsin trails all year. Here is as
Speaker 2: that kick.
Speaker 1: Goes through the uprights to give him an oil the
Speaker 1: biggest upset merchant ship.
Speaker 2: It squeezes play looks after it.
Speaker 1: It's loose, its lhada habit.
Speaker 2: It looks like the settlers to the.
Speaker 1: Covered o the after review the ball was illegally touched
Speaker 1: land a.
Speaker 2: In for Kansas State. As they take down of the thigh.
Speaker 2: The humans have tried everything.
Speaker 3: Now it's up to us dog kick Florida playoffs deep.
Speaker 2: He's gonna get down on the sideline, ride open Larrence
Speaker 2: Cager touchdown will now and it's a killer at a
Speaker 2: loss for Florida. Jubilation on the bolt off sideline.
Speaker 3: They throw the fame the cold then selled limbs Taylor.
Speaker 2: Who means unbeat.
Speaker 1: They come into fort Worth and get the winds can
Speaker 1: do fliffer hass.
Speaker 2: Time flows. Then it is batter set down there the
Speaker 2: ansong by John and Honor.
Speaker 1: They rode the boat and it's for real here baby,
Speaker 1: do you Baalor is faring on against.
Speaker 2: Abut Hell's Native.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's one as there are.
Speaker 2: Seven given a second chance. Banino mas fifth a take
Speaker 2: on the bad things. They're gonna see him a massive
Speaker 2: pump back victory.
Speaker 3: For football oh baba fields pump fake. Let's say, Fi
Speaker 3: touchsdown cruising a bay. They defeat Fast twenty eight to seventeen.
Speaker 3: Oh Brusson kicks on away and right, that's not good.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I hate to see that.
Speaker 3: I don't know if I've ever seen a game ended
Speaker 3: with too many event on the field and he's.
Speaker 2: Too and there's a touchdown. No, there's a before and
Speaker 2: they one away book time the game holds down.
Speaker 1: The kick on the words, it's.
Speaker 2: You guys win their foot straight against the Oscars. It's
Speaker 2: one of they're proud, it's tradition. We're teleprat for I
Speaker 2: don't know, the.
Speaker 1: Championship before.
Speaker 3: Oh god, that's funny. Oh that's good stuff.
Speaker 2: Okay, hey, that was pretty.
Speaker 1: Good Dan, thank you. I scored it myself. But I
Speaker 1: tried to find moments that were surprising and help to
Speaker 1: define the twenty nineteen season. And it was a fun
Speaker 1: look back. And I gotta tell you there are some
Speaker 1: weird clips in there. There are some like I was
Speaker 1: going through like I was going I was scrubbing through
Speaker 1: one hundred and one Dalmatians audio for longer than you'd
Speaker 1: like to know. Caddy Shack Simpsons of course, dumb and dummer.
Speaker 1: So there's some there's some things. If everybody can get
Speaker 1: every clip in there, I'd be insanely impressed.
Speaker 2: Okay, if anybody can get every clip in there, soliverblegmail
Speaker 2: dot com, we'll send you a shirt.
Speaker 1: It's it's basically, we'll send you a shirt. We'll send
Speaker 1: you a shirt. It's it's one shining moment meets maybe
Speaker 1: girl talk. If I'm remixing season audio, I don't.
Speaker 2: Know first person to write in with every clip. That
Speaker 2: means Dan, you need to validate it. But yes, right
Speaker 2: a soliverlegmail dot com. That's all I got, Dan, that's
Speaker 2: my audio. Bo all, I have beautiful Well, thank you
Speaker 2: for that, and thank you to everyone for downloading the
Speaker 2: show for bearing with us. We will include as part
Speaker 2: of this show links back to each of the Fantasy
Speaker 2: Things shows that we did. I think we lump them
Speaker 2: all together into one long show. Oh nice, but yeah,
Speaker 2: if you want to hear what our selections were. If
Speaker 2: you're just tuning in later and didn't get a chance
Speaker 2: to catch that initial show, we'll link you up so
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Speaker 2: same same alrighty well, thank you to one and all
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