Speaker 1: Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly, a production of iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2: Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from iHeartRadio, your weekly
Speaker 2: source for the nation's best fantasy football advice, speculation, and
Speaker 2: whatever stupid stuff they decided to drop into the show. Now,
Speaker 2: here's your host, Paul Jarchian.
Speaker 1: Happy fourth of July, everybody, Paul Jarchian here. My co
Speaker 1: host for Independence Day is Scott Fish.
Speaker 3: Hey, buddy, Hey, hey.
Speaker 4: If I'm gonna show up, it's gonna be for this one.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: Well, it's been a while.
Speaker 1: I mean you you are a co host on this show,
Speaker 1: and we have had far too much independence from Scott Fish.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's it's been a busy, busy summer. But
Speaker 4: I am. I'm back for this show and I'm sure
Speaker 4: I'll be back in a few weeks.
Speaker 3: I hope so too. I hope so too.
Speaker 1: I know that's sort of the plan right now to
Speaker 1: get you back into the rotation.
Speaker 3: But you've been busy, I mean, you know, legitimate busy.
Speaker 1: So there's that running this little thing, uh that's uh
Speaker 1: turned into a absolute juggernaut, the Scott Fish Bowl.
Speaker 3: We are on iteration number fifteen.
Speaker 4: Scott, Yes, fifteen years fifteen years. Yes, that's an insane
Speaker 4: amount of.
Speaker 3: Time, isn't it. It's crazy.
Speaker 1: You never could have guessed in your one what this
Speaker 1: thing would turn into.
Speaker 4: No, no, I I completely figured that's what happened.
Speaker 3: Yeah, right, everybody saw it coming.
Speaker 4: No, nobody's not coming nobody.
Speaker 3: No, it's uh. We talked about it last week.
Speaker 1: You were on the show, Kent and I talked about
Speaker 1: the Vegas draft and how awesome that is and how
Speaker 1: I'm never going back even if I even if Vegas
Speaker 1: stops being the closest venue, I'm still going to Vegas
Speaker 1: every year.
Speaker 4: That's always going back.
Speaker 3: I'm always going back to Vegas. Now, that's it.
Speaker 1: It's it's the to me, it's the high water mark
Speaker 1: for all the live events that you do around scott
Speaker 1: Fish Bowl.
Speaker 3: But we're really where are we in the in the
Speaker 3: in the the general. I guess the schedule of scott
Speaker 3: Fishbowl drafts. Where are we right now?
Speaker 4: I know it's a giant schedule.
Speaker 3: Now right the day it was like a week, got.
Speaker 4: On a certain Monday and everybody's done within ten days.
Speaker 4: That's what it used to be. Now we start, we
Speaker 4: have a full month of SFB live events from June
Speaker 4: twenty first through July twentieth, it's legitimately a month of
Speaker 4: live events and right smack dab in the middle. This
Speaker 4: upcoming to Monday the seventh is when the slow drafts
Speaker 4: start the Potathon, which is a twenty four hour like
Speaker 4: old school telethon. It's a potathon, though it's live streamed
Speaker 4: on our YouTube that starts Sunday at noon. It's every
Speaker 4: half an hour. We have different guests from around the industry,
Speaker 4: different analysts jumping on to talk SFB or fantasy cares
Speaker 4: or what they have going on. It's becoming a very
Speaker 4: very big undertaking all of the things we got going
Speaker 4: on for s FB.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's nuts.
Speaker 1: Now I had the disadvantage of basically having to drive
Speaker 1: oft first out of everybody.
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 1: And you know things have changed since that draft. You
Speaker 1: know we, you know we at the time, we're all
Speaker 1: trying to get our arms around this new scoring system.
Speaker 3: There was no guidance to go.
Speaker 1: By, which honestly I kind of liked because then you
Speaker 1: didn't have to worry so much about like am I
Speaker 1: doing quote the right thing.
Speaker 3: You could just blaze your trail. You know.
Speaker 1: I feel like now already two weeks later there's a
Speaker 1: right and wrong path.
Speaker 4: No, there there may be, and stuff happens. I mean
Speaker 4: the year that Le'Veon Bell got hurt, he got hurt
Speaker 4: during the drafts and then people were picking up James
Speaker 4: Connor and yeah, and this year multiple tight ends have
Speaker 4: transferred teams in unretired rights going on.
Speaker 3: Yeah, speaking which might beloved John new Smith.
Speaker 1: Conceptly, Okay, first fear the Dolphins. Here you are you,
Speaker 1: you unlock the amazing athleticism of John new Smith. You're
Speaker 1: the first team that really gets what he can bring
Speaker 1: to the table, and don't have him paired with some
Speaker 1: other guy like Kyle Pitts or Hunter Henry.
Speaker 3: And he has this huge breakout season.
Speaker 4: He's his own man out there.
Speaker 3: Yes, so what do you do?
Speaker 1: You trade him to the freaking Steelers where now he's
Speaker 1: back to being part of a one two punch with
Speaker 1: Pat Fryermouth and we'll become basically undraftable. I'm just I'm
Speaker 1: so bummed out about this.
Speaker 4: Without Pickens, Can they just just throw them out there
Speaker 4: where Pickens was?
Speaker 3: They should that's right, let them line up outside. I say,
Speaker 3: go for it. Oh, I'm really really bummed out about that.
Speaker 4: That's all right.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, Scott. We'll talk.
Speaker 1: We'll talk a bunch of Scott Fishbowl stuff, but I
Speaker 1: want to mention at the end of the show, it's
Speaker 1: going to be a bonus mini episode about the Declaration
Speaker 1: of Independence and what a badass move it was, Okay
Speaker 1: in seventeen seventy seven, insanely bold and the bravery of
Speaker 1: the signers unbelievable, and nobody talks to you. Nobody mentions
Speaker 1: what it took to do it and the price that
Speaker 1: people paid for the Declaration of Independence.
Speaker 3: We'll talk a little bit about that at.
Speaker 1: These I know we rarely go off sports, but I
Speaker 1: always feel like people don't appreciate that enough. So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna take the opportunity for the two people that will
Speaker 1: listen to the end of this podcast when we're done
Speaker 1: talking about fantasy football. I like it all right, And
Speaker 1: you don't have to stay for that, by the way,
Speaker 1: you can just be like, you know, we'll come out.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Absolutely, How timing works out here?
Speaker 3: Yes, And I know you do have you have other
Speaker 3: you have other time commitments.
Speaker 1: Uh, let's talk. I want to let's talk about the
Speaker 1: average draft position of players. What's unique about the Scott
Speaker 1: Fish Bowl scoring system. Well, let me, I'll let you
Speaker 1: tell people. I don't have to tell people.
Speaker 4: You can.
Speaker 1: Why don't you tell people what makes the scott Fish
Speaker 1: Bowl scoring system so different this year?
Speaker 4: Yeah, this year it's really volume as king and that
Speaker 4: that's that's the easiest way to put it. A lot
Speaker 4: of the stuff is pretty standard. Your your quarterback passing
Speaker 4: and your quarterback and you're running back and receiving yards
Speaker 4: are all very very normal. You know that one per
Speaker 4: ten one per twenty five touchdowns are all six. That's
Speaker 4: that's pretty normal. There's a lot of normal stuff there.
Speaker 4: But when you get to the scoring where volume becomes
Speaker 4: king is on MFL. If you're playing on there, you
Speaker 4: get a point per target and a point per reception.
Speaker 4: So that's that's potentially two points for a catch because
Speaker 4: you're getting the target too, and and target monsters who
Speaker 4: don't catch the ball a lot, like Calvin regularly or
Speaker 4: Jameson Williams or something, yeah, or Kyle Pitts get all
Speaker 4: those target points. But but and if you're playing on sleeper,
Speaker 4: you get two and a half points per reception just
Speaker 4: to try to Yeah, yep, And then we have some
Speaker 4: IDP scoring for we don't have any ID PLEA players.
Speaker 4: We just have Travis Hunter and maybe Bo Melton and
Speaker 4: a few others that play ID play the IDP side.
Speaker 4: So we got some scoring because I want them to
Speaker 4: get whatever they get when they're playing on the field.
Speaker 4: And I think one of the bigger changes is the
Speaker 4: starting lineup is it's ultraflex this year. It's eleven starters,
Speaker 4: no positional requirements. If you want to start eleven running backs,
Speaker 4: you can start eleven running backs.
Speaker 1: So in my draft, and again we were we were
Speaker 1: part of the first draft. There were three simultaneous drafts
Speaker 1: that started this whole, this whole process, and ours was.
Speaker 3: One of them. We had somebody who went.
Speaker 1: Wide receiver for the first five picks, and in my
Speaker 1: same draft somebody went running back with the first seven
Speaker 1: seven picks. Scott, those are totally valid approaches.
Speaker 4: They are sure, why not?
Speaker 3: And where else are you gonna do it?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeah, we didn't win the scoring. Between the positions,
Speaker 4: they're somewhat balanced. And you don't have positional requirements. You're
Speaker 4: not like, oh I need to you know, I need
Speaker 4: to start two running backs, so I better get one soon.
Speaker 4: You just don't care anymore. You're just taking best available
Speaker 4: and or the players you just really like.
Speaker 1: Do you have a sense of how quarterbacks are going
Speaker 1: to play into this scoring system?
Speaker 3: Very well?
Speaker 4: Yet I think people will still mostly start too just
Speaker 4: because the safety of there's no negatives in this scoring yep.
Speaker 4: So I think just the safety of a low of
Speaker 4: a high floor will we'll keep them within those eleven starters.
Speaker 4: But I will say there's really only you know, four
Speaker 4: or five quarterbacks in the top twenty five last year
Speaker 4: in this format. They're they're kind of nerved a little
Speaker 4: bit because there's so much reward for Carrie's and receptions
Speaker 4: that it moves everybody else up. But I still think
Speaker 4: that the floor is there for them, and you know,
Speaker 4: you're just not going to draft them as high because
Speaker 4: they don't have the same ceiling as skill the other
Speaker 4: skills positions.
Speaker 1: I didn't take a quarterback until round seven Drake May okay,
Speaker 1: and then I took a couple in the four or
Speaker 1: five rounds after that, Jordan Love, who I think is
Speaker 1: going to really outperform as adp and Gino Smith, who
Speaker 1: I also think is Tino Smith is going after like
Speaker 1: Anthony Richardson and Bryce Young.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that doesn't know Sam Darnold for us anyway. So
Speaker 3: that was my That's how I saw it.
Speaker 1: Scott was I just want a couple of quarterbacks just
Speaker 1: because for sure points, but I'm not putting any real
Speaker 1: pick equity into that. Have you seen the ADP for
Speaker 1: across all of the scott Fish bulls reflect that that
Speaker 1: quarterbacks aren't going as high.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's absolutely what it is. I mean, the ADP
Speaker 4: still has three quarterbacks going in the top twelve or
Speaker 4: thirteen or so. As I've watched these live drafts unfold,
Speaker 4: I went to the Chicago live event, I went to
Speaker 4: the Vegas live event. It seems like four of them,
Speaker 4: the four running quarterbacks who we can all just it's
Speaker 4: in our heads. We know it's the Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen,
Speaker 4: Jayden Daniels, and Jalen Hurts. They are routinely top two
Speaker 4: round picks and then there's a little bit more slide
Speaker 4: for the rest. That seems to be the way it's going.
Speaker 1: I had picked six in the scott Fish Bowl and
Speaker 1: brock Bauers went pick one, and then I took Trey
Speaker 1: McBride at pick eleven because there is an extra there's
Speaker 1: an extra point for tight end, So I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: per reception. So I'm I go, all right, well, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna take Trey McBride.
Speaker 4: I've seen the second half of the season. They were
Speaker 4: like dad, even I've seen tre go ahead of Brock
Speaker 4: in some of these.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, if you think the touchdowns are gonna
Speaker 1: come around and you just want volume, Trey McBride is
Speaker 1: your volume leader at tight end, or at least he
Speaker 1: was last year. Sure, so yeah, the two touchdowns will
Speaker 1: change obviously.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I think so too. You want to know
Speaker 4: who I'm taking at the one on one? Do you do?
Speaker 3: You have the one on one?
Speaker 4: I have the one on one. I always take the
Speaker 4: one on one just to get it done and then
Speaker 4: I can go work on other things.
Speaker 3: Oh funny how you don't take twelve.
Speaker 4: And I've definitely done twelve in the past because when
Speaker 4: it when it was a corner year, you know, when
Speaker 4: the before the three I I used to take twelve
Speaker 4: because then I can do both picks and just get
Speaker 4: back to work right right exactly. But I'm taking Ashton genty,
Speaker 4: Are you okay?
Speaker 1: He's going off the board as pick eight in scott
Speaker 1: Fish Bowl drafts everywhere.
Speaker 4: A high of two. He's one of the top eight
Speaker 4: or nine players that have not gone number one overall.
Speaker 4: But I'm big on get your guys. Yeah, he's a
Speaker 4: first rounder. So if I'm at the one on one,
Speaker 4: I have to take him there because I'm not getting
Speaker 4: him in the next round. And I just love Boise.
Speaker 4: I almost went to college at Boise State. I've been
Speaker 4: a big Boise fan for a long time.
Speaker 3: Still wearing blue right now.
Speaker 4: I'm just gonna do it. I'm just gonna do it,
Speaker 4: all right.
Speaker 3: I like it.
Speaker 1: So that'll be your first pick, Ashton genty pick number one.
Speaker 1: You'll be the first person. When are you drafting?
Speaker 4: By the way, I'm a slow draft. I always do
Speaker 4: a slow yeah. When I attend these live events, I'm
Speaker 4: way too busy to draft exactly exactly.
Speaker 3: Minneapolis Live event is coming soon, right.
Speaker 4: Yep, July twelfth. It'll be uh, it'll be a fun one.
Speaker 4: We got a lot of really good donated prizes. I
Speaker 4: got a pylon. Oh my gosh, get this. I got
Speaker 4: a pylon signed by Chris Carter that says all I
Speaker 4: do is Cutch catch TDS.
Speaker 3: Shut up.
Speaker 1: That's awesome, man, Okay, all right, Okay, here's what I
Speaker 1: want to do. Yeah, as you know, in Las Vegas,
Speaker 1: my wife and I bought enough Raffle tickets that we
Speaker 1: won four prizes. I want to exchange those four prizes.
Speaker 1: The Neon Museum is gonna have to wait, the Bagel
Speaker 1: Factory's gonna have to wait. I want to exchange those
Speaker 1: four prizes for that pylon signed by Chris Carter, who
Speaker 1: only catches touchdowns?
Speaker 4: Okay? Or would you rather have the John John Randall
Speaker 4: sign helmet or the Chris Carter? All I do is
Speaker 4: catch touchdowns sign football.
Speaker 1: Wow, the pylon's way cooler.
Speaker 3: Nobody's gotta sign Pilon.
Speaker 4: That's why we get them, because they go so well
Speaker 4: at the live events because nobody has signed Pilon, Right,
Speaker 4: nobody's got that.
Speaker 3: That's fantastic.
Speaker 1: Oh man, I've got got some jealousy about that. Now,
Speaker 1: Can I buy? Can I buy Raffle tickets from here
Speaker 1: for the Minneapolis? Can I just like Venomo you and
Speaker 1: enough to ensure I win.
Speaker 4: That, we'll get We'll fly to you a proxy.
Speaker 1: I gotta get a proxy puts in my Scott fish
Speaker 1: Bowl donations.
Speaker 3: I love it. That's fantastic, all right.
Speaker 1: So you got picked, all right, so I pick number
Speaker 1: one is going to be ashy and genty That puts
Speaker 1: you on the board for pick twenty four. Yep, that's
Speaker 1: exactly Travis hunter territory. He's currently going off the board
Speaker 1: at pick twenty four. Would you take him there? Give
Speaker 1: him the scoring.
Speaker 4: Cysent take him if he's available, And I'm not even
Speaker 4: sure if it's the I don't know if it's the
Speaker 4: right value. It's just fun. Yeah, it's just fun. And
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna win a five thousand team tournament, but
Speaker 4: I can have fun in a five thousand team tournament.
Speaker 4: Hell yeah, absolutely absolutely, I'll take Travis Hunter there for sure,
Speaker 4: because who.
Speaker 1: Knows how this thing's gonna gonna break apart? And you
Speaker 1: know there's a Travis Hunter has a path to be
Speaker 1: the highest scoring player in scott fish Ball.
Speaker 4: He does. I had someone tell me this at one
Speaker 4: of the live events, and I can't remember who it
Speaker 4: was or which one it was, but they said, I
Speaker 4: don't know what if he's so good at wide receiver,
Speaker 4: he never plays different defense and gets those points. And
Speaker 4: I said to.
Speaker 1: Him, said, anyway, right, yes, absolutely, same same could happen
Speaker 1: at cornerback. Although if you get to the Dion level
Speaker 1: of cornerbacking Scott, nobody passes at you. You get no interceptions.
Speaker 1: Dean wouldn't tackle anyway, he got no tackles. Dean Sanders
Speaker 1: as arguably one of the all time great shutdown corners.
Speaker 1: He just people just stopped throwing on his side of
Speaker 1: the field.
Speaker 4: Yep, yeah, you know that stamps right on that quite
Speaker 4: a few times from the revuses, even even the early
Speaker 4: saw like not saw us right away his rookie year,
Speaker 4: but end a rookie year into the next year, like
Speaker 4: that's it happens.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Travis Hunter's high draft position again his average pick
Speaker 1: twenty four, high draft position five.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 1: I like that somebody took him as high as five bold.
Speaker 3: That is great. That is great.
Speaker 1: Talk to me about this is the player whose ADP
Speaker 1: is the lowest but has gone first overall.
Speaker 3: Devon a Chan.
Speaker 4: Oh you know how I feel. We feel. We are
Speaker 4: generally on different pages. You feel like he he can't
Speaker 4: be a he and I think you're right. He can't
Speaker 4: be a work horse. I just think he can do
Speaker 4: with the volume he gets. I think he can put
Speaker 4: up great points. The problem is in this format he's
Speaker 4: not a work horse. He is a ten to fifteen
Speaker 4: touched back. You know, he's never going to be a
Speaker 4: work carse he needs those targets and receptions he was
Speaker 4: getting at the end of last year. Yeah, that's what
Speaker 4: he needs.
Speaker 1: So do you think with John Hugone, Yeah, and I
Speaker 1: should look up John Who's target numbers. But do you
Speaker 1: think with John u Gone that ultimately means more less
Speaker 1: or the same number of receptions for Devon Eh?
Speaker 4: I mean I would think more because I think some
Speaker 4: of those checkdowns. As as we know, Tua was a
Speaker 4: top two checkdown artist last year. He was either first
Speaker 4: or second in checkdowns, so he was he was consistently
Speaker 4: trying to find a chan Or or John Whu or
Speaker 4: you know, just running backs in general. So I could
Speaker 4: I could see it. We'll see if that changes this year,
Speaker 4: but I could see him taking a share of that.
Speaker 4: I don't think they've added anything that that that Tua
Speaker 4: would feel safety in compared to Chan and what he's done.
Speaker 1: I would normally in these situations, I say, if it's
Speaker 1: bad for the offense, it hurts.
Speaker 3: Everybody right right.
Speaker 1: You know where the Dolphins are a little bit different
Speaker 1: is they still have Tyreek Hill and Jalen Waddles. So
Speaker 1: I mean there's still outside threats that defenses have to
Speaker 1: account for.
Speaker 3: And so, by the way, one.
Speaker 1: Hundred and eleven targets for John hu Smith last year.
Speaker 3: Wow, one hundred eleven.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I do think some of those alendo going
Speaker 1: to devon a Chan And then I think the big
Speaker 1: question mark is obviously will do to stay healthy? And
Speaker 1: then that offensive line, which has been bad. Tron Armstead retired.
Speaker 1: They they did add a new starting either.
Speaker 3: Left or right tackle. I'm trying to.
Speaker 1: Remember which side James Daniels is going to play. I
Speaker 1: think left, uh, left guard, excuse me.
Speaker 3: And he was good with Pittsburgh, reasonably good, So I
Speaker 3: don't know.
Speaker 1: That offensive line, though, has not been great. They need
Speaker 1: guys to start living up to their draft billing on
Speaker 1: the offensive line for the for the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 4: Well maybe that maybe that rush makes him check down
Speaker 4: to a Chan more.
Speaker 1: Yeah might well yeah, you know, because that's that's what
Speaker 1: happened last year, So maybe it ends up happening here
Speaker 1: in Guillotine.
Speaker 3: I can't I a chance. Too dangerous to me.
Speaker 1: You get, you get the injury history, which God bless
Speaker 1: him for staying upright last year. You have the offensive
Speaker 1: line questions and the two of question and that's just
Speaker 1: too much risk for a guillotine league.
Speaker 3: Yeah my opinion.
Speaker 4: I you mentioned the running back rushes in this I
Speaker 4: did see someone go nine, ten, eleven running backs in
Speaker 4: a row. And I saw mock the other day, not
Speaker 4: the real draft, but a mock where up the twenty
Speaker 4: two picks they took eleven tight ends. Wow, that's having.
Speaker 3: Fun with it one. Yeah, they should.
Speaker 1: Somebody should actually try to execute that. I like to
Speaker 1: see what happened on this show last week. Ken said
Speaker 1: he's not drafting any receivers.
Speaker 4: Interesting.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't I at the time, I didn't really challenge
Speaker 1: him on that, but I probably should have, just like, okay,
Speaker 1: I can.
Speaker 4: Again can build your team however you want in this
Speaker 4: from mat But that is interesting as because I understand
Speaker 4: they don't quite have the same volume ceiling as the
Speaker 4: running backs, but there comes a point where their depth
Speaker 4: is where their strength is because there's so many wide receivers,
Speaker 4: and especially week to week, you know, like when you're
Speaker 4: trying to put in a starter each week, you can
Speaker 4: we do this on fancy well weekly all the time
Speaker 4: there are injuries or their defenses or whatever, where we're like,
Speaker 4: this guy is primed for you know, a decent amount
Speaker 4: of target share this day.
Speaker 3: You know, right right.
Speaker 1: When do you start fretting about the next year's scoring system,
Speaker 1: because I'm already thinking about where? How where do you
Speaker 1: pivot from here? With ultraflex eleven starters. Anything you do
Speaker 1: next year, people are gonna feel all constrained by They're.
Speaker 3: Like, ohh, I gotta start three receivers.
Speaker 4: I've done this a bunch of times. I did this,
Speaker 4: and I was I was removing third round reversal this
Speaker 4: year until people started whining and they were confused. I
Speaker 4: specifically did not include third round reversal in my in
Speaker 4: my preliminary email, but I brought it back. But we'll
Speaker 4: probably remove it next year. I'll do time things from
Speaker 4: time to time where I will have a setting for
Speaker 4: three years and then it's gone on the third round
Speaker 4: reversal thing that do you know what the three best
Speaker 4: draft slots to have to win a championship? Last year?
Speaker 4: Where No. Twelve eleven ten?
Speaker 3: Really wow?
Speaker 4: Regular league?
Speaker 3: Wow?
Speaker 4: Regular non Okay, all right, so it overcorrected last year.
Speaker 3: It sounds like it did. How do you third round
Speaker 3: half reversal?
Speaker 4: Truly, I did a study like five years ago that
Speaker 4: maybe even more than that now where it said fifth
Speaker 4: round reversal is actually where it should be to do
Speaker 4: a better job even and out.
Speaker 3: I can see that third, that third is too much.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Anyway, with the ultra flex thing, I'm probably I
Speaker 4: think I'm probably going to keep it at least for
Speaker 4: a few years and I'll change other things. Okay, I
Speaker 4: think that's the way it's going to go.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I think that makes sense if people
Speaker 1: want to get involved with the scott Fish Bowl now,
Speaker 1: and we should probably talk about Fantasy Cares for a minute.
Speaker 1: You know, sometimes I think we presume that all of
Speaker 1: our listeners already know because we've talked about it.
Speaker 3: So many times over the course of the show.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about the charity behind the scott fish Bowl.
Speaker 3: Fantasy Cares.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Sure, Fantasy Cares is this charity that you know,
Speaker 4: we've we've been doing for a long time. It was
Speaker 4: like a fundraising group and then a nonprofit then now
Speaker 4: five oh one c three accredited charity for several years. Now.
Speaker 4: What we do is we we started out just getting
Speaker 4: you know, going out toy shopping in partnership with we're
Speaker 4: a national corporate sponsor of Toys for Tots. We'd go
Speaker 4: out with a marine and many many marines and many
Speaker 4: many cities and buy toys for kids at Christmas time.
Speaker 4: But we got so, we got big enough that we
Speaker 4: are able to now help so many different different charities
Speaker 4: anywhere from you know, pet shelters to food shelves to honestly,
Speaker 4: there's just too made a list, you know. Yeah, it's
Speaker 4: it's ridiculous. You know, Feed my Starving Children and uh
Speaker 4: feed American you know ones like those as well. It's
Speaker 4: it's just incredible what we've been able to do. Food insecurity,
Speaker 4: That's what I was looking.
Speaker 1: So if people want to get involved, either to play
Speaker 1: in the scott Fish Bowl or to donate, what's the
Speaker 1: best thing, what's the best thing for them to do
Speaker 1: or things for them to do?
Speaker 4: Uh Fantasycares dot org. You can donate there. We also
Speaker 4: run campaigns constantly because one of the things we like
Speaker 4: to do with our charity, we don't we don't want
Speaker 4: to just be a charity where you donate and maybe
Speaker 4: you get a mail or something and you get you know,
Speaker 4: like a male, Hey, donate again or whatever. We we
Speaker 4: want to build a community around this charity, so we
Speaker 4: have fun contests for like PGA or you know, even
Speaker 4: wrestling ones or March Madness or whatever. We have constant
Speaker 4: campaigns all year long, so you can play in fun
Speaker 4: little contests and have fun with it and meet other
Speaker 4: like minded people who have interest in doing good with
Speaker 4: this this fun hobby of ours. So Fantasycarees dot Org
Speaker 4: and there's a campaigns page. I don't remember what we
Speaker 4: have going on right now, but there's a campaigns page
Speaker 4: to possibly join something fun along with donating.
Speaker 3: Yes, it's you know.
Speaker 1: I've been you and I've been friends long enough that
Speaker 1: I remember you fretting about like how many gonna get
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think the number at the time
Speaker 1: was like three hundred teams. How might I get three
Speaker 1: hundred teams into this thing?
Speaker 3: Now you have five?
Speaker 4: And yeah, it is It is crazy to think that
Speaker 4: that even even even five six years ago, they were
Speaker 4: less than a thousand, and now there's over five thousand.
Speaker 1: Yeah, unbelievable, unbelievable. Thanks a lot for all the scott
Speaker 1: Fish Bowl Intel.
Speaker 3: Sure do you want to hear? Do you want to
Speaker 3: hear my team. By the way, I know people.
Speaker 4: Do want to hear.
Speaker 3: People don't care about other people's fantasy teams.
Speaker 4: But see I do. I weirdly do. I want to
Speaker 4: hear like we like we talked about the eleven tight
Speaker 4: end guy. We care about his.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, well yeah, because he was doing something interesting.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to go through my entire roster, but
Speaker 1: I do want to. I do want to hear what
Speaker 1: you think of my squad. Uh So I mentioned earlier,
Speaker 1: start with Trey mc bride, came back.
Speaker 3: With Puka Nakua. In the middle of this pick six
Speaker 3: I'm picking out of the six lot. Puka fell all
Speaker 3: the way to the middle of the second round.
Speaker 1: Okay, he could lead the NFL and targets in receptions,
Speaker 1: so okay, it was him or Malik Neighbors or Travis Hunter.
Speaker 1: And I really struggled with that for upwards about like
Speaker 1: ten seconds. But I was making a bloody Mary pool
Speaker 1: side at the time.
Speaker 4: And justin that helps.
Speaker 3: That does the decision, It really does.
Speaker 1: You Just yeah, you're just like, all right, I'll take
Speaker 1: Pooker and then Chase Brown because I think the receptions
Speaker 1: are going to go up. And uh, I do I want.
Speaker 1: I want to have the running back. I'm gonna have
Speaker 1: the Bengals starting running back.
Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, middle of the third round.
Speaker 3: Uh then start.
Speaker 1: Then things got Then things got a little bit trickier.
Speaker 1: Rashid Rice, who I'm really high on this year.
Speaker 4: You know before before he went out, Yeah he was,
Speaker 4: he was great.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like wide receiver four and the end of the.
Speaker 4: Year before he was great.
Speaker 1: Right, So I'm like, okay, I'll buy on him. Don't
Speaker 1: like my next pick Omari and Hampton nervous, nervous about
Speaker 1: that at that.
Speaker 4: Stage, Liz took him in like the third Wow.
Speaker 3: She may have been egging me on at that point.
Speaker 4: She's big on Hampton gain a lot of volume, yes, yes,
Speaker 4: no fear of nause Harris not a lot.
Speaker 1: And I wish I'd drafted Naji Hair. Then I had
Speaker 1: Drake May and then you know, I'm not going to
Speaker 1: bore people the rest of it, but that's the That
Speaker 1: was the highlights of highlights of my squad right there.
Speaker 4: Well, I mean, did you get Rashid scha heat at least?
Speaker 4: I'm just kidding.
Speaker 1: No, I'm and I'm sad about that because you know
Speaker 1: how I feel about it.
Speaker 4: Are you sure I was? I was joking because he did.
Speaker 3: Oh I did get him, Yes I did.
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, I did get Rashik Shahid around.
Speaker 1: They don't list the rounds here on this on sleep
Speaker 1: or they really should one.
Speaker 3: Too three, I don't. Let's call it round. Yeah, there
Speaker 3: you go, thirteenth round. How about that. That's let's hear
Speaker 3: from me, right, thirteen to seven Rashid Shahid. I love
Speaker 3: that pick. I love my own picks. Scott.
Speaker 1: Last year, you're you know, when you get done the
Speaker 1: system or when all the drafts got done, we got
Speaker 1: a you know, like would they appraise your your team?
Speaker 4: And yes, yeah, it tells you how well you did
Speaker 4: especially I think I can't remember the site that does that.
Speaker 4: I hope they do it again this year. Where you are,
Speaker 4: where you rank within all of us FT correct.
Speaker 1: Yes, last year it ranked me like sixty and I
Speaker 1: had my best year by a mile. I made it
Speaker 1: to the third round.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, it's nice.
Speaker 3: Yeah, not bad. The third round of the playoffs was
Speaker 3: pretty good.
Speaker 4: Yeah that's good. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So the rank that system will worked pretty well for whatever.
Speaker 4: It seemed to, at least for yours. I got ranked
Speaker 4: pretty low, but I did make the playoffs. I made
Speaker 4: a couple of rounds into the playoffs camera for two
Speaker 4: or three.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I remember, I recall. I think you and
Speaker 3: I got knocked out in the same week if I
Speaker 3: if I remember correctly, that makes sense.
Speaker 1: I know you have other obligations. For those that want
Speaker 1: to continue, I'm going to talk a little bit about
Speaker 1: the Declaration of Independence and why it was such a
Speaker 1: badass moment in the history of mankind.
Speaker 4: I got a few moments, so I think I'll tag
Speaker 4: here and listen. All right, if I do, dip out
Speaker 4: before you're done. It was great. Thanks for having me on,
Speaker 4: and that was great talking a great holiday weekend.
Speaker 3: Absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 1: I want to start with this, of course, Declaration of Independence,
Speaker 1: published and signed July fourth, seventeen seventy six. Some people
Speaker 1: confuse it with the Constitution it is, It's not the Constitution.
Speaker 1: This was the document that told the British and the
Speaker 1: rest of the world that America was independent, and it
Speaker 1: was basically a declaration of war with the globe's superpower, England.
Speaker 1: It was authored by five men, of course, you know,
Speaker 1: Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, who would later become president,
Speaker 1: Roger Sherman and Robert R.
Speaker 3: Livingston.
Speaker 1: And more importantly than just telling the British to f off,
Speaker 1: the Declaration of Independence explained why America was going independent
Speaker 1: and set the groundwork for the Constitution. And people think
Speaker 1: the two happened near each other eleven years between the
Speaker 1: Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, in part because they
Speaker 1: were at war with Britain for the Revolutionary War for
Speaker 1: eight years. I think people forget now that the Revolutionary
Speaker 1: War took eight years, so at the time there had
Speaker 1: never been any document history of mankind anything like the
Speaker 1: Declaration of Independence. It had many key components. It said,
Speaker 1: when in the course of human events, it becomes necessary
Speaker 1: for one people to dissolve the political bands which have
Speaker 1: connected them with another, and to assume the powers of
Speaker 1: the earth, the separate and equal station to which the
Speaker 1: laws of nature and the end of Nature's God entitled them.
Speaker 1: A decent respect to the opinion of mankind requires that
Speaker 1: they should declare the causes which then impel them to
Speaker 1: the separation. And in saying that they were saying some
Speaker 1: really really key things that all men were created equal,
Speaker 1: including the king. This is a rebuke of the highest
Speaker 1: or order to the globe superpower and the king himself,
Speaker 1: and that all people had the right to life, liberty
Speaker 1: and the pursuit of happiness, and that the main business
Speaker 1: of government was just to protect those rights and not
Speaker 1: to protect itself, was to protect the rights of its citizenry.
Speaker 1: And if a government tries to withhold those rights, the people.
Speaker 3: Get to revolt.
Speaker 1: The document was audacious and his historic and an absolute
Speaker 1: fu to Britain and its king, just throwing down the gauntlet.
Speaker 3: The goals. Yeah, go ahead, Scott.
Speaker 4: I was going to say, did you know a lot
Speaker 4: of that A lot of a lot of our declaration
Speaker 4: came from the Declaration of Barbara where from Scottish history
Speaker 4: in thirteen twenty against also England.
Speaker 1: Funny how that works, right, England was the ultimate medaler
Speaker 1: for a thousand years, So it's I guess it's not
Speaker 1: that there were others that would end up trying that.
Speaker 1: They also announced that they are that America is a
Speaker 1: new independent country, and they did that because they needed
Speaker 1: to recruit troops and rally people to their side, because
Speaker 1: they knew the war was going to come and they
Speaker 1: needed to win foreign support. France and you couldn't do
Speaker 1: it as just rebels. You had to do it as
Speaker 1: your own country. So they announced the creation of the
Speaker 1: country in the Declaration of Independence, and they list all
Speaker 1: the grievances, which is really important, like cutting off trade,
Speaker 1: imposing taxes with no representation, no trial by jury. They
Speaker 1: had swarmed the King, had swarmed the country with British
Speaker 1: bureaucrats who were all just you know, paper shufflers who
Speaker 1: were getting paid but weren't providing anything to the people
Speaker 1: and blocking organized assembly and stuff like that. So they
Speaker 1: listed They wanted to make sure the world knew that
Speaker 1: this wasn't just for no reason, that here's what was
Speaker 1: happening in America.
Speaker 3: Because back in seventy seventy six, nobody really knew what
Speaker 3: was going on in the middle of America.
Speaker 1: Mostly, I want to tell you about the fifty six
Speaker 1: men who signed the document, because it's crazy what they
Speaker 1: were doing. They were committing treason punishable by death inside
Speaker 1: the country that is being ruled by the British.
Speaker 3: You know, so this Scott, this would be like you, yeah,
Speaker 3: committing treason knowing that down the street.
Speaker 1: In Lakeville is a police station and they could just
Speaker 1: come to your house whenever they wanted arrest you and
Speaker 1: put you to death.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that is an incredible amount of I don't know
Speaker 4: the words I'm allowed to say. The stones under carriage stones.
Speaker 1: That this don't It's like declaring war, yeah, against Minnesota,
Speaker 1: while you're living in Minnesota, and it's punishable by death.
Speaker 1: The final sentence of the Declaration of Independence says, we
Speaker 1: mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and
Speaker 1: our sacred honor. And it was Benjamin Franklin who said,
Speaker 1: after signing it, we must indeed all hang together, or
Speaker 1: most assuredly, we shall hang separately. And all fifty six
Speaker 1: of them risked everything to sign the Declaration of Independence.
Speaker 1: And here's what they lost. And by the way, that
Speaker 1: a lot of them had a lot to lose. Seventeen
Speaker 1: of the fifty six were aged in their thirties or less.
Speaker 1: Two of them were in their twenties. And if you
Speaker 1: were an older signer, you had your fortune, you were
Speaker 1: a notable person. If you were signing this, you had land,
Speaker 1: you had assets, you had families. They all were risked
Speaker 1: at risk. If you were younger, you had your whole
Speaker 1: future at risk. Five of the signers were caught by
Speaker 1: the British and brutally tortured. Nine of the Signers died
Speaker 1: fighting in the Revolutionary War many many more were injured.
Speaker 1: Two of the Signers lost their sons in the war.
Speaker 1: Two of the Signers had their sons captured and tortured
Speaker 1: in the war. Twelve of the Signers had their homes
Speaker 1: pillaged and raised. Seventeen of the Signers had to formally
Speaker 1: file bankruptcy. They were bankrupted because all of their assets
Speaker 1: had been taken by the British, and so many of
Speaker 1: the Signers had family, wives, children who were jailed or
Speaker 1: tortured or mistreated or bankrupted that it was almost all
Speaker 1: of the fifty six. And at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: none of the fifty six backed off and recanted their decision.
Speaker 1: None of them ended up flipping sides, even through the
Speaker 1: eight year war.
Speaker 3: Scott, jeez, So there you go. Yeah, incredible, it is incredible.
Speaker 1: There's nothing like this in America today.
Speaker 3: Nope, Nope, there really isn't.
Speaker 1: No, you know, we're like, you know, oh, I don't
Speaker 1: use plastic straws. That's my heroism.
Speaker 4: For the day.
Speaker 1: So, you know, yeah, things of things have changed. Those
Speaker 1: guys were those fifty six. Unbelievable what they risked and
Speaker 1: the liberties that we enjoy today. I think most of
Speaker 1: us take for granted.
Speaker 3: Thanks for hanging out, Scott.
Speaker 4: Thanks thanks for having me. It was fun to hear
Speaker 4: about too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, little history lesson at the end. We never do
Speaker 1: this on Fantasy Football Weekly, but we're doing it today.
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