Fantasy Football Today - Mailbag! Plus Fantasy Cops (12/21 Fantasy Football Podcast)

Episode Date: December 21, 2024

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It's time to dominate your fantasy league. This is gonna go the distance. Now here's some combination of Adam, Dave, Jamie, and Heath. It's mailbag time! Yeah, baby, welcome to the show. It's fantasy football today presented by BedMGM, the sportsbook born in Vegas. Adam, Jamie, and Dan.

Dan thought, you know, I'm just gonna bring, I'm gonna bring the classic shirt, the WH. It's back, baby. It's back, baby. I dug it up. It's four sizes too small. The lettering is peeling. It's peeling off the shirt. How many sizes too small?

But this, four sizes too small. But this, my friends, this, let me move the mic. This is where it's at. City Field. I appreciate it. You've got playoff energy. them like, this is where it's at. I appreciate it. You've got, you've got playoff and I am the city field, w H space E re. Well, um, I love the energy that Dan is bringing today.

We're going to need it. It's Friday end of a long week, but the beginning of the football weekend. So I have so many emails to get to at fantasyfootballatcbsi.com. You can put anything in the subject line or just fantasyfootballatcbsi.com. If you have a fantasy cops question, you can throw that in the subject line though. You need to do that. Don't have a lot of news because it's 1125 AM, but did see the Bucks practice report and left tackle Tristan Wirfs was practicing.

That is good news. Remember to follow us Sunday morning at 11 30. Oh, Dan's going to be on Sunday morning. Yes, sir. Yeah. You excited for that? I am excited for that. Uh, by then maybe I can reveal my thoughts on the, on the

finale of the survivor episode. I know a lot of people were, Oh, I spoiled it last week. Listen, let me tell you a little note on spoilers. If there's a show where you play a game and you win and that show airs at a certain date, you can't just watch that like a week, two weeks, three weeks later and then be like, he spoiled it for me.

Like, what is it air? What? When does it air? What day? It's Wednesday. Like we're, this is Saturday when people are listening to this. Like by then you gotta watch the show.

Like, I don't know what to tell you. I won't spoil this last episode. I want to. I won't. But well, that's so noble of you. All right. Sunday, 1130. Yeah, I know. Right. He's fired up. 1130 a.m. Eastern at

YouTube dot com slash fantasy football today. I think one of those drones like got to got to Dan injected him with something. I haven't seen one since the last episode. So it's good for me. Okay, all right, here we go. Let's start with an email from Jeremy. And he said, quick note to Dan's point about Parks and Rec, such an underrated show,

especially when you consider the incredible guest stars, Bradley Whitford, Genuine, Werner Herzog, and Michelle Obama. Okay. It's the best, I think it's thener Herzog, and Michelle Obama. Okay. It's the best. I think it's the best comedy probably in the history of television, I would say. All right. That's a great, great way to start.

People are really going to trust you. Uh, Devante Smith- Not including Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm. Devante Smith or Terry McLaurin, half PPR. Uh, McLaurin, but it's close. I'm Devante Smith in that matchup. From Tim, start three, half also take a drink every time Dan disagrees with Jamie, which should probably only be like a couple sips.

That just happened one time. I know. I was stunned. Start three and a half. By the way, I was right about Bo Nicks having a good game. Did you say that? On Monday show. Or maybe that was the other Beyond the box score. Everyone scared of the nope

Chargers defense, not the same as it was beginning of the year, too many injuries. All right. Well, this Eagles, Eagles defense will play McLaurin differently. What'd you say? Adam did not like Bonix. I think Adam was out on it was either Adam or Jacob. I didn't like Bonix this week. Yeah, no, I benched him against Jamie in the podcast league. No, you I mean, you got a very good call between Purdy and Nick. I don't know if you're gonna get that 21 points out of

30. 2525 last night. Yeah, no, I don't think I will. All right. This is from Tim start three and a half. After losses, Ken Walker, Marvin Harrison Jr. Jerry Judy, Kendrick Miller, Patrick Taylor start three. The first two for me would be the best two. And then it comes down to Judy, Taylor, or Miller. I might take a chance on Miller. I actually am taking a chance on Taylor, I think, as my third.

The obvious first two, though. We stay with... All right. I can't play Judy no matter what I'm expecting. One hundred thirty to one hundred forty five yards from Dorian Thompson Robinson in the passing game. Got some thirsty people today, I think. That's two disagreements with with Jamie so far on two questions. Listen, dance, become his own man.

He's going to have the share. Give me authority. He knows he knows WH space RE where it's at. All right. This is from a longtime listener from the decoy capital of the world. I don't know what that means, but decoy. Maybe it's where decoy Metcalf is from. Happy holidays. God, that was bad. I mean, it was, it was such a bad joke. I don't know how I feel about this version of Dan. He is like alpha Dan right now.

I mean, he's, he has never been alpha in my entire life. Get a cape. All right, from the podcast to YouTube to the newsletter, so the articles, you've helped me reach fantasy glory over the years and I owe you a lot of thanks. All right, I need to sit one. Cooper Cup, Mike Evans, Terry McLaurin, Brian Thomas Jr., sit one.

Cooper Cup, Mike Evans, Terry McLaurin, McLaurin. And Brian Thomas Jr. was the other one. Say McLaurin. We're not gonna get to drink on this one because it's McLaurin for me as well. You just can't, two of those you just can't bench and then Cup I'll throw into. Strange Henry or Ferguson in PPR?

Strange. Yeah, it's strange for me too. I kind of like strange this week and I've been telling, a lot of my friends have asked me a lot of decisions, stranger this, stranger that, and I've been going strange in all of those. Stranger things. And again, you're really struggling to get this.

It's not like you don't usually do this. You really don't. I'm being honest with you. Two horrible jokes in a row is not your thing. I was about to tell you something. I'm actually, this is not a joke, very serious. Okay. Very lightheaded right now.

What? During that last email, I almost just like was out. I got very close. What'd you do this morning? I think I'm getting sick During that last email, I almost just like was out. I was very close. What'd you do this morning? I think I'm getting sick because you met this stomach bug. The stomach bug is in my house now.

I've never seen anybody as sick as often as you. It's really insane. You need to give me credit. I haven't been sick all season, not a single day. No, yes you were. You were sick earlier this season. You were sick. Yeah, you were.

I didn't miss a day. I've said this to you like four times already. I'll give you credit that it's been like, I don't know, three and a half, four weeks, but like that's not normal. But I didn't miss any days. I didn't miss any days. No, you don't miss any days.

Adam's in the cycle, which is a difficult cycle of when his kids are young and they're gonna get sick a lot in school and it's gonna come home and everybody's gonna get sick. Yeah, we got the stomach bug. Actually, Adam though, you know why? Because this is, well, this is a theory that we don't need to go over, but because Adam is so germaphobic that he doesn't want, he didn't build up the immune system.

It's a stupid theory. I don't know. Well, you don't leave your house, that's part of the problem. It's not entirely true. Your immune system is just in shock anytime anything comes in contact with it. I feel like, you know what, I feel like I gotta give myself a lot of credit. I've been doing very well this year not getting sick.

Everyone in my house two weeks ago was sick and I didn't get sick. You play through the pain. You're a tough cookie, but you do get sick. I haven't had that. Well, you know what it is. You're like Superman. You went to Florida, you got your son. Yeah. And you're recharged. That might be it.

All right, from... I didn't like the new trailer, by the way. It was a little disappointing. Yeah, agreed. The new trailer of what? Superman. That might be it. All right, from... I didn't like the new trailer, by the way. It was a little disappointing. Yeah, agreed. The new trailer of what? Superman. Superman. New movie.

Oh, I didn't know that. Is that an action movie, Adam? No, comic book movies are not action movies. They're comic book movies. Oh, you're crazy. No, I mean, they're just, they're in their own world. They're in comic. You can't compare Superman to Die Hard, you know?

I mean, you can. No, you can't. I won't allow it. That's right, you wouldn't want to compare, you know, comic mean, you can. No, you can't. I won't allow it. That's right. You wouldn't want to compare, you know, comic books to Christmas movies. It's not good. Guys, I am so close to finishing the second installment

of Lord of the Rings. I am obsessed with it. And I can't wait. The TV show version? The movie. I've never seen the movies. And I watched the first one. The few weeks ago, I watched the first one.

I'm in. I'm in the middle of the second one. I just, I've been dying so hard, trying so hard to find time to watch. I got an hour and 10 minutes left of the two towers. Is your son old enough to watch yet or no? Not really. Okay.

Oh, speaking of which, and we'll get back to the questions in a minute. So they're both sick. So we watched some movies yesterday and I was like, oh, I've never seen eight crazy nights. I will watch eight crazy nights with my kids. The first scene he starts like licking his car in a sensual way and I was like, okay, this is definitely not a kids who had no idea. Do you think Adam Sandler was gonna just come in with the most

PG movie that was like in classic that was right at the edge of Sandler's like, when he went from the funniest guy in movies to like, all right, I'll do these like stupid movies with kids or whatever, like, you know, the kid movies version of Sandler that we have now. Okay. All right. Start one from Scott. A cookie for me. DK Metcalf, Devante Smith or John who Smith PPR.

Devante, but I could be John who I get John who Devante for you guys. All right. I go John. I'm at calf. Oh, actually John who against the Niners are so good against tight ends. I do think my calf is going to have a breakout game this week. Oh, I think we'll find out. You got Ryan. You got to play him then over those two. I feel no, no, no, no. Devante Smith's going to have a very good game too. And I think John Smith is. If he if he wasn't a tight end, I'd say said him the Ryan Grubbs talking about getting in the ball. So he got a little spiky will get action coming.

And the matchup's great. Yeah. There we go. I got one right. This is from John. Hey, Chris, Nicholas and father. And it causes. Yeah, these are like Santa things. Well, obviously you're talking to the wrong two guys. Oh yeah. Cause I'm so well, I do celebrate. All right. Uh, I have one tight end spot and a, and three flex in a half PPR

Bowers or Kittle. Come on. Kittle for me. Whoa, really? Oh wow. Don't think against tight ends. I agree match up wise there is not a chance in you know what H space LL that I will be benching Bowers anytime soon.

Well good, you can put them in your And we have O'Connell now? It's not guaranteed yet. Who do you think is averaging more points per game by the way? Kittle. Oh, is it Kittle somehow? It's not guaranteed yet. That's okay. Okay. Who do you think is averaging more points per game, by the way? Kittle. Oh, is it Kittle somehow? Yeah, are you not like aware of how good of a year

he's having? I'm not aware that anyone was in the realm of Brock Bowers. It's funny, Bowers has 30 more. Bowers last month has been bad. Bowers has 30 more catches, but in two more games. Yeah. But Kittle has four more touchdowns. Yeah, the touchdowns have really propelled him ahead.

Since Mayer came back like three weeks ago, it's four more touchdowns. Yeah, the touchdowns have really pulled propelled them ahead since mayor came back like three weeks ago It's been a little frustrating. All right Anywho, what am I saying? Where are we here? Okay. Okay. So now let's say let's just say we're going with Kittle Very Leo gets this week. I'm telling you, but I'm feeling it. I'm lightheaded. Okay. Okay One thing you might want to do is take the sweatshirt off. I can't I have an it like a Oddly fitting bad shirt for camera. Oh now we really want that sweatshirt off. I can't. I have an oddly fitting bad shirt for camera. Now we really want that sweatshirt off. All right. We got it off. Take it off. Bowers, Higgins, Tyreke, Ken Walker, Jerome Ford, Marvin Harrison, Khalil Shakir. Pick three. Bowers, Higgins, Tyreke,

Ken Walker, Jerome Ford, Marvin Harrison, Khalil Shakir. The first three. All right. Bowers, Higgins, Tyreek, Ken Walker, Jerome Ford, Marvin Harrison, Khalil Shakir. The first three. Bowers, Tyreek, and Higgins. Definitely Tyreek and Higgins. What were, uh, Walker and who was the other one? Jerome Ford, Marvin Harrison, Khalil Shakir. Half PPR. Yeah, I'm going to go Bowers over those guys. And then John leaves us with a poem.

Twas the week before finals, my lineup was set. Despite consternation, it's as good as we'll get. With breath all abated, I'll hope for high score, but with a heath sigh, my team hits their floor. I like that. Very good. Here's Matt from the city of drones. Want to dance? Dan shirts, right? Dan shirts rhymes with. Dan Scherz rhymes with. Team PPR start two Pollard Spears, Charbonne Miller, I'm guessing Patrick Taylor, Amir Abdullah. Pollard Spears, Charbonne Miller, Patrick Taylor, Abdullah. Pollard.

Pollard Spears. So if the one is out, the other one's in. Sure. You went too fast on the the other one's in. Sure. You went too fast on the names, I'm sorry. Yeah, so start at the Titans running back and then pick one. Charbonne, Kendra Miller, Patrick Taylor, Amir Abdullah. And it's PPR? Yeah. It's between Miller and Taylor,

and I think we're split on that. So I'd go Miller. I'm Taylor, and that. That's Patrick, not Jonathan. All right. Obviously. From Justin, to the greatest podcast hosts of all time. It's a great, I mean, I love it. I don't know that you should have put an S

at the end of host, but that's fine. I would agree with that, but he might be thinking about the Beyond the Box Store Tuesday show. Thank you. I mean, we all technically host shows. Yeah. And that was a little, this was a little, you know, that had a vibe of a best male podcast host.

Now that Dave hosts a show, we all technically host a show. Yeah, we do. Well done, Adam. Well done to discredit us. Thank you. I'm going against a team that has Nick's and McConkey. Half PPR, start one. Garrett Wilson, JSN, Jacobi Myers, Rico Dowdle or Jaden Reed? Just one? Yeah, it's Wilson for me. JSN for me. From Derek, if I can get my Eric sound bite up from Derek half PPR pick two.

That make me laugh still Kate Otten Jada Jalen McMillan Waddle feeling Myers Well, I don't think waddle is gonna say the best for last there Thielen and Myers one. Yeah, too to Myers and McMillan for me. Oh Feeling you McMillan over the I know again, know. I got my feeling for me for sure. Then I think I'm going to go Myers because AOC is back. Next email is from Joe.

Start two of these flex options and half people. Oh, yeah, I can play that, by the way. Oh, you know how to play. Oh, wow. Yeah. It's a really fun one. I've forgotten it, but I briefly took guitar lessons. That's actually pretty impressive. I learned that one. It was a fun one.

All right, from Joe. Brian Robinson. We need two by the way, half PPR. Brian Robinson, Tyrone Tracy, Deandre Swift, Kendre Miller, Marvin Harrison, DK Metcalf, Calvin Ridley. It could be just any two? Yeah. Metcalf, Calvin Ridley. It could be just any two? Yeah.

Metcalf and Harrison for me. Give me the names again. Brian Robinson, Tyrone Tracy, Deandre Swift, Kendre Miller, Marvin Harrison, DK Metcalf, Calvin Ridley. Both receivers. Out of three. Not Ridley, sorry. All right.

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Eric says, I just have to say that listening to FFT has truly transformed my fantasy football experience. With kids and work keeping me busier than ever, I haven't been able to watch as much football as I used to. I've been in a league with my college buddies for 14 years now. I actually won the inaugural championship and had a few second place finishes, but then I hit a rough patch and found myself at the bottom of the standings. In fact, I had to play in the toilet bowl three times in the past four years and I lost two of them. But then I stumbled upon the FFT podcast on Spotify

right before last season and everything changed. I took your advice and I picked up Pooka Nakua at the start of the year and I made a triumphant comeback to the top, ultimately winning the league after so many tough years. This year, I'm lucky enough to have the top seed and a first round bye. Now I could use some advice in my half PPR league. Pick three of these wide receivers. AJ Brown, Puka Nakua, Brian Thomas Jr., T Higgins, Garrett Wilson.

T Higgins, Garrett Wilson. Those are some great options. My gosh. Puka is easy. Yep. I'm not benching AJ Brown now. Nope, not either. And I would probably go Brian Thomas. I mean, I'm almost more so not benching Brian Thomas than not benching AJ Brown at this point. That's what I thought.

But I'm also not benching AJ Brown, so it's those three for me. And then he says- How awesome is Brian Thomas? Yeah, right, I'm so awesome. And this is only the start of this. I genuinely think he says, yeah, I'm so awesome. And it's, this is only the start of this. Like I genuinely think he's going to be what a borderline one, two pick next year round one, two.

And I'm so excited to talk about him on the, on the box score. Like, cause he's sponsors our show. I mean, we talk about him a lot. Cause the stats are that good. That's the reason the tape and the stats are that good. You want to start starting him. I mean, I know it's not about that. It's like.

I know, I know. You gotta talk about how dominant he's been doing this with Mac Jones as well. If both Ken Walker and Charbonneur are out, which they won't be, but if they are Tyrone Tracy or Isaiah Pacheco, who do you like better? Pacheco. I'm very out on Tracy.

I don't, like I don't see the path to points for Tracy. I feel the exact same way about Pacheco. That's right. I can't disagree with that. I just think he's on a better offense and maybe he'll get like Pacheco might get the red zone. Are we out on Pacheco getting all red zone because I'm out on Tracy at this point in the red zone. I don't think they're going to die. Why? He's last week. I know but that was just last week before that.

And Singletary scored and Tracy's been fumbling. He hasn't fumbled in like, it's been a little while. It's been like three weeks. That's why it's been two weeks. He fumbled two weeks ago and he didn't play as much. That's why he fumbled three games ago. Right. Two, three games ago.

Correct. No red zone. I just say, yeah, I'm not convinced that Devin Singletary is their goal line back. Also Locke is not was not feeding him as many passes in the passing. He had 10 targets with Locke. What, two weeks ago? Yeah, against the Saints. But in general, Locke does not.

I mean like. 10 targets in that game? Yeah. I don't think that's true. First of all. Yeah. I don't. Tyrone Tracy had 10 targets in the game against the Saints? Or maybe it was the other game? No, I don of all. Yeah. I don't. I don't. Tracy had 10 targets in the game against the Saints.

Or maybe it was the other game. No, I don't think. Yeah. He had five catches for 38 yards on 10 targets. Drewlock through like 46 passes. Wow. I don't know how I missed that. Yeah. Yeah. But in general, he doesn't. They're like ugly targets, though. I'm watching these. These are not the targets you want.

They're not. They're not. Adam, I don't think you start. I run Tracy. You're not. Adam, I don't think you start. I run Tracy. You're you need luck. I don't want to start. I think for the same way about Pacheco. I agree. Pacheco is not much better. All right. For some reason, the Giants score running back rushing touchdown almost every week. It's very strange. It's the only thing that I would tell you what sucks. Right. I just don't know that it's actually single Terry. I know for sure. And I don't know that it's Kareem Hunt or Pacheco. Like Kareem Hunt's role was really stupid last weekend.

I know it not stupid, stupid for fantasy managers. All right. This is from Owen in Chester, Virginia. Dear Joe, Doug and Mark. Joe, Doug and Mark. Got leaves. Oh, oh, commanders or Washington Superbowl quarterbacks. Oh, great. Dysman Williams, ripping.

Okay. Uh, mix in Brian Thomas Jr. or Devante Adams PPR. Brian Thomas Jr. Right. Question from Enoch picked two for flex flex. Metcalf, Flowers, Waddle, Kendri Miller, Charbonne. Waddle's probably not playing. Yeah. Um, give me names again. Yeah. Metcalf, Flowers, Kendri Miller, Charbonne. Any three? No, two. Two. Metcalf, Flowers. Any three? No, two.

MacGyver Flowers. Okay. Do you like the song Flowers by Miley Cyrus, Dan? I've never, I don't think I've ever heard that song. Do you know any Miley Cyrus songs other than Party in the USA? I know Party in the USA for sure.

I like the remix better. I know Wrecking Ball. I was going to say Wrecking Ball. After Wrecking Ball, I'm struggling say Wrecking Ball. After Wrecking Ball, I'm struggling. Though I do think she's great. And she did a Jolene cover once that was phenomenal. Like actually phenomenal. On Jimmy Fallon, like right after Tom Petty died performing Wildflowers.

Oh, that actually sounds awesome. It is, it's really very emotional. Her voice on Petty, I'm intrigued by that. I actually think she's incredibly talented. Yes, yes. Pick two of four running. I'm taking Miley Cyrus over Lady Gaga over a lot of these. Oh, no, no, no. Yes, yes, yes. And let me put another one in there over Taylor Swift. And I said that Yes, I did. I'm not into Swift. I don't get it. I've tried it. It's not

my thing. She it's interesting. Like she's not an exceptional singer. It's more I guess it's a songwriter. She's a good songwriter. But no, she doesn't have a great voice. Lady Gaga though is like one of the most talented of our generation. Are you kidding? A incredible piano player, the best voice and a great actress too.

I mean, come on, dude. No, Jalen Waller practice. Jamie, we're not on that right now. We're not on that. Jamie, we're not on that right now. We've got a new low point on FFT talking about Miley Cyrus. I would have to agree with that. No, disagree with that.

No, well, nobody said that when I was talking about Jonah Hill on Friday's show. Dan, it's his birthday today on Friday. What's your favorite Jonah Hill movie? Oh, wow. My favorite role that he played or just the movie that he was in? Favorite movie he was in favorite movie. He was in

Honestly, I Guess it's not aging. Well, I hope I don't get in trouble saying it but get him to the Greek I love that movie. I don't remember that movie. I saw the movie. Yeah, he's been in some apparently AJ Brown heard his knee in practice history Well, he was living in practice he heard his knee. Oh, yeah, we heard it. I heard his knee in practice yesterday? Well, he was limited in practice. He heard his knee. Oh, he had re-heard it? I didn't see that. He heard his knee during the game.

Well, I'm reading a quote from Jeff, tweet from Jeff McLean. Nick Suriani on AJ Brown's knee injury and whether it happened during Thursday's practice. Suriani said he's limited. I think it's fair to assume the injury happened during the session since Brown didn't enter with the designation.

Oh, wow. I just figured that was from- I thought I saw him enter with it. I thought I saw him injured earlier this week. Interesting. Guess we have some in the monitor now. Wow. All right. Pick two of four running backs in PPL.

I am playing A.G. Brown in one of my matchups. Pick two or four running backs in PPR. Pacheco, Aaron Jones, Kendre Miller, Tajay Spears. Aaron Jones is easy. Aaron Jones. Yeahre Miller, Taje Spears. Aaron Jones is easy. Aaron Jones, yeah, yeah, yeah, that one. Spears easily if Pollard's out. And Miller if Pollard isn't. Okay.

From Owen, would you start Keenan Allen, Khalil Shakir, or Rico Dowdell in PPR? Shakir. I'd probably go Dowdell. Full PPR, Shakir. I'd probably go down. Full PPR Shakir for me. Wow, is this real Dan? Did Miley Cyrus according to KD did nothing else matters with Metallica? I don't know. She does a lot of covers and she's actually

really talented. Again, I'm taking her over Gaga. Yeah, it's crazy. All right, Mike from the real Queen City. In PPR? taking you over to Gaga. Is it in PBR, you're taking you over to Gaga? Yeah, it's like it's a draft. Yeah, dear Brian, Dom, Mia, and Letty. Brian, Dom, Mia, and Letty.

Easy, so easy, come on. Don't tell me you're looking that up. I am looking that up. Stop, let me try to get it. I've never seen these, I've never seen these. Dom. What's the, what is Dan's default guess? Or he's always like, Oh, those are just say like, Oh, those are, those are bright. Those are like Johns. Yeah. Uh, it's, I guess it's Fast and Furious. Oh, no shot I was getting that.

12 Team PPR, Devante Smith or Jawan Jennings? I can't believe we never had that before, by the way. I can't believe how little I've seen of the Fast and Furious series. The only scene I've ever seen is when they were like dragging a safe on a highway and it's like slamming back and forth. It's the dumbest, dumbest, dumbest movies,

but they're so entertaining. Yeah. Yeah, I'm not interested. All right, Devontae Smith or Joanne Jennings? Jennings. Devontae Smith if AJ Brown doesn't play. Oh, okay, yes. No, that's true, yeah. Yeah, but otherwise Jennings.

All right, and then remaining flex, Devontae Smith or Aaron Jones, PPR? It's full PPR, I'm going Devontae regardless of Brown. I'll go Jones. Oh, this one's my favorite. It's from Brett, dear Kramer, Dickerson, Metcalf and be enemy. Go ahead. Yeah. Eric's non PPR James Cook or Malik neighbors. Non PPR cook, cook, but it's, it's not nice. Why I'm all about James cook. I know.

I just think it's not nice because I think neighbors still should be in play there, but it's not nice because his quarterback situation is so bad that he can't be in play there. You got your QB two back. Does that lock? No, Davito. QB two for me is boil from what I've seen on tape. He's been by far the best. No, I know. I know he's not hurt or whatever. Who cares? All right

from Nick. Should I keep falling for the James Cook roller coaster? While he hasn't had two bad games in a row this year, he seems to not follow up good games with another good game. Uh, just three times this year when he scored at least 15 half PPR points, has he at least match that output the following game? That's actually, that's kind of a lot. I mean, that's, you're asking a lot, you know? So yeah, Nick wants to know if he should stay on this James Cook roller coaster. Against New England? Yes. Yeah, man. Like at one point, just look at where he is. He's like a top eight running

back, you know? And this is a game where you could see him scoring, so yeah. From Kelly, sorry, that didn't mean that for that to sound mean, Nick. I was just supporting James Cook. So it's a valid question. He's been a little up and down, like a roller coaster. If you can tell me this movie,

I happen to like the roller coaster story. No way Dan will get it, but Jamie you've seen it probably a hundred times. Grandma's telling the roller coaster story. And we got grandma here with the roller coaster story. It kind of sounds like a Ryan Reynolds line. I don't know why. It's from the eighties.

Oh, no shot. All right, Kelly is- Why are you no movies from the eighties? Cause I am- You're not that much older than me. The youngest of three. Yeah, that'll do it. I actually only thought you had an older brother,

the Slime Time Live guy. Do you have two brothers or there's a sister in there? My sister is seven years older than I am. Wow. All right. You know, this explains a lot actually about you. Okay, hold on. Kendre Miller, Amir Abdullah or Jerome Ford, half PPR.

Ford. Yeah,PR. Ford. Yeah, it's Ford, role wise, you just can't not play Ford there. And from Jared. What are you laughing at? I'll tell you in a second, rank these guys, half PPR. Tyrone Tracy, Jerry Judy, Jerome Ford, Ken Walker. Ford, Walker, Tracy, Judy.

Okay. I happen to like the roller coaster Tracy, Judy. Okay. I happen to like the roller coaster story. Jamie, that is parenthood. Great movie. One of the waiting and come back to that. I thought that was, I thought that bit was over in one of the stupidest things land the first time you tried it. And one of the stupidest things you've ever said, your favorite

counter reason, what's your favorite Keanu Reeves movie. What? What's your favorite Keanu Reeves movie? Parenthood. What? Are you crazy? You've never seen it. You don't know.

Doesn't matter. It's not better than The Matrix 1. He forgot about John Wick in The Matrix. It was right off the top of my head. I wasn't thinking. I think I brought up- This is where Adam goes. Somebody asked, I don't know how it came up.

I think I was talking about speed, if I remember. And what was your favorite Keanu Reeves movie? He went straight to Parenthood. Like over the two of the best series of movies, he skipped right over both of them. I mean, Matrix wanted to show. So honestly, Parenthood is one of the all time greats. Stop. No, it is.

I'm not disagreeing with you that it's a very good movie. But it's not a better Keanu Reeves movie than The Matrix or John Wick. It's not really a Keanu Reeves movie, but if they were both on TV, I would 100% watch Parenthood instead of The Matrix. Oh no, I haven't seen The Matrix in a while. I bet it's amazing still.

It is really good. I had not seen it growing up. I saw it within the last few years and it's great movie. But Parenthood is a movie that's just gonna make so so happy. Well, it's a sentimental movie for me You had not seen the matrix growing up. That was the first time you saw it. Yeah How did I seen a movie before you did? Yeah for me it reminds me of my siblings like we would watch it would always be on Saturday afternoon And it was just one of these like feel-good movies

What do you mean? Watching Parenthood every Saturday. No, it was just, it was always on. All right, anyway. It's just like, can I come out and play? No, Parenthood's on. He's got to see Steve Martin. What's gonna happen next?

Dan, you should watch Parenthood. Now, you know, Dan doesn't have any, he's gonna come off, it's gonna come off the wrong way, but Dan doesn't have any, he's gonna come off the wrong way, but Dan doesn't have any heart. What the heck was that comment? He doesn't like sentimentality. Yes, I do. No, you don't.

Oh my God. You're wearing a shirt from 1986? Name one sentimental movie. That comment. Name one sentimental movie that you like. Name a rom-com that you like. A lot, a lot of sentimental movies I like. First of all, I haven't seen a lot you like. A lot, a lot of sentimental movies I like. First of all, I haven't seen a lot of movies,

so how about a lot of sentimental series I like. Okay, like what? Okay, The Wire's a pretty sentimental series at times. Get out of here. At times, have you seen season four with the kids in the schools? That's pretty good. No, it doesn't count.

No, you don't watch sentimental series. I'm trying to think. First of all, I have a heart, okay I have a big heart. Let me start by saying that okay Not when it comes to TV and movies I've seen some sentimental stuff that has pulled on the hard strings. I'm trying to have my girl How do you feel about my like eternal sunshine and spotless mind does that count like that's pretty sentimental in some ways I don't think it counts.

Okay, let me think of some other stuff. Have you seen My Girl? I've never heard of My Girl. Yeah, that's like. I watch like New Girl, that's pretty like rom-com. No, no, My Girl and New Girl are very different. Okay, there's something in there. There's something in this heart.

There's something in this thing. No, Dan Roots for the Giants, if that's not sentimental, I don't know what is. There you go. I am not a fan of this Dan has no heart narrative. This will be, we will return to this when I have more ammo. Yeah, I, no, I'm just, obviously I was, that was me.

I know, I know. That was the Dan Adam schtick. But we also have to get to this schtick. You're the tin man, Dan, you're the Tin Man. Ah. Is it the Tin Man who has no heart? All right, here are a couple of fantasy cops questions. This one is from Bob K.

It was the end of week 14 heading into the playoffs and there was a tie for sixth place. Tiebreaker rule is total points and then better head-to-head record. The two teams had matching records and amazingly matching points for, which is wild and decimal scoring to everyone. Shocked. The team that was O and two in the head to head matchups was given the sixth place spot and the entry to the playoffs. Excuse me.

Apparently CBS takes points against into consideration when totaling the team points. So the team with the lower amount of points against got into the playoffs. The commissioner overruled this and put the head-to-head record winner in because absolutely no one in the league knew that points against was used. The manager that was rejected entry to the playoffs was furious, demanded his league dues back, not a cheap league and will likely not rejoin next season. Do you think the commissioner handled this correctly? If the rules are in place, no matter you know about them

or not, they're still there. It's up to you to know what the rules are, if they've been established. Commissioner did not do the right thing. You think they should use points against as the tiebreaker? No, I think it's stupid, but I don't think it changes if that's what they're. In this case, they should use points against.

Yeah. And that is like- I think Amy's right. Like just because it's not what we wanna do now that we can look at a nine site, it's what the rule was all year. And that's what you kind of have to stick to. You can't just change the rule

to what you think is fairest or best at the end. That's more unfair. You should look at your league settings. I'm gonna do this right now. Well, look, this is the things that need to be discussed too by the league. Like before, if you're really serious and this is supposed to be a big buy-in league,

like we shouldn't be just like willy-nilly. Here's, we're putting the rules out and nobody check them. Nobody discuss them. Like these are things that you discuss in the off season. We, every year in my big league, we have off season discussion of rules. I know, but here's the thing. It is possible and it happens a lot

where you just never think of the things to speak about. Right? Are you this? Yeah, that does happen a lot. Just popped up and you didn't, you didn't anticipate it. But like I'm looking at our FFT league that Jamie's the commissioner of. If you go to the league settings in a CBS league

and it says the standings tiebreaker and it tells you, you know, pretty, very specifically explicitly what the tiebreaker is and in that league it's head to head is the third one. It's not points against. Yeah, so this one, this one says points against which is schedule difficulty, which isn't, I'm looking at one of my other leagues I'm in,

which isn't really that bad of a tiebreaker. If you think about it, you had this record and this was your points against, kind of makes sense. I mean, head-to-head matchups should be ahead of it. But go ahead and look at your league settings, because I bet it's there in a CBS league and then you really don't have a leg to stand on. All right, so reverse that and get that guy in the playoff.

It's too late now, but whatever. Jethro from Denver is in a 12 team, two receiver league. Someone in my league out of the playoffs dropped JSN for Xavier Leagate last week because he was going to the Panthers game and just wanted to have fun. Other players he could have dropped were Bateman, Madison, and Russell Wilson. This ticked off the rest of us still in the playoffs. The four of us still in the playoffs

made a pact not to pick up JSN. I berated the guy in our group chat who dropped JSN, and now he thinks I was being a jerk, and he thinks he should be able to drop whoever he wants. Context, this is not uncharacteristic of this manager. He does this all the time. He dropped Sutton after week five when he could have dropped an injured Harrison Butker. Who is in the wrong? Should the commissioner do anything? We do not have a rule saying teams out of the playoffs can't make ad drops, but there's

also nothing at stake for those teams either. Well, I'll start by saying you have a bad system in place. Unfortunately, as a commissioner, every single lead that you play in roster should lock of the teams eliminated from the playoffs. I will not budge on that. I don't, I need to hear another argument from another side. Does it serve up that dance? No, that's that wasn't me again. That was not me.

Okay. You co-manage a league for charity. Other things can happen. Shout out to my boy. Hey, look, he's trying to bring the best roster. The side note, we don't need to get into this point being rosters need to lock when you get, when you're not eliminating from the class, let's start by saying that. But the second part is the interesting part to me, because it's going to happen

in season, obviously with the Sutton example, I'm not of the mindset that the commissioner should be policing how somebody manages their roster, who they obviously with the Sutton example, I'm not of the mindset that the commissioner should be policing how somebody manages their roster, who they cut. What you can do is again, it's harsh, but eliminate this person from the league the next year. If you, if you want the most competitively again, depends what you want. If you want a league of friends, have fun, blah, blah, blah. Yeah, that's fine.

But like, if you want a competitive league and somebody's just making awful drops that are hurting the competitive bounce league, yes, you have to kind of add that tough conversation. Like listen, you got to play better fantasy or you're not part of this league. It's a competitive league. I don't know what else to say. I don't understand why they're allowing ad drops of teams out of the playoffs. Like he just said, like we don't stop that. Like why?

Well, we don't, we don't lock our teams, but you know, we don't take the time to lock the rosters for the non-playoff teams, but we reverse any ad drop. Yeah. But he said they allow that though. Yeah, you're right. It's weird. It's weird. Unless there's like a consolation toilet bowl type thing, where people are still competing.

I think if that's the case and you're doing that, then what you have to do is say, okay, you can make your ad drops at the end of the week. You get the scraps. I just don't know if you needed to berate the guy in the group chat, you know, that's, I can't really speak to that. You might've gone overboard there. But this manager's not really being responsible

and you shouldn't have to play in a league with someone who's gonna drop Courtland Sutton instead of Harrison Butker. I think if they're doing that, instead of just outright kicking them out, you put it to a vote and say, do we want to keep this person in the league or not? And let the majority decide.

That's so harsh. No, no, no, that's not harsh, Adam. That's like the reality of this situation. Imagine being voted off the island by your friends. That's happened before. I've seen my friend, shout out Kevin Absoly, he got removed from the league I was in. He was voted out of the league.

You would rather, let's just say this was you doing something for fun. And I just decided you're out of the league. You'd rather be that way as opposed to everybody else giving you a chance to maybe vote for you? No, I'd rather the voting. I'd rather the voting. But it's just harsh, you know, like to see, I don't know if these people are his friends or not. That's tough.

I wouldn't want to vote, I wouldn't want to vote on my friend's status in a league, I'll tell you that. I wouldn't be friends with someone like this. All right, that's it for the Fantasy Cops. Thanks so much for your Fantasy Cops questions. We'll be right back with your Apple podcast questions and then your YouTube comments on fantasy football today after this break.

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I'll say this Adam, my fantasy cop, general demeanor and responses probably isn't doing a great job of explaining that, of pointing me in the direction of having the heart that I was claimed to not have by you earlier on the show. You have plenty of heart, but when it comes to TV and movies, you don't have a lot of sentimentality. You are like kind of a Action Jackson over there. No, I don't like action movies, so that's wrong.

That wasn't the right word for it. Yeah, I like thinking movies, dramas, shows as well, but sci-fi, but I'm just trying to think, I feel like there are movies that I can get sentimental about. Okay, let me explain something to you. From the chat, what are your favorite? What are your favorite? Sentimental tearjerker movies or TV shows the same movies. What are your favorites? You know, let's hear some suggestions and maybe Dan seen some

Yeah, I might have seen them and I'll see how I feel after I seen them Like there are other stuff like I you know, Breck we're in for a dream I watched that one time it like haunted me for a week like emotionally. Oh, yeah, that's really horrible Cuddle up with your with your girl and watch Requiem for a dream It's not that kind of sense of value, but it shows empathy and just like an overall sense of dread that comes from watching that movie You have a pursuit of happiness with Will Smith. I love that movie. There you go pursuit of that I love that movie when oh my god the scene where movie. There you go. Pursuit of Alvin. I love that movie when oh my god the scene where the boss says can I have the five dollars it's those last five dollars he gives it to him.

Just unbelievable. Oh the one that gets me in that movie is when uh when his son drops the um Captain America. I don't know if I don't remember. They're racing for the bus and he drops the toy and he can't go back. Oh the toy. Yeah yeah yeah, I got you. How about Forrest Gump? Jim says- I've seen Forrest Gump. I love Forrest Gump. Great movie. Ghost Dad. I don't know Ghost Dad, no. Ghost Dad is an old Bill Cosby movie. Cool Runnings. Cool Runnings, yeah. Very similar.

Click. Oh, Click. Click, I cried my eyes out. I never won that. Not because I was enjoying it, because it's the most, what's the word I'm looking for? It's unnecessarily sad. It wallops you with five minutes of heartbreak at one thing. I would give anything for that remote control.

Yeah. Oh, I know, right? Yeah, geez. But oh my God, the things that happen in like a five minute stretch are just awful. And I'm sitting there, I was crying. And I was like, why? I'm not even that into this movie,

but it's so sad. Don't watch Click. Yeah, Click, oh my God, exactly. Oh, how about Up? Have you seen Up? Yeah, I love Up. See, actually, you know what? I've seen all of those,

like I've seen a bunch of those, um, Disney Pixar movies and I know I do feel sentimental during those. So yeah, you know what? Click will break a man. Oh, wait more than you guys think like, uh, What was that movie that everybody loves one of the best movies of all time? Um, With morgan freeman, um getting out of prison. Yeah. Yeah. Shawshank. Love shawshank. Yeah saving private ryan Have you seen saving private? Yeah, another sentimental i've love Shawshank. Saving Private Ryan, have you seen Saving Private Ryan? Yeah, another sentimental I've seen. So I don't think this is a good narrative.

I think I've debunked it already. I am surprised you've seen Saving Private Ryan. Okay, here are our Apple Podcast questions. This one is from TS76. Recently I've decided Dan and I need to play a round of mediocre golf and argue about his ridiculous takes the whole time. Love it, hit me up. Standard scoring. Slide me out somewhere and I need to play a round of mediocre golf and argue about his ridiculous takes the whole time. Love it.

Yeah. Standard score. Find me out somewhere where I can still play. Standard scoring sit to Jerry Judy, Khalil Shakir, Joe Mixon, Bucky Irving, Breece Hall and Brian Robinson Jr. Judy's easy one. If Hall gets through a full day of practice today, no issues. I would sit Brian Robinson. Did you say PPR at a minute scoring, but you have to start one of the

wide receivers so you can't sit Judy and Shakir. I would play Shakir anyway. Well, standard I don't love but play Shakir. And so now I need to sit one of Brian Robinson and who else? Bucky Irving, Joe Mixon, Breeze Hall. No, I'm sitting Brian Robinson. All right. Let's get to this one here. Love the show from JBE Plur. Love Dan's insane rants. You're a popular guy in the comments today.

I'm having a good day, but you know what? I appreciate you not reading all the other hate ones. It's a love hate thing. I've polarized myself in this community, which I'm fine. But you're very loved half PPR bench three, Garendo, a Chan, Ken Walker, Chuba. Let's start three because there's six here. Start three. Garendo is out. HN Ken Walker, Chuba Hubbard, Rico Dattle, Bucky Irving.

Hubbard a Chan, Bucky Irving. Hubbard, A-chan, Bucky. A-chan, Bucky, Doudel. And from NCDino or Dino, I voted for you for best sports podcast, thank you. Thank you. What are your thoughts on where T Higgins may end up next year? Great question.

That's going to be fun. I have two, three teams that I think make some sense. Uh, two of them played last night, chargers and Broncos. So you could see a need for a receiver there in both those spots and the commanders. Those are all good picks. I'm going to go with the bangles. I think Joe Burrow is making a really clear case to ownership.

I want this guy, I'm Joe Burrow, do right by me. And I think they will. Did you see, there was a, I didn't get a chance to read it on the Friday morning show when I was looking at the T Higgins news. Jamar Chase was asked about T Higgins signing with his agent. And I assume he meant about the agency, Uh, Jamar Chase was asked about T Higgins signing with his agent.

And I assume he meant about the agency, but he said, we're going to be together for life. Wow. Well, that's interesting. But I, I think that's what's going to happen. Look, they are notoriously cheap owners, the angles or ownership, whatever you want to call it, but they, they have to get this done. They just, this is the spot for them.

They have Joe Burrow. This is it. Get it done. Yeah. Big question. I—I would love it, but it just feels like that's a franchise killer to spend all that money on two receivers. I think the Eagles do it.

They did. Brown and—Brown and Devante, and they're still fine. You just have to work the cap like Howie Roseman, and you're good to go. Like, just push everything down the line just like the Saints did. And now the Saints are finally hitting their time. It's like, so what? But you know what? The Cowboys really are. The Cowboys really are hitting their. Similar type of thing. The Cowboys have gotten to that point, but it's like throughout that time, they signed whoever they wanted. And that's similar with,

I mean, the Bengals worked out really well for the Saints and the Cowboys. It didn't, but they didn't have a Joee burrow did they and and that's the thing and when you have the quarterback you can in my opinion you can take the i guess i guess if you're saying the saints started doing that during the jubreese that's right right they started doing it during jubreese this dan has the best takes consistently wow i love this is my show today this is my outside of the the moment where adam said i didn't have a. This is my show today. This is my outside of the moment where Adam said I didn't have a heart. This is my show today. Kyler Stafford in four point for passing touchdown leagues.

Kyler. It's so hard, but I'm going to go Kyler. I thought Kyler was going to have such a good game last week and he killed me in so many leagues, but I'll go Kyler. All right. We're into our YouTube comments now I want to thank everybody of course for for being here helping us you know with content you guys drive the mailbag show so it might be the last mailbag that you listen to this season we'll have one more next week but I know once people get eliminated they we hope you stick around but some of you don't that's fine so thank you so thank you so much for just being part of it all year. Rashad White or JSN, half PPR.

JSN. Yeah, it's gotta go JSN there. Fryarm Youth, Hawkinson or Brenton Strange, full PPR. Strange. And Ken Walker, we need two. Ken Walker, JSN, Jacoby Myers, Jameson Williams, JSN and JMo for me in full PPR. I want nothing to do with JMo this week.

Give me Myers and Jason London Higgins, lamb Bucky sit one London Higgins, lamb Bucky. London. I'll sit London too. Yeah. First week with Penex. So I think it's going to be good. Ever. This is my thing.

There's a lot of consternation around playing Penex this week in two London. I'll sit. I'll sit. London too. Yeah. First week with Penics. So I think it's going to be good ever. This is my thing. There's a lot of consternation around playing Penics this week in two cubie leagues, obviously in one cubie leagues, you probably don't have to. I think he's going to have a very good first start. How come? Because the Giants defense is just a shell of itself that all of their starters are injured. They have like four guys. They recently signed, signed playing like big roles. It's a disaster and a joke.

And it's as easy of a spot as it gets for a rookie quarterback starting. And yeah, this year we've had a lot of bad first starts for quarterbacks. But in the past, there's been some really good ones. Daniel Jones versus Tampa in 2019. Like that's the first one that comes to mind. But like it's not impossible to have a good first start. Yeah. Wasn't Will Levese's first start incredible?

Yes. Will Levese's first start's a great example of a terrible quarterback with a great first start. I mean, it's a terrible quarterback. You never miss a chance. I've been saying it for years on this show, and he's not starting. I'll go back to what I said on Friday.

If they allow him to throw, I think there's a chance for a potentially good game. It's a matter of, will they limit his throws, get him comfortable knowing that they could just get their win and go home, because that's the most important thing right now. Good point, and it's a Giants. You don't really have to throw, that is a good point.

Yep, fewest quarterback pass attempts against in the NFL. Wow. By the way, Dan, when it comes to Will Levis, maybe you should have a little heart. I don't, but it's not a matter of heart. The take of heart. Uh, it's a take I had that I'm correct on and I'm wrong on so many others that I want to barrel it back. Oh, I have a question for you after this one from James. Now PPR start three, Justin Jefferson, Brian Thomas Jr.

Yes. Yes. So start one Mooney, feeling waddle Hollywood. There's no question it's. Thielen. Yeah, it's Thielen. Oh, I'm sorry. It is close between Thielen and Mooney.

I go Thielen, but yes. I was looking at the other two. I can't play Hollywood and Thielen for sure. I saw a tweet from Dan. I want to get your opinion. Uh-oh. It said something like, I've talked to like 13 Miami fans.

You're one of them. Yeah. How many Miami fans do you know that are also giants fans who don't believe in Ken Ward? No, I said some are giants them. Yeah, how many Miami fans do you know that are also Giants fans who don't believe no? I said some are giant right, but how many Miami fans do you know? How do you know? I'm Miami fans. I know a ton of Miami fans. I have two through a group. I made friends with the pandemic I don't need to go through this, but you know, I don't buy the tweet. I don't buy it It's true. It's hey, it's nothing to buy Miami's a popular school and I know a lot of people who went there. You're 13 exactly?

Well, I mean, some would listen to this and say, dang, that doesn't even have 13 friends, let alone 13 Miami friends, but it's not 13 exactly. I said like 10, between 10 and 15. And none of us are sold on Cam Ward. That was- Every single one has said the same thing, that they're not sold or iffy about it. I don't want to hear that going into a draft Like I don't want to the fan is the one who's supposed to be like yes This guy's awesome like last year Kevin Stein will we work with he runs the NFL's he runs the NFL editorial He loves Drake may he's a UNC fan, and I love me too, and he that's what I want to hear

I want to hear full-blown optimism as we head into the better than I like dream, but Drake may Well that was a bad take you had on May from the start. I mean, what did I say about Drake May? He, he makes- You didn't like him and the guy's six foot five, 240 runs, throws as the best arm talent by far in any one of his clubs. He makes too many mistakes

and he throws an interception every game. Oh yeah, working with those receivers in the worst offensive line of the league. But he's a mistake maker. Allows 40% pressure rate. Pretty encouraged by his rookie season, I'll say that. He's been- It's very encouraging. But Ward, I like better than May.

But May does have that size. All right, if Pollard sits, would you start Spears or Hall? Spears. Yeah, you gotta go Spears. McMillan, Devante Smith, I'm guessing that is, or Marvin Harrison Jr. I mean, if it's Devante, it's definitely Devante here,

especially if Brown is hurt. Yep. Pick two in PPR. Evans, Bucky Irving, C.D. Lamb. Evans. Wow, that's tough. Yeah, Adam, it's full PBR. Yeah, Bucky's so good though, okay.

Hertz or Baker Mayfield? Hertz. Hertz. Jacoby Hertz or Baker Mayfield? Hertz. Hertz. Jacoby Myers or Brian Thomas Jr., Hawkinson or Laporta, and then Eagles, Bills or Falcons? P.T.J. Laporta. And then it gets interesting, Falcons.

Agreed. Good thing your Keynes fans aren't professional scouts. The Keynes fans are friends. Well, yeah, that's the thing. Everyone's and I said it in the tweet. I was like, this is not like a barometer of what if this person's going to player is going to be good or work out the fan take. But it is just weird to me that like I haven't talked to Miami fan.

That's like this guy is the real deal. I know what it is. It's it's the it's we're one of honestly we're one of those fan bases. That's like the Giants where it's just we just you've been beaten down so much. Yeah. You expect the worst. Yeah. No, it happens. I understand that fandom. I'm not joking. That's really what that's how it feels with as a Badger fan these days as well. Never was like that. But these last five years have been so miserable. Bench one Marvin Harrison Jr. Laporta John Oh, Jacoby Myers. Junior, Laporta, John-u, Jacoby Myers.

Laporta. All right, one more question here. Yeah. And it's gonna be, oh, a real, real topical one. Actually, it is with the running backs. Calvin Austin or Miller Madison Abdullah? That's tough. I'm going Kendre Miller, I think.

I'm gonna go Madison. Not liking it. Yeah, go Madison too. Wow. A lot of disagreement between Dan and Jamie today. Yeah, you got a lot of people drunk. I just assumed they were drinking water. All right. Well, then go ahead. Take your bathroom break, folks. We are out of here. We'll talk to you Sunday. Very excited to have Dan on the Sunday morning show.

It's going to be all heart on that show. And have a great weekend, everybody. Good luck. Let's advance. Let's get a win. Let's get to our championship this year.