Fantasy Footballers - Fantasy Football Podcast - Footballers AMA + Fantasy Superpowers - Fantasy Football Podcast for 6/26

Episode Date: June 26, 2025

Fantasy Football show for June 26, 2025. What’s your fantasy football superpower? Andy, Mike, and Jason dive into all sorts of questions on today’s AMA show! Important topics covered like hot dog eating contests, reality tv shows, and lots more! Plus, rule changes to improve your fantasy football league! Manage your redraft, keeper, and dynasty fantasy football teams with the #1 fantasy football podcast.2025 ULTIMATE DRAFT KIT is available now at UltimateDraftKit.com(00:00) Introduction(05:30) League Rule Changes(09:50) Footballers AMA(10:30) Studio Telecaster(11:50) Golden Toilet Trophy(14:30) Biggest Potty Mouth(15:40) Favorite Episode Topics(18:30) Pickle Opinions(21:30) Dream Job as a Kid(23:30) Keep/Trade/Cut: Burgers, Pizza, Wings(24:55) Mike’s Nike Shoe Mug(25:45) Shoes off inside?(28:40) How to make Draft Night special(30:00) Bucket List travel spot(31:45) Keep/Trade/Cut: Survivor, Big Brother, Shark Tank(35:00) Footballers Signature Dishes(37:00) Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner(37:15) Moment you fell in love with fantasy football(41:20) Weird sports memorabilia(43:55) Fantasy Football Superpowers(45:35) Favorite Players(47:00) Ballers Next Venture(49:40) Favorite Colors(50:15) Best Combine Event(53:10) Pie or Hot Dog Eating Contest?Connect with the show:Subscribe on YouTubeVisit us on the WebSupport the ShowFollow on XFollow on InstagramJoin our Discord

Welcome to the Fantasy Footballers Podcast with your hosts, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Oh, welcome in. The Fantasy Footballers. Jason Moore, Mike the Fantasy Hitman, Andy Holloway back with you. you Thursday June 26th fantasy football quickly approaches training camp excitement anticipation and ultimately everything we've ever said all offseason coming true yeah that's how it usually works. It's called confirmation bias. 60% of the time it works every time. That's why we don't delete all the episodes,

is because they're all right. We want you to go back and see. Right? Yeah, that's what we want. No, it's a fun time of year. It's a fun time to kind of, you know, we did our projections for the UDK and we've been tweaking them every day

and it's fun because when, you know, we do them all independently and there's like a system on our side, on our tech side where like you import them into the UDK when you're done making adjustments and then we get an update of what was changed. But I don't always know what players you guys are tweaking until I hit that button or you hit that button,

and then it comes through our channel, and then all of a sudden I'll see players that your opinions are changing on a little bit here or there. So it's always fun. I was watching some video of the Browns mini camp stuff and trying to ascertain based on David Njoku's, he was mic'd up and by the way what a physical specimen that man is. Oh Njoku? Holy moly. Yeah that's a man. I've said that before but goodness you see that and you think 40 to 50 touchdowns when you see that man.

You see him and honestly I think that team wasted his career. I would agree because we've seen when they focal pointed him, that's a phrase, he was dominant. Yeah, he could be a lot more than he has been, but I also think that they will utilize, they shifted. I think they've fixed it. Now they don't have a quarterback, so there's a problem.

They're gonna continue wasting his career with a quarterback, but I look at him as such a monster of a man, and I think, how is Miles Garrett so much bigger than him? Right, right, like that doesn't seem. Miles Garrett scares me. Like when I see a photograph of Miles Garrett, I look over my shoulder, I'm so scared of,

this is the biggest man I've ever seen in his arms. They look unnatural. They look like they are made of plastic. Like there's no, you couldn't push in. There's no indentation. No way you could push in. If Pam and Aaron Donald were ever on the same defensive line, can you imagine?

You would lay down as an offensive lineman and just let him jump over you. But I was gonna say. Quarterbacks have to stare that man in the eyes. Yeah. As he is like, here, I'm coming to get you. And what does he always say? He's putting him in the graveyard?

Yeah. He's got his quarterback graveyard? You gotta use language like that, Miles? Well, cause he has like, he does the Halloween thing. Yeah, that's true. Well, look, literal graveyard. I watched the video. I'm trying to figure. He did also try to murder a quarterback on the field once there was, there was, he just wanted to talk to him. I'm just wanted to, he's wanted to say like we got to clear some stuff up.

Generous calling Mason Rudolph a quarterback. Oh, that is really very, that's a good point. I watched the video and I was trying to figure out who the quarterback is gonna be and from watching the video because he's interacting with all the different quarterbacks and to me it just seemed like it's obvious that it's Joe Flacco. That's who he wants. The problem yeah that he wants to win. He was awesome with Flacco. So you could have a situation where the Browns start with Flacco and it's really good for their weapons and then very bad later When they decide the future is more important than the present

But but yeah, it's a fun time of year. We've got the udk available ultimate draft kit comm all of our tier-based rankings Customized scoring for your league you can import your Your roster and your league settings from NFL ESPN sleeper Sleeper, Yahoo. We've got 100 plus player video profiles. We've got consistency charge, all the mobile app features. There's also a really helpful news feed. If you just want the easy, like, oh, if you've already got the UDK and you're not just in the habit of just opening the app, total off season, what's the latest news? Just scroll down on the main page and you can read whatever's going on around the league and not have anything surprise you.

And all first to the waiver wire. Yeah, and all of our rankings updates pop in to the update section there too. The draft analyzer just five days away in the UDK plus. So that is that's exciting because you'll get a breakdown of your draft and where your strengths and weaknesses are and which one of us individually likes your team the most. And that is all at ultimatedraftkit.com. Here's your quick question of the day, gentlemen. Comes from YouTube, what are some changes to your league made over the years that actually ended up working out

better than you anticipated? So we always say the offseason is a great opportunity to make tweaks and alterations to your league. Sometimes that's dumping a terrible manager that doesn't belong because they're inactive and ruins the league. Sometimes that's rule changes, scoring changes. Yeah. I mean, I've had a few of them that came to mind. Obviously, way back in the day, we finally, after years and years and years of trying to get it through, we got rid of kickers and added an extra flex. That made the league so much more fun. The one that I think was surprising how effective

it was, if you're in a keeper league, if you're playing in that format and you have an issue with, essentially, there's the great teams, the buyers and the sellers. And towards the end of every year, you just have like super teams and garbage teams that go into next year with all the draft capital. That's pretty common in certain keeper leagues. We got rid of being allowed to trade first round picks

in next year's draft. Your best pick is the second that you can trade during the season. And I was surprised what an impact, I feel like that fixed our biggest problem in our league. I am happy to hear that you feel that way because that was brought up every year before we stopped doing that as a problem.

People, they'd go all in, trade away all their draft capital, and it would just kind of ping pong back and forth between the teams that did that and the teams that had the draft capital. So that is a good one. We had a league median to a couple of leagues last year. That surprised you personally.

It surprised me in a big way because I was always anti-league median, where you get, for those that don't know, you get a win for your head-to-head matchup if you have the most points over your opponent, and then you also get a win if you finish in the top half of the league in scoring that week. So it softens the blow if maybe, you know, we've seen this a million times, we get the Twitter messages all the time, I scored 156 points.

It was the second highest score of the week. And lost, yeah, in the second highest score. So it kind of, I didn't expect it, I thought it would kind of nerf the extreme emotions too much to make it not enjoyable. That was my worry about it. It was like, hey, you gotta live with the bad. The bad beats.

To enjoy the good of getting lucky and winning one. And it mostly just worked really well where like Thursday Night Football, Thursday night football happens and I'm getting blown out because of three big performances by my opponent. Well, I'm still in on the week, even though I probably have lost my head to head, I'm still excited about watching my team on Sunday

and trying to get into that top half of the league. I care so much more about the rest of the league in leagues with league median turned on. When it's not turned on, I'm not as great. Andy, he always knows what everybody in the league is doing. I don't. I look at my matchup and my opponent, and that's it. But then when we've got league median,

I'm looking at everybody's score. I'm like, am I going to outscore these people? Who do I need across the league to do bad? Yeah, you guys, Mike would be posting like, am I gonna outscore these people? Who do I need across the league to do bad? Yeah, you guys, Mike would be posting like, oh, these two teams need to not score a bunch tonight. So I was surprised in a positive way that that was only a value add. I thought it would be more detrimental in some way,

because I was against it for years. And then, like we said- You were so forward after one week that one week into the season we added it to another league. Was it that fast? Yeah. One week? Yeah, because you experienced it.

You're like, this is awesome. I did like it. You know, the fantasy football player is addicted to checking on things. That's what we all are addicted to. That's what makes all fantasy sports amazing, or at least for me. There's always something to, oh, another point, another score, another game, another thing. That just gave me one more cool thing to keep track of during the week. So it did, I enjoyed it. So we've got a special show today. It is an AMA and Ask Me Anything episode. So, you know,

we're sitting here in the latter part of June. We get so many questions on Instagram, on Twitter, on YouTube, all over the place from the Discord server that we like to do these episodes and have a good time from time to time. So they could be fantasy, they could be anything. Here we go. ["Spring Day in the City"] Mailbag.

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. That was different. That's an AM AMA brother, okay, this is different All right If you have questions for the show throughout the year you need some help getting ready for your weekly matchups You've got keeper questions, whatever it is. You can go to the website the fantasy footballers calm You can click the submit a question button or you can dial the voicemail hotline, 302-464-TFFB, and we'll feature some of those voicemails on the show. Our first question comes from X.

Andrew writes in, what's the story behind the Fantasy Footballers telecaster behind Mike in the studio speaking of the guitar. Well Andrew, it's not a great story but if I got... You didn't hand paint that? No, no. No, that was a gift from Fender. I got connected to someone and I you know I was chatting them up. I am a big-time Fender user and I was chatting them up. I am a big time Fender user. And I was like, hey, is there a way for us to work together? And you know, some conversations, they kind of stalled out,

but they were like, hey, you know, at the very least, we would love to give you, you know, a fully branded Telecaster. And I was like, oh, awesome, we'll hang that on the wall for the YouTube show. So I mean's looks good back there yeah it's an awesome looking guitar also Telecasters are noice very nice very nice but I mean okay if Fender wants to come back to the table and have some more discussions oh happy to do it this is add me and I did I did not put that question in there. But hey, Fender not a sponsor.

Yet. But a very nice guitar sitting behind you. All right, let's turn to a voicemail question. Hello, this is Patrick from Cincinnati. And I'm just wondering, who has held the golden toilet trophy the most amongst the six of you. This is a very pressing matter. Thank you, goodbye.

The golden trophy, the golden toilet trophy is. It's new. Yeah, that's in the last, since Falcon got hired. Yeah, since Falcon got hired. We got it for Falcon because. Who has been known. Yeah, he's been known to miss the recordings. At any moment.

At any moment. Maybe the beginning, maybe the middle, maybe the end. You never know. To take a dump. Specifically, this is why it's a toilet. It's a dump truck trophy. And so, yeah. We should call it the Liner for Nets.

The Falcon has probably had it the most times. I've had it the most, I mean, it the most I mean it's been here forever now I think and my story was very unfair it was but you could tell I think we're at three people Have ever ever had it. Yeah, did Papa Josh had it? Yeah, I think we want Josh Did you have it at one point? I had it cuz I missed I had to get up twice We all know why you get the trophy. You get the trophy for having to poop on the show. Nobody pooped more that day than me. Double A, man.

So you got it. Mine was unfair because we're about to start the show. A little bit. We're about to start the show and to be responsible, I'm like, I'm going to go clear out the bowels. Yeah, you don't want to leave in the middle of the show. It's like a little bullet shack. Right, exactly. I have to be unprofessional, exactly.

And then to goof me and make me get the trophy, they just started recording. You just started recording. I'm in the bathroom right off the studio and I hear Andy with his, oh, welcome in. I'm like, you dirty rats. There was a delay. There was a delay.

Whatever. Anyways, so now it's been- We've got a schedule to keep here. It's been here so long. I think it's going to somehow, this season, just turn into the bet trophy, like this guy versus that guy. Well, look, the Deucers, they do not want that trophy. That's the-

I don't. I think about this thing way too much. Do you? Oh yeah. Yeah, because I know how Jason got it. So I'm like, you gotta time things up. Oh, you've been really planning. Do you keep like a journal?

Can you plan that stuff? Yeah, I just, I monitor when I put food in. Oh my gosh. All right. Things are timed out good. It's true. Ask me anything. Ask.

Well, look, there are a lot of questions here. Ask. Instagram, Chris Smith writes in, who has the biggest potty mouth off camera and why is it Jason? So to be clear, I don't think anyone is a very big potty mouth off camera. I wanna know what the deucers would say.

I know who I would say, but I guess. Is he here right now? He is not here right now. Well, if it's the whole team, I would say it's Jeremy. And I would just, I would add in, like who has the most. If it's only the deucers, it's also Jeremy. Who has the most juvenile humor?

Oh, that's Jeremy. That's Jeremy. Yeah, Al Borland. Al Borland. Al Borland. But what if it's, yeah, what if it's just the three of us? The two deuces that are here. Yeah, you guys each on the count of three. It's Jason, easy. Oh really? There's no debate. And he's, are you nodding? Yeah, I go with Jason. Oh, that's interesting. Okay. I guess, I guess you two and Chris Smith. 69-44. I would never. Yeah. The pickleball court. The pickleball court is, that's off limits. It's like Vegas. What happens in the pickleball court stays on the pickleball court.

Wow, all right. Boy, there are a lot of questions in here and we have seen none of these. YouTube question from Squidgee Sensei says, what is the baller's favorite episode format and topic to record? none of these. YouTube question from Squidgee Sensei says, what is the baller's favorite episode format and topic to record? Oh.

Which is not a question I've ever, no, no. I don't think we've ever been asked that one. That's a good question. I know what I think all three of our topic and format are least favorites are. Sometimes- Which aren't, that is not the same answer for the audience. Correct, correct.

It is not a bad show. There's some that are harder, like we don't enjoy doing as much that are still considered some of the most valuable episodes. Yeah, so like for instance, we just, you know, we've been doing Sleepers, Breakouts, Buzz, where we each bring kind of our argument on a player to the table.

And so it's kind of more monologuery. And those aren't as fun as the interacting discussion, I think, between us. But they're still valuable. Yeah, I would say the least favorite are when we're doing like divisional breakdowns. Yeah. Because they just, it's a lot.

It's just a lot of teams to get through. And it's always cumulatively, I gotta really choose when I wanna say that word. And can I nail it or not? It's just a lot to do, but people really appreciate those episodes. So there's some that we don't like doing as much. I would say favorites.

The problem with the divisional breakdowns is that it ends up being like two weeks, three weeks in a row or something where it's like we're doing a lot. We like variety. Yeah. But favorites, Mike, do you have a? Mailbag is the best because of what Jason said.

When we can actually, we start getting a dialogue, you aren't, like when someone goes on a monologue and it makes a goof, like I don't always want to derail the monologue because like, oh, this is gonna be really funny. Like if we turn this train and we start analyzing the mistake that just happened, it's gonna be really funny. But you got your argument, and sometimes you don't always want to do that.

Yeah, I think maybe beneath the surface there is that episodes where more things that are unexpected can happen are more entertaining and fun for us to do that. Yeah, I think maybe beneath the surface there is that episodes where more things that are unexpected can happen are more entertaining and fun for us to do. And so that's why you bring up Mailbag, right? We don't know what's in the questions here. And if we're in a monologue defending a player, we know what we're going to say. So it's... I would say my favorite is the live show, not leading up to it, a lot of work,

but doing the live show, which ironically is kind of a monologue-y show usually, like we're bringing our own players, but there's so much energy and experience there. I like doing any show that the deucers have to leave to use the restroom, those are very fun. Those are my favorite. Mock drafts, My Guy episode, those are always

an exciting part of the year. All right, well this is not pickle ball, but Instagram question from GDrew wants to know pickles in general, yes or no? Yes. I'm a yes. Mike has been- Absolutely not. Absolutely not.

He hates pickles. Pickles are- Awesome. Terrible. Crunchy. They, maybe, that's fine. Maybe, you don't know if they're crunchy yeah how many years has it been since you've eaten a pickle not long enough

okay because I don't know the problem with the pickle is that it infects everything that it touches this isn't when you get a burger we might say accentuates but on and you're like, no pickles. And then they put the pickles on. They go, oh, and you peel them off. It still tastes like pickles. Well, that's the worst. It's not like lettuce where you're like, oh, I didn't want lettuce.

I'll take that off. It's fine. Yeah, but what you're doing is you're having pickle juice. No one wants pickle juice on a hamburger. When you do it that way. Like, I like pickles. I wouldn't just take a little pickle juice. I wouldn't put a pickle on a sandwich and then take it off. That would make it worse.

But the pickle itself, when you're experiencing the crunch, the texture, the whole thing together is great. Pickles like good pickles are not like we talk tier based rankings. They're not remotely near the tier that like fast food pickles on a burger belong. Fast food pickles are disgusting. Those are two different like species. When they are, I mean I said crunchy, crispy, whatever. Yeah, it's none of those. If it is not crisp, it is not, it should not be eaten.

You need a cold pickle that is crisp and you just eat it by itself and see what you think yeah, maybe someday Okay, maybe I think feeling does like Disneyland have giant they do they do are those good not really oh, okay? I'm good. I mean that was the only one I was gonna be willing to try, but I don't need to Gotta pass all right. Well. We'll take a quick break come back with some more questions All right, we'll take a quick break, come back with some more questions. I like, we have one of our newest employees, Jake, weighing in on the pickle debate.

And he is the youngest of the crew here. Yes. And he just says, you know, I've been getting, I've been getting pickles on my double doubles at In-N-Out recently, and they're glorious. And I'm just thinking, this guy just regularly knocking out double doubles. Like, he's living the life in the mid-20s.

I remember that life. Where like, it's just a part of your normal routine. Double, back at his age? A double double? That, come on. You were doubling your double double. You're going three by three or four by four, man. Double double, you gotta live your life while you can. He's grabbing multi-double-doubles now.

He wants more bread. They have pickles there? In and out? Yeah, in and out. Because that's not a normal topping. It's not? I think it is. I thought they were just for in and out specifically.

I thought they were a lettuce, tomato, onion. I'm on it. They're extra, they're not stock. He says they're not stock. You have to, shoot, you pay more? You want that, Austin Burger? So for a worst-in? Goodness, man. Hiring the best of the best here.

We've got more AMA questions. This one's from Coleman on Instagram. He says, what did each of you want to be when you grew up, when you were a kid? Number one. Oh, boy. Basketball, NBA probably. Right, yeah. I quickly learned that. to be when you grew up, when you were a kid? Number one. Oh boy.

Basketball, NBA probably. Yeah. I quickly learned that. Let's go back. I wanna go back to kid. Okay. Like you're an elementary kid. Was that what it was?

100%. You never did like astronaut? No. Firefighter? Nope. It was all basketball. It was NBA star until No, no, just make them be just basketball. You know what I mean? Like and then and then

No one's like what do you want to be? role player Yeah, I want to come off the bench Six man award eight minutes a night. Yeah, and not even every night There's gonna be plenty of coaches' decisions for me. Couple Adam Morrison rings. Look, I think my answer honestly would be the same when you go back far enough.

That was the first true ambition was to play in the NBA. And then it was an actor. I mean, I went to school for theater. Genuine career path was acting for me. So waiting tables. Which if you're really good at this could all be made up. Yeah. Acting.

Mike, what did you want to do? I mean, I brought it because when I was a little kid, that was astronaut of I'm gonna go to the moon, then got older and it was gonna be music, rock star type of thing. Yeah, okay. Andy? I was at basketball. Yeah, I. Andy? He's a basketball.

Yeah, I mean, I was like you with basketball. After that, it was probably like sports broadcaster. Play-by-play guy. Wow, rockstar, actor, sports broadcaster. I don't know, I think we're doing it all. Mike's sitting here with a telecaster behind him that he jams all of our drops to. That's pretty good.

I'm gonna start playing that thing during the show. Oh yeah, no, I mean we will not complain. I bet it'll be great. All right, this question comes in... Let's go here. YouTube Justin wants to know keep trade-cut burgers, pizza, wings. Burgers, pizza, wings. Keeping pizza. Trading burgers, cutting wings. I'm keeping burgers. You always have. You've been very consistent with that answer.

Burgers are amazing. Losing pizza is tough. It is, but the nice thing is I should not eat pizza. It does not agree with my body at all. So if I can just remove it from my life and I can't, that would be a big time win. Well then you gotta trade the pizza because the value's enormous.

Oh yeah, pizza's way more valuable than wings. All right, let's- Except for price. Like what, we're at like three bucks a wing now. What is happening? Is that, I think the chicken industry, they're having issues in general. Have you noticed this? Like you get the, like it's hard to find a chicken breast

now that's not like woody chicken. That's like an actual, like we've solved a lot of stuff. We can't solve that one. The chicken problem? The chicken problem. It's like 50-50. You get a chicken breast and it's woody now. I'm just tired. I'm tired of three dollars a wing. Hmm. Yeah. Okay. They're like, hey, it's the combo. It's just an extra 50 bucks for

12 wings. We've got this question. Somebody's been wondering this for years. It's for Mike. Instagram question. Where did Mike get the shoe mug? You've got your Nike shoe mug you've had sitting there for years now. And people have been wondering, it does get some comments on YouTube. I mean, this is just, it's a guy who runs his own shop at sneakermugs.com. He does other stuff.

Let's go. Oh, look at that. Let me go. See if he's still around. No, I mean, he's definitely there. And it's like, you get batches of stuff. Oh, new products are coming soon. So make sure you go, he does a bunch of cool stuff

with mugs. You're not the guy that runs that. No, no, bro. This is not in my wheelhouse of art that I can do. It does get a lot of attention. Visual art, not in my skill set. You can make a jingle for them. Yeah, that you could do.

This question is funny Bobby from Instagram are you guys shoes off immediately or sorry let me rephrase are you all shoes immediately off kind of houses or not? Ours is not. Ours is not anymore. Really? I thought you guys were like a super two off house. There's no rules anymore. This was one of the great breakdowns. You overcame the wife? I overcame, yes, because now she's still, she's got house shoes and outside shoes, and she swaps.

And we're talking to a rigidity that drives me crazy sometimes. Like, I'm in the garage working on something, I go, can you back the car out real quick? And she's standing next to the car with the keys in her hand. And she goes, let me go get my other shoes. How far away are they?

All across the house. They're not, like the... They're not close, they're not nearby the back area here. You need a better shoe system. And I was like, just... Every door needs to have the shoes. The indoor shoes, they can go out a little bit and breathe Well, I get what she's doing because this is a matter of like bacteria in terms you from outside inside

It's really bad But if anyone else is not participating then I got bad news for your house shoes I know are now also outdoor shoes, but it's not as bad You know who doesn't have to put on house shoes and gets a run of the whole house? The dog. The dog doesn't have, he doesn't have outdoor shoes and indoor shoes, he just gets to run around. Dogs need outdoor bodies too, because they just lay on anything.

If the dog don't have to change shoes, I'm not doing it. It's not a super strict, but we prefer that when the kids get home, they get their shoes off and we did used to do that for a while, but no more, no more. Hey, I'll tell you what, it's nice, man. Walk around your house with your shoes off. You're going to have it. It's just, it's far more luxurious. There's a weird thing about having your shoes on in your own house.

I did. I remember growing up and there were some houses that were hyper strict on this. Yes. They had to be off immediately right by the front door. I had a friend. If you take three steps in you're not family friend anymore. I had a friend who they had a room that you couldn't even walk in. This was a thing.

Is that for real? It was a, yes. Yeah, like a formal dining room, a place of art. No, it was a main living area. They said, we're gonna put the whitest of white carpet in here, and then this is not even a shoes thing. It is, no, you cannot go in that room because you will mess up the carpet.

Do you know if they use it at all? Like special occasions? I have no idea. I doubt it. I do feel like there were, that used to happen more. We had a room that was like pretty much the kids, you shouldn't go in there, that's our formal dining room. Yeah.

It's like, why can't I use that table? Just don't. I'm gonna cover my couch in plastic. Cause it's gonna last longer. Yeah, cause no one's gonna sit on it. Take the plastic off. These are the questions that are very important here. Jake wants to know, draft night question,

ways to make draft night more of an event? Well, first and foremost, in person, you can't really make a crazy great night of an online track. Everyone's just in the system. I mean, if you've gotta do that, yeah, we still do some online. Obviously, get a Zoom going

and make sure that everyone is visually together and you can talk and hear and laugh and whatever. But in person is step one. And assuming that you are in person, things that you can do to make it better is all about your team. Like you're, you know, we've got banners, jerseys, mugs, and whatever memorabilia and products that are sold that can be logoed. Pretty much all of us have our team identity on them. If you won the

championship, right, oh man, put on a show. And most of us don't change our team names. Jason rebrands about once every two to three years. It's like five or six years. It doesn't feel like it. You've had the most rebrands of the three of us because Mike and I have had zero. Yeah. And you've had three. All right, Bucket list travel spot. Dominic wants to know your bucket list travel spot. Mine is really, really easy. It's, I feel like it's the last main. Down the street. Not easy to get to, but easy, an easy answer to come up with because it's like the last major vacation spot

that I've still never been to Hawaii. So like, I wanna, like that is the next destination I wanna try to get to. Okay. Mike, do you have anything? Tokyo. Yeah, I think Japan would be- Ooh, that's a better answer.

I think Japan's on the list. Tokyo is my answer, is definitely on the list. Japan, New Zealand? I was just gonna say it. You're gonna go visit. What other what other cool bucket list places you want to copy? I don't know. What do you think? Those are the two that pop.

I mean, I've never been to like Europe, Italy, France, those places. Well, we've been across the Atlantic at all. I have. I've been to Israel. Oh, OK. There you go. Not there right now. No, no, no. But that was the only trip overseas. And only did Hawaii a couple years ago for the first time. Place sucks, don't go.

It's whole garbage. Keep it empty. Yeah. All right, we've got more questions coming in here on the AMA show. By the way, we are recording this episode of the show a little early because our families are on vacation. This week.

So. But we wanted to have the content. We wanted to have the show out and we always like to answer some fun questions. So. Whoa, look at that breaking news. We'll talk about that next week. There it is, there it is.

Keep Trade Cut, another one from YouTube, reality show edition, Survivor, Shark Tank, Big Brother. Oh, Shark Tank is the keep. Big Brother is the trade and cut Survivor only because I know Andy's a diehard Survivor fan. We got a couple others in the room and I don't care about it. What are the rules about just

keep cutting all the shows? You don't like Shark Tank? You can't cut Shark Tank. It's fine. Shark Tank's awesome. You know what's funny is, it's out of control now, man. Like where the full on dog and pony

were putting on this huge spectacle show. Get out of there. Well, it's, yeah, it's tough. I don't like where it's, like, it used to be good. I haven't watched it in a long time, to be fair. There's a lot of, like, people go on just for the publicity. And it, you know, they can't really vet that perfectly so you go on not to make a deal.

Look I it's funny because I am a survivor fan that's my keep that's been a show my family's watched for a long time both deuces over there same thing. But I feel like you guys do about survivor about Big Brother. Who watches that show? I'm like I can't comprehend that that shows out. Has anyone ever watched a full season of survivor in here? No survivor yeah. No no no I'm sorry of Big Brother. Who watches that show? I'm like, I can't comprehend that that show's out. Has anyone ever watched a full season of Survivor in here?

No. Survivor, yes. No, no, no, I'm sorry. Big Brother. No, no, no, no. I've never watched an episode. I don't know a single person who's ever watched Big Brother. But I guarantee our listeners, there's going to be hard.

Oh, yeah, it is. It is. Big Brother, Amazing Race, and Survivor, still cruising. 26 seasons of Big Brother. But I feel the same way about that. Like, who's watching it? And that's how you guys feel about Survivor. But I feel the same way about that, like who's watching it, and that's how you guys feel about Survivor, but they get their die-hard fans,

and then those people never leave every time there's a new season, and they just keep running it. That's what it's like with Survivor. Wow, I don't have the attention span for someone to keep me for 26 seasons of anything. Speaking of Game of Thrones, if they had 26 seasons. I doubt it. Really?

That's a lot. I don't know, well, I've already watched, let's see, I've watched it three times over. How many seasons did I have? 10. 10. What was that? Eight? So I guess, yeah, they kept me.

Another surprising show, this became a topic of one of our lunches. Because our minds were collectively blown. Grey's Anatomy, still on television. I remember when it came out, it was very hot for two, three years and then went away. And then we found out, it never, I saw a commercial for Grey's Anatomy,

I was like, I told my wife, I was like, Grey's Anatomy is back, they're bringing Grey's Anatomy back. It's a reboot. And it was like, wait, it never went away? It's wild. And all the same actors and it's wild when you these shows because you're just like I'm not connected to that show right and I go and that show had its moment like that thing was was very big stuff and it's still going like that's wild it's renewed for the 22nd

season oh good night what okay So is that one a year? So we're saying 20 years? Yeah. No. Yeah. The math is not mathin' on that one. Why? Oh, oh, okay, no, sorry, I was lookin' at it wrong.

It started in 2005. All right. We're good. Big Brother viewers tend to be female with a significant portion in the 45 to 54 age range. Okay. This is what... All right, I guess we gotta... This is what the internet is telling me. Yeah, so sweaty food in the basement. Not into Big Brother. Got it. No, no. We watch Survivor. No, no we don't. No we don't. We're better than that.

Okay, the Dave Kim writes in from Instagram, you guys decided to open a buffet together what is the signature dish from each of you? I don't know chef what's our signature dish? He's already like... Oh we all get one. It depends on what you got you guys have to go first. Oh gosh. No we don't. Yeah you do because I've got a couple here and it depends on what goes well with yours. Are you prime ribbon? I'm definitely not prime ribbon. Okay. I'm either basically... Are you a basically, I'm either filet mignoning. Yeah, that's a buffet. At a buffet?

That's why I said prime ribbing. Heck yes, at a buffet. It's for it. Heck yeah. You've been to a buffet and you were 100% stoked about the filet mignon? Yes, in Vegas, at the Wynn. Oh baby, oh baby.

As much steak as you want. Otherwise, otherwise it would be the banana bread. They're just pumping them out? It would be the banana bread. They're just pumping them out? It would be the banana bread pudding. OK, there we go. That's your signature dish? Yeah, so. They don't even need that at the buffet.

There's only one dude that comes in and eats it. It's me. Yeah, I know. Mike. So what are you guys bringing to the table? I'm trying to think buffet dish. Something that's like, you can't just say burgers, right? Yeah.

That's weird. It's gonna go with like a loaded fries of some kind. Can't go wrong. Soft serve. Hey, soft serve. Okay, then I'm doing the steak. Okay. See, that was why I didn't want it. You just wanted to let us pick a steak if we wanted to.

Yeah, if you guys wanted to make a protein. I've never been to one, I mean, you are the bougiest, but I've never been to one that had filet mignon on the buffet menu. I know for a fact I've never been to one, I mean you are the bougiest, but I've never been to one that had filet mignon on the buffet menu. I know for a fact that you have been to one that had tomahawks. Tomahawk steak. Where was that? Superbowl? That was the Superbowl. Oh, okay. Well that's... Did you get one? Come on. Did you get a couple tomahawks? Two or three tomahawks? He loaded his pockets. Just walking around with giant bones sticking out of his head. He's just saying, it's a buffet. They're just getting so stained. Just greasing up

my pants. Sir, did you put some steaks in your pockets? It's a buffet, it's free. What are you even talking about? Oh my goodness. All right, I guess a good food follow-up from Justin writing in on Instagram, between the three of you, who is breakfast, who's lunch, who's dinner? I am not breakfast. I'm breakfast. Yeah, I'm dinner. That's fine. Okay.

Mike's lunch. Easy peasy. That worked out great. Dee Smith from Instagram, what moment made you fall in love with fantasy football? Was there a moment? Honestly, it was the first time I ever played fantasy football and this was I was in high school. I Barely I was a NBA Die-hard sons. I could I knew everything I played fantasy basketball. I never I You know the Cardinals sucked. I wasn't a diehard NFL fan at that

point in time, drafted using a magazine. And I forget who it was, but I drafted an injured Baltimore Raven running back who... Jamal Lewis? Yeah, I think it was Jamal Lewis. And he was dominant that next year. I got to the championship and lost, but it was like I just, I loved finding the, you know, I got the player that was way better than he was supposed to be. Mike, do you have an answer to that? Was there a moment? I have a couple moments that stand out

in the history of fantasy football that were like, yeah, Baren Foster's breakout was a huge moment. I don't know that there was a moment that made me love fantasy football. I was already in on fantasy sports. I started with fantasy basketball and then progressed and moved to football. Was it you, Jason, that traded everything you had for Tom Brady after his Randy Moss season, and then he tore his knee up. I did this. In the first week? I did this twice.

Oh man. I did it. Oh man. I did it once for Tom Brady after his 50 touchdown season. He had never missed a game and then boom, dies. And then I did it a few years later, I think, for Aaron Rodgers, who had never missed a game, and then boom, that was the year he missed as well.

Didn't you also trade Aaron Hernandez? Right I did I tried Not just before he was like I think he was maybe arrested or something. It was like the It was unraveling. Yeah, it was unraveling and it was like I'm gonna trade him for a fifth round pick and someone took the gamble that Workout and someone took the gamble that it'll work out. It did not work out. Matt, before, you know what we're talking about, man. Things did not work out.

Yeah, but I got a fifth rounder, so worked out for me. Oh my gosh. That was a dangerous one to bring up. All right, we'll take a quick break and we'll hit a few more questions before we end the show. All right, back into our AMA episode. We've got piles of questions coming in from so many of you. I need to make sure I find some of the new ones. Seth wants to know, is there a weird piece of sports memorabilia that you have?

Do you have any weird ones? I'm not a memorabilia guy. I guess the one- But maybe you are now. I mean, everything in your life is changing. Yeah, maybe I will start loving things, but actually I don't own it anymore, but for a while I had what had to be one of 12 ever sold,

Max Hall jerseys, the Cardinals preseason hero from one obscure year. And I bought his jersey and no one knew. Yeah, Max Hall, who's that? The run was good enough that they actually printed his jersey. This was not a custom. I'm trying to think about weird sports memorabilia. I don't have a lot.

I've got a bunch of old Phoenix Suns newspapers and things from the glory days. Yeah, nothing weird. But you have a weird memorabilia that's in here. I think you have a signed Hugh Jacks... Oh, yes. I do have a signed Hugh Jackson. Oh yes I do have a signed Hugh Jackson photo. Yeah legend. Brown's head coaching legend. You also have a framed, this is probably your favorite, you have a framed photo of a pick six. Oh! Tell that story. Yeah no I was facing Al Borland in the middle of the playoffs and who was that starter?

It was the Miami Dolphins and the Saints the Saints started some what was that guy's name saying Kyle? Kyle will remember yeah, I'm looking for we're Faced me and Al Borland face one another and all I had was the defense is playoffs, right? Yeah, this playoffs I had the Dolphins defense and all I needed was like seven points from them playing this third stringer quarterback whose name is on the tip of my tongue. I can't remember. Ian Book. Ian Book.

Yes, Ian Book, the one start. And we get to the game, this is like a, I think it was like a prime time Sunday night game. It was. Monday night game. And everyone's sitting down to see who's going to win and go on in the playoffs. I need like seven points from my defense and it's like the third pass of the game or the second pass of the game. My Dolphins defense picks sixes Ian Book which basically ends

it. Like once you have a pick six you know you're up over that point threshold and so I got a screenshot of that photo, or a screenshot of what happened, and hung it in the office, and it's still there. And Al Borland doesn't care, because he won the title last year now. So. Yeah. He made up for it. Yeah, he did, he did.

All right, YouTube question, ask me for the win, bonjour ballers, what is your favorite fantasy, or sorry, what is your fantasy football superpower? Basically, what makes you stand out and win as a general manager? I would say. Andy's his transaction count.

Yeah, it can be, it can be. I would say like, yeah, a little bit OCD on there. I know what's, like if I, I remember a couple years ago, like after a little bit of a title spell I was like man I'm not I'm not not pushing hard enough these guys are all better than they used to be you know worked I'm getting out work, and then I was like I'm gonna go to work and it worked but uh Yeah, just being like super like I said

I like fantasy because it's something to check at all times and there's no lack of a Moment to do more research or check more things that are going on or more transactions or more players that are sleepers that you can put on your roster. So probably just hyperactivity is my superpower. I always felt like I didn't need, I could go running back early heavier because I could always figure out the wide receivers in the later rounds that would spice on a playing basis. I aggressively will still draft players who have hurt me many, many times because I know that they are good players and I'm just willing to absorb more pain. You are very unalterable by pressure and... Did he hurt you? No, okay.

I was gonna say by like peer pressure and other people's opinions. Rand Man wants to know, who's your favorite player in the league right now and who was your favorite player when you were growing up? Man, it's the favorite player in the league right now, as I've gotten, you know, we're more and more into dynasty football.

It is honestly very hard for me to have a favorite player who's not on my roster, because it's like my favorite player to watch, it probably, I think it's Jameer Gibbs. But it's like- It's funny, that was gonna be my answer. But he's not on my dynasty team, so he can't possibly be my favorite player.

Interesting. Yeah, I mean that makes some sense. So it's Jamar Chase. There's a handful of super fun to watch players right now. Baker Mayfield came to mind first. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. I love watching him play. He's just so gritty and fun and full of

emotion on the field and that's that's probably my favorite player to watch right now. Growing up, it's probably got to be like Larry Fitzgerald. Larry Fitzgerald, Kurt Warner, no Cardinals growing up, Dan Marino in early days. Yeah and Peterson, Adrian Peterson. My family has Vikings, which I guess some people didn't realize that of the Vikings are my second favorite team because my entire family's from Minnesota so I have some allegiance to that team but man Prime Adrian Peterson was that was a good time. All right this question is from YouTube from Jay. He says, what will be your guys next venture?

Hmm. The next venture? Retirement? Yeah, yeah, I think we're gonna do this for a long time. I don't think we're- The long sleep? I don't think we're gonna branch out to other sports. The long sleep is our next great adventure.

That's my next great adventure. Why do I need a next? We live in a world where you gotta have a next all the time. No one's happy with what you got. I don't need a next. This is it. Climb Everest. Okay.

Oh, there we go. There's your next. There don't know. Climb Everest. OK. Oh, there we go. There's your next. There's my next. And my last. Yeah. Because if I prepped, if you gave me five years. To prep for Everest? Full time, you paid me.

I'm retired from this. Five years to prep for Everest. You could do it. I would do it and die on the mountain. Oh, you'd be fine. I would do it. I would do it and die on the mountain. Oh, you'd be fine. You would be just fine. The Sherpas would carry you. Oh, can they do that? Like, are there enough where they hold me up? Like an Egyptian pharaoh? Yeah. Wait, they'll bring you down if you're in trouble. They ain't bringing you up like a king. Oh, no. That's what I want. I want a team of great warriors to carry me up that bridge.

I have finally summited Everest. This is a man that has no interest in memorabilia or things, but he would like to be carried by a group of strongmen up a mountain. Bingo. Not a mountain. Correct yourself, Everest, okay? We're not talking any mountain will do. I'm not having them take me up camelback, okay? Like, we're going straight to the tippy top. Yeah, okay, all right. How many would it take? You'd be the one to charter some kind of. How many men would it take?

How many men? You'd probably need. To go upwards? To go up Everest. A lot. You would need an army. You'd have to rotate people in and out. I think we could do it with 12.

Four at a time. I don't think there's four carrying you like a king. They got to get you up wall faces and stuff like that. I got a tie rope to you. They're going to figure it out. You're not making it past base camp. I don't want my feet to touch dirt or snow, whatever there is. Once you get to base camp, these men are plotting. We can leave them here. They'll never make it back to tell the story. Oh my Space camp these men are plotting Tell the story oh my gosh a human toboggan I don't think we should have an adventure Boy we are we're looking at this what happens Favorite colors Sean wants to know? Never been asked that before.

You have not? In my life I have. On the show I haven't. No one has ever cared about me. It's one of the most common questions that people ask. It's blue. Green. Blue or orange. Well which one is it man?

Favorite. Which would you call your favorite of blue or orange? Well, which one is it, man? Favorite. Which would you call your favorite of blue or orange? Blue. OK, you like blue? All right, let's see here. We've got the Schumacher question already. What would be the best combine event for each of you? Jake wants to know.

A long time ago, we did a combine. When we were slightly younger, faster men. Best combine event? I'll go bench press for me. What is the bench weight that the pros do? I think it's 225. 225? Yeah. Could I bench 225 once? I don't know.

Yeah, I'm not sure. I know, you've been pumping up, Jake. You could probably do 225. I think I could push up 225. I don't know how many times, not much. All right, come over. We'll find out. Yeah. Best combine event? I don't know.

225. I can run faster than these guys. Yeah. If it's just you two, I'm competing against. No, no, no. Just compete against yourself. What are you gonna do the best? The highest percentile. You'll crack one percentile.

Nothing. Well, no, that's true. The weigh-in. Nothing. The weigh-in. Yes. The weigh-in. I'll be real good at it.

They're like, I see you. You wanna go for cornerback. You know what I mean? Yeah. Just them light little boys and you're like, I'm 250 yeah yeah I don't I don't know I don't know if there's a lot of the early 40s combine runners these days eyes there's I would not be good at any of them now no I would if they had a quarterback event or something that would be something I'd want to do but I'd still be way worse than other people

oh can we do that thing where it's just like there's no one on the field and you just chuck the ball and they're like oh yeah look at that. Oh the Zach Wilson? Yeah. Oh yeah yeah we could do that. I mean I can't throw it as far as him but. I'd want to do the gauntlet. I think that would be fun. It would be fun. Were you turning left and right left and right to catch the football? I feel like Mike would break a finger. Quite possible. Maybe. Yeah, that's possible. Favorite background music when deep diving stats? Oh, that's, I mean, there's no doubt it's chiptunes 23. Not just chiptunes, specifically chiptunes 23. No one knows what you're talking about. Except for me, Jay. That's like 8-bit music? Yeah, it

is 8-bit music, some originals, I think some covers, but I had found this person who puts up a bunch of playlists and I used to listen to that stuff. Is it classic video game music? No, a lot of it's just new. It's new original, but it is written like it is and performed. You just got that drowning in your ears while you do stats, huh? I've got that whole video memorized on YouTube. So if you go to YouTube and look,

oh, Jason, you've tweeted it out. Yeah, I'm letting people know. Like right now? Not now, I've just done it in the past. Chip tunes in particular are fantastic for when you have real brain work you have to do, at least for me. Yeah, because it doesn't distract you,

it's just, it really is that background music that drowns out everything else. All right, we will close it with this very, very important question here from Modern Caveman on Instagram, would you rather compete in a hot dog eating contest or a pie eating contest? Pie or hot dog man, cuz look at either way high you're playing to win.

And I don't know that that I could get behind doing the the bun into the water like it in the wet. I get it. I get it. This is you. You guys have figured out that this is the optimal way to do that Did you guys hear Joey chestnuts back by the way? I didn't know he was ever going he would he didn't compete at Nathan's last year. Oh, there was a controversy over sponsors Yeah, that's why he's back now. Yeah, that's good. So Yeah, hey, we're talking about hot dogs and yeah, and you know one other hot dog eater Hey, we're talking about hot dogs and yeah, and you know one other hot dog eater

World yes. Yeah, that's it. Does he still do it. I remember him. I don't know if he still does I don't think I've heard his name in a while. I'm just like yeah cuz Joey Chesna took over. Yeah, I Don't want it. Yeah Eat a pie and lose the contest even if you What am I happy with when I lose? I love hot dogs. Love them. Even if I could go bunless, if I'm in a hot dog eating speed contest, I don't think I could... However long it is, was it like five minutes, ten minutes? I don't know, but I will throw up. There's no way I can just pound hot dogs. Is there a certain pie that would go faster for you?

What pie do they use in contests? What's the fastest pie? The fastest pie? Do they make you do like apple pie in a contest? What else would it be? I don't know, pumpkin pie or? Pumpkin pie, those are like the competitive eaters. French silk, that goes down smooth.

I'd want like a banana cream, but that feels like cheating. Be bringing your own pie to the contest? In a big straw? Sucking it down? Yeah, I guess I gotta go pie. I'm with Jason. Shepard's pie? Oh, Shepard's pie. Come on, man. I ain't bringing that. Get a meat pie? Oh my gosh. I feel like if I did a hot dog one that I would end up barfing and hating hot dogs forever and that would be sad. But so which do you pick pie? Yeah I'll go pie. Let's just eat some pie. Let's not even make it a contest. Let's just do it. Let's just go enjoy. Eat it as slow or as fast as you want just eat the whole pie. Okay we've got a

too hot to handle average apposition show coming up. We got the divisional breakdown starting with the AFC North coming up as well. Thank you for tuning in and enduring an AMA episode here as we answer all of the questions coming in all over the place about things that really only a few of them really touched the fantasy football world, but it was a good time and we'll be back from our vacations and back in studio next week for those new episodes. So we will catch you then. Thank you for tuning in. Thank you for listening. That trophy still with you, Jason. Take care, everybody. Goodbye. Thank you for listening to another episode of the Fantasy Footballers Podcast.

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