Fantasy Footballers - Fantasy Football Podcast - Footballers AMA + Super Bowl Picks, Draft Heist - Fantasy Football Podcast for 1/11

Episode Date: January 11, 2024

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Welcome in. Thursday episode of the Fantasy Footballers Podcast. Mike Wright, Andy Holloway, and a big cardboard bear. Cardboard bear extraordinaire, Jay Grizz, a.k.a. Jay Rizz. Isn't that the word of the year or something? Rizz? Wasn't Rizz the... Probably. What are all the dictionary companies?

Let's see. Merriam-Webster. Yes. I think it's their word of the year. Well, it's not their. I mean, it's really the young people's word of the year. Yeah, I don't even know how to use it. Oof.

Do you know? Do I have Rizz? No. Okay. If you don even know how to use it. Do I have Riz? No. Okay. If you don't know how to use it, you don't got it. You don't got it. Yeah. It's actually Oxford University. See, I knew they were... Do they compete like Oxford and Merriam-Webster? Is that like

a showdown situation? A real heated rivalry? Yeah. So it's Oxford that named it. Our dictionary has 1100 pages marion webster went with the word authentic for the word of the year is that true someone said it's true according to kyle that's true sources say and my source is kyle so wait does that mean that oxford is like the cool hip like dictionary with riz i guess how is that possible i don't know it doesn't sound like it isn't oxford like there they have the united kingdom yeah but they have those weird facts where it's

like oxford was around like before the mayan civilization yeah it predated the dinosaurs um here we are uh welcome into an off-season episode of the show. We got an AMA today. Jason will be back next week. We're going to go over our Super Bowl predictions. If you had the privilege of going to myplayoffpicks.com, you can build your own bracket. It'll do the reseeding for you. And we'll talk about how we think that's going to go. But mostly we'll be answering your questions on today's show.

That is correct. Unless something goes catastrophically wrong with our technology. Just setting them up for failure? Because it's the off season, so we made some upgrades here to some of the computers and the gizmos and the gadgets.

But just be clear, it's all Al's responsibility. Al, how are you feeling today? I'm doing good. Yeah? All right. Everything seems to be recording. Yeah.

We'll find out in about 45 minutes. To be fair, for Al, I did see him and Papa Josh working on the computer. Papa Josh went home already. Very tired. Coincidence? I think not. No, we do have to protect ourselves. What else here at the top?

We've got the footy awards. Next week, we'll be announcing the winners on Tuesday with Jason back in studio. You can still vote. Yeah, footyawards.com. You can still vote. I voted. As did I. So that was pretty fun.

I put a little sticker on after I did. Oh, did you? Yeah. Did we provide those? No, it was a one of one. Okay. It was authentic. The DFS Pass is free right now. That is the

other big news. Dfspass.com free during the playoffs and you can get a little taste if you want to check that out. Looks like about 700 of you decided free was the right price. You were really into that. You were like, you know what?

There's been a barrier there, and free, it brought the barrier down. All right. Get in there. All the DFS, all the props, all that stuff from the amazing, amazing team that we have here that works on the DFS pod as well. You can find us on X at the FF Ballers. You can find Jason at Jason FFL, Mike at FF Hitman. And I'm at Andy Holloway. Mike's in his customary winter hoodie.

It is winter, and it has been very cold here. Been very cold. I did something I never thought I would do in Arizona yesterday. I am loving it. Oh, what'd you do? Well, I was going to pick up the boy from the late night baseball practice. Okay. And, you know how kids are.

They kind of like it when you're at their practice. Yeah. But then when it's like 40 degrees out, you kind of like it. You don't like it so much. You don't like it so much? Yeah. I bought a pair of gloves. What?

I know. They sell those here? They sell gloves. And they were great. Hold on. Hold on. I'm telling you, they kept my hands warm and everything. You're telling me?

Yeah. Everyone else, they're onto something with gloves? Yeah. I bought a pair of gloves from Target. Like fingerless gloves or like- Oh, no. No. Those are- I don't have wrist, Mike. I Target. Like fingerless gloves? Oh, no. No, those are.

I don't have wrist, Mike. I can't wear fingerless gloves. Were they individual fingers or was it the mitten? No, it's not a mitten. Although I was tempted. No, it's just a pair of gloves. And then I realized when I got there, you know how parents, they just play on their phones while their kids do practice.

Oh, yeah. You can't. They put on the pointer fingers of the gloves, they put some technology in there that lets you control your phone it was the life that's great now uh cold weather people here i guess i'm only talking to brooks right the do we not have the technology that they have in in the the mittens where it covers all the fingers you know so you just all you have is a clamp. Okay.

But I'm assuming those keep your hands warmer than the individualized finger gloves. I don't see why, because of like shared heat? Or an insulation thing. What is the point? I feel like the mitten was the precursor. Like somebody's like, I don't know what to do here, but I can make two pockets. This pattern is too complex. But then eventually they went from two pockets to like.

Someone look into this. I only use the regular gloves. I don't do the mittens. I'm telling you, gloves were great. This is breaking news for all of you out there. We got thin skin in Arizona. Do you find it cold, Brooks, or are you acclimated here? No, this is cold.

This past couple weeks. See, it's been cold, right? We've had those freeze warnings in the 30s. Yeah, that's really cold for here. Yeah. I just know when Mike's got the hoodie on, things are getting serious around here. Hey, it's comfy, man.

I know. It's so nice. Yeah. Yeah, I don't blame you. I don't blame you. Jay Grizz has got a coat, so he doesn't need to do anything. All right, so our Super Bowl picks, I have the Dallas Cowboys. Oh.

Over the Buffalo Bills. Well, hello. My preseason pick was, well, it looks quite ridiculous now. It looked good for approximately, what, two plays? I had the Jets beating the Cowboys in the Super Bowl before the season. All right, so you're keeping the boys in. So I'm keeping the boys in. It was tight.

San Francisco could certainly do it, but I'm going to go Cowboys over the Bills. Okay. Jason has sent in his picks. He has the 49ers over the Ravens. And I just have to – Well, are the Niners like the true number one seed? I don't know. Well, I have it just vice versa of Ravens over 49ers. Kyle will chime in momentarily and tell us who the betting favorite

for the Super Bowl actually is, which is the 49ers. That's the 49ers. Yeah, my bracket overall is I only have a couple upsets. I have the Eagles losing the first round. Oh, what? Are we back to the mittens? Did you see it? Rapscallion, you're going to have to chime in here.

He shared this quote. He says, one of the major arguments in favor of mittens is the fact that they are warmer than gloves and the reason lies in their design however he did not write it as though it was a quote so i wonder did you write that yourself no i did not okay okay i was like are you an expert i am not a mitten expert by any means okay because you can if it's just one pocket for your fingies, you can get more insulation. I put one of those hot hand things inside the glove as well. Like I went full.

I was sweating profusely. So you went Ravens? Yep. Jason, 49ers. I went with Dak and the Cowboys. What a difference a year makes when it comes to our perception on Dak and Jalen Hurts. And I had tweeted something earlier today just looking at the touchdown to interception ratios between some of the top talents.

Last year, Dak was 23 touchdowns, 15 interceptions, and Hurts was 22 and 6. Pat Mahomes, 41 and 12. Josh Allen, 35, 14 this year. Dak is 36 and nine. I knew you could do it. Dak. I mean,

honestly, you did you, you've been the Dak believer and there were doubts and now hurts 23 and 15. The exact number that Dak put up last year, Pat Mahomes, 27 and 14, Alan, 29 and 18. So you don't even have year. Pat Mahomes, 27 and 14. Allen, 29 and 18.

So you don't even have, like, Hurts, Mahomes, Allen, none of them threw for 30 touchdowns. That's wild. I mean, well, because Josh Allen was too busy running in, what, like 15 or whatever? Yeah. Or no, is that Hurts? No, no, Hurts had 15. But, I mean, it is interesting.

Like, Dak's probably getting paid this offseason. Oh, for sure, Will. So, yeah. We do have some news to talk about before we get into the AMA, which should be a lot of fun. News and notes from around the league. Well, this was big. We were sharing a meal, having some lunch,

and then across the wire from every source possible pete carroll out as the head coach of the seattle seahawks and it was reported wild that after the cardinals game he planned on continuing coaching with the seahawks he said that on his radio show he probably doesn't remember saying it though. What? Because of his age? Yeah. It's an age joke? Yeah. 72, man! No, he's young at heart. He's like Papa Josh. Same exact age, same young

at heart. But this is huge. I mean, big news. Still one of the best coaches in the league, in my opinion. 11 winning records in 14 seasons. Super Bowl appearances. one win. But now there's a lot of rumors around Dan Quinn in Dallas finally. Which makes sense.

Now he's turned down head coaching opportunities for a few years to stay as the DC. Yeah, because he was waiting out Pete Carroll. Maybe. I mean, that's how I feel about this next situation too. Mike Vrabel. Also wild. The Titans have let Mike Vrabel go.

Trading him was going to be too complicated, and he is being rumored as heavy interest in New England if Belichick leaves, which makes perfect sense. Both those guys' familiarity with those teams. When Mike Vrabel gets fired, my immediate reaction is teams that are on the edge of firing their coach should fire their coach and hire mike rabel that is how i feel about mike rabel i i would i would not disagree like you might make shocking like i don't think you should not be ashamed as an owner or a general manager if you're like you know what we're gonna keep maddie berflus and then

rabel's available and you're like just kidding goodbye like that's how I would view it we are not keeping yeah we said not if this show has taught anyone anything it's that not is only three letters it's only three letters and it comes and goes from sentences who am I to leave it in leave it out

it was you said you were keeping it it was a typo yeah yeah We missed the word not It gives you flexibility to put it in or take it out It was Vrabel He had no shot That's exactly The Titans look at the roster that he had

He's the coach And so he manages the pieces that he has They were not I mean I thought they would... I thought they might be able to pull it out, but you knew it was going to be very difficult, and it was. He's not the one that

signed Tannehill to this franchise encumbering deal. Yeah. You know, he's not the one that traded A.J. Brown away. The Bears have fired their offensive coordinator, Luke Getze. Matt Iberflues is expected to return, unless they take my advice. And, you know, the Bears are doing what the Bears have done.

Chris Harris tweeted this out. Like, this is a pattern. They hire a coach. The coach does poorly. They keep the coach. They draft the top-tier quarterback. They do poorly again that year, and then they fire their coach. And they've done that three straight times,

which a lot of people think that this move is setting it up so that they can draft a quarterback at number one. Which, do you have an opinion on that, Mike? Whether they should or shouldn't I feel like they if they can pull off the heist of talking to number two

Kyle who's at number two is the Manders tell the commanders we're going to take your guy you better come up to number one and get him otherwise we are going to take him you get that move. You can probably extract some decent draft capital from that. Then you go to number three. I know you want a quarterback. We're going to take your guy and just keep doing that to everyone and move down.

If you can compile enough, I think that while having the elite quarterback is a massive advantage, I think that fields can be good enough to win if you just stack the team, which I think that they are in a very strange, unique situation they could end up doing. Now you have to hit on all the draft picks, but of course you got to hit on if Caleb Williams is your number one guy. You know, it hasn't been really working for number one overall picks every single time. I mean, Burrow, smashing success, but Baker, he's on what, his fourth team. Trevor Lawrence, there has to be huge questions from Jacksonville as they stare at the stopwatch

that's clicking on his extension that is coming in. And then you have this year, Bryce Young. Yeah, they could have taken Stroud, but the point being, it's still really difficult to find a quarterback. And if you can piece together such an elite cast of characters around the quarterback, I think you can still win in today's NFL. I mean, you might be right with the outcome,

but I don't have the courage to make the process or go through that again. I think I would take the pick. In their situation, with Ibraflux seemingly barely holding on to his job, he might be pushed into, you're like, no, you're going to take Caleb Williams or you're not going to hold on to this job, he might be pushed into, you're like, no, you're going to take Caleb Williams or you're not going to hold on to this job. So that's news. And then Kirk Cousins did talk about maybe taking a hometown discount in his next contract

with the Vikings. You know, he basically said, look, he's been blessed beyond his wildest dreams. He has done very well. The dollars are not really what it's about. You've heard Justin Jefferson, who I think has I would imagine a huge sway in the discussion there because he's got to get paid, right?

Yeah, very soon. So Jefferson just loves Kirk Cousins as a leader, as a quarterback. Wants him back. Look, that's best case scenario for Addison and Jefferson. For everybody out there, there's not a better scenario than that, in my opinion. I'm in agreement.

Maybe you don't think Kirk Cousins is worth the money. You don't think he's a great quarterback. It's very easy to get rid of your quarterback. It is very difficult to replace your quarterback. Yeah. And if you don't replace them, you can be trapped forever. Yep.

Ian Rappaport, Gabe Davis, Sprain PCL. We have no other news on that. Whether he's playing. Yeah, not that I've seen. And then A.J. Brown, MRI on his knee. Still waiting on that. This one is bizarre. Just that we don't have more info? Yeah.

Yeah. Well, the NFL already was like, hey, we'll go ahead and give you an extra day to get better because they're Monday Night Football. Just feel like he's your superstar wide receiver. I would have. I would think. He would have walked. He would have gone from the tent immediately to the machines.

That's why I doubt that there's something seriously wrong. Because I feel like with all the attention on that team and on the playoffs, you would have already heard something. But I would have loved to have heard he's fine. So anything else, Brooksy? You got news for us? I don't got news. Any new surprise coaches?

Not yet. No, that's crazy crazy though. Pete Carroll. The Vrabel and Carroll ones were bombshells to me. Bad news for Big Bubblegum. Oh, sales will plummet. He was very... He was keeping them in business. How does he not have his own bubblegum company?

He seems like a shrewd guy. It's probably because he doesn't want to chew anything else. He's probably in a routine. He's chewing some other brand. He doesn't want to have his own bubble gum company? I mean, he seems like a shrewd guy. It's probably because he doesn't want to chew anything else. He's probably in a routine. He's chewing some other brand. He doesn't want to make his own. Just copy it. Yeah.

How different is gum? That's the Mr. Beast plan, right? I mean, honestly, aside from a little bit of flavoring, gum is gum, right? It's all the same exact chemicals. From what I know, gum is gum, Mike. Yes. Yes, I believe that is correct. He's a bubble yum enthusiast.

Would it be a peach cobbler flavored? Well, of course. Yeah. Okay. That's the key. It's like Willy Wonka flavors. Do you have a favorite- Bubble gum?

Yeah, gum. I haven't been a gum chewer in a while. I haven't either. I liked the old, what are the, Double Mint? Is that the green package? Yeah, you were into that? Yeah, I liked that one. Juicy Fruit.

That's the one with the twins commercials? Yes. Oh, crap. No, no. Oh, yeah. Yes, the twins. I was going to say then the Juicy Fruit. Juicy Fruit was delicious, but it just-

Five seconds. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it moved you. Bubble Yum. But not very early. They had the volume. Yeah.

You really got a lot there. All right. All right. I don't know what we're doing. Quick break. Back with our fantasy footballers ama that was a preview the bubble gum discussion was a preview of the ama if you liked that if you like that content what was our uh discussion the other day we had another really important.

I mean. Shopping carts? It was the shopping cart one. Mike's mind was blown at the technology. I still don't believe it. You got to try to steal a shopping cart and see what happens. All right. All right.

You ready to dig into this? We have questions from everyone about everything on today's show sit down mailbag mailbag I just love shows like this I love shows I feel like we are coming down off of a obviously intense

for us incredibly successful season, Mike. I mean, you, right before the show, this is a good reminder for everybody out there, if you're a champion. Yes. Take the time every day. It's like brushing your teeth to troll your league. It can be as simple as a thoughtful gif. Not gift. Gif.

No, gif. Yeah, where you go and just – You already gave him a gift. Yeah. Of being in the league with him. Right. Right. But, like, Mike and I, we've got a couple titles,

and, like, some days you throw a gif in, and I'm like, that's a good reminder that I need to go do that, and vice versa. Yeah. We're picking each other up. Keep each other accountable. Mock your league. All right. We are jumping into a footballer's AMA today.

And our first question comes from, looks like X. Jeremy Schwartz writes in and says, What is your greatest fear not related to fantasy football? Interesting. I like that it infers our true greatest fear does have to do with fantasy football. And that would be like when Arian Foster went out that one year. Yeah. Injury.

For a long time, I would have said bees, but I have gotten much, much better. What has been the key to overcoming your bee phobia? Immersion therapy. Just forcing myself to deal with it? Immersion therapy. Just forcing myself to deal with it. Immersion? Yeah. That's like going under... No, it's just being around it.

If there's a bee there, just take a breath, kind of wave them off, talk to them. You wave at it? You're not supposed to wave at a bee? Well, I'm shooing them. Really? Yes. I think you just... You're supposed to go T-Rex on that You're not supposed to wave at a bee. Well, I'm shooing them. Really? Yes. I think you're supposed to go T-Rex on that. You're supposed to just not move.

Well, I shoo them away. I've always had it in the back of my head that the bees can sense your nervousness. That is a thing that is said, that bees can sense fear. See, that's what I think happens. I think that if you're just chill with bees, they're chill with you. Because you see the beekeepers. I even have a friend who's one. They don't put on clothing when they go and clear out.

Because they're psychopaths, man. Look, I said I've grown. I'm not as afraid of bees anymore. I'm not going to be a beekeeper, though. Without any gear on. That's madness. I called a beekeeper here in arizona because we got lots of bees out here and there was a hive that had moved into a tree we got kids i

was like i don't want this hive in my tree man come get it and he's like sure i'll come get it for this amount of money and they take them and they humanely transport them to bee farms out here in the valley and i'm just like okay he's get in the gear. He just walks back there and just grabs the branch and starts shaking it. And then they picked him up and they flew off. Yeah. No, no, thank you. But do you have a greatest fear? I have noticed over the last 10 to 15 years that I am genuinely afraid of heights. Okay. And I didn't think I was afraid of heights. When I was a kid, I'd climb fences and jump on the roof and run around. Didn't have any concern.

You were closer to the ground back then. I was. Yeah, just my natural height. But I was also like very sure of my body's ability to move. And I think now that I know that falling is a possibility in my life, I remember trying to hang up lights on a second story house once

and I got halfway up an extension ladder. I was like, this is not, no. Not for me. It's not happening. I'm not going to do it. I am on that side. I don't need to go up there. Yeah, yeah, no, no thank you.

Court Zeigler writes in off of X as well, says, what is the best? Okay, this is really an ask us anything. What is the best way to eat potatoes? It's fried. How is it not? What are the other options? Like a baked potato.

Like scalloped potatoes. A boiled potato. Fried is French fry. Yes. Yeah, that's how i'm going but i do like them you know like it's not like with your hands or with an instrument that's not the question no no not the best way of consuming uh but you know you french fry them up and then i i love like a good stew where you have just the real soft potatoes in there. I love that. That's delicious. Those have got to be the russet, the brown potato.

Don't give me none of those red potatoes in my soup. In the stew? In the stew. Okay. No, you've got to go the, I think they're called russet, right? I don't know. I'm seeing nods from our potato experts. Let's go to the potato experts over there in Deucer's Alley.

Here's your expert. The brown one, that's a potato. Yes. That's a potato. Yes. That's a potato. Yes. The default is potato. Yeah. The others are red potatoes.

Yeah. They don't say like orange carrots and then purple carrots. It's just carrots. Yes. And purple carrots. Yeah. Would you think of a potato right now in your head? Yeah.

What does it look like? It's a brown potato. Yeah. Because that's a potato. Yeah. Okay. Ridiculous. Ridiculous.

Very helpful. All right. We have... Did we have a voicemail question or no? We had one. Is it gone? I think it's gone. I think we've got our first

malfunction of the day. It was there. There it is. I see one. Can I push the button? You can. All right. We got a voicemail question. Hey, Ballers. Lou from Charlotte. My question is, what is the most fun location that you guys have ever done for a live in-person draft?

Thanks a lot. Bye. Yeah, it's South Dakota, obviously. South Dakota, best place for – no, we've always done them in the studio, right? Yeah. We had a great draft out here where the good folks at Traeger came out with their pro barbecue chef

and made some delicious food in the parking lot. We've also had it where we've literally invited a friend in a full suit and tie to read the picks off. That's very fun. That were written on a card.

That was a delight. Yeah. Location-wise, we haven't done anything real special, but every year now we do it in the office. And I think that when the Trigger guys showed up, we did a filming of it. So it's on YouTube if you want to see how we draft. Yeah there's a behind the scenes that's called our league of record draft

yeah. Who's the champ of that league right now? That would be you. Oh that's right YouTube what was your there's a YouTube question from at 12 moisty what was your first fantasy football league and result?

Mine being an auto-drafted team with random that I somehow won. Oh, nice. I remember this very clearly. The very first league I ever joined, which is I'm thinking 17, 18 years ago. Okay. I overcommitted to one team and drafted four Saints. Ah, super duper stack. So it was like Breeze, Reggie Bush,

Marcus Colston, and I think that league had like a coach spot. And I was like, give me Sean Payton too. And then the actual Saints started 0-7. What do you think the record of my fantasy team was? 0-7? 0-7. Nice.

So that was my debut. The first football league I was ever in, it was because fantasy basketball is where I started. Same. And some of the guys were like, hey, let's try and do fantasy football. So they set it up and i end up not even even being able to be at the draft so i set it up my auto draft and i was real aggressive with my ordering so i got both larry and bolden oh two cardinal white outs i don't remember how

that team did but the then the like my first real serious year was the first year in the League of Record where I got to keep Jamal Charles, and then he immediately went down with an ACL tear. So it was my first rendezvous into fantasy football. Now I'm in the midst of, well, how do you rebuild and get picks and do all that stuff? So that was really fun. YouTube question from Adam. He says, if two hosts are unavailable for an episode, is there another Jay Grizz or

is there another emergency cutout ready to stand in? In a related question, they also want to know how many cutouts would you have to go through before a deucer is brought in front of the camera? Like the main camera? Yeah, I think we'd go empty chair yes yeah no problem with that that's wise yeah the deuces are fine with that i don't think i think if we tried to put you out here for a show i think there would be some pit stains that would show up on camera any of you want to jump in never al. Al? I like it back here. If Jeremy came over here, we would have to replace the chair immediately. It would be doused. I can't tell if that's a fat joke or a sweaty joke.

No, that was a sweaty joke. That was a sweaty joke, man. You can take the joke that way if you want. What's funny is this is- I was talking about your excessive perspiration. Yeah, that's also true. But we somehow- Oh, gosh. It, that's also true. But we somehow. Oh, gosh.

This feels like it's going to be the curse. Yeah, this is the real knock on wood moment. Going into year 10, we haven't had it happen. I think we've been very, very close once that somebody was already out of town and then someone got sick. Someone got sick. And so there was almost this like, how many shows have we done? 2,600 shows.

Is that right? If you're adding, if you're adding everything together. Okay. So 1539 on the main show and then all the other ones. And we've never had to do that. Nope. I've always figured if that happened,

I think you did one, you did one foot cast alone. If that happens, I will put two J. Grizz's up. Like if you guys are both gone... Do we have a second one? We've got to have another one. No? There's only one J. Grizz. Uh-huh. Yeah, right. We got to keep those on.

I feel like you got to at least miss Pac-Man this thing and like just put a bow. Put a bow on it? Yeah. Yeah, I mean I've always thought we would interact with we would do the show one person and and then we would constantly berate deucer's alley with like topics and questions yeah it'd be really unproductive yeah but i i you know we'll see jay gris with a bow that's what would happen all right uh this is a question from Adam Baum over on Twitter. Says if you could pick any player from a previous era for

your team right now. What kind of sandwich would you make while weighing your options? The old rope a dope. You got tricked. It even said must answer on it. So I thought for sure.

Brooks, what are you doing here? I love what he did there. You liked how he turned it on us? Oh, yeah. So, Mike, if you had to handpick any player from a previous era for your team right now, what kind of sandwich would you make while weighing your options? It's probably a club.

Have you ever made an actual club? Have I made one? At your house where you do the meat and cheese and then the other layer of bread and then the more meat and cheese and then the top layer? No. The biggest problem would be the bacon. I know people cook bacon every single day. I have, even with the PopGuard.

Yeah, what's the problem? Oh, the problem is? Yeah, the problem is... Are you more afraid of bacon or bees? At this point, probably the bacon. Okay. Because I've never made any sort of bacon without taking physical injury.

Because of the grease pop. Can't you microwave bacon and make it that way? What? People are microwaving bacon? That sounds awful. I'm seeing some nods. People do it. there's no way that's crispy that's fair i don't think it is can you uh what's the newfangled machine everybody always uses air fryer can you air fry bacon yeah that you could do well there you go if you want to burn your house down oh really that's pretty dangerous is it i think so

oh oh crap i thought i was just onto a new well i was gonna do that like Really? That's pretty dangerous. Is it? I think so. Oh, crap. I thought I was just onto a new idea. Well, I was going to do that in a few hours. I have done bacon on the trigger. I have done that before, and I made it out alive. Was it crispy? It was delicious. Okay. All right.

All right. IG question, Mike. This is for you from Nick. He says, I'm dying to know. What is Mike's holy grail of shoes? Mike is a sneakerhead. I do. I like the sneakers.

I wear Nike SBs. I have a- A few. You have a few pairs. I have a very extensive collection that I have amassed over the last 20 years. The shoe that I don't have right now, because it's pretty much impossible to do it, they did a themed Freddy Krueger shoe. Interesting.

And it didn't make it into of it didn't make it into production but like they got pretty far in the in the sample area so there's people out there that have them i don't even know if they made a size 11 that's what you're looking for yeah but i mean if you ever go to you know like the the resale sites and there's a pair up there we're talking six digit real shoes really yeah that's that's how insane people are for shoes and this particular one you might not want to disclose this but how many pairs do you think yeah uh i would say it's got to be over 80 pairs of shoes now what would happen if you got some sort of disease that made you get larger feet and you had 80 pairs of shoes you couldn't wear

hmm i mean i guess you'd be i could sell them i could probably make a ton of cash is that an investment strategy do you have like a decent amount of do you keep the boxes i do that is a whole nother you need a whole shed for boxes the shoe the box problem is is a it's people don't talk about it enough in the shoe game. Oh, so it's kind of an underground problem? I mean, I don't know. I don't know anyone else who's as insane as I do. But, yeah, I have all the shoes, but I wear them all.

Like people, a strategy is buying a shoe and then holding onto it for a couple years and then reselling. But I always wear all mine. So yours are stinky? Not stinky because I have so many that i can rotate through and they never stink all right all right um all right let's go here micah says do you guys ever get annoyed of or with each other um or have you never had problems like that i mean annoyed like you would get annoyed with just like friends that you see every day i mean everyone gets siblings yeah i mean everyone everyone gets annoyed at

time from time to time with their their friends or their brothers and sisters but no as in terms of a like a huge issue or fight we still have not had one i think oftentimes it's funny to me because i think all of my annoyance has always been just jason well more jason because well but heads more but it's always on fantasy yes like that's the funny thing is like we do get annoyed but we get annoyed because we think that the other person is wrong about something in fantasy. And half the time it's like, no, no, don't. That's a dumb opinion. You're dumb and you're going to make me look bad.

You're going to make the show look bad. And then he thinks that about my opinion. And then, so we argue, but I can't remember being too annoyed with any other like normal situation. No. We all get annoyed with like Papa Josh. Oh, yeah. We all get annoyed with like Al.

Yeah. But that's just... Thankfully, we've been very united in the vision for the show, for the business. We disagree on fantasy takes sometimes. Yeah.

Sometimes Jason's takes are questionable. Jason, your thoughts? I guess he agrees. Yeah, yeah. Sometimes Jason's takes are questionable. Yes. Jason, your thoughts? I guess he agrees. Yeah, yeah. I guess he agrees. Don't say anything if you agree.

Growl like a bear if you agree. YouTube question from Randy. Sounds like all three of you enjoy going to the Disney park. So what's your favorite ride and snack there? Now we're talking. Now we're talking about shoes and Disneyland. These two, uh, well not the bear, but, uh, Jason himself and Mike are, I would say like on a scale of one to 10, 10 being Disney freaks. Yeah. Okay. And one being indifference to the parks. You two are both nines to tens.

I would put myself there. I can explain it this way. Are you or Jason more or equal? I think we're probably equal, but I've had more opportunities recently to go. It feels like every time Jason plans a trip to go, something comes up and he has to cancel the trip. I would go to Disneyland without my children. I would go to Disneyland by myself.

You would? Just me. Interesting. Have you done that? I have not. I've not had the opportunity, but it sounds like a great time. You both love it. I would put my shelf at about a six.

So I enjoy it. We've gone less times for me my favorite ride we i've never been to disney world we live six hours from disneyland right in arizona so we drive out there my favorite ride is pirates of the caribbean oh it's a good ride uh i like how cool it is it's chill i love that right that ride has gotten better and better the older i get see and yeah it's just yeah i guess oh it's slow but no it's it had got the nostalgia i feel more immersed in what's going on i can i can actually see what they were trying to do instead of just being a kid going where's the drops yeah like they were at the beginning. Where'd they go? My favorite ride, Splash Mountain,

aka refurbed into Tiana's something. That's been refurbed? They're in the process of doing it. Only nines and tens know that. The sixes don't know that. Rap, do you know the name of it? Tiana's Bayou Adventure. There we go.

Can't wait. Can't wait. It's going to be great. I think the true Disney expert in our entire company here is the Rapscallion. Could be. Could be. I don't know. Who once worked for Disney.

That is correct. Disney World is better. Oh, get out of here. You're immediately disqualified. Just stating the truth. Disneyland, it's nice. It's the OG, but Disney World, four parks. We can go on and on.

Well, I mean, no. Hey, we got two. You can go on and on, walking and walking and walking and walking and walking. Is that what you meant? You get your steps and steps and steps in? Beautiful Florida weather. Joel. Is that the humidity you're speaking of?

Division winning Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Oh, yeah. All right. We got, we can't. Cut the mic. Oh, yeah. All right. We can't. Cut the mic. This guy, he's going to win. The first ever chest beating for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Were they over 500?

I think so. Yes, we were. Yes, we were. Oh, it's a we. Yeah, it's a we. Wow. He comes from Florida. Locked in.

Loves the humidity. Gross. That's funny. All right. This question's great uh ig question from trevor if you were an nfl player what position would you want to play oh what do you think i'll say uh i don't know if you'd rather be i don't know i mean you rather be – I don't know. I mean, you played quarterback for the flag team. You also played linebacker with me. I think I'm going to put you at – I'll put you at quarterback.

That's what I'm going to go with. Which is high highs and low lows, my brother. I would go – if I could play any position, I would play safety. Let me, oh, safety. Yeah. Go roam and get the big pick. Yeah, you go head hunting, you go ball hawking. You just blow people up.

I am trying to remember, Brooks, did we ever get you out there for flag football? No. Oh, no. No. We never did. I watched you guys play, and I was so glad I didn't sign up. Oh, no. No, there isn't. We never did. I watched you guys play, and I was so glad I didn't sign up. Oh, man. I had this vague memory that maybe we got you to a practice or something. We got Brooks out for one wreck day of 2v2 basketball.

That's right. And then that was it. That was done. Couldn't handle it. He did a formal retirement the next day. Like, it was a pickup game. And he came to us the next day. Like it was a pickup game. And he came to us the next day and just said, hey guys, I just want you to know,

I won't be doing that again. And I'm out on flag football now. Oh yeah, because you were going to play flag, right? Yep. You're like, I am formally retiring from all invitations that you may have for me in the future. It was so much closer to tackle football than I ever imagined it would be the

basketball was no the flag no we we play street ball yeah flag is um it's just no no pads but it was full blocking yeah so people are getting hurt all over the place when papa josh he's had some serious injuries right yes two and a half surgeries i say half because he has a torn acl right now that he didn't repair. Yeah. You never got hurt, Al, did you? Nothing serious. Just your ego maybe?

Yeah, right. Dude, Al was a beast. I had a rib injury. Al was a beast on the defensive line. Al was great. Yeah. He's a legend. And he will remind me often that his catch percentage was 100. Yes.

Darn right. How many total receptions over the course of about 15 seasons? Four. Four. Hey, four for four. That's right. Yes. Darn right. How many total receptions over the course of about 15 seasons? Four. Four. Hey, four for four. That's right. Yeah. And all right.

This question comes in from Ryan over on X. We've got more food questions. Jason's missing them. Best combination with chocolate. Is it peanut butter, pretzel, fruit? Oh, peanut butter. Full stop. I agree.

I don't see how you can improve upon that It is I mean it's truly the best Reese's Pieces The Peanut Butter Cups The Peanut Butter M&M's Do you go Do you prefer the Pieces or The Peanut Butter M&M's

The Pieces Okay Pieces It's fun to say Pieces because people get real mad. Because Mr. Reese is his name. Yeah. And they're his Pieces. Yeah. They're his Pieces. Yeah. I prefer those, but I'll tell you this. I like the peanut butter M&M's more than the peanut M&M's. Yeah, I think that's a universal.

No, it is not. Wait, there's people that like- There are people that prefer the peanut. I'm not saying they're bad. I'll eat some peanut M&M's. They're good. But every 10th peanut M&M, you get a bad peanut. Yeah. You know what I'm talking about?

A little burnt one, a little weird taste to it. A little too crispy. That happens. Yeah. A peanut butter M&M's. But it's consistent with the peanut M&M's. Oh, gosh. They're so good.

Heavens to Betsy. Greg wants to know if I ever tried the tuna and mac and cheese. Because I think a long time ago, was it on this show, where you've mentioned that- I've talked about it. Yes, I have. I have tried that. Uh-huh. And?

It was good for a quick meal that's what you call your hot dish right yeah it was good it was good it's good it was good yeah now you're remembering now how much you actually liked it it was it's great it was pretty good my wife thought it was grotesque i and i can understand the like the concept of it if you're not familiar with putting tuna fish into macaroni and cheese can sound gross even looking at you like oh that seems like it's disgusting it is not it's protein packed so it's you know it's good for the body sure you get a little um you know omegas right yeah some, yeah, heck of a lot of mercury. But it's great.

If you've not tried tuna in mac and cheese, I highly recommend it. And just whatever. I mean, Blue Box. Get the Blue Box mac and whatever your tuna fish of choice. You're the evangelist for tuna mac. I truly am. Yeah. Because it's great. It was good. I mean i mean look mac and cheese affords you a lot like you can put stuff in it yeah you can uh what was

the moment this is from dairy on youtube what was the moment through the nine years of this show that made you feel like you guys had made it? Ooh. Do you know? Was it the Minnesota Live show? I'll often bring up the Minnesota Live show. The reaction from the crowd and the love was truly an overwhelming moment. So that one felt really good. I feel like when you're like man i'm i i have arrived was it the first time somebody didn't say like hey what do you what do you do for work and then you're like i'm a podcaster and then they go

yeah but what do you do for work no because that still happens yeah i know that still happens um how do you make money a i will say a great moment to tie back to Disneyland. This was like years and years and years ago. And one of my favorite things is trolling my wife about making the show a bigger deal than it is. And like playing up like, no, we're going to go in Disneyland. I'm going to apologize right now. My celebrity nature. Oh, the fans will be in. Yeah, like the fans. They're going to be in Disneyland. I'm going to apologize right now. My celebrity nature. Oh, the fans will be in.

Yeah, like the fans. They're going to be in there. I'm sorry. I'm going to stop. I'm going to say hi and take pictures with them. Just understand. Yeah, I'm apologizing in advance. And then literally we walk right in.

Mike! Instantly? Instantly. That's really funny. Which, to be fair, just so everyone knows, it does not happen a lot. No, no. That's really funny. And she just... Which to be fair, just so everyone knows, it does not happen a lot. No, no. It's a rare occurrence. So she's just laughing and just screaming, no, this is not acceptable. So that felt pretty good. Yeah. It's always funny when I've run into people and we'll be talking, you can kind of get a gauge

like when people are NFL fans and then you go one tier deeper and you're like, oh, you're a fantasy player. And then at that point I'm like, maybe you've heard of the show. But I've had a couple times where like somebody talks about how much they love fantasy and how they listen to fantasy podcasts and then they open their phone to show me what they listen to and they listen to our show and don't realize that like. I've never had that happen.

And I'm like, yeah, we do a fantasy podcast. Oh, I listen to a bunch of those't realize that like i've never had that happen and i'm like i'm like yeah we do a fancy podcast oh i listen to a bunch of those here's my favorite one and then i'm like yeah that's you go oh yeah that's that's our part that's yeah i shouldn't that's what i should do yeah i'll check that out that's a good show um oh my gosh al is reminding me how about this? I'm going to write in a question. Or Al sends in a question. He says, what is your most awkward fan appearance? Go ahead.

It's a funny story. Is it worth sharing? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I like it. It's harmless. Yeah, I mean, it really is. But I did have, in recent history, we had someone have an accident

at our home on christmas an elder you know elder states person yes they fell and um we had to call the paramedics and happy to report this person is okay they're recovering they're fine um but paramedics were there actively helping this person. And then one of them turned to me and was like, are you Andy from the fantasy footballers? And then gave me like the fist bump. And I was like, what do I do?

What do I do? Do I? And so I did, I did return the fist bump. And then I, and I smiled and I was like, Hmm, hopefully that's okay. How do you not return a fist bump, and I smiled, and I was like, hmm, hopefully that's okay.

How do you not return a fist bump? You have to. I don't think anybody's ever been able to reject it. It's in the code of civility. If someone offers you a fist bump of, you know, like, hello, gratitude, just anything, you're going to fist bump them back. It's like in the NFL. So many times you see a player go up to a ref, you're going to fist bump them back. It's like in the NFL. So many times you see a player go up to a ref and try and trick him with a high five or the fist bump.

Now, sometimes you get the refs who are like, you won't fool me. But then a lot of times you just see the humanness of refs. A high five has been requested, and I shall proceed, and I will high five you. And you go, oh, wait, I should have done that. Yeah, so thank you for listening, wait, I should have done that. Yeah. So thank you for listening. Yeah. The paramedic that fist bumped me.

I appreciate you. I do feel like the fist bump has become more prominent in our society. Yeah. Post pandemic. Post COVID. What was that? I was going to go. Pandemic?

I was going to call it the pando. Oh, the pando. That's what you were really going to do? Yeah. But then I was like, I'm going to bail out ofondemic? I was going to call it the Pando. Oh, the Pando. That's what you were really going to do? Yeah, but then I was like, I'm going to bail out of this and go to the pandemic. But I should have stuck with Pando. You're like four years in and you're like, it's ready for a nickname. Remember when the Pando hit?

You were some kind of something. YouTube question from Ostrom. Who do you want to win the Super Bowl, not who do you think will win? I have an answer. It's Houston. If Houston somehow won the Super Bowl, it would be the greatest thing in history. It would be really fun. D'Amico Ryans is incredible.

C.J. Stroud, he's in my top three favorite players at this point. I would love that. It would be amazing for his career. I mean, let's make some people mad. Is there a team that you don't want them to win? It's hard for me to want San Francisco to win because they're in our division. Okay. Which, that's fair. People can understand that.

I'm trying to think of anybody else in the mix that would bother me. Is there somebody that you actively are rooting against no no i just i wasn't sure if you had one i don't think so but um i'm rooting stealers i don't need the stealers oh yeah okay yeah no no no pittsburgh stop it yeah no thanks you owe us the super Bowl but I'm rooting for Cleveland too Joe Flacco baby yeah there is some very fun chaos that could come from that but I am rooting for Baltimore I want Lamar to win if it was Baltimore versus the Cowboys

you'd root for Baltimore because I feel like you're a big Dak fan too yeah I like both of them but as a team I like the Ravens more than the Cowboys Crew then wants to know over on X where did Mike get his Jordan 1 mug Yeah, I like both of them. But as a team, I like the Ravens more than the Cowboys. Crew then wants to know over on X, where did Mike get his Jordan 1 mug? We get that question a lot.

Sure. You have that mug on your desk all the time. Yeah. And then a follow-up is, whose responsibility is it to buy the trophy for the league, the winner or the commish? So we'll give you another quick shout-out. It's Sneakermugs.com.

But it's a feller who it's a real boutique. It's all one-off, like handmade stuff. So I don't even know if there's mugs available or sneaker mugs. There's probably really cool mugs there. So you can go check that out. And in terms of the trophy, the trophy should be the league's responsibility because everybody get has a chance to to get the trophy when you win you get to take care of it for a year you know like part of the dues or whatever yeah yeah and then take fun pictures with it bring it to disneyland

or on your vacation that's always a good time now like a a ring and that a ring, just for you, you should buy that or as we will recommend from time to time, going into the championship game, if it's not, you know, maybe it's not a money league, you just tell, you make a friendly wager between the two people who are in the

championship. Loser buys the ring for the winner. Cool. But the trophy for the winner. Cool. But the trophy should be the entire league. I agree with you, Mike. And by the way, if you need a trophy, this is the perfect place for a fantasychamps.com plug. And if you use the code FREERING,

they'll give you a free ring. If you buy a trophy or a belt. The $59 ring. So just put them both in the cart cart put the code in um i've gotten some swag so far oh yeah yeah we've got more coming good for you i'm working on it um all right uh youtube question for the deuces i'm gonna throw this to al we should get just, we need a gigantic CD lamb something. Oh my gosh, yes. Because we're both celebrating CD lamb.

CD lamb is our hero. Yeah. Yeah, let's work on that. Like, just put it right in front of Jason's computer? Well, it's between us, so that makes sense. We need to both be able to reach it, and the only place to do that is in between us. I'm making a note. Okay, you got to figure that out.

The Ducers can answer this. Your podcast audio always sounds great. It does. Thank you, Jeremy. What equipment, mics, mixers, et cetera, do you guys use? Well, we use a mic, right? I got Jeremy to laugh at that one. That's not good.

Yes. It's not good. Boston. We use one of those if you remember those old cassette players we put the cassette tape in there and then you hit the play and record at the same time and then we go and then at the end

Al you hit stop rewind something like that just don't leave them in the car in Arizona what are we on road broadcasters right now over time we have upgraded the studio, but now we are microphones. We are currently on road broadcasters. I believe we started on Behringers.

Yeah, Behringer B2, which is a great microphone. So that's a pro podcast tip. I mean, it's not like $10, but if you're serious about podcasting and you want to sound good, a Behringer B2 should be in your range. And then, Jeremy, anything else you want to fill in there? We use a Scarlett 18i20 audio interface. We do our mixing in Logic Pro. No, this is good stuff.

No, I'm just kidding. Yeah, no, it's been an evolution, right, over the years in improving quality. Yep. We use a bunch of Blackmagic cameras right now. That is correct. I think they all have Canon lenses on them. Yeah. One piece at a time.

That's right. And on the road, we use Shure mics. The SM7Bs. The barrier to entry is not high. It's not hard or expensive to get a good quality sounding podcast. It's actually funny now because in the beginning, the barrier wasn't very high obviously to to do that but now you go to like i was at target you know buying gloves and and i was walking over in the electronic section last

night and they have like a podcasting section with like like clamps and mounts and stuff for you know hooking up and recording they have a a, I think Rode makes a unit. Yeah. No, no, that's what it was. It's an all-encompassed unit where it has the. It's like 149 bucks, but it was like the stand and the microphone and some other stuff. I think it's like the Rode Podcaster. Yeah, something like that.

But it's got the mic pre's in it and you record to it. And I think you do your mixing on it. Nothing will make you as entertaining as us. That's true. Nothing you can purchase. I would say do yourself a favor and sound treat your room. That's going to go further than the equipment is a lot of times. Yeah, it was actually funny because when we started recording,

we had worse equipment, but we were in a bedroom, and it had carpet, and it was closed, and it was like perfect for recording. And then we came over to our new studio, which we needed to build out and treat the room. But in the very beginning, we had better equipment and worse sound because it was more echoey. And we were like,

Oh gosh, we like thought we were upgrading, getting an official space. And it took some time. Well, this is just too big of a question, but YouTube wants to know what has been the highlight of the entire baller show the friends we have made along the way okay all right i think that

there's some there's some seeds of truth in the cliche there i think that's probably actually true just not in such a corny way. Hey, could be sincere. Get off my back. Yeah, that's like the things that are fragile draft from Spivallers Mike, where we were supposed to be drafting fragile things. I drafted fragile things. You did. You did.

You didn't say physical fragile. Obviously, the highlight of the entire show was when I dressed up as Taylor Swift. Yeah. That was the real pinnacle for me. I liked Batman a little more. Oh, gosh. Batman was a problem, Mike. Batman was too small of a suit, okay?

Is there just one size for Batman, and if you don't fit in it, then it shows that you're not Batman's? Yeah. I think that's part of the job of being a superhero. You don't get a bigger suit? There's not plus-size Batman? You gotta fit in the mask. Plus-size Batman. None of us fit in that mask.

You're darn right. You know what? Next year's Wheel of Shame, you're getting in the Batman mask, man. You're getting the Fat Man marshmallow cheeks. That was a good one. Brooks, is there one more question that we should tackle before we close this thing out? One that we have skipped or that you really wanted to hear an answer to?

Let's see. What is your most listened to song of 2023? Oh. Probably. What was? Probably some Noah Khan. I'm a pretty big Noah Khan fan. So it's probably something uh

sixth season or something and mine would have been from a band called the midnight never heard of that sounds like batman's band um all right anything you got for us al anything you really wanted to know jeremy said the intro for this podcast which yeah probably true. That's the most listened to. Is there a full version of that? Yeah. Like top to bottom? Yeah. With the lyrics? No. No, because the lyrics are more of just you... It was like a read-along

with the music. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. Alright. Well, I think we're done with the AMA. Next week, we'll come in and give you the footy award winners. Yep. We'll be digging we're done with the AMA. Next week we'll come in and give you the footy award winners. Yep. We'll be digging into the truth episodes.

We will. We'll probably be talking about some playoff matchups and how things turned out. And look, Jay Grizz, he's got a long offseason ahead of him with that quarterback decision to be made in Chicago. Especially when you're hibernating. That's true. He's going to go to sleep and wake up with a new quarterback. Potentially. Good luck. We're shutting it down.

Brooks. That'll do it. Thanks to everybody. Tuning in today. All you Disneyland fans out there. Catch you next week. Goodbye. Thank you for listening to another episode of the Fantasy Footballers Podcast.

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