Fantasy Footballers - Fantasy Football Podcast - Footballers AMA + Wheel of Shame - Fantasy Football Podcast for 1/8

Episode Date: January 8, 2026

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Welcome to the fantasy footballers podcast with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Thursday, January 8th. We call this the listener adjustment period. Lots of comments like, oh, where's the show? Where was it on Monday? Tuesdays, Thursdays. Tuesdays and Thursdays. You can tell Mike's in off-season mode because he's got the Suns's hat and the D-Backs

hoodie. Got a... No football anywhere. Got to rip my teams. The hometown. You're such a big baseball guy. They are second baseman. Oh, man.

Love that guy. Yeah. The first baseman. Wow, he's pretty good, too. You guys know some of the positions. I shortstop. Oh, my God. The middle reliever that we fall in all the time in the sixth.

With the pitch, the really good pitch. Yeah, throws with his right hand. Yeah. Yeah, that one does. Don't forget the lefty, though. And the catcher, man, this way he squats. Incredible. He catches.

This is the kind of off-season analysis you're going to get right here. We'll describe all the positions in the baseball teams. I can name one member of the Harrison. Jason and I, you know, like, name that tune. Oh, yeah. I can name one member of the Arizona Diamondback. And then I'm like, I go. You're up.

I don't. Could I name? I don't know if I can name one. Why didn't you start at zero? Name one player on the Diamondbacks. The issue is currently? Yeah. All I can think of is Corbyn Dallas.

And that is definitely. Corby Carroll. Yes. Hey, okay. Is that the one with the bad facial hair? You put, depending on the day and the month. You put the fifth element plus you gave him enough clues. We did it.

We got one. Corbin Dallas. Welcome into the fantasy footballers. We have a fun show. show today of footballers AMA. We do have the fantasy face off. We have picked our projections for the upcoming

playoffs. I almost said fancy playoffs. Those are over. NFL playoffs. I am I realize I'm really nervous about the NFL playoffs this week. Because of the Buffalo Bills? Because of the Bill's Jacksonville game. In this office, you guys both pick Jacksonville to go to the Super Bowl.

I picked Buffalo to go to the Super Bowl. So one of us is going to be soups wrong immediately. That is correct. One of us. Okay. Okay. Because there's two. But I mean, I think that game's super exciting. Some of my picks come from that game. But everything this weekend is going to be fun. I'm really happy that I picked the Jacksonville Jaguars because I want to be right. But in truth, I want the I want the bills to win. I want Josh Allen to win a Super Bowl. I love this part of the day. But it's great because watching the game, I don't, first of all, I don't know who I'm going to be rooting for. You ever watch a game and you're like, I thought I was going to be rooting here

and you just find your heart on the other side. I don't know that I care. And maybe you don't care. But I'm, I'm starting to think, maybe I won't care who wins because. Oh, I care a lot. Yeah, you're a little invested here. No, this is not a sports card thing. This is, this is a like.

No, his proclamations of the bills are going to win. It's just a matter. It's not even my projections. It's just the history of the game of football. Like, you look at what makes a player legendary. I mean, if anybody's watched the Elway documentary that just came out on Netflix or any of the documentaries about the greats, you know, Jordan, he came up against the pistons, right?

He couldn't get past the Pistons. Finally, he gets past the great nemesis. Like, to be considered the greatest quarterback of all time or one of the best of all time, you have to win a Super Bowl. And like Josh Allen has gone up, he's gotten as close as he can to get past Mahomes. Yeah, his nemesis was already outed. I mean, well, the three touchdown games. to Gabe Davis and these amazing football

games that just he was so close and now you have a clear path. If I told you at the beginning of the season that the thing standing between Josh Allen and a Super Bowl was Trevor Lawrence and Duvon and Duvall you'd be like

Super Bowl. Yeah, like he's got so to me I just want the history like I feel like the time, Trevor Lawrence has got more time Jacksonville's got more time. They're building something great there. If you're a Jacksonville fan obviously you know it'd be a fun story if they make it happen. But if

Josh Allen falls again in the first round, that's part of the story too. It's a first round long. While you talk through this, I'm realizing the bills can't lose. They cannot. That's how I feel about, this is why I feel that way around the game and why I pick Buffalo

is because when the pressure hits, I feel like it's closing time. Yeah. He is not allowed to lose that game or his entire No, I don't know what worries me the very most. Mike picking the other side. Oh, I know. It's the year of Mike.

The year of Mike is the whole. You know how happy I was to see my bracket was identical? It's the most concerning thing on this show. I don't know if the calendar flipping over changes it. But I mean, the problem with all the Josh Allen talk is there's 21 other guys. What do you mean? Football is like, yeah, you need to have the best quarterback. Oh, you're saying on his team.

I'm saying I don't think the bills are the best team, even though. Josh Allen's probably the best quarterback in the playoffs He certainly is And yeah there was Did you see Cam Newton going off on like his podcast? No They went through all 14 playoff quarterbacks And he just yelled into the microphone

Whether they were a game changer or a game manager Oh And there were only two Oh two changers? Okay, we got Josh Allen Josh Allen's one of them Do you know the second one? No everybody else was a game manager

Hold on Interesting Like Mahomes was a game manager Well he's not in the playoffs Oh, oh, it's just the ones of the parties. The 14 playoffs. It's got to be Stafford. It's Stafford.

Okay. Everybody else was a game manager to him. That's fine. Which I think is probably... Because you have to earn the... You have to earn the game changer moniker from Cam Newton. And you don't... Like Drake May in your year two, you don't get to be called.

If I were to compare Drake May to Bo Nix, Drake May is a game changer, whereas Bo Nix is a game manager. But neither one of them have earned being a game changer yet. If the situation... was Jacksonville against Kansas City and you have the same personnel. I feel like the conversation is

the greatness of Mahomes shall overcome. Right. He finds the way in the playoffs. Doesn't matter what the seat is, doesn't matter how good your defense is, he ends up winning. That's the story I want for Josh Allen. Right, but that would have been the story

at multiple times during this year. Mahomes are going to figure it out. I'm talking about in the playoffs. I'm talking about playoff quarterbacks. when you get to the playoffs, everything changes. I do agree with that. Just ask Sam Darnold. I do agree with that.

And that's why I'm in on Jacksonville. It's because defense is what really doesn't. If Darnold loses bad and looks bad. Oh, my. Because I want to come back to this conversation. Oh, yeah. I bought this halfway through the year. Now they're the number one seat.

Yeah, Donald already won round one. That means more pressure. And a better team. And a home game. So you're telling me if Sam Donald goes out there. It's going to be the Rams. He's playing the Rams. He's playing the Rams.

In the only playoff game, Seattle gets as the number one seed, you're telling me there's not questions. Oh, man. You're telling me there won't be the same questions as last year. There certainly will be. This is the theater of the NFL. So the Rams, almost certainly, maybe it's very rude of me to say. Receding, yes. But I believe that so if I don't remember the other side of the bracket, but essentially

I think that the Rams Panthers, if the Rams win, they play the Seahawks. No, it would be the 49ers if they won or the Packers if they won. Oh, really? Yeah. Okay. Because the Rams are the 5 seed. So if they reseed and you play the lowest seed, then the 49ers are the

six and the Packers are the 7th. So they would play them, right? Silly reseeding. Silly other teams involved. Yeah, it's just, it'll be wild. Well, he better hope he doesn't play the the Rams in that game. Six interceptions in the two games this year. I mean, they won both games.

Right. But not because of Donald. And then you're going to end up with on the other side, the Broncos have the one seed, right? And the Patriots, if they manage to win, you're going to end up facing, you know, the bills are the six seat. So that would be your opponent if they get through.

It's just going to be fun. I can't wait. I'm nervous for all of these legacies, is I guess what I'm saying. We have a lot going on. today, though, the footballers AMA. We've got a quick question today. We've got the prize picks

shame. We all tied this week. Jason lost the tiebreaker and therefore he shall be shamed today. That's true. To be fair, the tiebreaker was throwing a pistachio near a wall which we do around the studio from time time. Multiple pistachios. That's true. That's true. Three rounds of

pistachios thrown. Well, it was supposed to be more than three rounds. Normally my pistachio throwing was not on point. I wasn't even going to mention the pistachio. Of course we end up mentioning these pistachios. We normally have tiebreakers when there's a Sunday night game or a Monday night game. There wasn't that. Yeah.

So we all tied. What else could you do? You couldn't do anything else. You had to throw a pistachial closest to the wall without hitting. Yeah. If you hit the wall, you're eliminated. Yeah. You go out of bounds, you're eliminated.

Only because we're civilized gentlemen. And we didn't do just one round. No. First of three losses. Yeah. And it would only win three rounds. I won out of bounds twice. That's on you.

It was a little bit on the pistachia. I think the one I picked. Oh, you picked a... You got to know your... You picked it. You got to know your pistache shapes. Yeah. All right.

My bad. But that's how Jace is getting shame today. Yeah. There you go. Does he have to eat like 1,500 pistachios? Oh, no. What a punishment. Don't do that.

Statues are awesome. If you're unhappy... Yeah, but you got a shell. Oh, no. 1,500 pistachians and eat and eat none. No, he shells them for us. yeah we eat them oh that's yeah that's too far wash your hands all right listen if you don't like just two shows a week and you need more

pistachio content coming your way join thefootcom that's our community you get a bonus weekly episode all year round and in the offseason it's a great chance to get your questions answered because there's not a lot of start sit decisions right so you can get other questions in there and there you go championship swag you can find it shopballers dot com for the t-shirts we i saw them in the office yesterday. They looked pretty good. I wasn't wearing one, though. Quick question of the day from

City Stars on X. Are you taking Bijon or CMC number one next year in the draft? Bejan. Bejan. It's Bejohn and it's not close. He is he is so far and away to me the best running back. New head coach. People

will make their arguments. Gibbs Gibbs, you know, these other, but it's Bejon is the guy who can do everything. He's still young enough. It still has like versus Christian McCaffrey Bejohn can rip off a 90-yard touchdown. Chris McCaffrey can't do that. Not anymore.

He can, you know, catch 100 plus passes like that. Chris McCaffrey can PPR and do things that Bijam may not get that opportunity, but there Bejon is my number one as of right now. And Bejohn is 23 years old right now. That makes a difference. Not just

for like, hey, when is the drop-off? Because I'm not, yeah, I don't think you're calling for a drop-off for a Christian McCaffrey, that will happen at some year in life, but it's also the injury risk. Like, Bejohn is younger, has been healthier, and you just look at Christian McCaffrey, and you go, okay, I mean, I guess if we're following trends, though, let me just one last argument on pro Christian McCaffrey. Okay.

Okay, he's the running back three, then the running back won, two great seasons in a row, then injured. when he comes back he's the running back two the running back one two great seasons in a row then injured running back one

I see what you're saying shouldn't this be another good one yeah another top two performance I think the interesting question is are you taking CMC number two I don't know yet great I don't know great I don't I would probably

I would guess not I would probably not do that but I mean I get it let's see so he'll be he's gonna be older he will be over 30 and that scares me a little bit yeah I mean I feel like

you saw the so far the fall off and it's just like he I mean he's not the same he's not the same Christian McCaffrey was in 2019 but I mean that was forever ago part of what made this season so

majestic and he's always been able to do it with or without wide receivers but they didn't they didn't have any this year right they missed Kittle for a long period at time. Brandon and I. You never came back. Ricky Pierce saw most of the year was going. Yeah, the second he came back, he turned right around like the Simpsons meme. And it was like Joanne Jennings sometimes, who also

got hurt. So, I mean, Kendrick Bourne was a talking point for a part of the year. Yes, he was. So it did work out well, and he held up. I mean, that's what the math, that's what it comes down to. Can you hold up? We do have news. It's all coaches, but it's big news. News and notes from around the league.

The Ravens fired John Harbaugh after 18 seasons as a head coach, playoffs in 12 of 18 years. I believe six division titles, Super Bowl championship season, and a 614 winning percentage. And that is why there are six head coach openings and rumored to be nine teams that are interested in John Harbaugh right now. Miami's one of them. And we can only speculate.

The Jets are one of them. We know that. That's confirmed. I believe it was Baker's wife that liked the post Oh, the box are one of them Yeah I'm a little surprised

That they Are holding on right now Here's what I think is interesting I think that there is a very decent Chance Tomlin's fired too If they go one and done again Yeah And they don't look good

I think you could lose two stalwarts of this division And then you lost DeFansky So there's three head coaches I mean Zach Taylor's the only one That got the pass and he barely He is by far the worst coach in that division

If you have to come out with a statement That's like why we're keeping somebody That's how close you were to get in fire On the good news there though They did keep Zach Taylor Jack Taylor came out and said We are keeping our defensive coordinator Oh good work

Which is great news Unfortunately bad news The Cowboys have released Iber Flus As their defensive coordinator So these two terrible defenses We love playing against they might One of them might shift Well, there are rumors right now about Cliff Kingsbury having his pick of the litter for a lot of these teams.

And Baltimore is the one that's coming up this morning is, you know, the plan, the reason they said that they did this was to re-invigorate or invigorate Lamar Jackson to give him something fresh. Makes sense. Cliff Kingsbury coming to Baltimore would be very interesting. I think he's changed as a coach. I do too. I think he would come in with a little bit more presence and culture. He did not do that when he was in Arizona. I believe his second round

will be decent as a head coach and if you look at his resume with the two quarterbacks he's dealt with in the NFL so far, Kyler Murray mobile rushing quarterback that he had early success with. Jaden Daniels, obviously rookie

sensation had success with, hey put him with Lamar Jackson. He's proven he can utilize that type of... What's wild is Todd Monkin will be gone then. If you bring in Cliff Kingsbury there won't be a Todd Monkin. Well, I I think Todd Munkin has gone no matter what. There were rumors that part of the reason, like Harbaugh was not immediately fired.

They talked to players. They talked to staff. They talked to the general manager. This was a long thought through decision. And there were many aspects to it, the locker room, the players. But one of the rumored or I guess reported issues was that he was not willing, Harbaugh was not willing to release Munkin. And they basically did.

didn't want Monkin there. I believe that was more maybe Lamar and Monkitt. So Monkin is gone. Yeah. He's not going to be there no matter of what. He's getting some coaching, head coaching opportunity as well. Also a note on Cliff Kingsbury's departure from Washington, because this wasn't a day I'm leaving because I have a job. Like the offers there, sorry guys, I'm going to go be a head coach. It sounded like he was leaving regardless of if he gets another opportunity. And massive disagreements between Yeah and that's what I wanted to get your guys' take on because I personally find it a bit troubling

because the report that came out was that Dan Quinn and Cliff Kingsbury they had a very strong disagreement on a lot of things on the office they said in particular pass-to-rush ratio so as in I'm assuming that Dan Quinn wants to run the ball more we got to establish it

because that that's who he is and then on top of that not one so kingsbury would had a collegiate a collegiate-esque you know offense which some of that stuff it's working in the NFL and Dan Quinn's like no I want to be more of a pro a traditional professional NFL type of an offense with jaden I just that I think that is it's concerning because that is that will be a massive change you're saying for the future of the commanders next year's fantasy value I'm saying yeah for jaden and this is not a red alert this is just say, hey, this is happening.

They're talking about this. And if someone comes in, it's like, we're going to make Jaden Daniels run this pro-style offense that maybe he is not comfortable in. It's a really tough one. And things could go bad. I go both ways with it. Because I look at it from the perspective of,

this is also an offense that you kind of, you ran out of luck. And he was hurt multiple times this year. So predicating a lot on him running the football as much as he did. Look, from a fantasy perspective, we'd love him in the Cliff Kingsbury system. But we also want him on the field. And we've already had one Washington quarterback that got knocked out after pressing his luck being a... Sure. He's not Josh Allen, right?

He's not built that way. And now you lost the season with Jaden Daniels. So I think balance to protect Jaden for his long-term viability, I could see an argument in that direction. But for fantasy, I'd be more concerned. I'm not even just talking about the running because Jaden Daniel, he'll run. Like he will scramble, you know, the last we saw of Jackson Dart was he still ran a ton, but his, the actual designed runs were very minimal. That was Jackson Dart saying, no, I'm going to run. And I think Jaden will still do that.

It's about does, there were, there were question marks pre-draft about Jane Daniels in offenses, reading defensive coverage. and if you're going to switch from what he has had tremendous success in, you know, going back to the LSU, his rookie year, and you're like, no, you're going to run a pro offense. Just the, that type of change is a little bit scary, I think. Yeah, I mean, we're going to have a lot of big-time fantasy quarterbacks with big changes on the offensive side. Lamar and Jaden are two of them.

But there's going to be more coming your way. I mean, Cam Ward when he gets back, It's going to be a new system there. Kyler, where is he playing, no matter where it's a new system. Yeah, yeah. So unsurprisingly, the Cowboys fired Matt Iberflus after being the worst defense maybe ever. That's so sad. So that is, that sucks.

It's for us. For a fantasy football. He was crucial, fantasy MVP, Matt Eberflus. So that's now, I mean, he was the coach of the Bears last year. Yeah. Two firings in a row. They say he has USFL written all over him. I mean, this is the, the NFL, I hate the cowardice of, like, we can't, we don't want to take the risk on a new guy.

Like, coaches fail. The vast majority of coaches in the NFL are failures. I mean, the, that's just how it is. Guys last like four years and then they're gone. Or they last a really, really long time. So why not? I don't understand not taking the. shot on a fresh face

gets a new blood in there, new ideas, as opposed to the... It goes both ways, though. I mean, look at what happened with the Eagles. They got to the Super Bowl against Kansas City Chiefs a couple years ago. They lost. Then, because they had such a great season, their offensive coordinator and defensive

coordinator both go get head coaching jobs. And what do they do? They get new faces. They bring next man up from the system, the young guns, and the team stinks. And then they fire both of them, and then the next year. I'm looking at the most recent 10 fired coaches. I want to see how many were retreads versus that. I mean, Gerard Mayo, one year, done, new face, New England.

Brian Dable, hadn't been a head coach, now fired. Brian Callahan, offensive coordinator in Cincinnati, now fired. Jonathan Gannon, he was one as well. Eber Fluse, that was his first head coaching job, too. So it's Antonio Pierce, Las Vegas. I mean, that was another new face opportunity. You know, it's, his name is escaping me now, who the Packers and then the Cowboys coach.

McCarthy. Mike McCarthy. Like, his name is out there. He's been fired from two teams. Why would you? He also had great success. I just, to me, like, the dude has gone multiple places and failed multiple times. Let someone else come and try and fail.

So you want Harbaugh? You want Stifansky? As a Cardinals fan? I think Stifansky is still a good coach. Harbaugh, a better coach? I don't think so I think what Stefansky

had managed to do Brayble went to New England after getting fired I think that was a good decision yes but we all when Vrable was fired we were like

what there is a different that seemed more like a him and management did it was done their relationship ran out of gas it wasn't that he was bad

at his job yeah there's a different situation between guys who get fired because they suck long enough like Jim Harbaugh he just

you know in San Francisco The time ran out. Heads budded and they got rid of him. But no one thought he was a bad head coach. You know, same thing as happened several times. You know, the situation around Sean Payton, you know, where he left. He wasn't like a failure and then left. He kind of walked away.

That's where I think, you know, John Gruden's been rumored out there. And that's one of those like, did he, was he a failure or was it just like? Oh, he got. Well, right. He got forcibly removed. Yes. That lawsuit's still going, by the way. against the NFL?

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Goodness, that was forever ago. I'm going to tell you right now, Gruden's going to end up with some money. Okay. Just don't give them what a head coach. And I'll probably be a head coach. Oh, don't do it.

John Morton, out for the Lions. I love this. I mean, that made sense. He was really not doing much of the offense for a while. After they lost Ben Johnson, they let Morton have a try, then it was their head coach, Dan Campbell. You know who I heard, I read was rumored to be in the running there?

Blah, Blah, Blow. David Blow? David Blow, yeah. Is it going to be a token position where Dan Campbell runs the offense? I don't know. I hope not. I mean, Ben Johnson was not a token position. Sure, sure.

All right, we'll take a break. We'll jump into the AMA. All right, this should be fun. If you have any questions for the show, you can go to the website, the fantasy footballers.com, click that submit a question button, dial the voicemail hotline, 302464 TFFB.

I have no clue what's in today's questions. It could be. Have you guys looked at anything? No, I'm reading the first one. It could be anything. You could ask us? Any. Anything at all.

Oh, and they did. Lloyd Christmas, do you guys do... The Lloyd Christmas? Lloyd Christmas himself, do you guys like to do escape rooms and who is the best at them? That is a real ask-me-any-thing question. Love escape rooms. They are among my favorite things in the entire world. Really?

I love escape. I love them. They're fine. They're awesome. Because my video game genre of choice when I was growing up, probably not so much anymore, but the graphic adventures, the Monkey Island games, Space Quest, Kings Quest, that style, all the Lucas Arts games, Full Throttle, Grim Fandango, all those, my favorite. favorite games and escape room is kind of the closest we can get to that being a real life situation

oh my gosh i love i adore i adore escape rooms i don't know who's the best we haven't done enough i know in my family my son is the best we we haven't really done them together but my oldest son he is he's very good at him he's very good at them and my oldest daughter uh who's your youngest well they're twins so they're both my old they're my oldest children just said my oldest daughter you're one daughter hold on now hold on now here's the next question how many daughters do you have one um is she the oldest that i know of you know

that's what i'm saying like that's what it sounded like jason you got another hiding goodness gracious but she doesn't help much in those escape rooms that's what about your youngest daughter also does not help much um yeah i think they're they're fine i normally enjoy when I go but I don't set out to do them on purpose. I get invited to something and they can be pretty fun. The nice thing is if you're kind of indifferent, everyone else would do the work for you and you can just sit back and that's what my daughter says. Yeah, that's not that bad. God, they're the best. I am having the hardest time here because of course,

Papa Josh is back in the office now today. And the first thing he has to do is brag about his escape room capabilities. Oh, that sounds like Papa Josh. I mean, I've been in escape rooms with Josh. maybe that's why I don't like him that much right and the I have never I mean we've gotten clues before together never failed an escape yes we have Josh it's a team game also if you get clues

you and you don't and you get out are you proud are you like we did it Josh you can talk you don't have to be like I just you know look look number one I don't I don't remember

getting any clues at all and I certainly didn't ask for him So just saying all I said was that I would never. You should ask for a clue. Guys, ask for a clue. I've got to. We're really stuck. Anyways, here's a question.

Christian Bjorn writing in. What is the long lost drop? What is one long lost drop you'd like to bring back? Nice. I have one. There's a long lost drop. Like a show drop. One of my favorites for sure was booty scooting Cam Newton.

oh yeah yeah yeah i'm just super if you you have that over there somewhere out maybe you can find it that's just one of the ones that i loved and then we we had a good animation with it oh i've got mine for sure he is uh he's not down oh oh david has scrumptious david devon devon oh that's a good drop all right now my turn scrumptious do we have devon i'm sure we'll um no that's that's great I don't have anything. Mike, if you think of one, let us know. Mike has a bad memory. Yeah, that's true. I would the, if you like long loss drops, check out our dynasty podcast. Kyle the Borgogh is frequently surprising me with a every segment. A segment drop and I'm like, I must have made that at some point because that is a fantasy footballer's drop that I don't recall making.

Yeah, we've done this a while. We've done this a while. Um, okay. Maddie wants to know what. pets you guys have at home including names please rocky and sugar some golden doodles they're about 10 11 years old and pepper a boy and a girl oh no pooper is i got i got rid of pooper punting him off a bridge like baxter right into jeremy grantham's house uh we have one puppy named copper i guess he's not a puppy no he's like five he's a dog yeah i have two burnadoodles i have daisy and then rufus who is We just wait him. He was supposed to be the runt.

And we were, like, we bought a Bernadoodle that was going to be 50, 60 pounds. He weighs 110 pounds, guys. What are you feeding him, huh? Dog food? And whatever he finds. And whatever else. Yeah, he does, like, cloth. Oh.

Socks. A lot of new towels. Did you have to get this one, like, something removed from their stomach? Yeah, he was the one. We had to go put him under the knife. all been there. I haven't. Really?

No. You must not leave things out enough. We do leave things out. I've seen how thin your dog is. You've trained him. We have trained him. That's it. You don't eat.

He's taking stuff off the kitchen table before. You got to watch out. I guess technically we didn't have to remove. I'm a complete liar. He didn't eat socks. But he did get a hold of some like gum with xylataw and he had to go. We had to go to take him to the vet and spend that sweet, sweet vet money. emergency vet money you could charge anything you want yeah oh it'll be two million dollars

but we can give you alone i need a thousand pounds of diamonds and we'll save your dog in issue we got to figure out with bets because i'm not taking i get it very expensive tons of time to like to become a actual veteran veteran veteran why can't i say that word veterinarian i want you to do it yeah and i i get that however You're in the business of saving animals, and you're like, hmm, I'd really like to save your dog. It's going to cost you $2,000. You're like, I don't have that. Like, oh, then I can't save your dog.

I mean, that is unfortunate. I've got a bad story, good story. We took our dog Rocky and he ate a skewer. Oh, like a BBQ skewer. Yeah, a BBQ skewer. And it came out from the inside, like through the side. Like, Oh, okay.

Like brought out. Oh, no. It had a sharp tip. And so we bring him into the vet. Vet cleans it up, says he's going to need this surgery. It's going to be, it was outrageous. Like, I wish it was 2,000. It was, it was closer to 10,000.

Oh. And I was like, he seems like he's doing okay. Let me just yank that thing out. We took him home. He never went back. And he's totally fine. Oh, man. You're really fine.

Wait, wait, wait, wait. Did the skewer stay in? No, the skewer came out even before we took him in. Out the side or out the side? Okay. So he had like a perforation. So he had in a hole in his intestine. And they said he was going to die.

Basically they're like, yeah, he needs this surgery and it's going to be very complicated because of X, Y, Z. Just to be clear. You said, I don't believe you. You said, I'll take those odds. I said, I call your bluff. He said, I'll bet you $10,000. I'll bet you's going to be fine. He's going to live.

And you know what? I'm $10,000, Richard. Oh, wow. Oh my goodness. That's why I said it was a bad story, good story. Yeah, it was a bad story, good story. That one's outrageous. Like, how do you make that decision to be like, no, I'm good?

Did you go back to the vet? If he dies, he dies. In your face, Rocky, jump up on this table. Show him what you got. Wow. Yeah. I figured after the perforation, you would have just given him to Al. I would have if he started going downhill, but he looked good.

Oh, my gosh. okay this is a this is a fantasy football question from sdp dub last place is not following through on the punishment oh how do we proceed that's a boot from league yeah i'll say this obviously all last place punishments there's a there's a way to do this which is everyone agrees before the season yes they do if that happened and everybody signed up for it you do it or you're out you now it can't I agree with you. Like sometimes I've seen leagues where it's like the majority voted that we get a tattoo. But the guy who voted no is last place.

You can't do something like that. That is a bridge too far. You can't force someone against their will. But you're right, Andy. If this was agreed upon known about they signed up for the league, this is them saying, oh, you know what? I don't want to be in this league. Yep.

Which is, it's lame, man. Like that's part. It's part of it. It's part of what makes your league awesome. Yeah, go put the clown makeup on, go stand on the corner, whatever you've got to do. Eat the pancakes, just, you can't, you can't bow out now. Be hunted by 11 other men with paintball guns on a paintball course. Right.

Without a gun. You're like, I lost. Jump in the lion's den, you know. I'm not, I'm not paying my dues this year. Yeah. Like, this is, come on, people. All right. Let me see where we want to go.

A question from Uncle Wegg. On X. Keep trade cut. Salty, spicy, sweet. Cut and spicy, because I'm a baby. I'm with you on that. Compared to the other two, which are white. I like spice enough, but get out of my life. Then it's salty and sweet. That's tough. That's real. Oh, my gosh. I think you know where I'll go. Oh, you're going to keep the sweet, really. Yeah. Because of solely because of ice cream. Because of ice cream. Which is sweet. I feel like I'm going to keep the salty, even though I love, do not. Do not. here what I'm not saying. I'm going to keep salty and sweet. I'm basically keeping steaks here. I am

keeping the spicy. Oh. Yeah, I can, yeah, that makes sense. This is why we're a good trifecta. Oh, wait, we got sweet, salty, and spicy. You're the spicy. You're the spicy. That's pretty good. It's spicy is really a young man's game. I was going to say you're, you're, but I still would prefer it. You're going to end up in a human vet with for your, uh, digestive they charge just as much. Yeah, they do. But they have to save you.

because you're a person. You know what I mean? I guess you don't love your dog. I wouldn't have thought he could be just fine with a skewer. Well, he didn't have the skewer anymore. Did you like flex seal it? No. Just slap it.

Just you got to, the only way to administer it is certainly to have it in your hand. And just, wheeze, oozing, leaking. Pushes them out on the lake. No, anymore. Yeah. He pushes them out. I could stand on him. He floats.

What's funny is I think the flex steel guys listen to this show. We've heard from them before. Oh, my gosh. Look, new idea for your next commercial, okay? Flex seal bandages? I like the idea of the... Flex seal bandages. Just a huge wound, gunshot wound.

Ricky Pearsall. Oh, my gosh. Brian Robinson. Just flex seal it. Oh, my gosh. Human. Flexile. Yeah. Okay. Because, hey, flexial guys, you can charge way more for that product. Yes, you can. Same product. Just put it in a different packaging. Yeah. For vets and for human vets and 10 grand a roll.

Human vets are doctors. Yes. But we call them human vets. Isaac wants to know your favorite Batman. Christian bail. I mean, obviously it's Christian Bale. Michael Keaton. Yeah. I love Michael Keaton. I love Michael Keaton. And I love Michael Keaton. And I love Michael Keaton. And I love Michael Keaton. He was, Michael Keaton was the best one. And then, until Christian Bale showed up and he was like, you guys know my thoughts on Christian Bell, the Christian Bail Batman. You just don't like the voice. I don't like the voice. I don't like the first movie where he can push a button on his, on his boot.

And Bats get summoned to him. Ludacris movie. Do you remember what the other Batman's? Outstanding movies. Hyper. Great. I mean, Vicky Vail just wakes up and he's just hanging upside down. That's true.

What is he doing? Stretching. But the billionaire can't come up with a device on his. To move? I don't know. He wasn't just hanging out there while people sleep. Also, he's like, the man's a billionaire. He doesn't got no WD 40?

He's like when he's hanging upside down. This is a stupid memory, man. For stuff like this where he can win an argument. No one even listening is like I don't remember I can assume I know what you're talking about from the movie I don't remember it Tactical Gator writes in What player was your biggest regret last season

So this past season Oh that's a good question Huh Give me a while on this one guys I think I mean the I'm gonna go Caleb Johnson Oh

Now he did finish with a very nice 69 rushing yards but I don't feel like he was a good fantasy MVP. Did you, you were counting on more than that? I was. People were asking me yesterday on the card stream whether or not, because we had some Caleb Johnson cars to get rid of. Give me that. And they were wondering what the future holds.

And I was like, well, Gainwell's a free agent. Yeah. Rogers might be gone. Gainwell leaving his path forward. It'll be interesting. Never wrong just early. I was very much on the Tink Bigsby. of the Biggsby versus ETN.

Yeah, I was on your side too. And then they traded him. And he didn't get to play because he was behind Sequin Barclay. And then ETN was quite good. I'm just looking down at the bottom of our fantasy scoring list to see what potential big regrets that I had on this in this situation. I was definitely with you on that one. Joe Mixen never played.

That's a shame. But I don't think we were really. No, towards the end of the year, we were. we were pretty out. Did we believe in Brian Thomas, Jr.? I did for sure. Yeah, I'm sure. That one is still a...

Don't take my lack of a definitive answer to not mean there's a bunch of answers for me, but I don't have one that's like jumping out as... Brian Thomas Jr. one is insane. Yeah. Insane. It's like Jefferson, not his fault. Brian Thomas Jr., seemingly 100% his fault.

Yeah, yeah. He started the year getting exactly what you want, hyper targets. I mean, Brian Thomas Jr. was, let me pull up his game log. Seven targets week one. Twelve targets week two, six, seven. Just it went. Don't mean, we get the spray bottle out, Jason. I mean, he was on pace for.

Yeah, take care of it, Mike. You literally have a spray bottle. Yeah, we got a spray bottle just against. You do that again. You're in big trouble. I was just reading. his box score of targets. Very animated

reading. For the first six games played, he was on pace for 136 targets. If you said before the season, I mean, Treville Lawrence is going to play well. He's going to have 136 targets. You'd be like, yeah, this is a top 10 wide receiver. Like, for sure.

But he stunk and couldn't catch the ball. I kind of like Mason Taylor. I mean, that one didn't work out too well. Oh, dude, do you, did you guys do your votes for a footy awards? I did. Do you think?

I think he's got a shot. Do you think Mason Taylor's going to win that award? He's got a shot. It's too early, too early to tell. But I will remind, there's a good opportunity to remind the Foot Clan if you did not listen to last episode. The footy awards are being voted on right now at footy awards.com. Go there. Cast your vote on all of the in-season awards.

What's that? What's the domain? Footy Awards? There you go.com. And then, yeah, well, our next episode, we will have the big footies episode. Did you guys know Papa Josh

has never failed an escape room? And never taken a single clue. Let me tell you something, Josh. I didn't bring it up. I've never failed an escape room. Whoa. Mike, have you? Yes.

Oh, okay. I have never failed an escape room. I've probably done eight of them. I've never failed. We've added clues, but we've never. The one I failed with my friends was we got all the way. And we're at the end.

I take no pride in it, by the way. With, I mean, probably 15 minutes of the hour left. And then it turns out we had just one of the safes had opened. And there was another thing inside of a... Oh, that you didn't. Yeah, that was just out of visibility. Papa Josh is actually good at them. I will say that.

Yeah, he's a puzzle guy. He's a puzzle guy. He's made to get hyped up for those. That's why he built such an incredible dynamic. dynasty team. The puzzle. He put all the pieces together. He put the pieces together. Oh, my God. Too far, Mike. Yeah. Kyle Edgar. The champ can say what the champ wants to say. Kyle Edgar writes in, how do people you meet react when it comes to small talk about what you do for a living? When it comes up in small talk about what you do for a living. Oh, how do people react when we tell them what we do fantasy football podcasting?

Like we're poor. I do not small talk. I don't small talk about my job. And this. They're just like, what do you? I'm like, oh, you don't tell them? I, I start with, instruction. I start, no, no, I start with like sports media. Oh, see, that's smart. And then if they want to pull the layers back, then we'll get into it. But yeah, people are like, I do.

Most part, people actually don't care. If you say I do a fantasy football podcast, I'd be like, oh, cool. What do you do for a work? Yeah, what are you? The problem, the problem, you guys know I'm a talker. Yeah. You guys know a small talk for me is the life story. I get somebody's life story.

So every conversation for me. ends up with like I end up with the same cliche like yeah I never thought I could make a living doing that that's pretty much yeah what comes up but uh best wing flavor Thomas wants to know best wing flavor and do you like flats or drumsticks flats because I grew up drumsticks are for children and that's fine children love drumsticks I second that both are delicious both are great flat I want to know what the deucers are flat I do just make a binary choice I am on the side of flats I was on drumsticks specifically for I can eat drumstick and like be like face clean you know like i get you 12 of wings and have very

minimal cleanup where like flats the flats are messier it's a bit of the messier yeah uh what's the votes back there inducers alley it's all flats for me papa josh oh he's a drumstick man oh boneless oh they're delicious matt flats okay oh we're we're and then flavors i mean i'm boneless i'm still more of a, I prefer like a buffalo, a medium or hot, but. Like a good dry rub. Dude, lemon pepper. Yeah, on the dry rub. Lemon pepper is moving up the charts, guys.

I am definitely. The lemon pepper better be a dry rub. It is. Yeah, I know, I know. I'm just saying, if you dip that thing in lemon, I don't think I'm in. I am, I am a medium buffalo, but I want it to be a sweeter buffalo, like the best place here in Arizona. Oh, like a honey sweet? Golden medium at Zips. the best wings in the world

All right our Instagram question from G Strow Favorite new TV show I'll say Pluribus because I just started watching it I'm just seeing how you were going to say

Say the name of the show Yeah Pluribus I see I was having It's on the dollar If you need to reference it E Pluribus Unum

Yeah No I We watched it I'm only three episodes in But I've loved all three Yeah that's good I watched Mr. Deeds.

Is that a TV show? No. That's the movie? That's what you watch. I don't watch... I don't watch that. The 2002 hit. The Michael always has one of these.

Mr. Deeds. Incredibly underrated and not talked about enough. That movie is very funny. Sweet mercy. All right. We're going to take another break. all right a couple more questions and we'll jump into the fantasy face off jansen wants to know have we ever been to canada and what was your favorite part if you have we've been to canada

shout out mikey singer i've only been there one have you guys been there once i've been there one additional time okay you have a bonus we went once uh one of our very first ever live recordings was for it we got hit up and said hey i'm going to put on this huge fantasy football Expo. It's up in Canada. I want you guys to come be the featured speakers, do a show. You know, we'll cover your travel and give you a little bit of extra money to come do it. And we're like, that sounds pretty freaking awesome. Outskirts of Toronto. Which the beginning of that story starts with us Googling, Hey, do you need a passport to go to Canada? That's right. And ladies and gentlemen, whatever the top result is

on Google that just comes back, look into it a little deeper. That is not always a fact. Especially when it comes to international travel. And now with AI, AI just tells you, oh, for sure this is the answer. It's like, so we were very much under the impression that it was just

cool. You could, like the U.S. sounds so dumb. The U.S. and Canada is like, we got an arrangement. Yeah, we could. You're like us. We're like you. Let's just cross. And about one week before, I think we just double-checked it. And it was like, oh, no, that doesn't happen anymore. Now you for sure have to have a passport. Which is easy to get in a week, right? If you travel to one

of the four destinations in the United States that does like next day passports. And which one of them happens to be. Did you need one too? Oh, yeah. Oh, okay. We all need it in Tucson, Arizona. There is a place where you can get an expedited passport for situations like that. So we got it. We went up there beautiful venue i mean just a huge warehouse full of of vendors foods a bunch of just massive footprint just awesome so cool and about 40 to 50 people yeah you're being generous the the show yeah i mean this is like what like a 50 000 square foot place decked out with all these vendors and ain't nobody showed up unfortunately the um what fight was that

that was the Connor McGregor first boxing yeah the McGregor Mayweather yeah the McGregor Mayweather fight was on the same weekend and yeah not a lot of people showed up we still had a really great time

and we're happy to be there but we saw that was our trip to Toronto yeah we saw really nothing of yeah we were kind of on the outskirts yeah we went to the thing and then we went home I've been to Victoria

Canada on a Alaskan cruise so that okay that's the Pacific coast and my favorite thing there was the i had some great shrimp oh all right yeah there you go we'll uh we'll jump right into the face off fantasy face off presented by prize picks all righty i talked about it at the top we all tied a loser jason uh very bad oh that's right very bad at tossing pastasios he's the loser okay

Give me that wheel. Wheel of shame. Spin and wheel. I have no idea what's coming up. All right. You smell that. Here's Johnny. Seven.

Oh, the seventh inning stretch. Seventh inning stretch. Oh, baseball. Yeah. It's my favorite sport. Speaking of baseball. Oh, baby. We got a nice baseball jersey because, you know,

you probably don't have one. Yeah, I love baseball, man. There you go. That should be able to go on. Is that going to go on? We got you, Mike, if you can take care of this for us. What? Oh, you know,

you want to eye black him? You need some eye black. We got you some cracker jacks. Are they real? Yeah. Heck yeah, man. There's a prize inside. This is my punishment is I get to eat cracker jacks.

Yeah, you get, you have cracker jacks and you got a baseball hat. You look like Rob Lowe. Yeah. I look like the kid from. from the sandlot. Smalls? Yeah. We got you a glove too

so you can play catch with your paw. There you go. Look at this baseball player. You look like a New York Yankee. I think I got to get into baseball, fellas. There you go if you want to eat those. Cracker Jack.

Thank you, man. Let's go out to a ball game. There you go. Look at that. You even put his finger through the... I will say this. I love. playing catch. I love it. I think it is, I don't know what it is in people and probably mostly

men, but just the idea, just throwing. First guy to wear glasses with eye black. I want to be able to see. Throwing a, throwing a ball in general. Go out with like, Jeremy Grantham came over all the time. We'd throw a football in the backyard and play stupid games like how many can we do in a row without dropping. We're not a lot of move. Make up stupid rules. Yeah. I never played enough baseball ever in my life because I had self-respect and I wanted to be entertained. Yeah. But, so

because of that, I never really threw around a baseball enough. But when I had the few opportunities where you've got a glove and a baseball, you could throw the thing so hard and not worry. It's awesome. That's the one. I mean, you've got to worry a little bit. Not if you're good of catching, bro. I've got to worry. I'm like, Josh,

I'm the best. You never heard somebody describe catch. You know, professional baseball players still get hit in the face. yeah not when they're playing catch not really yeah um all right we've got our lineups for this week the playoffs starting at the quarterback position I went with Trevor how old is Crackerjacker

is let me see that really old this box looks like it came straight from the 20s there is probably brand new there's a prize inside I'm gonna find it yeah uh Trevor Lawrence 233 and a half passing yards I'm taking the more I think that game's gonna be You're going with Lawrence? It's going to be pretty active.

I'm going with upcoming future MVP, Drake, Drake May May, one and a half passing touchdowns, easy-peasy. You're taking the more? For the New England quarterback. I'll take the more. I almost took his less on passing attempts. I really loved Bryce Young's.

How is the Cracker Day? They're delicious. Turns out it's just like caramel corn. It's like baseball is. Cracker Jacks is essentially baseball. Right. Because on the outside, it looks stupid. Old and dated and unfun.

And then you open it and you eat it. Right. So when you go to a baseball game, you get to eat things, and that's the fun of corn and and it's delicious. And peanuts? Yeah. And a prize. They're very good.

And a price. Not a sponsor. All right. You're a quarterback. My quarterback. I was going to take. Wait a minute. It's Cracker Jack?

Yeah, I know. Yeah, but if you have some, you have Cracker Jacks. That makes sense. It's Cracker Jack. Yeah, but if it's Pringle, then I got Pringles. Yeah, exactly. When you got more than one. That's fine.

It could be Crackard Jax. That's actually called Pringles. Yeah, that's Pringles. Anyways. No, this is a problem. Cracker Jack? I originally had Bryce Young, 191 passing yards, taking less than that. I think that's a layup.

But then I saw this one as a green goblin. And I was like, heck yeah. Matthew Stafford. his projection as a green goblin is negative half a rushing yard. I'm going more than this. I saw that and you are dancing with the devil. I get it. No, but I get it because obviously if he doesn't rush and at the end of the game, he does kneel downs,

then I could go under this. I could have less. How often? Yes, I did. He hasn't had less than zero rushing yards in the last five games. So I'm feeling pretty good. Okay. That's your green goblin, though.

You used your green goblin up. I got bad news for you, Jason. Yeah? Week 17, he had zero. That's fine. That's more than, that's what I'm saying. Oh, because the projection is negative. Okay, okay, okay.

He doesn't even need to run. He just needs to not kneel down negatively. He does have negative rushing yards in more games than you would believe. Yeah, but not this one, maybe. Impressive. All right, running back, I'm taking Rico Dowdell 40, six and a half rushing yards. Don't you dare.

Less. Oh, don't you dare! In your face, Mike. The calendar turned over. You kidding me? They're not going to be able to keep up with Rico Dattle in that game. I'm going to take Mike's guy that he just said he got wrong. I'm going to go with Tank Bigsby.

Nine and a half rushing yards. I'm going more. You went with a Tank Biggsby. I went with a Tank Biggsby. He's been, obviously last week he was awesome in relief of Sequin while they benched guys. player. But prior to that, they were getting him more and more involved. He's been over, you know, he's had... Playoffs. He's

had more than 10 rushing yards in most of his recent games. And I do think in the playoffs they might want to use their best running back. I'm on the opposite side. I think they'll not use them at all. My... Interesting. I'm going on a projection with the guy I got wrong of Travis E.T.N.

I will take that Buffalo run funnel defense. 65 and a half yards is all Travis E.N. Or I guess... Rushing only? Yeah. He needs 66, but no ball. With the run funnel? Yeah, no ball. That's ridiculous. Because that's dangerous. I live. But yeah, more than 65 and a half rushing yards for

Travis E.T.N. My green goblin, Jaden Reed of the Packers, two and a half receptions. I'm taking the more. This is wide receiver. I'm going Nico Collins, more than 71.5. We are receiving yards. I thought we might have some crossover because of the limited player pool. My green

goblin, it is Pooka Nakua. Five and a half receptions. that feels pretty auto i'll go more there colston loveland is my tight end i got mr loveland as well i went receiving targets oh and i took five more receptions three and a half i went cole commette what are you doing yeah biggsby and cole commet and stafford rushing yards 13 and a half that's it 13 and a half receiving yards that's it what was that didn't you're famous Tommy Trimble line. Yeah, but Tom, okay, Tommy Trimble was a bridge too far.

Cocoa's been involved. He's, he's been good. So you're taking the more? What was the, what was the 13 and a half? 13, okay. So what's, he's been over that a, the past six weeks. Yeah, exactly. The past three weeks, barely. It barely works. You know what they say? These are guarantees. All right, that was fantasy faceoff presented by prize picks, join millions of users and sign up for America's number one fantasy sports app. Use the code footballers and get

$50 in lineups when you play $5. That'll be up for today's show. Footie Awards.com. The Footie Award winners will be announced on our next episode on Tuesday. Jason's going to enjoy some more Cracker Jacks. The prize inside is an appreciation of the game of baseball. This song, Buy Me Some Peanuts and Cracker Jacks? Yeah.

But there's peanuts in the Cracker Jack. That's fair. Baseball. Thank you for listening to another episode of the Fantasy Footballers podcast. Join our Fantasy Football. on join the foot.com and follow us on Twitter at theFF ballers.