Fantasy Footballers - Fantasy Football Podcast - Footballers AMA + Worst Picks Ever, Big Gulps - Fantasy Football Podcast for 1/9

Episode Date: January 9, 2025

Draft pick regrets, important food takes, and lots more on today’s fantasy football podcast! It’s an AMA style mailbag, with questions of all kinds! Footballers favorite video games, sandwiches, and offseason hobbies! Plus, a 2025 fantasy football outlook for Bucky Irving. Manage your redraft, keeper, and dynasty fantasy football teams with the #1 fantasy football podcast. -- Fantasy Football Podcast for January 9th, 2025. (00:00) - Intro (05:15) - Quick Question - Bucky Irving Outlook (14:10) - NFL News (21:45) - Footballers AMA (23:25) - When will we see Andy on Survivor? (25:25) - Original podcast name ideas (26:45) - Best sandwiches (29:05) - Favorite video games (30:30) - Which co-host do you want to be stuck in an elevator with? (33:20) - Biggest draft pick regrets (36:00) - Mike’s tattoos (37:00) - Super Bowl foods (38:30) - Who would play the Footballers in a movie? (42:35) - Favorite Marvel characters (43:25) - Fastest Drivers (44:20) - Favorite hobbies (45:20) - Where would you want to move to? (49:35) - Fantasy Faceoff Connect with the show: Subscribe on YouTube Visit us on the Web Support the Show Follow on X Follow on Instagram Join our Discord Check out today's sponsors: News & Notes presented by USAA. Visit https://www.USAA.com/Insurance  Fantasy Faceoff presented by DraftKings Sportsbook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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up to $500,000 in total contributions. 31st, 2025. Choose one of five eligible charities up to $500,000 in total contributions. Welcome to the Fantasy Footballers podcast with your hosts, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. right. Welcome in. You went so short. I was like, what time is it? I don't know. Yeah. I normally keep it short when you need to.

Freaked me out, man. Not the response I hoped for from its baseball time yesterday oh was it overly negative yeah well that makes a lot of sense because we're a football show I was told that the pitchers arms need more time to loosen up well that's why the pitchers and catchers show all right no the other guys show up like at the first game on Jason wants to talk baseball one second now that I'm. The other guys show up at the first game, right? Hold on, Jason wants to talk baseball. One second. Not that I want to talk baseball, OK?

Because you know I hate the game. Yeah. And the players. And the players. But correct me if I'm wrong, because I don't know anything about that stupid sport. Didn't in the, like, not olden days, I mean, I guess it's olden days now, but like the 90s

or whatever. Didn't the 90s were the olden days? I don't know. Come on. OK, so. I thought you were olden days now, but like, you know, like the 90s or whatever didn't the 90s Come on, man. I don't know. Come on Okay, so like you were gonna be like back when babe Ruth not long ago not long ago It's a different word Yeah When we were growing up in the night didn't people just like all just try to pitch the whole game and like now it's like There's 12 pitchers every inning

Yes Why that happened now and now they're like, well, their arms need even more time to warm up. They're a bunch of babies. No more answers. Let's move on. Baseball's babies. Mm.

Andy wants the answer so bad. Welcome in. He's like, oh, I've got the answer, Jason. No, you wouldn't do anything with the answer. You know what I mean? You couldn't comprehend the answer. Also, the answer is gonna be, they're babies. Yeah, that's true.

When you hear the answer, doesn't matter what he says, you're like, oh, so they're babies. That's what you will say. Yeah. Now you really wanna know. I'm curious how they're babies. Five words or less. They're babies because they are super athletes now.

And so the training- Have we gotten too strong for the ligaments? Yes, yes, yes, we have. We are, the training- Have we gotten too strong for the ligaments? Yes. Yes. Yes, we have. Maybe we should slow it down. We throw too fast and we train too hard. We gotta figure out how to upgrade those ligaments.

That's the real key. We need to put some platelet-rich injections in the ligaments. Oh boy. Here's health, Jason, showing up. Oh boy. Welcome into the show. It'll be a fun one today. Thank you for those of you. Thanks to those of you that have voted already

at footyawards.com for the 2024 Fantasy Football Awards. You can still go and vote before Monday footyawards.com all the nominees on our last episode of the show and a few other reminders here at the top. We've got an AMA today. We got a good quick question. Happy to be with you. Thanks for hanging out with us this offseason, this playoff season. The DFS pass is free throughout the entire playoffs, so if you've never used it and you want to get in on that DFSpass.com completely free. Sign up. see what's in there, enjoy it for the NFL Playoffs.

We have a bunch of new swag up on ShopBallers.com that includes championship swag, gear, Foot Clan title t-shirts. We have the new autographed mini helmets. Oh they're hot. That are up there and soon Jason the model Mike the model we have two versions of these brand new ballers hats which you can you can see there with the logo on them very very different than the hat Jason normally wears. Yeah this is actually our brand this is this is the famous footballers hat. I told our letters different. Owl Borland was very helpful in getting these hats off the ground, but then when I got it, the little logo thing under the bill, this is new for me. Is this what the youths are doing?

So you don't get it dirty. You put your thumb there when you grab it. Oh, that's what it's for? Yes, sir. What about the top? The top's going to get a little dirty, man. It is what it's for, but I do. I mean, the top gets dirty. It's just. We'll have our people work on that. Maybe round two, version two.

Maybe we'll put a button on the top. You can get your thumb as dirty as you want. Right. Keep your fingers clean when you're wearing these hats. But you can put your thumb as dirty as you want. Right. Keep your fingers clean when you're wearing these hats. But you can put your thumb in peanut butter and then take this hat off, no problem. So the part that people see is dirty. Right.

The part people can't see very clean. Look, you want these hats. They're technologically advanced. You really want these hats. They're not up there yet, but shopballers.com very soon and if you need championship trophies, belts, rings, gear, that's fantasychamps.com. It gives you a little bit of a better grip. Maybe you're in the rain. Right. You're not going to be slippery. You got to get your hat off in the rain, man. Get it on. Oh, okay. Here's your quick question of the day, Matt Wiltro wrote in on X He said he rode Bucky Irving to a championship this year. How high is Bucky Irving ceiling man next year?

Thanks guys and congrats Al on your title. Please stop congratulating Al, please just Yeah, I don't think that's gonna stop never stop 17 games, 207 carries, 1122 yards, eight rushing touchdowns, 52 targets, 47 for 392 and 0. I, here's, you stop congratulating Al but begin giving Mike his flowers because this was one in the offseason that he was spot-on. He thought that Bucky Irvin could emerge in Tampa it's and to be I would love to take all this credit a lot of that was I thought Rashad White was not good enough and I was on the side that you don't like Rashad the vet keeps his full time it was just more like they it was more on

the basis of they were a playoff team that was great Baker was awesome And it was a lot of it had to do with Rashad white in the receiving game So why mess with what work right? Yeah, but bucky Irving was so much better of a runner, right? The offensive line was bad in Tampa last year That's our good Bucky is it's he was that good the job wasn't giving him He stole the job because you're like we can't keep Bucky is. Bucky was that good. The job wasn't given him. He stole the job because you're like we can't keep Bucky off the field and so the question was... And Rashad was a top 15 running back during this down the stretch and Bucky was still that good. The question of what is his

ceiling is it's extremely difficult. I didn't know this was going to be our question today but there was a tweet I saw earlier from Jacob Gibbs. So shout out to him. Bucky Irving and Alvin Kamara, which was in 2017 when Kamara did it, the only two running backs to top 1,500 scrimmage yards with a snap right under 50%. And that is, for every fantasy running back, everything comes down to the decisions of, well, not everything,

because talent matters, but the decisions of the coach. Because it's pretty rare that there's two running backs out there on the field at the exact same time. And the running back that is out there, that's a coach's decision. With my unbelievable frustration with Rico Dowdell when he's getting these 20 plus carries running great and then they're like, ah, but inside the goal, when we're close to the goal line, we got to get somebody else in there. And those are decisions that you just, those are the big decisions for Seelings. This is an amazing rookie season. I feel like there's a huge discussion attached to this. 1,500 plus scrimmage yards, 5.96 yards per touch,

hyper efficient, and we have also, we've been here before with the efficiency. Last year, Devon Achan, an underdog put this Tweet out reminding us of kind of the, like Devon Achan came into the year this year, what did he average last year, 7. something a carry? 7.9 a carry, something like that. He had a hundred more carries in 2024

than he did in his rookie season. Exactly. He had a hundred and seven more rushing yards on a hundred extra carries. So, you know, that's part of the discussion with Bucky. We cannot quantify perfectly how much rest times, you know, when a young player gets to come in and they're complimenting like A-chan did last year, complimenting Mostert, who is amazing, and Bucky Irving coming in and complimenting and kind of taking over

from Rashad White, but getting snaps off, there's not a really easy way to quantify that value and what that does to efficiency. What we do know is when you have a committee backfield, you do miss out on the one yard fourth down, right? To mess with your numbers and your, the short yardage and the game's getting put away, but you're getting every snap. So the defense knows what you're doing.

So your efficiency goes down. Like yard spirit carry only takes you so far, really. You have to have film. You have to be able to watch what these players are doing on the field. I don't think any of us think Devon Aitchin is less talented this year because his efficiency went down. No, it's because his volume went up. Yeah, exactly.

But the numbers look like, oh, you had a down year. No, and obviously Devon Aitchin, extremely talented, was great for fantasy football down year. No and obviously Devon H and extremely talented was great for fantasy football this year getting back to the Bucky Irving Question and how high can he be next year? To give you an example. I you know I don't know if everybody Followed along with Bucky. You know because in the beginning of the year. He was the clear very you know He was the backup. He was not in a committee back chart on the depth chart. It was Rashad white's team He was too talented. He was too efficient They just kept giving him more work and the the beat reporters would say hey, when we getting more Bucky and it's like well

This is Rashad's backfield. He just kept getting more and more and more because he passed the eyeball test He broke tackles. He scored touchdowns he made this team better if you look at week 10 on that's really when a transition was made to where this was a shared backfield. And it wasn't like Bucke took over. In fact, from week 10 on, check this out, total snaps played from week 10 on for Rashad White was 50% of the snaps. Total snaps played from week 10 on for Bucky Irving was 50% of the snaps. They were 50-50. Now, Bucky missed most of a week. He got injured in one of those. So in the rest of the games, maybe he had a few more. He out-touched Rashad White a little bit. But he out-classed Rashad White a lot

a bit. You're talking about, check this out, 10.5 points for Rashad White from Week 10 on per game. And Bucky Irving, if take out the game he he basically didn't play in 18.8 fantasy points per game the running backs have scored more than that for context and half PPR Saquon Barkley, Jameer Gibbs, Derek Henry. He only scored four touchdowns from that point on on the ground too so it was like he had eight on the year but they came half before that event so there's what I love about Bucky's situation moving into the future is that there's going to be a lot of consistency on this team from what we can see. Yeah.

Baker had a wonderful career year. He's through a lot of touchdowns, right? So if you talk about, yeah, that should, that can regress. That can, that can go more into Bucky gets that opportunity now Can he hold up? That's a question we had about a Chan a chance been banged up Bucky's he got hurt twice this year. So Does the team feel like this balance is the right balance? Well, even if he does it's the numbers that Jason said You know, there's gonna be some variation but to answer the question succinctly, I think he can be a top seven running back. I agree, I think he should be a top 15 running back,

and his ceiling is probably around running back six. It's like the looking at the Jameer Gibbs situation where him and Monte, they're splitting, and they're both being awesome, but it's like Jameer Gibbs, the first month of the season, he wasn't a top 10 running back in any game in the first four weeks. Then you would have these stretches where week seven

and eight, running back one and six, but then it's down to 18 and 17. It wasn't until David Montgomery was gone that he rattled after four consecutive weeks where he was running back three, seven, two, and one. So the ceiling, I don't know that we, it's going to be, I think, a very, like a light version of Detroit,

where Buc-key's gonna be drafted really high, Rashad White will be later, like he'll have his own value, and then Buc-key Irving will be very good, but you know that drafting Bucky is, I got this top 15 type of a player, but if White goes down, if White misses time, now all of a sudden I have a guy who is a weekly top five upside play. Another point was that Rashad White caught 91% of his passes from Baker last year, which was like outrageous, right?

Like that's an amazing number. I looked this year, this year he's at 89%. Rashad White catches everything. You wanna know what Bucky's number is? 90. Oh! 90. Give him the ball!

This might be Baker throwing, Baker's throwing a really good ball to his running backs. The common denominator here is the quarterback because last year it was like, oh, we were worried about, you know, losing the offensive coordinator and Liam Cohen comes in. Baker's playing great, so it's really helpful to have a quality offense around running backs.

I like the Detroit Lions light motif here. Yeah, it makes sense. And you got confidence in the quarterback and the offensive system, and it should be really fun for years to come. And if you got Bucky Irving shares in dynasty, congrats, because that's gonna be a good ride. Let's talk news! News and notes from around the league presented by USAA Insurance.

SAA Insurance. The Raiders have fired Antonio Pierce. That didn't work. No. And he didn't have a lot to work with either, but it didn't work. Yeah, I mean, you can't lose like that. And just- You mean four and 13?

Yeah, but I mean, like, well, some coaches can survive that, but going four and 13 and with, at least just publicly, what we saw, the weirdness of... Like liking an Instagram post about Devontae Adams getting traded? Yes, you have that weird stuff. And I'm talking about like his press conferences where you're just like, dude, you're the head coach.

You can't talk about the team like that. You can't talk about your guys like that. You can't talk about your guys like that. Yeah, sometimes, we've seen this many times in the NFL, when you are an ex-player, or you come in with a hard-nosed attitude, it's an amazing ride at the beginning. It motivates, it gets everybody playing very hard, and they finish what?

It was five and four last year after becoming the interim head coach. Everybody's loving it. But when things start to go bad and that same attitude comes forth, if that's indeed what it was, then it can wear. It can wear on team and they're going a different direction. The Lions head coach, Dan Campbell,

says he expects the aforementioned David Montgomery to play in the divisional round. That's so insane. I mean, it just like what fourth doctor? Yeah they got to. Well yeah I mean the timeline has helped now right? Like you're saying the surgery part. I'm saying they met with if you remember when all the Montgomery news was coming out it was oh man surgery Montgomery is toast He's out for the season. And then they're like, well, we don't like that one. We're going to go, what do you say, doctors? Like, no, I would have to operate on this thing. You'd be like, I don't like that either, doctor.

Dr. Campbell, what do you say? I think it is a, it's a weird thing. Like I put the poll out there for fun about whether people believe that Jameer Gibbs being the full-time starter makes the Lions better on accident or is their offense missing something without Montgomery. I was surprised by the results of that poll. 64% of you said they're better with both. And I do see that. The team is better. I don't know if I am on that side.

I voted the other way. I think that they are better with Gibbs full time. I do not think they would survive a season. I agree. With Gibbs full time. So I think the team is better to have both for the regular season. But I did think it might be fortuitous

for their playoff run to have Gibbs on there in every down back type of situation, but most people disagree with me. Well the nice thing is they can choose to go to Gibbs as an every down back whenever is necessary. So if they're in this game and they're down two scores and they feel like their best offense is to have Gibbs out there, then they don't have to play Montgomery. But if they're in a close game or they're up two scores, then might as well have Gibbs continue to rest and have Montgomery, who's very good in his own right. He's not as explosive.

But he also brings some smash-melt football that wears the defense down that Gibbs doesn't really play that way. Yeah, and to me, people want to talk about Gibbs being undersized. Maybe when he came into the NFL, to me he doesn't play that way. He can run inside.

I think he's put on weight. We talk about Bucky, right? I mean, Bucky is more undersized than even Gibbs, I think. They can get it done. They can get it done between the tackles. Jalen Hurd's return to practice like we expected. Zay Flower's not practicing. Long shot to play in the wild card. I still think it's a bummer.

It's definitely a bummer, but I do think, I mean, the line for them is the biggest line this week without Zay being active. The interesting thing in a- But they do play each other close historically. I'm trying to pull the tweet just for memory. I don't have it in front of me, so I apologize who sent it out, but it was essentially breaking down the Steelers blitz

Lamar a lot. Yep. And then broke down the percentage of targets when Lamar has been blitzed, the targets that have gone to Flowers. And it's extremely high. So it's like, OK, if you don't have the blitz release valve of Zay Flowers, somebody will have to step into that role and be efficient at it.

And could that turn into a problem? Oh, it was it was FTN. Okay, thank you, Kyle. To me, that is the, you know, the big question in this game is can the Steelers defense do something to create a play? Because that would close that gap. Target percentage for Zay Flowers on the year is comical at wide receiver. Comical. His wide receiver target? His wide receiver target percent. Oh, okay. What's it at? Do you want to take a shot? Oh, man. Last year it was 39%. I was going to guess right around 50. It's 49%. So you're way, way off. His regular target share is 25%.

But that was including the game where, you know, he just got knocked out. So yeah, he's very important to their passing game now, whether they need it or not. Like, do you like Henry over 100? I do, against that running defense. They couldn't stop him a few weeks ago. Isaac Gurindo, sprained MCL and ankle.

I think that is... Great news? Yes. Considering the way the injury looked, and being carted off, ruled out immediately, it was, oh no, something's broken or something's torn. I did enjoy all the tweets I received on the news that the Chargers have signed Ezekiel Elliott to their practice squad soon to be called up to their roster because I had just like the Charger fans have come out and they love me now all 12 of them first of all I didn't know there were any and second of

all the fact that I picked them to go far in the playoffs go far you got them all the way to the Super Bowl yeah I minimized that didn't I picked them to go far in the playoffs. Go far, you got them all the way to the Super Bowl. Yeah, I minimized that, didn't I? Yeah, you did. Go all the way. To lose. I mean, just by a nose. But Zeke heard the podcast, and he's trying to win a ring.

And he said, hey, I'm going to go with, I want to get to a Super Bowl. Unfortunately, I have to root against the Chargers with every fabric of my being now. Oh, yeah. so I apologize for that Todd ball said Kate Otten is turning in the right direction So I mean maybe Payne Durham won't be the only tight end active for the fucking big Colts big Colts, huh

Actually think that someone to pay attention to I think so, too He didn't get a chance until late this season to even, I think his first catch came like three weeks ago. This is a rookie and he looks good on the field, so pay attention to him. What about, you don't like Durham? I like big colts. All right, Durham got the-

What's his name by the way, is Devon Culp. Yeah, Payne Durham touchdowns in the last two weeks, so we'll see if Kate Otten gets out there. That was today's news and notes Presented as always by usaa insurance learn more at usaa.com slash insurance alright Devon cope Are you putting it? Yeah, I am first one to 25 big Copes All right, we are gonna take a break and hit the mailbag. All right Mike we have a very special footballers AMA and we have a fantasy

face-off after that. Let's do it. mailbag Okay, the Deucer's alleys they're in it today. Yeah. Yeah. Well, you know you want to know why they are laughing so much gentlemen Why is that self-control all well partially? But all three of them were in here Like an hour. Oh, ago when we recorded an absolutely fire Spitballers episode. And so this is the time of year if you are going to the offseason, we're down to two shows a week for our main podcast, you want more, you listen to other podcasts, all your podcasts are dwindling down. Go check out the Spitballers Comedy Podcast. That episode releases on Monday, but you don't want to miss it. A lot of...

It's very funny. Intelligence. A lot of intelligence. Jeremy, is your trophy not there? What are you doing, man? I think Josh must have moved it. Huh. Well, be glad that I'm here for you. Somebody put it on the floor. Thank you for bringing that up All right, we will jump into the mailbag It's a ask me anything episode you can visit the site if you have other questions for us and click the submit a question button

Or dial our voicemail hotline We have some voicemails. Oh is that that is that is correct. All right. What's up bowlers? I've been wondering this for years. When are we gonna finally see Andy on Survivor? Love the show and congrats to Jeremy on the championship. I can answer that for Andy. The question, when will we see Andy on Survivor? You have an answer for me.

Yeah, it is as soon as Survivor asks, as soon. The second they ask. Do they ask or do you have to? I would need to pursue. You got a lobby, right? Yeah, I mean, myself and Papa Josh back there, I guess the Falcon too, pretty big Survivor fans. I would do anything to see you on Survivor.

I've thought about it. I've thought about it. I mean, I think. I've never watched the show. It's not being on it. Like I would love to be on it, love to be on it. I mean, I think. I've never watched the show. It's not being on it. I would love to be on it. Love to be on it. It's being gone.

Yeah. That's what I was saying. I would love for you to be on it. That's why you'd love it. Yeah. Do you know how long filming is? You gotta be gone at least 30 days. Probably 40.

And even, I mean, then when you get, if you're the first one kicked off, you're still sequestered, right? You're still hanging out, yeah. So no matter what, you're gone for that time. That was so fun. And you've got the in with Apostle, right? I do know Tyson, yeah.

And who was the other guy that we played pickleball with? Jeff Probst. Something Rob. It wasn't the Probst. Something Rob. No, it was Boston Rob. Boston Rob, that was it. Yeah, yeah, so I didn't think about that.

You're making people up. I could be on there in 30 seconds if I wanted to. I choose not to. Yeah, Mr. Survivor, reach out to Andy. My kids are now old enough where I think I would just say yeah. I do. You would say yes if they, I mean, the problem is you actually need to go to them

and audition and whatnot. But if they came to you and said. I mean, Papa Josh, you guys know me and you know the show. How far am I getting? You're making it pretty far. I'm doing OK? Yeah, I mean you guys know me and you know the show how far am I getting? You're making it pretty far. I'm doing okay. Yeah, I think so. It's more Falcon Yeah, you go. You don't get voted. You don't get voted out. You have an allergic reaction. Okay You have a medical reason for leaving. That's my prediction. You do not get voted off. You want to race right now All right

Amazing we've good. Here's a question off of X from Baylor not baller Baylor What were the other options for the name of the show before you chose the fantasy footballers? We did say ask us anything. I for you to Fantasy hitman was the only one I remember I... It's a question for you two. Fantasy Hitman was the only one I remember. Was that in... that was in...

It was just... It wasn't considered. It was never seriously considered, but we had a list. It's weird, because Andy and I have the memories of... I can see he hand wrote all these things on notebook paper. And I can see it in my head. I just can't remember any of the other names.

But of the list of names, Andy was like, he's over here with his business savvy tech mind of like fantasy footballers, this could be a good name. And I'm like, that thing's kind of funny. We should go with that. Yeah. Yeah. I, uh, It's like we can get the domain. Right? That was part of it. We did have a small period of time in the beginning where it was confused a little bit with soccer.

Yeah. Because that was the way football was used. Yeah, it used to be. Most often. Used to be that footballers were soccer players. But I, We took that over. I was looking at that SEO, man.

How do we get a name close to the topic? We do, we were gonna do Fantasy Football. It's hard to forget. Errs. What's that fantasy football show I like? Fancy football, yes. There you go. Jose Gonzalez wants to know,

what is the best sandwich and where did you have it? Oh, so this is a very, very specific, just the one sandwich. That's the sandwich. That's not like what is the best sandwich to make. That is more like, can you remember a sandwich that? I can, because it was like two months ago. Wait, your best sandwich was two months ago? I don't know if it was, it's recency bias, of course,

but it was this good that it was like a sandwich, bought one just for me and the wife to split. And then as soon as both of us started eating, we were like, oh man, we have made a mistake. Oh, the splitting was a big mistake. Bought another. Yeah, well, we were already home. But it was from, it's a change, so it's Ike's sandwiches,

Ike's loving sandwiches, but it was a form of a Reuben. Dude, that's my answer. But it was basically, it was more of a New Yorker, not a real Reuben, because it was coleslaw instead of kraut. My answer was going to be this Reuben New Yorker sandwich at Chompies, which is a place out here. Oh, true, yeah.

Did you ever have the one from Miracle Mile? Ho, nope, nope, put that one back at the top. Re town, New Yorker. They're your I mean you could go Ruben What makes a New Yorker and a Ruben different like close? It's close on the coleslaw or sauerkraut But oh my gosh, we had this place called Miracle Mile you get a New Yorker there You put that thing on on a roll whoo. That was a young man's game. Oh, I'll do it right now If that thing were here, oh my good Jason. Do you have a sandwich answer? I would say the best you know it I've ever had To be once a week lunch for me. Don't that big that sandwich was unbelievable. So good is Miracle Mile gone

I think there's still there's still one left Looks like we're traveling for class My All right. Looks like we're traveling. Foot Clan! It is. Honestly, it's a sandwich my wife made. It's so good that she's made it a hundred times since then. My wife's ham and cheese! We call it, no, come on. This is an everything bagel, toasted, buttered, and then it's basically an Italian sandwich inside.

I mean, this is chock full of everything. We call it a BAS. It's a bomb sandwich. all right okay okay I read between the lines Justin on Instagram writing in what is the favorite video game of all time for each of the ballers and the deuces no one wants to do I feel like the and deuces when they're from Papa John he wrote that in. Red Dead Redemption 2. Okay. Final Fantasy VII. OG or?

OG, OG, OG. A Link to the Past. Okay, and Deucers? Halo 3, multiplayer specifically. Oh, oh baby. I used to get down. Papa Josh? God of War 2018.

Is that the original? The first one? Oh no, 2018. The first of the new ones, yeah. Of course not, yeah. And Al, do you have a video game? Tetris. Tetris, yeah. All right.

I don't play video games. Mind sweeper. I like to play Mario Kart with my kid, that's fine. Okay. Favorite of all time. You don't let him win, do you? Never. Okay, good man.

Gotta teach him. You earned victories. Goodness, this is great. I have seen none of these questions before I'm asking them either so bro by the way Brooks said Bioshock for him Bioshock yeah that's a good game okay that's a good game yeah if you make a classic it'll be Super Mario World Kyle get in here Kyle's typing no he's not King Griffey Jr. on Super Nintendo now there we go that's a

game King Griffey Jr. baseball was SuperNinja. There we go that's a game. King Griffey jr. baseball was the freaking best sports game. That was a good one. Super Tech Mobile. That was awesome. Alright we got another voicemail question. Yo ballers this is AB from Australia. I don't know how much this is going to cost me but just thought I'd ring in. So I just wanted to know if you were to be stuck in an elevator for six hours with one footballer, who would it be and why? So we choose one of the other two to be stuck in an elevator with?

Not Jason. Number one, yeah. It's just gas related. I'm a gassy man. It's just gas related. An elevator for six hours, I'm thinking about bodily functions I like doesn't talk to be fair to be fair. I

Don't my gas is not usually very stinky. It really is that accurate, but I would explode if I don't fart for six hours That's not how I work. So you will be breathing the insides Choosing now Yeah, Mike pick me well first be number one bonjour No, yeah number two does Australia still have long dis I know it's like what are you paying for this? This is just 499 a minute. I Don't know just call me. It was who was the other phone company There was AT&T like MCI or something like that long distance. Is that right? Josh is nodding with Josh

That's all the row back right there if I call France right now. It doesn't cost me more. I know Distance used to be across state lines. You'd pay more here. Yeah here, I'm just saying like, but if I called Australia like right now, I was fine. It doesn't cost me nothing? It doesn't cost you anything. I would- No, no, no, just, just, just, just. I think it's just roaming. If you went to Australia and tried to call home,

then you would pay more. Unless you just get on wifi. Then you're fine. Right, sure. So I can ring this guy. Roaming is 59.99 a minute. You gotta make a money plan. Making international calls from the US incurs extra costs, but it depends on the service provider.

But obviously I cannot be in an elevator with Jason for six hours because I would be breathing his insides. Yeah, I'm gonna pick, so I will pick Mike. Okay, that's fine. Just for that. If you were stuck with- To make him breathe your insides?

Oh, I will be eating bad before- where's Miracle Mile? Is that where I go? Oh, man. All right, let's get in the elevator after that. If I get a New Yorker, I accept. I'll be stuck in an elevator for six hours. You'd give him the gas, I would try to make small talk with Mike.

What I was gonna say is, I would be like- It could turn into a six hour therapy session for you, or you would just talk for six hours. You wouldn't be talking to him. I would just be like, mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Yeah, I'll be like, I hope we get out of here soon. And he'd be like, mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm.

Oh my gosh. With his sunglasses on. Yeah, he would never take them off. Eyes are closed. West Blues writes in on Instagram, what is your most regretted draft pick and why? Oh, so many, brother. Whoa, most regretted?

I will always come back to, and this is a classic and maybe losing its relevance by the years, but when Calvin Johnson, the year he broke out, I drafted Lawrence Moroney to pick before him. And Moroney was a New England Patriot running back who had had a nice previous season. What about players people have heard of? Oh my gosh. They've heard of Calvin Johnson?

I mean, I've been in nine title games, I don't make very many wrong picks. Oh, impressive. How'd the last one go? Oh man, swish. Oh, impressive. How'd the last one go? Oh, man. Swish. The worst one. I mean, I think it was last year I drafted Damian Pierce. Yeah, that was a terrible pick.

Yeah. Yeah, the oh. He was getting all that workload in the preseason, the big liars. Man. Worst one. There might be a worst one, but the one that's coming to my head is years ago.

What about Mark Anders over Trey McBride? That one, by the end of the year, worked out. What about Marvin Harrison over? Over AJ Brown? Yeah. That one felt bad. And it didn't work out for you. No, it didn't work out for me.

It worked out for Mark Anders. Anders ended up okay, but you were already a dead man. Yes, but it was years ago, and this probably, now that I'm even working through it therapeutically, this probably led to me thinking Adam Thielen is the oldest and most terrible person ever, which he's not. I took Adam Thielen over Jalen Waddle,

and this was, I think, two or three years ago. So whenever Waddle had his breakout season and Adam Thielman was not good. So. I think last year in the listener league, I had a pretty good team. It was 14 teams. So it's harder in that league.

I had a pretty good team develop, but the quarterbacks had all been coming off the board. And I had a co-manager in that one. And we decided, look, we're just gonna swing for the fence. If you gotta beat 14 people, you gotta get a little lucky. And we drafted Deshaun Watson, thinking maybe he would come back to life.

And it was like, that was basically saying, because there weren't, you know, it wasn't easy to stream off the waivers with all the quarterbacks rostered, and it was like, well, my season's over, because that dude sucks. Also, that dude sucks. I remember the words. Clyde Edwards the Lair in a rookie draft

before Jonathan Taylor. Yeah. That's the worst. Yeah that's not very good. Oh which if we're going rookie picks, Trey Sermon. Who did I take? Over Jaylen Wall. Over Jaylen Wall, that's right. Instagram question, Cope Farm Mike, tell us about your tattoos. Well there's a lot of them. They are colorful. Each one. Your most, like if you have a database with all the tattoos and the dates,

what's the most recent tattoo date-wise? Oh, it's been a long time. You could see it if you go track it down on YouTube. You got sleeved while you were still here. Yeah. My right arm was done while we were in the studio. So you could watch it over shows. Six, seven years.

Get pieced together. It's been a long time. So you're going to be able to see my entire face get tatted over the next 10. You're not done. No. But this is a big break. It's the classic, oh, I'm going to get more ink

when I get in shape. Ah. Oh, that's a big thing. And I've been working on that for about six years. Well, what's your favorite tattoo? My favorite tattoo is my space shuttle. Show the camera. Rocket ship. I don't know how. Zoom in, John. Of course I have sleeves on, boys.

Yeah, the one day. Yeah, that one's my favorite. that one's nice. That one's my favorite. Cat Dad says, tell us one thing that has to be on your Super Bowl plate. So you're watching the game. What do you have to have? So it's cliche. It's boring.

But it's also absolutely necessary. And it's the best. It's pizza. When I think of football and I want food, it's pizza and wings. That is football to me. Pizza would have been my answer. The world famous fantasy hitman Dip, which is a sausage dip, and it is very delicious.

It is, I guess. Rotel. So it's, yeah, a half, one serving size is a half a pound of sausage. I use, we use a sweet Italian sausage, one can of Rotel. We go mild, cuz everyone else in my house is a baby. And then one block of Philly cream cheese. And that's- I don't think Mike knows what one serving means.

I'm saying, like- Yeah, you're saying for the whole party. I'm saying portion. Sorry, serving is the wrong word. No, portion is the wrong word, too. Portion is also wrong, but like- What am I thinking of? You're saying for one dish one amount Yeah for everybody one. Yes. Yeah one pot Okay, maybe for him. It is a portion. Well. I mean it is very good. It's not a ton

It's it's not it. I'm just saying like that's the ratio of block of cream cheese. Yeah Sausage and pound of sausage. I like having it down if you go full pound It'll be some people like it to me, but that's too meaty for me. Okay. We'll take a quick break and get into some more questions. YouTube question comes in from Mr. LD. When they make the movie, Fantasy Footballers, a podcast to change the world, who will play you all?

And would it be a musical or on the Lifetime network? Oh, we have to choose between those two? I think a musical would be great. Between those two, you gotta go musical. Do not put us on Lifetime. I can't, I can't with those movies. I can't believe they made that, like Taylor Swift, Kelsey movie.'t believe they made that like Taylor Swift

Kelsey movie well they made that other oh it wasn't lifetime, but there was the Hernandez movie where they look fake Gronk. That's the one I was thinking of oh no. Yeah, that was a separate movie. Yes Yeah, what what are they doing? So that cash and checks is what we haven't had to answer this question in a while Yeah, the issue is baby goose you're Ryan Gosling. That's who I we normally go with yeah So, we haven't had to answer this question in a while. Yeah, you're a baby goose, you're a Ryan Gosling, right? That's who we normally go with, yeah. Unless Neymar gets his acting.

Oh, there you go. I don't care, look like him or not, I demand it be Chris Pratt. I demand it. He can be overweight, that's great. He can get in shape, he's funny, so I like it. He can be overweight. That's great. He can get in shape. He's funny. So I like him. That's that's you just you're just choosing him. I'm just choosing him. It's either him or Jack Black and I would much rather have Chris Pratt. Jack Black it is. Mike, do we have a I'm Googling actors with big heads. Oh yeah. You got a lot of egos in that search result. Danny DeVito's got a big head.

Oh, DeVito. We've already been, Danny, one of us is Danny DeVito and it's not me. We've already said that that was Alan. Oh, the champ, yeah. This list says Conan O'Brien, Mark Ruffalo. Oh, big heads. Ethan Hawke, John Travolta, Matt LeBlanc.

Maybe some people out there know the actor that you look like. Yeah, maybe. Maybe they can share with them. When I was a teen, I got comped at least a couple times to JT from the hit series Step by Step. Okay, yeah, I remember him.

I was like, how about Nick Offerman? I'm just trying to think beard. Well He wouldn't yeah, I mean he would at least not talk on an elevator, too Yeah, we got some similarities. I decided to ask Chad GBT Who Mike right of the fantasy footballers looks like? He knows who I am and here is the answer that I know this is all yes Mike right of the fantasy footballers has often been compared to Chris Pratt True Jason change your answer immediately. That's not true. I

Uploaded a picture of the three of you guys and I got person on the left being Mike Wright would be played by Chris Hemsworth. Can I have Chris Pratt back now? You're fine with that right? That's fine. Person in the middle being Andy Holloway would be played by Ryan Gosling. Oh Jason. Person on the right being Jason would be played by Jonah Hill. I'll take it. Yes. That's not bad. Jonah Hill has slimmed down, and he's very funny. But one of us got Chris Hemsworth. I actually just asked the same question for Jason. They gave me Jason Segal.

I'd take that, too. Maybe they were just looking for a shared first name. Oh, yeah, sure. I'll take Jason Segal. He's super funny. Better than Steven Segal. What? What?

Swish! It's an AMA show. We can do anything here. I'm just trying to... Seagull. I'm barely, barely putting it together. Seagull. I know it's the same last name, but... They're basically father-son.

Dude, Steven Seagull has some amazing stories out there. If you haven't looked into them. YouTube question. Zero tolerance, 70 percent. I'm putting poop in your face. I'm putting poop in your face. I'm putting poop in your face. I'm putting poop in your face.

I'm putting poop in your face. I'm putting poop in your face. I'm putting poop in your face. I'm putting poop in your face. I'm putting poop in your face. I'm putting poop in your face. I'm putting poop. Dude, Steven Seagal has some amazing stories out there, if you haven't looked into them. YouTube question, zero tolerance, 73. Under Siege, that would be a good name for the Spitballers episode that comes out on Monday. Oh my gosh.

Make sure you look that up, people. Who's y'all's favorite Marvel character? This question from YouTube. For me, it is Wolverine For me, it's Iron Man. He started it off. He's the leader. He's the best and it's really hard not to be Wolverine But it's still spider-man for me When you say started it off you clearly movies. Yeah the the you the movie universe You know that went crazy

Were you not a Marvel guy before the universe? Not really. The movie universe? No, I don't think I was. I mean, honestly, before Iron Man came out, when I think about superhero movies, it was like you had the Batmans, you had Superman. We had cartoons, like we had the X-Men cartoons.

The X-Men cartoons is where I loved Wolverine. That's why I was a Wolverine fan. YouTube question from the Lame Raccoon. As native Phoenicians, which one of the footballers drives the fastest? Oh, that's me for sure. I mean, like, it's Jason. Yeah.

I would say that the scale goes Mike, me, Jason. 100%. Mike is a very slow driver. Cautious or, he's just chill. He's the most patient of us. Okay, that's a kinder word. I drive five to seven over. What a slowpoke.

I should be in jail. Yeah. I mean, I don't. Yeah, you still. Yeah. I haven't had a ticket in many years. He'll never catch me. Here we go. It's been a long time haven't had a ticket in many years. He'll never catch me. Here we go.

It's been a long time since I got a ticket. Think the last time I was pulled over was criminal speeding. But that was 15 years ago. Yeah. Now I just go faster. They don't see me. Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh.

Yeah, it's Jason. It's Jason, all right. This question, let's go YouTube question from Peter. What is everyone's favorite hobby outside of fancy football? Pickleball? That's your favorite hobby? I think it's what I enjoy the most outside of it, yeah.

I would have answered cooking for you. That would be up there too. I mean, I don't have many hobbies. It's like fantasy football. I always hate this question because I feel like I'm a loser when they ask me this question. Cooking, pickleball, why? Because I don't have good answers. My answers are like, I just, I'm like a dad. Like a dad's my hobby.

See? Yeah, but you love pickleball too. I do, but like favorite hobby, I guess, just means the thing you can seduce. No, so your favorite hobby is probably video games because that's what you tend to go to. I play video games and pickleball, I guess. hobby I guess just means the thing you can't do. So your favorite hobby is probably video games because that's what you tend to go to.

I play video games and pickleball I guess, yeah. Yeah, the most enjoyment is pickleball, but you can't always do that. I mean you have to have time and people together. But music and, so guitar playing and video games. X question here from Funk Zero Fan. If you could pick up the studio and your families and move to any other US town on someone else's dime, which city would you pick?

San Diego, that would be mine. Perfect weather, year round, I love San Diego. Nah. Where would you go? Probably... Tahoe? Hawaii. Hawaii's a state.

Which city are you going to? I will go to the island of Maui. Okay. And the coast of Kanapali. Oh that's a good pull. Yeah. It's that's probably where I would take us to. Yeah. I bet you'd be fine with either place though. Oh I'll take San Diego. Yeah absolutely. It's not a bad question. I don't think I would want to live in Hawaii. I want to go to Hawaii but why would you want to live? Like other than the weather, like the weather in San Diego is great,

but the driving is not great. It's not like L.A. It's not at all. Not good. It's it's the same as Phoenix. It's not like driving here is great. We driving here has gotten ridiculous. You you always thought you grew up and you you would go and your summers were Santa Monica. Yes but you're saying San Diego yes Santa Monica is great but the problem is you have to live in LA area and the driving

there is worse than anything that exists like whatever bad things are out there the worst of the list is driving in Los Angeles nothing like that in San Diego okay all right do we have time for more of these questions or should we move on here, Al? Do you know if we should hit some more? Let's do two more. All right, Ryan writes in, Ryan Lovell from Twitter says my wife and I just had twins.

Congratulations. Oh, awesome. A boy and a girl, our first children. That's how I did it, a boy and a girl, twins for our first. Jason, what tips do you have for another twin dad? You came to the right place. Look, if you've got twins, you do everything. So you're changing diapers, you're doing bottle feedings, you're up at night, and it's going to make you

such a better, more capable father and person. So congratulations, you don't know any better. Lose sleep, and then if you have a third, you know, like these two guys, like third is hard. And you? Yeah, but I'm saying you guys. We didn't have twins. The third, you never went through two at once.

Right. So it was like a third was just adding one more two parenting. This was like, oh, one baby, there's nothing. So it's a breeze. Ron writes in, what is your favorite part of the off season real life included such as more family time we all know Jason loves

those birthday parties though. Oh gosh I it's one of my favorite things. You're still going to the same amount of birthday parties as you used to? Probably less. No no thankfully the kids have gotten older and it's like the birthday I don't go to the teenagers birthday parties anymore. It's like my dad came to the movie. No, you just go and hang out and it's delightful. A part of the off season I really, really like is you get two days off. Right. Like back to back.

And love the job. It's not complaining, but when you're at week 15, and it's a six day work week essentially, including a bunch of nights, you're like, okay, I'm ready to have two days in a row off. It's nice. We record our shows in the afternoon before the day they come out in the off season. So I really enjoy a slightly longer morning.

We're not rushing into record. Yeah, my enjoyment of the off season is two things. One, I really love scouting and getting to know the rookies. From a work standpoint, it's that. From a non-work standpoint, it's getting out of Dodge, it's going on a vacation. Like I love just whatever it is. A cruise, going somewhere, I like traveling.

Steven Seagal, really? Swoosh! All right, well the playoffs are coming up, which means we are going to continue our fantasy face-off. ["Fantasy Face-Off Theme Song"] Fantasy face-off, presented by DraftKangs. Well we've got a bunch of wild card weekend games coming up. And Andy was last week's loser of Fantasy Face Off.

But he... But this is a different version. This is a different version. So he thinks he's getting away with it. But he's not! You! You got got! Love.

Shame. Bring that wheel up, baby. Oh! Oh, Andy, go ahead. This is a surprise to even me. Yeah, spin the wheel, buddy. Oh, please be just slime dropping all over him. Oh, yeah.

Look up. Iceman, MTV cringe, League of Record Loos. Oh, Banana Rama! Oh! Banana Rama! Oh, so first is the banana face. There you go. You put that in.

That looks great. And Will Levis, what was he famous for, Mike? Eating mayonnaise? That's disgusting. What do you got there, Andy? Oh, you've got a jar of mayonnaise and a spoon? Feeling really Batman in this thing. Yeah.

Ha ha ha ha. Real fat man in here. Imagine Mike trying to wear that. So I don't know, man. I feel like if you're going to go the whole way, maybe you, uh, that's up to you. Try that mayo. I won't make you, but.

How big does this spoonful have to be? Doesn't have to be big. You just go a little bit, skeet. Oh, he's going hard. That's a big spoon. Go to YouTube immediately. Oh, he's taking a big spoon of. Yeah, did you switch it?

Yeah, we switched it. I thought you might have. Oh, man. Well, kind of. Well, kind of? It's about 40% vanilla pudding, 60% mayonnaise. I was told it was going to be switched to vanilla pudding. I was told this was here's what's great about what you just did, Andy. If you didn't do that, I was going to say

then I will do it. And I I was gonna go take a very confident bite Knowing that it was vanilla pudding. Yes We're working our way through this one, okay, so he hasn't thrown up yet. Um, okay that was a confusing Slave you kind of liked it. Hey, I'm proud of you the first taste was I'm proud of you. The first taste was But this isn't mayonnaise that was a so as a vanilla tone, right? But then there was the sour in the vanilla then the the mayonnaise came through Yeah, really you guys couldn't figure out how to get it up to a hundo

Also, is that your gag on the gag was you did well we wanted if Jason took it we wanted him to be surprised as well Oh, I was the winner. I won last week. You're fired. Also, real quick before we move on, Mike mentioned it. But dude, you didn't. I am so proud of you. You took a heaping spoonful and put that mayo in your mouth. Here's the honest truth.

I'm a pretty big mayo fan. He's like, I do this all the time. I just felt like I'd be okay. Can't threaten me with a good time. I like mayo. I'm with it too. I love mayonnaise but where my stomach is at right now there's no way I could take a bite of that without. I'm feeling different things right now. I just can't believe how much you put on the spoon. I thought you'd get a little taste and put it in. I wanted you to know I'd be fine on Survivor. All right, oh hey, all right. You know, Survivor's there's a lot of mayonnaise drops in Survivor. Look, sometimes you gotta eat things you don't want to eat. Okay, all right. So,

and I'm feeling it now. What a stud. Absolute unit. Why don't you explain what we're doing for the playoffs here? All right, so. As I wear this banana head. Yeah, so we are going to, through the playoffs, be playing DraftKings Pick 6. Now, Pick 6 is a super fun game. There's all the stats from all the players that you're used to, and you're basically going to pick more or less on these player projections. You know, someone's got more or less than half an interception or this amount of yardage or whatever. You make two or more picks from the same group of games, the same slate. And then you get paid out if you hit. So we are all bringing...

And things are turning on Andy right now. It's just barking. Oh man. Get through the show. Andy's getting got on these episodes lately. Yeah, I feel real good. So I'll kick it off with my pick six combo, my two, of our six. So we each made our own little entry here.

And I am taking Zach Ertz more than 39 and 1 1 by receiving yards. That's a good amount. It's a good amount, but he's hit it a lot, especially if you take out the injury game in that first game back from the concussion. He's basically usually over this. And I believe Tampa Bay Buccaneers

have given up the second most yardage to tight ends. So I really like that pick. And I'm going with Jordan Love, less than 227 and a half passing yards because he hasn't looked good. He hasn't hit this number but like once in the last two months or something. He's beat up. He's beat up, he's injured, and he's got a tough matchup. And no Christian Watson. Yeah. Now we put these together independently. We didn't know what the

other person was gonna pick. I, in all of the things on, did the Sunday Slate, that was the one that I loved too, which is the Jordan love less than 227 and a half and my I'm gonna combo that with Bucky Funny enough we were talking about him at the top Bucky more than 86 and a half rushing yards Which he has done in three of the the previous four that is the Washington matchup there My combination are two sides of the same game, the Super Bowl bound Los Angeles Chargers.

I'm taking- Oh, can I guess real quick? Go ahead. Because I actually made- Is it huge? I made another- Because I had another huge line. I made another one of these just on my own just to play,

and it was fun, and it was in the same game, and it was Herbert Moore, and it was Stroud-less. the same game. And it was Herbert Moore and it was Stroud-less. You're wrong. Oh yeah. This is McConkey more than five and a half receptions. So he's gotta hit six receptions. And it is Joe Mixon, less than 70 and a half receiving or rushing.

If receiving's an option, you gotta sign me up for that. Rushing yards. The fade of Mixon, the inefficiency of the offense, the Houston offense, they're at home. They're not favored. You felt it firsthand. I like, I'm feeling a lot right now, actually.

You were relying on Mixon and Nico down the stretch. I don't think that this game flow is going to lend itself to Mixon getting over or more than seven seventy and a half So I'm gonna take less than seventy and a half for mixin on the rushing side and more than five and a half receptions for McConkey, so we will we're gonna shift to the crowns and clowns for this playoff fantasy face-off This is the tightest banana I've ever worn. I can tell you that.

You have a little bit of circulation left. Yeah, it's really compressing while my stomach is singing. That was Fantasy Face-Off presented by DraftKings Sportsbook. DraftKings Sportsbook is crowning a King of the Inns on every NFL game day. Download the DraftKings Sportsbook app and use the code BALLERS, That is the code BALLERS to compete for a share of two million in bonus bets

only on DraftKings. The crown is yours. Before I shut down, I do have one final question for Jason. Uh oh. When did you decide to do this to me? When it was asked in Slack whether or not we were gonna do this, and I immediately said no. I said don't worry about it. I went and talked to Jeremy at that moment. Gotcha. Goodbye.

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