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Welcome to the Fantasy Footballers Podcast with your hosts Andy Holloway, Jason Moore
and Mike Wright.
Welcome in
Thursday March the 6th
Jason Moore
Mike the fantasy Hitman.
I am Andy Holloway.
Welcome into the Fantasy Footballers Podcast.
Fun episode for you today.
We do it every year.
Sometimes Jason has the assistance of a little black book that he writes in during the year,
things he wants to remember.
Yeah, I don't do that remembering thing no more. So you really got to look back
and take notes as you go along. Are you the, uh, like I know we're not the youngest,
but we're also not the oldest. No, no, no. We're right. We're right where we should be.
Right. And, uh, are you one of the kind of people like myself that prefers to write on a
Notepad or like a sticky note versus the digital age? Yeah, I do
Prefer that process like when I'm scouting players. It's funny. You know I've got my little black book and
We've talked about that before for running backs. I always use my black book. And then for the other positions, I do it digital.
I just prefer the process for running backs
and I love the act.
That's weird.
It is a little weird.
I love the act of pen and paper and all that.
I ain't got time for that with those other positions.
So we're sharing three things.
Each of us are sharing three things
and then we'll have one that we'll share together
It's our ten things to remember episodes. That'll be fun. We got some news to talk about as well
We also have a giveaway. We're giving away a
signed Drake London Jersey
I'm surprised Jason has not confiscated after his trade and dynasty last year. I did not realize
Well, I knew we were about to do a giveaway
But I did not realize that we had a signed Drake London Jersey to giveaway
And I just saw that in the dock and that is that you're gonna enter. I'm going to enter for sure. It's free
Where do I go footclang giveaway calm? Yes, I'm on it. All right
Well Jason will be competing against all of you if you want to be in there go to footclangiveaway.com
It's free to enter as Mike said and you can find us over on X at the FF Ballers the quick question of the day
Comes in
from YouTube
ASW73 writes in what is your best I told you so player prediction
Well, your prediction came true and no one believed you.
So yeah, I'll kick it off because mine is a homegrown negative. I hated it. Yeah. I
mean everybody did. Yeah, I did. And based on where he was drafted, everybody hated it. Mine was Marvin Harrison being a bust for fantasy football,
a bust pick for this season where he was being drafted. My whole take was that he is absolutely
not going to be a bust, but there's just for him to return on the value of where he was
drafted at the one-two turn felt outrageously high. And on the Cardinals, the system,
it wasn't a knock on his talent at all.
But that draft capital was higher
than we have ever seen any rookie wide receiver before.
I think the second highest rookie wide receiver
might have been Malik, neighbors last year,
who was rounds later.
That might be right, yeah.
And so it just felt, you know, look back.
Marvin Harrison did not have a bad rookie season.
And everyone in the fantasy football world
thinks he was a bust of a rookie,
and it was simply because the expectations were
that he would come in and do what we have seen
other rookies do. We've seen Jamar Chase come on. We've seen Justin Jefferson come on and do what we have seen other rookies do.
We've seen Jamar Chase come on.
We've seen Justin Jefferson come on and be a top five.
He had a bad rookie season.
Wide receiver.
He did not.
That's my genuine, I genuinely believe that.
For the NFL, it's a bad rookie season.
For the NFL, that's a bad rookie season?
Yes, when you're drafted that highly
and your contribution to the team was that
it lacked that much meaning over the
course of the year, then yes, I do think it was a bad rookie year.
If you were to ask him the question, he would say the same thing.
The fact that there were press conferences on a near weekly basis about production, utilization,
that's a bad year for Marvin Harrison and the expectations.
And then obviously the fantasy is the compounding aspect
and I read this question from
From YouTube and the when no one else believed you part was certainly true of this
This is where you went out on the limb on this show
And it didn't seem like there was a path for him to have a year this bad
But yeah, 62 receptions as the number one in a Cardinal offense, that's a failure.
I don't know, eight touchdowns as a rookie, that's a success.
It was weird because raw production, 62 for 8.85, that's fine. I think it's a little disappointing
for a player being drafted in the top five at the wide receiver position,
but those totals don't look horrifically bad, but
it's when you start remembering the story of like he had like three spike
games and then you have just so many games under 50 yards. 54% catch rate
awful, 52 yard a game average awful for the number one with Kyla.
Certainly disappointing.
No competition.
100% disappointing.
Disappointing to everyone, disappointing to the NFL.
But I just, I don't think it was bad.
Bad would be, you know, another top five rookie pick at the wide receiver position, Corey
Davis who comes in and has 375 yards as a rookie.
Yeah.
That wasn't career ending.
That's for sure. That's what I'm saying, it wasn't objectively bad,
it was just a disappointment for what the hopes were.
I still think he's going to be very good.
So it's interesting, because I'm looking at our entries
for this little quick question,
the best I told you so moment,
and unfortunately I'm realizing,
and maybe this is just the way it is,
but it's all hate.
Yeah.
It's all hate.
Like you, you, you went away from the consensus on Marvin Harrison.
My entry to this, I told you so was most certainly I was anti Anthony
Richardson when the world wanted to anoint him and draft him highly and
Make him the guaranteed fantasy producer and both of you opposed me on that and it was like so that's hate, right? It's it's going against the grain on the excitement and Mike your answers. Yeah three of them
I mean look
Anger and hate are their powerful emotions
I mean, look, anger and hate are powerful emotions. But for me, it was kind of the three pack of I was 100% out
on Stroud at ADP, Travis ETN at ADP, and Rashad White.
These were guys I just had on literally zero of any
of my teams last year where I
was the primary drafter.
I mean, not that I saw it going as bad as it did, but like ETN, I was like, yeah, finally,
we finally got you.
We finally caught up to you that you can hit a couple big plays here, but other than that,
you're just, you can hit a couple big plays here, but other than that, you're incredibly inefficient.
Yeah, I think it's worth noting on a 10 Things to Remember episode
that sometimes knowing who not to draft
is as important as knowing who to draft.
Obviously, getting the right guys in the end is the more superior methodology,
but if you can just avoid some landmines and in those early rounds and you can be confident in that, especially if you're playing in a multitude of leagues,
you're not going to have that player anywhere. That's a huge one. But we're not all, we're
all not.
No, it's not all hate, but just to add on to your point, Jay, is sometimes having a
contrarian stance against a player leads you into another player
I wouldn't say I was the the highest like the coming out of draft season like Bucky Irving
I wasn't wildly in love with
With anything from him, you know, he's a smaller guy
The production wasn't what I wanted. He was a lower draft pick
But I was so opposed to Rashad white that I'm like, oh, I'll give this guy. He was a lower draft pick, but I was so opposed to Rashad White that
I'm like, oh, I'll give this guy, he's a rookie. I haven't seen him play in the NFL. I'll give
him a chance. So sometimes it directs you to a better option. Sometimes.
That's what in some ways, disliking Richardson was what the path to Daniels was. Yeah. To
Jayden Daniels later. It was like, hey, take this other player
that's five rounds lower because everyone else
is enamored with this unproven,
my point with Richardson was just that they're like
the same level of experience.
Yeah, the ADP was so drastic.
They're both rookies, so.
Yeah, I think it's a good thing to remember,
as Emperor Palpatine said,
let the hate flow through you.
Right. I am the
Senate President. And that'll lead you
to good, happy things later.
Let's talk some news.
News and notes from around the league.
Franchise tag deadline is over.
We talked about Higgins on the last show, but Sam Darnold,
they did not use the Vikings, did not use the franchise tag.
I think it was only two tags this year.
Yeah, it was the lowest amount in quite some time.
So Sam Darnold, I think it was predicted on the last episode, they're going to have an
opportunity to let him go test the waters see what's out there
We all made our predictions. I believe Jason you said he'd go back to Minnesota
That was my prediction and someone had the Raiders Mike with the Raiders. Yeah, I think I picked the Giants
So we'll see if the demand for Sam Darnold is there this was I
Don't know an exclamation point on the season I guess.
Saquon Barkley, a two year extension with the Eagles.
Hoo-ha!
They just signed him last year.
Yeah, they made him the highest,
he's now the highest paid running back in NFL history.
Maybe this is how you make up for not letting him go for 2000.
Right.
You're like, listen, take a seat, secure a title,
and we'll make it up to you with 36 million guaranteed.
The Eagles now have Jalen Hurts, Saquon,
A.J. Brown, and Devontae Smith
all under contract through 2020.
Eight days.
It is fun to be an Eagles fan right now
because they have so much money invested in this offense,
including Lane Johnson, their offensive line,
a lot of like, this offense is under contract forever
and so expensive, and then their defense,
and this is why they won a championship,
when you hit on so many rookies on one side of the ball
for a couple years in a row,
now all of a sudden they've got this superstar defense
that has rookie contracts for another three years,
they are going to be a tough cookie to crack.
A tough cookie to crack.
Is that a thing?
No.
Tough case to crack?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Tough cookie to crumble?
Bunch of tough cookies, just tough cookies.
I don't know.
Me either.
Darius Slay was released, Bradbury released,
and they've got them young secondary stars to go with.
So Metcalfe officially requested a trade.
DK Metcalfe from the Seahawks and the Seahawks have agreed to explore other options.
He's in the final year of his deal.
They also released Tyler Lockett who was kind of on his last hurrah there in Seattle.
JSN currently expected for a 90% target market share of the wide receiver share.
The strange things are going on up there in Seattle.
First, shout out to Tyler Lockett for,
I know he's not done, he's not retiring, but.
He's entering the Jordan Wizards phase of his career.
But it was an incredible run with Seattle
for Tyler Lockett.
This dude was great for the team.
He was very fantasy relevant for a long time.
Oh my gosh, for fantasy, he was.
So there's the hat tip to Tyra Lockett.
Thank you for your services.
Yes.
Because he got to an age where everyone doubted him
every single season, and then he just kept producing.
He was the wide receiver 15, 14, 9, 13, and 13 in a row.
That is not, not many wide receivers in like NFL history could say they were top
15, five seasons in a row without missing, you know, a season due to injury or
anything like that.
All while taking two hits along the way.
That's how he is.
Sliding down after every catch.
Christian Kirk expected to be released by the Jacksonville Jaguars. This was something that we talked about on the way. Yes, that's how he's like. Sliding down after every catch. Christian Kirk expected to be released
by the Jacksonville Jaguars.
This was something that we talked about on the show
that we saw happening.
He'll get a job.
Oh, for sure.
He'll get a job, but he is not,
I think Christian Kirk is, he's a role player
that will definitely help a team.
Yeah, he will.
We have spoke, and this is what's,
this is what makes me believe
DK Metcalf will get traded. The same reason Debo, you know, despite being older and really
looking bad to my eyes last season, maybe it was an ammonia or whatever, but it wasn't
a good season. He had a big contract, still got traded because there's just no other options.
So this the fact that this year is a weak draft class and a weak free agent class, Christian Kirk and Devonte Adams who were released,
they're hot commodities.
Yes.
Kirk is so weird,
because now you've got seven years of Christian Kirk
and you've got 1,000 yard season,
yet throughout the entire seven years,
you always knew the potential of Christian Kirk.
But he has not played enough games.
That's kind of what it's come down to for him too.
Eight games this year, 12 games the year before. He had one breakout campaign in Jacksonville,
but it's Brian Thomas time and they're moving on. They're saving some money, 10.4 million.
And right now they have Brian Thomas Jr., Gabe Davis, and Parker Washington, and Josh Reynolds
on the roster. The Jets said goodbye to Devante Adams
They had the cursory. Hey, we're gonna go go find a trade go save us
No, they released him and
so no Adams
anymore in New York
No Rogers in New York. No Adams and no Tyler Conklin either which is 32% of the Jets targets being vacated That's a pretty large number and we have shown in the past that
Vacated targets oftentimes the running backs step up into that passing game. So maybe Breece Hall
I mean, that's where he that's where he thrives. Yeah, he'll get back more involved in the passing it
Show me their passing game
He'll get back more involved in the passing game. Show me their passing game.
Tyrod Taylor.
OK.
Yeah, there was a comment that it would not be shocking if they
started Tyrod Taylor.
I don't think that's going to make a lot of Jets fans excited.
Or Breece Hall managers excited.
Or Garrett.
No.
That would be Taylor.
You know who would be pretty excited, though?
Tyrod.
Yeah, Tyrod.
Oh, he'd be pumped. He'd be like, yeah, I'm a starter. And then everyone else would be. Taylor, you know who would be pretty excited though? Tyrod. Yeah, Tyrod.
Oh, he'd be pumped.
He'd be like, yeah, I'm a starter.
And then everyone else would be...
For two games.
Yeah, they're going to want to address the backup position for sure.
Jamal Williams has been released by the Saints, Gardner Minshew released by the Raiders, CD
Lams contract restructured, Nico Collins contract restructured.
The Dem Boys also, I thought I saw they restructured DAC as well.
DAC as well, yeah.
They're really trying to clear up some space for something.
Cleared up $36.6 million.
Yeah, Micah Parsons is gonna cost a lot of money.
And the Bears have back to back trades
for Jonah Jackson and Joe Tooney.
Yeah. Yeah. This is what you love to see. We love it. We love it. for Jonah Jackson and Joe Tooney.
Yeah, this is what you love to see.
We love it.
This is what you love.
So, look, the Bears making quick adjustments to the offensive line, an offensive line that
was a disaster last year, and, you know, Caleb Williams does not have a shot if he is in
the position he was last year, So they're making moves through the
trading mechanism. It makes me wonder, you know, coaches come in and you have
your system, you have what you thrive at, but then you also are inheriting a
roster that are the players that are going to be on the field. So sometimes you
you tailor what you're going to do to the players you have, and sometimes you
tailor the players you have to what you want to do to the players you have, and sometimes you tailor the players you have
to what you want to do.
But it is interesting to me,
Ben Johnson coming over from the Lions,
where I think their real superpower,
like we talk about Gibbs and Amon Ra,
and you know, the great offense,
but their superpower was their offensive line.
That's what allowed Jared Goff to be so good.
That's what allowed their running backs
to score so many touchdowns.
And so that was a big problem for the Bears, obviously taking sacks for
Caleb Williams, just a brutal rookie season in that respect.
So this is just so great to see him coming in and be like,
that's what we've got to address.
Yes, stage one.
And I expect them to go after a running back too, and kind of just try to emulate
what worked so successfully for the Lions
just to elevate Caleb Williams by saying let's get an offensive line in a run game.
Yeah, Deandre Swift is not the answer in Chicago.
No.
He's not the kind of running back that is going to take pressure off of your quarterback.
They need their Nick Chubb, their David Montgomery, their kind of grinder that can go out there
and get tough yards behind a good offensive line.
They should draft Trevion Henderson as their Gibbs.
There's going to be some options in the draft at running back and they're going to be well
positioned to pick somebody up.
But if you're in a dynasty league, if I have Deandre Swift, I'm going to go ahead and play up these two offensive line acquisitions and ship that man swiftly out of town.
Was there anything else you wanted to add, Mike?
I do.
I do want to mention because Tom Pelicero is at it again.
He's your favorite guy.
He tweeted, which it was good information, Daria Gumbawale.
He's a good reporter.
Just listen, hold on.
Daria Gumbawale is re-signing a one-year deal with the Houston Texans. This is good information. Daria Gumbawale. He's a good reporter. Just listen. Hold on.
Daria Gumbawale is re-signing a one-year deal with the Houston Texans.
This is good information to have.
People are like, I don't care about a Gumbawale.
That's fine.
Why is this being brought up?
Because Pelesaro called him a phenom in his tweet.
Stop paying him.
Oh my.
You're saying agents stop paying Pelesaro.
I don't think he's paid. I think
this is a no, no man. You're back. This dude is elbow deep in the cookie jar. He is just
fistfuls of cash saying that Daria Gumbawala, special teams, phenom that is yet to make
a pro bowl in the special teams area. They're resigning third down back in special teams phenom you took this
very personally I just Tom it's the last one Delvin cook oh yeah oh yeah yeah how
that work out Tom did he even get a snap what did he call him he I don't it was it
was egregious whatever it was it was I gotta look it was kind of find that it
was the most ridiculous it just seemed like it was it was I gotta look at it was kind of find that it was the most ridiculous
It just seemed like it was copy and copy pasted from the yes
You know of yeah, this is how they want their player talk to see Tom's tax returns
Language is on the take language. You don't report that is important
Because if Daria gumbo allay and Dalvin cook are phenoms, then what's a really good player?
They they don't even their agents don't need them to say those superlatives. It was uh,
Wait, oh there are key addition a murky
Dalvin cook did he take a snap last year? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Did he? Oh, yeah
Cook was waiting for the right opportunity and always felt it was Dallas, a marquee addition in Big D.
Oh he did, he had nine opportunities on the season.
Yeah I knew it wasn't much more than one.
All right, we'll take a break.
Oh well, I'll be back Tom,
cause I'm sure there's more tweets coming.
Yeah I can't wait.
Mike versus Tom is gonna be a great theme.
This is great, there's more here from Pelisaro going back.
Dalvin Cook, just talking about last year,
said he never had a chance to establish
a rhythm with the Jets,
but had a long run for Baltimore in the playoffs.
One of the top free agents still available.
Wait, that's recent?
No, that was back.
It's just the series of events where you're talking about
four-time Pro Bowl Dalvin Cook.
This guy is building Cook up.
He's a Dalvin Cook stan.
Maybe he won a championship with it.
Maybe he signs one year contracts with these agents.
I don't know.
We'll take a break.
We'll jump into our 10 things to remember,
our lessons learned from 2024.
["Don't Forget to Remember These Things"]
Don't forget to remember these things. You know, we've done this show for a while.
We know each other very well.
It's always funny when something gets stuck in Mike's crawl.
You know, he is not a let it go man.
No, no, he's not.
He is a forever and always man. He is probably
You know like his eulogy may end up
Including this great battle with Tom Pellicero
It's gonna be and now a list of people we used to have Mike hated we used to have no joke a
Channel in our company slack. Wait, did we get rid of that that was still here
hashtag Mike's gripes I just because he needs to share things with the world is
the private channel I feel like complaints feel like too many people
muted and left that channel so I take my complaints to the big big boy I'm
browsing the channel and it's like you know Brooks jumps in there for a minute
he goes what's the deal with all these late afternoon games?
That's a Mike's gripe.
We've all got them.
There are still people on that channel.
Oh, I'll be darned.
All right.
I'm sorry, I'm looking back.
You know what chaps my cheeks?
Trying to enjoy a morning coffee outside
and freaking flies won't go away.
That's what Mike is posting
in there. That's so good. Oh dude. That's great. All right. I hit the drop didn't I?
You did. You did. All right. So let's jump right in. Oh you know what slaps my saddle
Mike says when your manager books a flight and spells your name wrong. picture of the picture of the airport tickets oh Mike never stop complaining I need
I need this don't they have those like super subs on Twitter you just need to move to a
city that's not Arizona where kids play outside so you can't read?
Some not safe for work gripes in there?
Yeah.
Yeah.
That is, that's funny.
It does start with, no, no, go on, go on, what's the, what, what?
Well, let me know.
We'll, uh.
My substack is coming soon, everybody.
All right.
We will, uh, we'll jump into our 10 things to remember.
This is always fun. We've all picked out some things from this past year and am I the first one up? Yeah, I am
number ten all right
Ten things to remember number ten
I'm gonna call this one
buy the hype or
You can you know some subtit, shoot your shot.
You usually sell the hype.
It's very profitable.
This is more a little bit of a strategy storyline here
where if you have a signal that a player may be
on their way to a career season
in the first few weeks of the year,
and you have the conviction,
you are the believer in this player.
I want you to remember, this will be the only opportunity and chance that you have to get
the player before one of those legendary seasons begin.
Let me explain because Saquon, Chase, Lamar, Bowers, these were players that became entirely
untouchable on people's rosters over the course of the year. And look, we all go into week one with a tremendous amount of anticipation,
but the only way that you're going to get true game changers onto your roster
would be early season trades before those seasons get solidified.
Now, I am not pretending that that is an easy thing to do,
to buy into a week or two of performances or the way an offense is running.
But players do become untradable
over the course of the year.
And I can kind of think of two years ago,
after a few weeks, some people,
they sold CD Lamb when he was sitting at number one.
That was a bad idea.
If you bought CD Lamb,
you got a league winner early in the year
because you bought the outlier season
that ended up being a full outlier season.
One of the reasons I wanna focus on this too
is there's a lot of performances earlier in the year
where we talk about week one,
there's certain players that pop off
and have an incredible week one
that aren't going to keep having great weeks.
Sometimes it's the best time of year to make a three for one or two for one trade
for a top tier talent, because your roster is filled with players that have had
kind of, okay, it's a good week here, a good week there.
There's a lot of guys on the free agent market.
You make a splash, you trade two for one, you trade three for one.
You buy the hype on somebody that you truly believe can be a difference maker.
They're actually acquirable right then.
And you can go out and pounce on the most valuable time in the waiver wire to fill those other spots if you traded three for one or two for one away.
So to me, it's what's our objective when we play?
It's to win the entire league.
It's not to be somewhere in the middle.
If you do have a conviction, you see Saquon through a week or two, and it's more than the fantasy numbers,
it's, whoa, that offensive line.
Whoa, he looks like vintage Saquon.
You're not getting him later.
Yeah, you can learn a lot through those first few weeks,
and obviously sometimes it's going to misdirect you.
You're gonna get a Sammy Watkins,
and you can get that wrong,
but it's also, it's not too hard to
tell the difference sometimes.
Like for instance, after week one,
last year we came in and had a quick question of like,
what were you just completely changed on in one week?
Brock Bowers was one of those things where it was like,
Brock is legit.
You saw it. You knew it week one.
You knew it week one.
Brock Bowers, you just went and watched him
and you're like, oh, okay.
That's not an eighth round draft.
No, that is a great player.
Halfway through the season,
you couldn't pry Brock Bowers off of anyone
unless it was their cold dead body.
And so.
Even then, you may not be able to get him.
Yeah, because he had Brock Bowers' strength
gripping that player.
But yeah, I would say that this is a good strategy
because to win the championship,
you go back and you look at the players
on championship rosters,
you're gonna find a lot of Jamar Chase,
you're gonna find a lot of Lamar Jax,
you're going to find those players
who had the dominant season.
So yeah, you take a swing and you miss,
and you didn't get that player,
but what that player does for you is not the same as two good players. It's way more valuable.
And maybe a way to narrow that down, because obviously Sammy Watkins having a great week
one, that doesn't fit the category. The category to me is if there's a group of players in
the first two rounds that you could make preseason arguments of,
okay, their best case scenario, is there a top three guy?
Even though they're being drafted
at wide receiver five or six,
if you have those storylines
and you start to see that validated early,
that might be the only opportunity you have the entire year
to put a Jamar Chase,
I mean, I had a better opportunity later.
But it might be your only chance. And so that's, and it's like where it's so ingrained. And look, the,
the, if you look around fantasy football shows, everything is, oh, trade trade high. And it's
like, sometimes by high, they go higher. Sometimes. Yes. Like you're like I'm right now it looks like I'm buying like
NFL terms like when when Patrick Mahomes got his contract extension it was oh my goodness look how
much money Mahomes got and now we're you know a handful of years later Patrick Mahomes is
severely underpaid compared to what he means, compared to the market.
Yeah, and again, it gives you opportunities
if you are moving multiple players away for one,
to go take advantage of the free edge of market early.
So making early season trades is hard for people to do
because you get attached to your draft capital,
so if you have guys struggling,
just remember things change very quickly,
something we'll see more and more
throughout this top 10 list.
Moving on.
Number nine.
And I'm calling this one start at the top.
And it was just watching last year,
like there are some coaches out there
that we just, we need to trust this coach.
We need to believe in that coach's offense. The thing that really spurred this for me
was Kevin O'Connell in Minnesota, the doubt over Kirk
Cousins leaving and getting the huge money from Atlanta.
It's like, well, now what do we got?
Well, we got JJ McCarthy.
We got Sam Darnold.
What's going on here?
Justin Jefferson, the best wide receiver in NFL,
fine, Jamar Chase, that's fine, a top two.
But he would slide in first rounds
because we were so nervous about
who's gonna be throwing him the ball.
I just don't trust him.
Do you remember how negative the off season
for Minnesota was overall?
Oh my gosh, yes.
Where Addison got in trouble.
And it was like the team was falling apart.
And then.
McCarthy injury.
So Addison's another huge piece of it.
It's not just Justin Jefferson, who I saw in some drafts
go late first round.
So I know there's some leagues out there like, yeah.
He still got drafted as the second wide receiver.
Yes, but there were leagues out there where
he fell real, real far compared to where Justin Jefferson would have gone. If you're like, if Kirk
Cousins were back, he would have been the first or the second overall pick.
And it's, look, look what Kevin O'Connell had done with Minnesota. You know,
Cousins was in 2022, the QB seven in 2023 through the first eight weeks. He was
the QB four, but then we saw Josh Dobbs be a top five quarterback in his first two games Nick Mullins was a top
12 quarterback fantasy wise in three of four starts like O'Connell had proven to
us that that he can get it done now yes it's okay to be somewhat pessimistic and
have some doubt but for these coaches who are
just great for the offensive side of football, trust in what they're doing.
Jefferson, yeah, he slid a little bit.
Addison was left for dead in drafts, and Addison was a very usable player, especially over
the second half there. So it's when there is a coach who has proven that they can get production and
production when you feel like there is just absolutely no chance that it's gonna
be able to happen.
Trust in that coach.
I'm saying that like the Minnesota Vikings this year, if it's J.J. McCarthy,
I'm gonna give Kevin O'Connell the benefit of the doubt.
Guys like, sure.
Who are your coaches?
Yeah, so O'Connell is in there for me,
Sean McVay is in there.
Shanahan?
Kyle Shanahan is in there,
and Matt LaFleur is in there for me, for Green Bay.
Andy Reid should be, but Andy Reid has figured out,
this is how I can win Super Bowls,
so it's not always going to be a high powered offense
for Andy Reid.
I trust that he's gonna figure out
how to win a football game,
but I'm speaking specifically for-
Maybe he learned a little something this year.
Yeah, maybe.
I wonder, I'm on the bubble.
You know, wasn't the- For who?
The, for Sean Payton. Sean Payton to me is- You know, it wasn't the... For who? The... Psych?
For Sean Payton.
Sean Payton to me is...
He's on the bubble of you just trust that he's gonna figure it out.
He's been historically a great offensive producer.
And this year, with a rookie, they figured some stuff out.
And they had a good passing game.
So their running game was trash.
But he's, to me, like, if you want to be a little early in that and add him to
the list, I think he applies.
All right, your turn, Jay.
Number eight.
I call this the pendulum swings.
Fancy football, we are so binary.
It's like this or that.
It's like there's not enough nuance and you don't always take advantage of where you see
people overreacting, swinging the pendulum too far based on what happened
last year. Perfect example here, you look at quarterbacks over the last several
years, it was always elite quarterback. You'd have Breeze and Brady and
Rodgers, they're high draft picks in the first round or whatever and then people
started to figure out like, no, no, no, it's late round quarterback.
That's how you win.
That's the super, and then Mahomes and Lamar Jackson came,
and then, you know, they were late round picks.
So now everyone goes and does the late,
now it's a game of chicken at your drafts.
You're like, who's gonna go last?
I'm not even gonna draft quarterback.
You know?
That's so late, I'll waiver wire him.
And so, looking at the last couple years,
at the first two rounds, there's been kind of this battle
between is it better to have first round wide receivers
or better to have first round running backs?
So you go back to 2020, that's the year Christian McCaffrey
broke fantasy and wide receivers sucked.
The following year was like 10 running backs
in the first round, one wide receiver.
And a couple years ago, or two seasons ago,
there were a lot of running back injuries
and wide receivers were very, very good.
This last season in PPR leagues,
there were only three running backs
that were drafted in the first round.
You had CMC, that didn't work out,
B. John Robinson, great, and Breece, and that was it.
The rest was chock full of wide receivers.
And so what happened this last year was that the value,
because the pendulum kind of swings too far,
the value was now in the running backs that were pushed down,
the really elite running backs that weren't there.
So when I look at teams that won championships,
Saquon Barkley, Jameer Gibbs,
Kyron Williams, Derek Henry,
these were monstrous values
because they didn't cost you that top five pick.
Because of the pendulum swing.
Because of the pendulum.
They weren't bad picks, they were great running backs,
but everyone wanted to get in on the wide receivers
I think it's gonna happen in reverse
I think this year because of the success of those running backs and some of the failure of some of the wide receivers
You know you you've got the the Marvin Harrison busts at the very you know you're gonna have a little bit more
Fear yeah, Tyreek, so now I expect this year
It's a little too early to know, but I do think that this year
one of the lessons I want to learn is look for the value, the really good players who
positionally are getting pushed down into the second round.
I think you are going to find real value on stud-wide receivers being pushed into the
second based on last year.
So this is like a thing to remember over a couple years.
Okay, makes sense. Number seven. Number seven. See, it's number seven. Yeah, you called that.
You called that. The second guy was better. I got these buttons and I said it anyways.
Here's what I want you to remember. That the schedule. It's a lie. What? The schedule is a bit of a lie because it just.
The cake is a lie.
Is it?
The cake is a lie, nice.
It's just not that predictable year to year
to look at matchups defensively
and forecast too far in the future.
There's too much turnover on defense year over year.
Just take a look at this from 2023 to 2024.
If you went into last year,
you thought that you had tough matchups for quarterbacks.
If you played the Panthers or if you played the Ravens
or if you played the Chiefs or you played the Panthers, or if you played the Ravens, or if you played the
Chiefs, or you played the Cowboys, Panthers were number one against quarterbacks last year, 31st.
That was the swing from one to 31. Ravens, number three against quarterbacks, they swung to 22.
Cowboys, eighth best against quarterbacks, dead last against quarterbacks last year. This
is true for all the positions. You have massive changes. Personnel, you know, we
just went through a coaching changes episode, right? And coordinators on both
sides of the ball changed tremendously year to year. It's just a mixed bag and
so if you are starting to look at your early season schedule and think you have
guaranteed production from certain players or as you're manufacturing And so if you are starting to look at your early season schedule and think you have guaranteed
production from certain players, or as you're manufacturing trades in the beginning part of
the year and you're saying, well, this guy's got a tough playoff schedule, it's just probably a lie.
And we've only had one fantasy defense going all the way back 24 years that has repeated as the number one defense in back to back years.
And only six times in that entire stretch have they even finished in the top five.
Like it's just very difficult injuries, right? There's just so many changes that happen. You do
not get a lay of the land and we don't even put our strength of schedule tool up and update it with
the new stats until a few weeks into
the year.
But until you're into week six, week seven, you really don't know what the playoff matchups
are going to look like.
You talk about adjustments, right?
Remember the Denver Broncos defense and it gave up 70 points to Miami, which by the way,
destroyed their metrics for the entire year.
And then they became a shutdown defense over the back half of the year.
Defensive coordinators make adjustment adjustments, injuries happen.
And so one of the things I think is valuable to remember is just that the schedule is a lie in the sense that you can't repeat what you got last year
positionally very often.
All right.
We'll take a quick break and we'll come back with the top six.
All right, it's back to you, Mike. Number six. All right, with this one, I'm going to highlight
and I'm for for today's show, I'm calling them drift players. And with the type of drift I'm talking about,
I'm talking about in racing.
Now, not Tokyo Drift, though.
No.
Not like the wheels are going crazy in the back.
No, no.
I'm talking about the actual, you are in NASCAR,
and you're drifting.
And if you're not familiar with that term,
that means that you slide your car in just behind whoever's
in front of you.
And it's physics. That's in front of you and
It's physics that car in front of you has a much higher wind resistance and the player in the car in the back is
using less fuel less power to go and then then you're able to pass because you have
You you're able to generate a little bit more speed and you're letting
the person in front of you do more work than you. And it's maybe, I'm bringing it up to like,
have a little bit more faith in these type of players.
It, I mean, it hit like a son of a gun last year.
Like, so Derek Henry, Barkley, Jacobs,
and even Stefan Diggs, they all changed teams.
And changing teams at that point in your career is it's not always great
and I mean these guys have that crew of four except well Jacobs isn't really that
old but like age was a was a question for them and that was the reason for the
doubt and now in hindsight we're like oh of course Saquon Barkley on the Eagles
but I'm bringing this up of who are they replacing?
And the player that they are replacing,
was that guy the engine,
or was this already a super high powered offense?
The Baltimore Ravens, you know we had Gus Edwards
score a bajillion touchdowns two years ago.
Gus Edwards was not the foundational engine
of the Baltimore Ravens, he was just a part of it. Same with Deandre.
He was drifting.
Deandre Swift, two years ago with the Eagles.
We all were shocked of this resurgence of,
why is Swift doing so good?
And then you see, oh, well, look at the size of the gap
the offensive line has opened up for him.
So of course, Saquon Barkley is going to work.
I was a huge doubter of Stephon Diggs.
I thought, nah, there's a reason Buffalo got rid of him.
And he's washed.
While he wasn't a superstar before the ACL tear,
he was still very usable and was a great draft pick
up to that point.
So I don't have the list of players yet,
because their free agency hasn't happened.
The draft hasn't happened.
But it's putting just never overdo anything in fantasy, but putting a little bit more
stock in to if a player who has been historically great goes to a team and replaces a mediocre
mid-level starter, you should be even more excited about it. And in hindsight, I get it, these all sound real
super obvious, but Derek Henry and Saquon Barkley
were not, they weren't top three running backs
being drafted.
I think Barkley was like RB eight, RB seven,
RB eight right around there.
You know what's kind of valuable in the context
of that argument, Mike, is that there are 32 teams, but a lot of them are genuinely
actually dumb.
And sometimes we give too much credit when they let go,
like when Derek Henry gets to leave town and Saquon
leaves town in New York and these players leave
these rosters, sometimes we can be like, well they must
know something we don't know.
The truth is they're stupid. We all watch they're dumb. We watched the
Giants hard knocks. Yeah they actually are. It didn't go well. They ruined hard
knocks offseason for everyone else. It was such a good idea. It was such a good it was
cool to see those things but then they were so bad at those things that no
team allowed them to be recorded during the offseason this year.
And there's probably a bit of a truth here, Mike. You're talking about these players joining
offensive systems that are very good. Yes, the offense is already cooking.
But also, like if a player leaves an overtly bad system and just goes to a neutral system,
but they produce in the bad system, that's probably indicative of some success as well.
Well, this kind of all rolls into my next point, which is...
Number five.
There you go.
See, I set you up personally.
I know you did, and I missed.
I missed a buck.
All right.
Number five, I call this, remember Mike's advice.
Remember Mike's advice.
Remember Mike's advice.
What?
So...
It was a good one.
It was a good one, and it actually was something I was paying attention to all season and what advice is that?
I'm again it was from a tips and tricks episode
where Mike was talking about how to target late-round running backs and
It really worked out. Well, it makes sense. It goes completely with kind of more of what you're talking about
Good offices good, avoiding bad teams.
But it's a really important, you know, those guys that you draft late, they've all got
giant question marks.
They've got warts on them.
There's not a reason they wouldn't be drafted late if there was not clear and obvious problems.
So what do you pick?
Do you pick the talented player?
Maybe.
But I think the right strategy is pick the talented team. Pick the good
quarterback. Pick the team that could score points because
here's basically how it works. Every year some running backs
are drafted outside the top 24 but they finish within it. Over
the last five years, eight and a half teams, actual teams, don't
have a top 24 drafted running back on their roster.
However, five players from those teams, on average, exceed the expectations of finish
of the top 24. So how do you decide? And if you focus on the better teams versus focusing
on the players' talent, I think you have a much higher hit rate of that
happening and you look at last season, you know, it was like now you might have
gotten it wrong if you went Zach Moss, but Zach Moss, Chase Brown. This is all in the
framework of late round running backs. I just want to lay that out there when you
said remember Mike's advice, this whole conversation is around identifying
running backs in later rounds. Yes, in the late round when you're looking at running
backs, target the good teams because you're looking at running backs,
target the good teams.
Because Chase Brown became a league winner,
was one of the best fantasy assets for where you got him.
Obviously it took Zach Moss going down,
but what it also took was a Joe Burrow led offense
that scored nonstop, that opened up the running game.
Other targets, you know, last year you had Dak Prescott on the roster
and it projected good offense and then Rico had a good season. You had J.K. Dobbins coming
back. Okay, he's injured. He's coming back from hardship. But he's got Harbaugh and Herbert
together. Like that's a team that clearly could be good. So I was looking a quick run
through of this year's ADP just to see a good
example because all the guys going late, you've got Tank Bigsby running back 38. What do you
think about the Jags? I mean, I'm not, I don't personally view Trevor Lawrence as a superstar.
You're just saying do they profile as a winning team? Probably not. Yeah, Tajay Spears right
around there, running back 40. Doesn't appear that way. Charbonne is the running back 32.
To me, the Seattle Seahawks, maybe without locket, maybe.
But I don't look at them as like, yeah, that's an offense I really have to have a part of.
Brian Robinson, the running back 35 right now.
Yep.
Yep.
He's got Jayden Daniels.
This is an offense that looks like on fire.
That's good.
Maybe I'll lean towards the guy that could be part
of a special offense.
There are those players going in the late rounds.
I'm going to remember that advice from last year and target high quality team running
backs, high quality teams when I'm targeting running backs in the late rounds.
I like that and I like the example from this year already seeing where players are being
drafted, because people get fatigued with certain names,
or I don't think anybody is out here saying,
okay, Brian Robinson is the physical talent
of some of those other players that you mentioned,
necessarily, but the team situation
is so much more promising, so that's good advice.
Number four.
All right, I'm gonna call this one
plant the seeds and work the room, okay?
I got a little bit of-
Quite the name.
I got a little bit of-
Oh, this was the one you, you coward.
I also had it subtitled, people are dumb.
Yeah, that's the real tip.
But I-
Remember that.
I'm calling it plant the seeds and work the room
because I, look, I've been doing this
a really, really long time, and I don't know if there's anything that gives me more
joy that doesn't you know that warms the cockles of my heart like the disgust of
my friends when I accomplish a trade that they find to be improbable, unlikely,
stupid. If I can pull off a trade that makes them want to leave the league out of
their frustration, which I feel like I've done to you many times.
Yeah, you have.
It brings me great joy. And people are like, how does this happen? And I made the point
this year on one of my trades, look, I just hit accept. But you see, the truth is, is
that the key to successful trading, what I want people to remember is that
you need to become a lobbyist of sorts.
Why do lobbyists get what they want?
Is because there's a time investment involved.
It's not volume.
Like there was a time in my trading past
in which I might have accomplished some trades
by just being more active.
I don't send out as many offers as I do.
I'm too old for that.
You mean as you used to? As I used to, yes. Because you do send out as many offers as I do. I'm too old for that. You mean as you used to?
As I used to, yes.
Because you do send out as many offers as you do.
As I do, right.
Like I just, exactly the same number.
You need to plant the seeds and work the room
from the beginning of the year.
Everybody has these problems.
How do you get trades done?
How do you accomplish trades?
Send offers out.
Do the due diligence of what people
actually need on their roster. Plant the due diligence of what people actually need
on their roster.
Plant the seeds of the type of talent
you might be willing to give up.
Figure out who they're fans of.
Who's their type?
What's their tempo?
You know, plant the seeds early
and keep conversations warm
and pounce when the time is right.
It takes a long time in fantasy football
to build relationships. And you need
to actively seek the benefit of both sides. You need to have conversations about trades that don't
end in trade offers every single time. But in, hey, you know what? A couple of weeks from now,
let's come back to this conversation in case your team is doing poorly then or better than,
and I'm doing poorly.
Hey, this might meet both of our needs because in two weeks from now, you might be selling
for next year.
And what I benefited from this year, be active in association with the NFL news that is transpiring.
Things happen when news breaks, when Amari Cooper gets traded to the Bills and Josh
Allen, it starts to rekindle
some of the conversations that happened earlier in the year.
And the truth is, we know this from 15, 20 years of playing this game, value is subjective.
Everybody makes a determination when a trade goes through, you won, you lost, and they're
wrong all the time.
Trading is a dance and you need to be in
a position where you have built relationships with people and you have
understood their teams and it's sometimes too much of an investment for
people to make and that's why some people get trades done and some people
don't and also when a good trade comes along smash the accept button. Don't
freaking don't freaking sit there and go back and forth on minor parts
of the deal. I never do that.
You clicked that accept button. Now, to be fair, if you get a deal like that, everyone's
going to click accept because they're going to see the nonsense that it was. But afterwards,
sometimes-
I know people listening are like, what are you talking about? I traded Nijoku, Amari
Cooper in a second round pick
for Jamar Chase when the Cooper trade happened because I had been talking with a manager in our
league for many weeks about whether they'd ever trade Jamar Chase. They said no. And then the
Cooper trade happened and they got excited about Cooper. And they sent a very, what do you call
that? Like an, not impromptu, but a impulsive. They sent a very, what do you call that, not impromptu, but impulsive.
They sent a quick impulsive offer,
and I wasn't gonna mess around with fine-tuning the offer.
Oh, it was funny, because you clicked accept
and then afterwards, afterwards you're like,
ugh, I wish I had, should I have changed my tight end?
The answer is no. No.
No, you just needed to make sure that that deal gets done.
But Bill, start having conversations around players
that you might like and just wait
for them to come to fruition.
Yeah, another way you could say that, just if you're taking it from your example, is
trade bad, worthless players for Jamar Chase.
Just do that.
Remember to do that thing.
Number three.
All right, I'm up.
I'm still pissed about it.
I didn't win.
I lost in the title game to Al Borland over there.
Yeah, you did.
Number three, we're going rookie wide receivers.
They're still a good bet and bargain shop them.
So look, the rookie wide receivers.
Yeah, rookie wide receivers.
And we're talking about in your draft.
Yes, Marvin Harrison did not work out.
Malik Neighb neighbors certainly did and
then guys who went later guys who were not the headline rookie wide receivers
last year you know the the sensation that is Brian Thomas Jr. Lad McConkie had
a great year and like later later rookies that were going you had Lad
Keon Coleman Brian Thomas Jrr. And add nine Mitchell
Yes, two of those guys were
Catastrophic busts for fantasy football
not every single one is going to hit but the the this is a game of probability and increasing your odds of
success and knowing where and when to take your chances in the draft and it's rookie wide receivers man they just they just continue to get it done and they
still go it's even better when they're going later in the draft because your
investment oh my voice of public opinion yes I thought this year's draft class of
wide receivers is no good that is true true. That definitely is true. And you know what?
I bet we see that in ADP when we're all looking at
where a rookie wide receiver's being drafted,
people are like, they all stink.
You wanna know one of the reasons why?
There's still gonna be NFL players.
This is gonna happen forever.
It's gonna happen forever
because they go to the worst teams.
Jaylen Waddle. Right.
Jaylen Waddle went in the top 10
in the NFL draft.
Everyone was disgusted by Miami's offense.
They were like, oh, there's no chance.
Brian Thomas Jr. goes to Jacksonville.
Oh, you know, he's a good player, but it's Jacksonville.
It's gonna happen forever.
Yeah, it just, last year, you know,
Thomas and McConkie before that, Rashid Rice, Puka,
Garrett Wilson's rookie year.
And do remember, Garrett Wilson, when he was a rookie,
people didn't want him.
Nope.
And while he wasn't Brian Thomas Jr. finishing top five,
he still finished as a top 20 fantasy wide receiver.
Amon Rah, the year before that, Jalen Waddle,
the year before that. It just keeps
happening and they are good bets and more often than not they are lower ADP so the investment,
the risk when you're drafting is not high but your reward is so great. Especially over
and remember when you draft a rookie look for signs but over the second half of the season
that's generally when they really start to shine. Yeah absolutely makes sense. Number two. Number
two is the second year system leap. This is a lock it's made about the second year wide receivers
taking that leap but not enough is thought about with these
systems that people play in, the continuity that matters. And if you look back at this
last year, first of all, you don't realize how insanely year to year these offenses are
really changing. 21 of the current offensive coordinators have been with their respective teams fewer
than two years.
That's two-thirds of the league.
The longest tenured offensive coordinators in the league at Green Bay, Miami, Minnesota,
and the Giants are in their position for just three years.
So it's just like there's-
Which, I mean, you're really talking about not a play caller, not a play caller, not a play caller.
Right, that's why they've been able to help.
That's why they've been able to hold their job.
All four of them, their head coaches,
have been the play caller.
But that second year, that second year,
we can see players take that leap forward.
For instance, remember two years ago,
oh, Todd Monk has come to Baltimore.
Yeah, very, very excited.
So excited.
He had a track record of massive offensive output.
And we were so excited to see what Lamar Jackson
and the run game, the pass game, could
do in this Todd Monk system.
And you know what?
It was OK.
Yeah.
It was OK.
But that second year, when they were in that system,
for a while, all of a sudden, every player on that team
was Lamar Jackson.
Rashad Bateman.
Rashad Bateman was resurgent.
Derek Henry was great.
Lamar had the most top 12 fantasy finishes in a single season, 16 of 17 games.
You had Buffalo.
Now, say what you will.
Maybe Joe Brady in his second year in the system.
I thought maybe he would get figured out.
He gets figured out sometimes.
But it turns out that his run game
that he wanted to establish the second year in that system,
you had James Cook go nuts.
He tied or broke the rushing record for touchdowns,
which that was the knock on him.
Even Denver, Sean Payton there for two years
and a good offensive mind gets his quarterback
who fits his system.
Coralyn Sutton is great.
And so I think that there's very few opportunities
for that second year.
Because a lot of times people are replaced after one year.
So here are some examples of teams I'm paying attention to
coming up in 2025 who get that second year,
that continuity from their offensive coordinator, Atlanta.
You got Zach Robinson there,
maybe Kirk Cousins was holding them back.
I mean, in the final two games of the season,
Michael Pinnix, they were averaging 31 points per game,
69 plays per game, that is so nice in the top five.
They've got a great offense.
If Pinnix steps forward.
That one will be interesting
because it's sort of Pinnix's first year in the system,
but not really.
But not really.
He's there in practice.
Yeah, he's there the whole season.
I mean, that's like Mahomes played,
you know, one game his rookie year,
came out next year,
did not look like a rookie by any means.
And so you've obviously got talent there
with Bijon and Drake London and Kyle Pitts.
You think they're happy they drafted Michael Pinnix?
I think they are right now happy they drafted Michael Pinnix.
Pretty good decision.
Yeah, but it's the inverse.
You think they're happy they gave Kirk Cousins all that money?
No.
That was the problem is both couldn't be true.
You have Carolina going into the second year
with Dave Canales, and they seem to figure something out
with Bryce Young at the end of the year.
So maybe that is an opportunity for a leap forward.
Greg Roman and the new Los Angeles Chargers, the Ravens West, going into year two.
You saw this.
Herbert, the first half of the year, was not utilized right.
They were figuring this out.
It was the first year in the system.
That's a team to me that I could see going into the top five as far as scoring on a regular basis
They've got a great quarterback. They're gonna have continuity this next year and then maybe they'll have DK Mecca
Yeah, and then the Washington commanders Cliff Kingsbury gets year two
They've added Deebo Samuel now an improved offensive line and Jayden Daniels could become an MVP
type player.
So those teams I think are, they have the chance to be hyper undervalued because you
don't see the leap forward. So I'm going to remember last year's second year offensive
coordinator leaps and try to replicate it in 25.
All right, Mike, help us bring it home with our last thing to remember. Number one.
Let's act now and get it done.
Get her done.
We as human beings, we like to, if there's something I can do tomorrow,
you're darn tooting, I'm doing that thing tomorrow.
I am not doing that today.
And then tomorrow shows up, I'm like, yeah.
I can swing this next week.
Eventually you say, I should have done that yesterday.
So yeah, we're interested in you having fun in your leagues.
Yeah, so you know, like just like my diet, one of these days.
Tomorrow.
Yeah, but it's been pushed off for a very, very long time.
Day after tomorrow.
I usually go with Monday until next Monday.
I mean it was your birthday week, Mike.
And then, you know what I mean?
Everything's OK.
It's your birthday month.
We're talking about your fantasy football league.
And yes, it's early in the off season right now.
But this is when you really got to start
thinking about this stuff.
If you're the champ and you got an in-person draft,
be working on it right now, Mr. Owl.
What do you mean, working? Owl Owl. What do you mean, working?
Owl Boarland?
What do you mean, working?
What am I supposed to do?
I mean, you're setting up your celebration, how you're going to rub it in.
Owl, do you need to take out a loan or something?
No, we got it unlocked.
Oh, you've already planned.
He's already thinking about it.
We do.
I'm a little, I'll be honest, I'm a little worried about what he's going to do.
Oh, I am very excited.
Yeah, you should be.
I am very excited. Yeah, you should be. I am very excited.
But that's it.
Get things ready for your celebration.
Because the draft will, just like everything else,
it'll be here before you realize it.
If someone in your league shouldn't
be in that league anymore, now is the time.
You're talking about the turds.
I'm talking about the turds.
You've got to flush them.
And right now is a great time to do that.
Going up to someone who's, yeah, I
know you've been in the league for a while
and are drafts in two weeks, but we're going to replace you.
Doing it right now, I think that this is the best time
emotionally to handle those types of things
if you want to start figuring out
what your new rules or scoring settings that you
want to implement. So just look at your league, whatever it is that you want done to make it better,
start actually doing that right. Yeah, take your league to the next level. And we,
if you need to find non-TURDS, footclanleagues.com, our Discord community, you can find people on there
to replace the turds in your league. And look, some people are turds, yes.
Some people are just aimless, though.
You know what I mean?
Like they're just in it because they're in it.
Maybe they're begging you to say,
hey, you know, if your heart's not in it.
I release you.
I release you from this obligation
of this thing you have to check that you don't wanna do.
And every, look, a great league can be brought down
by one or two absent managers.
So, you know, get your house in order,
get things organized, make sure you're happy
with what your league is for next year.
So that'll be our last thing to remember here.
And if you have your own, you know,
little tidbit of information,
something that you're wanting to remember for the new year, feel free to share it in the comments if you're watching over there
on YouTube. You can leave comments on Spotify if you're following the show there. And guess
what? Free Agent Frenzy next week. Oh my goodness. We already have an opportunity for teams to,
you know, Monday, they'll get to tamper legally.
We gotta come up with a new way to describe that.
It's just early negotiations.
Hey, that's what it should just be called.
The NFL was, the NFL was the people
who called it early tampering.
I know.
It's like, ooh, you can't tamper normally, but.
But here's, but here you go.
Tampering.
It implies negative.
It implies, well, it implies an illegal activity.
I think the legal word actually implies,
like it's the fact that it's legal tampering,
like legal murder.
Yeah.
Legal stealing period.
Yeah.
It's the first hour at the store you can legally steal.
If you just call it a tampering period, it'd be OK-ish.
But legal tampering means it's like, wait a minute. I like it when it's more it was
Tampering. Yeah, you're like I'm getting it's happening. I'm getting away with something. So next Tuesday. We'll talk about free agent frenzy
We're gonna record and release that show early Tuesday morning and then on Thursday the free agent frenzy will continue
We'll talk about all the moves that have been made
We got the mailbag
so yeah, lots going on and a reminder like the about all the moves that have been made. We got the mailbag.
So yeah, lots going on.
And a reminder, like the dynasty pass within the ultimate draft kit is getting its post
combine update.
It's gotten.
It's done.
Yeah.
And it's done.
So the next update is live ultimate draft kit.com.
It's part of the UDK plus.
If you're playing dynasty, if you're interested in these rookies,
if you're interested in the team opportunities
and all of what's gonna happen in free agency,
basically anything going on in the fantasy football world
from right now until draft season,
you want the Dynasty Pass and that's available discounted
pre-order pricing, UltimateDraftKit.com.
Our new rookie mock draft is up.
Yes, yeah.
I jumped into the number one spot in that mock draft.
To build the suspense, you don't know who I took.
You're gonna have to find out.
All right, FootclangGiveaway.com,
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just go to FootclangGiveaway.com.
Free to enter over there.
We'll catch you soon.
Goodbye.
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