Fantasy Football Podcast 2017 - 10 Things to Remember from 2016

Summary

Summary of "Fantasy Football Podcast 2017 - 10 Things to Remember from 2016" by The Fantasy Footballers

Release Date: February 2, 2017
Hosts: Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike "The Fantasy Hitman" Wright
Podcast: Fantasy Footballers - Fantasy Football Podcast

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Introduction

In the February 2, 2017 episode of The Fantasy Footballers Podcast, hosts Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright delve into a retrospective analysis of the 2016 fantasy football season. Titled "10 Things to Remember from 2016," the episode aims to equip listeners with valuable insights to refine their draft strategies and avoid past mistakes. The trio also briefly mentions their new Twitch channel for interactive gaming sessions, catering to the podcast's diverse audience.

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1. Quarterbacks Influence Wide Receiver Performance

Timestamp: [13:42] – [14:16]

Jason Moore kickstarts the discussion by highlighting the critical relationship between quarterbacks and wide receivers. He observes that six of the top ten wide receivers were drafted in the first two rounds, correlating with strong quarterback performances. The implication is clear: elite quarterbacks boost the productivity of their wide receivers, making them valuable fantasy assets.

Notable Quote:

"For me, when I'm going into next season, look, in the first two rounds, if you know Mike Evans, you can argue whether Jameis Winston is good or not. He's great. He's top."
— Jason Moore [13:42]

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2. Prototypical Players Aren't Always the Best

Timestamp: [14:24] – [16:40]

Andy Holloway emphasizes that fantasy success doesn't always hinge on drafting players who fit the traditional mold of their position. He cites examples like Tyreek Hill and Tevin Coleman, who defied conventional expectations to deliver exceptional performances. The key takeaway is to remain open to "out-of-the-box" players who may not fit the typical profile but offer significant upside.

Notable Quote:

"Prototypical is not always best and that I can, when I see the signs on the field, in the stats, I can buy into some of these guys that are not prototypical."
— Andy Holloway [15:05]

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3. The Dominance of Top Running Backs

Timestamp: [16:40] – [19:17]

Mike Wright underscores the unparalleled impact of top-tier running backs on fantasy outcomes. He explains that elite RBs like David Johnson and Le'Veon Bell can single-handedly win weeks, creating a significant point differential from their peers. This reinforces the strategy of prioritizing running backs in the early rounds of drafts.

Notable Quote:

"You want more points than your opponent and if you look at the best running backs and the best wide receivers, the running backs score more points."
— Jason Moore [19:06]

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4. Re-evaluating Overvalued Players Post-Performance

Timestamp: [19:17] – [21:00]

Jason Moore reflects on the misjudgments of 2016, where several high-profile players underperformed despite high expectations. Players like Matt Ryan, Travis Kelce, and Melvin Gordon did not meet their projected potential, leading to reconsideration of their draft value. The lesson is to avoid discarding players too hastily based on single-season performances.

Notable Quote:

"I want to remember those guys and think I'm not gonna. I'm not throwing them out. I still see reason that some of those guys can bounce back."
— Jason Moore [21:00]

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5. Avoid Drafting Kickers Early

Timestamp: [23:50] – [25:28]

Andy Holloway advises against using early draft picks on kickers, pointing out that top kickers often go undrafted. Instead, he recommends focusing on drafting players in high-powered offenses or elite kickers in the later rounds. This strategy prevents wasting valuable early selections and leverages the availability of quality kickers on the waiver wire.

Notable Quote:

"Don't be Tempted to grab a kicker early... six of the top 12 kickers in 2016 went undrafted."
— Andy Holloway [24:07]

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6. Understanding Bust Data and Position Stability

Timestamp: [25:28] – [29:03]

Mike Wright discusses the bust data from 2016, noting that more wide receivers failed to meet expectations compared to running backs. However, he cautions against overreacting to this trend by abandoning established strategies. Instead, he advocates for maintaining a balanced approach, adapting to the draft flow without deviating from proven strategies.

Notable Quote:

"Don't lock yourself in because of last year's results, right? You have to be smart about these things."
— Mike Wright [28:48]

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7. Analyzing Trade Outcomes to Refine Future Decisions

Timestamp: [29:21] – [32:21]

Jason Moore emphasizes the importance of reviewing past trades to understand their success or failure. By analyzing the rationale behind successful and unsuccessful trades, managers can identify patterns and improve their decision-making. This reflective practice helps in avoiding repeated mistakes and optimizing future trade strategies.

Notable Quote:

"You got to analyze those because sometimes a trade doesn't work out, a guy gets injured or whatever. Sometimes though, you go back and you look and you can see why you made a mistake in one of your trades."
— Jason Moore [29:21]

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8. Valuing Injured Players for Draft Potential

Timestamp: [33:09] – [35:50]

Andy Holloway highlights the undervalued potential of injured players in drafts. Despite the inherent risks, these players often come at bargain prices with significant upside if they return to form. The hosts mention several examples, including Eric Decker and Keenan Allen, stressing the importance of identifying such opportunities to gain a competitive edge.

Notable Quote:

"Guys coming back from injury are perennially under drafted and doubted... their bargain price presents upside that you do not want to forget."
— Andy Holloway [33:10]

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9. Avoiding Personal Biases in Player Selection

Timestamp: [35:55] – [39:26]

Mike Wright and Jason Moore discuss the psychological pitfalls of drafting players one doesn't favor personally. Mike shares his regret over investing in Doug Martin despite personal reservations, leading to detrimental team performance. The hosts urge managers to focus solely on player value, setting aside personal biases to make objective decisions.

Notable Quote:

"I'm reminding myself next year, if there's a guy I just don't like, I'm going to accept them."
— Mike Wright [38:29]

Additionally, Jason Moore introduces a sub-point:

9B. Don't Overreact to Playoff Schedules

Timestamp: [39:02] – [41:10]

Jason warns against making roster changes based solely on playoff schedule perceptions. He reflects on past mistakes where concerns over a player's playoff matchups led to premature decisions, advising managers to focus on consistent performance over schedule considerations.

Notable Quote:

"We've got to remember for next year that we can't overreact to playoff schedules."
— Jason Moore [40:24]

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10. Addressing and Improving League Dynamics

Timestamp: [41:10] – [44:24]

Andy Holloway concludes the list by urging league commissioners and participants to identify and rectify issues within their leagues. Whether it's unclear rules, poor communication, or inactive members, addressing these problems proactively can enhance the overall fantasy football experience. The hosts promote their own fantasy community, JoinTheFoot.com, as a platform for healthier and more engaging leagues.

Notable Quote:

"Remember what was wrong with your league and fix it now."
— Andy Holloway [41:10]

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Additional Insights

• Twitch Channel Announcement: The hosts introduced their new Twitch channel, twitch.tv/theffballers, where they plan to engage with listeners through live fantasy football discussions and gaming sessions.

• Shout-Out to Other Podcasts: Jason Moore recommends "Playing with Science," a sports science podcast affiliated with Neil deGrasse Tyson's StarTalk, highlighting its unique approach to analyzing sports through a scientific lens.

Notable Quote:

"It's a sports science podcast... you'll have to forgive that part of the segment. Arizona fans, Neil DeGrasse Tyson's actually going to be on there."
— Jason Moore [44:08]

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Conclusion

The episode serves as a comprehensive guide for fantasy football managers aiming to capitalize on the lessons from the 2016 season. By focusing on the interplay between quarterbacks and wide receivers, valuing non-prototypical players, understanding the dominance of top running backs, and avoiding personal biases, listeners are better equipped to navigate their drafts and in-season strategies. Additionally, the emphasis on league dynamics ensures a more enjoyable and competitive environment for all participants.

Listeners are encouraged to join The Fantasy Footballers community on JoinTheFoot.com and follow the hosts on Twitter at @theffballers for ongoing tips, analyses, and interactive content.

Transcript

[Mike Wright]

This is hall of Fame and Marshall.

[Jason Moore]

Falk, and you're listening to the Fantasy Footballers. Welcome to the Fantasy Footballers Podcast coming to you from the fantasyjocks.com studios with your hosts, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright.

[Andy Holloway]

Welcome in to the podcast. I'm here.

[Jason Moore]

I'm here here, too.

[Andy Holloway]

You guys are both wearing black shirts today.

[Mike Wright]

Mib man.

[Jason Moore]

Feeling gloomy, man, it's the Super Bowl.

[Andy Holloway]

Don't want to wear black shirts, Guys. You're very pale.

[Jason Moore]

Really well, that.

[Andy Holloway]

You blend into your. You blend into the chairs. You're just like floating heads.

[Mike Wright]

That's all right.

[Jason Moore]

Most of the time, I am pale, regardless of the color of my.

[Mike Wright]

Speaking of gloomy, okay, today is Groundhog Day.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah.

[Mike Wright]

And he saw his shadow, which means victory for Arizona, fellas.

[Andy Holloway]

Why is that?

[Mike Wright]

Six more weeks of winter.

[Andy Holloway]

Oh, right.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah. We did it.

[Jason Moore]

It's only 70 degrees.

[Andy Holloway]

Every single year. My wife gets excited for that because I guess in her childhood that was a big thing. You know, the Punxatany fill or whatever it is. Yeah, I'm sounding dumb while I say it. So she came in this morning, is like, what does that mean? We got like, three springs this year or something? Like, I have no idea.

[Mike Wright]

What's funny is there is a.

[Andy Holloway]

We have one season. I wanted to check summer and summer light.

[Mike Wright]

Actually, the.

[Jason Moore]

The.

[Mike Wright]

The kids, they were very upset. Like, it's Groundhog Day. Did we miss it? And I said, I'll check it. And so the first thing that comes up is this Washington Post article. But so you know, Groundhog Day is just fun, right? But here's. Here's the headline. Groundhog Day 2017. Phil says long winter. Winter. But he was wrong before he even woke up.

[Andy Holloway]

Wow.

[Mike Wright]

Take that, Phil.

[Andy Holloway]

Meteorologists controversy.

[Jason Moore]

Stupid groundhog.

[Mike Wright]

Well, doesn't know whether it feels like.

[Andy Holloway]

Groundhog Day with the Patriots in the super bowl yet again.

[Mike Wright]

Oh, I like what you did.

[Andy Holloway]

Welcome to the show. Today we have a great one. I a Wayne Gretzky, if you will. We have the 10 things to remember.

[Mike Wright]

We just lost episode.

[Andy Holloway]

20% of the audience is gone. Gotta make a good Gretzky joke. Every blue moon. 10 things to remember about 2016. This actually is a really important episode. These are things you want to keep. Keep your mind on so that you don't make the same mistakes in 2017. Things that you should remember that may craft your draft strategy for 2017. A lot of things that we've learned over the years that you have to remember. Otherwise you'll be. You'll be thrown off. You make mistakes. So we each have picked out three of our own, and then we have one as a group that we want to share with you. So that's the focus of today's show. We also have news, and I do want to mention this right off the bat, for those of you that are gamers, I know there's a lot of crossover from our listenership. Those of you that play video games and things like that. We did start a Twitch channel during the offseason. We're gonna be answering some fantasy questions on there and then playing games in a very mediocre way, trying to play them in a good way. So that's Twitch tv theffballers, if you want to follow us there that way, you know, when we go live, we'll do that a couple times a week, and if you're in the chat room, we'll answer some questions as well. Should be a lot of fun.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah.

[Andy Holloway]

Watching Jason die.

[Jason Moore]

So I will. I will entertain you.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah.

[Jason Moore]

But I will not teach you how to be better at the game.

[Andy Holloway]

No, no, We've. We've said this before. Jason is the. The guy who probably answer most of the questions because he'll have the respawn timer. Oh, yeah, that'll be going. And I'll just constantly be in that respawn timer. He'll have. Have a free mind. All right, quick question of the day, gentlemen. Soon comes in off of Twitter @Michael88 Morgan. He says, out of these four rookies. I love this question because I've read this already from when it came in, and I don't necessarily know the answer yet. He says, out of these four rookies, who will have a sophomore slump? Ezekiel Elliott, Michael Thomas. Michael Thomas, Jordan Howard, or Tyreek Hill? A report just came out. Two very positive Tyreek Hill reports over the past two days. First saying his snaps could double, and then Andy Reid basically coming out and saying, hey, look, he may earn a starting wide receiver.

[Mike Wright]

His catches may quadruple.

[Jason Moore]

He may be a starting wide receiver. That's really good for fantasy.

[Andy Holloway]

When a guy finished 13th in fantasy at the wide receiver position without being a starter, it is good for fantasy. Good point, Jason.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. So you're not taking Tyreek Hill.

[Andy Holloway]

Well, look, I don't think that Ezekiel Elliott or Michael Thomas are in consideration for me here.

[Jason Moore]

I agree.

[Andy Holloway]

I actually do think that there's a chance Jordan Howard has a sophomore slump, and I think there's a chance Tyreek Hill has a sophomore slump.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah.

[Andy Holloway]

So those are the two considerations for me. Which do you lean towards?

[Jason Moore]

I Lean towards Jordan Howard and I lean towards Jordan Howard more because of how good he was in his rookie year, how usable. Tyree Kill, sure, he finished where you say he finished, but the reality is he wasn't always started. He wasn't a guy that you plugged into your lineup week after week after week, even though you could have like, if you did it, you were all right, but there wasn't the feeling. Whereas Jordan Howard became this must start weekly running back. And I think he's going to be drafted. There's going to be someone that's reaching, you know, maybe the back of the first, early second round for Jordan Howard if things fall the right way in the off season and he has a much better, better chance of disappointing than Tyree Kill, who I don't think is going to be drafted ahead of the fourth.

[Andy Holloway]

Your, your qualifier. Your qualifier for the disappointment is the draft position versus so risk reward.

[Mike Wright]

It has to weigh into it.

[Jason Moore]

A larger drop is. Yes. Is essentially what I'm saying.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah. I mean you do have an example of this with a guy like Jeremy Hill who came out Set the world on Fire, everybody. Oh, this is the new Marshawn Lynch. Look at that. Yards per carry. And then disappointed.

[Mike Wright]

We haven't much, much more recent example as well. His name rhymes with Schmod Shmurli.

[Andy Holloway]

Yes. Schmod Shmurli of the.

[Mike Wright]

I don't want to name names.

[Andy Holloway]

Schmandel is Schmams. Yeah. No. Another great example. You come out as a rookie. Obviously. We love the offensive line in Dallas. Ezekiel Elliott, the talent. Michael Thomas proved himself this year. High reception totals. This wasn't a flash in the pan.

[Mike Wright]

Is Drew Brees still there?

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, Drew Brees is still.

[Mike Wright]

Then he's still good.

[Andy Holloway]

So who you would say? Tyreek.

[Mike Wright]

I lean towards Tyreek Hill, but my caution on Jordan Howard is like Jason saying, I love Jordan Howard. I think he is a beast of a running back. But the problem is we have seen so many examples of running backs on bad teams. It just, it falls apart if he doesn't have the gas to carry the team. And his what I love out of a running back, especially a first round running back, I want a guy who I know is going to catch the ball. And Jordan Howard, while he did, I mean he had 50 targets. So I mean he's getting targeted. He had a drop percentage of 14% which is ridiculously high. So. And we know John Fox, his history with running backs. Is he going to say, well, I'm, I'm going to go out in the draft And I'm going to get me a scat back. I'm going to get a guy here who I know is more reliable in the passing game than Jordan Howard. So that would be huge dent to his value in my opinion, for a, for a first round guy.

[Andy Holloway]

All right, let's go ahead and jump into the news.

[Jason Moore]

News and notes from around the league.

[Andy Holloway]

We do get emails quite a bit, people wanting to support the show. The best way you can support us, check out jointhefoot.com we're an independent podcast and jointhefoot.com is our fantasy community. We put out extra episodes for the supporters over there as well as a lot of other bennies, as they call them. Bennies.

[Mike Wright]

Benny Cunningham. Cunningham.

[Andy Holloway]

No, no, no, no. Benny Fitz. Benny Fitz. You can also follow us on twitter@the ff ballers and the websites the fantasy footballers.com lots of new articles coming up, including a fantasy report card article about Alan Robinson. I think he'll be one of the interesting names for 2017.

[Mike Wright]

I don't think his parents are going to like that report card very much.

[Andy Holloway]

No, not based on this last year.

[Mike Wright]

That one's going to need a signature.

[Andy Holloway]

Are they going to hold him back? Is that the Alan Rob. All right. News. I have to just. Oh, oh, Larry.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah.

[Andy Holloway]

Larry Fitzgerald is coming back, which I would do if I led the league in receptions if it were me. So told ESPN's Jim Trotter he's definitely returning. There were tweets from Larry this morning that certainly affirmed that.

[Mike Wright]

Excellent.

[Jason Moore]

When he, Larry is back. There's all the questions surrounding Carson Palmer, which we'll get to here. But Larry and Carson right now are joined in the hip. The most lines of thinking were that if one of them leaves, the other is gone. And so hopefully one of them coming back in. Larry ensures that Carson Palmer will be back. And that's not just for us as Arizona Cardinal fans, but for fantasy football. I wouldn't, you know, David Johnson, Larry Fitzgerald, John Brown, these guys, they need Carson back.

[Mike Wright]

To me, this says, if Larry has says, all right, this early, I'm coming back. That means he talked to Bruce, he talked to Steve Keim and they have told him Palmer will be here or we will go get Tony Romo. We're not going to have you come back for a rebuild and waste another year of just garbage when we have no chance to win. To me, that's what they said. They've promised Larry that they will have a starter caliber quarterback.

[Andy Holloway]

This is a team that has had a top five defense in consecutive years. Obviously they were in the NFC title game two years ago. Last year, like Carolina had a very disappointing season. But they are the type of team that can come back with a vengeance if the pieces are healthy. Pat McAfee.

[Mike Wright]

Retired. That was a.

[Andy Holloway]

Well, I said that because.

[Mike Wright]

Well, because it's so bizarre. Well, so if you haven't heard the Colts punter, he's. He's going to write for barstool sports.

[Andy Holloway]

He's 29.

[Jason Moore]

He is.

[Andy Holloway]

And he was the best punter in the league.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, exactly. He's not even a Pro bowl player. He's all pro. He is literally one of the best, if not the best.

[Mike Wright]

Did you call him McAfee? Isn't it McAfee?

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, that's why. That's why.

[Mike Wright]

Oh, that's where the pause.

[Jason Moore]

Okay.

[Andy Holloway]

That's why I paused. I was. He's an antivirus program.

[Mike Wright]

You put the wrong impossus.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. I mean, he's great. I will say this. I tweeted out, I think our main show tweeted out his press conference announcing his retirement, which was a very funny little bit that he did, but it is crazy. It's real. He's leaving his multimillion dollar show up to football games and kick a football to go right for a blog.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah.

[Mike Wright]

Hey, man. He.

[Andy Holloway]

He feels it far more important news for the fantasy owner. Lev Bell is in the process of determining if he needs off season groin surgery.

[Mike Wright]

Another discount on Levy on Bell.

[Andy Holloway]

Levy on Bell tries to give you a discount every single off season. Alex Flanagan is talking to Bob McNair. He said, Bob McNair. She said, Bob McNair said Osweiler needs to get better. Hmm. That's kind of important. Probably going to look at a young quarterback in the draft. Look, the implications of this news are just related to the weapons there. Lamar Miller and Nuke, who they want to give an extension to. But he's kind of trapped in that world where Larry Fitzgerald was trapped when John Skelton was a quarterback.

[Mike Wright]

He would sign it.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, you sign it because they're going to pay him.

[Jason Moore]

He's going to get paid no matter what.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah.

[Andy Holloway]

Well, here's the thing. Osweiler doesn't represent a seven year project to me. He represents like you're. He's going to get it together or they're going to make a complete change. So.

[Mike Wright]

But then you have to go through that change of building up. That could be multiple years.

[Andy Holloway]

He'll sign it. Players always sign it.

[Mike Wright]

I don't. Not always.

[Andy Holloway]

Larry did.

[Jason Moore]

So. Yeah.

[Andy Holloway]

And then it was reported by Ian Rapaport. That the Texans are not a landing spot for Tony Romo.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah. Financially does not make sense for them.

[Andy Holloway]

So you guys want to start talking about these 10 things to remember?

[Jason Moore]

Yeah.

[Andy Holloway]

Who's got the first one?

[Jason Moore]

I believe I am kicking it off. All right, so the 10 things to remember. And this is. You know, we've been talking about this show for a while because we want to make sure this is the time of year where we still remember this year. And we always think, always, always, always we think, well, I'm going to have this information from this year and next year, I'll remember all of it. And we never do. Every single year, I look back and I go, oh, man, that's right. I should have learned my lesson before. So here is my first thing that I want to remember going into next draft season. And it's super obvious. Quarterbacks matter to wide receivers. Like, duh. Right. That's super obvious. But if you look at the top 10 core or the top 10 wide receivers. Right. Your best fantasy options this year, six of them were drafted in the first two rounds. So that makes sense. It's like, okay, well, I got the best wide receivers. They were really good. But the four guys who were not drafted in those first two rounds, they were Ty Hilton, Devonte Adams, Brandon Cooks, and Michael Thomas. What do they all have in common? They all have a Hall of Fame caliber. We're not talking a good quarterback. We're talking about Andrew Luck, Aaron Rodgers.

[Mike Wright]

Wow, you're putting Luck in the hall of Fame.

[Andy Holloway]

It's a little early for Luck, but I get what you're saying.

[Jason Moore]

Luck will be a Hall of Famer, an elite quarterback, and Drew Brees. And if you look at the guys who. If you look at the guys who, you know, were drafted high, higher than, you know, many of these guys who didn't pan out, Brandon Marshall and Demaryus Thomas and DeAndre Hopkins. What do they have in common? They had bad quarterback.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah. You can also throw Alan Robinson in there.

[Jason Moore]

Exactly. So for me, when I'm going into next season, look, in the first two rounds, if you know Mike Evans, you can argue whether Jameis Winston is good or not. He's great. He's top.

[Mike Wright]

Top.

[Jason Moore]

But once I'm like, round three and later, and if I'm looking at wide receivers, I'm going to be focusing on the quarterbacks. That's something I want to remember from this year.

[Andy Holloway]

Absolutely. Absolutely. That. And that's important because when you look at running backs, that that correlation isn't as Strong. You like winning teams. I know that strategy is one that I've taken in the past. Winning teams, good quarterbacks, good offenses. But you did have some running backs that performed on bad teams. You didn't really have that with wide receivers because you need a quarterback, they throw the ball to the wide receiver.

[Mike Wright]

Go figure.

[Andy Holloway]

All right. Number two, number two. On the 10 things to remember, this one is. It's a tough one for me and it is. Remember that prototypical isn't always best, even though it always feels best. And I want to tell you what I mean by that. Tyreek Hill, Tevin Coleman. Okay. Michael Thomas, the rookie. Marcus Mariota, not prototypical. Rashad Matthews, not prototypical. There are a number of players that finished in the very top of their position, near the top of their position. And what do I mean by prototypical? I mean kind of how you would sketch out a perfect wide receiver. One, a perfect wide receiver two, a perfect running back one and a perfect running back. Two. For a running back, a lot of that times, a lot of the times that means I'm a bell cow. I'm the RB1 in the backfield. I get this many touches for a wide receiver. It's okay. I'm, I'm the first target on my offense. I'm an every down player. But what I want to remember is that prototypical is not always best and that I can, when I see the signs on the field, in the stats, I can buy into some of these guys that are not prototypical. Tyreek Hill finished 13th at the position. He wasn't even a normal starter. He got the end arounds. He was more of the. Who am I thinking of from St. Louis?

[Mike Wright]

Tavon.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, he's more of the, you know, he played that Tavon type of role, yet had a massive impact on your fantasy team. Tevin Coleman, I mean, he's the RB2, but he was on a prolific offense. I could have bought into Tevin Coleman and had a bunch of good weeks out of that. So basically I'm not saying you draw up your fantasy roster with all of these guys, but allow for some out of the box commitments to some of these players that are in that other category of non prototypical. So I want to remember that for next year because we saw guys step out and do that. If I had bought into Michael Thomas earlier, that would have been a big benefit to my team even though he's a rookie. So look for those opportunities.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah. And then. And we know that the rookies are kind of few and far between. We Talk about a lot how our view of rookies has been skewed by that couple years ago when when several of them went off and they were in the top 24. But that doesn't mean there won't be one to two guys who break out their rookie year, especially in this new NFL. The thing that I want to remember and kind of number three number, number three point out here is the this year, it's a no duh kind of a situation. It's the impact that the super stud running back has on your team. If you had David Johnson, you had elliott, you had Le'Veon Bell, you know it, you felt it. Because these guys could win the week by themselves. There is a massive separation of the top running backs from the rest of the RB1s and I just want to emphasize this is the norm. This is the normal thing. This is why I like to take running backs in the first round, right. So I broke down some numbers on the running backs and the wide receivers for the last four years and looking at the average, the mean right. Of what were running back ones putting up and here's the last four years. 254 points. Last year, catastrophe. 207 points. But the two years before that, 247. 248. So this year was right in line with those other three years. And the point that I want to emphasize on that is the standard deviation, right. I know we're getting a little mathematical on you, but I just want to point out that this is what the top end guys do for your team. The standard deviation for the top 12 running backs last year was almost 50 points. Two years ago when it was a crap fest was 32 years before that though 50 and 45. That the top end running backs that you can only get in the first round. The first round, maybe the second round. Sometimes like a Shane McCoy, he drops. I just want to re emphasize the impact that these guys. This is not. This is the trend. This is the norm. It led to two years ago. The, that was the fluke kind of like I'll talk about or we will be talking about eventually, but how wide receivers. This year was just. It was down and I don't want you to overreact and I love me getting a running back one in the first and second round.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, I can get behind that. I mean it's just a matter of points. You want more points than your opponent and if you look at the best running backs and the best wide receivers, the running backs score more points.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah.

[Mike Wright]

I just want to emphasize that this is. This is the normal thing. Right. Last year was the abomination.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. The. Yes. So for my next point, the thing that I want to remember this year, and this one is like a two year, number four. Number four. This is like a number four year memory for me because it's taken a while to see this over a longer period of time where guys that I liked and I saw reason for liking them. You know, I look at a player and I go, I expect something big for him. Kyle Shanahan's coming. I think, you know, Matt Ryan's going to be big and it doesn't happen. And I get it wrong. Right. Last year I was. Matt Ryan was my number three ranked quarterback going into 2015. And people are like, what? That's crazy. And it was crazy because he's. He didn't do well. Same with Travis Kelsey, who, you know, we loved the. The previous year, and Melvin Gordon. Some of these guys that we looked, I looked. My analysis said there are reasons that I really like these guys. Well, what happened in 2015 with the Melvin Gordons and Travis Kelsey's and Matt Ryan's is it didn't pan out. And so we swung the pendulum too far to where these guys were buried and Melvin Gordon is, you know, not going to be able to do it. Matt Ryan is just Matt Ryan and these things. So for this coming season, I want to remember some of the guys that I liked that I saw reason and rationale for them to step forward into a big role and not kill them. Right. I'm still going to take into account it didn't happen for them. So, you know, a list of guys that, for me, John Brown, right. You know, he had injury concerns this year that came up. Eric Ebron didn't really step forward the way I wanted.

[Andy Holloway]

You're saying these are all players that you were high on?

[Jason Moore]

That I was high on before this season. Tyler Boyd, with reason, Alan Robinson. And I'm going to go ahead and duck behind the counter here and even throw out Kobe Fleener. Okay. These are guys that I liked coming into this year who did not pan out. And what I want to remember this year is I want to remember those guys and think I'm not gonna. I'm not, you know, last year, but I'm not throwing them out. I still see reason that some of those guys can bounce back. And we might just be one year early on it because, you know, that happens every.

[Mike Wright]

You could also call this kind of, you know, that visiting the fantasy doctor, so to speak. Because these guys, they burn you, they wound, they, they puncture you in your, your soul.

[Andy Holloway]

And then you want to throw them out because you just don't want to deal with the potential of them disappointing.

[Mike Wright]

You're garbage. You were garbage once. But as if you've watched the NFL for more than one year, you understand that sometimes guys have down seasons. They bounce back. So you got to get.

[Andy Holloway]

And a lot of the times they represent value.

[Mike Wright]

Yes. Bandage up, man. Put some salve on the wounds.

[Andy Holloway]

All right. Before we grab number five on this list, I have number five for you. Before we do that, I do want to thank today's sponsor of the show helping us keep the lights on. It's Blue Apron. We've been talking all about them lately and that is because not all ingredients are created equal. Blue Apron sends you fresh, high quality ingredients. They make a real difference because it's important to know where your food comes from. Thankfully, for less than 10 bucks a person, Blue Apron delivers easy to follow recipes along with pre portioned ingredients courtesy of over 150 local farms, ranches and fisheries across the United States. Right to your door. We've our family has used Blue Apron for a very long time. I love it. They ship the perfect amount of ingredients. There's no waste. Everything is right there. For you to easily make a home cooked meal in 40 minutes or less. Here are some upcoming meals. Okay, some of the upcoming February meals. Cashew chicken stir fry with tango Mandarins and jasmine rice Udon noodle soup with miso and soft boiled eggs Roasted pork with apple walnut and farro salad. I'm all about the pork lately, by the way.

[Mike Wright]

Nothing wrong with that.

[Andy Holloway]

Becoming a big pork fan and crispy. Oh wow, that's a tough word. Barramundi. That must be a. That must be a fish right there. Must be delicious with quinoa and roasted.

[Mike Wright]

The harder it is to say the.

[Andy Holloway]

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[Mike Wright]

Number five.

[Andy Holloway]

I don't know how tempted people will be, but I just want to emphasize a couple points about these so called throwaway positions. Don't be Tempted to grab a kicker early. Okay, I know you might have had a dream about Justin Tucker the other night and I understand I dream about Justin Tucker.

[Jason Moore]

How'd Goskowski work out for.

[Andy Holloway]

He's an incredible kicker. But here's the deal. Six of the top 12 kickers in 2016 went undrafted. That's the exact same amount as 2015. What does that mean? It means that you can be just fine without worrying about drafting a kicker or being tempted to draft a kicker. You know, you. What do you want to look for in a kicker? You want to look for high powered offenses. That's what we saw from Matt Bryant. Matt Bryant had the best season as a kicker since Gosh koski did in 2011. That was because the offense was powerful. Look for high powered offenses or out of this world legs like Justin Tucker. Look, that's all you need to worry about. You're going to be able, you're going to be just fine. Resist the temptation to move ahead and waste a flyer pick where you might have drafted a Michael Thomas last year to go grab a Stephen Goskowski, because what's the point?

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, I grabbed Matt Bryant's in the middle of the year off of waivers.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah. And that's always going to happen. Even unless it's like one or two special kickers of that year, they're all going to get dropped in their bye week anyway. So unless somebody rosters two of them.

[Jason Moore]

So that don't, don't worry about that team anyways.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah. Oh, well, I mean, yeah. Yeah, I guess I would have, I would have rostered Matt Bryant over.

[Andy Holloway]

No, I was, there's one, I did that with Justin Tucker, but there was a couple of guys.

[Mike Wright]

But I completely, completely agree. I mean, you just.

[Andy Holloway]

And for what it's worth, defenses, like if you had to pick between one that you wanted to take a plunge on, defenses are slightly more predictable than a kicker will be. In fact, the past two years, three of the top five defenses were the same. Arizona, Kansas City and Denver were all in the top five in consecutive years. So if you need to make a pick, what I'm saying is grab that D, then grab that kicker and use your last two picks. Yeah.

[Mike Wright]

And I would still highly recommend not going in early because every defense comes up against bad matchups and you don't want to play them.

[Andy Holloway]

You don't want to be locked in.

[Mike Wright]

You go to the waiver wire and it's just, you can live there. You can, you can live on the, on the waiver wire for your defenses. Now to continue what I was talking about a little bit earlier. This is number six.

[Andy Holloway]

Number six, Jason.

[Jason Moore]

Number six.

[Mike Wright]

Thank you.

[Jason Moore]

I didn't know we needed. We needed the mark of the Beast here. What's going on?

[Andy Holloway]

I'm Ron Burgundy.

[Jason Moore]

Didn't know you were waiting on me. Yeah, I said you're going. I'm not number six.

[Mike Wright]

I wanted. I just wanted you to be involved.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, that is weird, Mike. You. You should have skipped six.

[Mike Wright]

All right, all right. So number six here. Well, speaking of mark of the Beast, we're talking about bust data here. So I guess maybe there is a correlation. And I want to. So I've done. I always keep up my bus chart here as keeping track of, you know, what's happening for each of the top positions. And this was a little bit different this year, as you may have noticed, because it was kind of the year of the running back four. Only four of the top 12 drafted running backs busted compared to six of the top 12 wide receivers busted. This is the first year in. I've got data all the way back to 2012. This is the first time that the wide receivers have ever out busted. Oh, no.

[Andy Holloway]

What about 0 RB?

[Jason Moore]

Wow. That was the tiniest little voice of public opinion.

[Mike Wright]

I'm not. I'm not here to debunk or fight against the 0rb Truthers. I know that there is value in seeking anti fragility and that kind of stuff. I get the argument. I totally get the argument. But I just think that as I talked about that the. The top end running backs are where I want to be. But my point for this is, I don't want you to swing the pendulum too far now when I'm saying I take the running backs early in the first round, right? When it's the back of the first and eight running backs have been selected, I'm not going to be a dummy and just say, well, I got to take a running back here. It's the hardcore. It's the. The rule when Antonio Brown is still on the board because he's still the best player available. So I guess you could say I'm just. Don't lock yourself in because of last year's results, right? You have to be smart about these things. You have to be water. You have to roll with the situation and understand that just because the running backs provide such a value to your team, if they've already been depleted, if that top tier has already been depleted, don't abandon the wide receivers just because they. You had more busting on that side.

[Andy Holloway]

It'S a healthy reminder, right, because this happened last year.

[Jason Moore]

Right.

[Andy Holloway]

Wouldn't you say? I mean, wouldn't you say this happened.

[Mike Wright]

And that's why I'm bringing it up right now.

[Andy Holloway]

And if you had followed this advice last year, you probably would have had a top tier running back, right? That would have been your.

[Mike Wright]

You would have had two.

[Andy Holloway]

You wouldn't have. Yeah, you could have had two. I mean, like there were several leagues where I ended up with Shady and Lev Bell or something like that, where last year the overreaction was because of the bus data at the position. But you got to look long term and you can't swing the pendulum too far. You miss out on value. So, Jason, number seven.

[Jason Moore]

Number seven. This is for me personally and for many listeners out there who have made trades in the year. Some of them work, some of them don't. I want to go back and remember the, the reasons and why things worked and why things didn't. You got to analyze those because sometimes a trade doesn't work out, a guy gets injured or whatever. Sometimes though, you go back and you look and you can see why you made a mistake in one of your trades and you can avoid that. So for me, I could tell you one of the things I want to remember for next year is to never be in a position where I think I need to make a trade. If you are in the position where you.

[Andy Holloway]

Here's. Would you call that desperation?

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, basically. Well, yeah, you're boxing yourself into something. So here's what happened with 1. You know, in our league of record, I was 5 and 2. I had a really good team, but I looked at some of the other teams in the league, I looked at like two other teams and I got, man, those are like powerhouse teams.

[Mike Wright]

You got scared.

[Jason Moore]

And I thought, I know, I'm good.

[Andy Holloway]

Even though your team was great.

[Jason Moore]

I know, yeah, my team is great. But I'm going to go to the playoffs and I'm going to match up against these. I need more firepower. And it became this like, need obsession where I thought, I have to do it. This team can't win.

[Mike Wright]

Couldn't eat.

[Jason Moore]

Well, well, I could always eat. I mean, let's be honest.

[Andy Holloway]

Oh, couldn't sleep, though.

[Jason Moore]

Speaking of that, I'm starving. But so what I did is I ended up making some moves where, you know, I traded Larry Fitzgerald for Brandon Marshall and gave up more pieces as well because at the point in the year I thought Larry couldn't get it done for me and I went after Greg Olson. I made my Team great. But I ended up doing these trades that actually hurt my team. I think I did that because I was so focused on I got to get a deal done. Instead of finding the right deal, I just was like, I need it. I need it today.

[Andy Holloway]

Let me expand on that, too, because I think one thing you can do in your league is if you made a handful of trades this year, go look at how those trades broke down. Did you make a lot of two for one deals either with you getting the two or them getting the two? Look at those deals. Did all the trades that were two for ones actually end up in your favor or not in your favor break down? How? Because individual leagues, the people in your leagues who you trade with, they do affect, you know, the value that you get back. So it's good to look back and say, hey, look, I. Look, I did two for one trades three times last year where I. Where I sent away a good player and got two back. And all three times, it actually didn't end up in my favor. You won't make that mistake again if you can go back and identify the pattern of why you made that mistake. Because sometimes you get those trade offers and they send those two juicy names and you're like, oh, I'm gonna give up my star because I need to be more well rounded and it doesn't work out. But so learn from that is what Jason said. Yep.

[Mike Wright]

It's the stock market.

[Jason Moore]

Right.

[Mike Wright]

You got burned because you bought high.

[Jason Moore]

Right.

[Mike Wright]

You bought the ultimate high of Greg Olson. So it can work out.

[Andy Holloway]

This is not something that experts avoid, by the way.

[Jason Moore]

Right.

[Andy Holloway]

It is high. It is super tempting to go buy a guy very high. You want that production on your team. But learn from it.

[Mike Wright]

And there's. There's the danger of buying high is we talked about. This is like when you draft a quarterback early, you're committed to that guy. If you listen to the show through the season, it's every single week, Jason.

[Jason Moore]

Greg Olson was in my lineup.

[Mike Wright]

Do I. Do I start Greg Olson? Well, I have to start Greg Olson, not only because he's still the number one tight end, but you paid so much for him. And you know what he can do. You just. That fruit, that juicy fruit is always in front of your face.

[Andy Holloway]

It's going to move you.

[Jason Moore]

Oh, it's going to get right to you.

[Andy Holloway]

All right, number eight. Number eight.

[Mike Wright]

Number eight.

[Andy Holloway]

I think this is one of the most important ones. Remember the fallen. Oh, man. Oh, I do have it. Remember the fallen. Guys coming back from injury are perennially under drafted and doubted. Okay. This is one of the most important things for you to find value in the upcoming draft. Yes, the risk may be a little bit higher because they're coming off an injury, but their bargain price presents upside that you do not want to forget. Who am I talking about? I'm talking about everybody from Eric Decker, Keenan Allen in the early injury, John Brown in the sickle cell. Problem. Tony Romo went down, may land somewhere else. Eddie Lacy played very little this season. Jeremy Hill, we don't know how banged up he was throughout the season. We know he was banged up.

[Mike Wright]

He looked, looks to not be healthy.

[Andy Holloway]

Gio Bernard. Gio Bernard missed a huge part of the season. And then guys that got hurt at the end of the year, right. Derek Carr, Melvin Gordon, even some of these other guys that are maybe smaller that you're not thinking about. Randall Cobb seemed like he was actually hurt for the majority of the year. Came on towards the playoffs. Ben Watson went out. If you looked at the numbers for Dennis Pitta, the target at the tight end position in Baltimore was insane. Like his targets were insane. Yet Pitta's efficiency and fantasy production were awful. And Ben Watts is coming back one.

[Mike Wright]

And a half hips.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah. So there is value to be found in the forgotten, injured fallen guy.

[Jason Moore]

It is a great point. In fact, it's so great that I actually, when we were making ours, I had essentially this point with four guys because to me, Andrew Luck, Melvin Gordon, Le'Veon Bell and Zach Ertz. I wanted to, I want to remember next year how good those guys were because here's what happens next year. We're going to look at the lists and we're going to forget the nuance of the season and we're going to see that Melvin Gordon was, you know, he was a top 10 back and that's pretty good. So he had a good season, but you're going to forget that he was a top 10 back while he played what, like 13 games. And the Andrew Luck, he was a monster. Andrew Luck was a top five quarterback. It's pretty good. He was the only guy up there who didn't play a full 16 games. They were better than they then, you know, same with Zach Ertz. Zach Ertz, you know, oh, he was like the eighth best tight end. He missed three games.

[Andy Holloway]

If you drafted Steve Smith, Jimmy Graham, Jordy Nelson last year, you got value. They outproduced their draft position because they were falling from the year before. Nobody wants to take that risk. And I'm not saying you fill your roster with These players, I'm saying, you find the best value they can.

[Jason Moore]

Jamal Charles on you.

[Andy Holloway]

Sure. They can. They can do that. Mike. Number nine.

[Mike Wright]

Number nine.

[Jason Moore]

Number nine. Thank you.

[Mike Wright]

Welcome to the conversation. What is happening? Are you going finding Nemo on me?

[Jason Moore]

Yes.

[Andy Holloway]

Go on.

[Mike Wright]

Mike number nine. This one. This is a personal reminder from me to yourself to myself and the foot clan out there where this is not necessarily a strategy thing. This is. We talk about, we always take it, you know, an overarching look at the game of fantasy football. And there's also some fun to be had with combined with the winning. But my point is this. There's not much worse than losing with a guy that you don't like that you did not believe in.

[Andy Holloway]

Illustrate that point for us.

[Jason Moore]

My point, how do you relive this point for us?

[Mike Wright]

My point would be this season if you followed the show through the offseason, there was be very contentious and heated debates between I believe mostly me and Andy. I think Jason was very on board with.

[Jason Moore]

I was in the middle.

[Mike Wright]

You're in the middle. But Andy loved Doug Martin and I did not.

[Jason Moore]

Oh, you hate.

[Mike Wright]

I wanted nothing to do with Doug Martin. The season rolls around, he gets hurt right away. He gets hurt, right? What, oh, what are you remembering?

[Jason Moore]

I just remembered what I asked you to remind me for this show. So now we're going to have 11.

[Andy Holloway]

Oh, you got a bonus. Write it down so you don't forget 9B.

[Mike Wright]

So here's as you follow, Doug Martin got hurt. But we talked about all season the juicy playoff schedule, and not even just the playoff schedule, but after week seven or whatever it was, everything opened up for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Their schedule became unbelievably good. So I went and bought Doug Martin. I paid pretty hefty for Doug Martin despite not believing in him personally, not really wanting him on my team, but seeing an opportunity here that I thought was just too good to pass up to get what could be a high level running back one. Well, as the year went on, Doug Martin buried me. He buried me because I had traded away my assets. I couldn't do anything else. I was hamstrung. I bought.

[Andy Holloway]

As was he.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, very nice. But I had, I had no choice. I had to play him. Meanwhile, waiver wire pickup jock Whiz Rogers on my team was much better for me. And it's just, I just want to.

[Andy Holloway]

Remind you saying the burn is stronger when you have a bad.

[Mike Wright]

Don't like the guy. It's just far worse.

[Andy Holloway]

Go down with your best.

[Mike Wright]

So I'm reminding myself next year, if there's a guy I just don't like, I'm going to accept them. And I talk about this, accepting the miss. If there's a guy that you don't want on your team, you just. You have to be willing to be wrong. And generally, I follow that theory of thinking, but I let it get the best of me this year with Doug Martin, and it ruined me, and it really, really sucked that I went down with Doug Martin.

[Andy Holloway]

Right, right. Jason, you said you remembered an extra one here, so we're going to squeeze it in before number 10.

[Jason Moore]

I appreciate that. So this was 9B. 9B. This was something I asked Mike to remind me when we do this show. You're welcome to do this. Yes.

[Mike Wright]

Thank you.

[Jason Moore]

And he couldn't remember and I couldn't remember. But this. You'll clearly understand why I remembered.

[Andy Holloway]

Now, this is dangerous because it's not been vetted. So this might be a terrible advice.

[Jason Moore]

No, it. Don't overreact to playoff schedules.

[Andy Holloway]

Oh, that's right.

[Jason Moore]

Year in a row that I feel like there has been too much overreaction. And when I look at myself as an analyst and I want to get better, you know, look, there's players you hit on, there's players you miss on every single analyst. But there's two genres I feel like I made mistakes on and I need to get better. Yes. One was romance. My romantic life with Greg Olson was not good.

[Andy Holloway]

Weight loss.

[Jason Moore]

Weight loss is the second. So you guys see right through me.

[Mike Wright]

Weight loss is a genre. It is today.

[Jason Moore]

No, but. But the two areas. One was injuries. I feel like I got it wrong on Jamal Charles. I thought he was going to be able to come back. I got it wrong on Jimmy Graham. So I want to remember the injured guys now and be more astute with that. But the other is the playoff schedules. I mean, who was not. Who was worried about Aaron Rodgers midway through the year? Well, I think all three of us might raise our hands, but definitely me, because you looked at that playoff schedule and it was nasty. And he wasn't that great the first half.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah. The things. Did things align for the line of.

[Jason Moore]

Thinking for Devonte Adams and Jordy and Aaron Rodgers, who were hot fire in the playoffs that a lot of people got rid of. And then on the flip side, you're Doug Martins and the guys that you need to trade for because they've got.

[Andy Holloway]

A good Evans Winston.

[Jason Moore]

Think about the previous year as well, when people were off of Julio Jones because they played, you know, Panthers.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah.

[Jason Moore]

The Panthers twice, and it was fine in the playoffs. We've got to remember for next year that we can't overreact. And I think we always remember that in the draft season. Like in draft season, we discount playoff schedule. We don't care at all. But midway through next year, I feel like we're going to care just as much. Too much. So we can remember.

[Mike Wright]

It's good.

[Andy Holloway]

Number 10. Number 10. This one comes from we. All of us here. This is number 10. Remember what was wrong with. That's not helpful. No, no. I'm gonna take. This one's mine. Remember what was wrong with your league and fix it now.

[Jason Moore]

Fix it time of year.

[Andy Holloway]

Whether it's bad rules, bad league mates, bad settings, you know, maybe where you're.

[Mike Wright]

Playing or how you're playing, playing waiver and priority.

[Andy Holloway]

Instead of fab or bad communication, you don't have something set up that allows your league to communicate. Announce trades, trade talk, rumors, those type of things. So if you have something wrong with your league, now is the time to get things in line. Whether it is spelling out some of the rules that people argued about and didn't understand last year, whether it's figuring out a better trade deadline, switching your waiver priority to fab.

[Jason Moore]

Getting off of week 17 championships.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah. Fixing your schedule.

[Jason Moore]

Stop it.

[Andy Holloway]

Kicking out people that didn't play or ruined your league's integrity because they did not adjust things.

[Jason Moore]

Can we get rid of Mike?

[Andy Holloway]

Right. Integrity wise?

[Jason Moore]

Yeah.

[Andy Holloway]

Not.

[Jason Moore]

He played, but his integrity is terrible.

[Andy Holloway]

Oh, don't say that.

[Jason Moore]

Oh, that's.

[Andy Holloway]

Don't say that.

[Mike Wright]

Well, I could see it.

[Andy Holloway]

I do. Well, now that you bring it up, I do remember this trade that happened with Calvin Johnson two years ago.

[Jason Moore]

This was like four years ago.

[Andy Holloway]

This was like two years.

[Jason Moore]

You'll never let it die.

[Andy Holloway]

Where I spent literally half my day trying to trade for Calvin Johnson. I decided to go to Mike for some advice and tell him not to do anything, and he goes home immediately and. No, no, no, no.

[Jason Moore]

You swooped in, to be fair, like a monster.

[Mike Wright]

Not immediately.

[Andy Holloway]

We almost lost the friendship.

[Mike Wright]

It was at least a couple hours.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, it was a couple hours.

[Jason Moore]

I'll tell you what. That evening we played in a flag football game together. And I didn't want to be near you, too, because it was like, ooh, there's some tension.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, it was Calvin tension. Yeah, it was some cg.

[Jason Moore]

All right, Mike, you're gone.

[Andy Holloway]

Anyways, this is a good time to remember to address those things with your league as well as maybe you're In a league, you're not running it. Right. This is presuming you're running the league. If you're not running a league and it's not a healthy league, you can find a healthy league. Don't believe that. Okay, so I've got, you know, two bozo friends that are running the league and everybody's inactive. Check out jointhefoot.com I've been telling people I went on to join the Foot this morning. We have Foot ClanLeagues.com. if you're a supporter of the show, you get access to that forum.

[Jason Moore]

Right.

[Andy Holloway]

And that forum, every single day, people are posting both local and online leagues there. There was a keeper league that someone posted they're starting up yesterday, and it had already had like 18, 19 people that wanted to get in. So these are listeners of the show. These are educated players that are active. We had about having fun. Yeah, we had a ton of these leagues last year where people just, whether it was local or online, they got together and then they had a good time playing in a league where people actually want to play.

[Jason Moore]

I still want.

[Andy Holloway]

Actually want to trade.

[Jason Moore]

I still want the first marriage. I want it.

[Andy Holloway]

Wait, you want a marriage?

[Jason Moore]

I want a marriage from one of these locals.

[Andy Holloway]

Oh, that would be amazing.

[Jason Moore]

I want.

[Andy Holloway]

If you get married because of that, you can come on the show.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. We'll interview and you better invite us to your wedding. Oh, yeah, I'll go.

[Andy Holloway]

So the most important thing here, remember, get married to somebody who loves fantasy football. Yeah. And that's the lesson.

[Jason Moore]

Before we leave, want to tell you a shout out to another podcast that is out there that's doing some cool stuff.

[Andy Holloway]

Brandon.

[Jason Moore]

Yes. It's called Playing with Science. I know. Mike, you're a big fan of Neil DeGrasse Tyson.

[Mike Wright]

Love Neil.

[Jason Moore]

Right. The Star Talk podcast, first name basis.

[Mike Wright]

Well, I wish I would. Neil. Look me up.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. So this, this is the same. This is the same guys that made that podcast. They're doing a sports one. It's very much like a sports science podcast. Pretty cool. I think the first episode, they're two hosts, one of which is the. Is a host from StarTalk. They're going to be going through the Super Bowl. They're going to have Ocu Minora on and San Antonio Holmes. So you'll have to forgive that part of the segment. Arizona fans, Neil DeGrasse Tyson's actually going to be on there. So they'll. They'll check out all sorts of things like, you know, Steph Curry's shot, and it's gonna be pretty cool. So that's playing with science.

[Andy Holloway]

Playing with science.

[Jason Moore]

If you want to check it out.

[Mike Wright]

Science.

[Andy Holloway]

Check it out. Check it out. All right, that is it for today's show. Stay tuned for the show after the show. And remember, check us out on Twitch if you're Into Games, Twitch TV, the.

[Mike Wright]

FFballers, and fantasyjocks.com to get your trophies. The code is footballers. See you on Tuesday.

[Andy Holloway]

Goodbye.

[Jason Moore]

Go Patriots. Thank you for listening to another episode of the Fantasy Footballers Podcast. Join our fantasy football community on jointhefoot. Com and follow us on Twitter at theffballers.