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Andy Holloway
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Jason Moore
Welcome to the Fantasy Footballers Podcast with your hosts, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore and Mike Wright.
Andy Holloway
Welcome in. Thursday, January 8th. We call this the listener adjustment period. Lots of comments like, oh, where's the show? Where was it on Monday?
Jason Moore
Tuesdays, Thursdays.
Andy Holloway
Tuesdays and Thursdays. You can tell Mike's in off season mode because he's got the sun's hat and the D backs. Hoodie. Got a no football anywhere.
Mike Wright
Got to rip. Rip my teams.
Andy Holloway
The hometown. You're such a big baseball guy.
Mike Wright
That's what you're known as. Second baseman. Oh, man, love that guy.
Jason Moore
First baseman.
Mike Wright
Wow. He's pretty good too.
Andy Holloway
You guys know some of the positions?
Jason Moore
Shortstop.
Mike Wright
Oh my God. The middle reliever that we call in all the time in the baby.
Andy Holloway
The sixth with the pitch. The really good.
Mike Wright
Yeah. Throws with his right hand.
Jason Moore
Yeah, yeah, that one does.
Mike Wright
And then don't forget the lefty though.
Jason Moore
And the catcher man. This way he squats and catches. Catches.
Andy Holloway
This is the kind of off season analysis you're going to get right here. We'll describe all the positions in the baseball team.
Mike Wright
I can name one member of the Arson, Jason, you know, like name that tune.
Andy Holloway
Oh, yeah.
Mike Wright
I can name one member of the Arizona Diamondback.
Jason Moore
And then I'm like, go, you're up. I don't. Could I, could I name two? I don't know if I can name one. I don't think you can name one.
Andy Holloway
Why did you start at 01 player on the Diamondbacks?
Mike Wright
The issue is currently.
Andy Holloway
Yeah, yeah.
Mike Wright
All I can think of is Corbin Dallas, and that is definitely Corby Carroll.
Andy Holloway
Yes.
Mike Wright
Hey.
Andy Holloway
Okay.
Jason Moore
Is that the one with the bad facial hair?
Andy Holloway
You put depending on the day in the month. You put the fifth element. Plus you gave him enough clues.
Mike Wright
We did it. We got one.
Andy Holloway
Corbendallas. Welcome into the fantasy footballers. We have a fun show today. A footballers ama. We do have the fantasy face off. We have picked our projections for the upcoming playoffs. I almost had fancy playoffs. Those are over. NFL playoffs. I am. I realize I'm really nervous about the NFL playoffs this week.
Mike Wright
Because of the Buffalo Bills.
Andy Holloway
Because of the Bills Jacksonville game. Like, in this office, you guys both pick Jacksonville to go to the Super Bowl. I picked Buffalo to go to the Super Bowl. So one of us is going to be soups wrong immediately.
Jason Moore
That is correct. One of us.
Andy Holloway
Okay. Okay.
Mike Wright
Because there's two.
Andy Holloway
But I mean, I think that game's super exciting. Some of my picks come from that game. But everything this weekend is going to be fun.
Jason Moore
I'm really happy that I picked the Jacksonville Jaguars because I want to be right. But in truth, I want the. I want the Bills to win. I want Josh Allen to win a Super Bowl.
Mike Wright
This is his chance.
Andy Holloway
I love this part of the day.
Jason Moore
But it's great because watching the game, I don't. First of all, I don't know who I'm going to be rooting for. That. You ever watch a game and you're like, I thought I was going to be rooting here and you just find your heart on the other side.
Mike Wright
I don't know that I care.
Jason Moore
And maybe you don't care, but I'm. I'm starting to think maybe I won't care who wins because, oh, I care a lot. Yeah, you're a little invested.
Andy Holloway
No, this is not a sports card thing. This is.
Mike Wright
This is a, like, oh, his proclamations of the Bills.
Andy Holloway
Yeah, I mean, are going to win. It's just a matter. It's not even my projections. It's just the history of the game of football. Like, you look at what makes a player legendary. I mean, if anybody's watched the Elway documentary that just came out on Netflix or any of the documentaries about the greats, you know, Jordan, he came up against the Pistons, Right. He couldn't get past the Pistons. Finally, he gets past the great nemesis. Like, to be considered the greatest quarterback of all time or one of the best of all time, you have to win a Super Bowl. And like, Josh Allen has gone up. He's gotten as close as he can to get past Mahomes and these.
Mike Wright
Yeah, his nemesis was already outed.
Andy Holloway
I mean, what the three touchdown game to Gabe Davis and these amazing football games that just. He was so close and now you have a clear path. If I told you at the beginning of the season that the thing standing between Josh Allen in a Super bowl was Trevor Lawrence and Duvall and Duvall, you'd be like, super Bowl. Yeah, he's got so to me, I just want the history, like, I feel like the time. Trevor Lawrence has got more time, Jacksonville's got more time. They're building something great there. If you're a Jacksonville fan, obviously, you know, it'd be a fun story if they make it happen. But if Josh Allen falls again in the first round, that's part of the story too. It's a first round loss.
Jason Moore
While you talk through this, I'm realizing the Bills can't lose. They cannot.
Andy Holloway
Like, that's how I feel about this is. This is why I feel that way around the game and why I picked Buffalo is because when the pressure hits, I feel like Josh Allen, it's closing time.
Jason Moore
Yeah. He is not allowed to lose that game or his entire.
Andy Holloway
You know, I know what worries me the very most. Mike picking the other side.
Jason Moore
Oh, I know. It's the year of Mike.
Andy Holloway
The year of Mike.
Jason Moore
You know how happy I was to see my bracket was identical.
Andy Holloway
It's the most concerning thing on this show.
Mike Wright
I don't know if the calendar flipping over changes it. I mean, the problem with all the Josh Allen Talk is there's 21 other guys. What do you mean?
Jason Moore
It's.
Mike Wright
Football is like, yeah, you need to have the best quarterback.
Andy Holloway
Oh, you're saying on his team.
Mike Wright
I'm saying I don't think the Bills are the best team. Even though Josh Allen. Josh Allen's probably the best quarterback in the playoffs.
Jason Moore
He certainly is.
Andy Holloway
And yeah, there was. Did you see Cam Newton going off on like, his podcast?
Mike Wright
No.
Andy Holloway
They went through all 14 playoff quarterbacks and he just yelled into the microphone whether they were a game changer or game manager. Oh, and there were only two.
Mike Wright
Oh, two changers. Okay.
Jason Moore
We got Josh Allen.
Andy Holloway
Josh Allen's one of them. Do you know the second one?
Jason Moore
No.
Andy Holloway
Everybody else was a game manager.
Mike Wright
Hold on, hold on.
Jason Moore
Like Mahomes was a game manager.
Andy Holloway
He's not in the playoffs.
Jason Moore
Oh, it's just the ones of the playoffs.
Andy Holloway
The 14 playoffs gotta be Stafford. Is Stafford okay. Everybody else was a game manager to him.
Mike Wright
That's fine.
Andy Holloway
Which I think is probably because you.
Mike Wright
Have to earn the. Like you have to. You have to earn the game changer moniker from Cam Newton. And you don't like Drake May in your year two. You don't get to be called.
Jason Moore
If I were to compare Drake May to Bo Nix. Drake May is a game changer, whereas Bo Nicks is game manager. But neither one of them have earned being a game changer yet.
Andy Holloway
If the situation was Jacksonville against Kansas City and you have the same personnel, I feel like the conversation is the greatness of Mahomes shall overcome.
Jason Moore
Right.
Andy Holloway
He finds a way in the playoffs. Doesn't matter what the seat is, doesn't matter how good your defense is. He ends up winning. That's the story I want for Josh Allen.
Mike Wright
Right. But that would have been the story at multiple times during this year was Mahomes is going to. They're going to figure it out.
Andy Holloway
Talk about in the playoffs. I'm talking about playoff quarterbacks. When you get to the playoffs, everything changes.
Mike Wright
I do agree.
Andy Holloway
Just ask Sam Darnold.
Mike Wright
I do agree with that and I. That's why I'm in on Jacksonville, because defense is what really.
Andy Holloway
If Darnold loses bad and looks bad.
Jason Moore
Oh.
Andy Holloway
Because I want to come back to this conversation.
Mike Wright
Oh, man.
Andy Holloway
Halfway through the year, now they're the number one season.
Jason Moore
Yeah. Darnold already won round one.
Andy Holloway
That means more pressure. Number one and a better team and a home game. So you're telling me if Sam Darnold goes out there, it's going to be the Rams.
Jason Moore
They're all playing the Rams.
Andy Holloway
His pants. In the only playoff game Seattle gets as the number one seed. You're telling me there's not questions?
Jason Moore
Oh, man.
Andy Holloway
You're telling me there won't be the same questions as last year?
Mike Wright
There certainly will be.
Andy Holloway
I. This is the theater of the NFL.
Jason Moore
So the Rams almost certainly. Maybe it's very rude.
Andy Holloway
Right.
Jason Moore
Receding. Yes. But I believe that. So if I don't remember the other side of the bracket, but essentially I think that the Rams. Panthers. If the Rams win, they play the Seahawks. I know.
Andy Holloway
It would be. It would be the 49ers if they won or the packers if they won.
Jason Moore
Oh, really?
Andy Holloway
Yeah.
Jason Moore
Okay.
Andy Holloway
Because the Rams are the five seed. So if they reseed and you play the lowest seed, then the 49ers are the 6 and the packers are the 7. So they would play them. Right.
Mike Wright
Silly.
Jason Moore
Receding.
Andy Holloway
Silly. Other teams involved. It's just. It'll be wild.
Jason Moore
Well, he better hope he doesn't play the Rams in that game.
Andy Holloway
Six.
Jason Moore
Six Interceptions in the two games this year. I mean, they won both games.
Mike Wright
Right.
Jason Moore
But not because of Darnold.
Andy Holloway
And then you're going to end up with. On the other side, the Broncos have the one seed. Right. And the Patriots, if they manage to win, you're going to end up facing. You know, the Bills are the sixth seat, so that would be your opponent. If they get through. It's just going to be fun. I can't wait. I'm nervous for all of these legacies is I guess what I'm saying. We have a lot going on today, though. The footballers. Ama. We've got. We got a quick question today. We've got the prize picks. Shame we all tied this week. Jason lost the tiebreaker, and therefore he shall be shamed today.
Jason Moore
That's true. To be fair, the tiebreaker was throwing a pistachio near a wall, which we do around the studio from time to time.
Mike Wright
Multiple pistachio.
Jason Moore
That's true. That's true. Three rounds of pistachio throw.
Mike Wright
Well, it was supposed to be. It was more than three rounds.
Jason Moore
Normally, my pistachio throwing was not on point.
Andy Holloway
I wasn't even going to mention the pistachios. Of course we end up mentioning the pistachios. We normally have tiebreakers when there's a. There's a Sunday night game or a Monday night game. There wasn't that.
Jason Moore
Yeah. So we had throw tie. What else could you do?
Andy Holloway
Couldn't do anything else.
Jason Moore
You had to throw a pistachio closest to the wall without hitting.
Andy Holloway
Yeah. If you hit the wall, you're eliminated. If you go out of bounds, you're eliminated.
Mike Wright
Only because we're civilized gentlemen and we.
Andy Holloway
Didn'T do just one round. We're not.
Mike Wright
Oh, first of three losses and it only went three rounds.
Jason Moore
I went out of bounds twice.
Andy Holloway
That's on you.
Jason Moore
There's a little bit on the pistachio. I think the one I picked was a bad shape.
Andy Holloway
You got to know you picked it. You got to know your pistache shapes.
Jason Moore
Yeah.
Andy Holloway
All right.
Jason Moore
My bad.
Andy Holloway
But that's how Jason's getting shamed today.
Jason Moore
Yeah.
Andy Holloway
There you go.
Mike Wright
Do you have to eat like 1500 pistachios?
Jason Moore
Oh, no. What a punishment.
Mike Wright
Don't do that.
Andy Holloway
Are awesome if you're on.
Mike Wright
Yeah, but you got to shell. No, you got a shell. 1500 pistachios.
Andy Holloway
1500 and eat none. No, he shells them for us. Yeah, we eat them.
Jason Moore
Oh, that's.
Mike Wright
Yeah, now that's too far.
Andy Holloway
Wash your hands. All right, listen, if you don't like Just two shows a week and you need more pistachio content coming your way. Jointhefoot.com that's our community. You get a bonus weekly episode all year round in the off season. It's a great chance to get your questions answered because there's not a lot of start sit decisions. Right. So you can get other questions in there. And there you go. Championship swag. You can find it shopballers.com for the T shirts we. I saw them in the office yesterday. They look pretty good. I wasn't wearing one though. Quick question of the day from City stars on X. Are you taking Bijan or CMC number one next year in the draft?
Mike Wright
Bijan.
Jason Moore
Bijan.
Mike Wright
It's Bijan. And it's, it's not close. He is, he is so far and away to me the best running back, new head coach. People will make their arguments. You know, Gibbs, you know these other. But it's Bijan is the guy who can do everything. He's still young enough and still has like versus Christian McCaffrey. Like Bijan can rip off a 90 yard touchdown. Christian McCaffrey can't do that. He cannot do that. Not anymore. No, he can, you know, catch 100 plus passes like that. Christian McCaffrey could PPR and do things that Bijan may not get that opportunity. But they're. Bijan is my number one as of.
Jason Moore
Right now and Bijon is 23 years old right now. That makes a difference. Not just for like, hey, when is the drop off? Because I'm not. Yeah, I don't think you're calling for a drop off for a Christian McCaffrey. That will happen at some year in life. But it's also the injury risk. Like Bijan is younger, has been healthier and you just look at Christian McCaffrey and you go, okay. I mean I guess if we're following trends though. Let me just one last argument on pro Christian McCaffrey.
Mike Wright
Okay.
Jason Moore
Okay. He's the running back three. Then the running back one. Two great seasons in a row, then injured. When he comes back, he's the running back to the running back one. Two great seasons in a row, then injured running back one.
Mike Wright
I see what you're saying.
Jason Moore
Shouldn't this be another good one?
Mike Wright
Yeah. Another top two performance.
Jason Moore
I think the interesting question is, are you taking CMC number two?
Mike Wright
I don't know yet.
Jason Moore
Great.
Mike Wright
I don't know yet. I. I don't.
Andy Holloway
I would probably.
Mike Wright
I would guess not.
Andy Holloway
I would probably not do that. But I mean, I get it.
Mike Wright
Let's see so he'll be.
Andy Holloway
He's going to be older.
Mike Wright
He will be over 30.
Andy Holloway
And that scares me a little bit.
Mike Wright
Yeah. I mean, I feel like we've. You saw the. So far, the fall off and it's just like. I mean, he's not the same. He's not the same Christian McCaffrey was in 2019. But I mean, that was forever ago.
Jason Moore
Part.
Andy Holloway
Part of what made this season so majestic. And he's always been able to do it with or without wide receivers. But they didn't. They didn't have any this year.
Jason Moore
Right.
Andy Holloway
They missed Kittle for a long period of time. Brandon Iuk never came back. Ricky Pearsall, most of the year was gone. Yeah. The second he came back, he went. Turned right around like the Simpsons meme. And it was like Joanne Jennings sometimes who also got hurt. So, I mean, Kendrick Bourne was a talking point for part of the year.
Mike Wright
Yes, he was.
Andy Holloway
So it did work out well and he held up. I mean, that's what the math. That's what it comes down to. Can you hold up? We do have news. It's all coaches, but it's big news.
Jason Moore
News and notes from around the league.
Andy Holloway
The Ravens fired John Harbaugh after 18 seasons as a head coach. Playoffs in 12 of 18 years, I believe six division titles, Super bowl championship season and a.614 winning percentage.
Jason Moore
And that is why there are six head coach openings and rumored to be nine teams that are interested in John Harbaugh right now.
Andy Holloway
Miami's one of them.
Jason Moore
Yep. And we can only speculate the jets.
Andy Holloway
Are one of them. We know that. That's confirmed.
Jason Moore
I believe it was Baker's wife that liked the post.
Andy Holloway
Oh, the Bucks are one of them.
Jason Moore
Yeah.
Mike Wright
I'm a little surprised that they are holding on right now.
Andy Holloway
Here's what I think is interesting. I think that there is a very decent chance Tomlin's fired too. If they go one and done again.
Mike Wright
Yeah.
Andy Holloway
And they don't look good. I think you could lose two stalwarts of this division. And then you lost to Fanski. So there's three head coaches. I mean, Zach Taylor's only one that.
Mike Wright
Got the pass and he barely.
Andy Holloway
Yeah, they had to come out.
Jason Moore
He is by far the worst coach in that division.
Andy Holloway
If you have to come out with a statement, that's like why we're keeping somebody. That's how close you were to getting fired.
Jason Moore
On the good news there, though, they did keep Zach Taylor. Zach Taylor came out and said, we are keeping our defensive coordinator.
Mike Wright
Oh, good.
Jason Moore
Which is Great news. Unfortunately, bad news. The Cowboys have released Eber Fluss as their defensive coordinator. So these two terrible defenses we love playing against, they might. One of them might shift.
Andy Holloway
Well, there are rumors right now about Cliff Kingsbury having his pick of the litter for a lot of these teams. And Baltimore is the one that's coming up this morning as well. You know the plan. The reason they said that they did this was to reinvigorate or invigorate Lamar Jackson, to give him something fresh.
Jason Moore
Makes sense.
Andy Holloway
Cliff Kingsbury coming to Baltimore would be very interesting. I, I think he's changed as a coach.
Jason Moore
I do too. I think he would come in with a little bit more presence and culture. He did not do that when he was in Arizona. I believe his second round will be decent as a head coach. And if you look at his resume with the two quarterbacks he's dealt with in the NFL so far, Kyler Murray, mobile rushing quarterback that he had early success with. Jaden Daniels, obviously rookie sensation, had success with. Hey, put him with Lamar Jackson. He's proven he can utilize that type of.
Andy Holloway
What's wild is Todd Monkin will be gone. Then if you bring in Cliff Kingsbury, there won't be a Todd Monkin.
Jason Moore
Well, I think Todd Monkin is gone no matter what. There were rumors that part of the reason, like Harbaugh was not immediately fired. They talked to players, they talked to staff, they talked to the general manager. This was a long thought through decision and there were many aspects to it, the locker room, the players. But one of the rumored or I guess reported issues was that he was not willing, Harbaugh was not willing to release Monkin and they basically didn't want Monk in there. I believe that was more maybe Lamar and Monk. It's a Monkin is gone. Yeah, he's not going to be there no matter what.
Andy Holloway
He's getting some coaching, head coaching opportunity as well.
Mike Wright
Also a note on Cliff Kingsbury's departure from Washington because this wasn't a. I'm leaving because I have a job like the offers there. Sorry guys, I'm going to go be a head coach. It sounded like he was leaving regardless of if he gets another opportunity and massive disagreements between. Yeah, and that's what I wanted to get your guys's take on because I personally find it a bit troubling because the report that came out was that Dan Quinn and Cliff Kingsbury, they had a very strong disagreement on a lot of things on the offense. They said in particular Pastor Rush ratio. So as in, I'm Assuming that Dan Quinn wants to run the ball more. We got to establish it because this, that that's who he is. And then on top of that not so Kingsbury would had a collegiate, collegiate esque, you know offense which some of that stuff it's working in the NFL And Dan Quinn's like no, I want to be more of a pro a traditional professional NFL type of an offense with Jaden. I just that I think that is. It's concerning because that is. That will be a massive change you're.
Jason Moore
Saying for the future of the commanders next year's fantasy value.
Mike Wright
I'm saying this and this is not. This is just a hey, this, this is happening. They're talking about this and if someone comes in is like we're going to make Jaden Daniels run this pro style offense that maybe he is not comfortable in.
Andy Holloway
It's a really tough one.
Mike Wright
Things could go bad.
Andy Holloway
I go both ways with it because I look at it from the perspective of this is also an offense that you kind of you ran out of luck and he was hurt multiple times this year. So predicating a lot on him running the football as much as he did. Look from a fantasy perspective we'd love him in the Cliff Kingsbury system but we also want him on the field and we've already had one Washington quarterback that got knocked out after pressing his luck being a sure he's not Josh Allen. Right. He's not built that way. And now you lost the season with Jaden Daniels. So I think balance to protect Jaden for his long term viability. I could see an argument in that direction but for fantasy I'd be more concerned.
Mike Wright
Yeah, I'm not even just talking about the running because I think Jaden Daniel he'll run like he will scramble. You know the, the last we saw of Jackson Dart was he still ran a ton but his the actual designed runs were very minimal. That was Jackson Dart saying no, I'm going to run and I think Jaden will still do that. It's about does there were there were question marks pre draft about Jaden Daniels in offenses reading defensive coverage. And if you're going to switch from what he has had tremendous success in, you know going back to the LSU his rookie year and you're like no, you're going to run a pro offense. Just the that type of change is a little bit scary, I think.
Andy Holloway
Yeah, I mean we're going to have a lot of big time fantasy quarterbacks with big changes on the offensive side. Lamar and Jaden are two of them. But there's going to be more coming your way. I mean, Cam Ward, when he gets back, it's going to be a new system there.
Jason Moore
Kyler, where is he playing? No matter where, It's a new system.
Andy Holloway
Yeah. Yeah. So, unsurprisingly, the Cowboys fired Matt Eberfluss after being the worst defense maybe ever.
Jason Moore
That's so sad.
Mike Wright
So that is.
Jason Moore
Sucks.
Mike Wright
It's for us, for fantasy football.
Andy Holloway
He was crucial. Fantasy MVP Matt Bieberfleuss.
Mike Wright
So that's now. I mean, he was the coach of the Bears last year.
Jason Moore
Yeah. So two firings in a row.
Andy Holloway
They say he has USFL written all over him.
Mike Wright
This is the NFL. I hate the cowardice of. Like, we can't. We don't want to take the risk on a new guy. Like, coaches fail. The vast majority of coaches in the NFL are failures. I mean, the. That's just how it is. Guys last like four years and then they're gone or they last a really, really long time. So why not? I don't understand. Not taking the shot on a fresh face. Get some new blood in there, new ideas as opposed to the.
Jason Moore
You know, it goes both ways, though. I mean, look at. Look at what happened with the Eagles. They got to the super bowl against Kansas City Chiefs a couple of years ago. They lost then because they had such a great season. Their offensive coordinator and defensive coordinator both go get head coaching jobs, and what do they do? They get new faces. They bring next man up from the system, the young guns, and the team stinks. And then they fire both of them.
Andy Holloway
And then the next year, I'm looking at the most recent 10 fired coaches. I wanted to see how many were retreads versus that. I mean, Gerard Mayo, one year done. New face, New England. Brian Dable hadn't been a head coach, now fired. Brian Callahan, offensive coordinator in Cincinnati, now fired. Jonathan Gannon. Sure, he was one as well. Eber Flush. That was his first head coaching job, too. So it's a. Antonio Pierce, Las Vegas. I mean, that was another new face opportunity.
Mike Wright
You know, it's. His name is escaping me now.
Jason Moore
Who?
Mike Wright
The packers and then The Cowboys coach McCarthy. McCarthy. Mike McCarthy. Like his name is out there.
Andy Holloway
Yeah.
Mike Wright
He's been fired from two teams. Why would you.
Jason Moore
He also had great success.
Mike Wright
I just. To me, like, the dude has gone multiple places and failed multiple times. Let someone else come and try and fail.
Andy Holloway
So you want Harbaugh.
Mike Wright
You want to.
Jason Moore
Be a Cardinals fan?
Mike Wright
I still. I think Stefanski is still a good coach.
Andy Holloway
Harbaugh a better coach.
Mike Wright
I don't think so.
Andy Holloway
Okay.
Mike Wright
I think what Stefanski had managed.
Andy Holloway
Vrabel went to New England after getting fired. I think that was a good decision.
Mike Wright
Yes. But we all. When Vrabel was fired, we were like, what?
Jason Moore
There is. There is a different.
Mike Wright
That seemed more like a him and management did. It was done. Their relationship was.
Andy Holloway
Ran out of gas.
Mike Wright
It wasn't that he was bad at his job.
Jason Moore
Yeah. There's a different situation between guys who get fired because they suck long enough.
Mike Wright
Like Jim Harbaugh, he just, you know, in San Francisco, the time ran out.
Jason Moore
Heads butted, and they got rid of him, but no one thought he was a bad head coach. You know, same thing has happened several times. You know, the situation around Sean Payton, you know, where he left. He wasn't like a failure and then left. He kind of walked away. That's where I think, you know, Jon Gruden's been rumored out there. And that's one of those. Like, did he. Was he a failure or was it just like, oh, he got. Well, right. He got forcibly removed. Yes.
Andy Holloway
That lawsuit's still going, by the way, against the NFL. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Mike Wright
Goodness, that was forever ago.
Andy Holloway
I'm going to tell you right now, Gruden's going to end up with some money. Okay. In that situation, just don't give him a head coach, and I'll probably be a head coach.
Mike Wright
Don't do it.
Andy Holloway
John Morton out for the Lions. I mean, that made sense. He was really not doing much of the offense for a while. After they lost Ben Johnson, they let Morton have a try. Then it was their head coach, Dan Campbell.
Jason Moore
You know who I heard, I read was rumored to be in the running there? Blah, blah, blah.
Mike Wright
David Blau.
Jason Moore
David Blau. Yeah.
Andy Holloway
Is it going to be a token position where Dan Campbell runs the offense?
Jason Moore
I don't know. I hope not. I mean, Ben. Ben Johnson was not a token position.
Andy Holloway
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Andy Holloway
All right, this should be fun. If you have any questions for the show, you can go to the website the fantasy footballers.com click that submit a question button or dial the voicemail hotline. 302464 TFFB. I have no clue what's in today's questions.
Jason Moore
It could be.
Andy Holloway
Have you guys looked at anything?
Mike Wright
No, I'm reading the first one.
Jason Moore
It could be anything.
Andy Holloway
You could ask us any. Anything at all. Oh and they did Lloyd Christmas.
Jason Moore
Do you guys do the Lloyd Christmas.
Andy Holloway
Lloyd Christmas himself. Do you guys like to do escape rooms and who is the best at them?
Mike Wright
I.
Andy Holloway
That is a real ask me anything question.
Mike Wright
Love escape rooms. They are among my favorite things in the entire world.
Andy Holloway
Really.
Jason Moore
I love escape rooms.
Andy Holloway
I am. They're fine.
Mike Wright
They're awesome because my, my video game genre of choice when I was growing up, not probably not so much any anymore but the, the graphic adventures, the the Monkey island games, Space Quest, King's Quest, like that style. All the LucasArts games, Full Throttle, Grim Fandango, although those are my favorite games and Escape Room is kind of the closest we can get to that being a real life situation. Oh my gosh. I love.
Jason Moore
I Adore escape rooms.
Mike Wright
I don't know who's the best. We haven't done enough.
Jason Moore
I know in my family, my son is the best. We haven't really done them together. But my oldest son, he is.
Mike Wright
He's very good at him.
Jason Moore
He's very good at them. And my oldest daughter.
Mike Wright
Who's your youngest?
Jason Moore
Well, they're twins, so they're both my old. They're my oldest children.
Mike Wright
My oldest daughter.
Andy Holloway
You have one daughter?
Mike Wright
Hold on now, hold on now.
Andy Holloway
Here's the next question. How many daughters do you have?
Mike Wright
One.
Jason Moore
And is she the oldest that I know of.
Mike Wright
That's what I'm saying. That's what it sounded like.
Andy Holloway
Jason, you got another hiding.
Mike Wright
Goodness gracious.
Jason Moore
But she doesn't help much in those escape rooms.
Andy Holloway
What about your youngest daughter?
Jason Moore
Also does not help much.
Andy Holloway
Yeah, I think they're fine. I normally enjoy them when I go, but I don't set out to do them on purpose. I get invited to something and they can be pretty fun. The nice thing is if you're kind of indifferent, everyone else will do the work for you and you can just sit back and that's what my daughter says. Yeah, that's not that bad.
Jason Moore
They're the best.
Andy Holloway
I am having the hardest time here because, of course, Papa Josh is back in the office now today, and the first thing he has to do is brag about his escape room capabilities.
Jason Moore
That sounds like.
Andy Holloway
I mean, I've been in escape rooms with Josh. Maybe that's why I don't like him that much.
Jason Moore
Right.
Mike Wright
Yeah. And the. I have.
Andy Holloway
And he's got. I mean, we've gotten clues before together.
Mike Wright
Never failed in a situation.
Andy Holloway
Yes, we have.
Mike Wright
It's a team game.
Jason Moore
Also, if you get clues, you and you and you don't and you get out. Are you proud? Are you like, josh, we did it.
Andy Holloway
Josh, you can talk. You don't have to be like.
Jason Moore
I just, you know, look, look, number one, I don't remember getting any clues at all. And I certainly didn't ask for them. So just saying. All I said was that I would never. You should ask for a clue, guys.
Mike Wright
Ask for a clue.
Andy Holloway
I've got a.
Mike Wright
We're really stuck.
Andy Holloway
Anyways, here's a question. Christian Jorn writing in. What is the long lost drop? What is one long lost drop you'd like to bring back?
Mike Wright
Nice.
Andy Holloway
I have one. I thought long lost drop, like a show drop. My, my. One of my favorites for sure was Booty Scoot and Cam Newton.
Mike Wright
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Andy Holloway
I'm just super. If you have that over there somewhere, Al. Maybe you can find it. That's just one of the ones that I loved. And then we. We had a good animation with it.
Jason Moore
Oh, I've got mine for sure.
Mike Wright
He is.
Jason Moore
He's not down in there.
Mike Wright
Oh, David S. Scrumptious. Devin. Devin.
Jason Moore
Oh, that's a good drop. All right, now my turn. Scrumptious.
Mike Wright
Do we have Devin? I'm sure we will.
Andy Holloway
No, that's great. I don't have anything. Mike. If you think of one, let us know.
Jason Moore
Mike has a bad memory.
Mike Wright
Yeah, that's true. I would the. If you like long lost drops, check out our Dynasty podcast. Kyle the Borgogan is frequently surprising me with a. Every segment a segment drop. And I'm like, I must have made that at some point because that is a fantasy footballers drop that I don't recall making.
Andy Holloway
Yeah, we've done this a while. We've done this a while. Okay. Maddie wants to know what pets you guys have at home, including names, please.
Jason Moore
Rocky and Sugar. Some golden doodles. They're about 10, 11 years old. And Pepper, a boy and a girl. Oh, no, Pooper is. I got rid of Pooper. Punted him off a bridge like Baxter, right into Jeremy Grantham's house.
Andy Holloway
We have one puppy named Copper. I guess he's not a puppy anymore. No, he's like five.
Mike Wright
He's a dog.
Andy Holloway
Yeah.
Mike Wright
I have two Bernadoodles. I have Daisy and then Rufus, who is. We just weighed him. He was supposed to be the runt. And we were like, we bought a Bernadoodle that was going to be 50, 60 pounds. He weighs 110 pounds, guys.
Andy Holloway
What are you feeding him? Huh?
Jason Moore
Dog food and whatever he finds and whatever else.
Mike Wright
Yeah, he does like cloth. Oh, socks.
Jason Moore
A lot of nutrients.
Andy Holloway
Did you have to get this one, like.
Mike Wright
Yes.
Andy Holloway
Removed from their stomach?
Mike Wright
Yeah, he was the one. We had to go put him under the knife.
Jason Moore
We've all been there.
Andy Holloway
I haven't really.
Jason Moore
No. You must not leave things out enough.
Andy Holloway
We do leave things out.
Mike Wright
We just seen how thin your dog is. You've trained him.
Andy Holloway
We have trained him. That's it.
Mike Wright
You don't eat.
Andy Holloway
He's taking stuff off the kitchen table before you got to watch out. I guess technically we didn't have to remove. I'm a complete liar.
Jason Moore
He didn't.
Andy Holloway
He didn't need. He didn't need socks. But he did get a hold of some, like, gum with Xylitol and he had to. We had to go to take him to the vet and spend that Sweet, sweet vet money. Emergency vet money. You could charge anything you want.
Jason Moore
Yeah. Oh, it'll be $2 million. But we can give you a loan.
Andy Holloway
Thousand pounds of diamonds, and we'll save your dog.
Mike Wright
In issue, we got to figure out with vets, because I'm not taking. I get it. Very expensive. Tons of time to, like, to become an actual veteran. Veteran.
Andy Holloway
Why can't I say that word?
Mike Wright
Veterinarian? And I get that. However, you're in the business of saving animals, and you're like, I'd really like to save your dog. It's Gonna cost you $2,000. You're like, I don't have that. Like, oh, then I can't save your dog.
Jason Moore
I mean, that is a bad story. Good story. We took our dog Rocky, and he ate a skewer. Like.
Mike Wright
Oh, like a bbqew.
Jason Moore
Yeah, a BBQ skewer. And it came out from the inside, like, through the side, like, okay. Like, brought out.
Mike Wright
Oh, no.
Jason Moore
It had a sharp tip. And so we bring him into the vet, vet cleans him up, says, he's going to need this surgery. It's going to be. It was outrageous. Like, I WISH it was 2000. It was closer to 10,000. Whoa. And I was like, he seems like he's doing okay.
Mike Wright
Let me just yank that thing out.
Jason Moore
We took him home. He never went back. He's totally fine.
Mike Wright
Oh, man.
Andy Holloway
You.
Jason Moore
Totally fine.
Andy Holloway
Wait, did the skewer stay in?
Jason Moore
No, we didn't know the skewer came out before. Even before we took him in.
Andy Holloway
Out the side or out the side.
Jason Moore
Okay, so he had, like, a perforation.
Mike Wright
In a hole in his.
Andy Holloway
Yeah. Said he was going to die, Basically.
Jason Moore
They're like, yeah, he needs this surgery, and it's going to be very complicated because X, Y, and Z.
Andy Holloway
Just to be clear, you said.
Jason Moore
I said, I don't believe you.
Mike Wright
You said, I'll take those odds.
Jason Moore
I said, yeah. I said, I call your bluff.
Andy Holloway
He said, I'll bet you $10,000.
Jason Moore
I'll bet you he's going to live. And you know what? I'm $10,000 richer.
Mike Wright
Oh, my.
Andy Holloway
Oh, my goodness.
Jason Moore
That's why I said it was a bad story. Good story.
Andy Holloway
It is a bad story.
Jason Moore
Good story.
Andy Holloway
That one's out.
Jason Moore
How do you make that decision to be like, nah, I'm good.
Mike Wright
Did you go back to the vet.
Jason Moore
If he dies and be like, in your face, Rocky, jump up on this table. Show them what you got.
Mike Wright
Wow.
Andy Holloway
Yeah, I figured after the perforation, you would have just given him to Al.
Jason Moore
I would have if he started going downhill, but he looked good.
Andy Holloway
Oh, my gosh. Okay, this is a. This is a fantasy football question from SDP Dub. Last place is not following through on the punishment. How do we proceed?
Jason Moore
That's a boot from league.
Mike Wright
Yeah.
Andy Holloway
I'll say this. Obviously, all last place punishments. There's a. There's a way to do this, which is everyone agrees before the season.
Mike Wright
Yes, they do.
Andy Holloway
If that happened and everybody signed up for it.
Jason Moore
You do it or you're out now. It can't. I agree with you. Like, sometimes I've seen leagues where it's like the majority voted that we get a tattoo, but the guy who voted no is last place. You can't do something like that. That is a bridge too far. You can't force someone against their will. But you're right, Andy, if this was agreed upon, known about, they signed up for the league. This is them saying, I don't. Oh, you know what? I don't want to be in this league.
Andy Holloway
Yep. Which is.
Mike Wright
It's lame, man. Like, that's part. It's part of it. It's part of what makes your league awesome.
Jason Moore
Yeah. Go put the clown makeup on. Go stand on the corner. Whatever you got to do.
Mike Wright
Eat the pancakes. Just. Yeah, you can't. You can't bow out now.
Andy Holloway
Be haunted by 11 other men with paintball guns. On a paintball course.
Jason Moore
Right.
Andy Holloway
Without a gun.
Mike Wright
Like, I lost.
Jason Moore
Jump in the lion's den.
Mike Wright
You know, I'm not. I'm not paying my dues this year.
Andy Holloway
Yeah.
Mike Wright
Like, this is. Come on, people.
Andy Holloway
All right, let me see where we want to go. A question from Uncle Weg on X. Keep trade. Cut, salty, spicy, sweet.
Jason Moore
Cut and spicy. Because I'm a baby.
Andy Holloway
I'm with you on that. Compared to the other two, which are.
Jason Moore
I like spice enough, but get out of my life. Then it's salty and sweet.
Andy Holloway
That's tough. That's real.
Jason Moore
Oh, my gosh.
Andy Holloway
I think you know where I'll go.
Jason Moore
Oh, you're gonna keep the sweet? Really?
Andy Holloway
Yeah.
Jason Moore
Because of. Solely because of ice cream.
Andy Holloway
Because of ice cream, which is sweet.
Jason Moore
I feel like I'm gonna keep the salty even though I love. Do not hear what I'm not saying.
Andy Holloway
I'm going to keep salty, and I'm.
Jason Moore
Basically keeping steaks here.
Mike Wright
I am keeping the spicy.
Jason Moore
Oh, yeah, I can.
Andy Holloway
Yeah, that makes sense.
Jason Moore
The reason why we're a good trifecta.
Andy Holloway
Oh, wait, we got.
Jason Moore
I'm the salty and spicy. Sweet. You're the spicy.
Andy Holloway
That's pretty good.
Mike Wright
It's spicy. Is really a young man's game.
Andy Holloway
I was going to say you're. You're.
Mike Wright
But I still would prefer it.
Andy Holloway
You're going to end up in a human vet. For your digestive.
Jason Moore
They charge just as much.
Mike Wright
Yeah, they do.
Andy Holloway
But they have to save you because you're a person. You know what I mean?
Mike Wright
I guess you don't love your dog.
Andy Holloway
I wouldn't have thought he could be just fine with a skewer.
Jason Moore
Well, he didn't have the skewer anymore.
Mike Wright
Did you like Flex Seal it?
Jason Moore
No, just slap the. Just you got. The only way to administer it is certainly to have it in your hand.
Mike Wright
It's just oozing, leaking.
Andy Holloway
Pushes him out on the lake.
Jason Moore
Not anymore.
Mike Wright
Yeah, he pushes him out.
Jason Moore
I could stand on him. He floats.
Andy Holloway
What's funny is I think the Flex Seal guys listen to this show because we've heard from them before. Oh, my gosh, look.
Jason Moore
New idea for your next commercial. Okay.
Mike Wright
Bandages.
Andy Holloway
I like the idea.
Jason Moore
Flex Seal bandages. Just a huge wound. Gunshot wound. Ricky Pierce, all. Oh, my God.
Andy Holloway
Brian Robinson.
Jason Moore
Just flex seal it.
Andy Holloway
Human Flex seal.
Jason Moore
Yeah.
Andy Holloway
Okay.
Jason Moore
Because, hey, Flex Seal guys, you can charge way more for that product.
Andy Holloway
Yes, you can.
Jason Moore
Same product. Just put it in a different packaging.
Andy Holloway
Yeah.
Jason Moore
For vets and for human vets. And 10 grand. 10 grand a roll.
Andy Holloway
Human vets are doctors. Yes, but we call them human vets. Isaac wants to know your favorite Batman.
Mike Wright
Christian Bale.
Jason Moore
I mean, obviously it's Christian Bale.
Andy Holloway
Michael Keaton.
Mike Wright
Yeah.
Andy Holloway
I love Michael Keaton.
Jason Moore
I love Michael Keaton.
Mike Wright
Michael Keaton.
Jason Moore
And I love Michael Keaton Batman.
Mike Wright
Swear to me he was the. Michael Keaton was the best one. And then.
Andy Holloway
You guys know my thoughts on Christian Bale. The Christian Bale Batman.
Jason Moore
You just don't like the voice.
Andy Holloway
I don't like the voice. I don't like the first movie where he can push a button on his boot and bats get summoned to him. Ludicrous movie.
Jason Moore
Do you remember.
Andy Holloway
Outstanding movies? Hyper.
Jason Moore
Oh, my great.
Mike Wright
I mean, Vicki Vale just wakes up and he's just hanging upside down.
Andy Holloway
That's true.
Mike Wright
What is he doing?
Andy Holloway
Stretching.
Jason Moore
But the billionaire can't come up with.
Andy Holloway
A device upside down too.
Jason Moore
To move.
Mike Wright
I don't know.
Jason Moore
But he's not just hanging out there while people sleep.
Andy Holloway
Also, recency bias.
Mike Wright
Also, he's like demands a billion. He doesn't got no WD40. Like when he's hanging upside down.
Andy Holloway
Stupid memory man.
Jason Moore
For stuff like this where you can win. No one, no one even listening is like, I don't remember. I can assume. I know what you're talking about from the movie. I don't remember it.
Andy Holloway
Tactical Gator writes in what player was your biggest regret last season? So this past season.
Mike Wright
Oh, that's a good question.
Jason Moore
Give me a while on this one, guys.
Mike Wright
I think. I mean the.
Jason Moore
I'm going to go Caleb Johnson now, he did finish with a very nice 69 rushing yards, but I don't feel like he was a good fancy mvp.
Andy Holloway
Did you. You were counting on more than that.
Mike Wright
I was.
Andy Holloway
People were asking me yesterday on the card stream whether or not because we had some Caleb Johnson.
Jason Moore
Oh to give me that. Give me that.
Andy Holloway
And they were wondering what the future holds and I was like, well, Gainwell's a free agent.
Mike Wright
Yeah.
Andy Holloway
Rogers might be gone forward.
Jason Moore
It'll be interesting.
Andy Holloway
Do you have.
Jason Moore
Never wrong. Just early.
Mike Wright
I was very much on the Tank Bigsby side of the Bigsby versus etn.
Andy Holloway
Yeah, I was on your side too.
Mike Wright
And then they traded him and he didn't get to play because he was behind Saquon Barkley. And then ETN was quite good.
Andy Holloway
I'm just looking down at the bottom of our fantasy scoring list to see what potential big regrets that I had on this. In this situation. I was definitely with you on that one. Joe Mixon never played and that's a shame. But I don't think we really.
Jason Moore
No. Towards the end of the year we were pretty out.
Andy Holloway
Did we believe In Brian Thomas Jr.
Mike Wright
I did. For sure.
Andy Holloway
Yeah.
Mike Wright
I. I'm sure that one is still.
Andy Holloway
Don't take my lack of a definitive answer to not mean there's a bunch of answers for me, but I don't have one. That's like jumping out as Brian Thomas.
Mike Wright
Jr. One is insane. Yeah, insane. It's like Jefferson not his fault. Brian Thomas Jr. Seemingly 100% his fault.
Andy Holloway
Yeah. Yeah.
Jason Moore
He started the year getting exactly what you want. Hyper targets. I mean, Brian Thomas Jr. Was let me pull up his game log. Seven targets, week one, 12 targets, week two, six, seven. It just. It went.
Mike Wright
Make me get the spray bottle out, Jason.
Jason Moore
I mean, he was on pace for.
Andy Holloway
Yeah, take care of it.
Mike Wright
Mike.
Jason Moore
You literally have a spray.
Mike Wright
Yeah, we got a spray bottle.
Andy Holloway
Again, you're in big trouble.
Jason Moore
I was just reading his box score of targets.
Mike Wright
Very animated reading.
Jason Moore
For the first six games played, he was on pace for 136 targets. If you said before the season, I mean Trevor Lawrence is going to play well. He's going to have 136 targets. You'd be like, yeah, this is A. This is a top 10 wide receiver, like for sure. But he stunk and couldn't catch the ball.
Andy Holloway
I kind of like Mason Taylor. I mean, that one, that one didn't work out too well.
Mike Wright
Dude. Did you guys do your votes for footy awards?
Jason Moore
I did.
Andy Holloway
Do you think he's got a shot?
Mike Wright
Do you think Mason Taylor's going to win that award?
Andy Holloway
He's got a shot.
Jason Moore
It's too early, too early to tell, but I will remind. This is a good opportunity to remind the Foot Clan. If you did not listen to last episode. The footie awards are being voted on right now@footyards.com Go there, cast your vote on all of the in season awards.
Andy Holloway
And what's the Domain footie awards. There we go.
Jason Moore
Footyawards.com and then, yeah, our next episode, we will have the big footies episode.
Andy Holloway
Did you guys know Papa Josh has.
Mike Wright
Never failed an escape room and never taken a single clip?
Andy Holloway
Let me tell you something, Josh. I didn't bring it up. I've never failed an escape room. Mike.
Mike Wright
Have you?
Jason Moore
Yes.
Andy Holloway
Oh, okay.
Jason Moore
I have never failed an escape room. I've probably done eight of them. I've never failed.
Mike Wright
We've had clues, but the one I failed with my friends was we got all the way and we're at the end.
Andy Holloway
I take no pride in it, by the way.
Mike Wright
With. I mean, probably 15 minutes of the hour left and. And then it turns out we had just one of the safes had opened and there was another thing inside of.
Jason Moore
A. Oh, that you didn't.
Mike Wright
Yeah, that was just out of visibility.
Andy Holloway
Papa Josh is actually good at them. I will say that.
Jason Moore
Yeah.
Mike Wright
He's a puzzle guy.
Andy Holloway
He's a puzzle guy. He's. He's made. He's made to get hyped up.
Mike Wright
That's why he built such an incredible dynasty team. He. The puzzle. He put all the pieces together.
Jason Moore
Put the pieces together.
Andy Holloway
Oh, my God.
Jason Moore
Too far, Mike.
Mike Wright
Yeah.
Jason Moore
Yeah.
Andy Holloway
Kyle Edgar.
Mike Wright
The champ can say what the champ wants to say.
Andy Holloway
Kyle Edgar writes in. How do people you meet react when it comes to small talk about what you do for a living? When it comes up in small talk about what you do for a living. Oh, how do people react when we tell them what we. Oh, man. We do fantasy football podcasting like we're poor.
Mike Wright
I do not small talk. I don't small talk about my job. And they're just like, what do you.
Andy Holloway
I'm like, oh, you don't tell them.
Mike Wright
I start with destruction. No, no, no. I start with like, Sports media.
Andy Holloway
Oh, see, that's smart.
Mike Wright
And then if they want to pull the layers back, then we'll get into it.
Jason Moore
But yeah, people are like.
Mike Wright
People actually don't care.
Jason Moore
If you say, I do a fantasy football podcast, I'd be like, oh, cool.
Andy Holloway
What do you do for work?
Jason Moore
Yeah.
Mike Wright
What do you.
Andy Holloway
Yeah, the problem. The problem. You guys know I'm a talker.
Jason Moore
Yeah.
Andy Holloway
You guys know small talk for me is the life story. I get somebody's life story. So every conversation for me ends up with, like, I end up with the same cliche. Like, yeah, I never thought I could make a living doing that. That's pretty much what comes up. But best wing flavor. Thomas wants to know best wing flavor. And do you like flats or drumsticks?
Jason Moore
Flats. Because I grew up. Drumsticks are for children, and that's fine. Children love drumsticks.
Andy Holloway
I second that.
Mike Wright
Both are delicious. Both are great flats.
Andy Holloway
I want to know what the Deucers flat just make a binary choice.
Mike Wright
I am on the side of flats. I was on drumsticks specifically for. I can eat a drumstick and, like, be, like, face clean, you know, Like, I could eat a 12 of wings and have very minimal cleanup.
Andy Holloway
Where I like flats, the flats are messier.
Mike Wright
It's a bit of a messier. Yeah.
Andy Holloway
What's the votes back there in Deucers Alley? It's all flats for me. Papa Josh.
Mike Wright
He's a drumstick fan. Oh, boy. The chicken nuggies, they're delicious.
Andy Holloway
Matt flats.
Mike Wright
Okay. Oh, Than flavors. I mean, I'm boneless. I'm still more of a. I prefer, like a buffalo. A medium or hot, But I like.
Andy Holloway
A good dry rub.
Jason Moore
Dude.
Mike Wright
Lemon pepper.
Jason Moore
Yeah. On dry rub.
Mike Wright
Lemon pepper is moving up the charts, guys.
Andy Holloway
I am definitely Better be a dry rub.
Mike Wright
It is.
Andy Holloway
Yeah, I know, I know. I'm just saying, if you dip that thing in lemon, I don't think I'm in.
Jason Moore
I am a medium buffalo, but I want it to be a sweeter buffalo. Like the best place here in Arizona.
Andy Holloway
Like a honey sweet golden mini hot at Zips.
Jason Moore
The best wings in the world.
Andy Holloway
All right, all right, Instagram question from G Straw. Favorite new TV show.
Jason Moore
I'll say Pluribus, because I just started watching it.
Andy Holloway
I just seen how you were going to say the name of the show.
Jason Moore
Yeah. Pluribus.
Andy Holloway
If you need to reference it.
Jason Moore
E. Pluribus Unum.
Andy Holloway
Yeah, No, I. We watched.
Jason Moore
I'm only three episodes in, but I've loved all three.
Andy Holloway
Yeah, it's good.
Mike Wright
I watched Mr.
Andy Holloway
Deeds. Is that a TV show? No, that's the movie. That's what you.
Mike Wright
I don't watch.
Jason Moore
Oh. The 2002 hit Adam Sandwich has one of these. Mr. Deeds.
Mike Wright
Incredibly underrated and not talked about enough. That movie is very funny.
Andy Holloway
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Mike Wright
If you have, we've been there.
Andy Holloway
Shout out Mikey Singer.
Mike Wright
I've only been there. Have you guys been there?
Jason Moore
I've been there. One additional time.
Mike Wright
Okay, you have a bonus. We went once. One of our very first ever live recordings was for. We got hit up and said, hey, I'm going to put on this huge fantasy football expo. It's up in Canada. I want you guys to come be the featured speakers, do a show. You know, we'll cover your travel and give you a little bit extra money to come do it. And we're like, that sounds pretty freaking awesome. Outskirts of Toronto, which the beginning of that story starts with us Googling. Hey, do you need a passport to go to Canada? And ladies and gentlemen, whatever the top result is on Google, that just comes back. Look into it a little deeper.
Jason Moore
That is not always a fact, especially.
Mike Wright
When it comes to international travel.
Jason Moore
And now with AI, AI just tells you, oh, for sure. This is the answer.
Mike Wright
It's like, so we were on very much under the impression that it was just cool.
Jason Moore
You could like the US Sounds so dumb.
Mike Wright
The US And Canada is like, we, hey, we got an arrangement. Yeah, we good.
Andy Holloway
We could.
Jason Moore
You're like us, we're like you. Let's just cross.
Mike Wright
And about one week before, I think we just double checked it and it was like, oh no, that doesn't happen anymore. Now you for sure have to have a passport, which is easy to get in a week.
Andy Holloway
Right.
Jason Moore
If you travel to one of the four destinations in the United States, that does like next day. Passports.
Mike Wright
Yeah. Which one of them happens to be.
Andy Holloway
Did you need one too, yo?
Mike Wright
Yeah, okay.
Andy Holloway
We all needed them.
Mike Wright
In Tucson, Arizona, there is a place where you can get an expedited passport for situations like that.
Jason Moore
So we got it.
Mike Wright
We went up there. Beautiful venue. I mean, just a huge warehouse full of vendors, foods, a bunch of just massive footprint.
Jason Moore
Just so cool.
Mike Wright
And about 40 to 50 people.
Jason Moore
Yeah, you're being generous.
Andy Holloway
The show. Yeah, I mean this is like what?
Jason Moore
Like it's going to be spectacular. Thousand square foot place decked out with all these vendors and ain't nobody showed up, unfortunately.
Andy Holloway
The. What fight was that?
Jason Moore
That was the Conor McGregor.
Mike Wright
The McGregor first box. Mayweather.
Andy Holloway
Yeah, the McGregor Mayweather fight was on the same weekend. And yeah, not a lot of people showed up. We still Had a really great time and we're happy to be there.
Mike Wright
But we saw.
Andy Holloway
That was our trip to Toronto.
Mike Wright
Yeah, we saw really nothing of Toronto.
Andy Holloway
Yeah, we were kind of on the outskirts. So you didn't get to see the thing.
Mike Wright
We went to the thing and then we went home.
Jason Moore
I've been to Victoria, Canada, on a Alaskan cruise.
Mike Wright
So that. Okay. That's the Pacific.
Jason Moore
And my favorite thing there was the. I had some great shrimp.
Mike Wright
Oh, all right.
Andy Holloway
Yeah, there you go. We'll jump right into the Face off.
Jason Moore
Fantasy. Face off, presented by Prize Picks.
Andy Holloway
Alrighty. I talked about it at the top. We all saw.
Mike Wright
What a loser.
Andy Holloway
Jason, very bad.
Jason Moore
Oh, that's right.
Andy Holloway
Very bad at tossing pistachios. He's the loser.
Jason Moore
Okay, give me that wheel. Wheel of shame. Spin, add wheel.
Mike Wright
I have no idea what's coming up. All right. You smell that? Here's Johnny seven, the seventh inning stretch.
Jason Moore
Seventh inning stretch. Oh, baseball.
Mike Wright
Yeah, it's my favorite baseball.
Jason Moore
Oh, baby.
Andy Holloway
Got a. We got a nice baseball jersey because, you know, you probably don't have one.
Jason Moore
Yeah, I love baseball, man.
Andy Holloway
There you go. That should be able to go on.
Mike Wright
Is that gonna go.
Andy Holloway
We got you, Mike, if you can take care of this for us.
Mike Wright
What?
Andy Holloway
Oh, you want some eyeball?
Mike Wright
I black him.
Andy Holloway
You need some eye black. We got you some Cracker Jacks.
Jason Moore
Are they real?
Andy Holloway
Yeah. There's a prize.
Jason Moore
My punishment is I get to eat Cracker Jacks.
Andy Holloway
Yeah, you get. You have Cracker Jacks and you got a baseball hat.
Mike Wright
You look like Rob Lowe.
Jason Moore
I look like the kid from the sandlot.
Andy Holloway
Yes.
Mike Wright
Smalls.
Jason Moore
Yeah. Yeah.
Andy Holloway
We got you a glove, too, so you can play catch with your paw. There you go. Look at this baseball player. You look like a New York Yankee.
Jason Moore
I think I got to get into.
Andy Holloway
Baseball, fellas, if you want to eat those Cracker Jacks.
Jason Moore
Thank you, man. Let's go out to a ball game.
Andy Holloway
There you go. Look at that. He even put his finger through the.
Jason Moore
I will say this. I love playing catch. I love it. I think it is. I don't know what it is in people, and probably mostly men, but just the idea, just throwing.
Andy Holloway
First guy to wear glasses with eye black.
Jason Moore
I want to be able to see throwing a. Throwing a ball in general. Go out like Jeremy Grantham came over all the time. We'd throw a football in the backyard and play stupid games. Like, how many can we do in a row without dropping? We're not allowed to move. Make up stupid rules. Yeah, I never played enough baseball ever in my life. Because I had self respect and I. Well, I wanted to be entertained.
Mike Wright
Yeah.
Jason Moore
But so because of that, I never really threw around a baseball enough. But when I had the few opportunities where you've got a glove and a baseball, you could throw the thing so hard and not worry. It's awesome. That's the one.
Mike Wright
I mean, you got to worry a little bit.
Jason Moore
Not if you're good at catching, bro. I've got to worry. I'm like, Josh, I'm the best.
Andy Holloway
You heard somebody describe catch.
Mike Wright
You know, quite professional. Baseball players still get hit in the face.
Andy Holloway
Yeah.
Jason Moore
Not when they're playing catch.
Andy Holloway
Yeah. All right, we've got our lineups for this week. The playoffs. Playoffs Starting at the quarterback position. I went with Trevor Lawrence. Cracker Jack is.
Mike Wright
Let me see that.
Andy Holloway
Really old.
Jason Moore
This box looks like it came straight from the 20s.
Mike Wright
There is probably brand new. There's a prize inside.
Jason Moore
I'm gonna find it.
Andy Holloway
Yeah. Trevor Lawrence, 233 and a half passing yards. I'm taking the more I think that game's going to be.
Mike Wright
You're going with Lawrence.
Andy Holloway
It's going to be pretty active.
Mike Wright
I'm going with upcoming future MVP Drake. Drake May. One and a half passing touchdowns. Easy peasy. You're taking them for the New England quarterback. I will take some more.
Andy Holloway
I almost took his. His less on passing attempts, but I.
Jason Moore
Really loved Bryce Young.
Andy Holloway
How is the Cracker Jacks?
Jason Moore
They're delicious.
Andy Holloway
Okay.
Jason Moore
Turns out it's just like caramel corn.
Andy Holloway
It's like baseball is. Cracker Jacks is essentially baseball.
Jason Moore
Right.
Andy Holloway
Because on the outside it looks stupid old and dated and unfun. And then you open it and you eat it.
Jason Moore
Right. So when you go to a baseball game, you get to eat it.
Mike Wright
It's caramel corn.
Andy Holloway
It's delicious.
Mike Wright
And peanuts.
Jason Moore
Yeah.
Andy Holloway
And a price.
Jason Moore
They're very good.
Andy Holloway
And a price, not a sponsor. All right. Your quarterback.
Jason Moore
My quarterback. I was going to take.
Andy Holloway
Wait a minute.
Mike Wright
Cracker Jack.
Jason Moore
Yeah, I know.
Andy Holloway
Yeah. But if you have some, you have Cracker Jacks.
Jason Moore
You know, that makes sense.
Mike Wright
It's Cracker Jack.
Jason Moore
Yeah, but if it's Pringle, then it's. I got Pringles. When you got more than one, that's fine.
Andy Holloway
It could be Cracker Jack called Pringles.
Mike Wright
Yeah, that's Pringles. Anyways, this is a problem. Cracker Jack.
Jason Moore
I originally had Bryce Young 191 passing yards taking less than that. I think that's a layup. But then I saw this one as a green goblin and I was like, Heck yeah. Matthew Stafford. His projection as a Green Goblin is negative. Half a rushing yard. I'm going more than.
Mike Wright
I saw that. And you are dancing with the devil.
Jason Moore
No, but. But I get it. Because obviously if he doesn't rush and at the end of the game he does kneel downs, then. Then I. I could go under this. I could have just.
Mike Wright
How often.
Jason Moore
Yes, I did. He hasn't. He hasn't had less than zero rushing yards in the last five games. So I'm feeling pretty good.
Andy Holloway
Okay. In the last Goblin, though, you used your Green Goblin up.
Mike Wright
I got bad news for you, Jason.
Jason Moore
Yeah.
Mike Wright
Week 17, he had zero.
Jason Moore
That's fine. That's more than. That's what I'm saying.
Mike Wright
Oh. Because the project. Okay. Okay.
Jason Moore
He doesn't even need to run. He just needs to not kneel down. Negative.
Mike Wright
He does have negative rushing yards in more games than you would believe.
Jason Moore
Yeah, but not this one.
Mike Wright
Impressive.
Andy Holloway
All right, running back. I'm taking Rico Dowdle 46 and a half rushing yards.
Mike Wright
Don't you dare.
Andy Holloway
Less.
Jason Moore
Oh, don't you dare. In your face. Don't you dare. The calendar turned over. I'm kidding me.
Andy Holloway
They're not going to be able to keep up with Rico Dowdle in that game.
Jason Moore
I'm going to take Mike's guy that he just said he got wrong. I'm going to go with Tank Bigsby. Nine and a half rushing yards. I'm going more.
Andy Holloway
You went with a Tank Big.
Jason Moore
I went with Tank Bigsby. He's been obviously last week he was awesome in relief of Saquon while they benched.
Mike Wright
He's a good player.
Jason Moore
But prior to that they were getting him more and more involved. He's been over the. You know, he's had playoffs. Playoffs. He's had more than 10 rushing yards in most of his recent games. And I do think in the playoffs they might want to use their best running back.
Andy Holloway
Oh, I'm on the opposite side. I think they'll not use him at all.
Mike Wright
My interesting. I'm going on a projection with the guy I got wrong of. Travis etn. I will take that Buffalo run funnel defense. 65 and a half yards is all Travis etn or I guess rushing only. Yeah, he needs 66 but no ball. The run funnel. Yeah, no ball because that's dangerous.
Andy Holloway
But yeah.
Mike Wright
More than 65 and a half rushing yards for Travis ETN.
Andy Holloway
My green goblin, Jaden Reed of the Packers. Two and a half receptions. I'm taking the more.
Jason Moore
This is wide receiver. I'm going Nico Collins more than 71 and a half. We are receiving yards.
Mike Wright
I thought we might have some crossover because of the limited player pool. My green goblin. It is Puka Nakua. Five and a half receptions.
Jason Moore
That feels pretty auto.
Mike Wright
I'll go more there.
Andy Holloway
Colston Loveland is my tight end.
Mike Wright
I got Mr. Loveland as well.
Andy Holloway
I went receiving targets. Oh, and I took five more receptions.
Mike Wright
Three and a half.
Jason Moore
I went. Cole Comet.
Mike Wright
What are you doing?
Andy Holloway
Cole commit.
Jason Moore
Biggs being Cole commit.
Mike Wright
Stafford rushing yards.
Jason Moore
Thirteen and a half. That's it. Thirteen and a half receiving yards.
Andy Holloway
That's it. What was that? Didn't they your famous Tommy Trimble line?
Jason Moore
Yeah, but. Okay. Tommy Trimble was a bridge too far. Cole commit's been involved. He's been good.
Andy Holloway
So you're taking the more.
Mike Wright
What was the.
Jason Moore
What was 13 and a half?
Mike Wright
13. Okay.
Jason Moore
So what's.
Mike Wright
He's been over that the past six weeks.
Jason Moore
Yeah, exactly.
Mike Wright
The past three weeks.
Andy Holloway
Barely.
Jason Moore
It barely works.
Andy Holloway
You know what they say. These are guarantees. All right. That was Fantasy Face off presented by prize picks. Join millions of users and sign up for America's number one fantasy sports app. Use the code footballers and get $50 in lineups when you play $5. That'll be it for today's show. Footy Awards dot com. The Footy Award winners will be announced on our next episode. On Tuesday. Jason's gonna enjoy some more Cracker Jacks. The prize inside is an appreciation of the game of baseball song.
Mike Wright
Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jacks. Yeah, but there's peanuts in the Cracker Jack.
Andy Holloway
That's fair.
Mike Wright
Baseball.
Jason Moore
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 the FFballers. You won't believe everything I just saw. I went to Disneyland first. I went to Mickey Mouse clubhouse live and I danced with Goofy at night. I saw this parade. Everything was glowing. Sorcerer Mickey was there and Lightning McQueen. Oh, and guess what? Bluey and Bingo are coming for real life.
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Andy Holloway
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This episode kicks off the Fantasy Football off-season with a lighter, more personal twist: an AMA (Ask Me Anything) show packed with listener questions, playful banter, and the infamous "Wheel of Shame." The trio—Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike "The Fantasy Hitman" Wright—share NFL playoff projections, dish on off-season NFL coaching changes, confess their biggest fantasy football regrets, and digress into entertaining side stories about escape rooms, vet bills, and snack preferences.
True to form, the conversation is fast-paced, playful, and full of inside jokes and chemistry. The hosts blend fantasy football strategy with off-beat humor and authentic slice-of-life sharing. Whether you're a fantasy diehard or just here for the banter, this episode delivers the off-season charm that keeps The Fantasy Footballers a top shelf listen.
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