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Ep316 - Save Money & LFG
13 Plays2 years ago
josh #2
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Podcast Introduction and Upcoming Week
00:00:04
Speaker
Welcome to the Chopping Block, the guillotine league podcast made for you. What's up, guys? It's the week you've all been waiting for. Surely I know I've been waiting for. It's a big week. I got big expense with me. Are you excited? Am I excited? I'm always excited. Let's go. Let's go. All right. And joining with us, Josh, number two.
00:00:34
Speaker
That's me. Number two, second behind Josh Schultz, of course. But, you know, it's a good person to be behind. So. Excited to be here, I guess. I'll quote that. Good job. Good to be behind.
Josh's First Guillotine League Experience
00:00:50
Speaker
So, Josh, this is your first experience with guillotine. Tell me how what your thoughts are. I mean, I had a lot of fun. It was a good time.
00:01:02
Speaker
I've been playing fantasy football for quite a while now. Um, and this was my first guillotine league. So didn't really know what to expect. Um, but yeah, I had a lot of fun. Uh, it was really took some years off of my life stressing week in and week out. Um, but it was great, you know, all in good fun. And I made some money, so can't really complain.
00:01:25
Speaker
That's right. How much did he win, Joel? Oh, pull up the notes app. Let me check. He won 60 bucks. 60 bucks. Wow. That's more than nothing. That's part of my money right there. That's my profit. Oh, yeah. That is part of my money. You did a fandool double up. That's right, baby. Only took you like three months. Yeah.
00:01:52
Speaker
Hey, I played a long game.
Draft Strategy and Key Players
00:01:56
Speaker
So you made it podium, obviously. What was the secret to success here? First time guillotine, but made it in the podium. I mean. You know, first and foremost, it you got to have a strong front office, you got to draft well. And I feel like I had a pretty decent draft, if I can remember correctly. Who was your first pick?
00:02:21
Speaker
Who was my first pick? It was Saquon Barkley, actually, which he stayed on my team the entire season. Well, I mean, up until this point, so not too bad. He did have a slow start, which
00:02:35
Speaker
Didn't really hurt me, which is great. But Brandon Ayuk was another, I think he was like, Ayuk was my third round pick or something. I can't remember. You actually had Damien Pearson the third as a little chunk there, but it turned around.
00:02:55
Speaker
Yeah, hey, you know, you do what you got to do. So I think the yeah, I don't know who said it previously. But I do think early on, you just got it. You got to draft a pretty decent team. At least your
00:03:12
Speaker
Gonna you gotta you gotta make sure that you're who said it last week your weakest player isn't as bad as somebody else's weakest player So, yeah, I don't know I got lucky with the draft and then The ball did just kind of fell my way a week in and week out and I did escape a couple of close calls It was getting kind of close for a second getting kind of sheisty as they say But yeah, I don't know it was a good time
00:03:42
Speaker
So you listen to podcasts. That's awesome. Yeah, I said that last time. Okay, good. Okay, good. Yeah, I do. I just have forgotten to, uh, you know.
00:03:54
Speaker
Tell people that I listen to it.
Josh's Background and Chicago Life
00:03:56
Speaker
Um, but I definitely have been listening to it. Let's go. One of our loyal listeners. That's right. That's right, baby. I got you guys down in the end stretch here. I think only like you and JJ and us maybe. Yeah. It's super a small crowd at the end. It's all good. Screw this league. You get on like week two. You're like, I don't care. Yeah. Yeah. It's all good.
00:04:24
Speaker
Um, so tell us a little bit about yourself because us NorCal guys have never heard from you. We went, uh, was it like 16 weeks with a, there's no, this Josh number two in our league, you know, nothing about.
00:04:42
Speaker
Yeah. Um, I'm actually, I was born in Northern California, so I got some of that Norco. I know plot twist, right? Um, Santa Rosa, California represent. Oh yeah. Yeah. So I was born there and then I went to college with the SoCal boys and lived in SoCal, uh, from like 2013 to 2021. Um,
00:05:07
Speaker
And I'm in Chicago now, actually. So I'm not NorCal or SoCal at the moment. But yeah, I don't know. I've been watching football my whole life. I don't know what else you want to know. That's kind of it for me. I have a dog now. That's pretty great. Hell yeah. Do you like the Bears? I don't like the Bears. I mean, I enjoy.
00:05:35
Speaker
This is going to be kind of mean, but I do enjoy Bears fans misery because it's just such a sad sports town here. Like the White Sox are totally written off the Cubs. People are excited for until about May.
00:05:53
Speaker
And the Blackhawks, I mean, the Blackhawks are kind of on the up and up, but they're still a few years out. And the better run when they were elite. Yeah. Yeah. And they've got Connor Bedard now. So in a couple of years, they might be back. What sport is the Blackhawks?
00:06:08
Speaker
That's hockey, my friend. Oh, nice. Nice. Yeah. Yeah. Never heard of Patrick Kane. Nope. Never heard of him. All right. Yeah. Um, Wayne Gretzky. Uh, I do, whenever the giants come to town, uh, San Francisco giants, I do try to, um, go to all, like I try to go to the entire series at Wrigley. Uh, cause I do really like going to Wrigley field. Um, but yeah, I have not been to a bears game yet. Um,
00:06:37
Speaker
And I don't plan on it. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Are you like in like downtown? I don't know much about Chicago, but I, I'm like a mile from Wrigley field. So I'm like five miles from downtown Chicago. I'm like more on the north end.
00:06:56
Speaker
But I can walk to Wrigley Field in like 20-25 minutes. That's crazy. I have a co-worker. I don't really know them, but they are right next to Wrigley Field. Oh nice, okay. Yeah, I don't really know them at all. It's really bizarre because you'll walk down the street and it's just a neighborhood and then you turn the corner and it's a baseball stadium.
00:07:18
Speaker
Yeah, that's what it looks like from the pictures. Your front yard is Wrigley Field. Yeah, pretty much. When I first moved here, I had people that lived right down the street. And I mean, all summer long, like every night, it's like you hear people walking to and from the game. So it's definitely lively down there. Yeah. It's kind of cool though. It is. It's pretty cool. It's cool. I would imagine it's cool up until your
00:07:43
Speaker
probably over crowds of people like so mid-thirties early forties i don't know depending on who you are uh... there's just a lot of people down there during baseball season that's fair all right we don't sidetrack anymore with the yeah sorry joel is not a he doesn't know much about anything outside of football he might not even he doesn't know that much about football either yes i mean we don't know anything here guys we're all out on the outs so it is what it is uh...
00:08:13
Speaker
Yeah, classically, it took me like two or three years to figure out that LeBron wasn't so on the Cavs. Oh, good. Yeah, that's that's about the extent of my. You got there eventually, though, right? Yeah, there you go. Slow and steady. Exports guy. Yeah, big sports guy. Yeah, go sports, baby. Josh, tell me your biggest regret of the season.
Regret Over League Spending
00:08:41
Speaker
Hmm biggest regret of the season I would say honestly I Feel like dropping $100 on ETN May have been a bit much. Although I did need a running back at that point I don't remember what week it was but
00:08:58
Speaker
that took a big chunk of my fab out. I think that was towards the end. And then after that, I had like maybe 30 or $40 left. So I was like, shoot, kind of scraping by after that. But I lasted quite a while. But I mean, other than that, I don't know. I didn't, I feel like I didn't have that many big wonders. I just got to a point where I could not outscore everyone else.
00:09:29
Speaker
Yeah, so I was just basically blowing through the fab too early kind of dig me in Yeah, would you do anything different next year? Yeah, I mean definitely save the money Because there were a couple times where CD lamb was up for auction or for you know up for grabs and I I wanted CD lamb very badly Yeah, save your money if I'm gonna if I have a lesson for future Josh it's save your money as long as possible and
00:09:57
Speaker
Uh, as long as you draft, well, if you don't draft well, then you kind of got to spend that stuff. Um, yeah, save money and just fucking go for it. You know, go for it is key. Send it. Yeah. I feel like that's like a, also like a Dave Ramsey quote, like save money. Go for it.
00:10:21
Speaker
My god, dude, I love Dave Ramsey great guy So normally go for the bids but I mean it's fairly inconsequential at this point Fits and JJ men building money fits outbid JJ by a dollar for Kyron Williams. I
00:10:42
Speaker
And JJ picked up Laporta, and Rashad White, and Sigmund Barkley, and Josh Allen, all for free. Yeah. So I guess that leads us to the ultimate question. We're the final two here. And you have some insider knowledge, because we already got Fitz's tight end is playing.
00:11:04
Speaker
Who who's gonna take this thing home and who's gonna end up Second place You know, they say second place is the first loser. So yeah, even though we all lost before whoever's gonna end up in second Who is it gonna be
00:11:27
Speaker
I mean, you know, it's really hard to go against Fitz's team. He is. I mean, they're both stacked, but Fitz in particular. I mean, he's got McCaffrey, who's probably good for 20, at least. Kyron Williams is still good somehow, still getting points somehow. New joke is going off.
00:11:55
Speaker
Yeah, I don't know. I think it's Fitz. I think it's going to be Fitz hoisting the trophy. Fitz is God, will be Fitz's champion at the end of next week. That's my prediction. Awesome.
00:12:07
Speaker
Yeah, I looking at Fitz's team, it's like even like in this fight, you can choose almost from anybody on waivers, you know, and Fitz didn't even pick up anybody. And I was going to think like, man, why didn't Fitz pick up anybody? And he kind of didn't need to. Like, I don't know if there's any one else I would sub out for who he's got in.
00:12:32
Speaker
I mean, yeah, I would say Camara is probably my only remote source of concern for him. Um, cause he's been kind of spotty. Like he had six points last week and then before that it was just 13, 12. And then he had 25, but, um, you just don't know what the saints, like, I don't trust the saints at all. And I never want to see Derek Carpley quarterback ever again. I'm sick of that guy. Joe love Derek.
00:13:01
Speaker
start the year. I don't know why. I went to a preseason game. Okay. Because arm sleeve is so cool. I love this guy. I mean, it's kind of like when any big quarterback goes to a new team, you kind of hope like Ryan Tannehill mode on the Titans.
00:13:23
Speaker
Um, like their career dies in one city and it like starts
Future League Plans and Anecdotes
00:13:27
Speaker
in a new one. Um, that didn't happen with Derek Carr. It didn't happen with Russ. So yeah. That Russ stuff is crazy too. If he gets dropped, I hope to see Hawks pick him up. It just would be awesome. That would be the funniest 300 mil or something.
00:13:50
Speaker
I don't know, but I'm pretty sure Deborah would be stuck with the contract. It's like, see how it's going to hang all of it. So that's why it'd be even funnier. They traded and then they traded Spain the contract. I know that they're on the hook for like 35 or something next year, but I don't know. After that, I don't know. Who knows?
00:14:13
Speaker
imagining that happened in like your real life job. Like you, so they signed your contract and then the next year you just like suck dick at the job and they're like, Oh fuck. They're like, sorry, we got to fire you, but we're still paying your salary. So you can just go do whatever you want. Yeah. Or they go to you like two months before and they're like, Hey, do you want to just not do work for the next four months or four weeks or whatever? And we just won't worry about you.
00:14:43
Speaker
hell yeah yeah i'd do that i'd do that in a heartbeat um josh do you have any insights or last thoughts on guillotine it's kind of we got a lot not a lot to analyze at this point i mean
00:15:04
Speaker
It was a, I mean, we, we had some spicy moments, I feel like in the group. So that was, that was fun. It was fun to watch. Felt like I was, I didn't really know everyone. So felt like I was more of a fly on the wall during those moments. Um, but it definitely made for exciting, exciting times in the chat.
00:15:22
Speaker
Yeah, I don't know. I mean, again, this is my first guillotine experience and I really enjoyed it. And I'm certain that I would be seeing a different tune if I was out like week one or week two. This is bullshit. Yeah, I don't know. I had a good time. Would you return next year?
00:15:45
Speaker
Yeah, I'd be down. If this league is still a thing, I'm down. If we expand to 32 teams, I'm down.
00:15:52
Speaker
We need to do that. We need to expand. I think we need a merger or something. We can make it happen. We can make it happen, yeah. That would be interesting. We wouldn't, yeah, I don't know, like you guys were right last week, like we wouldn't really be able to go above 32. But it would be fun.
00:16:15
Speaker
Yeah, there's just pissed at week one week two week three. Oh my god, and yeah, you don't double me language a couple of times
00:16:29
Speaker
But yeah, it'd be interesting. I'm in a, um, sorry, go ahead. No, you go ahead. Uh, no, I was going to say I'm in me, Jordan, Josh Schultz and Matt Robertson are in this, uh, four team league only that we each, we choose a different division every year and we can only draft players from that division. So this year we're doing the AFC South and it is hot garbage. So I imagine.
00:16:55
Speaker
doing a 32 team league where you're just like somebody's going to be starting Brett Ripian one week. It wouldn't, it wouldn't go well. That's awesome. It's so fun though. Yeah, it, it, it definitely would get, uh, it would get pretty bad. I mean, I already, week one, some of those teams I look at, I'm like, I don't even know how you drafted that. That's awesome.
00:17:19
Speaker
Also tough though because we had the draft like goddamn two months before the season started I'm gonna schedule this thing in like May No
00:17:35
Speaker
Can we just do it a week after the Super Bowl? I'll schedule it in May for like the day before the season starts that way. No, no, no, no, no. No one. Everyone has to be there. I'll make it in person in Vegas or rent a conference center at a casino or at a conference center. It'll be like a like a work conference, but like for like a new draft. Mm hmm.
00:18:01
Speaker
Yep. All right. We'll hire somebody to read out the draft cards on a stage for us. And then whoever like drafts poorly, you can just go try to win your money back at the slots. There you go. So when you're $35. Yeah. I love it. That's my money to get there, buddy. You know, I like it. Yeah. I like it too. Josh, do you want to start any beef to end the season?
00:18:30
Speaker
I want to start any beef to end the season. I'll say it's bullshit that I'm not in first right now. I'll say that much. But you know what? Left hand up. I didn't coach the guys up as I should have. So at the end of the day, it's on me.
00:18:55
Speaker
there's not much more there's not much more to it as much as i want to be first honor yeah i'll follow that sword all right anything anything else you want to tell the world um
00:19:12
Speaker
Go Niners, baby.
Final Remarks and Fun Marker
00:19:14
Speaker
We're going all the way. Let's fucking go. Oh yeah. Yeah, you might be right. Disgusting. I'm so mad at that game. Me too. It's okay. It's all right. We also lost to the PJ Walker led a Browns earlier this season. So I'm, and then we bounced back. So it's, it's not, it's not a huge deal. I think we'll be fine. Eagles are fraudulent though. Well, I can agree with that.
00:19:43
Speaker
Okay. Go Niners. Eagles are frauds. Yeah. Thanks for hopping on, Josh. Dude. Thanks for having me. It was a pleasure to meet you guys. Pleasure to be in the league and I would love to be back. The third place cannot not come back. That's illegal. The podcast.
00:20:10
Speaker
Great 15 podcast. Yeah, no one did. All four of us listening. Well, this is your honor. You get to pick the emoji to so that we know who made it to the end. Dear God, this is this is this is probably the most important thing all season. This is the most important decision all season for me, man.
00:20:36
Speaker
looking at them right now let's go let's go with the uh has this been done before the monkey emoji where he's kind of squatting it looks like he's pooping oh that's a great one yeah let's do that one all right squat and monkey if you made it this far all right boys we'll see you next week at the championship good luck let's go