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In this episode, Andy and Jeff recap the first week of fantasy football. They introduce the new show format and discuss the upcoming segments. They also go through the five questions for the week and share their thoughts on each one. They track the divisional matchups and give a playoff picture update. They end the episode by encouraging listeners to leave voicemails and thanking them for choosing their podcast.
Chapters
00:00 Introduction and Show Format
08:52 Five Questions of the Week
15:23 Divisional Matchups and Playoff Picture
27:18 Tracking Awards and Encouraging Voicemails
Takeaways
The hosts introduce the new show format and discuss the upcoming segments.
They go through the five questions for the week and share their thoughts on each one.
They track the divisional matchups and give a playoff picture update.
They encourage listeners to leave voicemails and thank them for choosing their podcast.
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Transcript
Introduction to Fantasy Football Podcast
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you
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You that fantasy football.
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and fantasy football with your hosts, Texas, Andy, and Jeff.
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Thanks Amelia. You're not like Fargo Jeff or Dakota Jeff. Not there, I guess. Not there. You're just Jeff.
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She doesn't say Texas Andy and my dad. That's funny too. She knows she's that's funny too. Yeah. Yeah. Wise. Welcome to you've liked that week one recap. I'm your host Andy. And with me as always, I should know that's coming by now, but you know, the season is new. Mm-hmm.
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and that's how i approach each day ah with me as always is
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I don't put it in the script.
Audience Engagement: Questions and Corrections
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I'm going to be, I'm never going to remember. How are you today, Jeff? Um, I'm getting over a cold, but otherwise I'm good Andy. Um, my kids wanted to listen to the, the first five minutes of the last podcast, just for those, uh, intros and, um, they were bummed out that I didn't use them. Wow. And, uh, I didn't let them listen
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so wow they're there well they're there kids they're there now you can listen to them hey for those of you listening at home feel free to restart the episode so you can hear those jamming beats again and again and again you guys this is the first week of our new show format Let me give you the rundown here. um We're going to start out with some questions and corrections. This section might be inspired by Discord, maybe by your voicemails or text messages. You know, if you're listening and you catch us on anything that's bullcrap, you can pop it in the Discord podcast channel or text us at the number and we'll reveal your comments live on the air.
New Segments and Updates
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That means voicemails too. We will use voicemails throughout. We're applicable. Starting next week we'll have a guest. That's not new at all. But we will have a new five questions which we're going to reveal on this very show.
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to make sure everybody gets their name and their team mentioned in a timely fashion. We we are debuting a new section of the show called One Thing, where we say one thing about every team, all 14 of us. We're also going to have a divisional showdown update around there.
00:03:44
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We'll be tracking some awards, not all of the awards, of course, but we're going to try to have two award tracking updates each show. Um, we're going to have league standings, final thoughts and voicemails. How's that sound, Jeffrey?
Understanding Fantasy Football Scoring
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Sounds beautiful. I believe you. Uh, your video is frozen for me and you look like you're about to whoop it up. And now you look like.
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Like it's always coming. Hey, you're back. Yeah. So that's awesome. But you're back. So section one cues and sees, uh, if, if you had any questions about the league or the scoring or what have you, they were probably answered on last week's show, Tim, but, um, the main question that was brought up.
00:04:42
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Why are you 2-0 after week one? Jeff, could you please discuss the median score? Yeah, so every week you play your head to head opponent and you play against the median score. The median score is calculated by finding the two middle scores of the week.
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So you know you go, you count down or you count up from the top score of the week, you get to the middle, you add those two together and you get the average of those two scores. So this week, the the median score was 105.6, right? 105.66. So next week, the the projected median score is 102.15.
00:05:31
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So, um, you just have to, you know, you just have to be above that median score. Yeah. That's why someone like Nick Thuncker, um, got one point for his head to head victory and sorry, one win, I guess, and one loss for scoring below the median score. So whoever he played had a really shit performance, right? Rough week for them, but whoever they are. Yeah. Always next week.
00:06:02
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So we already have a rule change for next season. Write it down, you guys. Divisions are out. We don't like it. We don't like it at all. More on that later, but the long and the short of it is um the current schedule does not ins ensure that every everyone plays every everyone else at least once. So if you're making decisions now based on your week five matchup, I got news for you, bud. That matchup is going to change.
00:06:42
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wow There's nothing you can do about it. I'll try not to rig it too much in my favor. Right, Jeffrey? Correct.
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Uh, next we're on to call and response. Jeff, did we have any callers?
Interactive Audience Questions
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Yes, we have a voicemail. Hey, it's Max. Uh, I'm on my way home and Saturday night, I figure I should probably practice for tomorrow. So here it goes. Oh, come on. Come on. Why do you have to do that? Yeah.
00:07:25
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Thanks Matt, it's good to do your warmups before before a fantasy football Sunday. When you say that. Smart. They're just smart. It's good. It just makes sense. Although it was quite the ramp up to week one, I didn't even realize that I had guys playing Friday night of week one. It was, I thought I cleared the Thursday night. Not that I would have done anything yeah differently, but I cleared Thursday. Now I didn't have to worry about it until Sunday. Well, ta da. I got, I got players on Friday night.
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um Actually, you're busy. You're, you're going to, uh, high school football games, right? I mean, you don't even, right didn't have any time to look at that. I can't even see my phone when the Friday night lights are so bright. Yeah. You guys, this season we're debuting a new, uh, new five questions. These will be posted on the discord. What we're going for here is some lively conversation on the show. We'd like this section to be the.
00:08:35
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the meat of the show, really, the most enjoyable part. We want to put it near the front and so that we can broaden our audience. And anyone who just wants to hear some some fun, light-spirited banter can tune into the first 12 minutes or so and then tune out for everything else. So, uh, Jeffrey, we got some, some new five questions. We're going to go through them one by one. Yep. We're not actually going to answer them today because we need time to consider our answers.
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last The first, the first question is guilty pleasure band or performance. That's right, it's time to admit someone that you love to listen to. Don't worry, only 14 to 16 people will listen to this show any given week. Sometimes as few as what, seven? Right, Jeff? Yeah, so Jeff's got a cough and and i'm I can vamp as long as I need to, but
00:09:55
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That's it, come come prepared with something good. Question number two, litmus test TV show. This is the show that, if if you find out someone doesn't like this show, you accept, you acknowledge that they just don't see the world like you do. you know what What show, you know if you were still in the,
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dating scene, for instance, you might you might ask this question, do you love this show? How do you feel about this show? you know A deal breaker show, you might even say. So what show is your litmus test? This is gonna be any show since the dawn of television. Question three, surprising movie you've never seen.
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So what's that one movie that everyone's seen? Maybe you haven't seen Jaws yet. Maybe you haven't seen Terminator, whatever it is, that movie that's out there. You're you're white whale. It's got to be surprising. Either Jeff or I have to say, what? Or no way. Or how did you avoid that movie? And a special ah special side to this question is You can't use a movie that someone else used earlier in the season. So you're going to have to think harder and we will we will sound the alarm if you double up.
00:11:36
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Next. Jeff, this is, this is your brain child. I'd like you to read this. Okay. What's the largest animal you could knock out with one punch. So in any animal that you think that, you know, I mean, I'm not just saying like, what's an animal that you can beat in a fight. I'm saying you get one punch to knock out this animal. What animal are you picking? So I'm not saying like, could you beat a kangaroo in a fight? I'm saying, could you knock a kangaroo out in one punch?
00:12:09
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Yeah, yep, yep. Completely random. I forgot to mention this earlier. It has nothing to do with that particular question, but ah we are giving you six questions so you'll have the opportunity to throw one of them.
00:12:28
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Next question. ah Jeff wrote this one for me as we're trying to hit the road. sooner rather than later. What's your favorite USA vacation spot? I'm gonna need tips. This is a chance to share some of your experiences. Maybe it's a place you go regularly. Maybe you just went once as a kid and it's just idyllic in your memory banks.
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Maybe we all write it down and try to get there someday. It'd be really funny if all of our favorite places to go revolved around Chanhassen, Minnesota. Yeah. like Valley fair. Yeah. The dinner theater, axles, Oz, Thai cafe. A cafe. Perfect. Chasers. No, this is, this is vacation spot, Jeff, not just hang out.
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Vacation spot. Clearly you haven't been to Nas Tai Cafe lately. That is a multi-day trip down a flavor multiverse.
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Do they- If you haven't seen that movie, you won't know what I'm talking about. There's a movie about Nas Tai Cafe? No, multi-versus. Oh, do you get a free dessert if you have a Nazareed tattoo? That Naz? Thai cafe? Thai cafe. I don't think you pay, but... Wow. That's great. Oh, what's the last one, Jeff? What's the sixth question? Favorite random social media wormhole. So what's the thing that when you're on the social media is? AKA the toilet.
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Yeah. Um, what do you, what do you, what, what are you falling down? Are you learning about, um, uh, car maintenance, wrenches. Yeah. Car maintenance. Maybe, uh, maybe you're watching wrench stress tests. Um, maybe you really like to see this guy shoot three pointers really fast. Um, people fall and hurt themselves. Yep. Falling to hurt themselves. Um,
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Yeah. Animal husbandry. I don't know. There's got to be some weird, some weird, uh, avenue that you find yourself in. Laundry talk, uh, people showing me how to fold laundry properly. I don't know. A lot of good options, Jeff. Let's not take all the best ones though. Yeah. On this for the show. Sorry. So these six questions will be posted, uh, on the discord so you can prepare your five, uh, your five answers.
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And we're look very much looking forward to, you know, telling you why you're wrong about at least half of them. True.
Fantasy Team Insights
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Next up, we have the division showdown. Is that where we're using this one now? And his name is John Cena!
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I don't know if the new show format allows for us to use that clip as frequently as we used to, but once is required at least. Yeah, Jeff, how many division matchups, sorry, division versus inter division. How do you say that? Inter divisional. Yeah. Yeah. We had one.
00:16:02
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Oh, good one okay. How'd it go? And who's winning? Uh, I mean, I think it was probably a pretty good matchup. Um, the urban achievers took an early lead. Uh, they're up one to nothing right now. Um, plenty of plenty of room for expect to lose to come back. But yeah, one. Congrats. Uh, thanks. Thanks Tom for leading the charge.
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And getting us at one point, uh, the bragging rights are, are in, in the right place. At least for now. Next up you guys get ready. It's kind of rapid fire. Yeah. One thing. All right. So the NBA, the only man to lose his matchup while winning his median score. Way to go, Mike.
00:16:58
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Yeah, very good, Mike. It should be noted that for this week's episode of one thing or so one thing segment, uh, Jeff will be saying one thing about everyone in his division expect to lose to us. And I'll be saying one thing about every team in my division, the little Lebowski's urban achievers, not to be confused with Tim's fantasy team from a few years ago, although they were champions. Am I right?
00:17:28
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I think they were champs that year. We'll have to check the discord. Uh, steel house is back. Good looking out for the division. Um, like I said, and so I guess the one thing I'm saying about Tom in this section is a smart move getting two QBs. Even though our benches are smaller, because now you could move to Sean to the bench and roll with Dak.
00:17:59
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The, the money, man, money bags, deck, yeah the, uh, the five Oh firsts top score left on the bench. But now he's questionable. Anyway, will he play him? Will he not? Good luck. Five Oh firsts got a hard call there. Did, did Tim win this week? Yeah. He won. Even though his top score was left on the bench. Uh-huh.
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fucking annoying. It's just one thing. and We don't know. You're making it two things. Come on. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. jeff um My team's name is, uh,
00:18:41
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I don't know. Oh yeah. Uh, uh, sack. Barkley sack up and oh, Barclays sack up and Ram.
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Way to waste the best day out of Barkley, at least you're leading the $10 award. That's right. That the highest scoring player in a single game award is currently in my hands. That's all I got out of this week. Good job, Andy.
00:19:14
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That's awesome. Um, he's, he's the top scorer over quarterbacks too. So that's, that's exactly huge. Seahawk to, uh, not a fan of trade offers, not a fan of trade offers during Sunday night football. Interesting. How would you, well, like I can't go into two things here. That's your one thing. Uh, Lance Corporal underground.
00:19:43
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Thanks for going easy on me by keeping two inactive players in your lineup. It was a very kind gesture. every Everyone should take that page out of your book, even though I still didn't capitalize. See, you guys, you don't even need a full roster against me. Just play like seven. It's fine.
00:20:09
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Thunkers just, he's not getting rid of his bench. He's keeping the same size bench we had last year. And he's just removing active players.
00:20:22
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the yeah The yellow jackets have plenty of tight ends and are willing to make trades. How many tight ends? Three. Wow. Okay, right.
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I mean, you can look at it as three tight ends or three quarterbacks. You're called Taysome Hill. QB tight. Wow. He can go anywhere. Candy. Exactly.
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Taysome. Taysome. Anyway, uh, Kuznog. We, we all just sat there and watched you grab Mason for nothing on Thursday. And, uh,
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You didn't even need the points to win. So double good on you.
00:21:13
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DX folks, Xakes, uh, went with the triple double lineup this week where he played two wide receivers, two running backs, two tight ends, and it did not work in week one. Will he go to the triple double again? Time will tell. Yeah. He really, uh,
00:21:37
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He had a tough draft and a tough weak one. But me and, I should say, Shania Twain and I both would say that it only goes up from here.
00:21:52
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It hurts when I pee. Not just a glaring omission, but also a team name for ah Ray slash Kamen. Ray Finkel, of course.
00:22:09
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I just wanted to ask how you're feeling about Alvin Kamara now. After lamenting your choice in the draft, puts up 19 points, your top scorer for the week. I'll wager you're not feeling too shabby about it.
00:22:31
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What's my AJ again? AJ game already leading to headaches.
00:22:39
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I'm not really sure what he, what do you do? He drafted a chain and he's already hurt. Um, he almost did play in week one and now he had, because he had a headache, I guess. And now, and now in week two, he has an ankle injury. Looks like so he's not going. Remember when Percy Harvin had those yeah chronic migraines? Oh my God. What could have been, uh,
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That was a mouthful. What's my AJ again? A chain game. It's all A's and G's and J's. There's a lot. Not not well thought out for my one one thought. That's okay. That's why we expand a little bit. Let's talk about Monday Garfield. He had the best defensive performance of the weekend. I wrote that, but I didn't fact check it. It was like 31 points or something, 30 points.
00:23:39
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Insane. Uh, my question for you, Nick is, was that more Chicago being good or more Tennessee being bad?
00:23:54
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Yeah, I don't know. They scored two touchdowns. Yeah. That's pretty good. Three sacks.
00:24:05
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Right. Like if it's just Levi's or Levis, how do you say it? Levis 501. Yeah. 501. That's where he goes by now. You know, he's not on special teams. So this seems like a solid defensive effort. I guess I'd have to know what the two TDs were. One was a big six. I know that. All right. All right. Um, but yeah.
00:24:32
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Interesting question. Night Owls. Hey, Big Spender. Baker Mayfield coming in for a $21 offer, or more than the next highest offer that gets you the Big Spender award. Also, how funny is it that the Cleveland Browns just let Baker Mayfield but walk away so they could trade away a whole generation of first round picks to give Deshaun Watson $230 million dollars of fully guaranteed money?
00:25:02
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Pretty amazing. How big spender don't forget. They, they paid to Sean Watson and via him, they paid all of the women he terrorized. Oh, right. Yeah. that sounds They were actually forward thinking. They were this new allegation came out and they're like, we're good. He, uh, we already gave him 230. We gave him the money. He's got plenty. He can help you.
00:25:34
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Uh, discretionary, discretionary funds, they probably call it in his, in his contract. We understand you're about a hundred million of this is going to go away. They just thought they were going to get a good player. The thing, the thing about like the guaranteed money and NFL contracts that I always think is hilarious is these teams have to put that money in escrow. So like there's $230 million dollars just in a bank account, not doing anything.
00:26:05
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Really? Yeah. that That was like the whole thing. Why like the Vikings didn't want to give Kirk cousins that next guaranteed deal because they would have whatever, whatever the number is, they have to actually like have that cash on hand. So like that huge DAC contract, the Cowboys actually had to have that liquidity to, uh, you know, to make it doing. Wow. I did not know.
00:26:37
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ah Lastly, we got Orangy Glad.
Awards and Playoff Picture
00:26:41
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Way to use that IR slot, Matt, for Hawkinson. And I'm sorry, you got the lesser Baltimore tight end.
00:26:59
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Yeah, I wonder what i wonder if ah Mark Andrews is actually going to be any good this year. Great question.
00:27:08
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No, Tony Pollard, how could you? Ah, fucking president.
00:27:17
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Thanks, Matt. i can One can only hope that there's a third entry in this gripping storyline. Next up, we're on to the awards tracking. You already got a bonus award.
00:27:35
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but actually we've already covered two of these but I'd just like to make a distinction here first of all these two awards are easy to track so that's why we're doing it week one ah we had two twenty one dollar bids this week that both won the contract rights to the players on which they were bid both of these Bidding ah managers now each lead the way for two different Awards and the and the difference is what I want to Clarify here shrewd shrewd dude, excuse me is currently in the hands of Jeff you Jeffrey You're the shrewd dude at present. I Said at present not the present
00:28:32
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Uh, but you are the present true dude. This is because you bid $21 for Isaiah likely speaking of Matt getting the lesser Baltimore tight end. Um, the next highest bid was, uh, $16 from Matt. Uh, very interesting, right? So Jeff, you only spent $4 more than you needed to, um,
00:29:00
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to get your target player. On the other hand, we have Jarrett who spent, who bid $21, but he could have got Mayfield for $12 less. That's why he is the current big spender because right he's he he overspent by the most and you are the shrewd dude because you overspent by the least.
00:29:30
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Perfect. Exactly what I was. Yeah. That was my, that was my whole, my whole bet. Of course. Double bet. Let's get to the, let's get to the playoff picture. Sound effect here. um Perfect. Maybe, maybe we can bring the yellow horn back this year,
00:29:51
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yeah
00:29:54
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but just getting these for now, yeah. Uh, Taking the top four teams from each division, the playoff picture today looks something like from the little Lebowski's urban achievers, Tom, Zach, Nick, and Nick.
00:30:20
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And from expect to lose,
00:30:24
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We got, bro it's okay. Jeff, who's leading your division into the playoffs after week one? All right. Up top we have Brian followed by Tim, Jared, and Eacon. Congratulations to the eight of you. If the season ended today,
00:30:50
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The season ended today. I believe all eight of you would be in the playoffs. But as mentioned at the top of the show, I really don't know how these divisions work. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Well, Jeff, we're just over 31 minutes. Any final thoughts today?
00:31:13
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Unbelievable. You've got to be cutting again. You're kidding me.
00:31:23
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Unbelievable! You've got to be Kuznog! Are you kidding me? I'm going to have to use that one when I play Kuznog this week or whatever week it is. I don't know. We we did not listen to any of these Max voice mails before the show. That was perfect.
Conclusion and Call to Action
00:31:42
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Yeah, that worked out. Stay tuned next week when we're going to have our first guest.
00:31:48
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I'll be pursuing that guest. We love you, Cody Craig. Thanks for being you. You know, maybe. Love to get him on here. Missed him on the, um, on the draft and everyone's wondering who's this guy from the draft day poster, you know, that formerly starred Kevin Costner and Jennifer Garner. And now, well, Brian and Cody, uh,
00:32:20
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Make sure you guys like and subscribe to the show. If you haven't already, I will be reaching out to those of you who I suspect don't listen to remind you that we're keeping it shorter because we want everybody to listen and get the most out of your $40 entry fee. and if you And if you want to leave us a voicemail like Matt Maxa,
00:32:46
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That number is always easy to remember and hard to forget. Thanks, guys. 6-1-1-2-2-9-3-6-2-6-3-5. You guys all got that, I'm sure. We don't need to repeat it. And we might put it in the Discord chat again. Just just out but just save that number. Save that number on your phone under you like that, you like that, when we're here.
00:33:15
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We're here when when your wife or your child, your fantasy emergencies, when people you're hanging out with just don't understand the major mess up you made or the major success you're experiencing, we're here. We want to hear it. We want to feel it. We want to share it. It can be mid game. I was feeling pretty confident going into Sunday. I should have left a message, but I'm on this show.
00:33:43
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You know, once it started turning for me for the worst, once my, you know, Harrison Jr. out of Arizona started getting less than one point. And when he was wide open ah for a touchdown at the end of the game, you know, those were all moments when I could have called in, but I thought, no, I'll just come on the show and gripe.
00:34:09
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live and make everyone who's stuck with us for 33 minutes, listen to it. But for you at home, if you're not on the show this week, please give us a call. We'd love to hear from you. Don't let Matt be the unofficial third guest every single week. Please spare us. But if he's the only one we've got, we're going to use every second. Right Jeff? Oh yeah. We're taking it.
00:34:36
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We know you have plenty of options when choosing a league specific fantasy football podcast, and we thank you for choosing ours. Thanks, Jeff.