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Week 18 The Champ Checks In and holds a five questions-off then we wrap with The Awards Show
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Summary
In this episode, the hosts discuss the end of the fantasy football season, highlighting key moments, player performances, and managerial decisions. They present various awards, analyze strategies, and reflect on the season's challenges while looking forward to the upcoming postseason.
Takeaways
It's not easy to be a champion; it requires hard work.
Winners win, and strategic decisions matter.
Every award winner gets a small prize, emphasizing participation.
Player performances can significantly impact outcomes in fantasy football.
Managerial decisions can lead to missed opportunities and regrets.
The postseason challenge is an exciting opportunity for all participants.
Reflecting on the season helps improve future strategies.
Communication and camaraderie among league members enhance the experience.
Understanding player stats and performance is crucial for success.
Looking ahead to the next season is essential for continuous improvement.
Chapters
00:00 Welcome to the Fantasy World
01:07 Cody's Championship Journey
03:09 The Trade That Changed Everything
06:01 Vikings Game Recap
10:02 NFL Postseason Challenge
12:02 Five Questions Showdown
22:58 Unpopular Opinions and Wrap-Up
24:19 NEWCHAPTER aka Awards Show
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Transcript
Introduction and Audience Interaction
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Live in front of a studio audience, it's...
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And live in front of a completely different studio audience, it's...
Guest Introduction: Jeff Mangan
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Jeff Mangan, he knows all the numbers from Japan!
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And joining us for the third time this season, we are honored to have in our presence the once and future Skolster. It's not easy to be a fucking champion, all right? It's the hardest fucking thing there is to do.
Champion Challenges and Reflections
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The only way you can be a fucking champion is if you work your fucking ass off.
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Is there more? Is there more? Yeah. What's that? Yeah. Well, Dak, here's the deal. I'm the best there is, plain and simple. I mean, I wake up in the morning, I piss excellence, and nobody can hang with my stuff.
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What's the immediate feeling you're you've got right now?
Cody Craig's Return and Game Reflections
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I'd be so happy. I want this open. I dreamed this, man. I dreamed this.
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Yes, yes. Oz for rebuttal. the Ladies and gentlemen, the once and future Skolster. now For now, the anointed champion of You Fight That season 2025. We love you, Cody Craig. Thanks for being you.
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Welcome back to the show, Cody. Thank you. Thank you.
00:01:59
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I expected a bigger pop from the audience, but I think we have their studio mics turned off. Is that the end of it?
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um Nothing, Jeff. You guys, Cody, let's let's go straight into Qs and Cs. What's it like being the second team and the second in a row to go from the eight seed to the first place finish? I'm on top of the world right now.
00:02:28
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My wife asks me, so what do you win for that? I said, a lifetime against Brian. That's all I know. but but but but
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Good answer. Very stressful three hours. That's all I know.
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It was, I mean, very exciting. You know, you were the, the maybe some would say the, the underdog, perhaps the, the people's champion, maybe.
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ah I don't believe you made any. Did you make any trades this season, Cody?
Cody's Trades and Season Impact
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Yes, with Jeff. You did. Oh, you didn't trade with Jeff. Amari and Hampton. Might have led me to that championship. Do you feel you gave up your future to win the present?
00:03:24
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Absolutely not. I know someone they did. yes We won't name names. Or maybe we will. No. Well, Cody, what's it feel like to go from the Skolster to the champ in one season? I can say for a fact that it is the biggest turnaround we've ever seen here You Bike Bet.
00:03:49
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To be honest, it's going to be hard to have to send that Skolster away. takes takes a lot of experience to burn that into the toast, but it's possible.
Transition to Champion Status
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It's ah Oh, are you saying we might have to replace it someday?
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is that Is that what I'm hearing? I may have been looking for a new one to send out, but they're not easy to find. No, I haven't seen that toaster in a long time.
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A long time. Cody, how'd you how'd you manage to leave zero points on your bench in the final week?
Winning Strategies and Player Pickups
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You know what I mean? You started your best...
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possible lineup. Some people that try to run their future think they're excellent managers. And then there's some people that just know what they're doing. So
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winners win. All right. You're saying, yeah, winners win. Question number four, Jeff, you want to ask this one? Jackson Dart.
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Pick up of the year.
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I mean, when were going out, might be the best thing that ever happened to me. Yeah. Well, I mean, yeah. You traded away. i talked to him to trade me Stafford and you got Hampton in that deal.
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And then Dart had a stinker and you picked him up and he led you to glory. Yeah, it was, it was stressful because Stroud started.
00:05:31
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his game with two, what, 70-yard touchdown passes and I had him on the bench, Dart still comes and outscores him, gives me what I needed.
00:05:43
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Yeah, Dart, I mean, everybody had excellent performances for you on the week.
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Cody, last question. I think it was far away my highest scoring week and I needed every point. Yep.
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Yeah, last time we have to ask this question. Possibly.
Humorous Interlude: Toaster to Tom
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Yeah, whereas's where's Tom? And i ask I'm asking you, Cody, because you're going to need to mail him the toaster and the plaque.
00:06:17
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We'll get back to you on that. he said um Thank you. I don't think to Tom Avon Lake, Ohio is going to be sufficient. Yeah.
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You don't think that's going to work? No. I don't. with Not with their current post office. That's the end of Qs and Cs. It's time for our actual Mjolnir Minute. Let's go.
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we're still doing it?
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Hell yeah. All right. The Vikings played the Packers this week. um There was no love, no need for the Pack. They had this one in the bag.
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ah Kind of looks like Clayton needs a tune-up, though. Didn't it, Jeff?
00:07:11
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He didn't have a great game. Yeah. He sucks. No, I tuned him out. Nice. There you go. That's good. Uh, JJ re-injured his hand.
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Um, perhaps no post season is for the best. Cause he wouldn't get that far as my, as my feeling. What do you think, Jeff?
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Yeah. Yeah. He's got one, one more quarter left in him for his next injury. Okay. Yeah, probably.
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Brosmer finished the win with a better QBR than JJ. us Ham got fed. Nice touchdown. Emotional touchdown. And what else we got? minute. No, no.
Vikings vs. Packers Recap
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The Vikings ended on on a winning streak. You know, they came out and said that if they'd gotten the ball back there at the end, they were going to do victory formation with Ham and Harrison Smith on the field.
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And Harrison said that he told KLC that he was going to play quarterback, even though they told him to play ah running back. And so KLC told them to run the clock out on the kickoff.
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Okay. That's a good ending. Should they have won five in a row or should they have not?
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Oh, for a draft pi positioning? Yeah. Yeah. I don't think it matters where the draft next year. All that matters is what they do at quarterback.
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Right.
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Okay. Can you guys hear me okay? yeah Yes. Okay. Can we call him by his name? It's nine. okay It's not JJ. He's got to stop that shit.
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the The like trying to truck a guy in the sideline and getting a 15 yard penalty for being an idiot. So, and never being an idiot this point.
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It is. A lot of posing. lot of fronting. lot of posing. Yeah. Hey, um, Cody,
NFL Playoff Challenge Explained
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ah before we get to our the highlight of our show, I'd like to, while we still got people here, I'd like to talk about the NFL postseason.
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You like that playoff challenge. Glad to see you two have signed up. I'm glad we're all here. Most excitingly, i'm I'm glad to see people coming in.
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we have We have tens of fans around the world, and this gives everyone an opportunity to join the league. So please share the link, invite your friends. They just got to send me $10 or I'm booting them.
00:10:11
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If I can boot them. I'm assuming I can. No idea. yeah Yeah, you can boot them, I'm sure. We're doing a re-rack them format. So you you set your lineup and you can change it any time, but the longer guys are on your roster, the more their multiplier stacks up.
00:10:29
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So wildcard weekend, it's a one-time multiplier. and then the divisional round, two, and then three, and then four. Think about, was that enough? that Or do we get to five?
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I don't know math that good. ah Think about those those one seed teams, because if you assume the one seed teams are going to make it to the finals, um you know, to the Super Bowl, it might be worth it to have that five-time multiplayer.
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Or is it four?
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I don't do math that good. 54. We got one quarterback, two running backs. I don't know. You can see it on the sheet. um Ten bucks for everybody.
00:11:15
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ah We got to take $20 to pay for the platform. We're giving 20 bucks to the second place finisher. And the rest of the money goes to the champion. Friends and family are welcome. And Jeff, at least, is going to do some weekly updates on that, aren't you, Jeff?
00:11:33
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Yep. Maybe. People can, yeah no, people can drop ah drop lines to the, that you've liked that line at. That number is always
Five-Question Showdown
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easy to remember and hard to forget.
00:11:47
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Thanks, guys. 6-112-293-6E635. And every week i'll I'll do a quick recap and then any voicemails we get, I'll work those in.
00:12:02
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Cody, you got any questions about the postseason playoff challenge?
00:12:11
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Who's your quarterback? It's okay if you don't. ha All right. Who's the quarterback? Hey, Cody, um we we've invited you here for for a very special award, a prize, a reward, I should say. um We've decided, Jeff and I haven't done five questions yet.
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And today, for the first time ever, we're going to do a five-question showdown with you, Cody Craig, the champion, serving as judge, jury, and executioner.
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There can only be one winner per point, all right? We're going to go head to head. and We're going to see who the fun
Personal Preferences: Chipotle Orders
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champion of five questions is. All right.
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So I know you don't have the I know you don't have the questions in front of you. But Jeff, let's just maybe we just stick to the order we normally do it. And we. Yeah. Yeah. You know.
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All right, Andy, let's start this off. What is your Chipotle order? My Chipotle order? All right. It is sofritas. It is fajita veggies.
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It is guacamole. It is pico de gallo. It is pinto beans. And ah I'm only doing lettuce if I'm eating it there.
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And I'm not using the app, Jeff. Not using the app. But you're also not going you're not going vegan, huh? Yeah, sofritas. What did I do? Pinto? No, no, you got pinto beans, buddy.
00:13:49
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They add bacon? What? Yeah, they put beef, they put tallow in it. They do? Yeah. Oh, shit.
00:14:00
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Okay, well, I think I know which way this point is going. Jeff, what's your what's your answer? um so So the reason I started asking this question is we don't do fast food because of allergy issues in our household. And so Chipotle is like one of the only places that doesn't have tree nuts ah in anything in their stuff.
00:14:21
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there's stuff So we can go there. So um i typically order a ah in person. i get the veggie burrito bowl, black beans, brown rice, tomatillo, chili salsa, the hot one, fajita veg, cheese.
00:14:39
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And as I said, I'm in person. So i'm getting lettuce. Okay. Hey, um Cody, before you judge, I just Googled it. Jeff and Chipotle's beans, pinto beans, are vegetarian and vegan. They're prepared without meat products, according to Google Gemini.
00:14:58
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And Food Republic. You should go onto to the Chipotle website.
00:15:03
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Oh, shit, really? This is phenomenal. Okay, Cody, what's what's your ruling?
00:15:13
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Simply because while I love sofritas, the next day they're terrible. Because I will be sitting where I am right now on this toilet.
00:15:25
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So Jeff gets up. That is. Jeff, I guess you can. Yeah, there you go. right Correct. Correct. Correct.
00:15:38
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All right. jeff whats treat two Jeff, what's a TV show you build on after one season?
00:15:46
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All right. um It was going to one thing, but then I tried a new show yesterday, Andy. C, the Jason Momoa show. I watched maybe 15 minutes, hated it, and I'm never going to go fucking back. I'm done.
00:16:00
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um After at least one season, Jeff, that was the caveat. at One season. What? You watched one season in.
00:16:13
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You watched the whole season or you watched one episode? 15 minutes of one season. Okay. Just trash. I did watch the first season of Handmaid's Tale and I'm not watching any more of it.
00:16:24
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Okay, so it's kind of like... That was going to my original answer. But yesterday, I watched that Jason Momoa show. And yeah I just have to flame that show. That show is awful.
00:16:35
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Okay. No one should watch it. That's fine. It's not technically the answer. But, you know, i mean, the question... What's the TV show that you bailed on after at least one season?
00:16:47
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When and why? did. When and why? I did seven seasons of The Walking Dead. The fucking tiger did not eat Negan. And I walked away. It was bogus.
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I'm done. I'm not going back to that show. He's got to be eaten. Honest its question. How many seasons is that show on now? I think it did 12. Oh, man. And the story's still going. It's like broken off into other shows.
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Cody.
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Did you say you watched seven seasons of it?
Television Shows and Personal Tastes
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Yep.
00:17:24
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And the question was what again? TV show you bailed on after. At least one season. Oh, at least. Yeah. All right. right I'm giving you credit for going seven and then bailing.
00:17:38
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We'll give Andy that for us. Correct. Correct. Correct. Jeff, we we got to pick this up. Huh?
00:17:48
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We got to pick it up today. Today, probably 12 and a half minutes right now. And if I train for a month, I think I could get it down to 10 flat.
00:18:06
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Nice. Solid. um I did the elliptical yesterday. i got eight and a half minutes on the mile. ah The rowing machine was 18 minutes.
00:18:17
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And i think if I worked at it, I could get that rowing machine down to about 10 minutes. If I do a mile, I never run it. Walking it is usually about 15 minutes.
00:18:31
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So what was your answer? Eight and a half on the elliptical.
00:18:40
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you're going mild time however you care to do it. All right, Cody.
00:18:46
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What do you think? we never said We never said running or walking. so you know That's true. i mean he came with sta He came with stats and backed up.
00:18:58
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it did I got to know Jeff with the... Wow. He took the question where he wanted to. Correct. Correct. Correct. right. It's two to one.
00:19:10
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ah Jeff, what's ah what's your favorite thing to do with Marit besides the obvious?
00:19:20
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Yeah. I wrote a long one here.
Partner Activities and Creative Routines
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I'm trying to condense it. Okay. Current favorite thing we do together... um
00:19:32
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Man, uh, silly, but, uh, every day we reset every night we reset the house. So the house is all picked up and like, you know, functioning the next day. yeah And we take like half an hour or so to like, just kind of like reset, uh, the living space and decompress the day.
00:19:51
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So, um, that's what we do. we do every day. Did that before, uh, recorded the show tonight. So. That's a great one, Jeff. I really, that hits the heart.
00:20:03
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For me, photo shoots are difficult, but once the final product comes out, I'm really proud and glad we put in the effort. they say They say nothing worth doing is easy, and I just remind myself of that when when we put our minds together and create something.
00:20:21
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Cody. I love that. Jeff almost won me over because that's a phenomenal way to end the night. but But I see these photos and I can't imagine what goes into that.
00:20:36
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They're pretty And respect it. So we're going to be on that point. Correct. Correct. Correct.
00:20:48
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And it's a washcloth, hands, plastic, scrubby thing, or other. Now that I know the difference, loofah. It's always been loofah and it always will. Jeff? Japanese loofah.
00:21:03
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Oh, gosh.
00:21:06
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The towel version so you can get the back easy. Oh, wow. Yep. That's the difference. Hey, Cody, don't feel bad.
00:21:18
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That's a pretty good answer. Can I go no points? No. because I just want hands and hands open. Wow. Yeah, no you're not.
00:21:33
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Okay, Jeff, you got 10 second. hi No, I think i think think your answer, Cody, was actually wrong. So we didn't expect this to be a three-way, um but but you got negative one.
00:21:47
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So. cheerful Jeff, you got a 10 second unpopular opinion or should we wrap it? Yeah. kind Consuming content is a mess. of The cable bundle sucks. And if I want to ah pay for everything in all these different, you know, subscriptions and everything, i don't know. I just hate, I hate how content is consumed now where you have to have like a million different subscriptions and you have to have like a online cable or cable or something like that.
00:22:17
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So got to figure that shit out.
Unpopular Opinions on Content
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Cody, do you agree with Jeff?
00:22:24
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Big time, but um YouTube TV is only the only way to go.
00:22:31
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I agree with Jeff, too. Do you think that makes it unpopular opinion, Cody?
00:22:38
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No. its My unpopular opinion... said wing by be might be salt Let's see how I do. My unpopular opinion is that The Eternals is a really good movie.
00:22:50
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It was more somber and subdued than most of Marvel, and I saw it twice. That's it. How was that unpopular? It didn't do well.
00:23:01
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It didn't review with fans well, and it didn't do well in theaters. Jeff. But you make a good point. So, Cody, what's it going to be?
00:23:15
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We'll go Andy on that one. all right. Well, that brings that brings us... Correct. Correct. Correct.
00:23:28
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So with no score on Luffa Washcloth, we have our first five questions winner, Jeff, by my tally.
00:23:40
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It's the D-O-double-G. It's me. Cody, thank you a one thank you so much. Sorry we had to rush it. I shouldn't have talked about the postseason playoff challenge during your time. We appreciate your time. We appreciate um you know all the content that your win will give us this next season with Brian.
00:23:59
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It's just going to be it's going to be so good. i can't wait for his draft. I'm more excited for his draft than my own. And it's all thanks to you. So thank you, Cody. We'll see you in the NFL postseason playoff challenge at Evike then.
00:24:16
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Okay.
00:24:18
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I can not.
00:24:24
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Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. You're cool. And fuck you. I'm out.
00:24:35
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I'm glad you censored the second one. Yeah. That was the worst one. It was the worst one. real written Yeah, he really meant that one. yeahp he Yep. He put the emphasis on that one.
00:24:53
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Thanks again to Cody for coming in. Jeff, Cody just texted me and he said, upon further review, Jeff really sold me. I can't stop thinking about the loofah on a stick with the towel and therefore it's a tie.
00:25:12
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So... You know, okay that's what we get for six, having six questions in our five questions segment. that is That is what we get for.
00:25:27
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Breaking our own rules from the start. Yeah. Yeah. Hey, Jeff, this is a very special portion of the show. Very special portion of the season. Season. Thank you. Of course.
00:25:39
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We haven't done this all season long. Ladies and gentlemen, it's time for the end of season awards.
End-of-Season Awards
00:25:52
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Every award winner gets $10. That's right. You can, i mean, it's, it's possible one day we'll see a sweep. I don't know. Anything's possible. We won't know for another 10, 20, 30, 60 minutes here. Depending on how long this takes us.
00:26:08
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That's true. You never know. ah Let's just kick things off with worst manager.
00:26:22
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is This goes to a team that could have won more games with better decision-making. Sure. right It's not as easy as just counting up how many points you left on your bench.
00:26:32
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you know um Let's start with honorable mention. With the most points on the bench through all 14 games, Brian, formerly Pug Life, now Pug Death, really should have taken this this award. In a lesser league, he would have.
00:26:51
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However, it should be noted that most of these points were from a Week 7 misfire, leaving Bo Nix, the highest-scoring player at the time, and Keenan Allen on the bench.
00:27:06
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ah So the runner-up. There were three teams that had three regular season games in which their optimized lineup would have beaten their opponent's starters. Matt, Cody, and Nick K. Henceforth known as Nick A. Nick A.
00:27:21
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This tiebreaker would have gone to Cody, for whom two of his three optimized lineups would have even beaten his opponent's optimized lineup. You can tell I really get into this one, Jeff. Yeah. I really enjoy these numbers. So who won this one?
00:27:38
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Well, this one um did come down to the final regular season week of the year. ah this This team had ah two of their first three matches they had they would have won if they had optimized.
00:27:55
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Then they had a really good rest of the season until week 13 when they had another optimize you know would have you optimized And then in the last week of the season, um unfortunately left 26 and a half points on the bench ah with a optimized, know, optimized lineup would have won a situation. This one is going to Zach Olson. Congratulations, Zach.
00:28:22
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You get $10. Excellent. um Our next award is called beast mode. And his name is
00:28:39
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John On this one, Andy, it's the best single game player performance. So to recap, Zach's got one so far, so he needs to win this one to get the sweep.
00:28:51
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um Honorable mention here again, sweeping the honorable mention so far is Brian. Um, he would have had the top position for four weeks if he had played Bo Nix in week seven. Um, but it wouldn't mattered anyway, Andy.
00:29:07
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And, uh, the actual runner up, um, uh, Yeah, week 10 saw Jonathan Taylor. Yeah, it comes from Mr. T. Mr. T. Which, you know, that's pretty cool for Mr. T. um Do Mr. T's yeah play there. At the um end of the season, in the playoffs, what player on your team was probably the most disappointing for you? At at the very end?
00:29:33
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Yeah. Well, Jeff, you sent me a meme that should probably be shared with with the league about the one and only Jameer Gibbs. Yeah. um Well, thanks for that. That's a pairing Week 12, Andy, he had the highest score in performance on the season. So that's $10 to you.
00:29:54
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Thank you so much. And thanks to Jameer. Yeah. I hope he has a great time in Cancun. Yeah. With the Vikings, maybe. Maybe they'll all just hang out together.
00:30:05
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oh I'm sure. Our next award, Wheatiesbach.
00:30:11
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name is John C.
00:30:17
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Jeff, I was crunching some numbers here. And McCaffrey had this one for a good chunk of the season. But the week 14 bye, that that was the great equalizer.
00:30:30
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Correct. um He had 294.7 through 14 weeks. Sorry, Ecom, you're runner-up. through fourteen weeks ye sorry yecom youre the runner up It's a rough, you know, you got to run through the tape.
00:30:46
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Run through the tape, Mike. And that means the winner this season, so the same as last season, Josh Allen.
00:30:57
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um he He got over 37 points in the final week, taking him all the way to first. So 320 through 14 weeks. Congrats to Nicky.
00:31:10
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So by my math, Andy, that means that no one can sweep this, but we could go for an individual sweep, you know, a new person on every award. Do you think we can pull it off?
00:31:21
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So we got Zach, we got Andy, and we got Nick K. Yeah, let's see if we can do it. Yeah. ah Hey, Big Spender.
00:31:32
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And his name is John So on this one, that's the biggest waiver we reach for anyone who forgot, especially you, Blake. I know that you didn't take notes last year.
00:31:44
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and i'm like um So the the honorable mention, I guess, because I did i i did this backwards by accident, Andy. the The second closest was Jeff. That's me. Um, I overpaid by $34 in week 14, going into 15. Um, the only thing that was really cool about that was that, uh, I had already been eliminated from, uh, the playoffs. So I bought Devin Singletary for $43 and Mr. T had bid $9 and I couldn't even play Singletary. It wouldn't let me put him from my bench into my starting lineup.
00:32:25
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But the winner, um with a $57 overspend in week seven is Matt. Matt, you bought Tez Johnson, who had averaged 5.78 points per game before you bought him. And after you bought him, he averaged 5.15 points. good job, Matt. $10 to you.
00:32:52
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ten dollars to you And then after that, we have another waiver-related one, Andy. This one is called Shrewd Dude. And his name is John Cena.
00:33:04
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And um that's the closest waiver win. This one was difficult, Andy. I had to, you know, crunch a bunch of numbers on this one. We had, think it was, yeah, there was five teams that came in as the honorable mention.
00:33:21
Speaker
Wow. These are all teams that had $2 gap in their waiver claim. And remember last year, we decided that you had to bid at least $5 to be eligible for this award. Right. Yeah.
00:33:32
Speaker
So only bids of $5 or more were in play. um And the winner was Phil. He bid $10 for Trey Tucker on 9-24.
00:33:43
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And Tom came in with a claim of $8. So Tom lost. But Phil is the the closest waiver win. and And the more I think about this award, Andy, in the future, maybe we should give it to the loser, not the winner.
00:33:59
Speaker
Oh, but doesn't, but they're not a sure dude.
00:34:07
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Like it doesn't, doesn't this exemplify the perfectly placed bid? Yeah, I guess. We'll talk about it in the off season.
00:34:18
Speaker
People just have to bid more. There's not, you know, like people. That's true. The number of people that don't bid $5 was very surprising. Hmm. They didn't want it bad enough, Jeffrey.
00:34:31
Speaker
They didn't. We can go back and look at who who lost bids, you know, crucial bids and left money in their wallet by the end. so Yeah.
00:34:44
Speaker
All right. So um how are we doing on the on the sweep watch? um Yeah. So, so far, by my math, ah it's five awards and five winners.
00:34:57
Speaker
incredible one two three four five that's good math jeffrey all right next up we have overpowered and his name is john yes overpowered this is most points four um I confirmed today that the points for and points against on Yahoo are for the regular season only.
00:35:21
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So no real math to do here. Honorable mention.
Season Stats and Performance Optimization
00:35:26
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With 1220 points for Tom put up the lowest tally since Kurt's 1188 in 2020.
00:35:35
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which shockingly was for a seventh place finish and a playoff berth compared to Tom's last place finish, as we all know. ah The runner up this season, Brian nearly got there.
00:35:51
Speaker
He would have had this wrapped up weeks earlier had he not left the most points on his bench. ah He missed most points for 34.
00:36:00
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That leaves our winner to be the Mr. T with 1682. Three teams earned more points than that in 2021, but no one since.
00:36:13
Speaker
Wow. You know, if... ah If we optimize this, Brian left 189 points on the bench and Mr. T only left 111.
00:36:28
Speaker
So that's one more for Brian on the worst manager tally. But it doesn't put him over. It doesn't put him over as much. No.
00:36:39
Speaker
Yeah. So close. And you know, that's a perfect foray into our next award. Them's the break, Sandy.
00:36:54
Speaker
um That's most points against. Now, the honorable mention here, Jarrett had the fewest points scored against him with 1431, but couldn't turn it into anything better than seven and seven. Shockingly, there was only one game he could have won with an optimized roster.
00:37:13
Speaker
ah though we don't account for free agents that could have been added instead. um The runner, the runner up Andy this year is our champion Cody with 1550 scored against making his ultimate victory.
00:37:30
Speaker
All that more impressive. Now he did get into the playoffs with a losing record, which probably, I don't know if we're going to have to asterisk that somewhere. But, I don't think so.
00:37:42
Speaker
Is there any way an eight seed can get into the playoffs with a winning record? Who knows? Yeah. Yeah. Well, if you have, if you have the median score, um oh get excited.
00:37:56
Speaker
Yeah. So up until now, Andy, we have gone six for six on new winners on all of these. um But, the winner for most points against we have Kuznug. That's right. Zill has picked up his second award of the season, uh, hence breaking the streak.
00:38:17
Speaker
Thanks a lot, Zach. Thanks for nothing. Yeah. And you got 20 bucks coming your way as a result. Our next award is eat my dust.
00:38:33
Speaker
This is where the biggest blowout. Okay. A runner-up in week eight, we saw Kegger beat up on Matt to the tune of a 60-point blowout. But Tom was paying close attention from somewhere in the world. We still don't know.
00:38:50
Speaker
He clearly didn't want Kegger to win the $10. yeah So he actively left by weeks Troy Franklin in his lineup and watched a j Brown collect 21 from the bench.
00:39:04
Speaker
This gave Ray Finkel 74-point win his pocket. and ten dollars in his pocket Jeff, I'm thinking next season, maybe we institute something called, I don't know, the steel house rule where we give one courtesy reminder per team to quote unquote, start your freaking players.
00:39:33
Speaker
Thank you.
00:39:36
Speaker
Yeah, I think that makes sense. It's not quite a mulligan, but it's like one one push for a team, you know? Yeah. Hey, it's Thursday. Dingus. You know, something like that.
00:39:49
Speaker
think I think that's probably fair. um yeah The next award. um Love this one.
00:39:59
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Close, but no cigar.
00:40:05
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um The runner-up here, Tim lost to Kegger in Week 12 by points, which was short of the prize by points,
00:40:20
Speaker
Wait a minute. what So that means... Yeah. um With a number that can't be beat with our current scoring system unless we carry it out one more decimal.
00:40:33
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ah Tom lost to Jarrett in week three by 0.01 points. A crushing blow that started a downward trajectory resulting in his first school stir.
00:40:49
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Which brings us to our final award, the Skolster.
00:41:01
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Last place, regular season finisher. Nothing flashy here. um Congratulations, Tom. Well, the runner up, the runner up. Oh, ah it's clearly the second place team.
00:41:14
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The last loser of the season. The last team to lose a game that mattered.
00:41:24
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The last team to lose a game that mattered. Yeah. Was. Hey, Brian.
00:41:37
Speaker
that ah That was the last team that lost a game that mattered. Brian. Oh, that's it. That's the last recording we have of his voice. Yeah. I'm going dole it out over time. i'm just going to give people that much now.
00:41:51
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um You know, people some people call it the Brando. I call it the Pug. um
00:42:01
Speaker
Yeah. He really, really Pug his own grave there. Yep.
00:42:08
Speaker
Hey, um that's it for our end of season awards. We hope everyone joins us for the NFL playoff challenge. um In the coming weeks, we will perform the draft pick selection ladder. There will be questions, Andy, on the close but no cigar, the closest loss.
00:42:26
Speaker
Oh. you know who Who actually is the winner there? Oh. You know? Right. Because that that was a question that came up during the season.
00:42:37
Speaker
um is who you know If you beat the person, do you get paid? Or if you're the person that loses, do you get paid? The the award is named...
00:42:53
Speaker
It's named appropriately, Jeff. Yeah, and no, no, no. It's the loser. but yeah But we just want to make sure that some people whose name starts with a Nick and doesn't end with a T name to understand that if you win, you're not the closest without a cigar.
00:43:12
Speaker
You won. So um we did say that we would answer that question at the award show. So we just want to make sure. Thanks.
00:43:23
Speaker
Yeah. I totally forgot. um Yeah. I mean, Zach had to win twice, you know, but so did Tom.
00:43:36
Speaker
Zach and Tom both had to win twice, I guess. I guess so. Otherwise, would have had a a very, you know, we would have splashed the pot pretty pretty evenly. Yeah.
00:43:48
Speaker
All right, Jeff, any more questions that you think will come up after this show? Oh, tons. Endless questions will come up. But I think think that's all all we need Hey, drop us a line at the, at the number.
Future Plans and Advertisements
00:44:02
Speaker
Um, leave us a message, send us a text. Jeff's going to try to work these into the next few weeks, uh, while he covers the, you have another we have one last wrap up show, Andy, um, people, we want people to know that, uh, we're bringing our advertiser on for a show later in the month to, uh, go over the ad strategy and the creative process, uh, exciting. So end of January, maybe beginning of February is when people will hear that.
00:44:34
Speaker
um Otherwise I've got nothing else. You Andy. ah I'm going to, I'm going to drop this list in the one of the threads when this episode posts, but the final payouts, Jeff might be of interest to, to everybody here. um Cody's our big winner with 150 bucks.
00:44:58
Speaker
followed by Brian with 100 on the money. Nick Kay. um nickka
00:45:07
Speaker
Still pretty good. Still pretty good. um No ring, though. ah Nick A got himself $80 coming. um I got myself $60 somehow.
00:45:21
Speaker
Thank you. Followed by our regular season first place finisher, mr T with $15. Nice. this um And then Zach, of all people, gets $20.
00:45:35
Speaker
and And then Tim, Cammon, Tom, Matt, and Phil. Y'all got $10 coming your way. let I'm probably just going to roll this into the postseason challenge unless you want to make it more complicated than it needs to be.
00:45:54
Speaker
Sure, sure. Andy, what was what was my what was my take on this ah on this one? Oh, yeah.
00:46:08
Speaker
Well, we hope to see all of you in the NFL playoff postseason challenge. um Stay tuned to this show. Stay subscribed. ah And we love you guys.
00:46:23
Speaker
yeah Thank you, Jeff. Thank you.