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Pre-Season Primer ft. Saucy Takes
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Kicking off the 2024 season with a pre-chop episode.
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Transcript
Introduction and Season Kick-off
00:00:04
Speaker
Welcome to The Chopping Block, the guillotine league podcast made for you. Welcome back boys to another year of The Chopping Block. It's a guillotine league podcast and it's made for you. Very excited to be doing this again.
League Rules Overview
00:00:20
Speaker
Of course I got my co-host Big Spence. What's up, I'm back.
00:00:25
Speaker
Yeah, we are both back and we're pumped, uh, to start out the year with some saucy takes hot, maybe one would say. And, uh, yeah, to give the rule overview again for the noobs, nice, quick and easy so that people don't have questions. Um, but yeah, and the so year's going to be pretty fun.
Previous Season Twists and Member Losses
00:00:44
Speaker
You excited buddy? Yeah, I'm hyped. Uh, we're pretty much going back to the basics year one style. No, uh, kinky twist this year.
00:00:52
Speaker
no kinky twists yeah so this is year four and year one was kind of back to the it was it was the basics and your two added some fun
Unique League Format and Player Strategy
00:01:03
Speaker
prizes cash bonuses ah year three yeah maybe some unpopular twists and uh you know i uh here's the story i was uh it was probably june or maybe you know late may i was thinking all right year four you know last year's twist didn't go amazingly what are we gonna do this year how are we gonna spice it up so i started texting the boys i'm like hey you know here's my ideas what do you think we should do and i texted my buddy
Draft Strategies and Waiver Wire Importance
00:01:32
Speaker
matt
00:01:33
Speaker
and uh matt said hey bro he's actually so was that he's a bitch he said uh yeah actually i don't want to be in your league anymore and uh all of my friends don't want to be in your league anymore either Uh, so we lost nine people, uh, Midsummer. So, uh, if you're listening to this and this is your first year, uh, you can thank Matt and the boys for
Veteran vs Rookie Dynamics
00:02:01
Speaker
deciding that, uh, they, uh, you know, we're not having fun with having soft hands, I think is what you're looking for.
00:02:09
Speaker
Yeah, you know, some might say other, you know, descriptive words about the situation. I will lean on the side of positive, you know, maybe that just wasn't a cup of tea ah for the rest of us. You know, i've I've heard people say, you know, best league ever, most fun all year, things like that. But no
Elimination Process Explained
00:02:28
Speaker
big deal. Right. Yeah. I mean, I don't know what they're all about. It's a it's such a different league that it's it's like, sure, it's fantasy football, but It's, I don't think anyone in this league is going to have another league like this that they're playing in because I mean, you could be done in seven days or I guess 10 days of us recording this and your, your, your season is over. Yep. Well, let's, uh, let's talk about how that season might come to an end. So each week, as you know, somebody gets cut from the league. Uh, they get to stay in the sleeper, uh, league, so you can still observe and chat and all that. You just don't have a team.
00:03:08
Speaker
Uh, we obviously already drafted. We're going to go over some of those results in a bit. Uh, the big
Hot Takes and Predictions
00:03:14
Speaker
thing about this league, I had this, uh, the other Joel Texanese like, bro, I don't know about the draft 18 people. That's a long snake. I told him, bro, it doesn't matter. Draft doesn't really matter. I mean, you got to get through the first few weeks, but what matters is every week you pick up the players that got dropped from the team that got cut.
00:03:34
Speaker
Um, so like, uh, if I got cut this week, you got, you know, Marvin Harrison Jr. To, to pick up and put on your team. That'd be pretty exciting. Uh, so you got a thousand fab to do that over the next, uh, 18 weeks or 17 weeks. Um, I say everybody, the rules, uh, actually, yeah, I sent the rules in the chat. So if you're like super curious about the details, just go back in the chat and read it.
Player Performance Analysis
00:03:57
Speaker
Uh, it's your responsibility to know the rules. Don't bitch in wine. If you don't, you didn't know, and then you got blindsided. All right. Uh, none of that.
00:04:04
Speaker
Uh, other than that, pretty simple. Just don't, don't be last. Yeah. There's not, I mean, there's really not that many rules. You can't trade. Uh, you just start your players every week and hope you don't have the worst score. That's it. you There's not even a matchup. There's really nothing to do it. Yeah.
00:04:23
Speaker
Yeah, you know, the I do think the veterans have an advantage ah coming in this year. I think the rookies might make some mistakes with their bidding strategies, maybe with their set start decisions. um So I'm curious to see how this is going to go. We kind of got half vets, half rookies ah with with this this league this year.
00:04:45
Speaker
um But for example, let's say a week one through, you know, like week eight, lowest scores are anywhere from like 50 to like 80 or like maybe 90. So if you're cooking like a 90, 95 each week, you're probably chilling until like halfway through the season.
Early Exit Predictions
00:05:04
Speaker
Yeah. I feel like nineties, even high for like, until I get some of like 10 people, like 90 is you're safe. If you hit 90. Yep.
00:05:18
Speaker
um so uh other than that every week if you get eliminated you got to come on this podcast that's a requirement for the league so if you join you know that that's a requirement and uh i'm looking forward to speaking to everybody uh you're probably not looking forward to speaking to me because that means you're out um but yeah that should be pretty great usually record on wednesday nights so if it's not looking so good for you Like, Sunday night, Monday night, you should block off, you know, 7 p.m. on a Wednesday ah to report this podcast. Uh, did I miss anything, Big Spencer? Let's get down to the juice. Nah, I think you're good. And just message Joel if you're gonna have a hard time scheduling. Like, we're flexible, we figure it out. so I mean, we've had the classic Dylan driving to, to be the professor podcast. That one was awesome. So, I mean, maybe we'll get a wild pod.
00:06:12
Speaker
Yeah, we've had some wild pods. Yeah, you know, dilpin the lap his laptop in the passenger seat driving in his van on the freeway. Terrible service is pretty awesome. Yeah, it was it's funny. We make it work. All right. Let's get down to hot takes. Do you have any hot takes? Have you prepared anything or you got to just kind of rip off the
Profile Picture Banter and Player Dynamics
00:06:34
Speaker
top of the noggin?
00:06:35
Speaker
Uh, yeah, I think I'm just gonna rip off the top of the noggin. I mean, if you're going to define hot takes, you're talking about in the league or are you asking for fantasy this year? What are you looking for? to You know what? Uh, let's, let's stay in the league, in the league. All right.
00:06:50
Speaker
Well, no, I don't have that many just like hot takes straight off the dome. I feel like normally these first couple weeks is a decent amount of luck. I guess maybe being unlucky on the people getting out. and Chris, for example, one of his players just got shot in the chest.
00:07:11
Speaker
yeah um ah sucks That's unlucky. That sucks. His team already had an L with Chubb. So, I mean, he was the first one I called out this morning as one of the first to go. ah But that's truly because
Winner Predictions
00:07:24
Speaker
he has two players that were going to start in his lineup in an 18-man league that will not be playing the first week. So, I don't know how hot of a take that is.
00:07:33
Speaker
Yeah, picking Chubb, that was a little sus. Yeah, I don't know if it's too hot. I think a lot of people think somebody asked earlier who's who's going to get cut week one. I saw a few Chris's yeah in the chat. But ah hey, if you draft Chubb and then when your players get shot, the that's probably not the best. Yeah, but.
00:07:57
Speaker
here's Here's what's I think it's kind of interesting. I think we have some redemption arts, ah you know for for the season What do we got? No, we got so Garrett both Garrett and Mitch are the only people in the league that have been eliminated first So ah Mitch got out first last year and he's just working to do better than last.
Concluding Predictions and Analysis
00:08:19
Speaker
So he might hit that. But we also have some average finishes over the last few years. And so I'll run through this for you just so ah the noobs can kind of see who's ass and who's ah who's, you know, decent.
00:08:35
Speaker
Um, so let's see here we got uh I'm just i'm trying to not read all the names that are not in the league, but we got fits fits one last year average finish of 7.3 Not bad. We got yeah, we got jj even better with the average finish of 6.3 Uh, we got you average finish of 3.3 That's pretty good That's pretty good. That's pretty low that is That's that's a golf number that you know, you want to get low on that one You got ah a second place and two fourth place finishes. Yeah. so Yeah,
Wrap-up and Season Encouragement
00:09:14
Speaker
maybe you maybe you can repeat again and ah And get another fourth place um Let's see. Who else we got we got ah we got ah Chris Chris has an average of 10th. Okay. Got myself Yeah myself with the average of 8.3
00:09:33
Speaker
uh garrett we'll save garrett uh we got eli with average of 10.66 repeating and uh mitch with the average of 12.3 that last place really hurts um and to kick it all you know back we have dylan and garrett with an average finish of 15th uh i mean obviously garrett's gonna want someone to back him up on this one i think we got to talk about this every year garrett said uh I'll say two of the three years that we've completed some pretty, uh, questionable exits where he's been pretty mad. First year, uh, he was camping in the woods and, uh, Joel auto-picked for him and they chose Michael Thomas. I didn't opt for him, it just, the clock ran out.
00:10:19
Speaker
All right. All right. Well, what I mean is the auto pick took over and he drafted Michael Thomas in the fourth round. And like we're saying, if you got a player who doesn't play in these first round, it's pretty tough to come back. And, uh, that was the dude. didn't i That auto pick is what he calls the out for that first season. And then the the last season, he was the unlucky soul.
00:10:42
Speaker
who didn't even get worst points for the week. He got second worst, but because of the redemption clause, wherever you want to go about it, Joel, Garrett was the only person that's ever been the double elimination person. Yeah. hes say yeah Well, ah you know, we were going to bring back a double elimination ah this year, but we're bringing it back to the basics, keeping it nice and easy. But I I'll I'll side with Garrett on this. I know he's got a raw deal. ah And because of Garrett ah whining about the auto pick thing is why why I added the if you don't understand the rules, it's your fault clause in the rules.
00:11:23
Speaker
Mm-hmm. I love a thrown in the whining piece in there. I'm sure when he listens to this back. He's gonna be real happy He'll be fine with it. he'll He's having a great day. It's a good Sunday. Yeah Actually, shoot we're like four days from football we got we are ah yeah we are Yeah um So yeah on this podcast we like to you know predict who's gonna get cut and Who's gonna win it all so let's both Let's pick somebody
00:11:55
Speaker
to get cut and to win it all. All right. I mean, I've already told you my cut is I can do a second follow up. Well, yeah, go for it. So number one, you think Chris is getting out week one. I do. I think Chris is the favorite to get out. I think a sleeper even shows that pretty strongly in his projections. I think he's about 10 off the next person 85. Maybe he needs to update some some players. But my second pick as I'm running through these lineups. um I got a clear pick. Go ahead. You go ahead then. I think it's going to be big deal. Deal is deals up there for me, but. ah
00:12:41
Speaker
Break it up down for us. All right, so we got Kayla Williams as the starting quarterback. Huge unknown there. So he could just do bad week one. ah We got Josh Jacobs. ah You and I are lower on Josh Jacobs, just in general. Javante Williams, I know you don't like. I don't like Javante. I personally in another league am benching him week one. Um, we got Drake London, uh, who hasn't done really much yet in his first two years. Uh, T Higgins who shit the bed last year. Uh, Gabe Davis, who's on a new team. Got a Trey McBride.
00:13:22
Speaker
ah He's fine. Taysom Hill. Like, ah that I mean, that's just sus. And then Josh Jones. I like these guys are like low floor potential guys that I think is a sus for guillotine. Yeah. I mean, along those lines, I'm going to go, this is going to get wild here and you're going to like this one, but I'm going to say, Joel, you could be a sleeper first round exit. And here's why I know this, this everyone up to the Spencer's take another shot at Joel, but Marvin Harrison,
00:13:51
Speaker
We've never seen him play a game ever yeah in the NFL. So I just like inherent sus same with x Xavier worthy. We don't know what that's going to look like. yeah So those two, because when I'm going over the names here, I don't think there's any others with two rookies that high um in their draft.
00:14:12
Speaker
Jared Goff's great, Romeo Dobbs, Dobbs, I'd be a little suss on. I feel like all Green Bay ride receivers are can be good. I just don't know which one's gonna be good in that game. um Yeah, so I'd be, I don't know how you're feeling Joel, but looking at these breakdowns, I don't see anyone else with...
00:14:29
Speaker
that many rookies. Garrett could be sus. I think Jamar Chase is going to play, but if he doesn't, that's a huge L. There's like weird holdout stuff going on. Isn't Addison going to get suspended or something? Uh, maybe there's, he will not be suspended before the first week of this. Like if it is, it'll be later in the season. Okay.
00:14:54
Speaker
Gary's Brian Robinson, who also has been shot before, but he's healthy. He's healthy now. He's healthy. And that was in the leg, not the chest.
00:15:04
Speaker
So I think that's my hot take, honestly, just because not because I don't like your team, but because i don i Terry McQuarren too. ah I love scary Terry this year. That's fine. He's got a rookie quarterback. We've never seen play either. So um I just think you have a lot of players with unknowns we've never seen. Yeah. Yeah. that's why only I hear you. That makes sense. Makes sense. Do you like my new profile picture?
00:15:36
Speaker
uh you know what i couldn't really see it very well because when i went to your profile it's just it's still mr unlimited let's see if i can pull it up on the big screen i did see it was like a shirtless man like but the like uh with like a helmet on i don't know like the executioner yeah where'd you find that i just i'm quick google search I saw that like damn. That's a good profile picture. I just I don't know how to make it bigger. I can barely see it. You see a couple of man titties.
00:16:11
Speaker
All right. ah So myself, Dylan, Garrett and Chris are all, I guess, on the block. I'm only putting Chris or I'm only putting ah Garrett in that boat.
00:16:25
Speaker
If Jamar Chase doesn't play valid, I think you'll play but all right. All right. Let's see. We got to pick who's going to win it all. Who's going to win it all? You can start on that one.
00:16:38
Speaker
Okay. I gotta, I gotta look over some of these teams. Uh, we don't really know everyone's teams just yet, but let's see. Oh, you know what? Uh, I'm going to pick Mitch. I'm going to pick Mitch to win it all first.
00:16:55
Speaker
Yep. Yep. Last of first. I think it's a great redemption arc. I think he's got some good studs, which is good in guillotine because you can lean on a couple players and then spend more fab to kind of round out the rest of the roster um and the the rest of his roster. I think he's got some good you consistent players that are going to get him points each week. So as long as he spends his fab, right? I think he's going to be in a good spot.
00:17:25
Speaker
All right, that's a I think it could be wrong here, but I don't know if there's any soccer deal could answer this Premier League That's like Leicester City's like literally Worst in the league to best in one year like that was like a historic like thing ever in sports And we're calling that for match here. Yeah in the guillotine league call him luster All right, I Think I'm gonna go With Eli, um I think it's that for the same reasons. If McCaffrey can stay healthy, um which he has in the past, that is just like, like the you can't have that running back right now. It's insane. That's probably why you pitched Bijon with Mitch. um If Cup actually becomes Cooper Cup again, which I think he could,
00:18:16
Speaker
um I think he has two really strong players to build around. Um, he also has got that experience. He's been here for awhile. Eli in general, just he plays a lot of fantasy. So I'll go with Eli. I like his, uh, I like his starting five picks McCaffrey cub Metcalf Harris Murray. I think it's a really strong start with the experience. All right. There you go.
00:18:41
Speaker
All right, boys. Uh, if you got a hot take, drop it in the chat. Um, and, uh, hopefully we won't be speaking to you too soon. yeah i that gothic here i What was the worst pick of the draft worst and best pick where you're just like, Oh, that was bad. Or that got really, really slipped. All right. Worst and best pick. Um, let's see here.
00:19:10
Speaker
Oh, well, you know what? Uh, I think, think worst pick of the draft was probably Dylan with Josh Jacobs ah ah with his second pick. Okay. Jacobs with the second. Yeah. Uh, best pick of the draft. I don't know. Probably.
00:19:40
Speaker
Probably, I don't know, debigs of waddle in the third. Yeah, I like, I liked d waddle on the third. I thought that was pretty like really late. Honestly, I was going to say worst pick was James Cook in the second. that good like ah I don't like that pick. He said Dvigs has the best and worst pick. I mean, he like cleaned it up, but I don't, I don't know about James Cook in the second. I don't know about you, but that's. Uh, I like James Cook, but I mean, this is pick like, you're not even at this, like pick 34.
00:20:10
Speaker
Yeah, that's pretty early. Would you rather have Jaylen Hurts or James Cook in Guillotine? Oh my gosh, Jaylen Hurts. Yeah. But that's the thing, D Biggs is a rookie man, they're rookie mistakes. Yeah, I know. I just, I remember seeing that one and then Chris getting Hurts, I was like, oh, holy. i've I'd be taking Hurts for that, uh, that floor. It's all about floor in the Guillotine.
00:20:32
Speaker
but floor so Yeah, that one was tough, but you're i actually I agree waddle was like really late um Really strong pick there. So maybe he cleaned it up Having best and worth. Yeah, there you go. All right boys Got anything else big expense? No, I think I'm good Shout out JJ. I like tire lock it in the eighth and guillotine. I think that was like an insane value eighth round Tyler lock it
00:21:01
Speaker
All right, bless up, boys. See you next time.