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Summary
In this engaging podcast episode, the hosts discuss various topics ranging from their fantasy football league dynamics to personal anecdotes and reflections on recent games. They explore the importance of understanding team identities, share humorous stories about nicknames, and delve into a recap of a recent game, highlighting key moments and player performances. The conversation also includes a fun segment of five questions, where the guest shares insights about favorite shows and travel experiences, culminating in a discussion about social media trends and cooking videos. In this episode, the hosts engage in a light-hearted discussion about movies, fantasy football matchups, and strategies for the upcoming trade deadline. They share personal anecdotes, including surprising movie confessions and humorous scenarios involving animals. The conversation shifts to a recap of fantasy football matchups, highlighting key performances and strategies. The hosts also discuss the upcoming trade deadline and its implications for team management, before wrapping up with an update on awards and standings in their league.
Chapters
00:00 Introduction and Team Dynamics
03:00 Understanding the Fantasy Football League
05:59 Nicknames and Personal Stories
10:00 Game Recap and Reflections
12:58 Five Questions Segment
16:59 Travel Experiences and Social Media Wormholes
21:14 Unexpected Movie Confessions
24:29 Animal Knockout Scenarios
25:35 Fantasy Football Matchups Recap
32:02 Trade Deadline Strategies
38:49 Awards and Standings Update
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Transcript
Host Introductions
00:00:30
Speaker
Welcome, welcome, welcome. Joining you from an airplane hangar in Central Texas. I, of course, am Andy Ramsey, born and raised in Texas. Next up, joining me from a cozy Fargo-Fox den, it's... Jeff Mangan, he knows all the numbers from Japan! Lastly, joining us from Deep Within Cheese territory, it's your multi-time winner who only wins on even years.
Humorous Football Banter
00:01:01
Speaker
Hello fantasy league weekly recap podcast listeners. This is Lori Hall, Tim Hall's wife. I just wanted to wish Tim good luck on recording the podcast this week. He's going to need it considering he knows nothing about football. The good news is he's excellent at making a fool of himself and doesn't care when he looks like an idiot. Andy and Jeff, I hope you have plenty to say or you might have a short podcast this week. Have fun guys.
00:01:32
Speaker
Well, I stepped on that intro, but thank you, Lori, I guess. That's all right. You have a lot to thank her for, Tim, starting with putting up with your two-time... two-timing ways. Two-time champion.
00:01:47
Speaker
two-time champion ah yeah man It's, it still sticks in my craw that, you know, you keep talking down your skills here and you've won twice. Jeff's won once and I've won. Nuts. So if you have more skills, football, paul I think is your, your issue. I definitely overthink that's 100%. But that's enough about me.
Halloween Excitement
00:02:15
Speaker
Jeff, how are you doing today? I'm good. I'm good, Andy.
00:02:20
Speaker
Jeff, you're in the Halloween spirit, I can tell. We might have to collect all the costumes into one photo, you, Kurt, and Kamen. That would be a pretty good, um what's the word, collage, maybe? Oh yeah, yeah, because montage, collage. For those of you listening at home, Tim and I are not in costume.
00:02:48
Speaker
Actually, I'm wearing my Tim Hall costume, and Tim's wearing his Andy Francine born and raised in Texas costume. They look pretty much the same. It looks it looks glorious. I wish you guys could see this. Wish you could. T-shirts, headphones, the whole story. They're just going to have to look look at the thumbnail on the ah podcast episode. Oh, shit. That's right. Thank you, Jeff. Thanks for taking that that photo, by the way. I appreciate it.
00:03:19
Speaker
Let's kick the things off with questions, comments, and concerns. Tim, you got any of the three right now, fresh off the bat. related to football no Perfect, all
Managing Fantasy League
00:03:31
Speaker
right. One thing I'd like to address that we were discussing off air and that I've been pinged about privately is who is who? That's a really great question in this in this fantasy football league. And I started writing it down myself so I could keep track. Added via Discord to the thunk only channel, of course, which is easy to remember.
00:03:59
Speaker
and hard to forget. we've We've provided a Google Documents link that should work as long as you have the link. So click on the link. There are four tabs on this on this spreadsheet. The first tab is Payouts and Awards. You can see what money is on the line, what awards we are vying for. There is Podcast Schedule, where you can see who recorded when and who's up next.
00:04:24
Speaker
Next up, there's award tracking, so you can see that we're not just making this up. um You can see who's leading and worst manager, most player points, biggest blowout, etc. But what's crucial to the Qs and Cs section of today's show is Tab 4, who is who,
00:04:46
Speaker
We have column A, real life name, column B, Yahoo name, column C, team name, column D, server profile. That's because as I was digging into this, a lot of you don't seem to realize or care that you can change your name as it presents within each server. so On Discord, we're talking about Discord. Thank you, on Discord. Server profile is how your name presents in Discord. So I'm not going to name names here, but I'll definitely name profile names. XMaxx. You can be something else. You can clarify. You can be Matt in channel and XMaxx. You know, that's just an example. There's no one in particular.
00:05:35
Speaker
nick Nick K is using putting this to great use. His ah his Discord handle is goathor 87. Of course, there I said it again. I said I never would, but I did. in the In our Discord channel, he goes by eggs and toast, which could change on the
College Nickname Anecdote
00:05:54
Speaker
day, who knows. But fortunately, at this point, no one's changing those very much, not as much as their team names. So we might have to add a column a few columns to cover all the team names that have been used recently, just so you can keep track of rivalries, which is really important, isn't it, Jeff? The iterations, the history. The history. Right. Some of these team names, not naming names, but maybe in the house category, have have been regularly upgrading the metal used to build said house. Or just the building material in general.
00:06:29
Speaker
Yes, thank you. Thank you indeed. I'm still waiting for Brick Shithouse, but maybe that's in my future. I don't know. At least bricks are strong. So please click on the link whenever you're wondering who is who. ah I also added column F for nickname, which brings us to our guest. Tim, bonus question. Do you do you have a nickname that of which I am unaware. I i don't. um The only nickname I really ever had was back in college that most people knew me by back then, which is my old email address we were discussing before. Oh, people call me somewhat back in the day. Kager gave me that name. And we don't exactly know what he was thinking.
00:07:26
Speaker
ah when you said it Yeah, there there may have been alcohol or other items involved. He was, you're saying he might have been there for so long though. Was it before he went to La Crosse? Like did it happen on a visit to La Crosse? I don't remember. it's It was either on a visit or like right after he started going there.
00:07:51
Speaker
Cause there was people like I knew in college who only knew me as that for the longest time. Yeah. So you're saying it wasn't, it wasn't as impactful on the naming ceremony. Wasn't as impactful on you as it was on him. No, I ah i know we were all just very drunk when he came up with it. I don't remember what the context was to it though.
Rooftop Smoking Incident
00:08:19
Speaker
Naming well intoxicated. It's a dangerous thing, guys. Use Uber or Google. I feel like i feel like ah it wasn't you that told me about the nickname, though, Tim, when you're at La Crosse. I think it was Amy Vernacchi. Oh my gosh, I got she went there, didn't she? Yeah. Oh, yeah. She was the reason I got a not she wasn't the reason. But I ah i accompanied her and we got ticketed for smoking on a rooftop.
00:08:50
Speaker
Tim, do you remember this? I remember when you guys came to play at some yeah place. I don't remember you getting a ticket. Yeah, we were putting up, you know, this show is going to go long now, but we were we were being put up in a dorm or something. Yeah. And and she wanted to have a cigarette outside and someone suggested we climb on this roof. That was it was basically the awning of the entrance to the building.
00:09:21
Speaker
So we did. And I've never smoked a cigarette the day a day in my life. And when the campus police shone his spotlight upon us, um he met us inside and he was looking in his book to decide to pick the the least pricey of the two tickets. One was being like,
00:09:44
Speaker
personal endangerment or or trespassing, something like that. And the other being like smoking on campus or something. So, so I actually have, I've been ticketed by La Crosse PD for smoking. That's funny. That is awesome. I don't remember that. I remember about that trip is we lost Blake. Yeah. For like a long time. Yeah. time And we eventually ended up finding him um remember Somebody was like, you're looking for your musician to go down to this guy's room. It was some other musician. You found him and Blake in there jamming out. two i yeah I remember like they told us we to find yeah the other musician. That's right. That's funny as fuck. It's dangerous to get two musicians in the same room together. That's why, uh, the Drake physics project only had one. him
00:10:37
Speaker
It's true. No offense. No offense to anyone contained on this show. Hey, uh, Jeffrey, you got time for a Mjolnir minute. Um, I do. Tim, did you watch the game? No. All right. Jeff, did you watch the game?
Football Game Analysis
00:10:58
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Then we, then we trust you in three, two, one.
00:11:04
Speaker
um Everyone I know who's over 35 complained to me that it was on fucking Amazon Prime. um Darnold darn looks like a pretty average quarterback. I think that's all right, because he owes our backup, essentially. um But it doesn't look as good as he did those first couple of weeks.
00:11:22
Speaker
um Jones looks pretty awesome at running back, but he only looks he only looked awesome for the first two quarters. Maybe that was because we lost our left tackle ah right before halftime, not sure. Jefferson is crushing it still. He was triple covered almost the whole game and he still had over a hundred yards. <unk> Kicking game is strong, two for two on field goals, two for two on extra points.
00:11:47
Speaker
And um yeah, I don't know. After those shield goals in the second half, it felt like the offense had stalled out and we weren't going to get another touchdown ever. And then the game ended on the horrible face masking penalty in the end zone. Jeffrey, that was a great meal there. Tim, do you see the replay of that horrible face masking penalty? I did see the horrible face masking penalty.
00:12:17
Speaker
Did that call to mind, uh, for anyone else, Joe Webb getting face masked by the lions back when Matt Stafford was still a lion. Yep. First thing, first thing, there's so much fucking PTSD being a Vikings fan. Yeah. Yeah. So, so, I mean, this is outside of the middle of their minute, but for the last three years, uh, Matt Stafford and the Rams have tried to get that rule changed. And the video that they've sent in is the Joe Webb. Uh, are you serious?
00:12:49
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Cause Matt, cause Matt Stafford says that that like he's, he's on record saying that that should never, you know, like that, that place shouldn't be allowed. And then it just helped his team again. Yeah. Not that Vikes would have won the way things were going, but right. Right. No, but still pretty crazy. And that's been, uh, that's been the Mjolnir two minutes.
00:13:23
Speaker
Now it's time for your favorite segment and mine.
Quickfire Question Segment
00:13:28
Speaker
my
00:13:31
Speaker
Turn up your headphones. It's five questions. I got new batteries this week too. I saw those. It's the vocoder. Nice and silver. Welcome to the show today, Tim.
00:13:47
Speaker
think so This is the, after this part, half of our audience is going to drop out, so you better make it good. That's all I got to say. tim Tim, this is the third time you've done this, but do you remember the whole premise on the five questions? I think I got it. You're going to ask me five questions. Well, we got six, so you can throw one out. Six questions. I'll i'll answer five of them. Got it. Now you can either throw one out right away or after we ask it, you can let us know dramatically that you're throwing it out. It has to be dramatically.
00:14:18
Speaker
Well, I mean, otherwise tell us right now. We don't need, you know, if we're not going to have drama, why have drama? How do you want to do it? Tim? Do you want to throw it? No drama. No drama. No drama. So what question are you throwing out? Tim? I'm going to throw out the, uh, what is it? The band or artists that I am embarrassed.
00:14:43
Speaker
tisey pleasure man guilty pleasure. I have no guilty pleasures. I love them all and I'll declare it publicly. Wow. So basically you answered a six question. Um, Jeff, let's kick it off. Tim, do you have a litmus test television show? yes Yeah. Yeah. There was a few of them that came to mind, but like the one that like I could watch endlessly. Me and my wife both absolutely love the show is Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Just hilarious show. you know It's got its poignant moments to it. Absolutely love Brooklyn Nine-Nine. And if you like it, we'll probably get along all right.
00:15:27
Speaker
but Uh, it's funny cause cause I feel like a lot of these shows that people have said are the litmus test show are, are shows that I didn't catch when it was like out initially, but I feel like I've seen 90% of it in a social media clips. And then like, when I see one that I like, I go and like find the actual episode, but you can't, you can't not have seen the, the, um, was it the backstreet boys? the street boys that's that's You know, the greatest cold opens ever.
00:15:58
Speaker
Yeah. well There's the, yes. I did not say the backstreet boys is on Brooklyn nine, nine, Jeff. No, no, no, no. Andy Samberg is singing backstreet boys with the, with the lineup. Oh, he's doing a commercial. mewa Yeah. And he has like all the different people. Yeah. Yeah. has the The lineup going through and singing backstreet boys. I'll throw it on the end of the podcast people. but yeah jeff Absolutely.
00:16:29
Speaker
One of the funniest clips. I think I watched the entire first season. I do that sometimes. That makes sense, because it it took it took the it took the time slot of cur nu Curb. um what's What was the show that was on after the NFL every Sunday? Arrested Development. Oh. It had the Arrested Development slot. Did Andre Brower make it to the end of the show, or did he pass before it ended? He did. No, he made it.
00:16:59
Speaker
How come they did a tribute to him? Like they re-shot an intro. Interesting. Tim, does the show have an ending? like ah Like does it end a main story? Yeah, they've got like ah absolute like a ah series finale and everything to it. I mean, the show ended five plus years ago, right? So you can tell us and it's not really a spoiler, like if you haven't seen it.
00:17:26
Speaker
Oh, it's on you. for that we're running out last We're running out of time. We're gonna have to move on. Thanks. okay ah What's a favorite or ideal USA vacation spot of yours too? I think it was a huge fan of um Kentucky. We went to Daniel, I think it was Daniel Boone National Forest. We ended up driving through this tunnel, like super narrow tunnel through a mountain and it ended up getting lost in these back roads and found these little
00:17:59
Speaker
this little creek to swim in. And so we got out and went swimming in the middle of these gorgeous mountains and forests. Um, so it was, it was just absolutely beautiful. We loved it. And then we went to natural bridge state park there, um, which had a lot of fun hiking trails and the natural bridge with, uh, um, like, uh, kind of like a chair lift, I guess.
00:18:25
Speaker
but you can ride up to the top of or you can take the hiking trails to the top so that was a A lot of fun. Uh, everybody in the family loved it. And then we drove across the state to, um, Oh my God. I'm trying to blink on the name of the cave mammoth. Hold on. There's a giant cave system there. So, and so, so you found, you found a like a swimming hole because you got lost. Uh, was this at after smartphones were a thing?
00:19:01
Speaker
This was like 2020. This is the trip we planned in 2020 because it was out away from people. So it's our COVID trip. So we didn't have to be by people, but it was too in the middle of nowhere yeah that we had no like no reception. We had no way to Google maps, anything like that. I was wondering if you could have like, you could drop the pin so you could go back and find the swimming pool. No, I could probably find the the tunnel that we drove through to get there. But then once we went through that tunnel, we wove through these little tiny mountain roads, but it was definitely in Daniel Boone National Forest. Okay. Thanks, Tim. Yeah. That's really neat. I'm looking at some photos now. though um Favorite random social media wormhole.
Cooking Video Habit Confession
00:19:53
Speaker
I will go on various social media apps and I will find
00:19:58
Speaker
cooking videos and like recipes and I will be super into them and oh my God, I'm going to make these and I just never make them. So my social media wormhole is finding recipes online that are way too complicated for me and that I will want to make, but that I never make. It's so satisfying to find those awesome food videos though. Holy cow.
00:20:23
Speaker
Yeah. I like to find those two that like also need like a specific tool, you know, like, like one pan that you only use for that one thing. And then, uh, you know, over time talk myself into buying that a hundred dollar pan and then never use it in a bin in my basement. I actually found one of those videos and I went out and I was randomly at Goodwill one day and I found the pan from this video. And so I picked it up. It's, it's called able skeever.
00:20:53
Speaker
And that has become a regular morning treat on the weekends is making able skeever and my cast iron able skeever pan. Thanks to some random social media video I found. So there's an occasional pickup, a recipe that I actually use. All right. So now you got to make your own able skeever video, you know,
00:21:15
Speaker
You know where to share it. Thunk only. You've got to text it to thunker so he can put it on there for you. And ask him to post it there so no one can comment or any way, shape or form. Hey Tim, what's a surprising movie you've never seen that hasn't been mentioned on this podcast yet?
00:21:44
Speaker
I don't think it has been mentioned. I have never seen Lord of the Rings. What? No way. I went to Lord of the Rings with you. We went to, it was either the second or third one. Yeah. And me and Dave Pearson snuck in a bunch of alcohol. Yeah. Because I haven't seen it. Right. And I think it was Derek Blackinger was there too. And he snuck in alcohol. I think he had a peach.
00:22:15
Speaker
and i remember jeff your brother was there yeah he was all nervous he's like she must be doing that we're like Dude, he talks about, he still talks about that. So I just saw the beginning of that one and then I drink a lot and then I fell asleep and then I woke up right at some battle scene. And that's as close as I've come to see in one of those movies. That's fair. flag Flag on the plate.
Never Seen LOTR Admission
00:22:43
Speaker
Can you name one Lord of the Rings movie?
00:22:47
Speaker
Isn't it just Lord of the Rings? Isn't that the first one? No, Tim. There's more. Lord of the Rings. Is it? Okay. He wins. Well, tell him what he's won, Jeff. Um, possibly your answer being posted in funk only.
00:23:11
Speaker
the greatest part at all more Okay. Fellowship of the ring. Very good, Tim and Jeff, are we, are we leaving the other ones open? I think we should. Yeah. Yeah. The other, the other of the three movies right and that's i'm saying brother really still talks about. Yeah. Cause he, cause we had gotten, uh, the flu mist before we went to that, you know, like the nasal spray and he got, and he got the flu from the flu mist. And so during the movie, he was like sick. And so he, like at some point in time, one of you, somebody like dropped their 40. Because it was it was stadium seating and you heard it you heard it you it go down each stair and then finally it hit something and broke and He and like that's he relives that like at least at least once a year you know like i some nightmares dropping
00:24:10
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Like, like something will happen, you know, when, when I'm around him, like, uh, something breaks or whatever. And then he'll be like, do you remember that time when your drunk friends dropped to 40 and it rolled up? And so yeah, yeah. So I'll never forget that we all went to that movie. That is awesome. Wow. ah Tim, what is the largest animal you could knock out with one punch?
Fainting Goat Claim
00:24:35
Speaker
This is the one that was giving me a lot of trouble because I've never punched anybody before so I don't know. I got a bad hand. I just had surgery on my hand. I can't punch very hard. Go so go switch foot. Use that left hand. I don't know. But yeah, I don't know. Maybe I could. I figured it out. I can punch.
00:24:58
Speaker
I could take out a fainting goat because I would startle it so hard that that would just go down. Oh, sure. Yeah. Fainting goat. Just as long as you scare the fainting goat, it is down. Would you do the old one inch punch? You know? Yeah. Yeah. Anything to scare that goat into its comatose state. That's a great choice, Tim. That's the best answer I've heard this whole,
00:25:26
Speaker
f freaking show. That's been five questions. Thank you, Jeff. Thank you, vocoder. Have we had any calls during the first half of this show? Uh, we did. We did hear one. Let me, let me throw this on real quick.
00:25:39
Speaker
Hi, yeah, I just got done listening to the most recent episode. And, um, you know, I think this division idea is a great idea. Everyone's going to love it. But, uh, so I noticed, uh, I think there's one flaw when drafting, I think it was pretty clear that Jeff was drafting who he thought were going to be the bad teams in this league. And I think it's become pretty clear that, uh, Andy's division is going to be the best division.
00:26:05
Speaker
And Jeff's division, you he's sandbagging it so that he can be the best team in his own division. So yeah I'd like to raise a protest before things get too far while I'm in the season. I think that's something we should all discuss.
00:26:19
Speaker
That's an interesting take. um Right now, just to recap, the division head-to-head is five to four, expect to lose to us, is winning um in that and that's a going into you going into the week. So I don't know. We'll have to see how things shake out after this week, Andy. Yeah, we'll have to see what the playoff picture is by the by the end of the show. Thank you, caller, whoever you are. Please call again.
00:26:48
Speaker
Tim, it's time in the show where we, Jeff and I, have each prepared one thing to say about each matchup. Feel free to jump in wherever you care to. That's right, it's time for one thing. This is a divisional showdown week with five head-to-heads, isn't that right, Jeff? e Just like you said, and going in, it's five to four, expect to lose, up by one. So, first matchup.
00:27:15
Speaker
Rapid fire. We got titanium alloy house versus, oh, hey look, 501st. here Division showdown. Jeff. Yeah. So my one thing is who does the tungsten house go after to fix his rash of wide receiver injuries for week eight from from week eight? None other than Elijah Moore for $20. So th Funk is fully invested in James Winston.
00:27:45
Speaker
Wow, thanks for flagging that th funk might be looking for receivers because I have receivers to spare.
00:27:54
Speaker
One, one thing I'd like to ask an additional thing, Tim, would you have made better decisions this week if you knew, uh, if you had more advanced notice that you'd be our guest? Uh, no, it wouldn't any. I put exactly as much effort into this week's input into all weeks. Um, I also had a string of issues with my wide receivers, which I think is really putting a damper on my year here the last couple of weeks.
00:28:24
Speaker
Are you are you worried about Jameson Williams? I mean. Worried how like he he's he's got one more game in the in the two game suspension, but then he got pulled over and had a gun in the car and the cops heard about that and the cops let him go because they were they were ah Lions fans. Yeah.
00:28:59
Speaker
Tim, I ribbed you about about losing this matchup, but you did leave the fewest points on the bench out of everyone this week, so with what you had, you did an excellent job. Thanks. I'm trying. yeah so that's That's point Lebowski. Point Lebowski. Hey, Tim, it hurts when I pee.
00:29:21
Speaker
Also, it's time to recap. It hurts when I pee versus my mama wipes his ass. Jeff. Um, yeah. So Ray wins big, but heading into the fourth quarter, uh, Dallas versus the 49ers game, Ray was up, uh, one 15.24 to one 12.23, uh, with his defense still set to go. so So he's just looking pretty good. Right. And then CD lamb had five receptions for 92 yards and two touchdowns or 23.7 fantasy points.
00:29:53
Speaker
Gotta love the game the gamesmanship here with Ray pulling his defense going into Monday night to protect his 26-point lead. I question whether that would have happened without Discord, you know, and without this show, right? He's not worried about most points. He's not worried about most points for, that's for sure.
00:30:16
Speaker
Next up, and we have but Walking Wounded. If he goes if it goes to the thunk only section, he could check in on that ah scoring status, if thunker posts it. Thanks, Jeff. We can only hope. Yeah. Point Lebowski. Oh, right. I forgot about that part. What matchup we got next? Walking Wounded versus Barkley sack up and ram. We can skip this one if you want.
00:30:44
Speaker
um ah I mean, I got one. okay I'm guessing that Waddle finds a new home this week with a trade deadline or meaning either Andy cuts him or the Dolphins trade him. Ah, yes, duel. Do we have a trade deadline coming up? In the NFL. Do we have one in our league yet? Yeah, yeah, it's coming up. We should find out.
00:31:06
Speaker
i'm I am now clearly the worst manager with four would-be wins rested from me by my own worthless abilities. I'm not even good enough to take care take control of the highest scoring loser, which is still owned by Kegger from week five. I also now have secured the second closest loss, which is still owned by Chex Notes. Well, that would be you, Tim. Yes, I said Chex Notes.
00:31:35
Speaker
from way back in week seven, if you can remember that far. Yeah, that was a heartbreaker. Yeah. Yeah. I know it. I'm right there with you, but I think, I think, uh, we're sitting a little differently than each other. More on that later. All right. Well, that would be, um, that would be point, expect to lose.
00:31:56
Speaker
point six There's a lot, there's a lot of divisional showdowns this week, Jeff. Usually there's only one. Five, five. Wow. The trade deadline is November 23rd. Thank you so much. jeff Yep. Next up we have your own yellow jackets versus the NBA.
00:32:13
Speaker
Yeah, so about 2.30, I texted Ekem to let him know that DK Metcalf wasn't starting um in that three o'clock game. And Dallas did not text me that they had given Rico Daudel or of Daudel, whatever, ah food poisoning from their fucking buffet. It was from their buffet? Yeah, he got food poisoning at their facility.
00:32:42
Speaker
And no one else got it or no other starters, no other fantasy relevant players. Yeah. It was, it was Dallas cowboy provided food that made him sick. Um, equal now, now at 11 and five looks like a post-season lock. Incidentally, he's left the fewest points on his bench by a good margin. We would all be wise to learn from the equal. Yep. That's a good strategy. He's got there.
00:33:10
Speaker
Hey, we got another, that wasn't a divisional matchup, but this next one is, we got the Kuznog versus what's my AJ again. L.A. wide receivers on the bench vis-a-vis Zo benching Kup and Brian benching McConkey, West Coast bias. Why are these guys even roster dandy?
00:33:31
Speaker
I don't know, Jeff. I'm guessing injuries or something. What I can say is that Brian dodged a bullet here. um Zach what could have won by a hair with cup in place of Mason, but Brian left 43 points on the bench. So if you're looking for justice, the right team won.
00:33:54
Speaker
However, I should point out that this was the single biggest oversight of the season. No one else has left 43 points on the bench, though somebody similar to myself has gotten close. For what it's worth, Brian has never lost a game he should have won. He must have a horseshoe up his ass.
00:34:16
Speaker
Uh, we'll have to, we'll have to call an expert on that type of situation, Andy. Hey, how'd the division point go? Oh, that's sir point expect to lose to us. Thanks, Jeff. Is this next one truly a divisional matchup? Uh-huh. Yep. We have, oh, hi Mark versus DX fugs, Inc. Yep. Uh, are we going to see a BONIC start in our league before our next Darnold start, Andy?
00:34:45
Speaker
That's a great question. With Kurt being a homer, I don't think so. But he took his foot off the gas by leaving a vacant slot. For more on the mindset of not checking your lineups right before kickoff, we have Jeff live in studio. Yeah, I checked the lineup. but I just had no options. Oh, I see. Who got the point here? Point Lebowski.
00:35:15
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Yeah. The, the Kurt thing sucks because he did warmups, um, uh, Deontay Johnson and they didn't play him cause they were going to, they had two offers to trade him. Right. So he was expecting to play and then the team, the general manager pulled him. So Hey, before we recap the last game of the week, do we have any callers or should squeeze in? Yep. Let's uh, let's get one in here.
00:35:45
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I just wanted to to to let Nick know that it was nice to hear from him on the podcast.
00:35:54
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And we do, in fact, have fantasy football here in the in God's country, as I like to call it. And the problem is, is the internet's not very fast, and that's probably why my teeth suck.
00:36:14
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so bad i yeah yeah so our approachier fantasies are
00:36:23
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heavily lacky will call us that or at least
00:36:32
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And with that, we could move on to Steelhouse versus Frontier Fantasies himself. yeah Yep, as of Monday, ah Frontier Fantasies needed Pat Fryermuth to get a TD, 5 or more catches, and 50 or more yards, while Boswell makes all of the corresponding kicks. um Bos needed at least one field goal and three extra points, or two field goals and an extra point.
00:36:58
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And what happened, Andy, is not that scenario. What Matt really needed was here was to swap Shakir for more. Turns out, to in order to be the best, woo, you've got to beat the best. And it was right there for the taking. For what it's worth, Tom would have still won if he had played his optimal lineup as well. It's like a half point on the tracker.
00:37:28
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So any more, any more voicemails here, Jeff? Yeah, we do actually actually. Yeah. So hopefully this doesn't get me in any sort of trouble, but, uh, I'm looking for a, how do I say this? A nice clean looking young boy, um, to come and clean my brain.
00:37:57
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I don't have Facebook. Not sure where I could find something like that. But if you guys hear of anybody, send them, send them my way.
00:38:12
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Thanks Matt. Clean my brains. Drains. Drains. Drains. It seems like he should probably post that one on thunk only. He can try. Yeah.
00:38:28
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So thanks, Matt, for the division showdown, Jeffrey, where are we sitting? Yeah, those five those five games, we are now at seven and seven. All knotted up. you see You see Nick, Nick T, we drafted.
00:38:47
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Very well. our also Also, I had someone send me, I should have put this in Q's and C's Andy, I forgot, but they wanted to know how the median score was doing. And um so far, the median score is ah perfectly, perfectly, 58 to 58. Or 56 to 56.
00:39:17
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What are you saying? I don't understand. 56 people have beat the median score and 56 people have lost to the median score.
00:39:27
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Thanks Jeff. All right, speaking of some other stats here, and we got some awards tracking updates and then we'll wrap it up. Worst manager, there's a new leader for most points on the bench, but that doesn't matter anymore because Brian hasn't lost a game that he could have won. Ekam has the fewest points left on the bench by a factor of five. In fact, there's 120 points between the most and fewest points left on the bench. So worst manager,
00:40:00
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I've got it locked up. I really think I've got it locked up.
00:40:06
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Closest loss. There's a new runner up here, but I think the window has passed for week seven stat corrections, so there's little chance Tim will lose that money. Congrats, Tim. It makes it hurt a little less. Yeah, that's right. That's what that money's for. Money makes everything better, doesn't it, Tim? It does. i I've always said that. You guys know that about me. Yeah, we know that.
00:40:30
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That's what your nickname meant. That's right. When I use my decoder ring and I type in, I look up suck why it says make more money.
00:40:44
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Hey, let's look at the playoff picture. We're running out of time. Yeah. Um, the, the Lebowski's, uh, have the number one and number two overall teams now. Um, Tom at one thunk at two. Oh, hi Mark, uh, coming in and at eight, uh, third in the Lebowski side of things and coming in at fourth for the Lebowski's is Kuznog in ninth place.
00:41:11
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So if you've done the math at home, that means expect to lose to us has three, four, five, and six. Uh, that would be Eka, Tim, Jared, and Kurt. You see, Tim, everything I said before, you are in second position. You're in the top four places. How do you feel? Not feeling confident in my lineup over the last couple of weeks, but, uh, hopefully
00:41:42
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But having won twice, does that does in even years, right? and Even years. Now it's 2024 obviously. So does that bolster your confidence? It does a little bit. mom I didn't take the even your factor into account. as you I think the players all really rally around that and now we can pull it off the end here.
00:42:08
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Tim, I don't know if you've looked at the schedule, but the final game of our fantasy football year does happen on December 30th. So, the season wraps up in an even year.
00:42:24
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Man, lot of pressure it's it feels like a lot of pressure, but I think we'll be up for it. We got this. Any final thoughts today, gentlemen?
00:42:38
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just keep Just keep chipping away at that median, guys. That's right. Someone's going to get it every week. We'll keep updating that. Right now, it's neck and neck. Hey, guys, we know you have plenty of plenty of options when choosing a league-specific fantasy football podcast, and we thank you for listening to all 43 minutes of ours. See you next time.
00:43:06
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So, do you recognize any of these men? I was hiding in the bathroom stall so I didn't see his face, but I heard him. He was singing along to the music at the bar. Do you remember what he was singing? I think it was that song, I Want It That Way. Backstreet Boys, I'm familiar. Okay. Number one, could you please sing the opening to I Want It That Way? Really? Okay. You are my fire.
00:43:33
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Number two, keep it going. The one desire. Number three. Believe when I say. Number four.
00:44:07
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Oh, chills. Literal chills. It was number five. Number five killed my brother. Oh my god, I forgot about that part.