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Week 4 Exit - Innocent 3rd Party
20 Plays1 year ago
This week, Adrien gives honest takes he doesn't realize are confirming suspicions of shade being thrown.
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Transcript
Introduction and Guest Entry
00:00:04
Speaker
Welcome to the Chopping Block, the guillotine league podcast made for you. what's up boys it's ah you know the really going now we're picking up some steam and the heads continue to roll i'm back another week as is my co-host mr big spent what back ah made it for another week You munching on dinner during this podcast? No, I, I shoveled it down real quick. Had some pot stickers. Okay. who Sounds great. Sounds great. Well, uh, somebody, uh, might be eating dinner before this podcast, but I'll tell you what this next guest here will not be, uh, eating any players in the next few weeks. Yep. You heard it.
00:00:56
Speaker
Adrian, what's up? That was so bad. How's it going, boys? And with that legendary intro, I'm just so happy to be here. That's my best work. Yeah, that was a little tough. Halfway through the sentence, I thought about restarting, but I committed. Here we are. Adrian, I mean, this is your first year, okay? We're happy to have you, but we're not happy to have you on the podcast so soon. What happened?
00:01:26
Speaker
Oh man,
Adrian's Guillotine League Experience Begins
00:01:27
Speaker
tell me about it. Yeah, coming in, I was bright eyed and bushy tailed for this year, this year of guillotine. Starting off with 18 people and, you know, I played a risky game and the game collapsed on me, I guess. What was the risk? I think the risk was telling myself that I weighed out my fab budget a little, a couple more weeks.
00:01:53
Speaker
ah And getting knocked out with a thousand in my pocket really hurt yeah I Mean that's how you win Swinging for the fences got respected. I was definitely swinging for the fences. Yeah, I think It made it easier the fact that some of the teams that got kicked out earlier Had players that I wasn't necessarily interested in bidding on regardless but I I think I was watching Garrett Grubaugh. I was watching his team get yeah close a couple times. you know He was he was sitting on the sitting on the fence there for a second without a teeter over. Then I saw him spend the majority of his wallet last week. I was like, oh man, big mistake. And here I am sitting here looking like a fool.
00:02:45
Speaker
Did you tell him that or this is the first time he's gonna hear that this is the first time he'll hear that yeah Sorry gart still look smarter than me even with your consolation prize players Oh man. Uh, well, Garrett kind of sent out that invite to you, you know, had you join, uh, when you first heard of the league, what were you thinking? Were you thinking like, this is stupid. I guess I'll do it. Or were you hype?
Strategy Insights and Early Mistakes
00:03:18
Speaker
No, I was hyped. Uh, I've been part of hope, you know, tons of leagues in my time in my day, uh, but never, uh,
00:03:27
Speaker
a league with a structure like this, you know, I've been in basic survival leagues, which is just pick your team, kind of survive kind of thing, but never one where people would be eliminated every week. And I thought that was really cool because it brings in a whole new strategy um in terms of your fab budget and the fact that If you don't get on the player one week and you lose him, that doesn't mean he's gone forever. You know, yeah there's there's a chance he could be back in the waiver wire the week after. So it really, it kind of messes with your mind a little bit, but I was super excited to jump into it. Wish I could have stayed for longer.
00:04:04
Speaker
Well, strategy sounds like with save the fab bid when you're ready. What was the strategy for the draft? How'd you feel like that went? Oh boy. Coming out of draft night. I felt great. You know, 18 man snake draft seems pretty rough, but, um, Oh man, I should have looked at my job. And if I remember correctly, I went AJ Brown, then Devon H. Han.
00:04:28
Speaker
Then Mark Andrews with my first three picks, which I thought in an 18-man snake was pretty good. I was happy with myself. um Then the league starts. Andrews disappears. He might be often Cancun or something for all I know.
00:04:46
Speaker
He's not showing up on my on my fantasy team. I know that and AJ Brown's hurt for the first couple weeks. So I was in a tough spot ah Coming out of the draft felt great first couple weeks We're starting kind of rough, but I still had that hope of just like alright, let's let's hang in here The odds are with me that I'm not gonna be one of the first five or six that gets kicked out because I feel like I have Some players but yeah that didn't turn out this week It did not, it did not. Uh, and to make it worse, you, I think I, I think if I'm not mistaken, you had no chance. Even if you set the perfect lineup, you would have got eliminated. Yep. So that's, yeah, it just shows my, my entire roster top to bottom had one of the worst showings that I've ever seen.
Impact of Injuries and Failed Strategies
00:05:38
Speaker
It's hard with Mark Andrews. I don't know what's going on with him this year. Um,
00:05:44
Speaker
It's brutal for everyone. And then then you get an injury to your your first pick. It's just like, what are you going to do? I mean, you can bid on someone, but a lot of people you're bidding on already suck. That's why they're getting out. Yeah, I think ah the one name that I saw pass me by was Jamir Gibbs. Looking back now, if I was to spin fab on someone, seeing obviously hindsight is 2020, seeing what everyone bid on him, I think Gibbs had like a $600 bid that we keep wet. But I think that That's probably the best value that I've seen go. Obviously, there's other players that are worthwhile. And once again, ah I'm dumb sitting here that I should have bid on them. We'll bid a little higher, obviously, because this week was pretty brutal for me. Even even looking at my roster, my entire roster, I probably could have guessed that I was going to be the one out because there wasn't a whole lot of strength. Yeah.
00:06:39
Speaker
So you lose AJ Brown and you, you didn't think, Oh, I should, I should go out, blow a bunch of fab, getting a new star. You're like, Oh, I'll write this out. No problem. Yeah. It's, it's like Spencer said, I was swinging for the fences. I was waiting for ah a good team to have a really poor week. And then I was going to start, start blowing the wallet. Yeah. Yeah. Well, speaking of blowing the wallet, did you get a chance to look at the bids on your team?
00:07:09
Speaker
I have not just went through 19 hours ago. Let's see. Okay. Well, don't and don't even look. I'll tell you. This is great. ah You know, a fresh, fresh eyes. I know Spencer has some opinions and I know some people are waiting to hear these opinions.
00:07:30
Speaker
because of the chat today, we got a little spicy. I wasn't even going to bring it up. i I don't know. I want to go there. I feel like Chris is like actually mad at me. You know, I think we should take one from Bo's book and let's just all so just, you know, smile, be nice to each other. And I think I think it'll be all right. ah So we'll see if it gets there or not. But, uh,
00:07:54
Speaker
Starting out with the number one bid for $517. Adrian, who do you think would be going for that price? Uh, probably HN. Oof. No, sir. Let's see. A.J. Brown. A.J. Brown. Yeah. I guess I had.
00:08:17
Speaker
that That makes sense. I guess uh, this was the only league where I had him in so I was monitoring his Injury status until I wasn't. Does he come back next week? Do we know that? They would buy it. Yeah, they would buy it. Gotcha. so um I bet he'll be back next week. Okay. Yep, that makes sense. I guess yeah 516 would be I probably would have bet more on that. Ooh, okay. Hard take. Yeah.
00:08:46
Speaker
That was a, cause it was an overpay by like one 40. Was it really? Oh yeah. Yeah. I guess he's coming back to an offense that really needs them. I feel like he's going to be a, he's going to be getting a high target percentage in the following weeks. Someone's going to be happy with that bit. I think we look at Kev's team. Now QQ Kev, uh,
00:09:10
Speaker
he picked up, he picked up AJ. Uh, is, is he really on by its by week? I guess it is, huh? Yeah. It's a bye week. And, uh, he also has almond raw on by.
00:09:24
Speaker
And, uh, you know, this week could be a scary week. QQ calf. If you can make it past this week, it might be nice. Yeah. My weeks are, uh, they're a big deal. Um, and this in guillotine. Um, so I, I was surprised you went for that much just because of the buy, like you're paying for a guy that you don't even get this week. That was, that was my only like surprise on the price. I think it's fair, but he's not playing even bid.
00:09:53
Speaker
I, like I said, I didn't want it, um, because of the bi-week. Okay. Okay. All right, Adrian, you're you weren't, you weren't
Analysis of Bids and Surprising Transactions
00:10:01
Speaker
far off. Next up, Devon A. Chain. Guess how much he went for. Well, I cheated and okay I was curious about all all the bids that went on, but I see that. I wanted to know that order. I was curious. Yeah.
00:10:19
Speaker
and we got Only five or so bids on AJ Brown. That's not a lot. Yeah. But then A-chan going in the 300s there. Yeah. Which is probably probably maybe a little maybe a little high. Oh. seeing Seeing what's happening with the Dolphins offense, who knows if too it's going to come back. And it seems like he was the cog holding that entire offense together, apparently.
00:10:48
Speaker
The glua. Yeah. The glua. The glua is, is a puddle of mush right now. So I don't know if we'll see the h-hand of the first couple of weeks. Yeah. Yeah. Well, ah JJ put in a respectable bid of $69. Perfect. Not bad. Yeah. Yeah. ah Spencer, no bid on h-hand. Yeah.
00:11:17
Speaker
Miss, I mean, I don't know what I was doing. Seriously? Yeah, I don't know what I was doing again. Roughly. I almost forgot to put big. It was bad. Oh, no. OK. OK, OK. And Mitch dropped Frank Gore, senior. ah So that was a good ad. Great and roster improvement.
00:11:47
Speaker
Yeah. Uh, next up, James Connor, uh, three Oh one. How are we feeling? It feels pretty high for James Connor, but I mean, I guess he's been, he's been pretty proven running back this year. So I think he'll be, he'll be a good addition. He won't, won't easily get knocked out of someone's lineup for, for any reason too early. I don't think seems like, yeah, pretty decent bids. Not too high of a spread on that.
00:12:17
Speaker
for all the people that put but some money down on Connor. okay Yeah. He scored a lot of points right now. I don't know if it'll keep up, but it's hard to argue with ah those points and guillotine each week. Yeah. Each week. Yeah. He saved me. Saved me a couple of times. Yeah, he's doing pretty well. I bid on, hey, Spencer put his first first bid on the players. Got a bid on.
00:12:43
Speaker
Let's go. Oh man. That would've been nice. If, uh, if we, if we, uh, if I beat you on that one, $4 more, that would've been tough. All right. Here's where starts get surprising. All right. At least for me. Uh-huh. Uh, now Adrian, you drafted a JSN, uh, with the fifth round pick. Are you a believer you thought, did you think he was going to do pretty good this year? I am a believer. Yeah. I thought that, you know,
00:13:14
Speaker
I thought him and DK were going to be the one-two punch there with Locket kind of aging out. It's always a gamble with that with that offense. um that both on and against locket in the last probably five years total on people always say this last year for him but he's always been a proven commodity so i think uh talent is still there which is and it's pretty easy to see he passes the eyeball test he's going to be a great player going forward it's probably awesome uh dynasty asset but yeah he didn't really pan out to be
00:13:47
Speaker
biggest superstar this year. Obviously with our fifth round pick, I guess, what were some of the other names going around that time? Did anyone have the draft board up? I don't have the draft board. I would guess it was honestly a pretty good pick. Yeah. I remember like singing. I was like, that was good. I liked it. I was happy with him. Yeah. You could have gotten instead Xavier Worthy, Lad McConkie, Jaylen Warren.
00:14:17
Speaker
Yeah. Deontay Johnson is probably the best name. Probably. Yeah. Brian Thomas. But he went around some pretty good players. Yeah. Once again, hindsight, I think going back, being put in the same position, I'd still pick JSN, at least not knowing. Deontay Johnson, I'd probably pick now. But back then, who would have known you'd have the red rifle come in and save that team? Yeah, yeah.
00:14:47
Speaker
And you really, your downfall is Mark Andrews in the third. Yeah, that's, I think that's the Achilles heel of this whole team is that that's a big pick. And I was happy to get one of those top five tight ends coming out of the draft. Um, and turns out I should have been smarter and picked got her like five rounds later. Yeah. I mean, you also had two in the sixth. Yeah, that was tough. That's tough. Yeah.
00:15:14
Speaker
Well, so like he would have been, he would have been a good commodity at quarterback because yeah, after the, after that, I had to go to what, Danny Jones, I think I had. Yeah. yeah Which not, not, not the best, uh, put it there. No, no.
00:15:30
Speaker
Well, Jason went for 171 and, uh, I saw this and I thought that that was way too much, but Spencer, you were second, second place bid at 139. So you can at least tell me what the thought process is behind the JSN bid. I think he's good. That's what it was. And i I thought I was bidding too much. Actually, I was surprised that I got outbid for him. I was like, I know it's going to bid this much on Jason, yeah but, um, I got outbid, I think.
00:15:59
Speaker
It's too early, like from a season long perspective to really calm a bad pick, you know, we're through four weeks and he's, he's, he's having some good games. I mean, that one game he had like 13 targets or something insane game, game two and 17.7 points in this league. Yeah. He looked good. Like I was saying, but yeah, some of the games here is just underutilized and didn't work out. You watch the tape on him. He's good. Yeah.
00:16:27
Speaker
I think he's going to give someone some, whoever got him, he's going to give him some points coming up for sure. There's going to be some games where it goes off. Okay. Okay. All right, Adrian, this one, I want to hear your thoughts on. Okay. You drafted Jonathan Brooks in the eighth round, probably thinking, all right, late round pick. This guy's going to play sometimes a season. Maybe I'll get some value. Okay. Am I wrong there? No, you're right there. Okay. Okay.
00:16:53
Speaker
He goes for 119. Second place bid 101 was a big expense. A little bit of controversy. Okay. Only three bids here. Uh, do you think that 119 is a good or bad bid for Jonathan Brooks? And I think, I think that's high. How high? What would you have bid? I probably would have bid maybe in the fifties for him, something like 56. Okay.
00:17:23
Speaker
Because I think starting the year, it was, yeah, he's hurt. Chuba's just going to be a placeholder, but Chuba's looking good so far. So there's no guarantee that once Brooks comes in, he's going to be the guy for that team. It's going to be a guarantee. Yeah. So what what's the ah what was the T that I missed today? Spencer, what was the T? or I need to pull up the actual message, but I woke up, saw Chris write.
00:17:53
Speaker
uh rookie rb3 on the pop list for acl's hair going for 120 what happened to the league i loved and i said this comment actually made me mad and chris was also up at the same time and he fired off quite the takes and said i always attack him for his for his opinions fantasy football um so i'll say that One, I don't care who said it. I know he thinks it's because he said it, but I'm just, I guess I'm i'm way higher on ah ah him than the majority of people are right now. I have him in like so many leagues. I have him in a ton of best ball leagues. I don't know. He's probably one of my highest drafted players. So that's probably my recent bias. So maybe I'm just wrong and um I'll own that.
00:18:47
Speaker
I mean, that heart bias is a real thing. If you if you believe in him, you're going to believe in him in and all your leagues. And of course, if you see that name pop up, you're going to be a little bit little bit more likely to go try to get him. Yeah. I didn't think $110 was very much. i mean I personally think on the tail, like the back end of the season, like he's going to be one of the best running backs in fantasy football. but We'll see. It's a bet. It's a, it's a wager. It's a riskier. You're taken with that thrown in yeah over, over 10% in your tab allocation for something that you're not, not even sure is, you know, we know when he's, yeah, for sure. Do we know when he's coming back? Probably week six. Spencer, what would make, uh, your take correct? What would we need to see, uh, for you or Chris to be right on this one?
00:19:42
Speaker
Uh, I think the big thing is he called him an RB three on his own team. So if, uh, he ends up being the RB one on his team. And I think that's, that's a pretty, I think that's where we're divided. Okay. Okay. At what point, what week can we see him as the RB one with the most touches?
00:20:02
Speaker
Eight eight. Okay. So if he does not have the most touches on his team at running back by week eight Uh, we're gonna have to that's aggressive too. So i'm like i'm like he's saying that is probably wrong. You're not standing there Yeah All right, we might owe chris apology here. So It's gotta be a formal apology in the chat. It'll be formal. That's why uh, I made a week eight because uh Wanna know, Chris, I'm sincere sincere about ah my take and his views of fantasy. Okay, okay. Everything else, you know, we got some ah some lower lower players here. Most notably, Adrian, this is just probably sad for you, but Mark Andrews goes for $16.
00:20:50
Speaker
That's honestly fitting. yes it's i yeah Two bids. I kind of wish I saw that sooner because that would have made me, uh, maybe chuckle, but I'm glad I'm seeing it for the first time now that, uh, dad's brutal. I think that just feels to show, uh, perfectly illustrates my demise in this league right there. 16 bucks. What was the next time? I honestly, $16 and $5. Yeah. We're really breaking the bank on that. I'm not going Mark Andrews.
00:21:23
Speaker
oh All right, well, now you have to get going. So we're going to we're going to have you do the thing that I almost forgot last week, but I will not forget this week. It's your honor. As as our guest, ah you get a predict who you think is going to be talking to us next week. Oh, man. Oh, let's see.
00:21:49
Speaker
Well. Just going down the list, I see
00:21:57
Speaker
Spence didn't put up a ton of points this week. I'm bad. My team's bad. I am not shocked that you've thrown me on that. You really need Alan to perform. I think Wix could be, you know, break out with ah getting the fair target share. He could have a great week and pull you up out of the dust, but um I think you need Alan, Wix, and Kincaid to really perform this week. Let's see.
00:22:25
Speaker
Who else? Is this supposed to be a quick thing or can I evaluate here? Take your time. Yeah. All right. People will wait. They want to know. All right. Bingo nose ball. Careful. who who's Who's bingo nose ball? Say what you want. You might find out.
00:22:47
Speaker
but What'd you say? I said depending on what you say, you might find out. Okay. It's Chris. I'm giving Chris a hard time. It's it's the the guy, me and him, got it right again this morning. yeah i thought I thought your team looked rough until I opened this lineup.
00:23:07
Speaker
He's got Chubb as a starter, technically. Is Chubb going back this week? i I don't know. Okay. This is, also going be out this might be out of pocket, but I think it's pretty funny that Chris was, was like saying that Brooks is a terrible pickup on the pup list and he's starting two players on the public. he' He's got, he's got Clyde and show a little ironic. Oh, it's super ironic. That is hilarious. Yeah. And I uke is the million dollar man with
00:23:42
Speaker
Uh, no touchdowns to show for it. Right. So yeah. Um, I'm going to put my money on bingo nose ball. This is very an unbiased take. We did not tell him anything. He didn't even know who you were. Like it just happened, man. We're sorry. I hate to say you should have been tomorrow on some of them. That's.
00:24:08
Speaker
Uh, let me, let me dig through, see if there's anyone else that, that pops the, let's see. Eddie, Eddie Opolis has, he's got Burrow, JT. He got James Connor from me. So that's going to help a little bit. Fanta's tight end. He's got Brandon cooks out currently. Who's he going to replace him with? Oof. Carson Steele is the next best. Yeah. Well, if I could do a one, two, three, I'd say. No, you got one. It's bingo. All right. All right. Bingo. There you go. were Wrap it up. Good show, boys. All right. You got two more, two more responsibilities.
League Predictions and Future Plans
00:24:51
Speaker
Okay. These are easy ones. Okay. Who's going to win? Who's going to win? Who's taking it all? Let's see. ah Oh, the entire thing. Yes, sir. Not just next week.
00:25:08
Speaker
Not just next week.
00:25:13
Speaker
That's a hard one because I feel like rosters are going to look a whole lot different. Oh, yeah. um I'd have to look into rosters now and also bad budget left. That one would probably take a little bit more digging, but you know, Stroud nine is looking good. Who's got Jay Daniels in this league? I'm curious. It's a hats Angus.
00:25:38
Speaker
Yeah, I think so. Yeah. Oh, yeah. You got Jane. Okay. It's him. This guy. Okay. Got Jane Daniels. Breeze Hall. Um, neighbors. Nico. Trey McBride. Who, who put this team together? Yeah. He also under. She writes. Oh my gosh. All right. It's this guy. He's winning. How much, fat how much fat does he have left? Actually, plenty. A 17.
00:26:07
Speaker
It's, yep, it's him. He's taking the whole, taking the whole year and calling it. Eli's going to love this too. He claims that we glazed this manager and in our leagues, like all the time. Like we just say he's, he's good. And another take. Managers Gone Wild is having a rough, rough third party on this talk podcast.
00:26:29
Speaker
ah That's funny. Third party. Adrian's about as third party as it gets. All right. Yeah. I am fully removed from any of those conversations. So yeah.
00:26:42
Speaker
Completely outside take. That's funny. yeah he he had He had a good draft. If he yeah yeah got all those from the start, yeah I've got Jayden Daniels in some league and I love him. yeah but Neighbors and Nico combination, that was pretty deadly. Yes. I agree.
00:27:03
Speaker
yeah All right, your last duty sir is for the people that made it to the end of the podcast What emoji should they be dropping in the chat so we know that they listen to the whole thing? I think Being down here in South OC with with a myself being a surfer you got to throw the Shaka Chaka, Chaka, bruh. Right? Chaka to the boys. Any last ah words? Any any beef to start or to squash? Oh, man. I think I didn't really get into too much beef with anyone. I was waiting until later until I could start trash talking once my team really took off. But now's your chance. I think all I got to say is I'll be back next year and I'll be back with a vengeance.
00:27:52
Speaker
Ready to ready to throw some big bucks Love it. Alright Adrian. Thanks for coming on. Yep. Thanks for having me boys yeah Good luck to both of you and the rest of the season. I will be watching thank you