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Week 13 Exit - What's Up Doc?
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Introduction and Greetings
00:00:04
Speaker
Welcome to the Chopping Block, the guillotine league podcast made for you. What's up, boys? Double podcast week. you You should thank me. You know, maybe thank D Biggs as well. We made it happen.
Why is Spencer Podcasting from His Car?
00:00:18
Speaker
ah Spencer obviously showed up and he showed up again today. But Spencer, a little bit different ah setting you got going on. What's going on? Yeah, i'm I'm driving in my car. I told you I can make it tonight. And then I realized I had a Christmas dinner at work.
00:00:38
Speaker
wasn't really optional, you know, boss bosses inviting you. You really can't say no, right? So I'm driving home. Yep. Okay. Got a ho ho ho down for your boss for Christmas. Yeah.
JJ's Financial Outcome in the League
00:00:50
Speaker
as a shitting show the day Not good.
00:00:55
Speaker
Well, I know somebody who knows something about shitty drinks and uh, that's the mike's hard maniac. What's up JJ? What is up, everybody? I'm not happy to be here, but ah happy to be back on a pod that some people might listen to. So yeah, what's up, everyone? Yeah, what's the over-under? I'm putting putting up five lists. Seven Seven and a half.
00:01:22
Speaker
seven and a half Okay, all right, we'll see JJ this it doesn't include us three right doesn't not said I'm gonna go It's gonna be the four. It's gonna be four of it. Okay? All right JJ you Hit pater. You gotta be proud about that. I am thrilled that I made money um I'm sure we'll get i think you broke even but That, to me, that's making money. I played a whole season of football, and so I'm very happy about that. It was a close call, um but we we made it. We got we got this 25 bucks back.
00:02:03
Speaker
Yeah, you had a couple of close calls. um This last week ah was
JJ's Season Challenges
00:02:07
Speaker
not a close call. It was kind of done after like the 1 p.m. games on Sunday. So did you enjoy the rest of your Sunday? Did you feel in despair? What what was going on? um You know, I don't know if it was maybe the ah amount of close calls that I had throughout the season um or if it was just seeing how shit my team was. I mean, although it was a slow progression, right? Like seeing throughout the week. um
00:02:38
Speaker
You know, some of your star guys don't get as many points as they should. I think Almond Raab was first for me and it was like, oh, less than 10 for Almond Raab, that's not really great. And then you watch as your guys kind of like slowly don't score as many points. So um I wasn't distraught, but it was like obviously a bummer to to kind of see my team dwindle out.
00:03:00
Speaker
Yeah, um you did make it fairly far. Your average finish before this year was 6.33. So with the sixth place finish, you did improve your average finish. Yes, I did see that. And I mean, it's about like, that's as close as you can get to the average.
JJ's Strategy and Performance Analysis
00:03:19
Speaker
So it sounds about right. Yeah, you're on par. That's good. ah What was the strategy that got you here?
00:03:28
Speaker
Sure, yeah, i' all season long, you know obviously with, what is this, my fourth year of guillotine with the boys, um have a strat, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. um I know the average has has been between six and 6.3, but um yeah, my finishes have been, I think, two, three, six, and 14, or something like that. 14 hertz.
00:03:55
Speaker
fourteen Yeah, but same strat every year. And the strategy is exactly what Mitch has been doing. So props to you, Mitch, if you're listening, which I know you are. um And sometimes that strat can fuck you. And you know in that 14 year, it did. But at the key to guillotine success, which is easier said than done, is to draft good guys. And I don't know how I survived as long as I did, because my first pick, which ah I was the 16th pick, which I know Bo had mentioned a few weeks back. Being at the end of the guillotine draft is shit. You're dog shit. You know you're not winning if you're 16th through 18. You're just trying to survive as long as you did, which is why I'm kind of happy. But my first pick was Travis Etienne, who, again, dog shit. Dog shit.
00:04:44
Speaker
place to pick, dogshit pick. And so um you know for my typical strat, which is to not bid very much in the beginning, ah and I'm relying on Travis ETN to hold my team down, I'm surprised that I made it as far as I did. So um if you look at my draft, which is in order for like the first five picks. Travis ETN, Kyron Williams, who was my best player for probably the majority of the year. Zae Flowers, Keenan Allen, Brock Purdy, and then thrown a six at Jake Ferguson. That's not good. And I still didn't bid very much in the beginning. So surviving was kind of a miracle to make it this far. ah ah There's a reason that I had a lot of close calls, but here we are. We got six at the end of the year and I'm i'm happy about it.
00:05:31
Speaker
That's good. That would be too. That team is bad. That team is actually trash. That team's bad, right? Yeah, it's bad. I have a question. Yeah, look at that over. I mean, I haven't taken a hard look, but that might be one of the worst drafts out of everybody. Well, here we are. I mean, going down the list, again, I mentioned in the chat, I drafted QJ as well, using my starting lineup for a majority of the year. Tyler Lockett.
00:05:58
Speaker
um Is Guillotine's luck? Is this just all a bunch of just luck? Is that what we're hearing? Guillotine's luck but here you and I are and we've got an average finish of 6 or better and and I think I mentioned it in the chat as well a couple of days ago but like I hope that permit i shouldn't I hope but I think that Mitch winning would be the funniest thing ever for him to be last last year and first this year and then for Fitz to be first last year and last this year like that's if that doesn't spell out luck I don't know what does yeah that'ss um probably is gonna happen yeah i would agree but I mean I think I think there's something I think that's like 18 is just so different like it's just like
00:06:48
Speaker
You never know when it's gonna be your week. It's lucky at the start. It's lucky at the end. It's lucky in the middle. Like, I don't know. It's awesome. Yeah. I think it's easy to be but bad at guillotine. That's not luck.
00:07:02
Speaker
but being good at guillotine maybe is more difficult. Like we got a big dill who does not watch football. yeah Average finish of 15.75. That's probably warranted. That's actually probably like hard to do. Joel's right. You just have to be bad. yeah That's hard. That's hard, man. It's hard to be like shit.
00:07:33
Speaker
ah Alright, JG, let's look at your players. At this point, um it's an amalgamation of many different teams. What did you just say? Amalgamation? What the? You had your thesaurus out or something? What the hell? I actually really appreciate that word because I feel that word every day in the dental office. amalgam is this in a while. Sorry. I just had to have some comic or relief because I guarantee someone else is listening to this. Your Joel say whatever the hell he just said and thinking what the fuck am I listening to do right now? Gold did his homework. Yeah, he did. sorry yeah We needed a comic relief there.
00:08:21
Speaker
JJ, why are you using that in dental school? What's the what's the scenario? ah Amalgams are the metal fillings in your mouth. Okay. Yeah. So you either got, you either got the tooth color fillings or you got the metal fillings or the metal ones, amalgams. Wow. There you go. Good work. Let me, let me see. Let me give you a definition. Big Spence. The action process or result of combining or uniting. That's pretty fucking spot on. Why do you know that? I don't know.
Humor and Terminology Talk
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Speaker
Yeah. The amalgamation.
00:08:59
Speaker
What the fuck man? Let's move on, let's move on. ah Like I was saying, you're I'll use the word suspension so I can understand. Who keeps a cluster fuck? There he is! Doing rosters.
00:09:20
Speaker
um did you Did you take a peek at the bids? I actually wrote down the order that I thought people were going to go to, and I was shocked. No way. I was shocked. Read us your order. I'd love to hear. Well, just for the top guys, obviously, no quarterbacks were going to get picked up for my team. ah But my order was at one, Almond Ross St. Brown. At two, Derek Henry. At three, Kyron Williams.
00:09:53
Speaker
And I'll stop next. I'll say four was Drake London. OK. OK. Most surprising pickup on this, on these claims? 100% the number one being Kyron. Kyron's been good. But I think for and he's the number eight running back on the year so far. So I don't know. Like it it's obvious why Henry fell because he has a bye this next week. But um Iron has been like very touchdown dependent and yes he started the year with like I think six or seven straight games of always scoring but then for me at least he kind of fizzled out.
00:10:32
Speaker
ah And that's why I had a couple of close calls. But for him to be the number one above Omron Ra is a little bit surprising to me. I know it's not been like... but Actually, Omron Ra's had a decent year. I know it feels like he doesn't because he doesn't have like as many explosive games, but... ah I was just surprised that Kyron went above both Omron Ra and Henry.
00:10:54
Speaker
Yeah, I was looking at Mitch's roster and I was thinking he's got a ton of running backs. I feel like he would want wide receiver more. So I upped my bid on Almanra and he he barely even bid on the dude. Mitch has got still low key all the money in the world and he didn't he didn't even bid on Derek Henry. That's crazy. It's kind of wild.
00:11:22
Speaker
embarrassment of riches Yeah, yeah um Any other thoughts JJ who do you think was the biggest winner biggest loser? From these final five.
Guillotine League Strategies and Luck
00:11:37
Speaker
Yeah, that is a great question um Biggest winner Let's see did I I'm gonna go ahead and like I don't At this point in guillotine, it's like your player is, everyone's got good players. So it's like, your your player shows up or you don't. And so I think the winner for me.
00:12:01
Speaker
based off of necessity, is probably Austin, because I know he needed a QB, and I know Jordan Love was just on waivers, but he got a QB. And then getting Garendo for $1, that's not bad. I mean, you've got your Niners RB1 now, so um nothing flashy or anything, but he got what he needed, so let's see if it helps him survive another week, because I think that he's probably probably the team a lot of people are thinking is going to go home next, so we'll we'll see.
00:12:31
Speaker
Okay. i Speaking of going next, you did listen to D Biggs' podcast. And I told you, he said Austin, right? He originally said Garrett. And he, we had a technical difficulty. And by the time he came back, he's like, you know what? I've had time. I rethought this. And he changed his pick to Austin. I mean, let's be real. The only reason he picked Garrett is because that's the only other person he knows. That's true. He didn't know I was on the podcast.
00:13:01
Speaker
So he didn't know I wasn't even here every week. So yeah, that that's that's a good analysis, JJ. You don't listen, so he said, shit, there's a code. Literally. Yeah. It was it pretty funny. I giggled. I'm like, all right, let me check on on the time with Spencer. And he's like, why?
00:13:25
Speaker
like ah Because he's he does the podcast. Oh, gosh. Pretty funny. Yeah, that's probably valid. You probably just knew ah new carrot. So where do you stand? We've got small pickings here.
00:13:42
Speaker
In terms of what, who's going home or who's winning it all? Yeah, who's going home and who's winning it all?
League Predictions
00:13:47
Speaker
Man, I've been thinking about this for the last 24 hours since listening to Deepik's podcast ah and I really want to choose someone that is not Austin um Looking at his team. I feel like that's probably who most people would think um I Have I have people I have a person I'm rooting for and then a person that I think should be out. I I Think that's got to be Austin. That's who I would go with I want to pick someone else, but I think it's gonna end up being him Okay, okay, so from there down before who do you think's gonna win it?
00:14:28
Speaker
Um, who do I think is going to win it? Um, the whole time. So and again, again, 24 hours. Um, I was going to say Chummy Buck. I love the Chummy Buck. Chummy Buck's been great. Um, CMC.
00:14:46
Speaker
That hurts. ah And, and all, you know, Collins has a bye this week. Tyreek Hill, great game last week, but he's just kind of a dog doo-doo. Saquon's been great, Aaron Jones, dog doo-doo.
00:14:58
Speaker
um Tell me about who I wanted to say. I'm gonna go with Garrett. Garrett's one. Whoa!
00:15:09
Speaker
That's huge. That's huge. The major ups here. Lamar Jackson's got a bye this week. um It don't matter. He's got Jamar Chase on his team. Garrett's going to win it all. And I think he deserves to win it all too.
00:15:24
Speaker
damn all right all right that's huge i i don't think we've heard anything other than mitch for a few weeks that's refreshing i mean listen i it was very clear that i was going home um but i'm i don't know if anybody else was paying attention but i'm i felt like people should have been rooting for me because if i had a better score to speak Mitch would have been going home. Mitch would have lost. If I would have started Jerry Judy, Mitch would have lost. He would have gone home. Maybe. I think the math adds up. If it weren't for not having a quarterback, which I have not had for a long time, and have you guys seen the Andy Reid commercial, where he's like the State Farm, where he's going, bundle risky, bundle risky? Have you seen that? Have you not seen that? No.
00:16:15
Speaker
oh yeah um Long story short, the State Farm commercials are all about bundling. And in my mind for the past two weeks, I texted Garrett this a couple, I think last week, Baker hit fumbles like no other in the world. And so all week in my head, I've just had Fumble Roosky, Fumble Roosky, because Baker, I think technically,
00:16:35
Speaker
i got minus eight points just from him um and so i mean that obviously didn't play a factor i lost by a decent that's a commissioner foam boy right there whoa whoa hey in the hey in the in the invite i say it is your responsibility to read the rules and understand them and so it's your fault and you didn't read it didn't pick it up it's fine i'm not blaming anyone except baker mayfield and even him i'm not blaming for my loss Um, yeah, it's, it's Baker kind of, kind of fucked me, but it doesn't matter. Brock, Brock already sucked. He got two points. So, um, it's yeah, it is what it is. Okay. Well, uh, Garrett's going to win it all. Austin's going home next week. JJ, any final thoughts for the people?
JJ's Season Reflection and Concerns
00:17:26
Speaker
It's been a great season.
00:17:28
Speaker
Um, no, I, you know, as always guillotine is very fun. It sucks if you lose first cause you don't get to experience the guillotine season. I'm very thankful that three out of four years I've gone to last a decent while. And so it gets really fun. I can now turn my Tuesday night, um, alarms off at midnight. Uh, which usually just result in me screaming fuck in my house because Mitch stole somebody that I wanted. Um, But I can now I can now rest um As I have been eliminated from the 18 Okay, well later rests you will and your last duty before you leave us How do we know that the boys made it this far?
00:18:14
Speaker
The boys need to put a bowl of rice, as always. We had more Asians in the league this year than we ever have before. Go ahead, drop that rice bowl emoji, show some Asian love. Who's watching? Real quick, did you feel like you experienced any type of Asian hate this year? ah No, I did not experience any type of Asian hate or hate in general, except from Mitch the bitch fucking stealing my players.
00:18:42
Speaker
That's good. Good to hear. wanted make sure We got rid of that. We had, we had some issues a couple of years, but ki commission cleaned it up. So good work. That's true. but Yeah. Very thankful for the commission and the stop agent hate movement. Yeah. Love it.