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Week 5 Exit - Doctor Kev is NOT an Obnoxious Fan
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Is he a real doctor?
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Transcript
Introduction to the 'Chopping Block'
00:00:04
Speaker
Welcome to the Chopping Block, the guillotine league podcast made for you. what's up guys we're back another week for the podcast and i think we got a good one today ah we got a nub on the line before we get to our our nub on the line i got my usual co-host big sp what's a big expense we got any pot stickers tonight Nah, we got a little pad to hide from a Trader Joe's. I'm going to try to eat it quietly while we record here. I'm a little hungry. I just got home from work. Okay. Yeah. If you hear that wet sloppy through the mic, you know, that's a big expense most likely.
Guest Introduction: Dr. Kev
00:00:46
Speaker
All right. Well, let's bring in our guest, Dr. Kev. What's up?
00:00:54
Speaker
What's up? Nice to meet you guys. Likewise. Now, ah your name is Dr. Kev, ah as as I just said, but you're not a real doctor, are you? I mean, I guess not.
00:01:09
Speaker
I remember seeing JJ catching some flak in the chat earlier, but whatever you want to call a doc, Dennis. Dude, he's a real doc. Come on. Don't be doing him like that. All right. Well, Kevin, we're glad to have you on, but sad to have you so soon. You're not too soon.
00:01:30
Speaker
All right. You, uh, you got 14th. Okay. Now out of 18, that might sound bad, but, uh, you know, to make it five weeks, not knowing anything about guillotine, that's, that's pretty good. Pretty good start. Uh, how do you feel about getting out so soon? Oh, I felt like it was pretty unlucky. I thought I had a solid team. I thought I drafted pretty well, to be honest, my strategy. Like this was my first time playing guillotine. So.
00:01:59
Speaker
My strategy is you coming into it was draft good players on good offenses that are usually not injured all the time.
Strategies in Guillotine Leagues
00:02:09
Speaker
And then sure enough, I think it was like week two or three. I think like I saw Deebo got out and then Joe Mixon got her. I thought it was over by then, but I was able to scrape by. So I don't know. I guess it was just this past week it got super unlucky where none of my team was putting up points. So I thought I, like the other guy said, I thought I had a solid team, but I guess it just didn't work out.
00:02:35
Speaker
Yeah, it did not work out. Unfortunately, uh, what went wrong? You, I mean, that's, you, it's pretty strategic statement. You made draft good players from good teams that don't get hurt. Yeah. And yeah. And then another thing I guess was also just having players with late buys. And I, I think that's probably what killed me this week with almond raw out week five. Yeah. Yeah. The first bye week. That's kind of tough to get out.
00:03:06
Speaker
yeah so i mean I will say this week I we got a little risky. like i think it was yeah I think it was the Falcons that played a Thursday night. So then I had Kyle Pitts. He gave me like a good 12, 13 points. So I was like, OK, I feel pretty solid. So with my flex players, I was like, you know what? I'm going to switch it up a little bit. So I think I dropped Michael Wilson and put in Bo Melton from the Packers because I thought he was going to have a shootout with the Rams.
00:03:39
Speaker
Sure enough. He gives me one point. I looked later. Michael Wilson was like 10 points. So I would have survived with Michael Wilson, but it is what it is.
00:03:50
Speaker
That's a tough. Yeah. I think, uh, if you were to get out, this is like the only week because you had, you had some good players coming back soon. So it's tough. This is like the, the most unfortunate victim so far.
00:04:09
Speaker
Yeah. I agree with that. I agree with that. I think, uh, I mean, yeah, looking at your team is pretty solid. Uh, Bo Melton had it. I don't know. You're going to have to explain this more because the week prior, a Bo Melton only played 14% of snaps. Right. And it's like the wide receiver, like four or five on his team.
00:04:34
Speaker
I think that was the I think this week it was when like like Christian Watson was out and then like Romeo dogs was out. So I was like, you know, I think he's the wide receiver three and Jordan love likes to throw it. So I was like, you know, that's some easy points right there. But it was a little too boomer bus. You know, I should have played it.
00:04:56
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah.
Controversies and High-Value Bids
00:04:57
Speaker
Also, Deebo had a terrible week. I didn't watch that game, but I heard Niners fans are distraught right now.
00:05:08
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, I'm not a Niners fan and that, you know, like I actually do not like the Niners. I know there's probably a lot of Niners, no yeah but yeah really I feel like every time I go against a Niner in fantasy or I draft a Niner, it always bites me in the butt. And sure enough, Deebo, I don't even know how many points he got me. I think it was like two, but that probably did not help either. What do you have to say about Niners fans?
00:05:37
Speaker
They are. I'm sure JJ and will hear this later too, but a little obnoxious, a little in your face, you know? Niner game, but it is what it is.
00:05:51
Speaker
Love to hear it. and Great. Great. I like this guy. I like this guy. Um, all right. Well, dude, yeah, looking at the roster, I don't i honestly can't fault you. ah Other than the, the bow Melton, that's probably a fatal mistake that probably took 10 weeks off of your, you know, like a 10 week early exit, but, uh, it is what it is. So do you want to get into the bids?
00:06:20
Speaker
yeah let's do it players um
00:06:25
Speaker
OK, so this is the most that has been spent, I think, on a team so far. ah Am I right? Am I wrong there, Spencer? No, no, this is this is this is the most we spent over a thousand bucks. Yeah, yeah, probably over like 2K almost. Yeah, Yeah, this is kind of crazy. So after let's this week, this is just unfortunate when you get out and this much do is it. spent on your roster, you know, you had a good squad.
00:06:52
Speaker
Uh, but after this week, everybody has spent big money. Uh, the most waiver bucks left is I think JJ was 7 42.
00:07:04
Speaker
Um, and it's a pretty good stack of people with like three to 600. So, uh, wild. Um, so Kevin, were you shocked at all with the first like three or four people in, in order, uh, players that wouldn't, um, to be honest,
00:07:29
Speaker
I wouldn't say I'm shocked. I i thought Amun-Ra would go around for almost 600 to be honest, just based off of, I think, ah who is it, Jameer Gibbs. I think he went for like 570 a few weeks ago. So I thought Amun-Ra, he's like one of the safest PPR plays. So I was like, you know what, I feel like he would go around 600.
00:07:54
Speaker
AJ was interesting to me because I know I spent like big money on him so I wondered if it would have skewed everyone's perception and maybe they wanted to spend a little higher so I thought that was a pretty fair deal, 400.
00:08:08
Speaker
Yeah, uh, notably, so your buddy bow got almond raw, uh, for six 33. Uh, I think, let's see how much does he have left? Uh, he didn't have enough to buy AJ Brown. He didn't buy, I got him. He did not. Um, do you think six 33 for roman raw for bow is a good pickup? I think honestly, um,
00:08:39
Speaker
I think him, I don't hate the bid of 630, you know, I know for him, Amun-Ra is his guy this year. And honestly, in his draft, he drafted pretty well, he hit some late round flyers like Jordan Mason, you know, so that definitely helps. So I think he, if out of everyone, he had the one to be able to spend a little more on a top tier player for sure. Okay, okay.
00:09:06
Speaker
ah Like Spencer said, he would have won the bid for AJ Brown for $4.33, but he got Almond Raw. Would you rather have Almond Raw for $6.33 or AJ Brown for $4.33? That's like $200. So that's a little tough just because I feel like they're both in the elite tier, but I would consider Almond Raw a little better just because I feel like he's a little safer and I feel like the $200.
00:09:36
Speaker
you can use it towards like maybe getting a lower tier wide receiver running back if one of your guys goes down but I know AJ is also coming off that hammy he seems like he's healthy now and ready to play but you never know with those things that might linger so looking back if I knew I'd probably go for the AJ for 430 and save that 200 flex. Okay. Well, Spencer sounds like you're the winner here. You've got them for 400. You feeling good about that? Uh, yeah, I feel good about that. I don't really feel good about where my fab is going because I've been getting nickeled and dined every week just trying to survive. So I needed to win this one to kind of stay at pace. So yeah, it was a good win. I'm a little sus on him, but yeah.
00:10:28
Speaker
So we place next up we got Joe mixing for 317 No, Joe hasn't played for three weeks How we feeling about that? Yeah, that one actually kind of surprised me. I thought he would go around like 200 oh He hasn't played since week two and it seems like he's still not practicing. So I I didn't think people would bid super heavy, especially after all that commotion on bidding players that are injured or not even playing yet. So I felt like 317 was kind of a hefty deal for him. Yeah, slight overpay. Well, yeah, like was that almost 100 bucks, actually. Sheesh. All right.
00:11:15
Speaker
That's a little tough for Pat. We'll see if that pans out.
Player Debates and Predictions
00:11:18
Speaker
We got Deebo to none other than JJ for 251. Now, you said yourself, nine Niner's fans are obnoxious. Why is this an obnoxious overpay by JJ? I mean, it seems like he only paid and and an additional 40 bucks. And I think looking at his roster, he really needed a wide receiver. so I would not say that's an overpay. I would say JJ is very lucky and fortunate that he was able to grab D-Bo for 250, which I would consider a fair deal. And then I don't know how many Niners fans there are in this league, but that seems like a pretty fair deal for D-Bo. Okay. Spencer, do you disagree? No, I think it's pretty fair deal. Um, I just don't think D-Bo is like a player I love in G18. I don't think JJ would disagree.
00:12:10
Speaker
Um, cause I do feel like he historically is pretty boom or bust. Um, like we did, we just saw it. And I think that's partially cause he always gets injured. Like there's there's going to be another game that, you know, someone just spears his abdomen and he's just, you know, got a stinger on the sideline for three quarters and then he's out another week and then he'll be back. So i he's just like, he's good when he plays, but in a league like this, I think he's a little sketchy.
00:12:40
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah, he could be. He could be. We'll see. Um, JJ's got his guy though. So that's, that's nice. Uh, we got next up JSN for two Oh one. Um, you picked JSN up for one 71. Uh, and it didn't really pan out. He did get you some points. How are we feeling about this pickup?
00:13:05
Speaker
i I'm like the other guy from last week. I am a JSM believer this year, you know, I think he'll get his targets. I was looking at his target share, you know, he's get 16 targets, 12 targets last game. He got a touchdown near the end of the game. That kind of saved his week, but.
00:13:22
Speaker
I feel like the Seattle offense is very pass-heavy, so I wanted to invest in that. um I am surprised with the bid, though, 201, just because it seemed like when I bid 171, it was quite of an an overpay, but yeah, I mean, I don't...
00:13:41
Speaker
Oh, I kind of I kind of hate the i two on one like between 50. I definitely spend the extra 50 bucks and go for diva just because Jason still have two over there. Yeah. ah Chase did pick up Jason Chase now has a little over two hundred dollars. ah So he spent 80 percent of his fab so far on Kyler Murray and Jason. How soon do you think we're going to be talking to Chase?
00:14:12
Speaker
I don't know. It could be, it's going to be soon. Chase is not winning this league. I can tell you that he doesn't have enough budget left and the players he picked up aren't big enough difference makers. So probably pretty soon. I think his team's already a little sketchy. Yeah. Yeah, probably. We'll save the final verdict for, for Kevin later. Um, all right. We got DAC as well for $78. Uh, is that.
00:14:43
Speaker
Tickle anybody's fancy? It seems fairly inconsequential to me. I think it's cheap. Okay. Yeah, I think that that's a fair offer. I thought you'd go for around 100, so 78's not bad. he He's a good QB if you need him for your main QB's buy or something.
00:15:03
Speaker
There you go. We've got Kyle Pitts for the meme. $69, Spencer. Did you think you were going to win almost 69 or did you just throw that in there? Uh, I thought it could win it. Um, I kind of put it in there as like a backup. So I could just get one player, but I ended up getting two. Um, I'm probably going to run double tight ends, which is disgusting, but, um,
00:15:27
Speaker
Yeah, I don't know what I was thinking. I feel like I haven't really been thinking that much when I put these bids in, which is not a good thing to say in guillotine.
00:15:37
Speaker
I was like, yeah, I think I think I did like 45. I was like, screw it. Let's go 69 for the bet. Love it. Hey, yeah, I did hit it. All right. ah But we got a bunch of other small guys here, so I'm just going to rattle them off and ke you let me know if anything's notable. OK, we got ah Jerome Ford for 62. We got Tyrone Tracy for 34. Got Kirk Cousins for 20. Anything stand out to you there, Doc?
00:16:07
Speaker
Oh, not really. I wouldn't say they were like high bids or anything. And then they're kind of like throw a dart and see what hits. You know, Tyrone Tracy, he could get like a 40, 60 split in that backfield now. Kirk Cousins. I mean, he had that one big game, but we'll see. So I don't think any any of those bids were like super game changers. So it's it's worth spending a little bit. See what hits.
00:16:33
Speaker
Yeah. Spencer, you got Kirk as well. Is that a, just a backup for Josh Allen in case he breaks a leg or. Yeah. If you make it to week 12, bye week. Yeah. I just probably dumb bit by me too. Again, that's what I mean. I keep nickel and dime. I thought, I don't know what I'm doing. I'm having a, I'm having just in general, not a great fantasy here. I feel like, uh, this is the most I've ever been checked out just because of life. Uh, I'm an idiot.
00:17:03
Speaker
Well, you know, uh, when, when, uh, you spend less time, sometimes you just got to wing it and see what happens. yeah Can't, can't blame you too much. Like you were saying, uh, I think in the chat, you know, that's life. You know, if you don't, if you don't check your lineups, if you don't put in your bids, it's part of fantasy. like Yeah. And I don't know if you wanted to talk about that, this podcast, but I feel like we have to.
00:17:27
Speaker
We probably have to. i'll We'll take I'll take the third party ah neutral take first from Kevin because Kevin, I believe you read the chat over the past week. Yes, yes, I did. OK, OK. And ah JJ did fill you in. So you might you might have received some bias. But what what's your take on the situation? Are we talking about what we're talking about the whole commote?
00:17:55
Speaker
Are we talking about him not starting Joe Flacco or? Yeah. Yeah. Um, you know, like coming from me, I was okay with putting Flacco back into his lineup. Cause I mean, I did see when he picked him up, he didn't put him in the lineup. I thought that was kind of odd. And then I checked the morning up and it wasn't there either, at least on my end. But.
00:18:23
Speaker
You know, like, I would have felt kind of bad too if I was the one to survive based off of that, because Flacko did have a good game and everything, but... I thought it was very interesting, you know, the commotion, oh i especially just from an outsider's perspective, because I didn't know, couldn't put any faces to these names. And I was like, I thought we were all friends here, guys, you know, but it's it was getting a little serious, but I'm glad he's still in here and you guys don't have to do an awkward podcast this week. What a team player, man. I mean, I am not too, but, uh,
00:19:01
Speaker
I just, I don't feel like we were being wild with that take. um And I thought about, you know, something Eli said about how, you know, if this is just one of our boys, we would have really looked out for him and like, you know, kind of dawned on me later. where i the the The number one person who's been shaft in this league is literally Garrett. Like arguably like one of Joel's closest friends in the league. Two years in a row. So I don't think that's true. And then secondly, you just got to set your line up.
00:19:36
Speaker
like and You got to check and that that's fantasy. I have made so many stupid sit starts out in my fantasy career and they've never ever been fixed by anyone because I think that's just part of the game. So it it would have sucked. I'm glad it didn't have to happen because Chris does have a good team, not that you didn't. but That just would have been a tough way to go out. But again, Chris, it's all love. I feel like you're you're you're pissed about something between Joel and I.
00:20:10
Speaker
Yeah ah You know we in this podcast ah You know, we have opinions and sometimes these opinions are that certain ah people's teams or decisions are dogshit But if we say that, you know on the receiving end, we don't mean any harm by it. So In in that case, I mean Kev your the bow Melton that was that was a dogshit decision. That's for sure so Yeah, hindsight 20.
00:20:43
Speaker
ah Hey, on the b bright side, too, ah Chris is actually pretty good at guillotine. um He usually lasts to the top half. So i I don't expect to talk to Chris very soon, especially after this whole fiasco. I think he'll have a little bit of more of a Hawkeye moving forward, you know, making sure might be on the sleeper, you know, support chat, working with the bug ah department.
00:21:08
Speaker
You know, making sure that's fixed. So yeah, that would be great. All right. Dr. Kev, we've got to the time in the podcast where you need to tell us based on all the information, you know, who we're going to be talking to next week. Okay. Let me take a look at everyone's lineup here, but I feel like the easy answer just has to be this chase guy digs in her butt.
00:21:37
Speaker
Just because he got the lowest projection and I'm looking at it right now. Both his running backs are questionable. Zach Moss, Trey Sermon. um But he does have digs, which could have a good game now that he's the wide receiver at one there, so. I'm rooting for the guy, you know, he's the one that bid on JSN, another fellow JSN believer, but.
00:22:00
Speaker
Also, you know, I think, oh yeah, he's the one that did like almost 600 for Kyler Murray. So I thought that was a little obscene, but I think you guys might be talking to him next. Okay. I don't, I don't think that's a bad prediction. We will see. I saw chase the other day. I told him, I said, dude, you got to pick up some players and, uh, you got JSN. So let's hope maybe that's a difference maker.
00:22:29
Speaker
Yeah, I think he's the, the obvious pick right now, but we're we're going into the, after him, we're getting to the part of the season where it feels like there's all, we're all pretty much grouped. Um, but good enough teams that it can really be anyone, um, on any given week, injuries is my do it for you. So it's, it's getting a little tighter. Yep.
00:22:58
Speaker
Yeah, if if the boys aren't looking out for their bye weeks right now, uh, word of wisdom, you should be looking at your bye weeks. Uh, they could definitely F you. So, uh, all right, Kev. Um, who do you think is going to win it all? Oh, let's see. I think right now.
00:23:23
Speaker
It is a little early to tell, but I did like no bias, but I did like Bo's team just because he was able to get Jordan Mason. and I don't even know what round he got him in, but he's a basically an RV one now. So I feel like Bo had Bo.
00:23:44
Speaker
Um, yeah, I'll go with Bo as a favorite for now, for sure. Okay. Okay. Yeah, I think looking at both team, it's pretty heat. Uh, if he can like save some money, he doesn't have much left. If he can save like all of his money till like week five, uh, and stay in, he could, he could run the whole thing. I think what team is that?
00:24:11
Speaker
It's week six exit. Oh, I keep thinking that's Eddie because of Bush. but I don't know. I just, I see Bush. I'm just like, that that's funny.
00:24:27
Speaker
ah Bush. I don't know, man. This team's kind of trash. You think so? Yeah. It's half trash, half God tier.
00:24:40
Speaker
He's got omelet on the bench. he's got He's got Henry, Mason, Kamara. Yeah, he still has Devontae in his IRs and when he comes back. And G.J. Hawkinson. I see that. I'm looking on the computer and you can't even see the IR spots. The computer is so bad. That makes more sense. I didn't see those two on his IR. Justin feels low-key heat too. So.
00:25:06
Speaker
Loki, Loki. All right. Well, you made it to the point very end. And if you made it as a podcast, Kevin is going to tell you the emoji to leave. I'm doing what? Sorry. What ah what emoji do you want the homies to drop in the chat? Oh, emoji.
Closing Thoughts and Listener Engagement
00:25:27
Speaker
Yeah.
00:25:27
Speaker
uh let's do a tooth emoji for the doc all right all right dr kiv says leave a tooth uh any last words parting any beef to uh settle and or start uh no beef to start no i would say but good luck to uh my fellow classmates bow and jj i suppose i'm rooting for those two but it was it was nice playing with you all it was very interesting and um very interesting experience for sure going out I think it was bittersweet you know i seeing all my players drop it was like
00:26:10
Speaker
going through a breakup, I was like, oh my gosh, all my players are just leaving me. um But I will have better sleeps now on Tuesday nights because I think it was me and a couple other guys I would see just make some moves after the Waver wire rods. I was just scrambling for those free players, but I can finally sleep in peace now with this league.
00:26:32
Speaker
There you go All right. Well, we were glad to have you in the league glad to have him the podcast and I hope to see you in the chat Sounds good. I'll see you guys