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Week 10 Exit - Bad at Fantasy?
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Podcast Introduction & Co-host Elimination
00:00:04
Speaker
Welcome to the chopping block, the guillotine league podcast made for you. It is the podcast you all have been waiting for, except for Bo. He wasn't, uh, he was hoping to wait a little bit longer for this one. I got my co-host and the homie that got chopped this week, Mr. Big Spence. Yep. I'm here. So I sounded like people thought I was going to no show.
00:00:35
Speaker
No, I'm like, <unk> I'll be here, don't worry. Just had to create a little hype in the chat, you know? Yeah, a little hype in the chat. This week's been a blur. It's a three-day weekend for me. I got Veterans Day off, so like today doesn't even feel like Wednesday to me. It still feels like Tuesday, so it's just been like madness.
00:00:56
Speaker
um So yeah, I just kind of like, I feel like my week's all messed up. Yeah, I feel you. I feel you. Well, let's get into it.
Spence's Decline in Fantasy Football Engagement
00:01:09
Speaker
You're out. That sucks. Yeah. What happened? um I don't really know. I didn't watch any of the games. then why I haven't watched football this year like at all. I know that sounds crazy. But ah this year, I
00:01:29
Speaker
I think I've been a sweat fantasy football player for a long time. And I think this is the year that the sweatiness stopped. I haven't made a single trade in any league. I have not. I think I've had like a record low transactions. The most active leave I've been in was this one hands down because I'm like, I get my bids in, I got the pod. So it's kind of just been like a down year for me.
00:01:57
Speaker
I think I'm just getting too busy, man.
Balancing Life and Fantasy Football
00:01:59
Speaker
I think you said that last year. Well, I'm even more busy. It's crazy. I think last year I watched football. Like I actually watched football last year. This year, like I'm not even paying for like the red zone pass. Like I don't even pay for it. That's wild. Yeah. Um, yeah, I gotta figure out how to like.
00:02:21
Speaker
I got to, I got to figure out a new strategy for football. I think that's, that's what, that's what my issue has been. I've, uh, I've been sticking to my old ways, um, the sweat ways and they, they just don't, they don't work mid season. I'm still sweat mode start the year. Like I just get so hype, you know, it's so exciting, but then like, you know, middle of the season, I just can't keep up with myself. Um, and I suck because of that.
00:02:47
Speaker
Yeah. You got to pull a bow and just pure analytics. I'm going that way, I think. I think I need to go the bow way. I think i think he taught me something. I think that's going to be the new approach next year. What went wrong this year ah or this week? Well, I got out like complacency. I just didn't even like really look. I'm like, yeah, I'm good. like Previous things I was like, I actually like checking, you know, who, who the matchup starts in like wild players this week. I just plugged and play my, you know, my starters. It's like the first week I'm like, yeah, all these guys seem good. I'm not going to seven it anyone out. And now I'm out. Yeah. If you started Hawkinson over Kincaid wouldn't be, wouldn't be here. Yeah. But that, yeah.
00:03:35
Speaker
I don't know how they didn't score more points. The Colts suck. Like they actually suck. And, and then I was looking at the stats for, uh, uh, yeah, the Vikings game. There's like no, no anything except for TJ Hawkinson. I was like, what? that Like that just seemed unlucky, but whatever.
00:03:55
Speaker
Yeah, I think I know what happened.
Jets Game & Fantasy Football Impact
00:03:58
Speaker
well You got two Jets players. I did get two Jets players. Jets were cheeks. Yeah, I was at the game. Yeah, I know. I was going to ask you about that.
00:04:09
Speaker
it was it was ah It was a really tough game to watch. ah They lost 31 to 6. They did not score touchdown. ah Paid like $500 for tickets, $100 on food and drinks, and they didn't score a fucking touchdown.
00:04:25
Speaker
yeah Yeah, I feel like you're the bigger loser this week because of that probably probably so but no i have two jets and I kept like checking like I mean I wasn't watching football but I kept like updating my app and I was actually paying attention to that game more because I knew you were there Yeah, and there's another group chat that maybe I don't we don't even get to but Joel met another fellow Jets fan in a At the game and pulled off a trade, which is awesome. Yeah but i just kept watching it and i'm like the jets are literally not going to score a touchdown this is crazy and they didn't they did not yeah devante adams i don't think had a catch in the first half it was really tough to watch he ended with like 14 targets though which was insane i thought yeah erin there was like literally dudes next to me like start tyrod
00:05:16
Speaker
Did he look that bad? I he did not look good. I think he scored like two fantasy points. He did. ah yeah So, yeah, that I think kind of shows how he did like watching him like live. It was he he wasn't making passes. He fumbled the ball. He did not seem like a field general. He seemed like a ah dodo. Well, that's probably part of the reason I'm here.
00:05:45
Speaker
um Aaron Rodgers, you suck. Um, I'm out too soon. I don't even know what place I got. I didn't do the math. I think I got like, what is it? Ninth place, eighth place. I don't know. nine
00:06:02
Speaker
That's a, that's really bad for me. Yeah. That's the worst you've ever done. Yeah. I'm really disappointed in myself. Um, I need to be better.
00:06:14
Speaker
I agree. JJ texted me immediately after you got, like I dropped all your players and he's like, I need to know right now. What's, what's Spencer's average finish. He's haunted. He's haunted. And, uh, your average finish is, let me pull up my text of JJ. It is 4.75.
00:06:39
Speaker
the Almost fit. I mean, that's pretty good, but I'm still disappointed. Yeah.
Reflection on Past Seasons & Burnout
00:06:46
Speaker
So here's the thing. If JJ got first places here, his average would be fifth. So, so you, you, I think remain the highest average, even with this exit.
00:06:59
Speaker
Awesome. That's awesome. So at least JJ at least for some multi-year veterans Yeah, yeah, you need you need some I mean what how many years is this for me now? is Is this our fourth year? This is fourth. Yeah. Yeah, so That's um, that's good. I still need to bring one home um I'm gonna have to do some offseason training. I'm gonna have to reevaluate the strategy um I I train like a sweat, and then once it once it comes game time, like I'm not actually playing like one. So like that that you just can't expect results when you play it that way. If we look at my draft, I think my draft is like extremely like disgusting.
00:07:41
Speaker
ah So in all honesty, like I feel like I made it farther than I should have this year. I think my team was pretty bad for a long time. And ironically, the one week that like I was like, we finally got a good squad. Is the week I'm out.
00:07:55
Speaker
Um, so yeah but you pretty bad. Yeah. Like my draft is very bad, especially losing Puca. Yeah. He lost Puca. Uh, all like literally you got Josh Allen and then you got tank Dalton KK, Jalen Warren, Brian Thomas, chase Brown, like Brian Thomas, chase Brown has been good some weeks, but like tank Dalton and Jalen for three, four, five. that That was a little tough. Yeah. That was, um, you turned it around.
00:08:25
Speaker
That was bad. I weathered the storm. um
00:08:31
Speaker
I, you know, I think, I think those, ah I still got strong fantasy ribs, but just lately it's just. We're not firing like we used to be, you know, I gotta, I gotta chill and actually be like, you know, be better and stop talking like I'm a hotshot. Cause I'm kind of shit. It's that mid season slump, you know, like season, it's like, you just, you're so excited. You're like, Oh, I can't wait to draft. You draft your team. You're like, Oh fuck, my team's so good. I can't wait. And then you lose seven straight weeks and you're like, shit.
00:09:03
Speaker
What happened I yeah got away from me I haven't even another league that but hey, you know what? We've rallied in that league and we fired off three straight you better watch out, you know let's say Once I put my mind to it, you know, I might be coming coming back So I might need to like dilute the amount of leagues. I'm in i Don't know what I gotta do, but I gotta figure this thing out um Yeah, cuz I'm not I'm not good. Does it hurt more to go before chase? No, and the funny part is like ah
00:09:40
Speaker
like I don't even give a fuck like that's that's the funny part like when I was like in my sweat years like I would actually like not sleep well tonight because I got out like that this is not a joke it would be like a bad like I would have a bad attitude Now, like since i that's that's actually part of the reason I stopped caring as much because it was actually like like affecting me too much. So i've I've taken a step back, you know, relaxed. I don't feel like I need to watch footballs on Sundays. it's like ah It's like I went to over the past couple of seasons, I went to rehab, you know? um Used to be just a fantasy junkie and just taken in like a hard drug. now ah
00:10:26
Speaker
Now I'm like a sober vet and I got to figure out how to get back into the game. i mean That's probably not a good analogy because you know know to give back one drugs you don't want to get back into drugs. but but you know Maybe I do. Maybe you should gotta to pack some zins every once in a while. Yeah, I got to find that that happy medium, you know like ah ah a drug that's like like marijuana. that's like That's legal in California. Hell yeah. so maybe that's I got to find that median.
00:10:53
Speaker
i'm gonna Do you got any like, uh, off season programs you can put me through, Joel? Yeah. Yeah. I can,
Balancing Life with Football Season
00:11:00
Speaker
uh, I can send you some marijuana for sure. No, sure. Yeah. I feel like you do a good job of of having that balance, you know.
00:11:07
Speaker
yeah you know i don't know what it is i think i think the balance is what happens for me is mid-season i'm like ah like monday night it's not a game i really care about i'm not gonna watch it or like i don't know the first like four or five weeks i'll be like to my wife i'm like i'm sorry you gotta cancel that i'm not showing up and then After mid-season, I'm like, all right, yeah, yeah, we' we'll go to that or whatever. ah Become playoffs. it's It's back into, you know, if you make playoffs or in guillotine, shoot, if you just make it into pay dirt, it's like every week is like exhilarating again. Yeah. You just won't experience that this year. It's kind of sad. It is, man. We'll see. I got some other leagues, you know, maybe I'll make the playoffs, but I got to
00:11:56
Speaker
I got to make it a goal, like a mission for me next year to like rip play up. You know how they say, you got to set goals. I think one of my life goals next year is to like, you know, have a bounce back, you know, Sam Darnold style. You know, I need to, I need to bounce back here. I like it. Life was your favorite bounce back player. I need a Baker Mayfield story. A hundred percent. I needed to stiff arm the fuck out of, out of Bosa and just shit on him. Like he's a little boy next year.
00:12:26
Speaker
That's what I need. I love it, bro. If, uh, fantasy of ah as a life goal, I love that. That's great. I think, I think it is. It needs to be life goal for me. Um, yeah. Worksmen take over my life goals lately. I need to, I need to get back to good work-life balance. Yeah. More life, less work. Yeah. I mean, I like works fun. So it's like.
00:12:53
Speaker
It's kind of like, but you know, you know, what i aren't you in a, in a work fantasy league? Yeah, but I haven't opened that app since the draft. I mean, you know what? We should do an exercise. Let's guess what my team team is when lost in that league. Uh, I mean, I ah think your work people are kind of dumb, right?
00:13:13
Speaker
Yeah, but I haven't set my line up ever like ever Yeah, even through by weeks Yeah, like I'm not messing with you man. I think you're I think you're ah five and five Let's see I'm four and six holy Is that a money? No, that's a free lead. No, it's free. It's free. Yeah, I don't blame you. Yeah, I need to drop out of that league. So that's a good example. Those leagues I need to get myself removed from. Yeah, I might need to drop a dynasty league, you know, like, I don't know, man, um I need to dip out of a certain dynasty league I'm in. Holy. You should win. And then dip. I can't win in this league. Oh, that sucks.
00:14:02
Speaker
All right. Let's look at your players, big horse. Let's do a speed run. Uh, Mitch fucked us. Yeah. That was something I noticed that like, I think JJ didn't realize, you know, like he put all this, you know, I'm going to drink Mike's hearts until Spencer gets out. He manifested this, which, you know, I gotta respect. I'm big on manifestation. I think that's a big real thing.
00:14:30
Speaker
So shout out JJ for this loss, but you screwed yourself, bro. You just created a monopoly and it and its name is Mitch.
00:14:39
Speaker
Yeah. Mitch, I think laid down an absolute masterclass. He could have like guaranteed himself like the three or four best players by spending like, I think like 80 something and he didn't, he went like, he knew that people wouldn't spend more than half their, but their fab at this point. And he just fucking masterclassed it. Got Breece Hall, A.J. Brown, Pooka Nooka, Chase Brown, all for like less than $200. Yeah.
00:15:07
Speaker
Oh man, he still has the most money by far. Like and he's, he's still guaranteed to get, uh, the best player that he wants from the next, uh, elimination. Yeah. I think, uh, being able to get Breeze, AJ and Puka is a pretty big deal. Um, I mean, I think of the group, honestly, Breezell is like the worst. I didn't really think about how bad the jets were. I think.
00:15:35
Speaker
I am just, you know, I'm not looking at the data, you know, like I need to jet suck. Breeze isn't going to be that good. He's still breeze hall amazing, but jets just suck. They don't have a, whatever you just said, general in the field, but Mitch, Mitch's team's looking delicious. Delicious. Uh, notably Austin picks up Devontae Adams and tanked out for ah like 60 bucks.
00:16:03
Speaker
Honestly, maybe not the best pickups ah for guillotine. Yeah tank tells not a good pickup um Very disappointed in him only putting out 5.8 points against the Detroit Lions on nine targets um really needed him to find in zone or puka, but Just wasn't meant to be yeah D big gets ah Josh Allen for 22 bucks pretty nice good pickup Yeah, Josh Allen kind of trash dude. He's pretty good good. He's good. He's good. He's just, he's not scoring points.
00:16:40
Speaker
We got Chase with ah Brian Thomas and T.J. Hawkinson and and ah Dalton Schultz and Audric Estimé all for what's that less than twenty dollars twenty. Yeah. Nineteen bucks. That's pretty good. Chase is making moves. Yeah. I mean, you got it when you're down there. Those are the moves you got to make. Great pickup, I think. And then Garrett gets Patrick Mahone's for a dollar. Josh Baker Mayfield worst pickup.
00:17:11
Speaker
Yeah, I think that's just name value. Like I don't blame him, but, um, I think it's fine. That's not the worst pickup. You you can't really be mad at getting Patrick moans, but Holmes is not. I've been scoring fantasy points this year. Uh, I think he's going to turn it around though, pretty soon here. So I i actually do like the pickup. I don't know who Gary's quarterback was before moms, but you gotta be a little careful starting him. Yeah.
00:17:38
Speaker
Well, from these pickups, who do you think, uh, who do you think is getting out this week? Uh, I don't want to say Titan lover, man. It's been, it's been too good of a run. Um, his time is his, it's due soon, but I dunno, I honestly think you're going to be pretty soon. Um, you haven't got a player in a while. You're starting kind of some janky guys.
00:18:09
Speaker
for this late in the season compared to the other rosters, but I get, I get the play. Um, I'll say you man, just cause you know, why not? You know how it is. I always got to like to see you lose. You'd like to see me lose.
00:18:23
Speaker
Yeah. I'll say Joel, a double double back to back podcast. Yeah. No guests. No guests. It's just, it's just me and you, man. That's what we needed. All right. Who's winning it all? I'm going to have to go with Mitch. Oh yeah. I'll take the favorite here.
00:18:42
Speaker
Yeah. Uh, Mitch image is set up. Yeah. Looking really nice. Looking really nice. Yeah. I look at his roster and then I look at yours. Yeah. It's a difference. I don't, there's, there's no world in which mit Mitch doesn't podium. I think. Yeah. And that's just like eight injuries. Yeah. Just a whole field of Achilles tears. Yeah. But I think chase is also, you know, it's's it's you chase.
Fantasy League Predictions & Closing Thoughts
00:19:13
Speaker
Um, I think, I don't know. I think Austin, I don't think it seems that bad, but I think his time will be soon. Yeah. All right. Closing thoughts. Um,
00:19:31
Speaker
manifestation is real. So whoever you guys want to manifest it in the chat, it will happen. Um,
00:19:42
Speaker
I, I'm not very good at fantasy football. I need a coach. So if someone wants to step up and coach me up, um, I'm ready to be enrolled in fantasy football. IU.
00:19:59
Speaker
I think that's it. All right. Give us an emoji. Hmm.
00:20:09
Speaker
Um, everyone drop in like Eddie style, just like devious emojis you send when you're feeling a certain way. Love that. All right. That's the pod.