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- Jonathan: you Welcome to another meeting of the Fantasy Football War Council. I am your host, I am your host Jonathan, repeating the intro over again. Sorry about that. ⁓ And I'm alone today. ⁓ Everybody needs a good rest and relaxation now that the season is over. So we've kind of taken a little break. So apologize for that. On today's War Council, we'll be handing out the end of the year awards. ⁓ Again, sorry for the late. episode on this one. Talking some NFL news and then definitely affects your fantasy football teams. News of the combine that came out that was last week. We're actually going to wait on the combine news for the next episode. I want everybody to be part of that one. ⁓ We have a few guests that are coming on as well. So that one should be a really fun episode. So why don't we just jump into today's news? first bit, the fastest combine in combine history was with stellar performances in the tight end and linebacker positions were in particular, historical in three position groups, including one running back with a perfect 10 RAS score, the relative athletic score, not to mention a hundred and pound 180 pound wide receiver who put up 26 reps on the bench press which is one away from combine record for wide receivers and usually big boys put up numbers 20 to 40 so But the RAS is a relative ⁓ athletic score. It's a metric, zero to 10, used by NFL teams to evaluate draft prospects, ⁓ combined performance, speed, explosiveness, size, agility, so on and so forth, ⁓ against historical data. A high RAS score often indicates potential, but it does not solely predict ⁓ success. So it's a tool used. There was a trade between the Rams and the Chiefs. ⁓ Rams receive Trent McDuffie and the Chiefs receive a first round pick number 29 overall, a fifth and a sixth round pick and then a 20-27 third. So good for the Rams getting their picks. ⁓ good for them. The Rams trading their picks. What are they saying? The Rams never seem to want to use their first round draft pick in a draft. They like to trade it away every year. I swear. It's like they just don't know. They don't like them. Seahawks will not use the transition. They will not tag Kenneth Walker and they did let Kenneth Walker go. Kenneth Walker did go to I believe it was the Chiefs. I believe he would, he was picked up by the chiefs. to kill you computer. Yeah, I believe he was picked up by the Chiefs. Super cool for him. ⁓ They need, you know, something better than Kareem Hunt in their backfield. So I think that's huge for the Chiefs. ⁓ That's big pickup. Arizona has informed Kyler that he is done and he can have plenty of time to send it home and play Call of Duty. They did let him go. Curious to see where all these quarterbacks are going to go. ⁓ lots of moves. The Colts did apply the transition tag on Daniel Jones. They actually signed him today, the 11th to a two year worth 88, 80 million up to one, it was 88 million for the two year worth up to 100 million with incentives. So the further he plays on into the playoffs, the Super Bowl, how much he does yardage. They have some incentives for him to earn an extra 12 million or so. Let's see, the Da Bears. Man, this one hurts. Center, Drew Dalmer, set to retire after five seasons. That's a huge hit to their offensive line. They're gonna need a big boy to replace that. So now they will be targeting the center. either through free agency right now or the draft and there is a good free agent center out there it was the ⁓ the raven center i believe was a free agent he's a pretty good pickup in my opinion ⁓ let's see bears send dj more and a fifth round pick to buffalo bears or buffalo bills buffalo bears the buffalo bills for a second round pick and ⁓ jobe delinger ⁓ The bills will take on DJ Moore's entire contract. So that is a huge thing for them to do. The Jets tag, Breece Hall. Simple, that's easy. You can't let your stud running back go. Cowboys tag, George Pickens. That one actually deserves a little bit of a laugh. ⁓ And they signed Javonde Williams who continues to look better the further he gets. gets from injury. So he is looking pretty studly in that backfield. It's hard not to look studly behind that offensive line. I must admit. I think any any good running back could look good back there. Let's see. Not peak form, but still a bad good look. yep, yep, salary cap for 2026 was released in his 300 301.2 Right. Three hundred and one million. That's a yeah. That's that cap just keeps going up. It's like 10 million a year. Uh, Ooh, this one was rough for Brandon. I you teammate exposed Brandon. I you've gone social media. He's mad about BA's disgruntled posts directed toward the 49ers team. His teammates spoke out about, you not taking rehab seriously resulting in scarring and an instability in his knee? He allegedly consistently skipped on therapy resulting in any strength in the lateral mobility, essentially bringing being destroyed. So calling him out and saying he can't laterally move well because he's been skipping therapy days. Don't skip therapy, can tell you personally. Do not skip therapy. And finally, we have the Raiders are taking calls to trade out of the number one pick. Not positive that Fernando Mendoza fits what they are looking for in quarterback. Totally called this one. Now we would have had more news because the Raiders did trade away Max Grosby. to the Baltimore Ravens, but then Just a mere few hours later when we woke up this morning. They rescinded the trade They wanted their picks back and they were not going to take Max Crosby after he failed the physical. I mean Everybody knew that he tore his meniscus last at the end of last year. So he's gonna require surgery but failing that physical I guess They're worried about him not starting the season out and whatever else they be worried. So they pulled their concerns, but now it just makes the Ravens look really bad, I think. And then they instantly go out and picked up ⁓ Trey Henderson. And ⁓ to go out and pick him up immediately was kind of funny. Four year, $112 million contract right after they called off the Rex Crosby trade. So kind of crazy, kind of crazy. Okay, so let's jump into our awards real quick. It's gonna be a shorter episode, it's just me by myself, but I wanna go over all of our awards, how our managers finished this year and how everybody looked. They did pretty well. It's just gonna get a little repetitive as I go each manager down the row. We do have 14 of us and everybody did pretty good. There were a handful of standouts. Obviously our winner was Vince, so Vince gets a huge congratulations because Vince took the season. So congratulations to you Vince, you won the season. We all hate you and we're going to come at you next year. Beyond that, let's see. We'll start with Mario who had four Spartan shields. The Spartan shield is the closest loss of the week. and he had four of them and he did tie with the most. There was another manager, Richard, Uncle Richard got four as well. So those two managers tied with closest loss. So they were just on the cusp of winning each time. We have the Massacre of the Week award. We have our Conqueror of the Week award. So our Massacre of the Week award is our... ⁓ That's our highest score. No, it's our biggest blowout. Yeah, that's our biggest blowout and then our conqueror of the week award. would be the highest score. I might be mixing these up. I'm terrible at this. And then we have our banished one. Our banished one is the ⁓ manager MIA. It is our manager that had the lowest score of the week and just team kinda shit the bed. ⁓ going through this manager, have Mario had a one master of the week, one conquer of the week, one banished. And then when it comes to the Loki's Lucky Finds, we have the offensive player and the defensive player of the week, because those are our treasure hunters, our ⁓ waiver wire picks ups. He had one Loki's Lucky Find, which was an offensive player of the week. After him was Jess. Jessica had one Spartan Shield, three massacres of the week, four, four conquerors of the week. This girl's killed it and she was banished once to be three massacres and four conquers. And if I am correct, each of those massacre of the weeks was paired with a conqueror of the week. So she got both awards each of those three weeks. Absolutely crazy. So she was the leader with four conquers of the week. Robbie was next up. Robbie had one Spartan Shield, two Massacres, one Conqueror, and two Banished. We had five managers tied at two for the Banished of the week. We never had a leader this year. That was how well-rounded and ⁓ buffeted our teams all were. Everybody was so close to each other. Wins and losses, rankings, that I think just like honestly any of these managers has a chance to take it. and this proves it just no big outlier bottom of the team. So we have, He had two Lucky's Lucky's finds and they were both one and one. So he had a offensive player and a defensive player. Next up is myself. I had two Spartan Shields, two Banished. I was one of the five. I had five Lucky's Lucky finds, four DPs. I got four defensive players and one offensive player. I was the leader with five. Loki's Lucky Finds. next closest was four, which goes to was Rob and Daniel both had four as well. So Richard next up had four Spartan Shields, one Massacre of the Week, two Banished and two Loki's Lucky Finds, a one in one split. Jose, one Spartan Shield, one Conqueror of the Week, one Banished and two Loki's Lucky Finds, both being DPs. He got the defensive players. So it's funny if you look down the list, you can see who did really well with their defensive players and not so much with their offensive players. ⁓ But it's just kind of funny. ⁓ Next up, Alan, one Spartan shield, two massacres, two banish, one of the five. And one Loki's Lucky Find, an offensive player. Rob was next up. had one Spartan shield, four massacres of the week. And he takes that award because he had the most massacres of the week. He had three conquerors of the week, right? One right behind Jess. Crazy. He was the manager with four low keys, lucky finds. He had three defensive players and one offensive player. Daniel's following him with one Spartan shield, one massacre. one banishment and four Loki's like he finds all OPs all four of them offensive players there's our guy that does the OPs Chass my wife right behind them two Spartan shields one conqueror of the week one banishment and one Loki's like he find a defensive player all Lee grumble grumble grumble grumble I lost my last game of the season to him One Massacre, one Conqueror, and three Loki's Lucky Finds. He has two offensive players and one defensive. Raymond, one Massacre, one Banishment, and two Loki's Lucky Finds. Both offensive players. And let's see, our last two managers, Martin, had one Massacre and two Banishments. One of the five, the last of the five. And our champion, who only had one conqueror of the week and one banishment. Two Loki's Lucky finds split evenly with a one and one offensive and defensive. So our champion was incredibly quiet this year. See, and like I said, anybody could have taken this league with how everybody played. It was that close everyone. So. Mario and Richard tie with the most Spartan shields at four. Rob had the most massacres with four. Jess had the most mass conquer with four. Five managers tied with two banishments. Aldi and Rob are the only managers with no banishment. I will point out our winners right there. Aldi and Rob, cause no banishment. That's pretty good. ⁓ I had the most lookies like he finds with five and Vince the big award, our medal of honor recipient. He receives ⁓ the win. beat us all. So again, we H-U-Vince. Congratulations. So there is our awards ⁓ Thanks for tuning in tune in later this week. We will have Both are we will have a host back. I won't be the only one here alone and then we're gonna have two guests on the show and I believe it should be Martin and Ali and we're gonna talk combine and All the free agency buzz that has happened because we have a lot of moves that have happened in the first day of free agency So thank you for marching with us and as always keep conquering. ⁓ In a realm of legend's lies and dreams collide A council gathers with powers their guide Triumphs and lesser adages with Wisto's might Mario and Daniel or is ready to ignite Wisto's might Mario and Daniel or is ready to ignite Thunder roars like it cracks the sky Electric strings sing a battle cry In this arena fantasy and lore. The gods of war leave the charge once more.