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Fantasy Football 2025: The Season That Was · Hustle Sports Fantasy Podcast

• 0:32
  Speaker 1: Well, what's going on?
• 0:33
  Speaker 2: Welcome back to another episode of the Hustle Sports Fantasy Podcast.
• 0:37
  Speaker 2: Did y'all know the fantasy season of RAP it's over with,
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  Speaker 2: But this episode I'm excited about. I got my brother
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  Speaker 2: and he came in town, came jumped on the pile
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  Speaker 2: with me.
• 0:47
  Speaker 1: What's going on? Just how you doing?
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  Speaker 3: Oh man, I'm feeling good. I'm feeling good. You will
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  Speaker 3: appreciate you for having me on. Appreciate you for having
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  Speaker 3: me over.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 3: It's always good coming to the time with family for sure.
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  Speaker 3: So definitely loving and to do a little bit of
• 1:00
  Speaker 3: both talk sports. Yeah, just way to cap.
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  Speaker 4: Wait to start off the new year.
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  Speaker 2: Right, absolutely, absolutely, Yeah, I ain't gonna lie. Yeah, Like
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  Speaker 2: I say, I'm excited about this one. We're gonna get
• 1:10
  Speaker 2: into the fantasy recap, you know, talk about what we
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  Speaker 2: did in our leagues and what we excited about twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty six. So first up, you know what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 2: what how would you wrap up the twenty twenty five season?
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  Speaker 2: And one word, if ye too.
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  Speaker 3: It was I would say twenty twenty.
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  Speaker 4: Five one word, I go with chaos.
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  Speaker 1: It was a little chaotic this year, all right? Why
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  Speaker 1: you said that obviously.
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  Speaker 3: For you know, one of the people that were want
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  Speaker 3: to talk about a little later on, like like a
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  Speaker 3: Justin Jefferson, people that you think that are for the
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  Speaker 3: was the consistent ones. It was a little shaky because
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  Speaker 3: just because a lot of the teams were different this
• 1:51
  Speaker 3: year when it came to wins and losses and production
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  Speaker 3: and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 4: So it definitely s took a lot of people's leagues
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  Speaker 4: up this year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no drafted jeff Justin Jefferson. You know you're
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  Speaker 2: probably mad about that one. We know it ain't it
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  Speaker 2: ain't his fault, but you know that that situation when crazy.
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  Speaker 2: I know, Jamar Chase had some up and down games,
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  Speaker 2: so yeah, you know you probably frustrated if you grab
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  Speaker 2: one of them. I did see a link today actually
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  Speaker 2: that Pooka got the most Fantasy Championships for people.
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  Speaker 3: I could see that Pooka definitely was killing it out there.
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  Speaker 3: I played against him so and I had him in
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  Speaker 3: one of my other leagues, So it was it was
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  Speaker 3: a good, bad and ugly with that. But you know,
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  Speaker 3: been on what side you on with that Pooka pick
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  Speaker 3: if you had him.
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  Speaker 2: I had him in one league, man, I got to
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  Speaker 2: the championship. I lost, though, I got murdered, but I
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  Speaker 2: made it, you know what I'm saying. At least you
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  Speaker 2: gotta be there, you know, in order to have a chance,
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  Speaker 2: you got to beat it.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yes, yeah, I got there in two of my leagues.
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  Speaker 3: I got taking place in both of those, and my
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  Speaker 3: big money league didn't get that one.
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  Speaker 4: It was tenth place. Because just word for device for
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  Speaker 4: you guys.
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  Speaker 3: If y'all let big money leagues and y'all got a draft,
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  Speaker 3: make sure you're up for that because I auto drafted
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  Speaker 3: because I was sleep and couldn't participate and I still
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  Speaker 3: had a poop team.
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  Speaker 1: So who is your top dog on that team?
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  Speaker 3: My top dog on that team and ended up drafting
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  Speaker 3: me justin Jefferson, but I ended up trading him for
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  Speaker 3: Cuba Hubbard, and Tuba Hubard did me, really did really.
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  Speaker 4: Well for me.
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  Speaker 1: So okay, all right, Yeahuba.
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  Speaker 4: Tuba did really good for me for that team.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I like Tuba.
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  Speaker 2: Man uh Rico came in thoughing kind of market this situation,
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  Speaker 2: but yeah, Tuba, I thought it was a great peat.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah nah, definitely.
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  Speaker 2: So so you say you came in second in two
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  Speaker 2: of your leagues, who won the two and them two leagues.
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  Speaker 4: So in the league that we're in, I think it
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  Speaker 4: was what's her name.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, the manager, yeah Sports.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Now my other league is so that's my work league,
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  Speaker 3: my co worker. He's actually the new guy. He's the
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  Speaker 3: new person in our and I worked, I mean our
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  Speaker 3: in our group. But he's played Fantasy before obviously, so he.
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  Speaker 2: Was really good his first year in the league, his
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  Speaker 2: first year in our league with our work league.
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  Speaker 4: My big money league. That's the league we've been I've
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  Speaker 4: been in that one for about seven years.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, he won that one before.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I've gotten actually no, I got in second last year,
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  Speaker 3: and that was the first time I did the second.
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  Speaker 4: I've never gotten last place.
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  Speaker 3: And that was always been my thing because a lot
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  Speaker 3: of people have to tank once they realized they're not
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  Speaker 3: doing good.
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  Speaker 4: I don't.
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  Speaker 1: I don't do that. It is it a dynasty.
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  Speaker 4: We did, darn it, we stopped.
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  Speaker 3: I actually voted against the dynasty last year because Travis
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  Speaker 3: Kelsey was Dynasty.
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  Speaker 4: So I had to get up out of that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you gotta get all down with Travis Kelsey. Hell
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  Speaker 2: of her career. But yeah, dog got that day all
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  Speaker 2: the time exactly yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Uh so I mentioned earlier, I came in second place
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  Speaker 2: in my money league. Uh that one was crazy because
• 5:00
  Speaker 2: I had a lot of injuries in that league. So
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  Speaker 2: I ain't even lie. I'm thankful to even make it
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  Speaker 2: to the championship game. I had Bucky Irving and Mario
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  Speaker 2: Hampton in that league. Both of them went down like
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  Speaker 2: seven eight weeks.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, and that's yeah exactly, And that was I
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  Speaker 3: was about to ask you, So, what's your strategy whenever
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  Speaker 3: someone goes down?
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  Speaker 4: Do you just get rid of them? Do you are
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  Speaker 4: how did you handle that?
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  Speaker 1: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: I them because they it was they were coming back.
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  Speaker 1: I ain't gonna lie.
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  Speaker 2: It would have been easy if they would have just
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  Speaker 2: been like they done for the year, if you could
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  Speaker 2: drop them and move on and go make it pivot.
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  Speaker 2: I was able to get Rashad White with his budgets
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  Speaker 2: back up. You know, he helped me down for a
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  Speaker 2: few weeks. Then I grabbed Sean Tucker one week. You know,
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  Speaker 2: he took the White touches. They helped me get a
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  Speaker 2: dub uh Mario Hampton window I wasn't able to get
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  Speaker 2: for doll oh yeah, so yeah, I didn't give a doll.
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  Speaker 2: So the Chargers situation didn't really help me. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: I ain't a live stream running back five weeks oh yeah,
• 6:01
  Speaker 2: no yah, tight end, I hang a lot. I streamed
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  Speaker 2: tight end and running backs all the way to the chip.
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  Speaker 2: Had to start Tyson Hill for the chip. We I
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  Speaker 2: don't know that that went against me terrible.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's a Swiss army knife, but you know, and
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  Speaker 3: what's frustrating about that, though, is he went crazy the
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  Speaker 3: week before our championship and then I grab him for
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  Speaker 3: the championship.
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  Speaker 1: Got a goose. How it goes, how I go, That's
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  Speaker 1: how I go.
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  Speaker 2: So, yeah, I ain't gonna lie I win against me,
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  Speaker 2: but I am thankful I was able.
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  Speaker 4: To Yeah, let's go, hey, get that money.
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  Speaker 2: And it's funny. One league I mean I was in.
• 6:35
  Speaker 2: It was a free Rando league. They did two weeks
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  Speaker 2: per matchup, so the playoffs actually started after week thirteen.
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  Speaker 2: In week fourteen and fifteen was the first round, and
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  Speaker 2: in week sixteen and seventeen was the championship round.
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  Speaker 4: That's how I did in my work league. That's what
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  Speaker 4: we didn't work.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: So I had a lead into my championship game.
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  Speaker 3: First week, I was up by like fifteen, but that
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  Speaker 3: second week I got killed.
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  Speaker 1: Do you like that format?
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  Speaker 4: It's not bad. Uh.
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  Speaker 3: I kind of liked the week the week because the
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  Speaker 3: person I would have faced if I would have won
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  Speaker 3: that week, because I killed it the first like all
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  Speaker 3: three the first three weeks, even though it was working
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  Speaker 3: up in the two week colomerants. I outperformed everyone else
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  Speaker 3: in the playoffs the first three weeks, and then I
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  Speaker 3: lost it. The I lost the person that I was
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  Speaker 3: playing that that fourth week of the championship game. Second
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  Speaker 3: week of the championship, Uh, out he outperformed me, But
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  Speaker 3: I outperformed the person I would have played if he
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  Speaker 3: would have lost that first week. So it's one of
• 7:45
  Speaker 3: those things just because of how you look at the
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  Speaker 3: bad this this good, this good and bad to both.
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  Speaker 3: That one was our free league. That's our work free league.
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  Speaker 3: We were supposed to put money in, but never nobody
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  Speaker 3: ever want.
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  Speaker 1: To collect money after Yeah, nah, I ain't a lot
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  Speaker 1: of that two weeks per matchup. Yeah, I could see.
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  Speaker 1: I could see both because I ain't a lie. You know.
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  Speaker 2: My first week I went crazy and in the second
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  Speaker 2: week I was good enough.
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  Speaker 1: I think I won that one about like three. I
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  Speaker 1: might have been up about like forty for sure. For sure.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, that's what was interesting about it.
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  Speaker 2: I think I think me personally like I'd rather do
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  Speaker 2: the week the week, Yes, if I lose.
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  Speaker 1: It's all.
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  Speaker 2: But if I beat you, I want to move on,
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  Speaker 2: like I feel like I earned that right. But I
• 8:35
  Speaker 2: do get both sides of people who play both. So
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  Speaker 2: that was interesting because that was my first time doing that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that was my first time too. I don't know
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  Speaker 3: exactly how that how it ended up like that. I
• 8:46
  Speaker 3: don't know if it's a new thing that came out.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not entirely sure. I mean, my commissioner, she she's
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if she was just playing with things
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  Speaker 3: and accidentally pressed that all.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but I mean it was cool.
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  Speaker 4: It was that way in that one and then the
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  Speaker 4: other leagues was all one week's Okay.
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  Speaker 1: What was one of the boldest calls you made over
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  Speaker 1: the course of the season.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, the boldest call is gonna go back to that
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  Speaker 3: one that we talked about, and I actually got flack
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  Speaker 3: for it.
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  Speaker 4: In my big money league that I was that I
• 9:12
  Speaker 4: couldn't compete in.
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  Speaker 3: It was the big trade for it was big when
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  Speaker 3: I traded away Justin Jefferson and I traded away Justin
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  Speaker 3: Jefferson in one of my other leagues that and people
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  Speaker 3: didn't really care because you know, it was what it was.
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  Speaker 3: But I guess the big league that I was in,
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  Speaker 3: they thought I was tanking when I traded Justin Jefferson
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  Speaker 3: away for ric o'dado and for Alvin Kamara. So I
• 9:35
  Speaker 3: got Alvin Kamara and Ricodado out of that. For Justin Jefferson,
• 9:39
  Speaker 3: I gave up Justin Jefferson because I kind of saw
• 9:41
  Speaker 3: that once it was a quarterback.
• 9:44
  Speaker 4: Shuck shuck, not shuck for Minnesota.
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  Speaker 3: J mccar McCarthy was because McCarthy came back around that time,
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  Speaker 3: and I kind of knew he didn't have a good rapport.
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  Speaker 3: Him and Justin Jefferson weren't really connected. He loved the
• 9:57
  Speaker 3: tight ends and he loved U the other wide receivers.
• 10:01
  Speaker 5: Solor and so I kind of saw that, and I
• 10:06
  Speaker 5: saw that Justin Jefferson's production was going down here because
• 10:08
  Speaker 5: he was doing decent at the beginning of the season
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  Speaker 5: when JJ McCarthy was hurt so and then when it
• 10:15
  Speaker 5: came back, so that made me I traded that and
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  Speaker 5: I got a lot of flak for and they were
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  Speaker 5: saying something.
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  Speaker 3: But then the guy that I traded just I traded
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  Speaker 3: with for Justin Jeffer. I gave what Justin Jefferson too.
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  Speaker 3: He ended up losing in the playoffs because of Justin Jefferson.
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  Speaker 3: And I was trying to tell them and they thought
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  Speaker 3: I was taking I'm like, I didn't see the production
• 10:33
  Speaker 3: so and that was just me, you know, trying to
• 10:37
  Speaker 3: like look at watching ESPN, looking at the way things work,
• 10:39
  Speaker 3: listening to people's analysis on that.
• 10:41
  Speaker 1: So hey, leave me to another question.
• 10:43
  Speaker 2: Actually, do you feel commissioners try to control too much
• 10:48
  Speaker 2: when he come to trades and stuff like that.
• 10:51
  Speaker 3: I could understand why they thought that just looking at
• 10:54
  Speaker 3: the names with my specific situation, especially with my record.
• 10:58
  Speaker 3: My record was horrible in that league, and that was
• 11:00
  Speaker 3: with auto drafted team, So.
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  Speaker 4: I can understand why they would have thought that.
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  Speaker 3: I just wish that they would have talked to me
• 11:09
  Speaker 3: before they tried to intervene. And he tried, because he
• 11:11
  Speaker 3: did try to intervene, But when I told him, I
• 11:13
  Speaker 3: was like, I did this in other leagues and I'm
• 11:15
  Speaker 3: seeing this.
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  Speaker 4: I need you to believe me on the trends. Don't
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  Speaker 4: under like don't don't try to.
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  Speaker 3: So I do give him the credit for at least
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  Speaker 3: talking to me, even though it was after the fact
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  Speaker 3: and I had to kind of go back at him
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  Speaker 3: publicly when he tried to say stuff or tried to.
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  Speaker 4: Accuse me of tanking or any of that stuff. So
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  Speaker 4: I was like, yeah, no, but.
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  Speaker 3: I just think I mean, honestly, if I got, if
• 11:35
  Speaker 3: you got a good report with your people, I know
• 11:37
  Speaker 3: in our league. You know, you were our commission in
• 11:39
  Speaker 3: the league that we played in, So honestly, I would
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  Speaker 3: say that don't be afraid to challenge them, especially if
• 11:45
  Speaker 3: you're playing for money.
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  Speaker 4: Don't be afraid to speak up for yourself fantasy wise,
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  Speaker 4: because the commissioner could try to pull some stuff.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like trained for Like justin Jefferson, Rico and
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  Speaker 2: Kamara you got, yeah, I ain't.
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  Speaker 1: If anything, you probably beat on it.
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  Speaker 3: I really did, exactly yeah, and it just it didn't
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  Speaker 3: look that good because that person needed he had good
• 12:07
  Speaker 3: running backs. So Rico and kamaraw were kind of trending
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  Speaker 3: downward at the time.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't have any running backs, so they mind.
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  Speaker 3: The way that my draft was that they gave me
• 12:20
  Speaker 3: a lot of wide receiver wide receiver heavy.
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  Speaker 4: So I had like five or six.
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  Speaker 3: Good great wide receivers, so I was okay with giving
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  Speaker 3: up Justin Jefferson for some good running backs.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So, and the commissioner saw that the person I was
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  Speaker 3: giving the Justin Jefferson too needed a good wide receiver.
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  Speaker 1: So he was more.
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  Speaker 2: He wasn't even really worried about you. He was about
• 12:41
  Speaker 2: the guy you traded with exactly.
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  Speaker 3: But I was trying to tell him, I'm like, I
• 12:45
  Speaker 3: don't think it's going to come to fruition like he
• 12:47
  Speaker 3: thinks it will Justin Jefferson and not because of Justin Jefferson,
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  Speaker 3: like we talk about, because of the way that team
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  Speaker 3: was playing.
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  Speaker 1: They yeah, they didn't. Yeah, McCarthy, it was crazy. Is
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  Speaker 1: I think he a winner game? Yeah? I think here
• 13:02
  Speaker 1: a game. I think he's a person you want on
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  Speaker 1: your squad. But yeah, it ain't. It ain't clicking just yet.
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  Speaker 1: But he only with like he like ten games in.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, it does remind me of you know, Baker Mayfield
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  Speaker 3: and Cleveland with Odell Beckham and Jarvis Landry kind of that.
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  Speaker 3: Early on, it was really hard for Otell Beckham to
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  Speaker 3: vibe with the way that Baker was doing but look
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  Speaker 3: at Baker now.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, obviously we're talking about.
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  Speaker 1: That Tampa on the wrong end. They go in the
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  Speaker 1: wrong direction.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, but I mean give it time.
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  Speaker 3: But in the meantime, we as fantasy players and owners,
• 13:34
  Speaker 3: we're not we're not thinking about what the future holds.
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  Speaker 4: We gotta look at now. We're trying to win for
• 13:39
  Speaker 4: this year. You know. It's like with the Travis Kelsey.
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  Speaker 1: Right, yeah, because and it's funny.
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  Speaker 2: I heard somebody talking about that they should have dropped
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  Speaker 2: or not dropped them, but they should have got off
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  Speaker 2: Kelsey and Dynasty ye like two years ago. And that's
• 13:53
  Speaker 2: that's where I made the mistake. All you held on
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  Speaker 2: to him too yeah, too long. I ain't a lie sucking.
• 13:58
  Speaker 2: I'm terrible in Dynasty. I'm in one Dynasty league. I
• 14:02
  Speaker 2: don't even think I got a playoff Apeans. I think
• 14:04
  Speaker 2: I've been in there, like, I don't think I got
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  Speaker 2: a playoff.
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  Speaker 1: Man. No, it's tough, tough, it is it is. You know.
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  Speaker 2: I was able to get camp Ward and the rookie draft.
• 14:14
  Speaker 2: I got Scataboo scatterboot. Okay, I like Scataboo ward Ward.
• 14:20
  Speaker 2: It's Tennessee. Though, I feel like everybody recently has looked
• 14:24
  Speaker 2: bad with Tennessee. Yes, yes, you know they need more talent.
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  Speaker 2: But Scataboo, you know he popped.
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  Speaker 3: I think, yeah, I think it's gonna be good. I
• 14:31
  Speaker 3: do think they're gonna get rid of that coach, but
• 14:33
  Speaker 3: I do think he's gonna be good.
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: I'm excited about the Giants next season. I ain't gonna lie.
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: I think they're gonna be lit.
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  Speaker 2: Talking about a healthy neighbors, a full year of Jackson,
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  Speaker 2: Darky Scataboo coming back healthy, and a new.
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  Speaker 3: Scheme, hopefully a good head coach that's gonna actually take
• 14:48
  Speaker 3: care of them and not throw him out throw them
• 14:49
  Speaker 3: out there just to keep his offenses going the way
• 14:53
  Speaker 3: he wants it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, because they were still running dark like design runs
• 14:57
  Speaker 2: in like week fourteen. It's like y'all really out of
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: It's really just reps for the game. And THEO Johnson.
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: I ain't gonnae.
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: I streamed him a few weeks. He helped me get
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: some dub. I like him. He looked, he looks solid,
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: like big play. He big play.
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: So now you was crazy though, Uh, I asked you
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: who was your best Your best move was the trade?
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: What was your worst move.
• 15:20
  Speaker 4: Worst move.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, it was actually that same draft. I traded for
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: a running back earlier, a couple of weeks before that.
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: I wouldn't say it's well, yeah, I would.
• 15:29
  Speaker 4: Say it's my worst.
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: I traded for Sharping, not Sharping. I traded for what's
• 15:35
  Speaker 3: his name, not the other running back, Kenneth Walker. I
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: traded for Kenneth Walker. I think I gave up a
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: little too much for him.
• 15:42
  Speaker 4: I gave up.
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: One of my I think it's the second round for
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: my next draft twenty six, which I think is gonna
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: bite me a little bit. I gave him a second round,
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: and then I I gave up one of my wide receivers.
• 15:54
  Speaker 4: I gave up Rashid Rice. Who was who was who
• 15:58
  Speaker 4: was on I r at the time? Who was on?
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: He was suspended suspend it. So I ain't gonna lie.
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: I'm not in love with Kansas City wide receivers. No.
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: And that's why I kind of game because I got
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: that was that draft They Alto drafted him for me. Okay,
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: so I had him, but I couldn't. I couldn't with
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: him anyway for the first couple of weeks.
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and I was getting I was getting dog walked.
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: I mean, speaking of Rice, it was a breakdown because
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: when he was suspended the first six games, it was
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: like people who drafted Rashi Rice was either oh and
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: six or like one in five.
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: They were they were pretty much done.
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: And the guy in my league who stashed Rashi Rice,
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: I ain't gonna lie, like we lucky he didn't make
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: the playoffs. He was loaded, and uh he was like,
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: oh he started off oh and nine. Oh wow, yeah,
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: but I ain't gonna lie. He went on crazy, We're
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: really lucky. He didn't make the playoffs. His squad topped
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: the bottom. He was loaded.
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: Six men playoffs for four man.
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: For them, it was six mant top two got to buy.
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: Oh okay, that's good.
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: That's good.
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: That's all something that matters.
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: When I will tell you guys, that's nothing that matters
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: is actually the playoff four man like we were just
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: talking about with.
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: The two weeks. Yeah, you know, also if it's four
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: teams or for six teams, they get in.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I like the sixteen four man.
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: I feel like, you know, if you finished first and second,
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: I feel like you earned the right to move to
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: that second, like just like real playoffs, you know, I
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: know they went to seventeams recently, but before that, you
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: know it was sixteen, the top two not to buy. Yeah,
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: you earned that right, I think.
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: Especially for your money leagues.
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: I would say for the money leagues, if I'm putting
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: money into it, I would want at least if it's
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: twelve man, for a twelve man team, I want at
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: least six. I want half the league.
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: And yeah, yeah, yeah, so we can.
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: You know, I earned the right to chill the first
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: back if I lose the second week. It is what
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: it is. I mean, I did my thing during the
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: regular season. And what's crazy about my buying that league?
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: I was eight and six, so it wasn't like I
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: was crazy. It's just, you know, I jumped out. I
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: think I started off for when went on the band
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: Loser Street, But everybody else who was under me, they
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: was they was you know, up and down.
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: So it wasn't my favorite, that's for sure.
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: So so looking ahead the next season twenty twenty six,
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: what's what's who are some players you excited about? What's
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: some lessons that you learned from or you know what.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: Let's let's break it down. Let's do first, who are
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: some players you excited about for twenty twenty six.
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: You see you see the gear. You see the gear.
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: But I'm gonna have to go against it. And obviously
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: it's gonna be his, It's gonna be his team. So
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: my mother in law was called me this morning and
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: was getting on talking to me about it too.
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: So I'm gonna have to go with the New Orleans.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: Say.
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: It's that quarterback that got out there, you know, Tyler Shaw.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: I've heard.
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: I heard a few things Tyler shuck Man, Yeah, twenty five.
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: But he's ready. Also, I love that offensive scheme that
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: and more that Kellen Moore has down there.
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: He's I feel like everywhere he's been he's made he's
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: made his quarterbacks look really really good.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: So he has DAK.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: I know he didn't win, but he was an m
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: v P finalist that year with Kellen Moore Philly one
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: with Kellen Moore on the staff and Jalen Hurts did
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: look like a better thrower.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: Yes, he did win. Kellen Moore was there, you know.
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: Sake Tyler shuck two years with two years with Kellen Moore.
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: Running the playing to call the players out there.
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: I think he's going to be something dangerous obviously, and honestly,
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: as a Panther fan, hopefully we make the playoffs. But
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: I can't deny that the hottest team in the in
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: the NFC South is in New Orleans States because of Shu.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think, yeah, we look we just look different.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: We look like we look more paused, like just like comfortable.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: I saw a video with Cam Jordan and Chase Chase
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: Young re you know, Cam Jordan got a podcast and
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: Chase Young was on there and they were like, man.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: Our locker room is not the problem.
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: Like they're like, oh yeah, we're close, Like our locker
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: room is good.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: So I hope Cam come back one more year.
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: Think he will. I think he will, especially seeing with
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: how how y'all ended this year. Yeah, I know, I don't.
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: I don't see y'all losing. I don't see y'all losing
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: to this.
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: Don't y'all losing to the Falcons tomorrow, because as much
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: as I would, you know, wouldn't be mad if they did,
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: because that means the Panthers, automatically and regardless. But I
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: don't see that happening with Huck playing the way he's
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: been playing.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: I hope not.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: We lost to Atlanta earlier and uh you know as
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: a Saints fan. Yeah, before it was Rally and I
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: thought Rally was decent.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: He's not bad.
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: He's not bad, but I don't think he's ready.
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: I don't think he understand or grasp the plays like
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: Shuck did.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: The one thing I noticed about shut though, is he's
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: good at making something out of there.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: He'll take off running in a heartbeat from.
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: Fantasy Year that.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he more dual threat than you realize. And he
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: pretty accurate on the deep ball. He looked like he tough.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: He looked like your gamer. He had a great game
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: against uh Tampa Bay a few weeks ago.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: I started Devin Neil that game and he had a
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: great game that day.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: I think he the first Saints Rocky for like back
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: to back through hundred yard games. I think since since
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: the Daddy Man since Yeah, so Shuck, Yeah, I think
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: we got one with him. I'm excited about that.
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: Who's yours player?
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: I'm excited about for next season?
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: Uh, I ain't gonna lie. I'm gonna go back to
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: the where uh Amrio and Hampton Hampton. I think I
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: think when he you know, when Nase was there, you know,
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: they was bringing Hampton along slow, which makes sense. Nase
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: Vet and when Nasei went down, Hampton started going crazy
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: and then he got hurt. Yeah, so I'm I'm excited
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: to see what he had looked like with a full year,
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: especially to be healthy the whole year.
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: I think what's also gonna happen too is they've had
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: a rough shot offense. They had to make shift offensive
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: line this year. And imagine if I'm having some good
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: broad I trust, I trust hardball down there.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: Oh for sure, I could see it.
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: Hampton's Hampton's run game, yeah him.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: Oh that's one. Another one is r J Harvey.
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: R J Harvey definitely, definitely.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: I think he's another person that beat up on me
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: that that cost me one of my championships.
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: Is well.
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: R J.
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: Harvey was definitely one of those workhorses.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeahbou cost me. Mind.
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: Honestly, I had him in my money lead and I
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: told you, Bucket and a Mario got hurt and I
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: dropped him because I had to make room yep, because
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: we had six bench spots with an hour spot, so
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: we didn't have the seven spots, so I really didn't
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: have room to keep Harvey. I dropped him dude scooed
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: them and he started going crazy. Oh yeah, and I
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: should have known better, because they can't get hurt every year,
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: you know what I mean.
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's true.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: We had a good year with the charges, but he
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: normally get hurt.
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: That's true. That's very true.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so them too. I'm excited about them too.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: I had so he argie Harvey actually going to my
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: worst move too, because I dropped.
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, that'd be the worst way to be.
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: The people that you dropped to go get Oh.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: Man, somebody go scooping and so so we recovered the player.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: What's the lesson you learned in twenty five that you're
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: taking with you to twenty six.
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: Honestly, I would go it's not so much about the players.
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: I would just talk more over arching fantasy. I know
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: a lot of my my commission like my commissioners, they
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: always at the beginning, before the season starts, Hey what
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: marules do y'all want?
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: And everybody's always like, oh, I don't care, I don't care,
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: I don't care. Pay attention.
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: You actually go back and look at some of those
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: I would go back and actually look not so much
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: at the Like I said, not too much for the players,
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: But look the rules of your leagues, especially if you're
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: doing a big money league, you know, like I said,
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: if you're auto draft, and that's you know.
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: I know for our league, that took that took me out.
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: That's why I couldn't even compete for a championship or
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: for any of the money. But for you guys, just
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: look at all your rules and don't be afraid to
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: speak up because you know, a lot of times, if
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: you say I want to do this, I want to
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: do that, I'm pretty sure most people other people will
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: probably go along with you, especially if you think that
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: will benefit you and winning your league. You always got
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: to try to find that ad. You always got to
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: be that Bill Belichick, Tom Brady, always got to find
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: that way to get that little bit of edge to
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: push yourself into a playoff spot.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: You know. That's a good point. That's a great point.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: Actually, Yeah, because I put up the vote for the
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: hour spot in my money league, but I didn't think
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: it was going to mean take the bitch spot away. Now,
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: as the course of the season went on, I think
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: it I ended up appreciating it, yep, more than I realized,
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: because yeah, I didn't have seven, but nobody else did either,
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: so they might have held on to somebody too or
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: dropped somebody too early trying to make room, or you know,
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: depending on the injury situation, you know what I mean.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: Sometimes things do happen like that.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: So yeah, that's a good point of speaking up, being transparent,
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: being honest about what you're looking for in your leads,
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: you know, so it can help you.
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: Compete exactly exactly. Yeah. Also I would also just one
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: little more typic if you don't mind, just don't get
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: too caught up on your draft raids.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: Either.
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: Don't get too caught up on your draft raise. I
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: know people, Oh man, I got a That means I'm
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: gonna do no because injuries and you don't account for
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: all that stuff. And it's going based off of how
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: they performed last year. Yeah, and some simulated projections for
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: that year.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: So and where you took you know what I mean,
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: where you took them exactly. Yeah.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: So you know that's a good point because them draft
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: grades can be misleadd on the scene, dudes, best best
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: draft grade. And matter of fact, I think it happened
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: in I League this year somebody had a missed the playoffs.
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: They were six and eight, so it was right there,
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: but they still you know, they didn't make it. So yeah,
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: that's a good point. Oh yeah, Like it's a good measurement.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: But you can't hang your hat.
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: On you don't you're not getting no winning.
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: You know, you're not the champion crowning the champion from drafting.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I've had seasons where I had the number three
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: grade and missed the playoffs entirely, you know, So that's
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: a good point of not you know, not paying that much,
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: putting too much stock in your draft grades.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah, what about you? What would you what would you say?
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: Is there some lessons there are some you know, things
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: to help out people for next year twenty six.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: Don't be scared to stream. Don't be scared to stream.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: I ain't gonna lie. Before this season, I was one
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: of the ones who's kind of like stayed away from streaming.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: If I didn't you know, you know, depending on how
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: dire my situation was, I stayed away from I always
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: wanted to look for the guaranteed guy who can stay
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: on my roster the rest of the season, and I
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: just think everybody that's on your wave a while, that's
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: not realistic. Some guys just in there for three four
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: weeks and they have a good run. Kareem Hunt, you know,
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, he played the whole season, but he
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: really only had like a five six week stretch where
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: you're like, oh, this guy, I mean, we know Kareem
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: Hunt at ball, but you know he'd have been cut
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: by the Chiefs and the Browns multiple times, brought in
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: multiple times, so he have stretches.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: Well, it just don't like, don't work out for you.
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: Gonna go after that name.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: The name get you, yeah, get you.
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: So yeah, I would have stayed away from a Shad
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: White in the past, but I didn't this year, and
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: they helped me get some wins. They helped me, you know,
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: stay afloat, stay in the competitive range. So yeah, my
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: let this year going in the next year, don't be
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: scared of the stream. Yeah you're injured, like obviously, if
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: you're healthy, you know you're good. If you got some
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: situations where your situations changed, somebody playing time don't look
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: as good as you thought it was, or injury happened,
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: yeared stream.
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah I can definitely agree with that.
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: That definitely that makes a lot of sense, you know,
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: that's that's definitely what carried me especially, you know, that's
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: what helped me not get last place, having that that
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: that ugly auto draft that I had, so that helped
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: me keep me out of the last place by doing
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: my stream, by actually going into that wave wire in
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: that way to get better players.
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: It be some gyms out there be some gym trucks
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: set on our waver the whole year, even like I
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: think he might have sat on there four weeks after
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: he started.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: Man, you know.
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: So yeah, you know, people like that, they be available.
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: Sometimes you gotta be a little early on the streams too.
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: Might have to get him a week early if you
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: get him a week too late on somebody else roster.
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: Exactly exactly.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, So that'll be my lesson for twenty twenty six.
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: That's a really good lesson. That's a really good lesson.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I appreciate it.
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: So that was our fantasy recap for the twenty twenty
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: five season.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: We're looking forward to twenty twenty six.
• 29:13
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• 29:17
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• 29:22
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• 29:26
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• 29:29
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