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Hercules Lost his Sock! · The Fantasy Football War Council

• WINNER: Mortals gather round the war drums echo across the fantasy realm, and the gods have convened once again. Welcome to another meeting of the Fantasy Football War Council. I am Jonathan, your god of war. Standing beside me is half of the Brothers of Destruction, the Brothers Daniel: Mm-hmm. WINNER: Grimm, Daniel, and we have a guest, Jose, manager of the Kuiper Belt Soldiers. jose: Ooh, yeah, what's up guys? Happy Daniel: Mm. jose: happy to finally be on again. It's been a while. WINNER: Yeah, thank you. Thank you. Yeah, it's Daniel: Happy to have you. WINNER: very nice to have you on. We are extremely happy to have you on here. We love having you on. we have a really great show today. Let's see. before I get into it, remember like, share, subscribe, review. It really helps us. It helps us grow. we're trying to help as many of you as we can. FFWC23 at gmail.com. If you have any questions for the show, we will answer them and read those reviews. find us at any of our socials Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, X, and we have a newly built website. It's been up for a while. the fantasy football war council.riverside.com. check us out. Okay. we have lots of news. We have the week five, the week four battles, and some interesting ones. and then the week Daniel: Few trades WINNER: five pick Daniel: and plickems. WINNER: Yeah, we've had lots of trades. Man, it's been a week for that, right? Daniel: Yeah, record. jose: It's that time of the year where it's WINNER: Definitely been a record week. jose: like you know, something's gotta give. If you're like a really bad team you wanna get into the race or you're like, you know, a good team you're trying to separate yourself, so good for our league. WINNER: Well, or in our case, if you are in a keeperslash dynasty league and you are not in the race, sell, Daniel: Okay. Sell, sell, sell, sell. WINNER: sell, sell, sell. And and plan for next year. Yes, yes, yes. jose: Yeah. Daniel: Mm-hmm. WINNER: It's been a fire sale for the rest of you managers listening. It is a fire sale. yeah, you just gotta be careful not to sell too much because you'll Daniel: Sure, for sure. Yeah. WINNER: end up on the last place trophy in our league. And I'm dangerously getting close to that line. Daniel: Yeah. jose: Can't have that. WINNER: Dangerous, dangerous. But hey, I I gotta be honest. It'll we'll let's we'll get to it. But some of the stuff I've been selling off, I'm getting paid for it and things are falling apart really quickly on people. So Daniel: Mm. WINNER: hey, that's why you go the performance based trades. I tell ya, they're so great. You wanna cheer for those trades. Daniel: Nah, I don't know about that. Ties up too many different resources. WINNER: I wanna ch true, but you also man, you get paid. You get paid if they get paid. That's what I say. Let's jump into it. Daniel: Alright. first bit of news, Lamar Jackson is dealing with an ankle spray. he could miss some time. Stay tuned to watch this in case you have him and you need a replacement. So yeah, it sounds like he's gonna miss like three to four weeks, they said. But WINNER: Mm-hmm. jose: Damn. Daniel: yeah. WINNER: Yeah. Yeah, it's gonna be rough. Yeah. jose: Bad year for quarterbacks. Daniel: Dude, bad year. Right now the NFL has an equal amount of IR players than they did in week nine that last year. WINNER: It's been a crazy first few weeks with injuries and everything. I Daniel: Mm. WINNER: mean, week two had not just a backup quarterback, but the fourth string quarterback playing for a team. So, Daniel: Mm, mm. WINNER: I mean, it's very it's something. There's it's just injuries popping up everywhere. So the NFL has confirmed on Monday that it is it has suspended two officials who were involved in incidents with players during games on Sunday. The league suspended line judge Jeff Seaman. Two games and referee Adrian Hill one game, respectively, for an instance of unprofessional conduct toward a player. Seaman was caught on camera appearing to curse at Arizona Cardinals tight end Trey McBride during Sunday's game during against the Giants at MetLife Stadium. And Hill, incident occurred during Sunday's game with Minnesota and Miami. Vikings linebacker Eric Wilson accidentally collided with Hill, who then appeared to yell at Wilson. the NFL holds everybody to standards and then includes their officials and I really like seeing this shit happen because it really should hold everybody to standards. Daniel: They need to go after that ball boy in Jacksonville though, with Josh Hines Allen. WINNER: Yeah give that frickin' ball up hey look I understand when it comes to other teams ball boys because it wasn't his team's ball boy it was the other team's ball boy they are told to protect their balls like it's their job because I mean they can lose their fucking job for handing over their balls, right? So I get why what he was doing, but you knew what it was. That was the man's first touchdown. Give him the damn ball. jose: That's like a unwritten rule, right? First touchdown you get to keep the ball. That Daniel: Just yeah. WINNER: Mm-hmm. jose: that kid was just mad hating. I gotta Daniel: Yes. WINNER: Yeah. Yeah. He definitely was. Daniel: Yes he was. Alright. Mariota suffered the a knee injury on the third down sack midway through the first quarter of the indie game. Wow, this is all jumbled, my bad. Laatu Latu apparently fell on his leg and Mariota went to the locker room and was placed by their third string quarterback, whose name I have Kali Kamanis, I think it was his name. He jose: Yeah, look pretty good. Daniel: actually played decently well. WINNER: Leak of menace. Yep. jose: Calique it. Daniel: And then he played well. But one of those other quarterbacks that we're talking about is of like coming in unexpectedly. But I liked the way that he played. He made some rookie mistakes, but man, he was pushing that ball down the field. WINNER: Yes he was. Yes he was. jose: He was no fear out there, right? Daniel: Yeah. WINNER: So it it it it made Drake London look really good, like a wide receiver one again, right? So Daniel: Mm. WINNER: Yeah, it was good. Daniel: He did. WINNER: No, it was it was it was nice. sorry, I that was some late night jumbling probably after I was really stoned. yeah, it it Daniel: Nice. WINNER: it was actually a really good game for Khalik Amanis. it was the first nail fall season game, his appearance of a you know, twenty three year old who was drafted at r out of Rutgers, since two thousand and five, which was Mike McMahon, which is crazy to think. So and then he was also the first quarterback. From the 2026 draft class to take a regular season snap. And he was the eighth QB taken at 223 overall. Daniel: I I texted Mario WINNER: Yeah. Daniel: and I was like, Could this be the birth of you know, the next Kirk Cousins here? WINNER: Mm, possibly. Yeah, absolutely. jose: Possible, yeah, it's possible. Daniel: Jade Daniels doesn't stay healthy and then like, hey, in a year or two, why pay you? WINNER: Mm-hmm. Absolutely. jose: Yeah, you never know, these random starts, you get you get your chance and someone else likes what you got and boom, next thing you know. Daniel: Boom, next year. WINNER: Yeah. let's see. Seahawks plays Jadarian Price on IR for a chest injury. Yeah. And I dropped Emmanuel Wilson last week after his three point five points. And he dropped a fucking thirty six points this week in our league. And I'm like, that guy was on my team last week. Daniel: Yeah. Yep. WINNER: It's the mistakes you make because you're like, I c I swear. I'd like everyone to listen to this because this is personally just for the league that I know ye half you don't listen to. When I drop somebody from the waiver wire, fucking jump on him. Run at not just a running back. This is defensive players. This is the I could show you the last fucking like 10 players I've dropped. They go boom the following week. Yeah, jump on that shit, guys. jose: Yeah, Cart Carson Swe Carson Sweishinger. WINNER: Yeah, that was a great tag, man. Good job. Good job. And both of us are very sad about that one. Cause I got I got from Daniel, so jose: I couldn't have done it without ya. It's just Daniel: Yeah, yeah. I dropped him last year and then he blew up and I was like, man. WINNER: Yeah, but it blew up jose: Yeah, I WINNER: the week after I got So Daniel: Yeah, yeah. jose: Yeah, I saw him on the and I like, don't mind if I do And like same WINNER: Yeah. jose: thing, I was like, If things on John's roster, he's like he's gotta know something about us. Worked out. Daniel: Mm-hmm. WINNER: Dude, no, I read the note. And the note, the note said he had a high ankle sprain. And in my head, high ankle sprains are four to six weeks. And I'm like, man, high ankle sprain. That's bad. Four to six weeks. I can't hold you. And they weren't changing him from the questionable to out. And when waivers came, I needed that roster spot. So I dropped the guy that had a high ankle sprain. Well, it didn't look like much of a high ankle sprain that next day when he showed up to practice and he was running practice really well. So mmm. jose: Right. Yeah. WINNER: Yeah, it's that Wednesday Wednesday practice that fucks you really hard because you l just dropped jose: It does. WINNER: players on Tuesday night for waivers. Daniel: Yeah. And I hate how you have to wait to figure out if a player is going to be out or not and you have to like put in your Thursday night player or not, right? that drives me crazy. WINNER: So we could in the settings you can and I don't like to do this because so many questionables flop on to think that you could put questionable if you wanted to tinker that in into an IR slot. I never thought personally questionables should be thrown into IR slots because they throw questionable tags around like fucking, I don't know, drunk girl at a fucking frat party. So Daniel: Correct. Correct. But when you've got when you've got a player already in the IR spot who you know is not gonna play for a couple of weeks, but then they go questionable WINNER: True. Daniel: every time. And then y you WINNER: Mm-hmm. Daniel: can't move a player out of your lineup because they play Thursday night because you can't because you're over a limit, right? Yeah, yeah. Can't do anything. Mm-hmm. WINNER: take a look at my God's roster right now. Yeah, I can't do anything. Lad McConkey became he's jose: You're just waiting on everyone to WINNER: sitting it questionable. Daniel: And it's like, but I need that player gone then because WINNER: Yeah. And they'll do it after the game and then you're like, come on, I gotta use that help and and then Yeah. don't even mention that fucking name to me. Daniel: Yeah. Yeah, I could've used that. Ugh. jose: That happened with Jalen Coker last week. Where I was like, he's not playing and then I couldn't switch him out and and then like he's out, but still labeled questionable. Daniel: Yep. Yep. WINNER: Yeah, you wouldn't have Coker if I actually did my waiver one my week one waivers because Coker was my weaver my number one. I just didn't reorganize them before I put my kids down, and it was a rough night putting the kids down that I didn't get out of the kids' room until after waiver wire. So I just didn't do waiver wires that fucking night. I know fucked. Daniel: First one too. man. I can't I can't believe that I got Iman Yori at freaking sixth waiver. man. That WINNER: That was a good one. Dude, hey, I was pretty on fire. I think I got three of my three of my five that I had set up and my wife stole Daniel: Yeah, you got Williams first. WINNER: my wife stole both my fucking waivers that I I had set up. So she was the one that took the two. So good for her, right? Good for her. Yeah, no, no, me too. Me too. Yeah. I Daniel: I'm I'm glad it was her. Yeah. WINNER: say if somebody's gonna win this league, it's gotta be coming from this household. So somebody's gotta do it. Yeah, somebody's gotta do it. Daniel: Yeah, somebody. jose: Fair. Daniel: all right, next bit of news. freaking York off with a wrist slap because he's a billionaire. Here we go. York was initially WINNER: Such a shit. Daniel: charged with engaging in prostitution per court records, but prosecutors changed that to a disorderly conduct. The records also indicate York had a cell phone returned to him and he also had a hundred and sixty dollars seized during the arrest, which was to be donated to the my gosh. WINNER: Mm-hmm. Just a line of shit. Daniel: donated to the Mahoning Valley Human Trafficking Task Force as part of his plea agreement. York has since completed an online course as well. An online course. Any one of us would be in WINNER: An online course. What fucking crap, right? jose: yeah. Daniel: jail. jose: Yeah. WINNER: Yes. Yes. My sister used to be with the girl that would work these fucking stings and put these people in jail. Yeah, no, we'd be arrested and in bigger fucking trouble than this, and still in jail, probably, Daniel: Still in J. WINNER: with our you know, our spouses kicking our shit out to the fucking front porch and shit. no. This guy probably told the city, hey, I'll throw some money at one of your things and do something nice for you, just knock it down. And they did. Look, they knocked it down at Sorty Conlock. So because you know if he if he jose: Nice donation to the governor to the WINNER: well okay so it came down so if Daniel: Now you know why he was doing it there. WINNER: well we all know why what he was doing. We all know from the arrest what he was doing when he got arrested. It's funny because it's $160 now. We were told it was $140 at the arrest. So we all made the $140 joke about him fucking hi you know a cheap prostitute. But you know like hand gibbers or come on. Anyway, so If he got arrested for if it actually went down his prostitution, they'd probably force him to sell the team. So I think that's why jose: Mm. WINNER: it's a big thing. yeah, come on. Carolina had to sell the team 'cause he called his fucking players Negroes. I mean Come on. People they've they have forced teams to sell for other reasons, worse reasons. jose: Yeah. Daniel: I don't I WINNER: So Daniel: don't object. Get out. Give somebody else. Yeah. WINNER: No. Absolutely. No, absolutely. But I mean, is the New Carolina guy any better sitting up there throwing beer and flipping off the fans? Come on. I don't think that guy's any better. But better than the the the the previous guy, yes. But like he's not a bad guy. He's a this guy's crazy too, so anyway. They're all jose: Yeah. WINNER: yeah, well, hey, I mean, yeah, rich rich rich dudes, rich dudes, man, yeah. Daniel: Live in the same world. All right. Had a couple of trades. WINNER: No. Yes, we did. we had three trades Daniel: Multiples. WINNER: this last week. Multiples. here, your trade up. Take it away. Daniel: Alright, so I I actually it's a rare occasion, but I accepted this at first go. There was no other negotiation behind it. he WINNER: Whoa. Daniel: offered me Matthew Golden for his twenty seven third round and for Foya Olakun linebacker and his fifth round. Or in my fifth round. And at first I was like, I'm kind of flush at receiver and then I looked into it more and I'm like, you know, I don't know if I would end up editing that this any more. I think it's super fair. And so we went back and forth briefly and I accepted it. And so I got rid of a linebacker that was a keeper for a third round player for a receiver that's kind of up and coming and a third round draft pick. But I am leveraging my own knowledge at IDP to feel that spot, I think, which I think I did. So we'll see how it goes. WINNER: Congratulations. And you acquire a third round pick in doing so and you feel Daniel: Mm. WINNER: like you gave up somebody that is tag value, but you fill it and you feel happy with what you filled it in. So Daniel: yeah, I think I picked up Nick in Muniori and that was on waivers and I d definitely got a pretty large fist pump out of that one. Like, Yes Yeah when I saw that. WINNER: that's a pretty good grab too. Did anybody here I jose: Yeah. WINNER: wanna see, did anybody I love that they throw like this many people grabbed or you know tried to waver. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, Daniel: Yeah. It was only two. I was shocked. I think it was just you and me. Or you WINNER: I I saw you and Ori there and I'm like, how are you sitting here? It's all you are they see that's the Tuesday night, whenever t whenever or Wednesday night waivers. When people do their waivers, I like to look at what's dropped because it's like Someone may be in a situation where like you know, and they had to drop something really good because they needed something else a bi week or something didn't get thrown into, you know, an IR slot 'cause good. Yeah. So it's nice to pick the waivers. Daniel: for sure. Yeah. Yeah, that's how I got that's jose: Yeah. Daniel: how I got Udo Beckham Junior. WINNER: Yeah. Well, in a good season, not recently. Yeah. Let's not talk about him now. He's garbage. Daniel: You it it no, I mean back when he was back jose: Yeah. Daniel: when he was taggable and I won a championship with him and LaShawn McCoy the next year. WINNER: Yeah. Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah. jose: He just signed to to someone's practice squad, right? OBJ. Daniel: the WINNER: Yeah, and he can yeah, it's okay. Daniel: who was it? Yeah, he did. All right. WINNER: Yeah, it's okay. He he he he what left left the Giants with the zero stat line that I threw out the zero catches, zero zero zero yards, zero touchdowns. He didn't do anything, so jose: I didn't do shit. Just out there getting cardio. WINNER: Get paid. Yeah. Okay, let's see. Martin had a trade with Mario. And it's a shame Mario's not here to read this massive trade out. Daniel: Bas yeah. WINNER: Yeah, jose: Big. WINNER: this takes huge. Okay, so Martin is hunting Raiders apparently because he brings in Brock Daniel: Yes. jose: Yeah. WINNER: Bowers and Zach Charbonnet, and he brings in the eleventh round, thirteenth round, fourteenth, and a fifth round. Why did it lop the fifth at the bottom for next year's 2027 draft and throws away Keon Coleman, Will Marks, Daniel: Moody Marks. WINNER: tenth round. Woody Marks, sorry. Tenth round, a s a two, a second round, a third round, and a twelfth round. So not bad. Some pick swaps. throws a so it's Daniel: My third round. WINNER: like a that is your that jose: Yeah. Really good. WINNER: is your third. It's nice when you see your name thrown out there, right? Daniel: Yeah jose: Yeah. WINNER: Is it a little bit of a like a ha I used you for this? Daniel: Yeah. Well I got my third round back jose: That's a pretty Daniel: f through the trade that I did with Fuller Coon, which is part of the reason why I went through with it too. WINNER: Yeah. We got eight you jose: Yeah, good trade for Barton here, yeah. WINNER: got a third. His his could be like the bottom of the draft 'cause I expect Justin to do well, especially with all the trades and moves and Daniel: I agree. I agree. WINNER: everything he's doing. I expect him to trophy at least. One, two, or three. So Daniel: I agree. Yeah, I I think that it's a it's probably going to be a high one. Mine's much lower, yeah. jose: I was I was literally like with before this trade went through, me I I sent a little me and Martin were going back and forth on a trade and he sent me something, I was like, This is good, this is a good trade, I'm gonna take it, but before I do, I wanna just try to like see if I can, you know, give away less. You know, like I didn't wanna WINNER: You know? jose: pull my like show my hand, but I was like, maybe if you do this and then like fifteen minutes later I saw this trade go through, was like Well, I guess we're not I guess we're not wheeling and dealing anymore. Although Daniel: Yeah. jose: I'm looking at it, I saw his team. Yeah, he does. But still, I mean, hey, WINNER: Mario works quick, dude. Mario works so fast. jose: Martin, if you do listen and you're still interested, you want to get back into the second round, hit holla at your boy. Daniel: Yeah WINNER: Yeah. jose: But yeah. Good trade for him. He WINNER: There you go. d jose: used everyone's picks, not his. Everyone else's picks, not his. Yeah. WINNER: Yeah, absolutely. Mario's smart like that too. Mario's really smart like that. And he knows that like he's gonna be a good pick 'cause he's eyeing himself to be you know, towards the top of the draft with winning the consolation or at least in the top of it. Daniel: Mm-hmm. WINNER: so he's trying to hold on to his cause every time I was looking at something with Mario, it was always someone else's trade picks in the offer, and Daniel: Yeah, yeah. WINNER: I would counter it back. To his picks and get rid of the other people. And I'm like, I don't want this person's picks. They're gonna win. Like, Daniel: Yeah. WINNER: yeah. It's always funny like that. jose: Funny. Yeah. WINNER: so I had a I had a trade as well with Justin this week and it happened just the other night. he messaged me yesterday and was like, You want your old quarterback back? And I said, What? And he's like, You want Bo back this week? And I go, Well, why would I want Bo back this week? And he's like, you haven't looked at your phone yet. And I looked up and I saw that it's a bye week and I got no Bryce Young this week. I'm like, I need a quarterback. This dude's eyeballing my team and he's like, I want one of your linebackers and I'll give you a quarterback because Daniel: yeah. Yeah. WINNER: you're not gonna go get Justin Bur you're not gonna go get Jacoby Brissett, Daniel: Yeah. WINNER: are you? Question mark, question mark. And I'm like, Probably not. Bo's better. What do you what do you got in mind? All Daniel: Mm-hmm. WINNER: right. And he's looking at a couple of my linebackers. We were back and forth a bit and Ended out on you know, Zaire Franklin for a fourth and I give you know I g I give him an eighth, so I turn I up the you know an eight to a four. So I yeah, a little low for my taste. I'm with you. tag level linebackers should be a little higher, right? I I I and I was trying to press that to him, but he didn't have any higher picks of this year, and I didn't want to delve into the whole twenty twenty eight shit with him yet. we'll get there. Daniel: Yeah. Yeah. I think the WINNER: He's he's at the end of the year he's gonna need those picks if he wants to get through things, so Daniel: Yeah. The and then the thing is is like he's giving decent comparable players. Like, you know, Bo WINNER: Mm-hmm. Daniel: Nicks is could be coming on at this point, right? Like so that's what WINNER: Mm-hmm. Daniel: I was like, okay, I could take a lesser pick because he's also giving me a player that that could be on the ascension, not on the descent, you know what I mean? Or not just like a flex play, you know. WINNER: Yeah. No, and jose: Yeah. WINNER: Bo's not a bad yeah, Bo's not a bad offer. I did I mean, did press on him. I have Bryce Young and he was an amazing waiver wire, grab that QB two right now, currently in our league. I'm like, why would I not be playing this guy weekly though? So Daniel: Yeah. You never know though. jose: Yeah, yeah. WINNER: But the bye week it's what is needed. So it it fit my need. It fit my need and I said, Daniel: Yeah. Yeah. WINNER: Well look, I don't have to go hunting on waivers for a quarterback now and Daniel: Mm. WINNER: I got to go a defender and, you know, steal some things first. So it I it made me feel nice. Maybe feel nice when you get to go see that many names next to a waiver name and you're like, ha, I got first place. Daniel: Mm. That's right. that feels so good. jose: Yeah. He wa he was hunting for linebackers 'cause I mean he made the two trades. He also hit me up for Fred Warner and I'm like, Daniel: Mm-hmm. Yeah. WINNER: Mm-hmm. jose: he's I was like, that's my tag, I might you know I mean, I'm assuming no one sends their best offer off the bat, you know, so I was like, Gimme WINNER: Mm-hmm. jose: gimme something more, we'll maybe I'll consider but he's like, Nah, I I assumed like that was too little for Fred Warner and then you know, he he got the trade done with you guys, so Daniel: Yeah, he lost Edrin Cooper and he's really trying to fill that void. Yeah, yeah. WINNER: Yeah. jose: Yeah, I mean that's a big, big void to fill too, so. But he I think he got it. I think he did a good job in filling that void. Yeah. WINNER: he stacked it with Zaire. Yeah, I think Zaire's a good one. He's tag level 'cause I told him Zaire and between him and Bush were my tags and you know Sonny's gotta step up and Sonny can be the guy, but he asked for Sonny first and I just gave him back a ha ha not gonna happen. That guy's fucking gold, bro. I Daniel: Yeah. WINNER: just typed back Luke Keekly like level and he's like, yeah, I'm not paying that. Said yeah, well. So all right, let's jump into our battles. Yeah, it's been it's been a it's been a real fun league. It's been good this year. I've been enjoying it. Daniel: Alright, first battle is Plague of Anubis to Hercules' Huge SOC. And Plague of Anubis finally breaks through with his first win of the season, taking down Hercules' huge sock 170.6 to 157.32. Not exactly a dominant victory, but a win is a win, and Plague of Anubis will gladly take it. WINNER: Absolutely. No shame. Daniel: Plague Venubis was led by jose: Mm-hmm. Daniel: Bryce Young's 26.56 points. George Kittle's 23 points. And a surprisingly strong 22.3 from the Chicago defense. Hezekiah Massis also delivered 18 points from the IDP spot. He is a cornerback for the Las Vegas Raiders. Hercules is huge sock. Had a strong performance from Joe Burrow, who threw for 428 yards and scored 25.82 points. Well, James Cook added 19.2 and Isaiah Likely 18.6. The difference was the number of holes in Hercules' huge socks lineup. Josh Downs scored just 3.1. Christian Watson scored 7.2. And Danil Hunter scored three point five. Well Plague of Anubis and its own disaster had its own disasters with Khalif Raymond at three point two, Dalton Schultz at four point four, and McGaughlin managing just two points. Hercules' huge sock left a monster performance on the bench. Nico Collins scored 28.8 points, which would have completely changed this matchup. Ollie Gordon also put up 19.8 points. Man, he had an epic first game. jose: Yeah. Daniel: still, Plague of Anuvis gets the victory and escapes the cellar. Well, Hercules, who's got huge sock, is the lowest scoring team of the week. And officially banished to Hades. For Plague of Anubis, the season finally has a pulse. It took five weeks or four weeks, but Anubis finally is claimed a soul. WINNER: It's about time. It's getting kind of boring down here. Yeah. It's fucking golden. Man, Daniel: Yeah dude yeah. Yeah. jose: And that that first victory's always the best. WINNER: I feel like renewed and my jose: Yeah. WINNER: vigor's up this week. And I'm like, fantasy football, I love it. You know, last three weeks, I'm like, fuck jose: Right. WINNER: this shit. No, I you know what makes this even better? Like, Khiv Raymond was number one waiver wire last week for me. And it should I I had passed on doing it as Oli Gordon. I almost picked up Ollie Gordon. And now like seeing the score and I'm like, I fucked up on that one. It should have been on Gordon. Daniel: Yeah. WINNER: Mm. Daniel: It could have beaten you. That's a good thing it d it didn't though. WINNER: Yeah, jose: Yeah. WINNER: exactly. So no, it's it's nice to win. And a win against Vince is even better. So, you know. Current jose: Mm-hmm. WINNER: current champ, rainy champ, so it's nice to jose: Yeah. WINNER: hit the rainy champ down. Okay, this one makes me feel even more better because there's another undefeated or unwinning manager that didn't get his win. this week's vacation to Annie's Daniel: Ha ha WINNER: Temple with a cuck chair didn't exactly live up to the brochure. The view, terrible, the food menu, non existent. And the entertainment schedule apparently just watching your fantasy team refuse to show up. 202.55 to 179.37. A 23.18 point beating. That sure felt like bigger. The Hail Marys have come to town to clean up this place of filth they've heard about. 0 4 still can't get anything going. Absolutely useless. Ray, on the other hand, showed up. Ready to enjoy the amenities. He did it with style. Eleven of his 13 players scored in the double digits. That's not fantasy lineup, that's a firing squad. Dak Prescott dropped 20.5. Aaron Jones finally remembered that he could do something. And RB1 level too. Put up 21.3. Drake London did the same thing. He looked amazing out there. 14.6. Romeo Dobbs 22.3. Tyler Warren chipped in, twelve point six. we expected more out of him this year, didn't we? Yeah. The entire team basically fired on all cylinders. meanwhile, over at the temple, it looked like a couple of heroes showed up, while everyone else decided to just stay at home. Sam Darnold squeaked by with 18.4. Javante Williams, apparently unaware of the rest of his team, had abandoned him. he hammered out 34.1. It was a pretty good day for him. Jalen Waddle managed 12 and Trey McBride dropped 13.6 after being yelled at by the refs. Then things got ugly. D Winters managed an eight. Jared Verse barely scraped by with a five. And boy, he was that first draft, first defender taken too. Kind of Evan McPherson. I will not talk shit on him. Went one for one, kicked two extra points for seven points. Honestly, kickers are people too, guys. but it wasn't enough. this team simply didn't show up. And that's why Annie's Temple of Sugar Plum Fairies has a su officially become a recommended stop for everyone's fantasy team in the league. Why you ask? Because it's a free win for anyone who shows up. Congratulations, Ray, jose: Mm-hmm. WINNER: on the easy victory. And Rob, we're all wondering when you will finally show up. Golden princess, maybe? jose: Pff Daniel: Ooh. jose: It's possible. WINNER: I'd say I'd say it's Rob's trophy to take, but then again, your brother still is 0 and 4. And that's technically his trophy. So the man has won it the most. It is kind of his thing to do. Daniel: yeah. jose: Yeah. As long as that trophy doesn't start making the rounds across the whole league, I think, you know Daniel: Yeah. jose: I've definitely been like two wins away or like two losses away from that. But I've been really close. Yeah. Yeah, I think I beat you to not be on it. So yeah, like let's let's nah I didn't my I mean the way the my team looks right now, it's that c could be a possibility for me, so fuck. WINNER: Really close. Daniel: I've been on it. I've been on it. Yeah, I'm pretty sure that did happen, yeah. Yes. Yeah. You definitely put me in WINNER: Yeah. Hey. It very Daniel: the corner on that one, thanks. Yeah. WINNER: well could be. Yeah. Yeah. jose: Yeah. WINNER: Yeah. Yeah. And now now we do penalties. Well pen not penalties, but we do you know, things against the the the person that has it. So it's now now you don't want to own it. It's not just shame or a tiara, right? So it's pretty Daniel: Yeah. Yeah. Alright. jose: Yeah. WINNER: bad. Daniel: We've got our next battle. Jose's Kuiper Belt Soldiers and Allen's owl formation. this was Mario's read. I I got it here. Let's see. Let's see what he says. Written WINNER: Written by Mario. Daniel: by Mario. Credit goes to jose: Yeah. Daniel: Jose is awarded the Spartan Shield for Closest loss this week. Another match decided by less than a point. Can he get a sponsorship for Gillette or Bick or Dollar Shave Club? This is his third WINNER: Uh-huh. Daniel: Spartan Shield in four weeks. And his one win was by 2.65 points in week two when he gave the Spartan Shield to Robbie. Wow, that's a pretty epic start to the season there, Jose. WINNER: You've been in a battle you've been in every Spartan Shield battle this wow. I didn't even know that. jose: E every week has been a slog for me, goddamn. Daniel: Yeah WINNER: Man, that's you're gonna start getting gray hairs shit. Daniel: man. Yeah. These jose: I was I was just about to say I've aged four years in these Daniel: close shaves would give me a coronary. jose: four weeks. God nah. I d I did feel a chest pain in my chest today. I fuck it. Daniel: Yeah. WINNER: Hell yeah. Daniel: Jose must have nerves of steel surviving the season. Well Jose has been the victim of repeated almost Ellen pulls this off pulls out his fourth consecutive win to remain undefeated. This battle was a slug fest as both teams had players hit nearly 40 while others made only single digits. Blow for blow, Alan Jose traded excitement with disappointment as the week wore on. Alan had a lot more on the bench, but on the field this match couldn't have been closer. Jose will be looking for a bounce back from George Pickens and Ameka Ebuka with nine points and two point eight points respectively. Alan may have lost faith in Rishi Rice who came up with zero. We all live, we all learn, we make adjustments and we pray we don't overtinker. WINNER: Mm, that's my problem. jose: This this read back really really hurts cause cause Daniel: Yeah. WINNER: Ha ha ha. jose: battles these close. I'm just like, you know what? Like it's best not to think about it. Move on, move on next week, week five, But so I'm like, Daniel: Yeah, yeah. Yeah. You have to relive it. jose: like I'm yeah. It's like this is like it's finally I'm finally processing that pain. Daniel: Yeah. jose: God damn. But to be fair WINNER: Why jose: though, this one was didn't hurt as much as last week. Cause last week Daniel: huh. jose: I was like I I thought I was fucking like I don't know, like Pat Riley with the roster I was like, I got I got this is gonna come up, this come up and that shit broke my heart. This week Daniel: Mm. jose: I wasn't I don't really fuck with it 'cause I was didn't want to t over tinker, you know? And I just the loss was the loss. Like it I wasn't gonna swap anyone on my bench. Like I thought, you know, everyone that was in the starting lineup was was solid and I wasn't gonna switch anyone out, so That's why I'm just like, well, you know, it is what it is with this one. It still hurts though. Daniel: It is yeah. Yeah. What you had happen to you last week happened to me this week. I was I came in this week so WINNER: Your heart has callused over so much. It's just not hurting you at this point. jose: Yeah, yeah, I guess it's Daniel: confident. I was like the second highest projected team of the week. And I was like, yeah, I feel like we're humming. I'm gonna get back on my winning ways here. Gonna be two and two. Nope. One and three. Just destroyed. Yeah. I was demoralized. Yeah. jose: Yeah. But yeah, but WINNER: We have to break the curse of the host. Only one jose: I know. WINNER: of us can win so far, so Yeah. Daniel: Only one of us can win at a time. jose: And this is what I I this I wanna come under the show and I get two losses in a four, you know, like t like Yeah. Hopefully, yeah, we'll see. I don't know. I Daniel: Yeah. You'll get our one win this week. That's what yeah. jose: I just I feel like my team's pretty Yeah. WINNER: I got my win. I'm I I can take another loss on it. Daniel: Yeah. jose: I feel like my team's pretty weak and I've been trying to get some sh you know, some trades popping off and stuff like that. I'm just gonna be more aggressive moving forward 'cause WINNER: Apparently you need to reach out to Justin. That's just saying. Yeah. He's the guy to reach out to right now. Yeah. jose: Yeah, yeah. Something's gotta give. Cause I'm gonna either gonna be on the up and up or fight for that for that Tiara. WINNER: Yeah, I mean do what Justin is doing. I will tell you this, 'cause this is what I do when I'm usually sitting in his pos position is target those O and four teams and say, Hey, what do you want to give me? Can I have this? jose: Yeah. What do you get? WINNER: And what do you want to charge? I mean, that's what you gotta jose: Yeah. WINNER: do. jose: Yeah. The thing is like other than my s like my bench is like weak. So I don't have any really acids WINNER: Mm-hmm. jose: there and I gotta figure out if I'm gonna condense and condense my way up. WINNER: Your picks. That's where it comes down. That's where it comes down, my friend, is you gotta pay picks. And when you wanna get into that, like you if you feel like your team can it you need just a a little push, something that just gives you that little nudge forward into the battle. It's all it takes sometimes that one right person. You go find that right trade and all of a sudden your team's now kicking. And it was because of one guy you brought in. You you targeted jose: Yeah. WINNER: a running back, targeted the right wide receiver, you know what I mean? Daniel: I regret not taking jose: Yeah. Daniel: that trade that you offered me last year for Bucky Irving. I was like, I saved Jose on that WINNER: Mm. jose: yeah. Daniel: one for sure. Yeah. man. That's how it goes. That's that's jose: I know I was looking at it, I was like, whoo, buddy. That's how but that's how it goes sometimes, you know. So we'll see. WINNER: What? Daniel: right. WINNER: Yeah. That's exactly I mean that's Daniel: Imanori could fall on his face and Ful Olacoon could start being the highest scoring linebacker and then I will feel foolish, but yeah. WINNER: Yeah. jose: Right. WINNER: All right, Jose, take us away. You wanted you requested a battle this week. jose: Yeah, alright, so here I go. In another battle of our gods in another battle of our gods of war league, Verathragna's vengeance went up against saving Ryan's privates. Ollie looked at Ryan's private and saw them as low-hanging fruit. Gathering his soldiers at dawn, he went on a full-scale attack. B. John Robinson and Ernest Jones leading the charge. Both players went nuclear and dropped 30 points. Ernest Jones. leading the defense with 33 and B. John Robinson just full supernova 37 points. That's that's crazy. On Monday night. You know Daniel: Yeah. jose: those Monday night games always carry some WINNER: Yeah. jose: extra weight right there. let's see the second wave of players, neighbors, Warren, Will Rikert, all scored over 20 points. All players on this squad On Ali's squad scored double digits but one. A massive scoring output. On the other side, saving Ryan's privates, try to do just that. Save his privates. Leading the counterattack, Chuba Hubbard, Jamin Sherwood, Jordan Brooks, and Cooper Dejean all led the team in scoring. But early casualties took hold of the ranks, shook the morale of Ryan's privates as they lost Jamar Chase in the early battle. Lost in the fog of war. Josh Allen couldn't meet his projections and other players failed to perform, which cost saving Ryan's Privates the game. This match was a repetitive kick to the groin for Ryan's privates. Ryan's Privates. And by the time the dust settled, Verathragna's Vengeance came out victorious in all ten of his forms, with a final score of 257.13 against 207.67. A beating so bad we're still waiting for saving Ryan's Privates left nut to drop. WINNER: Mm-hmm. jose: And it earned Verathragna's vengeance a pair of medals. Let's see our it's Massacre of the Week, the highest score, and biggest blowout, the conquer of the week. Yeah, so saving Rhine's privates will spend this week icing his smooth criminals and hope for a better result next week while Verathragna continues to seek vengeance. Yeah, blow it out of the week. Crazy. Crazy game here. Yeah, fifty Daniel: fifty points. It's jose: points. Daniel: that's decently close for for us for the blowout of the week. It's been like a hundred points recently. jose: And and that's what I was thinking too. It's like for blowout, it's a you know, very close margin, like in our league, yeah. Daniel: Yeah. For our league. Yeah. I think last week it was like a hundred and something points. WINNER: Yeah, yeah, jose: Yeah. WINNER: yeah, yeah. I think I was the one for no yeah, it was pretty rough when you lose by that much. Yeah. I'd rather not. I'd rather not. Yeah, I'm good. It was like 104, 103 point something. Yeah, it's pretty bad. So no Daniel: Yeah. Tell us about it, John. Yeah. jose: Yeah, right. WINNER: yeah, it and that's the thing. So I'll talk about it, 'cause you just got beat by like a point something. When you get blown out by a hundred, you know you could do nothing. It doesn't matter jose: Yeah. WINNER: how much I look Daniel: Yeah. WINNER: at my bench. It's yours. The close bows. When you lose that shit, that's like Daniel: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. WINNER: coulda done this, I could have done this, I could have looked any of you motherfuckers on the bench would have done something better. Like yeah, that makes it that makes your that makes it hurt a little more. Daniel: yeah. When it's jose: Yeah. Yeah, I was about to ask that same question. What's what's worse or what would you prefer? Like a blowout or just like a yeah. WINNER: Nah. I'd rather yeah, I'd rather just be fucking blown out. And that's the thing, like you made the comment during the read about Monday nights. Monday nights, see, when you when the blowout happens on Monday night, that's Daniel: Mm. WINNER: the worst because jose: Yeah. WINNER: you went into Monday night going, I got this, I got fucking twenty seven points. He's only got a guy that's predicted like twelve. I'm gonna fucking rock this. Guy blows thirty six points, and you're like, I fucking hate my life. I can't believe that. How did that jose: Yeah. Yeah. Daniel: Mm. WINNER: happen to me? Like, what the fuck? Daniel: Yeah. Yeah. It does. It jose: Yeah, crazy. WINNER: It stabs deep it stabs a little deeper, I think. Daniel: does. I would I would caveat that. I think that when you've just been destroyed, it is easier to take generally than the closest loss. Except jose: Yeah. Daniel: when you're looking to the next week 'cause you're so confident about that week. And then you get blown WINNER: Mm. Daniel: out so bad. jose: Yeah. You're like what? Daniel: That's nothing that you could have done. That WINNER: Yeah. Daniel: feeling of just humbled and upset and disappointed, I think, is that was me last week and it's still fresh. And I don't know jose: Yeah. Daniel: what's worse is losing by WINNER: Has it gone away? Daniel: like a half a point or being so confident and then losing by like 60. You know that, you know, WINNER: Yeah, you did if I re remember if I'm remembering last week in the docket, you did type your name in like all caps. Daniel: Yeah. jose: Ha ha. Daniel: I was like uber confident. Yeah. Yeah. WINNER: It was pretty confident. That was like yeah, I'd say that was Mac confidence. jose: That's that's why sometimes I don't talk shit or I stop talking shit, 'cause I'll be like, it's you know, like Tuesday, week five, like, yo you know, like, yo, Martin, I'm gonna whip your ass this week, blah, blah, Daniel: Yeah. jose: blah. And then next thing I know, it's like, it's like half my team's injured and then no one shows up. Yeah. So so I never WINNER: He says, What were you saying? Yeah. Daniel: Yeah yeah yeah. What happened? Yeah. jose: taught I like after that, like, I never Talk shit. Daniel: yeah. jose: I'll just be like, hey, like it's gonna be a close game today. Keep it neutral as possible. Daniel: Yeah. yeah. WINNER: Some of that shit talk is kind of fun though. It does it is a little funny. Because fantasy's jose: Cause yeah. It it it it's definitely fun. I've d I'm but WINNER: a feckle bitch. I mean, you're gonna either get blown out or blow someone out and yeah, someone's getting blown. Good luck, dude. Good luck. I hope you do well. See, jose: Yeah. I'll chime in on other people's like matchups and then on mines I'm like, Good luck to you, sir. Like may the best team win. Daniel: Yeah. Yeah. WINNER: and that's why I've been pairing my trades with performance bases. I was saying, because I want Justin to do well, because the better he does. Now his pick gets better. And now I'm happier because hey, you know what? It hurt giving Saquon Barkley away. But watching that pick go from a two to a one, I sure feel a little better about it now. I don't know. It makes you feel a little better. I don't know. Daniel: Yeah, but he's doing so bad it might be a three instead, right? Yeah, with the two was a minimum. It's just gonna be w it's just gonna be worse. He's like, No, look, he's so bad, you get a three instead. Yeah. WINNER: No, the two was the bottom. Yeah, thankfully the two is the bottom. Sadly, Mario's Mario's gonna stay as a three. Yeah, Mario's not going up anywhere. That's that that was the trade I wanted to do better was Mario 2. Because if Mario won, his went to a one as well. So like I was hoping Daniel: Yeah, yeah. WINNER: he'd at least do something. But yeah. Thankfully, with Mario though, Miles Garrett is going to miss more than four games. Daniel: dude. Yeah. Yeah. WINNER: Five game he's gonna miss six games at at the minimum. So that c that brings the pick I pay Mario from a five down to a seven. So I'm a little happier about that. Daniel: Yeah. WINNER: I'm getting rid of the bottom of my draft and I'm collecting all ones, twos and threes. So Daniel: Yeah, that's fun. All right. next battle. WINNER: Yeah. It's the Hate John year next year. Daniel: Smitey Mighty Bastones, Mario versus Rusty the Hobo, Justin. Rusty the Hobo takes WINNER: You can adjust it. Daniel: the win. Two eighteen three to one ninety eight point four seven. Holding off Smitey Mighty Bastones by nineteen point six points. Rusty the Hobo was led by a monster performance by Kyron Williams, who exploded for 40.40 points with two rushing touchdowns and 10 catches. CJ Stroud added 27.98, while Edrin Cooper delivered 29.9 points with a sack interception and nine tackles. Though he is now lost for the season. With a torn Achilles. Smitey Mighty Bastons had plenty of firepower too. Brock Bowers led the way with 25.6 points. Well, the Arizona defense surprisingly posted 27.15. And Debo Samuel added 21 points, with Kayami Fairbond also chipping in 19 points. The biggest lineup issues for Smitey Mighty Bastons was Derek. Barnes, who managed just two points while Rusty the Hobo got almost nothing from Saquon Barkley, aforementioned, who finished with only point nine points. Smitey Mighty Bastons also left Tucker Kraft twenty-three point two points on the bench, which could have made this matchup much closer. In the end, Kyron Williams was simply too much to overcome. Rusty gets the win, well Smitey. is left wandering wondering what could have happened if Kraft had been in the lineup. Yeah, that's that's WINNER: Mm. Daniel: brutal. When your bench can cover. Yeah. WINNER: Yeah. Yeah. jose: It's best not to think about it. WINNER: Yeah. Yeah. I know that Kyron. What a good draft pick on him. I know that we were all talking it we're thinking Kyron wouldn't be as good this year Daniel: Mm-hmm. WINNER: 'cause I know Mario definitely was saying how he thought other parties, other running backs, Corum Blake Coram was gonna do a lot better. Yeah. Daniel: Quorum was gonna come in. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. jose: I I thought so too and I drafted him and I was like, Any moment, any mo and now just like he's and do I drop him? Like WINNER: Never it's like holding on to Kalon Black. You're just waiting for an injury. Yeah. Daniel: Dude, David Montgomery, like, do I just drop David Montgomery? He's projected for like twenty points every week, but like honestly, he he did jose: Projections though, fuck. Daniel: he scored twenty points week one and then now he hasn't scored over like eight points the rest of the season. So it's like Is he the one that I end up dropping? You know? So WINNER: That's yeah, that's hard. Nah, and when you have see I gotta give it more than a few weeks, but I Daniel: That's WINNER: I I live the the NBA jam rules. I hate to say it, but I live by the NBA jam rules a little bit. when heating up and on fire and if you you know you gotta flip it and if they're three games bad, four games bad, you start looking at that player like, okay, I need a waiver spot now. You're it. jose: Yeah, like four c four fo Yeah, right. F WINNER: And that's when the player booms for someone else. Daniel: Yeah. jose: four weeks into the season it's trends start to kinda settle in, you know, like it wasn't WINNER: Yeah. jose: just a a one off shot, like thing like analytics start to kinda, you know, show so Daniel: Yep. jose: you can start making choices on some of these players. Like Quorum, WINNER: Yeah. jose: I'm sorry. He's he's gonna have to be on someone else's bench maybe next week. WINNER: He may he'll do well. Yeah, it just may not it's not gonna be right now. So yeah, it's just not gonna be right now. Daniel: Yep, yep. I'm getting real close to dropping jose: Yeah. Daniel: Montgomery at this point because he's doing so bad. And then y like I and I don't even wanna play WINNER: That's a sad thing. Daniel: him this week, but you know that this week is gonna be the week that he blows up. Like right. Like the matchup is there and he's WINNER: Yeah. If he does that this week, it's the week to drop him then for sure. Daniel: gonna be there, but I can't trust him enough to put him in my starting lineup, you know? So yeah, it's cre yeah. jose: Yeah. WINNER: Yeah, but what it's Miami jose: Stuff. WINNER: though, right? So they're playing Daniel: I think Houston is playing Let me see. WINNER: Tennessee. Daniel: Tenn yeah, they're playing Tennessee. You know, y you just have Jeffrey Simmons WINNER: Tennessee. Yeah. It's pretty good lineup. It's a pretty good matchup. Daniel: that you need to worry about, but they have lot let opposing running backs do some damage. Like it's a good matchup, WINNER: Yeah. Daniel: but jose: These divisional matchups though, you know, it's they're like they can't be kind can't be graded on like, you know, Daniel: Indeed, that that's true. Yeah. Yep. jose: kinda everything goes out the window 'cause they know each other so much, they play each other and so Yeah, you you just Yeah, ex i essentially is yeah. If you need anything else. Daniel: More encouragement to bench his ass. Yeah. Yeah. WINNER: Little bit. Yeah, a little bit. Daniel: I'm already there, but we'll WINNER: Okay. Daniel: see how it goes. WINNER: Talk about a this this one was a rough one to watch. our battle of the week this week. This week was definitely this was the battle everybody was waiting for. Both undefeated, four and the one leaves still standing, and after a hell of a fight, the one is the one left standing victorious. 231.75 to 206.87, 24.88. It's funny, everything was about 24 25 points this week. Wasn't like big blowouts like you're saying, yeah. But they felt bigger. Daniel: They did. WINNER: 24, a 25-point victory here that pushed Jess to 5-0. And while Chas falls to 4-1, we learn something very important about Chash. She has a weakness. And his name is Rashad White. Motherfucker. Hurt me too. A huge donut. Massive fucking zeros in your lineup. Not a kind of donut your kid earns for doing something special. No, this is the kind of donut you hate. The kind that leaves you feeling disappointed, disgusted, and very angry. but despite the zero, both teams came to fight and both put up over 200 points. there were heroes on both sides. For Jess, Patrick Mahomes led the charge 21.9, CMC and Amon Raw, St. Brown, huge additions. He had 19 and 13. 13.5. But then Sam Laporta came crashing through the gates with a hammer. 28.4. I love that we have the tight end bonus. It is nice this year. Jack Daniel: Yeah. WINNER: Campbell, Kyle Hamilton, and Danny Tranquil. 21, 22, and 21. three of her five defenders did very well. three more hammers swinging through the backfield, but chass wasn't going quietly. Jonathan Taylor brought the pain, 28.2. Deshaun Watson put up 14.8 to 14.82. 82. How many cases did he have against him? Anyway, moving on. jose: Mm-hmm. WINNER: Kenneth Walker decides he was going to carry this team himself and exploded for 36.8. How do we all let this happen, seriously, guys? Daniel: Dune. WINNER: And Chris Olave with another 18.1. It was a hell of a battle. But when the dust settled, the one remained standing. 5-0, undefeated, unbeaten. And quickly becoming the monster lurking through the top of the league. Congratulations, Jess. Our league's monster has officially been unleashed. Five and Man. Yeah. jose: Epic Epic clash. WINNER: Yeah. I still, you know what? When I see these undefeated teams, it my mind goes back to God, what was it? Twenty was it the twenty fourteen season, twenty When did Martin go fifteen and then one? Daniel: gosh, that was like yeah, I think that was like fifteen. I think it was fifteen. Yeah. I think it was in two thousand WINNER: He lost the one. Yeah, he was he went fifteen. He went fifteen and one. And that was it. Daniel: fourteen or fifteen. Yeah. WINNER: It was fourteen or fifteen, yeah, yeah. I s that that season always comes into my head. I'm like, yeah, I'll wait to see how you do till later. Daniel: Yeah. WINNER: It doesn't matter till playoffs, 'cause you could lose week one and just be out. And you're like, I was the undefeated team, highest scoring and everything. Fucking out week one. Daniel: Yeah. Yeah. jose: All that goes out the window in the playoffs. Daniel: man. I one of my WINNER: man, right? Yeah. Daniel: one of my life accomplishments, top life accomplishments, is y going undefeated and winning the championship in what was our our large keeper before it went to dynasty. Yeah. That was WINNER: Mm-hmm. Yeah. Daniel: epic. WINNER: That's pretty crazy. Yeah, dude. That's that's something I have not seen in all of my years, other than you doing that. I have not seen that by anybody else. Daniel: That's that is a life accomplishment. I am proud of that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. WINNER: Yeah. Yeah. That's like up there with holding your child at the hospital, right? Yeah, yeah. That's a good one. That's a good one. I'm with ya. Man, I can't belie yeah. dude. That's like winning both our leagues at the same time, you know what I mean? Or yeah. No, I get it. Those are good feelings. I could die happy man right now. I can just kill me. Kill me and take me. I'm here. Daniel: Yeah. Yeah. It was like dun dun. Yes. Yeah. Haven't won since. Yeah, yeah That's right. Yeah. Yeah. WINNER: Yeah. That's a good moment. Good moment. Okay. All right. In the final of written by Mario, we have another one. I'm an Aztec warrior. Asserts his Indianish dominance over the Apache Gorillas as Martin snatches up his third win and hands Daniel his third loss. Martin came in with authority as he whooped Daniel with 33.15 points. Our Daniel: Yeah, I did. WINNER: second biggest blowout of the week, by the way. Daniel: Yep. WINNER: Martin had a Martin had a star and scrub approach featuring some absolute badasses. Genty, say Flowers, Judkins, Nakua, and TJ Watt all put up about 25 points. Rvel Reese bust your O lines to pieces and tackled for 38.4 points onto the scoreboard in a Pro Bowl performance as As usual, Kyler Murray came and used a boost as he scored just 13.18. Yeah, something right. And Sadek Daniel: Sadiq. WINNER: pulled in Sadiq pulled in yeah, I'm gonna do that. I I do that every time. Sadiq in a no show with a straight up zero. Yeah, yeah, he'll do that, right? We talked about that though. rookies. Martin will need more from his IDP players. Not name Watt or Reese in the future, but it was definitely enough to crush Daniel's team, who only had two players break 20 points, Daniel: Mm. WINNER: but were far more consistently mediocre. There's Daniel: Mm. WINNER: a lot more potential there, but the Apache Gorillas look as lethargic as the Rams in week one. That's pretty bad. on the McVay flight plan. matchups Daniel: Mm. WINNER: matter, and Daniel had a mu had a bunch that just didn't pan out. Better Daniel: Mm-hmm. WINNER: luck next week. Daniel: Yeah, that this one. this one hurt. It hurt. I'm reliving WINNER: Wow, he really beat you up this week, didn't he? Yeah. Daniel: it just like Jose was, for sure. jose: Yeah. WINNER: When he it's funny 'cause I was in the docket when he said that, you know, hey, just hand, you know, I'm not gonna be there this week. Let's do it with Jose, right? And I'm like, okay, so I started to type out his part and I'm like, cursor there, and I was about to start like thumbing through. And I'm on my phone, and all of a sudden I just see writing and I'm like, I look at my phone, I'm like, I'm not doing that. Mario jumped into the docket and wrote this shit. Daniel: Yeah. Yeah. WINNER: 'Cause 'cause I started like Raiders jose: Ha ha ha. WINNER: and and then he starts writing. I'm like, fuck it. I wanna see what Mario writes. I wanna Daniel: Yeah. WINNER: see this. Let's do it. Daniel: You know, he we actually had a trade Martin and I last week. my third for his fourth and Dalton Kincaid. Mm-hmm. That was the other trade that we did. WINNER: It didn't make it into the dock. Yeah, we didn't talk about that. We didn't talk about that. Daniel: So he was banking on Sadiq and I was banking on Kincaid, and we both got burned. And I had Mayer on my bench who put up like 17 points. You know, it wouldn't have made a difference, but I paid a th I paid a third WINNER: And Mara won't do it again the rest of the year. Yeah. Daniel: actually he's in my starting lineup this week. Freaking Kincaid killed me. It jose: He might, yeah. Daniel: actually opened up their game with their playing two tight ends. And so I'm like, yeah, that's WINNER: Yeah, they are going to woman. Daniel: those are their best receivers. Why not leverage them on their team? Right? Like I could definitely WINNER: Yep. Yep. Daniel: see the Raiders trading for either Brian Thomas Jr. or Morvin Harrison junior. by the trade deadline just to see if they can give one of them a run, you know. WINNER: question there is a jose: Mm-hmm. WINNER: somewhat aged receiver sitting there waiting happily for some team right now. Tyreek go. Daniel: I don't I mean, it would make sense for him to go back to the Chiefs, but you still don't know how he's doing after he blew up WINNER: Kansas City. Yeah. jose: Yeah, he's probably going back to the Chiefs. Daniel: his knee a year and a half ago, so WINNER: Other than him posting little videos and saying I'm ready, there's I'm in nothing. So Daniel: Nothing. So y you just don't know. WINNER: and and that's the thing is you don't know. Like, yeah, exactly. Cause whatcha call fucking Joe Mixon just had a tryout the other day. And here I'm thinking, great, this player I've held on to Dynasty in the fifty three man roster forever, he's finally getting his chance. And Seahawks kid or wherever he went said no, because he's got Daniel: It was Seahawks. WINNER: a degener He's got a degenerate foot. Daniel: Mm-hmm. WINNER: So I'm like, yeah, you're done now. Okay. At your age and you got a degenerate foot now. Daniel: Yeah. WINNER: Send you off into the fantasy wasteland. Yeah, you're gone. Thank you for your service. Thank you for your service. Daniel: Host. Yep. Yep. That's right. Yeah. All right. So we have our Loki's treasure chest of the week. Offensive player of the week was Drake May with thirty six point seven points. Dropped by Rusty the Hobo. Picked up by Robbie, who didn't win. And defensive player of the week was CJ Henderson, picked up by Justin, which is a very good pickup, I must add I might add. but he dropped Keon Black. So that's probably a good thing though. CJ Henderson put up twenty nine points. WINNER: he dropped it well no no no he dropped CJ Anderson for black before game time. So CJ Henderson was not on his b on his on his roster at playing time, Kalon Black was. Daniel: Ouch. WINNER: And then he tried to give me Kalon Black in a trade and I said no sir. Yeah. Daniel: Hmm No. And twenty nine points ouch. All right. WINNER: Yeah. Both of the both of these are just slaps in the face this week. Daniel: Mm-hmm. WINNER: Cause Robbie didn't win and Justin didn't use them. But you got an award. Hey, congratulations. Daniel: Pick but he picked up. Yeah. WINNER: Yeah, yeah, congratulations, you got award. Yeah. Daniel: Yeah. WINNER: Okay. So last week in our pick'em, it was actually a pretty decent week. I went five and two. Needed that extra point on you, Danny. Daniel: Yeah, you did. WINNER: And Daniel and Mario both went four and three. So 17 and 11. Me and Daniel stand, and Mario is 14 and 14. Pretty s that sounds pretty right. so let's see how this week goes. hey, week one is a host battle, and I love it. Myself, Plague of Anubis takes on Smidey Mighty Boss Stones, Mario. don't judge my team just because of the waivers I had to do. I hadn't Daniel: Y WINNER: fixed it yet. Daniel: you know, I I didn't take into account that Bowers trade also, so yeah. I'm gonna actually switch WINNER: Yeah. You gotta really think that he gave away things. Daniel: this. jose: Well he still has four more tight ends in his on his team. WINNER: well it's that's a Mario thing if you've no if you follow along. Mario loves tight ends. Daniel: He does, but it's not but they're not consistent jose: But he Daniel: as Bower, so so I'm actually gonna WINNER: Mm-hmm. jose: Yeah, I mean that was that was definitely his his top tight end. But WINNER: Once you drop out of the top four or five guys, it kinda starts to go down a little bit on the tight end tree. So, you know, they're not as nothing's like Bowers or McBride, right? So Yeah. Daniel: Yep. WINNER: Yeah. Daniel: So yeah, I'm gonna agree and I'm gonna go with John after that trade. WINNER: Yeah, see that sounds more like it. I'm gonna get my Daniel: Mario goes with him. WINNER: second win. Mario could be Kryptonite sometimes though. This motherfucker Daniel: yeah, you never know. WINNER: will pull out wins that he should not win. Yeah, that usually happens against my wife, so I'm gonna hope for not. Daniel: Ha ha jose: Well, y you know, with Badgin back at now quarterbacking the Bears and he has probably better repertoire with Loveland, I think that could be a factor in moving forward with the Bel Bears offense, you know, like WINNER: Yeah. My first trade my first trade away to Mario, motherfucker. Daniel: Yeah jose: And then WINNER: Hey, there's a chance right there. If he has a good and he finishes top five, that pick goes up. Come on, Loveland. See, this is why you gotta hope for performance. jose: There you go. And I I liked his early season waiver wire pickup of Gredr Gregor Rousseau. Sick as line bug. I was actually I was hoping I would get him, Daniel: yeah, dude, he's been sick. WINNER: Yeah. Rousseau was absolutely. jose: but he he beat me to it. But I think Loveland and him Yeah, WINNER: Yeah, there was a few names on that waiver wire grab. Daniel: Yeah. jose: I think with him and Loveland that might be the difference. Sorry, John, I know you always pick me, you give me love in the pick'ems. Even though e even when WINNER: hey, I try. I try. jose: when you sh when when when I know it's like a uphill battle for me, I appreciate it, but I think Smitey Mighty finally gets WINNER: Well, I just sometimes I just jose: his WINNER: I'll be honest, sometimes I just can't say Ollie's name, okay? So jose: And he's my worst foe, according to that website stats you pulled up. Like I d I didn't WINNER: Yeah. jose: know. I I didn't know he was my arch nemesis. But yeah. Daniel: Ha WINNER: Yeah, apparently, right? Yeah. jose: But I think I think Mario's gonna get his first one of the season. Sorry. Sorry, mate. WINNER: It's okay. That's okay. I I accept. I accept. We'll see how I pick in you later. Daniel: Mm. Yeah. He didn't jose: Yeah. you slow some asshole. This is what you get. Daniel: write it too, so he's just waiting. Yeah. He's waiting to see how it went. Yeah. WINNER: I'm winging it too, just like you. Yeah, just like you. Yeah, I jose: Yeah, I told him I just like decide right on on the spot right here. WINNER: like it. Okay. Battle two. Hercules huge sock takes on Annie's Temple of Sugar Plum Fairies, apparently. I'm just gonna change his name weekly. jose: Another a bottom of the barrel matchup, right? WINNER: I I I let let's see. Daniel: Yeah. WINNER: W is he the bottom? Let's see. We have Daniel: He's not the bottom actually. Vince is the bottom in scoring, which is why I actually took Robbie. Mm-hmm. WINNER: that's what I was looking for. man. That's a shame because he makes a good he is a pretty he's a bottom guy. So okay, well I I'm still jose: Well WINNER: I'm still gonna go Vince I don't know. jose: Yeah, that's I think I Daniel: Spider on that one. jose: I I think that's a good pick because he's actually putting Nico Collins in his starting lineup Daniel: Mm. jose: this week. WINNER: Ooh. jose: So that will hopefully put him over the top. I know Merritt Bill Krosky Merritt's got a tough tough sliding WINNER: He does is yeah, Krosky Merritt he hasn't really had a good few weeks. He's put up some single digits last few weeks for Rob. an eight and then ten before that, a seven. He hasn't been anything since week one with his seventeen points, so he is holding McBride. jose: Yeah. Jalen Waddle too, he's been i inconsistent. Yeah. I have him in my other league and they WINNER: Ha ha ha jose: Jalen Waddle was supposed to be pretty pretty good player in Denver and so far hasn't pounded out. But Daniel: been like every other week for a lot of WINNER: Yeah. Daniel: these guys, man. jose: Yeah, it's tough. Defense has been like s pretty steady this this season, Daniel: Right. jose: but offense mm not so much. Daniel: Not so much. It's been brutal. WINNER: The linebackers, I don't know. I've noticed that the linebackers haven't been our top hitters. It's been in their DBs, they've been our top defender spots. And people Daniel: D Bs have been better this year. WINNER: shun this year, and and they're all just sitting there. And you're like, How is number six IDP sitting there? Yeah. Yeah. jose: Yeah, it's weird. It's Daniel: I've got I'm starting three D Bs. I've got two linebackers. I happen to have one of the top jose: So I I Daniel: linebackers in Rodriguez who I picked up right before the league started and WINNER: And humanity, I mean. Daniel: now Iuminiori. Yeah. jose: So I heard this thing today on the like whatever I was listening to that a lot of teams what they're doing is they're condensing their lineups, their Daniel: Mm-hmm. jose: offense you they're put bringing in tight ends closer to the line Daniel: Yep. jose: and they're saying they're in they're saying, let's let the D Bs tackle make a play, make a play. And it's a combat that the defensive coordinators are like, Okay, we'll we'll just blitz our defensive backs instead of Making them the last you know, kind of the last of the line defense. Like we're just gonna send every w whenever you guys do this kind of formation and that's lead showing in the IDP this year. A lot WINNER: Yeah. jose: of D Bs with tackles and sacks. Daniel: Yeah. This is get they're scoring a lot. WINNER: I I I like seeing play close to the line and you don't know if they're coming or dropping back and you know, it's just mo good old school jose: Right, and b and because of that they disguise the blitz better 'cause like you know, Daniel: Mm. WINNER: Mm-hmm. jose: when you shift the tight end closer to the formation, they're like, Well, of course they're gonna bring in, the D B's gonna bring in so the quarterback doesn't think anything of it. Daniel: Yeah. WINNER: You still see a lot of that twenty years ago in defenses. They would jose: Right. WINNER: shuffle up to the front. You never knew if they were blitz or packaging and send back. So yeah. I like I like that. And they can drop in and they're like cover two, cover threes and yeah. well. D Bs, man. Hey. Daniel: Interesting to see the evolution. WINNER: It is indeed. It is indeed. Yeah. jose: Yeah, yeah. It's just little nooks and crannies of of the current day. Daniel: Every year's a little bit different, right? You know, some years were like banking around and being like wide receiver years and you end up taking like, I don't know, DeAndre Hopkins f as your like first pick and it it is a running back year that year. Yeah, you know. The head receivers didn't do WINNER: Mm-hmm. jose: Yeah, yeah. Daniel: shit that year, you know, and jose: Right. Daniel: and then but the running backs blew up and so you just you All we can do is follow the data, but man, when the season actually starts, you never know. WINNER: Mm. jose: Every given Sunday any Daniel: Yep. WINNER: Yeah exact. jose: given Sunday I should say Daniel: Mm. WINNER: Or or Monday or Thursday or Saturday. Daniel: Mm-hmm. Yeah. Holidays, yeah. jose: Or Friday Daniel: Holiday Eves. WINNER: Yeah. jose: Yeah. Daniel: Alright, our next battle, Verathragna's vengeance versus Rusty the Hobo. Ali versus Justin. I'm sorry, Justin, I'm going with Ali this week. WINNER: Man, yeah, this is a rough one. looking at some of all these matchups, I I do like some of his matchups. Daniel: That's yeah. WINNER: Have you no see this is where I question jud j so Daniel: Mm. WINNER: all Lee is rocking Jalen Daniels, rookie for Daniel: Hm. WINNER: the Buccaneers is a quarterback. I'm not sure I completely trust that. even though he's got Bijan sitting right there. Neighbors maybe better. jose: Yeah. Well, you know, B. John, you know, s X Factor and my concerns with WINNER: yeah, he's jose: him is yeah, Jalen Jelon Daniels and Stevenson, 'cause you don't know how that ne New England backfield is working. WINNER: See, I think the running backs are like a wash this week. They both cap each other because it's number one and two. These guys are studs. So it's they jose: Right. Yeah. WINNER: can as long as they're you know close in points. I mean, it comes down to the rest of the team. he he's got Jameis and Williams who I drop look at another I dropped him last week and then he went from his seven points to sixteen for Justin. So yeah, you gotta go with those players that I drop. I'm telling you guys. Daniel: Ha ha WINNER: Kyron Williams. See, that's where I think it comes down to is the flex positions in this battle. And Justin Scott the better flex positions. Kyron Williams over J over Warren, Jalen Warren. Daniel: You know what did it for me? I the offense to me seems like it's almost a wash. Like it it's so close. But I like Uncle Robert's IDP players for higher consistency than than Justin's IDP players. That is what took me o took WINNER: Ollie? Daniel: me over the edge. Yeah, I'm sorry. I I like all these IDP players better. WINNER: Can you believe that Justin just got jose: Yeah. WINNER: Max Crosby off of waivers? Yeah. I know. Mario. Yeah, Mario. That was Mario's tag. Yeah. Daniel: Yeah, yeah. Mario dropped him. Yeah. Mario dropped him. But yeah, I mean, he's he jose: Yeah, someone just recently dropped him, right? Yeah. Daniel: doesn't he hasn't really done anything this year is the thing. He he had he had one he had one good game. Olakun sh could put jose: Yeah, he's had a he's popped off, but nothing super crazy. WINNER: He'll yeah. Nothing crazy, but yeah. Daniel: up some really good points for him if he's got his his ground going. Caleb Downs, the WINNER: Just crazy. Daniel: other safety got injured on the team, so now they're using him further back into the free safety position, so he's not in the box as much this week. He wasn't in the box as much last week, and so he might not be putting up the same amount of points that he was because he's just not going to have the same opportunities on the field to get those tackles or be involved in the play. Diane Henley hasn't been that good as of recent. And Zaire Franklin, you know, he's been lower and solid. Well, on the other WINNER: Mm-hmm. Daniel: side, Ernest Jones has been killing it. Anthony Hill has been killing it. Ventry Miller has been killing it. Robert Spillane's been higher end solid. And Bla Barrett Carter has been higher end solid as well. So like WINNER: Mm-hmm. Daniel: that's really what did it for me on picking Justin. WINNER: That's f five names right. You're not wrong. Yeah, so top of the lineup versus bottom of the lineup. These pe and you're you're right. These people have to boom 'cause I was okay with giving away Franklin 'cause he was one of my bottom out of my four of the five. He was number Daniel: Mm. WINNER: four out of five for me. He was forty five points. So yeah, I'd I mean You're not wrong. He's he's he hasn't flashed what he could do. But Daniel: I no. WINNER: you're not instituting the he's just picked up like three players that I had last week. So you're not instituting that in. You're not factoring that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're not factoring that in. So Daniel: Yeah. And Mario. And Mario. Yeah. Yeah. And Mario. For sure. jose: Yeah. Right. WINNER: there's magic about. There's magic about. jose: That's that gives him a a ten percent boost in victory, right? Yeah. Daniel: It is logical, yeah. I think that their WINNER: Yeah. Daniel: offenses are like dead even, you know, all the way up. WINNER: I c I can't do it. I can't do it. And it's not a whole like gross all e thing. You're my rival and I No, I j it I I mm gross. Yeah, it it it partially is that, but I I'm not I can't yeah. I gotta go Justin. jose: Yeah, I think with yeah, his revamp defense, Justin even though I just did a you know, kind of praised Ali on his last matchup, I think the IDPs for Justin Daniel: Picking Justin. Nice. WINNER: Well, jose: were will get him over this one. Daniel: Nice. WINNER: Possibly. Yeah, possibly. Daniel's like, I'm gonna get a point this week out of this matchup. Mm-mm. Daniel: Alright The next jose: Mm-hmm. Daniel: The next one are the victorious Valkyries versus the Hail Marys Oof this is a hard one. WINNER: woof, is she gonna get beat by the whole Lopez household right now? Mm one two punch. Daniel: man, I took chass, but now that you put it that way. WINNER: Just saying jose: Mm-hmm. WINNER: that is dirty. Yeah. She about to get a one two punch from the Lopez household. Daniel: Mm. WINNER: Oof. That's rough. I gotta look at that matchup. jose: Yeah, I think a a big thing for her is Zack Bond being out. So Daniel: Yeah jose: if he can play, I think she'll get a big boost. but without him in the lineup and then Walker on bye is brutal. That's like, you know, her best WINNER: And she did just get yeah, she grabbed a good kicker with Schmidt. He's Cleveland's kicker's doing really well right now, actually. she got lucky with Shipley if if he takes over for running back out of Philly. jose: Yeah. He's looking like the Daniel: Yeah. jose: projected starter, but we'll see how Philly's offense is just terrible right now. Yeah, he's the Right. But I mean they're they're all WINNER: They have no running back though. That's the thing, is everyone else is hurt. So Shipley is gonna be the guy. Daniel: Yeah. It's just it's it's him in practice squad, guys. jose: Yeah. Elaine WINNER: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. jose: Johnson just retired. You know, he's like, fuck this. The Eagles suck. I'm I'm just gonna I'm just gonna call it now. WINNER: Yeah. jose: His last season. But it's gonna be a good battle, but I think Hell Mary's will come in. Come in at the end victorious. Daniel: Hm. I I think this might be the closest matchup of the week. Yeah, hopefully. Hopefully it's not too Yeah, not again. Not not like this. jose: Yeah, hopefully. I d I don't wanna have that. WINNER: So Ha ha ha ha ha ha. jose: How many how many shields can I get before WINNER: God, who had it? jose: I can like you know equate it to something else? WINNER: It was what was it? Two si was it last year or the season no it was l two seasons ago because we were still before gods of war. We were civil war. It was your uncle because it was purple, because he had the we call him the the he had the purple heart, we call him the purple balls, because he had it so many times, he had it like seven times that year. Yeah. Okay, Daniel: Uncle Rob, mhm. Purple Heart, yeah. We killed him purple balls. Yeah. So many times. Yeah, he did. Yeah. jose: Yeah. WINNER: so it feels like you're having the Uncle Rob season about two years ago. He was in like every one. Daniel: Yeah, yeah. That was brutal. jose: That's yeah. Daniel: man, I love talking football with him because he's just like, jose: Ha ha. Daniel: man. All right. Speaking of Uncle Rob, WINNER: Okay. Daniel: we've got me, the Apache Gorillas versus saving Ryan's private. After my loss this week, my answer is me, motherfucker. jose: Yeah. WINNER: yeah, actually jose: Yeah I like WINNER: I'm gonna give you in. I'm with this. jose: And I'll and I'll yeah, I'll go ahead and pick you two for the for this week's dub. Daniel: Jeez. I've got again, I'm like WINNER: I'm with this. Daniel: I I look at my team and I'm like, you should be doing better. We should be making more games. jose: Well Parker Washington like kinda had a shit game last week, but he should bounce back. If love's not really injured, you know, it's if it's not a serious injury. hopefully he'll do better. But Yeah, I know, right? But I think Daniel: Let's just give the touchdown to Tyler Algier, Jelly. come on. WINNER: Yeah. jose: your stack your Jags stack will come will come in clutch for you this week. WINNER: Yeah, and your waiver pickup huminiori is a really really freaking solid to be completely honest. So Daniel: Mm. WINNER: yeah. you just need a good Campbell healthy. Daniel: Campbell healthy. WINNER: Yeah. I Daniel: Man. WINNER: it's that i for him it's that Thursday night game. It's you know, I I'm I'm always hesitant when it comes to playing so many Thursday night players 'cause you never know. Daniel: Mm. jose: Yeah. WINNER: Thursday nights are always upside down. Yeah, Daniel: Yeah. WINNER: I'm gonna I'm I'm giving it to you, Daniel. Okay. Owl formation, four and Ta well yeah, jose: Woohoo. Daniel: The two four and O's. WINNER: is it be five and did he win? Daniel: We're s we're we're in week we're in week five right now. So these are the last so it's fours. They are the last undefeated. WINNER: Well yeah. We're we're in yeah, we're in fire yeah. That's what so they're the they're the the last undefeated. They are that's what jose: Clash of the Titans here. WINNER: I was looking at. They are the last of it. Holy moly. Daniel: Yeah. Yeah. I'm pretty sure I went to Allen. jose: Yeah. Daniel: Jess has got some nasty bye weeks this week, though, is the problem. Yeah. WINNER: She really does. And I don't I did not see her hit the waiver wire unfortunately on Tuesday night. Daniel: She did no, she just did while we were on the pod as a WINNER: no way. Okay. Daniel: Yeah, she did. So now she's got Jameis Winston in. WINNER: I I just dropped him. He did good last week. Yeah. Yeah. I just Daniel: And and so he's gonna do well. So she's gonna win. And yeah. jose: He's about to go off. Yeah. So what you're saying Daniel: And she also picked up Xavier Watts for IDP, which is a good pickup. I was looking at him earlier too. so it does bring her up a bit. So now she's actually projected to win. WINNER: That's crazy. And they're in they're split divisions. This is a good game. This Daniel: Mm. WINNER: is a battle of the week for sure. I'm liking this right now. Because it's going to show one division over the other as the dominant division for sure. Daniel: Yeah. WINNER: If Jess Well, look at it. If Jess, if Jess wins, you've got in our division, you've got Rob and Mario both on fours at the bottom. Just winless. And everyone else over there, three and one, three and one, three and one, two and two, one, three, one, three. So you're you're you're in the top division. It's a it's a stronger division this year. So Daniel: It is. WINNER: looks like some of the higher scores are up there. Daniel: It is WINNER: So yeah, interesting. Had something interesting. I'm gonna Jess had I'm gonna go Jess. I'm still with Jess. Jess is a monster and monsters are hard to kill. Daniel: I WINNER: I got you, girl. Daniel: now with her waivers done, I think I'm gonna do the same. WINNER: Yeah, it's she's she's making Wow, on the podcast. On the podcast. I love passing trades. Daniel: coming in. jose: Surprise, surprise. Breaking, breaking news, guys. before before we Daniel: Breaking news. jose: before that gets overshadowed, I think Jess is gonna take it too. J I think Winston's gonna finally settle in a little bit better. Daniel: Yeah. jose: He doesn't have shitty conditions, he's not coming WINNER: my frickin' God you got. jose: off like middle of the game, so I think he'll throw some interceptions but still throw enough throw enough for for her to get the the dub today. Daniel: I agree. WINNER: Alright, looks like Mario's jose: Or this week. WINNER: going Mario's going for I need I might need to go back up and change something for did Mario go? Did he battle? Yeah, he's battling me. Oof, woof, woof, woof. He just picked it. What what have you done? so wow. I'm gonna process this. Process. And we can talk about it. Wow, it's amazing. Okay, let's hit the last one here. Puzzler. Kyverbelt soldiers versus jose: jeez. WINNER: I'm an Aztec warrior. jose: well, I wish I could be one of these you know, astral deities that come down and impart wisdom to the Aztec warriors, but I don't before I didn't think I stood a chance and now he got Brock Bowers on his squad. I I think he's gonna I think he's gonna take this one. I I'm gonna pick him 'cause I've been didn't ha haven't had a lot a lot of faith on my in my team so far. I'm trying to make it happen before I completely shit the bed, but I think with that that Bowers trade's Daniel: Yeah. jose: really really gonna put him over the top. Like not just over not just this week, but in general. He's gonna Daniel: Yeah. jose: look pretty strong going forward. Daniel: I agree. He's he's got a pretty nasty team there, especially with that Bowers trade. Yeah. WINNER: He does indeed. It's pretty monster. So yeah, I'm gonna go Martin as well. Woof. All right. Sorry, hoser. Much love. Much love, dude. Much love, bro. jose: But like like I s like I said, I know no if no, I I get it. Like I'm picking him too. But like I said, Martin, Daniel: Yeah. jose: if you if you wanna if Martin you wanna take go back on that trade that you sent me, we'll we'll run WINNER: There you go. jose: that. WINNER: There you go. yeah. jose: Get him back in the second round. WINNER: So, all right, real quick, throw out your trade, because we're at an hour twenty. So throw out your trade. What did you just do while we're on the pod? jose: I just traded a third round pick essentially for Jalen Coker. I'm trying to upgrade my team. I like weak like pickings not not really living up to the hype this year. I need a I need a pivot like Buka Court questions at quarterback. So I like Jellyon Coker. I think he's a poor man's T. Higgins and I have T. Higgins. That's my boy right there. So I feel like Jelly and Coker gives you the same vibes. Third round pick. I don't want to mortgage my future, but a third round pick for Coker. I think he's like top within the top ten or fifteen of scoring, wide receiver overall. WINNER: So third round pick in our league, you're you're technically like a four because it's well, I mean four, five, six, so seven. You're like a seven jose: Yeah. WINNER: cause it's the first three rounds or draft tags. So jose: Our tags, right. WINNER: you're you you're you're you're pulling pretty good, I think, with Coker for a third. you have a shot at if I mean possible tag if he plays really well, you like him, young kid. jose: Yeah. WINNER: you really could have something here and it's definitely gonna elevate you, I think. And you did it with Mario, jose: Yeah, just trying to spur WINNER: who's a hammer man. He trades that you gotta go the bottom pick with Mario. So you traded with a hammer. jose: No, yeah, and I told him I just told him straight up, What do you for Coker? And he sent me something. I kinda try to haggle and he gave me some options and I just went for the the surefire the surefire thing for both of us, you know. Daniel: Yeah. WINNER: There you go. Yeah. Smart. Daniel: Very nice. WINNER: Very smart. I love that move. jose: I I'm personally high on cokers, so I don't mind paying what I paid for so yeah. That was a Coke head before it was cool. Just kidding, don't do drugs. Daniel: Me too. I'm a Cokehead. I love a coker. I've been Yeah, that's right. He's been he's been on my fantasy he's been WINNER: Dope yeah. Daniel: on my dynasty team for three years since he was a rookie. WINNER: No, that's that's that's jose: Yeah. WINNER: solid, dude. jose: With this trade, I've now traded for him and every s all my leagues across that I'm doing in all my like all platforms I traded for Coker Daniel: Yeah. Coker. jose: in all my leagues. So I think I think I'm addicted. You got a guy, you got smart coker. WINNER: Dang. Dang. You got you got the itch. You got the itch for Coker. I like it. I like it. that's solid. He's Daniel: Yeah. Yeah. WINNER: he's a good kid. So, well, that's jose: Good gift. WINNER: a that's a solid trade right there. And that definitely helps you out. God, I wanna I like what you did. jose: He's not playing this week, so it shouldn't make a difference in the in the but yeah, this I see that's I see some action here, so was like let me preface Yeah, so let me tell you he's not playing. He's he's not no. I know. I d I don't wanna fuck up the He's not playing this week, but yeah. Not the WINNER: Then I then I okay, okay, okay. I see you you see me itching over here. I'm typing your name. I like it. I want to show you the love because yeah. he see he he wants that up in the pick'ems. He wants that up. Okay. All right. Thanks Daniel: He's on he's on by. Yeah. No Mart no no Jose. Let him pick you. Let him pick you. Yeah. WINNER: for joining to anyone that is still listening. An hour and twenty five minutes. You are true, true mortals to this podcast. remember share, like, subscribe, review. All of this helps us grow. right into the show. FFWC23 at gmail.com. If you have any questions, check out any of our socials. And don't forget the website, the fantasy footballer war council. The fantasy football war council dot riverside.com. thanks for joining. Thanks for joining us, Mortals. Tune in next week for the winners and losers of the week five battle and the week six pickums. some NFL news that may or may not affect your NFL team your fantasy teams. thanks for tuning in and as always Daniel: Stay vigilant, mortals. Yes. WINNER: What do you got? jose: And one more thing before I go. It's my first time on the pod. I know we've revamped revamping the league, the the podcast. I just wanna give Mario props on his vocals on our exiting theme track. Daniel: Yeah. jose: I think he did spot on. If he wants to add a an a verse for every team in the league, that'd be awesome. But I like his I like the the vocals he did on our on our exit theme song. Yeah, it's pretty good. WINNER: Nice, nice. Well done. jose: So that WINNER: Good shout out, dude. Good shout out. jose: Yeah, just wanted to throw that in. WINNER: There you go.