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Not so SMIGHTY nor MIGHTY · The Fantasy Football War Council

• LOSER x2: Yeah. 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, and standing beside me are the Brothers of Destruction, the Brothers Grim, Daniel and Mario. Council and session, gentlemen. so which one of you motherfuckers listening to this right now? Put a new ca a new curse on the three of us. Because Me Mario: Hahaha LOSER x2: there was an old one where all like at least one of us gotta win Me Mario: Okay. LOSER x2: and now all none of us gotta win. So somebody did some shit. Daniel: Yeah. I I did some shit. It was my doing because I LOSER x2: That's what I'm saying. That's I'm I'm not yeah, somebody did some shit. Mm. Daniel: had the lineup to win and I tinkered on Saturday night and I changed it and I I regret. I I regret. Lost by twenty, would have won by three. LOSER x2: You're okay. I I went to a birthday party and I didn't even look at my phone before birthday party because I was driving to there and Daniel: Mm. LOSER x2: my wife doesn't like me to do it while I'm in the car. So it's like I'll get there in time. And like by the time we pulled up, pulled the kids out, it was nine forty five, but like by the time I got everybody situated, it was ten and I wasn't looking at my team. So I said, Fuck. Okay, cool. So I lost the the sleeper leagues, but I won all my Yahoo leagues. So it's lose the ones that are money, win the ones that you don't give two shits about. Daniel: Mm-hmm. LOSER x2: Cool, all right, that's how it usually goes. Me Mario: Ha ha ha. Daniel: Yeah. Fine. LOSER x2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Wait, yeah, huh here we go. We're we're all here for this one. Me Mario: Autodraft is king. Daniel: Yeah. LOSER x2: We are all here for this shit, so all right. Daniel: Yeah. LOSER x2: Well, welcome in episode one ninety two. We have a bunch of news. we have victims of the brutal game that we love coming and then week two battles and those winners and losers. So let's jump into it, right? Daniel: Alright, well we just have a list of victims of the brutal game that we love from the weekend. First on the list, Jackson Dart with a knee. Could miss the rest of the season. They didn't think it was as serious as it was, and after undergoing tests he might have to have season ending knee surgery to repair his meniscus. LOSER x2: Yeah, all those the notifications after the hour got Me Mario: in the beginning. LOSER x2: it's more serious and you're like, Well, yeah yeah. They're screwed. Daniel: Mm. LOSER x2: But then, you know, we all love Jameis Winston, Me Mario: Yeah. LOSER x2: so we get to see Jameis Winston huckin' and chucking with a healthy wide receiver squad, so Daniel: Yeah. Yeah. We l we love Jameis Winston as long as he's not Me Mario: Yeah Daniel: on our team. He's so much fun. Yeah. LOSER x2: Yeah. I mean I loved him when he was on our team, but yeah. Me Mario: Yeah. LOSER x2: I mean I hated him when he was on our team at the same time. I don't hate him now that he's not on my team, so it's cool to love him. man, is he so much fun to watch? Yeah. Yeah. Daniel: Yes. No, he's so much fun to watch. Yeah, he's so there's just gonna be fun. Yeah, that's gonna be awesome. LOSER x2: I'm all for it. Daniel: All right. LOSER x2: Who grouped Me Mario: All right. Cut. LOSER x2: all the quarterbacks at the top? I gotta know this Me Mario: Yeah, I, I, you know, that's what the people want to know about, right? So we got Jayden Daniels Daniel: Yeah. Me Mario: here, injured his same elbow, dislocated it, non-contact injury. He reached back, landed on his elbow and it just, yeah, everybody saw that. That did not look good. So. LOSER x2: Well, he had an MRI as well today. I waited all day and I did not see any news pop up about his MRI. Daniel: Have not LOSER x2: Yeah. Me Mario: Yeah. LOSER x2: And Caleb Williams apparently sat on the toilet too long and his legs went numb. Daniel: Yeah. LOSER x2: I love that meme. That was just too funny. Yeah. Daniel: Yeah. LOSER x2: it's a hammy. you know, so thankfully he avoided the Achilles like we all thought it was, 'cause the way he was crying and having to be carted off that field. So could miss one to four games, so way better than it could be. Daniel: Yeah. Way better. I think they Me Mario: Yep. Daniel: said LOSER x2: Hey, Madden Curse hits. Yeah, we call that the Madden Curse hits. So Daniel: You know, I'm glad that it's only a grade one and that he shut himself down before he missed the rest of the season with a torn hammy. Like missing four games and LOSER x2: Mm. Absolutely. Me Mario: Yeah. Daniel: still having a sub having a an opportunity at the playoffs is is more important than, you know LOSER x2: Yeah. Well, Bears fans take another hit right here. Take it away. Daniel: Yeah, for sure. Tyson Bajent LOSER x2: Ha ha ha. Daniel: is in concussion protocol. So they lost both of their quarterbacks in the same week. LOSER x2: Yeah. And Case Keenum is set to start. Me Mario: Yep. Handing controls over to Case Keenum. LOSER x2: Woof. Woof. Yeah. Yeah, that one's woof. Me Mario: Hey, he was Patrick Mahomes backup for a long time. So now he's on the Bears and he's like, what? They're calling my number? What's going on? Daniel: Yeah, they weren't supposed to call me. Me Mario: DJ more. Yeah. LOSER x2: I was just supposed to get paid and sit here. Me Mario: This, they told me this was the social security line. Daniel: Yeah. Me Mario: so we got DJ Moore. Buffalo was really humming. It was really nice to have a field stretcher that was a little more consistent than the Gabe Davis of old. LOSER x2: Was was Me Mario: DJ Moore went down and luckily they're LOSER x2: Early too. Me Mario: saying, yeah, he avoided serious injury. was looked a lot worse than it was but he could still miss up to four games Daniel: Is ribs, right? Me Mario: What's that? Daniel: Was it his ribs? Me Mario: I couldn't get it. I did look up whether it was his shoulder Daniel: Mm-hmm. Me Mario: or ribs. But yeah. I missed that when I was putting that in. Daniel: Ooh. Meet in the middle, collarbone. Ooh. Yeah. Me Mario: Yeah. Daniel: All right. Well LOSER x2: all right. Me Mario: And then. LOSER x2: Puka Nakua groin injury will be week to week. So but apparently they don't need him 'cause Adams looked like he was ten years younger out there playing the other day. I don't know what his final stat line, but when Me Mario: He looked great. And you know what? LOSER x2: I looked yeah, when I looked it was like a hundred and ninety two yards, three touchdowns off of eight receptions. Daniel: Yeah. LOSER x2: So I don't know what his final stat line was, but that already Me Mario: Yeah. LOSER x2: was Fucking outrageous. So Daniel: Yep. Yep. you know, they just have a lot of talent on that team. Me Mario: And the crazy thing is everyone who dropped Terrence Ferguson in week one, Terrence Ferguson filled in in that Pooka Nakua role and he did awesome. So. LOSER x2: Eight eight receptions for one ninety five and two touchdowns. Yeah, that's a solid stat line. Daniel: Crazy. All right. LOSER x2: Absolutely. Daniel: Jaden Reed hurt his neck Me Mario: Yep. And then. Daniel: and could miss the rest of the season. Down receiver Me Mario: That's a bad one. Daniel: core for the Packers. LOSER x2: Yeah, it's gonna hurt it's gonna hurt yeah. Me Mario: Yeah, the Packers receiving core is getting clearer and clearer. Daniel: Just need qu Christian Watson to Me Mario: And then. Daniel: maintain his health. Me Mario: That's right. Then we got Alec Pierce got paid all that money and it looks like they rushed him back too soon because his ankle that was surgically repaired looks like it may need surgery again. Yeah, this when you hurt something like that, LOSER x2: That's bad news. Me Mario: I just hope he's back next season. Because if Daniel: Mm. Me Mario: he pushed it too early, that could end your career. I LOSER x2: Yeah. Me Mario: hope it's not that way. Daniel: Yeah, it said that he was gonna try to rehab Me Mario: but he got a lot of money. Daniel: possibly before surgery, so he might be out at least six weeks rehabbing that ankle. They should put him on IR, I imagine. Yeah. He's gonna miss at least four weeks. So all those people that LOSER x2: Before Yeah. That'd be smart. Me Mario: Yeah, yeah, he's going IR. Daniel: dropped Dosh downs after week one. LOSER x2: Yeah. Me Mario: Yeah, I was one of them. Daniel: Yes, you were. Yeah. All right. LOSER x2: Yep. Forty Niners had two injuries with Dem Demarcus Robinson, his ankle sprain, and Mike Evans with his hip. So there's the fur c first Mike Evans injury of the season. Me Mario: Yep. LOSER x2: That damn electric station's attacking again. Daniel: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Me Mario: But he you know the old man and Daniel: Zap zap. Me Mario: his hip he's okay. He just complained about a little bit. He'll be back next week Daniel: Mm-mm. Somebody who won't be back next week, Dallas LOSER x2: He'll be back, yeah. Oof. Me Mario: And then. Daniel: Goddard with an MCL sprain to miss two to six weeks. Philadelphia signed Zach Ertz today as a replacement because their rookie Eli Stowers is on IR with a growing injury. So LOSER x2: I I was very happy to see Zach Hurts get signed back to the Eagles. He'll do really well. Daniel: Mm-hmm. Yeah. LOSER x2: He had a good year last year. had to be Me Mario: Yeah, I... I remember you. LOSER x2: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Daniel: You did. Me Mario: yeah. John knows well about this next one. LOSER x2: Glad it's not color coded to me. Yeah. Not intentional. Not Me Mario: Seyquan Barkley LOSER x2: intentional. Me Mario: pulled a peekaboo. He's got a stinger and he's getting an MRI post-game. I shouldn't really keep him out, but they're just precautionary taking imaging to see to make sure it's not worse. LOSER x2: Did not see results of that MRI today either, FYI. I've been a I've been hanging out for that Me Mario: Yep. LOSER x2: one and I didn't see anything. So Yeah. Yeah. Daniel: Yeah. LOSER x2: You know, it's like they want to make you to wait until after waivers to, you know, let you know that he's gonna be okay. Me Mario: yeah. Daniel: Or I R. LOSER x2: Malik Neighbors has a shoulder or or IR Fuck, don't say that. All right. Malik Neighbors has a shoulder. been bothering him since Me Mario: It's not even on. LOSER x2: college. he usually manages it and misses little time. So hopefully he'll be back and not missing anything or not missing anything and playing through it. But Me Mario: Yeah, he's put Daniel: Interesting. Me Mario: up some crazy stats dealing with that shoulder injury through college. So when he does, he'll take like half a game or maybe a little more, but he's still hell of a player. Just something to look out for. LOSER x2: Definitely. Definitely is. Daniel: big man, we're in the big man section. Ravens offensive tackle, Ronnie Stanley left with a toe injury and could miss some time. LOSER x2: Yeah, that's a bummer. Me Mario: Yeah it is. So Derek Henry might make Daniel: Just getting rolling. Me Mario: 35 points instead of the usual 40 per week he's been doing. So we'll see. Daniel: Yeah. Me Mario: The Packers had a rough game. They lost 2-0 linemen and one of them was the offensive tackle. who had a knee injury that could take him out the rest of season. They also lost defensive linemen. The guard and defensive linemen could be just a couple weeks, but trenches are key and that's going to be a tough loss. LOSER x2: Absolutely. That's too many big men down on your line. That's a big hole. So Dallas and Me Mario: Yeah, even for just a couple weeks. LOSER x2: Washington. Absolutely. Each had two D Bs go down and may both miss next week's game. Woof. Daniel: Yep. with with LOSER x2: hey, good ad with that. Daniel: Alec Pierce going down, Colt sign Darius Slayton. LOSER x2: Good sign. Good sign. See how he does. Yeah. Daniel: Good signing. Mm-hmm. Me Mario: Mm-hmm. LOSER x2: Only little bet little backup help there. Sean McVeigh Me Mario: Yeah. LOSER x2: had a stellar press conference putting to bed all travel talk in a hilarious fashion. sometimes you win and sometimes you learn. And you know sometimes you have a dumbass coach that makes travel plans that puts you in a bad spot. He slams the table and walks away. Mario writes that is genius leadership to kill a distraction with accountability and comedy. I say that's a way to cover up two years of wasting time, money, and a lot of fucking time, I'll say. I don't know if you've heard how much time they Me Mario: Hahaha LOSER x2: actually spent into that Australia trip. They spent two years, two years, Me Mario: Yeah. LOSER x2: sending non-players, so staff. And monitoring how the staff slept during those time periods. What they didn't take into account is an athlete sleeps way differently than a staff member that's not running around or fucking playing a really e you know, exhausting sport. But so none of what they did helped them because obviously flying out day of was not very bright. Me Mario: Yep. But... Daniel: The Niners win this week? Me Mario: Niners won, yeah. But they played Miami. Daniel: And they yeah. Yeah, you're right. LOSER x2: yeah, free game. Free game. Yeah. Me Mario: So. Daniel: They got lucky. Me Mario: But the schedule worked out for them that way. LOSER x2: Yeah. Daniel: Yeah, yeah. I knew that the the the Rams were gonna kill mm-hmm. Me Mario: I think the schedule knew what it was doing. Daniel: I think I I thought the Rams were gonna kill anybody that they went up against this week because they had something to prove. LOSER x2: Yeah. Mm. Daniel: and last thing, Michael Penix to start for Atlanta this week. All right. Thank you, Penix. I lose I I LOSER x2: And next time. Yeah. Daniel: lose Caleb and Dynasty just in time for Penix to come back and and I have a backup quarterback. Me Mario: Yeah. Daniel: Yeah. LOSER x2: Yeah, funny how it works. Me Mario: All the Drake London owners with LOSER x2: All right. before we jump into Me Mario: big PENIX energy. LOSER x2: Big Penix energy. Well let's see how Daniel: Mm. LOSER x2: he comes out and who he throws to to see how big that energy is. before we jump into our battles, we had a trade. two of us hosts here on the show made a trade. Mario and myself. It was Miles Garrett and Saquon Barkley. That's why it hurts so much. a third round pick. Me Mario: Mm-hmm. LOSER x2: And trading in trading away to Mario was Colston Loveland, Travion Henderson, and a fifth round pick. And like we had our agents get in on this shit 'cause like they spent hours talking Me Mario: Hahaha LOSER x2: about it. And you should see like the list of like amendments and like things that have to happen. It's pretty crazy. But like for the most part we have tiers and a top tier is your your first tier and like your you know your running back finishes top first or one through five or your tight end finishes one through four then y that f number five pick's gonna move to a fifteen if it finishes second tier it's gonna move to a ten. If Barkley finishes in his top then it moves to a five. But if like both sides hit that tier one and it goes to an eight. If my if Miles Garrett misses Me Mario: Mm-hmm. LOSER x2: more than five games, that five goes to a seven. Like there's way too much shit here. We we th like kudos to our fucking agents. They did a great job. I really must like you know, when you y you you pay these guys money, they do they know they know what they're doing. So we got good agents. So Well done, Mario. That was a good trade. 'Cause you know, when when it's performance based and the way we did it, you're actually you're not you're like you're not walking away from a trade going I won or he won. It's we both won and we want each other to do better. Because the better he does, my picks get better for him, and the better he does, my picks get better for his picks get better for me. So Daniel: Mm-hmm. LOSER x2: like it was a mutual like we wanted each other to do well off of it. So you're not watching that player disappear and you know, as they do really well, it it it hurts less. You know what I mean? It eases that pain. So kudos to a well done trade. And to both our players eating shit and having single points this Me Mario: Yes, sir. LOSER x2: week. So Daniel: Yeah. Me Mario: Yeah. Daniel: Yeah. LOSER x2: Motherfuckers. Alright, let's jump into that first battle and get you know In the first scrap of the week, the undefeated Valkyries edge out the Apache Gorillas in a thriller that felt less like a football game and more like a slow motion car crash that you just can't look away from. Daniel: Yeah. LOSER x2: Chas Chas's squad took a gut punch early in the game when her QB went down with a dislocated elbow and somehow still found a way to win. Credit the gick the ground game, even though the NFL won't. Jonathan Taylor and Kenneth Walker Me Mario: Yeah. LOSER x2: ran free like free Willie when the tank cracked. Three thirty five point five and thirty point one respectfully, while Chris Olave quietly stacked twenty one point one. When your quarterback's arm is hanging by a thread, your running backs step up, dropping 65 points combined. That's not coaching. That's witchcraft. And she's definitely a witch. meanwhile, Daniel's Apache Gorillas nearly pulled off an upset on the back of one of a mon absolute monster. Jackson Smith and Jigba went freaking nuclear. 44.5. And tried to carry the entire offense on his shoulders like a man who just realized the rest of the roster was made up of wet cardboard. It almost worked too. Almost. Me Mario: in. LOSER x2: Here's the cruel part. A ten point loss. It belongs it it it doesn't just sting, it lingers. So in a blowout you can shrug and move one way, right? In a nail biter you start doing the math at Daniel: Yeah. LOSER x2: two AM and thinking about what could have been and you know the math be get pretty brutal. Devante Smith sat on the bench with a cool 27.7 Daniel: Mm-hmm. LOSER x2: that never saw the field. That's not just unused points, but it's a ghost that will haunt your waiver wire all week long. Daniel: Mm-hmm. LOSER x2: Congratulations to Chats for the gritty 2.0 start. And to Daniel, welcome to 1-1. I can't say this because I'm not fucking 1-1, but welcome to 1-1, where every unused bench spot point counts. And, you know, you have a personal support group. Daniel: Yeah. LOSER x2: I know. There's a joke of the week, but I feel like I've already ribbed too much, so I'm not gonna go with the joke, so I feel bad. I'm feeling I'm feeling I'm feeling pity at this point. I'm feeling pity at this point. Yeah. It was, it was. I felt Daniel: no, bring it. I'm t I'm dying. It's it's gonna be the w it it was a crushing defeat, let me tell you. Just keep it going. Me Mario: Yeah. LOSER x2: it in your text when you're like, damn, your running backs are killing me. And you she only needed the two, right? So Daniel's Daniel: Yeah. LOSER x2: team didn't just lose because of bad luck. They lost because Devontae Smith was practicing social distancing. From the starting lineup. So yeah, yeah. Daniel: Correct, correct. And and Me Mario: Mm-hmm. Daniel: I put in that social distance on Saturday night. I made mistakes. Yeah. Mistakes were made. LOSER x2: Mistakes were made. And these are the things that keep us up until two AM, son of a bitch. Daniel: Yeah. yeah. Yeah. I've Me Mario: Yes they do. Daniel: been thinking about it all day. LOSER x2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Got a few of my own. Daniel: Yeah. LOSER x2: Speaking of my own. Me Mario: Alright, Daniel: Mm-hmm. Me Mario: in this next matchup, we have John vs. Rey. Plague of Anubis seems to be plagued by the same thing I'm having. Big losses. In this divisional loss to Rey's Hail Marys, John was let down by his wide receiver core and his newly acquired Saquon Barkley. who just thought he'd take half the game off, that's all. It was a battle left and right, and was much closer than the 47.93 point difference would suggest. But football is a game of inches, and every decimal point added up in this one. Some stellar performances to be proud of were Bryce Young with 30.78 points and Omerian Hampton reviving his managers faith in him with a very respectable 23.10 Dalton Schultz even put up 35 points in his valiant effort and Because kickers are people too Tampa Bay's kicker put up 20 points for John and That was all well and done, but Rey had just a little bit of edge in the five IDP slots where they just overperformed just a little bit. And the real separators in this matchup were two dogs in this performance. Dak Prescott with almost 40 points and Devante Adams with a cool 40 as well. No puka nukua, no problem. Devontae stepped up and did his touchdown thing. Those were the infinity stones in this match, and Rey rebounds to start the season 1-1. Yeah, there it was. LOSER x2: Yeah. You know, I had cut I had contemplated taking Javonto J Williams out of my wide receiver spot and putting in Rashad Bateman, who blew up on my bench, by the way. and what hurts Me Mario: Yeah. LOSER x2: the most is not the Sonny Styles and his three points, which really fucking hurts. But it's having a Green Bay Packer fan use Dak Prescott to beat me. Me Mario: Ha! LOSER x2: I feel the shame. Daniel: Mm. LOSER x2: I feel the shame. I truly do. Thank you, Ray. Me Mario: Yeah. LOSER x2: I truly feel it. thank you, McLaughlin, Daniel: pin. LOSER x2: though. Twelve of that twenty points came in the first like six minutes of the first quarter. So when I actually pulled my phone out to check my roster, I'm like, Well, at least my kicker's gonna get me forty points today 'cause, Daniel: Ha ha LOSER x2: you know, it wasn't even the first quarter over and he already had twelve. I'm thinking, man, this guy's gonna do great. Keep up ten points a quarter and you'll solid. Me Mario: Mm-hmm. LOSER x2: I need to do that, so Daniel: Didn't do it. LOSER x2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, good job, Ray. Daniel: Job, right? Alright, next one. Saving Ryan's Privates versus Rusty the Hobo. Rusty the Hobo squeaks out the win 203.35 to 197.87, taking this matchup by just five point four eight points. This was much closer than a battle. The final lineups might suggest. And a couple of lineup decisions ended up making the difference. For saving Ryan's privates, man, that thing always tongue ties me. Allen LOSER x2: Mm-hmm. Daniel: was absolute Josh Allen was absolutely ridiculous, putting up 55.62 points and accounting for five total touchdowns. That was easily the performance of the matchup. Of of the week, really, right? Jamar Chase added 23.5 points while Chuba Hubbard scored 17.8, and Brock and Bucky Irving contributed 15.9 for the Rams, and the Rams defense also contributed 26.15 points. The problem was the bottom of the lineup. Mike Gasecki, new addition to his team, scored zero. Well Harrison Mavis managed only four points and Jordan Brooks only added five. Those low scoring spots were costly in a matchup decided by less than six points. The bench, however, didn't offer much salvation. The best available were Quincy Williams and Kevin Winston and they scored twelve and thirteen points respectively, but neither would have completely changed the outcome of the game. Rusty the Hobo had much more balanced attack. Jameer Gibbs led the way with 26.5 points. That tag is paying off. Followed by Bobby LOSER x2: Mm-hmm. Daniel: Okurike with 26.5 points, another tag for him. Caleb Downs with 23 points, newly drafted, obviously. And Edrin Cooper, his other tag, 22 points. And then George Kittle with 21 points. That steady projection across the lineup was enough to overcome the serious problems that Josh Allen presented at the top. I think that so far this season he has had the most consistent production from his tags. And that's been that's LOSER x2: Mm-hmm. Daniel: been pretty cool to see. LOSER x2: Mm-hmm. Daniel: I'm glad that I haven't faced Me Mario: Yeah. Daniel: it yet. LOSER x2: Ha ha ha. Daniel: because Jackson Dart was ruled out and produced just point eight points the quarterback position was a major weakness. Diane Henley only added three points while Malik Golden had nine point eight points. And here's the interesting part Drake May was sitting on the bench with only nine point three points and yet you still would have helped the team by adding eight point five points to his total. That's how crushing the May thing or the Me Mario: Mm. Daniel: Dart thing was turning a five point victory into a little bit more comfortable of a win. in the end, it came down to depth, saving Ryan's privates, had the biggest individual performance with Josh Allen, but Rusty the Hobo got enough contributions throughout the lineup and survived. Two three to one ninety seven, Rusty survives by five points. that's the end of the matchup. LOSER x2: Mm. Solid win. And yeah, his team is killing it. Although I must say, Daniel: Just showing up. LOSER x2: I know I don't know about you guys. I regret letting Josh Allen slip by me in the first round of the draft. because it's Daniel: That was one of my big LOSER x2: two games and he is sitting at ninety-nine points in Daniel: Yeah. LOSER x2: our league. Next closest anybody is 73 points. Thank you, Bryce Young, being quarterback two. You're fucking awesome. yeah. Josh Allen. I know my wife is upset about that 'cause she wanted him. I don't know why she let him pass by, so Daniel: Ugh. Yeah. LOSER x2: Yeah, could you imagine Josh Allen paired with Jonathan Taylor and whatever else she fucking picked up? Oof. Daniel: D LOSER x2: Good lord. Daniel: Well it would have been Josh Allen instead of Jonathan Taylor, but Josh Allen and plus Walker. She got Walker in the third. LOSER x2: Well no, Taylor w was a tag for her, I wanna say. Ta Taylor was her tag. So yeah. Daniel: Taylor was her tag, yeah. LOSER x2: Ta it would have been Taylor and Allen. It would have been Taylor and Allen and whatever came in that second. Daniel: And Walker. LOSER x2: That's what I'm saying. Walk Yeah, I think Walker came around as her second. Yeah. Daniel: She got Walker in the third. LOSER x2: Walker would have made it back. 'Cause I let go. I let him go by me. I know I did, thinking, Ugh mm, I don't know. I don't know if I trust him there and I'm regretting I'm Daniel: yeah. LOSER x2: kicking myself. That's the two AM kicking myself. So Daniel: dude, do you wanna know how much this wind stung? I went back and I looked at the draft board. LOSER x2: I've done I did that last I did that last week. It's okay, I understand. Yeah, I did that last week. Yeah. Daniel: Yeah. yeah. Yeah. I was like, when my god, to get this combo. And yeah, she got Walker in the freaking third. LOSER x2: Yeah. Yeah, I get that. I get that. Alright, here we go. Martin. Well done, man. Aztec warriors. Clawed out 153. point nine seven to one forty six point seven one a hard earned seven point two six and sits pretty ugly at two and hey it absolutely it's ugly but hey he's two and so it's pretty right I mean a win is a win and that's what it came down to a full Madden curse tax another player sacrificed on the altar a victory Caleb Williams leg went full numb toilet seat mode. rest of the roster somehow held the line. Dalton Kincaid just demigod with 28. Genty, his silver and black there, chipped out 15. Tet McMillan, 14.6, and the Buccaneers defense delivered a massive 18.95. The rest of the defense mostly slept. Two guys with threes. So they Almost quite literally did sleep. but it was just enough. Meanwhile, Mario, poor Mario, drops to and two joining the rest of the gods here. Yeah, Daniel: Yeah. LOSER x2: and and you fell to Hades, being the lowest manager scoring, you were banished to Hades this week. Jalen Hurts, twenty-two Daniel: Ooh. So LOSER x2: point one six, DeAndre Swift, fifteen point one, tried to carry the banner, but coker, we're all coker heads here, added seventeen. Daniel: Go cads. LOSER x2: And forty four of the five defenders showed up, except the Raider, who apparently saw that he was facing a Raider fan across the virtual field and decided to take one tackle quarterback hit for a three point sufficiency, so well done on that. Debo's eight point six was somehow a bright spot, while Tucker Craft's three point five and Colston Lovelin helping him out with a one point eight. Way to go for these fucking performance based contracts, right? pretty actively protested. one of these classic someone had to win this dumpster fire weeks and Martin takes the small ugly victory that keeps him at two and So well done, Martin. you know. That was a pretty ugly matchup. That's a low scoring. Daniel: Well done. So I didn't realize that Mario was the lowest scoring this week and you were the lowest scoring last week. So two weeks into the season I'm screwed. LOSER x2: Uh-huh. Yeah. You're coming. You're comin'. Yeah, yeah. I'm absolutely thinking you're low scoring next week. Daniel: man. That LOSER x2: This is why I said somebody put a new curse on us because this ain't fucking normal. This isn't normal. So Daniel: that's so funny. That would be LOSER x2: Something something's up and it's not our own dumb shit. You know what I mean? It's not the only dumb shit that we're doing. Daniel: no way. They can't it can't happen. It can't happen. LOSER x2: We'll see next week. Yeah, we'll see next week. Stay tuned. Daniel: We'll see next week. Magic is strong. LOSER x2: Mm-hmm. Points. Mm-hmm. You know, I'd like to point out that it's week two and both the women are sitting at two and As usual. As usual. Daniel: Mm. As usual, per the usual. LOSER x2: Yeah, as usual. They have like these monster teams that are just literally scoring over a hundred points more than all of us. And I would like to put out a huge stat right now of the league. Going back to twenty eleven, 'cause that's as far back as my stats go for Yahoo, this is the second highest score ever. Daniel: Wow. LOSER x2: Yeah, the highest score is like two ninety three, point seven three. So this is our second highest score. So it's pretty solid. Daniel: We're gonna LOSER x2: It said a hundred and sixty three teams and this was the second highest score. Yeah. Daniel: Ooh. It's crazy. LOSER x2: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I thought it was pretty crazy, right? So Daniel: We might see that broken this year. These offenses keep scoring the way that they're scoring. LOSER x2: Yeah. Absolutely. Well this'll be a pretty crazy year. Daniel: Yeah. Alright, next matchup, Owl Formation versus Verathragna's Vengeance. Owl Formation dominates this matchup, two hundred and forty-three point four eight to one hundred and fifty point three five, winning by more than ninety-three points in a game where several of its biggest names delivered exactly what the lineup needed. The biggest story was Jared Goff, of course, at home in the dome, putting up 36.38 points. But the real damage came from CeeDee Lamb, who exploded for 33.8 points on 153 receiving yards and two touchdowns. Derek Henry added 21.9, while Mark Andrews put up 15.9 and the IDP group also came through, led by Nicoby Dean with twenty two point five, Jillian Love with twenty points, and Alex Singleton with eighteen. There are a few quieter performances for our formation, particularly Rishi Rice with 11.8 and Tremaine Edmonds with 9. But the lineup had enough production elsewhere to make those numbers almost irrelevant. For Verithragna's Vengeance, the problem was that the lineup simply didn't keep pace. Lamar Jackson managed 19.10 points. While Harold Fannin added 14.4. But the wide receiver position was a disaster. Malik Neighbors scored just 0.6 points, finishing with one catch for one yard. That's the kind of number that can sink an otherwise competitive lineup. The running backs weren't much better. Bijan Robinson had 13.8 points, while Raman J. Stevenson only managed 4.8. The Texas defense did its part. scoring twenty two point seven points. but there just wasn't enough scoring to go around. And then came the bench. Verathragna's vengeance had Travis Kelsey sitting there with 32.6 points, which could have been a massive upgrade over Fanon. Well, that was easily the biggest miss opportunity of the matchup. Aziz El Shahir also had 16 points on the bench, although even Kelsey's monster performance wouldn't have completely erased this deficit. For owl formation, the the bench was a story of Tyler. Shucks 26.8 points, but with Goff scoring 36 points, it's a good thing that he didn't start him. Final score was 243.48 to 150.35. Ow formation had the stars, the depth, and the lineup production. Verathragna's Vengeance had Charles Kelsey waiting on the bench with Malik Neighbors practically invisible in the starting lineup. The owl flew high this week, Verithragna's vengeance got left at the starting line. LOSER x2: Mm-hmm. Yeah. Daniel: One fifty. Ooh. There's some high scoring teams and some low scoring teams. Yeah. LOSER x2: And it's a really low score yeah. And bad luck in who some of these people got to play, right? Daniel: Yeah. LOSER x2: I would have liked to have played Ollie this week. It would've been nice. Daniel: I thought I thought for sure when Jameis came into the game that neighbors was about to just explode. LOSER x2: It's about blow up. Yeah. When he Daniel: I thought for sure. LOSER x2: finished with only three points, I was very shocked. Daniel: I had I was going up against Devontae Adams, Malik Neighbors, Cam Scadaboo, and Isaiah Lakely all on one team, and they have they were down by 80 points to start the matchup. And and LOSER x2: Mm-hmm. Daniel: I was like, they could do it. The they could do that. That lineup of players averaging 20 each the game. And then when Winston came in, I was like, my gosh, this is it's happening. I'm gonna I'm so screwed. I just turned it off at that point. And then I went back later and I was like, what? LOSER x2: And you laughed. Daniel: You know, even though Devontae Adams got him halfway there by himself, you know. So I I ended up winning by like thirty, LOSER x2: Yeah. Daniel: but it was I I was terrified. LOSER x2: I could I could see that. Yeah, that would that would definitely do it. Okay, so there was something I w you were reading. I wanted to point out yeah, it wasn't a Ramon Day Stevenson day. It was a Trey Henderson day. So well done, Mario. Yeah, Daniel: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. LOSER x2: yeah. It was a Trey Henderson day, so yeah. Daniel: Yeah. Yeah, and hopefully it doesn't become a Trey Henderson season. So we'll see how that goes. Yeah. LOSER x2: Want it to be a Trey Henderson season. I need that motherfucker to pay out. Yeah, get that pick down to a 15. Mmm. Yeah. Okay, so I'm gonna be a little mean in this next matchup. I'm I apologize for nothing, but this manager upset me the other day. I was having a conversation, and he didn't care about stats, rankings, records meant nothing to him. The fact that he finished second He was better than all of us. And I said, Well, first and foremost, I played you in the year and I beat you. You didn't beat me. So that makes me better than you. Cool, cool thing you got to second and then you lost, right? So There's one winner in fantasy football. And it's the champion. And everybody from the fur from that second spot down, it doesn't matter if you sat at two, ten, twelve, or fourteen, whatever league you climb to play. I mean, you get a little more shame for being that last guy, but it truly doesn't matter if you were two or fourteen, you were the loser. First or last loser, but you're a loser, right? So I wanted to hammer that point in with this one here because He really thought he was better because he was second. And when I threw like in the last five years, like this is what you've done in the last five years, he goes, I don't care. Okay, well in the last five years when we've played, like here's your record against me. I don't care. I finished a second and you finished here. And I'm like, Cool shit, 'cause like It's strategy. You know, you're not gonna make in the playoffs, so you start going for that first pick, right? So, like you strategize for how we draft our leagues because in our league, if you make it to if you win the clo the consolation bracket, you get first round draft pick. You are the number one draft pick in our league, not tank for last pick and get the first pick, right? So we it keeps everybody fighting. Well, it's just the the the fucking asinine shit that came out of this manager's Daniel: Yeah. LOSER x2: 'Cause he was quite literally talking out of his fucking asshole. I I I'm gonna be mean here, so Daniel: Mm-hmm. LOSER x2: Very triggered. Yeah, no, I was very triggered. I c I hung up on him and I haven't talked to him since so Jose's Kyper Belt Soldiers stormed an on case temple of BDSM, walked out unmarked, no whip marks, no scratches, just a clean hundred and ninety six point six three to one ninety-three point nine eight, a victory and a two point six five point dagger right through Robbie's soul. Or his asshole, we'll call it. Robbie sits in the cuck chair this week. Massive fucking cuck. Proud owner of the Spartan Shield for the closest loss of the week with a two point six five point margin. It's the same as two hundred and sixty-five points. It doesn't matter in the shame ledger. You're the first loser, you're the last loser. It's a fucking participation trophy and you're a fucking loser. So it doesn't matter. There can only be one. And this week you were not it. The electric winner, Jose Brock Purdy put up 34.08, your general. Chase Brown followed with 15.2. The defensive unit was on a war path. Will Anderson put up 25 points. Trotter, amazing waiver wire last week with 18 points. Well done, buddy. Swessinger, 17 points. Hufunga, 13 points. And his lowest defensive player still put up double digits, 10.5. All five defenders showed, truly led by the defender. This roster was humming. The heartbreakers. Fucking loser. The guy in the cock chair. Everybody played. That almost makes it worse. Baker Mayfield put up 16.48. Trey McBride blew up. This was his best player. 23.1 points. Jalen Waddle had a killer game at 20.8. Four of his five defenders managed to point double double digits. Here's his shame list. Javante Williams, 8.9. Justin Jefferson. what? I thought I remember him saying something about that guy being quarterback. Like no quarterback can hurt him. Well, he only put up eight points this week, so apparently quarterbacks matter. Jacori Croskett Merritt, seven point seven, and Jared Verse, five points. Losing by two point six five is a special kind of pain. It makes it doesn't make you better or for being closer. It just makes you feel like loss it's a little longer, you know? Congratulations, hoser. Big W. Cause that's all that matters when it comes to fantasy. You fucking twat. Daniel: A love letter to Robbie. LOSER x2: I know. Well it was a little heart, right? A little heart. Is it too hard? It was too hard. I don't think it was too hard. We did lose Mario, so Daniel, if you want to take away with our lucky our Loki's lucky finds our our godly treasures. Daniel: Yeah, let's go. All right. Well, it's gonna sound bad now because we're just praising ourselves. But all right, Loki's Loki's lucky. That that sounds good. That's that sounds good. All right. Loki's lucky LOSER x2: We are here, why don't here I'll do the defensive if you want to do offensive for me, because you can read the offensive honor roll, you know? I don't wanna praise myself. Daniel: fine for best offensive player goes to John for picking up Dalton Schultz. LOSER x2: Thank you. Daniel: trading away Loveland, who put up one point eight points, and adding the only serious patch catching option on Houston offense was a brilliant move for thirty five points this week. He was on my waivers too. Great job. LOSER x2: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I saw I saw that he was on like eight people's waivers. So it was kinda nice that I got hoop. So Daniel: Mm. Yeah. LOSER x2: l on the diff defensive our IDP defensive player pickup was Daniel really well with Quentin Lake. He put up twenty eight points to contribute to well whatever heap helped you. you know, didn't help you this week, right? So yeah, yeah, get a little closer. Yeah, I Daniel: Get close. Yeah, it got me close enough. Yeah. LOSER x2: got you a little closer. But he'll be code really next week for you. hopefully is your lowest player of the lowest manager of the week in our predicted so. Daniel: Dude, I I drafted him and then I dropped him to pick up Marshawn Lloyd in the off season and then it when he blew up last week I was like, my god, I need him back, please come back. LOSER x2: I like looking at the team at the history of the player when you say drafted, dropped, re picked up by you. You're like, Yeah, you're you you're mine this year. You're just back and forth out your mind, Daniel: Yeah. Yeah. LOSER x2: so Daniel: I was so glad I still got him. All right. honorable mentions. Bryce Young with LOSER x2: Yeah. Awesome. Awesome. Nice. Well done. Well done. Pat on back. Solid. Daniel: thirty point seven points. LOSER x2: Mm. Daniel: Rashid Bateman for twenty one point three. Both John. Very nice, John. LOSER x2: Yeah. So as I was thank you, thank you. as I was counting down like who like they were literally the top three. I held the top three spots with best pickups. So I was like, Yeah. Daniel: Yeah. LOSER x2: That w this I shared with your brother, 'cause like last week with the week one waivers, I missed the week one waivers. I felt really dumb for missing the week one waivers. This move right here, these three guys, that made me feel so much better for missing those week one waivers, you know? It's the little things that matter, you know, so Daniel: Yeah, yeah. So it he, you know what? That's so it I mean, you could have changed the trajectory of what your team is off of that first week wind waivers. You know. So that's cool. Yeah. Yeah. LOSER x2: Well, not this week, but we shall see next week. Yeah. I play Just I play Justin this week. So a win against Justin would be really nice. So I'll take that. But so into speaking of our pickups, let's take another pickups. this week Mario went four and three, while Daniel went six and one, and I went five and two. Yeah, congratulations, six and one. That's pretty good. Leading you're in the lead with nine and five. Well done. I'm in second place with six and eight and Mario sits in in last with five and nine. let's see how we all do this week and we'll pick Daniel: Ooh, all right. First matchup. myself, Apache Gorillas versus LOSER x2: Yeah. Daniel: Allen. Ow owl formation. I am picking the LOSER x2: Whoo hoo Yeah, it's a really good matchup here. but I I I like some of your matchups better. Even though this if I were you I'd be a little scared playing the two and guy. Daniel: Yeah, we'll have to see. LOSER x2: I I I Yeah. Yeah, yeah, exactly. But I mean we'll go from there. Daniel: I've scored more cumulative points than him so far this season. I've been and so I'm like LOSER x2: It's always nice to see when you look at the points for and points against. Yeah. Let's take a look at that. Daniel: I've gone up against one of the highest scoring teams both of the weeks. So we'll see how that goes. Every week doesn't you know, we'll see how it it goes every week, but LOSER x2: Holy crap. Christine is almost Daniel: Yeah. LOSER x2: seventy points higher than the next person, which would be Alan. Daniel: Correct. LOSER x2: Huh. Well, no, you. You're at two. Daniel: Mm-hmm. LOSER x2: You're at two. You're 20 points higher than Alan. So, Daniel: Mm. LOSER x2: huh. Look at that. Hey, I don't feel so looking at Justin's points four. Okay, alright. But then looking at my points four, it's like, okay, alright. So Daniel: Yeah. LOSER x2: speaking of which, Plague of Anubis plays the Rusty Rusty the Hobo. Yeah. I I'm not picking me. I would not pick me. By the way, we'll go of Dan Mario's picks. Mario did pick you in the last matchup. So and he does go Justin because he's not a moron. So yeah, we all three go you, and then we all three go Justin. Who Daniel: man, we almost follow suit all the way down. All right. Next one is Hercules' huge sock LOSER x2: Almost. Daniel: versus the Hail Marys. This is one of the ones that's different. LOSER x2: One of our two matchups. Yeah, we got two matchups that differ. Okay, so myself and Mario are gonna go Raymond. we're gonna stick with you know I was beat by him, so I f I you know no. I Daniel: Yeah. I think LOSER x2: think he's gonna Daniel: I think Vince is gonna bounce back. We'll see, but I'm taking Vince on this one. LOSER x2: Someone's gotta take our our our reigning champion and hope that he does well again. I don't know. When looking Daniel: I think he'll bounce back. LOSER x2: at his stats, actually, he was like if you look because I did follow I don't know if how much I talked about this on the podcast recently, but that website, fantasyhall of fame.com, if you type in your league and it gives you like the history of your league and all the like stats and stuff, Vince actually was not even a 500 manager. He was under 500 in his win-loss totals and yet has won two championships in the last four years. Daniel: Got really bad years and really good years. LOSER x2: Yeah, but when you see your s like I saw myself in l and I'm only looking at just the last five years because if I look at the fucking everything, I'm at the top and like no one's close to me when it comes to win losses just because of how many years I've been in the league longer than everybody else. You know Daniel: Mm-hmm. LOSER x2: what mean? but looking at just the last five years, I still sat at like forty nine and twenty one and I was second on the list. Even though I have not done very well least lately, I still win. So like it makes me feel good to see stuff like that, but then you're like I see myself at O and two and I'm like, how does it it's not it's like numbers are not fucking like this doesn't compute here in my head. You know what I mean? Yeah, Daniel: Yeah. Yep. LOSER x2: yeah. Like some some some You know what I mean? Like fuck that shit. That's all I think so. All right. Thank you. I was looking at where we were. Daniel: Next up, Smighty Mighty Bastons versus saving Ryan's private. LOSER x2: I would have taken it from you 'cause you I don't want you to stumble on you. I don't know. Daniel: Yeah, yeah. LOSER x2: not your brother. I'm gonna go your uncle here, and I think we all go your uncle here. Daniel: We all went Uncle Rob, yeah. LOSER x2: Yeah. Daniel: All right. LOSER x2: Yeah, yeah. Anonke's Temple of BDSM versus the one. And I'm definitely gonna pick the two and team versus the O and two team, the guy sitting in his cock chair in the corner. Hey, there's three of us that are O and two. Hey, look, there's three of us in that O and two chair. Wonderful. Yeah, yeah, cool, cool, cool. No, Daniel: Yeah, we all went Jess across the board. LOSER x2: we're all going chess for sure. Yeah, I think he's gonna be O and three and it'll nice to see him go on three. God, I need beat Justin, so I am not 0-3 with this motherfucker. Sharing no chair with this dude. Daniel: Yeah. LOSER x2: I'm an Aztec Warrior. Well, he's 2-0, so it's I'm an Aztec Warrior is facing off against Verathragna's vengeance. We have another 2-0 versus 0-2 situation. Although I really hate to put Ollie's name here. But Martin has no quarterback. Daniel: Martin has no quarterback. LOSER x2: It's kind of a big thing. It's kind of a big thing, right? You gotta go after Daniel: Mm-hmm. LOSER x2: him tonight on waivers. Hope that you get Hope that you Daniel: Yeah, yeah. LOSER x2: don't get I don't I don't know what we're hoping for. Yeah, yeah, I know. But hey, in a family matchup like that when you're facing your brother in law, y you know. Daniel: I'm trying to make a trade Yeah. I'm trying to make a trade with him in another league and I might just I'm ahead of him in waivers this week. So I might pick up all the quarterbacks this week on this league and then be like, yeah, LOSER x2: And hedge the trade. Ooh dude. Daniel: well I'll give you that player in that league if you help me. LOSER x2: Fucking genius. Look at you, dude. No, I love it. I love it. That's pretty smart. Daniel: not gonna happen, but I was thinking about it today. I was thinking about it today. LOSER x2: It's smart. It's smart. It's not that's not bad. You know, you pick up the two the two good quarterbacks or so that are on waivers and be like, I got him. Ha ha ha ha. You know? Yeah, it's not a bad thing. It's not a bad thing. Yeah. Daniel: Mm. Yeah. LOSER x2: well, speaking, okay, so we all No, look, Mario, Mario and Martin. Daniel: Mario went Martin, and you and I went LA w Ali. LOSER x2: What is he yeah, okay. I'm trying to wonder what Daniel: Okay. LOSER x2: he's thinking, but hopes and dreams, I guess. Daniel: He's two and versus and two. LOSER x2: yeah, but no quarterback. Daniel: No quarterback. Yep. See. He's LOSER x2: No quarterback. Like I don't know. Okay. in our final battle, Kyberbelt Soldiers takes on the victorious Valkyries. A one and one taking on a two-and-o. Hm. Daniel: Chass across the board. That team's a monster. LOSER x2: We all put jazz across the board. Yeah. No, I'd I I'm I know that like right now I think she's got like she's gotta do some waivers because I'm looking at their project yeah sleepers. Daniel: She still needs quarterback too. Mm-hmm. LOSER x2: Yeah, yeah. She's gotta move Jaden out and yeah, she's having some issues, so yeah, that'll be something. So okay. tune in next week. We will definitely have a guest god on the show next week. Jose should be on next week. We're supposed to be on tonight. work schedule changed, so Hopefully hosers sitting on here next week you get to hear another God voice right into the show. FFWC23 at gmail.com. if you need any help with your fantasy team, we are here to help it any way we can. Question mark, question mark, question mark. like, Daniel: Yeah. LOSER x2: like, share, subscribe, share us with all your friends. Smash that, smash that button. it really helps the show out where you're trying to spread our show. So love us and love us by sharing it. also leave a review. That also really helps. And if we see those reviews, we will read them out on the show. So read those out. thanks for following. Daniel: Just remember, we've learned from our mistakes. So we've learned a lot. Yeah. Yeah. LOSER x2: yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. As I'm saying in my O and two position, I have learned a lot. Yes. And I've I've learned a lot from this own year Daniel: Yeah. Yeah. LOSER x2: not to do certain things and who not like don't have personal biases against players going into the draft because that's gonna hurt you. And you're gonna go, nah, screw Kenneth Walker. Why do I want that guy? And then my wife takes him right after me and then he blows up for her. So you're like, man, I could have had that guy and here, here, or here. And you know. Daniel: Yeah. Yeah. We all missed him at least twice. LOSER x2: Three times Daniel: Yeah. LOSER x2: Snake Drafts are a bitch. But yeah, so we're here to help or hurt your show. We don't know. But we're here for you guys. right into the show. See you next week. And as always Daniel: Stay vigilant, mortals. LOSER x2: Remember, Loser one and loser two here to help you. Daniel: Yeah.