SHOW 1000! Surprises, Show Moments + Week 14 Advice - Fantasy Football Podcast for 12/9

I think that's how Bruno said it. Say it again. Oh, is that a... Celebritized. There's a Bruno reference. Yeah. Nice. Good deep cut. But Matt Harmon is the only guest who has ever done an in-studio appearance. Is that true? Yeah. You don't remember that? Well, I do remember it because we were in the bedroom and it was miniaturized. Yes. The space that we had. Thank you, Matt. Yeah. Did his voice sound a little deeper than normal there?

He's a growing boy. Ah, I mean, he just sounded... He's a man now. He's amazing. When we met him, he was just a child. Oh, my goodness. Thank you, man. So next up, guys, we're going to get into some mailbag questions. We've got a good mix of fantasy playoff questions and some frequently asked footballers questions. But we have a special quick montage, mailbag drop montage, to lead into that. Okay. So it's going to start.

With the very first filmed mailbag drop. Oh, my. Of all time. And it's ending with a live mailbag drop. So be ready, Mike. All right. Mailbag. Very nice. I'm always amped after that. Oh, yeah. That didn't sound amped. Yeah. It's going to be fun. Wait, that's actually you that does that. That's not part of the drive. Now you know. That's live. Now you know. This is.

We needed your best. We needed your best today. Turned into the mayo baggie. Oh, I liked it. Mayo baggie. Okay, dokey. Oh, Jason. I tried. I forgot it. That's the best one right there. That's the best one right there. Thank you. Gave a little extra pet. That's incredible. Powered by meat. Incredible. Mail bag.

Wow. Wow, that was incredible. Well done, guys. Now, I cannot confirm nor deny this, but this is how I remember it. This is a fantasy footballer show. We are remembering this. So Owl Bordland, who is now one of our fearless producers, was essentially like fan number one. No doubt. No doubt. For the fantasy footballers. He supported us when our downloads were one.

Yes. One per episode because it was him. Our parents refused to download the show. Yeah. Only Al Borland. But we had the mailbag drop. And the way I remember it is he told me, he's like, when the ending tagline hits, the, the bar, no, now, he's like, I sing mailbag in my head. Really? And really? You were remembering that correctly. Yes. So the origin of the mailbag singing.

was because of Al Boylan mentioning something. And it took 1,000 episodes to give him credit. Well, look, I try to keep my secrets close to the vest. Very, that's amazing. Yeah, awesome. I assume the royalty checks in the mail. Yeah, we gave you a job, bro. We gave you a job. I assume my paychecks in the mail. Eventually, yeah. All right, we've got some mailbag. I'm excited about this. The first question comes in from a Foot Clan member, Blade Blaker.

Blake Blake. Blake. Okay. Yo, yo, hi, hey, bonjour from Canada, ballers. Bonjour. Heading into my playoffs, should I ride with Kyler Murray, even with the past three weeks disappointing, or with a streamer. Thank you for all the hard work, fellas. Well, this is a tough one because of several factors. Number one, they are facing a formidable, impressive of late Giants defense this week. Mm-hmm.

Kyler could be dealing with prolonged issues due to injury. I retweeted this tweet that showed DeAndre Hopkins route tree over the last... This ain't even a tree. This is a route bush. I mean, this is... It's a route bush. It's not a tree. It's a picture of vomit. Yeah, it's like, you know, run between 5 and 10 yards on the left side of the field.

And is this a product of the shoulder? Is this the route that he can throw right now? I don't know what's going on in Arizona, but I don't like it. I will say this. While Kyler has had two back-to-back, poor weeks, bad weeks for fantasy football, you know, those were the New England Patriots and the Los Angeles Rams. I'm not taking anything away from the New York Giants who've been playing some good football on defense. But they are not in the tier.

of the Los Angeles Rams. And I am not personally afraid of them. If Kyler got me to the playoffs, Kyler's in my line. Well, look at Russell Wilson last week. This is a road game for the Arizona Cardinals. They are in New York. The Cardinals historically don't travel. No one really travels well from the West Coast to the East Coast. You're playing them over Tannahill? No. That's my question. Your best friend? A streamer who might actually be available would have been Ryan Tannahill. Now, Ryan Tannenhill, Jacksonville.

Detroit, Green Bay. No. So that's what was the next thing I was going to say is, you know, we had our streamers yesterday, our Weaver Wire show, and we assumed that Tana Hill was no longer out there. We said if you picked them up last week, certainly keep rolling with them. If I have Tana Hill and Kyler, I am going Tana Hill this week. But outside of that, all the streaming options we gave on yesterday's show. Are you playing Kyler over Josh Allen against Pittsburgh? Ooh.

The way Josh Allen is playing right now. Yes, I am. You playing him over Tom Brady against Minnesota? Yes, I am. That one didn't sound as confident. I'm not confident about either. Justin Herbert against Atlanta? I would probably go with herbs. All right. Yeah, it's tough. It's tough. I'm so discouraged it. I almost want the answer to be that he's hurt. Because if he's not hurt and this is the battle plan for the Cardinals, doesn't work. We've seen three. Cliff.

Three straight games of Kyla Murray only rushing five times. Yeah, yeah. All right. Question number two. It's a footballer's question. How did you guys meet? People do ask this question all the time.

Andy and I met all the way back in high school when he first got to high school and goes to his freshman Spanish class. He saw this freshman class. He saw this upperclassman in his freshman Spanish class because I refused to take Spanish to that time. I also dropped out halfway through that class. Couldn't handle the freshman course. I never took Spanish and used it as my deficiency to get into college because.

It wasn't for me. Language. Your primary language. Not really for you. Right. Language. Language is a difficult thing for me. So we met then, and we actually met playing fantasy basketball. That's kind of what started the relationship. And then we reconnected long after high school, even after college. I had a business that I was running.

uh that at that point made my space layouts and designs my space and then i ran into andy who was doing graphic design work and brought him on and then you grew as the company grew you became the c o uh did everything um and then we made video games we changed to a video game company and mike the fantasy hitman right was an unbelievable

and is an unbelievable audio mastermind who could make every song necessary, every sound effect necessary. And he was a one-man audio team for our company that we brought on. And once we were there, all we ever talked about was fantasy football. Yeah. Accurate. Yeah. Mike was extraordinary in that role. And I noticed from those vintage mailbag drops, very consistent. Oh, well, thank you. From the first one until now.

You haven't lost it yet, Mike. Not yet. Your workouts are working. Question number three from Nick in Chicago. He says he has Josh Allen and the Steelers defense. What do I do? Okay. So Josh Allen, I think we've kind of exhausted this. We're playing Josh Allen. You can't extinguish those flames right now.

But Andy, you have the Steelers defense. In League of Record, right? Yeah, I do. Are you playing the Steelers defense against me? Yeah, I am. I'm not excited. I'm not thrilled. I would be completely content with them under normal circumstances without the injuries they've suffered recently. That being said, Josh Allen is still willing to provide some stumbling, bumbling mistakes. Sure. It's...

The Steelers looked like that they were a bad play against Baltimore earlier this year. It was one of their best performances. I'm going to dance with the defense that got me to the playoffs. Yeah, I think I would stick with the Steelers defense. That being said, if you have both of these, I understand why you're thinking that way. You're saying, okay, if Josh Allen does well, then my defense does poorly, and you're not wrong. I mean, if he sets the world on fire, you do lose some ceiling playing both of them. So if you were a...

maybe a huge underdog, and you'd rather play a higher... Which one would you pivot off of Josh Allen, or would you pivot off of the Steelers? If I'm going to pivot off of one, it's going to be the Steelers. I think so. I'm going to throw out a couple options for you guys. We talked about them on the waiver wire, but Steelers defense or the Carolina Panthers against Drew Locke and Company, the Denver Broncos. No, I'm not playing Carolina's defense. There's no way.

Yeah, that's a really close one to me, but I would stick with the Steelers in that situation. Okay, the Steelers or the Arizona Cardinals against the New York Giants and either a hobbled Daniel Jones or backup Colt McCoy. I guess I'm just playing the Steelers. Yeah. All right. I think the only team that might be out there that you could pick up and play, and I would play over the Steelers would be the Seattle Seahawks.

whose defense has improved drastically over the last couple weeks, and they're playing against the New York Jets. I will say this. It is not a bad thing that the Steelers lost to Washington for your defense this week. Yeah, that's true. A little bit of a chip on their shoulder coming into this game. The locker room was probably a scary place to be with Mike Tallman after that defeat. So we'll see what happens. Question number four, why did you start the podcast? So we started the podcast.

Originally, it was just myself and Andy. We started it for our League of Record. And we just wanted to take our league to the next level. We're always trying to amplify the fun for our League of Record, live drafts, announcers at the draft, punishments, banners, t-shirts, custom mini helmets. And we thought, okay, let's go with a podcast. So we did that. We put that out once a week. And then we said, hey, we're...

kind of good at this. Let's try. Jason said we're kind of good at this. Okay. Jason said. He said, okay, this is pretty, this is pretty good. I knew you guys had something special. I came to Andy once and I said, this, this thing's going to be big. And Andy said, oh, you really think so? I said, no, I know that this will work. And then we made, we made a podcast for the public and we were no longer good. We were in fact really bad. And we took some reps.

We eventually said, hey, we need to get a third voice in here. We did. And then Jason was invited to the podcast. On that note, Breaking News. It's been a while. We said we were going to do this at five years, Andy. And we have a story to tell you, Mike, about how I came on to this podcast that you don't know about. Oh, my goodness. What an episode 1,000. Well, well, well, well. All right. The secrets are coming out. The secrets are coming out. We legitimately said we'll tell them in five years.

And here's the moment. Live on the air. Okay. So you two had this podcast going and it was great. And I thought, I said, I think this was great. But I never wanted to be a part of it, never thought about being a part of it. Andy thought I would like to have a third voice and bring Jason in. So I don't know if you remember how I came in, but it was actually you're doing.

But Andy, out of respect for you, did not want, he knew if he came and said, I want, I want Jason in, that you would be forced to say yes. Right. Okay. So he. Did I get inceptioned? You got in. You got super inception. So instead, Andy says, if you want to be apart, you need to go ask Mike if he would, you know, you bring it up. So I came to you, Mike, and said, hey, if you ever wanted a third voice.

You know, I could bring, you know, the stuff I do for business and that. I would be willing. You said, you know, I think that would be a good idea. I like it. And then you said to me, but I've got to make sure Andy's okay with it. And when you said that to me, it was the funniest moment because it was Andy's idea that was inceptioned in, but out of respect for you, we made it. And then you came to me and said, hey, I've got this. What do you think about this? And I was like, I think that's a pretty good idea. Well, that's great then. And that's how we became a team. Yeah.