Bad Beats, Game Respect Game, Megalabowl WINNER! (+ Week 17 Waivers) - Fantasy Football Podcast for 12/29

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Jason Moore and Mike Wright. Oh, welcome in. The Fantasy Footballers podcast, Tuesday, December 29th. I love how well rehearsed and fought out our pre. Our advertisements. Yeah, our ad was. What people don't realize is that was 15 takes. 15 takes to get to that level. But we got to glory. You know, we got to the gold standard.

I'm just remembering T.J.I.F. for yesterday. Think Jason, it's Friday. That's what it was. Yeah. Welcome into the show. So very excited to be with you again. Unbelievable timing. I just received a text message from my nine-year-old son. Oh. And it's perfect. It's perfect. It says the Tom Brady pick was wrong.

What an idiot. And three laughing faces at me. So my own son who is co-managing that league I won with Tom Brady has decided to time up trolling me with the show's beginning. Yeah, I mean, that's the truth. I'm an idiot. Yeah, I mean, dummy dumb dumb, dumb over here. Only got 40 points from Brady and a half.

when he could have had 45 points from Josh Allen in three quarters. You like two quarterbacks that got benched. Yeah, I was going to say, what are the odds that the two quarterbacks would end up the one and two on the week and both not finish the game and Brady only play a half. I mean, come on, points per minute here. Brady was the winner. To be fair to Josh Allen, he pretty much did that in half as well. His first quarter production was nil.

Oh, you're saying second and third quarter. Yeah, he did his production in two quarters as well. Yes, yes. There was one thing I, no, I'm going to go with I wanted that to happen because I know a lot of people had Josh Allen and they played Josh Allen and a lot of people had Stefan Diggs. I mean, this was not, there was a chance that last night's game was just going to be kind of not exciting, not an influence on whether people won or lost the championship.

Historically, the Patriots had been able to stop Buffalo. And so I, you know, I didn't think the odds were supremely high that Buffalo would go mop the floor with them the way that they did. Cam Newton's career is done. It's done. Cole Beasley was a disappointment for people who played him in that game with all the points being scored. I mean, it was all Stefan Diggs and Lee Smith. I mean, genuinely, Stefan Diggs was as selfish a players I can remember. He was so.

Me, me, I'm going to catch another touchdown. I'm wide open. Yeah, it was really rude of him to always be wide open. What does he think he's Devante Adams? I don't think Josh Allen is the NFL MVP. I don't think he'll win it, but he's close. Like, who would you, I put Rogers and Mahomes ahead of him. Yeah, but that's it. I think it's Rogers right now. Yeah. It's, it's been an incredible year for Buffalo. And they are set up for a while. Did you catch the, the, the handshake?

I only saw it on socials afterwards, but Bill, we all know Bill Belichick and Uncle Bill, cramudgeon-y as they get. Yeah, I did not. Especially for post-game handshakes. It's always just like, whirr. He, like, what was that again? He turns into the Danny DeVito as the penguin from Batman returns. But he, this was like an embrace. Really? At the middle of the field. Yeah, he gave McDermott a big hug. Clearly, he was.

pouring adoration. Bill Belichick was pouring them on to head coach Sean McDermott. It was like, holy crap, Bill Belichick is actually impressed. Did he pass him an actual torch? I don't know. Did you guys see any of Bill Belichick's press conference? No. That part I did not. I bet he was right back to. Let's just say his happiness meter had run out. He was a delight of, I mean, the questions that were asked, he got about.

Five word answers back after a two minute long question. Oh, man. And he stared these reporters down. If I was a reporter in that room asking a question, my question would be, okay, Jason, it's your turn to ask. I'd say, I'm sorry. I've got to go. Kind of trail off. Now, Bill, are you going to play the court? Yeah, I'm out of here. I poop my pants. I'll relate it back to.

The Patriots back to, like, Dynasty fantasy football. Because if you listen to Belichick at the beginning of the year, he talked about, like, look, we had a million dollars to give Cam. Like, we didn't have any money. And he also said, he goes, we sold out the last five years. We won three championships. We lost in another one in the Super Bowl, and we lost in an AFC title game. They also had more COVID opt-outs, like important COVID opt-outs, I think, than anybody else. Yeah, so it was, you know, this is what you do. Sometimes.

You sell out for a title, and it feels great when you win it, and then you have to live with the down years. Yeah, but they'll be back next year. They've got massive amounts of cap room and a great defensive team that's going to be better with the COVID opt-outs returning. I can agree with you from the sentiment of the Patriots are going to be good, but.

I will disagree with you on the basis that they have had a division that is beatable for 20 years. Yes, that's fair. And Miami and Buffalo are here to play football for a while. So it will be fun to see a competitive division, not saying they can't end up on top rather soon. But congrats if you won last night. Yes. Also, I'm sorry, if you lost to the miracle that was the Alan Diggs stack, that didn't seem possible.

Are we sharing this voicemail that we have? Yes, we are. Oh, yeah. We do want to hear any good stories, bad beats, any of that stuff at the FF Ballers on Twitter. But we do have a voicemail about one particular gentleman. Go ahead. Hey, Phil Ballers. Your former intern blew an 80-point lead tonight against Alan Diggs, Bill's defense, and the Bill's kicker. At 4 o'clock this morning, he made a celebrating video of his victory.

Was that too soon? Thanks for the call. Bonior. Oh, man. Look, this is a hype. So baby Josh, our former intern, stayed up late. Burning the midnight oil so he can make a good taunt video. I mean, that's... I respect that. Yeah. Once you win. Game, respect game. Well, I mean, you've got to... You're up 80. People ask me, like, when is it too soon to buy my Foot Clan title? T-shirt? I'm like...

Was it bad when Babe Ruth pointed that he was going to crush a home run? No, it made it even more awesome that he called his shot. So I respect making the video. But man, you look like a dummy dummy dumb drops right now. And it's great. Yes. Unbelievable. You lost. You made a video that now exists of you pretending to win. It's reused all the time. That thing's got to be shared to your shame.

every chance it can. Oh, I mean, if I made that, I would hate seeing it every single time it's brought back to my attention. I don't know if you guys have noticed, but in our Slack channel for the League of Record, the person who was the number one seed, which shout out Nick. Oh, I've noticed. He was the number one seat and he was posting gifts nonstop. I'm number one. Number one, which is fantastic because now I don't even have to look for gifts. I just keep sharing his posts. Yeah, it's great.

Sometimes you're Babe Ruth and it works out. Sometimes you're that Lakers player. Sometimes you're Casey at the bat. That shoots the three and then turns around and throws the double threes up. I don't even remember. Oh, it was such a good name. He turns around, throws the threes up, and the ball does not go in the hoop. So you can get your footclan title shirt. Shopballers.com. Swaggy out. We'll be doing it very soon. Swaggy P. I think his name was Swaggy P.

You have a better memory than I do. Nick Young, Swaggy Pete. So it really was. Yes. That's a perfect name for that. We have a big announcement. I think it's worthy of, uh, uh, of a, what, the Jared Goff. Jared Goff. Yeah. This is big time. Yeah. 8,000 plus players this year, one winner. One champion. And one.

player that will be in our official listener league next year. Congratulations to Baskin Robinson. Oh, fabulous name. A.k.a. Joseph Mason 94, who won the Megalabole for 2020, and it was close. You shall not pass. That's a good name. Also a good name. Finish second.

in the Meglopold, the difference was just more than one point. So congratulations to everybody that participated, played. The playoffs were really fun. And it was a huge success this year. Yeah. And congratulations to Tyler McFadden, who took home the listener league. He will be back. So we have two. Oh, man. We have two players slot it in for the 2021.

Listener League. Now, why didn't we win the listener league? Because Rogers and Adams decided that week 15, they were going to do nothing. Oh, man. Yeah, as much as the Camara hurt people in week 15 compared to 16, Rogers and Adams were. Yes. Because if they had showed up, week 15, I would have opened up another spot. Unbelievable. Can a what? I did see one of our fine listeners get an...

absolute drubbing. Just the kind of honestly, if I'm going to lose in a title game, I'd rather it be this way. Face, you know, it was like Rogers Adams, Diggs, Camara, Gaskin. It was like if you built the millionaire maker type of lineup, unbelievable. So Twitter at the FF baller, share your stories with us. We'll be sharing them over the course of the next few weeks. We'll share some good ones. If you have enjoyed.

This year worth of content, we encourage you head to Apple Podcasts. Subscribe. It's a year-round show. Leave a review. It's free to do that. And we love them to make us feel good. Oh, yeah. And we're not going anywhere. We'll be here next week with some footy awards. We'll have some Ask Me Anything shows coming up. It'll be good times. All right. Unless I'm forgetting something, Brooks. I think we're going to talk news. News and notes from around the league.

Dwayne Haskins has no team. He's been waived. He'll be picked up. I mean, I don't think he'll go through waivers unclaimed as a backup, as a prospect on a rookie deal. I would imagine somebody claims him. That's a first round pick, though. Yeah. That's the first round contract. Do you think he goes through waivers? I mean, probably. I think he makes it through unclaimed. This is.