Footballers AMA + Beat the Ballers, Chunky Life - Fantasy Football Podcast

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mailbag i was secretly hoping you do that mike i heard you i heard you loud and clear big guy welcome into the mailbag welcome into the footballers a m a we received uh a lot of questions right brooks just a lot of various questions oh yeah all over the place some food questions some random questions about um the company and then

a bunch of fantasy questions. So we'll jump right in. What kind of question do you guys want first? I'm going to ask you that. I want to start with a fantasy football question. We're the fantasy footballers. That's a strong point. Strong point. All right. From Instagram, we've got a question, Dynasty League question. What is the best time of the off season to do a Dynasty Startup draft? So you're starting a Dynasty League. Some of you out there, you've always done redraft. Maybe this year you want to jump into a Dynasty League.

When's the best time to do that? It's tough because if you're sitting around right now, fantasy is gone if you're not in Dynasty leagues already. And I get it. You're already itching for more fantasy. Well, you should check up Beat the Ballers.com. First of all, fill it in. Play with us. Yeah, some playoff fantasy. But because you got to wait. The best time to really do it is after the draft because the draft changes so many things. And it changes so many things that.

We did not see coming. Like, you're talking about a running back where it seems like their job is secure. Like Leonard Fournett, I'm not projecting this, because no one is. No one's projecting that the Jacksonville Jaguars would spend a high capital pick on a running back. But then these things just, they happen. And teams surprise you with your pick. So you don't want to have spent a high...

dynasty startup pick. I mean, those first few rounds, those are very, very valuable picks. And you do that draft one time. And then the draft blows it up. Yeah, you only do that draft once. I mean, this is your team. This is the beginning. So you need to give all the owners the best opportunity to make strategic picks, not random picks. Yeah, it's really tough. I always want to do it. Like, you know, as soon as the Super Bowl is over, it's like, okay, let's let's get our dynasty startup. But Andy's right. No draft.

means more than a dynasty draft because that's your team forever and you're drafting you know 25 30 guys and so you want to make sure that that draft is as fair as possible it stinks to start a forever league with a forever roster with mistake picks that were just you know if you had drafted later you never would have touched them yeah yeah um all right what kind of question you want now mike you pick it random

Fantasy. Let's go random. Okay. From Facebook, Bernard, Franklin, Allen, Jr. Whoa. Yeah, yeah. Former, obviously former president. That is correct. Founding father, he's on the $2 bill. Founding father, Bernard Franklin, Allen Jr. has a question for us. He said, do you all ever get in fights? And so he means like, do we get into verbal?

But disputes. Disputes. You know, I think the fights that I can think about were genuinely fantasy football. Like when we're really, when we're in the lobby arguing over Russell Wilson, I mean, that's still not a fight. But no, not really. I mean, sorry to disappoint you, Bernard. I know there's been probably. We disagree. Of course. Lots of times. I don't think we've had.

I'm sure over five years we've upset each other here or there. But literally, when I look back at the five years, if you were to say, name your biggest fight. Just the one that comes to mind, I genuinely can't do it. Right now is the Russell Wilson. Right. Yeah. I mean, I can't do it. That was a spirited debate over nonsense. Yeah. You missed that, Andy. It was a good time. Well, I got the beginning of it. I just went up to bed and didn't know you're going to spend the rest of the night in the lobby together.

Yeah. But yeah, we don't get in a lot of fights. We certainly disagree. But I think that that's key to like a successful business in general is you're kind of working through so many decisions over the years for your business. We're pretty aligned at the high level on everything here. But when you get into the nitty gritty, you're kind of bouncing ideas off one another. You might be really like if you don't have passion about building your business.

then, you know, you'll certainly never get into arguments, but you also probably won't end up with a really quality product. Yeah, we disagree on decisions and then come to a consensus. Yeah. And that's what makes our products the most incredible. And us the most humble. All right. Then, Jason, let's get you a food question real quick, because that's a category this year. From Caleb.

On Facebook, what is the best thing that you can do with a tortilla? Is it a taco? Is it a burrito? Is it a cassidia?

Or is it another thing? What soup? Tortilla soup is pretty good. That is an option. That isn't, that is a very low option. Oh, I know what Jason's is. Chips? You think you know what mine is. Yes, you're going to say a cheese crisp. I knew you thought I was going to say that because that is definitely one of the best things you can do with a tortilla. Jason loves a cheese crisp. And you prefer that over a cassidia. I mean, 100%. It's really just. It's folding it. It's an open. It's an open. That's what I'm going to start ordering.

Can I get an open-faced cassidia, please? Open-based cheese cassidia. Yes. No, I love cheese crisps. But I think that if you actually take a cassidia and use it to make a dessert, like either cinnamon sugar with butter. Yeah, tortilla or peanut butter. Interesting. It's hard to beat that. I go burrito. Yeah, it's hard to go away from burrito.

I think the best, I think of the best cassidia, the best burrito, the best taco I've ever had. I think the best burrito takes the cake. Yep. So I'll go there. All right. Let's go to Instagram here. Here's a question from Hurricane Tomas. How do I manage having DJ and Drake in a Dynasty League? Oh, man. Trade now, trade later. Keep what do you do with David Johnson? In a Dynasty League. David Johnson.

In a Dynasty League right now, you want to hold him because the up, I mean. The value. I don't think anyone is going to be trading for David Johnson. That's just my belief. And if they're trading for him, they're trying to get pennies. And the hope, because David Johnson is done in Arizona. He is, there is no chance. It has to be. There's no chance he is relevant for fantasy if he is a cardinal. And I think the odds are. What if Drake isn't back, though? Yeah, that was.

It popped into my head for the first time. What if Drake just doesn't come back and they're like, yeah, David Johnson was really hurt. He has off-season surgery. He's our guy next year. And do not forget that over, let's say, I'm trying to pull up his chart. David Johnson, over the first six weeks was a top 12 running back, five of those weeks. For fantasy, yeah, he was very valuable. But for the Cardinals.

He was not because he couldn't run the ball effectively. He was great as a receiving option. Most of the Arizona outlets, you guys can both attest, expect David Johnson to not be here next year. We should come back to Jason's answer because it's the right one. I would not be trying to shop David Johnson in Dynasty because you will not get value for him. The value to be found for David Johnson now is the hope that the Cardinals trade him. Maybe they eat the contract, but they trade them. They get draft compensation, fourth, fifth, sixth round pick.

He goes to someplace like Tampa Bay, Houston, someplace where he can start again and be a primary ball carrier. And then, you know, at that point, you don't need to do anything. You've got two players on two different teams. And Drake, Drake is a clear hold. He's going to be great because he will either resign with the Cardinals or the only way he doesn't resign with the Cardinals is if someone pays him.

A lot of money. A lot of money that the Cardinals aren't willing to match, in which case, good. Because, you know, when teams pay up for people and they're invested, then they've got to get them the ball. It does feel funky to have both those guys on your dynasty roster right now and go, well, what's the future? Yeah. At the running back position. Do I have two running backs? Do I have one? Do I have to plan to draft some? You know, that question is there. But I think, I think in time you'll be okay. I agree. Yeah.

All right. Do you want me to hit another random one? Here we go. Twitter, Paul Myers. Hey, Paul. Not a founding father. At what point did you guys decide to leave your day jobs and jump into this full time? Really early. And was that scary? Really scary. It's scary. For me, the day job left me.

It was not an active decision by this guy. Couple times. Yes, and a few times. Sorry about that. Glad for the punishment. Look, it was, yeah, that ship had sailed. It was already that I need to find something new. What's next for you? And I, like, had a couple irons and different fires. The podcast happened to be one of them in the podcast. It was.