Fantasy Football - Championship Studs & Duds + Magic Mike, One More Game! - Podcast for 12/29

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Turn off our mics. Jason, you want to go watch some baseball? Let's get into a man. Spring training yet or what? Oh, my. Well, pitchers and catchers pretty soon. Oh, man. I, you know what? I don't, I was pretty upset. You know, that you did the unthinkable. You got the double up our two primary leagues. Super duper champ. They said it couldn't be done. Everything. I tried. I failed. But I'm not going to lie to you. Hearing that, you've been pretty chill today. But as soon as that intro music was played and you came in, you made me happy. I'm happy for you. I didn't know if I was going to be walking, because I got in here later than you too. I didn't know if I was going to be walking into the double crowns, a robe. I didn't know what I was going to see. And then he was pretty chill. And then he took over the show immediately, which is really a preemptive celebration. It's not over you.

But honestly, that's right. Jeremy, for you, you just need 131 more points from your three players. That's right. Okay. So not anybody's game. 50 from cousins, 40 more from Puka, and then you just need like another 45 from Kyron. There's not enough touchdowns in that game. Yeah, Mike is the double champ. He was so cautious to accept any congratulations early. I also do wonder, like, if you just asked the question, by the way, congratulations to everybody out there. All the football titles. Yes. If you went up against Derek Henry and you lost, I'm sorry. Ain't no shame in that. I'm sorry. That was one of the biggest fantasy performances in a long time. And that's why we say it takes a ton of skill to get to the playoffs. And sometimes if you go up against something like that, you just tip your cap and move on to next year. Watching the end of that, like the, the.

where it was lining up with the Ravens and you were like, oh, Henry's going to carry it one more time. And me and my boy were watching. I'm like, what if he scores? What if he scores one? I was like, Henry, do it. Vermont was. And then that defense was like, ravaged by a blizzard. No, man. Who cares? Go ahead, Derek, Henry. We don't need to stop this. I mean, in the year of Mike, this was the ultimate completion to your special year. Literally this week, the biggest performance in modern day history in a championship week was Derek Henry. And probably the worst that I can remember in championship week was Josh Jacobs. Does that get you? And you had Derek Henry and you played against Josh Jacobs. So it was like right off the bat. I did think with Jacob's performance how that might have been comforting to you knowing that. It was. Had you made it through, you would have been beaten probably. Derek Henry had more touchdowns than Jacobs had yards.

Yeah, it was a 50 to nothing shut out that night. Al Borland had Josh Jacobs. Oh, he's off the injury report. Here we go. And if you looked at it from a matcher perspective, you're like, well, you know, I don't feel amazing about, they know Henry's going to get the ball right. You don't have Lamar Jackson. Like all the logic and stuff said, hey, this could be a fall. Oh my gosh. It was a. Call the head bass. But not for me. But everything else that could happen went Mike's way this year. I mean, I, we kept seeing it. Yeah, it was, I mean, everything, every desire. Luther Burton. I mean, you just like Luther. You just like him. You just like him. So he's the number one wide receiver on the week. It's like crazy. Mike has no more problems, personal problems at home. No more children. They've all been sacrificed for. Christian McCaffrey, it was so symbolic for him to.

Put the icing on the kids for Mike. And then he kind of left the field. He left the field to stretch out. It looked like maybe he was hurt. And it was like, I did my job. Mike is now champion and I may rest. It was because of how fantasy football works. Christian McHerifer goes out and puts up either the best, his personal best or second best half of football in his career. The second half kind of. Oh, let Mike down. Peter off. Yeah. But he was hurt. He actually got hurt. But Christian McCaffrey, RB1. It is done, my friend. At least for San Francisco, you're on your own. I don't care. I don't care about the 49ers success or not. But Christian McCaffrey from start to finish. Oh, my gosh. Since 2019, running back one, 53 and 39, injured, injured. Running back two, running back one, champ, champ.

Running back 72, injured, running back one. Oh, Christian McCaffrey. If he had not been hurt, we would be talking, surpassing the LT type of dominance in fantasy football. But, and this was Mike's call at the beginning of the year. I mean, it was. Jeremy, we had a Josh Jacobs Christian McCaffrey bet. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Who won? I'm going to crunch the numbers right now, but I think Mike's ahead. I was like, I was so. Like for the week? I went. No, season. I went and I was like total points. And Jeremy was like, do you want points per game? I was like, no. Total points. Yeah. I mean, I feel like the real moment, it began when Trayvium started to come alive. Mm-hmm. Mike's season from that point on was as perfect as it could get. And I know Papa Josh got eliminated in the semifinals.

and is praying he somehow doesn't pass Mike's points this week. I don't think he will. So I think he can be comforted in his failure. But there's a, I mean, there's so much going on. This week is, it's week 18, but we're wrapping up with the Monday night football game. Tons of championships on the line because he got big players in the game, right? Puka, Kyrin, Stafford, Bejohn, London, Pitts, right? Who's had a big role on a lot of fantasy teams in the fantasy playoffs. So there's a lot going on for champs out there. Mike already talked about it, fantasychamps.com, trophies, belts, rings. Use the code ballers. We have two Foot Clan title shirts now available on the website. If you go to shop ballers. We're out. Okay. Mike bought them all. Mike bought them all. Dude, we have so many variations. We do. We've got, we've got, oh man, Mike must have bought so many things. Mike is like filtering his entire salary back into the company.

Shopballers.com, Footclan title t-shirts, mugs, celebrate your championship. We have the footy awards coming up soon. We have the Truth Series coming up soon. We've already started looking at some names in the collegiate scouting world, but we're not there yet. Very soon. Looks like Al Borland has sent you $100. Thank you. Um, because that's what you need right now. I will. He does. I do. Yes. Mike was sending some, going straight to fantasy champs. Mike was sending some updates this week. We all have these like whoop bands on, right? They keep track of our, or I guess you got an Apple watch. It keeps track of your heart rate and stuff like that. But he sent this like update. And it was like multiple hours of high stress. That was 100% real. Nothing stays your heartbeat.

I spent two hours in high stress according to my whoop. And all I did was sit and watch for eight hours. Which begged the question. Like I started thinking about this. I was like, you got a double championship. This is a good feeling, I assume. Yeah. Yeah. It really is. And, and, you know, stress that leads to, you know, a lot of health problems. Long-term stress. Right. So I'm just wondering how many years of your life would you trade for what you just did. I've lost years of my life. That's what I mean. Like would you like worth it? If that was the actual trade at the deadline, like two years? Every man dies. Would you give it? Every man dies. Not every man is a super duper champ. What did your family enjoy yesterday when you knew it was secure? Well, do you want the real story? Uh, yes. It's not what you think. It is safe for work. It is. It's not what you think it is. Um, so the, uh,

My sister's brother, her family came over. They were doing Christmas because we weren't able to meet with them. So their kids were over. Hold on a second. Your sister's brother? I'm sorry. That's me. That would be your own brother. My sister-in-law or yourself. My wife's brother came over. And so they're doing their Christmas stuff. And it's a little dark. So I apologize. I'm watching. Christian McCaffrey's first half is just just basking in everything and my father-in-law had passed over the summer and so they were like and for whatever reason they just they decide this is the time that we're going to start working through some grief and like talking like all the events of that of the the final days and I'm sitting there watching the intervention I'm like wait you're trying to be happy I'm like I don't want to be insensitive root of my

but i'm gonna scream right now you get the vibes you guys are really really killing my vibes right now and they just start laughing hysterically so i'm like this is this is happy this is this is like the crowning achievement of my fantasy football career right and you're over here like like no you work you go outside it's nice outside go out back wow wow yeah it was a it was a big week and Speaking of which, you submitted Monday punday answers to the weekend, the good the bad. I have not read or previewed one of these. Oh, all right. So I'm going blind. All of this at the feet of Brooks, who put these in the dock. I have no clue if they're good or bad, but I bet the all sound good. Read my roster. Good to Mike. Mike, you can see. Oh, yes. Ring Henry. Mike should just take all the good. Okay. Christian McNasty.

Ooh, who's this? Brock Party? Brock Perwee? How about Omarian Champton? Oh, Jason, this one's going to feel good for you. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Audric estimated. Who I love. Oh, Luther Berwyn, Luther Beast of Burden. Okay, we got Drake and Bake. I like that. And I helped. How about Colston, Dublin? Mr. Dublin. You want to handle these, Jay? Sure. Taysam Nill. Tase him over the hill. Lost Jacobs. Josh Facobs. That was my guy. C.D. Sham. C.D. Lane. A lot of hate for Cedie. He was on my roster, and I was disappointed. All right. Sequin Barfley. Classic. Jemir Phibs. Yucky Irving. He was bad. Kenneth Gainless. Jared Gawful. Tataroa McVillan.

And shame. No, no, you can't know. That's good. Technical difficulties. Technical difficulties. Yeah. And Shamison Williams. Yeah, that was, um, there, there were big names. There's, I mean, big pants that got filled this weekend. Um, what was? I wanted to find that. Where's that graphic where Derek Henry outscored? Oh, it was like eight or nine of the biggest names in fantasy. Um, on Ra and McConkey and. I wish I could find that graphic. If you see it, share it in the dock and I'll read it out. It's the, yeah, Kyle said he'll find it. It's just the most amazing list where, you know, Derek Henry against the guy. I got it. You do? So Derek Henry. Yeah, tell me who he outscored by himself. Let's see. The tweet was, or you just screenshot it. So it's Derek Henry at 45.6 points. Yeah. If you add up Justin Jefferson, C.D. Lamb, Alman, Ross, St. Brown. I think that's Nico. Ladd McConkey, Jacobs.

Jameson and Gibbs. Oh, and Gibbs. 45.6 points for those eight dudes. You imagine if you went into a game and it was like, you have Henry and they have those eight guys. And yeah, that's your roster. And you could have those are stars. Yeah, I don't, I don't want to like, you know, not everybody who won a title. And if you had some of these guys, you got here, be proud of that. Be proud of the fact you made it to this week. Sometimes it goes your way with every single player in every situation like Mike. And sometimes it doesn't. But yeah, what a wild weekend. And congratulations to Matt in the listener league. Yes. Who went through a playoff run in a 14 team league averaging 138 points. That's hard to do. And his run went through Andy in the first round, Mike in the second round, and me and the chamber. Yeah, we were that meme of the, the Reaper just going through the doors. So.

He'll be back. Yeah. Unfortunately, not an extra spot in the listener league because we tried. All three of us tried to beat him and we couldn't do it. Let's talk some news. News and notes from around the league. Presented by progressive insurance. You will have Drake London tonight. You won't have Devante Adams tonight. So a couple of injury updates for the evening. Not sure how to feel about this. The game was the game was right there for them. Buffalo. Oh. He missed, Josh Allen missed Khalil Shakir on a wide open pass to end the game. Jason. Big Dome is so bad. Yeah, that's right. Put a roof on it. Because of the rain. Yeah. How's that field championship week? Enjoy your football weather. I mean, he just had to complete one pass. And I'm not, no, I'm talking about Josh Allen for fantasy was like, well, the last two weeks for Josh Allen was, were bad. QB, I mean, look, QB 10. And what did Philly have in the second half? Like 17 yards offense? I mean, it was terrible.

Hertz did not complete a pass in the second half, I believe. Now, this is why the Eagles fans I know are very, very afraid. But their defense might be good enough to just win. Josh Allen got x-rays on his foot and ankle again after the loss. Second week in a row, that's still negative. That's suboptimal. He is trying to find something on these x-rays. He's like it, I'm telling you. That's really what it means. This hurts. Let's check it again. Something is wrong in my foot. They just can't find it. And they were right there, but they lost. Gino Smith suffered a high ankle sprain against the Giants. Oh, man. They actually... The Tankathon game was just... There was one team tanking for sure. It was so funny. The kind of almost back and forth, before the game. The back and forth, this guy's going on IR. Oh, yeah? Well, our tackles going on IR. Wait, hold, Brock Bowers. Well, you guess what? Deal Johnson's not going to play. You saw the Max Crosby video, right? Yeah. Of him shooting. Uh-huh.

baskets and super hurt jumping on a trampoline he is a warrior and he was mad bresol had a huge game had a 59 yard touchdown uh hit his knee on the turf they were worried about it he said he's fine he will not need imaging Rashid Shahid concussion Marvin Harrison did nothing I didn't even see that Jonathan Gannon he hurt his heel again yeah he was zero for one I think oh my gosh yeah one target didn't catch it and what a What a just, what a terrible team. Oh, the Cardinals are so bad. This guy. Number two. Still on. Is he still employed? Yeah. He still has a job. Gainfully employed. And honestly, I'm not positive he's going to be fired this offseason. No. No, I mean, now keep in mind. If we lose, if he loses this last game, he'll be the most, the losingest. If 14. Underdogs against the Rams who need the game. Yes. So they will lose by more points than Mike.

scored this weekend. When they lose the final game, he will be the losing his coach in Cardinal history. He will be fired. I mean, how could he not be? He will be fired. Literally the worst of all time. Drew Patzing will be fired. The whole team will be fired. I mean. Into the canon. I hate them. I hate them. And here I am with a hat on. Jaylon Waddle injured his ribs. You know, for Christmas, I got some hats like I was asking. Yeah. And I couldn't. You were asking for hats? I was. And a lot of them are cardinal hats. And I just couldn't get myself to put it on. Yeah. And I had, I have another hat that I really like is just a goat hat. I was like, I can't wear that today. Mm-hmm. This is Mike's to go. Yeah. So Luther Bird and injured. You guys want one of these? These are, oh, these are, uh, Barrow's McLeonate hats. I didn't even see your hat. I can get you some. That's his team. Gross. I'm back to Big Mad. No longer happy for you.

We're just trying to do a show, Mike. I mean, I'm over here. I don't know how I'm going to afford the draft, guys. I'm going to need a loan. Yeah, the things I will have to do. Yeah, the draft normally the champ has been spending money on their presentation. I'll get you the super duper cheap. The info for the marching band. Thank you. Thank you. Um, man. Luther burden injured on the final play of the game, quad injury, not believed to be serious. I saw another update moments ago that said, um, he's just tired. That's what it said. Harold Fanon aggravated his groin injury. That was, I mean, after scoring a touchdown. Yeah, thankfully he gave you a touchdown, but that was a big time bummer. What do you have? Early, early points or something in the first half of the first quarter. Yep. Darnow, Washington broke his forearm. This was terrible for the Steelers. They're now in a, a one game battle for the playoffs. And Jason's dreams can come true if the Ravens win, which is.

that the first time Tomlin misses the playoffs is with Aaron Rogers. Steelers fans, like, I did have a rooting interest. I will admit that of Jalen Warren was on my team. Watching that game, I had no clue what the Pittsburgh Steelers were doing. They could get nothing going in the passing offense. Jalen Warren is just gouging every single time he's handed the ball. And they're like, we're going to do this with Aaron Rogers, though. And with... MVS and no METCAP. You lost, you had the chance to clinch the division and you lost to the Cleveland Browns. You targeted Denzel Award three times in a row to end the game. I mean, to MVS. So, if that was D.K. Metcalf and you're like, yeah, I want to take my shot with my best player, whatever. Also, it's still not a great. How close it was really genuinely felt like D.K. Metcalf, if he's there, they,

They might win that game. They probably do. They're three and a half point road or home underdogs now. I think the final week. I think that Warren was 12 for 64. Maccaf's. Maccaf's GAF probably cost them the playoffs. They probably are going to miss it. Tatavian Sanders suffered a fractured ankle. Franksured? Frankford ankle. No, this sucks. He's been. And that was like it was right. It was like the first or second play. Yeah, he's been. He's had a hard time staying healthy at times. That was news and notes, sponsored by Progressive Insurance Quote today at Progressive.com. Progressive Casualty Insurance Company affiliates and third-party insurers, not available in all states or situations. Coverage subject to policy terms, limits, and conditions will take a break and we'll talk some of Mike's players. By the way, before we get into Studs, just to focus on Duds, you finally lost the championship game.

I did finally lose a change. But he knew. Every time he had made a title game in the past, he had always, you never knew the sting of defeat. I never knew the sting. But it was one of those things where I knew going in. Like I shouldn't have won the week prior because my team was a trash. So. Yeah, you never, never once liked your team and you almost won a championship with it. Yeah. I scored the most points in the league. But somehow it's weird, man. It was a weird. You had the most points in league. And then in the playoffs, you were like.

90 points a week. Yeah, because that's what the team should have been doing. It was just out kicking the coverage for 15 weeks. All right, let's talk some studs. Championship studs. This week's fantasy stud muffins presented by Lowe's. Well, it was Drake Mays week in about a half. Goodness gracious. Highest QBR, I think, in a really, really long time. But then Brock Purdy, ever. It might have been ever. Brock Purdy passed him yesterday. Purdy is cooking right now. Yes. No George Kittle and he's still cooking. And it's like the man. Brock Purdy is playing so well. He's being elusive. He's making that play where great decisions. He's rolling out of the pocket. Avoiding three different tackles for a wide open. Finding a guy. I mean, that play was unbelievable.

Yeah. That was not Kyle Shanahan. That was not a scheme and a system of like, you know, he put him in this great opportunity. That was Brock Purdy making place. Yeah, Purdy was number one, Drake May number two. Malik Willis, which, dude, I kid you not. I want a championship because of Malik Willis. Well done. I had a basketball league that I remember drafting him going, you know, Jordan Love always gets hurt. And Malik Willis. This was not dink and dunk. This was downfield targets. The rumors before the game was that Malik Willis is a free agent. And that he may get a chance to start. Oh, he will. And then he comes out and does what he did there. I'll take him in Arizona. You combine that with, I mean, was it last year or two years ago? Jeremy, you might remember. But like Malik Willis had a stretch where it's like they're winning. They're winning games. And Malik Willis is.

doing the things like he's figuring out how to win yeah last last year he started weeks two and three and one both of those games yeah so jackson dart bounce back week thank goodness thank goodness i know it's the raiders but coming off of the football yeah coming off of the week where they like were punishing dart or just never letting him throw it was really weird very discouraging so this was great to see and it was included nine for 48 and two on the ground Yeah, he looked like the good Jackson Dart. And he will have better weapons. Not in concussion protocol to my knowledge. No, he's not permanently part of it. It seemed like every week you'd be in. If they just do the protocol every week, because he's in better shape. But next year, I mean, Malik neighbors, Cam Scataboo's return, and.

You know, they're sitting at number two. Yeah. They could trade down. They could make more investments in offensive weapons for him, offensive linemen for him. Yeah, get him aligned. Obviously, they would have had more draft capital to be able to trade down had they gotten the number one pick. But in truth, they have the number one pick for them because the Raiders are going to take a quarterback. Right. And so at number two, they're going to get whatever player they want. And the Raiders don't technically have it yet. Just to remind you. Like the Raiders should. That team can't lose next week, but it is Kansas City with a third string quarterback. So it's still better than what Raiders are like 80% right now, but it's not a lot. Josh Allen somehow. Josh Allen somehow ends up at number five. So Trevor Lawrence had a good week. Caleb Williams, start of the week, 3.30 and 2. Nice. I don't.

understand with three timeouts and 70 seconds left on the clock at the 40-yard line of San Francisco how you ended up in a situation where you ran out of time on the goal line. I think that was a horrible mismanagement by that head coach who's been great all year. I'm just saying like there's no situation with three timeouts in the ball at the 40 where you should be running out of time before you can run enough plays on the goal line. They tried the hook and ladder, obviously. That didn't get him into the insult. It was a tricky play, but you've got to do that with a timeout, in my opinion. Tyler Shuck, baby. Oh, going to be Shuck tonight. He's shucking it. 333 and 2. First four-game winning streak for the Saints since Drew Breeze was a quarterback for them. Do this stat. He's one of only three rookie quarterbacks with back-to-back 300-yard, no interception game since 1970. Dak, Burrow, Shuck. That's.

You got to be excited as a Saints fan. Yes, you do. Because you've got your guy. He's the rookie of the year. He's going to be the rookie year on offense. That's what a story. And then Joe Burrow also got it done in his classic two and a half quarters. Yeah, got benched again for being too good. Told you you wanted it. You did want it. Yeah, Derek Henry obviously. Thank you Mark Chase for them touchdowns. Yeah. Number one, Derek Henry on the week for running back and everybody. Chase Brown, Mike's guy. Christian McCaffrey, Mike's guy. Number two and three, Charbonnet. There it is. Yeah. Charbonnet, 25.2 fantasy points. I saw something this morning. I think it was from Underdog. I want to give them credit for posting it. Do you know the points per game of Kenneth Walker and Zach Charbonnet? Oh, no. What are they like dead even? 10.1 points for game. For both? For both. Oh, my gosh. And if you look at like.

percentage of points from yards and percentage of points from touchdowns. I'll bet they are wildly different. Just a yin-yang. Remandre, I think he only had eight carries in this game, still had 24 fantasy points. Remondre. You knew it was coming. I did. And it was, thank goodness, Trevi on hand. If you were against Remandre, thank goodness Henderson came back from the concussion. Because if he had gotten all the work in that time period, he might have scored three touchdowns, four maybe. I don't know. Yeah, it was, uh, an amazing redemption story for Chase Brown on the year. The start of the season was atrocious. I mean, I... That's Joe Burrow. I started this year in League of Record with Burrow and Chase on my roster. Burrow goes down. And fast forward. Like, it's a long season. The Chase Brown story is a story of remembering it's a long season. And this was a complete, unadulterated bust. He wasn't running well. He wasn't scoring.