THE MEGALASHOW! Bold Predictions LIVE in PHX - Fantasy Football Podcast for 8/29

He's a big fan. We're here in Phoenix for his bachelor party. Okay. Nice. Congratulations, friend of Earl. I think this is, so obviously you're going to go Bijon and Gibbs are usually gone. So now it comes down to, and I'm curious Mike's take as Mr. CMC over the last little bit. Right, right. I would go Jamar Chase. And if he's gone, I'd go JSN. But would you take. So no puka there for you.

Right now, I would take the other two over. McCaffrey doesn't bite people. Well, neither does Jamar Chase and JSA. Jamar's not going to be there. No, no, no, but I mean, it's at four. So if someone takes JSA ahead or Puga ahead, I would take Jamar Chase, but assuming he's gone, it would be JSP for me. What if you don't want to take a wide receiver? Because it seems like those are the next guys up. So is it CMC? Is it Jonathan Taylor? Is it James Cook, who you said is going to get 350 plus opportunities? To be fair, I said all three of them would.

Yeah. Oh, that's true. They are all in that group. No, you, you're not playing for fifth place. You're trying to win, so I would take Christian McCaffrey. Okay. All right. We appreciate that question. Laura Oven? Laura Oven? It's spelled oven. It's spelled. She wants to know, do your wives play fantasy football? No.

And would you ever play in a league with them? We tried once. And what would happen if they beat you? Man, Laura Oven, you're funny. I had one year where I was able to get my wife to do a league about week three. They are in the building somewhere. Our wives are in the building. Give it up for our wives, everybody. Thank you. Thank you.

They let us chase this ridiculous dream, but they do not participate in it. Someone is now married to a Hall of Famer. Congratulations. That's a pretty big deal. Oh, my goodness. It's probably the best thing that's ever happened to her. Yeah, yeah. We did give it a go. We had a Wives League that was going on for all of us season. Yeah, they don't play. This is, if my calculations are correct, the fourth fantasy footballers my wife has ever heard? Oh, like episodes?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Were they the four live shows? 1,960. So were they all four live? We're all four of them live? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Thank you for that one. Tom Wintermeier. Tom, you sound like a girl. And that's fine, you know? Yeah. I'm just calling out. I've been told I laugh like a girl. And that's fine. I just, you know, let you know.

Keeper question in the building here. Am I crazy to keep Tram McBride over the aforementioned Chase Brown? No, that's not crazy at all. That's not crazy. I would still take Chase Brown in that situation, but it's not crazy. Yeah, I completely... I feel like you, of all people this year, have not been one to go back to the Tramac Bride. Like, you just think what happened last year with the amount of Jacoby Brissette on pace for 700...

passes in a year is just, it's what made McBride great. No, no, no, no. That's not what made McBride great. Like, average players put in that situation can't do that. You have to be a great player. When the situation reveals itself to you, you have to be great to actually take the mantle and accept the call like Trey McBride did. I just don't think that he's going to, I don't think he'll lap the field like he did. He'll still be.

He'll be a top three. But you think the value on Loveland's better. Yes. Yeah. All right. It's Mr. Loveland. Mr. Loveland. Andy Painter sent in this question. Okay. I might believe that that's him. That's my man. Is it fair to have somebody else draft your team in a money league? My buddy wants me to fill in for him after I drafted for another guy in his league last year. What is this like a pro ball?

Like every year he's getting hired to do this. Whoa, why are people booing this? That's so weird that that's emotional for people. It really is. To me, I don't have a problem with it. Like, honestly. Really? Well, here's the thing. If you, let's say you can't be at a draft, right? I can't make it to the draft. We would usually say you need a proxy.

You either submit rankings or you have someone fill in for you. So if we're okay with it, then. I think the weird thing is that he drafted for somebody else in the same league last year. Maybe not a neutral opinion. Well, he can't draft for both this year. No, but. Or can he? I mean. I don't have a problem with it. Do you guys? Obviously, the audience has a huge problem with it. What do we think? I'm a man of the people. So, yeah, that sucks. Coward. What a terrible thing.

Team auto draft. Andy Painter, you dog. Savage. People are just yelling out like league formats and auto draft. Redraft. Yeah, some guys like chili. Cameron Rodriguez, my son Cruz is 10 years old. Hey. Starting to show interest in fantasy football. I'd really like it to become something we share together. That's awesome. That's great. What's the best way to introduce them into fantasy without overwhelming him?

Would crush him, kick his spot. Would you give him his own team, co-manage one together, start a small family league, something else? What do you think? Other than crush him. Yes, yes. Maybe something more constructive. Look, you can't give him the win. We know that. But I think the small family league is, I like that one. I like it.

I think co-manager's awesome. Yeah, the thing with the Family League is you have to have enough people to do it. So if you have other parents with other kids who are starting to get interested in football and in fantasy football, I think that's a fantastic way to go. Otherwise, the co-manage is fantastic. Andy, you co-managed with one of your boys. Yeah, he comes to me to our League of Record draft, and he was one of the sharks back here, by the way. Yes, he was.

His problem was the first league he was in with a bunch of people. He won it. Oh, so he's hooked. Everything has been downhill since then. Except your expectations. The only other piece of advice, I would say, is if he's starting to get into it, you know, there's sometimes a learning curve. If you're just starting, you don't know the players, you don't know everything. So either they play Madden or they listen to the fantasy footballers podcast. Oh, that's not a bad idea. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The only.

podcast with one Ring of Honor member and one Hall of Fame member on it. Sir, two time, one, sir. Yeah, thank you, Mike. Two times. You elected yourself twice? Yes, he did. I almost wiped my memory of that. I didn't. And by the way, I mean, I think both of your inductions while ridiculous and stupid were fair because Arthur Blank did it and then Lurie did it. Yeah. And now I'm going to have to wait for another owner to put themselves in their own Hall of Fame.

Jason, imagine. You know Jerry Jones is the next one. I know my man. Yeah. Jerry Jones will hook me up. I'll be in before you know it. Yes. Zach felt. Right. Zach? Zach? Yeah. It feels like there's been more emphasis lately on stacking a wide receiver with the quarterback. Is stacking something we should be targeting in redraft or is it more of a tournament strategy? So.

It is definitely more of a tournament strategy. When you're in big tournaments, you really need the, you know, to win in the final week, it's very valuable to have the wide receiver that caught two touchdowns that week. The quarterback obviously went nuclear and you can beat massive amounts of people. It is also a winning strategy in redraft leagues. We did a study a couple of years ago, one of our disorboes, our computer nerds, did it to try to see like,

Does it also apply to redraft? And when he looked at basically having a stack that that was relevant. What is happening? Where is everybody going? I don't know what is happening. Having a stack that is relevant versus... Is there a party? Versus an average. Oh, are we laughing at the... There's so many things to laugh about right now. So handful. Bro, your bronze bus needs braces. Oh, yeah, a little bit.

But it does. It does give a slight edge to wins versus losses because, again, in order to win each week, like if you're just scoring an average slightly above league average, that doesn't actually usually give you a W. You kind of need the variance where you have a high weekly score, and that happens more on stack. By the way, Al Borland just informed us. Yes. Is Cruz. Is Cruz. Cruz. The 10-year-on from the last question. Are they in the building?

Because Al has a special Foot Clan ring for you. You can see him after the show if he's in the building. Wait, wait. Cameron, did you make up Cruz just to get your question in here? Cameron, you don't have a son, do you? Shame on you. Asking for my son. There you go. So Turner riding in, Turner Morris. Come on. What is happening? Maybe people don't want the attention. Have you individually? He forgot who he was.

Who am I? Have you ever individually wondered what you would be doing currently of podcasting wasn't possible? That's job? Different entrepreneurship, bull riding, Mike? Bull riding, probably not. Probably not. You get motion sick. Maybe. That's the biggest problem with bull writing. It's motion sickness. If you have motion sickness, how does bull riding work? Not well. Not well, no.

I think Andy and I would still be doing real estate, which we did for about two weeks. Yeah, we literally tried to become real estate agents while we started the podcast. We would have crushed. And that was a great two houses we sold. Yeah, we did do it. Mike would be a musician somewhere, a rock star. I'd probably just have a sign that's like, please. Help me. Money, please, help me. Money, please. Money, please.

So, yeah, I mean, I think, I think the coolest thing is that we were like, like, when we were kids, we couldn't have, like, wanted to grow up and be podcast. No, because that didn't exist. So, like, I think about it with my kids, some careers exist in the future that don't exist now that they might be good at. And that stuff changes quick. So I'm glad I don't have to think about this. We've been fortunate. No, we're here with these people, these fine, beautiful human beings.

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