Footballers AMA + Worst Picks Ever, Big Gulps - Fantasy Football Podcast for 1/9

I'm trying to pull the tweet just from memory. I don't have it in front of me, so I apologize who sent it out. But it was essentially breaking down the Steelers blitzed Lamar a lot. Yep. And then it broke down the percentage of targets when Lamar has been blitzed, the targets that have gone to Flowers. And it's extremely high. So it's like, okay, if you don't have the blitz release valve of Zay Flowers, somebody will have to step into that role and be efficient at it. Could that turn into a problem? Oh, it was FTN. Okay, thank you, Kyle. To me, that is the – you know, the big question in this game is can the Steelers defense do something to create a play?

Because that would close that gap. Target percentage for Zay Flowers on the year is comical at wide receiver. Comical. His wide receiver target? His wide receiver target. Oh, okay. What's it at? Do you want to take a shot? Oh, man. Last year it was 39%. I was going to guess right around 50. It's 49%. So you were way, way, way off. His regular target share is 25%. But that was including the game where, you know, he just got knocked out. So, yeah, he's very important to their passing game. Now, whether they need it or not, like do you like Henry over 100?

I do. Yeah. Against that running defense, they couldn't stop him a few weeks ago. Isaac Garindo, sprained MCL in ankle. I think that is great news. Yes. Considering the way the injury looked, him being carted off, ruled out immediately. It was, oh, no, something's broken or something's torn. I did enjoy all the tweets I received on the news that the Chargers have signed Ezekiel Elliott to their practice squad soon to be called up to their roster because I had just, like, the Charger fans have come out and they love me now. All 12 of them? First of all, I didn't know there were any.

And second of all, the fact that I picked them to go far in the playoffs. Go far? You got them all the way to the Super Bowl. Yeah, I minimized that, didn't I? Yeah, you did. Go all the way. To lose. I mean, just by a nose. But Zeke heard the podcast and, you know, he's trying to win a ring. And it was, he said, hey, I'm going to go with, I want to get to a Super Bowl. Unfortunately, I have to root against the Chargers with every fabric of my being now. Oh, yeah. So, I apologize for that. Todd Bowles said Kate Otten is turning in the right direction.

So, I mean, maybe Payne Durham won't be the only tight end active for the Buccaneers. Oh, dude, big colps. Big colps, huh? Well, I actually think he's someone to pay attention to. I think so, too. He didn't get a chance until late this season to even, you know, I think his first catch came like three weeks ago. This is a rookie and he looks good on the field. So, pay attention to him. What about, you don't like Durham? I like big colps. All right. Durham got the. His name, by the way, is Devin Colp. Yeah, Payne Durham touchdowns in the last two weeks.

So, we'll see if Kate Otten gets out there. That was today's news and notes. Presented, as always, by USAA Insurance. Learn more at usaa.com slash insurance. All right, Devin Colp. Are you putting it again? Yeah, I am. First one of 2025. Big colps. All right. We are going to take a break and hit the mailbag. All right, Mike. We have a very special Footballers AMA and then we have a fantasy face-off after that. Let's do it. Mailbag. Bang, bang, bang, bang. Ask me anything. Okay. The Deucers alleys, they're in it today.

Yeah. They are cracking up. You want to know why they are laughing so much, gentlemen? Why is that? Lack of self-control? All, well, partially. But all three of them were in here like an hour or two ago. Oh, yeah, yeah. When we recorded an absolutely fire Spitballers episode. And so this is the time of year if you are going to the off season, we're down to, you know, we're two shows a week for our main podcast. You want more? You listen to other podcasts. All your podcasts are dwindling down. Go check out the Spitballers Comedy Podcast. That episode releases on Monday, but you don't want to miss it.

A lot of... It's very funny. Intelligence. A lot of intelligence. Jeremy, is your trophy not there? What are you doing, man? I think Josh must have moved it. Huh. Well, be glad that I'm here for you. Somebody put it on the floor. Thank you for bringing that up. All right. We will jump into the mailbag. It's an Ask Me Anything episode. You can visit the site if you have other questions for us and click the Submit a Question button or dial our voicemail hotline. We have some voicemails. Al, is that true? That is correct. All right. What's up, bowlers? I've been wondering this for years.

When are we going to finally see Andy on Survivor? Oh. Love the show, and congrats to Jeremy on the championship. I can answer that for Andy. The question, when will we see Andy on Survivor? You have an answer for me. Yeah. It is as soon as Survivor asks. As soon. The second they ask. Do they ask, or do you have to? I would need to pursue it. You've got to lobby, right? Yeah. I mean, myself and Papa Josh back there, I guess the Falcon 2, pretty big Survivor fans. I would do anything to see you on Survivor. I've thought about it.

I mean, I think. I've never watched the show. It's not being on it. Like, I would love to be on it. Love to be on it. It's being gone. Yeah. That's what I was saying. I would love for you to be on Survivor. That's why you'd love it. Yeah. Do you know how long filming is? You've got to be gone at least 30 days. Probably 40. And even, I mean, then when you get, if you're the first one kicked off, you're still sequestered, right? You're still hanging out. Yeah. So no matter what, you're gone for that time. That would be so fun.

And you've got the in with Apostle, right? I do know Tyson. Yeah. And who was the other guy that we played pickleball with? Jeff Probst. Something Rob. No, it wasn't. Something Rob. No, it was Boston Rob. Boston Rob. That was it. Yeah. So I didn't think about that. You're making people up. I'd be on there in 30 seconds if I wanted to. I'd choose not to. Yeah. Mr. Survivor, reach out to Andy. My kids are now old enough where I think I would just say, yeah, I'd do. You would say yes if they, I mean, the problem is you actually need to go to them and like

audition and whatnot. But if they came to you and said. I mean, Papa Josh, you're the, I mean, you guys know me and you know the show. How far am I getting? You're making it pretty far. I'm doing okay? Yeah, I think so. It's more. Falcon? Yeah, you go. You don't get voted. You don't get voted out. You have an allergic reaction on the island. Okay. You have a medical reason for leaving. That's my prediction. You do not get voted off. You want to race right now? All right. Amazing. Good. Here's a question off of X from Baylor. Not Baller.

Baylor. What were the other options for the name of the show before you chose the fantasy football? We didn't say ask us anything. It's a question for you too. Fantasy hit men was the only one I remember. Was that in, that was in? It was just, it wasn't considered. It was never seriously considered, but we had a list. Like it's weird because Andy and I have the memories of like, I can see he hand wrote all these things on like notebook paper and I can see it in my head. I just can't remember any of the other names, but of the list of names.

Andy was like, he's over here with his business savvy tech mind of like fantasy footballers. This, this could be a good name. And I'm like, that, that name is kind of funny. We should go with that. Yeah. I, uh, it's like we can get the domain. Right. That was part of it. We did have a small period of time in the beginning where it was confused a little bit with soccer. Yeah. Cause that was the way footballer was used. Yeah. It used to be. Most often. Used to be that footballers were soccer players. But I, we took that over. I was looking at that SEO, man.

How do we get a name close to the topic? We do. We were going to do fantasy football. It's hard to forget. Urse. Yeah. What's that fancy football show I like? Fantasy football. Yes. Um, there you go. Uh, Jose Gonzalez wants to know, um, what is the best sandwich and where did you have it? Oh, so this isn't, this is a very, very specific. Just the one sandwich. That's the sandwich. That's not like what is the best sandwich to make. Right. That is more like, can you remember a sandwich? I can. Uh, cause it was like two months ago. Wait, your best sandwich was two months ago?

Eve. I don't know if it was the, it's recency bias. of course but it was it was this good that it was like a a sandwich bought one just for me and the wife to split and then as soon as both of us start eating we're like oh man we have made a mistake oh the splitting was yeah bought another yeah well we were already home but it was from it's a change so it's ike's sandwiches i ike's loving sandwiches but it was it was a form of a reuben dude that's my answer and but it was basically it was more of it was a new yorker not a real reuben

because it was coleslaw instead of uh uh kraut my answer was going to be this reuben new yorker sandwich at chompy's which is a place out here oh yeah i had you ever have the one from miracle mile hold nope nope put that one back at the top rubentown new yorker they york i mean you could go reuben what makes a new yorker and a reuben different like it's coleslaw or sauerkraut but oh my gosh we had this place called miracle mile you get a new yorker there you put that thing on on a roll who that was a young man's game oh i'll do it right now if that thing were here oh my

goodness jason do you have a sandwich answer uh i would say the best jeremy you know it i've ever had get it on the mic that used to be once a week lunch for me dude that that sandwich was unbelievable it was so good is miracle mile gone i think there's still there's still one left all right looks like we're traveling foot clan um my uh honestly it's a sandwich my wife made is so good that she's made it a hundred times since then my wife's ham and cheese we call no come on this is an everything bagel toasted buttered and then it's basically an italian sandwich inside but i mean

this is chock full of everything we call it a bas it's a bomb sandwich okay all right okay okay i read between the lines justin on instagram writing in what is your favorite video game of all time for each of the ballers and the ducers oh no one wants to do i feel like the and ducers went in there from papa josh he wrote that in red dead redemption 2 okay final fantasy 7 og or og og og uh a link to the past okay and uh ducers halo 3 multiplayer specifically oh oh baby i used to get down papa josh god of war

2018 is that the original the first one like oh no 2018 of course not yeah and uh al do you have a video game tetris yeah all right i don't play video games mine sweeper i like to play mario kart with my kid that's okay okay favorite of all time you don't let them win do you never okay good man gotta teach you earn victories um goodness uh i this is great i have seen none of these questions before i'm asking them either so brook by the way brooks said bioshock for him bioshock yeah that's a good game okay that's a good game yeah if you make me choose a classic it'll be super mario world kyle get in here

kyle's typing no he's not king griffey jr on super new there we go now there we go that's a game kangaroo jr baseball was the freaking best sports game that was a good one super tech mobile uh that that that was awesome all right we got another voicemail question yo ballers this is uh ab from australia um i don't sure how much this is going to cost me but um just thought i'll ring in so i just wanted to know if you were to be stuck in the elevator for six hours with one footballer who would it be and why i mean so so we choose one of the other two yes to be stuck in an elevator with not jason

number one yeah it's just gas related i'm a gassy man just gas related an elevator for six hours i'm thinking about bodily functions i and mike doesn't talk to be fair to be fair i don't my my gas is not usually very stinky it really is that's accurate but i would explode if i don't fart for six hours that's not how i work so you will be breathing the insides of me inside this elevator mike who are you choosing now who are you having mike pick me well first pick me number one uh bonjour number number two does australia still have long distance

it's like what are you paying for this this is this is 4.99 a minute i don't know just call collect man who was who was the other phone company there was at&t like mci or something like that long distance is that right josh is nodding with josh is old enough throwback right there if i call france right now it doesn't cost me more i know no it doesn't long distance used to be across state lines you'd pay more here yeah here but i'm just saying like but if i called australia like right now it's fine it doesn't cost me nothing doesn't cost you anything i i don't know just just just i think it's just

roaming if you went to australia and tried to call home then you would pay more unless you just get on wi-fi then you're right sure yeah so i can i can ring roaming is 59.99 a minute making international calls from the u.s incurs extra costs but it depends on the service provider all right uh but obviously i cannot be in a bonjour with jason for six hours because i would be breathing his insides yeah i'm gonna pick so i will pick mike okay awesome just i mean yeah just for that here like if you were stuck to make him breathe your insides oh i will be eating bad before where's

where's miracle mile is that where i go man all right so let's get in the elevator after that if i get a new yorker i accept i'll i'll be stuck in an elevator i would you'd give him the gas i would try to make small talk with mike oh what i was gonna say is i would be like it could turn into a six hour therapy session for you yeah where you would just talk for six hours you wouldn't be talking yeah i'll be like i think i hope we get out of here soon and be like yeah yeah oh my god with his

sunglasses on yeah he would never take them off um eyes are closed west blues writes in he's on on instagram what is your most regretted draft pick and why oh so many brother whoa most regretted i will always come back to and this is a classic and maybe losing its relevance by the years but when calvin johnson the year he broke out i drafted laurence moroni to pick before him oops and moroni was a new england patriot running back who had had a nice previous season what about players people have heard of oh my gosh they've heard of calvin johnson i don't make i mean i've been in nine title games

i don't make very many wrong picks oh impressive how'd the last one go oh man swish ah the worst one i mean i i think it was last year i drafted damian pierce yeah that was a terrible pick yeah uh yeah the he was getting all that workload in the preseason the big liars man worst one i i'm there might be a worst one but this the one that's coming to my head is years ago mark andrews over training bryan that one and by the end of the year worked out what about marvin harrison over over aj brown yeah that one felt bad and it didn't work out for you no it didn't work out for me it

worked out andrews ended up okay but you were already a dead man yes uh but it was years ago and this probably now that i'm even working through it uh therapeutically this probably led to the me thinking adam theelin is the oldest and most terrible person ever um which he's not but we i i took adam theelin over jalen waddle and this was i think two or three years ago so whenever waddle had his breakout season and adam theelin was not good so i i think last year in the listener league i had a pretty good team it was 14 teams so you know it's it's harder in that league i had a pretty

good team developed but the quarterbacks had all been coming off the board and i had a co-manager in that one and we decided look we're just going to swing for the fence if you got to beat 14 people you got to you got to get a little lucky and we drafted to sean watson thinking maybe he would come back to life and it was like that was basically saying because there weren't you know it wasn't easy to stream off the waivers with uh all the quarterbacks rostered and it was like well my season's over because that dude sucks i know also that dude sucks i remember the worst uh clive edwards

a letter in a rookie draft oh for jonathan taylor yeah that's the worst yeah that's not very good oh which if we're going rookie picks trey sermon who did i take over jalen waddle that's right instagram question co-farmed mike tell us about your tattoos uh well there's a lot of them they are each one they're colorful your most like if you like have a database with all the tattoos and the dates what's the most recent tattoo date wise oh it's probably been like it's been a long time you could you could see it if like you go track it down on youtube you can watch sleeved while you were still