Kyle proves the NFC leads 29 to 28
The hosts assign Kyle to count AFC and NFC Super Bowl wins; he returns a 29-28 NFC lead, prompting a victory celebration and a plea for Jalen Hurts to stop Kansas City from tying it.
Main show · July 20, 2023
NFC North Breakdown + Big Time Upside - Fantasy Football Podcast for 7/20
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NFC North Breakdown + Big Time Upside | Fantasy Football 2023 - Ep. 1424
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Episode notes & curated moments 10 records
Al joins the Newsies people
A mezzanine sales pitch becomes a Newsies reference; Jason questions whether it is a deep cut, the musical's defenders insist there are always people for it, and Al affirms that he is one of them during a live Ducers Alley cut.
Kirk Cousins is only the second-most-boring man
Drew Brees takes the top boredom slot and Kirk Cousins finishes second; 'You like that' and the airplane chains qualify as career moments only because Cousins talking normally resembles watching paint dry.
The desk still roots for Guns Mahoney
Detroit's hype discussion briefly discards Dan Campbell's ordinary name and says the hosts are rooting for the established muscular coaching character Guns Mahoney.
Jordan Love tells the mirror he is not bad
The minimum bar for Green Bay becomes a touchdown-by-touchdown mirror ritual in which Jordan Love repeats 'You are not bad'; Brooks then assigns the same affirmation to Russell Wilson, who bites a sandwich and says 'Danger, bitch.'
Mild-mannered Brooks becomes a loogie threat
Andy invents a break-room story in which Brooks spits expertly in his face, immediately retracts it, and says any future spit would make Brooks maximally serious; Jason then reruns the sentence with Mike as the spitter.
Mike enters player-redemption season
Chase Claypool's remaining talent prompts the desk to recognize a possible Mike redemption year: Antonio Gibson might rebound, Alexander Mattison finally has his chance, Khalil Herbert belongs in the group, and Claypool could continue the trend.
Mike and Jason share the Packers order
Andy predicts Vikings-Lions-Packers-Bears, while Mike and Jason both choose Packers-Vikings-Lions-Bears; the desk summarizes their agreement with 'me and Jay,' using Jay as visible Jason shorthand.
Best Ball Breakdown enters through a pixel world
The spoken Best Ball Breakdown transition triggers a verified blue pixel-art bumper with platform pipes, clouds, an Underdog Fantasy sign, and the Footballers running through the game-like landscape.
Episode notes
Andy, Jason, and Mike are the only live desk hosts. Their claim that the NFC is simply better becomes a production assignment: Kyle reports a 29-28 NFC Super Bowl lead, and the hosts charge Jalen Hurts with preserving it. A Palace Theatre mezzanine pitch invokes Newsies; Jason calls it a deep cut, Al audibly sides with the musical, and the first of two live Ducers Alley cuts shows Kyle, Brooks, and Jeremy together. Brooks later clears News and Notes with a crisp 'No, sir' while Al reflects on Aaron Rodgers leaving his Packers. Kirk Cousins is declared the second-most-boring person behind Drew Brees, with his 'You like that' and airplane chains notable only because his baseline is watching paint dry. Dan Campbell remains Guns Mahoney. Green Bay analysis turns 'not bad' into Jordan Love's mirror affirmation after every touchdown, then Brooks writes in Slack that the same routine belongs to Russell Wilson, who bites a sandwich and says 'Danger, bitch.' The Bears backfield produces the episode's strongest crew riff: Mike falsely says mild-mannered Brooks confronted him with an excellent loogie, immediately retracts it, offers to take anything Brooks says seriously if he ever spits in Mike's face, and then Jason reverses the fiction by saying Mike spat in his. Chase Claypool's sadness joins Antonio Gibson, Alexander Mattison, and Khalil Herbert as evidence that this may be Mike's redemption year. Mike and Jason both pick Green Bay to win the division while Andy chooses Minnesota; the closing 'me and Jay' is visible Jason shorthand. A real pixel-art Best Ball Breakdown bumper then introduces the late-quarterback segment.
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65 passagesLast year, I know that, you know, he finishes the quarterback five. I think that was propped up a lot by some just down years for other quarterbacks. Lamar getting hurt. Played every game. Yeah, played every game. But he was the quarterback five. He can't take that away from him. He has the two elite wide receivers that he had last year. And then they added... And an elite one. They added another elite wide receiver. The first wide receiver taken in this draft, I think by far the best... That would be Jackson Smith and Juby. Yeah, by far the best rookie wide receiver. And then in the second round, they took a running back, who is a good pass catching running back. Like, they loaded Gino up. It's just, it's wild to me that he's down here at QB15. Like he'd...
He had a great year. It is, I think, a reflection on the fear that he will regress and that it was a one-time event. And so you're right, though, the argument for the Bull case, the weapons are tremendous. So, you know, adding Zach Charbonnet, having Kenneth Walker healthy, you know, do they run the ball a little bit more than they did last year? I don't know. I don't know. Does their defense get better? You know what he wants to do, Pete Carroll. But Gino performed last year, Jason. Yeah, I'm going to go with a quarterback. If you look at, you know, last year's Best Ball Mania winner having Tua and Daniel Jones, Tua wasn't great all season and Daniel Jones wasn't great all season. But what they both were able to do is have monstrous games. Real big, I mean, that's best ball. You want someone who can go out there and put on a show at one point in time. To me, Kyler Murray is being very undervalued. His draft right now, he's the quarterback 21.
And it's basically saying, I don't like the Cardinals and I think he's going to miss half the year. He has come out basically saying he's still aiming to be there week one. But if he's there week three or four, you know, he will by the second half of the year be healthy and active and he can actually put up a 30 point game. He can regularly put up 20 plus points, you know, at the position. I know there's questions and concerns about the knee and will he run. These questions and concerns are why he's the quarterback 21. Obviously, if he was healthy. I mean, you're talking about a guy you'd be drafting up at quarterback 5, six, seven range. He'd be a high-end quarterback. And so we don't know how unhealthy or healthy he is, but he's being drafted as if he's got no chance to me right now of having a good season. I think that that is a mistake. I mean, the history of Kyler is when he's been.
playing football. He's extremely productive, regardless of the questions around the injury or pocket passer. The resume so far has been very positive from fantasy production. I'll throw Aaron Rogers being drafted as the quarterback 16 out there. You talked about it. Tua, Daniel Jones. It wasn't every week. But Tua had a six touchdown game in week two against Baltimore. Daniel Jones had some really big weeks. There are going to be big weeks for Aaron Rogers this year with this offense, with these weapons, with the opportunity he has there. They're building the team around him. Everything is all in for the Jets. It might not be every week, which maybe you avoid him in redraft if you believe that. But I think Aaron Rogers and then Anthony Richardson, who's just barely in this group, that's fair. That case is obvious, but I mean, his potential on the ground, Shane Steichen, the offense. What if you get a little bit better than you expect, both high upside players like Jason?
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