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 Podcast for 7/20
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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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