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Starts of the Week + Week 9 Breakdown, Snow Model - Fantasy Football Podcast for 11/2

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Starts of the Week + Week 9 Breakdown, Snow Model - Fantasy Football Podcast for 11/2

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Vermont snow opens trademarked Yeti season

A listener confirms snow on the ground in Vermont as of November 1, officially opening Yeti season. The hosts explain for newcomers that multiple years of scientific method have established the Snow Model: when Vermont gets snow, Derrick Henry goes bananas. The model is explicitly called trademarked, and Mike is later identified as very pro-Yeti.

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Arizona adds a World Series to fifteen years of suffering

The hosts declare Jason's joking lifetime baseball fandom over after Arizona loses the World Series. Jason says Arizona fans have now lost a Super Bowl, NBA Finals, and World Series within 15 years; he tries to comfort himself with the Rangers' first title and happy opposing children, but it does not help his weeping son.

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A three-dollar Banana Rama becomes the League of Record enemy

Immediately after waivers, an unnamed host learns that his League of Record opponent spent $3 on Will Levis to start against him that night because both regular quarterbacks are on bye. The pickup makes the host unexpectedly root against Levis and declare himself super anti-Banana Rama, even while Mike remains very pro-Yeti for Derrick Henry in the same game.

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Jahan Dotson is the actor whose scene always cuts away

Dotson's constant routes but disappearing production become a season-long movie role. He is in almost every scene yet so good in background costume that no one notices him; whenever he tries to speak, the film cuts to somebody else, and sometimes he fumbles the line.

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Michael Thomas's low ceiling loses the whole room

Michael Thomas is imagined promising exactly eight or nine points inside his seven-to-eleven-point window. The hosts try to turn that floor and ceiling into a reliable restaurant, then a half-basement apartment with a low roof, but admit the comparison is stretched and everyone in the room is lost. The explanation finally becomes simply 'the ceiling is low' while Andy reports that Deucer's Alley looks desperate not to be asked for help; the tangent then detours into whether Phoenix counts as a big city.

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Zach Moss graduates from Titanium Underpants to Donald Duck

Mac Jones's desperate Start of the Week requires Titanium Underpants for protection. The next running-back pick, Zach Moss, is judged so safe that the hosts say titanium and steel are no longer needed; he may need no underpants at all, then no pants, and can simply Donald Duck it.

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Boom Boom jail breaks Blake Grupe's 156-pound back

Jason's ironclad, locked-and-loaded, 100-percent-guaranteed Boom Boom Kicker continues from last week's trial: a trick judge and magistrate jail him, inmates fling poopie, and Jason becomes Bane to shatter Blake Grupe's back. The hosts celebrate poopie/Grupe while noting Jason also rhymed man with man; research then reveals the 156-pound Grupe is the NFL's lightest kicker in 35 years and therefore an easy back to break.

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Fantasy Faceoff mummy face becomes the hostage

Mike announces his first-place Fantasy Faceoff result while Jason says he lost and asks whether he will get mummy face tomorrow. The hosts clarify that doing it right means duct tape over the mouth and rename the look the hostage. They recall that Mike's prior live mummy wrap left his nose ajar for three or four days before it came back and was set. Direct video confirms Mike delivers the cold-open facial-hair apology, but the dialogue only suggests rather than proves that it shares the wrap's cause.

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Episode notes

A listener photograph confirms snow on the ground in Vermont as of November 1, so Yeti season is declared open under the trademarked Derrick Henry Snow Model: through the scientific method, Vermont snow means Henry goes bananas. The celebration collides with the League of Record, where an unnamed host's opponent spends $3 on Will Levis to start that night, unexpectedly forcing the host to become anti-Banana Rama while Mike remains emphatically pro-Yeti. Before football, Jason's supposed lifetime baseball fandom ends with Arizona's World Series loss; he says the state's fans have now lost a Super Bowl, NBA Finals, and World Series within 15 years, and even remembering happy Rangers children cannot comfort his weeping son. During the matchup breakdown, Demario Douglas receives the Dirty Pop cue, while Jahan Dotson becomes a brilliant background actor who appears in every scene but disappears in costume and has the film cut away whenever he tries to speak. Michael Thomas's reliable seven-to-eleven-point window turns into a failed low-ceiling basement-restaurant analogy; the whole room gets lost, and Andy says Deucer's Alley looks desperate not to be consulted before Phoenix's fifth-largest-city status is debated. The Start of the Week confidence scale gives risky Mac Jones Titanium Underpants, then declares Zach Moss safe enough to need neither underpants nor pants—he can Donald Duck it. Jason's ironclad Boom Boom Kicker serial continues from a trick trial into jail, where inmates fling poopie and Jason breaks Saints kicker Blake Grupe's back like Bane; the rhyme audit catches both poopie/Grupe and man/man, and live research notes Grupe is the NFL's lightest kicker in 35 years at 156 pounds. Mike wins Fantasy Faceoff while Jason loses and asks whether he will receive mummy face; the punishment is reframed as duct tape over the mouth called the hostage. The prior live mummy wrap had left Mike's nose ajar for three or four days, and direct video confirms that Mike opens this episode by apologizing that his facial hair has not returned, although the dialogue does not explicitly prove the same cause. The close thanks Deucer's Alley, Judge, and Al the Rapscallion, while saying Al must be dressed up next year because the people were mad.

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