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Hey, Foot Clan Andy here, and we've got a surprise for you. It's a weekend release of a little bonus episode. In fact, a blast from the past. Every year we record a 10 Things to Remember episode. In fact, we recorded one on February 29th this year with 10 things we wanted to remember from the past season of fantasy football. And we thought it would be a great time to give you a bonus episode, release it this weekend, and remember exactly what we remembered from the 2023.

fantasy football season. We thought it would be helpful, so we're going to give you an abridged version of that episode starting right now. To the Fantasy Footballers podcast with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Oh, welcome in. Excited to have you with us, the Fantasy Footballers podcast, Jason Moore, Mike, the Fantasy Hitman Wright. I'm Andy Holloway.

Welcome in one and all. We've got a fun show. The 10 Things to Remember episode, fresh off of a, as far as I'm concerned, fantastic season of fantasy football.

Oh, great year. Great year, right? Great year. Great year for the show, great year for me personally. Yeah, I mean, just, I had a good time. So, uh, there's lots to remember. I mean, Jason, you probably remember, you remember the playoffs and I remember my championship. I think Papa Josh, 20, 22. What was that? Papa Josh, you probably remember a lot from this past year, too, right? I mean, you were, you had a good time. It was a great time, except for the ending. Yeah, so, so we're doing our 10 things to remember. Jason, did you, uh,

Did all of your items this year on the show, as we count them down later, did they all come from your little black book? Yeah, basically. This year, it was one of those things where I wanted to remember them in the moment because we never, we're all goldfish other than Mike. Right. That's why I don't even remember your championship from 2022. Right. Thank you. You know, so it's like when I, when I see these lessons, in fact, one of the things that I am bringing up today.

was something I told Brooks on the show, mid-show. I was like, hey, Brooks, you got to remind me to bring this up on the things to remember because it was a lesson we had learned. And I'm like, this is something I can't forget. I forgot all about it. So Brooks brought it up. Brooks brought it up because that was his job. He was ordered to do it and he obeyed well. And so, yeah, thank you, Brooks. So, Jay, when you are post-mortem.

We'll put it that way. Is your little black book going to be the thing that's auctioned off? Yeah, probably. Probably. You know, like the celebrity stuff. Is it just numbers and stats are in little notes? Little love notes. Do you have some memoirs in there? No, it's all, it's. Today, I got one for you. Okay. Today I traded C.D. Lamb for Jalen Waddle. Yeah. Was that in there? No. Less of a diary. Okay. It's just pictures of stick men.

Yeah, there's nothing in that book, man. Oh my gosh, that's the great trick. All these years later, you've never written anything in it. Actually seen inside. So you don't know what the contents are. And someday after I die, you're going to go over there and you're going to open the book and you're going to turn page by page. You're going to say, this book is empty. These are all blank pages. There's literally nothing in this book.

Just a few brave heart quotes in there. Let's jump in. Don't forget to remember these things. All right. Well, this should be fun. I'm looking forward to hearing what you guys have in store. I have not previewed any of your different things to remember. Number 10. Number 10. Quarterback loyalty gets you zero fantasy points. And that was really.

Really true this year. It's something to remember moving forward. Because last year we saw a resurgence in a willingness to draft some quarterbacks early, right? We had just come off the Jalen Hertz, Josh Allen, Patrick Mahomes, year. And it kind of reminded me of like, you know, Aaron Rogers had like a ton of seasons at number one. And so he felt like a completely sure thing where you would draft him for a number of years in fantasy.

So there was some willingness last year, but I'm going to tell you right here right now, if you draft a quarterback early or even in the middle of the draft, it is very natural to feel like you are committed to that player. You're drafting a onesie position, so you only start one quarterback if you're non-superflex. And a lot of the times, you know, we spend months preparing for our drafts and we think we have conviction about a certain player and we take them. And if you take them at quarterback,

you're naturally taking a big name, right? These are the headline makers in the NFL. They're the ones that make or break games. And so, you know, even if you're taking a Justin Herbert and he's the sixth quarterback off the board, that's a big name. You feel committed to those players. This year, Patrick Mahomes was the number one quarterback off the board. He was the quarterback 19 from week eight on. Now, Josh Allen was great. Jalen hurts pretty good, although it slowed down at the end.

Lamar Jackson was the quarterback 17 for a six-game stretch. Joe Burrow, Justin Herbert, both got hurt, Justin Fields missed time, Trevor Lawrence was not good, Deshaun Watson missed time. And was not good. And was not good. If you show loyalty to players at the quarterback position for too long, you cost yourself. People won championships this year with Dak Prescott, who really didn't start the year well at all, was a

10th quarterback off the board in the late 8th round. And there were a lot of people hesitant to move on from players that they drafted. I mean, Russell Wilson was somebody that was a relatively interesting pick for people to make, you know, last year. And if you had been loyal to Russell Wilson last year when you saw things going downhill in Denver, he was that cautionary tale then. This year you had a number of those guys. Trevor Lawrence, I think, would fit that mold a lot. He ended the year so strong. And people were probably starting Trevor Lawrence too long.

Yeah, I think the best example from this last year of remember this for next year that things don't stay the same at the quarterback position is the DAC, Prescott, and Tua conversation. Because the first five weeks of the seat, once you're five weeks in and you're going into week six, you feel like you understand everything. You feel like, oh, I got it. I know who's what's what. And Tua was like locked in. Every week you've got to start him. He was the quarterback five. Dak worthless.

He was the quarterback 21. It's like, you know, we know how this season's going to end. Tua is a superstar and Dak sucks. And then if you played that out and you just stayed put and you had the loyalty, the brand loyalty to the quarterbacks that started hot or that you drafted high, it did not work out outside of Josh Allen. Right. And even Mahomes, right? It wasn't just these like later picks like Tua and Dak. Like Mahomes was the hardest on people. Yeah. Because you felt completely stuck.

I know that, you know, a lot of people that had Mahomes also had C.J. Stroud, right? They picked him up off of the waiver wire. And then it was like, well, I'm never going to start him over Patrick Mahomes. Like loyalty to the quarterback position year after year, unless you hit on the one or two guaranteed MVPs of that year, which do fluctuate, right? It was Lamar. But how many years have we had undue loyalty to Lamar that actually cost you? I mean, the first two years after his MVP campaign.

People started them no matter what, and they literally lost games because of it. So have a willingness, I would say. It's not a necessity that you pivot because of one bad game. I'm not saying that. I'm saying have a willingness and hold, you know, have a loose grip on the quarterback you draft, be willing to play the field. And when you see these offenses change and become better, believe maybe a little bit that you can play those guys. Yeah, I'm actually hit the number.

Number nine. I'm going to move one of mine around because it just, it kind of piggybacks on what Andy was talking about. And I'm saying for this one, don't get cocky. Your team always, always has to get better. And in what I'm saying in there is sometimes there are moves that you need to make that are not your typical move where.

We don't, you know, resource management of fantasy football. I don't like the roster two quarterbacks. I don't like the roster too tight in. You're saying don't get cocky with the team you have. Even if you're having success. And because there could be players out there available for you that you feel like, my team is good. I don't need that player. I don't. And again, to piggyback here is I had the inverse of what the successful.

quarterback move was. I had Tua. I traded for Tua when things were looking good. And I talked on this show about my belief that Dak Prescott was about to go on a huge run because the schedule looked so fantastic for him. Dak was sitting on my waiver wire. And I, like, I believed to my core of all my analysis that, no, Dak is going to go on a run. But I don't need him because I have Tua.

I don't need to go pick up, DAC, and that was idiotic. Like, I should have made, if nothing else, to block my opponents from getting a quarterback who I think is about to be fantastic. Thank you for not remembering. You're welcome. I had one of those, Mike. I had a guy that was on fire. He was catching fire four weeks in a row. Looked like the real deal. His name was Josh Downs.

And you made me a very easy trade offer to get Michael Pittman for very cheap. For very cheap. But your team was good. You didn't need to do it. I did not need to do it. I was solid. And had I done it, I think. Your season looks a lot different. It's a lot different. Like sometimes that is, I should have just picked up the second quarterback. It's not a move I normally make, but I need to be prepared. Leaving.

More and more, I'm getting comfortable with the idea of leaving my draft with two tight ends. Just for week one, have a guy where that I believe in this player and then maybe a player where... Let's see what happens. Let's see what happens. Let's talk about the beginning of the season. We did a... And this is not supposed to be a full to-to-toot thing, but we always do an undrafted gems. Like guys to look out for it. They might be on your waiver wire.

after the draft is already over. And I'm like, dude, Jake Ferguson and Sam Laporte, both of their schedules to open are basically the number one and number two tight end schedule with the data we have. And both of those players went on to be really important and got off to pretty good starts. And it's your team is not as good as you think it is. It takes one tiny thing to go wrong.

And if you're not prepared and on already making moves to get things. Yeah, please. I was just going to give you another example, which is like a perfect example would be somebody who started the year with Kenneth Walker and Travis CTN as their two running backs. It would be easy to say, I got it figured out at the running back position and not add or not build some depth behind them and then boom. And that's my kind of final point here is talking about your fab or your waiver priority.

You too often, you as I'm talking about myself as well, I'll look at my roster. Well, I really need, I got to figure out this wide receiver problem I have. I'm so good at running back. I'm not even worried. But the top two pickups of the week, say, are running backs. And then I don't go hard after them because I think I'm good at that position. And someone else gets Kyron Williams in week one, you know, just as the easiest example, because you think you're good. I don't need to go after Kyron.