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Jason enters by threatening to throw a chair, says the threat keeps Phoenix on its toes, and explains that his path around the stage hit a dead end. The desk then spots the Waffle King, answers with the King of Waffles, and hands the formal introduction to Al.
The hosts remember Andrew Luck retiring moments before their last Phoenix show and say predictions made on this exact stage have come true or sent a condemned team to a Super Bowl. The audience then reveals its Megalabowl players, including a self-declared shark.
The celebrity-comparison slide equates Julio Jones with the Queen of England as past-prime reminders of another era. Jason later answers a player question in a sustained Queen voice that nobody can understand, asks for closed captions, and praises what 'the queen' said.
The hosts recall that the old hype-train sound was frightening to listeners in cars. Complaint emails arrived, and the team's lawyers advised them to stop using it even though the studio itself could not be hit by a train.
An asthma tangent recruits a player to 'Team Asba,' demands the blue inhaler, calls the red version garbage despite claims of equivalence, and identifies the single Illinois audience member who understands.
Mike is willing to go to space if he can bring Dramamine, expects to vomit everywhere, and decides that once the vomit floats away in zero gravity it is no longer his problem.
The desk remembers Jason predicting the beginning of Tom Brady's end on this same stage in 2019, immediately before Brady's team won a Super Bowl. A GOAT cue then sounds like a llama and finally a sheep before the hosts identify it.
Mike calls Michael Thomas's issue 'a little you-hoo.' When told he may want to retain the word hamstring, Mike says it is no longer necessary because the replacement has now been branded.
After a long anti-Cowboys presentation, Mike asks how much is motivated by his Ezekiel Elliott draft. Jason answers 100 percent and says he did the work that morning to make Mike feel bad. The feud becomes a water bet around RB18 versus RB19, and the hosts briefly reverse which side wins.
The hosts admit Pitts's handsomeness factors into analysis, combine his speed and wingspan into part cheetah and part pterodactyl, then name the creature a cheetahactyl. Jason's Queen character supplies a pterodactyl sound and the desk admits it has lost control.
The next bold prediction cannot begin cleanly because the board cycles Jahan Dotson through Johan Dotnet, Dotting, Totten, John Dodson, and Dodson. When the hosts ask who placed it there, they identify Owl.
After being reminded that he was early, heavy, and hot on Antonio Gibson, Mike admits trading him the previous night. Mike calls himself a coward, loser, and traitor; although Garrett Wilson is judged a good return, Mike says he no longer knows what he is doing and has lost complete control.
While the live microphone is readied, the hosts instruct the audience to cheer for Brooks. A full Brooks chant starts, Brooks appears, and he delivers what the desk requested as the best mailbag drop of the year.
Jared travels from Ohio to 105-degree Phoenix after missing tickets for Detroit. Asked how far that is, Jason offers more than 100 miles, correctly locates Detroit in Michigan, and can place Ohio only somewhere near it.
The hosts define too many leagues as four hours of unwanted Tuesday waiver homework and eventually owning every player, which makes everything good, terrible, and meaningless. Kyle the Borgogon has a household solution: his wife does not let him join a league unless he leaves one, although the desk hopes his initial balance was 50.
Eduardo lists Mahomes, Hurts, Jefferson, and Jonathan Taylor before the desk asks whether he has an actual question. The question is reframed as 'I can't stop winning,' 'do you need a co-manager?' and 'why am I so good?' before Eduardo credits the show.
The recorded episode ends, but the hosts announce they will return within minutes for a text-in AMA with travelers from Phoenix, Ohio, San Francisco, and New Mexico. They explicitly ask the crowd to give it up for Brooks and Al before thanking their home city.
The live Phoenix opening begins before the formal intro: Jason threatens to throw a chair to keep the crowd on its toes, describes taking a dead-end route around the stage, spots the Waffle King, and answers with the King of Waffles. Al cues the produced introduction, and the crowd is called ferocious, sweaty, and smellable. The hosts remember that Andrew Luck retired moments before their previous Phoenix show and that frightening predictions on this exact stage have sometimes come true—or sent the targeted team to a Super Bowl. A visible group of Megalabowl players identifies itself, and one host calls himself a shark. The celebrity-comparison game turns Julio Jones into the Queen of England because both are past their prime and reminders of a former era. Jason later performs an extended Queen voice so unintelligible that the desk asks whether it paid for closed captioning. Show-production history appears when the hosts remember replacing a frightening hype-train drop: listeners heard the train while driving, emailed complaints, and the team's lawyers advised against it. Mike's asthma knowledge creates Team Asba, a good blue inhaler, red garbage, and one cheering Illinois nerd. A space question gives Mike a Dramamine request and the conclusion that zero-gravity vomit is no longer his problem. Jason's 2019 prediction that Tom Brady had reached the beginning of the end is recalled on the same stage; a GOAT sound effect is first mistaken for a llama and then a sheep. Mike rebrands a hamstring injury as 'a little you-hoo' and insists the body part no longer needs to be named. Jason's anti-Cowboys case is exposed as 100 percent motivated by Mike drafting Ezekiel Elliott; the argument becomes a water bet with an 18-versus-19 points-per-game line. Kyle Pitts is handsome, part cheetah and part pterodactyl—a cheetahactyl—and the Queen later supplies a pterodactyl sound. Al is credited when Jahan Dotson's name on the board mutates through Dotnet, Dotting, Totten, and Dodson. Mike then confesses he traded former favorite Antonio Gibson the night before, calls himself a coward, loser, and traitor, admits Garrett Wilson was a good return, and says he has lost control of his life. The crowd chants Brooks while production prepares a microphone, and Brooks delivers the requested best mailbag drop of the year. A listener who flew from Ohio because the Detroit show sold out exposes Jason's rough geography: Detroit is in Michigan and Ohio is merely near it. League overload becomes Tuesday waiver homework and, once every player is rostered somewhere, makes everything good, terrible, and meaningless. Kyle the Borgogan has a marital one-in-one-out rule: he cannot join a league unless he leaves one, though the hosts hope his original balance was 50. A final listener's stacked dynasty roster becomes 'I can't stop winning,' 'why am I so good,' and a co-manager request. The podcast ends by announcing a separate post-show AMA and thanking Brooks and Al to live applause.
Don't be afraid of the microphone. Hey, what's one piece of possibly overlooked advice you would give to someone whose first time is managing a dynasty team? Hmm. Okay. Well, I think the number one piece of advice I would give is what I, it's my number one piece of advice on dynasty, and it has been for a long time. You get into it, and you're so excited about building a long-term franchise that you put so much emphasis in the unknowns of youthful players on the team. and then rookie picks that have no guarantee of panning out. And so having balance, realizing that at some point you have to go all in, you have to take some players that might be a little older than you want them to be, if you're not an agist, of course. And put them on the roster, and Adam Thieland can win you a title this year. Those type of players...
They're very cheap to acquire in Dynasty leagues because people want to move towards the younger players. So sometimes if you know you have a competing team, you can target one, two, three of those guys in the middle of the season and make a run because you still want to win a title. It's not about winning one four years from now. It's about winning one at all. Yeah, to add on to his point, I think the middle rounds, like once you're past those first four rounds, the first four rounds have really good, known commodities who are young. Grab those guys. But then once you get in the middle rounds, it's a bunch of question marks with known commodities that aren't young. And that's where you can kind of, you know, put those two things together and you can have a future and a current. And I would say, so a dynasty roster, if you haven't played, generally speaking, you have like 30 spots on your roster. Once your rookie draft is done, and you've, like, we talk about the value of a third round rookie pick. It's very low because the odds of that player hitting are low.
That doesn't mean that when the rookie draft is done, that the waiver wire doesn't have some nuggets for you to go in mind. There are backup running backs who are drafted in the fourth and the fifth round. Go scoop them up because more than likely at some point during the season, a starter is going to miss time and everyone's going to go, oh, Kulio Herbert's on the waiver wire. I got to... Oh, nope. The smart team already stashed him. You're like, oh, Echler's going to be Justin Jackson. Tyreek Hill was a dynasty wire player. He absolutely was. But I'm saying specifically the running backs, the ones that you don't see the path because they're, they're two on the depth chart. They're even three on the depth chart. The NFL is vicious, man. Guys get hurt all the time. And rookie running backs throughout the season.
Get starts, and they are plug and play options when that happens. So don't overlook them. Stash them on the back of your bench. Next question. Was that the queen? Yes. What's your name? Hi, ballers. Chris Molina here from Albuquerque, New Mexico. Oh, wow. Awesome. Hi. Welcome, Chris. As many probably know. There's a lot more leagues out there than there were five years ago. The amount of teams I have has just exploded. Sure. My question is, how many leagues is too many leagues? And I'm not, or I'm asking this for a friend, not because I'm getting married in February. Oh, well, congratulations. Thank you. Good way to throw that in there. So, I mean, I'll jump in because I have an easy answer. Like when you first get into fantasy football and like the, when the bug hits you and people are like, hey, you want to join a league?
Yes. You want to join this league? Of course. And before you know it, you're in 10 plus leagues. The limit where I know I'm in too many leagues in the season when Monday night football is over and Tuesday rolls around and you have to do waivers and you go, oh, sweet Lord. This is homework. You're blocking out four hours. This is terrible. I don't. Sorry, honey, I can't do anything tonight. It's waivers. I don't even want to do this right now. When you've hit that point of you log into a platform and you go, I just don't care about the waivers. You don't belong in that league. You've reached your limit. A cheat code, though, for those that want to play and more but want to be actively involved and not, you know, pulling their hair out on Tuesday nights for waiver wired, you know, claim day.
is find that number of leagues. Let's say it's three. It's about three for me of leagues that I'm very serious in. And then add some dynasty leagues because those goes so well together. Like dynasty waivers aren't a huge burden. The amount of work you do in season is so much less than in your redraft and your keeper leagues that you can have a few more if you want to diversify your portfolio. Also, Kyle the Borgogan has a deal with his wife. Oh. He can't join one without leaving one. Okay. So their balance remains? He has to keep the balance. That's good. I hope he started with 50. And the last one, because the best part of a league, the best part is the draft. So if you feel like, oh, man, I got a draft. Basketball, man. Get in that over the offseason in the summer. You can do hundreds. Yeah, because then you're done. The draft, once you draft, it's over. Thank you, sir. How many leagues are we in? Like Jason said he's,
Three is kind of his number. And honestly... I'm in nine right now. And it's... Yeah. Whoops. I mean, maybe six or seven, but it's like when it comes down to it, you have your waiver priority and you have the energy to put them in for this league and this league and you kind of start to fizzle out. The number for me of important leagues where I can dedicate... The time it takes is about three or four. Yeah, and it's hard. I mean, you're in too many and you have every player on every team, and what are you rooting for? Yeah, right? Then everything is good and terrible at the same time. So it's all meaningless. Yeah. That's a good point. Oh, my gosh. Final question. Hi, what's your name? Eduardo. Eduardo. Hey, I came in from San Francisco to see you. Wow. Thank you for traveling. Yeah, usual condos from Francisco the next time. Better weather, yeah.
Yeah, so I'm on a 12th team Super Flex Dynasty League. I have a very good foundation on my team. I have Mahomes, Hurts, Justin, Justin, Jefferson, Jonathan Taylor. Yeah, humble, right, like that. Yeah. Do you actually have a question? Yes. I can't stop winning. I don't know what to do. Do you need a co-manager? My question is, why am I so good? Yes. Well, actually, I'm just so good thanks to you guys. Well, my question is, how do I keep my team competing? And how do I avoid going into a rebuild any time? Sure. It's a good question because at some point in time, and we've had teams in our dynasty league that you just, the temptation, you want the three, Pete, but then you know that the teams that are rebuilding are way ahead of you on piling up the picks. Like how do you do the balance of?
staying competitive and trying to process a rebuild maybe behind the scenes? The players you mentioned are perfect assets to be able to pull that off. Jonathan Taylor is the number one pick in fantasy football. He's 23 years. He's going to be dominant. You're going to trade him in two years. He's going to be 25 years old. He's going to be at the peak of his game. Everyone's going to want him. You're going to get a haul unless something catastrophic, catastrophic happens from now to then. You're going to trade him for a young stud rookie and picks. And then this I've learned from this man. He's done it over and over and over. And the other position he's done it with are these quarterbacks. If Jalen Hertz has a blow-up season, he's the number one, the number two, you know, quarterback this year, then look to trade him for a young stud up-and-coming quarterback plus a bunch of picks. You have done it to perfection and stayed relevant for too many years. I don't like it.
I, on the other hand, do like that. I don't. I traded Mahomes for Herbert and lots of other assets. But you have to have the conviction, and this was last year, but you have to have the conviction about those other players. Like Dalvin Cook was coming up when Todd Gurley was still at his peak, and it was like, well, I think Dalvin Cook's going to take the next step. So being aware of what players are coming up, and you have to shoot your shot, you're not going to be right 100% at the time. But you're right, these assets that seem like they can't go. I mean, say Juan Barclay in a Dynasty League, untradable a couple of years ago, right? And things didn't work out the way that you hoped. Even players like Nick Chubb that you thought had a different ceiling in Dynasty doesn't always come to fruition. So hopefully you keep dominating and then just pick that right time. Honestly, it's don't play scared, which don't be scared to trade a player where you're emotionally attached. You still see the.
the road for them to be dominant for multiple years. But if they're at the top and you can cash out, it's like a sneaky rebuild that people don't see coming. And above all, continue listening to the fantasy footballers podcast. We'll do. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Give it up for all those questions. All right, we are done with today's episode. But we are coming out in a few minutes. We're going to do an AMA here with the... beautiful people of Phoenix, Arizona, and Ohio and San Francisco, and New Mexico, and everyone who came into town. Thank you so much for coming out to see today's show. Text your questions in. We've got the AMA question number there. You can text them in. We're going to answer as many as we can. Thank you once again. Give it up for Brooks and Al. Thank you so much, Phoenix, Arizona. You're our home. We love you.
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