Footballers AMA + Epic Stories, A Balanced Diet - Fantasy Football Podcast for 1/14

people like Brooks and Al and Kyle and Brian and tons of people. I don't want to leave somebody out, but that's the thing we look for when we hire as much as we do any of the other peripheral skills. I know that they're going to get their crap done, so I need to get my crap done. Yeah, that has always existed for us. We've never had that thing where we're like, this person is just trying to get by for a month or two while the other people work. And, you know, that's helpful.

For sure. And, uh, all right. Let's move on. Twitter question from Jeremy. Have you ever tried a vampire league? What are your thoughts on this idea and what, uh, which one of you is the most likely to secretly be a vampire? Okay. So two questions here. Slightly different. I have never personally played in a vampire league. A vampire league is, um, a league where when a team loses, correct me if I'm wrong.

Is this the one where they're gone, right? Yeah, they're gone and everybody gets to draft from their team. No, that's the guillotine league. Oh, that's the guillotine. The vampires, when you beat somebody, I collect someone from your team. I drink your milk shake. See, I thought it was a league where everyone brings a pint of their own blood and whoever wins the league gets all the blood at the end. That's different, though.

Really happy. It's not that. Really excited about just taking one of your players. Unless you're a vampire, in which case that's the kind of league of vampire would play in because at the end the pot is. I need the draft at 2 a.m. That league seems awesome. I've never played in one. That seems like such a fun league. But I do imagine that one of the problems you have in normal fantasy leagues is that, you know, certain managers just.

quit a little bit earlier if things don't go right. But in this league, I feel like that would be even more exacerbated. By the midway point, you've got the teams with all the stars and the teams who've been fleeced of their stars. That would be so painful to lose a player that way, man. So painful. All right. YouTube question for Maurice. Keep trade cut question. This one's important, guys. Snickers, Milky Way, Kit Kat. Keep trade cut. It's easy.

I'm going to keep the Kit Kat. I'm going to trade the Snickers highest trade value. And who wants a Milky Way? Nobody. Who wants a milky way? How are you associating the trade value? Is that based on marketing dollars spent to sell you Snickers? 100%. The Snickers marketing budget is the largest. They're the most popular. And they're not as good as a KitKat. So, I mean, I'm just taking advantage of trade capital here. I'm in lockstep with Jason. I agree.

That being said, I believe that I have been entirely persuaded by Snickers marketing that it is more of a meal. And therefore if you told me that like I needed to have one of these for breakfast, lunch and dinner, I would be choosing the peanut filled Snickers. If you told me that Snickers actually the same company owns and makes Milky Ways and they put them next to Snickers just so they can sell.

More Snickers? Oh. I would firmly believe that because Jason's right. Who eats Milky Ways? And don't get me wrong. If there's a Milky Way here, I'm sure it's delicious. But like you don't ever have just a bowl of Milky Ways or a, you know, but you have a choice when you're making a selection. And like Mike said, these things are next to each other. Pick one. The dark chocolate Milky Ways underrated. You should check them out. Interesting. All right, unless you hate dark chocolate, don't check them out then. Anthony.

From Facebook, if you had to make a solo podcast, a solo podcast, what would it be about? Wow. I think I would do one on entrepreneurship. I think that's what I would just rant and rave on that, maybe. You guys going to make a Tesla podcast? Yeah. That would be fun. Mine would be a pop culture show, talk about movies and video games.

Sure. Yeah, I go to the entertainment side, something maybe interview style in the entertainment world. Yeah, cool. All right, dynasty question about juju. This is from Joshua in Colorado. Yeah, you already know how bad that question is going to be. Would you keep juju in a dynasty or try to trade him for a first round pick? I'm not trading juju for a first round pick. He...

Goodness gracious, the dynasty value of juju is, it feels like an impossible code to crack because he, he was not going to be, he's not going to be a stealer. Right. So then it's, I mean, that makes it really tough to begin with if you don't know what team he's going to be on. Yeah, that does make it tough. And it's just how good is juju actually? Because he could be awesome or he could just be a super average wide receiver that was put.

in the perfect situation with his role in that offense and with Big Ben. I don't know which side I believe. People don't put up the production that Juju Smith-Schuster has put up normally. And he's still extremely young. He was doing, he's doing things at a historic level of how young he actually is.

Yeah, and he'll get paid. He will. He's because he's young, because he's a big name, he's been a star in the league, he's been fantasy relevant. He'll end up making money. That being said, do you guys know how good? Like early before this season started, everything was made about the running back free agency class of this year, but then they all resigned. The wide receiver free agency class this year, do you know how good it is?

Have you heard these names? Let me read you a list of who. I'm sure I've heard them. So Alan Robinson, Will Fuller, Corey Davis, Juju, Chris Godwin, Kenny Goliday, Antonio Brown. Almost everybody there is going to get paid more than Juju Smith-Juster Will. Now, the one name that you mentioned, Corey Davis might not. But almost everybody else you named is going to get paid more money. Will Fuller is going to get paid more money than Juju. Alan Robinson, Chris Godwin for sure.

Juju is not like I hesitate because I know Mike you are so like I roll about people criticizing him about the TikTok stuff. It just depends on what you believe the makeup of a player is to be a one and what kind of maturity they show. It wasn't just that stuff. Like that stuff doesn't mean Juju is not a good wide receiver. That stuff might mean that Juju is not a great leader when he comes out and says the Browns of the Browns and doesn't make a decision and puts them on the bulletin board. And he says those things. I don't know.

I don't know if he's a bona fide one. You asked that same question. I don't know if he can get separation on the outside by himself with that Antonio Brown. I don't know it yet because Big Ben this year was throw the ball four feet. And Juju was great at that. He was actually a pretty reliable possession receiver. But is that his ceiling now? I don't know. Yeah. That being said, I would not trade him for a first rounder because in Dynasty, I'm always going to take a more sure thing over a...

more enticing bet. I'd take anything top five. I might take like top three. I haven't really dug in yet. But I mean, you know, there's there's always the Nekeel Harry's, the number one overall pick that just they don't become anything. And you know Juju is something. You know for a fact the next five, six years, he will be relevant for fantasy football, not saying he's going to be a star.

but he will be able to be in your lineup and score fantasy points. Let me ask you another question. Maybe you have a quick answer. Robbie Anderson or juju in a dynasty. I do not have a quick answer. I thought that might be a tough one. I thought it might be a tough. I didn't know if I'd get the quick juju or something, but Robbie Anderson or juju. So if you want to know, Robbie Anderson was almost irrelevant in dynasty. And now that question is more difficult. So Robbie Anderson's three years older.

than juju. Robbie has one year left with the Carolina Panthers. I think I'd go juju, but it's close. I don't feel great about it. Mike, quick answer for you? I lean juju. Instagram question from Evan Hill. What is each guy's go-to for doing something fun, not fantasy, or football related in Arizona? How do you guys have fun with the family? My go-to outside would be video games.

It's just few and far between, but when a great one comes out, I'll hop in, spend a couple weeks, you know, playing through it, and then I'm done. I always feel, go ahead, Mike. I am a movie connoisseur. I'm a movie man. The not being able to go to movie theaters for the last year has sucked. Yeah, that sucks. That's like my favorite thing to do is to go just eat horrifically bad.

and then go watch a movie while eating horrifically bad continues yeah i think we've all talked about it before sometimes i feel panicky about questions like this as though i should have more hobbies other than the business and like we're all dads so like honestly just doing stuff with the kids whether that's playing sports with them taking them to sporting things going out to dinner with them like that's kind of that's kind of our life i mean i don't you know

have anything beyond that. And I like video games, too, but Twitter question, some follow-up dad-related questions. Aaron wanted to know, what is the best advice for a new father of a four-month-old daughter? The advice we usually give is be involved, be active, change diapers, do, you know, feedings if possible. Don't be afraid. And that would be my biggest, like, if I could only give.

three words it would be don't be afraid just dive in yeah and i think that don't be afraid goes to a lot of things you with a first kid you're just kind of i mean no one can prepare you for it really like tons of people probably told me don't be afraid don't worry about it as first kid and you kind of just deal with it but like just you're not going to break the kid you're going to make mistakes they're going to forgive you like there is room for a lot of grace in that relationship you're going to be all right yeah i agree

All right, YouTube question. I'm about to have a second kit. Any advice? So any advice on the second one? Oh, man. There's no. Go to sleep. Don't even listen to this podcast, man. Just go sleep right now. Hurry. You're running out of time. My advice is you don't need any. You already went through the first. I mean, to me, it's easier now. Well, let's be fair here. Let's illuminate for the listenership.

Jason did not have the choice of going from one to two. Jason's first two children were twins. So you were Insta, oh yeah. I was in it. You know two to three, but you don't know one to two. Yeah, I guess what I do know is first time around infants and babies versus I've been there, done that. And here's a point to illustrate how I mean it. When we had our first babies, I literally installed Purell pumps

all over my house. Every room you could walk in and you could puerl your hands because I was so worried about... You made a COVID house. Right. And this was... You were out of your time. And then... Can I get you some of that house? The second kid comes along and I'll throw him cereal on the carpet and he can eat it right off of that. I do not care. He's going to live through it. He's going to make it. So that's kind of the difference. Yeah, I like it. Well said.

All right, let's go Instagram. Who is the first cry during a sad movie? That's Jason. So easily, Jason. Although Mike is underrated on this category. It's probably Jason, but I lately would give him a run for his money. I bet you there's a category that you cry out quicker. You know, there's certain types of moments. Sure. Like, Jason is pretty quick on the draw, but you've shown some weakness to some of these Pixar's. Oh, man.

Oh, brother. Pixar is the death of me. Has anybody ever done like a time-lapsed cry race? Like play a movie for two people, put the video camera on both of them, time-lapse it and see who's the first one to drop a tear? No one has ever done that. I'll find a really, really sad movie. I know you both can't survive. I said of the joke off, it's a cry-off. That's right. I can't think of whatever the specific example was, but there was something on in my house the other day.

Um, in the living room, I wasn't watching it. I was just walking through passing by caught a couple minutes of whatever this show or movie was. And I started to well up and cry over it. And I literally walked, I literally walked away going, why am I crying? Was that a drive by cry? That was a drive by cry. That's right. Jason, are you familiar with, uh, uh, uh, bedazzled the, with, uh, uh, good, Elizabeth Hurley?

I don't think so. Where he makes the deal with the devil. No. No, I have not seen that. One of his wishes is he wants to be the most, yeah, Brandon Frazier, thank you, Al. He wants to be the most sensitive man in the world. So they're on the beach and he's just crying it every time he looks at the sunset. He just starts crying. Yes. I love it. That's me. All right. Best type of pizza question from Ben Pope 16.