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

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back with you. We have an exciting episode of the show today, our annual footballer's AMA episode. Ask me. Ask me anything. Jason, lots of questions about his life. You know, we always find out new things about Jason each and every year, like when we found out that you were part of a mime troupe.

At some point in time. Very important. Wasn't it like years worth of miming that you did too that we were unaware of like touring? That is incorrect. That is 100% inaccurate, but is a fantastic story. Mike was right. There was an award. There was an award. Yeah. I did win best mime. You won best mime. How many other mimes did you compete against for that honor? There's probably about 15.

Were there? Okay. This isn't like when you were in Jiu-Jitsu and all the weight classes break down to where there's two people competing. You're like, yeah, I won silver. Ah, I won silver. I won one. I lost one. I got silver. That's right. I did it. All right. Thank you for joining us. This will be a fun one. We also are going to be sharing some of your stories on today's show. Oh, yeah. As we're going to be taking it to 100, we asked you to submit some of your

last second victories, championship stories, things of that nature, and I'm excited to get into those. You can watch the show. Can you believe it? They have the technology now. YouTube.com slash the fantasy footballers. And if you subscribe and you click the bell, then you're alerted to new episodes. And when we put some other cool content up there, we do giveaways and things like that, you can check it out. And Instagram.com slash fantasy footballers, if you want to follow us there.

Jason, are you ready? Can you handle the truth? Because it is coming. Oh, brother, I not only can handle the truth. I'm going to give the truth. Yeah, we've got truth episodes coming up next week. I've been, I don't know if you two are aware, but Brooks and I have been working on all of those spreadsheets doing the work of the truth series, but there's some interesting information already. You're the Tom Cruise and I'll be the Nicholson? That is correct.

Now, we actually hook you up to a lie detector during the whole four episode series, right? That is right. We do not know how to read it, but it is going. And it's actually just just wires hooked up to a car battery and then clamped on nips. Right. And it's like if I lie. A different kind of lie detector. I mean.

Oh, and when you say you worked with Brooks, you do mean Brooks's staff, right? Like he employed a number of people to work on it on his behalf. I meant Brooks LLC was what I was when I was working with the corporation. And they've been fantastic, top down, just well organized. All right. Well, I'm glad we handled all of these important topics at the top of the show. Let's take it to 100. Taking it up to 100.

Presented by Head and Shoulders, available at Walmart. All right. Last week, I was crowned, I believe, best fantasy player on earth. Is that the, was that the title? It was something like that. You took it up to 100. You were the champion. Yeah. Sterling Shepherd. Yeah, I've got a trophy. What a call. I've got a trophy now. And you don't.

I do have a trophy, but it's unfortunately in the other room. Yeah, you can't pull it out. All right. All right. We did say we wanted you to send in some of your fans, some fan stories from 2020, the last season, lots of championships out there, and we wanted to read some of them on the show today. This is your opportunity to tell us how you took it to 100 this year. I will kick it off. We're going to read a few of these because they are, and then we can react.

We can react to these stories. We got one in from a friend of the show. Sharks are cool on Twitter. Was down 31 points after Sunday in week 14, which was week one of the fantasy playoffs, had only Lamar Jackson left and won on the 44-yard touchdown pass.

That 44-yard touchdown was a fourth in five when Lamar came back into the game and then went on to win the championship. Hashtag take it to 100. Yeah, that's good because you assumed you lost already in that game. And then he comes back. And it was the quintessential like bomb to win the game. That's amazing. It was one play. All right. James. Awesome.

James from Twitter wants to know if this counts. His seven-year-old's team, aka Panda 472. Okay. Coming from behind in a two-week playoff on the backs of King Henry and Jonathan Taylor's 68 points in week 17 for her first Super Bowl in her first ever league. I would say that took it to 100. You had the RB 1 and 2 on the week. Yeah.

Wow, coming from behind too. So after you were facing a deficit, you needed it and you got it from the best two running backs. That's awesome. Grant says, well, it's hard for me to pick a week where my team took it to 100 because it happened so frequently. This league has been around for years and I now have the number one, two, four, and fifth highest weekly scores over those years. Congratulations, Grant.

It's okay to sniff your own farts at this time of year. I mean, that's encouraged. That's what you're supposed to do. All right, we got another one here from Stanzy Sports. Faced one of my best friends in week 13. Winner got the final playoff spot. Loser was eliminated. And the Walleris said, Koo Kuchoo, and scored 46 points. And he won by 119.

Oh, man. That's a beat down. That is a deep. Oh, yes. That should have said former best friend because there's no way you can repair that at this point. Yeah, that's broken. That's done. But at least you took it to 100. How about this one from Matt Wells on Twitter? It was week 12. I need to win. I need another guy to lose. And I need 54 more points than him to make the playoffs. I have Tyree Kill.

James Robinson and Drake. He needs David Johnson to score at least 10 points against Baltimore, but he only got 8.4 with the drops. Oh, was that Deontay? Oh, Deontay Johnson. Oh, that was the game with all the drops. He only got 8.4 fantasy points. And Matt Wells, playoff bound.

After that. Spectacular. This one's from Logan Jones, fellas. This is amazing. With Mark Andrews on the COVID list and fearing the Baltimore Pittsburgh game wasn't going to happen in week 12, I took a shot in the dark at tight end, was about to miss the playoffs by two points until a needless Eagles Hail Mary found its way into the arms of Richard Rogers. No way. A Richard Rogers title?

On a Hail Mary, that is by far my personal favorite because it's insane. I mean, you, you throw Richard Rogers in your lineup. And that's just, that's just basically saying, okay, I'm done. And then a Hail Mary, you win it. Playing Richard Rogers was a Hail Mary by itself. And then you won with the Hail Mary to Richard Rogers. That is.

Unbelievable. And we want to thank everybody for sharing some of those hashtag, Take It to 100 stories with us. You can browse them on Twitter, too, if you put that hashtag in there, at Take It to 100. If you want to see some more of these stories, some great ones. Man, those are always a lot of fun. That's fun. A reminder to take your hair up to 100 with head and shoulders available at Walmart. You can pick yours up today. I did want to thank you guys for holding it down on Tuesday.

I listened to that episode, and you guys were drafting the top 24 players. We were. For 20, 21, and I know, you know, a lot of effort was put into that episode going through and kind of establishing those early lists. And I thought that the kind of culmination of that entire process when I was listening was the Devante Adams, when do you take the first wide receiver? And then...

When do you take Travis Kelsey? And I think they went 8, 9, 9, 10, and your guys is back and forth? Yeah, something like that, 7 or 8. And there was, your critique was, in fact, against the pick that I made because I took Devante Adams. I took him over my tier of like Nick Chubb. And right after I took Adams, Jason took Travis Kelsey. And then you said, as you were listening, that I did it wrong, I should have taken Travis Kelsey right there before any wide receivers have been drafted.

That was my, I wonder if they'll remember Kelsey and I wonder what they'll do with Kelsey moment. Where I was like, this is about where, because once the Adams bell goes off, we were like, okay, it's time to maybe move beyond running back. The question in my head was like, I think Kelsey should go right here. And I kind of, you know, we talked about it a little bit on Slack and look, you're not going to go wrong with Devante Adams. It's really not a critique on him. It was more a debate about.

How valuable is Travis Kelsey? Five straight years at number one at the tight-in position. And there's a lot of good points on both sides, right? There's points to replaceability. Like if you have an injury to Devante Adams, obviously that sucks. And you've actually had to deal with it quite a bit with Devante Adams. Yeah. But it's a more replaceable position, right? You could find somebody at wide receiver a little bit easier than a Kelsey replacement, like that gap.

If you lose Kelsey, you're not picking up Waller off of the free agency. You just go get Richard Rogers, my man. Well, yeah, I guess I didn't think about that. But it was kind of, I brought up the point to Jason. I was like, man, you know, if you could choose to play Devante Adams at wide receiver or at tight end, where does he represent the biggest advantage? And they actually have really similar fantasy outputs over the last five years. They're almost identical total fantasy points, which obviously speaks. I think more to Adams, he's missed more games, but still has that.