Footballers AMA + Coaching Changes, Giant Heads

Like a year and a half to two years of World of Warcraft. Yeah. Which you would call a weird hobby if you never experience the talons. I mean, you play a guitar. It's not a weird hobby. It's a normal hobby. My wife, and I guess by extension, I get shared in with this weird hobby. Yeah, this one's weird. So my wife became a green thumb about three years ago and just started buying plants. And my house is filled with plants. That's not the weird part. That's not the weird part. I'm just.

Oh, set the table. You don't go straight into raising frogs. That's not the weird part. But we do have a biosphere little tank in our house, and we have poison dart frogs in this thing. And we've got the three kids that love the frogs. But really, my wife loves the frogs more than anybody else. Yeah, but you got to talk about what's in the laundry room. Oh, well, you do. We also have a bearded dragon. And then there's the laundry room.

which has some of the things. Beard of dragons got to eat. A beard of dragons got to eat. Got to eat. In the laundry room is where my wife grows, cultures, different small insects to feed these creatures. There is a bucket of cockroaches. That is another way to put it. It's terrifying. Yeah. Yeah, it hasn't left Mike since he found out about that. No. And I like bowling a lot. Brooks likes bowling. Do you still bowl Brooks? Not as much as I like. Not in the regular. I will crush you.

Oh, footballers bowling. It's on. We really need to do that. And I will not crush you. But I like competition a whole lot. So we've got to do that. All right. All right. Fat Tommy? Fat Tommy won. Fat Tommy won reminds me of for no reason. Tony meatballs. Oh, man. If you're out there listening and you go back long enough to remember Tony meatballs. Or if you're Tony. Or if you're Tony meatballs. Or if you're Tony meatballs.

When we had the voicemail hotline, one of the first callers on the regular was a guy named Tony Meatballs. Yes. And he would call in with a fantasy question. Always great questions. Yeah. I just hope you're out there and you're okay, Tony. You know, Eddie Spaghetti, Tony Meatballs. I need you back. What is the best way of kicking someone out of your league that is a friend? All right. This is a tough question from Fat Tommy.

We talk so much on this show about building a great, strong league and that one or two bad owners ruins the league for everybody else. What do you do? How would you go about that? Mike? I know you'd never kick me out because I'm tremendous. No, you're a fantastic addition to the league. Kicking someone out, it becomes difficult when they are seemingly all about the league. The couple people that we've had to.

move on or retire from our league of record. I mean, it was, the writing was on the wall and it was, they had a, they had a foot out already. They just needed the permission. Yes. To us to be like, that is the case sometimes. Do you really have the time and the passion and energy? And each time we've had to have that uncomfortable conversation, they've all said, yeah, you're right. I probably shouldn't be in the league anymore. So it's, it's been gentle for us and we've maintained the friendship.

But kicking out your friend who likes to be in the league, but they just are a poison for the league. I mean, most of the time you just got to level with them and keep the conversation to the league and why it's important. Sometimes you might just need to leave them in the league. If they're a really close friend, I'm not saying under every circumstance you kick out an owner that's inactive. It might be more important to you. Maybe they improve once you have a conversation of, like, look, this game is dumb. I get it.

But we take this very seriously. And if you're going to play with us, we need you to take it equally as serious. And I've got to, there's a magic, there's a magic trick to be had in this situation. All right. A little stepping stone to saving any awkwardness. Okay. It's called the co-owner. If you can get that person, maybe they're not as active and you can just kind of ease in and say, I noticed that you weren't really active. We're trying to get really active owners. Is there any way that you'd be willing to do a co-owner situation?

Stay in the league, but then have somebody to help out manage the team. Interesting. Right? Could happen. Interesting. Kind of like what you guys are saying the expectations need to be made clear during the season to everybody. Well, and that's where like creating some sort of doc or something where you're saying, hey, here are the basic rules or tenants of the league. It doesn't have to be some like 30-page document. It can be like five really important things about the league, you know.

You're always doing this. If this doesn't happen, then this happens. You know, you just want the league to be fun for everybody, especially if there's leagues with money involved. Right. Instagram from Hyrule. So, like, I was earlier in this show, we had someone asked, which is a very nice question, but it's clearly specifically for Andy. Only Andy can answer the story about adopting his daughter.

Then Hyrule comes in here with this question, and I'm triggered. I feel attacked. Why is that, Mike? Because this is a very open question. Anybody could be the answer. The question is simply, who has the biggest head? Because it's me. It's me, and it's not close. You've accepted. I've accepted the large cranium that I have. It's mine. It's the only one I've got. There's a running joke based in reality on this show where Mike...

When we go to these different events, conferences, live shows, whatever. Look, the photo... You take a picture. There's the rule about the camera adding 10 pounds. But a photography camera adds three pounds to only Mike's head. His head looks twice as big as everybody else's head in all pictures. It makes no sense. And the thing I'd be worried about, Mike, just being honest with you, leveling with you. It's not the tumor. Is that the older you get from what I see. It's getting bigger. In Hollywood, your ears in your head, they just get bigger.

So we're talking John Travolta level head. We're talking. Oh, no. Yeah, you could get there. I'm going to get that Aikman head? You could get the Troy Aikman head. Oh, no. So I'm sorry. Oh, no. At some point, you're probably going to have to cut your hair back just to try to reduce the perception of your head. It's tough. It's a tough situation. It's clearly Mike, though, right, Brooks? No questions, no questions. Do they do, like, skull shaving? Come on.

Skull shaving. Just thin it out a little bit. Oh my gosh. You know, Mike's out this week. Jay Gray's filling in. It's getting his skull reduced. It was complications. Mike's out for two months from his skull shaving. No, we're doing more industrial light and magic style stuff with you. We're going to have the cameras just a little. You're going to sit back in your chair a little bit. This is like how they did Lord of the Rings with the Hobbit stuff. You need camera angles to get your head smaller. Oh, man. That's...

All right, Facebook. Adam has a question. He wants advice on adding on a dynasty team to an existing league. That's really hard. So you got dynasty team is loaded up with players everywhere. How do you add on to an existing league? Oh, man. So you're probably having to add two teams. Yeah, you have to add the two because you want the teams to be even. So somebody's not on a buy week every week. It's messy. It's complicated. But I feel like.

the best solution I've heard, I've never experienced it, but the best solution I've ever heard for a dynasty is that everyone gets to protect six players or whatever, depending on your roster size, from their own roster, and then the two new teams get to do an expansion draft from the existing teams. Yeah, and I think that's the only way that you can really do that successfully. I mean, you have to have, um,

you know, there's just nothing on the waiver wire in the majority of these dynasty leagues. Those teams have no chance if they're not drafting from the existing pool. So some sort of protected, I mean, it's much like they do, you know, they do expansion drafts on professional leagues where you protect a certain amount of players and then the rest are eligible for draft picks. And then those players probably alternate picks and, you know, it's doable. It's not impossible. We expanded a dynasty league from 10 to 12.

It was a keeper league. Keeper League, I mean. Yeah. And we did that via draft pick organization and stuff like that. All right. Let's go to, this one comes in from Twitter. Brooks 2020 at Brooks the judge. Wait a minute. That's real. That's real. There's a Brooks the judge handle. No, there's not. Brooks, how's that feel? It's interesting. Is this related to you? It has to be. Well, it's an avatarless.

If this was the patron show, I like how he said it has to be as though there couldn't be one person that's a judge in the world named Brooks. That's great. Our lives revolve around this show. I changed my answer of who's got the biggest head. Yeah. Well done. All right. If you started a band together, what would the band name be and what instruments would you play? I can tell you this. I'm playing guitar, Mike. I know you're a better guitarist.

But you can play bass. That's fine. My heart is I'm a bass player. Yeah. And I can only play. Slap it to bass. I can play like a chord progression on the old acoustic. A little GCD action. A can get into the A's and the, you know, the D minor. Oh. Yeah. Oh, minor and major. Yeah. Now we're talking. Yeah. Josh Rosen. Here we go. Jason. Can he keep a tune? Is he more of a symbols guy?

I feel like he's... Do we give him the triangle? He's... The cowbell. He's the weirdest, and it's a documented fact that drummers are just weird. So that works? Yeah. We'll put him on the drums. We'll be a three-piece. How soon till he drums the drumstick? I mean, that's... I didn't factor in the clumsiness. Three quarters of the song has no drums. Because they're weird, but they're also some of the most coordinated people we've ever met. Right. That's the problem.

You might need to move them on to something a little. We'll put him on the drum machine. He's hit the play. He's the DJ. He's the DJ Moore. Oh, DJ Moore. And these people who are like, I'm a DJ. We got there. I got an Apple playlist. We got an Apple playlist. He can handle that. Okay. DJ. We need a band name, though. Wow. I mean, that's a tough one. Yeah, off the top of your head coming in with a funny band name is. Big Benny and the Jets.

Big Benny. I don't know. Who's Big Ben? Are you Big Benny? No, that's, well, you are, the big head. Oh. I don't know. Brooks, if you think of a good band name for us, throw it out there, okay? All right. You probably won't. Where can I buy this season's nickname T-shirt? That's from Brad. The nickname T-shirt is in the works. It's basically done. It is not online mostly because of my fault. It should be up. It's done.

The shirt is done. Okay. Shopballers.com is where. You will be on shopballers. If you ever want some footballers gear, you want to rock that out, you want to be wrapping the floorline out there? Here are the names on the shirt. Booty scooting Cam Newton, Mr. Beowl, Hot Lockett, the Infinity Stone, Donald Schwarzenegger, Red Dead Dixon, Josh Stallion, Jared Garv, Fitness Consiglier, Terrique, the dinosaur hunter, Mark Waltenberg, and Carrie on my wayward slot. Those are the ones on the shirt. And they're coming out.

How often do you guys, this is from Katie Hill. You've got to read that handle. At hiding from my kids. I love it, Katie. Aren't we all? I love it. How often do you guys decide on nicknames beforehand and how often do they randomly spill out of your mouths during the show? I don't know if we've ever. I think there might have been one time you mentioned that you had a nickname in mind, but you didn't tell us. Right. I think every nickname from all the shirts and seasons, the rest have come on the show.

Yeah, and they're just spur of the moments. I can't even remember which one you thought of beforehand. It might be none. It might be none of them. So most often the moments on this show and the nicknames on this show happen on this show. Yep. So that's what makes them great. You never know they're coming. That's why they're legitimately surprising us, like the funky news drop. Oh, are we going back to that? Next question.

Twitter, Zach Williamson at Z-Cudds 13. Do you get Starstruck interviewing players? Do you get Starstruck interviewing players? The first few times it was very odd. Yeah, I don't know if Starstruck's the way I would describe it, though. It's a little intimidating. And people have different agendas. Like some of our interviews.

have been a process of like a media day, right, where they're going from interview to interview and you're just kind of getting it done. Others have been less like that, more personal. So one off, yeah. So I'm certainly been intimidated by that, especially earlier on when we hadn't done it a lot and we wanted to do right by the interview. Interviewing people is definitely a learned skill over time. Yeah, I mean, because you will interview them much worse when you are.

paranoid and afraid and you have a laundry list of questions and things like that. You need to be able to react to them. Yeah, Melvin Gordon was a very large man. That's just a statement. Melvin Gordon was a very large man. Was a very large man indeed. He looked like a superhero. Bigger head than you? Slightly bigger biceps. Oh, okay. Than you? Slightly. Slightly, yeah. Well, it was funny. Our calves are the same, though. Didn't we see, we interviewed Ronald Jones and then.