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Early QB Rankings: Top 10 Countdown, Grandpa Vibes - Fantasy Football Podcast for 4/23

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Early QB Rankings: Top 10 Countdown, Grandpa Vibes | Fantasy Football 2024 - Ep. 1570

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Episode notes & curated moments 7 records
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Ultimate Draft Week opens a Listener League seat

Preordering the 2024 UDK by Sunday enters a drawing for a Listener League place, a signed Justin Jefferson jersey, and a signed Travis Etienne jersey. The show also schedules live NFL Plus draft-night reactions and jokingly grounds viewers who do not attend.

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Hard Dog and Gero reach grandpa-level RV commitment

Jim Harbaugh remains the hosts' Hard Dog, while Greg Roman's own Gero shortening becomes his partner name. Their RV-park video is upgraded from dad vibes to grandpa vibes: separate trailers, lawn chairs, tapped drinks, and a retirement-level devotion to one another's football ideas.

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Kyle inserts literally no Zach Wilson news

A Joe Douglas item says there is no Zach Wilson trade update. The hosts laugh at including a quote with literally nothing to report and decide Kyle must have put it in the show document simply to have fun.

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Papa Josh answers from a live three-human Ducers Alley

The hosts ask whether Ducers Alley has more news, directly call Papa Josh, and receive his audible 'No, I'm good.' The program immediately shows three people under the neon booth sign before returning to the desk and a jersey-design argument.

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Office foosball supplies Hot Streak

The hosts add a third fantasy-quarterback value category—Hot Streak—with an emphatic call. They explain that the phrase came from foosball around the office and has already been mentioned on the show, then repeatedly deploy it during the rankings.

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Jason validates his own jokes with swish

During a four-day Los Angeles work trip, Jason begins saying swish after every joke he believes lands, even when Andy and Mike respond with imagined crickets. He calls it a power move and recommends saying swish, walking to the opposite end of the court, and smoke-bombing away.

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Episode notes

Complete published-video review shows Andy, Jason, and Mike at the main desk in ordinary clothes: Mike wears a white T-shirt at left, Andy a black cap and black shirt at center, and Jason a black graphic T-shirt at right. The standard opening includes a three-person WITH THE DUCERS portrait card for Brooks/Judge Giamatti, Jeremy/Owl Borland, and Kyle/The Borgogon. Those prerecorded portraits are not treated as live attendance. Ultimate Draft Week offers a Listener League seat plus signed Justin Jefferson and Travis Etienne jerseys to a 2024 UDK preorder entrant, repeats the opportunity at the close, and promotes an NFL Plus draft-night special with the joking condition that absent viewers are grounded. The Chargers discussion turns Jim Harbaugh and Greg Roman into Hard Dog and Gero, then recasts their real RV-park video as full grandpa rather than dad vibes: separate trailers, lawn chairs, and drinks tapped together in retirement-level commitment. No source clip, RV, chair, drink, or coach image appears in the episode; video stays on the hosts. Kyle's production fingerprint appears when the desk finds a Joe Douglas item containing literally no Zach Wilson trade news and decides Kyle must have inserted it for fun. A later question goes to Ducers Alley and directly addresses Papa Josh; he audibly says he has no more news, and the published program immediately cuts to a three-human producer row under the neon DUCERS ALLEY sign. That sequence establishes Josh's live presence and voice but supplies no lower-third or safe seat map for the other two people. The same passage makes jersey design a host trait: one speaker calls himself a jersey and logo nerd, rejects Denver's crowdsourced uniforms as vanilla Madden create-a-team work, and says one excellent designer should make something hot. Quarterback strategy revives Hot Streak, identified as an office-foosball phrase that has already leaked onto the show, while the hosts also state that their standard leagues and League of Record use six points per passing touchdown. The episode's strongest character origin comes from a recent four-day Los Angeles work trip: Jason began saying swish after his own jokes to certify them whether anyone laughed, even from the back seat after a cricket-worthy silence. He recommends saying swish, walking to the other end of the court, and smoke-bombing the scene. Targeted video confirms there is no foosball table, basketball hoop, swish graphic, smoke bomb, RV tableau, signed jersey, or special costume. No Jay Griz name, drop, theme, image, cutout, fill-in, or bear-specific dialogue occurs; the generic black bear in the routine opening montage is not Jay.

Inside the episode

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All right. So the top 10, Jordan Love, Dak, Prescott, Joe Burroughs, C.J. Stroud, Kyler, Murray, Anthony Richardson, Patrick Mahomes, Lamar Jackson, Jalen Hertz, and Josh Allen. Didn't talk about Justin Herbert. No conversations there. None needed. And I, you know, despite thinking he has the ability to surprise compared to expectations with Greg Roman, I don't think I would take him over any of the 10 we mentioned. So it makes sense. We will have a draft predictions episode of this show on Thursday ahead of the NFL draft that night. I love that show. Don't miss it. We always get 100% of them right. If you have, don't vet that or anything and check. Don't go back. Just trust us. But we do. We never mess up. But very, very exciting. And a reminder, it is Ultimate Draft Week. So head over to Ultimate DraftKit.com. If you order by Sunday, the pre-order price for the product that you're going to love.

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You get a chance to win a listener league spot to come and play with us in the listener league, a chance to win a signed Justin Jefferson jersey and a sign Travis ETN jersey. So do not miss that opportunity. Head to UltimateDraftKit.com. You guys have anything else to add? There's just no news on Sam. I almost said Sam Darnold. Oh, same difference. Yeah. It's the same picture. We'll catch you on Thursday for a big time show. Goodbye, everybody. Goodbye. for listening to another episode of the fantasy footballers podcast. Join our fantasy football community on join thefoot.com and follow us on Twitter at the FFBallers.