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After first reaching the show through a review, Brooks submits a funny 2015 Listener League entry that demonstrates the videography and technical skills the team needed; the hosts call it the beginning of Brooks.
Brooks's first studio words were 'Hey, everybody' in episode 355; by the farewell, he had assembled at least 1,200 main-show documents, appeared in studio for 96.4 percent of the last 1,200 shows, and run extensive live, DFS, dynasty, and UDK production work.
Dressed for his final in-studio Fantasy Court, Brooks rules for defendant Andy and attempts to synchronize a one-tap physical gavel motion with a sound effect; the timing fails and is compared to an anime overdub.
Brooks says he will keep full control of the desk decor from the Midwest. The hosts imagine an expensive robot smashing jersey cases, then explain that Brooks is famous for sprinting in before recordings to swap a player or jersey so the set matches the episode.
As Brooks leaves the studio, the hosts explain that their grief is expressed mostly through insults, with a little crying that normally happens off camera; an earlier joke blames too much baldness in Deucer's Alley after Papa Josh arrived.
Kyle's lore game says Mike has never missed a waiver episode during the Biden administration and Jason has missed the fewest host shows. The same round confirms a real episode title, 'Mike Poops Himself,' while the hosts remember the literal old Show After Show incident as Jason's story and Mike denies the title documented him doing it.
A Footballers-lore question reveals that Al Borland played the 'Just Give Me a Kiss' drop for J.D. McKissic 49 times from its December 2020 debut, after the initial answer of 48 is immediately corrected.
The episode is a detailed Brooks Carmean oral history disguised as a farewell. Brooks's first show connection was a July 16, 2015 review that Jason botched, earning the retrospective identity Reviewosaurus Rex. Only a week later, his funny 2015 Listener League submission demonstrated videography and technical skill and became 'the beginning of Brooks.' His first studio words came in episode 355—'Hey, everybody'—and by this farewell he had assembled at least 1,200 main-show documents, been in studio for 96.4 percent of the last 1,200 shows, and run a long list of broadcasts and Ultimate Draft Kit shoots. He is moving to the Midwest near family but remains on the team and in the FootClan. The final studio day becomes the last bench appearance for Judge Giamatti: Brooks dresses in a robe, rules for Andy, mistimes a sound-effect gavel like an anime overdub, and later hosts game segments. The show says it processes grief mostly through insults and off-camera crying, jokes that too much baldness beside Papa Josh caused the move, preserves the funky-news drop for the farewell, and establishes that Brooks will continue deciding the episode-specific desk decor remotely—possibly through a robot that shatters jersey cases. A Liar Liar round also revives the literal Jason-pooped-himself Show After Show story, the misleading 'Mike Poops Himself' episode title, and Mike's perfect waiver-show attendance during the Biden administration.
Today we have a very special and unique episode that I am confident you are going to love. Make sure you subscribe and enjoy. To the Fantasy Footballers Podcast with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Welcome in the Fantasy Footballers Podcast. Thursday, March 28th, Jason Moore, Mike Wright, Andy Holloway.
Should be a fun episode. We got a game time episode. It will be. I think this is going to be an awesome episode. It is. But we even have the return. Maybe the final. Yeah. We'll see. Fantasy court in history on this show because many of you out there, you do not know, but change is coming to footballers studio. Not to the fantasy footballer's company. I mean, yes to the company. But not like. More to the studio. More to the studio. Because today, this day, March 28th, 2024. That's a living infamy. Will be the final day in studio for Judge Giamatti himself. Brooks is.
not going to be here after today. And if we, if we look, you see he's prepared himself for. There he is. Oh, yeah. Look at that. Oh, yeah. Dressed up. For fantasy court, he has prepared for his final. Looking good, Judge. Final day at the bench, so to speak. So Brooks is. I will hold myself in contempt. Brooks is moving with his wonderful bride back towards the Midwest. to be, to be near some family. He's had enough for the sun. Yeah, he wanted silver. He said, I want gray and silver when I look outside and rain to fall upon me. Yeah, and snow and things like that. But no, Brooks has been here for a very, very long time. In fact, I have some Brooks fast facts to share with you. But Brooks, would you like to, would you like to say anything first to the, to the foot plant? Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's just a.
a weird feeling just being here all this time with you guys and it's just weird i don't know how i'm going to miss coming in here for the shows every day and um but so thankful i get to still be a part of the team and yes i'll i'll be reading your mailbag questions i'll be in discord footland i'm i'm still right here part of the team just you won't you always a baller you just won't see him in deucer's alley which is just an upgrade for the show True. You know what I mean? Like, I mean, you know, it's just one of those things where it's like, we already added Papa Josh, which brought us down so far. And we're like, Brooks, do you want to move to the Midwest? Will you move to the Midwest? Versus sitting next to Papa Josh. Yeah. Too much bald inducer's alley. And he took one for the team. So here's some fast facts about Brooks before we move forward. Nice. Hit me. First show appearance, the first mention of Brooks ever was.
July 16th, 2015. Oh, man. He was actually the Reviewosaurus Rex. We used to do a segment where we would share reviews from people who left them on Apple Podcasts. And Jason, you did botched the reading. Of course I did. That's what I do. I'll never forget that. Yeah? I knew. That's when you were going to say. You remember it? Oh, yeah. I'll never forget when you read my review on the air and I thought it was the greatest thing. Yeah. It was. And not long after that. Only a week later, we got his submission for the 2015 Listener League. So it was a great submission. It showed that he was very experienced with videography and a bunch of technical things that we needed. And it was funny. And that was the beginning of Brooks was back in July 24th, 2015, the Listener League entry. He started doing stuff for the show.
Do you want to know his first studio words ever? February 23, 2017. Oh, yeah, I do. So, episode 355, he said, quote, Hey, everybody. Sounds like Brooks. So, yes, that does sound like Brooks. He also has assembled at least, this is the number I have, at least 1,200 different show docs for the main show. Okay. He's been in studio for 96.4% of the last 1,200 shows. And then on top of that, for those of you that don't understand all of the incredible hard work that goes behind the scenes, footcasts, Sunday live events, DFS podcasts, Dynasty Podcasts, random whatever we're doing. If we're filming videos for the Ultimate Draft Kit, Brooks has run that almost exclusively since the beginning of the Ultimate Draft Kit,
and a ton of detail-oriented work here. That's why he is staying part of the team. He will just be part of the team in the Midwest. So that is, you know, we could not be more. It's not goodbye, but it's like it's also. Get out of here. Yeah, it's just get out of. It's like, this isn't goodbye, but literally get out of our, and don't come back. Right. Get out. But this is his final studio show. We're going to miss you. Yeah. We're very thankful. And we deal with our grief in different ways, mostly insults. Yeah, mostly insults. A little crying, mostly insults. The crying is normally off camera. Thanks so much, guys. Now, we need to move on before we have a crying judge. Oh, we're going to get him. All right. Let's go ahead and jump into the fantasy court with Judge Diomani. The fantasy court.
with Judge Giamatti. Plaintiff, Mike Wright, is accusing defendant Andy Holloway of aggravated disregard for quarterback mobility and youthful potential in young stud Anthony Richardson. You're shaking your head already? Yeah, I'm shaking my head already. Go on, Mike. You get to, you're the... You know, you're the plaintiff. That's how the court works. I didn't make the rules. Nobody told me I couldn't shake my head sitting over here in the defendant chair. It's a bad look, though. Yeah, it's not a great look. It looks really like, guilty, man. You're not the judge, Jason. I'm not the judge. I'm just, you know, I'm right. I'm right. Bayliff chair, like the second chair. Just to set the stage here, what it is? These are the, the, the, the, for Anthony Richardson, the dynasty startup rankings at the quarterback position.
Single QB. I mean, it doesn't matter if it's singular super flex because it's just quarterback rankings. Mike has Anthony Richardson as the quarterback four in Dynasty startup. I have him six. I have him six. I'm not far off there. And Andy has him as the quarterback 11. So this is where you're being taken court. I've been accused of aggravated disregard for quarterback mobility. And youthful potential. Okay. Yeah. All right. Go on, Mike. Make your case to the judge. He's sitting there in the most beautiful robe. Yeah, he looks fantastic. Yeah, he's ready to judge you. Go on. So here we go. Here's my case for Anthony Richardson, Your Honor, and the jury out there listening. For what we want from our quarterback is we want massive upside. I don't want a guy who's just going to give me some points. I want a quarterback who can win me a week, who can make a difference.
even though we've only seen him for a very brief amount of time, Anthony Richardson has already proven that he has the size and strength and the willingness to be a running quarterback. And that is what we need. Historic seasons. That's what we want. Over the last decade, if you look at the 12 best fantasy seasons at the quarterback position, talking truly historic seasons, eight of them, eight of the 12, were from quarterbacks who saw 22% or more of their fantasy production come via rushing. I will repeat that again. Eight of the 12 best seasons of the last decade, 22% or more came from rushing. And the 22% that was one of Josh Allen's season, usually it's closer to 30 or more for the production of how many of their fantasy points come from their legs. We have only seen.
Patrick Mahomes, he's on the list twice, Aaron Rogers is on the list twice, and then Justin Herbert. Those are the four cases and three quarterbacks who gave us historic seasons without massive rushing upside. And Anthony Richardson in the small sample, which this is ridiculous because it won't be this way, but over 50% of his fantasy points came in a way that involved his legs and his running. For the, I'm sure there, a lot of people out there, they're hesitant of like, should I buy into Anthony Richardson? We only saw him, you know, essentially two full games. I believe he appeared only in four games. I get it. I get the concern for that. But you have to make aggressive moves before players value skyrockets. Just a couple examples. Lamar Jackson, highly regarded fantasy quarterback, two-time MVP of the NFL.
In his rookie year, he started seven games. And in those seven games, he had just six passing touchdowns going into the next season. He was a late round quarterback who turned into a fantasy winner at 36 passing touchdowns. The QB won't. If you had gone off of Lamar Jackson's seven games, you wouldn't have seen that coming. Jalen Hertz, his rookie year, he started four games. He completed 52% of his passes. Philadelphia went one and three. There were huge question marks. Can Jalen Hertz actually be the guy? And then boom, he turns into one of the best quarterback values in recent memory. So to me, it's you got to be aggressive in calling your shot on these guys. And you need the rushing upside. Like I said, only Mahomes, Herbert, and Rogers have given us those truly elite seasons. And I think that Anthony Richardson, with his legs, he can do that. Your Honor.
I'm glad I have this opportunity. I don't even know where to begin with this journey and the irresponsibility of the plaintiff. You'll notice, Your Honor, that he strategically omitted two exhibits labeled Marcus Marriota and Robert Griffin III from his Jalen Hertz and Lamar Jackson examples. Marioita's first three games, number three, number 22, and number eight. quarterback when his career began in his first three games ever. RG3 was number two, number one, and number eight, and yet to claim that either of those deserves to be a top five selection on those games alone, I deem irresponsible. In fact, I agree with the plaintiff in the fact that Anthony Richardson would certainly have the capability of doing it. He can do it. But to rank him inside the top five on
So few opportunities at the NFL level, I beg the court to consider where the ranking of Anthony Richardson would be if he had finished 19, 19 and 19 in his first three games. Would we conclude that his entire career was over with? Certainly not. You have to say the exact same thing about these performances that the plaintiff clearly outlaid as, look, you had four rushing touchdowns. He also showed that he could be hurt multiple times in a four-game stretch. There is tremendous risk with Anthony Richardson because we simply haven't seen enough of it. I would not crown, nor would I have crowned Marcus Marriota or RG3, a top five dynasty quarterback in three games. And I won't do it for Anthony Richardson. He.
barely completed, what, 52% of his intermediate passes over those two games. That would have made him 40th best in the NFL. That would have been Bryce Young and Mac Jones level intermediate passes. And his legs will not earn him fantasy points if he is not proven to be a starting quarterback in the NFL. We still just need to see more. He has the ability, but you take a tremendous amount of risk. If you want to go trade for him, I think it's a different story than telling people to draft him at number four. I want more rest assured, guaranteed production without the injury risk that has presented itself. He's got as many injuries as full games played in the NFL. That's a good one. So, I mean, the plaintiff breaks in, and I'm not objecting to that. So look, Burrow, you know, Kyler, Herbert.
These are players I think the plaintiff clearly has behind Anthony Richardson and Dynasty startup. I just can't do it right now. I have him. And I think a respectable top 12, number 11 spot. And I think that's all I need to say, Your Honor. And you do look very handsome today. Thank you. So as you've considered such, the testimony in hand in this, your final time in the studio, how do you rule? The court rules in favor of. Defendant Andy Holloway. Oh. Did he forget the gavel? No, he just, he heard it, right? He did the most Brooks gavel I've ever heard. Yes. If you could have heard, if you, I mean, I'm so glad we had the video on that. It was just, he took it and he just tapped it once. No, no, here's what, here's what happened. Here's the real gavel. What? Ow. It's a sound effect. Oh. And I unwisely tried to time it out. You were trying to dub it?
You tried to time the sound effect? You went like an anime overdub with the gavel? Fantastic. Didn't work. Wow. Also, why do we just have one? Isn't it always like a tap, tap, tap? That's more like order in the court. Yeah. We're disorderly here. So that makes complete sense. Yeah. But. Okay. Well, you guys laid it out. Brooks decided it is a little bit too irresponsible to put that kind of faith in such a high selection. I do think, you know, if you want to play scared, then go ahead and grab the safer options. But the ceilings are what win championships. So it's tough. Like, you know, I'm looking at Dak. Dak Prescott, 30 years old, just was unbelievable. I think Dak is a tough one. I think Dak is, I have Dak ahead of Anthony Richardson because I believe the next couple of years are going to be really good. But I think that that's where the line that it.
It makes sense there to, if you want to go youth there, I don't mind that. You just want Joe Burrow with two season-ending injuries. Look, I don't know what Anthony Richardson is going to do. That's the true reality of my ranking is I just don't know. I don't, it doesn't bother me at all. It's just how do you want to play? I mean, you clearly have them ahead of Stroud because of the rushing prowess, which I think. That's a debatable situation as well because you don't have them ahead of Mahomes, I guess. No. So it's like what's Stroud sealing? Anthony Richardson, will he be able to throw the football? They certainly brought, you know, they brought back Michael Pittman. That's a great thing. I want him to stay healthy. I want to see if the team decides that, well, two injuries and two games, maybe we can't let him be what we wanted him to be in full. Maybe it's in 80%. I don't know.
Can you actually stop him? Physically you can stop him by breaking him. No, but I'm saying like run less, run less. Yeah, maybe not. Once the actions go. That would be dumb, probably. You just have to play the odds that he won't get hurt. You drafted Anthony Richardson not based off of his completion percentage. No. As a collegiate quarterback, because then he should not have been, what, the number four overall pick. You drafted him because he's a playmaker and has tremendous upside. Yeah. If he's got staying power, then he'll be worthy of your ranking. That's, yeah. If Richardson has a strong year, then. You're out ahead of it. Yeah, it's being out ahead of it. You will never get him. Like the price will go, it will Bitcoin and go to the moon. If he's bad, his price, it will come down. But it actually, I bet it'll hold a little bit.
There'll be hesitation a little bit. But you can see all of the dynasty rankings in the Ultimate Draft Kit. Ultimate DraftKit.com comes with a mobile app. There's a new Dynasty podcast out on Wednesday yesterday. The rookie draft tips. And we'll be doing rookie previews on the main show next week because the draft is coming. All right. We are going to jump into the news. Yeah. Funky news again. Of course. Well, it wouldn't be Brooks's last day in the studio without the funky news drop. NFL owners voted to adopt the XFL's kickoff rules for the 2024 season. These are going to be really fun. You're going to have the, yeah, we can. The new rules are basically that the,
the defensive, the kicking team is going to line up down the field, like only five yards away from the offensive receiving teams front line. And it'll, in theory, and I think practically speaking, it proved this out with the XFL. It should lower injury risk allowing teams to actually kick the ball to the other team where they have to run at bat. For a play. I'm going to get my snacks a little sooner now. Yeah, and so they, because I want to watch this. They've even penalized now or incentivized, whichever way you want to look at it. If you kick the ball out of the back of the end zone and say, well, you don't get to run the ball back. Now the other team gets the ball at the 30 yard line. So there should be, it should be a play worth watching. You know, it's funny. You talk about the NFL kickoff and you think about that first moment of the year when the ball is kicked off the tee. Oh, oh, there's just a ceremonial play that means nothing. Yeah, you know, the whole.
transformation of the kickoff, which I believe it's funny, because if you look historically, in 1994, the NFL actually moved the spot of the kickoff back five yards to make the play more exciting and more returns happen. Then later, they changed it back to the 35. Like, man, we're getting a lot of people hurt here. Yeah. In 2011, they made that change. And then obviously, you know, players are just. You know, kickers are stronger now, too, and they just at will can kick it out of the back of the end zone. I just can't help but think of all the players whose careers have been affected by the elimination of the kickoff. And yet one of them has not retired, and his name is Cordell Patterson, and he is now a member of the Pittsburgh Steelers, a two-year deal with Arthur.
That's Smith. That's the news story is Cordell could have gone anywhere. And you're still going like, oh, sweet, good for you. Patterson, go get some more money with the new kickoff rule. That'll be exciting. But because he goes to Arthur Smith, when you're drafting Najee, when you're drafting Jell and Warren, or they're on your dynasty team, there's the butt cheeks are a little tighter. Oh, Arty. Oh, Artie. As a reminder of what we saw in Atlanta last year, carries inside the 10 yard line for Atlanta. You had Bijon with 10. Top 10 NFL draft pick. Correct. Tyler Algier with fifth round NFL drop pick with 10. And Patterson had five of his own just vulturing those fancy touches. And he won't be unused. Can't wait. Like there's no way that you go through next season. You don't have a handful of these plays inside the five that go to Cordero Patterson. Yeah, either on an end around or something creative or he'll be involved in the receiving game. He'll be depth that wide receiver.
He is actually a good weapon for a team. It's just Arthur's proven that he's willing to do whatever. Already's done it again. I don't know what to think of the Steelers. I really don't. We don't like Arthur, but Arthur, the offensive coordinator was better than Arthur the head coach. Yeah. We don't really like Russ, but Russ in a structured system is better than Kenny Pickett. We do kind of like fields, obviously, for fantasy, but. Will he be able to produce at a level that gives him a job? I mean, it's a weird team. Yeah. No Deonté Johnson anymore. Van Jefferson's currently their wide receiver too. Oh. Yeah. Tomlin will make it all work. We have the NFL owners approving a new trade deadline, kicking it back a week. Nice. Reminds me of discussions in fantasy league. Yeah. Do you think then that fantasy deadline? We did move it back a week in our league a couple years ago. Do we go back another week? Yeah.
Do we got to stay ahead of them? Not in our league of record. Dynasty leagues, let's push it back a week. On the same wavelength of Van Jefferson, the next signing for the Denver Broncos is Josh Reynolds. Have anybody seen those two guys in the same place? Josh Reynolds, two-year deal with Denver to be, I believe their eighth mediocre wide receiver to join, you know, Mims and Patrick and Sutton and Johnson. And there you go. Congratulations. I think they have little Jordan Humphrey too. J.K. Dobbins cleared for football activities. We haven't heard a whisper about a future destination for Dobbins, but maybe there will be one soon. Coming off of the Achilles injury in week one was devastating when it happened. And, I mean, hopefully. Yeah, you hope he gets another chance. Hopefully, yeah, he gets a team where he can try and recoup some value. And we get, if you can get like 85% of Dobbins, what?
what he was, but I don't know. I mean, usually. It's all hope. It's all hope and sadness because that was sad with such sadness. Resignation. And with this injury, I mean, it's an Achilles. It's usually a death knell for running backs. We've seen many more examples of basically the career being over or a guy not being able to come back. Cam Acres rushed back and that did, you know, didn't seem like it was. a brilliant decision, got injured again, and then Deonta Foreman, who's probably the best success story coming back from Achilles, he took a couple years before he was back back. I feel like that's his future. Like the Dobbin's best case future is to be like a kind of a foreman-esque situation. Yeah, just a solid back in a couple years as a veteran backup. Yeah, and that's the bigger thing. Teams won't sign him to count on him. No. That's the problem. Impossible. And then.
Jason, we were talking about this the other day because they had moved some money around. So I didn't think DAC was getting a long-term deal. The Cowboys have not offered DAC a contract extension. The player and the team have a mutual understanding of the situation as he enters a contract year. Jerry Jones said, we are where we are locked and loaded for this year. I'm glad they both understand because that would be really awkward. Yeah. I don't mind DAC playing on a contract year. No quarterback. I was talking to Mike about this. No quarterback out there should ever worry about long-term contracts. They're irrelevant. You want the franchise tag me, franchise tag me. It's 100% guaranteed. And it does not matter if you get injured. As long as you're good. That literally did this one. And he got hurt. Yeah. And he got the bag. Kirk Cousins just got the bag. He's dealing with Achilles. If you're a quarterback, if you're a proven quarterback,
You can, you can. Don't force it. Just tempt fate. Absolutely. You don't need any. The longer you go. Yeah. Off of Enkilles. Exactly. The longer you go before signing your next contract, the more it's going to be every year. Yeah. Yeah. And it's not like he's not getting paid for this year. So all right. That is it for news and notes. Let's take a quick break. And we got some fun stuff in store coming up. Speaking of Dak, by the way, before we jump into our game drop here and something. that I believe Brooks has prepared for us. A couple things. I did look at my dynasty startup rankings and like DAC is by far the oldest of the top 15. Like he's, but he's only 30, you know, it's like if you, I don't know what cousins would be on your dynasty startup quarterback rankings. I'm guessing 18, 19, 20 range. Mm-hmm. Yeah, around there are 15.
Like that's where that's where that Richardson DAC situation comes to a head because Cousins just got paid a ton of money to be a quarterback at 35. So what? You tell me I could get four years of this DAC? I'd be really happy with this. Yeah, you would. That's four years to make a run in my league. So, all right, let's jump in. All right, I'm going to throw it over to Brooksie. Brooksie, what do you got in store for us? We're playing some Who Am I? We're playing Who Am I? So you will have. Oh, cool judge is back.
The backwards snap is on. I'm in a game show mode now. I was told I had needed to wear a suit for the game time episode. Looking good. All right. So here's how it's going to go. I'm going to read one clue at a time about who the mystery player is. Footballers, this is key. After each clue is revealed, don't guess your answer out loud instead write them down out there. This way people at home can play along. Okay. And then... Also, after each clue, you do have to verbally decide if you're locking your answer in, the written answer you have down. That means honesty, Jason. That means you being honest. I'm on camera. I think they could see what I write down. So, yeah. I've thought I know how to have one. How about okay? I'll be honest. Okay, I'll be honest. Thank you. I didn't hear an ascension to truth.