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Exactly one week before August 1, the hosts call the return to five episodes a week 'the beginning of the beginning' and treat the final divisional breakdown as another signal that full fantasy season has arrived.
The show's longest-named Slack channel, camp-highlights-and-hype-train, collects camp reports. The hosts require another side, repeated reliable reporting, extra attention to negative team news, and the original quote rather than a hyperbolic headline; one blurb may start a little train, but never a bullet train.
Ben Sinnott missing PFF's top 32 makes Mike's workday a coal-mine shift, closes Sinnott's government for an unapproved budget, and confirms the loyalty has become a cult classic. Mike still believes an opportunity could work, but now openly values every play as future show material.
The hosts extend NFC West greatness by association to the production booth, then note that its three Ducers match the Cardinals' three wins. The published video lands the joke with a live cut to exactly three humans beneath the DUCERS ALLEY sign.
Jason insists Kyren Williams will remain an RB1, another host takes the negative side, and the claim goes onto the Water Bet board with the show's real green bumper. The argument escalates into a fictional house co-sign: Jason supposedly needs Kyren's checks to keep coming, and the accusation returns when touchdown odds favor Kyren.
Kyren Williams, Sam LaPorta, and Gino Smith are compiled as Jason's My Guys, but Jason says he need not make them official because everyone already knows. Gino in particular is a free bet: competence is a huge win, failure merely preserves a funny joke, and Jason openly loves being associated with the bit.
A Brosmer believer upgrades Max to Maximus, and the panel decides the grander name would change both their opinion and his play. Maximus requires a large Viking beard rather than his current mustache, soul patch, and beard arrangement; he is then ordered to design plays and lead the locker room through a Trojan horse.
Matt Pingrey confirms Falcon is exactly 30, so the hosts use his birth as the boundary for noting only one other team opened under a four-win projection in that span. The Cardinals' number fell from four and a half, their fourth quarters were minus 55, and the hosts gleefully predict repeated obliteration because criticizing their own team grants immunity.
Andy, Jason, and Mike mark August 1 as the beginning of the beginning: five episodes a week and full fantasy-football season. Their exceptionally long camp-highlights-and-hype-train Slack channel supplies a useful philosophy—seek the other side, wait for a repeated drumbeat rather than boarding a bullet train, take negative team news seriously, and read the original quote instead of a hyperbolic blurb. Mike's Ben Sinnott loyalty survives a PFF snub as a government shutdown and a cult classic. A live cut to exactly three human producers gives the Cardinals' three wins a matching Ducers Alley punch line. Jason then defends Kyren Williams as an RB1, triggers the real Water Bet bumper, and is accused of needing Kyren's checks because the player co-signed his house; Kyren joins Gino Smith and Sam LaPorta on Jason's unofficial, already-obvious My Guys list. The panel upgrades Max Brosmer to Maximus, prescribes a Viking beard, and imagines a Trojan-horse play design. Finally, Matt Pingrey confirms he is 30, letting the hosts measure the Cardinals' near-record-low projection from Falcon's birth and gleefully dump on their own team.
That would have been better than pre-injury. It would have been better than his rookie season. And drafting that at wide receiver 34. That's fine. Yeah. That's fine. Are you guys drafting Michael Wilson? Like will you take a shot on that? Dude, I've got no problem taking, you know, if I'm adding depth to my wide receiver room, taking a shot if he's in the eighth round. It's unbelievable what he was able to do. And yes, I get that Marv wasn't there, but Marv has never done anything like that. No, not even close. It's not like when Michael Wilson goes out, Marv was putting up Jerry Rice numbers.
Exactly. So this is tough. So let me just throw out these names. Because they're all sitting right next to each other. So you've got Jordan Tyson, Marvin Harrison, Makai Lemon, Michael Wilson, and Alec Pierce. They're all in the, you're not getting presumably where those guys are drafting. You're getting one of them. Alec. Yeah, I think I'll take Pierce. All right. Divisional predictions. We got to wrap this up. Rams, 49ers, Seattle, Arizona. That's how you're going? That's how I'm going. Rams, 49ers, Seattle, Arizona. I'm going Rams, Seattle, 49ers, Arizona. That's what I've got as well. Which is what happened last year, right?
Oh, no, wait. Did you take Rams? Yeah, Rams. So the Rams would jump over Seattle in your situation. So we'll hear from the Seattle fans. Congrats on your championship, by the way. Yeah. That's pretty cool. That is something. I wish we had one. We're going to get you in week two. You've got to watch out for us. Goodbye. They're going to cover that spread. Thank you for listening to another episode of the Fantasy Footballers Podcast. Join our fantasy football community on jointhefoot.com. And follow us on Twitter at the FFBallers.