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This is Hall of Fame of Marshall Falk, and you're listening to the Fantasy Footballers. To the Fantasy Footballers podcast with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Oh, welcome in. Wednesday, August 26th, the My Guys episode, Trademark. Trademark My Guys. Yes. I like what you did on that post yesterday, Mike.

I mean, I just posted. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The My Guys, Trademark episode, the Fantasy Footballers, My Guys episode. I know people have been eager for our My Guys, and it is a balance deciding when we're going to reveal them because people want to know for their drafts, but they're still preseason and training camp and injuries. And, I mean, half of our comments yesterday were all aimed directly at Jason Moore.

They were? Yes. What I do? Oh, was this the shirt? No, this is not. I saw a lot of my shirt looks like I'm naked. Was it, were you wearing another salmon colored shirt? Yeah, yeah, it was a skin color. It's, uh, what color is that? It's flesh. Flesh colored. No, that wasn't it, Jason. It was the fact that you made another one of your famous proclamations on the show that there would be no more injuries. And then immediately we had Ken Walker and Jamar Chase have, they're fine, have some scares. That's Mike's fault. But also.

They're totally fine. They're fine. Yeah, I mean, it was a little scary to see the replay of Jamar Chase hyper extending his name. It was. He went from there totally fine. Oh, no, no, no. I know he's fine. I'm just saying it was, it was a terrifying, like, because that's, that's no contact or non-contact. Like that's, you've seen ACLs. When you saw the, so he, after the play, he was like, oh my gosh, Jamar Chase, you know, limbs off knee injury. And you're like worried. He says he's fine.

You look at him in the, you know, the, the, uh, whatever, the locker room. He's talking to people. He's like, I'm fine. I could have gone out and played more if I had to. It was fine. It was just, I hyper-extended a little bit. But then later the video comes out and you go, I've seen that exact thing before. And it is, uh, ligaments can be hurt. The way he went down was like, no. But yeah, I think that he's perfectly fine. And Ken Walker, I mean, I guess, whatever. It's a little low ankle tweet or something. Well, they're just, they're saying foot, but.

I think they're just resting him. I hope you're right. I'm saying like the video of him, he was at practice. He's in sneakers and he's just walking around. It didn't look like a guy who was favoring a foot or anything like that. He's going to have so much work. They need to keep him healthy. So so much going on. Our live show is Friday. So we're so excited to see you guys there. If you're in the Phoenix area and you want to attend, there are a few tickets left, Ballers Live.com. It should be about 800 strong in the Van Buren.

hosted by GMC and Pat Smart. It's going to be, or sponsored by GMC and Pat Smart. It's going to be awesome. And we're excited. Named after Martin Van Buren. Of course. Our favorite. Well, I don't want to say that because I don't know what he did. I don't know what he did. I'm afraid. But I mean, President Jason, you know. He had a sweet number. Didn't he have like a crazy hairstyle? Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. He has big chops. President number.

26. Ooh, you're a little... Which way? I'm thinking earlier. I'm thinking earlier. Yeah, like 16? We're earlier. We're earlier. 12. We're eight? Oh, I knew it. Look at Marty. We know history. You should dress up as Marty Van Buren for Halloween. But Andy, you did know, because he has the... Yeah, you got them shops or something, right? He has the, uh, the Costanza.

Or actually, I'll call it the bozo the clown. Yeah. Where it's, he's bald and the top sides are coming out, but then it comes down into the chops. It's a look. Yeah, I mean, that's what he's known for. Oh, my goodness. Man, man, that's, that is an extreme Larry David-esque. Oh, Marty Van Buren. Wow. MVB. Well, this has been a detour. It is the My Guys show. We got a quick question. We got news to catch you up on, luckily nothing catastrophic right now.

The quick question of the day. How was there any? Hey, there's Marty. There's Marty Van Buren on the back wall. Looking good, Marty. Boy, he did. Boy, he did a lot, right? I mean, you could tell from the eyebags how much he did. I mean, you're telling when was Christmas Carol written? That is 100% written about that's Ebenezer right there. That is Ebenezer Van Buren. Incredible.

That dude's stealing turkeys. Quick question of the day. Which NFL fan bases are you the most jealous of? How is there any answer other than the Patriots? Yeah, I mean, the Patriots are the clear answer. Oh, not to me. So, I mean, the rationale to me is, bagillions of Super Bowls? In my lifetime, not like, oh, the history of my team before I was born. In my lifetime, they've won the most Super Bowls by.

gargantuan margins. Then after it was like, well, you lost Belichick and Brady, you're done. Welcome to the doldrums for, oh, wait. Wait, what did you got? Two years? Two bad years? And now you've got a young superstar runner-up MVP candidate. You were in the Super Bowl? That's not fair. I'm going with the Packers. The history of the team, they have four Super Bowl titles, not six, but four. They have this long history from Lombardi to...

you know, Bart Starr to Fav to Aaron Rogers, but it's about the city. It's about the Lambeau Field in the middle of a neighborhood being owned by the actual fans. Like the team doesn't have... Dude, guys, are you kidding me? Martin Van Buren served as the eighth president from 1837 to 1841. In 1843, a Christmas carol is written. I knew it's not a joke!

Dickens was written about President Van Buren. Charles. Oh, Charles. Oh, humbug. Charles. Dude, now I know more about Van Buren. He was a grumpy grouch. The Van Buren's need to go after the Dickens estate. There's not time for Christmas when you've got to lead the country at a time like the 1830s.

I mean, that man has outlived the average life expectancy by over 20 years in this picture. Oh, man. By sheer anger. So for me, I'm going, I'm going Packers. I think the storied history versus the... That's funny. When I grew up, actually, you guys maybe picked up football a few years later than I did. When I grew up, it was the Patriots were the garbage team of the NFL with the Cardinals because they would be the four and 12 teams every year. Yeah, yeah. But anyways, yeah, I mean, you guys both... I don't really count old Super Bowls.

Yeah, I don't either. It's about the history, man. Yeah, but I know that's an Al Borland's happy about that. Oh, we have a fourth member. The biggest loser. We do we do have a fourth loser. We do have a fourth loser. Who lost to me in the, I want to you remember that. You lost to me in the listener league championship. And that's why you became the biggest. I did. And of course he did. That's the biggest loser on it. Yeah. So that's not a name tag. That is printed on the shirt. At the live show, there will be no mistaking who Brian Ketchwin is. I always knew without the shirt.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You don't need that, dude. Everyone can just look at the aura. Your face is its own name tag. Hey, but good news, you are our deucer of the day. Ducer of the day. Yeah. Congratulations. It's not really an honor. Brian, if you listen to the show, you would know what that means. Yeah. Oh, what's the say on the back? He's, he's pitching us on Twitter. All right, I'm going off of that camera.

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Footclan ultimate subscription forever and more importantly. Play with us next year in the listener league. Megalobole.com. Come play with us. I'm in one. Yeah. I mean, there's drafts from the 4th through the 9th or 8th, rather, and the kickoff to 9th. So megalobole.com for that. Let's talk news. News and notes from around the league. Biggest loser back there holding up an affiliate code for something, you know. We've got the Raiders head coach Clint Kubiak saying Ash and Genti is, quote, on the mend and he's, quote, not going to get into injuries.

And I'm, quote, annoyed by that and, quote, curious about his availability for week one, unquote. I believe it is Saturday. I don't guarantee it, but I'm pretty confident that Saturday is the day that the actual official injury reports have to happen. So we will know more on these injuries for all these guys, you know, at least a little bit more, come Saturday.

at it's like 5 p.m. Did you see that Martin Van Buren was the same height as you? Oh, he's 5.11? Six. Oh, man. Bengals, wide receiver Jamar Chase, left with a knee injury, spoke to a reporter, says he's fine, could have played if there was. He said he tried to go back out there and the coaches wouldn't let him. Sam LaPorter returned to practice on Tuesday. That's big. We weren't sure if he'd get back before the regular season began. That is big because I think there was, in the back of my mind, as a Laporta, you know, long.

Time supporter. In the back of my mind, this was a fearful reaggravation of what he had surgery for. So if he's there week one, then hopefully it was just basically a contact contusion. Ken Walker did not practice Tuesday. Minor foot injury. Shut him down. This is not great because it's the second time in a week. Maybe it wasn't. Maybe it's the first time. But Josh Downs, calf injury.

He called it very minor, believes he will resume practicing soon, but we have a lot of injuries in Indianapolis among the past catchers, Pierce and Downs and Warren's groin. That's why they got Keenan. I mean, I really do think Keenan in the first month of the season of PPR league will be like top 20 wide receiver every week. I don't even know that I want to draft him knowing that. Yeah. But if I am in a deeper league, I mean, like let's say you're, I mean.

The listener league that we will be announcing next week the people that get in. So if you submit it and haven't heard back, that means nothing so far. Yeah, we haven't replied to anybody yet. That's a 14 team league. You're reviewing. It's a little deeper. And so, you know, later on in drafts, grabbing a Keenan and throwing them in the first.

week in a double flex or something. Brian Thomas Jr. returned to practice was wearing a non-contact jersey after the shoulder injury. Zay Flowers isn't practicing Wednesday working on the side. Also didn't practice on Monday. I don't care for this particular news. This is the one of all the news that I'm the most concerned about just because we have no, I mean, it could be nothing. But you've missed two days of practice and it hasn't been disclosed to anybody what's going on. But working on the side is better than not being there at all. Safe Flowers.

get well soon for mike's sake yeah jacori kroski merrick oh okay cool not practicing everybody i like in the news today yeah mike is uh why isn't he practicing he doesn't know the butterfly sounded a little bit yours was yeah that's a grade seven um josh jacob's off the bone this is big packer's general manager came out and said when asked about a potential josh jacob suspension

The team is preparing for that in case it happens. Yeah, I don't. Pretty confident we can sustain it, he said. That does not mean that we wouldn't claim a running back, but we'll deal with that when the time comes. We're obviously been preparing for that. They don't, this wasn't like new information in terms of like. That's what I wanted. Yeah, they have, they don't have a new inclination that it's happening. It's just that it is, as has been stated, a possibility for both him and Puka right now because they haven't been through the NFL's investigations. Therefore.