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Free Agent Predictions + Combine Reactions - Fantasy Football Podcast for 3/7

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Free Agent Predictions + Combine Reactions | Fantasy Football 2023 - Ep. 1383

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Episode notes & curated moments 11 records
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The UDK Listener League winner hears 'You're in'

Everyone who preordered the UDK from Super Bowl Sunday through March 1 entered a drawing for one Listener League seat. The hosts hand Jason the reveal, announce a winner whose name the transcript renders as 'Jake fells on,' tell him 'You're in,' and then hope Jake is actually listening.

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Kyle refuses the car-guy assignment

A metaphor about the Dynasty Pass getting new wheels turns into improvised mechanic vocabulary. The hosts call Kyle a car guy and directly ask whether he can fix a car; Kyle says twice that he does not care about cars, then answers 'No comment' when asked whether that means he is also inept.

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Jason's Combine clinic serves bacon twice before breakfast

Light combine weigh-ins inspire Jason Moore's Combine Training, described as a buffet clinic. Prospects can stay at his house for two weeks and follow a meal plan of bacon at 6:00 and more bacon at 6:30. The show returns to the clinic for Jahmyr Gibbs, who receives an invitation to learn how to eat a burger while another host suggests the local IHOP.

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Free agency runs three player names through the mutation shop

Derek Carr news calls for the Send in the Carr cue. Robbie Anderson's real identity changes are recapped from Robbie to Rob B. to Chosen, then his impending release creates Released Anderson. Evan Engram's franchise tag is introduced with the established Schmevin name, rendered here as Schmevin Schmingram.

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Mike breaks out at 40 in the zeroth percentile

An unlabeled host compares his jump with Anthony Richardson by shrinking the difference into feet, percentage of a mile, and metric, then calls himself athletic and confirms he recently turned 40. The next paragraph explicitly identifies Mike as the subject, gives him an analyst breakout age of 40, and places him in the zeroth percentile. After the hosts debate zero's ordinal, a direct Kyle prompt resolves it and Mike is congratulated.

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Free Agent Frenzy crowns Mike without proof and legalizes stealing

The Free Agent Frenzy cue opens the annual landing-spot prediction contest. When the NFL calendar reaches legal tampering, the hosts reject the phrase as inherently devious, propose open negotiations, and compare it to a store declaring a temporary day of legal stealing. Later, Kyle's note calls Mike the reigning predictions champion, but the desk says the claim has no proof and one host says he does not remember it.

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Jason threatens the big table over Breece Hall

Before predicting Miles Sanders to the Jets, a host explicitly says the pick will frustrate Jason. Jason's immediate response is 'How dare you touch my Breece?' The desk predicts a wider fan revolt, and Jason says the table is big but he can flip it if the signing happens.

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Austin Hooper becomes the verb for a doomed overpay

The Dalton Schultz landing-spot discussion invokes Austin Hooper as the recurring archetype: someone will overpay a tight end, move him into a system that probably will not work, and repeat the Hooper outcome. The hosts then conjugate it—teams Hooper a player, players get Hoopered, and they take Hooper money—before remembering Hooper himself is back on the market.

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The XFL scouting department watches only Josh Gordon highlights

The Hooper discussion detours through the D.C. Defenders and a brief Commanders-name confusion. Asked whether he has watched much XFL, an unidentified host says no—only a couple Josh Gordon highlights—then celebrates Gordon's long touchdown while laughing that he looked slow and still could not be tackled.

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Gift cards become printable basically certificates

During the closing UDK pitch, one host reaches for 'gift cards' and instead says 'basically gift certificates.' The desk spots the filler word, supplies the missing phrase, and extends the mistake into basically certificates that must be printed, mailed, or checked in person.

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Episode notes

The hosts announce the winner of the UDK-preorder Listener League seat, hand Jason the reveal, and tell a listener whose name transcribes as 'Jake fells on' that he is in. While describing the Dynasty Pass as a car in the shop, they ask Kyle for mechanical help because he is supposedly a car guy; Kyle says he does not care about cars and answers 'No comment' when asked whether that also makes him inept. Disappointment with light combine weigh-ins creates Jason Moore's Combine Training, a buffet clinic where prospects come to his house for bacon at 6:00 and 6:30; the bit returns when Jahmyr Gibbs is sent to Jason for a burger, possibly at the local IHOP. Player language mutates throughout the news: the desk calls for the Send in the Carr cue, traces Robbie Anderson through Rob B. and Chosen to Released Anderson, and revives Evan Engram as Schmevin Schmingram. Mike compares his own jump with Anthony Richardson by switching to feet, percentage of a mile, and metric, then is explicitly assigned a breakout age of 40 and the zeroth percentile; a direct Kyle prompt supplies the grammatical ruling. The annual Free Agent Frenzy prediction contest returns, and Kyle's note declares Mike the reigning champion despite the desk finding no proof. The phrase 'legal tampering' is rejected as inherently devious and compared to a store's temporary 'legal stealing' day, reinforcing the same naming complaint later expanded into the Purge. When Miles Sanders is predicted to join the Jets, Jason is explicitly warned, responds 'How dare you touch my Breece,' and says the table is big but he can flip it. The Dalton Schultz discussion turns Austin Hooper's old overpay into a reusable verb: a team can Hooper a player, the player can get Hoopered, and he can take Hooper money. That tangent reaches the XFL's D.C. Defenders, where an unlabeled host admits his entire viewing consists of a couple Josh Gordon highlights and delights in Gordon looking slow while defenders still cannot tackle him. The closing UDK pitch then loses the phrase 'gift cards' and invents printable, mailable 'basically certificates.'

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