2019 Footie Winners! + Beat The Ballers & Super Bowl Picks - Fantasy Football Podcast

Like that, he would do whatever dark sorcery is necessary. Yeah, handsome Jimmy G would walk out at halftime and his hair had all fallen out. Yeah, for sure. Like he would be completely bald. He's an old man now. Yep. Well, that's not how I expected that to turn. Let's talk some news. News and notes from around the league. Is that the diet program that Brady has? Is that the blood magic? Is it blood magic oriented? Yeah, he just drinks the blood of young men, young athletes.

Okay. That got weird. Raiders coach John Gruden said Darren Waller underwent thumb surgery. So, you know. He meant flipper surgery. That's what he meant. And look, it's a good thing when it happens now. I never understand some of these situations where, you know, he needs off-season surgery. It's going to happen April 25th. Like, do they not understand the correlation between recovery time and being back at camp? Are they trying to avoid camp?

I get it from the standpoint of laziness. You're a pro athlete. You want to play football. You don't want to book a doctor appointment. You got to call them. Okay. Is that what that's all it is? That's what it would be for me. I don't want to wait on hold. I give far more credit to the players and doctors here. I believe that when they wait until April, it's because they should.

And it's like, well, you should wait for something to happen and heal and swelling to go down or whatnot. If it's truly, if it's truly like you can get the surgery whenever you want, it's like, well, I'm going to Aruba. So I'm going to wait a couple months. Then that's awful. Well, I don't give any credit to Philadelphia's medical team for making Deshaun Jackson wait 94 weeks to get his surgery. He'd be back already. And then I'd be right on my Super Bowl run. All right. Anthony Miller.

Has to undergo surgery yet again on the same shoulder he had off-season surgery for last year in January of last year. It slowed him down on the way back, and we saw what he could be. So you hope that this is a cleanup or something less severe, and he's able to start the year the way he finished the year because he's a very talented guy, should be the number two across from Alan Robinson for years to come. But surgery stinks. I don't remember because...

I'm a dumb man. Can either of you remind me or maybe the producers? Was Anthony Miller, was he around in training camp and preseason? Was he, I feel like he missed time there. I feel like he missed time. He did miss some time. I thought he missed some extra time with a different injury when he had returned. That's what I thought happened. I'm just curious how this timeline is going to look versus last year because he definitely got off.

to a horrifically slow start. Yeah, he actually missed time, too. It's concerning. Yeah, and then what is this? The Colts have signed Moecox. Yes. And Zach Pascal to one-year extensions. Gigantor lives. What do you have, eight catches on the ear, Mike? Eight amazing catches, thank you. A giant can only catch so many passes. It would be cheating. If they threw to Moecox every play. Are they slow playing it? No, I'm saying if they did this, the NFL would be in an uproar because it would just be cheating.

Because the Colts would win every game. This is my yowming strategy. Someday it's going to be implemented and I swear it would work. Don't you think that they might have wanted to attempt to cheat on their way to losing most of the second half of the season? No. Okay. You don't want to. I would have. I would have had the whole Monstars team in there helping me out. Ron Rivera, Riverboat Ron. Head coach of the Washington Redskins, a five-year deal.

This is a new chapter for Washington. You know, Redskins fans have had to deal with unpleasant life for quite some time. Now, we know it out here as Phoenix Suns fans, but if you are, you know, the Joe Dolan Knicks, you know this too. Look, at the end of the day, the ownership defines a lot of how you spend that money. So whether it's Bruce Allen or...

you know, Jay Gruden or whomever it is, Ron Rivera, hopefully they can make some better decisions. They give some more control to the incoming GM. But Ron Rivera's a good coach and there's some talk of Jack Del Rio potentially being the defensive coordinator on this team. Oh, Blackjack and Riverboat Ron together at last. That would be, I mean, every fourth down they're going for it. They better. You can always play Blackjack on the Riverboat. Yeah. Yeah.

Make sure you're sticking with us all offseason. We will have a full coaching changes recap episode coming up in the in the next couple weeks. When is this Brooks? I think that's a couple months. Yeah. Yeah. And breaking down their tendencies. It could happen any minute though. What does it mean? That you're, you're correct. Yeah. Doug Marone's coming back in Jacksonville for the 2020 season. Why? It seems strange. Is it because they were so bad?

Yeah. I mean... No, that was all Tom Coffley's fault. The expectations here was definitely playoffs. I think around Jacksonville was Super Bowl, right? Because you had this team that has this great defense and you signed the only piece you needed was that quarterback. You go out and sign Nick Foles and then everything falls apart. The defense is beyond atrocious. And they're... Well, maybe that's why. I mean, Doug Marone is going to get him turned around, Jay.

Yeah, and they kept their GM as well. So the only guy that changed here is Tom Coughlin a couple weeks ago was let go. All right. It's not inspiring. Chan Galey is the new offensive coordinator for the Dolphins. Chan Galey is aged. But it's bizarre. I mean, the fact that Chatt O'Shea was let go was a strange move to me. I mean, you knew what you were doing. Miami is trusting the process. They're purposely tanking. They purposely shipped off.

Everybody. Like as many pieces from that offense as they possibly could. What was Chattershay going to do with Ceylon Belage or, you know. Exactly. And I'll tell you what he did. He's overproduced. Yes. He outperformed expectations for sure and got fired for his troubles. The one interesting thing is Chan Galey.

is coming back to the NFL, and he had previously coached Ryan Fitzpatrick for several years. Multiple times because he was with him in Buffalo, and then he was the OC up in New York when Ryan Fitzpatrick was dominating people, at least fantasy purpose-wise, with Eric Decker and Brandon Marshall. All right, let's talk about what we're doing for the playoffs. Beat the Ballers, presented by Monkey Knife Fight. All right, we're super excited about this.

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on every week of the NFL playoffs. Yep. And so what we've got is if you go to beat the ballers.com, now each of us on today's show, we have selected one of the wild card matchups. And then from that matchup, we're choosing three players. And it's as simple as total fantasy points. No quarterbacks, but you're choosing three players, most fantasy points that they can score, and you're going to go to beattheballers.com, you're going to enter.

and if you beat one of us, like you make your own three picks, you pick three different players, you pick two of the same, one different, whatever the case may be. And then, I don't know, like you beat Jason's picks. Yeah, hypothetically. Impossible. Hypothetically, you beat Jason and basically your reward is you get a free entry to another game. If you beat two of us this playoff weekend, you get a free $10 game entry.

And you get an entry to the very special ballers ball. The ballers bowl. And that is a $10,000 prize package. And you'll get an entry. That'll be for Super Bowl weekend. And then if you beat all three of us on any given week during the playoffs, you instantly win a share of a $2,500 prize pool and you get two entries to that ballers pool. You see how that works? It's going to be fun. And the thing is, you know, we...

We sought out a relationship here with Monkey Night Fight because their game, if you're not familiar with Monkey Night Fight, it is a blast. You are now. It is so fun to play. And, you know, we know that the Foot Clan's going to love this. And I would highly recommend picking three players in Mike's game and in Andy's game so that you have the best odds of winning. Yeah, not yours, huh? That's right. I'm unbeatable. Yeah, yeah, we'll see. But beat theballers.com. It's simple. You just go to beattheballers.com. Sign up.

and then enter the matchups. I'm going to be picking from the Philadelphia Seattle game. And my three players, amongst all the options, I'm going to go with Hot Lockett. Okay. I'm going with Tyler Lockett. He's been a little frozen in the center. Yes, but the Philadelphia secondary is.

beatable, unlike Jason. Right. So I'm going to go Tyler Lockett, and then I'm going to go, I'm going to take a little interesting approach here. You got word that Miles Sanders is going to be okay for this game, but I'm going Miles Sanders and Boston Scott. Double up. I'm going double running backs, Philadelphia, at home, Tyler Lockett, Miles Sanders, Boston Scott. Those are my three. So if you end up picking.

Three players from that matchup. Those are the three you've got to beat. So you might go Metcalf or Goddard or Ertz or Homer. No, I know. You're really a big Dallas Goddard fan this week. And I don't blame you. But I'm going lock it, Miles Sanders, Boston Scott, see if you can take me down. This is a tough, like this game specifically, I did not want to choose. No, I didn't have fun trying to decide to wade through the injuries. Because trying to get the right. Goddard and log out, man.

I mean, dude, it's Seattle. D.K. Metcath. It's Seattle. It's like if your matchup was against the Cardinals and you didn't pick the opposing tight end. Yeah, but, you know. All right. Yeah. Hey, you can, maybe we'll see if people could beat you. Yeah. We're going to keep track of what percentage of people beat each of us, by the way. And then we'll, then we'll know who's actually the best. Hmm.

Interesting. Well, we'll find out what we already know soon, which is my unbeatable team. I am picking the Buffalo Texans game. And then you took the hardest draw. You think so? Kudos to you. Yeah. All right. So here's why I, so Hopkins is in, right? Like I think everybody out there is like, okay. So now we just got to pick two, right? Everyone's got Hopkins penciled in. So now it's like, who are the other two guys? And there's a lot of guys you could choose from.

The next one that I locked in for sure was Devin Singletary. I'm a big believer in the talent. I personally have the bills winning this game. So if that's the case, game script could be good. So those are my two. And then that third one was really hard because you have the pass catching options, John Brown and Cole Beasley. Look, if you're playing upside here and you just want to win, Will Fuller, if he's active, is an auto win. And same with Kenny Stills. So I'm like, which way do I go? But I went safe.

which is kind of my M.O. I'm going Carlos Hyde. Old, reliable, a little boring. So I don't think I've got the ceiling here. Like I don't, I don't necessarily think that I'm actually unbeatable, but it's hard to pick Fuller or stills from my point because I'm trying, you know what I'm trying to put out a reliable roster. All right. So I'm going Carlos Hyde.

Hopkins and Devin Singletary as my three stars. You locked Hopkins in, but, you know, there were a handful of games this year where the stills or the Fullers of the world were the, you know, the premium option on any given week over Hopkins. So I could see some lineups being built around those guys and taking the chance that Hopkins has a less than game. And then then you'd.

win for sure against all the Hopkins opponents. So you're going Singletary Hopkins Hyde. Mike, you're choosing from the Saints Vikings game. I am. But did you guys hear this news about Carlos Hyde that he has expressed interest that he would like to return to the Texas? I don't doubt it. Has he gotten to the point now where he gets like to choose things? I mean, that that was not where he was. No, but he was pretty good this year. He was. I know. It's just very.

funny to me. All right. Yeah, I'm picking from the Vikings Saints matchup. I'm going with Michael Thomas. Of course, Michael Thomas, you must go with that. Never heard of him. Yeah, okay. Similar to Hopkins, I feel like I'm locking that chalk in. And I'm going with Albuquerque. The resurging touchdown machine, the positive regression has been occurring in a matter that is probably not sustainable, but.