2025 FFPC Main Event Week 2 Leader Ryan Bush

What are we to do with the Seahawks running backs? What are we to do with the Cleveland backfield? Quite frankly, and what do you make of the latest Tucker Craft injury in Green Bay. We've got a great show for you tonight. The twoenty twenty five FFPC Main Event Week two leader is here. Tonight, ladies and gentlemen, Ryan Bush will pop on to tell us how he has managed his team to the top as he chases a one million dollar grand prize. Farrel Elliott from the KFFS is here.

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Shot. Thank you so much, Rob, Welcome, greetings and salutations to all of you ballcollics, and for lax tuning in from around the world tonight on the high Stakes Fantasy Football Hour. So glad to have you aboard here as we are on the cusp of Week three of the

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It's great.

And you were you know, you were saying that well you know me from that that that show you do in the middle of the week, which we see guys aren't listening to, so, you know, and that's kind of like Patrick Mahomes saying, you know me from Texas Tech. You know, it's just you know, Fulky, this is your thing, man, this is this is and you are such a beloved individual. I witnessed it prior to coming home last week, and I just can't quit talking about it enough. I wanted to spend a little time with.

You out there.

You were always working, you were podcasting, you were entering teams, you were making FFPC Las Vegas go for everyone there, and I'm still drinking to you, so thank you.

Some of my favorite memories in Las Vegas where I go out there for the FFPC And granted I'm out there for what a week and a half or so, and for the first week I'm busy working. You know, I'm doing everything I can and I try to hook up with this And by the way, in twenty twenty six, I feel like I'm going to have the opportunity to hang out with more players, more listeners, more viewers of

The years go by very very quickly, and sometimes we regret that.

But it can't go by quickly enough for me to do what to just describe. So thank you very very much. You're very welcome. I'm glad you had a good one. Steve G hanging out with us tonight, he says, Farrell looks like a bag of money, Feryl, have you ever looked like a bag of money?

Ah, like a bag before, but not of moneyg is Steve G is quite complimentary and a.

Real gentleman RAYC says, how many years are you fell Have you Fellas been playing fantasy football?

Beryl?

I don't know what it is for you, but nineteen ninety four, when I was still in high school, that was the first year I played fantasy football. So I'm coming up on my fourth decade here. What about you? You beat me to it because I didn't play. I did not play in basement leagues.

My only fantasy football experience has been in contest, and I've been with the FFPC since day one, and prior to that, I was with those characters that were supplanted in the industry by the FFPC, and so all of my play came in Las Vegas. And then I tried to play in basement leagues, and I realized that people should keep basements to themselves.

So you know, that's that's basically.

But yes, most everyone has a most everyone has a jump on me in fantasy football, and the results prove it.

The National Contest for me didn't start to w cooff in the early two thousands, so like we're looking at like the better part of twenty plus years or whatever for me.

But I can.

Reassure you rac whatever you're getting tonight, it's it's and whenever you're getting Every time you tune in to the ff PC YouTube channel, you are getting a lot of wealth of experience, not only from Pharaoh, for myself and whatever guests we have on like tonight when we have Ryan Bush, come on, who is leading the FFPC main event? A couple of questions right out off the top. We have Jeffrey Drake, chiming in Farrell, He's got Travis Etn He's got Alvin Kamara, he's got Jamar Chase, and he's

And they play for a team that has it together. This Tampa team's gonna win that division. They were the favorite to win that division.

And the way they play for each other is what you look for in football.

You should not get rid of those players. They are similar talents to some of the other players that have offered in the trade, but they're not in similar situations. Situational football alone makes them.

The attractives too.

You're drafted well, Jared, Joe, you you you've got you've got to learn how to stand prosperity.

Son.

You got to just sit back and enjoy it. You know, just just brak. The Drake is prosperous. You know, the Drake must be understood as a prosperous cat.

We love the Drake.

Love and who doesn't. Those guys behind you did, yeah they.

Did, and and well say this right now, when you look at that, when you look at that trade, Jeffrey eg Buka is only going to go up from here. Bucky Irving has been crushing it so far. Drake London, Yeah, you're getting him at a little bit of a discount. But o Marine Hampton, and we'll get into this throughout the show tonight. He is being thwarted by Najie Harris, Jim Harbaugh and Greg Roman right now. So I think there's lots of dislike about Marie Hampton when you compare

He's got a good comment, by the way.

All right, here we go. We'll put Steve G's comment this way.

We can get the green Bay stuff out.

Early. Steve called me this week. He goes, you know who the you know who the trending tight end is, you know who the sleeper tight end is.

You know who everyone is forgiving. I gave him a couple of answers they were far from correct, and he goes Muskrave and I confirmed that by saying, you know Steve Musgrave. When when Musgrave came into the league with Craft and other tight ends, I thought he was the primary talent.

I love the player.

Now.

The news this week is.

Steve went out before the injury news and grabbed this player everywhere, and so you know he does not have a crystal ball of folks.

He just likes the player. So I'm gonna say this right now. For Steve g he had teased this last week saying that he had the tight end stash of the year that he was going to know it's tonight, and he texted me about I don't know, seven or eight hours ago to let me know that, hey, my my tight end stash is not gonna hit the way I thought it was because Tucker Craft sprained his knee or hurt his knee in practice on Thursday, but he still was going to reveal it tonight, and he revealed

Perhaps, But let's don't especially since we're not in waiver wire land or bye week land yet.

Let's let's don't go crazy. Let's don't flex him ow, just just let's just wait and see what happens. There's in balky, But that's my thought you are.

More qualified to answer that question than anyone in the fantasy football world because you you're there right with your hand on the pulse of what's going.

On in this situation.

And I would be somewhat careful with Craft as he comes back. I would try to learn as much as I can about the injury, because if you're winning and you have Craft, it's because you've been leaning on him. And we all saw the game Monday night. The bright spot of the Raiders was not as bright it was. It was dim and it was on low because Bowers gainfully playing and he is a real gamer, as you say, Balky several times a night, a baller, but he was not the same rock Bowers in the brace and trying

In fantasy football we must be very cautious in that. My whole thing on this boker Craft thing. Number one, I'm rooting for him to be out. I don't want to mess around with him being active and then potentially having you know, ten, fifteen, maybe twenty snaps on offense. I don't want that. So let's let's talk about what happens if he's out. I think Luke Musgrave becomes a back end flex in the FFPC. I think he can be flexed out as your second flex, not as your primary,

I have no idea, and you've been that You've been trying to answer that question all week. You can't answer it.

King all law season fair.

Yeah, they're all you know, hey man, they're screaming for Ryan Bush, right.

Ryan Bush is gonna join us in just a little bit. He's a New Yorker. He is in New York. You determined what we got to ask him? Is he upstate? Is the city? You know? I'm gonna look that up right now. New Yorker can mean a lot of things. I don't think he's New York City. But he will join us in just a couple of minutes to let us know for sure on this. Speaking of situations where we can't make heads or tails out of him, no, let's go to the most Let's go to the Pacific

I think what we saw from Ali Gordon and maybe Najie Harris is very much what we could see from the second running back, which is Charbonne. When Walker has this opportunity to carry the load, and the fellows are going and in the message and saying he's gonna he's gonna run wild. When he has an opportunity to do that, he's going to show the talent that I've always seen any and that I think the fantasy drafters saw.

In him this year. So I'm not too concerned.

From a fantasy football perspective about Charbonnet stealing Walker, but he is a contributor to that aspect the team though, and one of the things that helps both situations. The head coach wants to see two starters because he's going to need to run the ball four hundred and fifty times to win in that division. He's not going to win through the air, so he's going to have to

I think that as we go forward, and I don't think this is a bold prediction at all, Pharaoh, but I think as we go forward, the Seahawks running game throughout not only September but October, November, December, it's going to be something that we will be looking not forward to, but it's going to be something that we will be looking at trying to figure out what's the best way to handle this situation for our big Gorilla, for our

I'm psyched to be here, and I would definitely put an emphasis on early with that. You know, it's a lot. I'm happy to be where I am for sure, but there's certainly a long long way to go.

Did you when you because you have the two live main events right out in Las Vegas and I did did you ever think, like, you know, like you're in September nineteenth, you're being being interviewed as you are in the driver's seat for a million dollar grand prize. Did you think your team was this potent enough to be in this situation this early in the season.

I mean, I really was psyched about the team I drafted. I definitely felt good about it. But you know that's like feeling like feeling good about like beating the eleven guys in my you know, in my league. Like that's what I'm you know, I'm thinking small, Like I wasn't expecting to see my name up there, but I'm you know, psyched about it for sure.

How many years you've been coming to Las Vegas and.

Playing right just as my second second year.

I love that, man, you know, it's a.

One of one of my one of my favorite feelings of the year is to walk away from a draft and monitor what I'm thinking. Sometimes I'm surprised during the season.

But sometimes I'm not.

The longer I play in it, the more I know about the futures of my team, the more I can trust that feeling. What did you think when you concluded the draft, took the picture of the draft board, took a look at it. You know, what do you think? What was your feelings when the draft in?

Yeah, I mean I really liked, like, I really like how how it fell. Like, Uh, you know, you get a lot of like a lot of drafts where you are hoping to get a guy and it always seems like someone nabs them before you get a chance to get your guy, and you have to take someone who's maybe your second choice, you know, or third choice. And with this one, it definitely did feel like when it came around to me, like the guy I wanted wasn't

So you're you're kind of holding your breath and then all of a sudden, the sigh of relief when you.

Always, oh, well, it's a really good feeling. I did not experience that in Las Vegas in September. Now I'm glad you did, and I can see by your roster. I'm going to ask you some follow up questions about that because my last question now for Bulky Takes Away? What spot did you draft your most successful team from?

Oh, you mean what spot was I in? I think I was four, I was three five.

Okay, okay, very good, so.

So and I was bijon and like you know, there were other options, but like I kind of felt like this year was a year where you like to have that belcow back, and I felt like if I took him, i'd have a chance to get some really good white outs in the second third round. So when you know, when Bijeon was there, it was just like I was. I didn't really have much to think about. I was like, no ready, I was just nabbed him.

Yeah, okay, So I want to follow up on that number one, Ryan, number two. I want to bring this up right now if I can find the proper YouTube comment on that, which I mean I may or may not be able to find here. Derek Bush some relation.

I'm assuming that's my brother.

So there you go, and I most on YouTube tonight.

I'm gonna say, I don't even want to hear there's a whole lot of you gotta you've got a real following here, brother, I'll.

Tell you what. So, Ryan, So your brother Derek posts on YouTube tonight for all the people who are listening to this and not seeing this, his comment is, what about the deadweight Mark Khan you have to partner with? And I'm assuming Mark Kahan is sitting in first place with you in the FFPC made event. This was a guy that you drafted at least with this live in Las Vegas team that's sitting at first. I'm guessing he was your partner for both Live and Las Vegas teams.

Yes, that's very true, so I, yeah, I do have to include him on this. So we Yeah, we partner up and nobody talks fantasy more than he and I just anyway, you know, even before we got into this. So yeah, he's my guy, and uh, he definitely deserves just as much credit as me.

I say, the.

Reference to mister Kahn and dead Waite, maybe the green eye of envy there, Balky from some of the other characters in the I think that's.

What might be going on talking you and you have a.

Question about Clam Yes, I do.

Uh, and and and Ryan you kind of alluded to this and we can move on past it. But when it came to you at one oh five, b Jhon Robinson's out there, ceedee lamb is out there. Was it just the case of like you thinking that you'd be able to get some pretty serious wide receivers in round two, round three, round four and beyond it, like you looked at this Andre like, Okay, we have to take Robinson here and we'll figure out the wide receiver thing later. But Robinson at the one oh five, this is a gift.

It's really exactly that. Like I I do love CD, like you know, I expect him to have a really good year. I could even see him beating wide receiver one, you know, with that Dallas offense. But yeah, for it was really it's a positional thing, you know, like I wanted that belcou running back, and like you said, I knew, like I mean, we ended up with you know, Pooka Nakua, Like I knew that there'd be guys like that that

I like that, I like that that's a good and Balky just satisfied some of the answers you might you might be able to inform. It's just what the chances are, what the percentile chances of even getting jon at at number five. And I will remind all of your envious cats that were you know, envy Fellaws is one of the is the only one of the seven Deadly sins that you get no enjoyment at all from, So you know you don't we don't want to have that envy.

I did not do enough of that in the draft this year.

That's why I see that JSN, who is who has been a bargain pick for some was your third round pick. It does not matter you picked him over Adams, which I probably would not have, you picked him over Harrison, which I would have. You picked him over another couple

Yeah, well, just on JSN, Like he's a guy that I definitely was targeting in a lot of my drafts. I believe I had him last year on one of my FFPC teams. I just felt like he is super talented and he just seemed ready to take on the wide receiver one mantle that he was being handed in Seattle. You know now that a who's what's his name from Pittsburgh is gone? Who is their wide receiver one last year? Metcalf?

Sorry?

Yeah, so like with him gone, you know, yeah, I think he's just as talented as some of those other guys that I that I you know, passed up on. And now that he's the one there, I just I just yeah, I just really like I really like his game. I you know, I think he's just as good as any of some of those guys I passed, I mean Adams. I was a little concerned just because of the share with Pooka. I mean, Puka goes out and has fourteen catch d's like all the time.

It's like crazy and problems So far, what's that It hasn't been a problem so no, And and.

Like you know, I could look back in you know, later weeks and and think, you know, maybe I didn't pick the right guy. We'll have to see how how it bears out, but that was that was kind of the thing with Adams and like why we didn't you know, like him as much?

Yeah, and and Rubio comes in with a with a good comment here fellas, uh you know about the back and as people are talking about these injuries. Uh, you know you the way that that communication was going around the room in Las Vegas, it was like Stafford would never walk again. You know, That's that's how serious it was.

And you know, I I give a tip of the hat to U drafters that I'm not sure who did here, but who took McCaffrey after all the words were out that he was not going to play or maybe not be available or what. And you know those guys, those guys know how to to take the best of a gamble and get the upside out of it.

So it's congratulations to you.

And and there's people like that that win, you know, it's people that know how to do that.

Yeah, McCaffrey's like a I mean, you know, he's he's a huge damble with a huge upside every year and a very big downside.

So like.

If I'm there, if I'm drafting in the nine spot or the ten spot, and he and he's there at that point like sometimes I'm like, I gotta roll the dice to do it, but I don't. He's not a top five guy anymore just because of the risk to me.

Yeah, I'll bring this up right now, just to make it known, Dave Klugi from football Guys, there is nobody higher in the industry on Jackson Smith and Jigma than this guy heading into uh FFPC drafts this year, the final weekend of FFPC drafts, and my whole thing was as far as Smith and Jigba goes, which obviously has

Yep?

Okay? So this was after the Cowboys Eagles game on Thursday night. You went ahead and took Javonte Williams at the seven zero five in this draft. Some would say what was aggressive, some would say it was wrong, but

Yeah, that was exciting for sure. Yeah, we definitely uh probably took him earlier based off of that performance the night before, and it certainly worked out the previous year for if you remember, Saquon uh exploded the night the night before the drafts a lot of the drafts, and he ended up, you know, going way higher than I think like he would have if he hadn't had that day.

It's it's all it's all blue. All they wanted to talk about all summer was blue. Williams was balky. You might have you got have been a potster on that. But when I look at this draft, right and once again I give you big kudles for what you're doing here because it's it's like the people you were drafting with believed everything they heard and didn't believe anything they saw. And and yes, Williams is is uh Williams. The thing

And to have.

Right, Ryan Lean, it's also a heavy I mean, Dallas is going to put up points and someone's got to get those goal line carries, and he's a guy who can handle handle that.

Yeah.

I don't expect him to do what he's doing every week.

But you don't know, No, don't I hope.

I hope for sure. But you know, I we we we're excited to have him.

I mean, I think I guess so. So Ryan, let me ask you this. This is coming from Scott Hoyd. I posted it. Uh he's he's watching us on YouTube tonight and he has a question about your Seattle Seahawks wide receivers. You you guys obviously took Jackson Smith and jig Book here at the three oh five, but later on in the draft you also took Cooper Cup in

I'm usually not crazy about doing that. I don't love having the second guy when I have the first guy. It was really kind of a situation of like I really felt he was the best available guy, you know,

And I think that's I think that's brilliant decision in your process, especially when the fact that you look at the number one receiver there and he is quick, and he is flexible and he makes good feet moves.

But how big is jsn Faulkey? What's the size on him? Oh you want to get his measurements? Yeah, yeah's expecting this.

Yeah, buddy, I'll tell you curse.

I think of him as a small guy, but like, yeah.

Well he's he's he's lengthy, he's got long.

Arms, but he's he's as as REESA fans character in The Replacements would say, he's Whitey Jackson's with a jig about six. Yeah.

Well then you know there's nothing wrong with that size for a number one receiver. I okay, I've been bragging on you. Now I can quit doing that because you in you went tight end. You took two of my favorites. You well know you took one of my favorite Titians and one of my least favorite Titians. I have I all summer long, especially on something called the pro versus Joe's. I had to fight the pros on drafting Goddard. It's

And Ryan before you answer, I will just say that. A few hours ago, Dallas Goddard was listed as I don't think he's listed on the injury report at all. He is available this weekend against.

Yeah, go ahead. I think from what I hear too, I think he think he's gonna play. And to me, it's, yeah, it's a tough decision, you know. I think I wouldn't have maybe I don't think we would have drafted god Her if we didn't have Hurts, but having Jalen Hurts. And our theory on the tight end is if you're not going to get one of those top two maybe three guys, then we wait, you know, and and let other people take a lot of those you know, mid tight ends, and there's guys you know that you get

These guys just going with.

Got Her. But I think I think we had targeted We were like I we targeted her. H ERT's like, you know, I felt like going with God or you know, you got to get somebody else, you know, you know, you got to back them up with somebody. Yeah, And I was surprised how Earth's fell in a lot of drafts. I mean, I think he had something like eighty catches last year, and like he.

Was in the sixties.

But at sixty, okay, I thought it was.

Real quick.

I thought it was higher. But like, but he's if you compare him to a lot of the guys going in that range, I mean, he's on I think another level. And I don't I don't know why he kind of doesn't get the respects you know that that he should, right, Ryan.

Let me ask you this too, And and this is something I brought up with a lot of f FBC Live players that were drafting at the Horseshoe Convention Center. Uh, you know, uh, Casino, the the rise of Dallas Goddard did not happen after that Thursday night game. You know, we we saw the plummet of aj Brown, we saw the plummet of DeVonta Smith, but Dallas Gotter Crost seven balls h that then opening weekend or that opening Thursday night game against Dallas, and he didn't really rise and

Yeah, I mean he you know, when he plays, he's he's consistent. I mean, he put you know, he he gets his catches. And I'm not too worried about Phillies offense. They'll they'll figure it out. I mean they'll, they'll, they'll start throwing the ball and uh yeah, as long as he's healthy and he's out there, he's gonna get he's gonna get his catches and he's gonna get in the end zone. And uh yeah. And and this week, you know, with it were Earth's it scares me with Jaden out,

Make it interesting. That's exactly right. Let's get let's get you buying the bourbon on it or me buying the bourbon on it well next year run at h at the f f PC Live main event in Las Vegas. I'll take receptions and arts, and you may have receptions in God good, don't.

Let me bring this. Let me bring this up right now. Adam Hahn, a long time viewer listener of this show, says, longtime smart guy, long time smart guy, Jalen and not in a bad way, Jalen Hurts and Saquon Barkley are the only Fantasy relevant Eagles right now. Occasionally he's wrong, but for Permar ninety nine, also chiming in that Matthew

Yeah, that is surprising. I mean, I guess they are two pretty good defenses, but like you know, yeah, game I mean, game script definitely comes into play. But you know, I I think it's a bold statement about hertz And and Saquon. But I do, I do understand like the sentiment, because like I'm not crazy about the Eagles wide receivers.

Yeah. I defer to what you and Adams say there.

Adam came out a little strong with it because I think those other players are relevant in an offense like this. But when you have a quarterback and a running back that dominates so much red zone activity, you're in a situation of your wide receivers and fantasy points being a bit discounted there. That's that's definitely well. Okay, let's let's keep it on the East coast. Since you, oh, real quick, Pharrell, I want to bring this up real quickly.

This is something I found out and and maybe it's a nothing burger. Maybe it's something as no, it's We often do not break news on this show at ten to eleven Eastern time on Friday nights. Sometimes we do. This is not one of those times. If I look at touchdown passes on the year, we have Jared Goff and just touchdowns passes golf with six, Lamar Jackson with six, Josh Allen has five, Aaron Rodgers has five. On the year.

Well, first of all, to the point of him having zero passing touchdowns as a Hurtz owner, fancy owner, I don't care. Why would I care. I mean, yeah, he's guaranteed to run one in like practically it's like a weekly thing. You know, you want at least you know, you a lot of times too. Like if I'm a Saquan owner, then you know I don't like Hurts getting

But he'll catch up.

Yeah, eventually he's gonna you.

Know, he's gonna catch up.

Ye.

Balky brought up some interesting things in that question, and in that I love the way you presented that, Balalky, Well, I would have done more of a shorthand kind of presentation in that, and I would just say that you know that Pittman has the same number of touchdown passes.

And then that's how I would have presented that. And by the way, it's Ron Jaworski this year as well. It took to ten fifty two to get Pittman in here.

You know, last week we did say, we did say, don't start Pittman, he'll get you maybe twelve, and he got eight and so we were right about that.

But all summer long, Balkie.

We said, Jared Goff playing at home, drafting like and play him at home, and it worked out.

It worked out pretty good this last week.

But now I've got something that all summer long they talked about and run I need your help with this. The running back situation down in Washington has been intriguing all year long, and now the beloved Austin Eckler, he's through for this year. Jacory Crosskey Merritt was all anyone could talk about until we got to Las Vegas.

Another one of those rookies.

Yeah, well, you know, we got to Las Vegas, everybody talked and talked about him, and he earned the conversation because he was fantastic in camp and in preseason.

He showed a lot of skills. He showed a lot of skills during the draft and evaluation process. What happened when we got to Las Vegas is balkey, do you have any numbers to support it? But he was going up the boards and then all of a sudden, he was going down the boards. I took advantage of that in some places. I think he's a real player. I think he's a real player, and I think he's going to be a very, very adequate to get better rookie fantasy running back for anyone that has him on their roster.

I avoided him, I and not. It's not specifically him. I I just avoided the situation. I tried to. I actually did end up with Eckler, but yeah, I was certainly not targeting anyone in that backfield. It just scared me off. I didn't know where the touches were gonna be. I didn't know, you know, who was gonna who was

And it's interesting the teams try to develop rookies to get them better in the league with with smaller rosters. It used to be that the rookies would hit the wall, you know, they run out of gas, poor conditioning, not necessarily ready for the NFL game. Uh, And there has been a significant change in that over the last few years. So, okay, I was just curious.

I was trying to find you one rookie on this team that you would have been targeting that you just didn't grab.

But yeah, well let me ask you this, Ryan, speaking of rookie running backs, there's been a lot of people that are pushing the panic button on Ashton Genty, on Omarion Hampton, on Trevon Henderson, and I don't know how you felt about these rookie running backs coming into the season. For me, it's way too early to say that these guys are bus It took for like, I think it was six quarters of NFL action before I saw people on x comparing Ashton Gent to Trent Richardson six quarters

Yeah, but I did think that that a couple of these a couple of these guys Genty and Hampton, I did. I thought they would get off to a better start. But uh, I'm not worried. I'm not worried about it yet, you know, And and I'm biased. I'm I'm an East Coast guy, but I've been a Raiders fan my whole life.

But it's not too late, Baulky to break out the chain. You know, Ryan said it from an early from an early time, the same way with me.

Ryan is fantastic to see that. Uh.

The one thing that we can say about cross Key Merritt is he now has you know, we started the show talking about, uh uh the Seattle running back situation, and at least in Washington, I think it's his backfield.

You know.

We we saw Ali Gordon last night and Olie Gordon was very hot rookie that everybody wanted to draft, some some established drafters drafting him as high as eleventh and twelfth round. And and I really love what he does, you know, with the ball.

But that's not going to be his backfield, you know, that's in Miami. So it's we'll just see what happens. It's pretty fascinating stuff.

Look at him, he's got the beret on.

Two. John Terry has already check commented, made this possibility for me. I put it on two weeks in a row.

I knew John was in the chat room tonight, so I was gonna put my balky beret on in honor of the f f PC live events being held at Paris Casino in Las Vegas. So uh Balkey w Griswold chiming in on the show.

So glad to be joined by one Ride Farrell. Listen, we are running out of time here, but we do have time for one final question for Ryan Bush, who is leading the f f PC main event heading into Week three. Ron I don't I don't.

Think he can answer this question because he's not geared this way. But maybe you do have one.

Maybe you do have one player.

This isn't gonna be about Crosskey Merit again.

Yeah, yeah, we're still gonna talk about Yeah. I want to get a history. I want to see why the Raiders didn't drafting.

Damn it. But I want to know a player that you just would not have a part of. I mean that player for me. We already talked about God it, I appreciate the player as a football player.

Didn't want to have a part of the same thing with Kittle. Is there somebody that you didn't want to draft? And is there somebody that you had to have that you were sitting there and you were so surprised he was.

Available to you. You you could.

Hardly sit in your chair with screaming out his name. Well, those players part of your part of your makeup for this twenty twenty five draft.

Definitely like the guy I didn't really want a part of DK Metcalf. Are really like that whole Steeler situation that to me, it was like I avoided it like the plague. And you know, I just I don't think Aaron Rodgers has a lot left I you know, I don't like the drama that he brings. I just don't know. I feel like, you don't know what's gonna happen. And and so yeah, that DK Metcalf really was one that I was just like, let him, let other guys take him.

And and and and the other thing to to keep in mind here and and I mentioned I think I mentioned this at the top of the show. Smith and Jigba was a guy that I was drafting early, like in February and March and April, May, June, whatever. And I got scared of by the pundits out there telling me that, look, no Ryan Grubb there anymore, which means it's gonna be the Kenneth Walker and Zach Charbonnay show,

That's gotta be awesome, man, it's it is. It's really cool. It was like, I was really surprised when I saw it in week one that we were up there, we were close to the top, and then to move into the top spot. Yeah, even if it's early. It's it's really cool and uh, you know, especially too, like only being our second year in the FFPC, but like I we love it, like I plan on being in it, you know, as a long time, and it's really cool. It's a really it's a really cool thing. We love

You're gonna do.

If you're gonna be mister Bush, I'm just I'm gonna be mister I'm gonna be Yeah, you go, hang.

On, ye silent partner exactly. Well, speaking of the silent Partner, Derek already saying we should have a weekly segment with Ryan on this show. Listen, I'm not a post to that. We'll see how this this show, this show goes. But I also have to ask Dom Gazetti pointing out here and he asked Derek about this, and Ryan, I'll ask you this on the air. How did you guys end up hearing about the f f PC.

That was my partner And I can't say exactly how you.

Heard, but uh, but he told you about it.

Yeah. He asked me if I wanted to do it, and I said absolutely, and uh, he's ah, he's a big gambler and he's got his finger on the pulse of all that everything that's going on. So yeah, he found it. I jumped at the chance, and we've just had a great time doing it the last couple of years.

So contraw that stirs the dream.

Yes, yeah, I don't want to at all diminish his role because we're equal partners and even though I'm on here tonight, he does a lot. So there you go, There you go.

This is the gentleman who is the leader of the lead team in the FFPC main event heading into week three. His name is Ryan Bush. You can follow him on x at League seventy seven. Ryan, thanks so much for hanging out with us tonight. I know we kept you a little bit longer, but this is good stuff. Ferrell's oinker,

My friend, yep, appreciate it. It was awesome. Thank you, you got it.

That is Ryan Bush at League seventy seven on X Lady and Gentlemen, the leader in the FFPC main event heading into week three. Good stuff from him. Farrell, Ryan Bush tonight, joining the show tonight. I want to get into a few start sick questions. Okay, with that quick, we'll go rapid fire in this James in Philadelphia, JK Dobbins or David Montgomery of course, this week JK Dobbins is at his old team. This is the JK Dobbins revenge game. JK Dobbins at the Chargers, or you could

I don't want anything to do with the Ravens defense trying to play against that. Let's let's let's work the revenge game and let's see the Chargers Denver work out.

So you're going this seems like open and shut for you. I had to think about this one. Yeah, okay, well I came to the same conclusion as you for what it was. But it wasn't wasn't that easy. But Yeah, I'm playing Dobbins here, Andy in Bizmarck, North Dakota, one of the Dakota's here chiming in and he wants to know Ricky Pearsall or Wandale Robinson now to give you a little bit of background on what's going on here.

If you have Jatavian Sanders on your roster, you've probably rostered him before. He's a player that you've invested time in and he just came out the best game of his career. You're gonna play Sanders here and you're gonna wait to see it from Andrews, and I hope we see it soon.

From Andrews. The chatter we get into the YouTube chat from Permar y nine, neither pick up Luke Muskrave, and.

We would have to he says, I don't believe Permar plays in the contest.

We would have to let him.

Know that that that Steven g has already picked up Muskrave in every draft, so he's not available. Availability is the greatest famility, but you know, yeah, if you're in some basement league.

Steve texted me today that he picked up Musgrave in like five leagues on Wednesday night, so he has dialed in on Musgrave right now. Permar ninety nine also wants us to talk about Don Tavian Wicks and Luke Musgrave. Listen.

Up Pine for Christian Watson to return. But you know, we also if you take a look at Thursday nights game, when you have a quarterback that can go through his progressions and hit eight, nine, ten different receivers and then make plays with his.

Feet and the ball what he did with the tight end.

We you know, some of the greatest quarterbacks in this league aren't necessarily your greatest fantasy quarterbacks because they know how to move the ball around, and then you know they're not going to lead their receivers to one hundred catch games, whereas there's other quarterbacks that are going to.

Gear in on certain type receivers.

We might see a lot of that because we haven't talked about the quarterbacks that are coming off the bench to play this weekend, but we might see a lot of that. So, you know, if you've got a number one receiver like what you've got with Chase and Higgins at Cincinnati nationally, you're going to play that. You should play them without any hesitancy or any expectation of decline.

Scott Hoyt wants to know where's Golden And I'm gonna point this out here, and Parrell, you said you defer to me on Packers stuff. Always. I believe that Golden makes a couple of big plays in this game against Glutland on Sunday and I might be hanging myself here when I say this, but I believe that Golden comes away with a stat line of like two for seventy

You're gonna lean into Daniel Jones and ride that way.

You are, Yes, it's easy. Why why is it? Why is it so easy for Jones over Murray this week? For you? Have you got to watch the games, book. I have been watching the games, Mike.

They haven't awakened the punter yet. And you know there's a certain receiver it's available to Jones that you know makes everything work.

But my concern with Daniel Jones. And I brought this up last night when I was on the Better Sports Network with Nate Polebolt from Optimus Fantasy. I said, listen, Daniel joneses been crazy good these first two weeks, but what happens if he throws for one hundred and ten yards no touchdowns and two picks or whatever I said

Yes, and many for many reasons which we're running out of time that I can't listen to you, but I.

I can go back to.

I can go back to third year Troy Aigman, who looked nothing like first and second year Troy Aigman. But boy, you know what, sometimes that light comes on. It's a perfect situation, the perfect marriage for this player.

Look, it's if you have Daniel Jones on your team.

You went against you went against the grain anyway, and there was a reason.

You picked this player. So now you're being rewarded. And you probably didn't play him week one. No, you may not have played in week two, but I would definitely play him in front of her. That will complete our emails. Thank you for all the emails sent to High Stakes Fantasy Football at gmail dot com. KFFSC dot com is where to go to check out the Kentucky Fantasy Football State Championship. Farrell Elliott joining us tonight. You can connect with him on x as well as Instagram at Jfarrell.

I look forward to that, and I hope someday that I could look as good as you, and.

Right, thank you, Perrel. I appreciate that. Listen. I have to look good in a bray because I don't have the good hair that Pharaoh Elliot has, ladies and gentlemen. So I have to put the John Terry beret on tonight. And kudos to John Terry for pumping this up for me. I just wish I would have got a shot at the Eiffel Tower at Paris Casino in Las Vegas, and I didn't off to wait till next year. Spoiler alert,

This has been another episode of the Hot Stakes Fantasy Football Hour, presented by my FFPC dot Com. It was broadcast live and was watched around the world. Bulky and Farrell will be back next week with more analysis, more interviews, add more advice from guests much smarter than they are. Thanks for watching, and we'll talk with you again next week.

Just to let everybody know, because I feel like I have to the way the NFL has been treating Monday Night football this past week, I don't know if you guys felt the same as me. I love the stacking of a seven and ten pm Eastern Time kickoff on Monday Night. It was awesome to see a doubleheader in action, a true double header where you got to watch six hours of football. We will not see that this Monday night. Sunday night, it's Chiefs and Giants. Monday Night at eight