The 2021 Fantasy Things Draft

not gonna lie. You know, le bras being thrown at the stage, you drunkenly needing to be revived with smelling salts backstage. There's just there's a certain character, there's a certain texture to the live fantasy Fantasy things experience. That's what they say, by the way, in Barcelona fandom many things, uh that it can't be replicated anymore. Now that we've gone in that direction. Did we even do fantasy things last year? I don't think we did. We were crustfallen

last year. Dan, Yeah, we didn't know what to do well. I mean the season was starting at different points for different conferences, so it wasn't clear when we should actually do it, so we just we decided to take a by year. So happy to be back with the theme, but sad that we are not doing it in a theater with verbaler's stacked up to the rafters. It is sad, but we are going to go on with this show because the Fantasy Things, I think, without question, one of

our favorites that we do every year. I know it's a crowd favorite obviously for the last couple seasons, not last year, but twenty nineteen, twenty eighteen, twenty seventeen. This is a thing that we did live. So we will explain what Fantasy Things means momentarily in case you are new to the program. If you are welcome in. I'm Ty, he is Dan. This is the Celiverbal College Football Podcast. We have been going three times a week now for

the last couple of weeks. Go back and listen to all of our conference previews done, all the Power Five, all the Group of Five, all of the Independence with

the lone exception of Yukon. But we decided, I think as a group, if that's okay, we should have in retrospect, disrespectfully previewed like the two thousand and three Yukon women's basketball team, or whichever was like the greatest, considered to be the best, like you, we should have like very like we should have done a deep dive on Diana Tarassi's perimeter game where we could have celebrated Yukon excellence

instead of wallowed in the depths. In lieu of a twenty twenty one Yukon preview, we're going to spend five good minutes talking about Jordan Todman. Now ready said, yeah, II have good minutes about Jordan Todman. Sure, Dan Orlovsky can get into the conversation anybody you want. Also going out to verballers dot com. Verballers dot com is our Patreon. In addition to those three shows that we're doing per week, we do offer some bonus content as well, early access

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be available only to our Patreon subscribers. As we said on the last program, you will have access to a prize potentially if you do well enough that we are utterly certain has never been offered before. Oh, we're so silly for Ballers dot Com. Though, for Ballers dot com Orballers dot Com, we'll get you access to that. More information on that to come. All right, Dan, here we go, Fantasy Things explain for the fine folks out there who you know, maybe their mind is a little bit stale.

They've listened to us for a while, but they didn't hear the Fantasy Things show a year ago. What is it? How did it come to fruition? If you're new to the show, what the hell is a Fantasy Thing? Give us? Give us the backdrop here for what the Fantasy Things draft all entails. We draft narratives, We draft storylines, We

draft occurrences. We build teams out of narrative, storylines and occurrences, tropes, anything that that sort of can be repeatable throughout the season that isn't just a player performing, which is what we're used to as fantasy sports. That we're drafting players, and the better the players that we draft do the better our individual team does. No it is. For example, are some of our favorite things over the years? Is SO and SO has a little bit of Baker Mayfield

in them? What does it mean? Unclear? A little bit. There's some Baker Mayfield to them, A little Baker may I see some Baker Mayfield. Right, the backup is better than the starter. The new defensive coordinator plans on bringing an attacking, aggressive mentality and attacking aggressive defense of the team. Strength coach. New strength coach doesn't know what they were doing here before, but we're this is the big leagues. Now, they're in for a rude awakening. The band playing Old

Town Road, all of these things, right, these commonalities. Dean Blandino is wrong about a call he's weighing in on. We like Dean Blandino. So yeah, the things that are under the radar, funny or weird. That makes college football what it is because it keeps happening in weird ways. Like you're big on weather, So like a lightning delay, You love a good lightning delay because then it gets us some radar information. The monsoon game, right, yeah, I think I have down here, and I don't know if

we're going to draft it. But like, an example from this year is when a game is going to overtime and the next game has to be shifted to Fox Business and we're like, wait, I have no idea what Fox Business is on this cable CNBC, this game is on CNBC, this game is on True TV, as is the case with the NCAA tournament. So like, weird stuff that does happen during the season doesn't always happen, but gives us an excuse to celebrate the idiosyncrasies of the sport.

Idiosyncrasies I think is the name of the game here. And at this point, I don't even think we're trying to win now. I just think we're trying to dig further than the other person, dig farther into the muck that is the college football season, to come up with the weirdest possible roster. We've tried a couple different ways of keeping score. The first year, we just hashed it out you and I. We got a rim one January. The only feedback I got in response to that show,

how you bullied me, put me around. You didn't really win by that much, but it made it worse. I'm a competitive person. I don't know what to tell you, ty. We tried to argue it out and that didn't really work as well for me. We tried on a couple separate occasions to actually keep track on a week to week basis, and that just got laborious. That was ridiculous. We're now at the point now where we're just going to throw out some things that we're looking forward to

seeing this coming year. We can literally just we can post our rosters on Twitter and conduct a poll whose team seems more fun and weird exactly. So what we're going to do. We have a long list here. It's two pages, it's single space, It's a big old Google doc. In traditional solid verbal fashion, we're going to go through and follow the template that we did live. Each of us is going to pick six items, count them six

items for our teams. As we are ready to give our selections, you will hear that ESPN draft sound that I stole from some website on the Internet to signify that a selection isn't coming, And then we are going to make our picks fill out our teams. It is a snake draft that makes sense. How should we decide who goes first? I will flip here, I have a camera lens. I'm showing flimp camera for people who are watching on the Patreon. I'll take sonny side up, Sony

side up. Yep, all right, here we go. I like my eggs sony side up. It is you get selection? I will I will take the number two and number three. You want the bookend picks? Yes, alrighty. That means your boys up first, Dan, Are you ready for this? I put on a collared shirt. I'm excited. Oh I didn't I have a T shirt with ping pong paddles on it. Yeah, they have faces though they're happy ping pong paddles. Well, one of them is with my first selection in the

twenty twenty one Solid Verbal Fantasy Things Draft. Yes, I would like to select weird COVID training rituals, Dan uh, not as relevant this year. You're talking about training at a park in the garage, something like that. I feel like this is going to be something that all the studio shows, that all the broadcasts that they lean a

little heavier on they were in fall camp. Though Counterpoint a game is thirty eight to three, five minutes left in the fourth quarter, the announcers still need something to talk about. Let's talk about a kid pushing a tire uphill. You know it's coming. Sure, this is what we call announcer porn. Dan says here Michael bailed Hay to maintain his upper body strength. Come on, you know they love this stuff. Weird COVID train Did you do any weird

COVID training rituals? Did you alter your workouts? No? I haven't done any training rituals. I haven't been to a gym in a year and a half now, if that counts. I used to go to a gym in Brooklyn, and now I just get yoked at home and go for runs and play tennis. So I guess I've altered my training rituals. I don't think it's going to be all that different. I don't, I mean than normal times for these guys. The weight rooms are open. I want it's

a risky play, but it definitely is. I'm not convinced that the college football media landscape is over COVID the way much of the country seems to be so any little shred of goofiness in a training ritual, I expect to hear that on a broadcast come Saturday. Okay, I have two picks. Now correct, you do all right? The pick is in pick number two. I'm going to go with weird, goofy, curious, all of the sudden, nil endorsement.

Oh that's a good one. I'm going to go with a kicker who just demolishes a sixty yarder to upset a ranked team and gets an endorsement from Doctor Schulz. You know something that's just like because doctor Schulz has that sweet cash ty, I'm going with that impromptu out of left fields. It doesn't have to be impromptu. It could just be somebody who becomes a star and all

of a sudden is more attractive to brands. But then the deal that they sign is with somebody odd I'm going to I'm going to definitely foresee somebody signing a deal that that school's compliance department or the NCAA is going to say, now, I don't know if you can do that. They don't know what I don't and can't do. I don't know if you can endorse a casino in Macau. I don't know that that's going to fly. So I'm

going to go with something. I mean, I know this is vague because I use a lot of adjectives, So I will say either you said exceedingly curious, and I think that's a good fit. So something that happens all of a sudden, or something that you know, there's like a shady brand or somebody signs the deal but then they have to walk it back. I'm going with that with NIL weirdness. And by the way, there's another element,

another couple elements that I'm not taking. This is not a blanket NIL, but yeah, exceedingly curious, name, image, likeness, endorsement, sponsorship opportunity. Yeah, I think that's a good one, Dan, and especially because it is such of a wild west right now as it relates to player endorsements. Right. Yeah, there will be things that happen throughout the course of the season. We must have we must have half a dozen, if not more NIL related items on our shared idea

bank here. Any never different directions you could go with this, So I like it. I actually tweeted out shortly before we hit record today the old commercial from Major League One when they were just taking on whatever endorsements they could get. I'm hoping we get awkward commercials like that as we move forward now into this NIL era. I'm very hopeful that somebody endorses something, and maybe it's an

FCS player. Maybe there's just somebody that's clearly just going to be a one week wonder, who's like, lo're going to get taller, take these silver pills. Some don't know this is not advisable. Yeah, I'm excited for that. All right, you're on the clock. All right, pick number two for me. I'm going to go with something very specific here. I'm going to go with coach gets caught doing something in the booth, possibly picking their nose, picking their ears, choking

on iced tea. There. It's a very specific thing that might happen once all year long, but when it does, I treasure it. I absolutely treasure when a coach is their glasses are all fogged up, there's something weird happening to a coach in the booth. I love it. I just do. I don't know why I'm picking at this highly, but I love it and I wanted it on my team. Initially, we jotted down coach gets caught picking nose right on the broadcast, So now we're expanding that to gets caught

doing something. So a coach caught being a human being in the booth. So anything beyond looking at his play sheet, calling in a play, or talking to another coach in the booth, Like if there's just a coach housing a chili dog in the booth, that counts. That absolutely counts any coach doing something relatably human. I'm not saying picking the nose and eating your boogers is relatable, but I will take it. I don't think this happens all that much.

It doesn't happen all. You just want you just want it. I am going to be laser focused. I'm going to be laser focused on coaches doing fun, weird things in the booth. Does it when they hit a big play and they sort of erupt in celebration with high five? No, no, no, no, that's a coaching thing to do. No, that doesn't count. Okay,

so we're talking just a normal human type of thing. Yeah, something something that would make that coach's wife say, you know, I really wish the camera weren't on him on that moment. I really wish this weren't captured in ten ADP. I'm on the clock. Yep, my second pick in the Fantasy Things Draft. Dan, It's great to have the fans back. Is that the thing it is so great to have the fans back. How many times do you think we're going to hear that throughout the course of the season, many, many, many,

many many. Great to have the fans back. Great to have the fans back. Great to have the fans back back. And my second pick, I select it's great to have the fans back. I fully expect that we're going to hear this at every studio show before the start of every broadcast, probably three times during said broadcasts throughout the course of the college football season, at least for the first month, month and a half or so. How great is it to have the fans back. It certainly adds

something to the TV product. That was one thing we talked about at nauseum last season. It was just not kind of not the sane. We don't have a crowd there. There's not the same environment. It's different the whites, it's hollow. They're pumping in other sounds. It's weird, right, It's great

to have the fans back. Do you think there will be goofs with teams that are not playing well, that have empty swaths of their stadium, that there will be cracks like they know that you can come back now, right, No, Vanderbilt fans can come back. No Stanford fans they should know either they're allowed in the stadium. They never left. They just never came, period. Yeah, they never came. Yeah, Okay, I think that's good. Great to have the fans back, Great to have them back. My next pick, are you

familiar with the term year zero? Dan? I am familiar. Yeah, year zero twenty twenty. Every preview publication that I looked at talking about guys like Mel Tucker, right, first year guys? Who else daved? Random? Year zero? Year zero? I don't know who came up with year zero. Maybe it's like a week zero. Who knows. Whoever came up with it got a lot of run out of it. Probably Bill Connolly if I had to guess, Yeah, here we are

as we move forward into twenty twenty one. There were a slew of new coaches last year, and many of them unfortunate. Jeff Hafley, your boy the half Yeah, Nick Rolovich, these guys they had to install everything via zoom, which is not optimal. Right, We've said as much. They've said as much, and so what's happened now? I guess as a means of giving some of these guys a mulligan in some cases deservingly so. We've coined the term year zero, not year one, because year one wasn't really not a

fully formed year. It was year zero. You can't count what happened last year. Come on, that didn't count. It's not even a it's a year zero training camp. I fully expect that we're going to hear a ton of Year zero, but probably early on in the season, maybe not so much, you know, mid October onward, right, because we're already sort of ensconced in the season. Totally fair, totally fair. I want to get my points early. Let's get them on the board. Let's not leave much to

chance late. That's why we're going with weird COVID training. That's why we're going with great to have the fans back. There is a point at which this could all fall apart. Sure, trying to get my points early. Let's get in the clubhouse, let's make you play catch up. All right? Is it time for my picks? It is time for your picks? Oh man? All right? I have one, I have one tie.

What do we got? I have an especially strange animated explainer, especially strange, and now does it have to be TV animation. I guess so if it's an animated explainer. ESPN has really dipped into the like remember when all of a sudden there was like a Korean animation firm that anytime anything relatively controversial would happen inwood I know, inwood Swoop, the Korean animation of like Lindsay Lohan getting in a car accident. Right, And so for whatever reason, ESPN has

adopted that way of showcasing football things. And it's every year it gets weirder and like, I don't know why it exists, but it keeps existing. There was the one year, remember when the game day hosts put on the weird skin masks of coaches of teams that were playoff in the range of the playoff, and there was like a Gary Patterson mask and a Chip Kelly mask and a Less Miles mask, and the they're all sort of making cases for why their team was playoff worthy, but they

were talking behind the mess. We have like David Pollock wearing an Art Brile's mask saying, just look at our offense. Just looking at our offense with any about it. It's just I appreciate going for it. I do, but I'm going to take that weird animation thing because ESPN is just getting stranger and stranger with them. I mean, I've talked about their awful belt of a scoreboard, their graphics package, so I have no doubt they're just leaning into this

for to get the attention of weirdos like ourselves. So yeah, loing weird animated graphics and explainers that I feel as if there was something with like NFL teams, like the mascots represented with animation. Like it's just I love it and I hate it all at the same time. Yeah, I mean, we've now entered the stage of broadcasts broadcast media m HM, where most of the tricks have been tried,

you know, not a whole lot out there. There's always room for innovation to some extent, it just seems like wherever the creative energy goes, it's not always aligned with where you and I think it should go. Right case in point, the score belt as you've called it. Yeah, at the bottom of the screen. CBS is doing the thing with the four K cameras now that weird like super zoomed in view. They've got the camera on the field and they're going to follow guy's face as he

walks into the locker room. They do that thing now a lot, and I don't know why, but they just find ways to do it. And I think that furthers the point of the weird animated explainer. It's just a thing that they do because they can, and not really because anybody wants it. Again, somebody is spending all week working on Like, here's the TCU team, but all their heads are frogs. They all have frog eyes. Get it? Because they're the what why? Why? I love it? Yeah?

So is that my first pick or my second pick? That was your first pick? What's your next pick? I'm going to go with failed hurdles. I'm going to tell you why to me a failed hurdle, because you're literally laying your nuts on the line. Sure, of course, when you go to hurdle somebody and it doesn't work and you take a helmet to the crotch, I laugh, I do laugh. I gotta be real with you, ty, I

appreciate the effort, but I've seen enough failed hurdles. Now, real hurdles obviously superior to a failed hurdle or a succeeded a successful hurdle. I'm going to go with that failed hurdle. I love it so much because all of the sudden it's a wrestling move gone wrong or on extremely right, and I love it every time. I love a failed hurdle, A failed hurdle, Dan, Yeah, a failed hurdle, I would think you would go for a successful hurdle.

You would think you would think. I mean, these are cool, those are fun to watch, I know, but there's something about somebody overestimating their vertical, overestimating the reaction time of the defender, and you get planted, right, you get absolutely planted when you fail to hurdle somebody, well, you know. Best case scenario is Saquon Barkley, and I think Saquon sure almost popularized the move. Yeah, Reggie Bush did it, but yeah, Saquon did it most recently and most frequently.

So that's the best case scenario. The worst case scenario is what happened in like the Replacements, where the guy got his knee blown off and he could never play again. So there is there is definitely an art to trying it, having the gumption to try it, and then not stick the landing. I think Monty Ball messed it up against Oregon and the Rose Bowl the twenty eleven season. Yeah, I think he had a failed hurdle and I love it. Failed hurdle, failed hurdle. It's interesting selection, Dan, thank you

very much. I'm just going with what I like. It's interesting. I think that's the right play. Go with things like. We have some more specific things for players and coaches though as well. Speaking of things we like, my pick mm hmm, I'm gonna go with shoehorned references to Ted Lasso. Dan, okay, okay,

explain you have not watched Ted Lasso, have you? I haven't. No. Well, something happens when any sports related programming, sports related, you know, fictional entity goes mainstream in the world, and that naturally means that broadcasters, that naturally means that ESPN, Fox, anybody calling a game with time to fill has to figure out some way to use that cultural thing, maybe to relate to the audience, you know, right, Ted Lasso is

about soccer. Jason sadaikas Ted Lasso is a soccer coach, but he comes over to coach soccer after coaching college football. I believe it Wichita State, yep, somewhere else, Rits. So there's a college football tie in the show has obviously blown up and got a ton of Emmy nominations, and

I'm sure some wins here and there. It seems like it's gotten to the point now where most people are at least aware of ted Lasso as a thing, whereas a year ago, I don't know if it was quite as prominent as it's become now that we're in season two. Do you love the show? It's a great show. Oh, okay, to feel good show. But there's just a lot of goofiness in the show that I feel like is almost too easy to resist. Do you are you worried that

it could happen early? But because it's on app it's on Apple, right, it's a competitor of Disney plus, competitor of Fox. I don't know if people want to be promoting it. I don't know if they're going to get orders from up high. I mean, this is a Disney sport now, I know so, and I thought about that. But I'll tell you there are there like a hook line?

Is there like something from ted Lasso in the way that you know, if you quote something from Anchorman or Dumb and Dumber, any sort of like these canon comedic movies or whatever, even if they have nothing to do with football, Like if somebody says that's going to leave a mark, you know, it's okay, that's like Tommy Boy or something. Is there that line from ted Lasso or a selection of lines that are immediately already in like TV canon. They used a line a lot in season one.

It's the hope that kills you. And Okay, as we've talked about time and again here on the show, college football is a sport that barters in hope. That's really of course too, so I could envision something like that being used. And he just had so many goofy comparisons, so many strange analogies that there is a ted Lasso

tie in here. Part of what I see happening is Apple coming in with a huge ad buy Okay, maybe setting up one of those weird like extended commercials featuring Ted Lasso as a college football coach, Like they're going to find some way to force him into the college football consciousness here vernacular. Yeah, as we get into twenty one here, okay, And I don't know how, and part of that, part of that frightens me because it's a good show and I don't want to see them do

something dumb. I know they're going to. Is it? Is it a crazy well watched show. It's like, does everybody understand ted Lasso references? It's it's gotten to the point where I believe it is Apple's biggest The morning show is very popular, but ted Lasso has sort of been an unexpected breakout hit. Okay, and they're in season two. They're gonna at least do a season three. And it's a cheerful, it's an upbeat, it's a fun show. If people haven't watched it, I'm certain most people will like it.

I got my wife into it, and she's not into sports content, so there will be forced ted Lassa references this year. I mean you are also certain of like a ton of Fortnite references that I don't know if that happened. It happened occasionally, But I am always a sucker for the pop culture thing that an answers want to use as a common denominator. And I think this could be it. I feel like this could be it. Is it my turn? I believe it's my turn again? Oh this is pick number two. You're right, I can

tell from the tone of your voice. You're not a fan of any of my picks so far. I just haven't watched Ted Lasso. All right, Well, no one's perfect. It's okay, it's fine. My next pick, yeah, I'm going to go with wise cracks about sixty year players. Dan, Oh, that's a good one. That's a good pick. This one. I think you're gonna make some money on. I expect

a lot of Van Wilder jokes. Mm hmmm, a lot of commentary about you know, this guy would normally be working at corporation, a enterprise B. Call him a doctor, call a lawyer. Yeah, it's almost sound with medical school. But due to odd restrictions and due to expanded eligibility rules from the NCAA, perhaps in year zero, I don't know, whatever you want to phrase it as, Yeah, he has to come back for a sixth year. In some cases, might have guys coming back for a seventh year, Dan,

who knows that's true? Feels like the Eric King's been around since the late nineties. Mm hmm. But alas we've got a number of sixth year players. I think Oregon might be starting a sixth year senior at tackle, boosting that returning production in a big way mm hmm. It's part of the reason why we have so many teams with so much back going to the twenty one season, and I feel like it's almost too easy to resist or too hard to resist, too easy to make jokes

about the six year guys. Well, you also have announcers joking about themselves. I was a sixth year senior, but it wasn't because of eligibility. Things stretched. It just struggled with math. You'll get those. You will give me wise cracks for six years, right, fair enough? You're up. So technically, technically these are your last two picks. But we can keep going because we have a huge list here. But just I just think we can talk about the list

in general, just things that make us laugh. You're up. Duce Vaughan is short. Deuce Vaughan is short. This is a Tom Hammond special, isn't it. No, It's literally every announcer is going to say that duce Van is five to five because he is Kansas State's most obvious weapon.

Now if he gets hurt week three or get suspended for accepting a sponsorship from a shady pill company or something, duce Von being short, you know, the Mighty mouse or whatever is absolutely just going to be an immediate talking point for every broadcaster that broadcast Kansastate games. This is this is my chunk of change. Pick right now. Duz Van is short because he is. That's just the reality of the situation. And he's an incredible football player, and

it's going to be mentioned every week. DU's van is short. Do some allusion to duce Vaughan's height, all right, doesn't that feel like it's going to do well? It's it's very much got a brock Osweller a six foot seven feel to it. Mm hmm. So yeah, it's it's very much announcer thing if a guy is too tall or too short, that it's notable to bring that up. And who was the team? Was it? Asu that's got two guys that are six seven on the offense? Really it

was one team that we talked about Osweiler. Yeah, it was one team that we talked about recently where it was like, Okay, we're gonna hear about this again, aren't we Yeah? Does it in Minnesota? Is like their right tackle? It's from Australia. Daniel he was like four hundred pounds

when he came in. That's the thing people enjoy measurements measurables. No, I'm not going to take another measurable pick, but this is my second pick is in athletes explaining in video how to pronounce their last names and then optional the announcer opting to just shorten them to a preferred nickname a lah. I think we're gonna get a lot of guys calling acc games that called dj U Yung Dju Dju big big Sinco, Big Sinco. I think that'll be

less common. But in the way that we had to have Tua explain how to pronounce his name, in the way that I think it was star Lotulela for Utah all those years ago, I think, and we're most certainly going to have Dju Uyang l Lay explain how to pronounce his last name in a video as if it's his responsibility, over and over when the media guides are

readily available online and you can watch clips. But for I guess the common fan watching the game curious to know how to pronounce a player's name when it appears in the lower chiron, I guess the player has to explain it themselves. So I'm taking that because I think, especially with one of the sports headline players in DJU being around. I think that's going to be a thing. Absolutely it. It's okay. I think the announcer, the announcers

are going to really try. And I remember speaking to our friend Yogi Roth who during the off season he studies rosters and calls sids. He does like the all of the research and homework. And I remember I think it was now a former USC linebacker. He corrected me and it was like, oh, it's not a ota something like that. So that is that is a thing. I think it's the thing I enjoy. Final pick, I'm gonna go with stealth references to the point spread. Dan good pick,

very good pick. This is a thing that Musburger used to do. Musburger always used to refer to our friends in the desert, and I think Fouler has started doing it a little bit as well, our friends in the desert. I actually could have specifically called out our friends in the desert, but I'm just going to go stealth references to the point spread. This can take on many different forms, as you know, right, it can be a straight up

it doesn't even have to be sell. It can be a straight up reference that yeah, I know they were favored by seven points here. It could be there are a particular group of people who are very interested in what happens on this possession as it relates to the over under or the point spread as a whole, so many different ways that you can just sort of hint at the fact that there is a large quantity of

money dependent on what happens next. And I feel like it happens more than people realize every broadcast, every broadcaster is where what the point spread is. They're always where what it is they have to be. It's important contextual information. How they choose to use that information is always interesting to me. Before, of course, back in the day of Musburger, when he was still around the game, it wasn't quite

as mainstream as it's become. Because now in most places, if you want to place a bet, you can place a bet. Even ESPN now right they're talking about point spreads openly. They have a wagering show I believe on maybe ESPN Plus or something. Yeah, and the Bears always on talking about it like they're always talking about the point spread. And I think it's important context I really do.

But as it relates to the actual broadcast. It's still a thing that announcers feel the need to just casually mention, subtly mention, ensuring that you know, if you know, you know so stealth references to the point spread is my sixth and final pick. You'll hear broadcasters, by the way, say something like that field goal doesn't seem like it would make a difference, but to some it does exactly.

There are some of those references at the end of the games that whether or not somebody's hitting it over, whether or not somebody is backdoor covering, there is that element for sure. I'm going to make a proposal that will each get one more pick. Okay, I had a number of items that I pulled over from and I haven't selected any of them yet. We did start an idea bank at least I did. I have one that's not on here that I'm gonna use my final pick on.

All right, so let me go first. I want to use this one because this I jotted this down last year and I was really excited about it. I would like to select a play that is quote drawn up in the dirt. It's a backyard play, right there, Just a backyard play, just drawn up in the dirt play breaks down. It's a close cousin of having a little bit of Baker Mayfield, didn't you sure? Busted? Play goes for something you often hear play drawn up in the dirt. That was going to be either my first or second

round selection last year. I was all in on play drawn up in the dirt, and then we didn't do the show. So I need to pay homage to twenty twenty two year zero. What have you by going with play drawn up in the dirt? So that is my seventh selection, Dan, my, this is my seventh. Now, yeah, my seventh selection is the SEC network really focuses on the SEC portion of college football when discussing an issue. No,

not that at all. I am gonna go with hold On, I'm gonna go with Gus Johnson latches onto a fact or nickname throughout a broadcast, so in the way that he always claims that he is my partner Joel Klatt, and then he goes the all American girl Jenny Taft. He also will latch on during a fun fact about a player, so like it's the old javelin thrower from Toledo with the catch. This is a this is a

Musburger thing too. It's a Musburger thing absolutely, but being and it's different from a fun fact that only interests to Hammond because that sort of comes and goes right that it's a GPA or his mom was the Librarian of the Year or something. Just it's in the ether kind of immediately. Yeah, Gus Johnson is a bulldog with his background information where it's it's another tackle from the

terminator as they used to call him in Hanah Lulu. Yeah, it's that's so much a Musburger thing too, Musburger influence even on this latch years later. Yeah, he you'll remember. I mean, I mean you're talking about the spread creeping in. That's Musburger. It's another Musburger thing. Yeah, but Musburger used to do. I remember darren Sproles was the little tank, remember a little tank for k State of course, and he would talk about the little tank, little tank, this

little tank. That major apple White was just the major. Yeah, I mean it's sort of a fetch thing, right, they're always like us. Johnson will make fetch happen over the course of a Texas Tech TC who came or something. Yeah, it's a little bit low hanging fruit because he does a week. Of course he does that. Being said, it's fun when you hear it. Yeah, Gus flipping through his research and thinking himself, ha haha, I'm gonna use this all right. So here's what we got. Let me drop

this down. Gush, john Okay, my team is weird. COVID training great to have the fans back years zero shoehorn, ted lasso references, wise cracks about sixty year players, stealth references to the point spread, and plays drawn up in the dirt. Yeah, you have nil weirdness. Coaches caught on camera doing something in the booth. Buggers, yeah, strange animated explainers, failed hurdles, Yeah, of course, Deuce Vaughan being just generally short.

We all know athletes in a video teaching others how to pronounce their own names yep, obviously, which is something to Johnson latching on it stowed to me. I went out, I found a to a video where they went around, I think it was al dot Com went around and they did, hey, how do you think you say this guy's name? They gave him a cell phone and nobody. Of course nobody got it. We didn't get it. No, Tagovlo, Yeah, tag of Violoa, tag of viola. There are much easier

names that we've messed up. To be clear, we called Johnny Football Johnny Manziel for a solid eight months. I said Globe Tomatoes once, yeah, you did, you did. And finally Gus Johnson latching onto a factor nickname. Mm hmm, oh my god loves it. We have a huge list here of others go through that we did not get to. Let me read. Let me read through some of the ones that I jotted down. I actually made a top twenty for myself. Yeah that I was into some of

the ones that I did not get. That on a draft board, my own draft board, Yeah, yeah, I had vaccine controversies ranked pretty highly on here. It's a great pick. It's a good pick. I kind of I didn't want to get into that here. If you were to pick that and you wanted to have a quote with it, it would be it's sort of a personal situation, and that would have done really well for you. It's sort of a personal decision. I'm still doing research that would

have been for you. Yeah. I just I want everyone to know that that was high on my draft board, and I am listening for it. A character concerns with that pick, Yeah, I I didn't really want to go there with it. Okay, well, just I just want everyone to know that was high and I am listening for that type of content. But sure, a last vaccine controversies, I jotted down the yips. I couldn't remember if we ever drafted the yips before in a fantasy things. It's

just nothing I enjoy celebrating. I don't enjoy celebrating it. But the yips are having a little bit of a renaissance now because of what happened with the Olympics with Simone Bio. Sure. Yeah, twists, twisties, twist determine gymnastics. Yeah, which, in fairness to her, the twisties are like, if you have the twisties, you can be paralyzed. It's crazy serious, let's be real. So it's a form of the yips, and I feel like the yips are having a bit

of a comeback because of that. I don't celebrate them, but it is funny. One somebody says it, so I had the yips. It's a funny term. The yips, very like a skittish dog. Yeah, okay, Next, I have Jack Cone puns, which may only apply according to you. He might be supplanted midyear. Yeah. Yeah, and this may only be me who does the Jack Cones puns. So I

didn't do it. I had player losing an NIL endorsement, which totally on the table I think is covered by your nil weirdness, though also might be covered by weird vaccine opinions potentially. So yeah, I have a quote unquote chess match between coaches. Mm hmm, a player who blocks out the noise or silences the critics. Sure, I have Reggie Bush getting Reggie Bush getting salty about nil, which has already happened. I don't know if that Yeah, I

think you knew. Did he produce a documentary? I'm pretty sure he did, not about nil, but about looking back on what he went through in the punishment that is now considered to be not as serious intent twenty one correct. Reggie Bush wants his heisman back, and he wants I think his stats re instated. That neither of those will happen,

I don't think. But I have the bear dunking on the rest of the Game day crew in like a playful way, you know, because you'll have oftentimes this guy and the bear who obviously knows his numbers and knows the facts and the stats and everything better than anybody. And then you have David Pollock with an extremely just emotional take that doesn't really it's not rooted in anything.

And then the bear has to He's put in this situation where he has to playfully disagree and just sort of dunks in everybody with his his superior knowledge of the facts. Is it too late to select? David Pollock believes it all starts upfront at the line of scrimmage. It's too late. Is it too late to select? David Pollack believes it starts upfront at the line of scrimmage. Damn, that'll be on the big board for twenty two. Like do you think? And I like David Pollock, he's been

on the show. I happen to think he's good at what he does, very good. But do you think if he comes down with some sort of mysterious ailment and the doctors say to themselves, we need to induce a

coma to reduce swelling. He'll be okay and everything will return to normal, but we need to put him in a coma, And then it's week eight of the college football season, and he wakes up and he's rushed to the set of Game Day and doesn't know anything that's happened during the season, hasn't watched anything, and doesn't even know what game they're talking about. And Reest hosses it to David and he insists that he can do the show, and he says, what do you think of Wisconsin Michigan? Like,

who wins this game? David Pollock is gonna think for a second and say, you know what, I'm thinking of going Wisconsin. It just it all starts, starts up for the line of scrimmage, go with the Badgers here. I wish I could have taken it, but I alas, I am too late. I have a ref getting in the way of a play ref interference. I love those. Yeah, I have a team that would have been in the top twelve hypothetically. Mm hmmm, I had. I should have

a future playoff, future playoff. I have a workout, a video montage of a workout of an incredibly athletic player. So like we saw the Evan Neil thing, we've talked about it, or he jumps he does like the box jump and then sticks the landing with a split at the top. Just crazy. And then the last one on my list here is a broadcaster who thinks t Lea could even be better than Tua. Some say, okay Tongo

by law? What else? What about? What about? I love Brett Bielama knows the Big Ten as if the Big Ten is an entity that remains the same every year. He's a Shirpa and only a select few know how to navigate that conference, right, Like Brett Bilima knows Farsi like it's just something that exists that you are fluent in. He knows, he knows the lay of the land, just sort of the way that Mike Loxley knows the DMV. I enjoy that. One Also subheading to that is Brett

Bilama has a Hawkeye tattoo. Always enjoyable that he's coaching a non Iowa team with an Iowa tattoo. Correct, That's always good. I'm so ashamed that of all of the all the information I've gathered throughout my life, all of the experiences I've now had with two small children, I still know that Brett Bilama has an Iowa tattoo. That information has not been pushed out these past few years, not yet. Anyway, I have an impromptu lateral. Yeah, I

love that. Usually that'll happen on an interception that there's a defensive player who's like, I know it to do, throw the ball in midair and hope for the best, which is why they play safety, Which is why they play safety. I have here. Oh, this is what it's all about. Yeah, right, I don't know what that means, because it applies to so many different things. Sometimes it's just like a father and son sharing an ice cream in a like an Iowa State game or something. Sometimes

it's a walk on getting a scholarship. Sometimes it's everybody jumping around between the third and fourth quarter. That's a nice catch all that happens often enough. This is what it's all about. Time you know what we missed? How do we miss this one? What I died on the phone when you told me this one? Which someone's mom's athletic history. Oh that's great. Oh is that good? Like a Javail McGee situation. Yeah, or Steph Curry's mom played volleyball.

It happens a lot in basketball. But that's great, that's great. Actually the real star of the family. Yeah, man, how do we miss that one. Yeah, what else do we got here? Home team loses a color out game? Yep, yep. I also like the because sometimes they'll be blackout games. But I think Michigan's doing a maze out for the Washington game. A maze out. What else do you have here? We missed, We missed the broadcasters with hot takes on Texas and Oklahoma going to the SEC. Oh yeah, and

it'll happen during a MAC game. It'll happen to irrelevant. I don't know if I like the way that college football is headed. You know, this could be the end of the sport as we know it. Yeah, that'll be a lot of writers. I saw that happening with the BYU scholarship situation. Speaking of writers, how about the sports writers who tweet out the picture from the booth with the phrase today's office, Today's office, Today's office. Come on, guys, today's office right here for Collins. I have, Oh man,

you really like you have? Gaeale Force wins. Love Gael Force wins. It's the only weather element we haven't incorporated. I've got roommate revelation as a throwback to the Colt McCoy era of Texas football, Jordan Shipley, I've got the use of masks as a platform of both trash talking motivation. I think that's combining a couple of different ones. Yeah, I think that's interesting. Okay, because some of these stadiums,

some stadiums are going to require people to be masked up. Quote, is this the year a group of five team makes the playoff? No, but that question is going to be asked because it is every year. Is this the year? Is this the year? Look, Cincinnati is a top five or top ten team? Mm hmmm, pre ss, you see a path? Is this the year they're gonna ask? Let's go to let's go to Joey Galloway and get his thoughts on this, and he says, no, no, He'll he'll beat around the bush a little bit, but joe Galloway

tells it straight. He'll be like, no, just not gonna happen. No, probably not. You've got a random arch Manning reference on here. Yeah, I I you know, it's probably something that will need to re tool next year. The problem is he doesn't have an older brother currently playing. Right, Let's see about here. Coaches whose wives are friends. Oh that's good. Yeah, some some sort of off field friendship, family friendship, or you know Nick Saban and Dabbos Sweeney have vacation together or

run into each other on vacation. We got like that. We got an email from a guy, Brian who listens this is over a year ago, and I jotted it down because I really really like it's very specific, very specific, but you know it, it's a thing. I was real close to pulling the trigger on Gus Malzon. Looking forward to a fresh start, specifically a fresh start at UCF. I have a zero yard touchdown. I love zero yard touchdowns.

So stripsack, somebody falls on the ball in the end zone touchdown, or a blocked punt in the end zone gets recovered, or a fumbled lateral in the end zone gets recovered by the other team. I love a good zero yard touchdown. I love limited effort to score six points. We're going to hear a lot this year about stadiums being at some percent capacity. Mm hmm. Maybe it's one hundred percent, maybe it's only seventy five. We're gonna hear

a lot about that. An emergency quarterback reference or a guy who play quarterbacks, a guy who played quarterback in high school. We just had it kind of with South Carolina was zeb Nolan the GA. We talked about it. This is a close cousin of the surprisingly left handed backup quarterback wide receiver mm hmm, which we've drafted in the past, the surprise left handed. Yeah. I love that. I have shirt friendly acronym as something I'm looking forward to.

Last year we had l e oh with Indiana love everyone. We had the I think Clemson has had a couple, right, they had like the b yog bring your own Guts. Yeah, if you remember that, we had the Roy Buss the rest of y'all. Yeah, So shirt friendly acronym somebody, it's gonna pop up somewhere now. Obviously Texas has gone all gas, no breaks. I don't know if they're gonna go AGNB

with their shirts. I haven't seen that yet. But if really it's going to be Clemson, it's probably going to be Dabbo just sitting at home thinking, all right, what's this year's acronym. I look forward to it, That's what I do. Oh, I've got happy Poncho fans. Oh yeah, it's pouring rain. It is a month absolutely, but they're just happy to be there. Did they got a poncho for free. It was handed out at the gate by

a local sub shop something like that. It's basically a piece of cellophane, and you also run into the situation where people can't put them on. Right. I'm so upset that I did not list and select. David Pollock explains where it all starts. I'm gonna I'm gonna jot it down here. That's that's just a fun wild card that everybody's on. Everybody's board. That's the center of the bingo card. David Pollack explains where it all starts. I could go

with that. We could also go with controvers controversial vaccination opinions as the center span. Yeah, I mean that's that's that's a freebie. But we're staying we're staying out of the business. Yeah, all right. Look, this was not the format that we would have preferred to do this show. No, we wanted to do this show. I think the plan was to do this one in LA, wasn't it. Yeah, we were gonna do a show in LA. We're going to do it out West. We're going to do the

show in LA. It didn't come together. For those who have asked us about live shows, it is something that we are working on. However, we are taking it day by day here because obviously you know, situations are changing as it relates to COVID. Hopefully it won't be as big a deal as we move a little bit deeper

into the college football season. But stay tuned for more information on that if you are interested in coming out and seeing a show where we're going to try and get out there and do some live stuff because it is so much fun. But we will just have to wait and see. See. Can I give you another fantasy thing? I just thought of. Where were these like three hours ago? I don't know, Well, this is so specific, it's not an actually good fantasy thing because it's it happens so infrequently.

But when a player is called for targeting and going through all of the emotions on the sideline pacing and coaches are saying, it's cool, man, it's cool, it's cool. We'll get him next time, and he's so upset that he's going to kicked out of the game. But then the targeting call is reversed and you have so much emotion with the flip. I love that. I love the down and then back. I like that, especially when nobody gets injured. But no, I like the reverse target reverse targeting. Yeah, yeah,

well yeah, we have our picks. We will get them posted somewhere before long. A week from now, we will have games to talk about. It is August the twenty third, as many folks are listening to this week zero preview is what is up next? And yeah, a week from today we'll be doing reactions to the five games. We'll be getting prepared for the week one preview as we really dive into this thing over Labor Day weekend. So

hell yes, fantasy things now in the books. I think that is kind of our annual rite of passage to move board with the twenty one season. True for that guy over there, my good friend Dan Rubinstein, for myself, tie heild and grant. We'll talk to you all soon. In the meantime, stay solid, peace,