Grinding The Variance (A Davis Mattek Fantasy Football Pod)
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Tuesday Jul 22, 2025
Tuesday Jul 22, 2025
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Timestamps:00:00 High Stakes2:00 Barkley over Jefferson ??? 13:00 Selling Tet To The People 16:30 Bears WR? 22:30 Jauan Jennings 32:00 Aaron Jones vs Skattebo 49:00 Taking Christian Kirk for some reason 1:04:00 Nate making me take Dyami Brown 1:20:00 Team Reviews
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Monday Jul 21, 2025
Monday Jul 21, 2025
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Timestamps:00:00 Best Ball Fantasy Football Introduction2:20 Jaydon Blue Coach Speak Index 9:00 Jacksonville Jaguars Coach Speak Index 16:00 Who Is The Back Up Running Back In Indianapolis? 20:00 Who starts the most games at quarterback for Indianapolis in 2025? 27:00 Indianapolis Colts Wide Receivers (and Tyler Warren) 37:00 Who Is The Running Back behind Christian McCaffrey in San Francisco? How Much Is CMC going to play In 2025? 43:45 Kyle Monogai and the Bears Running Backs 48:00 New England Patriots Wide Recievers 54:00 Dylan Sampson, Jerome Ford, Quinshon Judkins and the Browns Backfield 1:00:00 Best Ball Mania Draft With @CoachspeakIndex starts with a nice faller at RB 1:07:00 Dan Campbell on Jameson Williams 1:10:30 Jauan Jennings 1:20:30 Secondary Titans Stacks 1:14:30 Jayden Higgins 1:16:30 How disgusting is round 9 now? 1:30:00 Team Recap 1:36:30 Best Ball Mania BEGINS 1:43:00 Kelce after Rice 2:16:10 Draft Number 3 starts with CMC at 1.72:22:30 Round 7 Chris Godwin?
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Monday Jul 21, 2025
Monday Jul 21, 2025
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Timestamps:00:00 DraftKings Best Ball Fantasy Football Introduction6:00 LT vs CMC 13:40 Taking Kittle w/ CMC 15:00 Exposure Thoughts 20:00 Barkley In The Playoff Pods 25:50 Chiefs Optimism 36:00 Gibbs Vs Montgomery 42:30 The Who Cares Bowl 46:00 Movie Chatter52:00 Draft #2 Starts On DK 1:05:10 Is it okay to draft JK Dobbins and RJ Harvey on the same best ball team? 1:18:30 If Quinshon Judkins is on the exempt list, how high will Dylan Sampson's ADP get? 1:27:30 Taking 3 QBs even with an elite QB 1:44:00 Draft #3 Starts On DraftKings 1:47:30 Kyler vs Baker 2:05:50 Shill me your best 20th round pick on DraftKings 2:15:00 Justin Herbert 2:38:30 Draft#4 Begins 2:48:30 Slappy Ownership Theory 3:28:00 Noah Fant Released
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Sunday Jul 20, 2025
Friday Jul 18, 2025
Friday Jul 18, 2025
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Timestamps:1:00 DraftKings Best Ball Milly Maker Draft6:30 Quinshon Judkins 25:00 Cam Ward 40:00 Elite Or Delete BEGINS NOW 1:24:00 Frankie P gets an elite 1:33:00 Jaydon Blue Is Lazy? 2:13:30 An FFPC Banger 2:37:00 BukkyPlays Wins The Gold Star2:43:00 DraftKings Best Ball Milly Maker Draft STARTS 3:24:09 Final DraftKings Best Ball Milly Maker Draft
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Wednesday Jul 16, 2025
Wednesday Jul 16, 2025
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Timestamps:00:00 JJ Zachariason Late Round QB1:00 Derrick Henry?2:50 Justin Jefferson7:00 Entitled Best Ball Bros8:45 Trey McBride11:40 Chicago Bears Stacks On DraftKings12:50 Tet McMillan13:45 JJ On Travis Hunter17:00 Ricky Pearsall21:00 Davis makes back to back mistakes SAD25:50 Why you have to jump on your QB2 on DraftKings29:20 Jaydon Blue 34:30 Will Shipley? 39:00 Keenan Allen 42:00 Kyle Monogai 43:10 Diontae Johnson 47:30 The Hardest Part Of Best Ball For JJ
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Tuesday Jul 15, 2025
Monday Jul 14, 2025
Saturday Jul 12, 2025
Saturday Jul 12, 2025
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Timestamps:00:00 Best Ball Fantasy Football Introduction6:00 AAallen119:30 An eliminator 12:00 Max Lensky COMPLETE 16:00 Remi on DraftKings 22:30 Right Wing Slappy Team? 26:10 BIG TRUCKIN 30:55 Chad Candles 38:00 The Slappiest RB Room Of All Time 49:10 Zach Lanars 1:12:30 BUCK ST THOMAS 1:18:00 FFPC BOomer1:23:00 SGT SLIM JIM 1:44:30 Lil Dodger 241:50:00 The Corgi Shipper from Joel Wirth? 1:56:00 Frankie's Son Drafts A Slapper 2:11:00 Chief Dale
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Friday Jul 11, 2025
Friday Jul 11, 2025
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Timestamps:00:00 Best Ball Fantasy Football with Hayden Winks1:30 Ashton Jeanty4:00 How to handle RB2s16:00 RB vs WR projected points 18:30 How to handle tight ends on Underdog Fantasy 20:50 The Three Quarterback Meta On Underdog 28:00 Too Many People Do Zero RB On Underdog Fantasy 34:00 All we care about for running backs is downside 40:00 HOW To Draft Zero RB Teams In Half PPR 44:00 Best Ball Mania w/ Hayden Winks 53:10 Zay Flowers? 56:00 Travis Hunter From Hayden Winks 57:30 Ricky Pearsall 1:00:00 Aaron Jones vs Jordan Mason 1:02:30 Jayden Higgins 1:06:40 Tyjae Spears 1:14:30 The bullishness of the elite RB handcuffs 1:17:30 Keenan Allen From Hayden 1:21:30 Team Recap 1:26:00 Hayden Winks Leaves, BBM Starts 1:35:00 James Cook In the 5th? 1:39:30 Pro Bowers and Pro McBride 1:46:30 The JK Dobbins ADP Mystery 2:04:30 Puppy Draft BEGINS with Ja'Marr Chase 2:38:44 DAWGS AND GAMS ONLY
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