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10/28/14, It Caaaaammeee from Week 8
This week we had a rather football appropriate beer. We had the excellent Firestone Walker Union Jack IPA. Firestone Walker's logo is a bear and a lion - under the cap it says "Bears, Lions and Beers". We'll have to get this again on Thanksgiving when those teams clash. On to the show - we broke down Big Ben's big performance, Tom Brady's resurgence and Mark Ingram's awesome showing on Sunday night.
Like a good Lannister, we paid our debts from last week and drank for the trends we predicted wrong last week. I hope you all drank for the ones we predicted correctly. This was a fun segment, so we picked a few more to track for next week. They are: Julian Edelman will continue trending down, scoring below 5 pts in standard scoring. We split on Michael Floyd, Dave says he'll continue trending down, I say he'll score over 10 points. Brandon Marshall is another guy we split on, Dave going under 10 points and me going over 10. We also split on Knile Davis, but the other way around this time. Dave says he'll score 8 or more points, while I have him scoring fewer than 9. We'll check out 3 of these next week (Marshall is off this week) and either we drink, or you do!
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10/21/14, Wow.. the Jaguars can win, after all!
Welcome to week 8! We're more than halfway through the fantasy regular season and it's been an awesome ride, as is tradition. We started out the show going over some of the headlines from last week - check out my breakdown of Week 7.
We started a new segment where we will be betting on trends. Each week, we will spot a few trends and decide if the trends will keep going, or if the player will buck the trend. We will bet 5 drinks on each outcome. This week our results are: Denard Robinson - continue trending up; Zac Stacy - Jason says he'll score over 8, Dave says he'll trend down; Jay Cutler - continue trending down, less than 20 pts for sure; Allen Robinson - continues to trend up, around 12 pts again; Justin Hunter - continues to trend down; Travis Kelce - continues to trend down, less than 6 points; New England D/ST - Dave says 10 or more points, Jason says they will score less.
We also fielded questions from the peanut gallery this week to help you with waiver wire and start/sit decisions. To ask questions that we will answer on the show, tweet us @drinkfive, hit us up on our Facebook page, or shoot us an e-mail. Finally, we placed a bet for next week's beers. In Dave's eternal struggle to not have to buy a Zach Ertz jersey, he is betting against him again this week. Dave has Jordan Reed in standard scoring against my Zach Ertz. May the loser buy fine beers and the winner enjoy them mightily.
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10/14/14, Revisiting RB/WR Consistency, Rating the Rookies
Thanks to mother nature, our rookie expert Shawn Foss had a rain out and was able to join us for tonight's show. Tonight we enjoyed beers from Stone, Rogue, 5 Rabbit and St. Bernardus. It's quite a selection, check out the show for details.
Tonight we went over Joe Flacco's excellent game against Tampa, Andre Holmes showing up against the Chargers and Knowshon Moreno winding up on the IR. Then we revisited the top 10 drafted WR's and RB's and where they are at. Once again, we found that the WR position is more consistent at the top of the draft.
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10/07/14, Injuries Strike Again, Week 6 Preview
Week 6 is upon us, and before we break it down, we went back and looked at the weekly leaders from week 5. Manning being Manning, Brees coming back up, some guy named Davis. We also hit up the rushing and receiving leaders.
In between Laphroaig, All Day IPA and Dude a Double IPA, we discussed last week's injuries and waiver wire pickups. Finally, we broke down some of next week's games. Naturally, we made another bet - this week, I'll be taking Green Bay and Dave will take Miami, the loser buying beer next week.
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9/30/14, Navigating the Wire and Week 5 Matchups
It’s hard to believe we’re already 25% complete with the fantasy football season. After such a long wait to get started, the weeks are flying by. This week’s show featured some leftover craft beers from the weekend, including the Revolution Oktoberfest and the 80 Acre Hoppy Wheat beer from Boulevard Brewing Co. We started off the show going over some surprises from Week 4, including the revelation that is Jerick McKinnon and whether or not Martellus Bennett is the real deal.
We also resumed our degenerate ways by making not one, but two bets. The first bet is for beers for next week’s show – I picked the Bengals over the Patriots and am giving Dave 3.5 points (the Vegas line opened with -2.5 for the Pats – I’m so generous!). We are also betting on the production of Trent Richardson (Jason) vs Ahmad Bradshaw (Dave). The stakes will be a steak! This bet is only valid if everyone is healthy going in to the game.
Finally, we broke down the waiver pickups that you need this week and previewed week 5. We fielded questions from the peanut gallery, and if you want us to answer your lineup questions on air, just ask in the chat room or give us a call during the show.
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9/23/14, To Start, or Not to Start
This week we're joined by one of our staff writers, Graham Sell. You can check out Graham's article every week reviewing the state of our drinkfive fantasy league. I want to thank Graham again for making the trip up all the way from Florida to join us.
We had a couple of excellent brews during the show, the Bitchin' Blonde from Lake Effect Brewing Compay in Chicago and the Imperial Hatter from New Holland Brewing Company in New Holland Michigan. Both of these were excellent, but of course I'm partial to the Hatter, which is a hop loaded IPA.
So, the Arizona Cardinals are undefeated. Wonders will never cease, no? We also talked about the current crop of rookie QB's and we tried to pick between Bortles and Bridgewater. Green Bay is having a poor start and we tried to diagnose the patient to figure out what they need to cure them and make those guys fantasy relevant again. Dave then tries (and succeeds) to show that the high drafted WR's are much more durable and valuable than the high drafted RB's.
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9/16/14, Fantasy Apocalypse, Waiver Wire Wonders
Avast, ye mateys. We're sailing fer Fantasy Island. Yea, I've got no more pirate lingo for you, but I just HAD to use this awesome picture of Giovani Bernarrrrrrrd that Dave put together for one of my fantasy teams. I needed a replacement after Purple Jesus's fall from the league and my team's moniker.
Anyways, back to the podcast. During the show, we enjoyed a Maharaja courtesy of Dave's chili cook-off win and had more than a little Glen Grant Single Malt Scotch Whiskey. All in all, it was a wetter show than normal.
This week, we broke down some of the upsets from last week, talked about the major injuries from week 2. Spoiler alert, this took a little while to get through. Finally, we broke down a couple of games coming up in week 3. I even made a bold bet that the Giants will beat the Texans at home this week. Loser buys beers for the show next week.
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9/09/14, Who is Allen Hurns and Other Great Questions
Oh sweet relief. Football is actually back for real this time. Not just preseason games, not just one measly Thursday night game, but a full slate of 16 games. I went 5-2 (just a small brag), I hope you all had a good week too. Tonight we had a few bombers that Dave won in our first annual Chili Cook-off. Two Brothers Heavier Handed (a variation of Heavy Handed) and at the end of the show we cracked the Flannel Pajamas Stout from Begyle Brewing.
We talked about Rookie WR's - we were impressed by Kelvin Benjamin and Brandin Cooks, and everyone was surprised by Allen Hurns. We broke down some of the big guys who remained on top of their game, like Calvin Johnson and Antonio Brown. We basically brown down most of the week (including some Ray Rice stuff) and previewed a few games coming up in week 2.
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9/02/14, Deeper Down the Rabbit Hole
It’s almost time! The season starts this Sunday and we were finally able to preview a week, instead of just talking about ADP’s and draft positions and all of that stuff that doesn’t matter now until next August. This week we enjoyed a couple beers from our favorite local brewery, Two Brothers, as well as some Hopdinger from O’so in Wisconsin.
This week we rolled with Wes Welker, who has found a way to give himself some extra time to recover from his most recent concussion. We broke down some of the rookie QB’s, talked about some other players you might want to pick up, especially for their week 1 matchups.
Finally, we discussed the future of our TV podcast. We will be splitting that off so we have time to get into both football and TV without cutting either short. Stay tuned!
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8/26/14, Bradford Blues, AFC/NFC East, Deerly Departed
This week we're joined by our good buddy Mike Mocerino for some talk about the NFC and AFC East. We had quite a bit to drink, including some Johnnie Walker, Civilized Bourbon, Furry Black IPA and some Horny Goat.
Since we had a guest on, it was a great time to make a rather epic bet. We had a disagreement over the value of Zach Ertz and Heath Miller, so Dave and Mike took Miller in standard scoring, and I've got Ertz. The losers have to buy the jersey of the winning player and wear it in some sort of shaming ceremony, probably. I'm not so sure about that last part, but the jersey thing is happening!
So we finished our project to go over every fantasy relevant player in the league. This week was the East divisions of the NFC and AFC. We also were able to go over the most recent episode of The Leftovers. That show is off next week, and we will likely be spinning off any future TV/etc talk into a different show. Stay tuned!
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