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Fantasy Football Happy Hour with Matthew Berry

Best Salary Cap Strategy + Latest Trade Reaction

Fantasy Football Happy Hour with Matthew Berry

NBC Sports, Matthew Berry

Fantasy Sports, Sports, Football

4.3710 Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

August 22: Matthew (@MatthewBerryTMR), Jay (@croucherJD), and Connor (@ConnorJRogers) run through some of the best tips and strategies for salary cap leagues, including how to identify player values and setting tiers for the best players. The team then breaks down the top trade news around the League, including the latest on Brian Robinson Jr’s move to San Francisco, and a potential reunion in Minneapolis for Adam Thielen. The desk wraps up the day by talking about their picks to win the AFC East.

Transcript

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0:38.0

I'm here in the bunker. I'm here in the love-hate bunker at my house. And so I'm watching, you know, I'm watching now you guys as opposed to like when we're on the desk and I'm just sort of, you know, I'm looking at the rundown and I'm sort of in my own mind. So I'm getting more of a chance to look at Jay as opposed to a side view, which is what I usually get at the table. I'm looking at them straight on. Connor, can we get a ruling on this facial hair that Jay has started to grow this, this prepubescent kind of mustache? It's an evil look. He's looking like he's ready to go out and solve some mysteries or something like that. I just, I would like the regulars to weigh in on whether or not Jay should keep the facial hair.

0:39.9

I'm not sure I'm down with it, Connor.

0:42.6

Well, it's about one day away from being more of an evil look.

0:49.2

Fantasy football happy hour with Matthew Berry.

0:52.7

Happy Friday.

0:57.7

Welcome to the fantasy football happy hour. That's right. Evil Jay drinks for free. You can clap for yourself.

1:03.5

Yeah, why not? It's a tailored look now. I feel like you're being, you're being mindful of it.

1:13.4

Had Jen in makeup yesterday or a couple days ago tell me how to get a hair card as well. There's very few people in America who aren't telling me to remove hair from my body in some way or another.

1:21.0

I will say, before we get into the rundown, one of the great instances of stones being thrown in glass houses.

1:47.7

Because there are a lot of things that other shows might do better than us, but there's nothing that is done better in the fantasy football industry than the ability to grow bad facial hair than this show. 100%. I'll take the charge. Matthew's got absolutely nothing. Lawrence Jackson, unfortunately, he does raise the bar a little bit. And also, as well, in terms of whether I'm going to shave, I haven't shaved in 33 years. I've never shaved. This is just a look. 33 years of work and I don't plan on shaving anytime soon. Respect. I take the exact same approach. Also, it feels like all of our coworkers are getting comfortable with us. When someone's

1:51.3

telling you get a haircut, someone else is making fun of your facial hair, which I'll raise my hand.

1:55.3

You're off-key. Listen, welcome to the regulars, by the way, on this lovely Friday. Of course, Matthew Berry will be joining us here in just a moment.

2:02.2

Maybe.

2:02.7

Yeah, we think so from his NBC branded bunker, which you will all see in just a moment.

2:08.6

Listen, we have an interesting show today. We've gotten a lot of requests around salary cap-related draft.

2:14.4

So we're going to talk strategy with those, how they differ from a normal snake

2:18.2

draft. We're going to be taking a ton of your questions and probably issues in the comment

2:23.6

section as well. So we'll be pulling from YouTube. So if you're watching live on YouTube,

2:27.5

or if you're not, this is a reminder that you should be every day 12 p.m. Eastern time live on

2:33.7

YouTube. And of course, we'll get to all the player news. We had a couple of preseason games last night. A couple of things to react from as well, and maybe some future trades on the way before we close things out with last call. So we try to predict. It's not that hard to predict who will win the AFC East. But, Jay, let's jump right into it here. Salary Cap D draft 101. I think number one, the pros of this are

2:54.2

pretty obvious. It's the most fair way to draft. There's nothing skewed by necessarily

2:58.8

draft position. Everyone has access to every single player. So if, say, you were a massive

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