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Hello, everybody.

Welcome into the Fantasy Pros football podcast.

I'm Ryan Warmly.

Joined today by Andrew Erickson and by Jake Sealy from The Athletic.

Guys, we are into the new year.

Jake, I have talked to some of the other folks here at Fantasy Pros.

I've not really gotten a chance to talk to you.

How did your fantasy season wrap up? With a lot of second and third place finishes, unfortunately. I'm the type of person

that I don't mind just getting my guys and not having to diversify. And it just happened to be

the fact that I didn't have a lot of Derek Henry, even though it was on it. And then just a lot of

Josh Jacobs. It's the overlap of players. It seems like if you had a certain player, you were basically second, third, fourth. If you had a certain ones, you finished first. It was just bad timing by a lot of players. But mostly good. I'll still take the second third and fourth place finishes. But I think it's the first time since Andrew and I go back quite a bit since when I met him. I think it's probably about since the first time I ever met Andrew almost like, what, eight, nine years ago that I don't have a, I'll admit it. I didn't have a single first place finish this year. Yeah. I can relate to that from the last couple of years. I've had a lot of teams make it and then not get over the hump. This year I did a little bit. Erickson, I know we've already talked about this a bit.

Erickson, how are you feeling kind of just stepping into 2026 here? Like, you know, I know we've talked a little bit about just how excited we are for, you know, kind of what's to come here with fantasy pros, with playoffs, the offices, all this stuff. but now that the calendar has actually flipped into January and into 2026, where's your mindset right now?

I'm just really looking forward to getting into prospect season. this stuff. But now that the calendar has actually flipped into January and into 2026, where's your

mindset right now? I'm just really looking forward to getting into prospect season and into the

NFL draft. That's kind of where my mind is trying to focus and balance that out with some of the

NFL playoff content. We do rankings on the site for the playoff matchups. I'm doing a lot of the

betting stuff as well, breaking down wildcard weekend, divisional weekend, conference championship weekend, and then obviously the

Super Bowl. So even though it is the quote unquote off season, fantasy football, the way that

you can play and absorb this game, it's a 365 endeavor. And we're here for it. That's why you're

watching this show right now. I used to, before I worked in fantasy, I would try to like disconnect a little bit. Take some time off, quote unquote, to kind of like reset my brain. And that's no longer an option. We are all in all the time. And if you're joining us here, you're not taking a break. Well, uh, sit back. We got more content for you. Yeah, we have, thank you for the dollar royalties there with the all-in. I'll make sure you're sending that check. Yeah. So what we're doing really throughout this week is takeaways for every AFC team. We're going to be doing the NFC next week. So we're going to be doing a whole bunch of different episodes.

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