Good afternoon fantasy coaches and welcome to the fantasy pros football podcast.

I'm your host Bobby Sylvester and today I'll be joined by Marcus Grand of NFL.com the

most fashionable man in the fantasy industry. We'll be answering listener questions from

the mailbag, discussing draft strategy and blitzing through some boomer bus players. We're

experiencing some technical issues today so that the audio might be a little bit choppy but please

continue listening because the content is great. I think this is the best show we've done yet.

If you bear with it you are really going to be happy with what you hear. It's great information

so please stick around. As always I've got producer JP Gale by my side and here we go.

I've now got Marcus with me and as I said Marcus is from NFL.com and can be found on Twitter at

MAR CISG. Marcus thanks for joining us. Hey guys thanks for having me on I appreciate it.

Marcus I especially appreciate you being patient you waited so long while we got the technical

issues worked out and if you are as good at analyzing football as you are being patient man I'm

excited to hear what you have to say. So Marcus I was reading that you were a soccer player growing

up is that true? Yeah I played youth soccer I played a little bit of high school soccer and then

my mom decided it would be better for me to focus on academics and so while I love my mom

and death and you know things have worked out okay for me there is a part of me that wonders what

my life might have been like had I pursued that could I be playing you know national team soccer

anything like that probably not but you know it's always fun to train right? Yeah well I was a

soccer player too so this is funny two soccer guys doing a fantasy football. I was a goalie though

so it doesn't really count. I also returned kickoffs and puns for the football team but same thing

doesn't count. I wanted to ask you say the rest like the rest of the world American football wasn't

real and soccer was football here in America where all the best athletes played it which American

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