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Guaranteed Human. Brian Drake is a podcast host and writer at Fantasy Points who also does work at Fantasy Pros, The Huddle, Sirius XM, and a ton of other places, too. He's a past FSWA football article of the year winner. He's a dad. He's an Eagles fan. And he loves Syracuse as well. These are his late round perspectives.

I feel like 10 minutes ago, you and I were in Canton, Ohio, having some adult beverages and drafting in the King's Classic. And now it's like pushing for the playoffs, make sure you have handcuffs. And it's just, it goes by so fast when you're in this content grind because Thursday night becomes the weekend becomes Monday night, recaps, waiver wire. It never ends. Yeah, no, it's true. I mean, I, like,

feel like it was yesterday that we were, because we did the Kings Classic. We do it on Saturday. You know, you host one of the drafts typically, right? So you did, I think you hosted the auction this year, right? So you were on Sirius XM for that, and then you drafted the snake, right? Yeah, so I have a partner in the league, Ryan Hallam and Kevin Tompkins from Fighting Chance Fantasy.

So I have a partner in the league, Ryan Hallam and Kevin Tompkins from Fighting Chance Fantasy. So I let those guys do the auction. I take care of

the snake, which I love the auction. Listen, one of my best friends of Drew Davenport. I got to

give love to the auction guys. But if I have the opportunity to do radio, I'm going to do radio because that's my first love. And you don't get that opportunity very often. So I pass up the league to get on the air and stroke my ego for two hours. Yeah, no, I feel you. And so, you know, you sit there and you kind of analyze the draft as it's going on. You know, I've talked about the King's Classic on here as guests. you know, I'd Jim Coventry on a couple weeks ago and such and we, we chatted about it. But then the next day, which is the actual Expo, you know, at the Hall of Fame, you guys are still doing, you're still doing the serious XM thing. And you and I, I hopped on for about 15, 10, 15 minutes with you and Bob Harris at one point. Maybe it was only like 5 to 10.

But I remember talking about my drafts because my snake draft because I drafted

Chris McCaffrey like seventh overall or something and we were kind of discussing that. But it

literally feels like that was like last week. It's crazy. It is. It goes by so fast. That whole

Expo weekend goes by in a blink. I look forward to it all

year long and then it's it's just up and gone and I'm already driving back to Syracuse from

Canton, Ohio, but that's fantasy football season. And if you don't stay on top of it,

if you don't hustle on the waiver wire and making trades, it can get away from you quickly.

And all of a sudden you're staring at a team that has no chance of making the playoffs and you're frustrated and you stop listening to content. Don't stop listening to this. Please. Yeah, please, please, please keep listening. Yeah, but we see that all year long is once people kind of get out of it, they, they throw their hands up in the end. They're like, yeah, forget about it. I'm done.

It's over with.

But you can fight till the end in fantasy football.

Too many people give up way too early. Like, you can win out. It happens. Yeah. And there's teams that were really good in your league that are now terrible. and there's teams that were terrible in your league that are really good now.

And yeah, it can happen super fast.

There's always things shifting and moving.

By the way, I got to throw this out there.

How great is it that a pit guy

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