Welcome to the athletic football show. I am your host, Derek Klasson. Robert is out. Dave is out. And today we are doing a similar show to something we did with the cold takes revisited about a month ago, where we saw takes that we had going into the 2025 season, were obviously wrong about and kind of had to reconcile with. This show is a little bit of kind of doing that preemptively, where there are takes that we believe, you know, we believe X, Y, and Z about a player or a team or a unit, whatever it may be, but we're leaving the door open that maybe something can change in 2026 and maybe we can be proven wrong. And so that's what we're going to do today. Bring on our guest, Dan Pizuda of FtN Fantasy.

Let's jump right into it.

All right.

You guys are stuck with me, Derek, as the host for today.

Robert is out, Dave is out.

And today I'm being joined by Dan Pazuda.

And we are going to have, this is almost a sister show to a thing that we had done before.

About a month ago on this feed, we did the Cold Takes Revisited podcast, which was horrible things that we said last year

that we obviously kind of had to repay for. This is a little bit of a sister show in that we are doing

things that we think we believe, but there's an open door that maybe we are going to be wrong about

in 2027. And so me hosting this episode solo, Dan, I thought that you would be a

really fun guest to have on for this. Yeah, thanks for having me. I'm happy to be the on deck

guy when Robert and Dave are on vacation. So it's fun to, always fun to be here. And so before we

jump into any of them, I want to ask you, when I kind of immediately came to this idea, I had like one or two takes that I was pretty immediately like ready to go to, not go to bat for. Obviously, you're almost like going to bat against yourself in a lot of these. But I had one or two ready in the hopper that I was ready for. And then I had a few that like, I had to look at some rosters, look at at some depth charts and be like, okay, maybe I am more open to that.

How many, what was kind of your split of like when I gave you this prompt? Were you ready to go with like six of them? Or was this a, I had to do a little bit of digging and really see how I feel about some of these? Yeah, I had a couple in mind that that immediately jumped out. And I've been you know deep into FTN

Almanac writing uh over the past couple weeks and I'm right in the middle of it I'm doing

six chapters this year so as a man who's also done a six chapter year before that is you're

a brave man this is this is yeah, this is my first one.

I've done four before the past, like, couple years.

Yeah, this is the first six.

So it is, it is a lot.

But that also does naturally kind of give you some things that you might be thinking about.

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