Rules to Win Your Fantasy League (Part 1)

The Ringer Fantasy Football Show

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🗓️ 13 August 2025

⏱️ 87 minutes

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The guys revisit the lessons from last season that they vowed never to forget to establish a strict new set of rules to follow this year, loosely inspired by Christopher Nolan’s ‘Memento.’ 2:07 An overview of the lessons from last season 4:45 Take great players in great offenses 12:27 Pick the guys you want 19:02 Marie Kondo was right 28:55 Don’t trust Kyle Shanahan 34:03 Don’t shackle yourself to Sean Payton’s whims 43:10 Avoid Aaron Rodgers 46:47 Avoid toxic people and toxic situations 54:23 Take Ja’Marr Chase first 55:35 Don’t underestimate Joe Burrow (again) 1:09:30 Emails Sponsored by YahooFantasy #YahooPartner. Play now at yahoofantasy.com/promo. Getaway sales event. The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit www.rg-help.com to learn more about the resources and helplines available. Hosts: Danny Heifetz, Danny Kelly, and Craig Horlbeck Producers: Ronak Nair, Kai Grady, and Carlos Chiriboga Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Ringer Fantasy Football Show.
0:14.6	My name is Danny Hatt, Craig Horekka.
0:17.0	Today we are looking at what we learned from the 2024 season and how we should apply it to the
0:22.3	2025 season, aka our memento tattoos every year at the end of each season. We have all these
0:28.2	lessons we learned, these things we do differently, regrets, 2020 hindsight vision of how we
0:34.9	should have approached a given situation. You can call it postseason clarity,
0:38.6	if you will. And then by the next season, we completely forget everything we learned and we make
0:43.9	all the same mistakes all over again. Yeah, life is nothing if you don't learn from your mistakes.
0:50.3	And this is us reckoning with those mistakes. It's us trying to to resist the training camp
0:55.4	ebnesia that hits you every single year. When you start to see reports, oh, Sean Payton actually
1:01.7	has a very clear wide receiver depth chart. I believe this. That makes sense. Oh, Shanahan's injury
1:08.3	reports. I believe those. People seem healthy.
1:11.3	Krista McAfrey would play tomorrow if there were a playoff game.
1:13.8	So this episode is about reckoning with the way we felt in January last year,
1:19.5	right after the season ended, all those raw emotions,
1:22.1	and now applying them to this year and seeing how we feel.
1:24.9	All right.
1:25.4	We're going to get into all our amnesiac reminders tattooed all over our body.
1:30.0	But first, quick break.
1:32.1	This episode of the Ringer Fantasy Football Show is presented by Hyundai.
1:35.5	Get into the Hyundai getaway sales event and get away with a deal so right, it almost feels wrong.
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