Hey, everybody. This is Liz. Before we get into today's episode of the forecast, we just wanted to mention that this episode was recorded before the protests in reaction to the shooting of Jacob Blake began to take place. Obviously, these protests have fueled conversations within professional sports and the nation at large. Our omission of the topic has nothing to do with our feelings about it. It was simply about timing.

Thank you for listening.

Hello and welcome to the Yahoo Fantasy Football Forecast.

I'm Liz Loza.

Joining me today are Andy Barron's and Matt Harmon.

Gents, what do you guys say to a fantasy cram session?

Because believe it or not, football's happening in two weeks.

Yeah, I have a home league that just came together last night.

And the commissioner seemed surprised that football was happening and happening relatively soon, right?

Some of this is just the sports calendar.

Like baseball started a month ago and the NBA playoffs are in the first round right now. So like it should be May. It should be

late April or May. That's when those things happen. We've had no preseason football. So yeah,

it snuck up on people, but I think I think we're slowly creeping in and it's going to launch.

Matt, are any of your leagues talking about how they're going to accommodate the challenges that this particular year is presenting?

I feel like a lot of people really are, like Andy said, just kind of coming around to like, oh, this thing is really going to happen.

You know, and I feel like that sort of to a degree too, like, oh, man, this thing is, going to happen, you know, and I feel like that sort of to

a degree too, like, oh, man, this thing is, you know, it's in a couple weeks. Like, this is, this is,

and it feels so weird, right? Because like Andy said, other sports are mixing in when they're

really not supposed to. There's no preseason games. Like, we're not getting all excited about you know an eight yard

darwin thompson run or something like that your internal clock is all off you know usually the

text i'm getting in you know mid july or something i'm starting to get now so i think it's

it's going to be much like how the nfl has had to sort of ram this thing through in terms of

...