Hey, everyone. Welcome to a good football show. I am Matt Strapp. We are sitting down to record this on Thursday, February 3rd, a little more than a week to go until the Super Bowl. And today we'll be hitting some recent fantasy relevant headlines and doing a brief preview of the Super Bowl.

This bangles Rams match up to do that. I'm joined by Pat Dirty, Danny Carter and Kyle Davorchick. Guys at the top here, I just want to check in on ongoing situation. Have we figured out what to do with our free time now that the season is close to over Pat? I'll start with you. Have you officially reintroduced yourself to your family yet? I know you leave for the season. You kind of say a tearful goodbye. And then you're gone. Where are we now? I haven't really had the free time yet. I'm working on two articles to publish after the Super Bowl. And also

I had not publicly mentioned this yet, but 10 days of my life were stolen by Danny Carter when he gave me Omicron through the screen. And I did have the Omicron variant. And I mean, thankfully no one of my family got it, but the fact that no one else got it. I had to keep quarantining for a long time. And so I was in the basement for a good long while. And yes, I had the Omicron. I'm just working all the time. Actually, I'm working a lot still. You know, I haven't had the free time yet.

I'm looking forward to one day experiencing that though. So the kids have forgotten what daddy looks like. Basically is what you're saying. They didn't know, sat down. And they know me only as a man who's only activity became watching the Australian open.

And it was a tough thing. Does the Australian open last for two months or was it a fortnight, Danny? Two weeks, two weeks. It's two weeks. Yep. And it's on. I thought it started. I thought it started around things. You stay up later than 9 p.m. Like I do. And you don't. Then you become very familiar.

With the rhythms of the Australian open. So the people's major. I hate that I'm in the same boat as you, Pat, that like I've already started a lot of stuff. I have actually I have 12 articles in the bank already for, because I

I want to be in series for us from what I hear. Yeah. Yeah. I will be previewing every team very close to by the time the next show comes out. We'll be about a week away from it. But so I like 12 in the bank already, because I've so much work to get caught up on. And I just keep delaying the part where I see my family.

Again, just keep pushing it back and back. Like, you know, the NFL seasons winding down. Actually, I saw a lot of work do even though it's week 18. Okay. Well, the season's about to be over. Okay. Well, I've got some prep to do. And then it'll be the draft. But I'm thinking in 2028 is when I'll actually get to hang out with my girlfriend.

I have filled my time with while doing adjust the ranks segments. Of course. And also grinding PGA DFS lineups and making myself absolutely miserable doing it.

And you also convalesced from the good old coronavirus yourself.

I did. We both had COVID at the same time. We we arranged it. You know, so that so that we were both, you know, infected with Omicron and the same 10 day spam.

And so we can test negative then it's Super Bowl media week where we are attending next week. That's right. There was can. I was maybe the only upside of the entire experience. I was fine, by the way.

Danny, I heard you also briefly were dabbling in NBA DFS. Has that ship sailed? Are we still going hard at it?

You were asking about Phoenix Suns backup centers not long ago. I was. I was very interested in who was going to play center for the Suns as of two weeks ago.

I am no longer interested in that. And okay. I think I think I'm over that. You know, I tested it. I you know, just wanted to see what it was like.

It was not it was not good. Here's the thing. It's the worst. It's awful. It's terrible.

You you you have to have you have to be connected to your machine, whatever it is, your laptop, your phone. Yeah.

Every second of every day in order to understand. Well, to be fair, that sounds. What does that change for you to be fair? Like, no, but I mean, there's a difference between grinding NBA lineups and you scrolling, you know, which is nice thing.

It feels like having also still playing NBA DFS. It feels like the same thing. You just play showdown. Showdown NBA is pretty good. And you get to show up once, wait till the starting lineups come out, show up once, and that's it, because yeah, once once we're out out of football, I still can't imagine. Like, of course, I'll be wanting to sweat. I always like to sweat, right?

But I just can't possibly imagine even as someone who like you is pretty every second logged on. That's not a type of logged on. I want to be just like scrolling for lineups and like minutes projections and stuff is vile.

Oh, it's over. And yeah, no, no, you're right. Showdown can be fun. I actually played. I, of course, I just said I did. I'm not playing. I am playing. I did play last night. The showdown between the nets. That's in the sun.

Well, that changed quit. Your tune changed very quickly there. Well, yeah, I mean, sure, I was playing yesterday.

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