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Fantasy Focus Football

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🗓️ 2 October 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

This week on Facts vs Feelings, Liz Loza unpacks the conviction and delusion managers may have had about their fantasy players. Then it's time for Fantasy Therapy, where she puts your toughest roster anxieties on the couch. CBS Sports Senior Fantasy Writer Jamey Eisenberg drops by for a rapid-fire round of Start/Bench/Cut and shares his best advice for managers trying to turn their season around. 0:00 - 👋 Welcome 2:09 - 🤔 Players We Were Convicted or Delusional About 8:10 - 🛋️ Fantasy Therapy 13:54 - 🎤 Jamey Eisenberg Joins! 15:52 - 📋 Start/Bench/Cut with Liz & Jamey 19:40 - 🎯 Liz & Jamey's Leaguemates to Crush! 25:38 - 🥶 Advice For Managers with a Losing Record 31:54 - 🍻 Last Call 33:01 - 🤦‍♀️ Bloopers! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Liz Loza, and this is Facts versus Feelings.
0:03.1	You're a moog-bouche to your fantasy-focused main course.
0:06.5	We're bringing more fantasy, more facts, more feelings, and of course, more fun.
0:11.4	And now that I have your attention, today's feeling, is that space between conviction and delusion.
0:21.3	Hi, producer, Presley. Hi, producer Presley.
0:23.7	Hi, Liz.
0:24.5	Week 5.
0:25.4	We made it.
0:27.0	It's only week 5.
0:28.3	What do you mean we made it?
0:30.6	It's October 1st as of today.
0:32.8	We're best month of the year, by the way, October.
0:36.0	We've got playoff baseball. It's my birthday month.
0:39.7	We also have enough actionable fantasy data to make some really clear choices. What's not to love?
0:47.0	I agree. And congratulations, Chicago Cubs. I know. I see that you're wearing your Chicago Cubs hat.
0:52.6	Even though it's backwards, I know that that's your Cubs hat.
0:55.1	Yeah, it is. It is. We won't tell everybody what we got up to in Chicago, but it was a great time. I'm now officially a Cubs fan. Also, shout out to my Dodgers, who almost, my other team, who almost gave it away in the eighth inning, but managed to beat the Reds handily. I am really, really, I just want to put this out here.
1:12.3	I am really, really, I just want to put this out here.
1:12.2	I am really wanting to manifest a Cubs Dodgers NLCS.
1:18.0	Let's make that happen.
1:19.1	And then, you know, my bank account will be emptied because I will be at one of those games.
1:23.3	Well, you know, we are not a baseball podcast here.
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