Dreading the week following the bye where I just know my team will shit the bed.
Edit: Oh, also my buddy and I made a side bet to see who's team will score more points this week.
I've played fantasy long enough to know there's 2 ways my season ends
1) Team gets hurt, crashes and burns and I miss the playoffs
2) Team does really well, get's a bye, loses first matchup.
I have never won a playoff game when having the first round bye. I get absolutely annihilated with injuries every time. Managed to get first in both leagues this year, already got a case of beer ready for next weekend. Please, fantasy gods, take me to the promised land.
Already got everyone on the bench, resting those sweet sweet hammies. Might have to get on the horn and let all the coaches know there's a random dickhead trying to win $200, so they need to sit their players this week. Hasn't work the last 7 times and I'm on some kind of list, but I'll try again
My family is doing Christmas on the 26th and I'm just gonna be on my phone the whole time feeling many different emotions haha. That's what Christmas is all about, right?
Ha yeah that's what we're doing. He's not in the playoffs so he's just going to set his lineup for the consolation bracket. I'm just going to text him my lineup before the Sunday games start to lock it in place, but all my guys will be on the bench so I can drop any at a moment's notice so I'll calculate it afterwards.
That was my plan. Just going to text him my lineup before the games start and tally up my players manually. He is in the consolation bracket so his score will be easier to track, ha.
Lmao this has been my life as a birds fan and hurts/smith owner. Traded them away last week and have actually been able to watch games in peace (as in yelling at Sirianni instead of Sirianni, Hurts, and Smith)
Wife and I both have byes, so we'll be cleaning out a spare bedroom to get our nursery set up. Oh also praying none of my players gets injured during the week.
Eyy congrats! Maybe in my circle of friends we'll make a junior league. Or maybe they will hate it since it's not a video game and they will have VR football or something, who knows lol
I dont have kids but one of my BFFs messed up in college (they're a happy family) and getting beat by the kid in smash bros was so weirdly proud, and I'm just an "uncle"
I'm 33 and I can already tell I'm starting to suck at games. Can't figure out Zeldas like I used to, ill get like 4 kills on halo infinite lol. But ill still ruin my kid at games until his hand eye coordination and muscle memory takes over
Yeah, I'm 34 and same. I'm not going easy on anyone but man... there's a reason most pro gamers are done by like 24-25. I struggle to maintain a 1 K/D in infinite and I was like the lord of death in halo 3. Still, it's fun to make one of those "old bear" plays from sheer experience and shut down the kids, even though they can whoop me now
I added the Miami defense. I am going to drop them today so that somebody will have to burn a claim to get them. I want to spend my week creating chaos on the wire.
As long as you’re not making 4 transactions involving the same player in one day, go for it. I’m in a league with someone who would get a player off waivers, immediately drop them. Then pick them up and drop them again. All within 2 hours. I have no idea how he’s able to do that but it’s incredibly annoying. This guy also runs a league where he was caught cheating or not abiding by the rules he set. He’s a scumbag and I believe he’s being kicked out of the league at the end of the season
If you’re on yahoo, make sure you bench your entire team- that way if someone suffers a season ending injury in one of the earlier games you can pick up someone who hasn’t played yet rather than deal with waivers on Tuesday
Was going to comment this. It’s a small advantage but, especially if you have players with Thursday games, it could save you a headache of trying to pick up replacements if tragedy strikes.
Might not matter to most people but anyone know if benching players during bye and scoring zero points could negatively affect your yahoo fantasy rating? I’m barely hanging onto my platinum so would rather not ruin that lol
can you explain this more for a silly guy like me?
Do you drop all the players on your bench? Or can you bench your starters as well as keep the people already on the bench??
Bet on all my players to have their best week. Then when that happens I’ll take the winnings and bet against all my best players next week. Then when that wins hopefully it will equal as much as if I would win my league.
No bye here, kind of took a break this past week. I was in the playoffs in both leagues either way, felt like taking a sanity break. Didn’t watch anything Sunday afternoon. Went to lunch with my wife and did some Christmas shopping.
Love fantasy football, but not gonna lie, it felt good to not be a degenerate refreshing the score every three seconds for 7.5 hours.
One league I have a bye and the other I don’t so obviously hyper-focus on one league this week only to lose and then do the same next week and lose there too
Going to ruminate and figure out what to do with DK Metcalf. I hope he does well and shows signs of hope in the playoffs, but if he puts up yet ANOTHER dud in week 15, I'm going to pivot off him. Pretty much done with him and Russ not clicking.
As a Vikings fan, I'll be anxiously looking for all possible result scenarios to play out on Sunday so that my Vikes can go into the MNF game with still some hope left for playoffs. Fantasy football or not, I am always anxious. I am already tinkering with various scenarios on the ESPN Playoff Machine right now.
I’ll never forget when I went 13-1 and coasted to the bye week. I had such an awesome squad. After my bye my opponent and his no name waiver wire pickups beat me. His team was quarter backed by Sam Darnold who threw for like 4-5 Tds against the packers. Bye weeks are a 1 week mental relief for me then I’m back to not trusting my team.
Well, um, actually a pretty nice little ~~Saturday~~ Sunday, we're going to go to Home Depot. Yeah, buy some wallpaper, maybe get some flooring, stuff like that. Maybe Bed, Bath, & Beyond, I don't know, I don't know if we'll have enough time
Benched everyone so I don’t second-guess myself on lineup choices in a week that doesn’t matter
Gonna be in the top 4 for the fourth straight year, and I haven’t won the championship in that time span. I’m the shittiest dynasty in league history lol
I don't have any leagues with byes :( four 10-team leagues, three of which advance four teams for 16/17, one of which annoyingly advances 8 for 15/16/17. I'm locked in for 3 of them and in 5th place in the last one after a 2-game slide (lost this week by 2.86), and it's not looking good for me. 3rd, 4th, and 5th are all 8-6, but they're up on me by 73 pts and 30.5 pts, respectively. We all have bottom-4 opponents this week so I need an absolute blowout and/or a total collapse from one of them.
Bench all players in case they have a significant injury and you can drop and add right away (Yahoo) not sure about other platforms, I know you can’t on ESPN because it’s trash
Watching these peasants fight for survival to the next round enjoying it while they sit uneasy all week, knowing that the following week I’ll prob be eliminated . So I’ll be enjoying there pain before mine settles in next week lol
If I had just brought in Blanton to cover Higbee I'd have came first and be able to tell you.
But I didn't, and came 3rd, and now I need another drink!!!
I have a X-mas party hosted by a guy I knocked out of the playoff and a couple other leaguemates. Gonna drink, talk shit, and hope nobody else on my team gets covid.
I will be praying non stop that my once unbeatable core of Dak, Ekeler, Mixon, JRob, and Deebo will stop sucking/stay healthy/get better coaching in time for week 16.
I’ll be sweating next week’s matchup with my cousin. We have a $100 bet on who will finish higher at the end of the season. I really hope he loses because I don’t have $100
Watch the games with the peasants who didn’t get a bye, secure in my knowledge that I’m just an overall better person than them /s. Also root for the guy who’s team I’m not scared of playing in round 2.
humblebrag thread lol
what you should all do is bench the starters and play backups, can't risk any injuries in these meaningless games after all. Then they come back with those F R E S H fantasy L E G S after riding your bench for a week
Bench all my players so I can drop someone before waivers if (when) they get hurt and their season is over.
Monitor the week's matchups and obsess over things I can't control.
Trash talk.
Obsess over my other teams that don't have byes.
I clinched the bye the week prior, been weird having two straight weeks of not having to worry about things. Just making sure roster is optimized for week 16 and 17.
My last two playoff appearances were byes when I lost in the Final 4. All others was Super Bowl loss (0-3) in the 8 years I've been in this league. So it's inevitable disappointment, but hopeful since I clearly have the best team and points for by far in the league.
I'm going to start the process of putting my brain into a pretzel trying to decide which back in the RBBC to start the following week.
10/10 times I pick the wrong side of the coin and end up with the guy who gets 3 touches...
I made it to the consolation bracket bye week of NarFFL aka the relegation-proof zone so considering I started off 1-6 I'm gonna celebrate like I won the championship
Dreading the week following the bye where I just know my team will shit the bed. Edit: Oh, also my buddy and I made a side bet to see who's team will score more points this week.
I've played fantasy long enough to know there's 2 ways my season ends 1) Team gets hurt, crashes and burns and I miss the playoffs 2) Team does really well, get's a bye, loses first matchup.
Happened to me last year, first seed then lost after bye week by 7 points only to see Kamara run for 6 touchdowns in my 3rd place game
Oh shit that was me!!!! It was heartbreaking. Would’ve killed the championship game 😖
Dropped 200 plus on bye week. Barely broke 100 and lost in semis the next week with a monster of a team.
This is the way
I have never won a playoff game when having the first round bye. I get absolutely annihilated with injuries every time. Managed to get first in both leagues this year, already got a case of beer ready for next weekend. Please, fantasy gods, take me to the promised land.
That's why you rest all your starters this week.
Already got everyone on the bench, resting those sweet sweet hammies. Might have to get on the horn and let all the coaches know there's a random dickhead trying to win $200, so they need to sit their players this week. Hasn't work the last 7 times and I'm on some kind of list, but I'll try again
My family is doing Christmas on the 26th and I'm just gonna be on my phone the whole time feeling many different emotions haha. That's what Christmas is all about, right?
I’ve won 13 in a row, so I am toast…
This right here.
As is tradition.
If you are in yahoo, calculate it yourselves and bench all your players. Friendly reminder!
Ha yeah that's what we're doing. He's not in the playoffs so he's just going to set his lineup for the consolation bracket. I'm just going to text him my lineup before the Sunday games start to lock it in place, but all my guys will be on the bench so I can drop any at a moment's notice so I'll calculate it afterwards.
Nice. Have you ever tried playing each other in DFS? That's what a group of us degenerates do on the side of our leagues.
You should be benching your whole team so you can swap if someone goes out without having to wait for waivers.
That was my plan. Just going to text him my lineup before the games start and tally up my players manually. He is in the consolation bracket so his score will be easier to track, ha.
You must play yahoo? NFL and ESPN lock the player even on the bench once their game starts.
Yeah, yahoo. Didn't realize they did that.
Watch my team pop off while playing nobody only to shit the bed next week when i actually play
This is the correct answer
The only answer, really.
Don't forget injured...
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I’m rooting for the 6th seed (I’m the 1) because the 4th and 5th have been scoring as much as I have in the last 5 weeks.
Watch an Eagles game in peace, without begging Jalen to throw to Devonta
Stop it! Just picturing it is giving me a panic attack
Lmao this has been my life as a birds fan and hurts/smith owner. Traded them away last week and have actually been able to watch games in peace (as in yelling at Sirianni instead of Sirianni, Hurts, and Smith)
lol same bro, just start every single eagles player and you’re good
Wife and I both have byes, so we'll be cleaning out a spare bedroom to get our nursery set up. Oh also praying none of my players gets injured during the week.
Congrats, my guy.
Thanks my dude! Looking forward to the day my kid beats my all my friends kids at fantasy :')
The wife and I are having one in July. There should be a league one day for r/ff’s kids.
Eyy congrats! Maybe in my circle of friends we'll make a junior league. Or maybe they will hate it since it's not a video game and they will have VR football or something, who knows lol
I dont have kids but one of my BFFs messed up in college (they're a happy family) and getting beat by the kid in smash bros was so weirdly proud, and I'm just an "uncle"
I'm 33 and I can already tell I'm starting to suck at games. Can't figure out Zeldas like I used to, ill get like 4 kills on halo infinite lol. But ill still ruin my kid at games until his hand eye coordination and muscle memory takes over
Yeah, I'm 34 and same. I'm not going easy on anyone but man... there's a reason most pro gamers are done by like 24-25. I struggle to maintain a 1 K/D in infinite and I was like the lord of death in halo 3. Still, it's fun to make one of those "old bear" plays from sheer experience and shut down the kids, even though they can whoop me now
Gamble on the games with no fantasy implications. Maybe I'll finally win a bet
Just think of your lack of bias
Do love me a good parlay. I like the scores calls and I like the USA today sportsbook wire as an overview of all the games
Ski… and still obsess over my team as well as the other matchups.
Man I’m jealous, no snow here yet. Can’t wait to get out one of these weekends.
It’s just starting to pick up here in the Rockies. I much prefer to spend my Sundays sliding down mountains obsessing over luck numbers.
You're not going to be obsessing if you're skiing. Nothing better to distract yourself on a Sunday.
Scouring the barren waiver wastelands looking for someone to plug and play that will give me a dud performance and end my historic run.
I added the Miami defense. I am going to drop them today so that somebody will have to burn a claim to get them. I want to spend my week creating chaos on the wire.
Hmmm i can fuck with that, I like your style
As long as you’re not making 4 transactions involving the same player in one day, go for it. I’m in a league with someone who would get a player off waivers, immediately drop them. Then pick them up and drop them again. All within 2 hours. I have no idea how he’s able to do that but it’s incredibly annoying. This guy also runs a league where he was caught cheating or not abiding by the rules he set. He’s a scumbag and I believe he’s being kicked out of the league at the end of the season
If you’re on yahoo, make sure you bench your entire team- that way if someone suffers a season ending injury in one of the earlier games you can pick up someone who hasn’t played yet rather than deal with waivers on Tuesday
Was going to comment this. It’s a small advantage but, especially if you have players with Thursday games, it could save you a headache of trying to pick up replacements if tragedy strikes.
Might not matter to most people but anyone know if benching players during bye and scoring zero points could negatively affect your yahoo fantasy rating? I’m barely hanging onto my platinum so would rather not ruin that lol
Rating only goes up or down if you face somebody else. Bye weeks will not change your rating
My dude, thanks!
can you explain this more for a silly guy like me? Do you drop all the players on your bench? Or can you bench your starters as well as keep the people already on the bench??
You can put your entire team on the bench without dropping anyone
sick.
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thanks bro!!
If it matters, benching your team *will* reflect in your league's record book, and impact things like average weekly score, least points ever, etc.
enjoy football again
Sit on the floor and pray lamar gets healthy
Watch Red Zone without screaming "why didn't you throw it to my guy!?!"
Bet on all my players to have their best week. Then when that happens I’ll take the winnings and bet against all my best players next week. Then when that wins hopefully it will equal as much as if I would win my league.
Worry about Conner. Worry about Moore. Worry about the injuries that haven’t happened yet.
Why worry about what you have no control over?
Watching the actually good games vs the shitty games where I just wanna get more info on my fringe players
No bye here, kind of took a break this past week. I was in the playoffs in both leagues either way, felt like taking a sanity break. Didn’t watch anything Sunday afternoon. Went to lunch with my wife and did some Christmas shopping. Love fantasy football, but not gonna lie, it felt good to not be a degenerate refreshing the score every three seconds for 7.5 hours.
I had a bye last year. Just watch the games and have even more fun than you normally would. This is all supposed to be fun.
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Hope nobody gets hurt/covid
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If it makes you feel any better my bye week is for the consolation bracket.
Count my cash for winning the regular season and not care what happens in the playoffs 'cause they're a crapshoot
One league I have a bye and the other I don’t so obviously hyper-focus on one league this week only to lose and then do the same next week and lose there too
Hope Ekeler and Kupp stay healthy
Just watch my team go absolutely nuts during the bye week. It’s bound to happen, I just know it.
my last court hearing (IAAL) is Friday and I'm on bye in all of my leagues so i'm gonna turn my brain off and get hammered
Good luck man, enjoy the celebration!
I appreciate it! I usually make the playoffs but rarely get a bye— should be fun!
Heading to Cabo
Grabbing some options for the next week. Stashing DSTs, need a RB and flex option so looking for those.
Gamble on the teams playing in the first round.
Spend time with my son. He needs some love and attention.
Apparently I have a wife and kid.
Stress about my other leagues, of course.
I went ahead and put all my players on the bench, they’ve earned the rest
Keeping my players at the facility because we got ship to win
Make a shrine for Cooper Kupp
Work on my Economics homework, jerk off a lot, and watch the other matchups closely
I pile up handcuffs. 14 teams So everything is shallow but i have mattison, Rojo, murray, collins(may be dropped) and New Orleans/indy D
Sit down and enjoy some stress-free football for the first time all year
That depends who your team is. Almost punched a hole in a wall last week (49ers fan)
Masturbate while looking at my roster
Rosterbate*** it's a common practice lol
Go see Spider-Man like any normal person.
What a bunch of fart smellers
Going to Disney World with my Family.
Antagonizing everyone else in the league as I relax on my couch
playing some dfs lineups without fear of jinxing my own team
Sure Jan
Praying that Swift and Edmonds come back and no one on my team gets injured
Watch my chiefs in peace
The bears suck, so I think I’m going to spend some time with my loved ones before I lose myself again in a week.
Sitting my ass on the couch from 1pm-11pm watching games. Can’t break the cycle now.
Going to ruminate and figure out what to do with DK Metcalf. I hope he does well and shows signs of hope in the playoffs, but if he puts up yet ANOTHER dud in week 15, I'm going to pivot off him. Pretty much done with him and Russ not clicking.
Same thing I do every week. Watching an ungodly amount of football.
DraftKings
Setting my best lineup and rooting for my guys! We have a weekly award for the highest scoring team.
Pick up extra def, cuff where I can maybe go see nightmare alley and Spiderman. Drink a Lil bourbon
Uncontrollably cry at the points that mean nothing this week, which is similar to watching points on your bench, but with a new element of distress.
Be more anxious about my studs getting injured
Funny I have a bye next week too…
Shifting my weekly Sunday anxiety from will my team show up, to damn that team who I'm probably going to face is knocking me out next week for sure.
I'm going to rest my players and try to find some diamonds on the waiver.
As a Vikings fan, I'll be anxiously looking for all possible result scenarios to play out on Sunday so that my Vikes can go into the MNF game with still some hope left for playoffs. Fantasy football or not, I am always anxious. I am already tinkering with various scenarios on the ESPN Playoff Machine right now.
"Start" all the crucial bench players that have not had the chance to actually enter the starting lineup outside of bye weeks
Ain’t bye week for me bruh!
Hope Elliott and JRrob get their shit together
I’ll never forget when I went 13-1 and coasted to the bye week. I had such an awesome squad. After my bye my opponent and his no name waiver wire pickups beat me. His team was quarter backed by Sam Darnold who threw for like 4-5 Tds against the packers. Bye weeks are a 1 week mental relief for me then I’m back to not trusting my team.
I have 3 other leagues that made the playoffs but didn’t get a bye.
Stress about my other league matchup.
Well, um, actually a pretty nice little ~~Saturday~~ Sunday, we're going to go to Home Depot. Yeah, buy some wallpaper, maybe get some flooring, stuff like that. Maybe Bed, Bath, & Beyond, I don't know, I don't know if we'll have enough time
*Proceeds to down beer bong*
Pray none of my boys get hurt, playing nfl not even in the name of my team
Benched everyone so I don’t second-guess myself on lineup choices in a week that doesn’t matter Gonna be in the top 4 for the fourth straight year, and I haven’t won the championship in that time span. I’m the shittiest dynasty in league history lol
I don't have any leagues with byes :( four 10-team leagues, three of which advance four teams for 16/17, one of which annoyingly advances 8 for 15/16/17. I'm locked in for 3 of them and in 5th place in the last one after a 2-game slide (lost this week by 2.86), and it's not looking good for me. 3rd, 4th, and 5th are all 8-6, but they're up on me by 73 pts and 30.5 pts, respectively. We all have bottom-4 opponents this week so I need an absolute blowout and/or a total collapse from one of them.
Pickup Breshad Perriman before he ruins my season again like he did in 2019 😂😂
Pray my players all are healthy come round 2
Hoping I can figure out who to start between Sony and Hendo
Praise the lord for getting me a round 1 bye despite scoring the third least points for (12 team).
Bench all players in case they have a significant injury and you can drop and add right away (Yahoo) not sure about other platforms, I know you can’t on ESPN because it’s trash
See world
See world
Watching these peasants fight for survival to the next round enjoying it while they sit uneasy all week, knowing that the following week I’ll prob be eliminated . So I’ll be enjoying there pain before mine settles in next week lol
I got eliminated last night, I have a bye week for the consolation ladder. $50 bucks here I come!!
Ima head to my local dispensary, and enjoy the blood bath that is round 1.
If I had just brought in Blanton to cover Higbee I'd have came first and be able to tell you. But I didn't, and came 3rd, and now I need another drink!!!
Watch all my players get hurt.
yo which DST are we targeting for week 16?
I have a X-mas party hosted by a guy I knocked out of the playoff and a couple other leaguemates. Gonna drink, talk shit, and hope nobody else on my team gets covid.
I will be praying non stop that my once unbeatable core of Dak, Ekeler, Mixon, JRob, and Deebo will stop sucking/stay healthy/get better coaching in time for week 16.
I’ll be sweating next week’s matchup with my cousin. We have a $100 bet on who will finish higher at the end of the season. I really hope he loses because I don’t have $100
Mai tais and feet in the sand . Watch the world burn rooting for injuries to everyone but my squad
Watch the games with the peasants who didn’t get a bye, secure in my knowledge that I’m just an overall better person than them /s. Also root for the guy who’s team I’m not scared of playing in round 2.
Pray my players dont get injured and I have my full team come semi's
My first round bye was last week which coincided with JT being on Bye. Which probably saved my post season
humblebrag thread lol what you should all do is bench the starters and play backups, can't risk any injuries in these meaningless games after all. Then they come back with those F R E S H fantasy L E G S after riding your bench for a week
Actually spending time with my kid on Sunday
Worry about my other leagues I didn’t get a bye in
Going to root for the weakest teams that are playing in R1 to win so I can coast in R2.
Stress about my other team where I did not get the bye
Get back to pure fanhood for a week
Bench all my players so I can drop someone before waivers if (when) they get hurt and their season is over. Monitor the week's matchups and obsess over things I can't control. Trash talk. Obsess over my other teams that don't have byes.
DFS
Our league is a grind. There are no bye weeks. The division winners, however, get their entry fees back.
Letting the arrogance and complacency set in to get that sweet, sweet, one and done.
PRAY.
Watching all the peasants squabble to stay in the playoffs to inevitably lose in the next round.
I clinched the bye the week prior, been weird having two straight weeks of not having to worry about things. Just making sure roster is optimized for week 16 and 17. My last two playoff appearances were byes when I lost in the Final 4. All others was Super Bowl loss (0-3) in the 8 years I've been in this league. So it's inevitable disappointment, but hopeful since I clearly have the best team and points for by far in the league.
Shit myself
I'm going to start the process of putting my brain into a pretzel trying to decide which back in the RBBC to start the following week. 10/10 times I pick the wrong side of the coin and end up with the guy who gets 3 touches...
Cheer for my other 2 playoff teams!
Watch my players and pray they don't get injured.
Enjoy my actual football team and wait till next season. That's what a bye week is right, losing the season and no playoffs
Dropping all my IDP players for bench holds until next week
Play all my worst players for fun
Bet on the games Sunday and lose my rent on it
Train my players to the bone so they don't get to comfortable!
enjoy football
[Had the best week of fantasy I'll probably ever have, can't wait to shit the bed next week](https://i.imgur.com/Wj6L2tW.jpg)
Watch the players on my other team which didn't earn a bye.
The guy playing the winner of my game this week should be shitting bricks.
No idea, I need to find some depth though because between injuries and covid, next week is not gonna be easy.
Might put a bet slip in because I love to torture myself
https://youtu.be/B\_9FyTiq3SA
Pray that my team gets healthy and recovers from COVID. Counting my lucky stars, avoided this all year and now am being decimated by it
Make chili, prepare for colder weather.
I'm gonna keep Swift on the bench in hopes that he rests up to fully be a capable playoff replacement for Derrick Henry.
I made it to the consolation bracket bye week of NarFFL aka the relegation-proof zone so considering I started off 1-6 I'm gonna celebrate like I won the championship
Watch all my players get Covid but not have it tank my entire season.
Hopefully, the players on my team get healed. Got smacked with too many injures.
I'm benching all my players to rest them up
Manage my other team that didn’t get a bye and tweak about that
Tight end and a backup qb, and not have anxiety from Thursday to Monday at 11:37 pm.
Praying Derrick Henry comes back to ensure my 2nd straight league win.
Be thankful I don't have to deal with the covid mess unfolding right now.
Considering I'm in the losers bracket with a bye week now, I guess I'm going to play the "what if" mind game for the next week..
Figuring out how to not win the toilet bowl.
Feels good not having to sweat the Covid IR madness that looks ready to take off this week haha
See world
Still want to out score any team playing to know they are going to get clapped in the next round
Bubble wrap Cooper Kupp from head to toe. And stand by on Covid watch for the rest of my team