Opi & the Bear

It's a short staff so we're also shortening up the name sonothing is as long as it used to be! We go through the normal Boom, Bust, Sleepers and of course our NFL picks of the week. Bear explains why Opi & AJ are missing for the week and then we just talk fantasy football. We go over RBs and whether or not they are going to stay in the top 10, get to the top 10, or in some cases, be out of the top 20. We also chat about some possible free agents to pick up in our league and maybe they're available in yours! This one is short, for us, and pretty light hearted so we hope you don't listen just for the soothing sounds of Opi's voice!

YouTube Link: OatB Ep 196 - WK 2 - Short but not Sweet

We changed our format and started this with Opi on his soapbox, then hit the boom, bust, sleeper, and NFL so then we can just talk fantasy football and get less structured.  TheBears were a topic for us a couple times and we go over all groups favorite teams with the Seahawks & Steelers. We do a round table discussion and Bear nicknames all the guys with a "Sir" in front, it was off the cuff so interesting discussion. We have a GREAT clip on YouTube from our golf trip with our buddy, Mike Pannell, the golfing pirate chasing down a plastic bag half-naked!! We're telling you, if you've never watched one on YouTube before, go out this time and you can skip to the 41:38 mark and have yourself a giggle!

YouTube Link: Opi & the Bear Episode 195   Week  1 We changed our format!

This one is long, and we're trying to cut things down but we go over both leagues draft and if you aren't part of the league, no worries because we really spend a lot of time just talking about how we like a lot of these players and how we feel they'll do this year. We also bring back the boom, bust and sleeper players and some NFL picks but we skip the FBFL teams picks. There's a lot of back and forth in this one with the guys really digging into teams with both shitting on and compliments. It's a fun one if you have the patience and we will be trying to hit the 1 hour mark in the future podcasts. And in our first installment of LB highlights at the end, we have a nice Luke Kuechly montage for everyone to view on YouTube!

YouTube Link: Opi & the Bear Episode 195 Post Draft Drama

We do a live draft and talk shit to each other as we make our picks. You get to view the actual draft online and listen to us yell at each other as we snipe each other. Kayla comes in late and takes the podcast over with her 12 kids and odd picks. It gets a little loud in a couple spots because of those psychos, sorry about that. Bear pisses podcase friend Kipp off and he not only bails on the podcast but on the draft and goes to auto pick. The league ends up pretty competitive at the end with everyone having stacked teams because it's an 8-manleague. Adara pops in on Opi's phone but we sadly had to cut most of it because her sound never came through.

YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/i0FXVQjbbTU

Football - football - football!! That's what we talk about!! We go over the predictions for the Brewery division and speed through the ones for the podcast guys because it's pretty much set in stone and they divulge on here who they're keeping and why. We talk a lot about players in general and their value again. Bear proposes a new pool and it gets poo-pooled quickly. Opi is in the house this time and we're all sporting our team shirts that he purchased from some poor 10 year old's in a 3rd world country.

YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/zV8QdqeJ-70

We continue the Distillery player protection predictions and this one has an interruption from friend of the podcast and Bear's least favorite daughter, Kayla and granddaughter Kinsley as Kayla tells us a story about her kids having some shart issues and pooping on the kids toilet out by the pool, it's an intriguing story and discussion. Bear also complains a little about the cost of the NFL ticket that automatically got tacked on again this year. We day "ado" to a long-time FBFL owner who decided to hang up his cleats in favor of his kids and hockey sticks. Then, as we try to fire it back up, poorGreg, Kayla's husband, has the poop bag break on him live on our podcast!

YouTube Link: Opi & the Bear Episode 192 - Protection Prediction Time!! Distillery is 1st Part 2

Smelling salts are now illegal, Shedeur is moving up the depth chart quickly, Cleveland QB room, some injury and contract dispute discussions, and then after all that chat, we hammer the Distillery Conference Protection Predictions and this is the first half of the discussion with the 2nd half coming out next week. This prediction is about certain teams but realistically, we spend a lot of time discussing player value, round they should go, and other intricacies of fantasy drafting.

YouTube Link: Opi & the Bear Episode 191  Protection Prediction Time!! Distillery is 1st Part 1

FBFL chat going over dates and decisions along with bringing back the League of Trash which is the Opi & the Bear league. If you want in, let us know and we'll put you in! Bear chats about his 6th fantasy pay league he joined. Then we chat about how the FBFL is going to hand Travis Hunter. We finish with a chat about how we're going to do the regular season format and making changes to the podcast and call it a day. If it starts funny, yeah, it was a continuation from episode 189.

YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/BPJQ5kh1Ghg

Hi…we are still alive!! We come back very loosie goosy and just have a good time. We talk a little MLB, golf, NFL, and our rotisserie draft. Bear goes off on gutless Jed (Hoyer) while Opi gives praises to the White Sox and their moves. We spend some time giving Grim and his Steeler fans shit about Rodgers but have a fun time with it, nothing gregarious. Then we chat about the Bears and the hope that most of us no longer have. Opi likes the Seahawks defense this year but is questioning the offense. And we get going on some very fun rotisserie talk about our draft and how much players cost, who paid too much for young talent.

YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/7pHQpkU0IL0

The 2nd part of episode 187 and it's a little different but very light hearted and was a lot of fun. We spend most of the time talking turkey, literally, as we go into a big section speaking of the local cuisine here in the QC and what we like and don't like. It transcends into us putting the pictures of the food from the restaurants on the screen and chatting about them at length. Maybe it's not your cup of tea, maybe it is, but changing up a little and getting away from the world of sports was a nice change of pace for the team.

 YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/uOUJtdmUMUw