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Ben Gretch and Shawn Siegele discuss 4 Quarters Drafting and explore the immediate implications for high-leverage rounds. Listen in and implement these tactics in your best ball and redraft leagues in 2025! 

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Michael Leone joins Colm Kelly to reveal what caught his attention the most from his fantasy football projections for 2025. From top players set to smash, busts to avoid, and draft strategy conversation. Which quarterbacks, running backs, and wide receivers are set to exceed expectations, and who will fall short? 

Timestamps

0:00 Intro

2:00 A player will crush ADP based on Mike's projections

5:00 Projections vs range of outcomes

8:00 Who is the team that stood out or surprised Mike as a buying/drafting opportunity that the consensus is wrongly projecting

11:00 A off-season mover that is about to see a vastly improved opportunity in 2025? 

14:00 A player who can't be a successful pick at ADP 

16:00 The positive and negative outcomes for the 2025 QB Carousel! 

26:00 How to decipher the unsettled QB rooms?

29:00 Outro

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RotoViz Radio Executive Producer Colm Kelly (@OvertimeIreland)

Director of Analytics EstablishtheRun Michael Leone (@2Hats1Mike)

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Colm Kelly (RotoViz Radio) and host Thomas Emerick revisit the instant classic that kicked off the 2018 NFL season: Bears at Packers on Sunday Night Football. Jordan Howard sees five targets. Aaron Rodgers gets carted off. Khalil Mack marauds through the Packers backfield in his Bears debut. Rodgers returns as the Packers rally.

Though this is one story of Bears disappointment against Green Bay that carries a silver lining: Chicago actually won the NFC North that year! One of the great all-time Week 1 results that contradict how the season went down for both teams.

This is Colm Kelly's third appearance on Remember That Game to talk about the Packers during the Rodgers-McCarthy partnership. Enjoy the show and check out more episodes.

Episode threads from Green Bay Packers 24, Chicago Bears 23 in Week 1 of 2018:

• Randall Cobb’s unforgettable catch-and-run
• Geronimo Allison being a legendary receiver name
• Mitchell Trubisky's low-key strong fantasy season
• Nick Perry putting the game away by sacking Trubisky
• Fantasy triumphs and misfires from the 2018 season
• Great RotoViz tools for looking back at that season
• Jaire Alexander's debut
• Mike McCarthy or Matt LaFleur coaching the All-Century Team?
• Absurd highs and ominous signs from that game

RotoViz contributor Thomas Emerick

RotoViz Radio Executive Producer Colm Kelly

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Is it wise to invest in these early-round running backs, or are they at risk of losing opportunities to their backups? Shawn Siegele and Colm Kelly dive into the stats and trends to help you make an informed decision for your fantasy football draft. From workload and performance to injury concerns and team dynamics, we'll examine the top early-round RBs and separate the trustworthy from the questionable.

Timestamps:

0:00 Intro

2:00 What are Big Gap RBs?

8:00 The first round RBs?

16:00 Derrick Henry

23:00 Josh Jacobs, Jonathan Taylor

28:00 Breece Hall

34:00 Chubba Hubbard

43:00 Outro

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How should you be managing risk in fantasy football drafts? Michael Leone joins Colm Kelly to discuss whether you should be cautious or go all in on players with big hit, big miss profiles.  In 2025, should you favor these higher variance picks or “safe” players who may project for a tighter range of outcomes? And how does it stack up against previous years?

Timestamps

0:00 Intro

3:00 Winning vs Variance

8:00 How to maximize your chances?

14:00 How to manage the mid-round WR uncertainty

18:00 Rosteer Construction

21:00 Using Projections

28:00 Outro

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Director of Analytics EstablishtheRun Michael Leone (@2Hats1Mike)

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Ray Delahanty (CityNerd) and host Thomas Emerick take the MAX down to Rose Quarter for Dame Time. The transportation and urbanism creator with PacNW roots relives standing in the arena for Damian Lillard's iconic shot to clinch the Portland Trailblazers' series victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder, formerly known as the Seattle Supersonics.

We dive deep on that shot, but also talk cities, fandom, and basketball in the broader Pacific Northwest. 

• Shall we bring back on the Sonics? We have a pitch that involves intercity high-speed rail.
• How has OKC held up as a fanbase and NBA market post-Sonics?
• What did that night in Portland feel like—and what did it mean for a region that hadn't caught a break since the Sonics left, or even further back to when the Lakers rallied in Game 7 against Portland in 2000.

Ray shares what it was like to be a post-Sonics Seattle basketball fan during the 2010s, including that weird emotional purgatory of watching the Thunder win a title. We look back at the 80s and 90s golden age of Pacific Northwest hoops, the dry years that followed, and what it was like to watch peak Lillard era in person.

We close with an ode to Dame’s improbable run to the 2019 West Finals, dragging that roster to heights nobody expected. And much more on CityNerd's third Remember That Game appearance.

For more on the game and on CityNerd:

• CityNerd: Digital creator embracing all things cities and transportation (Linktree)
• Portland Trailblazers 118, Oklahoma City Thunder 115
  • Highlights
  • Stats

RotoViz contributor Thomas Emerick

CityNerd creator Ray Delahanty (CityNerd)

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Let's discuss the players that we're finding difficult to select in fantasy football drafts. Kevin Szafraniec is attempting to convince Colm Kelly to reconsider his decision on the players who just don't make the cut. Are you in or out on the players discussed?

Timestamps

0:00 Intro

2:00 Jaylen Waddle

8:00 Tell me which 49er WR to draft, or should we only draft George Kittle? Jauan Jennings, Brandon Aiyuk, Ricky Pearsall, Jacob Cowing

14:00 Marvin Harrison Jr

20:00 J.J. McCarthy

23:00 Jaxon Dart

26:00 Outro

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What are the key decisions you must make to boost your chances of success while in the live action of a best ball draft? Colm Kelly and Kevin Szafraniec battle against the 20-second clock in Best Ball Mania V as they try and get their priority targets. Can they assemble a winning roster?

Timestamps:

0:00 Intro

2:00 Rounds 1 + 2

4:00 Rounds 3 + 4

8:00 Rounds 5 + 6

11:00 Rounds 7 + 8

15:00 Rounds 9 + 10

19:00 Rounds 10+

32:00 Team Review

35:00 Outro

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Are you ready to capitalize on two fantasy football offenses poised for a massive bounceback? Kevin Szafraniec joins Colm Kelly to dive into the stats, trends, and player performances that suggest these two offenses are set to explode and bring fantasy success this season. From quarterback play to skill position standouts, the guys give you the info you need ahead of fantasy football drafts. 

Timestamps

0:00 Intro

2:00 Packers Overview - 2024 vs 2025

4:00 Jordan Love, Josh Jacobs, Matthew Golden, Jayden Reed, Tucker Kraft, Romeo Doubs

18:00 Tucker Kraft is the new George Kittle

21:00 Texans Overview - 2024 vs 2025

23:00 C.J. Stroud, Nico Collins, Christian Kirk, Jaylin Noel

27:00 Jayden Higgins will be a star!

34:00 Outro

Packers - https://www.rotoviz.com/2025/07/the-nfls-most-overlooked-powerhouse-how-green-bays-roster-building-masterclass-creates-explosive-fantasy-values/

Texans - https://www.rotoviz.com/2025/06/an-injection-of-fresh-talent-and-a-new-approach-are-exactly-what-c-j-stroud-and-the-texans-need-to-emerge-from-fantasy-football-limbo/

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Eric Michael Garcia (The Independent) joins host Thomas Emerick for some Roundball Rock and the Memorial Day Miracle at the end of Game 2 of the 1999 Western Conference Finals between the San Antonio Spurs and the Portland Trailblazers.

Eric Michael Garcia, Washington Bureau Chief for The Independent (Archive) and author of We're Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation, came of age in San Antonio as Tim Duncan teamed up with David Robinson and Sean Elliott helped them avoid the fate of many snakebitten teams out west in the '90s.

Episode threads on this thriller that finished Spurs 86, Blazers 85:

• Respect to the Bob Costas-Doug Collins call that day for NBA on NBC
• Spurs postseason baggage before they ever got over the hump
• How Houston’s recent titles and Hakeem’s shadow loomed large down I-10
• Mario Elie calling out Tim Duncan, then delivering that inbound to Sean Elliott
• How fans saw the Blazers at the time and a reappraisal of a great, deep squad keyed by Rasheed Wallace
• Whether this was the most defensively adaptive Spurs team ever — and how Greg Popovich adjusted on the fly
• How this team sparked Eric's interest in newspapers and journalism
• Whether Pop could’ve made a real Senate run
• Texas public schools in the '90s and early 2000s
• And, of course, where Eric was when Sean Elliott found a way to stay in bounds and launch a dynasty

RotoViz contributor Thomas Emerick

Eric Michael Garcia, Washington Bureau Chief for The Independent and author of We're Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation (@EricMGarcia)

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