The Poor Man Fantasy Football League Podcast

Did the bye week hurt you or did you escape with a win? We’re past the halfway point of the fantasy season with serious thoughts on either making the playoffs or what next year could look like. In this league we have two top contenders and the rest are all one game apart from being in contention, so every victory matters. Go get your wins gentlemen and ladies, go get your wins.

The bye-pocolips is upon on us! The good news is that it affects everybody, or should, unless you’re that guy who has players from six teams in bye. Then I’m sorry. It sucks to be you. How is everyone else doing? It’s week 8 and we’re here for it! Let’s play some football

The hits keep coming from injuries, upsets, and bye weeks, but we’re conditioned fantasy managers. We’re built to weather these storms. This is when we dig deep and play those players that were lost deep on our benches, with names we’re unfamiliar with, but scored a touchdown last week. Because in our darkest hours we chase those points and hope whatever all-powerful-deity shines favour on us. Go get that win

It’s Canadian Thanksgiving this week and I would like to give thanks for good friends to play fantasy football with and for staying friends through all the wins & losses. Thank you for the fun times! Now, with 5 weeks of football come and gone, some of us are looking at the playoffs with excitement, some of us are looking at ways to get into the playoffs, and the rest of us are deciding if selling now to get a jump start on next year is out best course of action. Whichever situation you’re in, we feel for you.

We’re a quarter of the way through the season, so let’s take a pause and look at where we are at. This week we review our match-ups, league standings, recent news & injuries, and place some bets. Week 5 also brings us our first round of bye weeks, joy! Where are you all at?

It’s Week 4 and the injury bug is here. I would like to wish everyone a speedy recovery and that no more players will get injured this year. Please note, that is one wish with multiple conditions that should be relatively simple to grant on a scale of getting a Slim Jim snack for free from the vending machine versus World Peace. And that is how I saved football in 2025. You’re welcome.

Week 3 is here with new match up predictions and a whole new bet.

Week 1 is in the bag and what do you have to show for it? Hopefully you got a win somewhere in Fantasy because they don’t come easy. Here’s how our league match ups turned ou.

Football is finally here and that means not only are we breaking down our last NFL Division in the NFC East, but our weekly matchup predictions & bets are back! Plus, we get to finally reveal Andrew’s punishment with a new team name and image. What a great way to kick-off the season @all

We conclude our divisional breakdown with the NFC North, the best division in football, not because the Lions are in it, but because of all of the top tier fantasy options that exist. There’s so much to choose from, that even if you’re not a fan of any of these teams, you probably have shares in many of their players. And if you don’t, then you probably wish you did. Let’s get ready for some Week 1 football!

It’s pronounced “pu-tsin” according to Wikipedia, but I say it’s “poo-tin” when I’m talking about my favourite side dish of fries, cheese curds, and gravy. I highly recommend you try it. But do you know what's not good but still worth trying, just in case it got better? If you said the NFC South then you would be right. This division has not been good for some time now, but there are so many fantasy darlings that it has to be getting better…right? Let’s hope so as we break down this week’s division, the NFC South.

Westward Ho! To the land of the NFC West. A once prominent and powerful division, now it’s a shadow of its former self. What was once one of the premiere divisions has now turned itself into that awkward league mate whose team has no synergy, relying on older recycled vets, unsupported rookie talent, oft injured starters, and overpriced salvage projects. Yet, it still has some fantasy darlings with a few high-risk high-reward players that might be worth taking. For example, would you rather have CMC & Marvin Harrison or Puka Nacia & George Kittle?

The AFC North should be shared with friends and as such we invited our friend @SlickBurn to join the show. We catch up on our summer adventures and nobody points out how sunburnt I am, either these are some good friends or I need to invest in a better camera. All jokes aside, including everything you can say about the Cleveland Browns, this was a fun division to talk about with lots of fantasy options, some of the best actually. But decide for yourself and let us know what you think about the AFC North.

We’re three episodes into breaking down each division with this week featuring the AFC East. What a joy it was to talk about all the fantasy goodness this division brings to football, not. This division feels like one of the scariest ones with the amount of potential for failure. It comes down to what you believe and we differ on who we like in this division as fantasy assets. How do you feel about the AFC East?

We’re back after a brief summer vacation to breakdown the AFC West and all the ridiculous news that came up. Like, the never ending stream of arrests. We also talk about the 2nd round rookie contract hold outs, Shemar Stewart, and how Andrew thinks Travis Kelce will return to peak form this year. It’s not likely, but let us know what you think @all

It’s summertime, it’s hot, and training camps are just about to start. Which means it’s time to start our annual Divisional Breakdowns and to kick it off is the AFC South. They’re not the sexiest division in football, or the most popular, heck they may not even be the most athletic division, but they are the first on our list…to get out of the way. Now let’s talk trash about these four teams @all

@ANDPRY came up with another early season bet that was too much fun to wait for, so this week we dialed up the wheel of death to help us select a fantasy roster of all backups & second fiddles. It presented an interesting thought experiment on who thought the #2 guys were/are on their teams at each position and what we thought about their season long fantasy potential could be. Fun time @all

Burgers, rookie contracts, and some predictions on who the Top 3 at each position might be. That’s what’s on the menu this week @all.

Last week we drafted an @all AFC team for each other to kick off this season’s bets. Now we get to select “the best” players from the NFC. This one did not work out the same way with one team being far more powerful on paper, but anything can happen in this season-long bet.

We're back in the void where there is no real football to talk about. So we decided to get creative and find ways to talk about the game we love and then make it competitive with betting. So we drafted fantasy teams for each other using the Wheel of Death and only players from the AFC. What treat it was picking the "best" players for each other. Let's see who wins this season long bet @all

With our rookie draft done, it’s time again to look back into the past at last year’s draft and see how we would draft those players knowing what we know now. Hindsight 20/20 does allow us to make “better” selections or at least recognize with a bit more clarity on who could be better, and the first two rounds look vastly different. With special guest labrebis helping to order our selections (with a few technical difficulties), we bang out what essentially is our Top 20 Rookies of 2024

Our rookie draft is complete and it’s time to review. There were a few trades that were very thoughtful based on the players selected. Overall, I think we all did very well, A+ everyone!

Andrew and I are back to complete our Top 5 and 5 Busts with RB and WR for 2025. It was a fun exercise deciding who thought would make Top 5 and then think of who would end up as Busts this year. There were some some similar selections but with very different reasonings. It should make for some "great" trade talks down the road, lol.

We’re closing in on our rookie draft, so Andrew and I decided to create & share our Top 5 QB’s and TE’s for 2025 as well as our 5 Busts at those positions. It all stemmed from a conversation we had about who thought we could trust and who we thought we couldn’t. And now you know the rest of the story

With the NFL draft over, Andrew and I decided to have a high level look at each skill position to give some quick quips about who went where, how we feel right now about their fantasy potential, and wrap it @all up with some bad puns & dad jokes.

With the NFL draft over, Andrew and I decided to have a high level look at each skill position to give some quick quips about who went where, how we feel right now about their fantasy potential, and wrap it @all up with some bad puns & dad jokes.

We take one more kick at some NFL industry mocks before the NFL draft tomorrow night! We grabbed 5 fresh from the presses mock drafts and lined them up to see who is taking who. With little surprise near the top, there were several surprises along the way with a very strong feeling on which teams could trade up or back into the first round. It’s all for the its and giggles of it all

With the NFL draft just over a week away, we thought we should review some mock drafts from various industry analysts. Ranging from known to obscure. It was fun to see the similarities and the and bold selections, then add some Poor Man's perspective on it @all

Andrew and I decided to share some fantasy football regrets that include draft selections, trades, waiver decisions, and misplaced belief in players. It was time to let these memories go and stop them from living rent free. What are some of your fantasy football regrets @all?

With the Void of the off season in full effect, we decided to fill it with food. Let's talk about unique food at NFL stadiums

Welcome to Season 5! I wish there was more to talk about, but this period of time between relevant football is kind of a void for talkable content. So we fill in the gaps by taking you guys on a few tangents about Supervisors and Master Chief. It’s real top of the dome stuff. Enjoy @all!

It feels like there was more action happening before free agency actually opened up this year than normal and with it came a lot of changes to discuss. We talk about every known trade, signing, and release we know of and what we thought about it. Then we wrap up our divisional reviews with the AFC West. Enjoy @all!

We finally get to talk to @labrebis about the AFC & NFC North predictions we did over the summer, as well as hash out some Commanders news and their win over the Lions in the playoffs. Sadly, @ANDPRY was unable to attend this one, so no jokes from last year’s last team dunking on this year’s. I’m sure there would have been some good ones .

This week starts a little early with the NFC East and special guest Juan who helped break this division down back in the summer. The early predictions we made way back when may not have come to fruition but one of us got pretty close. Enjoy!

Donny returns to the show to review our NFC West divisional breakdown, share some insights on the Rams future & various trade rumors, and compare the weather between California & Canada. To paint a picture for you, I’m wearing a toque, indoors, during the recording because it’s that cold today. Stay warm @all

With the Super Bowl over, and what a Super Bowl it was, we continue winding down our season with another divisional review. This time it's the AFC East. We invited Josh aka TheMultibeasts to join us and with him he brings our coveted "Year End Award Show" where we recognize some thrilling events from the past fantasy season and hand out some accolades. Lets see who wins this years' Poor Man of the Year award @all

Another vacation for Andrew, only to return to a deep freeze in weather and on his birthday too! At least we get to review our AFC & NFC South breakdowns to give us warm thoughts or warm laughs at how bad these divisions & our projections were. Oh the memories.

The weekly bets continued with back to back fantasy pick'ems while we were away to Los Cabos. The beer helped to both mourn the loss of the Lions and the Chiefs win over the Bills. It's was fun but not nearly as much fun as the Super Bowl part will be!

It's time for the NFL Divisional Round of the playoffs with more predictions, some news, and Andrew lost last week's bet so he decided to pull out an old classic for this week's. It's all shenanigans this week!

We're back after taking a two week break during the Christmas holiday and New Years with the wrap up episode to our season long campaign to crown our League Champion!