10 Fantasy Football League Winners Who Will Define the 2026 Season | Fantasy Focus

**SPEAKER_1** (0:00)
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**Daniel Dopp** (0:44)
What's up, friends? Welcome to Fantasy Focus Football alongside Field Yates and Mike Clay. My name is Daniel Dopp, back here for a Wednesday show. Mike, this is your third show. We're very excited that you're here. How are you feeling?

**Mike Clay** (0:57)
Well rested?

**Daniel Dopp** (0:58)
Not great. Oh, okay.

**Mike Clay** (0:59)
I think they're going to not talk today. I'm just going to hang out and listen to you guys. It's so weird.

**Daniel Dopp** (1:03)
You went on vacation for five days. You came back for two days and then today you're like, I'm feeling a little under the weather.

**SPEAKER_4** (1:09)
I am a little bit.

**Mike Clay** (1:10)
It's catching up to me, I think.

**SPEAKER_4** (1:11)
What's catching up to you? The vacation that you took?

**Mike Clay** (1:13)
A little sore throat probably from so many hot takes over the last two days.

**SPEAKER_4** (1:17)
That's what it is.

**Mike Clay** (1:19)
Some very well-received, perfect takes based on social media reaction to those takes. So I think everyone agrees. I had a well-thought-out reason. I'm a little concerned about Luther Burden's ADP.

**SPEAKER_4** (1:32)
I saw that.

**Mike Clay** (1:32)
Bears fans were just like agreed all around. They were just fully on board. No, they weren't.

**Daniel Dopp** (1:37)
That was not it.

**Mike Clay** (1:37)
Exact opposite of that.

**SPEAKER_4** (1:39)
They were like. Wasn't great.

**Daniel Dopp** (1:40)
Why is this guy back on the podcast? Couldn't we have stuck with the other person?

**Mike Clay** (1:43)
Yeah, well, the person that was here last week is actually a Bears fan.
She would never say anything like that. So certainly I'm not in favor with the Bears crowd, which by the way hurts me because one of my favorite players of all time, my favorite sleepers of all time and hits was Jordan Howard. That was my guy. I loved Jordan Howard.

**SPEAKER_5** (2:01)
So fifth round pick back in the day.

**Mike Clay** (2:03)
Yeah, that was my guy.

**Field Yates** (2:04)
I apologize for being on my phone at the beginning of the show. I was trying to not listen to Mike.

**SPEAKER_5** (2:08)
That's fair.

**Field Yates** (2:08)
But also I was trying to get the link up to the link out. I assumed, I assumed this app switches every day and I had it open. And apparently if the app is closed, it just deletes the draft that you have been working on.

**SPEAKER_4** (2:20)
Anyways, I digress.

**Field Yates** (2:22)
We are moving on.

**Daniel Dopp** (2:23)
Yes, we are. We got a big show today. We are talking about the 10 players who will define the upcoming fantasy season. A lot of names we are bringing to the table. Going to dive into a bunch of conversation with that. But quickly, a few logistics first. Live show August 20th in New York City. Head to fantasyfocuslive.com to grab your tickets. The entire crew is going to be there.

**Mike Clay** (2:41)
It will be a blast.

**Daniel Dopp** (2:42)
That is fantasyfocuslive.com August 20th in New York City. Our buddy Eric Moody is in chat. Make sure you go hang out with him. We love Eric Moody. Follow him on social media, at Eric and Moody. He does an unbelievable job hanging out with the crew and everybody for the entirety of the show. So jump in there and hang out with him. And by the way, we're going to be asking for a few things from chat over the next couple of weeks as we finish kind of rounding out what I would call our punishment wheel from last year. In case you didn't know what the punishment wheel was, here's a quick clip in case you weren't here for last season.

**Mike Clay** (3:15)
I set my line up. Stack team ready to destroy.
Lost again.

**Daniel Dopp** (3:26)
I do wonder though, what do you guys think Mike Clay likes watching more? Is it actually the football game or is it just waiting until the game is over to update cell K38 with his wide receiver cornerback matchups? You know what I mean?

**Mike Clay** (3:36)
Yeah.