Late-Round Perspectives: Brian Drake

JJ Zachariason (0:00)

Brian Drake is a podcast host and writer at Fantasy Points, who also does work at Fantasy Pros, The Huddles, SiriusXM, and a ton of other places too. He's a past FSWA Football Article of the Year winner, he's a dad, he's an Eagles fan, and he loves Syracuse as well. These are his late-round perspectives.

Brian Drake (0:28)

I feel like 10 minutes ago, you and I were in Canton, Ohio, having some adult beverages and drafting in the King's Classic. And now it's like, pushing for the playoffs, make sure you have handcuffs. And it just, it goes by so fast when you're in this content grind, because Thursday night becomes the weekend, becomes Monday night, recaps, waiver wire, it never ends.

JJ Zachariason (0:48)

Yeah, no, it's true. I mean, I feel like it was yesterday that we were, cause we did the King's Classic, we do it on Saturday. You host one of the drafts typically, right? So you did, I think you hosted the auction this year, right? So you were on Sirius XM for that and then you drafted the snake, right?

Brian Drake (1:03)

Yeah. So I have a partner in the league, Ryan Hallam and, and Kevin Tompkins from Fighting Chance Fantasy. So I let, I let those guys do the auction. I take care of, of the snake, which I love the auction. Listen, one of my best friends is Drew Davenport. I gotta, I gotta give love to the auction guys. But if I have the opportunity to do radio, I'm going to do radio because that's, it's my first love and you don't get that opportunity very often. So I pass up the league to get on the air and stroke my ego for two hours.

JJ Zachariason (1:31)

Yeah, no, I feel you. And so, you know, you, you sit there and you kind of analyze the draft as it's going on. You know, I've talked about the King's Classic on here as guests. You know, I had Jim Coventry on a couple of weeks ago and such and we chatted about it. But then the next day, which is the actual expo, you know, at, at the Hall of Fame, you guys are still doing, you're still doing the SiriusXM thing. And you and I, I hopped on for about 15, 10, 15 minutes with you and Bob Harris at one point. Maybe it was only like five to 10

But I remember like talking about my drafts, cause my, my snake draft, cause I drafted Chris McCaffrey, like seventh overall or something. And we were kind of discussing that, but it literally feels like that was like last week.

Brian Drake (2:07)

It's crazy. It is, it goes by so fast. That whole expo weekend goes by in a blink. I look forward to it all year long. And then it's, it's just up and gone. And I'm already driving back to Syracuse from Canton, Ohio, but that's fantasy football season. And if you don't stay on top of it, if you don't hustle on the waiver wire and making trades, it can get away from you quickly. And all of a sudden you're staring at a team that has no chance of making the playoffs and you're frustrated and you stop listening to content.

JJ Zachariason (2:35)

Don't, don't stop listening to this, please, please, please, please keep listening, please.

Brian Drake (2:40)

We see that all year long is, is once people kind of get out of it, they, they throw their hands up in the air and they're like, ah, forget about it. I'm done. It's over with, but you, you can fight till the end in fantasy football. Too many people give up way too early, like you can win out. It happens. Yeah.

JJ Zachariason (2:54)

And there's teams that were really good in your league that are now terrible. And there's teams that were terrible in your league that are really good now. And yeah, it can happen. It can happen super fast. There's always things shifting and moving. By the way, I got to throw this out there. How great is it that a pit guy and someone in Syracuse can have this discussion cordially and, and you know, just have a good time on an hour long podcast.

Brian Drake (3:15)

Well, I mean, we're definitely not talking football, someone here in Syracuse. Our season never really got started here in Syracuse, but we're on to basketball. We're on to basketball and, and about halfway through that season, we'll be on to lacrosse. Yeah. So that's, that's how it goes here. How is pit doing this year? I mean, I mean, are you guys decent?