Late-Round Perspectives: Jim Coventry

JJ Zachariason (0:00)

Jim Coventry is a fantasy analyst at RotoWire and host at SiriusXM Fantasy. He was a Fantasy Sportswriters Association finalist for Football Writer of the Year in 2022 He's a retired English teacher, he's a published author, and he loves to bring passion to his analysis. These are his late-round perspectives.

Jim Coventry (0:28)

I very rarely walk out of any draft saying it was a good draft. You never do that. I left that one, I go, this is a good team. I'll probably go on 14 when I said that, but I go, this is a good team.

JJ Zachariason (0:38)

I remember that draft vividly. So for people who are listening and don't know, the King's Classic is the draft that we do, and Jim and I are in the same division, and we do this draft every year, and it's a snake draft followed by an auction draft. So we do, I mean, it is literally, I mean, when do we start? It's like nine to five, basically, right?

Jim Coventry (0:56)

Yes, exactly, exactly.

JJ Zachariason (0:58)

It's literally just like a workday, and it's us in the Hall of Fame drafting back-to-back teams. So we do the snake draft first, and then we take a lunch break, and then we do the auction draft, and there's people watching us, and we're hopping on SiriusXM, and we're covering it in every angle. We're talking junk to one another. It's a lot of fun. I wore my belt last year. You did.

Jim Coventry (1:19)

You did.

JJ Zachariason (1:20)

Look, hey, if you win the auction league, I expect you to be holding that belt next year.

Jim Coventry (1:25)

Oh, no, no, no, no. My goal is to win both and carry two belts. Yes, because I'm six and three. I'm like ten points behind in the other league.

JJ Zachariason (1:34)

The other one, I'm in first in the other one right now.

Jim Coventry (1:37)

Yeah. But with points, I'm like ten or 15 points. Whoever has the most points. And I want to, because of you last year, because of you carrying that belt, I said, I want to carry two over my shoulders this year, and I want to flex while I'm doing it.

JJ Zachariason (1:50)

I'll tell you what, there's nothing that I want more than to win the Snake Draft against Snake League again and just have just two belts, locking in back to back in a 14 team. This league, again, for those of you who aren't aware, this league is star one quarterback, two running back, three wide receiver, three flex, and it's a 14 teamer, and there's like six guys on the bench. So like, I was amped when I got Devon Vailia for $3 out the waiver wire.

Jim Coventry (2:13)

Right?

JJ Zachariason (2:14)

You know, like, that's the way that this thing goes, is like, we get pumped about these like really tertiary, secondary type players that, you know, every time I do like my 15 Transactions article, where I'm telling, talking to people about who to add and drop and buy and sell. But the ad segment, I'm always thinking like, okay, I don't need to necessarily recommend this player, but this is definitely a player that I'm going after in the King's Classic. You know, that's just the way it is.

Jim Coventry (2:38)

100%. And with those auctions, because there's four IR spots, and that's huge, because the waiver wire is barren. So if you don't auction a team that where you could get close to double digit points from everybody in the starting line up, once injuries hit, you're done. You're done.

JJ Zachariason (2:57)

You're done. It's so true. That's the one downside of the super large rosters, is the fact that I only had Tyree Kill Exposure literally in these two leagues, and I got them in both of them. Because I remember in the auction, I was trying to bid them up a little bit, and then I got stuck with him. And then I took them in the third in the snake, and he was actually looking like a decent pick before the injury. And when that happens, though, in these big leagues, you get screwed a little bit, because it's just really hard to make up for that. But crossing my fingers that, look, how about this? You take the auction, let me take the snake, and then we can celebrate next summer when we're in Canton together.

Jim Coventry (3:32)

Because that belt over my shoulder is an auction belt.

JJ Zachariason (3:35)

Yeah, OK, well, then we can both have two of each then.

Jim Coventry (3:37)