The Fifth Annual “My Guy” Fantasy Football Draft With Danny Heifetz, Danny Kelly, and Craig Horlbeck

**Bill Simmons** (0:00)
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The fifth annual My Guy Fantasy Draft.

**Danny Kelly** (2:03)
Fourth, third?

**Bill Simmons** (2:05)
How many years is this?

**Danny Kelly** (2:06)
I think 2022 may have restarted.

**Bill Simmons** (2:07)
I should have been more prepared.

**Danny Kelly** (2:09)
I'm Bill Simmons.

**Bill Simmons** (2:10)
Have the fantasy guys here from the Ringer Fantasy Show or Ringer NFL Fantasy Show? I can never remember.

**Craig Horlbeck** (2:15)
Ringer Fantasy Football Show.

**Bill Simmons** (2:16)
Ringer Fantasy Football Show. We're off to a great start.
Danny Heifetz, in town, Danny Kelly, Craig Horlbeck. We like to pick, we do our guys, the guys that we like. We go around. We have dumb categories. I'm going to start before we do the draft. Pretty kind of lousy fantasy prep season, in my opinion.
I don't feel like there's enough kind of crazy, crazy pill guys. There's not enough variance. I'm just a little worried. I'm worried that this is going to be a fun podcast, honestly. I just think it's very down the middle. It just hit and drives down the middle of the fairway this year, and not a lot of variance. What do you think?

**Craig Horlbeck** (2:58)
It also just feels like nowadays all the sleepers that, I don't know, maybe five years ago, you could have gotten in drafts, these secret guys you could like in the preseason. It's all out in the open now. Everybody knows about Parker Washington. It used to be like five years ago, you could actually get him. Now, all those secrets are out.

**Bill Simmons** (3:13)
Except for AJ. Barner. Ooh.

**Danny Heifetz** (3:16)
I feel like he's a mild secret.

**Bill Simmons** (3:17)
Do you agree with this, though? We just have too much information now?

**Danny Heifetz** (3:21)
I mean, yeah, I think that this becomes like Brian Curtis' media podcast, but I think that social media has almost replaced regular media as where people are getting the source of information, so things just go viral as a starting point. So Dejaun's dribbling with the 49ers. A video goes viral, and then that's all people see. So it's almost like people are kind of through the looking glass. And then also, a lot of interesting people are just hurt and banged up, which is also detracting the action.

**Danny Kelly** (3:43)
I was going to say that. This has felt like, and we say this every year, but really this year feels like one of the worst seasons, pre-seasons for injuries for some of these top skill players.
I mean, every guy that we've kind of mentioned on our show, it feels like kind of a running joke now that every guy we mentioned, he just immediately gets hurt.

**Craig Horlbeck** (3:59)
The new zag now, I think, is because guys like Parker Washington and Dejan Stribbling, everybody knows about them. You almost have to go the other way. And it's like boring veterans that no one wants to take in a draft anymore. That's where you can kind of find...

**Bill Simmons** (4:10)
That happened in baseball too.

**Danny Kelly** (4:11)
Yeah.

**Bill Simmons** (4:11)
Like in the early days of baseball drafts, just take the dude who hits 290 with 20 homers, 88 RBI.