The HOTTEST Takes for the 2026 Fantasy Football Season

**SPEAKER_1** (0:01)
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**Liz Loza** (0:30)
It's coming now a little bit. Hold on.

**Daniel Dopp** (0:32)
You were a little cocky in the beginning.

**Liz Loza** (0:36)
I'm Liz Loza. This is Facts versus Feelings. And today's fact is that cooler heads don't always prevail. Hi, Daniel Dopp.

**Daniel Dopp** (0:47)
Hi, Liz Loza.

**Liz Loza** (0:48)
We're back in Bristol.

**Daniel Dopp** (0:49)
Yes, that means I'm out of the little box, back in the big box. It's getting a little confusing which box you're going to put me in week in and week out, but that's how this goes.

**Liz Loza** (0:56)
We don't put people in boxes.

**Daniel Dopp** (0:58)
Thank you.

**Liz Loza** (0:59)
I mean, we do for a job, but I don't know.

**Daniel Dopp** (1:02)
You do, actually. No big deal.

**Liz Loza** (1:03)
Yeah, we put people in tiers. We don't put people in boxes. We put people, speaking of tiers, we might shed some on today's episode.

**SPEAKER_2** (1:11)
Come back and finish me up, you wimp.

**SPEAKER_5** (1:14)
What's the matter? Too spicy for you.

**Daniel Dopp** (1:17)
Yeah, we're doing some hot takes, my friends. Hot takes episode. That means we're going to bring four hot takes to the table. Each one is going to get more and more spicy as we move on.
We've got four hot sauces ready for us. Yeah. I don't even want to think about it.

**Liz Loza** (1:34)
No, we should just go for it.

**Daniel Dopp** (1:35)
I'm dreading this because I've done it once already. This is your first time.

**SPEAKER_1** (1:39)
I've never done it on camera.

**Daniel Dopp** (1:40)
I'm pumped to be able to do this here with you.

**Liz Loza** (1:43)
Also, there are no retakes.

**Daniel Dopp** (1:45)
No, this is it. This is one and done.
It is time for some hot sauce and some hot takes.

**Liz Loza** (1:52)
What are we going to do to prep the situation? We've got some honey. I think we should coat the tummy with some, I'm just...

**Daniel Dopp** (1:59)
All right, we're going to quote the... This is how it works, and I have never done this before. I think this is a Hollywood trick. You coat your stomach and...

**Liz Loza** (2:06)
Coat the esophagus and your stomach.

**Daniel Dopp** (2:08)
How much do I do?

**Liz Loza** (2:09)
Just squirt it in there.
I don't know. Oh, that's a lot. Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa. I didn't do that much. Why don't you tell me?

**SPEAKER_1** (2:16)
I don't know.

**Liz Loza** (2:17)
I'm just, I've never done... You're the professional here.

**SPEAKER_1** (2:19)
I've never done this before.

**Liz Loza** (2:21)
And then we've got, you've got chocolate milk. Yes. I've got coconut milk.

**Daniel Dopp** (2:26)
Yep. And an old school Hollywood buffet of hot chocolate.

**Liz Loza** (2:29)
I love the studio. Okay. What's the first one?

**Daniel Dopp** (2:32)
The very first one that we're going to have here starts on the left. This is sriracha, pickled garlic.

**Liz Loza** (2:37)
Pickled garlic sriracha. Okay. So we're going to start mild, medium, spicy.

**Daniel Dopp** (2:43)
You want me to go first?

**Liz Loza** (2:43)
You go first.

**Daniel Dopp** (2:44)
All right. Then I'm going to start here. I'm going to take a chip. I'm going to load it up with this sauce first. And we have four of them, by the way.
Let's see. Oh, hold on. This is, I got to get some of this out of here first.

**Liz Loza** (2:56)
That's your throw up cup.

**Daniel Dopp** (2:58)
I understand. I understand. All right.

**SPEAKER_1** (3:01)
That's a lot.

**Daniel Dopp** (3:02)
Is that a lot?

**SPEAKER_1** (3:02)
That's a lot.

**Daniel Dopp** (3:03)
Well, I'm going to spread it out. You don't just put it all in one area.

**SPEAKER_1** (3:06)
Okay.

**Liz Loza** (3:06)
That's where we're going. All right. Show the people.

**SPEAKER_1** (3:08)
Show them how much.

**Daniel Dopp** (3:09)
This is how we're doing the first one. My first hot take is.
That Michael Pittman finishes as a top 25 wide receiver in fantasy. And you know why? I can feel it now. It kicked in a little bit. Boy, this is where we're starting.

**Liz Loza** (3:32)