The Show: Dalton Kincaid's Hot Start, Injury News, and More

JJ Zachariason (0:00)

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We'll be live every Friday at 1 p.m. Eastern. Without further ado, here's this week's episode.

David Kitchen (0:30)

Welcome in, welcome in. It's The Late-Round Fantasy Football Show. David Kitchen here alongside the Golden Boy, JJ Zachariason.

JJ Zachariason (0:40)

What's the Golden Boy for?

David Kitchen (0:41)

It's a teaser. You've talked about Golden a few times this week.

JJ Zachariason (0:46)

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

David Kitchen (0:48)

Feeling golden?

JJ Zachariason (0:49)

Okay. I didn't know if it was something related to last night. I didn't know if it was something related to what I said in Discord or something I said on social media. I never know this time of year, so I'm glad I have some context there.

David Kitchen (1:00)

Things are a bit crazy this time of year.

Like you say, JJ, I just want to say we had to come up with another event to look forward to. Sixty-nine days until Thanksgiving.

JJ Zachariason (1:13)

Which is actually kind of crazy. I know that it makes sense, obviously, logically, because it's two months, a little bit more than two months. But sixty-nine days is not that much time until we're just like, like Thanksgiving is like the turning point towards the end of the fantasy season.

David Kitchen (1:27)

Yeah.

JJ Zachariason (1:28)

We're already, basically what I'm saying is we're very close to finishing the season already.

David Kitchen (1:33)

I know, JJ. I don't want to be like, you know, my mom was a teacher, my wife was a teacher for Peter Time. Sometimes, like it gets to be around July and they're already like not looking forward to going back to school, like dreading the end of like summer vacation. Let's not do that. Let's just appreciate week one.

JJ Zachariason (1:53)

Taking one week at a time. One week at a time. That's all this season is. You know, my daughter was sick this week. She missed two days of school. She had a fever and she got, you know, whenever you miss school, you miss some time, you get that anxious feeling when you're about to go back, especially when you're in third grade. I mean, that's a really, really tough thing to like comprehend and deal with as a kid.

And my mantra with her was just, look, one step at a time. She was having trouble going to sleep the other night before that next day. And I'm like, look, baby girl, just one step at a time. Yeah, that's how it feels. Just get to sleep. You'll deal with that tomorrow. And then she's like, well, what about this one? Just you'll deal with it tomorrow. Your goal right now is just to go to sleep. That's all you got to worry about.

David Kitchen (2:30)

Absolutely. I was panicking last night in The Late-Round Chopped League or Guillotine League, and they had DJ Moore. They had negative points.

A game that has 80 million points in it.

JJ Zachariason (2:44)

Yeah.

David Kitchen (2:44)

And my player has negative points.

JJ Zachariason (2:47)

Yeah.

David Kitchen (2:48)

And I'm now, like anyone that DJ Moore is on the chopping block in their league.

JJ Zachariason (2:53)

Very much so. Yes.

David Kitchen (2:54)

One step at a time.

JJ Zachariason (2:56)

Especially if it's a shallower league. Like I joined a charity league with CBS, and I scored the third most points in the league in week one, and I lost because I played the team that scored the second most points. Right? And then that team had Caleb Williams. And then this week, I have DJ Moore on that team. I also have Dalton Kincaid, so I have this Bill stack. I'm facing Josh Allen. So I'm going to be facing the QB one in back to back weeks in that league. But guess what, guys?

One step at a time.

David Kitchen (3:24)

One step at a time.

JJ Zachariason (3:25)

One step at a time. It's fine. If I start 0-2, it's not my fault. My team's actually really good. It's not my fault. It's just the way that fantasy football goes. One step at a time.

David Kitchen (3:36)

I'm playing my arch nemesis in my home league, the guy who I talk so much crap to, the guy who I've been friends with for 35 years.

He had Dalton Kincaid last night. You know what? It's okay. Makes two of us.

Yeah. So it is what it is. But last night was fun. We'll talk about that in a second. Really quick though, rest of season rankings, they're out. They are out at lateraound.com. Become a member on the website. On the website, lateraound.com. You get the insider tier and the all access tier. You get access to the rest of season ranks. You get access to the weekly ranks. We've got the discord, the chat pop, and lots of stuff, lots of good stuff going on with the community. I'm gonna mention it in today's newsletter, which you can subscribe to at lateround.com.