OK, so we may not be able to see the future but we take a whack at it. We give our boom, bust, sleepers and then we go over who we think is going to be the top 5 players for the rest of the year at their positions. Each guy takes a position and rattles them off and most give decent insight as to why they feel the way they do. We're all back together which is nice to see and we have a good time talking our favorite thing and that's fantasy football.
YouTube Link: OatB Ep . 201 - WK 7 - We See theFuture
This was the opposite of last week when Bear and Grim ran the podcast, this one was done by the other 3 slackers who weren't there as Bear and Grim had work engagement to attend to. The boys chat about the FBFL and actually give Rob Barber a bunch of credit, so you could tell Bear wasn't thereto break that up. Then they go through the normal predictions and talk just football in general. The guys help Opi decide on a kicker and then he does the opposite and it may have actually worked. Then they talk more FBFL and teams having bye week issues. And finish up with some NFL bullet points and get a little goofy, and then call it. How about a little Randy Moss and his whirlwind of one hand catches for the YouTube highlights this week?!?!
YouTube Link: OatB Ep - 200 - WK 7. Ryan doesHomework
Right off the bat we just start ripping Opi, and rightfully sosince this week is just Grim and I as all the other putzes had to bail. Bear and Grim have a great time, keep it lively, and continue to shit on Opi so if you're a fan of Opi getting ripped on, this one is for you! We spend some FBFL time, but we spend a lot of time just chatting about the NFL. Bear does go off on the Brewers at the beginning to get that off his chest, it was definitely bothering him. For a 2-person podcast, these guys keep it very upbeat and have fun with it!
YouTube Link: OatB Ep 199 WK 6 Short Staffed
We go off the rails right at the beginning, but it's a fun talkabout the butt biting announcer. Opi gives us some of the absolute WORST lead-ins this week. We do our pick stuff and spend a lot of time talking about the decisions of why we like or dislike them. Ryan gives you instructions on how to use his picks properly. We chat NFL trades, FBFL trades, lack of trading in one of the FBFL leagues, NFL teams, FBFL teams, it's just a plethora of football enjoyment. Plus, this weeks highlighted player for YouTube is Hines Ward! Dude was a flat out baller! We also predict the death of Joe Flacco and pretty sure we are accurate with this prediction.
YouTube Link: OatB Ep. 198 - WK. 5 - Grim Says You're Due
Back to the office, otherwise known as Bear's extra room, andthe guys have a lot of fun just shooting the shit…a LOT. We do the Boom, Bust and all that stuff but we really do a ton of banter on this one. We get interrupted by friend of the Pod Kayla with her new whip. We chat quite a bit about injuries and guys coming back. Bear reveals a GREAT waiver wire pickup for everyone to consider. We do step away from football a little to talk some Cubs playoff baseball and the crazy dominance of Mason Miller, the relief pitcher for the Padres. Then we get back to football and just chat, that's it,just chat and have a lot of fun and some laughs. This one did go longer than we want but we were just having a good time so we're not upset about it.
YouTube Link: OatB Ep 198 - WK 4 - Who ISN'T Hurt??
Everyone is on their own this week! Well, not everyone. Bear has to make up for Grim & AJ who didn't have time to record so between school, working 40 hours in 3 days, bags league, and his wife's birthday, Bear made up for those who "didn't have time". Yes, Bear also writes these up so he can also do the bitching. This bad boy is cut, cut, cut but we wanted to get something out there so we didn't skip a week. Opi intros, we go right into our Boom, Bust, Sleeper, & NFL. Bear has a little extra FBFL news after and then Ryan gives us a PSA to say he's offered a lot of shitty trades and explains why and says "c'mon guys, just counter". And the filler this week for anytime there's not video is some hard hits from the NFL!
YouTube Link: OatB Ep 197 WK 3 Cut me Mick…or Bear
It's a short staff so we're also shortening up the name sonothing is as long as it used to be! We go through the normal Boom, Bust, Sleepers and of course our NFL picks of the week. Bear explains why Opi & AJ are missing for the week and then we just talk fantasy football. We go over RBs and whether or not they are going to stay in the top 10, get to the top 10, or in some cases, be out of the top 20. We also chat about some possible free agents to pick up in our league and maybe they're available in yours! This one is short, for us, and pretty light hearted so we hope you don't listen just for the soothing sounds of Opi's voice!
YouTube Link: OatB Ep 196 - WK 2 - Short but not Sweet
We changed our format and started this with Opi on his soapbox, then hit the boom, bust, sleeper, and NFL so then we can just talk fantasy football and get less structured. TheBears were a topic for us a couple times and we go over all groups favorite teams with the Seahawks & Steelers. We do a round table discussion and Bear nicknames all the guys with a "Sir" in front, it was off the cuff so interesting discussion. We have a GREAT clip on YouTube from our golf trip with our buddy, Mike Pannell, the golfing pirate chasing down a plastic bag half-naked!! We're telling you, if you've never watched one on YouTube before, go out this time and you can skip to the 41:38 mark and have yourself a giggle!
YouTube Link: Opi & the Bear Episode 195 Week 1 We changed our format!
This one is long, and we're trying to cut things down but we go over both leagues draft and if you aren't part of the league, no worries because we really spend a lot of time just talking about how we like a lot of these players and how we feel they'll do this year. We also bring back the boom, bust and sleeper players and some NFL picks but we skip the FBFL teams picks. There's a lot of back and forth in this one with the guys really digging into teams with both shitting on and compliments. It's a fun one if you have the patience and we will be trying to hit the 1 hour mark in the future podcasts. And in our first installment of LB highlights at the end, we have a nice Luke Kuechly montage for everyone to view on YouTube!
YouTube Link: Opi & the Bear Episode 195 Post Draft Drama
We do a live draft and talk shit to each other as we make our picks. You get to view the actual draft online and listen to us yell at each other as we snipe each other. Kayla comes in late and takes the podcast over with her 12 kids and odd picks. It gets a little loud in a couple spots because of those psychos, sorry about that. Bear pisses podcase friend Kipp off and he not only bails on the podcast but on the draft and goes to auto pick. The league ends up pretty competitive at the end with everyone having stacked teams because it's an 8-manleague. Adara pops in on Opi's phone but we sadly had to cut most of it because her sound never came through.
YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/i0FXVQjbbTU
Football - football - football!! That's what we talk about!! We go over the predictions for the Brewery division and speed through the ones for the podcast guys because it's pretty much set in stone and they divulge on here who they're keeping and why. We talk a lot about players in general and their value again. Bear proposes a new pool and it gets poo-pooled quickly. Opi is in the house this time and we're all sporting our team shirts that he purchased from some poor 10 year old's in a 3rd world country.
YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/zV8QdqeJ-70
We continue the Distillery player protection predictions and this one has an interruption from friend of the podcast and Bear's least favorite daughter, Kayla and granddaughter Kinsley as Kayla tells us a story about her kids having some shart issues and pooping on the kids toilet out by the pool, it's an intriguing story and discussion. Bear also complains a little about the cost of the NFL ticket that automatically got tacked on again this year. We day "ado" to a long-time FBFL owner who decided to hang up his cleats in favor of his kids and hockey sticks. Then, as we try to fire it back up, poorGreg, Kayla's husband, has the poop bag break on him live on our podcast!
YouTube Link: Opi & the Bear Episode 192 - Protection Prediction Time!! Distillery is 1st Part 2
Smelling salts are now illegal, Shedeur is moving up the depth chart quickly, Cleveland QB room, some injury and contract dispute discussions, and then after all that chat, we hammer the Distillery Conference Protection Predictions and this is the first half of the discussion with the 2nd half coming out next week. This prediction is about certain teams but realistically, we spend a lot of time discussing player value, round they should go, and other intricacies of fantasy drafting.
YouTube Link: Opi & the Bear Episode 191 Protection Prediction Time!! Distillery is 1st Part 1
FBFL chat going over dates and decisions along with bringing back the League of Trash which is the Opi & the Bear league. If you want in, let us know and we'll put you in! Bear chats about his 6th fantasy pay league he joined. Then we chat about how the FBFL is going to hand Travis Hunter. We finish with a chat about how we're going to do the regular season format and making changes to the podcast and call it a day. If it starts funny, yeah, it was a continuation from episode 189.
YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/BPJQ5kh1Ghg
Hi…we are still alive!! We come back very loosie goosy and just have a good time. We talk a little MLB, golf, NFL, and our rotisserie draft. Bear goes off on gutless Jed (Hoyer) while Opi gives praises to the White Sox and their moves. We spend some time giving Grim and his Steeler fans shit about Rodgers but have a fun time with it, nothing gregarious. Then we chat about the Bears and the hope that most of us no longer have. Opi likes the Seahawks defense this year but is questioning the offense. And we get going on some very fun rotisserie talk about our draft and how much players cost, who paid too much for young talent.
YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/7pHQpkU0IL0
The 2nd part of episode 187 and it's a little different but very light hearted and was a lot of fun. We spend most of the time talking turkey, literally, as we go into a big section speaking of the local cuisine here in the QC and what we like and don't like. It transcends into us putting the pictures of the food from the restaurants on the screen and chatting about them at length. Maybe it's not your cup of tea, maybe it is, but changing up a little and getting away from the world of sports was a nice change of pace for the team.
YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/uOUJtdmUMUw
Oops dude…sorry Opi. We really open this just trashing the guy, after that, it's really just all over the place and we throw sports in there. AJ, Kipp, & Bear chat for a while. We rip open some baseball cards and go through them. Doesn't take long and we got some good cards. Then we just ramble about things. We talk about the guys jobs, Kipp's Only Fans, some baseball, NFL draft day, and then Ryan shows up and the gummies kick in and we do get off the rails a little. We do get our MLB predictions in with pretty much zero explanations and call it a night.
YouTube Link: Opi & the Bear Episode 187 No Opi…No Problem
We just wanted to get together to make sure you guys didn't completely forget about us! We get some preseason baseball chat in and then follow up with some fun NCAA men's basketball talk and go over the auction that we do every year including the go over the how we do the money and payouts so it gives good context to a fun way to make the tournament a little more exciting. Then we go strong watching a turtle blow a fat load all over a group of redneck's patio. If you don't understand that last one, watch the YouTube video and be a little shocked/impressed if you've never seen that before. We finish with a little football offseason chat about the Bears and Seahawks moves.
YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/Uokp3v6k6OY
Keep an eye on Bear during this one because he took a gummy about an hour before hand and though he doesn't feel the buzz that much, it definitely hit him as his body freezes up a few times throughout this episode. We just talk football for the most part. We brief on a couple other subjects and Ryan starts us with some headlines which we've come to enjoy. We do get both sides of the coin on the SB Halftime show since Ryan & AJ enjoyed but Opi & Bear were not as impressed…."GET OFF OUR LAWN!!" On a more serious note, at about the 14:27 mark, we have a moment of silence and an off-camera toast to a close podcast friend, Michael Hawkes, who passed away on this date, February 12th, 10 years ago…miss ya buddy! This one is short and sweet and ends with Eddie George highlights!
YouTube Link: Opi & the Bear Episode 185 - The 2024-2025 Football Freeze Up
We DID IT!! We have good sound! We have good video!! We have a friggin MIRACLE!! Hopefully, we can keep that rolling but of course, no promises. Along with the weird idea that the technology actually worked, we spend most of this one just off the cuff chatting about the FBFL Meeting, our fantasy Basketball league, putting the fantasy Baseball league together and you get to witness AJ kicking his cousin out of the league, we then talk about the names of Opi's daughter's team since she'll be taking the team over, Myles Garrett to the Bears possibilities, NBA trades, the difference between Travis & Jason Kelce, and of course the Super Bowl. This week's highlights goes to the one year wonder…but what a year it was…Peyton Hillis!
YouTube Link:Opi & the Bear Episode 184 Super Bowl Boogie Episode
