This is just the Bear podcast! No Opi, no Ryan, no AJ, and noGrim. Bear has a little spat at the beginning on how awful and discourteous holiday shoppers, or people in general are. Then he goes into the a quick rundown of last week's predictions, Boom, Bust, and Sleeper, followed by NFL and then some quick talk about the upcoming games in the FBFL. Bear throws in a couple comments on Nixon's cheap shot on DJ. Bear does his best Grim imitation and the first one isn't good, but he nails it on the 2nd one. He finishes with some injury chat. OatB would like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas!
YouTube Link: OatB Ep. 207 - Playoff Week 2
We are short players again and are down to the stinkiest of the podcast guys and it starts that way. Then we talk about the missing guys and the lack of offensive flexibility in the NFL, hiring these coordinators, Phillip Rivers and his "eh", last week's predictions, playoff games, Boom, Bust, Sleeper, NFL Picks with this week's video being NFL bloopers or what they call "Ooops Plays", SouthPark 12 Days of Christmas, discussthis week's FBFL playoffs, quick hit the FBFL pick 'em pool and Survivor, and a couple news points and then finish with a chat about the Stalkers roster again.
YouTube Link: OatB Ep. 206 - Playoff Week 1
Thanks to Spotify, we had to republish, but here ya go...again.
After Opi gets done pouting, the topics of conversation become: Phillip Rivers, Hall of Famer or no? Joe Namath stats, sort of, last week's prediction results, Grim's computer prowess, Boom players, Bust players, Grimbo trying to pee at Arrowhead Stadium, Adara doesn't understand running backpower, Mad Men, Hightown, Stranger Things, & Knights Tale, The Patriot, and then moved to Sleepers, the NFL, and then we get into the meat of the podcast talking this week's FBFL playoff battles.
31:30 - This week's football video isn't football. It's atribute to our very own Greg Ventris who made history by starting the Moline Girls Wrestling Team. Congrats to Greg and the girls who are working so hard to create this historic moment!
YouTube Link: OatB Ep. - 205 - WK 14 - Someonehas to win
We get the gang back together to chat football and then spend a lot of time going over the different playoff scenarios in the FBFL. We also talk: Joker's long life, Opi broke Grimbo, Koo's kick, Grimbo moving draft picks, Fuck You Kevin's Draft Pick addiction, Boom, the Bear's offensive line, Bust, QB injuries, the Raiders, Sleepers, NFL Picks, Bears fans need to shut the fuck up, Ryan's mom (yeah, that's Bear's wife), other random NFL stuff, and then on YouTube, the FBFL Playoff Rundown starts at 55:04. If listening as a podcast, it starts at 50:32 if you want to fast forward to that section. Then we complete the podcast with talking about the trades that occurred in the FBFL. And the NFL theme song features lingerie football plays once again!
YouTube Link: OatB Ep 204 WK 13 FBFL Playoff Rundown
We're Opi-less again and I'm not sure we're getting better atthis but we're having fun. This was just Bear and the Boys and we had a good time just talking shit. What we cover: The Campaign, predictions, Bear's poor memory, monotone, bowling, Boom, flavored Red Bull, MNF chat, Bust, Sleeper,and Step Brothers. For your NFL song viewing, we have a little lingerie football video that will satisfy the male listeners a little too much. The 3 Turkey Day games while there's a small invasion known as Haley. We bring it down a little talking about some questionable trading now occurring in theFBFL. Chat a few injuries, Grady Jarrett and his dad, and how we feel the Bears are going to finish this season. Then, finish with a little Cub talk again. Fun time with the kids!
YouTube Link: OatB Ep 203 WK 12 As God as My Witness, Ithought Opi was Taller
We're Opi-less again due to him havingsnot issues…again. We start without Ryan, but he shows up a little later with Whitey's for himself. What we chat about: Emily Osment, last week's predictions, a little NBA, the movie Playdate, AJ's new tat, Grim's Government conspiracy, Ryan's sick kid, Texan's uniform (game was on during the podcast),boom, bust, sleeper, the origin of the word "apple", NFL picks, Grim can't run a fan, the 4-win theory to get the 1st round pick, Josh Allen getting hurt during the game we're watching, FBFL pools, We finish by hitting up on Skatteboo's WWE appearance, Grabby's Whorehouse, FBFL Trade Rule, FBFLStandings, Fantrax contract extensions, and we finish with some miscellaneous NFL news along with a newcomer for everyone to run to the waiver wire to grab, small baseball chat, Bears vs Steelers, and then Grim's ready to get out ofthere.
YouTube Link: OatB Ep. 202 - WK 11 - Origins of"Apple" & Grabby's Whorehouse
We skipped week 9 for 1 simple reason, no Bear means no cuts so this stuff can't get published. So, we plow through a couple weeks' worth of stuff in 1 decently quick podcast. We start with the picks and normal stuff and sprinkle in some stories of Bear's trip to Cancun. We tangent a lot, talk alittle about The Witcher new season, how easy it is to get hurt in our elder state, some news about Antonio Brown and Jamal Anderson and then we move into actual NFL stuff with injuries and what-not. We go over the 5-stages of grief for fantasy football that Grimbo introduced us to.
YouTube Link: OatB Ep 202 WK 10 Mexico Sent Bear Back
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