Feeney Talks With Friends

#BeAGoodFriend and check out episode #148 of #FeeneyTalksFantasyFootball featuring Nick Lombardo.

It was great to talk with my #nephew, Nick!

Nick’s Picks is a #NephewOfFeeney, Fantasy Football Guru and Three Time Champion.

We talked about:
“Take Your Kid to Work Day” at Collins Aerospace (minute 1)
241 Sports Camp (minute 2.30)
JJ Zachariason sound effect (minute 4.30)
West Hartford Dad’s FFB League (minute 5.20)
Nick attended a Yard Goats game and did the high five tunnel (minute 6.20)
Mason, another #NephewOfFeeney attended Malik Naber’s Football Camp (minute 9)
Top 5 players to draft (minute 10.40)
Sleepers (minute 15.30)
Fantasy League smack talk (minute 17.20)
Players to avoid (minute 18.30)
Kickers or no kickers? (minute (minute 20)
Sam’s Wood-n-Tap championship story (minute 21)
Hot or not? (minute 23)
Start, Cut, Bench (minute 26)
Nick’s Fantasy Football League (minute 28)
Podcast sponsors (minute 32)
3 Keys (Sponsored by New England Door & Security) for drafting fantasy football (minute 33)
Fantasy Football Teams: First, Last, Best, Worst (minute 37)
Nick will be attending Suffield Academy (minute 38)
Nick was on a tear for CT Titans Baseball (minute 39)
Uncle BJ (#51) has a good sense of humor (minute 41)
Family Field Day (minute 42)
Aunt Titi (minute 47)
Grandpa BQ is a talented drummer (minute 49)
Nick’s favorite restaurant and 4 dinner guests (minute 50)
Photos from past events that Nick attended (minute 54)
Aunt Coley aka Nicole Feeney (minute 58)
Another #NephewOfFeeney Joe Joe golf story (minute 59)
Recommendations (minute 1.00)
Upcoming events (minute 1.01)

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Creators and Guests

Host

Eric Feeney

After teaching for nearly a decade at his alma mater in Waterbury, in 2014, Eric Feeney began teaching at Wolcott Elementary in West Hartford. Shortly following, Sam Sohn, the father of one of his students, passed away suddenly from a heart attack. He left behind four beautiful children and a loving wife, Nancy Wallace-Sohn. Eric saw first-hand the toll this took on the family as they navigated their way through this unthinkable tragedy. The following year, Rashad Collier Sr., another father of a student in Eric’s class, passed away in Hartford as a result of gun violence. Rashad left behind two fantastic children and a loving wife, Denise Villegas. The impact of these tragedies weighed on Eric and motivated him to build an organization that could provide assistance for similar situations. With that, Friends of Feeney was born. In 2019, Friends of Feeney Inc. became an official 501©(3) nonprofit organization, allowing more funds to be raised and expanding the range of services provided to children and families in need. Today, over a decade since Eric’s idea to build a community organization dedicated to supporting our friends in need, Friends of Feeney has burgeoned into a reputable and recognized organization capable of providing financial and resource support to numerous families and individuals across greater Hartford and beyond. Through this work, an incredible community of children and families has been recognized, who care for and appreciate each other’s kindness.

Producer

David Chmielewski

David started his video career in the early 1990s working on video crews as an independent contractor for such companies as Martha Stewart Living, IBM and Xerox. After graduating Southern Connecticut State University with the degree in Corporate Communications, David continued his video production career and accepted a position at WFSB in Hartford, CT. Within a few years the news and production studios became his charge and David designed, installed and maintained the televisions sets for the various programs at the station. At the end of 2013 David founded DirectLine Media, a video production company that specializes in creating memorable and compelling video content for businesses.

Editor

Stefania Sassano

Stefania's acting journey began as early as the fourth grade, where she took on the role of Scarlett O'Hara in a stage production of Gone With the Wind. This early experience sparked a lifelong passion for the arts. With a background in musical theater fueled by her love of music and singing, Stefania stepped into larger roles, such as Fraulein Kost in Cabaret during her sophomore year at the University of New Haven. This performance earned her a nomination for the prestigious Irene Ryan Acting Award at the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival—an honor she would receive again in her junior year.

What is Feeney Talks With Friends?

Eric Feeney talks with #friends! Eric is the founder of the nonprofit organization Friends of Feeney. Their mission is to help children and families who need assistance after heartbreak and tragedy. www.friendsoffeeney.com

Welcome in Foot Clan.

Or should I say friends clan?

Welcome to Fantasy Footballers
podcast with my guy mix picks.

He's a fantasy champion.
How are you doing, Nick?

I'm doing very good.

Excited for the upcoming season? Yes.

Multiple championships of fantasy
football.

How many do you have?

Probably like three.

Three. This guy's good.

This guy's good.
All right, we're here with.

All right.
Nick Lombardo, nephew of Feeney.

I'm very proud of you.

And I'm very happy to talk with you today.

We have a fantasy
football edition, right? Yep.

My name is Eric Feeney, founder
and president of Friends of Feeney.

And I use this podcast.

Feeney talks of friends and I talk
to wonderful people in the community.

Are doing great things.
So this guy is a good kid.

What's up Nick?

Not much.

I've been doing a lot of studying
for my fantasy season spent.

Just finished my baseball season,
so it's kind of relaxing.

Nice.

So we can talk fantasy.

We can talk
family field day, but let's talk.

What did you do today? How was your day?

It was pretty good.

It was my mom's take your kid to work day.

So I went to her work,
and it was actually pretty fun.

A lot of activities and stuff like that.

So it was pretty cool.

Very cool.
I heard you're going to be an engineer.

Yeah. Are you going to be an engineer?

Maybe. Nice.

Where's your mom? Work.

Collins aerospace and Windsor locks.

Yeah. And that's a part of.

Is that a part of Raytheon?

Yeah. Raytheon. Pratt Whitney.

I don't know, Fried

Whitney, but definitely at Raytheon.

Take your kid to work day,

and it was a full day.

I'll probably a little bit shorter,
but it was it was like

we were there from like 745
to, like, 1 or 2.

Okay. Did you check out the cafeteria?

Yeah, the food was actually pretty good.

Got to get donut at breakfast.

I mean, what else?

That's the best way to be an engineer.

You get donuts? Yeah.

I rolled kick balls
all day, and two for one sports camp.

Kickball.

Kickball and kickball.

Nice.

And the astroturf of, Hartford, pal.

The police athletic league.

You you do two for one, don't you?

Yeah, two for one. It's off field.

Have done two for one.

Yeah, I did, I didn't this year,
but in the past year I did

I think I've done it like 2 or 3 years
maybe at some field.

Middle school. Nice.

Yeah.

What are some
pros and cons of two for one?

A lot of my friends go. So.

And I think I know a lot of, like,

the counselors and stuff,
and they're all pretty nice.

And then I don't really have any cons.

I mean, I'm just there.

Better than sitting at home.

Yeah, yeah.

What sports do you pick when you go?

I think I do.

Well, they don't have baseball,
but I think I did basketball,

soccer and football,
maybe something like that.

Nice.

When I did two for one at Kingswood Oxford
they had baseball.

How come you don't have baseball
in Southfield?

Well, I don't really know.

I don't know if there's enough
kids doing it or whatever, but

they had wiffle ball and stuff,
but they didn't have, like, baseball.

Yeah. Which makes sense.

There's not a lot of,
like, kids in my grade

that are playing baseball,
so they probably wouldn't fill it out.

So I'm going to give you
a lot of compliments right now.

All right.

But before I give you a compliment,
everyone needs to know

who's your favorite relative.

And and, why is it me?

Well, I think any answer

I give, I'm going to receive a flashback.

I'm on the top three.

Haha. No, I'm kidding.

Nah, this is great.

We'll get into some family members, right?

But, friends of Nick, Nick's picks.

Fantasy football.

Yeah. So.

All right, let's just get into it.

Who we drafted.

Who are the must get guys?
I'm taking notes.

I'm in the middle of a draft right now.

Who are? Must get.

Well, I had a d sound.

Effect of JJ,
you know, late round podcast.

JJ Zachary's in.

English, so. Yeah.

Do you like a robot sound?

Stephania
we're going to get a robot sound.

Yi right there.

Well I haven't
we haven't done our draft order yet

so I haven't really been able
to prepare for my exact spot. Yep.

But I mean we obviously I'm
looking at Ja'Marr Chase Triple Crown.

I mean, it's hard to
pass him up if I get the opportunity.

Okay.

But I think my favorite, like, the person
I would like to get the most, it's

been for sure. Are you serious? 100%.

All right. So,

like we said, I'm in a West
Hartford league with the West Hartford

dads, Steve, Chuck, Greg, Andy,
Ronnie, bunch of other bums.

Bums. This is my year.

You heard me. Steve. Greg. Chuck. Ronnie.

Andy, Mark to new guys.

Simon out of starter.

This is my year.

I got the first pick.

Who am I locking in next picks.

You just gave me two.

Well, I Chase and Bijan.

I had the first pick last year and I
took Jamaal, which he was not ranked high.

So it was it was a
it was a ball Z pick okay.

But it worked out. So

I mean I don't know if he can match what

he did this year,
but I think he could put up close to it.

Yeah.

Yeah I mean there's always targets
I mean competed where the T Higgins.

Oh yeah.

But I don't know I mean Saquon obviously
I mean he said

in an interview that this year's
going to be his best year.

And if he does better than what he did
last year

he should definitely be a first pick.

Nice. Nice friends of Nicholas.

Game at the yard goats.
Sorry to hop around.

Friends of Nicholas Nicholas Parente,
you went once and, high five.

The players off the field. Yeah.
How was that?

That was pretty cool, actually.

I think I got autographs too.

Yeah. The guy same shirt.

Yeah. I feel like a few guys that.

I got the picture right here. This is you.

This is the the the tunnel.

Yeah. Here at the end.

We're in to be a goat friend.

And that was on August 23rd, 2023.

And that's you again.

Almost a year.

Almost a year ago.

We're going again this Friday
if you're hopefully you're going to go,

Dave and Stefon, you're coming from
Direct Line Media, friends

of Feeney's on the field holding the flag,
throwing out the first pitch.

I'm getting mic time.

I'm going to address the crowd.

I'm really excited about that.

Who's throwing the first pitch?

Last time I threw a first pitch,
I almost took out the dugout.

So I'm not doing any more first pitches.

So I think my guy Matt, chairman
of the board, you want to throw it out,

I can get you.

All right.

Sorry we got cut off, but shout out
to fresh ink does our t shirts,

shout out to, Dave at Fresh. So.

Oh, Ja'Marr Chase, here's what I got.

Consensus and consensus number one,
offering elite upside

with consistent touchdown and reception
value volume.

But Bijan Robinson,
another excellent option.

Young dynamic, dual threat
with high upsides.

Several and analysts
consider him the best number one pick.

Boy what do I do or Saquon Barkley
and I just can't do that.

It hurts me I would cry in the Giants.

It hurts. And every every time
I turn on anything right.

And it hurts.

But, BS on

I, I think with Michael Penix
I think the offense will be even better.

Like, I mean, because Kurt definitely
didn't have like the greatest season.

So if he can keep the offense going,

then I think Bijan is going to get like
even more volume.

Man, you're going to make me text Bijan.

The West Hartford dads
are going to be like, you're taking Bijan.

You're going to be like, reach, reach.

And then God forbid, he gets hurt.

Everyone teases me like it's my fault,
like I did something wrong, right?

I mean, fantasy ridiculous. Yeah.

I mean. Billy Feeney, you're an idiot.
You took. Bijan.

I mean, when I took Jamaar, I was
I was getting heckled pretty bad.

It was.

It probably wasn't reach, but.

Well,
I took CMC Christian McCaffrey first.

Last year, and then he he got hurt
and missed like eight games out.

He was just.

Came back for one game got hurt again.

He's the one who's not taking.

Too much too much

difficult like too much stuff going on.

It's not I don't want to like
have to worry about all of that.

All right.

Must get so we got Bijan is a must get.

I want to get Malik Nabers for sure.

Oh, yeah.

I don't know if I want to, like, reach
for him, but I would love to get him.

Fun fact my other nephew, Mason Feeney,

went to my Malik neighbors
camp in Stamford, Connecticut.

Did a little training mentally.

Neighbors signed autographs.

He got the t shirt
they had like a 20 on 20 game.

Malik neighbors threw my nephew
a touchdown.

Mason was one of the one of four people
to catch a pass from him.

And it was a touchdown.

Am I going to Mason Malik?

Neighbors. Mason's
going to remember that forever.

Yeah I mean he didn't I don't think even

he missed practice like this week
I think first toe.

But I don't I think they're just trying
to keep him healthy

from start of the season.
So he should be fine.

Is he going top first round.

Yeah I think it should.

Even with a bum quarterback.

Well no I think Russell I,

I like him
I think he's got to get deep ball too.

Okay okay
I'm going to write that down Russell.

Deep ball.

And he's definitely a veteran.

So he knows what he's doing.

Maybe he can help Malik
learn and play well.

So I like him I like

actually I have like a whole like list
on my hair where I've been like top five.

Give me a top five.

And that give me some reasons
why I need evidence.

I really like Jamir Gibbs.

Okay.

I think David Montgomery obviously
is like taking carries

and touchdowns or whatever, but I mean,
he could get injured and we know their.

Nickname, their backfield nickname.

Yeah. What?

It's Knuckles and.

Sonic. Yes. Iconic and knuckles.

That's a great a really good Nick
that's there.

And they got the custom. Cleat
do the cleats.

Oh I love that.

But I think when David Montgomery

got injured,
he went, Jamir Gibbs was going crazy.

So that could happen.

Or I mean, he's doing perfectly fine
while he was there.

Yeah, yeah, I agree.
I like your number. Lauren back.

And then I think

I should have memorized this.

I do like, my,

my sleeper is Keenan Allen.

He, I actually I had him in 2023

when he had that huge season,
a huge top five.

And he's back on the Chargers.

Oh he went back to the G.
My back to the Chargers.

Are you kidding.

No he went from the bears to the Chargers.

Yeah he put on way.

He wasn't himself.

He wasn't giving effort
when he was on the bears.

So you think he's back.

I I so if he can replicate
what he did with Herbert last time

I mean obviously Ladd McConkey
is going to steal targets Quentin Johnson.

But Mike Williams retired.

So if he could I mean even if he does

like half as good as he did in 2023,

that's still going to be productive
for how late he's going to be back.

Excellent. I like it.

So you got two more two more muskets.

And then you can go on to your sleepers
whenever you're ready.

And then we're going to do avoid.

I like

there's a lot of,
there's a lot of good guys to look at.

I mean, I guess I'll,
I'll go for a quarterback here.

Obviously, like Lamar and Josh Allen

are going to be good, but, I like Bo Nix.

Oh, okay.

Interesting.

I like Drake Maye
and I also like Dak Prescott. Wow.

I can't believe you said that.

Yeah. Especially the Giants fans.

It's it's not easy to like Cowboys player
but he I'm pretty sure

like they've been saying
he looks good in camp and I think

well he got injured last year got surgery.

But I mean they got George Pickens.

It's a good weapon.

They obviously are CeeDee lamb
I think they have a rookie running back.

Jaydon Blue.

So I mean the offense
I think should be circulating pretty good.

Which if it is I think he could
you can have a good season.

Okay I like it.

I'd say I'll go back to wide receivers.

Brian Thomas I like things about him.

Nico Collins too.

I think Stroud is just going
to get better every year.

So if he can do that.
I thought I was cool.

Last year, I

handcuffed KG, C.J.

Stroud and Nico Collins.

So when they do a touchdown,
it's like almost, what, two?

But one of them got hurt.
I think Nico got hurt.

Yeah, so. But I like Nico.

I'll give him another chance.
Even though he got her last year.

I took I took Tank Dell last year.

That was. That was rough.

He is. You so good.

The football nickname.

Yeah,
but then he just. He wasn't seeing it.

Wasn't seeing the catches this off.

But, Yeah, I would say and Brian Thomas

because Trevor Lawrence seems pretty good
even though he got.

Yeah laid out pretty bad last year. Yeah.

And still without him Brian Thomas
definitely did good for a rookie.

So if he can grow and learn and whatever.

Lawrence Brian Thomas last night
almost got lit up.

Yeah. That's the field.

He threw a hospital pass. Oh.

That's
how you get your wide receivers killed.

And there goes
Brian C Thomas's fantasy season

because you want to throw him
across the middle.

And some guy just came and lit him up.

Travis Hunter too.

He can he can be good because I like to

like see like what the players
are actually saying about their teammates.

And Trevor Lawrence really wants Travis
Hunter on offense. Yep.

So if he does end up playing both sides
or just playing offense,

I think you'll see a lot of targets.

That's where

that's impossible, that he's
going to play offense and defense.

You think he can pull that off?
He did in college pretty well.

But NFL is a whole different animal.

I think he can pull it off
for a little bit,

but I think he's eventually going to stop.

I mean yeah, I think he could play both.

You could put it right there. Actually.

That's not like.

I think he could play both,
but I don't know

if he can play both really well.

I know you'd be exhausted. Yeah.

Especially cornerback.

Not only is one of the hardest positions.

So now you have to do that
and play another position.

No, he's not doing it.
I'm going to say no.

Unfortunately,
it would be cool to see if he did it.

Yeah, maybe. Like

Player two.

Yeah.

Or even like he could like rotate
like one game.

Like you go, you can buy one game defense.

One game offense.

Like that.

That'd be an interesting strategy.

I also I do a lot of Jaguars,
but Travis Etienne.

Okay. Is he back?

He is back. I, I drafted him.

All I be available right now.

I'm this this keeper league
and I'm doing currently.

Yeah I also drafted him last year
after he had a big season the year before.

If he uses the RB six.

But he also signed off for 2024.

But he also yeah got injured a lot.

And then
but they got a new coach Liam Cohen.

And he was offensive
coordinator for Tampa.

And they have tank Bigsby and Driver CTN.

And last year
he did pretty good with the two

Tampa running backs
Bucky Irving and Rashad White.

So oh all right.
Yeah I remember those names.

All right Etienne I'm going to try here.

Hopefully he's available. Yeah.

Did you do any drafts this year?

I've been mock drafting, but my drafts

all the leagues I've been doing,
the drafts are always later in the year.

I don't really know why.

That's just how it end up.

When are you and your boys drafting?

I think the 24, which is pretty late.

Yeah.

But I also I mean, it's not bad.

It's you're close to the season.

Hopefully injuries don't occur.

You don't draft someone and they get hurt
in preseason or something like that.

Any anything you want to say
to your league in the camera column?

Parker I'm running the league this year.

He's the league owner.

I think he I think he won it last year.

Colin.

I think you heard it here first.
I think you want it last year.

You're going down, son. This is my year.

Nick's picks.

Is that Parker?

Parker that I know?

Yeah, his dad's the ref.

Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yep.

And then

I don't even know if one of my leagues
is happening again this year.

But I did win that league back to back.

It's coming out oh, 100%.

He's calling it back to back.

Said your. Mom.

I was one like I was I,
I had a really good draft for that team.

I hadn't I neighbors,
I had Kyren Williams.

My final team was I had traded,
I didn't really get trades.

Maybe I got to get you to share my team
on this dynasty league,

so you can be my advisor.

Any players that we should avoid

do not draft list.

I don't really like.

I think I wrote a couple down actually.

I don't really like Cooper Cup.

Interesting.

Because. Well, here's the thing.

Cooper Cup or Json, like, I think

one of them is going to do good,
but one of them's going to be bad.

But it's not really clear yet.

Like I don't know which one Sam Darnold
is going to go for the most.

Yeah. But whoever he does the other ones.

Fill me in.

What's Jsons full name.

Jackson Smith. Ejigbo.

Oh that's right that's right that's right.

And what team is that.

Seahawks Cooper is no longer around.

Cooper Kupp is on. Seahawks.

Sam Darnold is on Seahawks.

Wow I'm out of the loop.

Ladies and gentlemen
I did not know Cooper.

That's my guy Cooper Kupp left the Rams.

Yeah I'm just realizing this now.

And I'm in a draft.

That's not good.

Wow I mean that's
what the Json threw me off.

I knew he was on the Seahawks.

I mean I would like
I would like to see him do good.

But I just I don't know
who's going to get targeted more.

So I think one of them is going to
struggle.

Wow. Yeah Cooper Kupp.

I really like

for a kicker Cam Little.

You see the Jaguars kicker. Yep.

Just kick the 70 yarder.

Yo I mean Brandon I Brandon

Aubrey last year
who he could kick pretty far.

It worked out pretty great. Nice.

So if I get another.

You ever done a league with no kickers.

I have no.

And I'm with this guy Chad.

He's like no kickers Kickers.

Kickers are wack.

Kickers don't belong in fantasy football.

Let's let's
I think they're part of the game.

I don't know why you wouldn't have.

I'm with you
if you're listening out there.

Let's go comment.

Are you
are you team kicker or team no kicker.

Yeah,
except for when I'm winning by one point

and my kicker puts up
negative on a Monday night.

Did it happen?

It did happen to me.

How about your dad has a great story.

He was in, Wooden tap League. Yeah.

And I was at my house when it happened.

I feel like it was the Bears
and Packers were involved.

You recall the story?

Yeah. It was the.

Kicker. Kicked it to go to overtime and.

And kicked it again to win it.

No, I think it was a running.

It was the was the
the one to get the Hawaii.

Hawaii. Yeah. Yeah it was a running back.

I don't remember his name. Shoot.

Frank was a Frank Gore.

It might have it was
it might have been Frank Gore.

Okay. Yeah. Fill me in.
Because he was at my house.

I thought it was bears. I'm pretty sure.

So he had he had, this.

Oh, wait. Yeah, yeah.

He needed one more yard.

Frank Gore was on the other guy's team.

Yeah. And something to.

Over something crazy happened.
They went to overtime.

Right.

Frank Gore
got the got the yards and he lost.

That was the dude
went from going to Hawaii

to getting a free wooden tap burger
once a month.

I did benefit, I didn't
I wouldn't have benefited from the Hawaii

trip,
but I did benefit from those free burgers.

So thanks, Sam. Unfortunately.

Oh, that was awful.

We'll have to fill us in
if we messed that up. Sam.

Yeah.

Any other avoid

we got Cooper Cup. Avoid.

What about Tyreek Hill?
A lot of people are saying avoid him.

He might not even be with the Dolphins.

Yeah he just got arrested outside
of the stadium for he might not be in it.

I got off off the field as always
is always a big concern.

Like do you have.

More kids last year than touchdowns?

Yeah. More kids.

That's worth

focusing on the wrong thing.

But, he

I mean, if two plays good, maybe he has.

I think he could do really good, but
I wouldn't expect him to do really good.

Like I'm expecting him to do solid maybe.

Yeah,
but I'm not expecting anything crazy,

so I'm probably not going to take him away
high.

Actually in him
and to, aren't even getting along.

Yeah, I heard all right, we'll go.

We're going to rapid fire avoid.

Or you could say skip or hot or not.

Hot or not.

Ready? Hot or not, Jayden Daniels.

Hot hurts.

Hot. Boro hot.

Jordan love.

He hurt us.

I'm going to go.

I had him last year. I'm going to go.

Not Anthony Richardson. Not.

Sam Darnold

Russell Wilson hot.

Oh wow okay okay.

Oh who's this guy
Omarion Hampton zero rookie guard.

Your running back. Hot or not.

I'm going to go hot.

Bryce Breece Hall.

Not oh.

Don't tell me that dude
I picked him second.

He's on the Jets right RJ Harvey

Broncos.

Didn't they get JK Dobbins?

Is he your running back?

Yeah.

Nah, I think they have Jacob Dobbins. Yep.

Trayvon.

Trayvon Henderson Patriots hot.

Caleb Johnson.

Steelers hot.

Javonte Williams
oh I was a go change cowboy.

Yeah. Change of scenery.

He's getting the most reps in camp.

Okay, okay.

DK Metcalf What's your take?

You think new, new team, new location
is helps a player or hurts a player?

Why me?

If they're getting put into
a better situation or a worse situation,

I think
I sometimes it's good to get a reset.

You know, like if you. Especially

if you and bad on the other team
and you kind of get to like refresh.

All right. Starting over clean slate.

That's DK Metcalf for you.

Xavier worthy hot

Rishi rice.

I think he's missing the first four games
or something like that.

Cooper Cup we talked about.

When he comes back, I think it'll be good.
Okay.

Who's this Chris.

Oh who's Chris Godwin I,
I know who that is.

Oh Debo that's another one.

I didn't know he left.

He went to the commanders. Yeah.

So Terry McLaurin requested.

I. You requested.

So I think if he goes or if he holds out
Debo could have a big year.

You know where Debo got his nickname.

I did not. From the movie Friday.

The guy who steals Smokey's bike, his name
Debo.

Debo Brandon Aiyuk.

He doesn't even have a team listed.

Or is he?

I think he might.

Might be a typo.

I think he's on the 40 Niners.

Yeah, I would think so too.

Mark Andrews.

Poor guy.

That was a rough season.

Last, last rough ending is.

Oh, my guy.

I'm gonna go. Ha!

Okay. I think a comeback season.

You're big into,

second chances.

Yeah.

All right, now we got
we got another one. You got.

Gotta start court bench

start court.

Bench Jameer
Gibbs, Derrick Henry or Saquon Barkley.

Ooh! Start court bench.

Ladies and gentlemen. That's a tough one.

I think I have to start Saquon okay 100%.

Okay.

And I think I'm going to bench Jamir Gibbs
and cut Derrick Henry.

Jeez. Based on age maybe. Yeah.

But also Lamar takes away
some rushing from Derrick Henry.

So it's you ever see Derrick Henry
in high school?

He ran for about a mile.

Yeah.

He I think he scored
78 touchdowns in one season.

Imagine coming out of last period math.

And you got to go tackle Derrick Henry.

They had the Derrick Henry world
when he was up by 21 in eighth grade.

They had to take him out
is a Derrick Henry Rule.

No. He would score like seven touchdowns
a game.

Yeah. Monster

Derrick Henry I hit me with a start.

Cut bench. Give me one three. Guys.

I'm going to go.

Young guys here. Yeah.

Three young rookie wide receivers.

Oh. Me for a loop Matthew Gordon.

Teddy right. Golden Gordon.

All right Categoria McMillan.

And then E

what's another rookie wide receiver
I can give rookie Ryan.

Receiver I'll do my research real quick.

Are there

any let's say you're
let's say there's a flex

Ashton JT Matthew Golden Tate
Ryan McMillan Ashton.

Is that the running back for the Raiders.
Yeah.

Where's Golden Packers.

All right. Like where's McMillan.

Carolina.

All right just on scenario

I'm going to start this Ashton jaunty guy
I have high hopes for him.

He's a little guy though
so I'm nervous about his size.

Golden I'm going to have to bench.

And this McMillan guy based on his team

he's this Carolina typically
not a good team.

Better they you know
they had better predicted from last year

cutting McMillan McMillan.

Yeah that's a fairy.

That's very very. Unfair. Yeah.

Do you have All right.

So we got the sleepers we got to avoid.

Who in your league always talk

smack and kind of drives you nuts?

I mean, I would say everybody at
some point says a little, like.

So, little guy,
you always tell me I traded last year.

You were like,
I traded, hypothetical here.

You know, I traded, a bag of footballs

and some Doritos for Derrick Henry.

Patrick Mahomes.

I feel like this trade was so lopsided.

Do you recall this trade late?

Are you just like trade,
taking advantage of people.

And how do you pull that trade off?

I because I can't recall
exactly what it was.

I had a really big conflict
last year with my league.

I traded Tank Dell and Kyren Williams,

and I was getting
Mike Evans and Saquon Barkley

definitely going in my favor.

Yeah.

You don't say. Mike.

Well, Mike Evans was injured at the time,
but I knew you was going to come back.

Like it wasn't like a major.

So I wanted to get him
and I wanted to get Saquon obviously.

And by chance I didn't he just accept it.

But then he goes to the like.

Note that the league didn't vote a veto.

He goes to the league manager
and says I don't want to do this anymore.

Veto it.

Okay okay.

Lee Lieberman
your. League manager does it.

He just vetoed that on the spot.

No vote, no nothing.

I was I was a little angry
and I voiced that in the group chat.

I was like, is is crazy.

That's hilarious. How old are you?

15, 14, 14.

You're 14.

Going through

the same things that happened in my league
a couple of years ago.

That's so funny

that no matter the age, there's
always going to be some commissioner.

Unfair trade nonsense.

No vote.

I mean, if you had a vote
and it got voted, that's fine.

Yeah, but there's no vote.

You just did it on the spot.

Come on. Who's this Commissioner?

We don't call him.
We'll keep him nameless.

Maybe out of confidentiality.

We don't want to get hate mail
and hate DMs from the fini

talks of friends podcast,
because everybody's watching.

Thank you.

So you got any, rivalries heating up.

In my league? Yeah.

Well,
I like to start a little bit of rivalry

with all my league mates,
because it's just.

It just makes every week more fun.

Yeah.

Talk a little smack
and then hopefully not lose.

And can't lose after the smack talk.

Not really.

I mean, if I beat somebody really bad
and it's the first time

I played them,
then I'll definitely get a little cocky.

Yeah, like I beat the team.

My team put up like 208 points

last year in like a in like a regular PPR.

But, You beat someone by 200 points.

No, I beat them by like 115 maybe.

Okay. But I put up 200 points.
Oh gotcha gotcha gotcha.

But it was bad.

It was really bad.

So I was talking a lot of snag after that.

And in my other league I ended up

putting up like,
ton of points, but it was in

like after I got knocked out

my team an awful week next week,
they come back, went insane.

Yeah.

Isn't that painful?

Like, say you have your great week.

You put up 180.

It's like your week high, your season
high, but then your opponent puts up 200.

So your team had a day,
your best day ever.

But they had their best. Yeah.

And you just faced the buzzsaw that week.

And then you look around the league.

Everyone else played duds
and you played the one guy who went off.

Yeah. What's what's
what's worse than that?

I mean, I, I don't think it happened to me

last year on the bad end,
but I definitely wasn't good.

And a couple of times. Yeah.

Or the guy that leaves his

his roster spots open or a dude's hurt

and he got them in the starting what,
kick them out of League.

One over for that. Yeah.

If you say if you don't start a full squad
don't play fantasy.

If you're in a competitive league,
do like for money and stuff

like I was in this, it was for money,
but it was with my friends.

They we ended up we need like 1 or 2 kids.

So my friend gets like his cousins

that live like Vermont or something, and

he just not only did
they not start the lineup and

they didn't do anything, they auto drafted
everything, didn't even look at it.

But he would just send them a trade
and then text them and be like,

accept this trade. Done.

Like he traded Anthony Richardson
for Lamar Jackson.

Come on, come on.

He still lost.

All right. We're going to wrap it up.

Anything you want to add about any advice
if you were to.

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What are three keys?

What are the like the top three keys

that a player
should have going into a fantasy draft?

What are three keys?

Somebody's a player
that they want to draft around. Yep.

Like they have to have their one guy
for guy.

Bill build it around them.

I like it.

A stack is always nice.

Okay. QB, wide receiver stack.

Yeah, if you can. Same team.

What about Josh Allen?

Kincaid stack. Is that all right?

Yeah, yeah, I would say.

Like, so say I'm in a position
I could have taken Kincaid

with Josh Allen or

Kyle Pitts with out.

Was the stack worth it, or should
I have went to Kyle Pitts.

Or Kyle Pitts?
As we come for the notorious.

For not. Doing too well? Yes.

Okay, good.
So tell me I made the right choice.

I would say. Kincaid. Yeah.

Thank you, thank you.

All right, so that's stacking.

Building around a core guy.

And then I would say

not so much playing for depth,
but having, like, the best starting lineup

you can get, like,
I feel like some people like draft,

like I've got four really good
running backs.

But if you only play two of them, why?

And four?

Yeah, you might as well have gotten

like better wide receivers
so you can start okay.

So don't draft too much in one position.

Yeah. Yeah.

Or like because like shouldn't
be strategic.

Yeah.

People like to be like deep
in like certain spots

like have a lot of running backs
and stuff.

But like I think building like the best
starting lineup for better

or like two really good quarterbacks
because like, if you spend a pick

to have really good,
two really good quarterbacks,

where you could have got a really good quarterback and a really good wide receiver,

maybe it could work out.

But I just,

I think I would rather have two
really good players playing in one week.

All right, all right.

We're here with Nick's picks.

Nick Lombardo, this is episode
148 of Feeney Talks with Friends.

Go back and check out episode 147.

We had Jamie Arbor on Jamie Arbors
works for the Supported Living Group.

They help people who have traumatic brain
injury or CTE

football related injuries, but head trauma

that would hurt them and have them that
need some support for their life.

So go back and check out Jamie.

He's a good friend.
He's helping people out.

But Nick's picks what is.

Tell me about your fantasy teams.

Your first fantasy team.

Your last fantasy team.

Your best one in your worst one.

I mean,

my best team probably.

You know, I would like to.

I want to pull this up.

It was a really good team.

It might take me a second, but it was.

It was kind of like
where a lot of the players, like,

now that we know that aren't that good
but are like really good now.

But I had them all before that.

Like, okay, so this is the week
I beat a kid by 100.

I put up 200.

I had Kyler Murray

who went for 20, Breece
Hall went for 43, BGN went for 20,

CeeDee lamb went for 25,
Puka Nacua went for 33.

George Kittle went for 20.

Saquon went for 20.

That team stack. Had both.

And they all had a day.

Baltimore defense had five picks.

They went for 12.

My kicker went for seven.
What do you have that screenshotted?

Yeah it's like the career highlight.

You had to save. It
100. Should frame it put it on the wall.

And if you look at all the players
now they're all like top players.

Like I don't know how. That's a squad.

Any final remarks on fantasy?

Because we're going to move on.

Not really.

Hopefully.

Or not a lot of injuries this season.

That's the goal.

Yeah we're here with the fantasy
friend Ballers.

This is welcome to the friend clan.

We're here with Nick's picks.

But Nick moving moving on I'm
very proud of you.

You're going to high school next year.

You're going to Suffield Academy.

You excited about that?

Anything you want to share about that?

Yeah.
Should be a really good opportunity.

I definitely have to focus a lot

on my academics and athletics
because it's definitely competitive.

So I have a lot to earn.

And I'm going in, I don't know,
I know a couple kids

like my friends that are from Southfield,
but I'm going in.

Nobody there knows me really. Okay.

So I of like to prove myself nice. Yeah.

Make a name for yourself.

I was going to say. You a scholar athlete?

You.

I've seen you play basketball

and you can score a lot of points,
but you're also very like.

You're like a floor general.

You pass your thoughtful
to your teammates.

I think that's great being.

Our motto is being a good friend,
you know, so you're a good teammate.

Also you're a baseball team.

The Titans I just saw
that you had a killer killer week.

What is this?

Let me read these stat
lines of Connecticut Titans here.

This guy went

hit for

545 batting average, eight RBIs,
nine runs.

Then you have for 533, five RBIs,

six runs, five stolen bases.

Nick was on an absolute tear
all week long.

That's the CT Titans Facebook page.

This guy.

Tell us about the CT Titans.

We was at the state
games and Nutmeg State games.

I think so

let's say

crushing.

Yes, the entire 14.

You team was crushing baseballs
this week at the Nutmeg State games.

Yeah we won
I think we yeah, we went undefeated.

We won the Nutmeg State games
and won the Uncle.

Congratulations.

That's awesome actually for winning it.

We get like an invite next summer
to a tournament at Penn State

which would be pretty cool. Wow. Yeah.

That's cool Penn State, the Nittany Lions,
that's college known as a College Park.

I forgot where they play, but no, quite.

Oh, this game.

Seven RBIs, five runs, six stolen bases.

Jeez,

you're like Mike trout out there.

No, you're scholar athlete
because you work hard.

I don't even know if you remember this,

but one day you're over the house
and you had online CD

and online CD could be either,
you know, hit or miss your

at your cousin's house,
but you were like, attentive.

You actually read a passage
and I was like, wow.

I was really impressed.

So I want to give you compliments
and commend you for that.

That was really cool.

You're an older brother,
you know, you got a great sense of humor.

You know, you just smashed pie,

and you're because you,
hit your brother's face last week.

That was funny.

Just a good kid.

You know, you got a great sense of humor.

Where did you get.
Where'd you get your sense of humor from.

Uncle.

E? Yes.

Say that in the camera.

Nice. Hello, uncle.

Right here.

Yes. Uncle E gave him his sense of humor.

You heard it here first, let me say.

Hold on.

Make sure my podcast guest episode
51 knows.

All right.

You know, that was.

I do not.

Your uncle BJ was podcast guest 51.

And you are podcast 148.

And I'm having a lot better time with you
than I did with him.

How's BJ doing?

I think he's doing pretty good.

He's going to be at the field day, right?

Yes. Yeah. Okay. We're done.

We're moving on.

We're done with fantasy football talk.

Let's talk family field.

Damn excited. Yeah. I'll color you.

I think I'll, I think I got this.

I got the squads right here.

I want to say blue baby.

All right. Oh, yeah. Who.

Which one? Skids.

And which one's booger?

Who's booger? Who's skids from your aunt

is, I think I couldn't tell her
book is a picture.

Skids is my dad.

Okay, so booger must be BJ.

Booger is B.J. because there were kid pics
and it was small.

I couldn't really tell. Yeah.

And you call her Titi? Yeah.

I feel like she has a nickname
for everybody.

What's up with that?

I don't know, I mean.

What's going on with T.C.?

With the nicknames.

I she definitely has a lot of them.

I don't really know how she got them
either, but I don't know what.

Would be a good podcast guest.

I think so, yeah.

And how much should I charge her to
come on my show?

Well, I mean she's an author

so she's probably going to be able to talk
pretty well.

So yeah.

Oh she can talk.

Oh yeah. She can talk.

So I don't know maybe just

how much, how much is

the normal price for her.

One $1 million.

Nah I'm kidding.

Just a donation of her choice.

Yeah. She wrote a book, right?
What's your book about?

She wrote two books.

I think. Sure.

Yeah, maybe a nonfiction book now, too.

She wrote a I know she wrote

a new book, which she also wrote,
like a series of other books.

Yeah,

I don't know, it's like sci fi.

Yeah, I don't really know love,

but yeah, she's definitely a good author.

All right, we'll have you on.

Yeah.

She she has everyone's name
and talk about nicknames.

You know what her nickname is for me?

Big head, isn't it?

Is it?

All right, I got something for you.

Big head.

Which that gets mentioned
a lot on the podcast, too.

I had my guy on a couple weeks ago.

She jumps by Kai.

He has a bunch of followers on Instagram.

Yeah, and he can dunk and touch 11ft.

And I said, hey, does having a big head
affect your jumping ability

because LeBron Michael
they have considerably smaller heads.

Uncle E my head so big

I don't have dreams I have movies okay.

Just get they get the beard like LeBron.

Oh it's the beard will help.

All right.

So even it out you know let's.

Talk about these squads.

So the blue team skids big John

Kohli and Bridget

sorry.

All right for your red team tea noodle.

Who's noodle me.

Where'd you get that nickname.

No clue.

Genie and booger.

Booger dude.
That's hilarious. Did he pick his nose?

I hope number 51 I
if I knew that in episode

51, I would have called it
Feeney talks with booger.

I would have been a good title.

Green team.

Oh, yeah. Pert, weird pert come from.

That's another one.

Yeah. That's Pete.

Yeah, I don't really know.

I should I should ask
how she got all these nicknames.

Sister. Who's sister?

My mom. Your mom's sister?

Jojo.

Yeah. Oh. Who's Skarra?

Her best friend Sara.

BJ is a girl for her friend.

Gotcha, gotcha. I knew that

Tootie.

Tootie Santa, who's Santa had a.

30. 2d, 2d, 2d.

Are you serious with this?

Are you serious with this stuff?

Right here. Burn

your grandpa, baby.

Brian B BQ the man, the myth, the legend.

Yo, big head.

And then Neela

doing me dirty with the big hat.

What's up with that?

And I'm not even on Team
Green like, hello.

You see that?

You see the squad colors? Yeah.

All right, so

how bad is the purple team
going to destroy everyone?

On a scale of one to

like, an atomic bomb?

Zero. They're going to.

They're going to get Molly. What?

Might you wipe the floor?

Who's it all right.

Start. Sit and bench one of these.
All right. Start.

What is it? Start.

Cut. Bench.

What's what? Sport. What activity.

Yeah.
What are the activities? Do you know.

I want to see kick

balls on I maybe I don't know.

I went all state and kickball

tackle football.

Oh I hope,

I'll definitely pummel
you guys in that too.

All right.

I hope it's like some sort of pong

flip cup, slip and slide.

Cornhole.

Probably some.

Yeah, I don't know, I. Is there a list?

No, there was no, there's a great video.
Great video about. That.

Great video.

Yeah.

We definitely need to get a list
or just find out when we get there.

Yeah.

Did you were you on the text yesterday
when I was like,

hey, give me some questions for noodle.

Yeah. Did you see those?

You want to address any of those questions
from the from the yeah.

Peanut gallery. All right. Let's see.

Where are we?

Molly?

Knowledge.

Bobby?

Any luck?

Okay.

It said,
what do you love about your little boy?

She's very caring.

Very kind. Yeah.

Very supportive.

Yeah.

Curtis, he said,

why is Uncle Curtis
your biggest influence?

Yeesh,

I would what did I write?

What did I write?

You misspelled uncle E.

That's a good one.

I would say

the orange beard.

It's very influential.

Very smart.

Yeah.

And then I think there's three.

Who's the funniest member of the family?

I would, I would say booger. Yes.

Always at the gatherings, making everyone
laugh.

Christmas.

I don't know nothing.

I love going to your house for holidays
and sitting with BQ and booger.

Nothing.

Besa, you're going to have a good time.

Yeah.

And and and occasionally here
and there, you know, but you know.

But booger could make me laugh.

Dude,
if there's many people BJ Quigg and I,

his government name is Brian
Junior Coogan.

And it fits.

He's a comedian and he's a comedian.

He does elbow room.

Yeah. There he does.

Now. He's great.

If you watch episode 51, I do my bit.

He critiques my standup routine.

And when I say critiques, he critiques it.

He goes, you see this?

You gotta rip it up,

glove and throw it in the trash.

Was pretty funny.

Definitely not easy.

Oh, not easy, but he's so funny.

One of the funniest dudes I know.

51 episode 51.

And how talented of a musician

is BQ grapple be with you?

He's playing the drums. We went.

He played on the Southfield
Green recently.

We went to there was good

playing in the heat, too.

Sweaty with the cutoff.

Oh, he's in the cutoff 100%. The bandana.

Oh that the Yankee hat?

The goatee.

Yeah.

Drug onic. Iconic.

Definitely the best drummer I know.

Like a rock star. He's a rock. Yeah.

Great. Dude, we have a thing.

We go around and get pizza.

We've been to Mondo.

We've been to Camille's.

Wait, did we go to Camille's?

Or maybe we attended to go to Camille's
when we went to Yukon game,

where we have
on the list little rendezvous in Meriden.

Yeah, and Falco's in Cheshire

so far. Drive, Cheshire.

Yeah, we're here at Luna Pizza.

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I'm not going to go with the chain.

I'll go with the local.

He. Ooh.

I'm a big fan of hibachi, but I don't know
any of their names of them, so.

Okay.

You got six year old bocce
right over here.

I would say.

One that I can always, like,
enjoy that I go to.

I'd say Gino's in East Granby. Okay.

Shout out to Gio's. Very solid.

I can go there.

It's close. Yep. Always good. Yeah.

So you're at Gio's.

You can eat with four guests, dead
or alive.

Any time frame in the world, in life,
who you eat with, for people.

So they're really thorough.

I like to go

with people that I could learn from.

Maybe I'll go in like a like a president.

Maybe like Theodore Roosevelt. Okay.

I like it.

Presidents. Popular pick on this show.

I like to, Yeah, probably some athletes

that I want to meet,
maybe learn from work ethic.

Kobe Bryant.

Kobe. Kobe.

Oh, okay, I heard Cody.

I was like, Kobe Bryant.

Okay. Kobe. Yeah, yeah.

When you shoot trash in the trash
can from far away, what do you say, Kobe?

What do you think I say?

He finished

the league, Jordan.

But Feeney the custodian me.

In the in the rec and.

The JCC rec league.

Feeney. Milk buckets.

Still it still killing it.

No, but I say, Jordan,
that's that's an age range thing.

How old are you?

All right, so you got Teddy.

You know, the Teddy bears named after him?

Teddy bear went on a hunting trip.

He refused to shoot the bear.

They they put all these bears, teddy
bear, Teddy Roosevelt.

Fun fact Kobe.

And then I'd like to.

Go with, you got two more. Sport
that I love. Baseball.

I pick a baseball player
that I could learn from Ken Griffey.

The smoothest.

One of the best swings ever.

Oh, which reminds me,

Ken Griffey.

What age?

What age is it
no longer cool to wear a backwards hat?

Where's the cut off?

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