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