25 yards later by Nick Luciano

Welcome to 25 Yards Later, Rumination Radio Network’s fantasy football podcast! In this episode, we take a look back at the fantasy season with our 2nd annual awards show. Who will be named to our All-Fantasy team? Who was the best waiver wire pickup? Who will win Fantasy MVP? And of course, our most prestigious and exclusive award, the Touchback Player of the Year. 

Welcome to 25 Yards Later, Rumination Radio Network’s fantasy football podcast!

Welcome to 25 Yards Later, Rumination Radio Network’s fantasy football podcast!

Welcome to 25 Yards Later, Rumination Radio Network’s fantasy football podcast!

Welcome to 25 Yards Later, Rumination Radio Network’s fantasy football podcast!

Welcome to 25 Yards Later, Rumination Radio Network’s fantasy football podcast!

Welcome to 25 Yards Later, Rumination Radio Network’s fantasy football podcast! 

Welcome to 25 Yards Later, Rumination Radio Network’s fantasy football podcast! 

Welcome to 25 Yards Later, Sports Obsessive and Rumination Radio Network’s fantasy football podcast! 

This week we cover slightly fewer games because we couldn't wait to talk about the busiest trade deadline in NFL history. What are the fantasy impacts of moves like TJ Hockenson to the Vikings, James Robinson to the Jets, or Chase Claypool to the Bears? Speaking of those Bears, is Justin Fields an every week start? And which Chargers' wide receiver is going to feast this week after looking around the receiver room like Will Smith at the end of Fresh Prince? The answers to all these questions and more on this weeks episode of 25 Yards Later.

Nick Lucian-ghoul and Allijah Boo-tika host a special Halloween episode of 25 Yards Later. In this episode, we break down the Bengals/Browns game with a little help from aliens, the ghost of Mary Shelley, and Fake Human Being Blimey Snogglebottom. Be sure to listen to this out of this world episode that's unlike any we've done to date!

Welcome to another episode of 25 Yards Later where Allijah is still winning. This week was absolutely full of news with big trades like CMC to the 49ers and James Robinson to the Jets. Meanwhile Matt Ryan got benched for real human being Sam Ehlinger. After we power through the news we move on to answering the usual slew of questions. Who will step up in the Jets backfield after Breece Hall's injury? Is Tony Pollard the best play at RB this week or is it Derrick Henry? Are there any Dolphins players that we don't want to start this week? Can you play both the Colts and Commanders defenses against each other? And who is the top 10 tight end that you can pick up on waivers right now?! Find out the answers to all these questions and more on this week's episode of 25 Yards Later!

This week is our 50th episode! It's been a wonderful ride up to this point and the good news is that Allijah is finally getting some WINS! We talk about how it feels to be on an undefeated streak and all of the many successes that are surely to come. We also preview 6 games and try to figure out which team is more interesting for fantasy, the Jets or the Falcons? There are real boys everywhere this week and we close the show as we always do with a speed round full of tidbits to help you win your match up. Thank you for listening for 50 wonderful episodes. We will see YOU, 25 Yards Later.

Welcome to 25 Yards Later, Sports Obsessive and Rumination Radio Network’s fantasy football podcast! This week. We cover the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the New England Patriots, the Green Bay Packers, the Arizona Cardinals, the Kansas City Chiefs, and the Buffalo Bills.

Welcome to 25 Yards Later, Sports Obsessive and Rumination Radio Network’s fantasy football podcast! 

Welcome to 25 Yards Later, Sports Obsessive and Rumination Radio Network’s fantasy football podcast! It's only Week 3 in the NFL, but Nick and Allijah already have to lament the loss of relevance of some of their Best Fantasy Friends. But we will persevere and will strive to continue our mission to get you the information you need to get the win in your fantasy matchups. 

Welcome to the 25 Yards Later, Sports Obsessive and Rumination Radio Network’s fantasy football podcast! It was an exciting Week 1 from start to finish (well, almost, once the Bills got done destroying the Rams at least), and Week 2 looks like it will be just as exciting. Unfortunately, a large wave of injuries hit several prominent players with ripple effects that can be felt throughout the league. But don't worry, Nick and Allijah are here to help you figure out how to adjust your strategies in the wake of Week 1 and ring in some well-earned victories in Week 2.

Welcome to the 25 Yards Later, Sports Obsessive and Rumination Radio Network’s fantasy football podcast! Week 1 is finally here, and hosts Nick Luciano and Allijah Motika have you covered with some of the most interesting teams of the week. We start off by taking a look at both sides of the hotly anticipated Buffalo Bills and Los Angeles Rams game before taking looks at the Denver Broncos with new QB Russell Wilson, the Tom Brady-led Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the Las Vegas Raiders, and the Arizona Cardinals.

Welcome to 25 Yards Later, Sports Obsessive and Rumination Radio Network’s fantasy football podcast! In this episode, Nick and Allijah continue what can now be called a tradition: they give live commentary to their most important draft of the season! Picking back-to-back, the drama could not be higher. Picks are frequently sniped, and our hosts have to stay quick on their feet to adapt to the twists and turns of the draft.

Welcome to 25 Yards Later, Sports Obsessive and Rumination Radio Network’s fantasy football podcast! It's our biggest show of the year, and we celebrate it once again by welcoming several exciting content creators to the show. Guests Andrew Grevas (founder of 25YL Media and Sports Obsessive), Pokemon Go Twitch streamer Toshi, and Sports Obsessive football writer Scott Acquard.

Nick and Allijah name their BFFs (Best Fantasy Friends) for the 2021 season. What is a BFF? They are the players that our intrepid hosts expect to target in almost every fantasy draft they participate in for this upcoming season. A player could be named a BFF for any reason; maybe we believe in their draft value, breakout potential, or role in an offense. The point, though, is that like our real-life best friends, we believe in these players through thick and thin (with the obvious exception that unlike our real-life best friends, there is the chance that we might end up dropping any of these players at any moment following a rough stretch during the season, but hey, the metaphor is what is important here).

Welcome to 25 Yards Later, Sports Obsessive and Rumination Radio Network’s fantasy football podcast! Or is it 35 Meters Before…or maybe it’s 27 Feet? We took some time off during the doldrums of the offseason for some life events (for example, it's new homeowner Nick’s first episode since like April), so it’s been a while since our last episode, and your illustrious hosts needed to take a moment to remember what their show is supposed to be about. Luckily, they were eventually able to figure it out. We’re here to bring you insightful and relatable fantasy football analysis, and we’re back for the 2022 season!

Welcome to 25 Yards Later, Sports Obsessive and Rumination Radio Network’s fantasy football podcast! Coming off the heels of the NFL Draft is our second annual Intro to Dynasty episode, and we continue the tradition of bringing on special guests for our Intro to Dynasty episodes by welcoming Michael Royer to the show. Michael hosts the Smash Accept podcast, which focuses on dynasty trades and philosophy. Michael joins our regular cohost Allijah to give a primer on dynasty, talk about favorite formats, and break down the latest batch of NFL rookies. Michael and Allijah also recap some of the big non-draft related news to break since our last episode, including DeAndre Hopkins' suspension and the blockbuster Hollywood Brown and AJ Brown trades.

Welcome to 25 Yards Later, Sports Obsessive and Rumination Radio Network’s fantasy football podcast! With the wildest free agency period we've ever experienced largely in our rearview mirrors, the 25 Yards Later guys reconvene to break down all of the biggest and most fantasy-relevant developments from the last month (with plenty of fantasy-irrelevant developments included, of course).

Welcome to 25 Yards Later, Sports Obsessive and Rumination Radio Network’s fantasy football podcast! The offseason is in full swing, and Nick and Allijah are back for another episode to help prepare you for next year's fantasy season. In this episode, we preview the impending free agency of several fantasy-relevant offensive players.

Welcome to 25 Yards Later, Sports Obsessive and Rumination Radio Network’s fantasy football podcast! With one notable exception, the playoffs are largely in the rearview mirror. On this episode of the podcast, Nick and Allijah round up some of the news that broke during our quasi-hiatus and then break down the fantasy impacts of the playoffs to this point. Finally, we wrap up the show by previewing the Super Bowl from a fantasy football angle by explaining what narratives we'll be closely following as we try to mine every bit of information that we can from the last---and biggest---game of the NFL season.

Welcome to 25 Yards Later, Sports Obsessive and Rumination Radio Network’s fantasy football podcast! It's Week 18, and while the vast majority of fantasy leagues have wrapped up their seasons (including our two hosts, who each secured championships last week), we're still here to wrap up the 2021 season and make sure that anyone that still has a championship to come is ready with previews breaking down the Las Vegas Raiders, Los Angeles Chargers, San Francisco 49ers, and Indianapolis Colts. It's also our last weekly podcast for a while, so we will see you all again in February.

Welcome to 25 Yards Later, Sports Obsessive and Rumination Radio Network’s fantasy football podcast. The fantasy championships games are finally here! Hopefully, you made it in all of your leagues. While there won't be any 25YLFF matchups, Nick made it to two championship games in four leagues (including the league of record where he has made it four times in six years) and Allijah made it in the Sports Obsessive dynasty league.

Welcome to 25 Yards Later, Sports Obsessive and Rumination Radio Network’s fantasy football podcast. Well, Week 15 sure was weird. Record COVID cases, game postponements, and the fewest touchdowns scored on a Sunday since the mid-1990s all contributed to what will surely go down as one of the worst fantasy playoff weekends ever. Hopefully you survived your matchups, and if not, at least you know that you weren't the only one that had a rough week.

Welcome to 25 Yards Later, Sports Obsessive and Rumination Radio Network’s fantasy football podcast. The fantasy playoffs are finally here, and while you hopefully got a bye, we've got all the latest news to get you ready for your matchups this weekend. And there is a TON of news (so much that we had to go back and add another segment!), between head coaches getting fired, the league's heaviest COVID outbreak of the entire pandemic, and star players missing significant time with injury. There's so much COVID uncertainty that we also include some tips to make sure you're prepared for any scenario.

Welcome to 25 Yards Later, Sports Obsessive and Rumination Radio Network’s fantasy football podcast. This is it gang, the last week of the regular season for most leagues. Our hosts have their playoff slots set, but there will be plenty of drama this weekend as countless dreams will be realized or crushed by just a handful of plays. You'll need every advantage that you can get, including getting ready for some of the key matchups by listening to our podcast. Week 14 also marks the one-year anniversary of our podcast! Thanks to everyone who has made this first year so much fun!

Welcome to 25 Yards Later, Sports Obsessive and Rumination Radio Network’s fantasy football podcast. We're on the home stretch to the playoffs, with most fantasy leagues only having 2 more games in the regular season. Our hosts are feeling the late-season crunch too, and we're here to help you win it all.

Welcome to 25 Yards Later, Sports Obsessive and Rumination Radio Network’s fantasy football podcast. It's our second episode of the week! If you haven't already, go back and listen to our Thanksgiving preview. Even if you're listening to this after Thanksgiving; it's fine to go back and listen even though you already know the result, you can still learn things.

Welcome to 25 Yards Later, Sports Obsessive and Rumination Radio Network’s fantasy football podcast. Thanksgiving week is the best football week of the year! To celebrate, we're releasing two podcasts this week, with our full-length podcast dropping early on Thanksgiving day. But first is a mini-podcast (well, mini for us, at least) previewing the Thanksgiving games.

Welcome to 25 Yards Later, Sports Obsessive and Rumination Radio Network’s fantasy football podcast! Nick has been on a roll! He's 12-0 the last 3 weeks and is so pumped following a huge Week 10 Panthers upset that saw the return of Cam Newton that he did the pod in a Panthers jersey, hat, scarf, and wearing aviators (despite recording after 10pm in a dimly lit room), all while basically demanding that we cover the Panthers this week. He also decided to take a short Nicktory lap with his recent fantasy success and threw together a quick quiz for Allijah to see if he could tell if a series of events happened before or after his most recent fantasy loss all the way back in Week 7.

Welcome to 25 Yards Later, Sports Obsessive and Rumination Radio Network’s fantasy football podcast! It was a weird week in the NFL, with low fantasy scores and real-life upsets all around. We decided to take a look at four of the teams at the center of that weirdness---the Vikings, who blew a multi-score lead against the Ravens, the Browns, who blew out the Bengals, the Cowboys, who got blew out by the Broncos, and the Bills, who lost to the Jags in a game so bad that the total score didn't even cover the Bills' point spread. Rounding out the show are the Los Angeles Chargers, who are the other side of the Vikings game, and the hot Indianapolis Colts.

Welcome to 25 Yards Later, Sports Obsessive and Rumination Radio Network’s fantasy football podcast! What we thought was going to be one of the quieter news sections of the season coming out of Week 8 ended up being one of the wildest news weeks in recent memory. Major injuries to Derrick Henry and Jameis Winston, trade deadline deals and non-deals, Aaron Rodgers' positive COVID test, and Henry Ruggs' tragic fatal car crash have all shaped the fantasy landscape for this week and beyond, so we decided to look at the teams with the biggest storylines going into Week 9. Plus, both Nick and Allijah take victory laps.

Welcome to 25 Yards Later, Sports Obsessive and Rumination Radio Network’s fantasy football podcast! Last week was scary because of the major bye weeks, but this week is scary for another reason: Sunday is Halloween! To celebrate, Nick and Allijah hold a special mock draft picking the best Halloween candies! There are some potentially controversial picks, including (maybe) the 1.01 (Nick disagrees that it should be controversial, but then he made the pick).

Welcome to 25 Yards Later, Sports Obsessive and Rumination Radio Network’s fantasy football podcast! For the first time this year, byes are significantly affecting fantasy rosters, and this week might be the most significant impacted week of the season with the Bills, Cowboys, Chargers, Vikings, Steelers, (and I guess we'll include the Jaguars) all on byes.

Welcome to 25 Yards Later, Sports Obsessive and Rumination Radio Network’s fantasy football podcast! Nick and Allijah react to Week 5, which had no fewer than three potentially of the top-10 games of the season. Unfortunately for both of them, the Monday Night Ravens/Colts game cost them heartbreaking losses, as it did many fantasy players.

Welcome to 25 Yards Later, Sports Obsessive and Rumination Radio Network's fantasy football podcast! We had a great slate of games in Week 4, but I've gotta admit, outside of a single premier game, I think this slate is a little lackluster. We do get a London game, to make up for it, at least. Even if it's the least appealing game of the week, it means we're getting something wild like 15 hours of Sunday football!

Welcome to 25 Yards Later, Sports Obsessive and Rumination Radio Network’s fantasy football podcast! We did it guys---the podcast got our first "Do you even watch the games?" tweet! Not to toot our own horn too much, but the take that got us the response was also right, at least for one week. We definitely felt like that was worth taking a Nicktory lap.

Welcome to 25 Yards Later, Sports Obsessive and Rumination Radio Network’s fantasy football podcast! After a week where he went 4-0---including two wins against Allijah---and had some takes that hit big, Nick took the opportunity for what he felt was well-deserved bragging. He used his extra cachet to sneak not one but two games into the show where Allijah had to guess if elite players had more or fewer fantasy points than Cowboys backup running back Tony Pollard and Jets WR Braxton Berrios.

Welcome to 25 Yards Later, Sports Obsessive and Rumination Radio Network’s fantasy football podcast! Week 1 is in the books, and it was a great slate of games! There were thrillers from the Thursday Night kickoff all the way through the clock hitting 0:00 Monday night (and actually after too, since MNF went to overtime), and it looks like we could get more of the same in Week 2.

Welcome to 25 Yards Later, Sports Obsessive's fantasy football podcast! By the time you're reading this, we will have had our first regular season game of the year! We made it, fantasy fans! You spent all offseason researching and preparing for your drafts, but now it's time to set your lineups. Do you know what to do? That's why we're here.

Welcome to 25 Yards Later, Sports Obsessive and Rumination Radio Network’s fantasy football podcast! We could have done another mock draft to cap off a long offseason, but instead, we decided to give you real fantasy football! We sat down to record our draft for our league of record, without which there is no 25 Yards Later podcast. You've heard us tilt about mock draft picks that don't even matter, now listen to us tilt in real-time about picks that do matter (at least to us).

Welcome to 25 Yards Later, Sports Obsessive and Rumination Radio Network’s fantasy football podcast! Allijah is away from the show for the next two weeks, but don’t worry, he’ll be back soon! In the meantime, Nick is holding things down with special guests John Borges and Anthony Pavolich. John is a fantasy football writer for Sports Obsessive (making his podcast debut, by the way), while Anthony is a longtime fantasy player and the host of the creativity podcast Tony’s Tall Tales on Ruminations Radio Network. It’s arguably our most in-depth mock draft to date—it’s so long that we’re breaking it up into two episodes!

Welcome to 25 Yards Later, Sports Obsessive and Rumination Radio Network’s fantasy football podcast! With Allijah gone, the season around the corner, cutdown day behind us, and Mega Mock pt. 2 on its way, Nick sat down for a short solo podcast rounding up some of the recent news across the NFL. 

Welcome to 25 Yards Later, Sports Obsessive and Rumination Radio Network’s fantasy football podcast! Allijah is away from the show for the next two weeks, but don't worry, he'll be back soon! In the meantime, Nick is holding things down with special guests John Borges and Anthony Pavolich. John is a fantasy football writer for Sports Obsessive (making his podcast debut, by the way), while Anthony is a longtime fantasy player and the host of the creativity podcast Tony's Tall Tales on Ruminations Radio Network. It's arguably our most in-depth mock draft to date---it's so long that we're breaking it up into two episodes!

Welcome to 25 Yards Later, Sports Obsessive and Rumination Radio Network's fantasy football podcast! This week, Nick and Allijah do a deep dive on 4 players that other people love but we haven't been quite as sold on. We're calling these players our Snoozers, because they're players that everyone else has woken up to but we keep hitting the snooze button on. They could be players with ADPs that are higher than we're comfortable with, players that fantasy experts rave about, or even first round picks! The twist is that we try to make the case for why we're wrong and you actually should draft the player. Will our arguments be enough to change our own minds on these players?

Welcome to 25 Yards Later, Sports Obsessive’s fantasy football podcast! With the regular season quickly approaching, Nick and Allijah wanted to try their hands at a superflex mock draft, with, well, interesting results for one of our hosts. Superflex leagues give fantasy managers an additional flex slot that is quarterback eligible, and, along with other 2-QB formats, are quickly growing in popularity. The mock was a 12-team, 15-round superflex draft with 2 QBs, 2 WRs, and unlike our previous mock draft, it included defenses and kickers. You can see the results here.

Welcome to 25 Yards Later, Sports Obsessive's fantasy football podcast! Football is officially back! As of this writing (but not as of recording), the first preseason game of the year is in the books. Nick and Allijah get you caught up on a whirlwind few weeks of football news, including major injuries to Michael Thomas, Cam Akers, and Carson Wentz, getting the answer to at least one of the Schrödinger’s Quarterbacks, smaller, but potentially significant, injuries to fantasy-relevant players.

Welcome to 25 Yards Later, Sports Obsessive’s fantasy football podcast! In this episode, Nick and Allijah name their BFFs (Best Fantasy Friends) for the 2021 season. What is a BFF? They are the players that our intrepid hosts expect to target in almost every fantasy draft they participate in for this upcoming season. A player could be named a BFF for any reason; maybe we believe in their draft value, breakout potential, or role in an offense. The point, though, is that like our real-life best friends, we believe in these players through thick and thin (okay, I guess that unlike our real-life best friends, there is the chance that we might end up dropping any of these players at the drop of a hat following a rough stretch during the season, but hey, the metaphor is what is important here).

Welcome to 25 Yards Later, Sports Obsessive’s fantasy football podcast! Believe it or not, Nick and Allijah only have one more monthly show before returning to our weekly schedule in August! So while it might seem early for a fantasy mock draft (and I would argue that it's never too early for a mock draft), the season is right around the corner, so you may as well get a leg up on the most exciting part of fantasy football. It was a 13-round, 10-team draft, PPR, single-QB with no TE premiums, and no kickers or defenses performed live on the show. You can check out the results here.

Welcome to 25 Yards Later, SportsObsessive’s fantasy football podcast! We've survived two weeks following Kyle Shanahan ominously saying he couldn't guarantee that anyone would be alive the following Sunday, which is a cause to celebrate! Allijah and Nick have had a few days to stew on the landing spots following the NFL Draft and are here to recap the biggest moves for you.

Welcome to 25 Yards Later, SportsObsessive’s fantasy football podcast! In this episode, Free Agency is officially underway, so we recap the moves and highlight what we believe will be the most impactful signings to happen so far. Plus, plenty of other signings that likely won't be impactful but we're still excited about anyway.

Welcome to 25 Yards Later, SportsObsessive’s fantasy football podcast! Since we're navigating the throes of the offseason, we decided to do something a little different. We invited on our first ever guests, SportsObsessive NFL and fantasy football editor Tom Ayling (whose last name I think I forgot to ever actually say during the podcast...sorry Tom!) and SportsObsessive founder Andrew Grevas to give us an intro to dynasty! Andrew and Tom are both longtime dynasty football players, so new players Allijah and Nick wanted to pick their brains.

Welcome to 25 Yards Later, SportsObsessive's fantasy football podcast! Nick and Allijah are back after a month break to get you caught up on fantasy football happenings. There's just one game this week, you may have heard about it: the Kansas City Chiefs (16-2) at the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (14-5) in the Super Bowl.

Welcome to 25 Yards Later, SportsObsessive's fantasy football podcast! Hopefully your league scheduled its championship for Week 16 and you already have your title in the bag. If not, we're still here for you to help you bring it all home.

Welcome to 25 Yards Later, SportsObsessive's fantasy football podcast! It's Week 16, which means that it is the Fantasy Championship for most leagues! All of your blood, sweat, tears, spreadsheets, waiver claims, tears, nachos, and tears have led up to this. No matter what happens, just remember that it's possible that you might never be forced to watch an Adam Gase offense after this week because you were down by 3 on Monday night with only Braxton Berrios left to go. And what a glorious feeling that will be.

Welcome to 25 Yards Later, SportsObsessive's fantasy football podcast! It's Week 15 in the NFL and in most leagues it's the fantasy semifinals, so the stakes are high. Whether you're only a week from the championship or in the consolation round looking to defend your honor, we've got you covered by breaking down some of the premier matchups in the league: Chiefs (12-1) @ Saints (10-3), Texans (4-9) @ Colts (9-4), Buccaneers (8-5) @ Falcons (4-9), and Eagles (4-8-1) @ Cardinals (7-6). If you've made it all the way to the fantasy semifinals, you owe it to yourself to get as much information as you can, and our deep dives are here to help.

Welcome to 25 Yards Later, SportsObsessive's new fantasy football podcast! It's time for the fantasy playoffs, and hosts Nick and Allijah have four games to break down this week to give you the edge in your matchups: Cardinals (6-6) @ Giants (5-7), Steelers (11-1) @ Bills (9-3), Packers (9-3) @ Lions (5-7), and Ravens (7-5) @ Browns (9-3). These games feature some of the stingiest defenses in the league, but you may still need to play the guys that got you to the playoffs against them, so every piece of information you can get could be the difference between fantasy glory and devastation.