Read & React IDP Podcast

Every year before the season we do a Hot Take episode where we make outlandish predictions [that just might come true]. This is where we look back at them and work out what we got wrong, what we got right, what makes us look prescient, and what makes us look stupid. Tom Kislingbury (@TomKislingbury) and Adam Tzikas (@Adamtz) are joined by our buddy Mike Woellert (@Mike_Woellert) as always.

This time of year the question on everyone's lips in IDP is “which players are good buy-low opportunities for 2022?” So Tom Kislingbury (@TomKislingbury) and Adam Tzikas (@Adamtz) nominate one player on each team who you might be able to pick up as a bargain now.

Tom Kislingbury (@TomKislingbury) and Adam Tzikas (@Adamtz) talk about defensive interior, corner and safety. Touching on who had the most impressive, surprising and disappointing seasons. And most importantly: why.

Tom Kislingbury (@TomKislingbury) and Adam Tzikas (@Adamtz) got together after a long break to chat about what we've seen in the 2021 season and what we can take from it for the future. They touched on performance, breakouts, league and scoring philosophy and plans for the offseason. Thanks for your patience, chums.

Tom Kislingbury (@TomKislingbury) and Adam Tzikas (@Adamtz) are joined by Mike Woellert (@Mike_Woellert) for the fourth annual Hot Takes show. Like children, you're not supposed to have favourite podcast episodes. But this is it. The three of them give a Hot Take (aiming for 25% accuracy) or two for every team. There's some foolishness in there - but also some serious discussion and knowledge. Hopefully it's fun and useful. Cheerio!

Tom Kislingbury (@TomKislingbury) and Adam Tzikas (@Adamtz) are back together again! And it's a special day for Sticky. The two of them meander around the NFL talking about studs, sleepers, value and strategy for all five IDP positions. Touching on where you can find value, where you should not be fishing and how you can prove your superiority over idiot leaguemates (don't tell them we said that). Cheerio!

Tom Kislingbury (@TomKislingbury) is on his own this week but determined to stick to some sort of weekly audio content schedule. TK runs through a key pre-season question [or two] for every team in the NFL. What to look out for? What we need to know? Where can we profit? How can we improve our IDP teams? APologies for the massive English accent soliloquy!

StickyZ (@AdamTz) and Tom Kislingbury (@TomKislingbury) talk through how LB tiers look for the 2021 season and beyond. Which LBs are all but guaranteed to play every snap? Which LBs are close to that but a little unsure? Which teams have murky situations? Who will emerge from them? How confident can we be of them? The LB position is a key one of course - but it's massively susceptible to overpaying for supposed studs. So how can you get good value and find bargains? Tune in to find out!

StickyZ (@AdamTz) and Tom Kislingbury (@TomKislingbury) hold a rookie draft between them. They touch on their favourite players, potential upside, detail tiers and discuss where in your real-life drafts defenders are going to come off the board.

StickyZ (@AdamTz) and Tom Kislingbury (@TomKislingbury) react to the first wave of free agency. Which players have moved into a great spot. Who has lost their job? What can we surmise about the team's intentions for 2021?

With StickyZ out for a week with an Injured Pride, Tom Kislingbury (@TomKislingbury) chats with Drew Dodson (@DrewDodsonNFL) about pass rush, what counts as pressure, how it’s tracked and how we can predict the future with it. And a bunch of other defensive stuff too.

Adam Tzikas (@AdamTz) and Tom Kislingbury (@TomKislingbury) delve into every big defensive coaching change in the NFL. Which teams will be designated a 43 or a 34 defense for IDP purposes? What does it mean for linebackers and safeties? Who are the winners? Whose value has taken a hit?

Adam Tzikas (@AdamTz) and Tom Kislingbury (@TomKislingbury) are joined by friend of the show Mike Woellert (@Mike_Woellert) to go back and look at our annual hot takes episode from August. Some of them were great, some were super-close, and a decent percentage were cover-your-eyes-awful. Feel free to hit us up on the Twitters and tell us how stupid we are!

Adam Tzikas (@AdamTz) and Tom Kislingbury (@TomKislingbury) hand out 26 [yes 26!] awards from the IDP season just passed. Which players were most valuable and disappointing, who broke out and what value looks like at various positions.

Adam Tzikas (@AdamTz) and Tom Kislingbury (@TomKislingbury) talk about which defensive backs surprised and delighted them in 2020. And then run through a redraft of 2020 rookies, establishing value and trading parameters for all of them and ways to go about it.

Adam Tzikas (@AdamTz) and Tom Kislingbury (@TomKislingbury) talk through the linebackers in 2020 that exceeded expectations. And some that did the exact opposite.

Adam Tzikas (@AdamTz) and Tom Kislingbury (@TomKislingbury) return to catch up on what we saw happen in the 2020 fantasy season. This week the focus is on the defensive line. The other positions will be up soon as normal service is resumed. Stay tuned IDP fans...

Adam Tzikas (@AdamTz) and Tom Kislingbury (@TomKislingbury) finally give their thoughts on the season so far. We laugh, we cry, you should listen.

Adam Tzikas (@AdamTz) and Tom Kislingbury (@TomKislingbury) jump on to distill their thoughts ahead of the 2020 season kicking off. Depth charts, spots up for grabs, teams we need to see, news and notes, injuries… It’s all here.

Adam Tzikas (@AdamTz) and Tom Kislingbury (@TomKislingbury) are joined by friend of the show Mike Woellert (@Mike_Woellert) for the annual Hot Take show. Bold predictions are made. Reputations are gambled. Mouths prepared for the introduction of feet. This is the most fun show of the season - give it a listen!

Adam Tzikas (@AdamTz) and Tom Kislingbury (@TomKislingbury) run through every team in the NFL and suggest some win-now players who might be buyable without breaking the bank. And also some players who can be had super cheap and may return value down the road.

Adam Tzikas (@AdamTz) and Tom Kislingbury (@TomKislingbury) cover some news and notes before lurching in full-speed to divisional previews for the 2020 season. Tonight it’s the AFC East so the chaps talk through the Jets and Dolphins [yuk] and the BIlls and Pats [swoon]. Lots of schematic talk tonight so if you like that sort of thing this is the show for you.

After a little break [blame timezones and ‘Rona] Adam Tzikas (@AdamTz) and Tom Kislingbury (@TomKislingbury) go through the transatlantic mailbag to answer what’s on people’s minds. And talk about Love Island. And listen to some thunderstorms.

Adam Tzikas (@AdamTz) and Tom Kislingbury (@TomDegenerate) look at current defensive ADP and see what they can learn. Which players are going too high? Which are going too low? Who is overrated? Who is underrated?

Adam Tzikas (@AdamTz) and Tom Kislingbury (@TomDegenerate) delve into the hot topic of the IDP world - True Position. The movement to categorising all DEs and OLBs as simply “edge” rather than splitting them up is gathering pace with several league platforms changing policy. The boys delve into what it means, what it changes, who it benefits, who it hurts and how your league will change.

Seriously. Sigmund Bloom came on the show. Adam Tzikas (@AdamTz) and Tom Kislingbury (@TomDegenerate) are on hand as always but really this was about Sig giving us his thoughts about IDP, modern defense, the underlying theme of fantasy football, how people think and what we want and just a ton more stuff. It’s utterly captivating stuff and the hosts spent the whole time just listening and soaking in the knowledge. After the last two episodes this one is much lighter on players to take at what draft spot - but also far, far more full of interesting thoughts about the sport and hobby we all love.

Adam Tzikas (@AdamTz) and Tom Kislingbury (@TomDegenerate) are joined by a cornucopia of great minds to run through an integrated mock draft of 2020 rookies. We know the number one question this time of year is “where should IDPs go?” so we ran through what the thought processes should be and how it looks in practise. Joining the show are: Mike Woellert [@Mike_Woellert] Scott Connor [@CharlesChillFFB Tan Ho [@_TanHo] These three are all really great follows and IDP thinkers - so follow them immediately and ask them loads of questions.

Adam Tzikas (@AdamTz) and Tom Kislingbury (@TomDegenerate) prop open their eyes with matchsticks after an intense three days of late nights, draft shocks and number crunching. The biggest issue at this time of year [and this week in particular] is understanding where defensive players are going to be taken compared to offensive ones. This show will give you a framework for when they should be coming off the board - as well as when your leaguemates are actually going to take them. This is one of your big moments to outthink your leaguemates - make it count.

Adam Tzikas (@AdamTz) and Tom Kislingbury (@TomDegenerate) are joined by DLF writer Dwight Peebles (@FFPeeblesChamp). Dwight has dived deep into this year’s crop of big uglies and the boys break down which are the transcendent players and how the huge swathe of specialist role players seems to look in the week before the draft.

Read & React IDP Podcast 78 - 2020 rookie linebackers by Dynasty League Football

Adam Tzikas (@AdamTz) and Tom Kislingbury (@TomDegenerate) chat through the IDP rookie class in macro detail. What are the major tier drops? Who are the names to know? How good is this class? There’ll be much more detail in the next few weeks so stay tuned.

Adam Tzikas (@AdamTz) and Tom Kislingbury (@TomDegenerate) do their thing by hitting up every single team to recap their free agent moves, talk about potential rookie picks and head off topic!

Adam Tzikas (@AdamTz) and Tom Kislingbury (@TomDegenerate) are both stuck at home without much day-to-day contact with people not named Tzikas or Kislingbury. So it’s time to get on a pod! The boys chat through free agency signings so far and the likely impact in IDP terms. This isn’t the last you’ll hear from them in the coming weeks. Stay safe everyone.

Adam Tzikas (@AdamTz) and Tom Kislingbury (@TomDegenerate) are joined by draft data hero Kent Lee Platte (@MathBomb). The discussion goes through Kent’s RAS system and explains how he boils down so much data into a single score to help all us football degenerates get a good idea of just how good an athlete different players are. Given it’s combine week lots of the top players are discussed as rookie season really kicks in for the Read and React. You can see Kent’s work at https://relativeathleticscores.com/

Adam Tzikas (@AdamTz) and Tom Kislingbury (@TomDegenerate) are joined by draft data hero Kent Lee Platte (@MathBomb). The discussion goes through Kent’s RAS system and explains how he boils down so much data into a single score to help all us football degenerates get a good idea of just how good an athlete different players are. Given it’s combine week lots of the top players are discussed as rookie season really kicks in for the Read and React. You can see Kent’s work at https://relativeathleticscores.com/

Adam Tzikas (@AdamTz) and Tom Kislingbury (@TomDegenerate) are joined live with Mike Woellert(@Mike_Woellert) to go over their 2019 hot takes. It's a gas.

Adam Tzikas (@AdamTz) and Tom Kislingbury (@TomDegenerate) engage in a mock draft of 2019 rookies. Which is basically a rookie season recap. Who managed to pick up value? Who bombed? Feel free to go back and compare this to their pre-season ranks and tell them how wrong they were.

Adam Tzikas (@AdamTz) and Tom Kislingbury (@TomDegenerate) do a quick tour of the entire league's results from an IDP perspective and promise to make more shows now that the season has completed!

Adam Tzikas (@AdamTz) and Tom Kislingbury (@TomDegenerate) run through some awards for the 2019 IDP season. For every position who have been the MVPs, Breakout stars and Busts?

Adam Tzikas (@AdamTz) and Tom Kislingbury (@TomDegenerate) finally manage to get some thoughts together on what’s going on in the IDP world of 2019.

Sans Matt, Ryan and Dan spend some time talking about week seven and suggesting transactions dynasty owners can make in the coming week. The pair also touch on the Patrick Mahomes injury as well as comment on who the top dynasty running back handcuff is. Follow the Pod: @dlfpodcast Follow Dan: @dmeylor22 Follow Ryan: @ryanmc23 Follow Matt: @mattpriceff

Adam Tzikas (@AdamTz) and Tom Kislingbury (@TomDegenerate) go team but team except in reverse to hit on a couple players we are buying into or fading on. We end up waxing romantically on a couple different fantasy and nfl topics, as we are known to do!

Adam Tzikas (@AdamTz) and Tom Kislingbury (@TomDegenerate) go position by position and recap the first two weeks of idp action. Plus they drop potential waiver adds for each position and have a really awesome time IYAM. Check it!

Adam Tzikas (@AdamTz) and Tom Kislingbury (@TomDegenerate) go over playing time and production from week one of the 2019 season to let you know who are the hidden treasures and who are the fool’s gold. There were some technical issues on this episode so there’s a lot of Tom in the first half. Stick with it to get the Adam we know you want. Apologies for this - but cross-Atlantic podcasts are hard.

Adam Tzikas (@AdamTz) and Tom Kislingbury (@TomDegenerate) are joined by Mike Woellert (@Mike_Woellert) the second annual Hot Take episode! We run through all 32 teams and make a bold prediction for each and every one. Some (Sticky) are fairly tepid whilst some (Mike for Chicago) are pretty darn scorching. This is one of the most fun episodes to record so let us know what you think.

Adam Tzikas (@AdamTz) and Tom Kislingbury (@TomDegenerate) hurtle through the entire NFL with an update on who’s shining in camp, what the “official” depth charts tell us and what we’ve seen on the field in pre-season. This is one of the better times of the year to pick up IDP talent whilst your leaguemates are sleeping. So be brave, be decisive and be first.

Adam Tzikas (@AdamTz) and Tom Kislingbury (@TomDegenerate) are joined by projections guru, analytics superstar and general football maven Ryan Miller (@RyanMIllerNFL). Ryan goes into detail about how he puts together his excellent work, points out some potential breakouts and talks about how he’s chums with a real life NFL superstar. The crew finish up the episode with game of IDP Cliffhanger.

Adam Tzikas (@AdamTz) and Tom Kislingbury (@TomDegenerate) touch on most of the more interesting safeties for 2019 and debate how they’ll be used and how productive they will be. Both men get confused by maths. They then rip off the Commission: Impossible pod [which you should listen to] and draft their favourite IDP league rules to build their dream league. Surprisingly it comes out pretty well...

Adam Tzikas (@AdamTz) and Tom Kislingbury (@TomDegenerate) run through a ton of player trios and debate who they would buy, sell or hold. Some are easy. Some are extremely tricky. Listener alert: This episode was recorded while watching the USA vs England in the World Cup. Passions were high.

Adam Tzikas (@AdamTz) and Tom Kislingbury (@TomDegenerate) answer a slew of questions from listeners touching on just about every team in the NFL. Topics of conversation vary from specific player’s prospects in 2019 to how you should approach drafting in different types of league.

Adam Tzikas (@AdamTz) and Tom Kislingbury (@TomDegenerate) go through the latest ADP data for rookie drafts to dive into how defensive players stack up against offensive prospects. They talk a lot about which players are good value at which point and how you can identify a bargain instead of putting capital into bets unlikely to pay off. After that they go through the mailbag and try to answer as many questions as they can. Thanks for tuning in!