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"Bench Stash" is a fantasy football podcast featuring Derek Droze and Leo Kaliski, two non-experts offering fantasy football musings that nobody asked for. The hosts talk through the fantasy relevant weekly news around the NFL, players to target on the waiver wire, and the current trade equity of whatever players they chose to opine on in any given week.
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The boys are back from their Singapore sabbatical! We get back into the groove of things by trying to find some viable week 13 Sneaky Starts (hello George Farmer) with our usual brand of nonsense mixed in. Episode 35: Week 13 Sneaky Starts and Lance Bass KendricksBench Stash
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The guys talk sell highs, buy lows, discover the best possible nickname for Frank Gore ever, and round out the episode with fantasy football superstition discussion! Episode 34: Week 9 Trade Talk and Franklin Delano GoreseveltBench Stash
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It's week 8, otherwise known as Devtonae Booker week! We run through the buy lows and sell highs of the week, while discussing some of the fantasy fallout of week 7, and some of the big time news that has already broken this week. Episode 33: Week 8 Trade Banter and CJ Anderson Gonna Get CJ Andersoned…
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Our Week 7 Sneaky Starts have arrived! This week we decide to limit the pool a bit, naming only 10 players as our deep sneaky starts. We also make some great (and not so great) puns with names like Cameron Brate, Jack Doyle, Jacquizz Rodgers, and probably many more! Episode 32: Week 7 Sneaky Starts and Make America Brate Again…
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Week 7 is kicked off by answering a hypothetical start/sit you may be facing: If you own Spencer Ware and Jamaal Charles, can you start both? The guys also run through their buy lows, sell highs, and then Leo loses his mind recapping how Derek just beat him by .1 points in their most recent match! Episode 31: Week 7 Trade Chatter and Leo Loses by O…
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It's Friday, which means it's time for our week 6 Sneaky Starts! We run through all our favorite flex and streaming plays of the week, do an update on Keeping Score, and tell you the best way to spread our propaganda to the masses. Episode 30: Week 6 Sneaky Starts and Silicon Valley Our ContentBench Stash
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We're back in week 6 with more trade talk! We do our buy lows, our sell highs, and rag on Sammie Coates seemingly every chance we get. Episode 29: Week 6 Trade Talk and Sammie GOATes More Like Sammie WOATesBench Stash
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It's Friday which mean it's time for this week's Sneaky Starts! We run through our starts of the week, do an update on Keeping Score, and try to figure out what's going on with Christian Ponder these days. Episode 28: Week 5 Sneaky Starts and Pondering ChristianBench Stash
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Guys, we're a quarter of the way through the season! Week 5 is here, and it's time to talk trade with sell highs, buy lows, and general trade targets. We also relive the Juliosplosion, both as victims and benefactors of the annihilation. Episode 27: Week 5 Trade Talk and the JuliosplosionBench Stash
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The guys take a victory lap on some nice calls from Sneaky Starts week 3, run through their Sneaky Starts for week 4, do the latest entry of Keeping Score, and fill in the rest with hot takes on Dwayne Washington and what to do with Josh Gordon now that he's entered rehab (hint, you're cutting him). Episode 26: Week 4 Sneaky Starts and Dwayne Train…
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We've reached the 4th week of the fantasy season, and with it a whole slew of trade narratives! The guys talk sell highs, buy lows, and holds as they perform a price check for week 4. There's also a burning hot take on one Joique Bell's return to the NFL. Episode 25: Week 4 Price Check and Joique Revenge Game…
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The week 3 games are fast approaching, and you're staring at your flex spot in bewilderment. "Who do I start?!" You might be yelling at your fantasy lineup! Well, good news for you, we have the answer. Join as for Sneaky Starts, where we rattle off some of our favorite flex plays of the week. After that we run through the Keeping Score results for …
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Week 2 was absolute carnage in the NFL with running backs going down left, right, and center. The silver lining to all the injury bloodbath is, some key sell highs and buy lows are now presented. Join Derek and Leo as they do a Price Check on what players to buy and sell before they go off or lay an egg in week 3! Episode 23: Week 3 Price Check and…
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We're back for another round of week 2 advice! This time, we discuss the fantasy implications after the Thursday Night Football explosion by one Matt Forte, do this weeks segment of Sneaky Starts, then round out the episode with a twitter question. Episode 22: Week 2 Sneaky StartsBench Stash
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Week 1 is over and with it everything we thought we knew about fantasy football! Derek and Leo discuss which players to go full Jodie FoFo (Panic Room, get it?) about and which will be fine all in due time. Sell high, buy lows, and holds are all outlined in this episode of Bench Stash. Episode 21: Going Full Jodie FoFo…
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Week 1 has finally arrived and boy are Derek and Leo hyped! The boys kick off the show discussing the Chiefs backfield (Ware and Charles), the Seahawks backfield (Michael and Rawls), and the Ravens backfield (NAFs). They also discuss sneaky starts for week 1, and waiver wire sleepers to target if you have room on your bench. Episode 20: Week 1 and …
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This week the boys go through every division in the NFL, and name their MVP for each team. Along the way they discuss players they like and dislike on each team, and finish off each division with it's own MVP. At the end you'll hear Derek and Leo's overall fantasy MVP, which of course is now probably wrong because we made our call. Episode 19: You …
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Episode 18 marks new territory for the Bench Stash boys: divisional previews! This week we start with the NFC West, discussing all the fantasy relevant players, our favorite values, and naming our fantasy GOAT for each team. Also, we each predicting our divisional fantasy MVP. The teams are discussed in order of how Derek sees the division playing …
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This week, the guys try out the Robust RB strategy in a fantasyfootballcalculator.com mock draft, while also discussing some of their general draft philosophy. Also, Leo apparently looks like Peter Dinklage so that get's talked about. Episode 17: Robust RB RouteBench Stash
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Back at it again with the mock drafts! This time, the guys deep dive into the Zero RB strategy that's been taking the fantasy community by storm the last few seasons. This is the audio from video content so the context of each pick may not always be crystal clear, but the broad strokes and who the guys pick is all there! Episode 16: Zero RB Mock Dr…
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Episode 15 is a very special episode of Bench Stash as it's actually the audio from a video series we're starting called "It's Mock Draft Season!" Derek and Leo quickly run through the latest news before conducting a mock draft together, each drafting their own team and discussing their respective picks. As is the nature of audio taken from video c…
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On episode 14 of "Bench Stash" Derek and Leo discuss their joint top 50 rankings for the 2016 season. They point out some specific players where they disagree with the general consensus such as Lamar(izard) Miller, and players where they just disagree with each other, like Jonathan Stewart. The episode is wrapped up with a twitter question on how t…
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Episode 13 marks the season 2 return of Bench Stash! Join us as we talk draft strategies such as Zero RB, Zero WR, Late Round QB, the highly controversial Defense Penultimate Pick strategy, and our own personal philosophies on drafting. Episode 13: Draft Strategy and Plebeian JonesBench Stash
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On episodes 12 on "Bench Stash" Derek and Leo review some of the big performances from week 12, discussing what can be trusted and what is just mere shenanigans. The episode gets rounded out with some streaming picks and new QB picks for FrankenQB. Episode 12: StafforditisBench Stash
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On episode 11 of "Bench Stash", Derek and Leo do a first round mock draft to see just how much the fantasy landscape has changed since August. Afterwards they give out defensive and tight end streamers, and finish out the episode with their streaming QB picks for the week. Somewhere in there, Leo claims Matt Cassell will drop 80+ fantasy points thi…
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