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We are back, Coach Dan.
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Alright, after clipboards and cleats, now we're shifting gears to fantasy football.
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Ladies and gentlemen, winning fantasy football is not luck, it's coaching.
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So welcome to Coached Up with Coach Dan right here on SportsWire.
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A little introduction to the show first.
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If this is our first snap together, here's who you're spending Tuesday nights with.
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I'll be every Tuesday at 9 p.m.
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talking fantasy football.
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For six seasons and nearly 350 episodes, I co-hosted the Dynasty Theory Podcast, Breaking Down Games at a National Level.
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And I don't just talk it, I play it and I win.
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I've had real success across all four formats: Daily Fantasy Sports, Dynasty, Best Ball, and Redraft.
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A lot of us are doing our home draft leagues this weekend or have done them or getting ready around Labor Day.
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Now I've brought that experience home to SportsWire.
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And here's what makes this show different.
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Before I was ever an analyst, I was a coach.
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I still am.
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So you're not getting a fan with a spreadsheet and a hot take.
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You're getting a coach who has stood on the sideline, built the game plan, and lived the adjustments.
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That combination is the entire point of coached up.
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The gap most fantasy content leaves open, it tells you who, never why.
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A coach teaches you why.
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And that's what I'm gonna that's what I'm here for.
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A coach doesn't hand you a roster, he builds you a system, teaches the reads, and adjusts week to week.
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That is the promise here on SportsWire.
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You leave every episode with a framework, not just a name to go chase.
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So here's the goal of Coached Up.
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I want you to be the best manager in your league.
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Not the luckiest, the best.
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The one who drafted a plan, works the waiver wire with a purpose, and knows exactly why every name is in your lineup on Sunday.
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All right?
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Tonight is a strategy episode.
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I'm gonna get into a lot of the nuts and bolts, and I'll explain that in this episode of what to expect next weekend as we're getting closer to the start of the NFL season.
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We coach every format because each one is a different game with different rules.
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Right?
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A lot of us play redraft.
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If you play dynasty, it's different rules.
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Best ball, DFS, different rules.
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Three things live here every week: the waiver wire report, start sit school, and roster strategy.
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One rule for this show, it's process over panic.
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Championships are built in September, they're not won on just one hot take.
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Okay.
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So tonight's a clinic.
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It's not a cheat sheet.
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I know some of you want that cheat sheet.
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There'll be an opportunity to get that next week, but tonight's a clinic.
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Before I ever tell you who to start, you need to know what game you're playing.
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So let's put all four formats on the whiteboard.
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All right, that's a coach of me speaking.
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I got this whiteboard in my mind right now.
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Redraft first.
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What is it?
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It's a season-long league, full reset every year.
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My coaches read on that.
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It's a sprint and a marathon at once.
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Start thinking like a general manager.
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So youth.
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Oops sorry.
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Losing my thoughts here.
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It's a sprint and not a marathon.
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You draft a season, but you manage a weekly roster and redraft, having balance and in-season decision making win these leagues.
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Okay?
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So I'm gonna teach you that roster balance and in-season decision making to win the leagues.
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Coach Howanitz was asking for some rankings uh in the clips and clipboards show.
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That's for the redraft format.
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In dynasty, that's where you keep your team year over year.
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You're running a franchise.
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Coaches read there, you stop thinking like a coach and you start thinking like a GM.
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So that's for the dynasty format there.
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I'm in a lot of these leagues.
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If some of these formats are new to you, you can DM me after or talk on the show.
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I can tell you how to get into these leagues.
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Maybe it's too late right now because you're like, hey, I just want my redraft home leagues.
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Maybe next year.
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I'm gonna teach you all these along the way, and I'm gonna have some special guests as well.
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Um, so you're thinking like a GM in Dynasty, youth, draft capital, and a connection, uh like a window matters as much as the Sunday points.
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Best ball is another format.
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What that is, it's drafting done.
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No lineup setting.
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Your top scores are counted automatically every week.
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All right, and this is great for the busy person.
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You know, I have a coach's podcast, a coach's schedule.
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It's nice to just draft the lineup and let it ride, but there is strategy behind that.
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So the coaches read theirs, it's pure roster construction.
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You're building for ceiling and spike weeks, stacking your bets, and drafting depth you never have to manage.
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No waivers, no start sit, it's all architecture.
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Then there's DFS.
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This is my favorite.
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All right, DraftKings is big on this.
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Fan duel.
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What it is, a single slate contest under a salary cap.
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You have a new team every week.
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So if your home league's struggling that week, you can still win by playing some DFS.
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The coach's read is this is a game theory sport.
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Cash game rewards the safe floor, tournaments reward correlation, stacking and leverage against the field.
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And nobody survives without bankroll discipline.
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This is wild here because it's weird as a coach, when you play DFS, you've got to be comfortable with losing more than you win.
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But when you win that once, twice, maybe three times if you're lucky over the season and normally pays for this season, and that's in tournament plays.
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I'm not a big cash player, it's more conservative, it's fun, but I like the tournaments trying to play for those big prizes.
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The one year there was a million-dollar first prize, and I finished fourth.
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I had Tony Pollard and CD Lamb.
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Surprise there for those that know I love the Cowboys, and the opponent had Christian Watson.
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Unfortunately, Christian Watson had four touchdowns, including one in overtime, that sent me from first to fourth.
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So great game.
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But all four of those formats, same players, same NFL players, four completely different games.
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If you play them all the same way, you lose them all the same way.
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And that's what we fix here on Coached Up with Coach Dan.
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So now I'm gonna take you to the clipboard, okay?
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This is where waiver wire, every week we're gonna have a waiver wire where I teach you, and it's not list, not necessarily listed, all right?
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There's normally in some leagues a fab budget, it's not a bidding war, you have a budget and you have to spend it, like it has to last 16 weeks.
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And sometimes it gets you get your free agents by where you are in the standings that week.
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But the best pickup is usually opportunity, not talent.
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You drafted most of the talented guys in the league, but you're looking for targets where there's an empty backfield or vacated targets at wide receiver or a change in role.
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This is all the studying that I'll have done and prep for you to help you manage your waiver wire.
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And I will note I'm holding my specific week one ads a little bit until after my own rate Labor Day draft, because I know some guys and gals in my home league are gonna be uh, you know, looking for my picks here.
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If you do have questions, feel free to ask.
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I will still answer them.
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But that's the honest reason.
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Next week you get the full list.
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Then there's gonna be starts at school, the four reads in order volume, who's getting the the targets and the volume, the carries, the matchup.
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We're gonna look at matchups week to week, the game script, you know, what's that plan going in?
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And then floor versus ceiling players.
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Floor is a player that, hey, I expect them to get me seven A points and be safe and not hurt my lineup versus those ceiling guys where my hopes are hey, they could blow up and have 20 to 30 points in a big game.
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Start your studs, even through a bad matchup.
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There's nothing worse than sitting your star players and then you have regrets.
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Chase the points with your flex, not that you're foundational players.
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We'll talk roster strategy.
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Draft structures are systems, not gut calls.
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There's strategies like robust RB where you load up at that position, or hero RB.
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You take one stud and then you kind of fade the rest, or zero RB.
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Some players like to wait on the running backs to really late.
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Each plan has a trade-off.
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Again, we'll get into strategies as we go and know which one you drafted with because it tells you how to attack every waiver and trade the rest of the year.
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With that, here's the deal.
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I'm keeping my draft board close to the vest for one more week.
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But yours is fair game.
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If you want to send me your lineups, your trades, I'm ready for that.
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I'm crazy for starting.
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This guy takes whatever you may have, and um, I will answer all those questions.
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So bring the take.
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I'll bring the whiteboard.
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Again, tonight was just about philosophy because it's the first show to launch on the SportsWire Network.
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Uh, but point those questions.
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You could take them to me on X.
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I have Coach Danhausen, that's my popular X channel channel right now, or on Instagram, Coach Dan Lamagna.
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I encourage league-specific questions, format, scoring, roster size.
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So if you're playing this episode back, hit me up on my social media channels and I will be sure to answer.
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Um, I'm building my staff here.
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It's one voice tonight, but I'm building my staff.
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I'm vetting a co-host right now, so stay tuned.
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Um, when I find the right one on the sideline, you will meet that co-host here first.
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But we're starting it out as a solo pod right now.
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So call to action here, okay?
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You here's why you cannot miss next Tuesday.
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All right, my Labor Day draft is done.
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My draft board will be live, all my rankings, tiers, the gloves will come off.
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I will have real waiver wire targets.
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My week one starts sick calls, the names that I am actually rostering on my dynasty redraft, best ball teams, all right, daily fantasy sports, whatever game you're playing, and you want to talk strategy for the week, you're gonna want to be here next week.
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All right.
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Tonight was the game plan.
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If you're listening to this, it's about formats, knowing your scoring system, and just hitting me up on social media, and then I will I will be answering your questions between now and the first game or now and the next show.
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Okay.
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So follow the show on SportsWire.
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Tuesday's episode hits you automatically, all right?
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9 p.m.
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every Tuesday night.
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Follow me on X at Coach Danhouse and Instagram Coach Dan Lamagna.
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This is where you send lineup questions for next week's listeners segment.
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Uh, hope this helps you.
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I hope this helped you.
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Um, if it did, send it to the worst manager in your league.
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Consider it a public service effort on your part.
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And that is the whistle.
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Stay coached up, and I will see you next Tuesday.
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We are back, Coach Dan.
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Alright, after clipboards and cleats, now we're shifting gears to fantasy football.
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Ladies and gentlemen, winning fantasy football is not luck, it's coaching.
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So welcome to Coached Up with Coach Dan right here on SportsWire.
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A little introduction to the show first.
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If this is our first snap together, here's who you're spending Tuesday nights with.
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I'll be every Tuesday at 9 p.m.
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talking fantasy football.
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For six seasons and nearly 350 episodes, I co-hosted the Dynasty Theory Podcast, Breaking Down Games at a National Level.
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And I don't just talk it, I play it and I win.
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I've had real success across all four formats: Daily Fantasy Sports, Dynasty, Best Ball, and Redraft.
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A lot of us are doing our home draft leagues this weekend or have done them or getting ready around Labor Day.
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Now I've brought that experience home to SportsWire.
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And here's what makes this show different.
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Before I was ever an analyst, I was a coach.
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I still am.
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So you're not getting a fan with a spreadsheet and a hot take.
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You're getting a coach who has stood on the sideline, built the game plan, and lived the adjustments.
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That combination is the entire point of coached up.
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The gap most fantasy content leaves open, it tells you who, never why.
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A coach teaches you why.
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And that's what I'm gonna that's what I'm here for.
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A coach doesn't hand you a roster, he builds you a system, teaches the reads, and adjusts week to week.
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That is the promise here on SportsWire.
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You leave every episode with a framework, not just a name to go chase.
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So here's the goal of Coached Up.
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I want you to be the best manager in your league.
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Not the luckiest, the best.
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The one who drafted a plan, works the waiver wire with a purpose, and knows exactly why every name is in your lineup on Sunday.
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All right?
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Tonight is a strategy episode.
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I'm gonna get into a lot of the nuts and bolts, and I'll explain that in this episode of what to expect next weekend as we're getting closer to the start of the NFL season.
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We coach every format because each one is a different game with different rules.
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Right?
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A lot of us play redraft.
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If you play dynasty, it's different rules.
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Best ball, DFS, different rules.
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Three things live here every week: the waiver wire report, start sit school, and roster strategy.
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One rule for this show, it's process over panic.
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Championships are built in September, they're not won on just one hot take.
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Okay.
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So tonight's a clinic.
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It's not a cheat sheet.
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I know some of you want that cheat sheet.
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There'll be an opportunity to get that next week, but tonight's a clinic.
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Before I ever tell you who to start, you need to know what game you're playing.
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So let's put all four formats on the whiteboard.
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All right, that's a coach of me speaking.
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I got this whiteboard in my mind right now.
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Redraft first.
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What is it?
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It's a season-long league, full reset every year.
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My coaches read on that.
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It's a sprint and a marathon at once.
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Start thinking like a general manager.
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So youth.
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Oops sorry.
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Losing my thoughts here.
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It's a sprint and not a marathon.
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You draft a season, but you manage a weekly roster and redraft, having balance and in-season decision making win these leagues.
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Okay?
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So I'm gonna teach you that roster balance and in-season decision making to win the leagues.
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Coach Howanitz was asking for some rankings uh in the clips and clipboards show.
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That's for the redraft format.
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In dynasty, that's where you keep your team year over year.
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You're running a franchise.
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Coaches read there, you stop thinking like a coach and you start thinking like a GM.
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So that's for the dynasty format there.
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I'm in a lot of these leagues.
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If some of these formats are new to you, you can DM me after or talk on the show.
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I can tell you how to get into these leagues.
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Maybe it's too late right now because you're like, hey, I just want my redraft home leagues.
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Maybe next year.
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I'm gonna teach you all these along the way, and I'm gonna have some special guests as well.
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Um, so you're thinking like a GM in Dynasty, youth, draft capital, and a connection, uh like a window matters as much as the Sunday points.
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Best ball is another format.
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What that is, it's drafting done.
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No lineup setting.
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Your top scores are counted automatically every week.
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All right, and this is great for the busy person.
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You know, I have a coach's podcast, a coach's schedule.
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It's nice to just draft the lineup and let it ride, but there is strategy behind that.
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So the coaches read theirs, it's pure roster construction.
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You're building for ceiling and spike weeks, stacking your bets, and drafting depth you never have to manage.
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No waivers, no start sit, it's all architecture.
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Then there's DFS.
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This is my favorite.
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All right, DraftKings is big on this.
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Fan duel.
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What it is, a single slate contest under a salary cap.
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You have a new team every week.
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So if your home league's struggling that week, you can still win by playing some DFS.
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The coach's read is this is a game theory sport.
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Cash game rewards the safe floor, tournaments reward correlation, stacking and leverage against the field.
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And nobody survives without bankroll discipline.
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This is wild here because it's weird as a coach, when you play DFS, you've got to be comfortable with losing more than you win.
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But when you win that once, twice, maybe three times if you're lucky over the season and normally pays for this season, and that's in tournament plays.
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I'm not a big cash player, it's more conservative, it's fun, but I like the tournaments trying to play for those big prizes.
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The one year there was a million-dollar first prize, and I finished fourth.
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I had Tony Pollard and CD Lamb.
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Surprise there for those that know I love the Cowboys, and the opponent had Christian Watson.
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Unfortunately, Christian Watson had four touchdowns, including one in overtime, that sent me from first to fourth.
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So great game.
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But all four of those formats, same players, same NFL players, four completely different games.
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If you play them all the same way, you lose them all the same way.
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And that's what we fix here on Coached Up with Coach Dan.
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So now I'm gonna take you to the clipboard, okay?
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This is where waiver wire, every week we're gonna have a waiver wire where I teach you, and it's not list, not necessarily listed, all right?
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There's normally in some leagues a fab budget, it's not a bidding war, you have a budget and you have to spend it, like it has to last 16 weeks.
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And sometimes it gets you get your free agents by where you are in the standings that week.
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But the best pickup is usually opportunity, not talent.
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You drafted most of the talented guys in the league, but you're looking for targets where there's an empty backfield or vacated targets at wide receiver or a change in role.
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This is all the studying that I'll have done and prep for you to help you manage your waiver wire.
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And I will note I'm holding my specific week one ads a little bit until after my own rate Labor Day draft, because I know some guys and gals in my home league are gonna be uh, you know, looking for my picks here.
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If you do have questions, feel free to ask.
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I will still answer them.
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But that's the honest reason.
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Next week you get the full list.
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Then there's gonna be starts at school, the four reads in order volume, who's getting the the targets and the volume, the carries, the matchup.
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We're gonna look at matchups week to week, the game script, you know, what's that plan going in?
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And then floor versus ceiling players.
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Floor is a player that, hey, I expect them to get me seven A points and be safe and not hurt my lineup versus those ceiling guys where my hopes are hey, they could blow up and have 20 to 30 points in a big game.
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Start your studs, even through a bad matchup.
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There's nothing worse than sitting your star players and then you have regrets.
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Chase the points with your flex, not that you're foundational players.
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We'll talk roster strategy.
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Draft structures are systems, not gut calls.
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There's strategies like robust RB where you load up at that position, or hero RB.
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You take one stud and then you kind of fade the rest, or zero RB.
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Some players like to wait on the running backs to really late.
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Each plan has a trade-off.
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Again, we'll get into strategies as we go and know which one you drafted with because it tells you how to attack every waiver and trade the rest of the year.
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With that, here's the deal.
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I'm keeping my draft board close to the vest for one more week.
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But yours is fair game.
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If you want to send me your lineups, your trades, I'm ready for that.
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I'm crazy for starting.
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This guy takes whatever you may have, and um, I will answer all those questions.
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So bring the take.
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I'll bring the whiteboard.
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Again, tonight was just about philosophy because it's the first show to launch on the SportsWire Network.
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Uh, but point those questions.
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You could take them to me on X.
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I have Coach Danhausen, that's my popular X channel channel right now, or on Instagram, Coach Dan Lamagna.
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I encourage league-specific questions, format, scoring, roster size.
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So if you're playing this episode back, hit me up on my social media channels and I will be sure to answer.
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Um, I'm building my staff here.
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It's one voice tonight, but I'm building my staff.
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I'm vetting a co-host right now, so stay tuned.
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Um, when I find the right one on the sideline, you will meet that co-host here first.
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But we're starting it out as a solo pod right now.
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So call to action here, okay?
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You here's why you cannot miss next Tuesday.
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All right, my Labor Day draft is done.
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My draft board will be live, all my rankings, tiers, the gloves will come off.
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I will have real waiver wire targets.
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My week one starts sick calls, the names that I am actually rostering on my dynasty redraft, best ball teams, all right, daily fantasy sports, whatever game you're playing, and you want to talk strategy for the week, you're gonna want to be here next week.
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All right.
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Tonight was the game plan.
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If you're listening to this, it's about formats, knowing your scoring system, and just hitting me up on social media, and then I will I will be answering your questions between now and the first game or now and the next show.
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Okay.
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So follow the show on SportsWire.
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Tuesday's episode hits you automatically, all right?
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9 p.m.
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every Tuesday night.
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Follow me on X at Coach Danhouse and Instagram Coach Dan Lamagna.
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This is where you send lineup questions for next week's listeners segment.
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Uh, hope this helps you.
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I hope this helped you.
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Um, if it did, send it to the worst manager in your league.
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Consider it a public service effort on your part.
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And that is the whistle.
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Stay coached up, and I will see you next Tuesday.
