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Dr. Matthew and Alex discuss BQBL scoring, standings, and the general awfulness of NFL quarterbacking.
Alex and Dr. Matthew recap a very entertaining BQBL season. Baker makes the pivotal throw of the season. Dak gets benched. We say goodbye to some old friends, and hello to a new champion. Millen!
Alex and Dr. Matthew ring in the new year with a double-episode. Cousins shows us his best BQBL days are still ahead of him. Russ finally has more TDs than bathrooms in his mansion. Jacob moves into prime position to take home his first BQBL crown.
Alex and Dr. Matthew talk for a while. Dak commits the ultimate bad QB sin. Backups proliferate. Goff breaks hearts. Mac gets mushed.
Alex and Dr. Matthew make an important decision. Benchings continue. Injuries strike. Carr stalls. A new leader emerges from the likeliest place. Morale does not improve.
Alex and Dr. Matthew make mistakes. Skyler Thompson exists. Tua and Tannehill get benched. Baker gets released.
Alex and Dr. Matthew play Russell Wilson games. Russel Wilson plays games too, but badly. Bryce Perkins wonders how he got here. Carr runs Alex over for the second week in a row.
Alex and Dr. Matthew get into the holiday spirit with a pair of benchings. Jacob takes the lead. None of this is Zach's fault.
Alex and Dr. Matthew talk at length about an uneventful BQBL week. Josh makes a mess of things. Dalton should consider throwing himself out of the Roadhouse.
Alex and Dr. Matthew examine the prestigious FCA awards. Ehlinger gets his coach fired. P.J. gets benched. Willis doesn't do much of anything.
Alex and Dr. Matthew try to put themselves in Josh McDaniels' shoes. Malik is only allowed to drive around the parking lot. Kyler buys a 4-pack of Redbull and hunkers down for a long night.
Alex makes Dr. Matthew 5 minutes late for office hours, and his students are in an uproar. Goff turns it over. Jimmy gets the hook. The return of the Mac has a Zappe ending. Will strikes it rich, and is our new leader.
Alex and Dr. Matthew continue to be tied. Mariota is nearly perfect in a win, and Trevor is nearly perfect in a loss. Randomness continues to rule the day.
Alex and Dr. Matthew review the ups and downs of Baker Mayfield's career. Relatedly, a head coach gets fired. Randomness appears to rule BQBL. Relatedly, Dr. Matthew wins another week.
Alex and Dr. Matthew mis-assemble the Shrine of the Silver Monkey. Trubisky and Pickett attempt crossing The Moat, but only Pickett makes it to the other side. Mariota moves past Fields on the Steps of Knowledge. Trevor somehow loses 4 pendants.
Alex welcomes a newly-40 Uncle Matthew back from South Korea. Flacco plays like he's 40. Fields plays like he is in 1940.
Alex and (International Man of Plastic and Cold Ones) Dr. Matthew explore Tennessee's big week. Tua also scores big, but in the wrong direction. So does Flacco? This week was weird, y'all.
Alex and Dr. Matthew kick off a new BQBL season with a quickie. Top-drafted teams disappoint. Rodgers and Murray get benched in the game, but also in BQBL. Burrow starts his Super Bowl slump.
Alex and Dr. Matthew tackle weeks 15-17 (rather poorly), and refuse to acknowledge the existence of week 18. Susan makes her opinion of 2021 known. Awards are handed out. Joseph wins cookies.
Alex and Dr. Matthew rule on the controversial "playing both of our ineffective QBs" strategy of Matt Rhule. Urban Meyer is a winner, just ask him. Jack Easterby is only useful when someone has died, which in this case applies to the hopes of every Texans fan.
Alex and Dr. Matthew review a Monday night comeback for the ages. Houston continues to push the "bench Tyrod" button, hoping that it finally works. Mac Jones phones it in.
Alex and Dr. Matthew try to make sense of Carolina's player personnel decisions. Joseph extends his lead. Wentz manages a Jameis.
Alex and Dr. Matthew are thankful for the gift of a double-benching in Atlanta, and for Tim Boyle's continued excellence/abject failure.
Alex and Dr. Matthew review the rise and fall of Sarah's fortunes in week 10. Mahomes and White stop cosplaying as each other. Cam's package is examined, and deemed sufficient.
Alex and Dr. Matthew finally get to award 24/7 points. Robby Anderson faces his demon (singular). The battle of Josh Allen is won decisively by Josh Allen.
Alex and Dr. Matthew review some questionable starting decisions, and some no-decisions which worked out. Mike White pulls the rug out from under Dr. Matthew. Wentz continues to innovate.
Alex and Dr. Matthew experience temporary memory loss. Will experiences temporary point loss. Jacob experiences temporary relevancy loss.
Alex and Dr. Matthew marvel at an upside-down week in the NFL. Some old friends make an appearance, and one of them is staying over for a while. Hopefully, he doesn't get punched in the face again.
Alex and Dr. Matthew are dancing around the subject. Nick wins some games, and comes roaring out of the bottom. Will has first place well in hand.
Alex and Dr. Matthew contemplate the rise and fall of Matthew Nagy, former QB of the Columbus Destroyers (Arena Football League), former offensive coordinator of the Kansas City Chiefs, and soon-to-be-former head coach of the Chicago Bears. The overall lead for the season changes hands.
Alex and Dr. Matthew dive headlong into the first-name-on-first-name violence in Atlanta. Josh Rosen stops by. New Orleans turns back the clock. Somebody sprains both their ankles.
Alex and Dr. Matthew embark on a new journey, but keep most of the same jokes. Some people have sent cookies. Some people started teams they didn't draft.
Jameis got Lasik, and is the new Rodgers. Rodgers would rather be in TV makeup, and is the new Goff. Goff is showing scrappy ability in a new home, like Trevor. Trevor is already the new Jameis. The circle is unbreakable.
Alex and Dr. Matthew crown a new champion. Regrets abound. Seasonal awards are handed out. Cookie debt intensifies.
Alex and Dr. Matthew marvel at Haskins's worst week ever. The Lions bench a backup. It's gonna be a close finish!
Alex and Dr. Matthew marvel at Drew Lock's randomness, Stafford's half-benching, and Ryan Finley actually winning a game against the Steelers. Washington and Chicago go so far away from good QBing that they end up right where they started. Jalen Hurts Dr. Matthew's chances of increasing his hypothetical cookie stockpile.
Alex and Dr. Matthew opine on the three benchings Russ's teams had this week, including a tricky one for Daniel Jones. Is Mullins good? One of the all-time greats? Our heroes mull it over. Cam should blink twice if he is being held hostage.
Dr. Matthew and Alex second guess decisions, as usual. Wentz gets benched. Herbert puts up a decent score, for the first time this season. We have a new leader.
Alex and Dr. Matthew examine a true throwback week, where everything that was great in 1920 is great again in 2020. We say hello to some old friends, and award the first 24/7 points of the season. Nick is a rocketship, but will he go to space, or will he explode in the upper atmosphere?
Alex and Dr. Matthew continue to ponder the year of the backup. Jake Luton gives backups BQBL hope, while P.J. Walker dashes that hope on the rocks of victory. Fitzpatrick returns as a backup, the position in which he is the most dangerous. Most of us don't really know what we're doing.
Alex and Dr. Matthew welcome Jameis back to the fold. Brees breaks. Foles falls. Lock lacks. Mayfield may fail.
Alex and new front-runner Dr. Matthew dissect a week without a benching. Tom Brady does Joe Flacco things. Joe Flacco does Tom Brady things. Russ gives us his take on the Jameis.
Alex and Matthew examine some questionable performances by Carson Wentz and Lamar Jackson. Tue makes his first start, though he really didn't do anything. Will extends his lead.
Alex and Dr. Matthew enjoy another tasty bowl of Josh's Jacks. Cam gets benched. Russ throws a Jameis. Sarah's sodium level continues to rise.
Alex & Dr. Matthew discuss the surprising rise of Dr. Nick, and the fall of Sarah esq. Old friends stop by for a visit. We get our 1st Jameis of the season. Joe Flacco brings us joy.
Alex and Dr. Matthew discuss black walnut trees. Most of us made mistakes. Jimmy G gets benched again. Josh Allen crashes back to earth. Ryan Fitzpatrick sucks us further into his long con.
Alex and Dr. Matthew are back from a brief stint on the IR to recap a week of benchings and bad decisions. Did you miss us?
Will joins Alex and Dr. Matthew to discuss injuries, backups, Cousins, and the draft. Dr. Matthew smirks so hard you can hear it.
Alex and Dr. Matthew recap a return to normalcy with old faces making old mistakes in new places.
Jameis shows us the perfect play. Matthew takes home the cookies. Awards are given out. Thank you for listening!
Matthew has nearly put the season to bed. We dive into another history lesson. Haskins plays well-ish, before an explosive ending. Jameis hates me.
Jameis multitasks. Eli returns. Baker Clevelands. Matthew can almost smell the cookies.
Losers win. Minshew-mania returns. Nick Foles becomes a contract albatross. Ohio continues to be disappointed.
Morale hasn’t improved, so benchings have continued. The haunted house always wins. The Red Rifle returns just in time for Duck season.
What do Trubisky and Watson have in common with a bunch of high-scoring performances this week? Have we finally reached Jameis season? FIND OUT NOW!
We make new friends (Finley) but keep the old (Bortles). Russ ruins Matthew’s week with a non-FART. Hoyer? I barely know her!
Sam sees ghosts. Russ get TAINTed by the Ravens. Carson gets ridden by the Cowboys. Carr goes into the garage.
We say goodbye to Andy and Cam for 2019, and hello to Dwayne’s incompetence, Daniel’s last-minute flatulence, and all the Allens.
Spleens heal. Falk gets falked. Mariota gets falked. Rosen gets falked. Matt’s computer gets falked. Jameis sets a personal record.
The Red Rifle is hopelessly jammed. Haskins emerges too early from his burrow. Chase Daniel lives!
Matt takes us on a tour of trash cities in Ohio. Miami pitches an almost-perfect game. Washington State QBs reign. All of our wounds are self-inflicted.
We announce the 2018 BQBL Champion, hand out some awards, and put the season in its proper historical context. Also: special guest!
Everyone’s favorite Jaguar returns. Josh Johnson manages two game killers. The Scalia House race heats up.
It’s San Diego Fleet week, and Mike Martz is back? We go down the rabbit hole of another football league which is destined to fail. Joseph and Sarah continue to dominate. WWHJD?
Will joins Alex and Dr. Matt to discuss this week’s results. Joseph takes the reins, and can now start a studio commentator and the ultimate journeyman. Baker collapses. Cam wobbles.
Some new faces hit the scene, while we lose some old friends. It is the autumn of BQBL, and there are more changes than just the leaves.
Patrick Mahomes II fills up the scoresheet. Tampa Bay proves vexing yet again. Injuries abound.
Alex’s strategy breaks down, but he is saved by the final (?) act of our hero. The return of Josh McCown and the sliding doors of Sam Darnold mark Dr. Matthew’s rise up the leaderboard. But nobody got arrested, so that’s something.
Alex and Dr. Matthew talk about getting heckled into starting Nick Mullens, Sam Darnold's temperature sensitivity, and the continued excellence of Peterman.
Alex and The Professor discuss 24/7 points, arrests, and the return of Nathan Peterman.
There were very few happy endings this week, and a sour start as well. The Nathan Peterman MVP gets fleshed out. Brocktober ends early, but the Buffalo Bills are a wellspring of delight.
Hello world! This is the 1st ever BQBL Podcast. We discuss week 5 results and what is (or isn't) a benching.