Dynasty Compass

Dynasty Compass is your guide to building a fantasy football team that lasts. Hosted by Jeff Blaylock—fantasy analyst, Footballguys contributor, and dynasty strategist—this show helps you find direction in a noisy fantasy football world. Each episode delivers short, actionable advice for dynasty managers: trade strategy, rookie draft tactics, roster-building frameworks, and more. Whether you’re contending now or rebuilding for the future, Dynasty Compass helps you orient your team toward long-term success. 🎧 New episodes weekly during the NFL season 🧭 Because in dynasty, you don’t need a GPS—you need a compass.

Dynasty Compass is a sports podcast hosted by Jeff Blaylock, with 56 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Jeff Blaylock hosts Dynasty Compass, a sports show with 56 episodes published.

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  Episode #36

  Reading the Tells: What Weeks 1 and 2 Actually Told Us with Mike "Nerdboi" Lamoureux

  Sep 24, 20261h 17mS2

  Two weeks in, which player usage and performance signals are real and which are just noise? Nerdboi (Mike Lamoureux) returns to help sort the tells into sell windows on fading names like De’Von Achane and Marvin Harrison Jr., buy windows on ascending pieces like Jalen Coker and Chuba Hubbard, or holds like Drake Maye and the Chargers’ offense. Key Takeaways • Full route or snap share without production is a signal to hold, not sell. The box score lags the role, it doesn't override it. • Give a breakout or a bust three to four games before you trust it. Two-week samples flip in either direction. • Attach to ascending offenses, not just talented players stuck on bad ones. Team context does more work than the individual profile. • A new contract is a real signal worth following, but not an automatic verdict in either direction. • Diagnose the problem before you diagnose the player. A structural issue doesn't get fixed quickly, but a new-scheme learning curve usually does. • Before you write off a player, ask what your assumption is actually betting on, and who benefits if you're wrong. ⏱️ Chapters/Timestamps 00:00 – It's Just Two Weeks 05:26 – Bears WR Room & Bryce Young’s Breakout 12:37 – De’Von Achane’s Sinking Value in Miami 16:52 – Saints Backfield Timeshare: Alvin Kamara vs. Travis Etienne 20:51 – WR Disappointments: Emeka Egbuka, Ladd McConkey, Luther Burden 24:39 – Marvin Harrison Jr.’s Sabotage Drop and Trade Fit 29:03 – Surprise Top Offenses: Raiders, Panthers, Saints, Texans 37:12 – Diagnosing the Chargers’ Offense 40:53 – Drake Maye, Trevor Lawrence & Dynasty QB Rankings 50:28 – Buy Windows: Jalen Coker, Chuba Hubbard, Parker Washington 1:03:09 – Tight End Risers: Dalton Kincaid, Isaiah Likely, Dalton Schultz 1:12:43 – Week 3 Advice and Where to Find Nerdboi Links Mentioned Dynasty Degens at Dynatyze FF: https://www.youtube.com/@DynatyzeFF Dynatyze: https://dynatyze.com Jeff’s Dynasty Rankings: https://www.footballguys.com/rankings/ranker/jeff-blaylock/duration/dynasty Follow Jeff on Twitter/X: https://x.com/jeffblaylock Footballguys: https://www.footballguys.com Dynasty Compass website: https://www.dynastycompass.com Support the Show If you enjoy Dynasty Compass, please consider subscribing, leaving a five-star rating, and sharing the show with another dynasty manager. Reviews on Apple Podcasts help more dynasty players discover the show and help the Dynasty Compass community grow.

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  Episode #35

  Week 1 Overreactions Are Overrated with Brian Hartman

  Sep 17, 202639 minS2

  Week 1 is done, and dynasty managers everywhere are already reaching for the panic button. Jeff and Brian Hartman (Too Much Fantasy Football) sort through the real injury concerns, the disappointments that don't matter, and the hot performances that are actually buy-low or sell-high windows. Key Takeaways Don't overreact to Week 1. One game is a terrible sample size for any big roster decision. Injuries to Brock Bowers, A.J. Brown, and Zay Flowers create real buy-low windows, but the details of each injury matter more than the name. Disappointing stats from tight ends like Colston Loveland and Kyle Pitts are mostly noise at a famously volatile position. Hot performances from players like Jalen Coker and Isaiah Likely are sell-high opportunities more often than they're a new baseline. ⏱️ Chapters/Timestamps 00:00 – Don't Panic 04:11 – Injuries: Brock Bowers, A.J. Brown, Zay Flowers 09:46 – Ladd McConkey, Quarterbacks 14:54 – Buy Windows: Ja'Kobi Lane, Omar Cooper 18:31 – Disappointments: Colston Loveland, Jaylen Waddle 21:31 – Terry McLaurin, Ja'Marr Chase, George Kittle, Drake London 24:18 – Breakthrough or Outlier: Jalen Coker, Dallas Goedert, Isaiah Likely 30:10 – Devaughn Vele, Kalif Raymond, De'Zhaun Stribling 35:26 – Best Things Dynasty Managers Can Do Right Now Links Mentioned Follow Brian Hartman on Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/toomuch_brian Too Much Fantasy Football: https://www.youtube.com/@TooMuchFantasyFootball Too Much Movie Night: https://www.youtube.com/@TooMuchMovieNight Jeff's Dynasty Rankings: https://www.footballguys.com/rankings/ranker/jeff-blaylock/duration/dynasty Follow Jeff on Twitter/X: https://x.com/jeffblaylock Footballguys: https://www.footballguys.com Dynasty Compass website: https://www.dynastycompass.com Support the Show If you enjoy Dynasty Compass, please consider subscribing, leaving a five-star rating, and sharing the show with another dynasty manager. Reviews on Apple Podcasts help more dynasty players discover the show and help the Dynasty Compass community grow. Visit dynastycompass.com to learn more about the show.

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  Episode #34

  3 Habits of Highly Successful Dynasty Managers

  Sep 9, 202628 minS2

  Managing a fantasy football roster means decision overload: starts, sits, waivers, trades, IR moves, and more, all at once. Successful dynasty managers don't just smarter decisions. They smartly reduce their options first. Jeff breaks down the three habits that separate savvy dynasty managers from everyone else, so you spend less time buried in options and focus on making fewer moves that actually matter. Key Takeaways Know your roster needs before you shop the waiver wire, filtering by position and strategic direction first. Read the usage behind the stats before you acquire or drop a player. Match how far ahead you're looking to your compass direction; each strategy has its own unique timeframes. Reducing lesser options leads to fewer and smarter decisions. You're not constraining yourself—you're navigating better. ⏱️ Chapters 00:00 – Make Fewer Decisions This Season 04:04 – Habit 1: Know What You Need Before You Shop 12:16 – Habit 2: Read the Usage, Not Just the Stats 18:25 – Habit 3: Look to Your Horizon 24:10 – Tying It All Together Links Mentioned Jeff's Dynasty Rankings: https://www.footballguys.com/rankings/ranker/jeff-blaylock/duration/dynasty Follow Jeff on Twitter/X: https://x.com/jeffblaylock Footballguys: https://www.footballguys.com Dynasty Compass website: https://www.dynastycompass.com Support the Show If you enjoy Dynasty Compass, please consider subscribing, leaving a five-star rating, and sharing the show with another dynasty manager. Reviews on Apple Podcasts help more dynasty players discover the show and help the Dynasty Compass community grow. Visit dynastycompass.com to learn more about the show.

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  Episode #33

  The Hidden Costs of Every Dynasty Trade

  Sep 1, 202647 minS2

  Dynasty managers need to look deeper than trade calculators to understand the hidden costs of trades. Jeff Blaylock breaks down the choice between paying up for an elite producer and playing for value instead, using a single hypothetical trade for Ja'Marr Chase to show how the right call depends entirely on your team's strategic direction. Failing to account for collateral damage and opportunity cost can lead to a trade you'll regret in a year. Key Takeaways Paying up means acquiring a true difference-maker at full market cost; playing for value means accepting a smaller upgrade at a much lower price. Your Dynasty Compass direction should decide which path fits: West pays up, South plays value, and North and East face a harder balancing act. Trade calculators work as a check on your own valuation and a window into your trade partner's thinking, but they shouldn't make the decision for you. Collateral damage, the value lost from the player your addition bumps out of the lineup or off the roster, is easy to calculate but often ignored. Opportunity cost—alternative uses of an asset in a trade—is harder to quantify and grows larger the longer your timeline stretches. A single hypothetical trade for Ja'Marr Chase plays out four different ways depending on whether a roster is heading West, South, North, or East. Playing for value doesn't have to mean settling for less and might be a better net addition. Competing for a playoff spot and contending for a championship are different things, but many managers think of them as being the same. Conviction in your own valuation is the final ingredient; without it, even a well-reasoned choice between paying up and playing value falls apart. ⏱️ Chapters/Timestamps 00:00 – Welcome & Setting Up Today's Question 02:31 – The Four Directions Refresher 08:21 – Defining Pay Up or Play Value 11:23 – Applying the Compass: Easy Calls and Hard Ones 15:31 – Trade Calculators Fall Short 19:36 – Two Hidden Value Killers: Collateral Damage and Opportunity Cost 26:06 – Considerations for the West and South 33:04 – Considerations for teams in the North 38:31 – Considerations for Teams Headed East 43:22 – Conviction and Wrap-Up Links Mentioned Jeff's Dynasty Rankings: https://www.footballguys.com/rankings/ranker/jeff-blaylock/duration/dynasty Follow Jeff on Twitter/X: https://x.com/jeffblaylock Footballguys: https://www.footballguys.com Dynasty Compass website https://www.dynastycompass.com Support the Show If you enjoy Dynasty Compass, please consider subscribing, leaving a five-star rating, and sharing the show with another dynasty manager. Reviews on Apple Podcasts help more dynasty players discover the show and help the Dynasty Compass community grow. Visit dynastycompass.com to learn more about the show.

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  Episode #32

  The Tao of Dynasty: Getting Your Mind Right with Sigmund Bloom

  Aug 25, 20261h 19mS2

  Rosters are set. Now it's time to prepare the manager. Jeff sits down with longtime friend and Footballguys colleague Sigmund Bloom for an unscripted conversation about the mindset side of dynasty: embracing mistakes, navigating obstacles, receiving outcomes instead of fighting them, and separating the finite game of winning from the infinite game of playing. Knowing how to make peace with what you can't control is what keeps you making good decisions when the season doesn't go to plan. The conversation ranges from Sig's zero-RB startup draft to a recent trip to Navajo Nation and what it taught him about permanence and impermanence. This episode is the key to getting your mind right before the season starts. Key Takeaways Getting ready for the season means having clarity on your dynasty buys and sells before Week 1 changes the picture entirely. Sig's mantra for managing the unknown: "Don't argue with what is about to happen. Receive it." How you navigate around an obstacle speaks volumes about how you act more than how you think. The heartache isn't making a mistake; it's not learning from it and making it again. The "oblong ball factor" means the game is genuinely unpredictable, so a good process can still produce a bad outcome. Sig took a zero-RB Superflex startup draft to an extreme this year as a deliberate bet that running backs are depreciating assets. Don't get hung up on winning or losing a trade at the margin. What matters is acting on conviction. Scaling to 20+ leagues means knowing your limits before the hobby stops being fun. A recent trip to the Navajo Nation left Sig thinking about permanence, impermanence, and not standing too long on any one notion. ⏱️ Chapters/Timestamps 0:00 – Welcome & the Dynasty Compass Metaphor 6:50 – Pre-Season Prep: Clarity on Buys, Sells, and Receiving What Comes 13:57 – Injuries as Obstacles: The Lake in the Way 19:08 – What Winning Looks Like: Dynasty vs. Redraft 26:58 – The Oblong Ball Factor and the Quantum Uncertainty of Fantasy Football 32:07 – Peeking Through Keyholes: Insiders, Cycles, and the Zero-RB Experiment 43:05 – Finding Peace with Undetermined Outcomes 47:20 – Luck, Preparation, and the Infinite Game 52:37 – Having a Plan Without Marrying It 58:48 – Improvisation, Sunk Costs, and Letting Go of Trade Math 1:06:19 – Scaling Leagues, Self-Discovery, and the Impermanence of It All Links Mentioned The Audible podcast On the Couch with Sigmund Bloom Follow Sig on Twitter/X Footballguys Jeff's Dynasty Rankings on Footballguys Follow Jeff on Twitter/X Support the Show If you enjoy Dynasty Compass, please consider subscribing, leaving a five-star rating, and sharing the show with another dynasty manager. Reviews on Apple Podcasts help more dynasty players discover the show and help the Dynasty Compass community grow. Visit dynastycompass.com to learn more about the show.

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